The Sun.
London, England, 1857-04-06 00:00:00

r E SMIN, LONDON, MONDAY EV 11, NG, APRIL 6, 1857;

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CRIMINAL COURT—(ibis Day.)

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OLD COURT.

The April session of this Court commenced before
the Lord Mayor, the Recorder, Sir J. Duke, M.P.,
Sir C. Marshall, Sir W. Carden, M.P., Mr. Sheriff
Mecbi and Mr. Sheriff Keats, and Under-Sheriffs
Crossley and Anderton.
The learned Recorder, in charging the grand jury,
said he was sorry to inform them that a considerable
number of cases would bs brought before them this
session. In fact a larger number than had been the
case for many sessions past. A greater part of them
were of an ordinary description, and would not re-
quire any observations from him. More than one-
fourth of the cases were charges of uttering coun-
terfeit coin, and it was an offence by which. persons

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carrying on trade in a small way for the
most part were the sufferers. There were, how-
ever, some case 3 of a serious description, and
among3t them was that of Thomas Bacon and his
wife, who were jointly cbamed with the murder of

their two children at Walwortb. The evidence
showed it to be a case of a somewhat peculiar de-
scription. The last time the children were known
to be alive was Sunday, the 28th December, and
on the following Tuesday they were found mur-
dered. The two prisoners called on a relation and
stated that the husband was about to leave town to
obtain work, which he did early on Monday mom-
ing, and noth;ng mcre was known then, except
that cn the Monday morning a person who had
appointed to call at the house was unable to obtain
admittance. Ori the Tuesday the female prisoner
met a female relation, to whom she stated that
some person had got into the window of the
house and cut the throats of her two children.
Subsequently she made a different statement, and
said that her husband was the person by whom the
act was done. That was not to be considered as
evidence against the husband, and could only be
made use of against her, and any statement affect-
ing another person' made by her ought • not to
affect their minds as to the course they had to
pursue. The evidence against the male prisoner
was oft a different description. When the children
were found dead on Tuesday morning they were
examined by a medical man, who gave it as bis opi-
nion that they had been dead at least 24 hours.
The husband left town early on Monday morning,
and the bodies were not seen till about 30 hours or
more after he had left the house. The husband at
first made a statement in confirmation of his wife's
story, and it was-not until after remarks were made
that it was strange the house was not robbed.
He said he had lost various articles. Evidence
would be given to show that his statements were
untrue, and that his dress had marks of blood on
it. The female prisoner, it was said, was insane.
At one time, it appeared, she was confined in St.
Luke's Hospital, and the medical man who ex-
amined her after the discovery of the murder was
of opinion that she was of out of her mind. That
was not a matter for their consideration. Their
duty was merely to consider if the evidence was
sufficient for further investigation, and leave it to
a jury to say, after a full investigation, whether she
was entitled to be acquitted on the ground of in-
sanity. With regard to the male prisoner, they
would have to take into consideration the
various pieces of evidence of which be bad only
given a general description, an& say (without
adverting to the statement of the female prisoner)
if there was sufficient evidence to call on him to
answer for it before another tribunal, and to show
that he was not one of the parties by whom the
murders were committed. The learned Recorder
next referred to a charge of murder against a fe-
male named Sarah Price, who destroyed her child
by throwing it into the Regent's Canal, and, who
was prevented from destroying herself by the acci-
dental arrival of a policeman ; and also to the case
of manslaughter, to the case of maliciously stabbing
with intent to murder a person in a railway car-
riage, and to two charges of cruelly exposing infant
children in the public highways, whereby the life
of the children were in danger. After which the
grand jury retired.

PRETTREN

THE GENERAL ELECTION.

(This Day.)

STATE OF TIDE POLLS.
MIDDLESEX-10 o'clock.
Grosvenor ... ... 1,102
Hanbury ...1,091
Chelsea ... ... 549
11 o'clock.

Grosvenor ...
Hanbury ...
Chelsea ...

•••
... 1,987
... ... ... 1,981
... 1,053
j o'clock.

Grosvenor ... •••

.. 2,881

Hanbury ... ... ... ...2,876
Chelsea .:. ... ... ...1,577
1 o'clock.

Hanbury ...

.. 3,496

Grosvenor ...
Chelsea ...

... 3,493
... 1,924

LLOYD'S SHIPPING.—(This Day.)

LONDON, April 6.—Wind this day at noon, S. ; light
airs and cloudy.
PORTSMOUTH, April s.—Wind E. to S.E.—Arrived--
Sir George F. Seymour, from Bermuda. Sailri—H.M.S.
Nimrod, for China ; William Hammond, for Jamaica;
North Britain, for Quebcc.
PLYMOUTH, April 5.--Arrived—Persia, from London,
for Sydney, N.S.W. Sailed—Niger, (s.), for the Coast of
Africa.
FALMOUTH, April s.—Wind S.S.E.—Arrived— Ohio,
from Havana, with decks swept, &c. ; H.M.Str., Minx,
from the Cap) of Good Hope.

(PER ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.)
LIVERPOOL, Monday Morning.

Wind E.
Arrived, April s—Tuscarora, from Philadelphia; Don
Francisco, Mazatlan; Crusader, Macao; Skiddaw, Pisagua;
padolus, screw steamer, Alexandiia ; Ama!;a Lanea,
Dantzic.
Arrived, April 6—=Arcadian, from Hong Kong ; Agnes
Garland, Foo-Chow-2.:0o ; Hannah, Africa; Aquila de
Oro, Bonny.
Sailed—Anglesea, steanaar, for Odessa; Conquest, New-
foundland ; Napoleon Thir;l, Bombay.
QUEENSTOWN, Apiil 4.

Wind P.
Arrived—Alexander, from Say ,nah ; Robert Jones,
Monte Video; Clymene, Mauritius; rota, Mobile.
Sailed—Lady Mansell, for Barbadoee..

(BY SUBMARINE AND BRITISH TEL Ea 11,N3M)
GRAVESEND, Monday, .10 a.m,
Wind southerly; tide, four hours' flood ; fine.
Arrived, April s—Sir E. Banks, from Calais; FiOucia,
Ditzum ; Selina, Algoa Bay; Cambala, Shanghai; Queen
of the Seas, Rotterdam ; Anna, Bogense ; Amalius Minu.s9,
Skive ; Maria, Ostend ; Derwent, Port Philip ; Chas.
Tater, Belize ; Clara, Ploake ; Fanna Maria, Thisted ;
Hamila, Trinidad; rilhelme Randers; Wind's Bride,
Dunkirk ; Geneo, Callao ; Bellamy, Harlingen ; Ausine
Maria, Ortense.
Arrived, April 6.—Jonge Cornelius, from Derummer-
soil ; Cressy, Moulmein; • Speedy, St. Michael's; Carl
Mulburg, Bandholm; Lionne, Gravelines ; Ellida, Sunne-
sund ; Dorothea and Clicliot, Odense.
Sailed—Wanderer, for Barbadoes.
DEAL, Monday, 9.28 a.m.

Wind calm.
Passed, in tow—John McVicar, from Calcutta for
London.
Passed, sth—Nina, from London, for Goatzacooles.
Anchored, sth—Owen, from London, for Quebec.
Passed—Tricolour, from London, for Melbourne ; Tus-
can, from London, for Swansea; Majestic, from London,
for Blythe ; Derwent, from Shields, for Oporto ; Richard
and Alice, from Sunderland, for Bordeaux.