The Sun.
London, England, 1845-10-31 00:00:00

OLD COURT.

(Before Lord Chief Baron PoLLocit and Mr. Justice COLERIDGE.

OR the opening of the Court this morning, Daniel Garratt was
brought up, when his former plea of Not Guilty was withdrawn, as
he alleged, because he could not afford to employ Counsel, and
pleaded Guilty to all the indictments against him, twelve in num-
ber. Maynard was also brought up and arraigned on two fresh
indictments, to which he pleaded Not Guilty.
CHARGE OF MURDER.— WM. Still, 20, was charged with the
wilful murder of Wm. Still the younger, by striking him several
blows on the head, which had resulted in death.
Mr. Horry appeared for the prosecution, and Mr. Clarkson for
the defence.

The Learned Gentlemen for the prosecution having briefly stated
the case against the prisoner,
Lord Chief Baron Pota.ocx said that in looking over the deposi.
tions, though it appeared certain that some violence had been done
the child, and which might have occasioned death, still there was no
evidence that:it was wilful, and nut accidental, or that the prisoner
was present at the time referred to, and was the wilful cause He
therefore, in agreement with Mr. Justice Coleridge, instructed the
jury to acquit the prisoner, and a verdict was returned accordingly.
Wm. Collins, 16, who pleaded guilty on Wednesday to forging
an order of payment with intent to defraud John Wallace and
another, was brought up for judgment. The sentence of the Court
was, that he should be imprisoned with hard labour for two year,.
RAPE.—John Snezel, bricklayer, 27, a coarse-looking fellow, was
next piaced at the bar, on the charge of committing a rape on the
person of Catherine Porter, a pretty-looking girl, aged 16, at Sy.
denbam, on the evening of the 29th of September last.

On the case being called,
Mr. Ballantine appeared for the prisoner, but there was no one
for the prosecution.
Regarding this omission Mr. Justice CoLERIDGE expressed him.
self very strongly that the niggardness of the county should allow
such a grave and important case to be brought up without sufficient
provision being made for counsel, and directed the brief against the
prisoner to be handed to Mr. Bodkin.
The LEARNED GENTLEMAN stated the case, the details of which
are unfit for publication, when evidence was given in support of
the charge. From this it appeared that the girl on the evening in
question, went out of her mother's house along with prisoner to
fetch some ale from a neighbouring public-house, when the offence
alleged took place.

The defence was. that the prosecutrix was a consenting party, and
went voluntarily out of the way with the prisoner at the time re-
ferred to, having not only gone to the public-house in question with
him, but to the house of the prisoner, who is a married man, a mile
and a half distant, en the road to which, in a bye-lane, the offence
was commirted.

The jury immediately returned a verdict of Not Guilty.
Charlotte Mackie, aged 27, was charged with cutting and stab.
bing John Mackie her husband, with intend to do him some gricv.
ous hodily harm.

The defence charged arose out of a domestic quarrel, in which
the priaoner, who was drunk, seized a knife and itAlicted several
severe cuts on the person of the prosecutor. There was no fea-
ture of interest in the case, and the evidence being very conflicting
as to the motives of the prisoner,
The July returned a verdict of Guilty of the common assault,
without felonious intent.

The prisoner was ordered to be brought up for judgment to..
morrow morning.
It is not expected that Maynard's case will come on before to-
morrow morning, there being several cases ors the list before it.

AP:IW COURT:
(Before the Recommit.)
The Court was chiefly occupied this morning with cases for
uttering bad coin, but being mostly of a trifling nature, the cnly
point of interest in any of them arose from the circumstances
which went to prove that the prisoners uttered the coin knowing it
to be bad.

Dennis APCarty was charged with tendering a bad half-crown
in payment of beer had at the bar of a public-house. A good
hall crown was found upon the prisoner, but besides this a bad
shilling, folded up in paper.
The Mint inspector having examined the coin, said both pieces
were of Britannia-metal, and in this instance slightly covered with
silver ; hence the necessity of preventing friction by having the
coin folded up in a wrapper.—Sentence was deferred.
Janet Collins:tendered a bad half-crown in payment of sixpenny.
worth of grocery at a shop in the Strand. The young man pur-
sued her from the shop. The prisoner on being overtaken by the
witness, drew her hand from her breast and threw something into
an adjoining area, which was afterwards found to be two sixpences,
both bad.—She was found:Guilty, and sentenced to six months' ins.
prisonment and hard labour.

Robert Berry, and Francis M'Carty, were places at the bar,
charged with uttering base coin. Berry, who was 17 years of
age, genteel in his appearance, and had borne an irreproachable
character up to the time of the crime of which he was accused, ap-
peared to have been the dupe of M'Carty. Both were seen by the
policeman in company on the Camberwell and afterwards on the
Walworth-road, and in the course of three hour, went into dal,-
rent shops In these districts, but ultimately on the Walworth-road
in three tobacconists' shops tendered successively three bad
shillings. The coin, which had been refused in every instance,
was found upon the prisoners. M'Carty pleaded guilty, and-the
jury found Berry also Guilty.
Pi/Tarty was sentenced to imprisonment and hard labour for one
year, and Berry for three calendar months.
In the opinion of Mr. Field, inspector of the Mint, the three
shillings had been produced from the same mould, had been made
of Britannia metal, but not covered with silver.
John Williams was charged with stealing from the Jane Locker,
between the 7th and Bth June last, then lying in the West India
Docks.

John Colford, master, went on board on the morning of the Bth,
and found the cabin in great disorder, the locks broken off, and
missed a pocket sextant, a gold ring and pin, belonging to himself.
Daniel Pluck, one of the seamen, found on the said morning the
lashings of the companion-dsor cut, and the bolts wrenched.
Below everything was in disorder. Witness missed a jacket and
great-coat, which he saw afterwards in the possession of Thomson,
a pawnbroker.
Thomson's clerk said the articles had been pawned ; the jacket
on the Bth, for 35., and the great coat on the 14th June, for 78.,
and in both instances by a woman.

Caroline Smith—Llves at 18, Lower King-street, Commercial-
road. She had pledged the articles last-mentioned for the prisoner,
who lodged at her house. She had seen the prisoner wear the
jacket once, and only once.
Joseph Montagu, a constable at the East and West India Docks,
went to the prisoner's lodgings, and found a pocket sextant, a gold
ring and pin, with tickets for sundry other articles pledged. Wit-
ness got the prisoner in Clerkenwell prison. When taken he said
to witness that he had been in custody for the Jane Locker theft
already.

The prisoner was found Guilty; and having been convicted on
three separate occasions before, was sentenced to ten years' trans.
portation.

A HINT TO SPECULATORS.—In a .very short time
the Share-market must recover its tone. The mere paper
projects which have been brought out, rather to make money
than to make railroads, have been ruined (as they merited)
by the panic, which is now subsiding. Already are Railway
Shares in better request than any one could have expected a
week ago. We advise the holders of such shares not to be
in a hurry to part with them just yet. Such lines as have
completed their surveys, and lodged their plans, &c., by the
30th of November, must rise to a high premium immediately
after. Early next month, also, a great portion of the En-
glish money deposited in the Bank of Paris on account of
French Railways, will be released and returned, for the adju-
dication will then be made, and the unsuccessful competitors
must have their money returned. This will make money
plentiful. Our firm belief is that, within five weeks from this
day, bona fide Railway Shares will be at higher premiums in
the market than they have been at any time during the present
year.—Railway Express.
DEATH OF LORD MONTAGU.—With feelings of
deep regret we announce, that the fears lately expressed as to the
result of this nobleman's illness have been at length realised, his
Lordship having expired at his residence, Hamilton-place, last even-
ing, at a quarter before ten o'clock. Since ,Sunday last all hopes of
the Noble Lord's recovery appeared to have been dispelled. His
Grace the Duke of Buccleuch, the Noble Lord's nephew; the Earl
of Home, his son-in-law ; Lady Montagu, and several other relatives,
were in attendance since the time alarming symptoms had mani-
fested themselves. The deceased, Henry James Montagu Scott,
was the second son of the third Duke of Bucc'euch, by
the only surviving child of the first Duke of Montagu.
He was born in 1776, and married, in 1804, the eldest daughter of
the first Lord Doug7as. (She was born in 1779.) He succeeded his
grandfather in 1790. The first Baron ;the Duke of Montagu, on the
death of his only son, Baron Montagu, obtained a revival of the
barony of Montagu for himself, with remainder to his daughters and
sons. The late Lord was a supporter of the:present Administration.
He had the patronage of seven livings, and his estates, which are
considerable, lay in Berkshire, Hampshire, and Selkirkshire, of which
latter county he was the Lord-Lieutenant. The title becomes ex-
tinct, and the bulk of the property falls into the possession of the Duke
of Buccleuch.

V.
ATTEMPTED SUICIDE DY A YOUNG LADY.—Yes-
terday afternoon, the family of James Reentin, Esq., of Charlotte-
street, Portland-place, were thrown into the utmost alarm, by their
eldest daughter, seventeen years of age, having attempted to commit
suicide by swallowing a quantity of laudanum. The young lady had
returned from a walk in the Regent's Park, and on arriving at her
friends' residence, she was suddenly seized with vomiting, when it
was immediately detected that she had swallowed laudanum. Me-
dical assistance was promptly rendered, and by the aid of the
stomach-pump most of the poison was ejected, and great hopes are
entertained for her recovery.
DANGEROUS FEMALE EMPLOYMENT. —ln the
agricultural districts it has become a very general plan to employ
young females in the dangerous, and to them improper, labour of
" serving" thrashing machines. A short time since, a poor girl was
dreadthlly Injured while so employed on the farm of Mr. Parrott, of
Forest-hill; and a few days since, a similar accident befel Caroline
Crowdy, a young woman employed in serving a machine on the farm
of Messrs. W. and T. Hine, of Christmas-common, Oxon. The
machinery caught a portion of her dress, tore her clothes, injured her
person, and would probably have killed her had it not been for the
energetic exertions of one of the attendants.