The Sun.
London, England, 1829-06-15 00:00:00

QUEEN -SQUARE.

ATTEMPT TO MURDER AFEMAL E.—On Saturday
James Hill, a hackney-coachman, was brought be-
fore Messrs. MARRIOTT and GREGORIE, charged
with atteroptnig IQ murder a • young female tiamvd
Margaret Brady, with whom. hp lived, under the
following circumstances I—,

The complainant presented a truly shocking Bp-
pearance ; her face was swollen in a most dreadful
manner and covered with bruises, so that scarcely a
feature was discernible, and she appeared so ill from
the effects of the prisoner's treatment that she
could scarcely articulate. She stated that she lived
• with the prisoner in Tothill-street, Westminster, and
had done so for four years, during which time she
had borne him four children. On Thursday night
last she was in bed and asleep when the prisoner
came home ; he laid hold of her and dragged her out
of bed, jumped upon her several times, and struck

It will be recollected that a few months ago
the Secretary for the Home Department sent an
order to the Court of Aldermen, desiring that
the gaol of Newgate should be so enlarged as to
render it practicable to make the classification of
prisoners, the want of which has been attended
with such alarming consequences, an unalterable
rule. This order was submitted to the Gaol
Conimittee, and the question underwent several
discussions. The prison, it appears, is so situate
that the ground round it cannot be purchased
except at an overwhelming expense, . and the
finances of the corporation, as must be apparent
from recent statements, are not at all calculated
to sustain any additional demand. With the
knowledge of this state of things, the Committee
proceeded to make such alterations in the inte-
rior as would enable the Governor to separate
the untried from the convicted, and the
more inveterate criminals from those whose
reformation was not matter of despair.—
What has been desired, however, is far
from being accomplished. . The present con-
dition of the prison, notwithstanding the late
very numerous transportations to New South
Wales, testifies the extreme difficulty of adapt-
ing the size of the great metropolitan gaol to the
extent of crime, without the aid of Government
in so altering the hulk system as to prevent it
from being the encourager of the most enormous
offences. Of those prisoners now under trial at
the Old Bailey there are great numbers who have
been previously convicted at the same bar, and
some who have been tried several times ; and
the minute observers of the working of the sys-
tem declare, that upon a fair average there is not
one of those practitioners who has not been ma-
turing half a dozen pupils for the gallows. The
public are already aware of the project submitted
to, and received with apparent approbation by,
Mr. Peel, of appointing a perpetual sessions for
the trial of the minor offences. It considered that
the rejecting of the Bill lately brought into
Parliament for giving the power to Magistrates
to try cases of the kind arose principally from the
expectation that this project would be carried into
effect. In tact, if it were, there would he no
occasion for the two courts in the Old Bailey.
The appointment of the additional court, although
the public are ignorant of the fact, is the cause
of the greatest confusion. Witnesses in a case
tried in one court are sometimes, by mistake,
more frequently by trick, to be found in the
other, when a prisoner's fate is about to be de-
cided. Counsel—who are always ready to snatch
at the fees whencesoever they come—are often
engaged in the one Court, when they have in
their pockets the money of a poor wretch before
a jury in the other. It is but justice, however,
to state, that there are some individual excep-
tions. It was found necessary some time ago
for the Chancery Solicitors to enter into resolu-
tions, for the sake of their clients, to em-
ploy in the Court .of Chancery only such
counsel as confined their practice to that
Court, and to make a similar regulation with re-
spect to the Vice-Chancellor's Court ; so that
those who chose to divide their business between
the two Courts were obliged to conform, as the
Chancery solicitors were determined to have the
quid pro quo. We believe that the respectable
attornies who practise at the Old Bailey make
every exertion possible for their clients, but the
fellows called agents, with whom the two Courts
abound, care not a straw about the attendance of
Counsel. Not many sessions ago, a very able
practitioner at the Old Bailey received a fee from
the unhappy friends of a prisoner, but was en-
gaged in one Court while the trial of the ac-
cused was going on in the other. The unas-
sisted prisoner was convicted, and his friends,
who declared loudly that he had an excel-
lent defence, demanded that the fee should
be restored. " No," said the Learned Coun-
sel, " I can't do that : I am very sorry for what
has happened, but I can't give back my fee.—
No, no, my friends, that would be a precedent
which my brethren can never see established,
and would never excuse." There happened,
however, to be present at this interview, a person
who was qualified to advise against the Learned
Counsel, and the Court of Requests at Guild-
hall was immediately named as• the place of re-
tribution. This way of deciding upon the merits
of the question was quite a startler, and the fee
was forthwith returned, with some. charitable hint
towards the family of the convict, which gave it
the grace of a donation.
A very wrong estimate has been formed .of
the duties of the Ordinary of the prison. Mr.
Cotton has been many years in that situation,
but he knows what . London housebreakers and
highwaymen are too well to attempt to catechise
such outcasts of society. There is a general be-
lief abroad, that the ordinary is received with
open arms by the inmates. Quite the reverse :
by the mass of conylcts he is looked upon with
horror, as the harbinger of death. So strongly
did this feeling prevail, that though Mr. Cotton '$
conduct to all. of them is that of the greatest hu,
manity, they some time ago besought the visiting
magistrates to exclude hint from their presence,
as they were miserable enough, without being
inosftrtulicetiirolnatotefrtheend,
It is but
ordinary is
seldom
always
pro-
perly attended to until there exists no hope at
this side of the grave._
vias y rtelmratintdheed

Those who are informed and interested on
the subject of arrangements relative to criminals,
complain very much of the grievances above
stated, and also strongly object to the expensive
mode of sending convicts from the different pri-
sons to the various ships ordered for their recep-
tion. In many instances convicts are posted

'S DURING LAST WEED'
Oats.
.../31*
I. tO
36 0
50
36

Per Quarter.
Carlisle
Carmarthen .
Hexham. .
Murpeth
Penrith
Sheffield. -
Winchester

Per Bushel.
Coventry
Newcastle (Stair)
Northallerton
Stafford
Swansea
Warwick

Per 8011.
Barnardeastle .....
Darlington ..,—.n.
Durham ----
Wolsingham ---

Wheat. j Barley.

s. to s. s. to s.
- 75 ' 39
65 34
64 78 27 33
66 76 36 38
64, — 37
68 79 35 46
36 73 • 34 37
s. d. s. d. s. d. v. d.
98• 10 4 48 54
119 120 00 00
80 100 40 43
120 12 3 5 6 60
88 9 2 4 4 46
96 10 4: 4 8 52
18 6 21 6 0 0 11 0
180 22 0 9 0 106
170 20 6; 8 6 96
170 20 61 8 6 90

it. to s;

18 25
22 26

24 34
19 23
s.d. 5.d.
3 0 43
4 6 4
23 26
40 49
28 30
30 43

42
s. d.
54 416
50 a,O
76
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50 W

76 96
59 76
60 96
60 76

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90 1.4°0
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WAKEFIELD CORN MARKET.—June lY.thie
There is a good supply of Wheat fresh up here X9l,
morning, with a fair quantity of Beins, but' the sr" og
of other Grain are trifling. The canals westward b°ett
under repair, and not expected to be navigable before °0;
Thursday, there has. been a thin attendance of bole
er,
the best fresh samples of Wheat are Is. per quarter 10
t°'
and there is no demand for other descriptions at slob
lerable prices. Oati are rather dearer. The little
Barley that is offering is taken off at the rates of last abut
Hard New Beans are in demand and rather bights'?
they
there is little doing is .middling old ones. The wesor
very dry for some time back, but since tuarkot sow' Oldie
tity of rain had fallen which will be of.great serifice
to
crops of grass and Spring Corn. • "
an
Wheat, Red, Norfolk and Sueblk 60s. to 641. t,p)S.
Lincolnshire Bgs
Yorkshire, Bic 634". to
to 66651 80111
1 • • ......... • • • .
While • Ms. to 724. Mel*
Foreign, Old s3s. to 625. Pe 06.
Barley, Norfolk and Suffolk ' 251. to VC r.o.
Lincolnshire Vis. to 30a. ,10.
Yorkshire Wold 20s. to 330. W"'
Beano, Tick 33‘. tO 3EIA. di° 454.
Small • 375. to 40f.. Pi*
•Qom—

Oats, Poland and Potato
Friesland and Small 22.. to 260. pt.
Healing
Shelling 33s. to -4. —4. to 35a. per lrst
Malt • .355. 40s. Rne 425. pet' pit.
Rapeseed

WAKEFIELD CATTLE MXRKET.—June IN elf
We had a full supply of stock its-day, and a model'
attendance of buyerl, which, with the full fairs of Isle.
caused a reduction in prices. NutsVitbstanding, the Ito
were considerable, but some of both kinds were t:
away unsold.—Beef 6s. to Ys. per atone; Mutton bu'
51d. per lb. ; Lamb 6d. per lb.