The Sun.
London, England, 1848-01-03 00:00:00

TALLOW.

Owing to the large arrivals, and to the closing of the
annual accounts, our market is heavy, and prices have
given way from 6d to 8d per cwt. P. Y. C., on the spot,
is 45s to 45s 3d ; and for delivery during the next
three months 44s to 44s 3d per cwt. Town Tallow is
47s Gd to 48s per cwt. net cash, and Rough Fat 2s. Biti.
per Blbi.

CRIMINAL COURT.-(THIS DAY.

OLD COURT.

These sessions, the third of the present mayoralty,
commenced to-day before the Lord Mayor, the Re-
corder, Sir J. Pirie, Mr. Alderman Musgrove, Mr.
Alderman Sidney, the Sheriffs, &c.
According to the calendar issued this morning,
there are only 122 prisoners for trial, of which there
are 23 from London, 72 from Middlesex, 1 from
Essex, 7 from Kent, and 19 from Surrey. The
summary of the offences charged on the c-dendar
against parties may be stated as follows :—There are
2 parties charged with a nameless offence, 4 with
burglary, 10 with unlawfully uttering counterfeit
coin, &c., 2 with cutting and wounding with intent,
&c., 4 with embezzlement, 6 with forgery and
I uttering forged instruments, 1 with horse stealing,
6 with housebreaking and larceny, 43 with larceny,
2 with larceny in a dwelling-house, 8 with larceny
from the person, 16 larceny by servants, 10 with
misdemeanours, 1 with feloniously administering
poison, 5 with receiving stolen goods, and 2 with
robbery.
A great number of persons, who had been sum-
moned on the grand jury were excused, on the cer-
tificates of medical gentlemen that they were labour-
ing under the prevailing epidemic.
The grand jury having been empanelled and sworn,
The RECORDER proceeded to deliver his charge to
them. The calendar, he was happy to say, was un •
' usually light, there being only 122 persons charged
with different offences. There were, however, four or
five cases to which he thought it fit particularly to direct
the attention of the grand jury. There were two cases
of cutting and wounding, one of feloniously adminis-
tering poison, a charge of arson, and a charge of
forgery, the latter being a charge of forgery cognizable
by the law of this country under the statute of the
11th George IV. and the Ist William IV., chap. 66,
sec. 19, namely, engraving a note in a foreign lan-
guage, with intent to defraud a foreign Prince. With
regard to the cases of cutting and wounding, it was right
that he should state that in every charge of feloniously
cutting and wounding an intent was charged beyond
an aggravated assault, such as, for instance, in some
cases, with intent to murder, to do some grievous
bodily harm, and so on, and in reference to these
charges special provisions were made by the statute,
and the Court was given the power to sentence the
party to three years' imprisonment. It was, however,
perfectly competent to the grand jury, on both the
cases charged in the calendar, either to find the whole
bill charged, or only part of it, or to reject it altoge-
ther, notwithstanding the provisions of the statute,
as these provisions did not refer to the finding of the
grand jury. One of the charges in the calendar was
against a party who, having had a quarrel in a public-
house, and having a sword• stick in his possession,
either purposely or by accident injured the keeper of
the public• house slightly by it. On the one side
it was said to have been done purposely, on the other
by accident. If the grand jury, after hearing the
evidence, came to the conclusion that it was the re-
sult of accident, it would not be right for them to find
a bill against the party charged, saying that it was
done with intent to do some grievous bodily harm ;
but if, on the other hand, they thought it was com-
mitted purposely, they would be justified in doing so.
The other charge was one of a most serious nature,
namely, kicking a woman, the result of which was
internal haemorrhage, which endangered her life.
On this case he would leave the grand bury
to form their own opinions after they had
heard the evidence. The charge of arson was that of
setting fire to a house, accompanied with, larceny, by
the taking away of the cash-box containing the pro-
perty of the master of the apprentice who was charged
with the offence. Now, on finding a true bill for
arson, it was not necessary to prove that the whole
of the house was burnt, the burning of any part, how-
ever trifling, was quite sufficient, although the fire
was afterwards extinguished. He (the Recskrder) un-
derstood that in the case he was alluding to the fire only
charred the floor of the room. With respect to the charge
of poisoning, it was a charge preferred by a wife against
her husband, and the mode of administering the
poison was mixing opium in the woman's tea while
her attention was called off by admitting a child at
the door. The grand jury would have in this case
the evidence of medical persons as to the existence of
the poison and the quantity administered; the circum-
stances of the case were, however, such as the grand
jury would readily deal with, and he would, therefore,
make no other remark with respect to the case than this,
that such cases were involved in great obscurity, and
it would be for the grand jury to say, after the evi-
dence, whether they thought sufficient had been
brought before them to entitle them to call upon the
party accused to answer the charge before the petty
jury. With regard to the case of forging foreign
notes, he had already stated that it was an offence
cognisable under the statutes of the 11th George IV.
and the Ist William IV., chap. 66, sec. 19. The
Learned Judge having referred to the statute, and
read the clause relating to the charge, left it to the
grand jury to say whether the party charged was

guilty or not, observing that if the part
charged was ultimately convicted of the offence
he was liable to be transported tor any term not ex-
ceeding fourteen years, or less than seven, or im-
prisoned for three years, and not less than one. The
other case of forgery required no comment from him,
and the rest of the cases in the calendar, he was happy
to say, from the short interval that had taken place
between the last and the present session, were not of
so serious a character as those which grand juries at
that court had to consider after a long interval.
There was one observation which he was led to make
before he concluded. It had been said that it was
the intention in another place to endeavour to do away'
with grand juries in cases of larceny; whether it
would be wise to do so or not it was not for him to
say, but his own impression was, that the interven-
tion of grand juries was a safeguard to the public.
The Learned Judge then remitted the grand jury to
the discharge of their duties, and the Court proceeded
to swear in the petty jury.

MARLBRO'-STREET—(THIS DAY.)
Edward Johnson, a notorious thief, was placed be-
fore Mr. Bingham, charged with being found in the
house of Mrs. Elizabeth Dodd, No. 4, Edward -street,
with intent to commit a felony.
The complainant stated, that on Saturday night
about 9 o'clock her servant came and informed her
that a man was in the coal-cellar with a large sack in
his possession. She went to see who it was, as at
first she thought it might be one of har lodgers. On
reaching the kitchen stairs she saw the prisoner
coming up, but directly he caught sight of her he ran
down stairs. She went for a constable, who found the
prisoner in the cellar with the bag in his possession.
She then gave him into custody.
Amelia Bright said she was sent by her mistress to
fetch some coals from the cellar, when on going into the
back kitchen she saw the prisoner coming out of the
cellar with a large sack upon his shoulder. She
called out, when the prisoner threw her down and
ran back into the cellar. She then ran up stairs, and
informed her mistress of the circumstance.

Police•constable C 130, said he was called to the
prosecutrix's house about nine on Saturday night, to
take the prisoner into custody. On searching the
coal cellar he found the prisoner lying in a corner,
with the sack close by him. He took him to the
station, where the sack was searched, and found to
contain several pieces of carpet and a pair of boxing
gloves. The former had not been identified, but the
latter articles were identified by the prosecutrix as
belonging to her son.
The prisoner, who made a lame defence about going
into the cellar to look for his pipe, was remanded till
Thursday.

THE DREADFUL MURDER IN
GOLDEN-LANE.
INQUEST ON THE BODIES (THIS MORNING).
This morning, at eleven o'clock, the inquiry as to the
death of Robeat;Henry Blake, aged 5, and Armenia Blake,
aged 7, was resumed.
The CORONER, on the court being opened, complained
of a statement which appeared in the morning papers, to
the effect that Mr. Blake, the father, gave the alarm, at
four o'clock on Saturday morning, that his children
were murdered. This could not be the fact if Blake
stated the truth.
A policeman said no such statement was made at the
police-court.
Stephen Hewlett, a lodger at the Duke of Bedford,
Golden-lane, stated that he was in front of the bar a
little before five o'clock. Robert Blake called him out.
He asked witness if he would go to the theatre with the
woman Parker, who was with him. He refused. Blake said,
"We will go fora walk then," and they went towards Old-
street. Parker followed them. She said, " You shall
find a complete devil in me." She appeared sober and
not much excited. All three then went to a public.
house in Goswell-street, and Blake and the woman
Parker appeared more comfortable. Having returned
to the Duke of Bedford, they had some gin, and Blake
got away unseen by Parker, but she missed him in half
a minute, and ran out greatly excited. She came back
in five minutes, and said, " It is a good job you did not
go with him; he shall repent of this before morning. I
will do something that he shall repent, and die like a
trump at Newgate." She then went away. In a few
minutes after he went to her house, No. 3, Cubit's-court.
She opened the window, and he said to her, " Mrs.
Blake, what is the matter?" She said, " I have some-
thing very black in my mind, and I'll stop it before long.
You will hear of me before you see me." This was
about half-past eight at night.
Mr. Charles Adams, landlord of the Duke of Bed-
ford, repeated the evidence given before the magistrate
on Saturday last.
Jane Jones, of No. 2, New-court, Goswell-street,
said that she knew Robert Henry Blake. On Friday
evening last. about seven o'clock, she met him at the
corner of Golden-lane and Old-street. A male and a
female were with him. They passed on into Goswell•
street, and witness lost sight of them in Fan-street. As
they were going down Goswell•street, witness said, as
they passed, " Robert." She did not think Harriet
Parker heard her address Blake, In three quarters of
an hour after that time Blake met her at the corner of
New-court, and said, " Make haste, Jane, for I think
lam watched." They then went to a publie-hbuse at
Cow-cross, where they stopped till half-past eleven
o'clock; from there they repaired- to a: house, in
alley, Goswell-street, where they stopped until a
quarter to ten o'clock the following morning. She had
not made any arrangement to meet him that night. She
was quite certain that she did not touch Blake's arm
when she addressed him.
Richard Wright, of 15, Arthur-street, said that about
half-past twelve on Saturday morning, as he was passing
down Golden-lane, he met Harriet Parker with the
eldest deceased. The child ran after him and called him
by name. Immediately after wards the woman came up
to him and asked if he had seen Robert, for he had
given her the slip? She also said, he has gone to the
play and he shall repent it. She appeared at that time
sober, but very excited. He told her that he thought it
was very bad to have a child out so late as that was.
She said, " I always take the girl with me, but you
know they are not mine." lie then bade her good
night and went home. Witness afterwards saw Parker
proceed in the direction of her own home.
[The inquest was proceeding when our report left.]

THE NEW SPANISH BISHOPS.
FROM A CORRESPONDENT.)

We announced yesterday that the Pope held a
Secret Consistory on the 17th inst., at the Quirinal,
and filled all the vacant Spanish bishoprics. The
names were officially gazetted on the 18th in the
Diario Romano. Thus, it seems, that what could not
be obtained by revolutionary Spain from the inflexi-
bility of Gregory XVI., has been at last granted by
the more enlightened although no less tenacious mind
of Pius IX, The terms of the adjustment, however,
are rather mortifying. Since the year 1833 the
Spanish bishoprics had been filled by nominees of
Queen Christina, when Regent of the kingdom in
the name of her daughter, Isabella 11., and never re-
ceived the apostolical sanction. The sole condition
on which the Holy See offered to recognise canoni-
cally the Spanish bishops seems to have been that the
bishops appointed either by Christina or Isabella
should resign for deficiency of due authority in their
election, and submit for re-appointment to the Pope.
This condition, which might have been considered
tantamount to an indirect avowal of an usurped
power, and which, at all events, would have com-
promised the legality of the present occupant of the
.Spanish throne (as some spirited Members of the
Cortes had the courage to tax the Narvaez Ministry
a few days ago in the debates on the subject), was
indignantly rejected by successive Governments of
Spain. The Moderados, as faithful imitators of the
quasi-milieu policy, and anxious for a reconciliation
ci tout prix with ttome, have at last yielded. Narvaez,
flourishing the same enchanted wand which dispersed
the Salamanca-Guyena Administration, has uncere-
moniously ordered all the bishops elected by Chris-
tina and Isabella to resign, and the Pope, satisfied
with this act of primitive obedience, has motu-proprio
condescended to reinstate them to the vacant sees-
In concluding, we must remember that the Holy See
has with undeviating policy constantly recognised
every form of government de facto. Pope Pius VII.
signed a concordat with the French Republic in 1801;
recognised Napoleon as Emperor de facto of France,
and lately Don Miguel as King de fa cto of Portugal:;
and, since the fall of Don Miguel, has recognised
Donna Maria da Gloria the present Queen of Por-
tugal.
The following is the list of the new Spanish
bishops
Patriarch of the Indies (West)—B. Antonio rosatha
Rubin de Celis.
Metropolitan of Saragoza—B. Emanuel Gomez de las

Rivas.
Metropolitan of Leon—B. Vinceslao Wacklawizeh.
Bishopric of Girona—B. Florenzo Chorente.

Bishopric of Badajoz—B. Rodriguez Obregon.
Bishopric of Majorca—B. RafYaelle ➢ianzo.
Bishopric of Zamorra—B. Michael Gigoyen.
Bishopric of Almeira—B. Anacleto Meoro.
Bishopric of Avila—B. Emanuel Santistiban.
Bishopric of Jaen—B. Josef Escolano.
Bishopric of Orcnse—B. Pedro Zaraudia.
Bishopric of Cuenca—B. Ruiz do Cachupia.
Bishopric of Teruel—B. Antonio Lao, of Cadiz.
13ii,hopric of Osma—B. Gregorio Sanchez.
Bishopric of Lerida-13. Pomencin Costa y Borras.
Bishopric of earthagena in Murcia-13. Mariano Barro.
Bishopric of the Canaries—B. Bonaventura Codino.
Bishopric of Lugo—B. Rodriguez Gil.
Bishopric of Segorve—B. Bomenice Canubio.
Rome, Dec. 19, 1847.

THE LORD CHANCELLOR.—The health of the Lord
Chancellor is gradually improving, and the Noble and
Learned Lord is satisiactorily regaining his strength.
It is however doubtful whether his Lordship will be
sufficiently recovered to preside in the Court of oho.
cery by the commencement of next term!