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

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SUN OFFICE, Seven o'Clock.

THE GENERAL ELECTION.
(This Day.)

STATE OF THE POLLS.
MIDDLESEX —4O o'clock.
Grosvenor ... 1,102

Hanbury
Chelsea ...
11 o'clock.

.. 1,091
.549

Grosvenor ... ...

. 1,987

ilanbury
Chelsea ...

.. 1,981
.. 1,053

12 o'clock.

Grosvenor ...
Ilanbury ...
Chelsea ...

.. 2,881
.. 2,876
~. 1,577

1 o'clock.

Banbury

. 3,49 G

Grosvenor

. 3,493

Chelsea

. 1,024

2 o'clock.

Hanbuiy

4,072

Grosvenor ... ...4,057

Chelsea ...

... 2,255

3 o'clock.

Hanbury
Grosvenor ...

... 4,629
... 4,567

Chelsea ...

~. 2,497

4 o'clock.

Hanhury •••
Grosvenor ...
Chelsea •••

... 5,185
... 5,096
... 2,782

LANARKSHIRE-2 o'clock.
Mr. B. Cochrane ... .... ... 890
Sir E. Colebrook ... ... ... 850

TATTERSALLS' —(This Evening.)

NEWMARKET HANDICAP.
3to 1 aget Eloquence
sto 1 agst Pantomime

GREAT NORTHERN.
9 to 2 agst St. Giles (taken)
7 to 1 agst Skirmisher (taken and offered)

CHESTER CUP.
7to 1 agst Leamington
15 to 1 agst Mincepie (taken)
100 to 6 agst St. Giles (taken)
40 to 1 agst Van Dunck (taken)
40 to 1 agst Zigzag (taken)
40 to 1 agst Warlock (taken)
40 to 1 agst Maid of Derwent (taken

TWO THOUSAND.
4to 1 agst Vedette (taken)
100 to 15 agst Schiedam
100 to 15 agst Loyola
10 to 1 agst Sydney (taken and offered)
10 to 1 agst Kent (offered)
100 to 7 agst Lord of the Hulls (taken)
12 to 1 agst Lambonrne (offered)

DERBY.
7 to 1 agst Blink Bonny
15 to 1 agst Lady Hawthorn (taken)
20 to 1 agst Sprig of Shillelagh (taken)
20 to 1. agst Kent (taken and offered)
25 to 1 agst Glenmasson (taken)
40 to 1 agst Adamas (taken)
40 to 1 agst Wardermareke (taken)

NAVAL APPOINTMENTff.—(T'his Day.)

' The following appointments were made at the Admiralty
afternoon :

Captain— Henry Lyster, to the Castor.
Commander—M. B. Dunn, to the Cumberland.
Lieutenants—B. L. Pinkard and A. H. Fitzroy, to the
Cumberland ; F. Hewson and A. Eaton, to the Hastings ;
H. L. Round, to the Royal William.
Master—T. D. Sullivan, to the Hastings.

CRIMINAL COURT—(This Day.)

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
Mechi 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 be 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
carrying on trade in a small way for the
most part were the sufferers. There were, how-
ever, some cases of a serious description, and
amongst them was that of Thomas Bacon and his
wife, who were jointly charged with the murder of
their two children at Walworth. 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 morn-
ing, and nothing mcre was known then, except
that on the Monday morning a person who had
appointed to call at the house was unable to obtain
admittance. On 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 th© course they had to
pursue. The evidence against the male prisoner
was of a different description. When the children
were found dead on Tuesday morning they were
examined by a medical man, who gave it as his 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 hous3 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 discoyery 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 he had only
given a general description, and 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.

Letters from Vienna (says the Literary Gazette) an-
nounce that the celebrated singer Staudigl, who has been
for a long time confined in a madhouse, is now in a worse
state than ever ; his mental excitement had, a few days
ago, reached such a pitch, that he was obliged to be con-
fined in a strait-waistcoat. All hopes of his recovery,
or even of his amelioration, are now given up ; indeed,
bis speedy dissolution may be looked for, and is earnestly
to be desired.
HAMLET OF RATCLIFF.—Mr. Ayrton, the newly-
elected member for the Tower Hamlets, has promised to
bring in a bill for the repeal of the Hamlet of Ratcliff
local act of 1810, which enables the board of trustees to
nominate their successors every year. This act has
operated most injuriously to the parishioners.