The Sun.
London, England, 1844-10-08 00:00:00

UNION•HALL,

Richard Flains, a po.ierful-looking man, was charged
with assaulting a woman named Davis, in uch a dan-
gerous manner, th,t she now lies m th • holoital, with
little hope of recovery.
Mr. Lawson stated that, about nine o'clock on th,..? pre-
ceding night, as he was passing the Catherine Wheel,
Union-street, he saw a leinale swing at the door. In a
moment aft,,rwAr.!s he saw tha prisoner come out of the
public-house, and, ,zoing up to the woman, he gave h,r
a vaden: kick in the loner part of the abdomen, and
follo+ved it up by striking her with all his foive.
He then tried to escape, when witness attempted
to prevent him, and was knocked down by the ruffian,
who was at length secured and taken to the station-
house. The woman whom he a•saulted in the brutal
manner above described was conveyed to Guy's Hos-
pital, aul a certificate was produced, describing that she
was in a state of collapse, and was not expected to
survive.

Mr. COTTINGRAM said that, if the unfortunate woman
recovered her speech, he would proceed to the hospital
and take her examination, anti that if she died he would
certainly commit the prisoner for murder.
The prisoner, who appeared perfectly careless as to
the result, was remanded.
BR 011/L E Y POLICE.

A young woman, named Anne Maria Cator,attended
before the bench for the purpose of affiliating her
illegitimate child upon a person named John Down,
in accordance with the provisions of the Amended
Poor-law.

The case was brought before the bench at its last
sitting, but the defendant did not appear upon that or
the present occasion. The magistrates thought there
was not sufficient corroborative testimony of the state-
ment of the complainant, and at the request of her
father they adjourned the further hearing until to-
day, the Magistrate observing that owing to the un-
avoidable difficulty of obtaining corroborative testi-
mony in such cases, the new law was, to a certain
extent, completely inoperative.
The complainant deposed that she was a single
woman, and that she was delivered of a male illegiti-
mate child on the 13th of April, and that John Down
was the father of that child. In addition to this tes-
timony a young woman named Miller proved that
there had been some familiarity between the com-
plainant and the person who was alleged to be the
father of her child.

Sir C. FARNAaY inquired whether there was any
further corroborative testimony ? The father of the
young woman stated that he had written to defendant
since the last hearing, and had received a letter from
him in answer, in which he expressed his willing-
ness to come to some arrangement without allowing
the matter to be disposed of by the magistrates.
The BENCH expressed their opinion that this admis-
sion of the defendant, coupled with the other facts,
established his liability, and they should feel them-
selves justified in making an order upon him to sup-
port the child.

- The father, with some warmth, said he thought it
was a cruel thing that parties should be put to so
much trouble and inconvenience to establish the
liability of a party committing an offence of this de-
scription. If it had been in his power to support the
child, he would much rather have done so than have
incurred the expense and trouble to which he had
been subjected.
The BUNCH said that it might be difficult to obtain
the necessary evidence, but the magistrates had
nothing to do with that matter. They must carry
out the law as it stood, and they had no power to
act unless sufficient confirmatory evidence was laid
before them to support the testimony of the mother
of the child.

The BENCH then made an order upon the de-
fendant to pay two shillings per week, and the neces-
sary process was directed to be issued to enforce the
payment of that sum, and also the amount of arrears
and expenses.

MARKET NEWS.-(YESTERDAY.)
CORN-EXCHANGE.
The returns for the past weak show a larger arrival of
English Wheat, chiefly from Lincolnshire and Cam-
bridgeshire, bot, as the largest portion went direct into
the hands of the millers, that portion for sale in our
market was only moderate. Of foreign Wheat the re-
ceipts were small, but those of Barley were tolerably
good, while a fair average quantity of Irish Oats came
to hand. Fresh up coastwise and by land carriage, a
moderate quantity of English came to hand, yet the
shim of samples of that grain offering was fair for the
time of year. Notwithstanding the millers appear to be
well in stock, we had a steady demand for selected
qualities, at prices fully equal to those obtained on
Monday last. In the middling and inferior kinds only
a limited business was doing, yet a good clearance of
most descriptions was effected previous to the close of busi-
ness. Of free fbreign Wheat the supply was by no means
large, yet it was quite equal to the wants ofthe dealers. Se-
lected parcels were in steady, but not to say brisk, in-
quiry, at full currencies. All other kinds moved off
slowly, at late rates. So little was doing in Corn under
lock that the rates may be considered nominally unal-
tered. The additions lately made to the bonded stocks
have been very trifling, as nearly the whole of the im-
ports of Barley, from the duty being only 3s. per quarter,
have been released for home consumption. The show of
both English and Foreign Barley was good. Malting
parcels moved off steadily, at full prices. Although very
little was doing in other kinds, the quotations were sup-
ported. Of Malt only a limited supply was brought forward;
nearly the whole of it was cleared off at last week's
currencies. The arrivals of Oats having been on the
increase, the show of samples was good, yet the inquiry
was steady, at full prices. Beans, Peas, and Flour ruled
about stationary. Linseed Cakes were in demand, at
full prices. In other kinds of seeds very little was doing.
CURRENCY PER IMPERIAL MEASURE.
WHEAT—Essex & Kent, MALT—Chevalier......., 63s to
red, 40s to 50s OATS—Yorkshire and
Ditto, white
Norfolk and Lin- Potatoe
coin, red 39s to 46s Youghall and Cork,
Ditto white 4os to 53s black
Irish, ..... 478 to 50s Cork, white ....
Ditto, white - 49s to 548 Scotch, feed
RYE—Old . 2bs to 335,' BEANS—Tick... ...... 26s to 30s
New 36s to 38.1 Pigeons
BARLEY—Grinding 26s to 29s' Pius Grey
Malting
Chevalier 32s to 35s White 35s to 39,
MALT—Suffblk and Nor. Boilers... ..... 32, to 38.
folk 563 to 62s FLOUR—Town made ... 44s to 46.
Brown 50s to 545; Sotto k
Kingston and Ware 56s to 62s' Stot-kton & Norfolk 33s to 3, II
FOREIGN GRAIN AND FLOUR IN BOND.
WHEAT—Dantzic ...... 4-s to 56s BEANS ..„„„... ....... , ... .„, 208 to 26,
Harriburgh 36s to 40s P •S. 23s to
BARLEY 3OB to 33s }lova—American
OATS—New ......... Its to 18s Baltic ..».»....» 22s to .31.
14s to I6s
SMITHFIELD.
We have again to report the arrival of a very exten•
sive supply of Beasts from the whole of our grazing
districts fresh up to our market ; but, generally speak-
ing, the quality of the stock was by far inferior to that
noticed at the coerespondin4- periods of many preceding
years. These larger receipts may be chiefly attributed
to the want of adequate quantities of fodder, hence
many of the large graziers are compelled to resort to ar-
tifi.,nal--consequently more expensive—food much earlier
than usual. Although there was a fair number of both
town and country buyers in attendance, the Beef trade
was as dull as we ever remember it. The few prime
Scots offering were, however, mostly disi.osed of at last
week's prices, or from 3s 8d to 3.10 d per Blbs ; but those
of all other kinds suffered an abatement of quite 2d per
81bs, and nearly 400 head left the market unsold.
Oue of the most important features connected with the
new tariff; is the ahno4 daily-increasing imports of
foreign Sheep, which have consisted, during the past
week, of 60 head for London, and 100 at the out-ports,
from Rotterdam and Ham burgh. These imports,
together with those previously advised, make a total, for
the present year, of about 500 head. The receipts of
Beasts since this day fortnight have amounted to about
90 head from the abovementioned ports; but in their
quality, as well as that of the Sheep, no improvement
worthy of notice can be reported. The arrivals of
Beasts for the year have been as under :

Oxen and Cows.
London 1,439
Liverpool B2
Hull 740
Southampton
Devonport l2O

Total... 2,581 head.
The foreign stock on sale to-day comprised 15 Beasts and
20 Sheep. The former sold at from 161 to 181, the latter
24s to 29s per head. Fromour northern grazing districts,
we received, fresh up to-day, about 2,000 Short horns ;
from Norfolk, Sul%lk, Essex, and Cambridgeshire, 300
Scots and Home-breds; from the Western and Midland
counties, 700 Herefords, Devons, Runts, &c.; from other
parts of England, 400 of various breeds ; from Scotland
200 horned and polled Scots; and from Ireland 30 Beasts.
The numbers of Sheep were again very large, owing to
which the Mutton trade was excessively heavy. A few
of the primest Downs produced 4s per 81bs., but the
value of all other kinds of Sheep was decidedly lower.
There was a very dull sale for Calves, the supply of
which was rather scanty, at barely last week's curren-
cies. In Pigs next to nothing was doing at late rates.