The Sun.
London, England, 1851-01-30 00:00:00

EVENING, JANUARY 30, 1851.

LAW INTELLIGENCE.
VICE-CFIANCERY COURT, Jan. 29.
(Before Sir J. L. KNIGHT BRUCE.)
The Court wes occupied nearly all day in disposing of
short causes an; claims, and in hearing arguments in a
case the details of which related solely to a technical
question of title in a suit for specific performance.
(before Lord CRANWORTIL)
TALLIS V. STIFF.

Mr. Lovell applied for a special injunction to restrain
the proprietors of the London Journal from printing or
selling any cosies of their journal containing certain
matter transcrned from the plaintiffs' magazine, called
Tallis's Dranictic Magazine and General Theatrical and
Musical &vim The affidavit stated that the plaintiffs
employed certtin writers to compose original articles for
their magazins, and among others employed a person to
write the life sf an actress ;named Miss Isabella Glyn,
the particulars of which were supplied by Miss Glyn,
and that there was in the number of the magazine which
contained suc► life a daguerreot) pe portrait of Miss
Glyn, taken by her permission. The defendants had
appliLd to Miss Glyn for leave to copy the portait, but
that lady refised to grant it ou the grounds that the
plaintiffs had already copied the portrait. The defend-
ants had since copied the a: titles in question and the
plate, and under those circumstances this application was
made.
Ilis LORDSIIIP made the order.

COURT OF QUEEN'S BENCH, Jan. 29.
(Sittings in Banco.)
Lee I TILE QUEEN AT TILE INSTANCE OF THE EARL OF DART

MOUTH V. HARTNELL.

A rule had been recently obtained in this case, galling
• on the defendart, the proprietor of the Kentish Mercury,
to show cause why a criminal information should not be
filed against hin for an alleged libel against the plaintiff,
in imputing to him the non-payment of a stipend to the
vicar of Lewisham, for reading prayers in a chapel at
yy Blackheath, with the payment of which the Earl of
Dartmouth was charged.

Mr. CHAMBERS, this afternoon, on the part of the de-
fondaut expressed his regret that the alleged libel in
question should have appeared in his newspaper, and
that it was written and published on an imperfect informs
yy tion of the facts.

Sir F. TRECIGER, on behalf of the Earl of Dartmouth,
7‘, expressed his entire satisfaction with the retractation
.% which had been made by the defendant, and consented
% to the rule being discharged.
Lord CAMPBELL was glad that the matter had been
so satisfactorily arranged, and ordered the rule to be
od discharged.—Rule discharged accordingly.
6%

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
MANSION-HOUSE.
Angela Donohoe was brought before the Lord
Mayor upon suspicion of having been concerned in a
burglary and robbery in Barge-yard, Bucklersbury.
Mr. Hobler appeared for the prisoner.
George Trew, the officer, said--I went with Fun-
nell aol other officers to a beer-shop called the Hope,
in Hope-street, Spitalfields, at eight o'clock yesterday
evening, and saw the prisoner standing near the bar-
parlour. When she saw me, she went to the other
end of the room. I went inside, and she was stand-
ing by herself, and I told her I wished to speak to
her, and told her to step outside. She did so ; and I
then asked her what she had been doing with another
female on Saturday morning at seven o'clock, in
Charlotte-row ? She replied, "I was not there, I
tee. was in bed." I said, I shall apprehend you upon
suspicion of being concerned with others in breaking
- into a warehouse in Barge-yard. She said she knew
nothing about it, and requested that I would let her
see her husband, who was in the tap-room. I
consented, and she called out her husband, and told
him I had taken Ler into custody for a robbery in
1% the City. She then said she wished to go for her
child, and Funnell and I accompanied her and her
husband to No. 34, Anchor-street, Shoreditch, where
they lived. Her husband got a light, and we began
ice to search the place; when I put my hand to a little
basket which was hanging up, her husband leaped
from the top to the bottom of the stairs, and escaped
through a trap door into a cellar. In the basket
as we found seventeen skeleton keys, a picklock, a pair
of files, a pair of nippers, two saddler's needles, such
ti
as are used by thieves in breaking windows, an old
very sharp knife, several other housebreaking imple-
ments, and a piece of rope which was no doubt used
in scaling walls.
The prisoner—It never was.
The LORD MAYOR—Did the man escape ? Trew
' —He did. The man had not been identified, and he
did not attempt to go before I put my hand to the
basket.
George Ayling, an officer—On Saturday morning
last, when I went on duty at six o'clock, I saw the
34 prisoner in the neighbourhood of Charlotte-row, and
she seemed to shun me. At a quarter to seven
o'clock I again saw her. She was with another wo-
man at the coroner of Bucklersbury and Charlotte-row,
at that time, and I questioned them as to why they
were there. The prisoner said she was waiting for a
friend, that she had waited until she got so cold she
could not stay any longer. Last night I accompanied
the first witness, and saw her at the Hope beer-shop,
in the tap-room, where there were four men playing
cards. She was laughing, and had what appeared to
be the " crib" in her hand. When she saw me she
put down the cards, took up an umbrella, and walked
out. I followed, and she stopped to talk to the land-
lady. I accompanied Trew and Funnell to her resi-
dence in Anchor-street, Spitalfields. One of the men
who had been playing cards was her husband. I kept
the door at their house.
Another officer, who had been on duty in the
neighbourhood of Bucklersbury, stated that he had
seen the prisoner and another woman at half-past four
o'clock, going down I3ucklersbury. They stopped at
the corner of Charlotte-row and looked back, and
they then went along Charlotte-row towards the
Poultry. At half-past six o'clock witness again saw
them. They were going down Bucklersbury again,
and they stopped several minutes at the corner of
% Charlotte-row and Bucklersbury. He did not speak
to them. He saw them about twenty yards from
Barge-yard.
Mr. Gabriel G. Webb, one of the Society of
Friends, said, I have a warehouse in Barge-yard. It
ice' was broken open between Friday night and Saturday
morning. I left the warehouse at about half-past four
o'clock on Friday, and during the night I lost cloth
from the warehouse to the value of 901. It was prin-
j.
eipally the best sort of cloth. This cloth (pointing to
a small sample which had been found in the basket
34 with the house-breaking implements) is not any part
is. of what was stolen.
.% Cross-examined by Mr. Hobler—l never saw the
prisoner befor the present moment.
Is. Funnell said he found in the prisoner's possession
several duplicates, but they did not relate to the
robbery.
6(.1 In answer to a question from the Loan MAYOR,
Trew said lie was in possession of information
°' which justified him in stating that he had every
reason to believe that he could bring forward addi-
.% tional evidence against the prisoner and others who
Os
were suspected or having been concerned in the
burglary.
6d Mr. dobler submitted that there was not sufficient
ground for detaining the woman ; and that, whatever
might be inferred against her husband from the cir-
cumstance of his sudden disappearance, she could not
be looked upon as a responsible agent.
The LORD MAYOR said, that putting the conduct of
the husband wholly out of the question, that of the
prisoner, who had been seen so frequently in the im-
mediate neighbourhood in which the depredation had
been committed, was attended with quite suspicion
enough to authorise a remand.
Tha prisoner was then remanded.
GUILDHALL.

A little girl, about fifteen years of age, and who gave
her name Mary Matthews, was placed at the bar before
Alderman Kelly, charged with having in her posses-
sion a suit of prison clothes, value 10s., without being
able to render a satisfactorily account of the same.
It appeared from the statement of George Devereux,
the principal turnkey of Bridewell, that on Tuesday
morning, about four o'clock, a young man about 18
years of age, of the name of William Holloway, be-
ing an inmate of the prison, was allowed to go to
work in the labour-yard, when by some extraordinary
means, as yet unaccounted for, he made his escape by
the back premises. As soon as he was missed a de-
scription was sent to the Fleet-street station, and
Inspector Scott, who was on duty there, at once for-
warded information to all the City and Metropolitan
stations. In the course of the afternoon prisoner
came to the prison, bringing with her Holloway's
clothes, which he had sent back, fearing that if he
were taken again he would he charged with the felony.
Prisoner was closely questioned, and she said she
knew nothing
of Holloway; a boy met her in the
street and gave her the clothes to bring to the prison.
She lived, she said, at 5, Charles-street, Euston-place,
Somer's Town. Oa making inquiries in the neigh-
bourhood it was found that nothing was known of her.
She could not have lived there, as they are all large
gentlemen's houses. Devereux said he was particular
in questioning the girl on account of the great resem-
blance she bore to the prisoner who had escaped,
which led him to suppose that they wore brother and
sister.

The girl was sentenced to two months imprison-
ment in the House of Correction for unlawful pos-

session.

HUNTING ACCIDENT.—On Thursday a serious, if
' not fatal, accident befel the Rev. IL Thorp, rector of Burton
Overy, near Illston-on-the-Hill, while enjoying a run with
Sir IL Sutton's hounds. Mr. Thorp was cantering along at
an easy pace over the turf, within two fields of the fox, wheat
his horse suddenly fell and rolled completely over him.
Several gentlemen hastened to his assistance, but found him
quite insensible. Medical aid having been:procured, it was
ascertained that there was little hope of Mr. Thorp's re-
covery, so severe was the concussion and pressure from the
horse that he had sustained. Mr. Thorp was alive on Friday
morning, but was still considered to be in a very precarious
condition.—Leicestershire Nercury.

CITY OF LONDON CENTRAL CATTLE
MARKET.

A conversazione was held at the London Coffee-
house, Ludgate-hill, last evening, for the purpose of
hearing an explanatory lecture by Mr. James Acland
upon the " corporate model" of the proposed new
Central Cattle-market. The model of the contem-
plated improvements is the same which has for some
time past been exhibited for the inspection of the
public at Guildhall, and previously at King-street
Bazaar, during the Smithfield cattle show; and the
lecture was illustrated by elaborately-executed plans
and some beautifully tinted lithographic views.
Sir James Duke, M.P., Mr. Charles Pearson, the
City solicitor; Mr. D. W. Harvey, Mr. Loman Tay-
lor, chairman of the markets' committee; Mr. George
Walter, Mr. Seele, and several of the most extensive
butchers and salesmen were present; Mr. James
Blackett presiding as chairman.
Mr. BLACLETT opened the proceedings by calling
attention to the model, as showing what the City
corporation proposed with regard to the new market.
The object or the Central Market Association was
above everything else to diffuse correct information
upon this important matter, that the public might be
in a position to judge for themselves upon the merits
of the plan now submitted to them. The inhabitants
of the metropolis could not exist without a good
supply of food, and he felt confident that the plan
contemplated would enable them to obtain it with
the least possible inconvenience.—(Hear, hear.) Mr.
Blackett concluded by introducing Mr. Acland, the
secretary to the Central Markets' Association, to the
meeting.
Mr. ACIAND then said that the Central Markets'
Association was formed at the commencement of
September last; that it comprised graziers, salesmen
and their drovers, butchers and their drovers, and the
proprietors and occupiers of houses and property
likely to be affected by any alteration in the existing
markets in the city of London; and that for five
months the assoeiation had been engaged in taking
steps calculated to maintain the central position of the
existing live-cattle market in Smithfield.—(Hear,
hear.) The necessity for such an association would
be obvious, when he stated that now, for many
months, a portion of the press had been laudably en-
gaged in denouncing abuses which no one could ques-
tion the existence of, and that the effect of its de-
nunciations had been to excite a very general and very
proper prejudice, so to call it, against the nuisance.
Application would be made to Parliament by parties
who were desirous of winning from the city of Lon •
don its live-cattle market, and to obtain a profit which
was at present enjoyed by the trustees of the citizens
of London.—(Hear, hear.) The corporation of the
city of London also proposed to apply to Par
'lament for leave to erect a new live-cattle market,
and for power to abate the existing nuisance in
connexion with Smithfield.—(Hear, hear.) The
parties who formed the Central Markets' Associa-
tion were interested, and directly interested, in the
maintenance of the central live-cattle market of
London ; and they were anxious to support the efforts
of the corporation for the maintenance of the central
position of that market, and, of course, to oppose any
attempt that might be made to remove that market.
But, on the other hand, they were not so wedded to,
or connected with, the corporation as to accept the
proposal of the corporation as a whole. In form, they
had approved the principles of the corporation Bill ;
but, in fact, and in action, they had objected to cer-
tain details of that measure. They had, by deputa-
tion, waited upon the Markets' Improvement Com-
mittee of the city of London, had mooted their ob-
jections to these details, had had those details recon-
sidered by the committee, and many of their sugges-
tions promptly and handsomely accepted and adopted
by that committee.—(Hear.) Already, therefore, the
association had done good service to the public.—
(Hear.) Knowing that the corporation were in ear-
nest in the prosecution of their measure, and that they
desired only to do that which was right, and at the
same time most conducive to the suppression of the
existing nuisance, to the extension of the accommo-
dation in the central cattle market, and in general to
meet the views, and so far as they might with pro-
priety, even the prejudices of the public, the association
were now prepared to advocate the proposal of the
corporation for the construction of a new market.—
(Cheers.) Mr. Acland then proceeded to combat the
various objections which had been raised to the cor-
poration plan, and first that it was the establishment
of a monopoly. This, he said, it could not be, inas-
much as Smithfield was not the only cattle market
in the metropolis, though it was the only one which
was frequented for trade. Have as many markets as
we would, so long as they were inconvenient to the
trade, as that at Islington was, and so long as there
was a market which was convenient to the trade, as
that at Smithfield was, the latter would be the only
market, yet not a monopoly market. The fact was,
the Central Market Association was opposing a mo-
nopoly; for the proposal of the opponents of the cen-
tral market was that there should no longer be a
central market—in short, that there should be no mar-
ket in the place which was most convenient to those
concerned in it; that a monopoly market should be
created at a distance from the centre, inconvenient to
all concerned in it, multiplying the oulsance to a
great extent, and establishing itself not upon its
merits, but upon the despotic act of tearing the
existing charters, flinging defiance in the
face of the corporation, and riding upon the
storm of prejudice which had been excited by the
iniquitous means of connecting the existing nuisance
of Smithfield with the proposed new cattle-market
devoid of this nuisance.—(Cheers.) The corporation
had done all they could to reduce the nuisance; they
admitted that they had not been able to abate it to
their satisfaction; and they proposed to ask power of
the Legislature to accomplish that desirable object.—
(Hear, hear.) They proposed that the new market
should be an enclosed market, and that no thorough-
fares should intersect it.—(Hear, hear.) They pro-
posed to say to the butchers, "You must get up
earlier, begin business sooner, and get your cattle out
of the market by nine o'clock !"—(Hear, hear.) If
not, the gates would be shut, and they would not be
able to remove them until late in the evening.—
(Cheers.) Thus, by closing the market from nine in
the morning till eight in the evening, the great objec-
tion of cattle passing through the streets by day
would at once be done away with.—(Hear.) Sales-
men would have to come to market earlier, and
butchers to go earlier, in order to meet the prejudices
—the just prejudices—of the community to the inter-
ruption of the traffic by the passage of cattle through
the streets during the hours of business by day. But
the corporation also proposed to abolish some existing
nuisances as well as to abate others. At present there
was to be found, immediately adjacent to Smith-
field-market, a clump of buildings, comprising
the lanes and alleys to the south and west of the Ram
Inn—he alluded particularly to Cow-cross and
Sharp's-alley, where abounded knackers' yards, com-
mon slaughter-houses, manufacturers of neat's-foot oil,
rabbit and cats' skin dressers, bone collectors, and,
in the aggregate, 57 distinct nuisances. It was this
site which the corporation now proposed to Parlia-
ment should be cleared for the purpose of erecting
their new, cleanly, well-planned, and well-ordered
live-cattle market.—(Loud cheers.) Smithfield-
market was charged as the scene of the perpetration of
much cruelty, and much cruelty did take place,
though unavoidably ; and being unavoidable, it was
not in fact cruelty.—(Hear and a laugh.) Coercion
which was unavoidable was not cruelty, for cruelty
was needless coercion. If cruelty were practised it
was the result of the present confined area of the
market. It had never been denied that the space was
not large enough, and the corporation, in proposing to
remedy that evil, said, " Give us power and we will
make a market large enough, so that every ox that
comes into the market shall be tied up in such a manner
that there will be no occasion even for this unavoid-
ble' coercion." He held in his hand an official list of the
number of cattle which had been brought to the market
for a series of years past ; and he observed that the
largest number was 6,300 oxen on the occasion of the
great market at Christmas last. Had the new market
been in existence at that period, those 6,300 beasts
would have been, every one of them, tied by the rails,
and a large space of ground left still unoccupied.—
Hear.) It was not correct to say that the contem-
plated improvements would not admit of accommoda-
tion for the increased supply which increased popula-
tion rendered necessary. The fact was, that the
supply of live cattle had not hitherto kept pace with
the advance of population, but the supply of dead
meat had.--(Hear, hear.) The corporation proposed
to leave the present market an open area ; but de-
stroying the habitations of thieves, prostitutes, and
other " innocent" persons in its neighbourhood, they
would erect upon what was now the sheep market a
range of model lodging-houses to accommodate a
thousand families: These would be built upon
_the

most approved plan, so that the thousand families
should no longer live in the midst of the abomi❑a-
tions which now surrounded them, and should not
continue to be themselves a nuisance to the commu-
nity

Opposite to St. Bartholomew's Hospital they

also proposed to erect a set of baths and wttshhouses.

The market would be upon an inclined plane, for
which they had full scope, inasmuch as the Fleet
ditch lay forty feet below the level of Smithfield;
and, by constructing a reservoir and fountain,
they could at any time flush the entire market, cleanse
it of its filth, and at the same time supply the cattle
and sheep with water.—(Cheers.) To the objection
that the market at Smithfield was prejudicial to
health, he answered that it was contrary to the re-
corded opinion of the medical staff of St. Bartholo-
mew's Hospital, to the sanitary condition of Christs's
Hospital, the Charter House, and the City gaol, and
to the evidence of the registrar of the district, the re-
ports of Committees of the House of Commons and
the Royal Commissioners. It had been stated in the
public press, as an objection to the scheme, that it
would cost a half million of money, to he levied as a
toll upon the cattle coming to the market. It was
not so. A quarter of a million would be laid out in

improving the market, and the increased toll occa-
sioned thereby would be no more than one farthing
for every 801bs. of meat sold in the market.—(Rear,
hear.) The other quarter of a million would be laid
out in providing the baths and washhouses, widen-
ing the streets, and effecting other improvements, for
which the public would not have to pay at all.
A short discussion followed, in the course of which
it was elicited that the area of the present market,
exclusive of thoroughfares, was about four acres, and
that the area of the new market would be between
eight and nine acres.
Mr. CHALLIS, as a salesman, observed that ninety-
nine out of every hundred of his trade, were in favour
of the corporation plan, that a considerable number of
the Smithfield salesmen had joined the Central Mar-
kets Association in order to promote the carrying out
of that plan; and that the gentleman (Mr. Erle) who
had asked the question which but drawn this ex-
planation from the se3retary, happened to be one of
the minority.—(Laughter and cheering.)
A vote of thanks was then passed to Ar. Blackett
for presiding, and the company then retired to an
upper room, where they partook of a bountiful
collation, served up in excellent style by Messrs.
Lovegrove.

STATE OF TRADE.
(From the Manchester Guardian.)
MANCHESTER, TTJESDAY.—The indications of an
increase of business which were observable here at
the latter end of last week, together with the advance
of 1-16 d. to *d. per pound on Friday's rates in the
raw material, quoted in the Liverpool circulars of
yesterday, caused our market to open this morning
with a general expectation of improvement, which has
not been realised. Both the shippers and the manu•
facturers have shown an indisposition to operate in
yarns ; and although the quotations remain, for the
most part, unaltered, the buyers have generally been
able to get what they might want at some little re-
duction. The letters from Germany received this
morning agree with those of the last week or two, or
rather exceed them, in representing the general in-
terests of trade as suffering very much from the
effects of the political distractions which have pre-
vailed and the vast military preparations that have
arisen therefrom. The manufacturers are described
as working for stock, and not to order. Under these
circumstances the merchants in this town have kept
very decidedly aloof from business, and the yarns par-
ticularly adapted for their trade, especially 30's water,
have been more depressed than other descriptions.
There is less of weakness in the prices of goods than
in those of yarns.
ROCHDALE, MONDAY.—We have had another
quiet market to-day, and the merchants are offering
less money for pieces. Wool, however, fully main •
tains its former prices. Had we a severe frost instead
of this open weather, the demand for flannels at this
period of the year, considering the present state of
the trade, would probably have been greater than the
supply.
MACCLESFIELD' TUESDAY. ---The manufactured
goods trade still remains very flat; although there
exists some inquiry for spring goods, still the prices
are such as have led to little actual business. There
is a general admission that an advance on present
offering rates must be given ere business can be done.
The throwing mills continue working the usual hours;
although the demand for throwns continues inactive,
still confidence is expressed that this article will
shortly be in much greater request. The raw silk
market continues firm for most descriptions, not with-
standing the late reported fall in best quaaties of
Chinas.

HUDDERSFIELD, TUESDAY.--There has been nothing
of interest stirring in our market of to-day ; conse-
quently, not much doing in any class of goods. Most
of the manufacturers are working to order, so that
wools and yarns keep up their price very well, as the
manufacturers are obliged to buy to execute orders
in hand.

HALIFAX, SATURDAY.—There was but a slender
attendance of merchants in our Piece-hall to-day, and
the worsted trade cannot be called active; but there is
an improved demand for damasks, and the inquiry for
cotton weft lastings, of low quality, continues. The
yarn market has not undergone much alteration fur
the last week or two. The demand is not brisk either
for export or for home consumption, and the high
price of the raw material keeps up the quotations.
There is not a large quantity of wool changing hands,
and prices are firm.
LEEDS, TUESDAY.—There is little change to notice
in the woollen trade since our last report. The
markets have been only dull. The merchants are
pretty well stocked ; and, in consequence of the late
advance in prices, are acting cautiously. Business is
dull in the warehouses. The mild weather has con-
siderably checked the sale of heavy goods.