The Sun.
London, England, 1858-08-31 00:00:00

THIS DAY'S MARKETS.

HAY AND STRAW.
Smithfield—Old meadow hay, SOs to 8716 d; new do., 15s to SU;
old clover, Fss to 110+; new do., 85s to 1001; and straw, 30s to S3s
per lead. A moderate supply, and a steady trade.
Cumberland—Old meadow hay, fSs to 90s; new do., 668 to Ps;
old clover, f 8s to 1128; new do., 16s to 100$ ; and straw, 318 theWl
per load. Both hay and straw met a fair sale, at our quotati
Whitechapel—Old meadow hay, 601 to 665; new ditto, 61s to FSS;
old clover, Fss to 110 s: new do. 85s to lass ; snd straw.
SOS to Us
per load. A. fair demand, at full prices. Supplies moderW.

COLONIAL.
e uantity
q
Tex.—There has been rather more activity, and a l arg
of common congou changed hands at 10d. per lb.
Considerable
and
quantities are announced for public sales during the week.
prices are expected to be firm, as the private adrices from China
report that quotations there are exceedingly fir
StTeati.--The demand is bymeans active,but prices remain
firm, more particularly for then finer descriptions. In the Refined
Market only a limited business has been done, and little variation
can be reported in values.
Coyrez.—Plantation Ceylon continues in fair demand, and at
fully late quotations. The better kinds of native Ceylon have also
been inquired for, and sales hare been effected to some extent for
exportation.
.—A. very limited business has been reported, holders de.
EICE
manding higher rates, which buyers do not seem disposed to give.
The small business done has been chiefly in white qualities of
The second cargo ofexneeeewdyjnaglleyntgiaoorad,ishiness hreasalbiseeedn
being
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full
eeraSteivErv'ereznr"de4ltt.:----.eP';hgruecalmwittay.rket is dull ; a few sales of Bengal have been
effected a about late quotations, in other qualities there is no
change whatever to report.
TALLow.—The market has exhibited symptoms of improve-
ment ; a fair amount of business has been done, and the trade have
bought: to some extent. A rather large speculative business has
also been done, as the advices from Bt. rekersburg notice a con-
siderable advance on the quotations.
P.Y.C., on the spot, is quoted 505., 4,0 g. 6d. to 495, 9d, for last S
months, and 50s. per cent, for spring do Men.

ALLEGED EXTENSIVE FRAUDS BY

PICTURE DEALERS.

William Thomas Barnes, the son, and Lucy Barnes,
the wife, of Mr. Barnes, the well-known auctioneer
and picture dealer of St. Paul's Churchyard, again ap-
peared before Alderman Wire, at the Guildhall Police-
court, yesterday, on their recognisances, to answer the
charge of conspiracy to defraud Mr. Robert Herries Peter,
an independent gentleman, residing at 45, Hyde-park-
square, of various sums of money amounting in the whole to
between £2,000 and £3,000, including a bill of exehange for
£l,OOO still outstanding.
Mr. Sleigh, instructed by Mr. W. Day, of Queen-street,
Mayfair, attended for the prosecution ; and Mr. Metcalfe,
instructed by Messrs. Lumley and Lumley, of Ludgate-
hill, conducted the defence.
The evidence in chief of the prosecutor having been read
over by Mr. Martin, the chief clerk,
Mr. Peter said—l wish to correct my deyo;ition, in
which I said Mrs. Barnes told me the lady was a relative
of the Duchess of Newcastle. That was a mistake of mine.
She said the lady was a cousin of the Duke of Newcastle.
When I paid Mr. W. T. Barnes the cheque for £4O, dated
the lath of June, be said that was for his commission on the
pictures he had bought. I did not ask how it was I bad to
pay him commission. The cheques now produced are all in
my handwriting. One is for £lO, dated 14th June, and one
is for £2OO, dated the 18th of June, both of which I paid to
the defendant, W. Barnes, but the latter cheque was
made payable to Mr. Williams.

. _
Mr. Sleigh—Will you tell the Court why it was drawn in
a different name ?

Prosecutor—l did it to make a variation in the names.
There is also a cheque for £2OO, dated 21st June ; one f
£3O and two for £l5 each, dated the 2.5 th June ; one for
£lOO dated the 25th June; and one for £5O dated Bth
July. The whole of those cheques were given to Mr. W. T.
Barnes, with the exception of the last for £5O, which I re-
collect nothing about.
Mr. Sleigh—We have now shown, sir, that cheques have
been given to the amount of between £9OO and £l,OOO.
The prosecutor was then cross-examined by Mr. Met-
calfe, and said—l did say on Saturday that the lady was
represented as the cousin of the Duchess of Newcastle, but
that was a mistake, and I corrected myself. Mrs. Barnes
told me the lady was a cousin of the Duke of Newcastle.
Mr. Metcalfe—ln your information you stated it was the
duke. On Saturday you said it was the duchess, and now
you say it was the duke. Now, which was it
Prosecutor—The Duke of Newcastle. lam quite sure it
was the duke she said was the lady's cousin. I did not
mention the conversations I had with her until after I had
been applied to for the money for the bill for £l,OOO dated
the 25th of June. That bill became due on the. 9th of
August, and it was before that that I mentioned these con-
versations to Mr. Day, my lawyer.
Mr. Metcalfe—You have just said the contrary.
Prosecutor—l mentioned them before the bill became
due and the money was applied for. I did not rightly un-
derstand your question before. I have not been applied to
for payment of this bill.
11 Mr. Metcalfe—Why, you have just said you spoke to
your attorney before the money was applied for. We have
it now both ways. Which do you mean ?
Alderman Wire—Was it in consequence of the application
fir the money that you went to your attorney ?
Prosecutor—l went to him before that, and told him the
bill was becoming due, as I had not sufficient cash at my
bankers to meet it.

Mr. Metcalfe—Was there not a bill given for £l2O, which
was returned to you when yon gave the cheque to Mrs.
Barnes for that amount ? _

Prosecutor—There was a memorandum, but not a bill.
Alderman Wire—You must produce the bill if you intend
to examine the prosecutor upon it.
Mr. Metcalfe—Bat the bill has been taken up, so that we
have it not in our possession.
Mr. Sleigh—l have heard nothing about this bill, and not
having received notice to produce it I must object to the
evidence.
Mr. Metcalfe—l am surprised my learned friend should
take such frivolous objections after the latitude I have al-
lowed him with regard to the £l,OOO bill.
Mr. Sleigh—l am bound to take the objection, and I
think yon have no right to make any personal observations
upon it.
Alderman Wire—As you have given no notice to produce
you are not entitled to put the question.
Mr. Metcalfe—Of course, sir, I bow to your decision ;
but I will not be shut out from the evidence I require.
[To witness—What did you do with the bill which Mrs.
Barnes gave you fl
Prosecutor—When I gave Mrs. Barnes the cheque for
£l2O It was to take up a memorandum for that amount,
which I have destroyed.
Mr.!Martin—That puts an end to the difficulty of notice
to produce not being given.
Mr. Metcalfe—Were there not two memoranda, one
for IMO and one for £l5O, given up and destroyed when
cheques were given for them ?
Prosecutor—l think not; but if I had them I destroyed
then when I took them up. Ido not think there were any
other memoranda given up on my giving the bill for
£l,OOO. I have dealt at Mr. Barnes's shop for pictures and
other things about seven or eight years.
Mr. Metcalfe—You said you bought two pictures for £7O
in the first instance. Were all the others included in the
£1,000?
Prosecutor—Oh dear, no, air. There was a picture
called the "Dante" which was not Included. -
Mr. Metcalfe—What I meant to ask you was—if all the
pictures which you bought subsequent to the purchase of those
two were represented as belonging to the lady's collection ?
Prosecutor—No, sir ; because I bought the " Dance"
'before.
Alderman Wire—The two pictures which you bought for
£7O and the " Dante" form no part of the charge before
me.
Mr. Metcalfe—Did that lot include the " Venus Re-
clining ?"
prosecutor—No, sir; for that is the same picture that I
called the " Dante," and I bought it shortly after the other
two, and before Mrs. Barnes called on me.
Alderman Wire—And you went into the shop and selected
all three of those pictures yourself?
Prosecuter—l did, sir.
Mr. Metcalfe —When you bought the " Danm" did you
not ask Mrs. Barnes to come up and see your collection ?
Prosecutor—No, sir; not at all.
Mr. Metcalfe—Be careful, now, and remember; for there
were several persons present.
Prosecutor—l do not recollect upon any occasion re-
questing her to come and see my collection. I had some
idea of exhibiting the collection I had formed, but that was
not my object in purchasing pictures of Mrs. Barnes. I
told her I had an idea of exhibiting them.
Alderman Wire—Did you mean to exhibit them in the
same manner as many noblemen and gentlemen have done
by throwing open their galleries to the admirers of works of
art?

Prosecutor—That was my intention.
Mr. Metcalfe—Then you had no idea of opening your
gallery as a lucrative speculation?
Prosecutor—Oh dear, no, sir.
Mr. Metcalfe—Will you swear you did not ask Mrs.
Barnes to come and see your collection ?
Alderman Wire—You are not putting the question in a

proper form.
Mr. Metcalfe—l beg your pardon, sir; I must put it in
that way.

Alderman Wire—Then if you put it improperly I must
stop you.

Mr. Metcalfe—Did you show Mrs. Barnes your collection?

Prosecutor—l think I did show her some of them when
she came up, and that was upon the occasion when she
mentioned about the widow.
Mr. Metcalfe—Did you tell her you had a watch set
round with diamonds which formerly belonged to Voltaire?
Prosecutor—l did say I had a watch of Voltaire's; but
nothing about diamonds. I do not think I told her that
when she was looking at the " Dana!" or before she came
to my house. I dcnot recollect if any one else was there
besides Mr. Barnes when I was looking at the " Daum."
Mr. Metcalfe—you have named the only person who was
not tbere. Did not Mrs. Barnes on that occasion say that
the picture belonged to her son, and that she could not tell
the price till he came home?
Prosecutor—No, sir. Mrs. Barnes was not there. I
bought the picture at the shop, and Mr. W. T. Barnes, the
son, brought it up.
Mr. Metcalfe—Wa3 not the price fixed after he took it to
your house ?
Prosecutor—I suppose it was.
Alderman Wire—Did you buy the picture in the shop,
or was it sent to you first, and did you then bargain for it?
Prosecutor—I think it must have been in the shop.
There were not seven or eight pictures brought with the
" Rosa Boaheur."

Mr. Metcalfe—You have sworn so.
Prosecutor—Certainly not. The " Rosa Bonhenr" was
sold in the lot for £l,OOO. There were, I think, five or six
other pictures with it. There was no 10 V given on that
transaction.
Mr. Metcalfe—You have stated in your depositions that
the " R4Bll Ihniteur," the " Turner," and six others com-
prised the lot sold to you for £l,OOO.

Prosecntor—There were eight pictures on that occasion.
Mr. Metcalfe—Were there not two I 0 U's—one for £l5O
and one for VW—given on that occasion ?

pr, executor—No, sir, there were not.

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Mr. D. Tetcalfe—Remember, now, there are two men who
brought t
he pictures whose mouths are not closed. What
was said 0 lout the " Rosa Bonheur
12,--111r. W. T. Barnes said it cost £5OO. I did
not say to hl .01 that it looked like a " Rosa Bonheur." I
do not recollt, him saying It was somewhat like, but that