The Sun.
London, England, 1851-03-08 00:00:00

HAT IVILLEXETS.

7MITHPIELD.—AIeadow frit, 21 lOs to 31 17s 6d;
Clover, 3/ Os to 412 x. I,nd Straw, It lb to to 8s per load.
Supply good, and trade ,dull.
CUMBERLAND.— Meadow flay, 21 103 to 41 O.
CI rvei, 3t O. to 4/0s; and Straw. If is :o I 8s per load
A full average supply, and a sluggish demand.
WHITECHAPEL.—Meadow Hay, 21 8s to 31 18s;
Clover, 3/ Os to 4145; and Straw, 1/ is to 117 s per toad
Trade dull, at late rates.

CHANCERY.-(THIS DAY.)

ELLIS V. BOWMAN.

The further arguments in this appeal from the•decision of
the Master of the Rohs, directing an issue as to the sanity
or insanity of a gentleman named Bird. were resumed this
morning-, and occupied his Lordship the whole day.

ROLLS' COURT.-kTHIS DAY.)
The MASTER of the RoLrs was occupied the wbole morn-
ing with consent causes, petitions, claims, and short causes
of no general interest.

VICE-CHANCERY.--f THIS DAY.)
( Before Vice-Chancellor KNIGHT BRUCE.)
His HONOUR having disposed of the cases of Jackson v.
Craig. Smith v. Stewart, atid the Attorney-General v. Lord
Carrington, which stood on the paper for judgment, pro-
ceeded to hear petitions.
(Before Vice-Chancellor Lord CRANWORTH.)
METAHLE V. CARDINAL WISEMAN.
The arguments in this part-heard motion for an injunction,
the opening of which has already occupied no less than three
days, and appears likely to extend to the fourth, were re-
sumed this morning. There appears little doubt that fl,nr
or five days more will be occupied in the discussion of the
motion.

CRIMINAL COURT-(THIS DAY.)

OLD COURT.
(Before the RECORDER and Alderman SALOMONS.)
PERJCILY.—A young woman named Ma, y Ann Parkes,
described as a spinster, was indicted for perjury. The pri-
soner pleaded not guilty.
Mr. Parry appeared for the prosecution, and Mr. Cooper
defended the prisoner.
The main features of this case must be still fresh in the re-
collection of the public, inasmuch as the matter out of which
the perjury arose was published at length in the public jour-
nals only a few days ago. The prisoner, in connexion with
another woman, named Jane Lewis, and a man named
Sheridan, summoned the Earl of Stamford before Mr. Bing-
ham, at the Marlborough-street Police-court; to show cause
why he should not contribute towards the support of an il-
legitimate child which had been born to the prisoner, and of
whom she alleged his Lordship was the putative lather. She
stated that some months before—early in February, 1850,
indeed—she met his Lordship in the country, on his Lord-
ship's own estate in Staffordshire, when his Lordship entered
into conversation with her, and ultimately induced her,
by promises to make future provision for her,
to consent to his embraces, which eventually led
to the birth of the child in question. In the
meanwhile his Lordship had returned to London, but some
few weeks after her confinement she came to town, and applied
to his Lordship, first by letter, and then personally, to fulfil
his promisee, and turnish her with money to support herself
and child; but his Lordship denied all knowledge of either
'her or the infant, and as she became somewhat importu-
nate and troublesome, he ordered his footman to turn her
out of his house, which was forthwith done. The next his
Lordship heard of the affair was through the summons
from the police-court, which, of course, his Lord-
ship obeyed, appearing by attorney and counsel;
and although the prisoner produced her accomplice, Lewis,
to cool m her statement of the circumstances under which
the- alleged connexion with his Lordship took place. his
Lordship succeeded in convincing the presiding magistrate
not only that her story was a wicked fabrication from begin-
ning to end, and altogether devoid of truth, but that the pri•
soner and Lewis were conspiring to defraud his Lordship,
with a man named Sheridan, who was formerly a policeman,
and with whom it was satisfietonly shown the prisoner had
long previously, and was then actually cohabiting, notwith-
that she bad just sworn that his Lordship was the only per-
son she had ever cat nally known. '[he summons was there-
fore dismissed, and the prisoner with her female companion
ordered to be detained in custody, with a view to their being
prosecuted for perjury,
,and the indictment now preferred
against the prisoner was founded upon the false swearing at
the Police- court. There was a separate indictment against
the woman, and another for conspiracy against the two
women and the man Sheridan.

Tne proceedings at the Police-court having been put in,
his Lordship's butler, his deputy agent, and Mr. Legh Rich •
mond, a friend who was on a visit to his Lordship at the
time, were called to prove that his Lordship, although at
Enville Hall on the 28th of February, 1850, the day on
which the alleged connexion with the prisoner had been
sworn to have occurred, was not out of the ball from between
five and six and twelve o'clock, when his Lordship retired
to rest for the night. The prisoner stated on oath, at the
police.court, that it was between nine and ten o'clock, on
the evening of the 29th when she met his Lordship near to
the ball and had the connexion with him.
The Earl of Stamford and Warrington, the prosecutor, after
confirming the evidence of the previous witnesses, went on
to depose that on the 30th of January last the prisoner called
at his town residence, and she was shown into the library,
where he had an interview with her. She told him who she
was, and added that he was the father of her child, which was
the result of a connexion she had with him when he was very
groggy one evening in the previous February while at the hall.
He told her that he knew nothing about her, nor did he ever
remember having seen her before, but this would not satisfy
the prisoner, and she was eventually turned out. As she left
the room she stated that she should have to take the law of
him. He had never seen the prisoner before that day nor
did he meet her, as she had stated, on the 28th of February,
MO, or ever have connexion with her. He had never
visited her father's house, nor did he even know where it was.
Cross-examined—Oa one occasion, in February, 1850, he
was out of the hall after 5 o'clock. He came home from a
lorlig distance, having been out hunting, and it must have
been about 10 o'clock at night. He had travelled on horse-
back that day about 30 miles, but though he stopped at a
public-house to bait his horse he bad no refreshment till he
reached home. He met no young girl on that night, nor
did he ever meet any young girl in the Rookeries, which was
about half a mile from the hall. He had hunted repeatedly
before that day, and sometimes be was accompanied home
by some of his friends who joined in the hunt. On one day
towards the close of February last, he believed it was, he
stepped into the Iron Works of Hyde, where the prisoner said
her father lived, but that was before 5 o'clock in the evening,
and he was then on horseback and followed by a groom.
(The case was proceeding when our report left.)