The Sun.
London, England, 1850-04-13 00:00:00

MARKET NEWS.-(THIS BAY.)

COVENT-GARDEN
1L c; c::.ed supplies ut Vegetable s were on s :'e
Ti e demand for them ruled inactive, at our quoLtions.
In Fruit very little doing. English Fruit—Pine .Apples,
10s to 14s; Hot-house Grapes, 20s to 25s per lh;
Poars, 20s to 30s; Eating Apples, 5s to 6s per half-
sieve; Apples for cooking, 4s to 6s per bushel; Fil-
berts, 70s to 75s per 10011ss; Strawberries, 4d to 9d
per z. Foreign Fruit—Blsck Hamburgh Grapes
(forerd) 3s 6d to ss; Portugal ditto, 9d to is per Ib;
Spanish Nuts, 4s to Sc; Brazil ditto, 3s to 4s ; Bar-
celona ditto, 5s to 6s; Spanish Chesnuts, 3s to 6s per
peck; Lemons, 5. to 10s; Oranges, 4s to lOs per 100 ;
Almonds, 5s to Gs per peck; Spanish Onions, 14s to 20s
per box. Vegetables—Cape Brocoli, 4s to 9s per
risen bundles; Turnips, is 6d to 2s Od; Carrots, 4s to
54; Greens, Is to Is 6d per dozen bunches; Onions
(old), 3s to 4s Gd per bushel; llorse•radish, 2s to ss;
Celsry, 9d to Is per bundle; Leeks, Is 6d to 2s; and
Parsley, is to is Gd per dozen hunches; early York
Cabbages, 8d to Is; Red ditto, 2s to 3s per dozen;
Brussels Sprouts, Gil to 9 per half-sieve; Endive, is
to Is Gd per score; Red Beet, 2s to 3s 6d; and Par-
snips, 6d to 8d per dozen; Mushrooms, 9d to is per
pottle; Spinach, Is Gd to Is 9,1; and Jerusalem Arti-
chokes, Is to is 6d per half-sieve; Small Salad, 2s
to 2s Gd per dozen punnets; Sage, 2s 6d to 3s per
dozen bunches; Corn Salad, Is to Is 6d per half-sieve;
Shallots, 3d to 4d per lb; Potatoes, 80s to 1204 per
ton; ditto, 3s Gd to 4s 6d per bushel; Sea Kai!, is 6d
to 2s Gd per punnet; Asparagus, 4s to Gs per 100;
Rhubarb, 3s to 65 prr dozen bundles; Cornwall White
Brocoli, is to 4s Gd per dozen heads; Turnip Grilses,
3d to 4d per bushel; French Beans, 2s to 2s 6d per 100;
Radishes, 4d to 8d per punnet; Cabbage Lettuces, 3d
to 6,1 per score; Early framed Potatoes, 2s 6d per Ib;
Sprouting Brucoli, 6d to 9d per sieve; Mint, 3s to 43
per dozen bunches; Cucumbers, 3s to 4s per brace.
NEVITGATM ..ND LEADEATZIALIa.
Turkeys, 4s Od to 9s Od; Geese, 7s to 9s Od; Ducks
Is 9d to 55 Od; Tame Rabbits, is Od to is 9d; Wild ciitos
8d to is Od; Pigeons, 5d to 10d; Roasting Pigs, 43 6d to
8a each; Surrey Fowls, 7s to 10s; ditto Chickens, 5s to
7s; Barn-door Fowls, 3s 6(1 to 7s per couple; English
Eggs, 5s 6d to Gs 6d; French, 5s to 5s 6d per hundred;
Fresh Butter, 10d to is Od per lb.; Hares, 2s to 2s 6d
each.

NEWPORT.
Beef, from 2s Gd to 3s 2d ; Mutton, 2s 8d to 35 4d,
Lamb, 4s .8d to 5s ,8d ; Veal, 3s to 3s 8d; and Pork,
3s 2d to 45 per Slbs.

IVIIITECEEAPEL.
Beef from is 10d to 3s 0.1 ; Mutton, 2$ 6d to 3s
4d; Lamb, 4s 6d to ss. 6d; Veal, 2s 10d to 3s 6d; and
Pork, 2s 10d to 3s 10d per Blbs, by the carcase.

BILLINGSGATE.
Turbots, 4s 6d to 14s; Brill, 2s 6d to 8s; Cod Fish,
Is 6d to 9s; Whiting F, 4d to 6d; Lobsters, is to 2s 6d
each; Soles, 6d to 2s 9d per pair; Eels, 4d to is per lb;
Haddocks, 4d to 8d each; Oysters, 12s to 42s per
bushel ; Flounders, 6d to Is; Smelts, is 2d to is 4,1;
nod Bloaters, 10d to is Id per dozen; Mackerel, 3d
to 5d each; Salmon, is 4d to is 9d per lb; and Salt
F►sh, 2d to 5d perib.

BREAD.
The prices of Wheaten Bread in the Metropolis are
from Gd to bid; of household ditto, 4d to sid per 41b
loaf.

NIAMIET.
Market hides, 561 b to 641 b, lid to lid; ditto, 6416 to
721 b, lid to 11d; ditto, 721 b to 801 b, 2d to 21d; ditto;
801 b to 881 b, 2-id to 241; ditto, 881 b to 961 b, 3d to 31d;
ditto, 961 b to 1041 b, aid to aid; ditto, 1041 b to 11216,
34d to 4d. Calf Skins, light 2s 6d to 3s 6d; ditto full
Os Od to 6s 03; Horn Ifides, Gs 6d to Os; Polled Sheep,
5s 6d to 7s 03 ; Bents and Half-breds, 4s Gd to 5s 8d;
Downs, 4s Od to 5s Od; Shearlings, 6d to Bd.

KAY IIB.TILIMETS3.
SiIIITHFIELD.—MeacIow Hay, 2/ 8s to 31103; Clover
ditto, 3/ Os to 4/ 10s ; and Straw, 1/ Is to 1/ 83 per
load. A full average supply, and a heavy demand.
CUMBEIMAND.—Meadow Hay, 2/ 103 to 31123; Clover
ditto, 3/ 03 to 4/ 7s ; and Straw, 1/ 2s to I/ 9s pc•r
load. Supply good, and trade very dull.
WarrEcHAPEL. Meadow Hay, 21 8s to 3/ 10s;
Clover ditto, 3/ Os to 41123; and Straw, 1/ is to 1/ 85 per
load. Both flay and Straw moved off slowly, at our
quotations.

CRIMINAL COURT.—(THIS DAY.)
OLD COURT.
(Before Mr. Baron PLATT.)
THE ARGYLE Rooms.—The trial of Emile Laurent
'and four other persons, who were indicted with keeping
a disorderly house, called the Argyle Rooms, in which
dancing and singing were carried on without license, in
violation of the 25th of George 11., was postponed until
the next sessions at this court.
EXTORTION OF MONEY DT AN INFAMOUS CHARGE.—
John. Bennet, Wm. Laidler, Henry Tiddiman, John
Jones, and John Sullivan, were indicted with feloniously
threatening to accuse Samuel Wyatt of having attempted
to commit an abominable crime on the person of Henry
Tiddiman, with intent to extort money.
Tiddiman pleaded Guilty, and the others Not Guilty.
Mr. Bodkin and Mr. Cooper attended for the prose-
cution, and the prisoners were defended by Mr. Parnell.
Mr. BODKIN said the very painful inquiry into which
they were about to enter was instituted under
the 10th and 11th Vic.' c. 66, by the second section
of which it was enacted that any person who should
accuse, or threaten to accuse any person of an abomi-
nable crime. should be guilty of felony. That Act was
extended by the 7th and Bth Vic. and it was perfectly
immaterial under these statutes, Whether the accusation
or threat was used towards the party himself or to any
of his relatives, or whether the party was guilty or not,
for if guilty, it was the duty of the person to whose
knowledge the matter came to proceed against the party
in the ordinary way. The prisoners, he should prove,
were a gang of persons who had associated together
for the purpose of extorting money from parties by
means of accusations of an infamous nature. The prin-
cipal member of this gang was Sullivan, and he was
known among his associates as " The General." Ben-
net was a person of whom they had no definite account;
but he had often been seen in the streets in different
dresses, and was sometimes attired as a military man.
Laidler was formerly a gentleman's servant and now a
waiter, but be had described himself in this transaction
as a solicitor. Jones, otherwise Joyce, was formerly
a clerk to a solicitor, but had been long out
of employment. There were five prisoners, but
Tiddiman had pleaded guilty, and that course had been
permitted to enable the prosecutor to bring him forward
as a witness against the other prisoners, and thus pro-
mote the interests of justice. Mr. Wyatt, the person
npon whom the attempt was made, and who was far ad-
vanced in years, kept a tobacconist's shop, in Queen-
street, Lincoln's-inn-fields. They would find that he
suffered from nervous debility, and on that account was
more likely to be acted upon by means of threats. In con-
sequence of the proceedings of these men, that debility had
in ou greatly aggravatee, and he would appear beforelthem
in an almost incompetent state to give an account of the
transactions. But, happily, after these men had carried
on a pan of extortion for some time with unblushing
effrontery, the niece of the prosecutor, who was about
forty or fifty years of age, and who lived with her uncle,
saw a visible change in his health, and after making in-
quiries obtained aknowledge of what was going on, and
ultimately gave information to the police. So much had
his health been affected that he Was reduced to the neces-
sity of keeping his bed. There might be reason to think
that Tiddiman was put forward as au instrument in the
hands of the others, although he had deeply involved
himself in the transaction, and his evidence would be re-
ceived with great caulion, unless corroborated by the
testimony of other witnesses, or of a nature to fill up the
gap in the chain of evidence. The operations of the
gang appeared to have commenced by a visit on the part
of 'Tiddiman and Sullivan to the shop of Mr Wyatt,
about fourteen months ago, for the purpose cf
purchasing some cigars. On leaving the shop
Sullivan pointed out to Tiddiman the occupier
of it as a person for whom they might get money. Tide
dimun made another visit to the shop on the following
day and succeeded in ingratiating himself into the friend-
ship of Mr. Wyett. They had some gin and water to-
gether, and while drinking it Tiddiman took occasion to
press himself in an odd way against the person of the
prosecutor and squeezed his hand in a rather retnarkatae
manner; and it was clear that this circumstance was to
form the basis of extortion afterwards practised, for since
then the prisoners had accuted Mr. Wyatt with taking
indecent liberties with Tiddiman. The niece of Mr.
Wyatt, as he had mentioned, at last discovered the con-
duct of the parties, and notwithstanding the threats used
against her, she had the good sense to communicate
with the police, and on the 2d of March last, when the
prisoners were again expected to make their appear-
ance, several officers were concealed behind a curtain in
the shop that they might hear without being seen
Up to that time they had obtained various sums cf money
from prosecutor, and what purported to be an 1.0. U. for
50/. The whole five prisoners made their appearance on this
occasion, and they were shown into the parlour. The
niece said, " I is ant to understand now what demand
you have to make against my uncle ?" and they men-
tioned 241., having on a former application offered to
take 304 in discharge of the I 0 U. She also said,
" Now let me distinctly understand what this money is
about," but they told her that they must first have the
24/. She then wished to know which was the solicitor,

and they pointed to Laidler ; and on inquiring if it was:
their intention to share the money, Sullivan, who was
an extremely wary person, said, "No, I shall have no
share of it," and expecting they had been entrapped,
walked out of the shop, but he was immediately appre-
hended, as were also the other prisoners. These were
the main ci-•'umstances of the case, and when proved
in evidence the jury would be unable to resist the ine-
vitable conclusion that these men were guilty of the
crime laid to their charge.

Tiddiman was then called, and he corroborated some
of the details given in the above statement. lie said, in
the c;,urse of his evidence, that he was an omnibus
conductor, and first became acquainted with the prisoner
Bennet about thie3 and a half years ago, when he was a
cheque-taker at the Adelphi Theatre. Through him he
was introduced to Sullivan, who said if he would come
truckr their jurisdiction he would make his fortune. The
witness also stated that he first visited Mr. Wyatts'
shop, at the request of Sullivan, about fourteen months
ago, and fiom that time, up to his apprehension, ob-
tained several sums from him, varying from 2s. 6d. and.
10a. to 1/. and 1/. 19.,. Sullivan told him on one occa-
sion that they rnignt get 201. or 301. out of the " old
man" if they liked; and on saying that he would have
nothing to do with the matter, Sullivan replied, "If
you don't you will be nailed—you have already extorted
2a. 61. from him."

The
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witncsa was cross-rxaminel in a very bitter tone
prisoner Laidler, with respect to his connexion
Member of Parliament; but the questions, R h.ch

were met by a positive negative by the witness, were of
a nature so calculated t,) affect the character of the per-
son alluded t.) as to render it necessary to suppress their
publication. The result of the prisoner's cruss-examin-

ition, however, seemed rather to imply pn aequpintacce