The Sun.
London, England, 1846-07-01 00:00:00

BOW-STREET.

A youth named Robert Bartlett, who had been nine
years in the service of Mr. Ackermann, the printseller,
of the Strand, as a shopman, was charged with stealing
a number of prints, albums, &c., the property of his em-
ployer. _ _ _

- It appeared that the prisoner had been indulging in
this system of plunder for some time, and the prose-
cutor suspected that others were identified with him, as
the articles which led to the discovery of the fact had
passed through the hands of other parties before being
sold to Mr. Williams, another shopkeeper in the Strand,
who, having reason to believe that the property offered
to him had been obtained by dishonest means, went and
conferred with the prosecutor upon the subject.
The prisoner at once admitted his guilt, but denied
that any one else in Mr. Ackermann's employ had been
connected with him.

Mr. JARDINE remanded him for further examination.
MARLBOROUGH-STREET.
Mr. Charles Bindley, Albert-terrace, and Mr. Joshua
Hyde, of the same place, were summoned before Mr.
Maltby for an assault on Me. George Hayward Taylor.
Mr. Taylor said the defendant Bindley was formerly
a tenant of his, but had left the house with arrears of
rent unsettled. He called at Albert-terrace, where
Bindley now lived, and was invited by Bindley to walk
into the garden, to talk about the business between them.
After a short and unsatisfactory conversation, he was
violently assaulted by Bindley, who seized him by the
hair of the head, and then twisted his cravat so as
nearly to strangle him. Hyde, who was present during
this violence, called out, " When you have done with
him, hand him over to me." Complainant, on being
released by Bindley, was laid hold of by Hyde, whc,
thrust him several times against the garden wall, and
forced his knees against his stomach. Complainant was
so much injured by the ill-treatment he had sustained,
that he had been ever since under medical treatment.
The complainant said the case, he considered, was too
serious to be decided under the summary jurisdiction of
a magistrate, and he hoped, therefore, the charge would
be sent to the sessions.

Mr. Hyde said he took no part in the assault on Mr.
Taylor. On the contrary, he interfered to part Mr.
Taylor and Mr. Bindley, who had hold of each other.
Mr. Taylor • declared positively that he was attacked
as described by Mr. Hyde.
Mr. Hyde then earnestly entreated the Court not to
send the case to the sessions; but to hear the evidence,
in order to give him an apportunity of calling witnesses.
Mr. Taylor appeared undecided whether to go on
with the case against Hyde, or press for a remand to the
sessions.

Mr. MALTBY said he would give the complainant a
few days longer, that he might make up his mind what
course he would adopt.
Mr. Stephens, pawnbroker, Wardour-street, was sum-
moned by an individual named MgieHand, for taking a
farthing more than legal interest.
The case was proved by a person named Johnstone.
Mr. Humphries, who attended for the defence, said the
present was the first in which his client had been sum-
moned to a police-court, after having been twenty-five
years in business.
A second summons, for taking a penny more than
legal interest, was gone into and proved, on the same tes-
timony as the preceding case.
Mr. MALTBY inflicted the mitigated fine of 40s. and
costs in each case,

Messrs. Perry and Lance, pawnbrokers, Compton.
street, were,, summoned for taking five farthings more
than legal interest on a pledge.
Johnstone was the witness in this case.
Mr. Humphries said his answer to the case was, that
less instead of more than legal interest was taken.
• A shopman, named Wallis, swore that he only received
fourpence interest, and not sixpence farthing, as sworn
to by the approver Johnstone. The interest was four-
pence farthing, but witness usually relinquished the
farthing if he had not a farthing in change.
The ticket, in a mutilated form, was produced.
Mr. MALTBY rejected the evidence of the ticket, in its
very doubtful form, and inflicted a fine of 31. and costs.

REVIEW OF THE BRITISH CORN
TRADE DURING THE PAST WEEK.
The Corn Importation Bill passed the House of Lords
on Thursday, received the Royal assent on Friday by
commission, and is now the law of the land. That this
measure would be carried by the Peel Cabinet before its
breaking up has for some time been regarded as certain,
and the effects have, therefore, in a great measure been
anticipated ; still we are inclined to think that the
liberation of so large a quantity of wheat as
that now in bond in the kingdom must, at
least for a time, lave some effect on prices
of free. Whether the reduction will be very great will
in some measure depend on the degree of firmess holders
—merchants as well as farmers—may display. That
the millers are totally out of stocks is a perfectly well-
known fact ; their necessities have lately been so
pressing that even the certainty of the new Corn Bill
coming into immediate operation, combined with very
favourable weather, has been inadequate to check an
upward tendency in price:; if, therefore, no particular
eagerness should be shown to press sales, it is very pro-
bable that comparatively little effect may be produced
on the value of wheat by the new order of things. How
quotations may ultimately range must of course depend on
the result of the harvest at home and abroad. Up to the
present time the promise for the wheat crop is decidedly
good, as far as the British islands are concerned; the
greatest danger at present to be apprehended is, that
after so long a spell of hot, dry weather, an equally long
interval of wet may follow, which would, unquestion-
ably, be attended with considerable risk. To offer
an opinion as to what wheat may be worth in the
autumn can at best be regarded as mere guess-work, but
there is something like data for judging of the probable
variations in prices between this and harvest. Firstly,
we know that the millers and dealers are absoluely with-
out stocks; secondly, we have reason to believe, from the
sparing manner in which the markets in the agricul-
tural districts have for weeks past been supplied, that
the quantity remaining in the farmers' hands cannot
be large. If right in the latter conclusion, and the de-
liveries from the growers do not greatly increase, the
whole of the foreign in the kingdom, with what may
still be left of last year's growth, would not, we think,
be more than sufficient to satisfy the consumption
until the new crop (however early the harvest may
be) can beready. This is, we think, a reasonable view to
take of the matter, and we therefore repeat that the
holders of wheat have the regulation of prices almost
wholly in their own hands. Should anything like undue
anxiety be shown by merchants to force off the foreign
wheat, farmers would probably catch the infection, and
something like a panic might ensue, by which prices
would for a time be unreasonably depressed: whilst, on
the other hand, a determination not to submit to lower
rates would leave buyers no alternative; for, as already
observed, the mills and flour stores are empty in all parts
of the kingdom. Hitherto the trade has maintained a
tolerably firm tone, though towards the close of the
week, when it had become known the new duties
were likely to be in force, almost immediately a
slight disposition was manifested to get rid of free
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crops, and the apprehensions which were beginning to
be felt in consequence of the drought have, in a great
measure, subsided ; whether, however, the late-sown
barley and oats will wholly recover from the injurious
effects of so early and severe a drought as that experi-
enced (scarcely any rain having fallen fiom the 21st of
May to the 21st of June) is doubtful, and it is certain
that beans and peas have been irretrievably damaged by
the extreme heat during the period named. There has,
ncvertbeless, been a want of activity in the demand for
all these articles, and the upward tendency of prices has
been completely checked.
REVIEW OF THE FOREIGN CORN TRADE.
The latest advices from the United States, received
by the Great Britain, state that the stock of wheat and
flour had further accumulated at the leading ports, the
arrivals from the interior having been more than suffi-
cient for the local consumption, and the shipping
demand having in a great measure subsided. Under
these circumstances, prices had continued to tend
downwards, though the reports of the appearance of
the growing crops were not very favourable, the fly
having in many districts attacked the plant. The
most recent accounts from New York are of the Bth inst. ;
the best brands of Genoese Flour were theta obtainable
at 4/ dols., and Michigan at 4 dols. per barrel ; but the
concession made by the sellers had failed to lead to ex-
tensive operations. At Philadelphia, on the 6th June,
flour was quite neglected, and the quotation was then
3 dols. 87fc. to- 4 dols. per barrel. Wheat was also
lower, good Pennsylvania red having been sold at 88c.,
and white at 95c., per bushel. At Montreal (from
whence we have letters of 'the sth inst.) a depressing
effect was produced on the Flour Market by the news
from hence taken out by the Hibernia steamer.
In the Baltic markets very little change seems to have
occurred in the value of wheat, for though few foreign
orders had been rAmeived, and little inclination had b, en
shown by local buyers to speculate, the confidence of
holders has been maintained in consequence of the anti-
cipated change in the English corn-laws. It is, however,
quite evident that, in case we should c .ntinue to have
favourable weather for the crops, prices abroad -will,
sooner or later, come down so as to meet our markets.
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