The Sun.
London, England, 1851-11-01 00:00:00

PRICE OF SUGAR.

The average price of Brown or Muscovado Sugar, com-
puted from returns made in the week ending Oct. 28,
1851, exclusive of Customs Duties paid or payable thereon
on the importation thereof into Great Britain :
From the British possessions in America 245. I id. per cwt
From the Mauritius ... ... No return. ~
From the East Indies -. 20s. 34d.
Average price of the two foregoing de-
scriptions of sugar, jointly, computed as
above, and exclusive of duty ... . 21s. lOid.
By authority of Parliament,
HENRY BICEUVELL, Clerk of the Grocer.' Company.
Grocers'-hall, Oct. 31.

LAW INTELLIGENCE.
COURT OF BANKRUPTCY, Oct. 31.
(Before Mr. Commissioner lioutoyD.)
IN BE J PAUL.

The bankrupt was a milliner in Oxford-street. His
balance sheet extends from March 31, 1849, to Aug.
12, 1851, and contains the following items :—Dr.
Unsecured creditors, 2.7181 ; creditors holding
security of uncertain value, 6581; profits, including
salary received from Messrs. Pinto, Perez, and Co.,
(4051), 1,046/, Cr. Good debtors, 129/., doubtful,
681, property, 1271.; premium paid for lease of 118,
Oxford-street, 3501; alterations and repairs, 3301;
house and personal expenses, 1,0651.; deficiency at
commencement, 2241. This was an adjourned last
examination meeting. Mr. Hawkins opposed for thy
assignees; Mr. Linklater supported.
It appeared from the examination of the bankrupt
that he had not accounted to the assignees for certain
furniture in which he had claimed to have an interest
six months before his bankruptcy. The value of the
furniture was not more than 21. He had, about a
week prior to his bankruptcy, given his brother•in-
law a musical snuff-box of the value of 31. At the
time he was aware that he was insolvent, and that it
was probable he would become a bankrupt. His
wife was in possession of certain articles of jewellery
at the time of his bankruptcy. No mention had been
made of the same to the assignees, and they bad since
been pledged.

Mr: HAWILMS submitted that the bankrupt's ex-
amination must be again adjourned. It was remark-
able that on this occasion, as on the last, something
new oozed out with respect to the bankrupt's pro-
perty, and though the amount not accounted for was
represented by the bankrupt to be of but small value,
his word ought not to be wholly credited. Seeing
that his debts were between 2,0001. and 3,0001., and
that there was nothing for his creditors, the bankrupt
might have mentioned the circumstance of the furni-
ture, snuff-box, and articles of jewellery, and left the
assignees to have estimated their value.

Mr. LINKLATER urged that the bankrupt, baying
given up to his creditors the whole of his furniture,
which bad cost him 5081., and which had realised
2091., it was ridiculous to suppose that he had seri-
ously intended to defraud his creditors by any con-
cealment in respect to the snuff-box and furniture of
the value of 51., and that the articles of jewellery
that had belonged to the bankrupt's wife prior to her
marriage, and which had been pledged, ought not to
have been referred to by the assignees. His client
was ready to pass his examination on the statements
he bad made, and to take the consequences of their
truth being hereafter disproved.
His HONOUR referred to the discrepancies in the
bankrupt's two statements—first, that the furniture
was of such small value that he had not thought it
worth mentioning to his assignees ; and next, that he
had given it to his sister. If there had been conceal-
ment, the bankrupt was liable to punishment. Having
regard to the alleged value of the property in ques-
tion, he thought the best course was to pass the
bankrupt's examination. The assignees could prior
to the certificate meeting test the truth of the bank-
rupt's statements, and if they were found to be untrue
the bankrupt would be exposed to punishment. The
ex :urination was passed accordingly.

CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT.
OLD COURT.
(Before Mr. Justice CRESSWELL and Mr. Justice

MAULS.)
Rachel Menzies, 68, was indicted for a misde-
meanour, in unlawfully obtaining the sum of 501.
from Alexander Beale, under the pretence that she
could make interest to procure him an office in the
gift of the Lords of the Admiralty.
Mr. Ballantine and Mr. M. Smith conducted the
prosecution; Mr. M. Prendergast was counsel for the
defendant.

The facts of the case have appeared very recently
in the police reports, and it will, therefore, be unne-
ces4ary to give the evidence in detail on the present
occasion. The prosecutor, it appeared, who had for-
merly filled the situation of an attorney's clerk, in-
serted an advertisement in the Times on the 17th of
April, offering a bonus to any one who could procure
him a Government appointment, and the same day be
received a letter, dated from Denmark-street, Soho,
in answer to his advertisement, signed "R. F."
This led eventually to an interview with the prisoner,
who represented that it was in her power, by reason
of certain influence she had at the Admiralty, to pro-
cure him an appointment in that department of the
Government. Several meetings took place after this
between the prisoner and the prosecutor, and in the
course of the communications that took place between
them the prisoner said that she had been deceived on a
former occasion, and she would not take any steps to
procure the appointment unless a sum of .501. was paid
to her on account, and she proposed to secure the repay-
ment of that amount by giving a promissory note, en-
dorsed by her landlord, at six mouths' date; and in the
event of the appointment not being obtained the
payment of the note was to be enforced. The pro-
secutor accordingly paid a sovereign to " bind the
bargain," as the prisoner said, and he afterwards gave
the prisoner 471. 155., deducting the balance for the
sovereign be had paid and the interest, and he re-
ceived a bill of exchange from the prisoner for 50/
After this, several more interviews took place between
the parties, and the prisoner amused the prosecutor

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by shin-NI-4 him 1. !ters which sb!-, prnet d•,(i to h svc
cf ivad from Sic F. Barifig, the Firit Lord of the
A iiniralty, couched in the most friendly terms, it
being stated on one of them that Sir Francis wished
the prisoner to go to his country house, and remain
there for some weeks ; adding, that his daughters
would receive both amusement and instruction from
her society. Upon the faith of this letter the pri•
soner wanted to borrow a further sum of 161. from
the prosecutor, for the purpose, as she said, of "re-
cruiting her wardrobe," and put her in a state to
avail herself of the invitation which had been given to
her. By this time, however, the prosecutor had dis-
covered the deception that was being practised upon
him, and he therefore declined to make any further
advance, and he subsequently communicated with the
Admiralty, at whose instance the present prosecution
was instituted. _

The jury found the prisoner Guilty.
Mr. BALLANTINE said he was instructed to recom-
mend the prisoner to the merciful consideration of
the Court, on account of her suffering from ill health.
Mr. Justice MAUL; in passing sentence, said that
the prisoner had been very properly convicted of this
offence, and from the ingenuity she had evinced in
carrying on the imposition he was afraid this was
not the only case of the same kind she had been con-
cerned in. It should be known that all these proceed.
ings for the sale of Government appointments were
perfectly illegal, and it was to be hoped that the pre-
sent prosecution would have the effect of putting an
end to such transactions. He then sentenced the
prisoner to three months' imprisonment in Newgate.
John Owen, 33, surrendered to take his trial for
feloniously cutting and wounding George Bennett,
with intent to do him grievous bodily harm.
Mr. Clarkson prosecuted, instructed by Mr. Hobler,
the solicitor to the Licensed Victuallers' Protection
Society ; Mr. Robinson defended the prisoner.
Mr. Bennett deposed that be was the landlord of
the Ben Jonson public-house, in the Harrow-road,
and on the evening of the 13th September he was in
his parlour, where there were also a number of
customers, and among them the prisoner at the bar.
The prisoner annoyed the persons who were sitting
near him, and all the other persons in the room, by
making use of very bad language, and witness re-
peatedly requested him to desist, but to no purpose.
At length be took up a glass of gin and water belong-
ing to the prisoner and carried it out of the room,
thinking the prisoner would follow him, but finding
he did not do so, and that he still continued his im-
proper conduct in the room, witness went into him
and brought him to the bar, and told him he might
finish his liquor there if he remained quiet, but he
would not have his customers i❑ the parlour disturbed
by him. Witness then went back, and was about to
sit down, when he received a tremendous blow on the
face from the prisoner, and he fell to the ground in-
sensible. He recovered slightly in a minute or two,
and then found he was bleeding from several wounds
in the face, and immediately afterwards he became
again insensible, and did not recover his senses until
after the surgeon had dressed his wounds.
Several respectable witnesses who were in the room
at the time confirmed the evidence of the prosecutor
with regard to the conduct of the prisoner, and it
appeared that after Mr. Bennett went back into the
room, the prisoner followed bim with the glass he had
been drinking out of in his hand, and that he struck the
prosecutor in the face with the glass with such vio-
lence as to break it to pieces.
The surgeon who was called in upon the occasion
described the injuries as being of a very severe cha-
racter. An artery was severed, and the prosecutor
lost a large quantity of blood. It appeared also that
erysipelas supervened, and that at one time the life of
the prosecutor was absolutely endangered.
Mr. ROBINSON, in addressing the jury for the pri-
soner, did not attempt to deny that he had been guilty
of a very aggravated assault ; but he urged that, from
the circumstances of excitement under which the as-
sault was committed, the prisoner ought not to be
convicted of the felonious intention imputed to him by
the first count of the indictment.
Mr. Justice CRESWELL summed up, and
The jury returned a verdict in accordance with the
provisions of the recent statute, finding the prisoner
Guilty of wilfully wounding the prosecutor.
Mr. Jus►ice CRESWELL sentenced him to be kept to
hard labour for four months.

NE IV COURT.
(Before the RECORDER.)
James Robinson, 32, glass polisher, was indicted
for cutting and wounding Mr. Michael Macdonald,
on the Bth of October, at Bromley, St. Leonard's.
Mr. J. W. Payne prosecuted.
The jury found him Guilty, and he was sentenced
to eighteen months' imprisonment.
Edward Evans, the clerk to Messrs. Hoare, who
pleaded guilty on Tuesday, was brought up for
j udgment.
Thw RECORDER, in passing sentence, said that
giving due effect to the contrition shown by the pri-
soner by pleading guilty and rendering assistance to
the prosecutors to prevent further confusion and loss
to them, still the offence was one of such a character
that be felt it his duty to pass a sentence that, to a
man in his position, would be a severe one, and that
was, that he be transported for seven years.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE
GUILDHALL.

Wm. Frost, dressed in corduroy and fustian, so as
to give him the appearance of a carman, was charged
with attempting to steal a gold watch from the person
of Mr C. W. Gibbon, while among the crowd as-
sembled to view the approach of Kossuth to the
City.
Prosecutor said—l am a clerk in the Hand-in-
Hand Fire Insurance Office in New Bridge street.
Yesterday, as I was endeavouring to push my
.way
through the crowd that had collected to see Kos-
suth pass towards Guildhall, I felt a tug at my watch,
and immediately seized the guard, when I found my
watch in prisoner's hand ; but I had scarcely taken it
from him when he denied having had it in his hand at
all. I, however, gave him into custody.
Alfred Ryder, of IE, Bear-street, Leicester.square,
said—l was in the crowd and saw prisoner in com-
pany with two other persons. I heard one of them
say to the prisoner, " That is the gentleman," and
saw him point to the prosecutor. They all three
then pressed upon Mr. Gibbons, and prisoner walked
round him two or three times. On the third time
prisoner took hold of the watch, and pulled it out of
his pocket. Mr. Gibbon then turned round and
seized the prisoner, but his two companions imme-
diately drew back among the crowd, and made their
escape.
Police-constable 366, said—l took the prisoner into
custody, and searched him, but found nothing but
a knife and a key.

Prisoner—l am innocent, your Worship, I assure
you. I left home at half-past eleven o'clock yester-
day morning to seek for work. I went over London-
bridge, and through the City as far as Ludgate-hill,
when I was stopped by an immense crowd shouting
and making a great noise. I pushed forward to see
the sight, and in doing so pressed against this gen
tleman (prosecutor) who instantly collared me, and
said I had stolen his watch. I never even bad the
watch in my hand, and prosecutor can't say that he
saw it.

Alderman Firms—He must have seen it, for he
took it out of your hand. Where have you be-n
working lately ? Prisoner—l have worked at the
Gutta Perch Mills, and the Imperial and the City
Saw Mills.

Alderman FINNIS—How long have you been out
of employ ? Prisoner—l can't exactly tell ; but if
you will send for my father he will know.
Alderman Fizsms—That is enough for me. There
is no occasion to make any further inquiries, and I
shall therefore deal with your case summarily. It
seems a remarkable fact that nearly all the street
thieves and pickpockets now assume the dress of car-
men and porters, by which means they gain a ready
access to warehouses, and other places of business,
without exciting suspicion, and carry on their depre-
dations very often to a considerable extent with im-
punity. As prisoner is not known to the police, I
Ad' deal with the case summarily, and send him to
the House of Correction for two months, with hard
labour.

MARLBOROUGH-STREET.
Mr. John Cogden, boot and shoemaker, No. 32,
Jermyn• street, St. James's, was summoned before
Mr. Hardwick for refusing to maintain his illegiti-
mate child.
Mary Simmons said she had lived with the defen-
dant as his wile for five years, at various places. She
had passed by his name, and had evidence to prove
the receipt of money from the defendant for the sup-
port of her children. She had borne four children
to the defendant, and was at present enceinte with
the fifth. The defendant had abandoned her, and was
at that time actually living with her own daughter.
Evidence was produced that the child was seen alive
one month ago ; that at the time the mother was
delivered she was living with the defendant and pass-
ing as his wife ; and that the defendant had sent
money for the support of the child.
Mr. IlLewis contended there was not sufficient
proof of the child being alive.
Mr. HARbwicK thought different, and made an
order for 2s. 6d. a week and expenses.
Mr. Lewis would advise an appeal.
The Committee of the Bloomer Ball sent twenty
pounds for the poor-box.

WORSHIP-STREET.
Matilda Lovett, a neatly-dressed young married
woman, was placed at the bar before Mr. D'Eyncourt,
charged with having feloniously attempted to set fire
to the house of her landlord, Mr. Joseph Jennings,
in William-street, Hoxton.
From the evidenct, of the prosecutor's son, it ap-
peared that the prisoner and her husband had occu-
pied a front room on the ground floor of the house
for some time past. About ten o'clock on the pre-
ceding morning, the prisoner left home after care-