The Sun.
London, England, 1851-08-18 00:00:00

A Stateolent and Comparison of the Supplies and Prices of
Fat Stock exhibited and sold in Stnithfield Cattle Market,
on Monday, Aug. 19, 1850, and this day, Monday, Aug.
18,1851.

Per Blbs., to sink the ()Mils.
Aug. 19, 1850. Aug.' 8,1851
s. d. s. d. S. bd. s. d.
Coarse and inferior Beasts ... 26t028 2 4 to 6
Second quality ditto ... 210 3 2 2 8 210
Prime large Oxen „ ... 3 4 3 6 3 0 3 2
Prime Scots, •c. .. 3 8 310 3 4 3 6
Coarse and inferior Sheep... ... 3 2 3 4 2 6 2 8
Second quality ditto ... 3 6 3 82 10 3 0
Prime coarse-woolled ditto ... 310 4 0 3 2 3 6
Prime Southdown ditto ... ... 4 0 4 2 3 8 310
Lambs... ... 3 8 4 t 3 10 410
Large coarse Calves .. 3 0 3 62 6 3 2
Prime small ditto ... ... 3 8 4 0 3 4 3 6
Large Hogs .. 3 2 3 6 ?, 6 3 2
Small Porkers ... 3 8 4 0 3 4 3 8
Beasts ... ... 3,701 4,267
Sheep and Lambs .. 21.,350 32,930
Calves ... 248 362
Pigs 200
SUPPLIES ox SALE, AUG. 20, 1849. Beasts, 4,257 ;
Sheep and Lambs, 50,490; Calves, 212 ; Pigs, 225.
AuG. 21, 848. Beasts, 3,5.0 ; Sheep and Lambs, 24,000;
Calves, 345; Pigs, 225.
NMV,TGATE AND LEADENNALL.
Notwithstanding that the supplies of each kind cif moat
on sale in these markets continue limiter!, the general
demand, owing to the hot weather, has ruled heavy. and
prices have been with difficulty supported. About 3,000
carcasses of roreign meat have sold since Monday last.

At per stone by the Carcase.
a. d. to e. d.
Bee I,lnferlor .. 2 0 2 4
middling .• 2 6 2 8
nimels•• -2 10 3 0

s. d. to 8.
Mllttoll,ll3.fOriOr .. 2 4 2 8
mi-Idling ••2 10 3 4
_argil • • -- prime .... 3 6 3 8
""--- prime small .. 3 2 3 4 Pork, large• ••• .... 2 6 3 4
V05t.............. 2 6 3 4 -- 5ma11........ 3 6 3 8
Lamb. 3s 6d t• 4s Bd.
33011011GH AND SPITA.LPIHLDS.
These markets are very heavily supplied with Pota-
toes +low Surrey, Kent, Essex, &c., in excellent condi-
tion. All kinds move off slowly, at from 21 15s to
31. 15s. per ton. Potatoes may now be purchased on the
land at 50s per ton.
33013,0 UGH HOP MARKET.
Very little change has taken place In our market.
Fine Hops are selling at extreme quotations, but all other
kinds command very little attention. The duty is called
85,0001. to 90,000/. A new pocket has arrived from
Bait Peckham, in middling condition, and sold at 121
Per cwt. Mid and East Kent pockets, 90s to 1555;
Weald of Kent ditte, 80s to 105 s; Sussex ditto, 84s to
96s per cwt.

WOOL.
The Colonial Wool sales were brought to a close on
Friday. The total quantity sold was about 62.000
!Ales, 10,000 being on foreign account, at an advance
In the quotations of from Id to lid per lb. The im-
ports have amounted to 11 bales from Dunkirk, 90 from
Naples, 112 from Hamburgh. 1,173 from Sydney, 1 800
from Adelaide, 560 from Algoa Bay, and 180 from the
Cape, By private contract we have no sellers cxcept
at higher rates. The stock of Wool is now 25,000
Packages.

TALLOW.
Since Monday last a fair average amount of business
has been doing in this market, both on the spot and fur
forward delivery, at stationary prices. New P.Y.C. on
the spot is quoted at 38s 6d, and old 37s 9d to .38s per
cwt. For delivery, during the last three months, the
nearest quotation is 39s 6d. Town Tallow is selling at
37s per owt, net cash; rough fat, 2s Id per 81bs.

1847

1848. 1849

1850. 1 1851.

AtOek this day ••• • • • 12,796
75 Od
trice of Y. C. • • • • i to47s6d
belivery last week • • 1,371
Ditto from June 1. • 11,'89
arrivals last week - • c,955
Unto from June 1 ... 15,386

15,357 25,275
44 Od 39e Od
to 080 d to 3983 d
1 1,202 1,119
15,451 12,860
2,519 3,745
23,150 12,632

25,702 32,048
368 6d to 378 9d
Os Od !t03,3 Od
1,638 1,292
13,131 14,341
1,,60 799
13,49 9,859
38s Od 395 Cd

trice of Town ...... I 503 td

46s 6d 403 Od

CRIMINAL COURT.--(THIS DAY

OLD COURT.
The August sessions were opened this morning before
the Recorder, Aldermen Hunter, Challis, and Carden,
the two Shei iffs, and the various other civic functionaries.
The first edition of the calendar contains the names
of 226 prisoners. The grand jury having been sworn,
The RECORDER proceeded to charge them. He was
lorry he could not congratulate them upon the lightness
of the calendar. It was, however, a gratifying circum•
stance that the calendar did not contain a single case of
Murder, but at the same time it was a source of regret
that it embraced many charges of injury to the person. He
Was sorry to find that cases were on the increase in which
Men were charged with violently ill-treating their wives.
Two of the cases of that nature which were likely to
come before them called for particular notice, because ie
each the accused party appeared to have dose his best to
become a murderer. In one case the destruction of life
Was prevented by the intervention of third parties, and
in the other it was saved through the merciful interposi-
tion of Divine Providence. These cases presented no
legal difficulty, and it was, therefore, unnecessary for him
to detain them with any lengthened observations upon
this part of the calendar; but there was another case of
manslaughter of a somewhat peculiar and unusual cha-
racter, which called for a little more consideration at his
hands. It appeared from the depositions that a person
named Stephens, who was not a medical man by
profession, or authorised by the recognised
authorities to practise medicine, was charged
'with having caused the death of a man by administer-
ing an injection. The accused in this instance was the
agent of a medical man Nk ho treated his patients after a
System of his own, and death it would seem took place
While the party was undergoing the treatment which
that system prescribed. Now there were three que,-
time to be considered in this case, first, was the ad-
ministering of the medicine the act of the prisoner;
secondly, did it cause or accelerate death; and thirdly,
Was the medicine administered under such circum-
stances as to render the prisoner liable to the charge
of manslaughter. Cases of this description
ultd from time to time been a subject of
considerable discussion, but it was agreed on all bands
that it made no difference in the ca,e whether the ac-
cused party was a regularly authorised medical practi-
tioner or not. It was enough to constitute manslaughter
that the party accused had failed in a case, where me-
dical aid was easily attainable, to bring reasonable and
competent knowledge to the task which he had under-
taken, or to use the necessary care for insuring a cure.
4 ease was tried a short time ago before a Learned
Judge, who expounded the law of the subject in a clear
and explicit manner. In that case a man was
charged with having caused the death of another
°7 administering an unnecessary quantity of
saorison's pills, and there it was held that the fact of
the prisoner being a legal practitioner made no differ-
ence whatever in the complexion of the case, while the
law was laid down to the jury in the manner which he
had already explained to them. There was one other
Case in the calendar which demanded one passing re-
mark on account of its charging an offence which, until
recently,was unknown to the law. Two boys were charged
Under an Ant of Parlidment which came into force on
the 3d of July, with Navin; thrown stones upon one of
the metropolitan railways, and if they should be satisfied
that they threw the stones with a malicious nature,
loch as to obstruct the progress or overturn
11 carriage, it would be their duty to send
them for trial, but if, on; the other hand, it turned out
that they did it for a mere frolic, then there would
he an end of the matter. The Learned Recorder then
tbstnissed them to their duties with his usual caution,
that they should be exceedingly careful how they re-
Ull-fled -true bills where there had been no inquiry be-
fore a magistrate.
The grand jury then retired.