The Sun.
London, England, 1846-09-25 00:00:00

HOP INTELLIGENCE.

Bulmash, SEPT. 20.—As the picking of the hops
advances, the planters become more disappointed with
the weight of their produce. Light weights at the com-
,etncement did not much surprise them. They thought,
however, that as the picking should proceed, and the
hops acquire more condition, they would necessarily
weigh heavier. In very few instances have these ex-
pectations been realised. Some good samples have gone
from this neighbourhood to the metropolis. Not many
sales have, however, been made, except by necessitous
people, most of the planters looking with confidence to
the obtaining of higher prices.
BREDE, WESTFIELD, AND SEDLESCOMB.—The hop-
picking in these parishes will soon be brought to a close,
and indeed it is time, as they look very brown, and in
picking drop entirely to pieces. They weigh better than
at first, seventy bushels to the cwt. is about the average.
Hop pole stacks now rear their winterly head in every
direction, and nature has been robbed of her richest
ornament. Many of our growers do not think of selling
under 4/. par cwt. Duty estimated at 200,0001.
BEciLLEY, SEPT. 20.—About four days more will
bring the hap-picking to a close in this and the neigh-
bouring parishes; there is not any of the planters will
grow so many as last year, therefore they think the
duty estimated too high.
EASTUOATILLY, SEPT. 20.—Our hop-picking is now
fast approaching to a close, but in a few instances it will
be volonged until quite the latter end of the present
week. Never has there been a time more propitious for
both planter and picker, scarcely a drop of rain having
fallen during the whole process. The hops, although in
most instances requiring an unusual number of bushels
to the cwt., have well retained their condition. The
pickers in many instances complain that they have not
been able to make so much of their time as they were
wont to do, owing to obtaining the required number of
bushels long before the day closed. The samples gene-
rally produced by the dryers hereabouts are of most ex-
cellent quality.
FARNHAM, SEPT. 20.—The hop-picking season has
been a very long one, but will be brought to a close next
week, the number of hops far exceeding the calculation
of every planter. The general price of picking is I id.
per bushel, thereby showing that our white burr hops
are unusually large, and notwithstanding they were not
picked until thoroughly ripe, yet it is thought they will
come to the scale rather light, say nearly 80 bushels to
the cwt. Tice duty of this district is expected to exceed
that of 1826, many planters having exceeded a ton to
an acre, and as bright as it is possible for them to be,
consequently the samples will be generally very good.
HORSEMONDEN, SEPT. 20.—Hop-picking will nearly
or quite terminate in this parish in the ensuing week,
with but very little improvement in the weight of the
hops since the commencement. Such, we believe, to be
the case through nearly the whole of this district, which
we think is not difficult to account for. Did any person
ever see a field of corn that had been blighted produce
much seed ? So with the hops, where they have been
blighted they have but little seed, and where there is a
paucity of seed, there is a want of pollen, which detracts
greatly from their weight. Sarely the planters must
be in3ane to crowd their hops on the market at the pre-
sent ruinous prices ; if they do, 250,000/. must be lost
among them, by a growth which it is not probable will
reach 200,0001. duty. If hops were at a moderate and
remunerative price, say 51. ss. per cwt., every common
brewer would use them in lieu of quassia, &c. &c., which
would cause a consumption equal to 30,0001. duty extra
among the brewers ; we may also reckon 20,0004 duty
for the loss of the apple crop, and 20,0001, for the in-
crease of the population, and the prosperous state of
manufactures and of the country generally ; these items
together would cause a consumption equal to 70,000/.
duty over that of years when prices run high. Again,
no hops can be wanted for private consumption until this
unprecedentedly warm weather breaks up. Under all
these circumstances, now the needy planters have been
obliged to sacrifice a great many of their hops, would it
not be wise for those that still hold their crop not to sell
under si. or 5/. ss. per cwt., which prices would but just
remunerate the planter, or save him from loss, and at
which we think the consumer ought not to complain.
lIEATRFIELD, SEPT. 19.—Hop picking is drawing to
a close with many, but there are some who will not
finish much under a fortnight. Many hops of the last
week's picking have been considerably deteriorated in
quality by the extreme heat of the sun, preceded by
foggy mornings; and should heavy winds intervene, the
consequences will be disastrous to the unpicked hops.
The relative weight per bushel has reached its maxi-
mum more than a week, and is now generally reported
to he fast receding, and the duty is considered by many
to be much over set.

MAYFIELD, SEPT. 20.—Several planters have finished
picking, and never was a finer time for th• pickers, the
crop far exceeds that of last year, and the samples ge-
nerally are very good ; if the weather proves fine,
picking will be over the ensuing week, and the planters
are looking forward for better prices than the present ;
no doubt but their expectations will be realised, as the
hops are of superior quality this year.
NORTILtM, SEPT. 19.—The hop picking with a very
few exceptions is now coma to a close, and it appears
from the accounts where they have been weighed off,
that the average weight will fall much short of last year.
RYE, SEPT. 20.—Several of the small growers have
concluded hop-picking, and appear well satisfied with
the result. The larger growers will not finish under
another week ; and should the weather prove as favour-
able as it has hitherto done, they will have no cause for
complaint, but should wind and rain prevail, their loss
would ba very great. A slight improvement has taken
place in the weight of the hops.
UDIMORE, SEPT. 20.—Hop-picking goes on rapidily,
and some of our farmers will finish the latter part of
this week. The hops are getting very brown, and re-
quire from 70 to 80 bushels to the cwt.
WORCESTER, SEPT. 18.—About 2,500 pockets of new
hops were sent to market by the planters last Saturday,
of which 1,400 were sod and passed the public scales,
anc 284 in the week. The demand was good, and a
considerable number of pockets were sold more than
conld be weighed on Saturday, which have passed the
scales this week. The picking progresses fast, and the
fine weather very much favours the condition of the
hop. Prices on Saturday from 755, to 925. The duty
is expected to reach 30 0001.—Sussex Advertiser.

WORCESTER GREAT HOP FAIR.
WORCESTER, SATURDAY NfaHT.—The annual Wor-
cester hop and cheese fair, which takes place on the 19th
of September, has been held here to-day, and was one
of the largest and most busy fairs which has been held
for some years.
Ie consequence of the forwardness of the hopping,
which has been wonderfully advanced by the glorious
weather with which this part of the country has been
blessed deAng the past three weeks, it was anticipated
that there would be a large bulk of hops brought to
marka. and the result proved that the expectations of
eb.. most sanguine were exceeded by the reality. At
the market day, on this day se'nnight, the unusual num-
ber of 3.000 pockets were "pitched," and the prices
ranged frem 755. to 90s. for very choice samples. To-
day, however, there have been no !est; than 7,000 pockets
brought to the market, the two market-places being
crammed to repletion, and the pavements of all the ad-
jacent street being piled up with this extraordinary in-
flux. Notwithstanding this large supply, prices have
sofeewhat advanced on the rates of Saturday last, some
of the choicest samples being quoted as high as 100 s.
per cwt., but the general range being from 80s. to 90s.
The Worcestershire and Herefordshire samples this
year are unusually fine.
There was a large attendance of merchants and buyers
from London and other parts, and business was brisk
throughout the day.
The importance of this trade may be judged of from
the results of the following calculations which have been
made of the value of the new hops brought into Wor
cester market within the last twelve days. A pocket of
hops weigh on the average 1 cwt. 3qrs. The weight of
hops offered in Worcester market on Saturday, the 12th
instant, theref)re, was 5,250 cwi., and the average price
was, say 801. per cwt. This would realise a sum of
21,000/. Add to this the value of the hops offered in
Worcester-market to-day-7,000 pockets, weighing on
an average 1 cwt. 3 qrs., would produce an aggregate
weight of 12,250 cwt„ which at the average price of to-
day, say 855., would realise 52,0621. 10s.

EXTRAORDINARY ESCAPE.—On Sunday, the 20th
instant, Mr. Luscombe, the Netherlands Consul at Ply-
mouth, was applied to by Edward Johansen, a native of
Holland, under the following extraordinary circum-
stances :—The applicant stated that he formerly belonged
to the Isis, a Dutch East Indianian, new masted at
Plymouth about fourteen months since, and he recalled
to the recollection of the Dutch Consul several things
which made that gentleman believe his statement. Having
gone on to Batavia in the Isis, Johansen suffered there
severely from a discharge of blood, and was in conse-
quence under medical treatment in the public hospital
for two or three months. On his recovery he joined the
Dutch barque Jocatra, Captain Verkevisser, bound from
Batavia to Amsterdam, and when off the Cornish coast,
on the passage home, about five or six days since, in
the middle watch, he took his trick at the wheel
from twelve to abut one o'clock, at which hour he
was relieved by the mate, who ordered him aloft, to
prepare for rigging out studding-sails. While at the
en! of the maioyard, fitting a boom and gear, the
rope which for srcurity he had fa ..tened round
bodi gave way, and he unfortunately f.. 11 into the sea.
In his first attempt to alarm the ship his mouth
filled with water. It was very dark at the time, and
the v,ssel passed on out of sight, his shipmates being
totally unconscious of his p,rilous fate. Providentially
for Johansen, • he had on only his shirt, :5!:100S, and
trou,ers. He is about twenty-five years of age, strongly
built, and au expert swimmer. The land was in sight
on the previous day, and by the help of the stars he now
endeavoured to swim in that direction. After remaining
in the water an hour and a half or two hours, he became
hnr,st thausted, when day began to break, and to his
‘,et.able joy lie- was happily descried by some
fishermen who were passing-near hint, and between four
and five o'clock in the morning, took hint on board their
vessel. The figures No. II were on the boat's sails. His
dcliverers immediately landed him, in a very weakened
condition, at a sznaA fishing town of about ten or twelve
pour houses, where he was humanely treated, and re-
niainr,i two days and nights in bed. He does not know
English, but, when somewhat recovered, in the best
manrer that he could he begged his way, about thirty
roil, 2, t" Pirwitith- fir. Luscornhe and twc, Dutch
e.iptair.:i have e,J.,ety interronated whose
ail •.v 3, unler the eiretturstatices, were very satisfactory.
lip is up;.)lArtswith suitable clothing aiel necessaries
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PROTECTIONIST POLICY.
(From the Morning Post.)
We publish the following declaration, without, of
course, at all declaring any coincidence of opinion with
it :

DECLARATION OF CONSERVATIVE POLICY TOR THE
ESTABLISHMENT OF FAIR TRADE AND EQUITABLE

TLXATION.

" The abolition of all Excise duties on domestic pro-
ductions and manufactures, and the consequent conso-
lidation of the Customs and Excise, together with the
reduction of the coast guard.
" The admission of colonial wheat, pulse, and flour,
at a statistical duty of 6d. per quarter and 6d. per barrel.
" The reduction of duty on tea to 1 s. per lb.
" The reduction of duty on tobacco to Is. per lb.
" The reduction of duty on colonial sugar to ss.
per cwt.
" Ditto on foreign ditto to 10s. per cwt.
" REVENUE COMPENSATION.

" Fixed duty on foreign wheat at ss. per quarter.
" Fixed duty on other foreign grain and pulse, 2s. 6d.
per quarter.
Fixed duty on foreign flour. 2s. 6d. per barrel.
" Restoration of the duty on foreign cotton wool to 3s.
per cwt., as an equivalent for the excise on soap.
" The charge for postage to commence at Id. for a
quarter of an ounce, instead of half an ounce, to make
up fur the loss of excise on paper, which has always
been a tax on education and literature."

" REASONS FOR REMOVAL OF EXCISE DUTIES ON HOME
PRODUCTIONS, AND ADJUSTMENT OF REVENUE DUTIES.

" As long as an income and property tax is imposed,
which, together with the burden of the poor-laws, falls
principally on the landed proprietors and agriculturists,
foreign imports, competing with our domestic produc-
tions, cannot be admitted without paying a revenue duty.
" The reduction of duty on tea, tobacco, and sugar
would not eventually yield less revenue, owing to the
increased consumption, whilst the comforts of the poor
would be greatly enhanced, and our commerce ex-
tended, especially with China, and the inducement to
smuggle put an end to.
. .

"The loss of revenue on the Excise duties would be
compensated for by the duty on foreign wheat, pulse,
flour, and cotton wool, together with an increase in the
Post-office revenue, which would be equivalent to the
loss of the Excise on paper, to which would be added the
enormous saving in the expense of the collection of the
Excise duties, as well as in the reduction of the coast
guard establishment.
" Since 1842 nearly five millions sterling of duties on
foreign imports have been reduced for the chief benefit of
the manufacturers, while the Excise duties have been
retained and the income and property tax imposed. Five
millions having been taken off and five millions laid en
withont any benefit to the poor maa.
" The proposed revenue duty on wheat would be
about ten per cent. ; on colonial sugar about fifteen per
cent. ; and on foreign thirty per cent. ; making an ave-
rage of twenty-two and a halt per cent., whilst the pre-
sent duties are respectively about forty-file per cent.
and seventy per cent.

PORTRAITS WHICH DO NOT
FLATTER.

The Prefect of the Loir et Cher, as soon as he was in-
formed of the evasion of the Count de Nlontemolin, ad-
dressed to the mayors of the department a circular, con-
taining a minute description of the persons of the Spanish
Pretender, as well as that of Cabrera. The Count is
described as follows :

" Age, 28 years ; h€ight, 1 metre 65 centimetres
(sft. 44in. English) ; black hair and eyebrows, narrow
and round forehead, brown eyes, large sad long nose, a
little bent on one side, middle-sized mouth, black beard,
worn en collier, round chin, oval face, and dark com-
plexion. The upper lip and the teeth slightly project,
and which is more visible when talking ; speaks French
with facility, but with a strong foreign accent ; the
knees turned in, which is more particularly appsrent
when walking ; holds himself very erect ; a turn in the
left eyeball, showing at times the whole of tne white ;
wears his hat inclined to the right side, and over the
eyes."
Ramon Cabrera is thus described :

" Born at Tortosa (Catalonia) ; age, 38 years ; height,
t mere 63 centimetres ; black hair and eyebrows, or-
dinary forehead, greyish brown eyes, middle ,iz .d nose,
mouth rather large, beard black and rather thin, round
chin, oval face, dark complexion. His eyebrows xre
bushy, and come close to each other ; has 'a small scar
on the forehead, over the left eye ; legs slightly bent ;
never looks a person in the face when addressing
him."

We regret to hear that the Earl of Munster and
Lord Adolphus Fitz.larence received the melancholy
intelligence, on Monday last, of the death of Lady
Augusta Bonei whose premature demise took place at
Stockholm on the sth instant. Her Ladyship's aceouche-
melt happened on the 2d, and her death resulten from
her confinement. The deceased lady was second daughter
of the late Earl and Countess of Munster, and grand-
daughter of his late Majesty William IV. Her Lady-
ship was born 31st of July, 1822, and was married last
year to M. Bone& at Paris, when Lady Mary Fox, Lord
Adolphus Fitzclarence, and other branches of the family
attended the nuptials. By the lamented death of her
Ladyship, the Rid of Munster, Viscount and Vis-
countess Falkland, the Earl and Countess of Errol, Lord
and Lady Frederick Fitz larence, Colonel and Lady Mary
Fox, Lord 1)e Lisle and 'hidley, Lord and Lady Augustus
Fitzelarence, Lord Frederick and Lady Augusta Gordon
Hallyburton, &c., are placed in mourning.
FOREIGN GRAPES.—TO show the extent to which
the importations of foreign grapes are carried at the
present time, the following arrivals may be especially
mmitioned as having just taken place, and will be suffi-
cient to illustrate the subject :—The Tyro, from Lisbon,
brought 503 large boxes, 651 half boxes, 94 quarter
boxes, and 50 other packages of this kind of fruit, be-
sides several hundred packages of oranges, lemons, &c.,
the production of Portugal. The steam-ship Rainbow,
from Rotterdam, brought 893 baskets of the large and
fine description, known as the Ilambro' grapes, and pro-
duced in the vineyards in the neighbourhood of Ham-
burgh ; and the Giraffe, from Rotterdam, also the un-
usually large number of 1,423 baskets of the same kind
of grapes. The Racer, from Lisbon, subsequently
brought 599 half boxes, 6 quarter boxes, and 43 large
box-s of grapes, the produce of Portugal. The impor-
tations of the description of grapes known as the Ham-
bro' grapes, previously alluded to. are taking place this
season to an extent beyond all former precedent. The
shops throughout the metropolis are abuzdantly supplied
with them ; they are of unusually fine quality and fla-
vour, arid are vended at so reasonable a price as to place
them within the reach of the general public, which is to
be ascribed to the unusual and extraordinarily fine wea-
ther which has been experienced generally throughout
Europe during the past summer and up to the present
time.

FOLKESTONE, SEPT. 22.—The South-Eastern and
Continental Steam Company's packet the Queen of the
French arrived at this port from Boulogne this morr.ing
at forty-five minutes past eleven o'clock, with 105 pas-
sengers; and fifteen minutes put twelve o'clock the
Prince Ernest steamer left the harbour for Boulogne with
ninety-two passengers and two carriages.
On the morning of the 11 th instant, while M. Juan
Carillo, residing in the Rue Del Nino at Madrid, was
alone in his house, his servants having both gone out to
execute some commissions, three men armed with pistols
and poignards entered, and having gagged him, took
from his pocket a bunch of keys and opened his secre-
tary, from which they took money to the amount of
30,000 reals, (7,500 f.), with which they went off, or-
dering M. Carillo, under pain of death, not to make the
slightest movement, or to remove the gag until they
had reached the street. The robbers did not attempt
to touch any of the plate or other valuable property
which the house contained, doubtless fearing the return
of the servants, of whose temporary absence they must
have been aware.
Mr. Newman is on his way 'to Rome, where he
will remain some months. The Univers contains an
account of his reception at Paris, which was most cor-
dial on the Fart of the ecclesiastical authorities. The
Archbishop of Paris and the Nuncio of his Holiness the
Pope paid great attention to this oistinguished theologian.
DEATH IN A STATION-HOUSE.OII Monday after-
noon Mr. Mills held an inquest at the Elephant and
Castle, Camden-town, on the body of Sarah Harman,
aged 38, the wife of a painter and glazier. Sergeant
Shaw, 4 S division, deposed that on Saturday night
last he was on duty at.the Phoenix- street station-house,
Somers-town. About hall-past eleven o'clock the de-
ceased was brought in on a stretcher by some con-
stables. She appeared at the time insensibly drunk, and
was charged on the police-sheet with having been found
drunk and incapable of taking care of herself. She was
placed in a cell with the door open to give her air, but no
surgeon was sent for. Shortly after one o'clock she was
taken out of the cell to make room fur another charge,
and then a great change was observed in her,
and she appeared to breath with great diffi-
culty. Medical aid was sent for, and in about
twenty minutes the surgeon pronounced her
dead. It was his impression that deceased was
labouring under the effects of intoxication. Mr. George
Verey, the landlord of the Wheatsheaf, said on Satur-
day night deceased came to his house, and as she came
towt,rds the bar he observed her stagger, and thought
she ens intoxicated. Sho asked for a pint of beer,
aad he had scarcely s_.rved her when she fell back-
ward:, but Was saved by a mason staading near her.
He carried her out of the house and left her in the
care of the police, believing her to be drunk. James
Iflrmaii, son of the deceFtsed, proved that his mother
nt out to get the supper beer shortly before eleven
o'clock. She was then perfectly sober. She had been
ill some time, and was frequently seized with swimming
in the head, and dizziness, which would make her
stagger. Mr. T. Cooper, surgeon to St. Pancras work-
house, proved that he had opened the body, and found
that orie:of the vessels of the head had given way, and
there wa3 considerable effusion a blood over ttm brain,
the Eirect of natural causes, and not drunkenness. The
Co')ner cati;,ioned the police to be more careful in such
case. The jury returned a verdict of "Death from
na!,!iral causes."

The Count de .Aiontemolin and General Cabrera
arrived in London on Saturday, tid Dover. His Royal
Highness is residing-for the present at the Brunswick
Hotel, Hanover-square, and leads a very retired life,
though he is supposed to be concerting measures for
carryit:g out the deciarajoit aNintidned in his address to
tit, Spanish peoi,l,-.
LOWESTOFT.--A large number of Dutch fishing-
; A c, me into. our S ath Roads, preparatory to com-
ieenoinz the het ring tiaiiiug. 'Chey " wet" their nets
aititi illy on the. 21st us September.
We understand that the Solicitor-General, Mr.
pu,1442,, isi be the ne,,e..Judge, in the room of the late
Oii Thursday last three large packages passed
tiirouzJi Ba),,nhe, addressed to the French Ausbassador
at Ma :rid. It was said that they contained the wedding
dresses of her MAjesty,Galignani,

THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY MORNING-, SEPTEMBER 25, 1846.

LAW INTELLIGENCE.
SHERIFFS' COURT, September 24.
(Before Mr. Commissioner BuLtocx.)
BENNETT V. SIMMONS.

This was an action brought to recover the sum of
101. 55., the balance of an account for work done. The
plaintiff is a carpenter, and the defendant was described
as a "railway computist," in Westminster.
The defendant pleaded that he was never indebted
beyond 61, which he had paid.
The facts of the case were these:—The defendant
took a house in St. Ann's-terrace, Brixton, and employed
a person named Swaine to do certain repairs under a
contract for 40L, and the latter employed the plaintiff to
do the carpenter's work. The defendant, however, gave
extensive additional orders, but contended, that except
as respected work to the amount of 6/.., he had merely
given the orders to him as Swaine's foreman.

Mr. HUGHES, for the defendant, said he would call
Swaine to prove that defendant had paid him, and that
he had paid plaintiff'.
Swaine, on being called, however, said that none of the
work charged for in plaintiff's bill was in his (Swaine's)
contract. He had paid him for the work done under the
con tract.

A long argument ensued as to the admissibility of the
contract between Swaine and defendant, as it was rot
stamped, and also that it could not be received as against
the plaintiff.

Tile Learned JUDGE did not consider a stamp neces•
sary, and admitted the document.

The defendant's son was then called, and proved that
when plaintiff demanded the 161. defendant objected, and
plaintiff then made out another bill for 6/. only, which
he was paid. He could not say what a " railway corn-
putist" was, but they contracted to do the railway busi-
ness in Parliament.

The Learned JUDGE was proceeding to sum up, but
the jury said they were satisfied, and gave a verdict for
the plaintiff for the full amount claimed.

CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT
OLD COURT.
(Before Mr. Baron PARKE.)
Tim laisu RIOT AT THE CAMDEN-TOWN STATION.-
The seventeen Irish labourers who -were indicted for a
riot and aggravated assault on the persons of William
Ellis and George Marshall, at the Camden-town station,
were this morning placed at the bar, and pleaded Guilty
to the offences with which they were charged. The
dock presented a curious appearance from the numbers
" penned" in the confined space; the unmistakable Mile-
sian features, and the eager desire evinced by those in
the back ground to ascertain what was going on in
front. The galleries were crowded
.by anxious friends,
who had evidently donned their holiday dresses for the
occasion.

as to you (addressing Lady Clinton) before you married
my Lord, you never knew what it was to have a
Brougham to ride in." _ _

His LORDSHIP asked whether Mr. Clarkson would be
satisfied if the less culpable among the prisoners were
bound over in their own recognizar.ces to keep the peace
for a certain period?
Mr. CLARHSON was afraid that he could not accede to
this course.

MrT RAwLINsoN—Did he make use of any worse lan-
guage than that which you have mentioned ? Lord
Clinton—He continued his abuse, sir, and I desired him
to quit my service instantly. I went to look for a police-
man, and on my entering with one, he (prisoner) was
saying to Lady Clinton, " You're no lady, and I'll teach
you how to talk to me." His wife came up and begged
of Lady Clinton to forgive him, when he said to her(the
wife) " Don't talk to her—she's too disreputable for any
one belonging to me to speak to."
Atkins, 91 D, said—There was a disturbance and a
crowd of persons in front of his Lordship's residence,
and I heard prisoner say, " That woman (meaning Lady
Clinton) never knew anything about a Brougham till
she came to your (Lord Clinton's) house." My Lord
then lifted his cane and struck the prisoner on the
shoulder.

His LORDSHIP then said that he must defer passing
sentence until he should have read the depositions.
Witnesses to charaetey were then heard, and the pri-
soners were remanded until a future day.
CASE OF CAPTAIN WILLIAM RICHARDSON.

The grand jury came into Court at half-past ten
o'clock, and, after presenting several bills, fund " No
bill against Captain William Richardson for felony."
The announcement did not take any person by surprise,
as it had been pretty generally known in the course of
the morning that such a decision would be come to.
Mr. BonsLiN, on the part of the Ludlow, Worcester,
and Tenbury Company, roso and said—My Lord, I
have to make an application to your Lordship on the
part of the directors of the company of which the pri-
soner was chairman. lam aware that according to the
usage of the Court a prisoner against whom no bill is
found is usually discharged forthwith, but the directors,
have a painful duty to perform, and I am instructed to
apply to your Lordship that the prisoner may be de-
tained until the grand jury is discharged, in order to
give the directors an opportunity of consulting the
shareholders as to the future course to be adopted
under the circumstances.

Mr. CLA.RICSON—I am certain that in the long ex-
perience of your Lordship at the bar, and on the bench
you have never known an instance in which a party has
been detained until the persons composing a joint-stock
company, shall have determined what to do with him.
In this case my Learned Friend cannot complain that he
has been taken by surprise; he was forewarned, he had
the wholelof the depositions in his possession, and if he
as not prepared to proceed with the indictment for
felony, he ought now to be in a position to determine
what future course he will adopt. If my Learned
Friend kvi indeed confined his application to the deten-
tion of the prisoner until the grand jury should have
been discharged, I could not have opposed him, but to
detain a prisoner until the company shall have made up
their minds s to what charges they shall prefer is alto-
gether so novel a proceeding, that I confess I cannot see
how the Court can entertain it. I must. therefore, oppose
the application, and I hope your Lordship will not
grant it. _ _

- Mr. Baron PLATT—Do I understand the application to
be whether the prisoner shall be detained until the
company shall be consulted, or only until the grand jury
shall be discharged ? _

Mr. BODKIN—The latter, certainly.
Mr. Baron PLATT—I do not ste, that because one bill
is thrown out, the prisoner should be forthwith set at
liberty, because such a course might, in many cases, de-
feat the ends of justice; and as the application is to have
him detained until the grand jary shall have been dis
charged, I cannot see why it should not be granted.
Mr. CLARKSON—My Lord, I feel that if my Learned
Friend had applied to have the prisoner detained in
custody only until the grand jury should be discharged,
that I would be unable to resist it; but to detain hies
until the company should be consulted
Mr. Baron PLATT—He is detained until the grand
jury shall have finished their duties; and if, in the
meantime, the parties interested consult as to what steps
should be pursued, it is but reasonable they should have
the opportunity of doing so. I cannot shut my eyes to
the fact that the prisoner has moved in a position which
gives him advantages unattainable by a poorer men, and
I feel it my duty, therefore, to accede to the ap plication.
POST-OFFICE ROBBERY.---ThOnlaS James, late a letter-
sorter in the Post-office, was indicted, that he on the
2d of September stole a letter containing half a so-
' vereicrn.
The Attorney-General, Mr. Clarkson, Mr. Bodkin,
and Mr. Clark were for the prosecution; Mr. Ballantine
attended for the prisoner.
The evidence of several witnesses proved that a letter
was written by James Ball, a clerk in the East India
Docks, to his brother in the country. The letter en-
closed half a sovereign, which for safety was placed in a
card so cut as to retain it in a, certain position. The
letter was put in a district post-office at half-past five on
the Id of September, and reached the Post-office about
six. It was then handed over to the table at which the
prisoner was engaged. The prisoner was observed to
enter the water-closet at seven o'clock, by a constable
who was so placed that he could see all that
happened without being himself seen. The prisoner
was then observed to place his hand in front of his
clothes, and the constable heard a crumpling of paper.
He afterwards was observed chewing some paper, and
the constable descended and took him into custody. The
prisoner threw something down the closet, but a piece of
card was forced from his right hand. On further search,
a purse containing two sovereigns was found in the
right-hand trousers pocket, and a loose half-sovereign
was found in one of the waistcoat pockets, while a bag,
with two shillings, a fourpenny piece, and some coppers,
were found in the other. A piece of card found in the
closet corresponded with the remaining piece which was
left in the first witness's house ; and several fragments of
the letter written by the same person were found in the
closet also.
Mr. BALLANTYNE having addressed the jury,
Mr. Justice MAULE summed up ; and
The jury returned a verdict of Guilty.—Sentenced to
ten years' transportation.

NE IV COURT.
(Before the RECORDER.)
Henry Allen, a respectable looking man, who was de-
scribed as the steward of a steam-vessel, was convicted of
stealing five shirts, and other articles, the property of
Jessie Jane Munns, a laundress, and sentenced to nine
months' imprisonment, and hard labour.
Initial)* Jacobs, a labourer, was indicted with stealing
10 bushels of oats, value 3/., the property of Sills, Jones,
and Co., corn-factors, of Bankside. Two ether persons,
named King and Palmer, were indicted with aiding and
assisting Jacobs to commit the robbery; and William
Simpson, a carman, was indicted with feloniously receiv-
ing the stolen property, well knowing it to have been
stolen.

Mr. RAMLINSON (to the prisoner)—What is your
answer to this charge ? Prisoner—l merely told my
Lord that it I was to drive him I must whip the horse
when necessary, when my Lady directly made a great
noise. His L,,rdship then got out of the Brougham,
and with his whip struck me several times; I have
witnesses here to prove that he did so if you will allow
me to call them.

Mr. RAWLINSON—You are discharged.
Lord Clinton quitted the court by the magistrate's
private entrance, evidently much chagrined at his groom
not being punished.

The jury found all the prisoners Guilty.
The ItilcompEa sentenced Simpson to eighteen months'
imprisonment and hard labour, and the other three pri-
soners to six months and hard labour.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
GUILDHALL.

A tall elderly Frenchman, of gentlemanly exterior,
who gave his name as De Ruchet, was charged before
Mr. Alderman ilumphery with stealing a handsome um-
brella from the subscription-room of the Jamaica Coffee-
house, SL Michael's-at-hill. It appeared that for some
time suspicion attached to the prisoner, who occa-
sionally patronised the house, and on Wednesday they
watched him, and detected him walking off with
the umbrella in question from the stand, in about
half a minute after another visitor had deposited
it there. Ile was followed into the street and given into
the custony of a policeman. It was also found that a
stick which he placed in the stand, in lieu of the stolen
umbrella, and which he carried when coming into the
house, as if in preparation for an exchange, had, on a
former occasion, been stolen from the same room.
He was committed for trial at the present sessions of
the Central Criminal Court, the police at the same time
informing the Alderman that it was believed similar
charges could be substantiated.