The Sun.
London, England, 1857-03-27 00:00:00

rilE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, MARCH 27, 1857

ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE.

for a long time. Some one put them into my bag,
I tell you.
Mr. Christie, the overseer, said—l have known
the prisoner for six or eight weeks about that
neighbourhood, and always thought he was gather-
ing bones or rags. A number of cats are found
there, and, there being a national school there, it
is really a fast-increasing nuisance. I have seen as
many as 50 cats lying there pt one time.
Alderman, the gaoler—The skins are disposed of
to the German furriers living there. I know many
inhabitants of the Hackney-road who have lost
very valuabie cats.
Mr. Hammill—One really does not know how to
deal with such a case as this ; it is ositively mon-
strous that such a trade should be ctrried on. (To
the pri.oner.)--Your. manner is very extraordinary,
and it is perhaps a charitable wish of mine that you
may be found not exactly right in your mind. I
shall remand you for a week, and during that time
you will be examined by a surgeon, who will re-
port to me, and the police must prosecute an in-
quiry into the whole matter.

THE TRADE OP RUSSIA.

HOME CIRCUIT.—KINGSTON, MARCH 26.
(Before Mr. Justice Cresswell and a Special Jury.)

BERLIN, MARC. 24.
The state of trade at the port of St. Petersburg
during the past year, showing the extent to which
that port not only recovered, but also surpassed its
commercial activity before the war, will certainly,
be of too great interest, particularly to your com-
mercial readerg, to require any kngtheued exor-
dium on our part, or apology for its introduction
here.

THE QUEEN V. NOLDWORTH.
This was an inilidtment against the defendant,
John Spencer Noldworth, charging him with wil-
ful and corrupt pel jury.
The defendant pleaded Not Guilty.
Serjeant Ballantine, Mr. Lush, Mr. Holt, and
Mr. Wilkiuson were counsel for the prosecution ;
Mr. Edwin James, Q.C., Mr. G. Denman, and
Mr. C. Pollock appeared for the defendant.;
The case occupied the court nearly the whole of
the day, btit the facts lay in a narrow compass.
The prosecution arose out of an action that was
tried at Croydon in the summer of 1855, in which
the London and County Bank were the plaintiffs
and Mr. Noldworth was the defendant, and it was
brought to recover from him a sum of 5001. upon a
bill of exchange that purported to bear his accept-
ance, and which had been discounted with the
bank by a Mr. George Brooks, who carried on an
extensive business as a poulterer in Leadenhall-
market. Mr. Brooks was the principal witness upon
that trial, and he swore that the defendant accepted
the bill in question for his accommodation. The
defence set up was that the signature was a forgery,
and Mr. Noldworth was a crirninil, and he swore
that he never put his name to the bill or authorised
its being done, and after a kng inquiry the ju, y
returned a verdict for the defendant, thus establish-
ing the &fence of forgery. Proceedings were sub-
sequently taken against Noldworth for perjury, the
alegation of perjury being that he had falsely sworn
that the acceptance to the bill was not his hand.
writing, and the whole of the facts have been fre-
' quently before the public.
The same evidence was now again given, and all
the circumstances above narrated were detailed by
a number of witnesses.

In 1856 the total value of all articles imported was
68,871,752 r. ; of all articles exported, 54,926,091 r. ;
Of the imports the most extensive were raw cotton,
amounting to 13,452,029 r. • precious metals,
9,343,672 r. ; raw sugar, 8,C;05,520r. ; colours,
6,702,447 r. ; sundries, 15,786,050 r. Of the
total amount of 68,871,752 r., no less than
64,257,720 r. was the value of goods imported by
Russian merchants, while tbe foreigners trading
there imported only to the amount of 4,491,740 r.
Of the exports the most extensive were grain, to
the amount of 15,355,686 r. ; tallow, 11,445,920 r.;
sundries 14,762,035 r. ; and then the only article of
any amount remaining to be mentioned is hemp,
4,100,458 r. Of the total amount of 54,926,091 r.,
the Russian merchants exported to the event of
39,558,999 r., while the foreigners trading there ex-
ported to the amount of 15,311,562 r.
The total amount of Customs dues received at St.
Petersburg and Cronstadt on the imports and ex-
ports of 1856 was 9,700,733 r.
The following totals of the exports cleared out at
St. Petersburg during the last four years will show
the effects of the war on that chief port of Russian
trade, and its recovery after the peace :

CLERK ENWELL.—SamueI Gardiner, a low-
looking fellow, was placed at the bar before Mr.
Tyrwhitt, charged by Sergeant G. Witherington,
24 N diviSion, with attempting to stab him, with
intent to do him grievous bodily harm. The ser-
geant, having been sworn, said that on Weineolv
night, at 12 o'clock, he was on duty in White Lou-
street, Llingtou, when he received information
from a woman who cohabited with the prison.,r that
he had ill-used her, andthreatened to murder her and
her two children, at her residence, 79, White Lion-
street. He instantly proceeded with her to an apart-
ment where he was witting, with a knife, which he
held down by his side. On seeing witness the pri-
soner jumped up, saying, "You what do you
want here 1" and, making a rush at him, atienapt-d
to stab him in the breast with a table knife. The
point of the blade touched his breast ; bad not wit-
ness moved back and warded off the knife he must
have been killed.

Roubles.
The exports in 1853 were 53,267,261
9, 1854 ft
I 1855 „
1856 „
_
The following figures sliow.the large proportion
of Russian exports that Great Britain takes, which
teaches us at the same time the exp, dieucy of set-
ting to work at once to obtain a gold treaty of com-
merce with her; as soon as the tariff arrangements
are concluded, and the necessity of providing our-
selves during peace with other markets to buy in,
co that we may be independent_ of her when poli-
ties require we should go to war with her. Of the
1,214,000 pouds of hemp which she exported in
1856, England took 820,800 pouds ; of 636,400
ponds of flax, 598,800 pouds ; of 2,574,121 ponds
of tallow, 1,856,954 ; of 727,160 pouds of bones,
676,929 ; of 765,142 tchetwerts of wheat, 640,307 ;
of 323,693 tchetwerts of oats, 297,494 ; and of
695,093 pouds of iron, nearly the whole namely,
641,435 ponds, besides 9,090 pouds of old iron.
The navigation opened May sth (N.S. 17th),
and was closed Nov. 22d (N.S. Dec. 4th). The
total number of arrivals was 3,374 ; of these 1,176
came in balla4 ; of the remaining 2,198 vessel.,
631 brought coals. Of the 430 steamers that,
enteced that port last year, 155 came from Eng-
land. The suddenness with which the winter stt
in caused no less than 377 vessels to be blocked up
in the ice at St. Petersburg and Cronstadt, against
Bon the previous winter. The total number of ar-
rivals at the port during 1856, as mentioned above,
3,374, shows, when compared with 1,921, that of
1853, the last.year before the war, an increase of
1,453.

Mr. James 'Lade a most able speech to the jury
on behalf of the defendant, and a host of respect-
able witnesses were examined, who testified to the
high character he had borne for a great number of
years.
The learned judge, in summing up, explained
the law upon the question to the jury, and he ob-
served that they by no means were required to say
that perjury had been committed by the principal
witnesses in support of the charge if they acquitted
the defendant, but if it was not made out to their
satisfaction that he had wilfully sworn that which
he knew to he false it was their duty t 6 acquit him.
The jury ietired, and after being ab-en . about
tbre quarters of an hour they returned into court
and gave a verdict of Isiot Guilty.

The woman with whom the prisoner cohabited
gave evidence as to his ill wage and threats to mur-
der her and her children. He was in the habit of
ill-treating her.
The prisoner, on being called on for his defence,
denied the charge.
Mr. Tyrwhitt said—You are a bad fellow, and I
shall commit you to the House of Correction for one
calendar month, and you m.y think your,,elf lucky
that you are not treated in a more serious way.
He was conveyed to prison.

THAMES.—Charles Brainwood, a boy, aged 14,
was brought before Mr. Yardley, charged with
throwing stones at a railway train.
Dinger, a police-constahle, 182 K, said he was
stationed on a bank at the side of the North Lon-
don Railway at Bow, and saw the prisoner and
another boy throwing stones on the line. Soon
afterwards a train passed, and he saw the priso:;er
take a stone from his pocket, and deliberately hull
it at the carriages, which were full of passengers.
Mr. Yardley—Did the stone hit any of tue car-
riages ?
The Policeman—l don't know, Sir, but it fell on
the line.

NORFOLK CIRCUIT. -Buity ST. EDMUNDS,

MARCH 26.

Nisi PRIIIS COURT.—(Before Mr. Justice Erie.)
There we e only four causes entered, for one of
which a special jury had been summoned.

WOODGATI V. GROSS.

Mr. O'Malley awl Mr. M,lls for the plaintiff;
and Mr. Pow•,r for the defendant.

The action was brought to recoversol., the amount
of a dish.inoure 1 cheque, On the Z 1 June, 1856, ,
the plaintiff, a farmer rending at 'little Bentley
Hall, Essex, sold ti.e defendant, a dealer at Elm-
sett, Suffolk, seven bullocks for 1471., 501. of whiCh
was i.ad bya cheque drawn by Long, a bircher, at
Manningtr,:e. At the ti me of the payment the, plain-
tiff demurred to taking the cheque, remarking that
he would rather have had notes. Thereupon the;
defendant Paid, "You are coming to Ipswich mar-.
ket od tie f Rowing morning, an(l if you call at;
Manningtree bank, and don't get the cheque cashed
I'll give you notes for it." The plaintiff went .t,.
Ipswich on the following day, and paid the cheque
into his bankers, Messrs. Cobbold, who forwarded.
it to Messrl. Nunn, Manuingtree, by whom it:
wa4 refused to be paid.
Mr. Power' for the defendant, contended that,
his client had satisfied the plaintiff's claim by the:
psyment of this cheque, which if it had been pre-
sented ou the 3d June, as promised, would have
been paid, as Messrs. Nunn had sufficient in hand.
to have d ,ne so, and to prove this, Mr. Webber,,
managing clerk of Messrs. Nunn' at Manningtree,.
was called, and he deposed that on the Z 1 June
ti ere was 981. 2s. 11d., to Long's credit, and on the
3d a cheque for 301., and another for SUI. was paid,
and that when the cheque. for 501. was sent from
Messrs. Cobbold they had not sufficient to meet it.
Mr. O'Mall-y submitted that as his client did not
live in the town where the bank,was on which the
cheque was drawn, he had a right to pay it through
his bankers the day after it was received, and bad
not been guil,y of lathes.
His lordship held that but for the alleged proviso
stated by the defendant to have been made ar the
time of the payment of the cheque, the plaintiff
would have been entitled to recover.
Mr. O'Malley celled Mr. Woodgatf.' who denied
that he agre'-d present the cheque the next day
at Mauwngtree, but affirmed that he allowed Gross
to take the bulocks sAely on his promising to pay
the cheque if it was dishonoured.
The jury retired to consider their verdict.

Mr. Yardley—How far was this boy from the
railway ?
Dinger—Not more than 20 yards, Sir.

Additional light is thrown on Russian trade and
navigation by a report on the craft that has passed.
the Sound during the last year, from which we ex-
trict the following :

Tne-prioner, in defence,. sAid another boy threw
stones at the carriages, and he (the ptisoner) had
some stones in,his pockets, and tarew them away.
Mr. Yardley—Are you sure that you saw him
throw a stone at the carriages, policeman ?
Dinger—l am quite certain of it, Sir.
Mr. Yardley—This is. a most wicked and mis-
chievous practice, and the prisoner might have done
very serious mischief. fine him 205., and, in de-
fiult of payment, 14 days' imprisonment.
The boy was committed to prison.

The vessels that ' passed the Sound in 1856,
coming from the German Ocean, with car-
goes, were
Ditto, in ballast
Coming from the Baltic, with cargoes
Ditto, in ballast 499

Amounting altogether to
being an increase of 4,745 vessels on the preceding
year, but a diMinution of 228 on the number in
1853. Of those that entered the Baltic 2,485
brought cargoesfor Itussian ports, the most promi-
nent element of which was raw cotton, amounting
in all to 170,000 bales, of about 4501 b. Russian
each ; of these 170,000, there came 56,100 direct
from the Vuired States, 95,000 from England,
12,000 from Holland and Belgium, &c. Of those.
vessels that left the Bditic with Russian exports on
board there were 4,183—viz., 1,901 from St. Pe-
tersburg, 1,581 from Riga, and the rest from
Wyborg, Narva, Libau, Revel, Pernau, &c. The
Russian shipping trade seems to have endeavoured
in the past year to make up by increased activity
for the losses it had sustained during the war, for
we find that 194 Russian vessels, of which no
fewer than 66 were built from 1855 to 1856, con-
trived in the latter year to make 456 trips throuvh
the Sound. Lest year's navigation of the i3altic
has been remarkable for the great increase in
the proportion of steamers, of which no less than
684 passed the Sound ; 414 of them were English,
158 Swedish and Norwegian, and 7 Russian.
The general results of the movement of trade
throughout the empire in the preceding year,
viz. „1855,. have also been published. According to
these statistics-there were, in 1855 goods exported—

LAMBETH.—Wm. Saunders and Wm. Ham-
mrnd, two desperate-looking fellows, wel known
t.) th 3 police, were finally exact] i tied before the Hon.
G. C. Norton, on a charge of robbing Mr. J. G. M.
Raukiii, a merchant's clerk, with violence.
From the evidence it apparel that the prose-
cutor had been at an electioneering meeting on
Monday night, and on his , return home, rather
elated, fell in with the prisoners in Lambeth-walk.
They instantly clainucl acquaintAnce with hint, anti
offered to see him home ; but had not gone far when
they knocked him down, aticl covered his face while
lying on his back with a thick layer of pitch. He
was, however, enabled to cry out and bring the
police to'his assistance, and the prisoners were se-
cured. It was stat!d by the con4taoles that the
prisoners were the constant ass .ciates of notorious
thieves, awl were frequen'ly seen prowling about
in search of persons the worse for liquor, with the
view of robbing them. They were fully committed
for Wale

THE SURREY LUNATIC ASYLUM AND

MR. SNAP g.

The charge adduced against Mr. Snape, a sur-
geon, of causing 'the death of a lunatic, named
Dolley, in the Surrey Asylum, by ordering him a
shower-bath and strong doses of tartar emetic, will
be fresh in the recollection of the public. The case
is revived by the publication of a long fetter, ad-
dressed by the Secretary of the Commissioners in
Lunacy to the Secretary of State for the Horns De-
partment, and bearing the date of the 13th of
December, 1856. The Conun'ssioners bring before
Sir G. Grey's notice the facts which " rendered it
imperative upon them, in the.conrse of last year, to
order a prosecution for manslaughter "to be insti-
tuted against Mr. Charles Snape." The Commis-
sioners say that it would never have occurred to
them to prosecute if they could have satisfied them-
selves, upon a review of all the circumstances at-
tending the death of Dolley, that the administra-
tion of a shower-bath of half an hour's duration to
a man 65 years old, at a temperature of 45 deg.
Fahrenheit, and
"17liwcaledtrbeyatmallenut nbuonuctallficklarigne-
dose of t Arta', emetic, was in any possible view to
be considered as me
tended for his benefit, how stronly soeVer they
might have condemned such an experiment. But
at this conclin,ion they found it, impossible to ar-
rive. Into the merits of the question, as re-orened
i
by the Commissioners, t. is not advisable to
enter. The grand juryr theirrejecteidet:tth:re billthe agca'enms-t,
Mr. Snaps on the 15th of September ; but
up to the chte
mivioners had
.received communicalion from
the Committee of it rs of the Asylum since their
attention was first d, awn to t:,e case, excepting
those which, with the dates of the 234 of April and
the 10th of May respectively, had announced the
intention of the couannttce—firt, to suspend all
opinion, or proceedings .reference to Air. save
until the question of criminal pr ceedings against
him should, have been decided ; and, secondly, to
remove him from his office pending tie proceedings
instituted by the C,-maussioners. It, further ap-
pears that the Committee of Visitors, on th' failure
' of the prosecution against Mr._ Snipe, regarding
the que ;firm • 'as one of strictly medical experience,"
resolved on consulting a jury of six medical men,
three named by Mr. Snape, and three by them-
selves. This jury found a verdict "That Mr.
Snape's conduct in the case in question was neither
so rash nor so injwiicious as to d-prive him of the
confidence of the magistrates which he bad previ-
ously enjoyed ;" whereupon Mr. Suape was forth-
with reinstated in office, and is now again discharg-
ing the duties of medical superintendent of the male
side of the Surrey County Asylum. This decision,
which they intimate is bawl on imperfect evidenc?,
the Commissioners in Lunacy regards as "of Most
dangerou.s import." A copious array of documents
forms an appendix to this letter.

' Roubles.
Over the European frontier to 17,577,297
Over the Asiatic frontier
In Finland 1 643,257
Out of the kingdom of Poland.. 9,947,237

89,515,440
Precious metals exported—
Over the European frontier 1,990,599
Over the Asiatic frontier
Out of Poland .
244,184

6,130,010

Total exports 45,645,450
Goods were imported--

• Roubles.
Over the European frontier to 40,640,911
Over the Asiatic frontier
From Finland
Into Poland

72,699,881
Precious metals imported—
Over the European frontier 1,461,072
Over the Asiatic frontier
Into Poland

1,877,046

Total imports 74,576,927

LLOYD'S SHIPPING.--(This Day.)

LONDON, March 27.—Wind this day at noon, W. ;
light airs and fine weather. •
PLYMOUTH, March 26.—Wind W.S.W—Arrived—
Oceaa, from Fecamp, for Newfoundland; Heatherball,
London, for Hobart Town. Sailed—H.M.S. Plumber, for
the westward.

SOUTHAMPTON, March 26.—Sailed—Waqhington, for
New Yerk.

SWANSEA, March 26.—Wind E S.E..—Sailed—henry
Rankin, for Coquimbo.
CARDIFF, March 26.—Wind S. w.—Arrived—Prince-
ton, from Savannah. Sailed—Vanctense, for New York.
GRIMSBY, March 26.—The Sephora (4.), from Bor.
.deaux, was driven foul of by the Jamaica, of Sunderland,
and received damage to mil, bulwarks, beats, &c.
LERWICK, March 22.—Wind N.E.—Sailed—Augusta,
for Poo Janeiro; Emma, Davis' Straits.

PETERHEAD, March 26.—The Rieutje Willemina, fr
Danzic, for Leith, was stranded at Rattray Heal on the
22d inst., and is discharging.
QUEENSTOWN, March z6.—The Mornington, of St.
Johu's, timber laden, was fallen in with this morning off
Dungarvon, by the Don Pedro (s.), of this port.
CUXHAVEN, March 24. —The brig Susan, from Shields,
for Hamburg, has been abandoned in a sinking state ; crew
saved and arrive,' here.

AMSTERDAM, March 25.—The Branck, from Sunderland,
for Hartlepool, which wai stranded on the island of Ame-
land on the sth inst., has been sold by auction, with part
of cargo on board, for 184 f., and the rigging, masts, and
spars for 1,106 f ; the whole of the cargo saved has been
'deposited in Government stores,

DISASTER TO THE AFRICAN MAIL-STEAMER.—LIVER.
POOL, Thureday.—The royal mail screw steam-ship
Gambia, Captain Rolt, sailed from the Mersey, yesterday
afternoon,
to embark at Plymouth the mails for the
West Coast of Africa. She returned this morning,
having, after leaving port, come into collision with the
ship Scotland, from Savannah, inward bound. The
Gambia sustained considerable damage, and the Scotland
lost her bowsprit, cut water, &c. Fortunately, no live"
were lost on the occasion.
•
FLOGGING IN THE ARMY.—From a return, moved for
by Mr. W.
Williams, late member for Lambeth, it ap-
pears that the number of persons fl ,egad in the army of
the united kingdom, in the year 1844, amounted to 42,
and the number of ashesinflcted to 1,125 ; and in 1855,
to 44, number of lashes, 876. The offences included de-
sertion, insubordination,- disobedience, " disgraceful con-
duct," an unnatural crime (committed by one of the let
battalion of the Grenaiier Guards in London, for which
50 lashes were inflicted), absence without leave, violence
to superiors, and making away with necessaries: •
[Anvearissitesil—We have read witu much pleasure Du
Barry's report on the cure of Indigestion (Dyspepsia), Flatu-
lency, Constipation,
cin Nervous, Bilious, and Liver Complaints,
Cough, Asthma, Consumption, and Debility, without medi-
, by D Barry
n 's Food. The following are a few extracts
which appear
to merit the attention of many Cure No.
47,121.--" Miss Elizabeth Jacobs, of Nazing Vicarage, Wal-
tion, gatherings Miss , low spirits, and nervous fancies." Cure No.
tham-cross, Hefts ;
48,314.—" a cure of extreme nervousness, indiges-
,Elizabeth Yeoman, Gateacre, net Liverpool ;
a cure of ten years' dyspepsia and all the horrors of nervous
Cure 51, 415. Oystermouth, Swansea, 24th
August, 1853. _Bilious headaches of frequent occurrence,
-which my wife had been subject to for many years, hwe been
removed by Du Barry's salutary Revaleuta Arabica Food.—
E. J. Bunn. Cure 51,416. Gower, near Swansea,
Lugust 21, 1853. Thirty years' dreadful suffering from
rheumatism has been removed by Du Barry's delicious Reva-
leuta Arabica Food, iu five weeks' time.—Wumem Ownt.—
,Qupported by testimonials from the celebrated Professors of
r_lemistry Dr, Andrew Ure ; Dr. Shorland ; Dr. Hervey;
Ur. Campbell ; Dr. Gattiker ; Dr. Wurzer ; Dr. Ingram
Lord Stuart de Deeies ; the Dowager Countess of Castle
stuart; Major-Gen. Thona King, and m:,ny other respectable
pereons,'whose health has been restored by it, after sill other
means of curd had failed. For further particulars respect-
ing this invaluable food our readers are referre SO)U Burrs
advertisemeut in another part of this paper.

(PER ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.)
LIVERPOOL, Friday Morning.
Wind E.

Arrived—Montmorency, from New Orleans; Henry
Gardner, Belize ; Harbinger, Alexandria ; Adler, Ham.
burg,
Sailed—Thomas, for St. trobn'e, N,B,
guBANBTOWN, March 25,
Wind N.W.
Arrived—Argo, from Galata,
DUBLIN, March 26.
Wind N.B.
Arrived—Merida, from Barbadoes.

(BY SUBMARINE AND RRIT9 ST TELEGRAPH.)
GRAVESEND, Friday, 9.58 a.m.
Wind W. ; tide 1 hour's firrod ; cloudy.
Arrived, March 28—Adolph, from Stralsund; Duncinee
Mauritius; Eliz r, Dunkirk ; Handritta, Landaorona ; A
liance, Guernsey.
Arrived, March 27.—City of Hamburg, from Hamburg.
Sailed—Thames, for Hamburg ; Flecha, Ghent ; Sir R.
Peel, Dunkirk; Siren, Port Natal.

DEAL, Friday, 9.40 a,m.
Wind W. N. W. ; moderate.
Passed—Plymouth, for New York; Accra, Cape
Coast Castle ; Mirage, St. Michael's; Velocity, New-
foundland ' • Blondel, Calcutta; Heinrich Bush, Port
Philip—all from London.
Passed in tow—Olive Branch, from Callao, for Landon
Anchored off South Foreland - Oriental, from Alexan-
dria, for London.
Sailed—City of Quebec, John Bull, Gannymede, Mag-
nolia, Heath Park, Mary Harrison, with all the outward
bound.

Report of the Olive Branch :—Experienced heavy gales
round Cape Horn. Sprung fore and main mast, and has
made the passage from off the Falkland Isles in a disabled
condition. Dec. 21, lat. 2 ..53 S., long, 28,28 W., sig-
nalled ship Lord Harris, from London to Melbourne. Deo.
31, lat. 25.3 N., long. 41.40 W., spoke ship Agamemnon,
from Liverpool to New Orleans.

CRYSTAL PALACE.—OHR SHILLING DAY.—Yesterday
the admiBsions t)ri payinelp were 1,165.; by 'moon toketa.
429 ; total, 1,694.