The Sun.
London, England, 1852-09-18 00:00:00

PRICE OF SUGAR.

The average price of Brown or Muscovado Sugar, com-
puted from returns made in the week ending September 14,
1852, exclusive of Customs Duties paid or payable thereon
on the importation thereof into Great Britain :
From the British possessions in America 21s. lOid. per cwt
From the Mauritius ... ... No return.
From the East Indies ... ... 255. 3d. ~
Average price of the two foregoing de-
scriptions of sugar, jointly, computed as
above, and exclusive of duty 225. 24-d. „
By authority of Parliament,
HENRY BICKNELL, Clerk of the Grocers' Company
Grocers'-hall, September 17.

LAW INTELLIGENCE.
COURT OF BANKRUPTCY, Sept. 17.
(Before Mr. Commissioner EvANs.)
IN RE W. F. BLACKBURN.

This was a certificate meeting in the matter of
William Frederick Blackburn, who was described as
a bookseller, of 32, St. George's-place, Knightsbridge,
and 25, Motcomb-street, Belgrave-square.
Mr. Hadley, for the assignees, offered no opposition.
Mr. LAWRANCE, who supported the bankrupt's ap-
plication, said, in this case there was no opposition by
the assignees or any creditor. The estate had turned
out well, owing to the exertions of the bankrupt, and
he trusted his Honour would grant a certificate of
the highest class.
His HONOUR granted an immediate certificate of
the second class.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
MANSION-HOUSE.
Lewin Yates Coleman, Joseph Gurney. and Henry
Birch, who have been so frequently brought up on
the charge of having attempted to defraud Mr. Elias
Isaacs by means of a fabricated bill, purporting to be
the acceptance of Rotton and Co. of Nicaragua, in
South America, for 1871. 18s. 9d., were yesterday
fully committed for trial by Sir R. W. Carden, who
had from time to time adjourned the case, in conse-
quence of the alleged expectation upon the part of
the prosecution of a witness prepared to prove that
there was no such firm in Nicaragua.
Mr. Nobler appeared for the prosecution and Mr.
Beckling for the prisoners.
It was stated by Mr. nobler that the witness had
not yet arrived, find that there was at present no
further evidence than had already been brought for-
ward against the prisoners.
The following is the form of the commitment:—
" For that they (the prisoners) did, on the 26th July,
1852, in this city, unlawfully conspire, combine, confe-
derate, and agree together to obtain the sum of 1001. of
and from Elias Isaacs, with intent to cheat and defraud
him of the same, against the peace," &c.
Sir R. W. Carden accepted good and sufficient
bail for the appearance of the prisoners to answer
the charge of the misdemeanour in the Central Cri-
minal Court.

Isabella Reid and Jane Price were finally examined
—the former charged with having committed several
robberies in the assumed character of a laundress ;
the latter with having aided and assisted the former
in effecting one of the robberies.
Jane Price, who seemed to be between 14 and 15
years old, and had been taken into the service of Mrs.
Park merely because she appeared to be hungry and
destitute, joined Reid in a plot to rob her kind mis-
tress, and contrived to put her in possession of clothes
for the wash of the value of from 81. to 101., which
after their disappearance never were heard of more.
A number of respectable persons attended and iden-
tified Reid as a pretended laundress, who had in that
character obtained a large quantity of clothes. She
had contrived to get, in many instances, the names
of the laundresses who attended families, and was in
the habit of calling for the clothes a short time before
the usual hour for getting them ready for the
laundress.
There were several distinct cases against Reid be-
sides that in which her youthful confederate assisted
her, and upon each of them she was committed for
trial.
Price, upon being asked, according to the usual
form, whether she wished to say anything, declared
that she had been induced by Reid, who met her and
talked her over in the street, to help in deceiving and
plundering Mrs. Park.
The girl was then committed for trial upon the
charge of having, in conjunction with Reid, plundered
Mrs. Park.
Richard May and George Henry Francis, well-
dressed and able-bodied robbers, were brought before
Alderman Carter, in the custody of Evans, the detec-
tive City officer, charged under the following cir-
cumstances :
Evans said—Yesterday, at half-past four, I was on
duty in the Minories, and in consequence of informa-
tion which I received I went to a public-house in
Haydon-street. I saw a man go out of the public-
house, and I then watched at the corner, and in five
minutes I saw Francis also leaving the taproom. I
at once apprehended Francis and brought him into
the taproom, where May, whwhoml well know, was
sitting with the captain of a ship, whom I suspected
to be their intended, if he had not already been their
real victim. I asked the captain whether he had lost
anything ? He said, "N o, and asked me what he
had done. I said to him, " Are you aware what
company you are in., He replied that he believed
they were respectable people. I then took the pri-
soners to the station-house, and found on May three
purses empty, and a leathern puree containing twelve
fancy sovereigns, and on Francis a gold watch and
chain, a puree containing ten fancy aovereigns, and a