The Sun.
London, England, 1848-03-03 00:00:00

t;tution, and he felt that he would be guilty of a a, re
fiction of duty towards his country did he not inflic
such a sentence as would banish them from this country
for the term of their natural lives. He was willing to
believe that Evans had no connexion with the original
rubbery, and he also felt willing to attend to the recom-
mendation on behalt of Tho•nas, as his offence was corn
witted under still more mitigatory circumstances. the
sentence on Lloyd and Mahoney was, therefore, that
they should be transported for life, Evan Evans to
eighteen months' imprisonment, and Richard Thomas to
six months' imprisonment.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
MANSION-HOUSE.

A man named G. W. Rowley was brought before the
Lord Mayor, charged with having forged a cheque for
51. upon a banking-house.
The prisoner went into the shop of Mr. Trent, a
hosier i❑ the Royal Exchange, on Wednesday morning,
and purchased goods to the amount of 4/. 155., in pay-
ment of which be tendered the cheque, without having
any account at the house, or being known there. It
was supposed he had stolen or found the cheque-book of
some customer of the banking-house.
The LORD MAYOR said that two gentlemen had called
at the justice-room, in the course of the morning, and
described a person who appeared to be identical with
the prisoner, and had played a similar trick upon a
shopkeeper at the west-end of the town. By the suc-
cess of the scheme the impostor obtained the amount of
41. 165., in change for a cheque of Si. 12s. but the goods
wire not sent.

The LORD MAYOR thought it very probable that if
the press noticed the system upon which, he was given
to understand, much property had been thus obtained
from shopkeepers, there would be more accusers than
o

The prisoner was accordingly remanded.
HAMMER S MIT.H.
William Lamb, a tall man of military appearance, was
charged before Mr. Seeker, the sitting magistrate, with
hawking without a license.
The charge was preferred by George Humfreys, a
licensed hawker, living at Hammersmith, who swore to
seeing the defendant hawking brushes and brooms at
Kensington and Hammersmith, and calling out " Buy a
broom or a brush." He gave the defendant in custody.
Defendant had no license.

The defendant, in answer to the charge, said ho wag
the maker of the articles he sold, and therefore entitled
to hawk them without a license. Besides, ho was a
discharged soldier, and discharged soldiers were entitled
to hawk anything under the value of 40s.
Mr. SECKEU said, with regard to the first part of the
defendant's defence, though his being the maker of the
articles would entitle him to hawk them in boroughs,
market towns, or towns corporate, the privilege did not
extend to villages. He must not, therefore, hawk in
Kensington or Hammersmith without a license. In
respect of the secsnd part of his defence, he was under a
mistake, the law only giving him a right, as a discharged
soldier, to set up any trade, and not to hawk without a
license. As he had actod under a mistake, he would
discharge him en his paying the complainant ss. for his
expenses. Not having the money, a week was allowed
him to pay it.

THE CORN TRADE.
The position of the trade has undergone very little
change since our last; nor has any circumstance tran-
spired of a character calculated to lead to much altera-
tion. The weather has continued changeable, and a
good deal of rain has fallen, by which the land has been
rendered too wet to admit of out-door work being imme-
diately commenced; farmers are therefore likely, for
some time, to have leisure for thrashing; and the de-
liveries from the growers, though not large, have
rather increased. A decided unwillingness has, how-
ever, been shown to submit to any further decline in
prices, holders (farmers as well as merchants) being
mostly of opinion, that after the close of this month,
when the free importation of foreig❑ ceases, quo-
tations will undergo a gradual improvement. We need
not repeat what we have on former occasions said on
this subject; but hitherto our views have proved
tolerably correct, and we can discover no reason to
warrant an expectation of any advantage of moment
in the value of bread-stuffs, so long as the
prospects for the next crop shall continue favour-
able. The arrivals from abroad have not hitherto
been large, which may, however, be easily ac-
counted for—the opening of the navigation of the
principal continental rivers having taken place too
recently to allow of shipments to any extent being
made with a fair prospect of the vessels reaching our
shores in time to save the duty. There is probably
some quantity on passage from the northern ports,
kept back by the prevalence of south-west winds
and the boisterous weather lately experienced.
Whether these cargoes arrive previous or subse-
quent to the Ist of March, importers will most
probably be anxious to effect sales from on board
ship ; and there does not appear much chance, in the
first instance, of any scarcity of foreign Wheat being
experienced. Afterwards prices will, we think, give
way on the continent sufficiently to admit of the pay-
ment of a 7s. or Bs. duty. Though business in Wheat
has not been active at any of the leading provincial
markets held during the week, holders have certainly
manifested increased firmness, and ha some in-
stances they have even succeeded in establishing
a trifling advance on the finer qualities This
has been the case at Liverpool, where the best dry
samples of new wheat were on Tuesday quoted 2d.
per 701bs. higher than on that day se'nnight; and
flour, which had previously been much depressed (in
consequence of arrivals from Ireland), rallied Is. per
sack. Later in the week a further small advance of
about ld. per 701bs. was obtained for new; but
old wheat was dull of sale on Friday.—Mark-lane
Express.