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

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Antwerp & Rotterdam
Ardennes

Bah.&S.Fran.,Lim.7p.c.
Belgian East. Junction
Beziers to Graissessaa
Carmeaux Mine & Rail
Dutch Rhenish

Eastern of France
Euphrates Valley
Great Central of France
Gt. Luxem., Con. ohs
Italian Junction
Lake Constance & Bale
Lierre and Turnhout
Lombardo Venetian
Lucca & Pi stoja, 5 p.c.pf
Lyons and Geneva
➢iaria Antonia
Do. do. New

Namur and Liege
Do. do. 6 p. c. Pref
Northern of France
Do. New Shares

Norwegian Trunk Pref.
Ottoman, gua. 6 per cent
Paris,Lyons, and Medit.
Paris and Orleans ......

Recife& S. Fran.
gua. 7 po. ct. (Lim.)
Riga and Duniburg
Rome and Frascati
Royal Danish
Royal Swedish
Do. 7 per cent. Pref.
Sambre and Meuse
Do. 51 per cent. Pref.
Southern of France
West Flanders
Do. 54 p. c. Preference
W. & N.W. of France
Western of Austria
Western of Switzerland
Wiesbaden
Do 8 per cent. Pref
Zealand

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THIS _DAYS MARKETS.

THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 25, 1858.

Total at the close of the navigation

SHERIFFS' COURT.
(Before Mr. Prendergast, Q.C.)

Plaintiff—lt was distinctly understood.

CRIMINAL COURT.-(THIS DAY.)

OLD COURT.

Amsterdam, 9 bags; Boulogne, 62 bags; Ostend, 6 bags;
Antwerp, 100 bags ; Hamburg, 75 bags; Harburg, 4 brls
and Bremen, 6 brls. Present prices :—York Regents, 75s
to 90s; Shaws, 55s to 75s ; Kent and Essex, 75s to 80s ;
French, 60s to 75s ; Belgian, 45s to 60s ; inferior, 40s to
50s per ton.

WOOL MARKET.
The approaching public sales of colonial wool, and the
heaviness in the demand throughout the manufacturing
districts, have produced comparative inactivity in our mar-
ket, and former prices are with difficulty supported. Last
week's imports amounted to about 50 bags from Hamburg.

TAOW.
Our market is far from active yet prices are fairly sup-
ported. To-day, P.Y.C., on the sp4, is selling at 435. 9d
per cwt. Town tallow is ss. nett cash ; rough fat, 2s. 91d.

1854. 1855. I 18.56. I 1857. 1858.
Stock this day.... 30,072 23,092 14,259 1 2,2546 13,877
c
Price of Y.C. .. ? 66s Od to Gls 6d to 56s 9d t0'568 6d to 49s 9d
66s 6d
Od —s dto 56s 9d —s Od
Delivery last week 2,393 3—s 2,77 4,034 3,119 2,940
Ditto from June 1 29,316 51,958 53,365 37,391 40,097
Arrivals last week 2,386 1,434 3,743 5,131 6,66.5
Ditto from June 1 24,388 27,355 50,647 49,842 42,407
Price of Town .... 68s 6d 65s 6d 58s Od 59s 6d 53s ad

STATEMENT OF TALLOW SHIPPING AT ST. PETERSBURG.
Tallow despathed from Cronstadt 1858. 18.57. 1856.
to Sept. 29, 0. S. (estimated at 25 Casks. Casks. Casks.
poods to the cask) 62,779 59,921 83,173
In ships loading and lighters 12,310 12,322 7,419

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

103,761 112,095

London
Liverpool 3,493 1,788 7,978
Bristol
Other English ports
Ireland 590 1,132 529
Scotland
Germany 5,351 9,229 16,255
France
America

Total 62,779 59,921 83,173

LAW INTELLIGENCE.(THIS DAY.)

IMPORTANT SHIPPING CASE-FREEMAN V. ROUTELL.
This was an action brought to recover a stun 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
Egchange, 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, he
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 ?

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--I 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.

The October sessions of the Central Criminal Court com-
menced this morning before the Lord Mayor, Sir H. W.
Carden ; Aldermen Sir G. Carroll, Phillips, Lawrence,
Hale (Sheriff), Sheriff Conder, the Undersheriffs, 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 Harmond, 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 inj try 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 chaiged
with inciting and counselling his daughter to commit sui-
cide. The evidence was not of a very strong description.
The:only personwho 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 " Herel luck," drank off its contents, from
the effects of which she 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 age
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 inthe
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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 graved jury to proceed to their duties, awl, in