The Sun.
London, England, 1857-09-15 00:00:00

PERJURY.

The missing juryman having arrived, the case of Ed-
ward Hastings, charged with wilful and corrupt perjury
was resumed. A. number of witnesses were examined
during the day relative to the construction of the fur-
naces used respectively by Messrs. Price and Co., and
Messrs. Bauwen and Co., and the tri 1 partakes more of
the character of a disputed patent case at nisi price than
a criminal prosecution.

The case, is expected to occupy an,ther day at least.

NEW COURT.

(13eforo Mr. Prendergast.)

The learned commissioner was occupied the greater
portion of the day in hearing charve of passing coun-
terfeit coin. They were of the ordinary description.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE. (This Day.)

MARLBOROUGH-STREET.
ATTEMPTED MURDER OF AN INFANT.—Bridget Rave-
nagh, a milk carrier,residing at No. 22, Fitzr ry-nsarket,
was brought before Mr. Beo.don, charged with attempt-
ing to murder her infant child, by atrusinisteting to it
some kind of narcotic poison.
Mr. William Boyd Muebed, surgeon, University Hos-
pital, deposed that yesterday afternoon, about three
o'clock, the prisoner at the bar was brought to him at
the hospital, with a child in her ar ns, by a man.
Mr. Beadon—What was the age of the child ?
Mr. Mushed—About four or five months old.
Mr. Beadon—ln what state was the child ?
Mr. Mushed—The child appeared to be suffering from
some narcotic poison.
Mr: Beadon—Had yon any conversation with the
prisoner I . •
Mr. Mushed—Yes, I asked her the particulars, to
see if I could gather anything from her as t, the symp-
toms, but she gave me no answer. The man who was
with her gave me the bottle produced, which smelt very
strongly of laudanum. The prisoner then said she had
purchas©d a pennyworth of aniseed at a public house
in Tottenham-court-road, which she had given to the
child. I then directed the child to be removed to one
of the wards, and the usual remedies were at oncesap-
OA to restore animation, but with very little success,
as the child was just alive and that was all. •
Mr. Beadon— What wore the symptoms.?
Mr. Mustied—The symptoms were compatible with
those of a child poisoned by opium, or some narcotic
poison. The pupils of the eyes were contracted, and
the featurz.s pals and emaciated. The chill was of so
tender an age that it was impel-Me for it to recover.
The child was no doubt dead by this time.
John Maynard, No. 31, Fitzroy-market, said—Yes
tfelay afternoon I was in my workshop when I heard
the noise of a woman crying proceed from No. 32. I
went to the apt, but seeing the doors and windows
closed, I returned to my shop. In about five minutes
afterward', I saw my next, door neighbour go into the
house -and heard her say, "shut the child's mouth."
I went into the house and saw the Child lying on a chair.
Prisoner was there. I asked her what was the matter
with the child, and told her it appeared to be dying, aid
recommended her to take it to the hospital. I then
took up the child and carried it as far as
the hospital, followed by the prisoner, to whom
on her arrival I gave it up. The bottle produced was
glvsn to me by a peron named Ward, as he Was re-
turning from the hospital, and I gave it to the surgeon.
Another witness was examined, who proved heating
the prisoner wish the child was dead, as she war tired
of the troulie oc nursing it. This witness eiro proved
seeing the prisoner administer corns liquid to the child
out of a bottle. The child immediately became insensible
and appeared to be dying.
The prisoner, who appeared to feel her position most
acutely, was remanded for a week.

WESTMINSTER.
A BAD EXAMPLE. —Maly Webster, a m:ddle aged
Irishwoman, was charged with being drunk and creating
a disturbance at the house of Mr. William Nate, the
White Hart, Milbank-street.
Complainant said, that about 8 o'clock last evening
the defendant came to his.house intoxicated, and created
such a disturbance that he found it necessary to put her
out, upon which she assatilted him and created a crowd
of persons, at the same time using very bad language.
She was so violent that he was obliged to hold her to
prevent her breaking his windows.
Defendant said she wont down to -the house to bring
her boys home, and there found her husband drunk. In
coining out she slipped down by accident, and thinking
that her husband was by her side, began beating him
for getting in the state. She found him drunk, instead of
coming home and putting the boys to bed, as he ought
to have done.
Mr. Arnold—But you were drunk yourself.
Defendant—rd taken three drops; but why didn't he
put the boys to bed ?
Mr. Arnold—ltAeems to me that while you are find.
ing fault with your husband's impropriety of conduct,
you are entirely forgetting your own. If you wish him
t 3 keep sober, you should set him the example of sobriety
yourself.
Defendant—l went to the pawn-ofEce to get a little
money to pay the rent, and met a body there, who
treated me, and then I went for him to put the children
to bed.
Mr. Arnold—ln plain English, I suppose you got so
drunk that you could not, so went for him to do it. You
are setting your children as well as your husband a bad
example.
Mr. Neate informed the magiAt ate that the husband
was a very quiet, respectable man, not addicted to
drunkenness; He was sober when she came to the house
last night. In consequence of her habitual drunkenness,
her children came to his house repeatedly for shelter.
Mr. Arnold said that her conduct was very disgrace-
ful, and committal her for 14 days in default of a flue.

THAMES.
A MEAN AND DESPICABLE TlllEF.—Robert Newell,
an able-bodied fellow, aged 22, was brought before Mr.
Yardley, charged with stealing the lunches of two men,
named Thomas Mayaar3, a cooper, and Cornelius Cor-
bett, a labourer.
Maynard saw the prisoner go into a shed on the
north quay, where the former had deposited his dinner,
consisting of bread and meat, and which he intended to
eat at 12 o'clock, the " lunch time" in the dock. The
prisoner was immediately captured, on which he raid,
"Take your dinner, and let me go." Oa searching
him, some bread and butter belonging t Corbett, which
he had deposited in another shed, was found upon him.
Mr. John Payne, a dock constable, said, a great
many poor men, labourers in the dock had lost their food
in the course of the last month, and it was believed the
prisoner who had been seen prowling about the dock
was the thief. The loss fell with great severity on the
popr labourers who provided themselves with a little
repast to eat in the middle of the day, and who could not
leave the dock until four in the afternoon.
The prisoner admitted his guilt and asked for mercy.
Mr. Yardley raid the prisoner was a mean and despi-
cable thief, a,.1 ill conditioned lazy fellow, who would
steal and eat the food of the hard working men, insteadprisoner
to be imprisoned and kept to hard labour for one month.

The hearing of the petition for the winding-up of the
London and Eastern Bulking Corporation, in the Court
of Chancery, ie postponed until the 214 inst., when it
will come on before Vice-Chancellor Wood, at ipwioh,

5, 1857

GAFFER TROOPS FOR INDIA.

. ,
Mr. Richard Browne, tin a letter to tlie Times,
dated GlasgoW,.Sept. 12, sais :—" T have read with
pleasuee the letter of "Q. S. E." hi your paper of
yesterday as to recruiting negroes for tropical ser-
vice in the East:

" I was in Ceylon in 1816, just after the conquest
of the island by our troops, and at that time there
were five or six colonial re4iinents embodied, sevo-
ral.of which were‘composed of Africans and officered
from the Line. These Africans were recruited
almost exclusively from the Caffre tribes between
_Natal and Sofala, of a height at least eqUal to the
average of any English regimen', were brave,
do .rile,,good-tampered, and clearly. They had left
behind in Ali is any religion they had, and believed
in nothing but their officers, to whom they, as a
rule, b: came strongly attached.
" What his been done before may be done again,
and-there must still be many officers surviving who
served in and with those regiments, and can speak.
as to their value and how they were raised. They
might he made available for many duties that are
.harrassiug to the Englhh soldier, as their confreres
in the West Indies are, and, besides, every Caffre
that you EO employ withdrawa from Africa one
who is a thorn in the side of our countrymen there,
and an item in the hordes who periodically carry
destruction and death into the colony, and are with
difficulty driven out by the 'very troops to whom
in proper hands they might prove such valuable
auxi'iaries.

"I trust that the subject may receive the serious
attention of some one morel
_potent to deal
with it." . COM

THE ROYAL BRITISH BANK.

Annex,d is a summary furnished by Messrs. J.
E. Coleman and Co., of the balince-sheet of the
Royal British Bank, filed by the directors on Sa-
turddy. The original account extends over more
than 400 pages :
" In the Court of Bankruptcy, Basingball-street, London.
" The balan.T-sheet of the Royal Blitish Bank of the South.
- Sea House, Threadneedle-street, in the city of London ;
No. 429, Strand ; No. 311, High Holborn ; No. 97,
Goswell-road, Islington; No. 32, Regent-circus, Picca-
dilly ; No, I, Shaftesbury-terrace, Pimlico ; No. 77,
Bridge-road, Lambeth, and No. GO, Blackman-street,
Borough, from Nov. 19, 1819, to Oct. 9, 1856
Dr. £ 5. d.
To creditors
To Bank's acceptances for customers' me;
count, 2,1321.135. $(l., which will be paid •
by those for whose account they have
been accepted.

£565,249 2 7
To capital paid up
To profits 123,893 17 6

£847,878 0 1

Cr. £ s. d.
By cash balances
By debtors (good)
By debtors (doubtful)
By bills discounted
By bills (doubtful) •- •• 19,019 510
By R. P. Harding, amount standing to his
debit at this date, being assets paid over
to or collected by him as official manager 69,768 0 1
By bank houses and furniture :
Cost £34,752 17 1
Estimated realisation
under bankruptcy 19,400 0 0 19,400 0 0

To lossos below £15,352 17 1
By stamps • 329 4 10
By Welsh works, coat ~ 105,783 3 1

£629,893 16 4
By adjusting interest account 22,350 10 6
By dividends paid
By business expenses £86,884 3 4
By preliminary expenses 15,793 11 11
162,677 15 3
By losses, by bad debts, &051,072 7 11
By bankrhouscs and furniture as abovo 15,352 17 1

£817,8:8 0 1

MARKRT NEWS.—(This Day.)

HAY MARKETS.

SistrruriELD.—Meadow hay, 2/ 103 to 41 53; clover,
4/ N to 5/ 83; and straw, 11 Gs ti 3 11 10a por load.
Trade dull.

CUMBERLAND. —Maadow hay, 2/ 123 to 41 59; clover,
3/ 15s to 5/ Gs ; and straw, 1/ Gs to 1/ 103 por load.
A slow inquiry.

.WHITECUAPEL.—Meadow hay, 2/ 13s to 4/ 53 ; clover,
3/ 12s to 51 83 ; and straw, 1/ 6i to l l lOs per load.
Supply good, trade dull.

COLONIAL.

TEA—The market continues buoyant, but the transac-
tions are limited. Fine black-leaf congous aro at is 8d to
2s 3d, and common congou 140 par lb. The next public
sales are announced for the 22d inst. •

- SUGAR--A fair fair amount of bnaineaa has been dens and
prices rule firmer, awl the market generally has an im-
proved appearance. A lair quantity is announced for
public competition during the week. In the Refined Mar-
ket the demand. has improved. Fair. tittlera, realise 60a 6d
to 6 is per cwt.
COrFEE—There are very few parcels on offsr, but fine
qualities of plantation Ceylon realise a slight improve-
ment. Other descriptions are firm, at previous values.
RlCE—There is a better inquiry for the tine qualities,
and holders are firm, full values being in most instances
current.

ItU3f —The market is steady, at previous rates. Fine
Jamaica sold for 4s 6d per proof gallon.
SALTPETRE—The matket is dull, and but little variation
in prices can be quoted.
TALLOW—The transactions have been liniitei, and prices
are rather in favour of buyers. P.Y.C.,on the spot, 61s 6:1
to 62s ; and last throe months, 59s 6d to 59s 9d per cwt.
liotnelnelted is steady.