The Sun. — 1844-11-28 (London, England)

THE CASE OF RICHARD DADDY THE PARRICIDE.  • Mr. BODKIN made an application to the Court in reference to the above prisoner, who, it will be remembered, after having murdered his father, made his way to France, and was eventually brought back to this country and committed for trial. The Learned Counsel, after having briefly allacipd to the circumstances of the case, said there was no doubt that the unhappy young man was insane, and he had been removed, by order of the Secretary of State, to a criminal lunatic asylum, where he now remained. As the trial, therefore, would not come on, he had to apply to the Court to discharge the recognisances of the witnesses who had been bound over, and to order that the money and other valuables taken from the person of the deceased gentleman at the time of the discovery of the murder, might be delivered to his friends.—The Court made the order.  Mr. HORNE applied to have a person, named Richard Snoard, whose name appeared upon the calendar .as charged with forgery, called upon to appear in discharge of his recognisances. The circumstances connected with this case are of rather an extraordinary character. The accused is represented to be a man of very considerable property, and the offence with which he is charged was alleged to have been committed upwards of four years ago, and the indictment has during all that period been upon the files of the Court, but has been postponed under various pretexts until the present time. The accused was admitted to bail in the sum of I ,000 L. to appear and answer the charge, and in his failing to do so, the recognisances he had entered into were estreated, and the amount was eventually paid into the Exchequer. The defendant was afterwards taken, and was again admitted to bail, and the trial was to have taken place at the last Summer Assizes • but upon the application of the counsel for the defendant, it was again postponed, and the indictment now once more came before the court.  The defendant was called upon to appear, but did not do so.  Mr. lIonNE Ulm applied to have the recognisance* estreated. He sail the case had now been standing over for several years, and it was very hard upon the prosecutors that they should be trifled with in this manner. Ile trusted, therefore, that the Court would either insist upon the defendant appearing and taking his trial, er else estreat the recognisances. Mr. Justice WIELIAms said that if the party did not appear in pursuance of his recognisancea, they would, of course, be estreated.  Mr. BODKIN shortly afterward& said that he and Mr. Clarkson were instructed to defend the accused, and he was in attendance in the Court, but was not prepared at that moment to take his trial, but he would be ready to do so, if time was afforded him to obtain the attendance of some material witnesses. Mr. Justice WiLLIAms said the trial must come on in its turn during the assizes, or else the recognisances would be estreated.  TILE Foa.—The effect of the very dense fog which invested the eastern extremities and suburbs of the metropolis, yesterday, was very singular in particular localities. From Leadenball,street to the foot of Cornhill, about a quarter to eleven o'clo:,k, the atmosphere was more strangely discoloured than we can remember to have ever seen it. All objects appeared to be viewed through that indescribable gloom which attends a total eclipse of the sun. A deep copper, or maroon colour, invested every visible building; the sun showed like a red, but opaque disc ; and the dimly developed outlines of the figures moving about the crowded quarter in question reminded us of the aspect of a closing tableau to some startling spectacle of diablerie at the theatres. The tower of the Exchange was invisible on the other side of Cornhill, and the whole of the massive fabric was wrapped at the early hour in a sombre shadow, unlike that of twilight, evening, or night. This strange mantle was so partially spread, however, that it did not at,pear from the Poultry, westward. On Cornhill it was distressing to observe the effect of " the palpable obscure" through which they were passing, on viduals affected with pulmonary complaints ; and the eyes of everybody who happened to be exposed to it were, for the time, most painfully disordered.