The Sun.
London, England, 1848-01-06 00:00:00

EAT blikit3LETS.

SMITNFIELD.—MeadowII;IT, 2110st1 3/ 125 ; Clover,
ditto, 31 lOs to 41 I3s ; and Straw, 11 5s to 11 lOs
per load. Supply tolerably good, acid trade dull.
CUMBERLAND.—Meadow Hay, 2/ lOs to 8/ 15s ;
Clover ditto, 31 lOs to 41125; and Straw, 11 6s to 11 lOs
per load. A fair average supply, and a moderate demand.
WRITECHAPEL.—Meadow Hay, 2110 s to 3/ 12•;
Clover ditto, 31 lOs to 4/ 155 ; and Straw, 11 45 to
11 9s per load. Trade dull, at the above quotations.

CORN AVERAGES.
GENERAL AVERAGE PRICES OF BRITISH CORN
For the Week ended Jan. 5, 1848, made up from the Returns of the
Inspectors in the different Cities and Towns in Eaglend and Wales
per Imperial Quarter.
WHEAT. I BARLEY.' OATI. RYE. I DRAWS. I PEAS.
PRICE .. 153 s 10d 315 8d 20s 7d 295 lld 385 10d 44510 d

The Duties on Foreign Grain are now suspended.

CRIMINAL COURT.-(THIS DAY.)

OLD COURT.
(Before Mr. Justice PATTESON.)
FORGERY.—SamueI Uriah Sloter, aged 38, de-
scribed in the calendar as a shoemaker, but who, it
appeared, had been a letter-carrier in the General
Post-office, was indicted with feloniously forging an
order for the payment of 551., with intent to defraud
:Messrs. Alastermans, the bankers.
Mr. Bodkin and Mr. Wilde conducted the case for
the prosecution, and Mr. Ballantine defended the
prisoner.

Mr. BODKIN stated the case for the prosecution to
the jury, from which it appeared that the prisoner had
been in the General Post-office as a letter-carrier on
the Kennington district. On the 23d of July last
Messrs. Masterman received a letter, purporting to be
signed by Helen Hedloe, requesting them to favour
her by cashing a cheque, which was inclosed, for 551.,
and which purported to be drawn and signed by Mr.
Robert James, a respectable solicitor in Ely-place. The
letter requested that Messrs. Masterman would forward
to the writer, at Spring Cottage, Kensington, one 401. •
and three 51. notes. On the receipt of this letter Messrs.
Masterman forwazded the halves of the notes, and on
the 26th of July the receipt of them was acknow-
ledged, and requesting the other halves to be for-
warded, which was done. On the 28th of the same
month a letter was sent to Mr. Marshall, the chief
cashier of the Bank of England, purporting to come
from a person named Wingrave, who resided at West-
minster, enelosing the notes, and requesting that gold
might be given to the bearer of the letter for them.
Mr. Marshall, after putting several questions to the •
boy who brought the letter, desired him to go and
tell the person who sent him to call himself, but
neither the boy, nor the person who sent him,
calling, the notes were detained by Mr. Mar-
shall. Upon subsequent inquiry it was found
that there was no such place as Spring-cottage
in Kensington, or any person of the name of Helen
Hedloe living there, and that the cheque was a
forgery. The prisoner Leing the postman of the
Kensington district, suspicion fell upon him, it being
the practice of the post-office when letters were ad-
dressed to Kensington, and the party to whom they
were addressed being found not to reside there, to
send those letters to the Kennington district. This
suspicion was strengthened by the boy who had
carried the bank-notes to Mr. Marshall, who, on see-
ing the prisoner at the post office instantly identified
him as the person who desired him to take the
notes to the Bank. The prisoner was then immedi-
ately taken into custody. It appeared also, the clerk
of the Holborn union was in the habit of sending
cheques for small sums to a Mr. Smith of Ancram,
N. 8., for a female named Hedloe. Many letters
marked N. B. were sent to North Brixton by the
Post-office, and it was supposed that a letter written
by Air. James, inclosing a cheque for Mrs. Hedloe
for 3/. 155., had been sent to North Brixton instead
of Ancram, North Britain; and, having been so, it
would get into the hands of the prisoner, as the letter-
carrier of the Kennington district, and thereby enable
him to know that Mr. James banked at Musterman's,
that he wrote cheques in favour of a female named
Hedloe, and also enabled him to discover the manner
in which Mr. James signed his cheques. Under
these suspicious circumstances the present prosecution
was instituted.

A great number of witnesses were examined (among
whom was Mr. Marshall, the chief cashier of the
Bank of England) in support of the prosecution. The
boy who took the notes to the Bank was also exa-
amined, and he again identified the prisoner, who
sent him with the notes, and gave him 2s. for his
trouble. Evidence was also given as to the belief of
the witnesses that the letters which hail been written
to Messrs, Masterman and the Bank of England
were in the prisoner's handwriting, as was also the
body of the cheque.
BALLANTINE addressed the jury at some length
on behalf of the prisoner.
Several witnesses gave the prisoner an excellent
character.

Mr. JUStiCe:PATTESON summed up.
The jury found the prisoner Guilty of uttering the
cheque, but not forging it.
Sentence deferred.

NEW COURT.
(Before the RECORDER.)

A FATHER AND DAUGHTER.—Frances Richer, a
girl aged 15, was charged by her father, Daniel
Richer, with stealing a number of blankets and
sheets, two gowns, and four quilts, the value of all
being estimated at 201.
The father, "who seemed to feel acutely the painful
position in which he was placed, stated that his
daughter hafl pawned a considerable quantity of his
property, and robbed him of money during the last
eighteen months, and that he was totally ignorant of
the way in which she expended the produce of her
plunder. Before the time in question the girl con-
ducted herself in a becoming manner; since then she
had behaved most improperly, and he feared she had
made acquaintances who had induced her to plunder
him. He allowed hei 55.. a week for tea and sugar,
and bought all other necessaries himself. He gave
her ls. or ls. 6d. a week for her own use, and what-
ever additional money she asked for she immediately
obtained from him.

The girl said her father gave the ss. to buy tea, -
sugar, coals, and candles, and many other things,
and the sum being insufficient, she pledged the ar-
ticles in question to obtain more.
In reply to questions from the Recorder, the father
stated that he had been a widower thirteen years ;
that the gowns belonged to his sister, and that his
daughter and he occupied but one room in a street
running out of Holborn. He had forgiven her many
robberies she had committed, but being unable to do
anything with her, he had been compelled to bring
her before the Court. He had never given her any
permission to pawn the things. He believed that a
woman in the same house, named Williams, had led
her to commit these depredations.
The jury found the prisoner Guilty.
She said she was very sorry for what she had done.
The persons in the house had told her that by doing
what she had done she would not be doing wrong;
and further, that she had always been accompanied
to the pawnbroker's by the person mentioned.
The RECORDER deferred passing sentence until the
next session ; and directed, in the meantime, that her
father should have free access to his daughter, in
order that he might endeavout' to find out from her
the parties who had induced her to commit the rob-
beries, for it could not be permitted that those par-
ties should go unpunished.

WORSHIP-STREET.—(THIS DAY.)
William Press, a decently looking mechanic, was
charged as follows :
Folice-constable 256 K deposed, that he was on
duty at about seven o'clock last evening in plain
clothes, in North-street, London-fields, Bethnal green,
when he saw the prisoner passing through the fields,
in a direction from the Eastern Counties Railway,
with a number of boards upon his shoulder. The
latter, however, perceiving that he was being watched,
threw down the boards, and walked on. On witness
coming up to him, the prisoner acknowledged having
stolen the boards, and said, he "could not think what
had induced him to do so, but he was going to make
a pigsty."
The prisoner, crying most bitterly, in which too he
was joined by his wife with an infant in her arms,
besought the Magistrate to have mercy on him for
the sake of his wife and five children.
The prosecutors did not appear to wish to press the
charge, and the prisoner was ultimately fined 505.,
and it was in the course of an hour paid by his, em-
ployer, and he was liberated.