The Sun.
London, England, 1850-10-23 00:00:00

ARRIVALS nil

WEEK

11.-our•
' Wheat. Barley._ Oats. Malt.
____,.....
4.
Qrs. Qrs. Qrs. Qrs. nefo
English •• •• •• 2,760 2,050 740 3,160 "
.eoteh•• .. • • .. --
Irish •••••• .. 9,720
...-
Foreign ...... 9,4+0 120 6,630
1202E,OUGH HOP 111.1111GILET. . I, all
Our market being very heavily supplied with 0
kinds of Hcp3 of the present year's growth, the devo. iif
is less active, and prices are barely supported. pj
230,0001.

WIIITECHAPEL.
The general demand has ruled dull to-day► on tile
following terms:—Boef, from 23 to 3s 4d; Muttoto
2s 4d to 3s 841; Veal, '.23 10d to 3s 6d; Pork, 2s 10d
4s 2d per 81b3, by the carcase.

CRIMINAL COURT.—(THIS
OLD COURT.
(Before the Lord Chief Baron POLLOCK and Mr. Jii".l°6
ERLE ) at
Edward Cocks, aged 39,:a letter-carrier, was FitiCr
the bar on an indictment charging him with stealaol be
letter containing a half-sovereign, the property
Postmaste r- General. for
Mr. Bodkin and Mr. Clarkson conducted the refs for
the prosecution. The prisoner was defended by
Wootlett. seal,
thorpe, appeared from the evidence of Mr. W. B. xcee,
thorpe, one of the presidents in the London Post-eseris
the principal witness for the prosecution, that the Coo
soner was employs d as a letter-carrier and sorter /0 .
Tottenham branch post-office, and that having ochre,
to suspect the honesty of the prisoner, Mr. SculthorPr:
on Saturday, the 28th September last, made up
into which he put half a sovereign, previously nist-ca,
which letter he addressed to ''Miss Mary Ann Ingr-as
Cliff-terrace, North-bars, Margate, Kent," a &I'd° t
name and address. That letter was posted 6
n 3
the Tottenham North-office, on Monday Orlirt,
the 30th S- ptember by a man named Peat, by the dlre
Lions of Mr. Sculthorpe. The letter in the ordiptlle
course would be forwarded by the mail cart to the
principal office at Tottenham, where it would sfrrio,
about ten o'clock. It would then be laced in the mf
ai
don bag, and forwarded to the principal Office in 1
don. About ten o'clock on Monday morning, the -4P
l 1
of September, Mr. Sculthorpe arrived at Stamford-hi
which is on the road to Tottenham, to meet the Wi A
cart which would bring the bag containing the letter
question. There he took possession of the Tottenhsd.
bag end opened it, but it did not contain the letter tin
dressed to Miss Ingram. Thereupon, Mr. Sculth°r,rre.:
accompanied by a Mr. Cole, an inspector of len'', t,
carriers, proceeded to the principal office set
en
tenhem, which they reached about balf-past.
ter
o'cicck in the morning, They met the Pri,s°.-„d
about fifty yards from the eflice, whom they stoppt„."
asked whether he had cat open the Tottenham, et-he
ahem bag that mottling. The prisoner replied ter,
he had not, but that ore Boners, anolf er 1°1'1;
carrier employed in the sarre ffice. had done '.(l
Mr. Sculthorpe then a kid the prisoner if he had sate
any of the letters. Ile replied that be had not.
Scul.horpe then told him tbat a letter was missing, t:
vehich the prisoner made no answer. Mr. Sculthorpi:
and Mr. Cole then caused the prisorer to be search':
when they found in bis coat pocket the letter in
Lion, containing the half-sovereign. The prisoner "
been employed 13 years in the Post office.
Mr. WOOLLETT addressed the jury for the deft/Atilt
suggesting the possibility of some person haeirig-no
screen himself, put the letter into the prisoner's cos
pocket.
The LORD CHIEF BARON having summed up, ed
The jury found the prisoner Guilty, but recorrev,:se
him to mercy, and he was sentenced to 10 years tea
portation.
18,
CHARGE CF FORGERY.—Aujustus Robinson, aged
clerk, remanded from last session, was indicted for
besz:ement and larceny as a t.
Mr. Clarkson prosecuted, servaand n
the prisoner Was de.
fended by Mr. Parry.
Mr. Charles Keyser deposed, on the part of the Poise];
cution, that he is a stock-jobber. the 30th of du j•
last the prisoner was in witeoSe's service.n It was Pibro.
of the prisoner's duty to keep a book as a check t° to
bankers' pass-book. It was also the prisoner's d°l,oo
get from the bankers' a blank cheque-book when w"°;',o
wanted it. Messrs. Lubbock and Co. were eltrif-t6es
bankers. It was the duty of the prisoner to comParei,:ass
cancelled cheques with witness's cash-book.is
was debited with a sum of 201, on the 30th of
the bankers' pass-book. That sum d d not appear o f
the prisoner's cheque-book. Witness never drew "
cheque on the bankers for 201. on the 30th of Jul.) nor
did he authorise the prisoner to draw any such eLelsel
or to receive the money fore it. If such a logo. -bts
ever come into the hands cf the prisoner it was
°-
duty to have accounted for it in his book. WitnesshPr°bo
deiced two five-pound Beek of England notes whiet," ele
(witness) got from his bankers, Sir John
and Co.
pc PS
Cross-examined by Mr. PARRY—Witness 013-e, ek:be
one clerk, the prisoner. No other person, *lll2', ei
prisoner had been in his service, was in the h°"'"ehe
fetching cancelled eh! qusra from his bankers' besides 'ot
prisoner. Witness is in the habit of drawing 0 great'
many cheques every day; keeps a book coetainieg 00
account of the che ques which he draws. The eheta
are generally drawn on a deck in the Exchange, fiat
often in a hurry; each clerk has a desk there. "'ea
never signed a cheque in blank whilst the prisoner 1.".
been iu his service, a period of two years. Daces,
month it was the prisoner's duty to tale the ehecture
book home, to make the cheques out for the ordttrk
monthly acccount. The che que-book is kept in a dc's
in the Stock Exchange, of which the prisoner only a,,„e
key. The prisoner was in the habit of leaving tbe
in the desk to enable witness to get to the cheque-ht%.
There are about 800 clerks on the Stock Exchaa
The prisoner had a salary of 1001. a year. of
Mr. Thomas Briggs, a clerk in the banking 1/0138a, -,01. ,
Sir John Lubbock and Co., proved that the proseeo;bo
kept an account with them. On the 30th July lasteise
pt isoner presented at the counter a cheque for 201. lot
(less paid the money in two five-pound notes, end oe
in gold. The notes were respectively numbered 78/' e,
and 78,408. It was the practice of the prisoner t°
ceive his master's cheque-book, containing the PP'
cheques from the bask once a week.
Cress-, examined—No person received Mr. Nei"
eirs
cheMr.que-book at the bank besides the risoner.
John Farren a junior clerk atp Messrs. Lubboelts
.
bank, proved that he entered in the prosecutor'e poly
book the payment of a cheque for 201. on the 30tb
Mr. G. C. Stringer, a clerk in the firm of Heron 9..ge
Co., wholesale chemists, in Bishopsgate-street, Prtlo6
that in July la,t he received from Mr. R. 113vf-eldi
Cooper, a chemist, one cf the five-pound notes etre
produced in part of a sum of 20/. which he owed thew' e
Mr. R. 11. Cooper, a chemist in the Royal Exchle:
proved that he was indebted to Messrs. Heron swispee
in the sum of 201, which he paid on the 30th July ,lye
prisoner was a customer f his, end owed him 21. -
pr.:senor paid witness that day by a five-pound note. K.
Mr. Charles Pell, a clerk in Sir John Lubbocks to
knew the prisoner. On the 9th July last, delivered
she prisoner a blank cheque-book containing 150 ehecitt,e.C.
The book prcduccd, containing 40 cheques, was the re-
The
mains of the blank cht quo-book given to the prison
that d
.J. W. Henley, of 42, Hemingford-terrace, Telt f;
ton, deposed that the prisoner logged with him /0 'or
last. One day in August or S -ptember, a police-Of
seine d at his house and exam ned the contents Gbe
dressing-case belonging, to the prisoner, in Which
found a cheque-book. into
'tele rt Taylor, a police-officer, took he prisoner, Air•
custody on the 31st of August, by the directions °f of
Keyser. Took from the prisoner some keys, °oe
' which fitted a dressing-case, which he s xamined tibbolL
miser er's lodging, and in which he found a cheque'
(produced).
W.
servedl .Po 1 ahree' ,
pc:
iesrokr.
et tr
t caet t nthey a for the Por:iti
SGECCMputterinknWb'er and October last, cal ing or. him to prodI
ha
a cheque for 2J1., drawn on 30th July 'a t, tit Q°
Lubbock and Co.
The prisoner had not produced the cheque.
Mr. Briggs was recalled, a id proved that the °leg°
in question was signed C.K.
This was the c see kr the pros' eution.
(The trial was proctediug wiun our 'sport left')

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Miirnre the Rrc Itt _
I thil'il.lim Loye, 18, pl, Elt a: d Mr. Alderman Moos.)
aded guilty to an iadi,!tmenl:
. 'l•R'n Lim ..sith stealing nir:e tiamiherehiefs and a
ici'll 11, a the value of 2/. 103, the property of Richard
his master, and Was sen enced to six months' im-
Pri_rrnent rrld hard labour.
chi *id ICcily. 16, pl-2,fi, d guilty to an indictment
iii:4ging hun Sixth stealing two half-crown, thr_e,e.
(snhials-
s 1,, , and Lwo sixis.ei.c-is, the property of John -in '''',)", and %l as sew' no ,d to ix months' imprisonment
1141 bard 1-.li, u-, '''
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Flury tflest ,), , , .
ebar • • ----, p.eautd guilty to an indictment
the "Ig
sevilhoperty
her is ith stealing a quantity i.f ti a and sugar,v,as
of her master, Jam, s Fricker, and ,
' nerd ti three months' imprisonment and bard labour.
4'a or Coombe, 20. a p..iinter, plead d guilty to
an inilie,mint el arging him se ith rtealir g two trowel',
h',.airdwl.l)..si:,n.tenced to three month,' imprisonment and

I.OURT.
(13`1'" the CI 3Tti
IMONi D C
SurcEANT and Mr. Al.7eramin
Ass CUALLIS.)
v... ' AULT WITU INTENT.— 1 le,,nris Parker, 21, -Thomas
" dcher, 21 and :h. 1 ,14*!tii , ' ,-. ..o ornGomm, 21, w.•ere. indicted for
The f'2,. lissnl,lng ~\ latii,,.a Atlee, with intent, Bze.
ini - s of I- ! ease are untit for puslicatay. The
gil,r4: n'''' "-Ors feund Uni'dy if a common nsstiult, and.
icb,;tl-re.d t) tiv:lve in nt6'.linprisonment and ha:d

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Ito , .. SESSPoNS.—(S LIS DAY.)
1,,F.f. 4 f
ft,, - L'i7G• Go7dwl. was i-olicti d for stealing a '
Villitim
Kry' ';;tn'ligll.,';:44g t,liirty gourd:, the proierty of 1
pr . at Carnbe: well.
kkneis liaws shoryeen to the prosecutor, said, that
na the hi„ • ' 1.•
ruing of Friday liit he was unli ailing a qut.n..-,
dtitY °f sugo.r from a cart at his mnster's door, land while
rr,„lHA'° 1(3 misted one 4,1 the packs
r,--n" he Faw a mAn runnier, away towaids Comberwel z
ges. On looleinr,
Shortlywhen he followed him, calling out 64 Sop tiliti:a...
st‘hl;4 4'4 rwarela the prisoner was capture: b.:7 a e_. e
„ , t and the limo of sue-1r was found near hi e• The
e‘exig„ d • 6
he io.. -.flo ac el was the property of his .
t'iitia,a it from several '• te marks on it.
private
t4l;aird.ehrice, the prisoner said he knew nothing of the
Th,
his
to cwt.,
jury found him Guilty, and the Court
sentenced
Kippeimonths at Brixton, and to be once ivate'y
ft.............................mem_ms
. 1.1 OIV - Sir It EET.—( T H I S DAY.)
g4x,riwi,Ltpresting y
years owl girl, about nineteen of
this no refestd to give either name or addres ,
charr•tl2°,;fling Placed at. the bar before Mr. Jardnet
hers,l,' with wteerpCtig to commit suicide by throwing
thsto_nee constable 8
1, , troca the pier at We.tininster-bridge.
i an alarm
B deposed that, hearing
eiiii,l4. woman had thrown herself into the river withan a
astir in hir arm*, he hastened to the spot to render any
fenasiane in his power. 01 reaching the pier he t'a,
eitil-4 ". atirg (loan ;he river,‘ but there wes. nothing
leeecalendber arms or near her. Winser, the piermaster,
je,ziod. to Saving her from a a atery grave.. She was
left 4103' taken to the receiving house. Winter then
o.,ll2othde,ertht;idgrhasgevtl:e river for the infant, but nothing was
ral highly respectable persons who weorce.
bdge st the time, and saw the melancholy
currence . '
bra, . , distiactly declared that in falling she threw
0.,..ehi1d from her. The titer was dragged all the
tc, si:.nnori vvithout any success. Winter then returned
There unfortunate 'woman and found her sitting down.
thattevir:'s an immente fire in the room, and the moment
rue„in 'l33er entered she darted from her sect, and
in and g towards the fire deliberately plunged her hands
the 111'1,141d them there for some seconds, Winter for
bates dragged
g unable to' assist her from fright.
n, regard frees the hearth her hands were horribly
wu it and, When searched, a bottle containing laudanum
IN uund upon her. Fiona the hour at which she
I„,,ruiajtcd the suicide she had maintained a sullen silence,
to t
que,s,, g 0 utter one syllable ; the po'ice have, cease-
et
`';'Y, had no opportunity of ascertaining from
Qtly
the had a child or not.
r,
tlgost• 4III'INE, in a very kind tone of voice, put several
t.,ions, but She made no reply, merely shaking her
40_1 and otherwise appearing to be suffering intensely
°I iteaial agoraSh3% V.l , li,r, e . 3 remanded for a week, with orders to have
greLtarcinily and kindly watched. The case excited the
ebt S) oar achy in court.

lita MAJESTY'S THEATRE.
s,I/err Labitsk G4A ND NATIONAL CONCERTS.
tealrauy, who since the death of Johan.nd
Is has reigned as king of polka, quadriLe, an
z, over all " Fatherland," which in his case at
al,e_
,i 4 "United Germany," made his first appear-
bat 0n
4t these. concerts last evening, and assumed the
r114.,t0n uf director of the dance music. Labitsky is a
413411 of middle age, of quiet gentlerntnly mv,nners,
beheauarultatwalyin, thaehrie iswnhootsethestsilightest approach to
Js a nearer rcsetnblance leto of Mu•
of conducting
la_"„rcl than to that of any other conductor
dance music who has been seen in England. He,
"°ever, manages his band admirably, and never have
E
heard dance music delivered with greater spirit,
prteision, and etl',c•, than last evening under the fix-
Der.ielicE d c(liductiog of llerr Lal:;itt•ky. Two new
!ant z,s, the latest productions o! Labitehy's practised
e,
.were performed on the occasion ;
.each is a
it in its way. Its reception was enthusiastic, and.
lie h -
al ag,An warmly greeted when he left the
orc,,, r,.
el,ssie, , The programme last ev( ring was rich in
(.; 41 music. We had li-ethoven's fine concerto in
Worte,,
' 1111'1 a group ctf: Mendelssohn's " Licder ohne
of clas-
ale,' Performed in the purest style
8. 4 ,Putnoforte playing. Charles Halle,
pilla')i,erriSk ninth violin concerto-carefully and tastefu.ell
am "Y M.. Saintorn and the overtures to Artisan. ! A
itinl-c•gatont, and Mendelssohn's symphonyanamad-
rairir, Ina.gnificently rendered by the hand,
t 4"Y read
Balfe.
4 .1,
a_
and conducted by
lielw.t.l4 Chorus " was well sung, Mrs. .
the ou taking
cianti
Alexander Bishop's
the soprano solo, and singing it with
h,Orrarlat sparkling brilliancy. Madame Biscac lve eh than eonfirm:d the very high estimate which
re ad previously formud of ln-r by her delicious,,.,lm
zu ~inR of the beautiful " At: ! non giun.gP; I
„N;;-).ont!ambu/a, and Madem'ilelle the
04,1 ,
'' Nu ints'" in superb style, and was rapturs
Angri sang -
very'} 111suded. The attendance at the concert wa
fol.

UALIFORN lA.
tteln the.
adviees of our California correspondent
Arstr. Phblie will have observed the result of the pro-
,n,,.held out by the Anglo-California Gold
__A -,-, _ . _
eeedino '!,. liredging Company,
hist. RS me called attention on the 29th of May.
to whose pr 0,,,,„
,,,,„ This company, it will be remembered, had
1, ,ceaunce the receipt of reports from Mr. James
!41 sr an eminent engineer' ," whom they had
,eintlit outdoand who found himself in a district of
wh•emen" riches" on the Stanislaus river, over
be i h be bad obtuined an exclusive right, for the
~,_11(-1t Pf the ehareholde-R. This right had been
Procured from a Ca t *
States armwho p 4in Tremaine, o e
mt
of y? was to receive 1,000/., and a roy-_
' f th United
~..Y a third of the produce. " Large pieces of
paSrfx, thickly impregnated with gold,' were to be
,u,.lills evidences of the wealth of the mine, and the
'tLet_le to it was "as secure as that of any of the best
„u Urea held in England." The nature of the 'Aver-
'ernents of the company, and the fact that the house
ti/titil°lo. they represented to be their bankers denied
been onnexion with them, would, however, have
tro sufficient to prevent even' the most credulous.
neat being long' deluded, but fur an arrange-
tila'll,t which the directors had contrived toof
whose
With Sir Henry Vera Huntley, good faith people entertained
le t „„ .
taw, AurY sailed some months back at the ea f.
no
hdodubht._
been kioroisti miners, and the company have lately
ter?, atertising that they have received most flat-
eye r, anipatches from him. It now appears, howr--
,s,„„rt thtit on his arrival he learnt that no suehlae
Ito; " kr. Palmer or Captain Tremaine was known,Lon
don u that the locality of the mines, of which the
drawing,
1, directors had issued a lithographic
.cam. stlt_equally undiscoverable. Under these cir
th "6 Sir Henry has permitted the miners to.hire
-..ernselves out to another- company—the 111ariposa
---who coolly propose to amalgamate with his London
frie A
e,,,„rkts upon receiving the sum of 100,000/. for con-
zmg them that privilege. As the amount thus re-
Pired would merely purchase the right for the
_1.40 Cornish miners to work in a particular spot,
without furnishing the slightest guarantee that the
prose
of their labour shall be handed over by
itena to their employers, and as these miners,
have,teY prefer working on their own account,
nothing to do but to use their practical
?f 'kill in selecting a locality for themselves, the nature
the offer and the present condition of the share-
olders may be easily appreciated. Sir. Henry
Iluntley appears to have been as much deceived es
they have been ; but at the same time he must be
open to ale reproach of having by his name given
support to t sr.,henie by which they have suffered,
and the teeth haracter of
vio which he might pre-
Times. usly have ascertained by the slightest inquiry.—
C

...aumaT Comsctn —The Ministers assembled in
Council, for the first t me since the Parliamentary recess, this
afternoon, at two o'clock, at the Foreign-office. h were
prel,ertt Lord John Russell (wh ) arrived in town t
heremorn-
lIIR from Pembroke Lodge), the Lord Chancellor, the M_
Tlis Of Lansdowne, Earl Grey, Viscount Palnaerston SrSir
Wands T. Baring, the Chancellorof the Exchequer, SJohn
. Hobhouse Sir George Grey, the Right Hon 11. Labou
there, the Ea'rl. of. Carlisle, and the Marquis of Claruicarcie.
be Ministers were sitting when we went to preLs. Most
town the members of the Cabinet are expected to remain in
until after the 9th of November, in order to dine with
the Lord Mayor elect on that day.
The
COUNTIES AND SOUTHI.ND RAILWAY.—
rilhe Master in Chancery, Sir W. Horne, has given notice
'oat he will proceed on the opening of his court in a few days
wit the settlement of the list of contributories holding
shares
,f.res in :this concern, in conformity with the new law of
'bility laid down by the House of Lords, and that after
to
the list is so settled, no party affected thereby will be allowed
dispute it without leave of the Court of Chancery.
i)Alr MAIL BETWEEN LONDON AND SIIEBBORNE.—
.We have much pleasure in being able to announce that it is
the intention of the Postmaster-General to establish a day
Iliad between London, Sherborue, and Yeovil. The arrange-
Ineuts will commence as soon as the necessary preparations
ate COMpleted.......yestern /tying Post.