The Sun.
London, England, 1846-10-30 00:00:00

THE STTN, LONDON, FRInA Y EVENING, OCTOBE'it 80, 18i6.

COURT OF COMMON COUNCIL.
Yesterday a Court was held for the dispatch of public
business.

ABOLITION OF THE PUNISHMENT OF DEATH,

Mr. AsHunsT gave notice of a motion for the abo-
lition of the punishment of death in all cases.
Mr. PRIOR brought up reports for granting 100/.
towards the erection of a school in Whitechapel ; for
granting 1001. in aid of the erection of a church and par-
sonage-house near the site of the Watermen's and
Lightermen's Company at Penge; for granting 1001. to
the Royal Orthopceiic Hospital, and for subscribing 300
guineas towards the relief of the sufferers by the fire
at St. John's Newfoundland.—They were all agreed to.
FARRINGDON-STREET AND FIELD-LANE.

Mr. R. WILLIAMS (one of the members for Farring-
don-without ward) moved " That the greater portion of
the houses being condemned by the district surveyor,
under the Building Act, the same be included in the
proposed Bill fu- the improvements at Holborn-bridge.
He represented the subject as one of serious import-
ance to the citiz:ns of London, it/ismuch as ,Field-lane
was one of the greatest ab.,minations in the whole
metropolis, and it wes absurd to think of pi-weeding
with the buildings in Farringdon-strcet until such nui•
satire be removed."
Mr. Low thought it would be unwise in the Corpora-
tion to encumber itself with the ground upon which
Field-lane stood, and moved as an amendment that the
question be referred to a Committee. After some dis-
cussion the amendment was agreed to.
THE SURVEY OF THE WESTERN DISTRICT OF TUE

CENTPAL CRIMINAL COURT.
IV ETV Coll RT.

(Before the REconDErt end Mr. Alderman MusGnovE.)
George Hor.ylbrtl, 19, a dyer, pleaded guilty to an in.
dictment charging him with stealing fifteen skeins of
silk, value 305., the property of Henry Le Livier, his
master.

(Continued from our Afternoon Edition of yesterday.)
Mr. ROBINSON addressed the Jury for the defence, and
contended that the prisoner had no felonious intention
in taking am ay the goods.
After the LEARNED RECORDER had summed up the
evidence at great length, the Jury returned a verdict of
Guilty, and the prisoner was sentenced to be transported
for the term of seven years.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
GUILDHALL.
Mr. Alderman Hooper was engaged for some hours
in the investigation of a charge of assault preferred by
John M‘Nally against George Brown, City policeman
No. 222, who has recently joined the force, but was
formerly in the Metropolitan police. M.Nally was
charged with rescuing from the officer a man who had
assaulted him.

A certificate from the house-surgeon of St. Bartho-
lomew's Hospital was put in, stating that M•Nally's wife
remained a patient from the injuries she had received,
and was in a state of danger. ft was understood to be
an almost hopeless case, and therefore the magistrate
took the evidence at great length.
Ellen Connelly, of St. Dunstan's-court, 013 Bailey,
stated that two friends came to visit her husband on
Sunday. Their names were Grady and William Kelly.
In the evening they ull went to the It. d Cow, King-
street, Smithfield, where they had some beer. On leav-
ing the house, about twelve o'clock, a quarrel took place
between Kelly and some men who were passing. Brown,
the policeman, came up, and insisted on all the persons
going away immediately. Kelly crossed the road to
bid his friends good night, and was followed by
Brown, who pushed Grady and Kelly towards Smith-
field, and eventually took Grady into custody. A scuffle
took place, and Grady got away. Brown then seized
APNally, a friend of Grady's, who had accidentally
come up. M'Nally's wife interfered to get her husband
away, when the policeman knocked her down with his
truncheon, and on M'Nally's endeavouring to lift up his
wife he was also knocked down by the policeman, who
struck him twice on the head while he was lying on the
ground.

The policeman said he ordered them to move on half
a dozen times before he took Grady into custody. They
moved a little way, and then stopped to wrangle ; such
conduct soon gathered a crowd, and caused confusion in
the street, which it was his duty to prevent. Grady
pushed him several times before he took him into custody.
On the part of the policeman, Maria Alder, of Little
New-street, Gough-square, and Mrs. Isted, of 29, King-
street, who saw tho affray from the windows of their dif-
ferent houses were examined. They stated that there
was a rush by the mob, and the policeman was knocked
down three or four times. She heard the voice of a
woman, who was very active in the rescue. She said,
" Don't let him be taken ; the policeman is drunk."
They thought the policeman's life was in danger. lie
drew his staff and knocked a woman down, and flourished
his staff round to keep the people off him.
An extra policeman, named Murrell, who went to
Brown's assistance, stated that he saw the policeman
knocked down under the feet of some cattle. Witness
took Mrs. M'Nally into custody. She would not walk,
but stopped. Brown struck her on the shoulder with his
staff. She walked in a stooping position to the station-
house, and thence to the hospital. He did not know she
was hurt till he saw the blood running down her neck at
the station-house.

Sergeant Patterson proved that Brown was quite sober.
Mr. Alderman Hoot'En said he would release John
M'Nally on his promise to appear on Saturday wed:, and
in the meantime he hoped the commissioner would in-
vestigate the conduct of the officer.
An inspector said the commissioner had already
ordered a strict inquiry.
Mr. Alderman 1100 PER adjourned the further hearing
of the case to the 7th of November.

WORSHIP-STREET.
William Willis, a carman in the service of a railway
truck conveyance contrac:or at Whitechapel, was placed
at the bar before Mr. Bingham, charged with having by
negligent driving seriously injured a married woman
named Elizabeth Mills, and her father, Mr. Edward
Bash field, a retired Custom-house officer, who is confined
to his bed without hopes of recovery.
Mrs. Mills, who was supported into Court upon
crutches, and appeared to be in a very debilitated con•
dition, stated that while proceeding through Devonshire-
street, Mile-end-road, on the 14th ult., leading her father,
who is 85 years of age, and totally blind, a massive
railway• truck carriage, drawn by three horses, suddenly
came up, and turned the corner so recklessly, that one
of its hind wheels was thrown upon the pavement upon
which she and her father were walking, and before they
had time to escape they were both violently struck and
flung to the ground by it. The prisoner, who was seated
in front of the vehicle, apparently asleep, and without
any reins, or the slightest control over the horses, was
instantly secured by a policeman. Witness was carried
to the London Hospital, and her father was coveyed to
his own residence, when it was ascertained that one of
her legs had bee❑ broken, and that her father's hip had
been so crushed that although he had been confined to
his bed under surgical care ever since the occurrence, it
was impossible, from his advanced age, that he could
ever recover from the injuries he had sustained.
In answer to the charge the prisoner said he was ex-
cessively tired, in cons quence of having walked a long.
distance that day, and that although he was certainly
seated in front of the truck, as the prosecutrix had stated,
the occurrence, which he sincerely regretted, was purely
accidental, and resulted from the circumstance of there
being no post or kerb at the spot in question to keep
vehicles off the Giotway.
Mr. BINGHAM said that the case was far too serious
for his limited powers to deal with, and he should there•
fore direct the depositions of the witnesses to be taken,
and committed the prisoner for trial at the sessions.

GUN COTTON.--ISre have to record the occurrence
of an accident to the son of the eminent gun-maker of
Bond-street, which might have been attended with seri-
ous consequences. Mr. Lancaster was engaged with
Taylor in making some experiments on the projec-
tile power of gun-cotton, and several charges of 50 grains
each, with If ounce of shot, had been fired from a strong
14-guage gun with perfect safety, when on increasing
the charge to 83 grains and 1 ounce of shot, the gun
burst with great violence. The sleeve of Mr. Lancaster's
coat was torn through, and he received several slight
wounds on the fleshy part of his arm, none of which,
we are happy to add, are of a serious character. In some
previous experiments which Mr. Lancaster had made
with the cotton of Dr. Schonbein, in the presence of that
gentleman and Professor Faraday, the same quantity of
cotton had been fired with perfect safety. We, there-
fore, caution those who may be trying experiments with
this powerfully explosive compound to be exceedingly
cautious, as an accident has occurred even in such ex-
perienced hands. The gun used by Mr. Lancaster had
been previously proved with an ounce of powder and a
ball fitting the bore.
DESTRUCTIVE FIRE AT LIMEHOUSE.—Last even-
ing, between six and seven o'clock, a fire broke out in
the exteasive cooperage, belonging to Messrs. Gordon
and Son, in Church-lane, Limehouse. The flames were
first discovered issuing through the roof of the cooper-
age, a building nearly 150 feet long by 50 feet deep,
which contained a considerable number of casks and
staves. There were about twelve compartments in the
premises, which were used as separate workshops. With
such fury did the fire extend, that in less than ten
minutes after the first alarm was given, at least one half
of the spacious building became encircled in flame. The
engines quickly attended, but by the time they could be
set to work, the whole of the cooperage was on. fire, and
Church-
lane and Oak-lane would become ignited, the heat being
so intense, and the burning flakes were set flying over.
theftw spiinarieshtiemiewirtchw.asßfyeared that the houses in
was at length subdued, but not until the
The
which it betean were reduced to a mass of rums.
stock in trade destroyed is also considerable. .
PUMPKINS FOR Cows.—The South Australian R.e•
hale-past eight o'clockvi.etrtihiseersficne
from England, will remember the long-keeping.
yister says,—" Many
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iriernee were any. A similar supply of nutritive cliinge
in fodder has been successfully resorted to by a Judi-
(s)tard for the milch cows, it
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judi-
cious colonist, who has laid by a store of pie-melons,
which he cuts into small pieces, and gives at stated in-
tervals to his cows, by which this change of provender is
devoured with avidity. This artificial metnod of in.
creasing the quantity of milk, when the natural pits
tures are parched and scanty, has been found to answer
se well that in all probability the example will be ex-
tensively
what
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supplies
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grown even upon sandhills or
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o considered. barren or unpro-
Effietno3gmbliaen;dea.Tsohne to season, or even during a voyage to
FATAL FlGllT.—Yesterday afternoon Mr. William
Baker held an inquest at the Bricklayer's Arms, Char-
lotte-street, Curtain-road, on the body of Francis Lee,
aged 29 years, a baker, residing at No. 7, Mills-court,
Curtain-road, who died on Monday last from injuries he
flail received in an affray with a man named George
Tornkins, in East-road, City•road. It appeared from the
his coat. .
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public-houses. Towards the evening he became very
much intoxicated, and entered the Three Crowns, in
East road, City-road. He went into the taproom and of-
fered to fight any one present, and divested hinis, If of
was lying on the form, and while in that position the
deceased struck him several violent blows. Tomkins
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deceased bleeding most profusely, and Tomkins
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TAIT'S MAGAZINE.—We hear that this popular
periodical has now become the property of those enter-
prising booksellers, Messrs. A. and C. Black, the original
proprietor, Mr. Tait, being about to retire from business.
—.Edinburgh Witness.

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MONEY MARKET and CITY NEWS.
CITY, THURSDAY.
TIMES.—The market for Consols- was considerably
influenced to-day by large speculative sales, which re-
duced quotations about five-eighths per cent. Various
rumours have been circulated accounting for this sudden
change in the appearance of business. Many of the
dealers seem to apprehend ill consequences from the con-.
templated Spanish expedition into Portugal; and others
profess to believe some fresh movement has occurred in
the French Cabinet inimical to English interests. Al.
though no positive information has transpired which
would give a clue to the real operating cause, the fact
that the speculators who are supposed to receive ex-
presses from the other side of the Channel have been the
chief sellers would lead to the inference that it is either
Spanish or French events which have contributed to pro-
duce this decline. Consols opened at 947- for Money and
the Account; they were done as low as 94 for Money,
and 944 for the Account ; and left off respectively
at 944 for Money, and 944 to for the Account.
Spanish also experiencud a great change in value,
sales of this stock being freely effected. The market
for Portuguese dropped from the general heavi-
ness, and Foreign Securities, were altogether dull.
A meeting of the shareholders of the Australian
Mining Company was held to-day, at which the direc-
tors presented a very flattering report. The recent
discoveries of minerals in the neighbourhood of Ade-
laide had prepared the parties interested for some very
favourable details concerning the position of their pro-
perty. It seems that the directors are daily expecting
official intelligence of the grant of 20,000 acres of land,
situated near Reedy Creek, where large quantities of
copper ore have been found, which intelligence was
only delayed till the claim of " royalty" was settled.
The samples of ore received yield an average of 30}
per cent.

POST.—There was to-day a fall of unusual magni-
tude in the public securities. The Government brokers
purchased 5,000 Three-and-a-Quarter per Cent. stock,
at 95i, for account of the savings'-banks, 5,000 of the same
stock, at the same rate, for account of the unclaimed
dividends, and 1,200 Old South Sea Annuities, at 931,
for account of the Commissioners for the reduc-
tion of the National Debt. At the close of business
Bank Stock was quoted 2041 to 2051; Three per Cent.
Reduced 93i- to 4; Three-and--a-Quarter per Cent. Stock
95f to Consols 941 for Money, and 94f to for Ac-
count; Exchequer-bills 9s. to 12s. premium. The supply
of money was abundant for all ordinary purposes, and,
that the markets should have given way to the extent
witnessed, was a matter of some surprise, particularly
as there was really little appearance of business.
Consols were at one moment as low as 94h- for Money,
establishing a decline of fully i to ;al per cent., and,
sympathising with these, almost everything else was
quoted nominally lower, such as foreign stocks of
various kinds, and, in a very minor degree, rail-
ways and other shares. Different rumours were in
circulation to account for the fall, but the ap-
prehensions of the public having been once par
tially awakened by statements announcing impor-
tant movements in our arsenals and dockyards, there
can be little doubt that an advantage was taken by un-
scrupulous speculators, of the opportunity afforded them
of working as strongly as possible upon sensitive minds,
by the employment of all kinds of inventions and ex-
aggerations for the promotion of their own selfish ob-
jects. The state of Portugal was the leading topic of
the day. In the facts which have been made matter of
newspaper comment, connected with the recent revolu-
tion, good reason is thought to have been found for the
belief that there must now be a total severance of the
amicable relations which have for so many years sub-
sisted between France and England. All the mischief is
ascribed to the intriguing propensities of his Majesty the
King of the French, and hence it is that a casus belli is
considered to have arisen, which may adequately ex-
plain the motive for the increase spoken of in our naval
and military forces. The marching of a Spanish
army into Portugal, and the preparation for foreign
service—the departure, in fact, of an English fleet,
the throwing up of additional defences at Gibraltar, and
the like, were among the subjects of the many agreeable
rumours to which it was the fate of timid stock-holders
to have to listen from about eleven o'clock until nearly
the close of the markets. Eventually, however, a stand
was made by influential parties, and the reports of the
day being essentially vague, there was at length a rally,
the home securities recovering themselves to the extent
of about per cent. The intelligence upon which the
earlier operations were based seems to have been derived
almost exclusively from newspaper sources. As such is
the case, our readers may be able to judge for themselves
of the merits of the reports in question which have a
political bearing. The condition of Ireland is still a
cause of solicitude, and the foreign exchanges having
turned against this country, there may be some exporta-
tion of the precious metals. We are of opinion, never-
theless, that the fears entertained on these, as well as on
the other heads alluded to, have been needlessly great.