The Sun.
London, England, 1866-07-09 00:00:00

TALLOW.

P.Y.C. is steady to-day, at 448 6d to 45s per cwt on the
spot. Town tallow is selling at 44s net cash.
Particulars. 1863. ' 1864. 1865. 1866.
Stock this day 39,437 42,334 31,866 27,075
Price of Y.C. ' J-428 Od to 40s Gd 41s Gd 44s 6d to
I. —s Od —s Od —s 0(1 46s Od
Delivery last week 933 1211 '1,623 896
Ditto from June 1 4,763 5,793 7,414 7,585
Arrival last week
Ditto frc in June 1 6,156 3,106 6,797 6,335
Price of Town

LAW INTELLIGENCE—This Day.

COURT OF COMMON PLEAS.
(Bejora Mr. Justice Smitb and a Common Jury.)
PIIRSELL V. ALDEN.

This was an action of detenu,• in which the plaintiff
sought to recover the value of certain property which the
defendant, who pleaded not guilty, detained.
Mr. Saltis was counsel for the plaintiff, and Mr. Beasley
for the defendant.

The case for the plaintiff was that he had formerly been
a confectioner in &gent-street, but retired from that busi-
ness, and a pier-glass, dining-table, and other articles of fur-
niture, were removed to the house of defendant's husband,
who had a sale room in the City-road, and had been on
intimate terms with the plaintiff. It was arranged that
for such of the articles ae Mr. Alden sold he was to receive
a commission. Mr. Alden diet, and the articles in qnestion
were taken to the Dover public-house, Hurston, which was
kept by the defendant.

The defendant was examined, and said that her husband
stated in her presence that ha paid the plaintiff £5 for it,
and that although the latter 'valued it at £2O, when offered
for sale the highest bidding for it was £2 10s. She
had not seen the money paid, and it appeared that her
husband kept hie accounts in so singular a manner as
to throw no light on the transaction.
The plaintiff abandoned his claim for any other pro-
perty but the glass, and the jury found a verdict for him
of £lO.

CRIMINAL COURT.—This Day.

OLD COURT.

Tho sittings of the Central Criminal Court wore resumed
to-day.

The calendar presents a marked and most favourable
contrast to that of last session. At the present session
there are only 70 prisoners for trial, 58 males and 12
females ; and there is only ono charge of wilful murder,
that of a woman named Margaret Baker, who is charged
with the murder of her illegitimate child, and which will,
in all probability, result in a conviction for concealment
of birth only. There is, besides, the case of Patrick Rem-
ington, for killing his son-in-law in Rosemary-lane, who
will be indicted, probably, for minder, but who, by the
coroner's jury, is only charged with the lesser offence of man-
slaughter. In addition to these cases the only serious ones
are the charge against a young woman named Margaret
Murphy, of having thrown a quantity of vitriol on a man
who had seduced and grossly ill-used her ; and a charge
against a married woman named Jane Cushion of having at-
tempted to murder hor husband, having in the first instance
tied him down in the bed, while asleep, to prevent him from
making any resistance. There is also a very curious case
of a young woman named Longman, who is charged with
attempting to murder her another; and it appears that the
diabolical act was committed under the extraordinary
delusion that her mother was a great enemy to her, and
had endeavoured to injure her in a variety of ways, and
that she was, therefore, justified in endeavouring to
destroy her for her own protection. The prisoner ap-
pears to be perfectly sane and sensible upon every other
subject; but it seems that she still entertains the extra-
ordinary delusion above mentioned, and nothing that can
be said to her appears to have any effect in satisfying her
of the utter groundlessness of the feeling that she enter-
tains. Under these circumstances the prisoner will probably
be acquitted on the ground of insanity, and she will then
be detained in custody until her delusion has passed away,
and no apprehension entertained that she will repeat the act.
The Recorder having charged the grand jury, the trial
of prisoners shortly afterwards-commenced.