The Sun.
London, England, 1851-02-14 00:00:00

PUBLIC WOOL SALES.

The series of wool sales at the Hall of Commerce com-
menced last evening, and there was a fair attendance of
buyers, several foreigners being present. The quantity
of colonial to be offered is about 16,000 bales, including
8,000 of Sydney, 2,000 of Port Philip, 2,000 of Van
Diemen's Land, 3,000 of Cape, and 1,000 of Adelaide.
The sale last evening comprised 1,302 bales. Aus-
tralian, 759 bales, sold for cleats sheep's at Is. 3d. to
Is. 9d. for samples from Sydney, 100. to Is. 3id. flr
locks and pieces, Is. Oid. to is. lid. for lambs, Is. 90.
for prime clothing, Is. Bd. for first clothing, is. sd. for
hand washed, Is. 4d. for skin, and Is. 6d. to 2s. Id. for two
lots of very superior scoured. Port Philip, 171 bales, went
at Is sid. to Is. 7d. for scoured, Is. 3id. to Is. 7d. for
lambs', Is. sd. to Is. 9d. for clean sheep's, and Is. 2d. to
Is. 4d. for broken. Cape of Good Hope, 287 bales,
went at lid. for greasy, Is. lid. to Is. 6d. for 'scoured.
Van Diemen's Land, 85 bales, realized Is. sid. to is.
Bd. for clean sheep's, and Is. 7d. to is. 10d. for lambs',
and ls. 4id. to 1.. 91d. for scoured.
These prices are considered to be much the same as at
the last series. We give the sales to the close of the
evening.

LAW INTELLIGENCE.
COURT OF COMMON PLEAS, Feb. 13.
,Sittings at Guildhall, before the LORD CHIEF JUSTICE and a
Common Jury.)
SEDUCTION.—DLACKWELL IP. TAYLOR.
This was an action brought by the plaintiff, a carpenter
and builder at Rochester, against the defendant, a captain in
the Royal Marines, for seduction of the plaintiff's daughter.
The defendant pleaded not guilty, and leave and licence.
Mr. Sergeant Wilkins appeared for the plaintiff, and Mr.
Humfrey for the defendant.
Mary Anne Blackwell, the plaintiff, a very pretty looking
girl, deposed that she first saw the defendant at Rochester
Cathedral in the month of September, 1849, when he
entered into conversation with her. She saw him
afterwards on several occasions, when he urged her
to make appointments to meet him ; which, to get
rid of the annoyance, she did, but did not keep. In the
month of October she went with a former acquaintance, a
girl named Jane Colville, to Chatham Church, where they
met the defendant and a Lieutenant Hunt; and after some
conversation, the defendant urged her to accompany him to
the barracks, as be bad something of importance to tell her.
He had before said he would ask her father for permission to
marry her; they all four went together, and came away from
the barracks together, when he urged her and Jane Colville
to come and dine with him and Lieutenant Hunt on the fol-
lowing Wednesday. (n that day she was persuaded by
Jane Colville to go. Whilst there Lieutenant Hunt asked
Colville to go with him to his room to see some pictures,
and witless wanted to accompany them, but the defendant
pulled her back and locked the door and behaved very rude.
She threatened to scream out, when the defendant said it
was of no use if she did, as no one would come to
her help. He then pushed her into his bed-
room, and forcibly obtained possession of her person, and
afterwards told her not to mention it, as he would marry
her. After this, the intimacy was frequently repeated, and
ultimately she gave birth to a child ; when she told
the defendant she was in the family-way the defendant
said he was delighted to hear it, and frequently inade pre-
sents to her of rings and bloodies, and also a lock of his
hair, and wrote frequent letters in which he
addressed her as "My dear Polly.' Shortly before
her confinement she asked him to fulfil his promise of
marriage, when he replied, " Nonsense, you was not such a
fool as to believe I meant it; never mind, you will be Mrs.
Taylor as much as ever," and he had provided everything
for her confinement; but that turned out not to be the fact,
and all he sent her was 41.
The witness was severely cross-examined as to her inti-
macy with other officers, which she positively denied.
Several witnesses were examined as to the virtuous and
excellent conduct of th.e plaintiff's daughter previous to this
transaction.
Mr. HusurßET addressed the jury, and in support of the
plea of leave and licence called several officers from Brompton
barracks, one a Lieutenant in the Royal Artillery, who de-
posed that he had frequently met the plaintiff's daughter, and
made appointments, and that she had visited more
than twenty times at his room in the barracks, on which
occasion criminal intimacy took place between them.
Jane Colville also proved that Mary Ann Blackwell had
talked to her frequently of her being in the habit of meeting
officers at their rooms.

Mr. Sergeant Nirimum, in a most powerful speech in which
he charged the last witness as a common harlot, who had
been foisted upon the plaintiff's daughter to lure her to her
destruction, said he hoped to live to ace the day when the
law would be so altered, instead of an action for seduction,
the seducer would be treated as a criminal.
The Learned JUDGE having summed up,theJurY
returned
a verdict for the plaintiff Damages, 1501.

avIONRY MARKET--The quotation of gold At Paris is
3 per mille discount, which, at the English Lint price
of 31. 17s. 1041. per ounce for standard gold, gives an ex-
change of 25 10 ; and the exchange at Paris on Lon, don at
short being 25.00, it follows that gold is 0.49 per cent.
dearer in Paris than in London. By advises from Ha. `ll- burgh the price of gold is 423 per mark, which, at the Eng •
fish Mint price of 31. 17s. 104 d. per outic.; for standard gold, ,
gives an exchange of 13.3% ; and the exchange at Hare.
burgh on London at short being 13.5],-4. it follaws that gold
is 0.64 per cent. dearer in London than in Hamburgh.
The course of exchange at New York on London for bills at I
60 days' sight is 110 per cent., and the par of exchange
between England and America being 1119 23-40
it follows that the exchange is nominally 0.67 per cent.,
r cent. favour of England ; but, after making allowancepe for differ-
ence of interest and charges of transport, the present rats I
yieds no profit on the importation of gold from the U
OCI.
States.