The Sun.
London, England, 1846-08-17 00:00:00

hold will be allowed interest at the rate of 9 per cent., pay-
able quarterly.
2. That all the notes iu circulation will be paid within one
year.
3. That the bank will give in exchange for its notes equi-
valent value in inscriptions of the public debt, shares of com-
panies, and other pledges which it holds in deposit, all which
are to be put up to auction for eight days.

The discount was in consequence brought down to
6 per cent., which was the rate at the time the packet
left.

Madrid papers to the 10th August have been re-
ceived.

The return of NARVAEZ to Madrid may be shortly
expected. The Esperanza states that his petition to
the QUEEN for permission to return is warmly sup-
ported by the French Government, and therefore
there is every reason to believe that it will be
granted. Several persons have been arrested at
Cordova, charged with being concerned in a Carlist
conspiracy. The Eco del Comerio repeats the
rumour that the Government had ordered all the
troops to retire from the Portuguese frontier, and the
Clamor Publico again asserts that GONZALES BRAVO
has been recalled.

MADRID BOLSA, AUG. 10.—Three per Cents., for
Cash, 341 ; Five per Cents., 22i ; Debt, without
interest, 6i. Exchange on London, 36f.

We have received the Paris papers of Friday and
Saturday. _ _ _

The KING arrived at the Tuileries on Friday night.
His MAJESTY Rill open the Chambers in person on
Monday. On the anniversary of his accession to the
throne his MAJESTY pardoned 502 criminals, of
whose conduct in prison favourable reports had been
received.

M. SAUZET is the Alinisterial candidate for the
Presidency of the Chamber of Deputies. " We trust,"
says the Journal des D'ibats,
" That no member of the majority will attempt to create a
division by supporting any other candidate, which certainly
would lead to no result. M. Sauzet is the candidate of the
Conservative:party, and to vote for any other Deputy would
be voting for a candidate of the Opposition. Let every one,
therefore, make a sacrifice of his pretensions and private
preferences! There are, no doubt, amongst the majority
several eminent men who might divide the suffrages of the
Chambers, if M. Sauzet was not, as it were, in possession of
them. It is of importance to-day that the first political
vote of the Conservative party should be an unanimous one.
We are bound in justice to declare, that though other Depu-
ties might make as good presidents as M. Sauzet, yet the
Chamber would not easily find a more faithful and more
devoted one."

On Friday evening an accident of a trifling nature
occurred on the Versailles Railway. The following
account is from the Gazette des Tribunaux :

" The mail train from Paris to Rouen leaves at twenty-
five minutes past seven, and the train for St. Germains at
twenty-five minutes to eight. The Rouen train had scarcely
left the station when the engineer, perceiving that the
engine worked badly, stopped at the Batignolles,
either to change it or take a second engine.
The conductor of the Versailles train, which started
five minutes after the Roueu train, having perceived the
signal fur stopping, slackened his speed, and stopped
the train a short distance from the Rouen one. But the
train of St. Germains coming up, and the engineer being
unable to arrest its progress in time, both came in violent
contact with each other. 'We have not yet learnt the full
particulars of the accident, but from what has already
reached us it would appear that the passengers escaped with
only slight contusions. A single passenger alone was se-
riously wounded, and which entirely resulted from his leaping
from the top of a carriage. As soon as the alarm and con-
fusion had subsided, the passengers resumed their seats in the
carriages, and the three trains continued their course."

HENRY has been removed to the room occupied by
LECOMTE in the Luxembourg.
A spy of ABD-EL-KADER was seized and executed
at Mascara on the 26th ult.

Algeria was tranquil, but the inhabitants and
troops were suffering dreadfully for want of provisions.
The latest accounts from Algiers are to Aug. 10.
Saturday being the Feast of the Assumption, the
Bourse remained closed, and no business was done
in the Passage de l'Opera.
MARSEILLES, AuG. 11.—Mareilles and Avignon, 905 f.;
Northern, 712 f. 50c.; Paris and Lyons, 530 f.
LYONS, AUG. 13.—Paris and Rouen, 961 f. 25c.; Avignon
and Marseilles, 891 f. 25c.; Paris and Lyons, 517 f. 75c.

BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE
LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE, AUGUST 15.
Boulogne and Amiens, 12%—Bordeaux, Toulouse, and Cette
(Espelete), I%—Dutch Rhenish, 6 —East Indian, 94—Northern of
France Constituted, 12% —Paris and Lyons Constituted, s%—Sambre
and Meuse, 4%—`Vest Flanders, 3%.

CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT
The tenth sessions in the present mayoralty were opened
this morning at the Central Criminal Court, Old Bailey, be-
fore the Recorder, the Right Hon. the Lord Mayor, and Al-
, d.rrnen Wilson, Challis, and Hughes.
L The calendar on this occasion presents a heavy Pat, there
being in all 245 prisoners committed for trial on various
charges during the present sessions.
Among the prisoners waiting for trial there are—for ar-
son 1, burglary 5, bigamy 1, uttering counterfeit coin 17,
cutting and wounding 8, embezzlement and forgery 20,
horse-stealing 2, larceny of various descriptions 149, man-
slaughter 2, demanding money with menaces 1, misdemeanor
13, murder 2, administering poison I, rape 1, receiving stolen
goods 9, robbery 10 ; 37 of the prisoners have been committed
in London, 164 in Middlesex, 3 in Essex, 6 in Kent, and 35
in Surrey.
The RECORDER, when the grand jury had been called
and sworn, addressed to them the following charge :—Gen-
tlemen of the grand jury, the number of prisoners whose
names appear on the calendar, standing charged with dif-
ferent offences, is 245, and there is some reason to expect
that in the course of the present week that number will be
augmented to somewhere about 300 or more, at least before
the termination of your labours. I am afraid, therefore,
that you must expect to be employed for some time with
that public business on which you are about to enter,
but it is a duty from which you will not shrink—
a duty :devolved upon you by law in connexion
with this Court. The list presents a great num-
ber of offences, many of them of a very serious nature, and
of deep public importance. There are two for murder;
several, at least six, for cutting and maiming, with intent
to do some grievous bodily harm ; no less than three for
manslaughter, or that criminal act involving the taking
away of life, which only comes short of the crime of murder ;
one for rape; three for assault, with intent to commit rob-
bery ; seven for robbery,. besides other important charges,
involving the use of violence in the commission of the
offences. It is lamentable to find that offences, crimes
implying violence in the commission of them, and
the crimes of cutting and wounding with intent to
do some bodily harm, appear to be on the increase—
certainly they are not diminishing. Within the last
few years, the use of the knife in cases of provocation
and quarrel, a practice at one time almost unknown in this
country—the use of dangerous weapons for offensive pur-
poses, instead of having recourse to mere bodily strength, is
become unhappily rife. Where the cases appear to you on
the evidence to be fully made out, you will feel it your duty to
put them in the course of further inquiry. On the charges
which will be presented to you of cutting and wounding with
intent to do some grievous bodily harm, I have but one re-
mark to make, and it is this, that if you shall find that a
person receiving provocation employs the knife or other in-
strument in such a way as leads you to put the con-
struction upon such conduct that the party intended
to do that which, according to the evidence, has taken
effect—if, for example, you find a person striking with
a drawn knife, and the, weapon taking effect on the body
of another, you will put the entire charge in the course of
further investigation. But if, on the other hand, in a charge
for cutting and wounding, the jury shall see that cir-
cumstances will warrant it, you will discharge the
prisoner of the violent intention, and commit him
to take his trial for the aggravated assault. Gen-
tlemen, your duty merely is to put the case in
the course of further inquiry, it is for the petty jury to try
whether or not the offence charged against the prisoner has
been committed by him, you have only to inquire as to the
fact of dangerous weapons having been used, and whether
they were used with the intention of doing bodily harm, and
to send the case for further investigation accordingly.
Among the cases of murder, one, unhappily, is a charge of
child murder. There is nothing in that case which is peculiar ;
handkerchiefs were found on the mouth or throat of the
child, then dead. These suspicious circumstances would na-
turally excite a doubt whether in case the child had been still
born the party would have resorted to that which, if the
child had been alive, would have the effect of putting it to
death. I have said that, not to prejudice yin!, but that you
should put the case in the way of fuller inquiry, and I
say no more, because they are circumstances which may
receive some answer when they come to be investigated. But
the fact of a child having been found dead under these cir-
cumstances is enough for you sendingit before a Petty jury.
There is another charge of murder—one which will require
some investigation on your part. The first question which
will occur in that case is, how the party met with
her death, whether it was by a fall, involving no other
person in the guilt, or whether it was by violence,
inflicted by another; whesher it occurred through the vio-
lence of another throwing her down stairs, or
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course will be if the evidence is not sufficiently clear, to
throw out the bill until more evidence can be subsequently
got, for if you put the prisoner on his trial upon evidence
which will not bear a conviction, and the bill be thrown out,
it will be very inconvenient if other and clearer evidenceshould
afterwards arise. But if you see that there is sufficient evidence
of both, you will put it in the course of
.further inquiry. I
have said that because you ought not to inquire merely into
the cause of death, and, supposing that there was enough to
satisfy you on that point, so to send it before another jury;
you must be satisfied that the party died by violence, and
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child, the question will be whether the violence is theny
unlawful
character, that the person is chargeable with
act, and that of such a kind, towards a child, as will involve
the crime of manslaughter. Another of these chargestttnt
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out of very peculiar circumstances, and was of he
utmost
public in
public importance. The party is charged with negligence
the conducting of an engine, so that he ran into another tram,
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to the great danger of life to many in that train. The inquiry
here was, whether the person appointed to conduct the en-
gine, seeing the usual signals, ought to have increased his
caution, and whether he neglected that caution and
conducted himself recklessly, and with such rash-
ness as would amount to criminal negligence, and, therefore,