The Sun.
London, England, 1848-10-12 00:00:00

Mr. Clarkson attended to support the information,
and after reciting the provisions of the various Acts of
Parliament in force relating to turnpike trusts, and the
Act under which the particular trust was created, stated
the facts of the case, which went to show that Mr.
Thorne had passed down the South Lambeth-road in a
four-wheeled chaise, drawn by one horse, a distance, as
measured, of 211 yards, then along Mill-street, which
was not included in the the trust, across the Wandsworth-
road, which was in the trust, and thence out of the trust
into the Nine Elms-road, to his brewery. He would
then return by the same route, and pass through the
Vauxhall-gate without paying the toll, though the
demand had been made by the collector holding out his
hand for it. By this evasion he had rendered himself
liable to a penalty of 101., for the full amount of which
he (Mr. Clarkson), on behalf of the Commissioners,
prayed for a conviction, in order to deter others from
following Mr. Thorne's example. The course taken by
Mr. Thorne had been pursued by him every day since
the Ist of September last.
The facts, though admitted by Mr. Thorne, were for-
mally proved in evidence.
Mr. Thorne said he had no intention of evading the
toll, and had no notion that he had been guilty of com-
mitting any wrong. At one time he had thought of
waiting upon the Court to ascertain if he was acting in
error, but had abandoned that intention, leaving it to the
Commissioners to move themselves in the matter.

After a long and uninteresting discussion, in which
the law was fully explained to Mr. Thorne both by the
Magistrate and Mr. Clarkson.
Mr. NORTON convicted the defendant in the full pe-
nalty or 101.
Mr. Clarkson said that one half of the penalty went by
law to the informer, and that they would give to the
poor-box. The second information against the defen-
dant's coachman, for adopting the same course as his
master, and under his master's directions (as that gen-
tleman admitted), they would abandon, and they would
not ask for costs.

➢lr. Thorne complain.A loudly of the great hardship
of the case upon him, but
Mr. NonToN remtrked that he had shown, by his ad-
mitting that he had contemplated seeking information
as to the legality of his proceedings, that he had enter-
tained doubts, and those doubts he had felt to be re-
moved by these proceedings by the Commissioners, who
had thereby incurred a greater amount of costs than the
sum in which he had been convicted.

Mary Waghorn, a well-dressed and ladylike young
married woman, was placed at the bar, charged with
being drunk, and incapable of taking care of herself.
From the statement of Constable P 134, it appeared
that on the preceding night, about five o'clock, a gentle-
man called his attention to the defendant, who wus very
drunk at the Rockingham Arms. He found her sitting
on a barrel in front of the bar, quite incapable of taking
care of herself, and she was accordingly removed to the
station-house. The constable added, that on recover-
ing her senses the lady discovered that she had been
robbed of 71. in gold, of some paper securities, only
valuable to herself, and two new cambric pocket-hand-
kerchiefs, for which two old ones had been substituted in
her pocket.
In answer to Mr. NORTON, the defendant stated that
she received the money lost the same afternoon, about
three o'clock. She got into an omnibus in the City,
thinking its direction was Somers Town, where she re-
sided, but which brought her to the Elephant and
Castle, Newington, with five or six other passengers, one
of whom was a female who sat beside her. She and the
woman both got out, when the latter asked her to treat
her, and they went to the Rockingham Arms together
and had something to drink. Here she lost her senses,
and had no remembrance of what had followed. The
money and papers were safe in her pocket when she
paid the conductor of the omnibus with half-a-crown
which she had carried is her glove.
Mr. NORTON discharged the defendant, who, it was
clear, had been robbed, and ordered immediate steps to
be taken to secure the perpetrators.
WORSHIP- S TR EE T.

HOePSSING AND ROBBERY.—Thomas Smith, a young
man of notorious character, was charged before Mr.
Ilammill with having been concerned, with two women
not in custody, in hocussing and stealing nearly the
whole of her clothing from the person of Jane Madden,
a young dressmaker, residing with her mother in Paul-
street, Finsbury.
The complainant stated that while proceeding towards
home, on Sunday evening, from the house of a friend, in
the Mils-end-road, where she had spent the evening, she
was suddenly stopped at the corner of Keat-street,
Spitalfields, by the prisoner and a young woman in his
company, who invited her to accompany thee to their
residence in the neighbourhood to partake of some
coffee. Before she had time to reply the pri-
soner and his companion seized hold of her, dragging
her down the street, forced her into one of the houses,
the door of which was instantly closed and bolted.
The prisoner then entered a room on the ground
floor, but returned almost immediately with a second
woman, who held to her lips a glass containing some
liquid, of which she compelled her to drink a small por-
tion, which completely stupefied her. They then com-
menced stripping off her clothes, and after divesting her
of her bonnet, boots, muslin dress, and almost every
other part of her apparel, they all retreated up stairs
and hat her in the passage, in a state of partial insensi-
bility. As soon as she recovered her consciousness she
used her best efforts to effect her escape, but was unable
to draw back the bolts, and remained there till the fol-
lowing morning, when the door was at length opened by
a third woman, who came from another part of the house
and thrust her into the street. She soon afterwards met
a policeman, to whom she communicated the particulars
of the outrage, and he took her back to the house; but
she continued in such a state of lethargy and agitation
that she was unable at the time to identify any of the in-
mates, and having hastily dressed herself in some clothes
which were borrowed by the constable from one of the
women, she was taken home to her friends.
Police constable Donoway, II 129, stated that shortly
after five o'clock on the morning in question his atten-
tion was attracted to the last witness, who was hasten-
down the street in a state of almost entire nudity, and
crying bitterly. Having described to him the cruel
manner in which she had been treated, he returned with
her to the house, which was a notorious haunt of the
most abandoned characters cf both sexes; but she ex-
pressed her inability to recognise either of the inmates
as her assailants, and the place was closely searched,
without any part of her clothing being discovered. On
the following evening the complainant again accom-
panied him to the street, where she pointed out the pri-
soner, who was standing there with several other well-
known characters, as the man who had robbed her, and
witness at once took him into custody.
In answer to a question from the MAGISTRATE, as to
the previous character and pursuits of the prisoner,
The officers stated that he had been several times in
custody, and was connected with one of the most des-
perate gangs that infested the neighbourhood of White-
chapel.
The prisoner, who denied all knowledge of the trans-
action, was ordered to be remanded fora week.

THE CORN TRADE.
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have,od on
10.—The
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Ireland and
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fair supply of all articles. From Canada 4,489 barrels
flour have come to hand; and from foreign ports con-
siderable quantities of wheat, barley, Indian corn, corn
meal, and flour. The exports in the same time are 3,186
quarters of wheat, 430 quarters of beans, 13,263 guar•
ters of Indian corn, or corn meal, and 401 sacks and
2,887 barrels of flour. The reports from the agricultural
markets being firm, the depression which pervaded the
trade here on Tuesday last has not increased, notwith-
standing the augmented nature of the supplies; and as
regards wheat and Indian corn, a fair demand has been
experienced daily at very full prices. On Friday oats
gave way 3d. per 451 b., at which a fair sale was experi-
enced, 3s. oid. to 3s. Id. being taken for nicely prepared
and 2s. 10d. for raw. Oatmeal declined Is. and attracted
little notice. Barley was more inquired for, and, with
beans and peas, about supported previous rates. Flour
was extremely dull, and 6d. per barrel lower for Ame-
rican, and rather more for Irish. At this day's market
there was a good attendance of dealers, and a large show
of all descriptions of grain and flour. The demand for
wheat was very limited, at a decline of 2d. per 701 b. on
all kinds of old, and fully 3d. on prices of this day week
for the better qualities of Irish new, and damp inferior
samples were nearly unsaleable. There was a cessation
to decline in oats, and fine mealing could not be pur-
chased at the low rates current on Friday; sales, how-
ever, progressed very slowly. Barley, beans, and peas
were neglected, and, in the absence of demand, prices
were nominally as last quoted. American flour was Is.
per barrel; Irish old Is., and new 25., per sack lower,
and few buyers at the reduction.
HULL, TUESDAY, OCT. 10.—The weather has been of
a varied character during the past week, but not on the
whole favourable for the latter harvest, and this appears
to have been the general case in other districts. The
condition of new wheat will in consequence be more or
less affected, and hence we may look for an increased
drain upon old stocks, now fast vanishing. There has
been a daily and healthy consumptive business in all ar-
ticles of the trade since our last, taking off our continued
weekly imports, and where holders are firm there is no
necessity to give way in price. For to-day's market we
had a liberal supply of homegrown wheats, with less of
foreign than usual; the latter was more inquired for than
of late, but the business done only limited, other markets
Mug for the moment below our currency. The new
wheat was generally affected by the late damp weather,
and for such there is scarcely any sale, while anything
dry meets a good demand at full last week's rates.—
Barley in small supply, particularly fine quality, which
sells well to distant maltsters; a fair sale for grinding
barley at'our quotations.—Nothing done in oats.—Beans,
and also peas, are offering on lower terms than of late;
of the latter (white) there are some very fine new on the
market at moderate rates.—English tares (winter) ex-
ceeding scarce; indeed, hardly to be met with, Some
very fine new foreign are offering in the line.—We have
again a large arrival of linseed, but much going to ware-
house, and the market quite up to last week; indeed, in
some instances, rather more money is obtainable, and a
few parcels have been taken by speculators.—The bulk
of the rapeseed now arriving being for crushers' account,
the transactions in the market are only trifling, old seed
is saleable, but now a good deal neglected.—Linseed
cake easier to buy, owing to a slacker demand, from the
present mild weather; we do not, however, alter our
quotations. Some fine foreign still on sale.—Rape cakes
continue much neglected.—The better descriptions of
guano in good demand.—Not much doing in bones.

HUDSON'S BAY PRODUCE.—The first arrival for
the season of the annual importation of skins and furs,
from the possessions of the Hudson's Bay Company in
the northern regions of America, has taken place. The
vessel, Prince Albert, has:arrived in the docks from
Hudson's Bay, having on board 47 bales, 13 casks, 14
hogshead, 28 cases, and 17 puncheons of skins, furs, ac.,
besides six packages of astor-oil, 67 bags of feathers,
and 23 barrels of whale oil, the products of the northern
districts mentioned,