The Sun.
London, England, 1850-04-15 00:00:00

After a lengthened examination the prisoner was
remanded for a week, Mr. Norton refusing to accept
bail for his appearance on that day.
George Poulton, the conductor of one of the Clap-
ham omnibuses, was placed at the felon's bar on a
charge of stealing a sovereign.
At the former examination, Mr. Norton, doubting
whether a conviction for the felony would follow a
commitment on that charge, dealt with the case
summarily, and committed the prisoner for two
months on a charge of miscondct as a servant. On
making out, or rather when about to make out the
prisoner's commitment, Mr. Gunn, the magistrate's
clerk, discovered that the conviction was informal,
inasmuch as the Act of Parliament under which it
was made required that the complaint must be made
to a magistrate within seven days, and this not having
been done, the accused could not be sent to prison.
Mr. Norton, upon being informed of this, determined,
as the case was a very bad one, to send it before a
jury, and, therefore, again remanded the prisoner.
When placed at the bar, the prosecutor expressed a
disinclieation to prosecute, saying that it would se-
riously inconvenience him, and expressed a hope that
the punishment which the prisoner had already
undergone would act as a warning to him for the
future.

Mr. NORTON expressed his surprise at the change
in the prosecutor's opinion since the last examination.
For his own part he said he had not the slightest
doubt that the prisoner had been perfectly aware when
he received the sovereign from Mr. Willis that it was
a sovereign, and not a shilling, as he had represented;
but if the prosecutor now declined to say that this was
his opinion, there was an end to the case, and it
would be useless to send the prisoner for trial.
The prisoner, when leaving the dock, said he was
very much obliged to the gentleman.
Mr. NORTON remarked that he certainly had a
right to be much obliged to the prosecutor, but that
was more than the public should be.
The prisoner was then discharged.

THE COUNT'
L/YRRPOOL, APRIL 13.
without change in the prices of
5. d. s.

LY MARKETS.
.The trade to-day is steady,
any article.

s. d. x. d
113o.Meal, perl96lb 13 0 to 14 0
Barley, English, pr
Imperial quarter 24 0 25 0
Scotch, and

Wheat, per 701 b :
English, white 5 10 to 6 0
Do. red .. 5 4 5 6
Irish, best red .. 5 0 5 -4
Do, loweriquality 4 8 5 0
Manx, red and wh. 5 4 5
Dantsic, high mixed 6 8 6 10
Do., mixed .. 6 0— 6 4
Rostock, &c.. .. 5 10 6 3
llarnburgh and
Lower Baltic .. 5 3 5 9
American & s white 5 10 6 0
Canadian, Jed 5 4 5 8
Antwerp & Louvain 5 6 5 9
French, red.. .. 5 3 5 6
Hungarian and
Mariaropoll .. 5 0— 5 2
Odessa, Polish .• 5 0 5 2
Do., common .. 4 10 5 0
Egyptian 4 0 4 3
Flour, English &
Irish, per 2801 b 28 0 30
Do., extra fine 32 0 -- 34 (
United States, per
barrel .. .22 0— 23 01
Canadian .. .. 21 6 23 0
Indian corn, per
4801 b, white .. 26 0 28 01
READING' APRIL 13.—Wheat, 30s to 48s; barley, 25s to
285 ; oats, 153 to 20s; beans, 30s to 33s ; peas, 32s to 33s per
quarter. Fat hogs, 7s 3d to 75 6d ; porkers, 7s 6d to 7s 9d
per score. Poultry—Fowls, per couple, 4s 6d to 5s Od ;
ducks, ditto, 35 6d to 4s Od. Butter, lid to la Id per lb. Eggs,
18 to '2O for Is.
WORCESTER, APRIL 13.—The continuance of fine warm
growing weather, and the consequent healthy appearance of
the young growing crops, has had the effect of still further re-
ducing the value of wheat and other grain in this market.
Wheat, therefore, must be quoted 6d to is per quarter cheaper
to-day, 15s per bag being the very top price for best samples
of white, and red selling at 14s per bag. In foreign little is
dune in this market. Good malting barley was offered to-
day at 3s per bushel, and distilling samples at 2s 9d. Malt
7s 64 per bushel. Oats a dull sale, at 2s 6d to 3s 4d per
bushel ; Irish oats selling at 2s to 2s 6d per bushel. Old
English beans were worth 12s per bag, and new 10s to Ils per
bag for English ; foreign beans 3s per bushel. Good white
peal 3s 6d to 4s, and gray 3s to 3s 6d per bushel, with a slow
sale. Spring vetches 4s to 5s per bushel. New rye 5s per
bushel.
At Stourbridge market on Friday there was a good show of
wheat, and the finer descriptions of grain maintained the rates
of last week ; but in the inferior descriptions a reduction of 6d
to is per quarter had to be submitted to in order to effect sales.
Seed barley in fair request at our last quotations, but other
descriptions 6d per quarter lower. Oats a dull sale, at last
week's rates. In beans no alteration, but the dmand limited.
The trade In clover seed is become slow again.
Stratford-on-Avon market on Friday was well supplied with
all descriptions of grain. The business as regards wheat was
dull, and there was a reduction on all samples of 6d per
quarter. The farmers, however, were reluctant sellers at this
reduction, and, consequently, business was limited. Barley
firm, at last quotations. Oats a trifle lower than last week.
Beans in slow request at former prices, the average price being
29s per quarter.
At Kidderminster on Thursday there was a fatness in the
trade. Millers would not buy, except at a 'reduction of Is per
quarter on wheat, to which farmers were reluctant to submit,
and hence a dull market was the consequence. Barley re-
mains unaltered in value. In other grain little or nothing
doing.

Ilanx,per6olb.. 3 0 3 2
Foreign, grinding 2 9 3 0
Ilye, per 4801 b 22 0— 24 0
Beans, English, pr
imperial quartr 28 0 29 t
Irish and Scotch,
per 4801 b.. .. 24 0— 25 0
Dutch : 26 0 27 0
Egyptian .. .. 20 0— 21 6
Peas, English, per
imperial quartr 28 0— 30 0
Foreign .. 27 0— 23 0
Oats, per 451 b :-
1 English, Scotch,

and Welsh, old 2 9—2 10
Irish, new, best

mealing .. • • 2 3—2 3i
Do., mid and inf. 2 0 2

- .
Old • • 2 3 2 4
Oatmeal, English,
& Scoteh,pr24olb 22 0 22 6
Irish, new .. .. 20 0 —2l 0
D0.,01d .. 19 0 20 0

At Wolverhampton market the supply of wheat was mo-
derate; but as the reports from Mark-lane spoke of a decline
in value, a similar feeling operated here against sales.
Millers were willing to purchase at a reduction of 6d to Is per
quarter, bet, farmers demurring, sales were limited to those
impelled by their necessities to realise. Good samples of
English wheat fetched from 4s 6d to 51 per bushel. • Barley
averaged 253 per imperial quarter. English beans fully main.
tained former quotations, and was the only grain in demand
without a decline. Egyptian were Is per quarter lower than
last week. Oats 16s to 18s. per quarter.
At Rugby and Atherstone the business transacted was
limited, and sales were only effected by necessitous holders.
The price of meat has declined considerably, hut the butchers
still exact an unfair profit from the labouring man.
COLCII ESTER, APRIL 13.—The trade has been dull to-day,
and the slight advance in wheat which took place a fortnight
since has not been sustained. White wheat to-day was 40s to
435; rest, 37s to 40s. The best malting barley realised 255,
and white peas 263 per quarter.
On Friday, at Chelmsford, the quotations for wheat were
lowered full Is per quarter, and even at this abatement only the
best samples found ready purchasers. White wheat was 35s
to 445; red, 349 to 38s; barley, 22s to 245; oats, 15s to 20s;
white peas, 24s to 265; beans, 22s to 255.
The ankets of Suffolk have also been declining this week.
At Stowmarket, on Thursday, wheat was 13 per quarter
cheaper.
GLASGOW CATTLE MARKET, APRIL 11.—Our cattle
market to-day was well supplied with all descriptions of cattle,
both from East Lothian, Angusshire, and some lots from
Ireland. Sales good, but no advance in price. Best ox beef
445, second 41s to 435, third 31s to 38s, cows, bulls, and infe-
rior' 30s to 37s per cwt, sinking offal. Our sheep market was
well supplied with aged wethers, with dull sale. Prices a
shade lower than last day. Best aged wethers 51d to 6d, se-
cond 5d to bid, ewes, 4d per lb, sinking offal. Fed calves
dull, at from 64s to 675, coarse do 555 to 59s der
,cwt ; pigs

the liberty of writing this note, Birdiell being
from home, and considering it to be my duty to do
so. The family are living in my house—the husband
is out of employ—the woman near her confinement,
and one dear boy, eight years old, dying for want of
food. I hope and pray that you will try and do
something for them • and if you can spare time to call
at my house, I will tell you the particulars more
fully. I assure you it is a sad case. I have done as
far.as I am able, but have not the means of doing more.
"I remain, yours respectfully,
"F. BIRCFIELL.
" 21, Dartmouth-row, Westminster, April 13."
Mr. Taylor, to whom the letter was addressed, paid
a visit to the house, and found the wretched condition
of the poor family had been truly represented. The
husband, George Boyd, a whitesmith by trade, for-
merly engaged in Portsmouth Dockyard, but dis-
charged owing to a reduction of the number of hands,
bad been out of employment fur six months The
wife is enciente and near her confinement, and there
are four children of the respective ages of 16, 13, 9,
and 2, the one nine years of age lying very ill. The
family received 181bs. of bread per week from the
workhouse, but had been compelled, by their neces-
sities, to part with their clothing, and almost every
article they possessed during the last s;x months, until
left in a miserably penniless condition.
Mr. BURRELL immediately ordered a sovereign to
be given to the poor creatures from the poor-box.
LAMBETH.
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William Anderson, a middle-aged man, was placed
at the bar before the Hon. G. C. Norton on a charge
of being concerned with three others, not in custody,
of robbing Robert Catton of 501.
From the evidence of the prosecutor, who described
himself as a draper's assistant, it appeared that on
Wednesday forenoon last he was walking along St.
George's-road, when he was addressed by a respect-
able-looking young man, who asked him what the
building opposite was ? He replied that it was a
Catholic chapel ; and both were proceeding along,
when a third person, who was about 20 yards in ad-
vance, dropped a purse. He (prosecutor) picked up
the purse and restored it to its owner. The latter
expressed his gratitude for this act of honesty and
kindness, and invited the prosecutor and his newly-
formed acquaintance into a public-house to have some-
thing to drink. While at the public-house the
parties were joined by a fourth party, and a game of
skittles was introduced. The prosecutor was induced
to bet with one of the party, and the result was that
he had lost 81. 109. The man who dropped the purse
offered to bet an even 50/. that the prosecutor did
not knock down the nine skittle pins in nine throws.
[ This was the tempting bait. The prosecutor
offered to go to his lodgings and procure the 501.
to make the match, and lest be should be induced
to change his mind in the interim, one of the
sharpers accompanied him. On his return the pro-
secutor placed forty sovereigns and a 10/. note into
the hands of one of the party, and expressed his wil-
lingness to play the game ; but the challenger inter-
posed some objection, and proposed in the interim to
play for a bottle of wine. This challenge was ac-
cepted, and while the game was going on the chal-
lenger disappeared, and the stakeholder said he had
given him up the money. The other sharpers,
amongs whom was the prisoner, also effected an
exit, leaving the prosecutor in perfect bewilderment,
and minus 581. 10s. Information of the robbery was
given at Tower-street station-house, and on Friday
evening the prisoner and another of his confederates
were found enjoying a dish of beef-steaks at a pub-
lic-house On getting sight of the prosecutor the
prisenor's companion effected his escape, but the pri-
soner himself was secured.