The Sun.
London, England, 1846-05-12 00:00:00

COURT OF EXCHEQUER, May 11.

THE QUEEN V. OSBORNE.
In this case the Attorney-General prosecuted. The allega-
tion was, that the defendant had smuggled a quantity of
brandy. It commenced at the sitting of the Court, and the
plaintiff's case had noticlosed when our reporter left. It is
likely to occupy two or three days.

BAIL COURT, May 11.
(Sittings in Banco.)
This Court was occupied for a considerable portion of the
day in hearing the arguments for and against an application
for a new trial. The allegation at the original trial was the
infringement of a patent. The case was of no interest to the
public.

:COURT OF BAAKRUPICY, May 11.
(Before Mr. Commissioner SHEPHERD.)
NOVEL QUESTION UNDER THE RANIERI:PT LAW.
An affidavit was tendered to the Learned Commissioner,
on which to found a fiat of bankruptcy against J. Paine,
architect and survey or. The fiat was sought to be issued at
the instance of Mr. Payne, who gained the golden medal for
th 3 best design for the New Royal Exchange, and was also
connected with several railroads. He had previously ap-
plied a.s an insolvent, but his petition was discharged.
The Learned ComusstoNea asked on what grounds the
act of bankruptcy was founded?
The SOLICITOR said the party had bought copper, em-
ployed engravers, had the plates engraved, and afterwards
published them for his own profit. This he deemed to be a
trading.
The COMMISSIONER—What were the works published?
The Soucrroa—There was a design of the New Royal
Exchange, and also a map of the parish, &c., &c.
The COMMISSIONER—SureIy he had a right to publish a
design which was the work of his own imagination, and
which he could not have displayed without drawing or en-
graving,. and yet not be liable as a bankrupt.
The Sonceroe.--But ke bought the raper, and sold it at a
profit.
The COMMISSIONER—Yes ; in displaying a work of imagi-
nation, you might as well say that an author would be liable
for selling the work of his own imagination.
The Souctrort said, that in publishing the maps, the per-
son was evidently selling fin. profit.
The Comaussiosmt said that he did not think that it was
a working up of paper or copper as materials.
The Souciron said that the selling fur profit could be
maintained by the having sent out agents to solicit orders,
and then selling the maps.
The COMMISSIONER—StiII he was only selling the design.
The ticnicrron—That design was on a survey of the parish
which he had been enaged to make.
The Comausstownn—That makes no difference.
The SOLICITOR-But he became a printer by employing
printers to print the work.
The CommassioNEß—All that was necessary; he could not
sell his design without paper and printers, and that is the
very reason he is not subject to the bankruptcy laws.
The ;SOLICITOR—But this is his own petition.
The CO3ISIISSIONER—That makes no difference.
Mr. Commissioner Evaxs, who was called in to advise,
expressed his opinion that no trading was proved in this case,
but the sets of the petitioner were as free as an author, all
being w orks of imagination—(meaning the designs—query
surveys).

CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT.

OLD COURT.

These :sessiotas, the seventh of the present Mayoralty,
were conarnenced yesterday, before the Lord Mayor, the Re-
corder, an d Aldermen Sir Chapman Marshall, Mr. Hughes
Hughes, the Sheriffs, &c. From the calendar it appears that
thereare no less than 251 prisoners for trial, and the following
may be I..,aken as a summary statement of the offences with
which tl le prisoners stand charged :—Murder, 3 ; unnatural
crimes, 1.? ; manslaughter, 2 ; rape, 1; sheep-stealing, 1;
demandi, g money with menaces, 1 ; burglary, 8;
forgery and uttering forged instruments, 1; em-
bezzelm, ant by clerks and servants, 15 ; curtilage
breaking; and larcency, 1; cutting and wounding
with int en t, 12 ; unlawfully uttering counterfeit coin, 11 ;
unlawful possession and uttering, 2 ; house breaking and
larceny, 4; highway robbery with violence, 1; receiving
stolen g pods, 9 ; robbery, 7 ; larceny in a dwelling-house, 7 ;
larceny from the person, 24; larceny by servants, 39 ; rob-
beries out the river Thames, 4; robbery in ports of entry and
discharge, 2; assaults with intent to violate, 2; unlawful
as3ault, 1; misdemeanours of divers descriptions, 13 ; lar-
cenies, grand and petite, 80. The committals are :—Lon-
don 41 -, Middlesex, 151; Essex, 4; Kent, 12 ; Surrey, 42:
Total, 2:51.

The gr and jury having been sworn,
The .1.12 6COZDER proceeded to deliver his charge to
them.
A
It was re his intention to address them at anylength,
be-
cause, rapon a careful perusal of the depositions hefoundtha;
they c• airatained matters of fact, which it was purely the pro-
vince of the grand jury to deal with them according to law.
He lan se nted to observe the number of prisoners for trial
which tl IC calendar presented, upwards of 250. That num-
ber coed d not but be considered large when it was remem-
bered that the Central Criminal Court had been relieved ef a
vast number of minor cases at Hick's Hall. He regretted to
see th at offences against the person of au aggravated charac-
ter svi ere on the increase ; there was in the calendar no less
than i;wslity cases of cutting and wounding, with intent to
mureli tr or do some grievous bodily harm. There were three
cases of murder, one for rape, seven cases of robbery with
violen,aa , and two cases of manslaughter. With regard
to the charges of murder, one alone was likely
to be submitted to the consideration of the grand
jury, 'hi ,cane the other two persons charged with that
offence •whose names appeared in the calendar had been in..
dicted in a former session, and true bills found against theta
by pre vi ous grand juries. The other case of murder was one
in wh: cl t the mother was charged with the death of her
childrt by drowning ;he adverted to the case not from am
doubt that by the act of the mother the children met theft'
death, bi it because some doubt might arise from the act• of
the rnt,t tier as to whether or not her mind was impaired. The
questit it i of the sanity or insanity of the party was one
the Le And jury could not dispose of: if they
were clearly of opinion that death had been caused
by the act of the mother, it was their duty to put the case
in a c nurse of trial, by finding a true bill against her. He
was r orry to see that the offence of larceny from the person
was o n the increase, there were no less than twenty-four
cases )f that description in the present calendar. Judicious
severity of punishment had apparently been un-
able tc restrain effectually this species of offence,
which. was generally committed by thieves by pro-
fession.. There were several charges in the calendar of un-
lawfullF uttering counterfeit coin, and also uttering it felo-
niously; and for the latter offence the parties were liable to
tramp t ation or long imprisonment, according to the dis-
cretion. c f the Court. There was also a case in the calendar
ef a hi3rt• ible description, on which the charge rested upon
the ev id ence of two servants in the establishment of a gen-
tlenlau- That charge related' to an offence of which they
were et-ated to be eye-witnesses. With respect to that he
would only say, that if, upon consideration of the evidence,
they •ri ere convinced that the case would succeed, or was
likely tto succeed before a jury, it was their duty to
put it in
a coui :cc for trial ; but if they were convinced that theta was
not en .coagh in the evidence to convict the party, then they
would spare the Court the disgusting details. Among the
cases of cutting and wounding, he was sorry to say there
were a ome of a most shocking character, and dis-
tressii ig: to contemplate. For the smallest provo-
cation resort was now had to such weapons as
spades:, _knives, and other weapons, instead of the more manly
metho d t hat was formerly adopted. He was sorry to see this
change- it i the state of society. Whether the lenity of the
Legislr ire had caused this it was not for them to inquire,
but it ws s distressing to see petty injuries resented in so
murdei ea, as a spirit, and by such murderous weapons. The
Learned Judge, after remarking upon the increase of larceny
commi dby servants, remitted the grand jury to the per-
formance of their duty.
The G Jurt then proceeded to swear in the petit jury.
Wi/ !ice n Jordan, alias Middleton, aged 18, was indictedfor stealing two coats and other articles, the property of
Thomas , 3arfield.
The pi isoner pleaded guilty, and, addressing the Court,
said he had made some very bad acquaintances, and he
hoped th 4 t such a sentence would be passed upon him, as
would eff actually separate him from the evil connexions he
had form, d.

The RI .CORDER sentenced him to be transported for seven
years.
James. Andrews, aged 44, was found guilty of stealing, in
the dweri ng 'house of Edward Gifford, nineteen silver forks,
his prop •ty.
The Jul y recommended him to mercy, anti he was sen-
tenced to twel vemonths' imprisonment, with hard labour.
The Ina.•s Oil ver, aged 22, a well-dressed young man, was
indict ed for b urglariously breaking into the dwelling-house
of Ri chard C primes, and stealing a cream-jug, two 51. bank-•
notes, and o ther articles, his property. The robbery was
comm itted is . a most daring manner.
The jury I found the prisoner guilty of the offence of steal-
ing in a dweL'ing••house above the value of 5/., and he was
senten .ced to 1-1 e transported for ten years.

PO LICE INTELLIGENCE.
_ _ WORSHIP-STREET.

Sarah Le ssar, a girl about 17 years of age, was placed at
the bar befi ire Mr. Broughton, charged with the following
unfeeling rd bbery :
Mary Anr Le Calif; the wife ofa weaver in Punderson-street,
Bethnal-gre en, stated that about a month since the prisoner,
who was in a complete state of destitution, applied to her
fa Pitiativ4 ce, And mapas.sl9Alitillg her C9lActitiP, Act ea.

gaged her at 2s. a week and her board and lodging to look
after her children, whilst the witness assisted her husband at
weaving, which paid very badly. Cm Thursday, the 30th
ult., she carried out some silk to her employers, and on her
return home found her two little children in the street, her
house left open, and that the prisoner had absconded. Sus-
pecting she had been robbed, she immediately examined a
box underneath her bed, in which she had deposited 18L,
the accumulated savings of herself and husband for a great
length of time, and found that the whole of the money had
been carried off: After a fruitless search for the prisoner of
several days, she, and a lodger of hers named Foy, at length
traced her to a house in Nicholl-street, Spitalfields, and on
accusing her of her heartless conduct, she immediately burst
into tears, acknowledged she had done wrong, and pulled a
handkerchief out of her bosom containing 41. 16s. of the
money. Another part of the 181. she said she had intrusted
to a man named Daniels to keep for her, who had told her
that he had destroyed and buried it, as it was base coin, and
the remainder she had spent in articles of dress.
Police-constable Alexander produced a large bundle of
women's wearing apparel, entirely new, which he had found
at the girl's lodglg ; and the prisoner, whose eyes were
greatly swollen from incessant weeping, having declined to
say anything in answer to the charge, was fully committed
for trial.
A tall powerful fellow, named Augustus Fisher, stated to be
a cabman and pugilist, and well known to the police, was next
charged upon suspicion of committing the following violent
assault and highway robbery upon the person of a hatmaker
named Jackson.
It appeared from the evidence in this case, that the prose-
cutor having to take home a beaver hat to the landlord of a
public-lnuSe in Collingwood-street, Bethnal-green, at a late
hour on Thursday night last, was standing talking to the
publican, when the prisoner came in and asked the prose-
cutor to treat him ; the prosecutor handed him his glass of
brandy-and-water, and after some conversation left the house,
accompanied by the prisoner; but a heavy fall being heard
shortly afterwards by the publican and his brother, they went
out and found Mr. Jackson lying on his back on the pavement
in a state of insensibility, and bleeding profusely from the
mouth, with one of his lips cut through, evidently by a very
violent blow. The prosecutor was assisted into the house,
and, having partially recovered from his ill-usage, stated that
the instant he had left the door he was felled to the ground
by a terrible blow in the face • that the prisoner immediatelytook to his heels, and that although he did not see the pri-
soner strike him, the act was so sudden, he was satisfied it
was he who did it, as there was no one else in the street, and
he had been robbed of his purse at the same moment, con-
taining 1/. 155., which was secure in his pocket the instant
before. The prisoner called at the public-house the next
night, and offered to pay for half a pint of gin, but a police-
man was fetched, who took him into custody.
The police gave the accused a very bad character, as the
constant associate of persons of bad repute, and repeatedly
in custody for different offences, and
The prisoner, on being called upon for his defence, ac-
knowledged that he had left the house with the prosecutor
as described; but declared that the latter had sustained the
injuries complained of by falling accidentally, and denied
all knowledge of the robbery, which must have been com-
mitted by two other men who left the public-house at the
same time.

This last assertion, however, was flatly contradicted by the
publican and his brother, and
Mr. Bitoccirroc, who considered the prisoner's conduct
replete with suspicion throughout, ordered him to be bruught
up again next week for the completion of the evidence.
A respectable looking woman, who gave the acknow-
ledgedly false name of Anne Brown, but is known to be the
wife of a commercial clerk in a wholesale house in the city,
was then charged with stealing a woman's bedgown, value
9d., from the shop of Mr. Smith, a pawnbroker, in Pitfield-
street, Hoxton.
It appeared that the prisoner at four o'clock on Thursday
offered in pledge a piece of calico, and was requested to go to
another part of the shop with it; she did so, and the bed-
gown was missing from a number of others to which it had
been pinned at the spot where she had been previously stand-
ing. This being communicated to the shopman attending on
her, her pledge was refused, and she was followed out into the
street, and then requested to go back again. This she also
readily did, but on reaching the door she pulled the bed-
gown from beneath her cloak, and, delivering it to the shop-
man, asked for forgiveness, and requested that her husband
might be sent to, who, she said, would immediately pay the
value of the article. This was of course refused, and a con-
stable being procured, she was delivered into his custody.
She had been in the habit of frequenting the shop for six
months, and, although different articles had been repeatedly
missed about the time of her visits, no suspicion had before
been entertained of her, from her apparent respectability.
The prisoner, in defence, declared that a woman had pre-
sented her with the bedgown at the pawnbroker's door, and,
although she protested it was of no use to her, the woman
persisted in her gift, and while she was deliberating what to
do with the article, suspecting it might not have been honestly
come by, the shopman came up and gave her in charge.
Mr. BROUGHTON intimated that she must offer that defence
at the sessions, and ordered the depositions to be taken, and
the prisoner committed for trial.
SOUTHWARK.

John Conolly, a young man of hitherto bad character, was
placed at the bar, charged with assaulting and robbing a Miss
Georgiana Peterson of a parcel containing two silk gowns.
The complainant stated that at half-past eight in the
evening, as she was walking near the leather market at Ber-
mondsey, with a parcel containing two silk dresses, in her
hand, she was suddenly struck by some person from behind,
and knocked down. She screamed out, and at the moment
she saw the prisoner, who snatched the bundle out of her
hand, and, having threatened her if she called out, then ran
away. The complainant added that she afterwards saw the
prisoner in custody, and also had her property restored.
A tradesman, named Beckem, stated that he was at a
short distance from the leather market, when he heard a
shriek, and immediately afterwards saw the prisoner running
with great swiftness in the direction of Snow's-fields. Wit-
ness pursued him, in the course of which he saw him throw
away a bundle, and he was eventually secured near Snow's-
fields. When taken into custody, he asserted that on hear-
ing a cry of " Stop thief" he ran after the culprit, And was
close at his heels, when he (pHs mer) was accused as the real
thief, although he was as innocent, he could declare, as a
babe unborn.

The complainant, as well as the witness, were recalled,
and, in reply to the prisoner's assertion with respect to his
having been in pursuit of the thief when he was taken, they
contradicted it, and both added that they had no doubt he
was the man.
The prisoner was committed.

RAILWAY SHARE MARKETS.

BRISTOL, MAY 9.

STOCK ExcnxwaE.—The sales are--Bristol and Exeter, New,
7-16—Caledonlan, 12%—Ditto, New, 1 15-16—Midland, New, 3234
—North Staffordshire, 434 p:_— .

MANCHESTER, Mir 9

STOCK ExcittsroE.—The sales are—Boston, Newark, and Sheffield,
7 dis.—East Lincolnshire, par—Great Grimsby .and Dock Exten.
sion, I dis.—Huddersfield, Halifax, and Bradford, 24 p.—Lanca-
shire and North Yorkshire, 7s. 6d, dis.—Liverpool, Ormakirk, and
Preston, 14 p.—Manchester, Buxton, and Matlock, %—Manchester
and Birmingham Continuation and Welsh Junction, 17s. dis.—Man-
Chester and Hyde, % p.—Manchester and Southampton, p.—
Northumberland and Lancashire, 1 dis.—North Staffordshire, %
Preston and Wyre, Halves (B), 10s. 6d. p.— Sheffield and Lincoln
shire Junction, 14 p.—Shrewsbury and Birmingham, p.—Shrews-
bury and Hereibrdshire, % dis.—Shropshire Union Railway and
Canal, % dis.—South Eastern and Dover, 42—Ditto, Consol (2Se
3), 24 p.—Ditto, Halves (No. 4), 1% p.—West Lancashire Cow%
% Riding Union, 2X p.