The Sun.
London, England, 1858-10-25 00:00:00

METROPOLITAN CATTLE MARKET.

The total imports of foreign stock into London last week
were 8,609 head. In the corresponding week in 1857 we
received 8,154 ; in 1856, 4,210 ; in 1855, 1,904 ; in 185
7,182; in 1853, 8,577; in 1852, 9,147; and in 1851,
head.

IMPORTS INTO LONDON LAST WEEK.
From. Beasts. Sheep. Lambs. Calves. Pigs.
Amstertam .. 4.. 1,244 .. —• . 1.. 11
Rotterdam
Harlingen.
Dordt . 20 .. 277 ..
Medemblik
Tonning
Tonningen
Hamburgh 4 .. 1,244 ..
Frederickstadt 265 .. 40 .. 8 ..•
Bremen
Antwerp ..... _
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Total 1,331 6,930

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The yearly comparison of weeldyimports is as follows:
Beasts. Sheep. Lambs. Calves'. Pigs.
18.57 1,515 .. 6,091 .. 25 .. 531 .. 190
1856 2,342 .. 2,261 .. -- .. 330 .. 11
1855 2,383 .. 1,605 .. ..- 28 .. 51
1854 1,020 .. 4,359 .. .. 205 .. 194
1353 2,150 .. 5,814 .. .. -
852 1,917 .. 6,719 .. --

253 .. . 259
319 .. 170

Although there is a slight improvement in the condition
of the foreign stock on sale, its general weight and quality
continue very inferior.

For the time of year a fair average supply of foreign
stock was on sale here to-day, but its general quality was

inferior.

From our own grazing districts the receipts of beasts
fresh up this morning exhibited a falling off in number, and
there was little or no improvement in their condition.
Nearly all breeds wer© in improved request, at an advance
in the quotations realised on Monday last of 2d per 81bs.
The general top figure for beef was 4s Bd, but some superior
Scots realised 4a 10d per 81bs.
The arrivals from Lincolnshire, Leicestershire, and
Northamptonshire amounted to 2,500 shorthorns ; from
other parts of England, 400 of various breeds; from Scot-
land, 17 Scots ; and from Ireland, 820 oxen, &c.
Notwithstanding that the, supply of sheep was very
limited for the time of year, the mutton trade was by no
means active. However, compared with Monday last, there
was a better feeling in the demand, and prices may be con-
sidered fully 2d per 81bs higher than on that day. Prime
old Downs realised 5s per 81bs.

We were very scantily supplied with • calves, which
changed hands steadily, at 2d per 81bs more money. The
best veal sold at 5s per 81bs. _ _

Although the supply was limited, the pork trade ruled
heavy, at last week's currency.

Per Blbs. to sink the offal.

8. d. B.ld.
Crse. &inf. beasts 2 8 3 0
Second qualitydo. 3 2 3 6
Prime large oxen 3 8 4 4
Prime Scots, &c. 4 6 4 8
Crse. & inf. sheep 2 10 2 2
Second quality do. 3 4 3 8
Suckling calves, 18s to 22s
18s to 235.

s. d. s. d.
Primeers-wool d 0.3 10 4 4
Pme.S'thdowndo. 4 6 5 0
Large crse. calves 3 10 4 6
Prime small do 4 8 5 0
Large hogs 2 10 3 4
Small porkers 36 4 0
and quarter-old store pigs,

TOTAL SUPPLY.
Beasts,.
Sheepl.'
Calves .. 117

FOREIGN SUPPLY.
Beasts l9O
Sheep
Calves 212

Pigs 450 1 Pigs
A statement and comparison of the supplies and prices of
fat stock exhibited and sold in the Great Metropolitan
Cattle Market, on Monday, Oct. 26, 1857, and this day,
Monday, Oct. 25, 1858.
Per Blbs, to sink the offals.
Oct. '6, 1857.0 et. 25, 18.58.
a a. s. d. 0. d. B. d.
Coarse and inferior beasts . .
Second quality ditto
Prime large oxen 4 0 4 4 3 8 4 4
Prime Scots, &c.
Coarse and inferior sheep . .
Second quality ditto . . .
Prime coarse-woolled ditto .
Prime Southdown ditto . 5 0 5 4 4 6 5 0
Largeo
Lainb
:scoarse calves .
Prime small ditto .
Large hpgs : : :
430
680
440
840 01
1080
4: 0
6
4
Neat small porkers . . . . : '.B
0 4 6 210 3 4
52 3 64 0
Beasts
Sheep and lambs . .
Calves
Pigs
SUPPLIES ON SALE, Oct. 27, 1856.---Beasts, 5,222;
sheep and lambs, 21,530 ; calves, 223 ; pigs, 670.
Oct. 29, 1855.—Beasts, 4,801; sheep and lambs, 22,550;
calves, 127; pigs, 420.

18:14. 157.5. I 18:16. I 1637. 1838.
Stock this day.... 30,072 23,092 14,259 22546 13,877
Price of Y.C.
66s Od to 64s 641 to, 56s 941to'litis 04-Ito 414' 9,1, 66s 60 —s 00 —s to, 56s 90 -8 "" Delivery last week 2,393 I :1,177 3,119 4-. t
Ditto from June 1 29,316 51,938 37,341
Arrivals last week 2,386
Ditto from June 11 24,388 5,131 ,097
Price of Town .... 68s 6d 65s 649,842 42,407
4I 58s ',Od 59s 6d 53564

STATEMENT OF TALLOW SHIPPING AT ST. PETERSBURG.
Tallow despathed from Cronstadt 1858. 1857. 1856.
to Sept. 29, 0. S. (estimated at 2.5 Casks. Casks. Casks.
poods to the cask) 62,779 59,921 8:1,173
In ships loading and lighters 12,310 12,322 7,419

Total loaded oft from St. Petersburg,
Sept. 27, 0. S 75,089 72,153 90,612
Do. after this date

Total at the close of the navigation

103,761 112,095

London
Liverpool :1,493 1,7*1 ' 7.978
Bristol
Other English ports
Ireland 590 1,132 529
Scotland
Germany 5,361 9,229 16,255
France
America

Total 62,779 59,921 83,173

LAW INTELLIGENCE.-(THIS DAY.)

SHERIFFS' COURT.

(Before Mr. Prendergast, Q.C.)

IMPORTANT SNIPPING CASE-PREEMAN V. BOITTELL.

This was an action brought to recover a sum of money
as a half share in some commission, arising out of a trans-
action in connection with the ship Wigram.
Mr. Kearsey appeared for the plaintiff, Mr. Dobson for
defendant.

From the evidence of plaintiff it appeared that he was
at one time a captain in the merchant service, and
now managed an Australian line of packets. Defendant
was a shipbroker, and plaintiff first became acquainted
with him at the shipping office where defendant was a
clerk. In last year defendant met plaintiff at the Royal
Exchange, and, after a conversation, it was agreed that if
plaintiff could find a ship, defendant was to find a cargo,
and the commission was to be divided—that is, each was to
have half. That commission was estimated at £6O, and de-
fendant had received that sum, but he• paid back £5 on
Saturday last, as received in excess. He (plaintiff) had only
had £lO 10s. from defendant, and he contended that he
should have been paid as soon as defendant received the
commission from the owners of the vessel.

For the defence it was urged that plaintiff was only en-
titled to one-third of the commission, and that it was
neither imperative nor usual to settle these matters between
plaintiff and defendant until the ship's accounts were de
facto arranged, or, on the contrary, as defendant had re •
ceived sums of money on account of commission ; if, as in
the present instance, he had done so in excess, he could be
compelled to return it.
Plaintiff—Then you had a claim upon me.

His Honour said, from his knowledge of these affairs, ho
believed it was usual to divide as soon as any money was
received on account of commission.

Mr. Kearsey said that was so, and Captain Freeman was
a respectable man, upon whom defendant could at any
time come.

Plaintiff was then asked by his Honour if he was sure
that he on every occasion told defendant he wanted his
half of the commission ?

Plaintiff—lt was distinctly understood.
Several witnesses were called, but their evidence threw
no light upon the subject beyond the fact that defendant
received £54 18s.

For the defence, it was urged that defendant had only
agreed to give plaintiff one-third, and that Messrs. Denny
and Co., who owned the ship, would have one-third.
Defendant, who told a very rambling story, and made
several statements contradictory of the evidence given by
plaintiff and his witnesses, stated that he told Capt. Free-
man that one of Messrs. Chalmers, Guthrie, and Co.'s
clerks had introduced him (defendant) to the house, and
was to receive £lO for doing so. Defendant said that was
usual. Messrs. Chalmers, Guthrie, and Co. were the mer-
chants who found the cargo for the ship. Captain Denny
told him (defendant) upon one occasion that Capt. Freeman
had nothing to do with the matter.
Captain Denny—Never.

Cross-examined—l decline to give up the name of Messrs.
Chalmers, Guthrie, and Co.'s clerk.
Mr. Kearsey—You ought to do so.
Defendant—l have other business with him.
Mr. Kearsey—lt is right merchants should know how
their business is conducted.

Defendant was firm in his evidence that Mr. Freeman
was only to receive one third share.

Captain Freeman was re-called and denied this.
Some evidence was taken, which showed that the owners
expected a third, and his Honour said he considered it was
usual to divide commission as it was received. On the face
of the evidence he must find a verdict for plaintiff for the
amount claimed, less the £5 returned, with costs.

CRIMINAL COURT.--(THIS DAY.)

OLD COURT.

The October sessions of the Central Criminal Court com-
menced this morning before the Lord Mayor, Sir R. W.
Carden ; Aldermen Sir G. Carroll, Phillips, Lawrence,
Hale (Sheriff), Sheriff Conder, the Undersheziffs, the Re-
corder, and the other civic authorities.

The Recorder, in charging the grand jury, said the cases
that would come before them this session were fewer in
number than was usually the case, and, generally speaking,
would offer no difficulty. Isaac Harmond was indicted for
the wilful murder of a woman who had been living with
him as his wife, and the evidence being different from that
usually given in such cases, was the reason of its being
mentioned. The evidence was to the effect that the prisoner
had been heard in the next room to use bad language,
and in a short time after the woman was seen to fall from
the window. The question the grand jury had to decide
was, whether Harmond threw her therefrom. There was
no person present at the time, and all they would have to
rely upon was the declaration of the woman previous to her
death. The law allowed such declaration to be received in
evidence, supposing it was made in the contemplation and
prospect of death, although it was not made under the obli-
gation of an oath, and the jury would have to determine
whether, at the time the woman made the declara-
tion inculpating Hannond, she believed herself to be
in a dying state. There was one case of manslaughter
of a very painful description. It was that of a man
named William Hill, and the person whose death had
been occasioned was his mother. From the evidence it
appeared that both parties were in a state of intoxication.
It was supposed that death had not occurred from the blow
that was struck, but from the injury received in a fall in
consequence of it. Had he contemplated her death, he
would have been liable to have been indicted for wilful
murder. Another indictment to which he wished to direct
their attention was that of John Owens, who stood charged
with inciting and counselling his daughter to commit sui-
cide. The evidence was not of a very strong description.
The:only person who was present was in such a state of intoxi-
cation that he was totally unable to give any clear account of
the case ; but persons who were in the adjoining room said
they heard all that passed. One of the witnesses stated that
he heard the man say that "he'd rather die than be subject
to the cruelties of his daughter," and then left the house
for a short time. He returned with some poison, and, on
entering his apartment, told his daughter he would take it,
when she replied, " You're not game enough." A struggle
ensued, in the course of which the girl took up the cup,
and saying " Here's luck," drank off its contents, from
the effects of which sho died. The evidence, as it at pre-
sent stood, seemed rather weak, but it would
be for them to say whether there was suf-
ficient to justify the returning a true bill against the
man. There was another case which he would just men-
tion—it was that of John Aimes, who was indicted for un-
lawfully taking away a girl under 16 years of age from the
custody of her father. The question for their consideration
was not whether the girl gave her consent—for the law
very properly directed that where a girl of the tender ago
of 16 was taken away without the consent of her father, a
person committing such an offence should be subject to a
severe punishment—but whether the girl was taken away
without the consent of her father. There were also in
.the
calendar several offences against the bankruptcy laws, a crime
which he thought appeared to be on the increase. One of
the persons indicted, named Zoeller, was charged with
en
making fraudulent entries to defraud his creditors. By
wtehree
evidence to be given it appeared that certain
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other person, named Lewis, was indicted for making away
with his books for the purpose of defrauding his creditors,
and he thought it of importance that it should be generally
known in this commercial country, that any person convicted
of such an offence was liable to three years' imprisonment.
The last case to which be should allude was that charging
two persons with attempting to procure a machine for the
manufacture of counterfeit coin of a foreign nation. The
learned Recorder having explained the law upon the point,
directed the grand jury to proceed to their duties, Dad, in

the event of any unforeseen difficulty arising, the court
would g,raiit its wit.ing assistance.
The jury then kit the court.

N—W COURT.
(Before ti... Common Sergeant.)
BURGLARY.

Henry Lovesy, 22, Thomas Lovesy, 16, and a woman
named Dunn, were indicted for a burglary in the dwelling
house of William Harman, and stealing his goods and
money valued at £27 Os. 6d.
Mr. Orridgo appeared for the prosecutor, and Mr. Horiy
defended the prisoners.
Mr. Harman said—l reside at Poplar, and in conse-

quence of being in the Scandinavian trade I take in my

business a quantity of foreign money. One morning in the
month of June I came down to commence business, when I
found the place all in disorder, and a great quantity of pro-
perty stolen. Amongst the things taken away was a quan-
tity of foreign coin, Which was safe when I retired to rest, in an
old sea chest in the counting house. There was amongst
the foreign money stolen an old English coin dated 1419,
six Mexican dollars, and the rest consisted of Nor-
wegian, Danish, Swedish, and Prussian money. After the
robbery had been committed I had bills printed offering
£lO reward fOrthe apprehension of the parties, and the result
was that the female prisoner was taken into custody. On
searching the place the police opened a box belonging to
the prisoner, who lived with the woman, and there a number
of foreign coins were discovered. They were similar to
those I had in my possession previous to the burglary, but
I could not positively swear to them, as there is no private
mark upon them. There was also found a silk handker-
chief, a Baltic shirt, and some other property, al of which
had formed a part of my stock. I can't swear that I have
not sold some articles similar to those found at L9vesv's.
but lam confident I never sold the handkerchief wna
found in Lovesy'o box. The younger prisoner had been
in my employ.

Mr. Poole, residing at Shadwell, said—l am a pawn-
broker. I produce a number of foreign coins. The femala
offered them for sale. I asked her how much they were
worth, and where she had got them from. She said
they belonged to her brother, who lived in Albert-
street. I took the coins from her, and said if I found
her story was correct I would give twice the value of them.
I went out with her for the purpose of going to Albert-
street, but she said it was no use going there as her brother
was from home. Finding that she was trying to evade me,
I told her I should give ber into custody, when she said I
could keep the whole of the money if I would let her go. I
refuted, and called a constable and gave her into custody.
. _

The prosecutOr here examined the coins, and picked out
one he said he could swear to amongst ten millions. It was
a coin of Henry V.
Police-constable Keeling, said I took the female prisoner
into custody. Going to the station she said her cousin gave
her the coins to sell, but at the station she said a man whom
she did not know gave her the things to sell. She gave her
right address at the station.

George Williams, a pawnbroker's assistant, said—l pro-
duce a Baltic shirt, pawned by a woman, to whom I gave
a duplicate. I don't know the woman. The duplicate
just put into my hand is the one.

Several other pawnbrokers produced parts of the stolen
property, but none could identify either of the prisoners as
the parties who pawned them.
The case was not concluded when we went to press.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.—( This Day).

MARLBOROUGH-STREET.

A COLONEL CHARGED WITH OBSTRUCTING AN INSPEC-
TOR IN nls DUTY.-Mr. John Jeffries, a gentlemanly-
looking man, described as a colonel in the Guards, of Strat-
ford-place, was charged by Mr. Inspector Parke, of the C
division, with obstructing him while in the execution of
his duty.

Mr. Inspector John Duke Parker said—About a quarter
past twelve on Saturday night I was in the Haymarket in
the execution of my duty when the defendant camp up to
me in an excited manner and said he wanted me,
and took me into the Turkish Cigar Divan, and
pointing to a person there said, "He won't serve
me." The proprietor (Mr. Thompson) said, " No,
because you have insulted and struck imy waiter on the
head with a stick" (produced). As the defendant was very
excited, and wanted to get at the stick, I did what I could
to get him out, and persuaded him to go away. Instead of
doing so, however, ho followed me up and down the Hay-
market, saying he wanted my name and number, said he
was a colonel in the Guards, the lord-lieutenant of a county,
the son of a peer, connected with the Yacht Squadron, and
several other things. His conduct at last became so annoy-
ing, notwithstanding he had shown great forbearance, that
he was obliged to have him taken into custody.
The defendant said ho had just left the Argyle Rooms,
where he had been with a distinguished member of the
Oriental Club. He had only taken two glasses of negus,
and ho was a very steady man. He afterwards went down
the Haymarket, and into the Turkish Divan, kept by a
fellow named Thompson, where he put down 6d., intending
to pay 3d. for a cigar and one penny for the waiter, when
he was seized violently and turned out of the place by the
cigar fellow. He said to the inspector, " Take that man
into custody," but he handed him over to a constable. He
asked for his worship's protection. He had been treated
with violence.

Mr. Parker said the defendant was intoxicated at the
time, but was capable of walking. There had been no
violence used towards him, and he (the inspector) had pre-
vented him probably doing serious mischief. The proprietor
did not wish to press the charge against him, and every
opportunity had been afforded for his sending for bail.
Fined 205., or ten days.