The Sun.
London, England, 1845-04-25 00:00:00

Sub. Committee (No. 1.)

MANSION-HOUSE.-(THIS DAY.)

THE HAMPSTEAD MURDER.
Allen Ke!mar, a young man, was this morning placed at the
bar before the Lord Mayor, charged with having been concerned
with Hocker in murdering Mr. Delarue.
It ap?cared from the evidence that several letters had been
rtcently addressed to Hocker, purporting to come from a person
who had assisted him in the murder. Means were' taken to
discover the writer, and the prisoner was arrested last night at
the Kings and Keys, Fleet-street, while in the act of penning
another epistle to Hocker. The prisoner it appears has been a
teacher in a school. He stated to the Lord Mayor that he was the
writer of those letters, that there was no foundation whatever for
the statements made in them—that he was not acquainted with
either Hocker or Delarue, anti that he had never been to Hamp.
stead until after the murder.
The prisoner's brother, who was in attendance, said he con.
sidered this was merely a foolish attempt on the part of the pri-
soner to obtain notoriety.
The letters, some of which were signed " J. Allen," were then
put in and read. It was evident that the writer wished it to be
imagined that he himself was the murderer.
The prisoner said there was no truth in them, and that weakness
of mind alone had induced him to write them.
It appeared that he had been subject to fits.
The LORD MAYOR considered the whole as merely a foolish
freak, but directed the prisoner to be taken to Marylcbone, the Court
from which Hocker had been committed, where any proofs of the
prisoner's mental imbecility could be produced.
The prisoner was then removed.

MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS.

This Committee assembled this morning in Committee-room
No. 7. Present, Mr. Strutt, Chairman, Mr. Pakingten, Mr. V.
Stuart, Mr. Beckett, Mr. Compton, and Mr. Brotherton.
LIVERPOOL, ORMSKIRK, AND PRESTON RAILWAY.
The object of this railway ii to give a line of communication
between the above places, twelve miles shorter than that which
exists. The length, including branches, is thirty-six miles, and
the estimated cost 700,0001. Engineers, Sir J. APNiel and Mr.
Thompson.
Mr. Donnington appeared for the promoters; the petition was
opposed by Sir John Scarisbrook.
The allegations were very numerous, and of the most trivial de-
scription. They all related to trifling omissions in the plan.
A number of these were gone into, and the Committee at last be-
gun to be impatient.
The CHAIRMAN said— Really these objections are very trifling.
If something more material cannot be gone into it is only wasting
the time of the Committee to continue these. Here is one in
which, by a defect on the lithographic stone, the tail of a nine has
been omitted. Now, who could possibly be deceived or misled by
such an omission.
The case was proceeding when we went to press.

The sales of Cotton at Liverpool yesterday were again
large, being 15,000 bales, one-halt of which was on specit
lation. Middling and common qualities of American were
14d. per lb. higher than at the close of last week.—
Shares were rather firmer than on Wednesday,
but were not quite supported to the close :
Armagh and Port Rush, 58s 6d. 3/.; Birkenhead, Manchester,
and Cheshire, lON 11% ; Birmingham and Gloucester, New
Shares, 414 ' • Bristol and Gloucester, 59 j ; Belfast and Bal-
lymena, 71% 1/8 ; Bolton, Wigan, and Liverpool, 12 11% ;
Caledonian, 11 y 4 %; Ditto, Extension, 3%; Cambridge and
Lincoln, 834 8; Chester and Birkenhead, 48 46%; Chester
and Holyhead, 1514 ; Chester and Preston Brook, 3; Chur-
net Valley, 7 6%; Clitheroe Junction, 33/4 ; Cork and Ban-
don, 714 %; Cork and Killarney, 3%; Cor and Waterford,
2%, ; Dublin and Belfast Junction, 1014 ; Dublin and
Drogheda, 14, ; Dublin and Galway, 5A ; Dublin, Mullin-
gar, and Athlone, 314 ; Dundalk and Enniskillen, 5%135. 3d ;
Eastern Counties, 19%; Ditto, Perpetual, 114 ; Edinburgh
and Glasgow, New Quarter Shares, 6% 3fli ; Edinburgh and
Northern, 2%; Glasgow and Ayr, 62 ; Grand Junction,
227 ; Ditto, Half Shares, 1131,2 ; Great Southern and
Western, 18; Ditto, Extension, 13% ; Huddersfield Canal
and Railway, 6% 14, ; Huddersfield and Sheffield, 8% 9;
Inverness and Elgin, ; Inverness and Perth, 3A ;
Limerick and Waterford, 3:14 % ; Liverpool and Manches-
ter, New Shares, 37% ; Liverpool, Ormakirk, and Preston,
2% 2/. 3s. 6d. ; London and Birmingham, 234%; London
and Brighton, 63 ; Londonderry and Enniskillen, 4% 4 ;
London and York, 3 4 ; Direct Northern, 4; Leeds and
West Riding Junction, 6% ; Lynn and Dereham, 3 ;
Manchester and Birmingham, Quarter Shares, 9% ; Ditto,
New Shares, 514%; Manchester and Buxton, 5%; Man-
chester, Sheffield, and Midland Junction, 8% ; Ditto
Quarter Shares, 19% ; Midland Railway, 154; Ditto, 40/.
Shares, 18; Newark and Sheffield, 6% ; Newcastle and
Darlington, 51 ; North British, Half Shares, 434 %; North
Union, (4), 145% • North Wales Mineral, 17% ; Ditto, New
Shares, 5% ; North Western, 4% ; North \Vales, 3 ; Oxford
and Birmingham Junction, 4 ; Oxford, Worcester, and
Wolverhampton, 375. ; Preston and Wyre, •35 ; Runcorn
Gap, 32% ; Sheffield and Manchester, 124% 124 ; Ditto,
Quarter Shares, 15 ; Sheffield and Lincoln, 265. ; Shrews-
bury, Oswestry, and Cheshire, 434 5 ; South-Eastern and
Dover, New Shares, No. 3, 73/4 ; Trent Valley, 18%; Trent
Valley Continuation, 2% ; Ulster, 50; Waterford and.
Kilkenny, 414%; West 1 orkshire, 6%; Wexford and Car-
low;4l/4 ; Worcester and Triug. 4% ; Dijon and Mulhouse,
2%; Paris and Lyons English, (Laffitte's), 2/. 16s. 6d. 5/4;
Paris and Lyons (Ganneron's), 2%; Paris and Rouen, 4214, ;
Paris and St. Quentin, 395.

CI rY, QUARTER 7'o THREL.

The Sub Committee, of which Sir. J. Y. Buller is chairman, re-
assembled this morning, and proceeded with the allegation in the
care of the Birmingham and Gloucester Corrpany, who seek for
power to make a branch from some point in their main line to the
ancient city of Worcester, as well as to extend the branch running
Into Cheltenham.

We have no arrivals to-day.
There has not been much business done in Stocks to- day,
and they continue a little flat. Consols for present transfer
have been marked 99 to 983:1, and for time 99 to lA. Ex-
chequer-bills have been 58s. to 60s. prem. New Three-
and-a-Quarter per Cents. have been 1004 q to 101, and the
Three per Cents. 97% to 971. Bank Stock has been
2091/i to 21014. 'flier,: Lave been a few sales pressed
both in Reduced Three per Cents. and Consols.
The same apathy exists in the Foreign Market, though
the quotations in a few instances arc somewhat firmer.
Spanish Bonds have not been officially marked all the morn-
ing. Mexican have been supported at 37% 1/2. Colombian
have been 153/4. Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents. have
been marked 6314 to %, which is a slight improvement.
With one or two exceptions, Railway Shares continue de-
pressed. Churnet Valley have rallied a little, having been
up to 71/8. Caledonian have been 10% to 111%. Direct
iSorthern are rather weak. Aberdeen, after being down to
3%, have rallied to 41s. Bristol and Gloucester have re-
ceded to: 57% and 55. Westend and Southern Counties
• Junction have improved to % 1/j, premium, owing to
the non-compliance of the South Eastern with the standing
orders. The French lines are still weak, but occasionally the
"scrips," or promises, as the Parisians term them, are picked
up at small premiums by parties inclined to await the adjudi-
cation ; and before this takes place, there will probably be a re-
vival of speculation in them, so uncertain is it which Company
will prove successful. Of course the profit on the fortunate
line, judging by the prices of those already constituted by
Act of the French Legislature will be of some amount.

BRITISH FUNDS THIS LAIC Al' ONE O'CLOCE.,
(From the Official List.)

Bank Stock .2101/ 209%
3 per Cent. Reduced Annuities ••• 97% %
3 per Cent. Consols Aims 99 08 % 3/4
New 34 per Cent. Annuties lOO% 101 100%
Long Annuities ,Expire sth Jan. 1860... 111/2%
Ditto 30 Ycars, Expire Jan. 5, 1860 ... 11%
India Bonds 1,0001
Ditto under 1,0001 74
South Sea Stock —
Ditto Old Annuities
Consols for Account
Exchequer Bills. 114 d. 11d.
1,0001.
5001. ...
Ditto Small —
PRICE OF FOREIGN FUNDS AT ONE O'CLOCK.
Columbian Bonds. 1534
Danish Bonds 1825, 3 per Cent.... 883 A
Mexican Bonds, 1837, 5 per Cent 37%1,4
Ditto Deferred Stock... .
Peruvian Bonds, 6 per Cent 30%
Dutch 2% per Cents
Ditto 4 per Cent. Certificates
PRICE OF SHARES AT ONE O'CLOCK.
RAILWAYS. PAID. PER SHAREI
Aberdeen ............... ........ 2% 3VA... to 4t/s
Armagh, Coleraine, Portrush 1% 9 5' to
132 4 Birmingham and Gloucester 100
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Mr. H. Vcnables, the Parliamentary Agent, appeared for a peti.
tioner named Lawrence, through whose property one of the exten.
sions would pass; but up to the hour of going to press he had
failed to substantiate any of his allegations. He had, however,
when the Committee rose yesterday, proved about nine, but none
of them presented any feature •f interest, and in point of import.
ante, the whole of them were of a minor character.

EXCHEQUER.-(THIS DAY.)
TRIAL AT BAR.-THE GREAT DISTILLERY CASE.

THE ATTORNEY-GENERAL V. GEORGE SMITH.

Their Lordships resumed this morning at ten o'clock, and the
naives of the jury having been called over, the first witness called
was Joseph Drinkwater, who was examined by Mr. Sergeant
Wilde. The plan before the Court describes the pipes that go
from the distillery into the rectifying.house. A 'hinge is used
for connecting two pipes either in a direct cr oblique direction.
There is a branch pipe between the distillery and the rectifying_
house which runs out of the first pipe. It is a blind pipe, and has
no outlet. It runs parallel with the two walls. It runs across the
road to the granary, and at thirteen feet from the junction there is
a stop-cock. There was a box upon it bearing the initial
of the East London Water-works. There was another stop.cock at
four feet from the junction. There was a branch from the dis.
tillery, running down to the officer's-room. The latest period in
1843 that I examined the spirit-receiver was on the 18th August,
At that time there were no holes in the cover. Between the 4th
of January, 1844, and the second examination a hole hail been
bored in the cover. There was only one hole discovered then.
The hole was only an enlargement of that through which the
suction.pipe passed. An officer was present when the
receiver was emptied. The trade always threw a
quantity of water into the , receiver, to clear the
pumps, and remove the spirits. A bar, locked by the Ex-
cise, was then run through the pistons to prevent their
working. The suction.pipc run through the enlarged hole. On
removing the board which supported the suction-pipe, I found a
sewn-circular hole which was sufficiently large to admit a man's arm.
There was an increase of spirit on the 13th of December of 28.7
gallons, and that was seized by the Excise. My attention was
called to thehole by two other officers after that stock was taken;
on the 15th of June following we examined the hold again, and I
mentioned the circumstances connected with it to the defendant
and his foreman, Mr. Gill. The foreman endeavoured to explain
it by stating the nails were rusted, and had given way. One of
the nails was, however, new. They were merely placed there to
prevent the board been kicked off. Mr. Gill said the receiver
must have floated, and so the board be wrenched off. The position
of the receiver was unaltered, and the officers of Excise must have
perceived it if it lied floated. The defendant produced
a letter, which he said was anonymous, stating that
some individuals about his premises ran off spirits about three
o'clock in the morning, and sold them afterwards. That dis.
covery (the discovery of the hole) he said explained the letter,
and, he added, that it was a most extraordinary piece of intelli-
gence. In June I found a hole, about an inch in diameter, near
the suction-pipe. The old board had been surrounded with white
lead, but the new hole was perfectly clear. The hole.at first sight
was not at all apparent. It was distant about eight inches from
the dipping-rod. A plug was in the hole to prevent its being
seen. lam confident the hole was not in the board on Saturday.
The hole was too small for the passage of the dipping-rod. The
dipping-rod was a square one, and the hole was circular. The ma-
nager explained that there was a knot of wood at that place Such
was not the case, however. The hole had been made with a
cutting instrument. I took the drip for the first time on the 3d of
September, 1842.
A juror—What is meant by the phrase, the receiver floating ?
The LORD CHIEF BARON explained.

The witness continued—The receiver was so close to the floor
that a knite could not be passed between the bottom and the ground.
It was rather inclined for the convenience of removing its contents
to the well or cistern. Before the end or September, 1842, the
quantity necessary to make the surface of the receives level a as
260 gallons. On the next examination they found that 260 gal-
lons made a level surface, and wetted 4.6 inches of the dipping
board. The next time the rod was taken it dipped 4.7 inches, the
difference of I.loth in depth, making a difference in bulk spirits
of 9 gallons, or redt.ced to proof of 14 gallons. This would create
in every distillation a loss of 330 gallons, the duty on which
would be 1291. ss. In August the drip was 4 5 inches, thus
gaining another 1-10th of an inch. A stop had since been put
upon the pipe by the Excise, but of that I know nothing, as I left
before it was done. The trader pays duty every fourteen days.
The defendant had 26 periods of distillation in the course of the
year. (The witness thin explained the different processes of distil-
lation.) Great care was afterwards taken to watch the premises
narrowly. They first commenced to watch on the seventh
period of distillation. I had an account of the
wash taken on the six previous periods. The quantity of wash
distilled in the first period, from the 10th of October, 1843, to the
23d of the same month, was 275,387 gallons, which reduced made
259,9211, giving a result of 27,414 of proof spirits. In the second
period the quantity of wash produced was 276,748 gallons, which
reduced made 262,830 A gallons, or in proof spirits 27,380
gallons. In the fourth period 282,143, reduced 258,792, or in
proof spirits 26,763 gallons, and so on with the other
periods. The quantity of spirits produced on the watched periods,
which were the 7th, 9th, and 10th, exceeded in some email
degree the unwatched periods.
Cross.examined by Mr. KELLY.—The charges were divided
, into eleven or twelve periods; and at every examination the
quantity of spirits in the wash differed in the proportions. It
all depended upon the impurity of the feints. It was always expected
to have ten per cent. of spirits upon the charge. A hundred gallons
of 'worts ought to give one gallon of spirits at fifty degrees attenu.
ation. If the quantity produced were less than what the Excise
had calculated, the trader was charged with the surplus. In this
way Mr. Smith has paid more than five or six hundred pounds in
a year. Although the Excise calculated upon ten per cent. of
spirits from the worts at fifty, yet it often happened that the pro.
duct was less. In October, 1843, commenced his first
watchings. He commenced at the beginning of the
Excise year. That was his seventh watch. But he
did not take into account the previous six watches, as he began
the year with the seventh, and carried on the purpose of his
watch with the eighth, ninth, and tenth.
The rest of the cross.examination related to matters only purely
technical and arithmetical, little understood by the witness and
counsel, and impossible to render intelligible in a newspaper report.
During the whole time that witness was engaged in watching
the premises Mr. Smith knew that the officers were in the

Ditto, Had Shares ...... .. 3 ...... 4
Bristol and Exeter
Bristol and Gloucester
Cab,donian 5 111% to 10%
Cambridge and Lincoln
Chester and Holyhead lO ...... 16414... to
Churnet Valley
isirect Northern ... ......... .. 21/.; 4l/81A... to
Direct Norwich 1
Dublin and Belfast Junction 2% lll4 ..... to
Dublin, Belfist,and Coleraine 21/2 93/4 to
Dublin and Galway
Dundalk and Enniskillen 2%. 5% to
Ea,,t ern Counties
19X33/.1... to

Eastern Union
Ditto Extension
Edinburgh and Glasgow
Ely and Bedford IIA 23/1%... to
Great South and W. (Irish)... 5
Great North of Scotland
Guildford, Fareham, Foram,. 21/2 5l/2 to
Harwich 1
[lull and Selby 5O lOO
Ditto Half Shares .
Lancaster and Carlisle... 2O 441/2 to
London and Birmingham ...100 233
Ditto Thirds
Ditto !_i Shares
London and Blackwall 16% 9 .. ... to
London and 8right0n.......... 50
London and Croydon... 131. 15s. 9(1.... 17%1/234 to
Ditto Guaranteed 5 per Ct. 6
London and South Western.. 41% SO ...... to 793,
Ditto New 2l/2...... 141/2%... to
London and York.
London, Salisbury, ft Yeovil 21/2 2l/2:N... to
Lynn and Ely
Manchester and Birmir.gliam 40
Midland , ... 100 1521/2 to
Ditto New 2 .. 171 i to 17
Newcastle &Darlington o unc. 25 ...... 50
Newcastle and Berwick
Newcastle and Carlisle lOO ..120
Newry and Enniskillen
Newark and Sheffield
North British
Ditto New 1 ..... 4,2 A% to
North Kent
id Brandon lO ...... 16:1

Norwich an, 4 to 17
Ditto, New 1
Richmond and West EndJ unc. 1
Scottish Midland
Shrews.,Wolver., Dud., Birm. 2'
South Eastern and Dover ... 33 % ,10%... .. to 41!8
Ditto New, N 0.2 2 .. ... 9 ...... to
I)itto New, \0.3 2V, 714 to
South Wales
Trent Valley ... 2 ... .. 18%1/2... to
Waterford and Kilkenny 1 33/4 to .41A
Cork and North Midland ... 50 ......103
Ditto, Extension
FRENCH RAILWAYS.

Bordeaux, Toulouse, and Cette 2
Dijon and Mulhouse
Great Northern of France

—(Taffitte's)
Do. Do. (Hosamers)
Louvain and Jerneppe
Namur and Liege 2l/2 6%143... to
Orleans and Vierzon
().leans and Bordeaux ... .. 2 ..•... 10% 11 to ioti
Pais and Lyons(Lattitte) ... 2
Parisand Lyons(Ganneron's) 2 ...
aris ou .•••• - P and Ren
to
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Royal North of Spain
Tours & Nantes (Mackenzie) 2
JOINT STOCK. BANKS.
London and Westminster ... 20 .... . 27
National Provincial of Engld. 3:5 37 to
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Provincial of Ireland
MANCHESTER STOCK EXCHANGE, APRIL, 24.—The sales
are :—Birmingham and Gloucester, New Shares, 4 ; Grand
Junction, New Quarters, 44; Manchester and Leeds, Half
Shares, 6.5 ; Manchester and Birmingham, 571 ; Man-
chester, Bur, and Rossendale, 174 ; Midland Railway
Consols, 154 Y; Ditto, Preferential, 33/4 % ; North British,
New Shares, 51/3 ; Preston and Wyre, 3a ; South-Eastern,
No, 3, 73/4 ; Armagh, Coleraine, and Portrush, 3%; Barnsley
Junction, 8; Ditto, Half Shares, 33/4 1,4 ; Birkenhead, Man-
chester, and Cheshire Junction, 103/4 ; Blackburn, Burnle,
and Accrington, 91,4 ; Bolton, Wigan, and Liverpool, 113/4 %y;
Caledonian, 11 ' • Cambridge and Lincoln, 87% ; Clitheroe
Junction, 3% 14 prem. ; Churnet Valley, 63/4 ; Direct
Northern, 414 ; Ely and Bedford, 3 1-16 ; Glasgow and Dum-
fries, 245. ; Goole, Doncaster, Sheffield, and Manchester
Junction, 20s. ; Huddersfield and Manchester Railway and
Canal, 614 3/4 ; Huddersfield and Sheffield Junction, 9 3-16 ;
Leeds and 4% ; Leeds and West Riding Junction,
; Liverpool, Ormskirk, and Preston, 23/4 11-16 ;
London and Worcester, Oxford and Rugby, 41 ; London
and York, 3 15-16 4 ; Manchester and Buxton, 51; Newark
and Sheffield, 5%; North Western, 45,4; ; Preston and Wyre
Extension, 2% prem. ; Shrewsbury, °weary, and Chester

To the Covar—Mr. Gill, who managed Mr. Smith's business, Junction, 4 15.16 ; Shrewsbury, Wolverhampton, Dudley,
knew that the officers were in watch, in consequence of d6eove. &c., 44 ; Southport and Euxton, ; Trent Valley Con-
ries they had made. tinuatkn and Holyhead Junction, 34 13-16 prem. ; West
Yurkshire, 6 ; Whitehaven and Furness, 3.; Bordeaux, Tou-
louse, and Cette, 2%; Rochdale Canal, 5434.

LLOYD'S SHIPPING.--(THIS DAY.)
Lospo:s, Amur, 25.—Wind this day at noon, Southerly,
pleasant breeze, and fine.
DEAL, APRIL 24.—Wind S.S.W. to S.W.—Arrd. Rival,
Iclaahoe, for Aberdeen; Favourite, ditto; Oscar, Angra Pe'
quina for Leith.
PLYMOUTH, Arm. 24.—Sid. Devonport, Quebec.
SIN-Asst.:A, APRIL 21.—S1d. Mary Brack, and Jane, Boyd,
Cuba.
OFF NEW ROMNEY, ArRIL 21.—Agatha Catherine, St.
Croix for Copenhagen.
WISBEACH, •krum 23.—The Queen Adelaide, of Ports-
mouth, wheat laden, got aground going down the river, end
stud:.
LIVERPOOL, APRIL 21.—Wind S.S.E.,
Birkby, Centaur, Hudson, Nail, Ocean, and Providence,
Ichaboe ; Laidmans, Walker, Demerara ; Diana, St. Do'
mingo. Slit. St. George, Bombay; Falcon, Africa; Leonora,
Demerara ; James Moran, New York ; Henry Duncan.
Quebec; Lily and Integrity, Newfoundland. Off, General ,
Wiltshire, Ichaboe.
MAinvroirr, Arno, 23.—S1d. Nelson, Quebec.
CORK, APRIL 22.—Arrd. Alexander, Murray,
Ichaboe;
Mary, Bingham, ditto. •
DEAL, Arm. 24.—Sid. Beacon, Rio.
RAMSGATE, Arntr. 24.—The Charlotte, from Hull to Con-
stantinople, which was brought in here the 22d instant,
leaky, has commenced discharging her cargo.
F HOF TE WIGHT, APRIL 21.—Johanna, Meyers, Bahr,for Hamburgh.
CowEs, Arm. Peat Ceylon.
CLAY, APRIL 23.—The Gipsy, front vEu to Wisbeach, ashore
near Blackness, has been got off and in here. The Nautilus,
Wilson, ashore near Wells,„has been got off and in here.
NEATH, Arun, 22.—The Richard, of Exeter, was in con-
tact last night, near Mumbles, with a barque of 400 tens, °A
Aberdeen and from Swansea; lost bowsprit, cutwater, an
received other damage.
OFF Conic, Arun. 22.—Norma, Jackson, Ichaboe.
CnooKnAvEN, APRIL 21.—Arrd. Patertine, Sheilds for
Miramichi, leaky ; bore. up from lon. 19, having been struck
with a heavy sea.