The Sun.
London, England, 1851-09-03 00:00:00

LONDON, WED NESDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER a, 1851.

INDIGO.—In consequence of the announcement of the
large quantity of 18,854 chests of East India for public
ompetitiaii on the 7th of October, purchases have been
upon a small scale by exporters and home dealers during
the last few days, still holders will not sell, but at full rates.
Spanish has been in good demand, and full rates are
obtained for better sorts, whilst a small advance has
taken place for inferior. At auction 550 srns Guatemala
were sold ; very lean Copper and Coppery Cortes at is
8d to 3s 2d ; mid to good, with a few fine Sobres 3s 6d
to 53 Id per lb. A public sale of 600 serons is an-
nounced.

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FRUlT.—There are few buyers of Raisins, ands de-
sire is evinced to sell old Valencia at 27s to 28s; Belvi-
dere 24s to 295; Eleme 33s to 365, and Muscatels at 363
to 60s. For low and mid sorts of Currants the demand
is dull at 24s to 32a; and merchants are disposed to sell;
but good and fine kinds are wanted at 34s to 42s per
cwt, and of such there is a decreasing stock; inferior
Fruit is, however, yet plentiful.
SALTPETRE.—To-day Saltpetre was operated in with
reluctance, and prices declined 6d per cwt. At auction
556 bags Calcutta were only in part sold; mid quality
18 per cent. refraction went at 25s to 5:15s 6d, 9 to Si
ditto 26a.

COCHINEAL.—A further increase has taken place in
supplies, prices have fallen Id to 2d for Black, and beat
sorts of Silver; in the value of inferior there is, how-
ever, no variation. At auction 400 bags were chiefly dis-
posed of; ordinary to good black Honduras went at 3s 6d
to 42 6i ; Silvers, low to ord 2s Ild to 3s ; mid to good,
3s ld to 3s 31; fine, 3s 4d to 3s sd; Mexican Silvers,
good, 3s; ord and mid black 3s 4d to 3s id; and 10 bags
black Teneriffe 3s 9d per pound. Several parcels are
announced for auction.
TALLow.—There is still confidence on the part of
holders of Russian here, and the demand for home con-
sumption is good; fine now Y.C. realised 36s id to 395,
and old at 373 9d to 38s per cwt; at present, however,
higher rates are not anticipated. For delivery many con-
tracts have been concluded; now at 38s 9d to 39s for the
last three months of the year, and 39a 3d to 39s 6d for
January, February, and March. Of home melted largo
parcels have been sold at 37s to 37s 6d net cash. Pre-
vious terms are well supported for other kinds, and there
is no increase of supply. At auction 380 casks of Aus-
tralian were chiefly disposed of, Ox at 35s to 375, Sheep
36s to 37s 9d; 423 packages South American 34s 9d to
37s 6d, and 310 skins Ibrail 35s to 36s 6d per cwt.
OILS.—The purchases made in Cod Oil have been
upon a small scale, and there are sellers at 361 per tun.
Seal has bee❑ purchased with reluctance, and rates
incline downwards, ruling for pale at 34/ to 34/ 10s,
and other sorts 32/ to 334 There are now
few buyers of Southern, and rates are not
so firm ; common to good selling at 31/ to 33/,
and fine 321 103 to 331, whilst public sales will be de-
clared shortly. Sperm is held with firmness; fine
British 851 to 861, and American 841 to 851, but pur-
chases have been upon a small scale, and supply is
rather more plentiful. Headmatter is selling at
911 to 931, and is yet scarce. Rapeseed Oil
met with little attention, and supply is on the
increase; pale is offered at 32s 6d to 335, brown 31s 6d
to 325, and refined foreign 34s to 35s per cwt. For
Cocoa Nut a brisker demand prevails, and supply is
limited. Cochineal realized 31s 6d to 333 6d, and Ceylon
31a to 32s 6d. A good demand prevails for Pale, and
fine is worth 27s to 27s 6d; there is an increasing supply.
Linseed Oil is rather cheaper, but many purchases have
been made by home dealers, and a fair export business
prevails at 323 6d. For future delivery the terms ac-
ceeded to are 31s 64 to 31s 9d, and few transactions have
taken place. For Olive the market is brisk, and rates
rule firm.

LAW INTELLIGENCE.
PREROGATIVE COURT, Sept. 2.
This was the second caveat day after Trinity Term.
Dr. Haggard presided as surrogate, and disposed of
several motions, but none of them possessed points of
public interest.

ARCHES' COURT, Sept. 2.
This was an additional court day after Trinity
Term. Dr. Haggard sat as surrogate, and heard
proctors' motions only.

COURT OF BANKRUPTCY, Sept 2.
(Before Mr. Commissioner FONBLANQUE.)
IN RE MAGRATH.

The bankrupt, D. Magrath, of George's-row, City,
road, colour-manufacturer, came up to pass his lasi
examination.

The balance-sheet shows the following items, ex-
tending from September, 1850, to May, 1851 :—Cre-
ditors unsecured, 5711.; ditto, holding security, 1501.;
disputed claims, 94/. ; good debts, 1131.; doubtful,
85/. ; property realized, 761.; ditto, in hands of cre-
ditors, 35/. ; trade expenses, 402/. ; domestic expenses,
1001. ; losses, 321.
The bankrupt passed without opposition.

IN RE SOWERBY.

The examination in this bankruptcy was again
adjourned.

MIDDLESEX SESSIONS

Before Mr. Sergeant ADAMS, Assivant-Judge, and
a Bench of Magistrates, at the Guildhall, West-
minster.)
TUE ROBBERIES IN NEWCASTLE•COUItT.
_

James Wise, aged 29, was indicted for having
stolen from Isaac Friedlander a pair of scissors and
one ear-ring drop, his property, in Newcastle-court.
Mr. Harry defended the prisoner.
It will be in the recollection of our readers that
on the Bth ult., at Clerkenwell, a woman of the town
was convicted of having committed this robbery in
conjunction with a man who upon that occasion made
his escape from the officer and the prosecutor. Upon
the Learned Judge asking how it had happened that
flee man had not been indicted with the female priso-
ner, the officer assigned as the reason the escape of
the man. Another officer then informed the Judge
that the man was at that moment in the court, sit-
ting behind the dock, whereupon his Lordship di-
rected that he should be taken into custody. This
having been done the man now appeared at the bar
to take his trial.
The facts of the case are simply these :—The pro-
secutor, who is a Jew hawker, was passing through
Newcastle-court, in the Strand, in the early part of
the last month, when he was called into one of the
houses by the prisoner and the woman. The hawker
went in, and the two prisoners took the articles in
question from his box, and on his finding that they did
not mean to make any purchase, he required that the
goods should be returned. The male prisoner thereupon
told him that if he did not at once quit the house he
would kick him out. The hawker consequently
walked out, to avoid the alternative visitation, and
communicated to the first policeman with whom he
met the treatment he had received. The policeman
went to the court with him, and there they saw the
woman get out of the window and go towards an •
other, where she was in the act of handing the
stolen property to another woman, when the officer
took both of them into custody. The male prisoner,
seeing what was going on, ran away, and thus it was
that he had not been apprehended at the time. The
case was now clearly proved against him.
Mr. HoERY having addressed the jury on behalf of
the prisoner,
The Learned JUDGE left the matter to
The Jury, who at once returned a verdict of Guilty.
The Learned JUDGE said the prisoner was one of
the most notorious thieves in London, and had upon
more than one occasion been convicted. He had re-
ceived a sentence at the Central Criminal Court of
six months' imprisonment, and from himself he had
received a sentence of twelve months' imprisonment
with hard labour. (This conviction was upon the
present occasion proved by the production of the cer-
tificate of the fact, and the identification of the pri-
soner by the policeman who had been in attendance
upon the case). It was quite clear that such a man
was totally unfit for a longer residence in this country.
The sentence upon him therefore was, that he be

transported beyond the seas for ten years.
The Prisoner—Can't you give me something more ?
My brother has been transported, can't you punish
me for that also ? I want to know. Hadn't you better
try me for that also ?
The Learned JUDGE—You are sentenced for ten
years. Take him away.
Elizabeth James, aged 20, was indicted for stealing
a purse containing two half-crowns and other moneys,
the property of Jane Johnson, from her person ; and
that she " did steal from the person of a woman whose
name is unknown a purse, and the sum of 3s. 6d., and
a toothpick, her moneys and property," at the

The prisoner pleaded guilty.
It appeared that the prisoner was apprehended in
the Crystal Palace by Sergeant West, of the F divi-
sion, by whom she had been watched for a consider-
able time. He at length saw her pick the pocket of
the present prosecutrix.
The Learned JUDGE sentenced her to seven years'
transportation.

William Marshall, aged 29, was indicted for having
stolen a pocket-book containing two Bank of England
notes of the value of 51. each, the property of John
Dollfus, from his person.
The Learned JUDGE intimated to the jury that they
must acquit this prisoner, for the prosecutor, who was
a Frenchman, it appeared, held an important situation
in Paris, had been compelled to leave England, and
had sent a letter to say that as his duties required his
attention in Paris he had been obliged to leave this'
country, and was therefore anxious to withdraw the
prosecution, apparently not being aware that by the
law of this country such a course could not be adopted
without very considerable difficulty. It was quite
clear that it would be useless to order the recogni-
zances of the prosecutor to be entreated, because pro-
cess could not reach him in Paris. As there was no
prosecutor, of course the prisoner must be acquitted.
The jury, therefore, gave a verdict of Not Guilty.
Thomas Baker, aged 35, was convicted of having
unlawfully and indecently assaulted Mary Ann Baker,
a little girl about ten years old, his stepdaughter,
with intent.

The prisoner offered a most disgusting defence, and
accused his wife of the most abandoned conduct, and
also asserted that she had instructed her daughter to
trump up the present charge against him out of a
feeling of revenge towards him.
The Learned JUDGE, in passing sentence ppm th

prisoner, , said it was about the most disgusting case
it had eve r been his misfortune to have heard. So
utterly dis gusting had been Lis address to the, jury
that it h 4 d been almost impossible for any person,
even he wl to filled the judgment seat, to abstain from
rising up ti put a stop to the further utterance of such
filthy and f oul language. The case was one which
must be inn irked with full severity. The sentence
therefore was two years' imprisonment with hard
labour.

Henry Inaney, aged 32, was indicted for having
unlawfully and maliciously inflicted upon John
Loxton, a policeman, D 208, grievous bodily harm.
Mr. Pull'.en, who appeared to prosecute, said that
he was instructed by the Solicitor to the Lords of the
Treasury raider the recent Act of Parliament.
It appeared that on the morning of the 4th ult., about
two o'clock, the prisoner and some other persons were
making a great disturbance in Orchard-street, Port-
man-square, when the policeman o❑ duty desired them
to desist, and to go their way home. The prisoner
continued the noise, and upon the policeman going
towards him to take him into custody he placed his
back against the wall and began to kick him severely.
He gave the policeman several kicks upon his thighs
and on the lower part of the stomach, and the effect
of the latter was to produce two ruptures of the
abdomen, from which the medical gentleman who
gave testimony upon the present occasion, said the
officer would never recover, but must for the rest of
his life wear a double truss, and even that then he
would he subject to constant pain.
The jury returned a verdict of Guilty against the
prisoner.
The Learned JUDGE said that this was a species of
offence which the Court always visited with severity.
The sentence, therefore, would be nine months' im-
prisonment, with hard labour.
Jane Jones, aged 22, was indicted for having stolen
from the person of one Antonio de Vecchia a purse
containing the sum of 241. 17s. ld., his property.
Mr. Jackson appeared for the prosecution, and Mr.
Parry defended the prisoner.
It appeared that the prosecutor, an Italian, in the
service of General Gabriel, living at No. 7, Con-
naught-place, Hyde-park, on the night of Wednesday
week went out with a friend soon after nine o'clock,
and that on his return towards home shortly before
ten, as he was passing down the Edgeware-road be
was accosted by the prisoner, who was extremely
urgent that he should accompany her to her lodgings.
This invitation he declined, saying that he was much
obliged to her, but that he had a nice bed at his own
home. As they were passing the end of Cumber-
land-mews she drew him a little way into them, where
saying that she would give him a kiss, the prisoner
coughed and stamped, and on the instant two men
rushed forward, each taking hold of him by his arms.
The prisoner instantly thrust her hand into the breast
pocket of his coat, and having drawn from it the
purse containing the money in question, ran off.
The prosecutor by a violent jerk succeeded in releas-
ing himself from the grasp of the men, and ran off in
pursuit of the prisoner, the sight of whom he never
lost until she turned into Berkeley-mews. In the
progress of his pursuit he encountered a policeman,
who, hearing what had happened, joined in the
hunt. On arriving at Berkeley-mews they went
down and discovered the prisoner behind some cabs
with a light shawl on. On the ground in front of
her was ,her black silk mantle, which the officer
picked up and put over her shoulders, upon which
the prosecutor at once recognized her as the woman
by whom he had been robbed. The prisoner was
then conveyed to the station-house, where she was
searched, and 181. 17s. ld. found upon her. The
policeman and the prosecutor returned to Berkeley-
mews, and there they found the empty purse. The
prosecutor added, that when the men laid hold of his
arms, one of them tried to take his watch, but the
sudden jerk by which he had released himself from
their grasp had frustrated the attempt.
Mr. PARRY, at some length, addressed the jury on
behalf of the prisoner.
The Learned JUDGE recapitulated the evidence, and
The jury found the prisoner Guilty.
The Learned JUDGE then sentenced her to impri-
sonment and hard labour for six months.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
MARLBOROUGH-STREET.
Elizabeth Sammon, N 0.6, Foley-place, was brought
up for examination, charged with having been con-
cerned in fraudulently obtaining two pianofortes from
Messrs. Rust and Stahl, No. 320, Regent-street.
It appeared that a person of gentlemanly appear-
ance called, in July last, at Messrs. Rust and Stahl's
shop and hired a pianoforte for a lodger, as he said, at
so much per month. The pianoforte was sent to
No. 6, Foley-place, where the person lived who made
the bargain, and who gave the name of Sammon. In
a day or two afterwards the same person called again,
and said he wanted to hire another pianoforte for
another lodger. Another pianoforte was sent, the
value of each being 30 guineas. From information
which Mr. Rust subsequently obtained, he went in
person to No. 6, Foley-place, and saw the prisoner,
from whom he demanded the return of the pianofortes.
The prisoner said they were locked up in one of the
rooms, and she dared him to take them away in Mr.
Sammon's absence. Mr. Rust applied to the police,
and by their aid succeeded in gaining information to
the effect that the pianofortes were in the hands of a
pawnbroker named Clarke, in Long-acre. The pri-
soner was taken into custody, the person who came to
the shop on both occasions and hired the pianos not
being to be met with.
Robert Tilling, carman, proved the delivery of two
pianos from Messrs. Rust and Stahl, at No. 6, Foley-
place. On the first occasion witness saw Mr. Sam-
mon, as well as the female prisoner. On the second
occasion the female prisoner only was present.
William Barnes, painter, had been employed to do
work at No. 6, Foley-place. The person who em-
ployed and paid him went by the name of Bowsley.
The prisoner then represented herself to be the house-
keeper of Bowsley.
Ed ward Perryman, assistant to Mr. Barnes, helped
to remove one of the pianofortes from No. 6, Foley-
place. The piano was taken away in a coal van, but
witness did not know where.
Mr. Clarke, pawnbroker, 55, Long-acre, bad known
the prisoner for about twelve months, and had taken
articles in pawn from her. There might have been
a piano among them.
The case was remanded at this stage of the pro-
ceedings for a week, for the production of the pianos.
Yesterday Mr. Clarke was in attendance with his
books, but not with the pianos.
Mr. BINGHAM inquired why the pianos were not
produced ? Mr. Clarke understood his books only
were to be brought into court.
Mr. BINGHAM said the pianofortes must be pro-
duced, and remanded the case again for that purpose.
WEST MINSTER.
Daniel Foley, a labourer, was charged with the
following disgraceful and violent conduct :
Mr. Morgan, baker, Great Peter street, stated that
about eight on the previous evening the defendant,
who was intoxicated, fell down against his shop front,
when, in order to prevent his windows being broken,
be went out and assisted him to move away, but had
scarcely done so when defendant turned round and
made several kicks at him, which, had they taken
effect, must have done him serious injury. A con-
stable fortunately came up while he was so engaged,
and prevented defendant doing him any mischief.
The next complainant against defendant was an iti-
nerant vendor of pickled eels and such like dainties.
He was quietly seated behind his stock in trade when
the accused came up, thrust his dirty paws into a jar
of eels, and began throwing them about, and, having
so menaced the safety of his goods and stall that he
was apprehensive the whole would be destroyed, a
policeman was sent for, when defendant made off.
A third charge was exhibited by a police-constable.
Directly he took the accused from Mr. Morgan's
door be attacked him in a violent manner, and after-
wards repeated the assault.
Defendant's only excuse for all these offences was
intoxication.
Mr. ARNOLD observed, that his conduct had been
disgraceful in the extreme, and not only committed
him for a month, but ordered him to enter into his
own recognizances to be of good behaviour for six
months.

sixpennyworth of gin and water. He called for one
I glass and I for the other; and after we had drunk it
he said, "Excuse me, I have business over the way ;
wait here for five or ten minutes," and he left me and
had scarcely got across the street when a man came
into the house and said, " Ah, Mr. Gibson, I am glad
to see you out ; how do you do ?" I said I was very
well, and was waiting for a friend.
Mr. YARDLEY—Did you ever see that man before ?
Mr. Gibson—Yes, once before at the house where
lam staying—only once. We went upstairs to a
billiard-room and I seated myself near a window,
where I could see Mr. Smith come over again. When
I had stood at the window 10 or 15 minutes the man
said, " You had better give it up, Sir; he is not
coming back." A third person then came into the
room, and in a polite manner said, " I beg
pardon, gentlemen hope I don't intrude
is this a private party ?" I said the room
was as free for him as for us, and he seated
himself close to us, and called for brandy and water.
A conversation was then got up about America, and
the second person, whom I met downstairs, asked me
if I had ever been in America. I said I had not.
The second person said, " I have heard a good deal
of America, but I was never there." The third
person said he had just arrived from America. The
second person said he should like to know a business
man from America. The third person said he knew
nothing of business, and that he had lived as gentle-
man's servant to a bachelor in America, who died a
little while ago and bequeathed 22,0001., and that
there was a provision in the will that 4001. was to
be given to the poor of four different parishes in
England.
Mr. YARDLEY—Did he name the parishes ?
Mr. Gibson—No, sir. He said the parishes were
immaterial--he could choose which he liked. He then
asked me if there were any more poor people in the
parish to which I belonged. I said I had no doubt
there were. He asked me which parish it was, and
I said it was Wolverhampton, in Staffordshire. He
said if I could show him a sufficient proof of my re-
spectability, and that I was a man of substance and
fit to be trusted, he would give me 201. to dis-
tribute among the poor. He also said the second
person should have 201. to distribute among the poor
of his parish. After this was talked about for some
time, it was proposed to return to the City, and we
all three got into an omnibus and proceeded to the
Bull's Head public-house in Leadenhall-street.
When we got in there we had more brandy- and-
water. The third person, who was gentleman's ser-
vant to the rich bachelor in America, proposed that
we should meet him again, and receive 201. each.
The second person proposed that it should be done at
once, and the deceased bachelor's servant said be
should be happy to meet us in an hour if we could bring
him some money to convince him that we were re-
spectable men. I then went to Poplar and fetched a
101.-note and 531. in gold.
Mr. YARDLEY—And was robbed of the whole of it ?
Mr. Gibson—Yes, sir. At 10 minutes to 6 I re-
turned again to the Bull's Head, and waited until 10
or 15 minutes past 7, when the person who said he
had 4001. to distribute came there, and we were
joined by the other man, who produced a roll of notes
and said he had 501. in his possession.
Mr. YARDLEY—Are you sure they were bank-
notes ? Mr. Gibson—They appeared like it. I pro-
duced my money, and the third person said, "I am
now convinced you are respectable men, and will
give you 201. each for the poor at some future time."
He got up, as if he was about to leave, and the se-
cond man said, " Don't leave us. I will get you a
receipt for the 201. at once." The third man then
put a roll of sovereigns in his hat, and said he was
ready with the money. The second man put his 501.
in his hat, and said to me, " You leave your money in
it, and let us go out and get two stamped receipts for
201. each."

➢lr. YARDLEY—For the poor of Wolverhampton ?
Mr. Gibson—Yes, Sir. Well, Sir, I left my purse in
his hat.

Mr. YARDLEY--And your money too ? Mr. Gib-
son—Yes, Sir, 1531., which I brought from Black-
wall. I was getting up to go away, and the second
one said " I will do the same as you have," and took
hold of my arm by the side of the door, when I saw
Mr. Smith, the prisoner, again. " Halloo," says I,
"is it you ?" and he immediately seized hold of my
other arm and was leading me towards the street,
when I saw the third man following us across the
passage. I immediately suspected something wrong,
and said "Let me go, let go my arm," but they would
not. I tried to extricate myself from them, but they
pinioned me and dragged me off the doorstep, and the
man in whose hat the money was ran across the street,
and I saw no more of him. The other two men also
disappeared immediately. I have never seen my purse
and money since.
Mr. YARDLEY—And you believed this story about
4001. being left to the poor by an American gentle-
man ? Mr. Gibson—Yes, Sir ; I was completely
thrown off my guard; they both produced a good deal
of money.

Mr. YARDLEY—Are you sure you saw the prisoner
a second time in Leadenhall-street ? Mr. Gibson—
Yes, Sir; he appeared all at once.
Mr. YARDLEY—You are a most credulous person,
and have lost all your money. What are you ? Mr.
Gibson—l am an engineer, and was in the service of
the Indian General Steam Navigation Company.
These are the wages which I brought home.
Mr. YARDLEY—ShouId you know the other people?
Mr. Gibson—Very well indeed, Sir.
Mr. YARDLEY said the affair was cleverly con-
cocted, and the engineer was made the victim of a
deep-laid conspiracy to defraud him of his money.
There was some evidence the prisoner was concerned
in the conspiracy, but, as the prosecutor was robbed
of his money in the City, the case must go to the
Mansion-house. He remanded the prisoner until this
day, when he will be brought before the Lord
Mayor. He directed the police to look after the other
sharpers.

to whom the prisoner was paying his addresses, de-
posed to his having presented her with the gold pin
produced, and also a knife, both of which articles had
been stolen from Mr. Isaacs's house.
Sarah Brown said the prisoner had lodged at her
house for 14 or 15 months, and up to the time be
was taken. He showed her the cigar-case and
slipper-tops, and said they had been sent to him, but
had never spoken to the person who had sent them.
The slipper-tops, he said, had been passed through the
letter-box.

Hannah Gerrard, a servant at Langbourne-cham-
bers, Fenchurch-street, said she had seen the prisoner
speaking to the deceased in the court where he lived
on the day before she disappeared. The deceased was
coming towards witness to speak to her, when she
saw the prisoner leave the counting- house, and, fol-
lowing him, she did not return.

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In reply to the questions of Mr. Gillum the witness
said that she had seen the deceased and the prisoner
speak together four or five times, and she had taken
in letters from the former to the latter.
Thomas Baker, a fellow-servant to the prisoner,
said he had seen the prisoner and the deceased speak
together several times, and on one occasion the former
gave him a package of fire cigars to give to the latter.
In reply to the questions of Mr. Hobler, the witness
admitted having spoken to the deceased himself, and
said he assisted the prisoner in smoking the cigars
she had given him.
This being the whole of the evidence,
Mr. Hobler contended that there was nothing that
would induce any jury to find a verdict against his
client of receiving the articles spoken of knowing
them to have been stolen ; on the contrary, there was
nothing whatever to show a guilty knowledge.
Mr. ELLIOTT differed from the Learned Gentle-
man, and said that his different and conflicting state-
ments, and particularly his assertion to his landlady
that he had never spoken to the person from whom he
had received the cigar-case and the worked slipper-
tops, when the contrary was shown to be the fact,
was, to say the least of it, most suspicious. Had the
slipper-tops been passed through the letter-box of his
master, he (the prisoner) had no business, in his (Mr.
Elliott's) opinion, to appropriate them to his own use.
Mr. Isaacs here said that the father of the young
woman was in attendance, and, as he had come from
the neighbourhood of Great Leigh, beyond Chelms-
ford, and was most anxious to have the fullest investi-
gation into the circumstances attendant upon the very
suspicious death of his daughter, he hoped his worship
would hear him.

The poor man, who seemed much dejected, said,
that from what he had learned, he did think that the
inquest was hurried over exceedingly and unnecessarily,
quick, but this he supposed was owing to his daugh-
ter's apparel not being such as to denote her to be a
person of consequence or fashion, and therefore no
adjournment was considered necessary. He also
learned that no medical man had been examined
before the coroner, and that the evidence was very
scanty.
Mr. ELLIOTT could hardly suppose that a case of
the sort could have been disposed of without the tes-
timony of a medical man, and inquired of Sergeant
Merritt, 8 P, who attended before the coroner, whe-
ther such had been the case, but
That officer replied in the negative, and said that
since the inquest had been held there were rumours
in circulation in the neighbourhood which rendered
it very desirable that a further inquiry should take
place.
On hearing this Mr. ELLIOTT said he should re-
mand the prisoner to a future day, when he should
expect the whole of the witnesses before him.
The father of the deceased hoped that the body
would be exhumed, and a proper surgical examina-
tion take place before the next investigation.
Mr. ELLIOTT observed that he had not the power,
as the prisoner was not charged with being concerned
in the death, to order this, but he had no doubt the
authorities of Lambeth parish would, on the applica-
tio❑ of the father, permit the body to be exhumed
and examined.

On the application of Mr. Hobler the prisoner was
admitted to bail in two sureties in 1001. each.