The Sun.
London, England, 1857-11-16 00:00:00

WOOL.

The public sales of colonial wool have commenced heav-
ily. Some rather large quantities have been withdrawn
up to this time, and prices show a decline compared with
the previous auctions of from 2:3d to 3d per lb. Sydney—
Clean sheep's has realised 1s Gd to 2s 3d; lambs, is 6d to
Is 10d; locks and pieces, is ld to is 6d; skin, is 2d to is
41. Melbourne—Clean sheep's, is 6(1 to is 10(1; scoured,
is 71 to is 103; locks and pieces, is 2d to is 6/1. Victoria
—Clean sheep's, is 8d to is 9.y1; and sound ditto, ls 5d to
is 9d ; other sorts, is to is 4d. New Zealand--Clean
sheep's, is 5d to is 9d; lambs, is 5d to is 93. Other wools
have realised is to is 51 per lb. In the private market
nothing is doing, and prices generally aro nominally 2d to
3d per lb lower.

Current prices of English Wool :—Down tea,, Is qd to
is 6d; half-bred hoggets, is 4id to is 5d : Down ewes
aid bogs, is 3Ad to is 4id ; Kent fleeces, is 3,id to is 41d ;
Leicester ewes, la 2id to is 4d; flannel wool, is ld to
is 3d ; and blanketwool, 10d to is 4d per lb.

LAW INTELLIGENCE.—(This Day.)

COURT OF QUEEN'S BENCH.

(Sittings in Banco, before Lord Campbell, and Justices

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Coleridge and Wightman.)
CREMORNE GA.RDENS-SIIIPSON V. CIRTER.

Mr. James, Q.C., said, in this case a rule had been
issued calling upon the plaintiff to show cause why
certain interrogatories should not be propounded to the
plaintiff by the defendant, and why he should answer
the same within 10 days. This was an action for slan-
der, brought by Mr. Simpson, proprietor of Cremorne
Gardens, against the defendant, for charging him, as
proprietor of these gardens, in allowing conduct to go
on there of a character to corrupt the 'morals of the
public.

Lord Campbell said the Court did not grant the rule
calling on the plaintiff to answer the interrogations, but
to show cause why they should not be propounded.
Mr. James said the rule was for both.
Lord Campbell—The court never said the plaintiff
should be compelled to answer them.

Mr. James said that when the rule was moved it was
stated that Mr. Simpson declined to answer them on
the ground that he might criminate himself. No such
refusal was ever made by Mr. Simpson, but only to the
extraordinary nature of the interrogations, asking
him to answer facts not within his knowledge,
such as " Are you not aware that after parties
had left the gardens ladies were guilty of in-
decent conduct on their way home to London." It was
utterly impossible for Mr. Simpson to answer such ques -

tions. He had no desire to screen himself or evade an.
swering the question, and he would do so in the bes
way be could.

Lord Campbell said that when the rule wag moved,
he had no doubt Mr. Simpson would be willing to
answer all the interrogations he could.

Mr. James said it was perfectly absurd to expset Mr.
Simpson to be able to answer for the conduct of parties
Gil his premises.

Mr. Justice Wightman said the rule was granted to
exhibit interrogatories.
Mr. Keane said he moved for the rule, and it was
drawn up in the terms of the section, but by some mie•
take the words were introduced calling on the plaintiff
to answer the interrogatories.

The rule was made absolute for propounding the in-
terrogators.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE. (This Day.)

MARLBOROUGH-STREET.
CAUTION TO INDISCRIMINATE ALMS GIVER.—Jane
Rodgers, a dirty, dissipated, middle-aged woman, was
placed at the bar before Mr. Beadon, charged with
being drunk and begging.
It appeared from the evidence of police-constable
175 C, that on the previous night he was on 6nty in
plain clothes, in the Haymarket, when he saw the
prisoner, who was much intoxicated, go up to seve-
ral ladies and gentleman, and solicit aims. In some
instances she succeeded, in others she did not, and at
last she came up to him, and after telling him a pitiful
tale, requested him to give her a penny, with which
to buy bread, as she was literally starving. He told
her to be off, when she went up to a gentleman,
who pitying her distress gave her sixpence. She no
sooner received the money, than she entered a pub-
ha house. She spent the money in gin, then re-
turned to the streets. He then took her into cus•
toddy.

She was sent to prison for a mouth with hard
labour.

EXECUTION OF DAVIS (THIS DA r.

At eight o'clock this morning, Ti 101112.9 Robert Davis,
a fancy carpenter, was executed in front of Newgate for
the murder of his wife, by cutting her throat at their
lodgings, Dorset.street, Balls Pond, Islington.
The crowd in front of the jail was less numerous than
on many former occasions, but still there were before the
scaffold some 5,000 or 6,000 of the worst sort of people
London can produce.
At half-past seven o'clock this morning Mr. Sheriff
Allen and Mr. Under Sheriff Parker arrived at the jail
and were soon afterwards followed by Mr. Sheriff Law-
rence. At a quarter to eight o'clock they, with the
governor (Mr. Wetherhead), the Rev. Mr. Plaire, and
Mr. Under Sheriff Millard proceeded to the prisoner's
cell, where he was found standing with his hands
clasped in the same manner as he stood at the trial,
muttering, " Lord have mercy on my soul. I am in.
nocent of all knowledge of the crime. I die a dread-
ful death, but innocent of any intention." Mr. Under
Sheriff Parker asked him, now that he was so near
death, whether he persisted in his statement, to which
he replied earnestly, " I do, Ido ; before God and man
I mu innocent of any knowledge of the act ;" and in
reply to repeated questions he said that it had been his
only consolation in all his troubles to know that he was
innocent of any knowledge of committing the act until
some hours afterwards ; that he loved his wife dearly,
and that the day on which it was done was the happiest
day he had spent, but how mournfully had it turned
out. He added that, as far as any man could, he died
innocent. Mr. Under-Sheriff Parker and the reverend
ordinary repeatedly asked him if he felt that he was
truly penitent. His replies were reiterations of his
innocence, and the expression of a hope that God would
be merciful to him. He desired that one of the warders
should deliver some little books to his child, who he
hoped would be taken care of now that she had lost
both father and mother.

Cali...raft was here introduced, and proceeded to
adjust the new leather apparatus, during which Davis
asked the ordinary to request the executioner, who-
ever he was, to be as quick as he could, as he did not
want to be kept standing to be gazed at by the mob.
Having been assured upon that point, he said he would
not have minded being shot by some of her Majesty's
Foot Guards, as he should then have died the death of
a Christian, but now he was going to die the death of a
dog.

As the last moments which he was to spend on earth
arrived, the convict appeared to nerve himself to the
utmost, still protesting his innocence. At length the
bell tolled and the procession moved on to the scaffold,
the rev. ordinary beading the burial service. The coil.
vict waled firmly and steadily at the side of Calcraft,
shook hands with the warder, bowed to the crowd, and
in a few 'moments had suffered the full penalty for his
crime. His sufferings did not appear to be severe.
Davis was a skilful workman, and frequently earned
from 6/. to 7/. a-weeg. He was formerly in the employ
went of Sir Joseph Tobin, of Liverpool, as a ship-Wright
He was one of the volunteers who offered to go to the
Baltic with Sir Charles Napier.