The Sun.
London, England, 1850-04-08 00:00:00

LONDON,

TALLOW.
The transactions in foreign Tallow, f;inee Monday
last, Lava bec,:i very modorate. In prices, howrver, no
chani;e has tultt2u Y. C. on the sp.)t sdling
to-day at 36s 9d to 37s per exc. For forwird delivery
nurneruu4 offers are in the market at 38s 3d for the last
thre‘: months. Town Tallow has thelined 2s par cwt,
the present net cash price being 35, 6.1 per cwt. Rough
far, 2s per B'b:,, with an abundant supply offering.

1846.

1647.

1819.

Stock this day • • ...!.

Price of Y. C. • • .. I

13,616
42s 6d

11,392 6,65 1 28,049 j 30,558
49s 2d 52s Od Od to, 36s 9d
to 49s Gd to 52s Gd Os Od to 37s Od

899 1,161 899 1,623
73,691 90,795 87,766 / 83,180
7 (,t7% 1,470 73
74,455 89,559 106,282 88,267
41s Ocl 153 s Od sis Od 41s 6d 3,1 s Od

to Os Od
Delivery last week • • 1,085
Ditto from June 1.. • . 80,797
Arrivals last week 44
Ditto from June 1.. 78,609

l'rice of Town ......

CRIMINAL COURT.—(THIS DAY.)
The Old Bailey Sessions for April were open, d this
morning by the Right Hon. the Lord Mayor, the Recor-
der, Alderman Sir George Carroll, Alderman Carden,
Sheriff's Lawrence and Nicoll, atteadad by the Under-
Sheriffs and t ther civic functionaries.
The grand jury having been sworn,
The Reconnen proceeded to deliver his charge. He
said the calendar contained the names of 212 prisoners,
who were charged with various offences, and that num-
ber would be augmented by additional commitments
during the progress of their labours; therefore he could
not hold out the expectation that the performance of
their duties would be limited to any very short period.
The calendar bore a very serious aspect, for it com-
prehended charges of almost every denomination—from
misdemeanours of various descriptions to the heinous
crime of murder. There were three eases of murder, but
one of them was the subjf ct of an indictment at a former
sessions, and remained for the disposal of the present,
and therefore it would be unnecessary to call their atten-
tion to the facts of the case, as they had been sufficiently
adverted to before the grand jury, to whom it was pre-
sented. The other two cases were of a very painful and
melancholy character, owing to the position of the parties
accused. In one the party was charged upon the coro-
ner's inquisition with manslaughter, but ho had been
committed by the magistrate before whom he was
examined on the crime of murdering his own wife.
The accused party in the other case was charged with
the murder of her own infant. With regard to the first,
he observed, it was not the ordinary case of the em-
ployment of some dangerous weapon, which, by the ap-
plication of single or repeated blows, occasioned the
death of the party, but her death was the melancholy
result. (that was to say, if it could be attributed to the
act of the prisoner) of a long course of ill-treatment,
and to the infliction of personal violence. The imme-
diate cause of death seemed to apply to an extravasation
of blood, not exactly on the brain, but in such a manner
as to compress it to a considerable extent.
They would, however' consider the evidence, and more
particularly that of the surgeon, before they ventured to
return a bill charging the party with murder; and it
must be proved to their satisfaction that the act, or re-
peated acts, of the prisoner were the occasion of death.
It was suggested by the depositions that repeated blows,
prevention of ordinary rest, striking and beating the
head, and boxing the ears with great violence, had
brought the head of the deceased to such a state as to
make a single blow, which otherwise might have been
harmless, have a fatal effect. That course of repeated
treatment, as he had observed, had produced a great ex-
travasation of blood, and the party having fallen down in
a state of weakness in the shop of her husband, who was a
baker, she became insensible, and after lingering in that
state for twenty-four hours she sank under the influence
of those various circumstances. There did not appear
to have been any blows which of themselves were calcu-
lated to produce such a result, but it was easy to under-
stand that after a series of ill-treatment had enfeebled a
frame a malicious mind might take advantage of the
opportunity to complete the destruction of the individual,
although, to common observation, the last particular
instance of cruelty might seem a alight exhibition of pas-
sion or ill-nature, which could have no fatal effect. If
they thought this last act was designed to produce the
result which unhappily followed, there could be no ques-
tion, though no instrument was used, that the crime
amounted to murder. On the other hand, however, they
ought to strain no part of the depositions to arrive at
that conclusion, but should take the most charitable view
which the circumstances of the case could warrant. But
he was bound to tell them, that whenever it was proved
that the life of a party had been taken by the act of
another, it laid on the accused party to make out those
matters which rendered the act a less crime than that
of murder. If they thought the act was that of an in-
temperate man, giving way to his passion, and not intend-
ing the mischief which ensued, they would make the
crime something lower than murder ; but, should they
entertain a different opinion, it was his business to tell
them that they could not shrink from the due discharge
of their duty, however painful, and send the case to be
dealt with by the Court below upon an indictment
charging the nigher crime. The other case of murder
was also of a very lamentable character—it was that of
a mother, who had previously shown great kindness and
affection to her children, taking away the life of an in-
fant, and possibly they would arrive at the conclu-
sion that at the time of the occurrence the accused was
suffering from a disordered mind, the consequence of a
recent confinement; but he was bound to say that they
had no authority to ignore a bill on the ground of insa-
nity, and if they thought the mother committed the act
by which the child was deprived of life, it was their duty
to put the case in the course of further inquiry. He
might remind them that when insanity was proved to
the satisfaction of the Court the accused party was al-
ways taken care of by the authorities. There was a
case of rape upon a child, 10 years old, which he thought
ought to he further investigated. There was also a very
serious case for obtaining money by means of menaces
and threats, the punishment for which offence was
awarded by the 7th WM. IV. and Ist Vic., chap. 87,
sec. 4. Four persons were involved in the charge, and
they had, it appeared, directly or indirectly, threatened
to accuse a person of an iniquitous crime, and under the
operation of that threat from time to time obtained
various sums of money from him. By the intervention
of a female relative their proceedings were checked and
brought to light. The Learned Recorder then referred
to a case of arson, in which the main evidence against
the party was the tracing of his steps to within fifteen
yards of the place where the fire happened, to a case of
assault in which one of the parties lost an eye, and to
other cases of a minor character in the calendar, and
then remitted the grand jury to the discharge of their
important duties.