The Sun.
London, England, 1848-08-24 00:00:00

STATE OF TRADE.

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MANCIIESTER, TUESDAT.—The frightful state of the
weather, and the consequent apprehensions for the safety
of the harvest, coupled with the unfavourable nature of
the accounts from the East Indies and China, have had
a depressing effect upon our market to-day. It is un-
derstood that orders to some considerable amount are
in the hands of the buying agents; but they show very
little inclination to give them out until the tate of the
grain crops is better ascertained. The business done to-day
has, consequently, been on a very limited scale; but prices,
on the whole, have been well maintained, and the market,
altogether, exhibits, under the depressing influences which
now prevail, a degree of stability which promises well for
the future, provided the apprehensions for the safety of the
harvest should be removed by the return of seasonable
weather.

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for flannels, at the rates of' last week. In the wool market
there has been no change.
HUDDERSFIELD, Tulisnay.—The attendance of buyers to-
day has been good, but we cannot report a brisk market.
The untoward state of the weather, and the uncertainty re-
specting the harvest, cast a gloom on all, which it is hoped
a succession of fine days will dispel.
HALIFAX, SATUM.DAY. The trade in our Piece Hall is as
inanimate as ever, and the amount of business doing in the
warehouses is far from extensive, but somewhat more than
it was a few weeks ago, and chiefly in fancy goods. Yarn
remains pretty much as noticed in our last. Wool is firm,
and the spinners purchase rather more freely. There is more
inquiry fur some description of short wool, and*a trifling ad-
vance
is asked, but does not appear to be generally obtained.
Limns,. TUESDAY.—We have had but a quiet cloth mar-
ket to-day, and very few goods changed, which may be
attributed to the unsettled state of the weather, as well as to
the unfavourable accounts from the country respecting the
potato disease. Our manufacturers continue to be pretty
well employed.—Manchester Guardian.

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(Before Mr. Justice CnEsswEt.t..)
of Joseph Crossley, at Salford.
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and Jackson by Mr. Mew. Worrell pleaded guilty.
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It appeared that the shop of the prosecutor had been
10,1 prisoners was a person of the name of Bacon, who al •
es leged that he hid been in the company of the prisoners
ilit at a public-house in the neighbourhood the night of the
old robbery, ro and that he was solicited by them to join in it.
They had several times asked him before, but he had
always declined. He said, however, that he had gone
:e. to the house with the others; that it was pointed out to
com-
mitted, as no one slept in the house, and that he was
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him as a place where robbery could conveniently be
wandering about the neighbourhood while the robbery
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was committed. There was no other direct evidence
against the prisoners, except some casual observations
which were sworn to have passed in the dock while be-
fore the magistrates between Jackson and Street, 'fin..
• plying their presence at the robbery.
ilThe jury found Street and Jackson Guilty.
A His Loupsitir sentenced Street to be transported for
1 fifteen years, and Jackson and Worrell for ten.
16 Michael Hogan was indicted for cutting and wounding
John Williamson, a constable, in the execution of his
duty, with intent to do him grievous bodily harm.
Mr. Cobbett conducted the prosecution; Mr. Pollock
the defence.
It appeared from the statement of the prosecutor that
he was on duty at Manchester, late at night, when he
found a number of women of loose character making a
noise in the street. He told them to move on; while he
was doing so, the prisoner came up, and asked if he had
, seen the woman whom he (the prisoner) was looking
for, using at the same time some very coarse expressions.
The officer took him by the shoulder and told him to go
home, on which the prisoner drew from under his coat a
bar of iron about two feet and a half long, having a han-
dle formed by twine lapped round it, and struck him a
blow on the temple, inflicting a severe wound. The pri-
soner then ran away, but was pursued by the prosecutor
and another officer. He ran into a court, but found
there was no exit at the other end. In returning he
met the prosecutor, and again struck him, but was fi-
nally secured. The weapon he used, and which was
now produced, was a moat murderous one, having a
sharp point at one end, and bang formed like a chisel
at the other.
Witnesses were called for the defence, to show that
the prosecutor had behaved improperly to one of the
women in the street, who appeared to be the prisoner's
wife, and afterwards assailed the prisoner when he in-
terfered in her defence, but this was not made out.
Verdict, Guilty:--Sentence deferred.

CROWN- COURT.—Liverpool, Aug. 22.
(Before Mr. Justice CRESSWELL.)
John IVhittani was indicted for having, on the 3d of
April last, committed a violent assault on Richard Blee,
a collector of accounts, residing in Acton-street, in
Manchester, with intent to do him some grievous bodily
injury.
Mr. POLLOCK stated the case.
It appeared that in the month of January last the pro-
secutor called upon the prisoner, who owed an account
to Mr. Whitehead, surgeon, of Oxford-street. It was
arranged at the prisoner's request that the account should

bo paid by instalments of one shilling per week. On
the 3d of April the prisoner went to the prosecutor's
house, and, being drunk, threw down a shilling upon the
table, and said to the prosecutor, with an oath, " Tell me
whether you will take it or not." Seeing that the pri-
soner was drunk, and his wife indisposed, the prosecutor
asked the prisoner to leave the house, and come again
when he was sober. Re declined to do so, and became
very abusive. The prosecutor then turned towards the
fire, and took up the poker to stir up the fire. The pro-
secutor's wife then said to the prisoner, " Do, for God's
sake, my good man, go home, and come again when
you are sober," when the prisoner struck her a violent
blow on the mouth, which knocked her down, and
rendered her insensible. The prosecutor, on hearing
the screams of his wife, hastily turned from the fire with
the poker in his hand, when the prisoner wrested it from
him, and struck him with it on the head. The blow cut
the prosecutor's head nearly to the bone, and a niece of
the prosecutor's then gave an alarm to the neighbours,
which caused some of them to run into the house, where
they found the prosecutor bleeding from the head, and his
wife fainting. The prisoner had the poker in his hand,
and threatened to kill any one who came near him. The
poker was ultimately taken from him, and he was appre-
hended.
Several witnesses having proved these facts,
Mr. Golland, surgeon to the Manchester police force,
stated that he attended the prosecutor and found a seri-
ous wound on the head, which, for some time, he thought
was dangerous.
The jury, after some deliberation, found the prisoner
Guilty of an assault.—Sentence deferred.
Wm. Willan pleaded guilty to having, in Salford, in
June last, forged the endorsement to a bill of exchange,
with intent to defraud Wm. Charles Brown.—Sentence
deferred.

Samuel tI orthington, 27, was charged with having,
at Pendleton, on the 27th ult., stolen a variety of
articles from the house of William Ilesketh, and having
afterwards burglariously broken out of the said dwell-
ing-house.
It appeared that on the night of the day in question,
and for two or three previous evenings, the prisoner had
slept at the house of the prosecutor, his brother-in-law,
at Pendleton; that during the night of the 27th ult. he
left the house of his brother-in-law, and that, after he
had gone, a clock, some candlesticks, and a quantity of
wearing apparel, were missed. The prisoner on the
following morning went to the detective office, at the
Town-hall, Manchester, and gave himself up for the
robbery.
The jury returned a verdict of Guilty.
The prisoner, who was convicted of felony at the
spring assizes for 1847, and was sentenced to imprison-
ment for fifteen months, was now transported for seven
years.

CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT.
OLD COURT.
(Continued from our Afternoon Edition of yester lay.)
In the case of Robert Wynn, a clerk in the Post-office, who
was charged with stealing and secreting two letters,
The jury, after an absence of nearly three hours, returned
into court with a special verdict, to the effect that they be-
lieved that the prisoner secreted the letters but did not steal
them, and that he secreted them from the fear that if
they were found upon his person he would be subjected to
Punishment.
Mr. baron PLATT considered that the verdict would, in
fact, amount to vne of acquittal.
Mr. CLARKSON, for the prosecution, did not take the same
view of the case. In the indictment the prisoner was
charged with secreting as .well as stealing, and the former
act as much as the latter was subject to punishment under
the statute.
Ultimately, by the consent of the Learned Judge and the
Counsel on both sides, it was arranged that the nature of
the verdict should be brought under the consideration of the
Judges.

George Thomas Witchell, 25, postman, was indicted
for stealing a post letter, containing two sixpences and
a pawnbroker's duplicate.
The same counsel were engaged for the prosecution,
and Mr. Ballantine was engaged for the defence.
This charge was clearly established against the pri-
soner. He was engaged in sorting letters, and was ob-
served by one of the inspectors at the General Post-
office to act in such a manner with regard to one of the
letters as excited his suspicion. The letter in question
was found shortly afterwards in one of the water-closets
torn in half, and its contents abstracted. The duplicate
was found in the closet, and on the prisoner being ques-
tioned he admitted his guilt. He had, it appeared, been
married shortly before the offence was committed.
The jury found the prisoner Guilty.
William Harvey, a post- office letter-carrier, was in-
dicted for secreting and stealing a newspaper, value 5d.,
the property.of the Postmaster-General.
Mr. CLARKSON said that the offence with which the
prisoner was charged was not felony, but misdemeanour,
created by a recent statute, which enacted that if any
person employed in the Post office embezzled or stole
any printed paper open at the sides and sent through
the Post-office, whether a Parliamentary paper, news-
paper, or any other document of a similar character, he
should be deemed guilty of the offence of misdemeanour.
The Learned Counsel said, that in consequence of
the numerous complaints of irregularity in the delivery
of marked papers passing through the post, this enact-
ment had become necessary; and, although the property
stolen was not of any very considerable value, yet it
was perfectly clear that the offence was one of a very
mischievous character, and which required to be re-
pressed. He then stated the facts, from which it ap-
peared that on the 13th of July the Times newspaper
was posted addressed to a lady named Robinson, in the
New-road, Croydon, and this paper never came to hand.
A few days afterwards a search was made in the house
of the'prisoner, who is a postman at Croydon, and the
fragments of a newspaper, which, from certain marks
upori it, there was very little doubt was the one sent to
Mrs. Robinson, were found in it; and on his being ques-
tioned he at first refused to give any explanation, but at
length said that he could not account for the possession
of the paper.
These facts were proved by the witnesses, but Mrs.
Robinson, in answer to a question put to her by Mr.
Ballantine, said that she had known the prisoner as a
letter-carrier for a considerable period, and he had
always delivered her letters and papers correctly, and
she thought he must have forgotten the paper in question.
Mr. BALLANTINE adopted this line of defencs, and
urged that it was not probable a man who bore a good
character, and who had for a long period conducted
himself with propriety, should sacrifice his position for
the sake of an article of such trifling value ; and that it
was far more likely he had taken the paper home by
forgetfulness, and while lying about it had been torn up
either by his wife or some other person.
Several highly respectable witnesses, who had known
the prisoner a great number of years, gave him an ex-
cellent character for honesty.
The jury returned a verdict of Not Guilty.
The Learned BARON remarked that although they
had come to this conclusion, it was clearly a case in
which it was the duty of the Postmaster-General to in-
stitute an inquiry. Where suspicion was directed to a
public officer there was no alternative but to send the
case before a jury, in order that it might be properly in-
quired into.
The jury said they quite concurred in the observations
of his Lordship. They thought it was a very proper case
.
Mr. BALLANTINEr
said, on the part of the prisoner, ho
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not offer any complaint of the proceeding. Indeed,
the experience he had had of the manner in which the
solicitor for the Post-office performed his duty satisfied
him that no case would be sent for trial which did not
demand an inquiry to be made for the interest of the
public.
John Prenderville, 39, letter-carrier, was indicted for
feloniously stealing a letter containing a cheque for
29/. 7s. Id., the property of the Postmaster-General; and
on a second count he was charged, in conformity with the
statute, which has only become law within the last few
days, with feloniously receiving the cheque, knowing it to
have been stolen.
The same counsel were engaged for the prosecution.
Mr. Prendergast defended the prisoner.
The evidence adduced in support of the indictment
was of the most conclusive character. It appeared that
on the Ist of July a gentleman named Grainger, who
carries on business in the City, enclosed a cheque for
291. 7s. Id. in a letter addressed to Mr. Ponsford,
South Wharf-road, Paddington. The letter was never
received, and on the 4th of July, three days afterwards,
the prisoners went to the establishment of Messrs.
Moses, in the Minories, accompanied by another man,
and represented his name to be Marshall, and required
clothes to be made for himself and companion, the price
of which amounted to 7L 12s. On his being asked for a
deposit he tendered the cheque in question, and Messrs.
Mosekhaving sent a messenger to Messrs. Stone, Martin,
and Stone's, where it was made payable, and ascertained
that it was a genuine cheque, they gave the difference,
and it was arranged that the clothes should be ready
and be sent for on the following Thursday. The
cheque, it appeared was marked "and C 0.," so that in
the ordinary course it would only be payable through
a banker, and Messrs. Moses having endorsed it " Bank,"
they keeping a banking account at the Bank of Eng-
land, it was paid in due course. On the 10th of July
the prisoner sent a boy with a letter to Messrs. Moses,
requiring them to deliver up the clothes, but in conse-
quence of a communication they had had with the Post-,
office authorities the boy was questioned by the police,
and. from his statement suspicion was immediately
directed to the prisoner, who, directly afterwards ab-
sconded. In addition to these facts it was shown that
the prisoner was employed on the Ist of July as a su-
pernumerary letter carrier in the North Paddington
district, and it was suggested that by some mistake
in the sorting, the letter in question, which belonged
to the South Paddington district, had come into
his possession. The prisoner was followed to Liver-
pool, where he was taken into custody by Peake the
officer, and he then made a statement to him that he had
meta person, with whom he had some slight acquahlinoth-
! ance, who told him that he had found a cheque
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wrong about the cheque, but he admitted
subsequently suspect it had been improperlyd obtained,
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forfear of the
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consequences to himself for the share
the transaction.
the case for the and he was, therefore, induced to atbhsecroen
Mr. Baron PLATT, at the close of
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pro-
secution, remarked that Messrs. Moses appeared to have
acted very incautiously in taking a. chequek from a
besee, passed by b
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banker,
and giving validity to it by sending it through their own
banker; and he said they ought to have detained the
cheque, and not have assisted in passing it.
The jury found the prisoner Guilty of feloniously re-
ey
ceiving the cheque, and he was sentenced to be transported
intended thcouldto
for ten years.

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Sir Rupert George and Sir James Cochrane had interviews
yesterday with Earl Grey, at the Colonial-office.