The Sun.
London, England, 1850-05-13 00:00:00

;lid from Scotland 340 horned and polled Scots.
0115,re was a decided falling off in the numbf-r of Sheep,
shearing
to the wet weather of last week having prevented
ter Sibs, the
atearing in some localities. All breeds moved off freely,
Ito improvement in the prices f Monday last of 2cl
primest old Downs selling at 4s per Sibs.
rab.B, the supply of which was but moderate, sold
and, in some instances, the currencies had an
leadAwar d tendency. From the Isle of Wight nearly 4C 0
l limato hand. The sale for Calves was inactive, at
tr,,,,,t week's quotations. In Pigs very little business was
s.
—dacted, at late rwe

Per Sibs. to sink the offal.
Inferior _ s. d. to S. d, s, d. to .• d•
5k0,,,,- ..it5...... 2 4 2 6 Inferior Sheep —..2 10 3 6
ziquauty•
.... 2 8 210 second qual. Sheep 3 2
8
trim, large Oxen •• 3 0 3 2 Coarse-weolled ditto 3 6 8
La..__
cocots . ..... 3 4 3 6 kouthdown Wether 310 4 0
I,,,_ge,s arse •Calves 210 3 0 Ditto out of the wool 0 0 0 0
54 Dash ditto •• 3 2 3 4 Large Hogs ......3 2 3 6 ikab'ng Calves ..18 0 24 0 Small Porkers ••.. 3 S 4 0
3 .. '' •• •• •• 4 8 510 Quarter old Pigs —l6 0 21 0
Beasts.TOTAL SUPPLY AT MAREET•
3,579 I Shen.. Calves. 1 Pigs.
I 23,070 177 230
Beasts 1 FOREIGN SUPPLY.
203 Sheep. I Calves. I Pigs.
340 75
.
ThIsrEW.GELTZ AND IMAIDENIZILLI.
markets e arrivals of country-killed been small;
to these
:
Since Monday lest have been small; but the
tontlwieh
.offering, slaughtered in the metropolis, have
do,_ at increased. Nevertheless, a good business
his-
-6e4,,ug, at prices re'atively higter than those in Sm't
‘4About 500 carcases of Foreign Meat have been
"'posed of.

.2t perr stone by the Carcase.
hen- _ s. d. to s. d. s. d. to s. d.
elarge ..
1nfer10r...... 110 2 0 Mutton, Inferior 2 4 2 6
1'141114 •... 2 2 2 4 , middling.. 2 8 3 0
2 s prime .... 3 2 3 6
Vekl.P.l:4ae 'mall ••2 10 30 ' Pork, large •• •• 210 3 4
'''
•••••••• 23 3 4 small .• • • .... 3 6 4 0
Lamb. Is 4d t* 58 6d.
The • WOOL.
titoports of Wool into London, last week, were 28
alesl,s9n 4,11.°M namburgh 1,960 ditto, from Port Adelaide;
tsai,„,'rotti Port Philip; 200 from Bombay; 2 from Ja-
inacr3 35 from Constantinople ; and 11 bags from Ire-
-4,,14 The public sales are still progressing steadily.
keadin. "t of the parcels as yet offered have changed
tract'' at about the opening prices. In the private con-
. market, very little business is doing.
The • nOROUGEI 110 P
ter Imports of foreign Hops into London, last week,
A, , 40 bales from Ostend, and 47 ditto from Antwerp.
%ha% lh our market is very moderately supplied with
veto a°rne-grown, the demand is in a very sluggish
than land, in some instances, prices are a shade lower
lei last 8s week. Mid and East Kent pockets, 6l to
! „
048,, ' uevg Weald of Kent ditto, 61 to 81; new
14/;'1 ditto, 5/ 5s to 61 lOs ; new Farnhams, 121 to
go a, Yearling Dents 3/ to 41 ss; yearling Sussex, 21 Ss
'2B; old Hops 1/ to 31 per cwt.
I,6IIO3ZOUGH AND SPITALSIELDS.
:. arrivals of home-grown Potatoes, last week
teast, ,
to,tille and by land carriage, were about 2,500 tons.
jkirk aorl in:?l,lent:vseorafe condition. From abroad we re-
-403.— 1,318 i tons', derived as follows :—Ratterdam,
Antwerp, 1881; Louvain, 3; Dun-
tok: Bruges, 150; Rouen, 279; and Calais, 75
last rieked samples command a steady sale, at fully
Week'sdo6; quotations. In all other kinds very little is
to oh
on lower terms. From the Ist of August, 1849,
Nticoo 4th instant, 78,999 tons of foreign Potatoes were
'led by the City meters.
York Per Ton. Per Ton.
Regents 90s to 120 s Common Whites Fss to 40s
Plash_
avra for Kent Shaws
",„cote ..... —to —s Essex Regents
014." egents 70s to 85s Ditto Shaves
Ditto rn,lCups 60s to 70s Ditto Kidneys
"iiirs • —s to s Chats, souud SOs to 40s
44P1„:81 —s to s Ditto damaged lss to 20s
ii,,yiBc:o,Ka.:lnegee3r2sts.
_7os to 90s French Whites
bitt e'tch ditto 70s to 85s Belgian Whites 4os to 50s
sto - s Dutch Whites
twiekßegts..... 653 to 80s German ditto
TALLOW. •
'lin,' accounts from Sr Petersburgh state that a very
red bu - ,n English ac,

toti,t ousiness was doing in Tallow gas..
thar, ; Yet the holders were firm. About 900 ca, k 3 bad
) char
hands, at 111 roubles, with 10 down, and 110
,134b1,
4 8 c'n the spot Our market is somewhat inactive.
tri •
r‘ces, however, we have no change to notice. To-day,
• oil the spot, is selling at 374, and for forward de-
ass "3 3d to 383 6d per cwt net cash; Town Tallow,
36s per cwt net cash; rough f3t 2s per 81bs.

1846.

1847. 1848

koelt this day 10,343
' 42s 3d
of Y C. •• • • bo ;2s 6d
belt
bl!erY last week •• 1,(21
from June I • • 85,367
tvals last week . Elie
Jununee
1 .• • 80,426
'4 Of Town • • • • •
448 Od--

9,079 8,383
478 Od 47s Od
to 4786 d to Os Od

23,646 25,606
38s 9d to 373 Od
Os Od to Os ocl
1,272 1,138
94,279 90,743

585 j 1,207
77,212 96,012
426 1,798
75,666 96,294
49s 6d 49s Od

100 273
110,392 90,878

393 6d 1 lis Cd

EXCHEQUER.—(THIS DAY.)
sittings
at Nisi-Priu., at Westminster, before the
LORD CHIEF BARON, and Special Juries.)
Th. THE ATTORNEY-GENERAL V. BLADE.
ag,i'l* was an information tiled by the Attorney-General
to penst the defendant for a violation of the revenue laws
Iligard to the manufacture of malt.
.e ease was undefended..
041, appeared that the defendant was a malster carrying
ktevusiness at Stockton, in Wiltshire, and that be had
tittjed certain premises, aL:cording to the requirements
:mate.lmt° excise law, for the manufacture and preparation of
excise In consequence of some information which the
officers received, they obtained a search warrant,
eetbbelatered the defendant's premises on the 3d of De-
-43,7 6r5 1849, for the purpose of ascertaining whether
aPartments were in use except those which had
siden duly entered. Their attention was directed to a
dwe-door, which appeared to open into an adjoining
°line h and they forced it open, and pro-
teee,, Ouse,
eyed up stairs, and found two rooms which
tot the
to have been used for a considerable period
th„-,,Lun preparation of malt. There were at the time
fo,J entered two quantities of malt in the rooms in a
4,- ward state of vegetation, and a bell was hung up with
b,rfaed clapper which communicated with the premises
kiaOw, and which no doubt was intended to give an
th-,..1;41 in case any of the excise officers should make
him information
below. There were several counts in
14,1 against the defendant, each charging
0,:4 with a separate violation of the revenue laws, and
twoea,ell of those counts the Attorney-General said he
;ri,m press fur a penalty of 100/.
he CHIEF BARN having summed up, the jury found
erdiet for the Crown for 8001.
Y.`

-OMMON PLEAS.—(THIS DA ~
NI:
3ngs at Guildhall before the LORD CHIEF JUSTICE
and a Commom Jury.)
The b •
ness brought before the Court this morning
44 business
to cif an entirely uninteresting character, and presented
feature worthy of a report.

COURT.—(THIS DAY.)
Vielore PIEW COURT.
the COMMON SERGEANT, and Mr. Alderman W.

HUNTEa.)
Patrick Prendergast, Joseph Brown, and Thomas
S'fee
" were indicted with burglariously breaking ann
Z44ll;ig the twelling-house of Mr. Terry, 111, Upper
st Smithfield, and stealing a quantity of wearing ap-
portf :319 and other articles, his property, on the morning
the 19th of last month.
toiitry"vvn and Steers pleaded guilty, and Prendergast, not
tjsbe charge against the lltter prisoner failrd in its
th(a t Material fart, the only evidence against him being
~t;,ht-t was been in company with Brown.
jury acquitted Prendergast, and,
"e COMMON SERGEANT sentenced Brown and Steen:
tQ seven )ears' transportation.

OLD COURT.
(Before the ItECORDER.)
CUTTING AND WOUNDING.— 14 idiom Neal, aged 43,
ht
bearer, was indicted tor feloniou,ly cutting and
trillt"mg Anne Hefferman, with intent to do her some
70118 bodily harm. The prisoner pleaded Not
thlir. Payne prosecuted, and Mr. Kenealey defended
e prisoner.
1,;14,1111 Refferman, the prosecutrix, stated that she lived
t'" her mother in Pie-street, Westminster, and re-
thernbered being at home on the Saturday night before
WC examined at the police-court. The prisoner
rtxlll,-,ged with her mother, and she asked him for a little
4„-,re money than he had given her. He said he would
If‘ give her any more till he got better convenience.
er mother said a feather bolster, which was in his
),:a°,lln, had been made away with, and he said it vas
41,:be away with by witness. Witness said it was no
te-' thing, and she caught hold of the sleeve of his shirt
from
make him listen to her. He putted himself away
Lc're her, and a piece of his shirt was left behind in her
LT". He then went upstairs, and she went up after
vi3l, when he struck her a blow across the forehead
,4114th a hatchet. After that she was not conscious of
,at ,happened, and when she came to again she found
j'aelf Westminster Hospital, where she remained
ea days.
Catherine Macarthy, Ellen Summers, and other wit.
tresses, corroborated the evidence of the prosecutrix.
th, Dating. the examination of Summers, who admitted
she had three times been imprisoned for minor
°fe.lees of assault,
r• PAYNE complained that Mr. Kenealey in cress-
cx.4l
-Ellining the witness drew upon his imag,nation for
••Olestions.
Werth
XENEALEY observed that it was false—a falseaced
m Y.,,0f his learned antagonia.
•rtiur,vl.2 rATNE ret)rted that some pPople did not care
"" what other people said. Had the observaticn
4 tatide
orth by any other person be might have felt it
Th while to notice it.
tlem e RECORDER said it was very unusual for one gen-
tlext44 to address such an observation to another gen
tue,,...ian, particularly a gentleman wearing the robes of a
r of the English bar.
2r• IiENEALEY insisted that Mr. Payne had con-
thetethe case in a manner anything but worthy of a
"14,VEernan of the bar.
htoh f!".4.42ORDER had heard nothing from Mr. Payne
,hould provoke or justify such language.
• ii-ENEALEv then addressed the jury for the de-
ro,_,econdending that the offence arose out of an Irish
pysenerthe prosecutrix was as much to blame as the
ehe
le having pvoked him by her irritating
The Iyind sinister ins provoked him by her irritating
Sinister insinuations.
Learned P,ECORDER having summed up,
•
VardictiurY considered for a few minutes and returned a
„, of Guilt
The c Y.
for
seven ears.
sentenced the prisoner to be transported
This Years,
B closed the business of the session.
Par

floe t4II3C"S'4 THEATRE. :..lassingharn. the re-
til-eed functionary who presides at the box-office of this
11134:e, takes his benefit to-morrow night, when he provides
Of 4ita and varied list pf eutertAinmento for the amusement
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