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London, England, 1851-07-07 00:00:00

per csvt net cAsh; rough flt, 2i per Slbs. The delivery
last week was 1,503 casks, but no imports tool: place
fro
to aey quttrivr. Oar bz.. Peters.borgh lottia busteS
that a very moderate WRS

1848. 1849

1350. 1 Wt._

kook this day . • • • • •
Price of Y. C. • • • •
Pidivery last week . •
Ditto from June 1— • •
Arrivals last week .
Ditto from June 1

7,5.33
age Od
to49s.;c!

7,649 21,62 i
4 is Gd 38s 3d
to 4 ts 3d to 3,56 d
1.154, 766
7,634 i 3.459
127 i 1,2'37
6,543 3,522
46, 6d 39s 6d

25,034 35,924
36, 9d to, 37s 6,1
Cs Oki ito37r4cl
$l4 i 1,503
5,11 Q 5,04
1,937 l
4,570 I 4,344

669
4,336
80
4,01 u
:51s Od

I"riCe or -Town :

383 Od ' 38s Cd

ROUSE OF LORDS.-(THIS DAY.)
Their Lordships s:a to hear appeals this morning. The
eer& present were, the 14,:rd Chancellor and Lord
Brougham.
The Judges had been summoned by writ, and were
all present to assist their Lor wi,h the exc, p-
ti°ll of Lord Campbell, the Chief Justice of the Coup.
Illon Pleas, and Mr. Baron Martin.
The appeal brought before their Lordships' was Scad-
dr tk Grant. the question of which turned on the re-
turnsv of St. Pancras parish. Mr. Peacock, however, had
opened the case when our report left.

ICE-CHANCERY.-(TIIIS DAY.)
(Before Vice-Chsnccilor KNIGHT BRUCE )
11.1t:3 HONOUR this morning hr and and d,sposed of a
amber of unopposed petitions, none of which presented
4uY isaturo of interest.

(Before Vice-Chancellor Lord CRANWORTH.)
°th
zlia LORDSHIP this morning took the cause list, but
ing of importance came before him.
(Before Vice-Chancelior TURNER.)
BENDON V. KING.
This case MIS again resumed this morning.
CRIMINAL COURT.—(THIS DAY.)

OLD COURT.
The July sessions of the Central Criminal Court were
Lpetied this morning in the usual form, before the Lord
aP3r, the Recorder, Aldermen Sir Chapman Marshall,
~...441vvenee, Salomons, and the Sheriffs of London and
meddllesex, Alderman Carden, and G. H. Hodgson,
$, attended by their respective deputies and the other
chic functionaries.
The first edition of the calendar contains the names of
io
,9 prisoners, of whom 21 are from Louden, 63 from
aidc443BeX, 6' from Essex, 2 from Kent, and 17 from
tam
teerrey.
r„Th, e grand jury twine: been sworn and empanelled,
IiEcoRDER proceeded to charge them to the fol-
-W`rig ekes- Fie said the number of offences was care-
tratively speuking smell, but considering that only
tirtetri days heel elapsed since the last session, he
ith°tlld not -congratulate them upon the lightness of
e calendar. lie %IS happy, however, to tell them
that there had been no serious increase in the
tribete of the metropolis, and it would therefore be
",tl^ -
the r?essarr to detain them for any length of time from
discharge of their important duties. Unfortunately
,s!re were two charges of murder. One was a case of
211d-raurdtsr and in that the only queetion would be,
whether or t
- • 0 the death of the child. wits. occasioned in-
esvationa ly or was the remit of accident in the course of
itaelivery. EAU!, if they should find that the: chid was
_ Wed by any act of the mother, it would be n ecessary to
wad the master for further inve,,tigation. 'She second
;740 was a charge against a husband of stubbing his
Aire, and here there was no doubt w hatevee that the
iLlenath was caused by the set of the. accused,
,e`t under, what circumstai.ciis the act was corn-
eetted did
It not appear upon the depositions, end
-aa open to them to reduce the nature of the
ttlae if in the course of their inquiry something should
come
kn out to explain awey or mitigate the c,,njuct of the
B"kLnil, or otherwise it would be their duty to fled a
tr-
Las bill for murder. There was one case of rape, sled
reference to that all he had to observe was simply that
ka Pro they could seed the case for trial they must be
tisfied that the woman resisted, at d was mot a eon-
itlting party to the intercourse. Another et se of spree
wil:rtance was that in which a young man wits charged
'llooting a boy. It wou;d appear from the depo-
tea that the youth was hot a% are at the tinier the ac-
thoent occurred that the gun was loaded, but if the
141 d not be fully convinced of that, it would,
ter laPas be more satisfactorily to send the case
kid arther investigation. There was one tithe r charge,
to, eV one other that he felt called upon to advert
oration
that was a charge against a person in a re epectehle
sst.°ll of life of setting fire to a houee, whit h was hie
titdePr'qerty, two persens living in the house at the
the • It was imputed to the accused 'that he set fire to
ktoliPtemises with the intention of defrauding; the in-
eettitl3;;" office. There was no doubt that th a persons
Haile " Were in the house at the time, it was fired,
took;:tr was equally clAir that shortly before the fire
hottura,eo a policy of insurance was effected upon the
h e•re&loye, by the 7th of Will. IV., it was mstde a sepat
toe :i'erice to be visited with severe punishmen •, to set fire
It ormwelling-house, either while persons were living in
thet withintention to defraud any one, and it -was under
the o•Xttlre that the charge was preferred. These were
eip„TY oases that he thought it necessary to d.rect their
Poseci4l attention to, and here he should have felt dis-
they ittt9 stop had it not been for the, fact that since
()Ileretilst Met there an Act of Parliament bad come into
.he j11141:34, for the purpose of providing punishment tor
l ° offences which hitherto had be nunnknown to
middle' The Act would come into force about the
that the session, and it was perhaps desirable
he Aetaold explain' to them what these offences were.
ate
bat provided that if any person she mid be found out
t light armed with any dangerous weapon with
„-Y coee°reak into a house, although . se had not acne
raied, T`ted that purpose, he should be held guilty of
Otaon be foiled
and punishable accordi ugly; or if any
1111,ft i)-- el. foiled out late at night with ante, housebreak
'lltelsee'el4eut in his possession, or Ittiving t
%lag Wed or disfigured, with the intention of commit-
,fteittv 4 felony, he also should be seijudged
lled" of misdemeanour, and punishable accordingly.
emitting Act of Parliament persons )aid of
of
s robberies. or assaults with t tit) aid of chloro-
-41,', or any other stupifying drug, were liable to much
fit te Severe punishunelits than had hitherto been in-
eted upon such offenders ; indeed, the• punishment ex •
leaded as far as transportation for life. By the exiating
d° if a person was indicted for cutting and wounding
I,l;th intent to do s{ me grievous hod ily harm, it had
%,"1 held that tee wound must be Mille ted with an in-
t.:l,4l3:lmA, and skin penetrated, or no
.conviction could
aide criminal
By tuts Act of Par. ',lament it was
,"''Le criminal to commit an aggravated as-
it'4lt or cut and wound any person, n.) matter whether
etwii_as with or without instrument, and irrespective
there
akin of the injured parry being p !fietrated. Then
• Were provisions in the Act of great importance
there times for the protection of realways. It was
pr
ideti thet if anybody should thr tw anything upon
thrailwaY, or take any part of a railw sy up, or do any-
tll:,„ "g at all dangerous to life, or throw any-
th,—g upon the curiiages, or set fit e to any of
I), 14 or any of the railway pretei;es, he should
1)4 Pithy of a misdenie.,nour, aid liable to be
bltashed accordingly. There was a further provision
eldtllle Act enabling persons to apprehend offenders,
Isr,f()ugh they were not officers charged with the pre-
of the public peace; hut thee() he had already
oaCs'°,3ed were the mein previsions, atter as toe Act had
bey received the Royal assent within the last few days,
1)5! ad thought it expedient to go thrc ugh its details
ti:,re he disissed them to the discharge of their clo-
p: which hem now did, simply remit:ding them that it
osy Itet with any legal difficuaies in the way of aiss
isorttilg of any case, the Cum t was al wit) s titter g, and
h 0 most happy to render them all the assistance
reB Power.
Abu grand jury then retired.