The Sun.
London, England, 1851-08-19 00:00:00

TITESDAY EVENING, AUGUST 19 1851.

THE SHARE MARKETS

BRITISH IitAXZWALYS.

CRIMINAL COURT.-(THIS DAY)
OLD COURT
(Before the RECORDER
William Smith Bloomfield, aged 31, described as a
labourer, remanded from last session, was indicted for
forging and uttering an acceptance to a bill of exchange.
The prisoner pleaded not guilty.
Mr. B clkiu conducted the case for the prosecution,
and Mr. Rryrie defended the prisener.
Mr. BODKIN, in opening the case, said it was not the
intention of the prosecutor to go on with the charge of
forgery, but the evidence would be confined to the
charge of uttering.
Evidence was then put in to show that the prosecutor
was too ill to be enabled to attend, and the Court al-
lowed his depositions before the magistrate. It ap-
peared from these depositions that the prisoner had been
in the service of the Great Northern Railway, and that lie
gyve the pros. tutor the bill in question which was for
33/ odd. When the bill became due, however, it traits
pired that the acceptance was not i❑ the handwriting of
Clarke, the alleged acceptor, but was written by a labour-
ir:g man at the instance of the prisoner. The prisoner
himself wrote the body of the bill, and the labourer,
acting under his instructions, signed the name " James
Clarke," as aczepted. The bill was indorsed to the pro-
secutor, in payment of his account for beer, which was
said to have been supplied to the men recently engaged
on the Great Northern works at Hornsey.
Mr. PAYNE addressed the jury for the defence, and
contended that the forgery and uttering bad originated
in the ignorance of the prisoner in conducting mercantile
transactions. There was no doubt that the money was
due to the prosecutor from the sub-contractor, and the
prisoner acting as the manager of his affairs, directed one
of the men to accept the bill, thinking that he had a per-
fect right to do so, and having uo intention whatever to
defraud any one.

The 'declined RECORDER summed up, and the jury
found the prisoner Guilty of the charge of uttering th
bill knowing it to be a forgery.
The COURT sentenced him to twelve months' impri-
sonment with hard labour.

LORD RANELAGH'S CASE.—Lord Ranelagh surren-
dered to the indictment preferred sg.inst him at the
instance of the South-Eastern Railway Company for
aspaulting their officers while in the execution of their
duty; and, on the application of Mr. Bodkin, his Lord
ship was admitted to bail to appear and answer the
charge on a future day, himself in 1001., and two suretieb
in 501. each.

NEW COURT.
(Before the Coantore SERGEANT.)
George Thomas, 32, was indicted for stealing a cash-
box, containing a 101. and 51. notes, 40 sovereigns, and
other moneys, the property of Auton Scherzinger.
The prosecutor, who was a German, kept a public-
house called the Horse and Trumpeter, is Crutched
Friars. The prisoner was in the habit of
visiting the house, and it was noticed that he
usually stood opposite the landlord's parlour,
and called for articles which were not kept in the bar.
The cash-box was locked up in a chiffonier in the parlour,
and the prisoner had frequent opportunities of seeing it
taken out and replaced. On the 22d of July last, about
five o'clock in the afternoon, the prisoner and another
man entered the house, and went into the public parlour
and called for some pale ale, which could only be drawn
in the cellar. Immediately afterwards two other men.
one of whom had previously been seen with the priso-
ner, also entered and called for some ale, which they
drank at the bar. At this time the prosecutor and hi,:
brother were the only persons in the bar. One o,
the men then pretended that be had an appointment
with some perso❑ in the neighbourhood, bit, at the
request of his companion, he agreed to write a note post-
poning it, and the prosecutor uffered to deliver the note
N) sooner had be left the hot.se for this purpose thaw
the two men in the parlour rang for some more pale ale.
and the prosecutor's brother was (.bliged to leave ihe bat
to fetch it. On his retur❑ the two men, who were stand
ing there, had disapp.,red, as well as the prisoner',
c mpat.io❑ in the parlour. The pi osecutor, who was no
absent more than five or ten minutes, discovered ..n re
entering the parlour, that the chiffonier had been forced
wilh a chisel, and the bez abstracted. The prisoar)
was apprehended ju.t as be was leaving the parlour. 01
being taken into custody, he denied any knowledge o
the rhbb. ry, aid d. else d that the other three men w or,
t mire stmt gers to hien.

The CO]LDION•6ERGEANT having summed up th,
evidebee.

The jury found the prisoner Guilty.
John Story, a polic.,constable, said be had known
the prisoner tor some years as the associate of thieves.
Previous to his apprehension he had been in search to
hiss fair a robbery committed in Thames-street. There
were several other charges against the prisoner, end hr
belonged to a gang of thieves who had committed twent)
or thirty similar robberies of cash-boxes within the last
nine months. Be 13, lieved he was convicted of felon.)
in 1846 in this court, and transported for ten years.
James Brett, another constable, also deposed to the
prisoner being the associate of thieves and swell-mobs-
men.

The CCIIM,,N SERGEANT sentenced him to be trans
ported for ten years.

MARLBRO'-STREEr—( THIS DAY.
CHARGE cr ASSAULT.—Mr. Wiliam Humphries, a
house-agent, residing at Finchley, was chtrgd balers
Mr. Bingham with assaulting George Sharplin, captain
of the Vivid, Richmond steamboat.

The complainant stated that on the previous night
he came on chore on his owner's business, and about
halt past twelve he went to a public. house kept by Mr.
Mitchenson, near Newport Market, to arrange about an
excursion party. He went into the side bar, where ht
saw the prisoner with several others. Directly he en•
tered the bar the prisoner, of whom he had no previous
knowledge, called out " wbo the h-1 are you," and
threatened to knock out his eye. Complainant, who
treated the language as merely " chaff," laughed and
said, " Nonsense." He had no sooner said that than
the prisoner struck him a violent blow in the face with
his tilt, and blackened his right eye. Complainant did
not return the blow, but went and fetched a constable
and gave him in charge.
Two witnesses who were present at the time proved
the assault, and also that the complainant was perfectly
sober.

The defence set up was that the complainant made use
of offensive language to a lady, and pushed up against
her in a very indecent manner. The prisoner, seeing
this, acted the part of champion (although the lady's
husband was present), and, in order to give vent to his
indignation at such conduct, dealt him a blow in
the face.

In support of this a female named Williams and
her husband, who stated he was clerk to an attorney
in Gray's Inn, were called, and the latter swore that he
beard the complainant call his wife an offensive name.
and immediately after he saw the defendant strike com-
plainant in the face.
Further evidence of such a conflicting nature was of-
fered, that Mr. Bingham decided upon adjourning the
further hearing of the case until Mr. Mitehenson was
sent for.

LAMBETH.--(THIS DAY.)
John Barker, a somewhat da,hing cosierm roger, was
brough, up before Mr. Norton this morning, charged by
police-constable L 22 with dtliberately runnitg him
down.

Ccitplainant was standing in Kennington-lane, on the
wrong side of the read, a few let t from the footpath,
with his back to the prisoner, who was coming along
the road in his cart. As 50,13, however, as he perceived
the complainant, he crossed over deliberately towards
nun, so that the shafts of his cart struck him on the
shoutder with such force as to knock him tit veral feel
forward on his face. Fortunately, however, he sustained
no serious injury, and be was able to take the prisoner
into custody. who did anything but apologise, and
threatened an action if he were locked up.

The prisoner, who called several witnesses to prove
his general steadiness and good character, said it was
en irely accidental.
The NI AGISTRATE, however, was of a different
opinion, though he did not believe that any serious in-
jury was intended, and fined the prisoner 10s., or 7 days'
imprisonment.

ACCIDENT IN THE WATEnLoo-noAD.---Yesterday
Mrs. Hepburn, the wife of the extensive tanner and leather-
merchant, of Long-lane, Bermondsey, with their eldest
daughter, and another young lady, were proceeding in their
carriage down the Waterloo road, Lambeth, when on
reaching the corner of Stamford-street, the horse drawing
the vehicle took fright at a kite, which a boy was flying
in the road. The coachman pulled the reins with all his
power in the hopes of bringing the affrighted animal up;
unfortunately, however, without aucc&s, and the horse con-
tinued to dash along the road at a most furious speed until
it came alongside of the Victoria Theatre, when the carriage
came into violent collision with a chaise cart belonging to
Mr. Chamberlain, of the Belvidere-road. Two gentlemen
were sitting in this vehicle, and so violent was the colli-
sion, that the driver of the carriage was thrown off the
box, and the gentlemen in the chaise cart were lifted some
feet from their seats, and then pitched head foremost into
the carriage road. Ultimately the reins became entangled
in the feet of the animal, which to some extent retarded
his progress, when a man rushed forward and seized hold
of the horse. and thereby stopped him from doing further
mischief. The carriage and also the horse belonging to
Mr. Hepburn were ♦ere severely damaged, so much, so,
that the party was obliged to proceed home in a cab.
The two gentlemen in the chaise cart were only triflingly
hurt. The coachman was much hurt, but nothing fetal was
apprehended.

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FATAL COLLIERY EXPLOSION AT WAKEFIELD.—
An explosion of fire-damp took place on Wednesday last, at
a colliery belonging to Messrs. Baker and Child, of Wake-
field, and situate within a short distance of the West Riding
House of Correction. It proved fatal to David Kirk, the
"hanksman," who was blown out of the pit's mouth, and in-
stantly deprived of life by the violence of the shock. He
was upwards of fifty years of age, and has left a wife and
one child. The other sufferer, named Field, is much burnt
about the head and shoulders, in addition to a spinal injury,
which is considered to render his recovery doubtful. He has
no family. The shaft in which the accident took place is of
recent construction,and was thought to be quite free from fire-
damp. An inquest was held en the remains of Kirk on
Friday evening, before Mr. Lee, one of the county coroners,
when the jury returned a verdict of "Accidental death,"
after hearing the report of Charles Morton, Esq., the Govern-
ment inspector for the district, by whom the pit was exa-
mined the day succeeding the melancholy accident.
To MARE BREAD.—The. following is a new and
valuable receipt for making bread :—Take three pounds of
flour, mix it with three teaspoonfuls of soda, passing the
whole through a seive, in order that the soda may be well
mixed with the flour ; to one quart of water add a tea-
spoonful
of muriatic acid, in the liquid form ; pour the
mixture into tha flour, and mix the whole just enough to
get the ingredien a fully iDCOt pirated tog ther. Wet ►he
bands in cold Hater, and mould into shape, clap it at once
into the oven, and during the co, king of an:v meal, with
five miautea' labour, you can have excellent bread. Tile
soda and acid constitute the elements of common salt, and
they not only raise the bread by combination, but salt it in
the bargain.