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Wheat, Eaglids quarter. 1,935
Do. Foreign .10,940
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Barley, Bridal
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Malt, Englieit
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SMITHFIELD MARKET, Ace.
CATTLI AT )1•111[17.
Beasts 1.433 Sheep 24;690 I Pigs 250 I Calves 165.
Bed r . 4. 04 to 4s 44 Veal . . 4s 441 to 5. 44
►luuott . 41 od 4. 61 Pork . . 4s Qd 41 10d
Lamb . 4s a 1 5. 44
Hay per load, 43 Os. to .f 4 10s. Clover ,f 3 10.. to £5
Straw AS Os. to is.
COAL NIARKET.--Tors Day:
Haar-ease 0pe...-Tber* was an abundant supple of ihe dif-
ferent Forts of Coal at market to-day, much greater that, for some
time past; no leas than 144 new ships were at market, making
total on the month's arrival of 519 ships. The Coal F.schaage
wasouvoreously attended by merchassea. and Coals generally wery
!aired demand.
Best Wallsend Coals

Wet sons
Sbips at liarket

ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE.

WESTERN CIRCUIT.—BODMIN, Atm. 20.
CROWN Stec —Before the Lord Chief Justice Tema.
John Abram, jun. was indicted for stealing 701. in so-
eieigns and half-sovereigns, the property of his master,
liithanl Thomas, a butcher, at Penryn.
Mr. LESTER stated the case for the prosecution, and
:After detailing the ftcts that would be detailed in evi-
dence, said, that one circumstance would be stated which
it was as well he should explain at once, and that was,
with reward to the conduct of the prosecutor's wife.
When the box which had contained the stolen property
was found by a neighbour of the prosecutor, Mrs. Tho-
mas was asked if that was her box ? and she answered in
the negative. The cause of that answer was this :
Mrs. Thomas's husband, though an industrious man, was
occasionally apt to spend too much money at the public-
house ; 'and Mrs. Thomas, who had in the course of 15
or 16 years laid by this money against the time when
..he might be in need of it, answered in that manner be-
cause her husband was present, and she did not wish him
to know any thing of the matter ; the box, however, was
her's, and part of the property found in it she would
identify.
Mrs. Thomas, the wife of the prosecutor, proved that
,he had been married to her present husband fifteen or
sixteen years ; he was a butcher ; she went to market,
and since their marriage she had put together the greater
part of the sum of money mentioned in the indictment ;
a few days before the robbery she had seen the box in the
place where she usually kept it, namely, under the bed ;
she did not open it at that time, but she lifted it and
found by the weight that the money was still in it ; she
swore to some sovereigns that were shown her, and which
she said, she knew by marks put on them by herself when
she put them into the box. She was cross-examined at
some length by Mr. Ihtinexe, who appeared for the pri-
soner, as to her means of knowing these sovereigns by
marks which, she admitted, might very much resemble
those put on sovereigns by persons who scratched them
to try if they were pure gold. She had lost the key of
the box about a month before the box itself was discovered
to be stolen ; she always kept the box under her bed ;
her husband might see it there; any body might see it
that looked under the bed. She had recently discharged
a maid-servant ; that servant sometimes cleaned the bed-
room, and might have seen the box ; witness did not dis-
charge her for any cause of that kind. Witness generally
cleaned that room herself. Her husband could easily
have found the box if he had looked under the bed for it,
but she did not believe he knew of her having the box
there. She did notthink he had.been more than usually
merry at this time; she did not know he had spent more
money in the month before the robbery than at any other
period.
Other witnesses proved that 'they had received sove-
reigns from the prisoner about the time in question.—
Some of these were produced, and Mrs. Thomas swore
to one or two of them. It was also proved that.in a con-
versation with one of these witnesses, the prisoner had
exhibited several sovereigns in his hand, and in answer
to a remark that such things were very pretty to look at,
said that if a man had sixty or seventy of them it would
he very handy. Some of these witnesses, in cross-exa-
mination, said the prisoner had sometimes sold most in
the market, and had brought home as much as 91. or 101.
at a time. They also spoke to his general character for
honesty and industry.
The prisoner called witnesses, who gave him a good
character.
The CHIEF JUSTict left it to the Jury to say whether,
from the fact of a marked sovereign being found to have
been in the prisoner's possession, they were satisfied that
he had committed this robbery ? or whether, under all
the circumstances, they were inclined to believe the in-
ference attempted to be raised by the cross-examination
of Mrs. Thomas, that this money might have been taken
by some other person, and had come into the prisoner's
possession in the course of its circulation ? If they en-
tertained any doubts upon the subject, they would give
the prisoner the benefit of them, and acquit hint.
The Jury, after having deliberated in the box for about
half an hour, retired from Court, and in a short time
afterwards brought in a verdict of Not Guilty.
John Cleathers was indicted for stealing two bridles
from two horses put up in the yard of the Seven Stars Inn,
at Truro. The case was proved in the clearest manner
against him, but several witnesses, and among them one
of the Jury, gave hint an excellent character for his con-
duct previously to the robbery in question.
Lord Chief Justice TIN DA L said, that in consequence
of what these witnesses had said, and of communications
made to him from other quarters, he should pass a sen-
tence as lenient as possible upon the prisoner. His Lord-
ship then ordered him to be imprisoned and kept to hard
labour for three months.
CIVIL SIDE.
Mr. Justice B t:ltao uG II has been engaged during the
whole of the day in hearing a case of contested property
in part of a wharf.
Sir J. SCARLETT is here on a special retainer, as the
leading Counsel for the plaintiff in the case, the nature of
which he described in his opening, as regarding a mere
right of property, and which, though he feared the Court
and Jury might be detained for two days in its investiga-
tion, was one that would not in its course afford them
any manner of interest to lighten their labours, and would
be from beginning to end a dry question of superiority
of title.
WARWICK. Ave. 22.
George Bromley was indicted for uttering a counter-
feit half-sovereign knowing it to be such, he having been
previously convicted of being a common utterer of base
coin.
It appeared that in September last, the prisoner, who
is a common vulgar looking follow, met a young man,
named Jones, in the street at Birmingham, and asked
hint if he wanted a place, as he (prisoner) was in quest
of a man to drive his malt-cart, drawn by three horses.
Jones agreed to be hired, and the prisoner gave him his
address as Sir John Smith, of Moulsey. He then took
him to a public-house, and treated him to a pint of ale,
after which he directed him to come to his place
next morning, and bring a saddle and a pound of
tea, with him. Jones promised to be punctual, and
the prisoner was about proceeding home, when
lie suddenly recollected that he wanted some
change, and asked Jones to lend him ten shillings until
he went home. Jones instantly handed him the money;
and his new master departed. It is needless to add that
poor Jones was unable to discover Sir John Smith at
Moulsey. In the month of April last the prisoner ac-
costed another young man, whom he also met in .the
street at Birmingham, and offered him the situation of
driver to the mail cart and three horses, whith the young
man gladly accepted. The prisoner then asked Min
for change of a half sovereign, but the young man hav-
ing only 7s. 6d. about him, the prisoner took 'that sum,
and giving him the half sovereign, told him is I% tune-.
tual at his new place, and he would make him a,present
of the 2s. 6d. He then went away, saying be.weuld re-
turn immediately. The young man, after waiting in vain;
for hint for some time, discovered that his neat' muter