The Sun.
London, England, 1842-10-29 00:00:00

are frightened out of their senses. The corn-factors
are ruined, and the bill brokers are smothered with
unsaleable bags of wheat, instead of flourishing on the
profits of commercial paper. The sugar trade is dis-
turbed. The metal trade is disturbed. Our manu-
factures languish, and prices seem to find no bottom.
No one branch of our productive industry is bene-
fited ; all are unsettled, and all labour under dived
of further change. To crown all, money is freely
offered at two per cent,, and no bills.
TIMES.—The failure of Messrs. Hunter and Co-
ventry, corn-factors, has created some sensation in
the City. The house is of high standing, and the
liabilities are said to exceed 100,0001. At the same
time their assets are spoken of as considerable, and
some say that little more than time to realise them is
required. A failure of smaller importance, that of
Mr. E. It. Foster, Irish provision-merchant, has been
connected with the other. The liabilities of this con-
cern are said to be under 20,0001.
We have the authority of Messrs. Denison and Co.
to state that they were not the contractors for the
loan to the United States Bank referred to under
this head in the Times of to-day, although it has
commonly been associated with their names, but that
they were merely requested, as bankers, to hold the
securities for the subscribers for two years. Beyond
that of the ordinary banker's commission for paying
the dividends they derived no emolument from the
loan, and they neither took any of the bonds them-
selves, nor did they receive any of the money raised.
It should be mentioned that they profess themselves
willing to follow any directions from the contractors.
The acceptance of the conversion by the Com-
mittee of Portuguese bondholders has, as might have
been expected, found several persons who are not at
all satisfied with the proceeding. Of this the follow-
ing letter is an instance :
" TO THE EDITOR OF TILE TIMES.

" Sir,—lt would appear that in consequence of a
promissory and explanatory declaration or decree,
signed by the Queen of Portugal and the Minister of
Finance, stating that the 6th article of the decree of
November 2, 1840, was, as it purports to be, intended
only as a guarantee to the British creditor, and not as
a mode and means of throwing him on the Lisbon and
Clorto Custom-houses for payment, the Portuguese
Committee decided to propose to a public meeting the
acceptance of the decree of November 2, 1840.
" From this, Sir, it would seem that article 6 was
the only or the most objectionable one in that dis •
honest, arbitrary, and illegal measure. Is this the
fact ?—No.
"Article 3 cuts off 401. per cent. frorn.every 1001.
3 per cent. bond, while it leaves the 5 per cent. bond
entire. Article 3 takes away 2,400,0001. capital
stock of the 3 per Cents., and from the 5 per Cents.
nothing.
"Whence this•unfair distinction ? The 3 per Cents.
came out at the high price of 721. per cent., the 5 per
Cents. at a much lower figure, both positively and re-
latively.
" I find no explanation of this anomaly in any of
the reports of the meeting as given by the papers, nor
any allusion to the case of the 3 per Cents.; and,
therefore, take this means of requesting the Chairman
and Committee, jointly and severally, to assign to
their 3 per Cent. constituents, of whom I am one, the
reasons of their apparently one-sided conduct, and en-
treat you, Sir, to have the goodness to assist me in
obtaining a reply to my very reasonable inquiry.
" I have the honour to be, Sir,
" Your very obedient servant,
" PORTUGUESE BONDHOLDER."

CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT.
OLD COURT.

(Before Mr. JusticefitSKlNE and Mr. Justice MAuLE.)
UTTERING COUNTERFEIT COlN.—Ellen Connell
alias Nyhen, aged 21, was indicted for uttering coun-
terfeit coin, well knowing it to be counterfeit.
It appeared that she had been convicted at a former
sessions of a similar offence, and had suffered twelve
months' imprisonment.
Mr. Bodkin conducted the prosecution, and Mr.
Payne defended the prisoner.
The prisoner, it appeared, had tendered a counter-
feit sixpence at the bar of a public-house in payment
for a half pint of beer. The landlady refused to take
it, and prisoner then tendered a good shilling. In
change the landlady gave her a sixpence, a fourpenny
piece, and a penny. The prisoner returned a four-
penny piece to the landlady, saying it was the one
given in change, and that it was bad. The landlady
was positive that the fourpenny piece she had given
the prisoner was good, and her inference was that the
prisoner had changed it. On her being searched the
only counterfeit coin found on her was a sixpence.

'_Ne Jury found her Not Guilty.
CIIVAGE or RAPE.—Robert Pring Snell was in
dieted for having committed a rape on Ellen Matilda
Singleton.
Mr. Doane conducted the case for the prosecution,
and Mr. Payne defended the prisoner.
From the evidence for the prosecution, it appeared
that the prisoner was a married man, residing in the
Cambridge-road ; that hi: wife had hired the prose-
cutrix, a girl 'of about 16 years of age, of rather weak
intellect, as:a servant; that after the girl had been
in the prisoner's service four days he had taken
advantage of his wife's absence to ply the girl with
beer and spirits until she was nearly intoxicated, and
that then he had committed the offence with which he
was charged.
Tha prosecutrix was subjected to a long and ri-
gorous cross-examination by Mr. PAYNE, on the part
of the prisoner, and her deposition before the Magis-
trate was put in and read, which differed in some
points from the evidence she bad given in Court. Her
evidence was corroborated in many points by other
witnesses.

Mr. PAYNE addressed the Jury for the prisoner,
and contended that it would be unsafe to convict any
man of such a crime on such unsatisfactory testimony.
Mr. DOANE replied.
Mr. Justice EasKINE summed up, and the Jury
found the prisoner Guilty.
Mr. Justice ERSKINE in passing sentence on the
prisoner, told him that if the law had remained in its
former state he would most probably have been left
for execution. Fortunately for him, however, an
alteration had been recently made in the law. The
sentence was, that he be transported beyond the seas
for the term of his natural life. _ _

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LORD— FRANKFORT'S CASE.—The Grand Jury have
returned a true bill against Alice Lowe for robbing
Lord Frankfort.

NEW COURT.
(Before the COMMON SERGEANT.)
On Thursday Louisa Grange,' aged 25, dressed
in a stylish fashion, was indicted for stealing, on the
17th of August. four diamond rings, value 10e/., the
property of John Metcalf; and Rossiet Lennon, aged
32, was indicted for procuring, aiding, and inciting
the first-named prisoner to commit the said felony ;
another count charged him with being an accessory
after the fact, with harbouring, maintaining, and
comforting her, concealing her, and receiving the pro-
perty stolen by her, well knowing it to have been
stolen.

The female prisoner pleaded guilty. The male
(Lennon, a well-dressed young man) abided his trial.
After the lapse of six hours after the pleas,
Mr. DOANE stated the case for the prosecution, in
course of which he read several letters found upon
the prisoners. They were translated from the French
into English. They formed a correspondence between
the parties, and had relation to the present inquiry.
The COMMON SERGEANT expressed an opinion
that the contents of the letters would not sustain the
indictment, so far as the first count -was concerned.
Several witnesses were called, but their testimony
has been already fully detailed in the police reports.
The COMMON SERGEANT summed up the case, and
the Jury, without much hesitation, found the prisoner
Guilty upon the first and third counts of the indict-
nient.
The Learned JUDGE said it was impossible that the
prisoners could be allowed to remain ii I this country.
With respect to the woman, the law le ft him no dis-
cretion. The judgment of the Court, therefore, was,
that she he transported for ten years, and the male
prisoner for seven years.
The Common Sergeant was occupied the greater
part of yesterday morning with trying- mint cases, of
which there were no less than 15 for trial, a most
unusually large number.
The Learned JUDGE, on the conviction of the first
prisoner, expressed his surprise at ti e number of
charges of this description, and state d his deter-
mination to put a stop to the practice, by visiting
all offending with the heaviest punish' nent the law
woul'l allow. Since he had taken his seat he had
been informed that the cause of so many charges of
this-description was, that the "smasheiz' town season"
had commenced. There was now a season for every
thing, and the smashers could not be without theirs. In
the summer and autumn they favoured the country
with their presence to impose u pon the haymakers,
hop-pickers' and reapers, and the simple country
PeePle, and they made town th eir quarters for the
winter. He, (the Common Sergeant) would take
care that the present town seas o s should not be either
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a good or successful one, and :he was as good as his
rnmasyrw. would prevent
James Bird was convicted o f -.stealing a time-piece,
a sue:lxttroe:n cdnoeendxvi • on he sentenced the
-P°l
ic3man'
and sentenced to seven years' t. a nsportation.
James Aitdrews, ex
s, 36, an was indicted
for stealing, on the Bth of the t month, apurse,
containing geld
and silver preeo 'a en
to the value of
21.:55., the property of Thomas N oel Harris, from his
person.
Archibald Rile, assistant to
a linen-draper, living
at 269, Oxford-street, stated th at the day named in
the indictment, he saw the pro: ;editor's carriage draw
up to the pavement, the Pris, ter being near at the
time. Afterwards he saw hira. lift the skirts of Mr.
Harris's coat with his left hand,, and at the same time
put his hand in. As soon as k withdrew it, witness
apprised the prosecutor of wha4 he had seen, and then