The Sun.
London, England, 1844-10-23 00:00:00

insanity of the prisoner. It was in the common order of
things that where insanity was in a family that there
Should be members of it in a perfectly sound state of
mind.

Cross-examined by Mr. CHARNOCK-Sir Ross Don-
nally was feeble minded though he was a hale old man.
Dr. Warburton—Had visited the prisoner six times
since the unfortunate event for which he stood at the
bar, and from those visits he was firmly convinced that
the prisoner was of unsound mind, and was so at the
time the transaction took place. Witness believed that
the prisoner committed the act when his mind was in a
state of uncontrol.

Cross-examined by Mr. CllARNOCK—Witness's opi-
nion as to the state of mind of the prisoner was formed
from his visits to him, and what he had seen that day in
Court.

Mr. CHARNOCK replied.
Mr. Justice MAIILE summed up, and
The jury found the prisoner Not Guilty, on the ground
of insanity.
The prisoner was then ordered to be detained during
her Majesty's pleasure.

/VE IV COURT.
(Before the COMXON SERGEANT.)
Ann Sntith and George Davis, the latter described as a
bootmaker, and both of whom were remanded from last
session, were indicted with stealing a watch, a gold pin,
and 145., the property of John Horsford, from his person.
The prisoners were Acquitted.

BOW-STREET.—(THIS DAY.)
Two little boys named Evans and Jones, who are
known to the police, were brought before Mr. Jardine,
charged with having two valuable jewel-cases in their
possession without being able to give an account of how
they came by them.
The officer saw Evans in St. Martin's-lane showing one
of the cases, which was elegantly fitted up, and covered
with crimson velvet, to the ether prisoner. Suspecting
that it had been stolen, he took them to the station-
house, and upon Jones being searched the other case was
found upon him. The cases were not at all soiled, and
there was every reason to believe that they had been re-
cently stolen.
Mr. TWYFORD said he had no doubt that the jewels for
which the cases had been made had also been stolen.

The prisoners, in their defence, said that a man had
given them the cases to hold.
They were remanded till Saturday.

UNION-HALL.-(THIS DAY.)
Ann Ryan was charged before Mr. Traill with
striking Rosina Connor with a flat iron, and seriously
injuring her.

The complainant,whose face presented a shocking spec-
tacle, stated that she went home on the preceding night,
and finding the prisoner there with her husband, she de-
sired her to quit the place. The prisoner, however, re-
fused to go, saying that she had as much right to com-
plainant's husband as herself. This language caused a
dispute, which ended in a scuffle, during which the pri-
soner procured a flat iron, and, placing it in a handker-
chief, struck the complainant a severe blow in the face,
which knocked her down, and rendered her completely
insensible. It was stated that had the blow been a little
higher up, it must have killed her.
The prisoner said that it all arose out of jealousy on
the part of the complainant, and denied she struck her
with a fiat iron, but that she pushed her down, and her
face striking against the fender inflicted the injury upon it.
Mr. TRAILL, at the request of complainant, dealt sum-
marily with the prisoner, and in default of paying the
fine, committed her for 14 days.

FLANDERS MAIL.
(RECEIVED THIS DAY.)

BRUSSELS, OCT. 20.—A letter from Leipsie informs
us that on the 7th of this month the first meeting of the
German merchants took place, conformably to a resolu-
tion adopted at the fair at Easher, and that between 150
and 200 persons were present.
The assembly resolved unanimously :
" That with regard both to quantity and quality, our
linen manufacturers can no longer refrain having re-
course to the spinning of thread by machinery. That
this should be encouraged, both by a more extensive and
careful cultivation of lax, and then by an import duty on
English thread, and a bounty on the exportation of
linen.

" A proposal was laid before the meeting on the ne-
cessity of improving the condition of the working classes,
and of zealously turning their attention to the means of
effecting that object."
The assembly resolved to offer a prize for the best
work on the following question :—" By what measures,
the execution of which may be practicable in the pre-
sent state of things, aid which shall promote the interest
both of the manufacturers and the workmen, may a du-
rable improvement in the situation of the latter be ef-
fected."

BELGIAN FUNDS.—EsussELs, Ocr. 20.
Actua Dobt, 2% per Cent., 6O
Rothschild's Loan, Fire per Cent ............ 102
Loan of Thirty Millions, Four per Cent 98%
Three per
Thlrty-seven Millions, ditto ...... 76%
(1840) 103%
Loan of City, 1843, Four per Cent. lO3
Society of Commerce, Four and a Half per Ceut.
Bank of Belgium, Five per Cent. 60%
Issue of 1841... . ... ...•" ....... «••••••••«••••••••••• •••••
—Brussel...Papers. 'Oct. 21.
AUSTRIAN FUNDS.—VIENNA, Orr 14
Five per Cents. Metalliques, 109%
Four per Cents. lOO
Three per Cents
Bank Shares ..- ...... ..... . . ..... 1600
if ilgenzeineZeitung, Oct. 18.