The Sun.
London, England, 1851-12-01 00:00:00

WORSHIP-STREET.

William Andrews was charged with being concerned
with another man not in cu,tody in the commission
of the following novel robbery, at the house of a
gentleman named Nicholls, in Hoxton-square.
The prosecutor was seated in his parlour at a little
before twelve o'clock that day, when a loud knock
was made at the street-door, which was opened by
the housemaid, who came in to him immediately after
and handed him a letter, which she said had just been
delivered to her by two men, who were waiting at
the door for an answer. Upon finding, on breaking
the envelope, that it only contained a blank piece of
paper, his suspicions were at once excited, and, o❑
hastening out after the girl, he found her in the pas-
sage engaged in a violent struggle with one of the
men, who had availed himself of her momentary ab-
sence in the parlour to lift down his great coat from
one of the pegs in the hall. He ran forward to the
girl's assistance, but, before he could reach either her
or her assailant, the latter knocked the young woman
down in the passage, and, instantly darting into the
street with the coat, handed it over to the prisoner,
who was waiting outside, and both rapidly made off
in different directions. 'Witness raised a cry of " Stop
thief," and pursued the prisoner, who flung away the
coat and continued his flight, but after a sharp chase
he was ultimately overtaken and given into cus-
tody, when he denied all participation in the robbery,
professed both astonishment and indignation at being
detained upon such a charge, and declared that his
only reason for running with such rapidity as that he
had displayed was from a desire, if possible, to catch
the real thief, the outcry after whom he bad heard,
and whom he saw taking to his heels as fast as he
could. This story, however, was at once flatly con-
tradicted by several persons who had seen the coat ac-
tually in his possession, and, notwithstanding his re-
iterated professions of innocence, be was forthwith
transferred to the station.

When asked, with the usual caution, whether he
wished to say anything in answer to the charge, the
prisoner assured the magistrate that he was wholly
incapable of committing any such offence, and in a
bold and confident manner repeated the statement he
had already made at the time of his apprehension.
Mr. HAMMEL, however, intimated that he would
have an t.pportunity of convincing a jury of the truth
of it, and ordered him at once to be commited for trial.
Robert Matthews, an itinerant vendor of coke and
coals, was brought up for final examination, charged
with cutting the throat of a young woman named
Harriette Turner with a table-knife, with intent to
murder her.

The case at the former examination, about a fort-
night or three weeks ago, entirely rested upo,n. the
evidence of a young man named Appleton, a friend
and companion of the prisoner, who deposed to re-
turning with him from Grave%end, and that on the
prisoner finding the young woman had forsaken his
home, a threat she had often made him before, he be-.
came much affected and excited, and hunted for her
from one house to another till he at length found her
at a public-house in Bethnal-green, in company with
three other women and two men. This appeared to
have excited the prisoner's jealousy ; and, on finding
all his efforts at persuasion to induce her to return
home again with him ineffectual, he seemed driven
to desperation, threw his arm around her neck, and
inflicted such a dreadful gash in her throat with a
table-knife that she almost instantly dropped sense-
less from her seat, and was pronounced in such ex-
treme danger at the hospital, to which she had been
conveyed, when the examination came on, that even
her deposition could not be taken with safety.
The prosecutrix, who described herself as a mar-
ried woman, but for a long time separated from her
husband, and lately cohabiting with the prisoner,
and who was now brought up from the hospital
in a cab in a very attenuated and exhausted state,
gave much the same description of that occur-
rence as that above detailed, stating that imme-
diately the blade had been drawn across her throat by
the prisoner, who did not utter a word, she felt the
blood pouring down her bosom, but bad no recollec-
tion of anything that afterwards took place until she
found herself in the hospital, of which she had been
an inmate ever since the Ist of November.
Mr. Kent, house-surgeon of the London Hospital,
stated that upon examining the prosecutrix at the
time of her admission, he found her suffering from a
severe incised wound in the left side of her throat,
about three inches in extent and an inch in depth.
The wound had evidently been inflicted with some
sharp instrument similar to the table-knife produced
by the police, which was well calculated to cause
such an injury, and was one of a most dangerous de-
scription, a portion of one of the muscles of the neck
and one of the larger veins having been both divided.
She remained for some time in a very precarious con-
dition, and was still an inmate of the hospital, al-
tho,,Bh he now considered that she was out of any
imminent danger.
The prisoner, who appeared very desponding, de-
clined offering any defence, and was committed to
Newgate for trial.

THE COUNT
LIVERPOOL, Nov. 29.
to-day.

{Y MARKETS.
•A steady but quiet trade

s. d . s. d

d. A. d.
Do. Meal, perl96lb 15 0 to 16 0
Barley, English, pr
imperial quarter 26 0 —2B 0
Irish, Scotch, and
NI anx,per 601 b.. 3 8 3 10
Foreign, grinding 3 2 3 6
IZye, par 601 b •• 3 6 3 9
Beans, English, pr
imperial quarir 32 0 34
Irish and Scotch,

Wheat, per 701 b :
English, white 5 10 to 6 3
_ . _ _

Do. red 5 4 5 6
Irish, best red 4 8 5 2

Do, lower quality 4 6 5 0
Manx, red and wh. 4 10 5 3
Dantsic, high mixed 6 6 6 10
Do.,
o s.
ocmixk . escd e
55
66
66
00
RHamburgh and
Lower Baltic .. 4 10
55
130.
American & white 5 6
Canadian, red 5 0— 5
Antwerp & Louvain 5 6 5 8
French, red.. .. 5 7 5 9
Hungarian and
Mariaropoli
50 5 2
Odessa, Polish • •
4 10 5 0
•• •
Do., common .. 4 6 4 9
Egyptian • 3 8 4 0
Flour, English &
Irish, per 280111 27 0 2. 9 0
, 19 0 22 0
I.llDi toe. d,
barrel • •
esitat rt fets
,flpn
per
30 0 0
Canadian 19 0 20 0
Indian4B
i ,Nh .
corn,v 0i e 29 0— 29 6,
MANCHESTER, Nov. 29.—The trade throughout the
week has ruled steady, and no material change in the
value of any article was observable. Coastwise and
from Ireland the arrivals into Liverpol and Runcorn
are on a very limited scale, but from abroad lair :gip-
plies of wheat, beans, Indian corn, and flour aro re-
por'ed. At our market this morning there was not
much business passing in wheat and flour; previous
prices were, however, fully supported. Oats were firm,
and oatmeal must be noted the turn dearer.
At Derby, on Friday, the supply of wheat and barley,
as compared with the wei-k preceding, was much in-
creased, and the demand in each case being small, a de-
cline of Is per quarter on each article had to be sub-
mitted to before a clearance could be effected. Few new
or old beans were offered, or oats, and there was no
change in price for these articles. Wheat, red, realised
36s to 38s per 36 stone; new white ditto. 40i to 445;
old ditto, 445. Barley, for malting, 24s to 28s
Per ill:Terkel measure; for grinding, 24s to 255 per 30

per 4801 b.. •• 27 0— 30 0
!Dutch •• 30 0 32 0
Egyptian •• •. 23 9 24 6
Yeas, English, per
imperial quartr 34 0 36 0
Foreign 32 0 33 0
Oats, per 451b:—
_

English, Scotch,
and Welsh, old 3 5 3 6
Irish, n. ebt
mealin 2 g 2 9
Do., feeding .. 2 3 2 5
Do., foreign .. 3 0 - 3 2
Oatmeal, English,
& Scotch,pr24olb 94 6 25 0
Irish, new • . 22 6 23 0
Do., pinhead . 25 0 26 0