The Sun.
London, England, 1862-08-23 00:00:00

AVERAGE PRICE OF SUGAR.

The average price of Brown or Muscovado Sugar, computed
from the returns made in the week ending Aug. 19, 1562,
exclusive of the duties of Customs paid or payable
thereon on the importation thereof into Great Britain

Per. cwt.
From the British possessions in America 22s. 52d.
Mauritius
East Indies
225. llid. Average price of the foregoing

BANKRUPTS.
The following are the only bankrupts of commercial im-
portance which appeared in the Gazette :
Joseph
Kent
Joseph Perigoe, builder, Tunbridge 'S II
II althamstow
William Henry Astley, photographer,
John William Perkins, chemist,
John Barford, clerk, Camdeno-nei t
ddsys. 11 De
vonshire
Harry , evonshire
Matthew Willing, moister, aorwrgna t e
Harry
Thos. Hopkins, coal merchant, w
W. Donnelly, eiv.il_entgi,n_eeri,nle,hefinecilidurch-street
k Brixton
John Francis,
coach
h agent, 117..5t Gorton, George Folsom
Samuel J. Milne, commissioncottonmspainuer, Oldham
Lan-
cashire
Field, forwardin
g
George W. agent, Strand
•
suyi3dueratloenr,iinrocnomkeo,nger, New-cut
Samson li. Commercial-road East
James
R. Muir, accountant, &Nen Sister's-road
Henry )iinion, publican, Aldridge, Staffordshire
isrm. Smith, plumber, Edenfield, Lancashire
William Beckett, farmer, Norfolk
William Howells, draper, Swansea
SCOTCH BANKRUPTS.
•
James French, accountant, Glasgow
George Hay, farmer, Easter Milanonie, Banffshire
John M`Dougall, saddler, Tain

COURSE OF EXCHANGE,—YESTERDAY.
Amsterdam
Ditto
Rotterdam — 11 18i 11 181
Antwerp.
Brussels — 25 471 25 50
Hamburgh — 13 8k 13 81
Paris
Ditto
Marseilles
Frankfort on Maine — 1191 119!
Vienna

Trieste
Petersburgh
Berlin

13 0
34k

13 10
341

Madrid
Cadiz
Leghorn
Milan

49
49h
25 57i
25 57i
25 57

49+
49a
25 621
25 62+
25 62+

Genoa --I
- 391- z
Naples
Palermo — 119 119}
Messina
Lisbon — 521 53
Oporto — 521 .531
Foreign Gold in Bars (Standard), per oz ....•.£0 17 9
0 0
Mexican Dollars
Silver in Bars (Standard)
‘,5
01/
South American Doubloons .................. 0 u

The Sacred Harmonic Society,
Exeter-hall, will
repeat their Performance ef lgeoi4U V YriciaY neNt,
Ault 29,

From the abrupt termination of the case at the
Guildford assizes, the evidence that was to have
been adduced on behalf of the defendant was not
alluded to ; if this had been gone into, it would
have tended to make the inquiry of a still more
extraordinary character. The defendant, Mr.
Waite, is a tradesman in London, and possessed
of considerable property; and the Norbiton Farm
Estate was purchased by him, at the auction mart,
for L 15,000; and he has since laid out £5,000 upon
the property ; so that he had a very large sum at
stake, and when he was called upon to give up the
property on the ground that the deeds that were
executed were not valid, upon the supposition that
a forgery had been committed, he spared no ex-
pense in procuring evidence, and the case that
would have been set up on his behalf was that
both the deed of gift and the will of the 2d of
September, 1856, under which Mr. Roupell came into
possession of the propertywere genuine instrumento,
and very strong evidence would have been brought
forward to establish these facts. It would of course

have also been suggested that Wm. Ronpell's con-
fession of forgery was merely an afterthought for

the purpose of getting the property back to the use

of his family; and there were a great many strong
facts that would have materially favoured such a

suggestion. It appears there were nearly 50 wit-
nesses at Guildford on behalf of the defendant, a
great many of whom had had intimate and exten-
sive business transactions with Richard Palmer
Roupell, the father of Mr. Wm. Roupell, and were
perfectly well acquainted with his handwriting,and
the greater part of these witnesses would have ex-

Tressed their positive belief that the signature to
_ _

he will and the deed of gift were the genuine sig-
lature of the old man, and they would have spoken
. .

o this important fact without the slightest doubt or

hesitation; and it at the same time appears to be
perfectly clear that, but for what has since taken

place, the genßineness of these signatures would
never for a moment have been disputed. Besides
the evidence of these witnesses as to the handwrit-
ing, there were a great many who would have
proved positively that the deceased had upon seve-
ral occasions stated that he had given the Kingston

estate to his son William, and that he had nothing
more to do with it, and this would have been very
material evidence in support of the supposition that
the deed of gift was a genuine instrument ; and if
the case had gone to the jury upon these facts,
it is very doubtful whether the defendant would
not have obtained a verdict.

It has been already stated that the amount of
property squandered away by William Roupell was
between £200,000 and £300,000 ; but there are
grounds for believing that in addition to this enor-
mous sum, he is considerably in debt, and otherwise

involved. Before he left Guildford he was served
witha writ for £5OO by one of the officers of the

Sheriff of Surrey.

A correspondent of the Times writes as follows :
" In the course of the examination of Mr. Roupell
it will have been observed that he more than once
stated that he had been robbed and defrauded by
others'; yet, strange to say, this avowal was not
followed in either instance by what would appear
to have been the natural rejoinder, By whom ?'
Had this, a; it appears to me, pertinent question
been asked, I believe startling revelations would
have been the result. It may be true, and doubt-
less is, that neither his mother nor brother knew of
these forgeries and frauds until the evening prior to
his leaving this country, but it is generally believed
in this borough that another relative who has had
from Mr. Roupell the great bulk of the money he
has raised, not only knew of the forgeries prior to
his leaving this country, but was cognisant of them
soon after they were perpetrated, and has from time
to time made this knowledge the means of enforcing
his demands. Tho insertion of this letter may,
perhaps, tend to a little enlightenment on these
points at the coming trial."

THE MURDERS IN 7HE NORTH.

NEWCASTLE-9N-TYNE, Aro. 22,

. .
John Dixon and Thomas Miller, the two ruffians
who threw Patrick Rogers, alias Needle Jack,
through a privy hole at the High Crane, upon thea
Quayside of this town, on Saturday last, and from
whence he was swept by the tide under. a ship
stern and drowned, have been committed. by e
of
magistrates to-day to take their trial on. n
wilful murder. The facts, as adduced_
Mon-
were precisely these reported in The Su_
man,
who
Mon-
day. The prisoners had followed the Id
o of them had
was drunk, into the privy, and after ono i
pria,
oc
n evidence,arg
singed his hair with a lighted paper theyhe had thrown.
had slid into
him into the tide, and from
seemstnence
was drawn over
body was found the old man's
the river, and was drowned. It
coat that when his
would be that he could
his arms, the effect of which
concluded the inquest
Yesterday the coroneor t4_ Y.
tHjallidav, the old woman who
have made no exertions intthewater to save himself.
upon the body of A
was barbarously
street, on Sunday week. It
murdered in the village of Hobble-
Trot, near Chester-le
itioual evidence at yeaerday's
was proved proved byan
e in the house of the Irishman Cox,
are in custody on charge of
twinhgo, thwaitthanyhjos wife,
having murdered the old woman, could have heard
woma o
ingtthatn transpired in the house of the old
ht f the murder and that the
1 into it always nni w
oveho occupied
heard thethe po o cottagr
olde befocreature say-
re Cox came
her l
prayersle
before o she retired to rest of a night.
Pe-r'er
ing
This evidence strongly confirmed the impression
that if the old woman's house had been broken open
and she herself brutally maltreated by persons other
than the Coxs, they must have heard it. It was
also proved that the old woman's door had been
broken in. So the allegation made by the prisoners
that they heard nothing of any disturbance, and
were only awoke by
their hearing the old woman
groan, as if she had fallen oat of bed, could not be
true.

The Jury, after the summing up of the Coroner,
Mr. Pavill, found a verdict of wilful murder against
the priemers, John And his yife Mary cox.