The Sun.
London, England, 1844-08-24 00:00:00

MARKET INTELLIGENCE.

(From the London New Price Current of Aug. 23.)
SUGAR.—The market has presented a firmer appear-
ance for all descriptions of Sugar subject to the 24s duty
and 5 per cent this week. To-day there was no public
sale of Colonial Sugar of any sort. For Westlndia pre-
vious rates were sustained, and a fair demand existed ;
bright yellow sorts are still the most in request. The
total purchases for the week are 1,750 hhds and trcs, the
market closing with a firm appearance.
REFINED.—There has been a much better demand for
refined goods for home consumption this week, the re•
finers are not so eager to sell, and large parcels have been
disposed of, but at no improvement in prices. Brown
Lumps have been selling at 72s 6d to 735, Standard
Lumps 73s 6d to 745, Tittlers 73s to 80s, Ham-
burgh Loaves 73s 6d to 81s, double ditto 82s
to 925, and wet Lumps 70s to 73s per cwt.
To-day several parcels of refined goods were taken by
the home trade; brown Lumps at 73s to 73s 6d, and
standard 74s to 74s 6cr per cwt. For crushed Sugar
made under bond there continues to be a good demand,
and it is difficult to purchase first sort under 27s 6d per
cwt. Of Loaves large parcels have been disposed of at
rather higher rates.
Fonmox.—Previous rates have been fully supported
for yellow llavannah Sugar, the demand has been good,
and the private purchases are 1,300 chests good quality
for refining under bond here at 21s, and 600 chests for
exportation at 19s to 22s for middling to fine.
Brown Brazil is much wanted, and prices remain firm ;
the private transactions are 200 chests Bahia at 18s 3d
to 18s 6d per cwt—in white rather more business trans-
acted.

MAURlTlUS.—lmporters are less inclined to realise,
and have supplied the market sparingly this week ; more
inclination has been shown to purchase, and privately
several parcels have been disposed of—the better quali-
ties are the most wanted, but of such the supply is still
small. This afternoon there was no public sale, but pri-
vately some parcels were sold at very full rates ; the
quantity remaining in first hands is greatly reduced.
EAST INDlA.—There has been no public sale ofForeign
East India Sugar this week. Holders still manifest
firmness, and nothing is pressing for sale privately. The
demand has been only for small parcels, at the previous
currency ; there are, however, purchasers of Manila
and Java to a large extent at a slight reduction in prices.
To-day at public sale 290 baskets of Java Sugar were
sold at the full value, middling foxey yellow at 17s 6d
to 18s, low yellow 17s to 17s 6d, washed 16s 6d, sound
grey, 19s 6d to 20s, and good white at 21s Gd to 22s per
cwt. Of white and strong yellow Bengal Sugar several
parcels were sold privately at full rates.
MOLASSES.—A good business has been transacted in
"West India, but at low rates. The purchases amount to
300 puns St. Vincent at 225, Antigua, 24s 6d, St Kitt's
20s to 22s per cwt. The demand is still principally for
the outports. East India Molasses could only be dis-
posed of but upon low terms.
Cocoa.—Foreign is held with firmness, and the de-
mand is on the increase ; some parcels have been dis-
posed of privately at ful rates, nono has again been
offered at auction ; West India has met with increased
attention, at stiffer rates. Grenada sold at 44s to 44s 6d
for fine red, 43s to 43s 6d for good, 42s 6d for middling
rather dark, and 31s to 43s 6d per cwt for sea damaged ;
Trinidad fetched 46s Gd for good bold red, 45s to 45s 6d
for good middling gray, 36s to 38s for old wormy, and
28s to 34s for very inferior ditto.
RlCE—Bengal has met with less attention this week.
Importers are more inclined to realise, and have sub-
mitted to a reduction on previous rates of 3d per cwt ;
by private contract, the operations are upon a small
scale, middling white at lOs 6d to 11s, good middling
bold 1 Is to 11s Gd, good 1 ls 6d, sea-damaged 5s tot
lis, and Indigo damaged 11s. The market has become
quiet for Foreign East India Rice, and at a public sale
Madras
declined 3d to Gd per cwt ; low to good yellow
selling at 8s to 8s Cd, and small pile of middling white
lOs Gd per cwt. Carolina at 21s to 265, and Patna
at 14s to 18s per cnt.
COCHINEAL has brought full rates, and a fair busi-
ness has been transacted by private contract. None
has been offered at auction,
EE.but 40 serons Honduras are
declared
ITViteh Westsday India Coffee the market has
coFF fof
been better supplied this week, still the trade have pur-
chased sparingly, and the limited business transacted has
been at a reduction on former rates of 2s per cwt. This
afternoon Rio partly sold at 30s for ord rather mixed,
and 283 for sea damaged, being the full value ; Savanilla
fetched 28s, and triage 20s 0d ; Ceylon mid coloury
went at 81s to 85s 6d, low mid 71s to 73s 6d, fiße
ord 62s 6d, pea berry 73s to 92s 6d, triage 42s to 528 ;

Mocha was nearly all withdrawn ; Havannah privately,
37s 6d to 40s per cwt.
TEA.—There has been more activity in the market
this week, and importers have shown firmness. The
rates previously established are fully sustained for
Congou, and the demand has been good for all descrip-
tions: lOid to lld paid for large parcels of common
sound, I lid to is Old for good common, is ld to is 6d
for middling and good blackish leaf, and is bid to 2s 4d
for fine and Pekoe descriptions. Pouchong has met
with increased attention at 5d to 9d, and for superior
sorts 10d to is per lb have been paid—this is still the
cheapest description of Tea. Seuchong, however, is not
much wanted, and the supply exceeds the demand.
Scented Orange Pekoo is greatly wanted, and prices
rule high, awing to the smallness of the supply; sales
made at 3s id to 3s 5d ; Plain Orange Pekoe at Is 7d
to 2s 4d ; Twankey at is 2d to is 3d per lb ; the better
kinds is 4d to is 8d ; and superior Hyson kind is 9d to
2s sd. Imperial and Gunpowder are in good request.
Hyson common at 2s 4d to 2s 6d per lb. For Caper
there has been a much better demand. In Flowery
Pekoe and young Hyson the operations are upon a more
extended scale, and prices rule firm. To-day the mar-
ket was firm, and a fair business was done in most de-
scriptions, common and good common Congou cash
fetched Ild to is per lb.

SPICES.—HoIder; Of Black Pepper have shown firm-
ness this week, and none has been offered at auction.
To-day Cassia Lignea met with more attention at public
sale, but a decline on former rates of is to 2s per cwt,
good middling 11 lb bundles went at 58s 6d to 61s,
mid 56s 6d to 58s, good ord 50s 6d to 51s, half bundles
51s to 545, mouldy 48s 6d to 53s 6d, cockroach
damaged 49s 6d to 54s 6d, sea damaged 445,
broken 47s 6d to .48s 6d per cwt. Of Nutmegs
16 casks were offered, and mostly sold at firm rates,
good mid brown Singapore fetched 3s 6d to 3s 7d, good
3s 8d to 3s 9d, fine 5s 2d, mid 3s 4d to 3s sd, low mid
3s. and worm eaten 6d to is Id ; sound for exportation
only taken in at is 6d to 2s 2d. Mace, good bright Sin-
gapore fetched 5s 7d, good mid 4s 6d to 4s 9d, mid
3s 2d to 3s 6d, ord 2s Bd, and mouldy Is 10d.
Cloves were not much in request, and 41 chests Penang
at public sale sold Id to 2d per lb cheaper, and went at
2s 5d to 2s 7d for fine bold bright Penang, and 2s to
2s 3d for good. Pepper was little inquired for.
SAGO has been inquired for, 1t,2. bags at auction were
bought in at 14s per cwt for midoling small brown Pearl.
Sago Flour at 18s to 20s per cwt. Holders remain firm
and supply the market sparingly. This afternoon of
Sago 190 chests at auction were all taken in at 24s for
fine small white Pearl, and 21s for fine large Brown
being above the value.
Rum, BRANDY, AND HOLLANDS.—Of Jamaica Rum,
in second hands, extensive parcels have been taken by
the shippers and the home trade, at prices showing an
advance on those previously quoted of ld to 2d per
gallon. The purchases amount to 400 puns at 3s 8d to
4s 6d for 32 to 38 per cent over proof. Leewards at
2s 4id to 2s 5d per gallon proof. Demerara at 3s 5d to
3s 7d for choice marks 36 to 41 per cent over. Calcutta
Rum at 2s 2id to 2s 3d per gallon proof, with certificate.
The arrivals of Rum are still small. Brandy—Cognac
best brands, of the vintage of 1838, hhds at 5s 4d, puns
at 5s 2d ; ditto 1839, hhds 5s 2d, puns 5s ; ditto 1840,
hhds 5s ld, puns 4s lld ; ditto
.1841, hhds ss, puns
4s 10d; ditto 1842, hhds 4s 9d, puns 4s 7d; middling and
good middling 3s 3d to 4s 6d, and low 2s lld to 3s Id
per gallon; of the last mentioned sort the supply has
become scanty. Geneva fine for home consumption is
fetching 2s 6d to 3s fid per gallon. English Corn Spirits
remain at lOs 2d per gallon, nett cash.
FRUlT.—Grocers have taken several parcels of Cur-
rants, paying 47s to 49s for Patras, and 41s to 43s for
Zante and Cphalonia. Importers show much firmness.
INDIGO. —An increased desire has been shown to pur-
chase East India this week. All descriptions have been
in excellent request for exportation, and several parcels
sold for home consumption. Picked lots are fetching a
profit of 2d to 4d per lb ; at public sale, however, 100
chests were withdrawn at stiff rates ; Madras at 2s 3d to
2s 4d per lb for low quality. Spanish is wanted, and the
tendency of prices is upwards ; the market is sparingly
supplied.

SALTPETRE.—In the early part of the week the mar-
ket for rough, without any apparent cause, suddenly be-
came dull, and previous rates were with difficulty sus-
tained. To-day some purchases were made privately.
At auction, 850 bags Calcutta were taken in at 6d per
cwt above the value, 5 per cent refraction good dry yel-
lowish white at 26s 6d, the remainder, however, sold at
very full rates, and fetched 24s to 24s 6d for middling
grey, rather dump 13ftl per cent refraction.
OILS.—In common descriptions of Fish Oils few pur-
chases have been made this week, and former rates are
with difficulty maintained. Pale Seal at 351 to 35155,
and Cod 33/ 15s to 341 per tun. Sperm Oil is wanted,
and prices rule high. Linseed is again cheaper, but at
25s per cwt a good business has been transacted ; the
supply is, however, on the increase. Rape Oil at 36s 6d
to 37s for pale, and 353 6d to 36s per cwt for brown. Olive
Oil at 451 to 46/ for Gallipoli, 431 to 44/ for Spanish, and
Barbary 40/ per tun. Holders show firmness. Palm
at 26s to 28s per cwt for good and tine quality. Cocoa
Nut Oil at 28s to 30s per cwt. This afternoon at public
sale 140 tuns of Sperm Oil went at 831 15s to 851, and
Headmatter 901 to 911 15s ; of 130 tuns of Southern a
small part only sold at 29/ 104 to 311 for good and fine,
and 261 lOs to 28/ lOs per tun for inferior.

TALLOW.—An increased desire has been shown to
purchase Russian Tallow; on the spot the demand has
been very good, and an advanced rate paid, P Y Candle
selling at 41s 3d to 42s per ewt for fine quality. For
delivery the operations are upon a more extended scale
at 42s per cwt for the last three months of the
year. Town Tallow has brought stiffer rates and
the market has been rearly cleared at 40s 6d to 41s per
cwt nett cash. For other sorts of Tallow prices are still
improving. This afternoon at public sale New South
\Vales Tallow sold at 36s to 42s 3d ; Taganrog 38s 6d
to 40s 3d ; South American 353 to 39s 6d ; fine Sheep
Odessa 40s 3d to 405 6d ; and East India 42s to 42s 9d
per cwt.

COURSE OF EXCHA3
Amsterdam CF. 12 41
Ditto, at sight l2 2
Rotterdam 2U. 12 5
Antwerp 25 85
Ilamburgh M.B. 13 131
Altona l3 14
Paris, 3 days' sight 25 60
Ditto, 3 months 25 85
Marseilles 25 90
Bourdeaux 25 90
Frankfort on Maine l2l

I GE.—(YESTERDAY.)
Gibraltar
Leghorn 3O 50
Genoa 25 85
Milan
Venice
Naples 39i
Palermo, per oz llBl
Lisbon s4fr
Oporto s4i
Rio Janeiro 23
Bahia 23
Buenos Ayres
NewYork,2ldys sight
Philadelphia
PRICES OF BULLION, PER OZ.
Foreign Gold, bars... 3 17 9
Portugal Gold Coin 3 17 5
New Doubloons..... 0 0 0
New Dollars 0 4 10
Silver in Bars 0 4 11

Petersburgh, 3Us 37
Berlin 7
Vienna, effee. il. 3 M 952
Trieste, ditto
Madrid 37

Cadiz
Bilbao 36
Barcelona 36

Seville

HER MAJESTY'S VISIT TO IRELAND.—We learn
from a quarter on which we place reliance—without,
however, undertaking to vouch for the fact—that the
long-looked-for visit of her Majesty to Ireland will cer-
tainly take place during the present autumn. Our inform-
ant states that the first week in October is actually named
for this gratifying excursion. We are also assured that,
in the event of the judgment against O'Connell and the
other State prisoners being affirmed by the House of
Lords, an act of Royal grace in their favour is contem-
plated, and that the remaining term of their imprison-
ment will be remitted, Such an act would be as ap-
propriate to the occasion as it would be conciliatory in
its influence upon the Irish people, and would cer-
tainly conduce to the public tranquillity. We under-
stand that, should the weather prove favourable, her
Majesty is desirous of taking a short aquatic excursion
in the early part of September. The arrival of the
King of the French is expected about the 17th, and will
extend to a week or ten days ; during which every
means of welcoming and entertaining his Majesty, on
a scale suited to his dignity, and the magnificence and
state of our beloved Sovereign, will be employed. On
the departure of the French King, the preparations for
the royal visit to Ireland will commence. The royal
yacht has been ordered to be in immediate readiness.—
Evening Paper.
EXPERIMENTS IN THII WOOLIVICII MARSHES.—
Major-General James Webber Smith, C. 8., Director-
General of Artillery, Colonel Peterson, Colonel Lacy,
Royal Artillery, Colonel Sir George House, C. 8., Royal
Engineers, Lieutenant-Colonel Densey, C. 8., Lieutenant-
Colonel Dundas, C. 8., Lieutenant-Colonel Chalmer, As-
sistant Director-General of Artillery, Lieut.-Colonel
Colquhoun, Major Hardinge, K.H., Captain and Ad-
jutant Mitchell, Royal Artillery, Brigade Major Sand-
ham, Captain Stotherd, Captain Howorth, and Captain
Lloyd, Royal Engineers, assembled in the Marshes, at
half-past one o'clock, P.m., yesterday, to witness expe-
riments with four 24-pounder guns, placed at 600 yards
distance from a target, and recoiling on a platform, the
invention of Lieutenant-Colonel Anderson, of the Royal
Engineers. Ten rounds were fired from each gun, and
out of 40 shots fired, exactly 30 entered the target, which
was knocked down in the last round of the second gun
on the right. Previous to the commencement of the
practice 100 shots had been piled in rear of each of the
four guns, and it is intended to fire the whole 40 rounds
to test the strength and efficacy of the platform. The
principle on which the platform is constructed is very
simple, consisting merely of eight pieces of timber, 3f
inches by 41 inches thick, and 9 feet long, joined together
into four sleepers 15 feet long, over which is placed
crosswise 36 pieces of similar dimensions, held together
by wooden pegs about three quarters of an inch in dia-
meter, and having only the two outer pieces attached by
bolts to the sleepers. At the conclusion of the practice
to-day one of the platforms was taken to pieces, and the
wooden pegs were found to have held all the pieces per-
fectly together without any of the pegs being in the least
injured or strained out of their original position, and the
sleepers retained their position without the slightest ap-
pearance of having been displaced by the weight of the
large guns and carriages during the recoil. Before
leaving the marshes Mr. Hale exhibited specimens of his
rockets in the presence of several members of the Select
Committee. Nine of the rockets were fired at 900 yards
range, and ten at 1,100 yards range from wooden tubes.
Some of them went as far as the butt, and others fell
considerably short of that distance, and it did not appear
that a straight line could be depended upon. One other
rocket on a different principle was fired, and it pro-
ceeded, after escaping from the tube, a distance of about
150 yards, at an angle of about 45 degrees, and entered
the ground of a raised bank to imitate the walls. of a
fortification, against which the balls used in ricochet
practice are directed. The practice during the experi-
ments was carried on under the command of Captain
Garstio, with Lieutenants Thomas and Turner, Royal
Horse Artillery, and Lieutenants Barker and Strange,
and five non-commissioned officers, 46 gunners and drivers,
and three buglers.
The Earl of lladdington, the Earl of Aberdeen,
and the Military Secretary to the Commander-in-
Chief, had interviews with Sir Robert Peel yesterday.

PRICES OF SHARES
IN CANALS, RAILWAYS, BANKS, ASSURANCE
AND OTHER COMPANIES' STOCK.

LONDON,"FRIDAY, AUG. 23.

SUMMER ASSIZES.

NORTHERN ClRCUlT.—Liverpool, Aug. 22.
CIVIL SIDE.---(Before Mr. Justice CRESSWELL.)
SMITH V. BOUTCHER.

This was an action to recover the amount of a com-
mission claimed by the plaintiff for obtaining freight for
a ship of the defendant's.
Mr. Knowles and Mr. Crompton were for the plaintiff,
and Mr. Martin and Mr. Edwards for the defendant.

It appeared that the defendant was a ship-owner in
London, and the plaintiff a ship-broker in Liverpool.
Some communication was opened between the plaintiff
and the defendant, and the former procured a freight for
the vessel to Laguayra, with liberty to call at any
island in the West Indies. After the charter-party had
been signed, the defendant entered into a contract with
Government to convey some troops to the Bermudas on
the same voyage. The party on whose behalf the plain-
tiff had made the original contract objected to this, on
the ground that the Bermudas are not in the West
Indies, and required that the charter-party should be
cancelled, which was done. The defendant, however,
objected to pay the plaintiff his commission, the voyage
which he had negotiated having been given up. The
plaintiff alleged that this was no fault of his, nor any
matter to him. He had done his work, and desired to
have his reward. It was shown that the defendant got
about 2601. by the passage of the troops, and that the
freight saved by the vessel was somewhere between 500/.
and 800/. The commission was Si. per cent.
The jury found a verdict for the plaintiff—Damages, 351.

M'CLEERE V. FRANCE AND ANOTHER.

This was an action for an assault and battery. One
of the defendants, William France, pleaded that he was
not guilty, and that the plaintiff first assaulted him.
The other defendant, Thomas France, pleaded not
guilty.
Mr. Wortley and Mr. Cowling appeared for the
plaintiff, and Mr. Martin and Mr. Crompton for the
defendants.

It appeared that the plaintiff is a gentleman of for-
tune, living in Wall-street, Wigan, in this county, of
which place he is also a magistrate. The defendant
William France is a shopkeeper, whose premises open
into a yard into which the plaintiff's premises also open,
and there is a common passage to the yard from the
street. In the yard are the stables and coach-house of
the plaintiff, and a warehouse of the defendant, William
France. The other defendant, Thomas France, is his
brother. On the 27th of May last there was an election
for the southern division of the county. Wigan is one
of the polling places. The plaintiff had been dining with
his party, and had returned to his house about nine
o'clock in the evening, and immediately went into the
yard, where, according to the evidence of a young
woman who was a daughter of the plaintiff's coachman,
the defendant William France came up with a stout
walking-stick in his hand. Something was said between
them, which the witness did not hear, when the de-
fendant William France struck the plaintiff several very
violent blows on the head and face ; so violent that
his hat was cut through and knocked off his head,
and a swelling produced the size of a hen's egg.
Just at that time, Mrs. M'Cleere and a neice
were coming out of the plaintiff's back door
to go to the stable to see a pony of Mr. M'Cleere's
She, seeing her husband assaulted, began to shriek, and
a Mr.f Isherwood, the superintendent of a factory, hear-
ing the cry, ran up the yard. He saw the defendant
William France strike the bare head and face of the
plaintiff twice with the stick. Ilis face was covered with
blood. Thomas France, the other defendant, had the
plaintiff by the shoulder and held him, as it appeared to
the witness, not to prevent mischief, but to give his bro-
ther a better opportunity. The witness rushed between
them, and said, " No more sticks," and they all went
down on the ground together, with Mrs. Kirk the plain-
tiff's niece, who had gone to the spot. She and Smith,
the coachman, gave similar testimony.
Mr. MARTIN addressed the jury for the defendants,
and called witnesses to prove that the plaintiff on his way
home from the election dinner had struck with a stick a
little boy of the defendant William France, who acciden-
tally ran between his legs ; that the child ran home cry
ing to his mother ; that when the defendant came into
the yard she went to him and complained, to which he
replied, " Go to the devil," on which she fetched her
husband. Some of the witnesses also swore that when
the parties met the plaintiff struck the first blow, and
that the only object of Thomas France in interfering
was to separate the parties.
On cross-examination it appeared that most of the
witnesses who deposed to those things were on the other
side of the street, and could only see that part of the
yard which was in a direct line with the passage ; while
most of the plaintiff's witnesses were on the spot. A
servant girl of the defendant, however, stated that she
saw what took place from the steps of her master's back
door, which opened into the yard.
Mr. WORTLEY replied, and the case having been
summed up, the jury returned a verdict for the plaintiff
—Damages 501.
In the Crown Court the Lord Chief Baron was en-
gaged during the whole day in trying cases of rape.
OXFORD ClRCUlT.—Gloucester, Aug. 22.

CROWN CO URT.—( Before Mr. Sergeant ATCHERLEY.)
HORRIBLE ATROCITY.— Thomas Goatman, aged 17,
was indicted for unlawfully and maliciously wounding a
mare, the property of William Humpidge.
Mr. Skinner conducted the prosecution, Mr. Francillon
defended the prisoner.
It appeared that on the 10th of April last, the prisoner,
who was a farm servant of Mr. Humpidge, for some rea-
son or other which did not transpire, was dissatisfied
with one of the horses committed to his charge, a fine
and valuable young mare; he was observed by some by-
standers to go from the stables anti to cut a short thick
stick from a " service" tree in a neighbouring hedge.
And shortly afterwards he was seen punching the animal
about the hind-quarters, with a piece of stick about
twelve or fourteen inches in length. No one witnessed
the brutal and atrocious act which the scoundrel next
committed, but the evidence left no doubt that, after
some further ill-usage, he thrust the piece of wood, which
he previously tapered with a knife at either extremity,
up the hind-quarters of the poor mare, as the meatus
urinarius, the bladder, and intestines were lacerated in
a horrible manner, and the poor animal, in the convul-
sive throes induced by the agony she underwent, actually
caused the weapon in question to work its way forward
through her body until it reached her chest, whence it
was cut, after death, by a labouring man who came up
shortly afterwards. It was suggested, on behalf of the
prisoner, with more ingenuity than probability, that the
mare might have swallowed the stick while browsing in
the field. As both ends were, however, trimmed with a
knife, and as the ground under the tree was strewed with
leaves and chips, and the prisoner had been seen using
his knife there, he was at once convicted by the jury.
The Court passed upon him the comparative lenient
sentence of twelve months' imprisonment.

CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT.

OLD COURT.

INFANTICIDE.—Sarah Hyland, aged 22, spinster, was
placed at the bar charged with the wilful murder of her
new-born child.

After the evidence had been heard, Mr. Ballantyne
addressed the jury for the prisoner, when
Mr. Baron GURNEY summed up, and put the case
to the jury as one of concealment of birth.

The-jury deliberated for a considerable time, when
they retired to consider their verdict. They were
locked up nearly eight hours, and at length they re-
turned a verdict finding the prisoner Guilty of con-
cealing the birth, and not guilty of murder.
Faith Bowerman, 17, was also indicted for the
murder of her female illegitimate child, by casting it
upon the ground, and thereby giving it divers mortal
wounds and fractures, of which it then and there died.

, Mr. Simon conducted the prosecution. Mr. Char-
nock appeared for the prisoner.
, In this case it appeared that the prisoner was a
country girl, and in the month of April she came to
London on a visit to her brother, who resides in the
Belvidere-road, Lambeth. Shortly before the Ist of
July the prisoner had complained of being unwell,
and her sister-in-law went out on that day to get
some salts for her. Upon her return the sister saw
some appearances which induced her to suspect that
the prisoner had been delivered of a child, and she
taxed her with it, but the prisoner denied that it was
the case. Shortly afterwards, however, the body of
an infant alive was found in a gateway close to the
house where the prisoner lived, but there was no dis-
tinct evidence that she had been delivered of an infant.
At the time the infant was found it had some marks
of violence upon the head and upon the body,
and the inference was that the child had been thrown
over a wall that adjoined the prisoner's brother's resi-
dence to the place where it was found. When the
prisoner was questioned she denied all knowledge of
the child, but appeared dreadfully weak and agitated.
Mr. Oliver Duke, the surgeon of Lambeth parish,
who examined the child at the workhouse, proved
that the head was very much contused, and the bones
of the skull were fractured. The back was also very
much bruised. The infant, notwithstanding these
injuries, was. alive when he first saw it, but it died
about two hours afterwards, and he attributed that
event to the injury that was received upon the head.
In cross-examination the surgeon said that the in-
jury that appeared upon the head might have been
occasioned by falling upon the stairs. He also said
that the loss of blood consequent upon the delivery of
a child would in some cases almost occasion a state of
frenzy in the mind of the mother.
Mr. CIIARNOCK addressed the jury, and contended
that the evidence was altogether insufficient to war-
rant the jury in convicting the prisoner of the heinous
offence of which she was accused.
Mr. Justice WIG [IT lAN having summed up, the
jury found the prisoner guilty of manslaughter.
Judgment was respited.
Amelia Alfrey, 26, was indicted for feloniously
assaulting Mary Anne French, and casting her into
the water, with intent to drown and murder her.
Mr. Charnock defended the prisoner.
William Alfrey, a little boy, deposed that the pri-
soner was his sister, and he lived with her, by the
' water-side, at Wandsworth. On the 29th of July he
was on Wandsworth-common, and saw the prisoner
there, accompanied by her tWo children, a little girl
and a boy; their names were Henry French and Mary
Anne French. The prisoner lived with a man named
French, and the children went by his name. Shortly
afterwards he heard the prisoner scream, and on going
to her he found her in a pond with her children. It
was very shallow water, and he ran in and held up
the children's heads, and also tried to hold up the pri-
soner's head. A little time before this occurred, he
had seen the prisoner walking about, and she told him
to go home. He did not see the prisoner carry the
children into the water, but he thought they walked in. [

Cross-examined—There were plenty of people about
at the time the prisoner was in the water. The water
was not deeper than just above the knee.
George Steer deposed that on the evening in
question he heard a scream, and went to the pond,
and found the prisoner and her two children in the
water. Witness assisted to get them out, and ascer-
tained that one of the children was tied to the
prisoner's body with a shawl, but he could not state
whether the other was attached to her. The prisoner
was lying upon her back in the water, and appeared
in an exhausted state, and all she said was, " My
children ! my children !" in a low tone. The prisoner
and her children were then taken to the workhouse.

By Mr. CHARNocK—In witness's opinion the
mother and her two children all screamed together.
The pond was not at this time very deep. The
prisoner appeared very much exhausted, and her
hands had changed colour. Witness had heard that
the prisoner was once confined in a lunatic asylum.
William Lee, a police-constable, said that he found
the prisoner in the state described by the last witness,
and assisted to convey her to the workhouse. He
produced the shawl taken from the prisoner.
By Mr. CHARNOCK—He heard the prisoner say it
was trouble that had made her do it.

Emily Alfrey, the prisoner's mother, deposed that
she was not married to the father of the children in
question, but they had cohabited together for six
years. tie had latterly deserted her, and she had in
consequence become very ill, and was confined in a
lunatic asylum for six weeks, and when she was dis-
charged she went to live at witness's house. Before
the Ist of July witness had observed symptoms in the
prisoner's conduct of her head becoming bad again.
John Busain, an inspector of police, proved that he
received the prisoner in charge, and told her that she
was accused of attempting to murder her children and
to commit suicide, and she replied, in a faint tone,
It is distress that drove me to do it." The witness
then produced a letter found upon the prisoner when
she was taken to the workhouse.

The mother was re-called, and she stated that the
letter in question was written by the man French,
and in it he expressed his intention to abandon her.
(The letter was read.) The witness said that after
the prisoner received this letter she observed the
ymptoms in the prisoner's conduct that she referred to.
In cross-examination the mother said that French
had been charged with some offence, and the prisoner
had exerted herself very much to obtain a lenient sen-
tence for him. She appeared very fond of her children.
Mr. CUARNOCK, in his address to the jury, said it
was impossible for an advocate to do so upon a more
distressing case than the present. He then proceeded
to comment upon the facts, and said it was evident
that the cruel manner in which the unhappy prisoner
had been deserted and abandoned by the man for
whom she evidently felt an ardent affection, had
unsettled her mind, and that in a paroxysm of frenzy
she committed the act imputed to her.
Mr. Baron GURNEY, in summing up, remarked
upon the distressing nature of the case, and said there
did not appear to be the slightest ground for believ-
ing that the prisoner entertained any malice towards
her children ; but if the jury thought that she went
into the water with the intention of destroying them
and herself, she would, in law, be guilty of the offence
imputed to her. If they thought the facts proved, it
would then be a question whether, at the time the act
was committed, the prisoner was in such a state of
mind as t,) be accountable for her actions.

The jury, after a very short deliberation; acquitted
the prisoner on the ground of insanity, and she was
ordered to be detained during her Majesty's pleasure.
The first witness, the prisoner's brother, was then
re-called by Mr. Baron GURNEY, who told him that
the courage he had shown, and the manner he acted
at the time, did him great credit, but he regretted to
see, by the depositions, that he had not to-day stated
all he knew.