The Sun.
London, England, 1844-08-28 00:00:00

NARKET INTELLIGENCE.

(From the London New Price Current of Aug. 27.)
SlTGAR.—Previous rates have been sustained for West
India of all descriptions, and a good demand has
prevailed for bright yellow sorts, of which there is
mly a moderate quantity still in the market. To-day
there was less inclination shown to purchase
%Vest India Sugar. From Grocers and Refiners the
demand was limited, and the rates accepted were 6,1
per cwt under those of Friday for brown and inferior
sorts, but good and fine yellow maintained the former
currency. A public sale of Barbadoes Sugar went hea-
vily at a further decline in price of 6d per ewt. ; low,
yellow at 56s to 56s 6d, mid 57s to 58s, good mid 59s to
60s, good 60s 6d to 61s 6d, and fine 64s to 64s 6d per
cwt ; the trade generally still entertain a prejudice to-
wards this sort of Sugar.
REFINED.—The market has assumed a firmer appear-
ance for Refined Sugar ; the demand from the home
trade has been good, and stiffer rates given. To-day
refined goods were in excellent request by the home
trade ; Brown lumps at 735, and standard lumps 74s to
4s 6d per cwt. The market is firm for bonded crushed
Sugars, and there are no sellers under 27s 6d per cwt
for first quality.
AURITIUS.—A fair demand has prevailed by private
contract, especially for the better qualities, and former
rates are sustained. This afternoon buyers were less
desirous to purchase, and a part only was disposed or,
but full rates were obtained; fine yellow fetched 61s to
t;:3s, good 60s to 60s 6d, good mid 57s 6d to 595, mid
54s Gd to 56s 6d, low 53s to 545, fine brown 52s to
52s Gd, good 60s to sls 6d, and ord 48s to 49s 6d
per cwt.

I - EAST INDIA.—For Bengal the demand has increased,
ands by private treaty several parcels cf strong yellow
and the better sorts of white have been disposed of at
rather higher rates. This afternoon 572 bags of Bengal
Sugar were offered at auction ; nearly the whole was
damaged, and of low quality, and was chiefly taken in ;
brown drainage damaged at 42s to 475, low soft yellow
:)ls to 525, damp ditto, 605,10 w soft white 56s 6d, and
damp ditto 555 per cwt. There was less business doing
by private contract, and easier rates were accepted for
common sorts.
FOREIGN.—The market has still a firm appearance for
all descriptions of Foreign Sugar ; for White Havaunah
there has been a better
.demand, and the rates paid are
rather above those previously quoted. To-day the mar-
ket was better supplied ; at public sale 587 boxes 18 brls
ut Cuba, and 1,292 boxes Havannah were brought for-
ward ; nearly the whole was disposed of ; white fetched
full rates, but brown and yellow 6d to le per cwt cheaper.

('uba, good white fetched 27s to 28s, low to mid 25s to
26s 6d, washed 24s 6d, good sound yellow 20s to 20s 6d,
mid 19s 6d, low 18s to 18s 6d, washed 19s ; Havannah
went at 31s to 31s 6d for fine white, 29s to 30s for good,
28s 6(1 for mid, 23s to 27s 6d for damaged, 20s to 20s 6d
for good sound yellow, 19s Gd for mid, 17s 6d to 18s 6d
for low, 18s Gd to 19s for damaged, and 16s to 17s for
low to good sound brown.
MOLASSES.—For West India prices are kept low by
the heavy stock ; a good demand however has prevailed.
This afternoon some parcels of West India were sold
privately, but at the low rates of 20s to 24s per
cwt. Those parties however that were anxious to rea-
lise, have mostly disposed of their stocks.
FRUIT.—In Currants there has been a good business
transacted ; the supply is falling off, and prices rule
firm at 47s to 49s for Patras, and 41s to 43s per cwt
for Zante and Cephalonia. To-day accounts were re-
ceived from the Islands and the Morea, up to
the 11th August, stating that the Currant crop had
been much injured, and would be less than it was last
year. Holders here, in consequence, displayed increased
firmness; indeed, several of them would not name a price.
The nearest quotations are 48s to 51s for Patras, and
42s to 45s for Zante and Cephalonia. Raisins have met
with ready purchasers ; red Smyrna at 43s to 445, and
Sun 38s per cwt.
COPFEE.—The trade have_ shown little inclination to
purchase Wrest India Coffee, and the market having been
better supplied, a decline in prices of 2s per cwt has
taken place. This afternoon Havannah of sound
quality was all taken in above the value, fine ordinary
at 43s 6d to 44s 6d, good ordinary 39s to 41s; the damaged
at moderate rates, first class at 33s 6d to 35s 6d, second do
31s 6d, third ditto 28s Gd, and sea damaged and re-
packed 275. Ceylon was taken in is above the value,
good ordinary at 565, and ordinary 54s ; 70 bags were,
however, sold at 57s for fine ordinary, and 46s 6d to 54s
for damaged in the country. Trinidad fine fine ordinary
at 62s to 655, fine ordinary 56s to 60s, and ordinary 50s

to 52s per cwt.
TEA.—The market has a firm appearance for nearly
every description of Tea. None has been offered at auc-
tion. Common Congou has been fetching I Oid to 11d,
good common I lid to is Wol, but middling and middling
blackish leaf is ld to is 3d, good blackish leaf is 31-d to
Is 6d, fine and Pekoe descriptions is 6/d to 2s 4d,
Pouchong at sid to 9d for common to good, and superior
91d to is per lb. Souchong has met with a slow sale, and
prices are not so firm. Scented Orange Pekoe was in brisk
demand, and the supply being small prices continue high;
sales made at 3s Id to 3s 5d per lb. Plain Orange Pekoe at
Is 7d to 2s 4d. Twankay, Is 2d to Is 3d paid for com-
mon, is 4d to Is 8d for middling to middling brightish
leaf, and is 9d to 2s 5d for superior Hyson kind. Gun-
powder and Imperial have been disposed of at very full
rates. For Hyson 2s M to 2s 6d per lb is
the value of common quality. In Young Hyson and
Caper more business has been transacted, and prices
have an upward tendency. For Black and common
Green Tea prices rule under those of last season, but for
fine sorts they are rather above those of that time. To-
day several parcels of Tea were sold at firm rates ; sound
common Congou, cash, is not to be purchased under
11(1 per lb.
SPlCES.—lmporters of Cassia Lignea are still anxious
sellers, and have submitted to a reduction on previous
rates of is to 2s per cwt. Nutmegs have met with more
attention, and full rates paid. Singapore fine bold brown
at 5s 2d, good 3s Sd to 3s 9d, good middling 3s 6d to 3s 7d
middling 3s 4d to 3s sd, low middling
3s,
and worm-
eaten 6d to is ld. Mace, Singapore fine bright
at 5s 7d, good 4s Gd to 4s 9d, middling 3s 2d
to 3s 6d, inferior 2s Bd, mouldy is 10.1—a very
small part for exportation only was, however, taken in
at is per lb for low old. Cloves have fallen 2d per lb,
Penang at 2s 5d to 2s 7d for fine bold bright, and 2s to
2s 3d for good. Black Pepper is held for the former
value. Cinnamon 2d to 3d per lb above those of the last
quarterly sale.
RlCE.—lmporters of Bengal are not inclined to sub-
mit to any further decline in prices, and have refrained
from offering any at public sale. This afternoon there
was a limited demand only for Bengal Rice, and 1,183
bags at auction were partly disposed of, but full
prices were obtained ; mid pearly white went at lOs 6d
to 11s, good mid lls to 11s Gd, sea damaged first class
lOs 6d to 11 s, second and third ditto 7s Gd to 10s, sea
damaged and repacked 8s 6d to 9s, Indigo ditto lOs 6d
to lls 6d ; the remainder was taken in at 12s to 12s 6d

fir fine bold sound white, and lls Gd to 12s per cwt for
good, being above the value ; fair market rates were
offered.

RUM, BBANDY, AND HOLLANDS.—AII descriptions of
Jamaica Rum are much wanted, and further improved
rates have been paid, but, in importers' hands, there is
little undisposed of. Leeward Island Rum, at 2s 4id to
2s 5d per gallon, proof. Demerara at 3s 5d to 3s 7d for
fine quality 36 to 41 per cent overproof. Calcutta at
2s 2id to 2s 3d per gallon, proof strength. Brandy is
firm in price, and a fair demand has existed. Cognac,
best brands of the vintage of 1838, hhds 5s 4d, puns
4s 2d ; 1839, hhds 5s 2d, puns 5s ; 1840, hhds 5s Id,
puns 4s lld ; 1841, hhds ss, puns 4s 10d ; 1842, hhds
4s 9d, puns 4s 7d ; mid and good mid 3s 3d to 4s 6d,
and low 2s lldto3s Id per gallon. Geneva for expor-
tation at is 10d to Is lid ; fine for home consumption
2s 6d to 3s 6d. English Corn Spirits lOs 4d per gal, cash.
To-day several inquiries existed for Rum. Jamaica
28 to 30 per cent O.P. at 3s 7d to 3s 10, 32 to 37 3s lld
to 4s 4d, superior 4s 6d to ss, Demerara, fine 38 to 41
per cent over 3s 5d to 3s 6d, in hhds 3s 7d, and proof
Leewards 2s 5d to 2s 5d per gallon.
Cocoa.—There has been a brisk demand for West
India, and a further advance in prices of is to 2a per
cwt has taken place. This afternoon West India was
sought after, and some parcels have been disposed of
privately at firm rates ; 41 bags 18 brls Trinidad at auc-
tion went at an advance on the rates of the last auctions
of is per cwt, .and-sold at 42s to 43s for mid red, 40s
for low, and 37s for rery low grey.
INDIGO.—The market is firm, and a good export de-
mand still exists for all descriptions. This afternoon
Spanish Indigo was wanted, but higher rates being
asked checked business, and 137 serons of Guatemala at
public sales were all withdrawn 2d per lb abuve the
value.

COCHINBAL.—This afternoon there was an increased
demand for Cochineal; at auction 40 serons Honduras,
and 31 bags Vera Cruz were offered, and nearly the
whole sold at full rates ; the former, fine bold silvers at
4s lld to ss, low to good black 4s 10d to 5s 8d; the latter
at 4s 6d to 4s7d for mid silvers rather damp, 4s 10d to
4s lld for low and mid blacks.

SALTPETRE—There has been a much better demand
for Rough, and the rates paid are on a par with those of
this day week ; Calcutta, middling grey 20.1 per cent.
refraction 23s 6d to 245, 131 to 91 per cent. middling
ditto 24s to 24s 6d, 31i per cent fine grey bold chrystals
26s 6d, 24 to 2 per cent. good white 26s 6d, unrefrac
ted 21s to 25s 6(1. English Refined at 30s for barrels,
and 29s 6d per cwt for hhds.

On.s.—Although the market has been largely supplied
with Southern Oil, still former rates are fully sustained,
and a good demand has prevailed ; 128 tuns were all
disposed of at and after the public sale ; first quality at
301 5s to 31/, second do 291 lOs to 291 15s, third do
28/ lOs to 29/, and black 26110 s to 271 lOs per tun. Seal
34/ lOs to 35/ per tun for pale, being 5s to lOs cheaper ;
a small parcel of brown Seal at auction fetched 2615 s per
tun. Cod Oil 331 lOs to 341. With Sperm the market
has been better supplied ; British of first quality
at 84/ 15s to 851, not so well spermed 83/ 15s,
two lots of very inferior 70/ to 731 10s, and
Headmatter of first quality 901 to 911 15s per tun. For
common Fish Oils prices are rather lower than they were
last year at this period, but considerably higher for
Sperm. Linseed Oil is 6d per cwt cheaper, and the sup-
ply is getting large, at 24s 6d to 25s per cwt. This af-
ternoon prices were firmer for Southern Oil, and at pub-
lic sale 381 casks, equal to 300 tuns, were sold at 31/ lOs
to 32/ 5s ; 40 casks of Sperm Oil sold at 791 to 801 for
American, one lot very low 704 and Headmatter 9015 s
to 90/ 15s per tun.
TALLOW.—Prices are still improving for Russian
Tallow on the spot ; a good demand has prevailed, and
41s 6d to 42s are the current rates paid for
P. Y. Candle of first quality. Tallow at 40s 6d
to 41s nett cash. The public sales of Tallow
went at rather higher rates ; 456 casks of New
South Wales fetched 36s to 42s 3d ; 99 casks of
Taganrog 38s 6d to 40s 3d ; 419 casks South American
35s to 39s Gd; 56 casks fine Odessa Sheeps 40s 3d to
40s 6d, and 18 casks East India 42s to 42s 9d per cwt.

COURSE OF EXCHA
Amsterdam CF. 12 5
Ditto, at sight l2 3
Rotterdam 2U. 12 5
Antwerp 25 85
Damburgh M.B. 13131
Altona l3 14
Paris, 3 days' sight 25 60
Ditto, 3 months 25 85
Marseilles
Bourdeaux 25 90
Frankfort on Maine l2l
Petersburgh, 3Us 37

GE.-(YESTERDAY.)

Gibraltar
Leghorn 3O 50
Genoa 25 85
Milan
Venice ... .
Naples 39*
Palermo, per oz llBl
Lisbon s4i
Oporto s4i
Rio Janeiro 23
Bahia 23
Buenos Avres
NewYork,2ldyssight ,
Philadelphia
PRICES OF MULLION, PER oz.
Foreign Gold, bars. 5.3 17 9
Portugal Gold Coin 3 17 5
New Doubloons-- 0 0 0
New Dollars 0 4 10
Silver in Bars 0 4 114

- - - -
Berlin - 7

effec. fl. 3 M 952
Trieste, ditto
Madrid 37

Cadiz
Bilbao 36
Barcelona 36

Seville —

ABERDEENSHIRE MOORS.—The accounts from the
different shooting quarters at the head of this county,
and adjoining districts, are of the most favourable de.
seription, and seldom have we heard of all parties being
so generally delighted as is the case this season. There
is rarely any change among the sporting tenants in that
district. The Duke of Leeds still continues at Mar
Lodge • Sir Alexander Duff, and a numerous party,
is at dorriemulzie ; Mr. Edmunds and Captain Met-
hold occupy Glencallader •, Colonel Towers has Crich,
on the Invercauld West Deer Eorest ; Messrs. Barker,
Fowler, and party the Spittal shootings ; Sir Ben-
jamin Hall, and Lord Castlereagh and party, Gairnshiel
and Moss of Monaltrie ; Sir F. Sykes and party,
Corndavon ; Lord Henry Bentinck, Glenavon and Tomin-
tout shooting ' • Sir George Sitwell, Balmoral ; Lord
do Tabley and Mr. Warburton, Abergeldie ; Messrs.
Lightfoot, Boyd, and party, Glenmuick ; and Sir Fre-
derick
Stovin, Deskrieshiel. The birds are described
as being not only most abundant, but strong and well-
grown. In general, the parties seem tv have averaged
about 40 brace a gun the first day. Sir Benjamin
Hall has one day since, we believe, bagged 69 brace ;
while another gentleman of his party shot 40 brace in '
two hours on the hill called the Brown Cow. Captain
Bell, in the Glassault, bagged 68 brace, six white hares,
and a roebuck, although not on the ground till late in
the day ; while Mr. Boyd (a gentleman upwards of
seventy years of age) brought home his 50 brace from
Glenmuick. All that seems wanted is a return of favour-
able IN eather to render this one of the most memorable
seasons in the annals of grouse shooting.—Aberdeen
Journal.

SUMMER ASSIZES.

NORTHERN ClRCUlT.—Liverpool, Aug. 26.
CIVIL SlDE.—(Before Mr. Justice CRESSWELL.)
rARRAR u. DEFLINNE.

This case, which had occupied the Court from about
Friday noon, came to a conclusion this afternoon. The
question was (as has been before stated) whether the
defendant was, at the time of the liability incurred to the
plaintiff, a partner in the firm of Todd and Co., of
Manchester. Notwithstanding the great length of the
case, it was from the very nature of the point in issue a
dry repetition of acts and declarations from which the
partnership might be inferred.
Mr. BAINES having concluded his case,
The SOLICITOR-GENERAL addressed the jury on be-
half of the defendant, and commented very ably upon
those features of the case which bore in favour of the
defendant. He did not call any witnesses.
The Learned JUDGE summed up the case briefly,
without going through the details -of the evidence, and
the jury after having retired for a few minutes returned
into Court, and delivered a verdict fur the plaintiff—
Damages 1,2351.
GRIM. CON.- WOOD V. MONK.

This was an action for crim. con., alleged to have
taken place between the defendant and the wife of the
plaintiff.
Mr. Knowles and Mr. Hoggins appeared for the
plaintiff, and Mr. Watson and Mr. Atherton for the
defendant.
Mr. lisowLEs, in stating the case to the jury, ob-
served that the injury of which the plaintiff had to com-
plain was one of the d.:epest that a man could sustain,
and which could be brought before a court of justice. The
plaintiff was a stone-mason by trade. He had also been
the keeper of a tavern. About 11 years ago he married a
beautiful young woman, who had since borne him three
children, and with whom he had lived upon the most
affectionate terms. He for some time resided at Preston.
About three years ago he went to keep the Heske:h
Arms Inn, at Southport, but in 1E42 he returned to
Preston, and conducted an inn known as the sign of the
Grapes and Punchbowl. The defendant was a person of
respectable station in life, being an alderman of the bo-
rough of Preston, in which town he had fir many years
carried on an extensive practice as a surgeon. In that
character he had been introduced to the plaintiff's house,
and had taken advantage of the facility which these cir-
cumstances and the misfortuaes of the plaintiff gave him
to effect the ruin of the plaintiff's peace. The plaintiff
did not succeed in his undertaking, and was sent to Lan-
caster Castle, from which place he obtained his libera-
tion under the Insolvent Debtors' Act. In the mean-
time, his wife carried on the business of the inn. The
defendant was called in to attend her professionally, and
taking advantage of those circumstances, effected her
ruin. On the subject he (the Learned Counsel) would
add nothing, but leave it to the jury to say what da-
mages such a defendant ought to pay to the plaintiff,
whom he had so deeply injured.
A woman named Mercer was then called, who stated
that she had lived servant with the wife of the plaintiff
during his absence at Lancaster ; that about the Bth of
October last year her mistress sent her to the defendant
to tell him to come and see her, as she was ill. The
witness went, and soon after the defendant came. He
and her mistress went into the back parlour. While
there a men came for a glass of spirits, and offered Gd.,
which witness took to the parlour to get charge from
her mistress. On opening the door she saw the defen-
dant and her mistress in a position which she described.
She drew back, gave the man his sixpence, and let him
go on trust. On another occasion her mistress had a
swelling on her finger, and sent witness for defendant.
He came, and they went up stairs together. 'Witness
went to the room to ask her to change a half-sovereign
for a customer, when she found them both in bed toge-
ther. 'Witness was then single, but had since got
married.
On cross-examination she denied that she had ever
seen the plaintiff strike his wife till after his return from
Lancaster, and that she had not been offered 201. or 51.
by the plaintiff to prove his case, but had been told she
should be well paid, and have her expenses clear.
Mrs. Proctor, a married woman, stated that in Ja-
nuary last she went as servant to the inn, and detailed
some occurrences similar to those deposed to by the last
witness.

On cross-examination she admitted that she did not
live with her husband ; sho had been parted from hill.'
three times. He was the ostler at the inn at Boscough-
bridge. She had lived in the house of the plaintiff since
his wife had left.
Mr. WATSON addressed the jury on behalf of the de-
fendant, and urged the immense importance of this case
to his client, who, as a married man, with a family,
holding a respectable position in life, and being of a pro
fession in which the most rigid integrity was necessary
to insure or retain success, had everything at stake in
this cause. He then commented on the nature of the
evidence which had been adduced, its unlikelihood, the
contradictions between the two witnesses, and all the
circumstances of the case, which, he contended, deprived
their testimony of any credibility whatever. The Learned
Counsel then proceeded to call witnesses to contradict
the case of the plaintiff, and the case was adjourned at
seven o'clock.

CROWN SlDE.—(Before the LORD Cniir BARON.)
CHARGE OF MURDER.—Owen Leonard was indicted
for the wilful murder of his wife, Bridget Leonard, and
inflicting several wounds on her body with a razor.
Mr. Hulton and Mr. Drinkwater conducted the prose-
cution; the prisoner was defended by Mr. W. M'Oubrey.
It appeared from the statement of James Leonard,
the principal witness for the prosecution, a boy twelve
years of age, that his father, the prisoner, was a tailor,
living in Peter-street, in this town. The deceased was
his mother. There was a family of six children, of
whom the witness only was residing at home. The de-
ceased was in the habit of letting part of the houso
to lodgers, and on the 27th of July the attic was occu-
pied by a person named Livingstone and his wife.
There was another male lodger in the house whose name
did not appear. On the evening of that day this boy
had retired to bed in a room on the first floor, where the
deceased and the prisoner slept. He had on going to
bed left them and Livingstone and his wife and the other
lodger in the kitchen below. He was awakened by a
noise, and found that it was the lodger singing ; and he
then heard the voice of his father in angry altercation
insisting upon the lodger leaving the house. The boy
came down stairs, and found the lodger on the point of
departing. After he was gone, the prisoner continued
very angry. He called the deceased a w—e, and accused
her of misconduct with one John Guest, who had been a
lodger several years before. Soon after the Livingstones
went to their room, and were let up stairs by deceased.
The prisoner followed to the room on the first floor, and
the boy saw his father put something bright into his
pocket. He went up to the room of the Livingstones
and desired his wife to come down stairs. He himself
went down to the kitchen and barred and fastened the
door and window. The deceased soon after came down,
and the prisoner recommenced his abuse of her on the
subject of John Guest, and used the same opprobrious
epithet as before. She only replied, " Are you sure ?"
which she repeated several times. She was sitting in a
chair behind the door, and the prisoner struck her with
his fist somewhere about the face, and then took;" the
bright thing" out of his pocket, which proved to be a razor,
and began cutting her about the throat. The boy cried
" Murder!" and endeavoured to pull him away. but he
repeated the blows in different parts of his unfortunate
victim. The boy at last got the door open and ran
for the police. In the meantime Michael Hamilton,
a neighbour, came to the door and endeavoured to push it
open. The parties were behind it, and he could only get
hold of the hair of the prisoner, who again forced the
door to. Ou a second attempt he forced an entrance,
and found the deceased lying on the ground, and the
prisoner standing over her, striking her with something
he held in his hand. He said to the prisoner, " You old
villain, what are you doing to your wife ?" He then
found that the nose of the unfortunate woman was
entirely cut from her face, and she had a severe gash
upon her cheek. The witness ran to call the
police, and
the unfortunate woman in the meantime crawled parti-
ally out of the door, saying faintly, " Keep him in, keep
him in ; put something to me, I shall die ; he has cut
my throat." The prisoner then pushed her with his
foot, when she fell out on the pavement, and he shut the
door to. Several policemen coming up she was carried
to the house of a surgeon, and thence to the hospital,
but died from loss of blood before she arrived there. The
prisoner was found in the middle of the kitchen floor
washing his hands, and being asked why he had com-
mitted the act, said she was an old b—h. He seemed to
have been drinking, but yet to know what he was about.
On examination of the body of the deceased, it was
i found that several frightful wounds had been nflicted on
the face, neck, legs, and thighs, one on the latter being
seven inches long and near six inches deep... The lateral
jugular vein and the femoral artery were divided.
Mr. APOUDREY addressed the jury for the defence,
and contended that the prisoner was insane ; and that,
at all events, under the provocation stated, the offence
did not amount to more than manslaughter and called
several witnesses in support of the first position, but who
failed to make out that defence.
The Learned JUDGE summed up the case very elabo-
rately, and the jury, after a few minutes' retirement,
went, found a verdict of Guilty of manslaughter.
The prisoner was sentenced to be transported for life.

CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT.
OLD COURT.
(Before Mr. Baron G URNEY and Mr. Justice WIGHTMAN.)
Thomas White was indicted for a similar offence
upon Elizabeth Farrer, a child nine years old.
The jury found the prisoner Guilty of an aggra•
vated assault.
The same prisoner was also indicted for a similar
offence upon Nancy Burrows, a girl of the same age.
The jury returned the same verdict as in the for-
mer case. _ _

There were two other indictments for similar of-
fences against the prisoner, but they were not pro-
ceeded with.

Mr. Justice WIGIITMAN sentenced the prisoner to
be kept to hard labour for eighteen months upon each
conviction.

William Simmons, 17, was indicted for feloniously
killing a mare, the property of Henry Holmes.
Mr. Brierlv, at the request of the Court, examined
the witnesses for the prosecution, and Mr. Payne de-
fended the prisoner.
It appeared that the prosecutor is a cowkeeper and
milkman, and the prisoner was in his service, and
employed to look after the mare in question. On
the 9th of July, in consequence of some information
he received, the prosecutor examined the mare, and
found she had sustained a most dreadful injury, from
the effects of which the animal died two or three days
afterwards. A little girl was examined as e. witness,
who spoke to seeing the prisoner injure the animal
with a pitchfork; but the evidence as. to the fact, and
also as to the prisoner's intention, 1N14.6 not very.clearly
made out.

The jury returned a verdict of Not Guilty.
This case concluded the business of the session, and
the Court then adjourned to Monday, September 16.
(Before the COMMON SERGEANT.)
The following cases were disposed of late on Mon-
day evening :

*Henry Burton, described as a toll-collector, was
indicted for the manslaughter of Henry Spence, at
the parish of Whitechapel.
Mr. O'Brien conducted the prosecution, and Mr.
Ballantine appeared for the prisoner.
The circumstances of the case will be fresh in the
recollection of our readers, as they have been given
very fully within the last few days. The prisoner
had been very much annoyed and insulted by the de-
ceased and a number of other boys, and, unhappily, in
a moment of excitement, he struck the deceased a
blow on the head, which occasioned his death.
The jury returned a verdict of Guilty, coupled
with a strong recommendation to mercy, and judg-
ment was respited until the next session.
William Adam Postlethwaite pleaded Guilty to a
charge of assault upon Eliza Augusta Townsend, with
intent to commit felony.
Judgment in this case was also respited, but the
defendant was allowed to go at large upon finding
sureties for his appearance at the next sessions.
Henry Stephenson was indicted for maliciously
throwing a stone upon the South Western Railway,
and thereby endangering the safety of the passengers
pa3sing upon the railway.
The defendant pleaded Guilty.
Mr. BODKIN, who conducted the prosecution on
behalf of the London and South Western Railway
Company, said that it was instituted for the purpose
of showing the public that such offences could not be
committed with impunity. In the hope that the
present proceeding would have the effect of prevent-
ing such offences from being committed in future, the
Company were not desirous of pressing fur any
punishment, and if the Court felt that such an
arrangement could be entered into, they would be
satisfied if the defendant enteral into his own recog-
nisance to appear and 'receive the judgment of the
Court when required to do so.
The COMMON SERGEANT remarked that the offence
was a most serious one, inasmuch as the lives of
thousands of the subjects of the Crown were put in
jeopardy by it, and it must be distinctly understood
that the utmost penalty of the law would be enforced
against all persons found so offending in future.
The defendant, having entered into the required
recognisances, was discharged from custody.

NEW COURT.
(Before the RECORDER.)
ASSAULT.—Daniel lll‘Diarmid, captain of the Pro.
tomelia, was charged with assaulting Samuel John
M`Dovvall, on Friday, the s:h of July, on the high seas.
It appeared from the evidence of the prosecutor, a
most intelligent but friendless boy, that he was ordered
to clean a part of the ship. He went for a broom to do
so, and the captain seeing him with it, struck him with
his hand, pulled the broom from him, and gave him a
blow with the handle of the broom. It would appear
that the captain acted in this manner, because there was
anold broom which he might have taken. He was obliged
to lie by that night and part of the next day, when he
came to him and asked to see the boy's thigh. After
having stripped himself, the captain beat him with a rope
about an inch and a half thick. After this he refused
to do any more work till they came to London, the
assault having been committed below Dungeness. It
also appeared from the statement of the boy that on
Sunday, the 7th, he violently pressed his neck, and said
if he did not work he would break his neck. When
they arrived in London the. captain was brought before
a magistrate, and was committed to take his trial at this
Court. There was a witness in the case, but when called
he was not forthcoming.
Mr. DOANE said that the captain acted as he did under
the impression that the boy was feigning illness, in order
that he might not work, and the ,boy admitted that the
captain was very kind before the assault occurred. The
captain was willing to make him some compensation.
The RECORDER thought that would be the best way
to settle the matter. The boy had acted in a manly,
straightforward manner, in not submitting to be treated
unjustly ; but the Court was willing to believe that the
captain had acted under a false impression. He would
direct the jury to find a verdict of guilty, and the Court
would then settle the amount of compensation.
The jury having found the prisoner Guilty,
Mr. Dos.NE, on his behalf, offered 10/. compensation,
which was accepted as fair and liberal.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
(YESTERDAY.)
MANSION-HOUSE.

Mr. Goodman, the chief clerk, having, by the di-
rection of Sir John Pirie, written on Saturday to the
owner of the ship John Campbell, in consequence of
a statement made in the justice-room, charging the
supercargo of that vessel with desperate offences
alleged to have been committed on the coast of Africa,
received the following answer, which he handed to
the Lord Mayor :
_ _

" Liverpool, Aug. 26, 1844.
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ship, the John Campbell, has not yet arrived from
Africa, and I scarcely know when to expect her. I do
not know whether any others of the crew are in this
country, and I have no reason to suppose Captain Burnley
would commit such an act as that with which it appears
he is charged by the man Laidlow. A mutiny took place
on board the John Campbell soon after her arrival at
Calabar, which was quelled by the interference of the
King. I perceive that Laidlow, the complainant, was
one of the mutineers, and having observed in the Lon-
don papers a long account of his examination before Sir
John Pirie, I have deemed it but justice to Captain
Burnley (and to prevent the public forming an erro-
neous opinion of the case from exaggerated statements),
to publish the deposition and statement of the mutiny,
which I received from Captain Burnley on the Bth of
June last, and to which paper I refer for further parti-
culars.
" I beg to remark that Captain Burnley was put on
board the John Campbell by the charterers of that
vessel as supercargo only, but assumed the command by
my authority on the death of Captain Nelson.
" I am, Sir, yours respectfully,

" WILLIAM SHARP.
" To S. R. Goodman, Esq., Mansion-house, London."
Sir John Pirie, who, it will be recollected, said,
upon reading the written statement of the seaman,
which was signed by that applicant and another of
the crew, that it was possible the persons who com-
plained were mutineers, mentioned, upon reading the
letter of the owner, that he considered it due to Capt.
Burnley to give the same publicity to the statement
an .I opinion of the owner which the extraordinary
accusation had received.
The Loan MAYOR acquiesced in Sir John Pirie's
view of the matter, and said that the circumstances
should be entered into when the necessary informa-
tion reached hand.
Laidlow, the seaman, upon being told that his
Lordship would, on a future day, take cognisance of
the case, stated that he should be punctually in
attendance.
Captain Wheeler, of one of the Woolwich steam-
boats, was summoned for having, by the swell occa-
sioned by the rapid motion of the vessel, overset a
waterman's boat and tumbled him into the water.
Hiram Howard, a waterman, stated that, as he was
rowing on Thursday morning, in the river, the
steam-boat of which the defendant was captain was
proceeding at a most rapid rate, and the consequence
was that the wherry was stove in and upset, and the
owner's life was endangered.
The captain stated that as he was obliged to look
forward, he could not see the complainant, or he would
have eased his vessel in time to prevent the accident,
which, however, was insignificant, as the waterman
was shot over into very shallow water. He denied that
the vessel was going at a furious pace.
The complainant said the surf raised by the Wool-
wich vessels, was often in consequence of the extreme
rapidity with which they went along, often seven or
eight feet high, and that the depth of the water into
which he was pitched was about three feet.
The LORD MAYOR—We are passing regulations
which will put an end to all those dangers and dis-
putes, and as no great damage has been done in this
case, and we shall rigidly act upon our new by-laws
the moment they are passed, I shall allow the defen-
dant to settle the muter with the waterman who has
sustained the injury.
A young man named David Williamson, one of
those fellows who are constantly on the look-out, for
countrymen, was charged by Mr. William Harman,
merchant, of Leeds, with having endeavoured to do
him out of 401.
The complainant, a person of very comfortable ap-
pearance, about fifty years of age, went, it appears,
into an eating-house, and sat down to a chop, and the
defendant walked into the same box, and likewise fell
to work with a knife and fork. A conversation
commenced, in which the complainant, although a
Yorkshireman, very readily joined without at all
suspecting his new acquaintance. The defendant
said that his father was a man of fortune, and that
he came to town to buy a horse to run in a match
with another in the old gentleman's phaeton, and that
the complainant could assist him in making the pur-
chase. The complainant consented, and it was quite
evident, that if he had happened to have 401. about
him, the defendant and some fellows who were co-
operating with him would have become possessed
of it by one of those manoeuvres which prove so
frequently successful at fairs and markets. Mr.
Barman, however, not being supplied with ready
cash to answer any more than his immediate occa-
casions, luckily called at the counting-house of a
gentleman of the name of Pond, his broker, for the
purpose of getting the amount, taking the defendant
with him. Mr. Pond, upon looking at the defendant,
at once suspected that he was a flat-catcher, and
asked Mr. Harman who he was ? " Oh, he is a
friend of mine," replied the Yorkshireman. " How
did you get acquainted with him ?" asked Mr. Pond.
" Oh, I met him at dinner," said Mr. Harman. The
consequence was, that the defendant completely lost
his chance of plundering Mr. Harman.
It may appear rather surprising that a Yorkshire-
man was so near being victimised; but it came out in