The Sun. — 1852-10-27 (London, England)

NEW COURT. (Before the Common Serjeant.)  In the case of a person named Thomas, committed by the magistrates for passing bad coin, Mr. Bodkin ap plied to the Court to discharge the recognizances of the witness's on the part of the Crown. The prisoners had been committed by one of the metropolitan magistrates for passing base coin, but on the depositions beint, examined by the Attorney-General, he considered' that there was nothing to justify a prosecution, and directed the charge to be withdrawn. Mr. Bodkin observed that the fact was of importance, as in some quarters it was considered desirable to leave the decision of such charges to a magistrate, without the intervention of a jury. The prisoner WAS then ordered to be discharged. The whole of the day was occupied in trying prisoners for uttering base coin, of whom there were thirtytwo in number. Not any of the cases possessed sufficient novelty or interest to warrant a report.  The jury found the prisoners Guilty, but recommended the girl to mercy. _  Tile prosecutor, who seemed to take a great interest in the child, expressed a hope that she might be removed from her mother. The father was in respectable employment, earning 265. a week, and he would take care that she was better brought up for the future. The Assistant Judge concurred in this, and sentenced the girl to ten days' solitary confinement in Westminster Bridewell. In passing sentence on the mother, he said this was not a case fcr transportation, that punishment being more applicable to common or general receivers, but he hoped the sentence he should pass would be an example to others not to train up their offspring in guilt. He ordered her to be imprisoned and kept to hard labour for eighteen calendar months.  SINGULAR SUICIDE .—Yesterday an taken by Mr W. Carter, the coroner, in the boarid"rolloemstofwthaes new workhouse, Newington, who de3troyed himselpf3 thebody of Henry Farr, aged 41, (loner, living at 6, Jerusalem- as follows:—He was a gar. doing some work for a Mr Johnson,rdens' Hackney, and was venor-park, Newington. onSaturday in South-terrace, Gros• o'clock, police constable Gibbs was ottardday night, shout 1 which fire most of them unfinished, and he by these houses, see that all the doors were closed. on had directions to wail open, and on entering he discoveretkang to No. 11 it on the floor, and apparently quite dear. iteeceased lying rattle for assistance, and [sir Nott, a surgeon, carne, his pronounced life to be quite extinct. It was then tou'nwdho Procord was passed round his neck, and the end was tthat the door, and he hnpposed in struggling he had down.falletuover He had twice before attempted to commit suicide. Verdict —",Temporary insanity." WrioE or A Winow.—Yesterday forenoon, an ingliept was held by Mr. Bedford, Coroner for Westminster, in the hoard-room of St. James's Workhouse, on view of the body of Mrs. Mary Ann Wright, aged 56, the widow of a respectable master builder, who committed suicide at her residence, No. 48, Poland-street, Oxford-street, by taking a quantity of oil of almonds. The jury, to most of whom the deceased was knows, returned a verdict of "Temporary Insanity."