The Sun.
London, England, 1838-04-19 00:00:00

HAY MARKETS.

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The supply to-day generally was but moderate; and the demand not
quite so brick—prices easier. Meadow Hay, 80s. to 955. ; Clover
ditto, 955. to 110 s.; Straw, 348. to 403.
COLONIAL MARKETS. _ .

So far from these great departments of commerce having recruited
their strength during the holidays, they have become weaker, and almost
every commodity under this denomination may be regarded as on the
decline BP. Sugar sells slowly to-day, at prices of a downward tendency.
Refined Sugar is quoted at 365. for fine crushed. To.day we had public
sales of Mauritius, Bengal, and Havannah Sugar—viz., 7,145 bags
of the first, '2,143 of the second, and 1,000 of the third. All
did not sell ; and of the prices, all he summed up in a word,
that they are declining, and that the present tendency is downwards.
Both Mauritius and B. P. Sugar are now full Is. lower than they were
last week. Of Coffee we have none in the market. Rice is 6d. lower.
Spices much as they were. Cotton is as dull as can well be conceived.
Rum is very dull, and 5 per Cent. Demerara in Hogshead has been
sold at Os. 4d. and i❑ barrels at 3s. sd. The decline in value of
of goods at public sale, reduces the business by private contract to a
mere nothing. The imports are rather increasing. The complaints of
the dulness of business at this advanced season of the year are very exten
sn e, and no immediate prospect of any revival presents itself. 'We have
sales of Drugs this evening ; but for to-morrow there is very little Co-
lonial produce advertised.
TEA SALE THIS DAY.

About 1,500 chests have passed since yesterday. The importers
show great firmness, and but litt:e sells. The attendance is rather
slender. Prices just as they were, viz., 2d. to 3d. per lb. lower all
round than the prices of last sale, except Boheas, which are rather
dearer than last sale.
INDIGO SALE (SECOND DAY.)
The quarterly sale of Indigo, to which we adverted yesterday, pro.
gressed to-day with more spirit, and at better prices. At the conclu.
sidn of the sale yesterday, prices of shipping kinds were quoted 4d. to
6d. per lb. under last quotations ; and ordinary and inferior consumers
were bought in at 6d. to 9d. per lb. lower than last sale's prices. To.
day more sold of all kinds; and prices of all qualities can be quoted at
3d. to 6d. per lb. lower only than those of last sale.

LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET, APRIL 18.
The business transacted this day was of a very limited character,
barely 2,000 bags having found purchasers, notwithstanding the rates
being fully lower than last quoted;-1,410 Americans, 5i Si ; 300
Surat, 4h 41 ; 100 Pernam,B 9; 30 Egyptian, 9i ; 100 Bahia, 7f 8;
60 Maranliam, 81.—Total, 2,000.

COAL MAR;
s. d.
A ttai is 9.0 0
Bentham
burdon

Per Ton.

.Er.—April 19.
rer l'on 2.
Walls End Braddyll's Hetton `...1 9
Walls End Haswell • 3 9
Walls End Hetton . ..... •.:4 3
Walls Ella Lainbton
Walls End Itussel's Hettoa 9.4 0
walls End tewart's l3 U
Walla End Hartlepool 9.4 3
Dixon's llutterknow I lo ti

;.:arr's Hartley 'A 6
n•'Th's Primrose lB 3

Ell son Low Main ......
Eighteen Moor . lB 0
ti-dywell
f eaze's Main
Original Windsor Portop
South Hartley
Walltigton 2'2 0
‘.i.:llls End Bewicke and Co '2.2 6
Walls End Clark and C• l9 6
Walls End Gosfortk.
22

Wall,' End Adelaide 22 3
Walls End Gordon 2l ti
Walls End Nevin's Tantield lB 2
Walls End Seymour Tees 21 6
Walls End St. Helen's Tees 2l 9
Walls End South D ,rham 2l 9
Walls End Tees
Walls End Victoria Tees 9l
Walls Ensl West 'fees
Cowpen
Els c r .
WallslEnd Hartley 22
0
Howard's Netherton Main 20 0

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Walk End End Grace 2O 0
Walls End Heaton 2.1 9
,a,,. End Hilda 2i G
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%Valli End Newmarett 2O 6
Walla End Pearvtli lB 0 i
Wa Is E,ld Iliddell't
Walls End Belmont
Shi •. an ived since 1,

ast market-day, 43.

BIRTH.-011 Wednesday, the 18th instant, at
Southampton, the wife of Joseph Lobb, Esq , of a daughter.
THE WEATHER.—For the last week we have had
a return of Mr. Murphy's bad weather—bitter cold nights,
and dark snowy days. We suppose it will so continue till the
re-assembling of Parliament ; or, if Mr. Murphy be correct,
till the coronation. _

BIGAMY.-At the I-lull Quarter Sessions, on
Friday, Martha Norton was put upon her trial on a charge of
bigamy, in having married Martin Charlesworth and the late
James Brown, her real husband, John Norton, being then
alive. The prisoner, who bore a good character as an honest
and respectable woman, was married to the prosecutor in the
year 1819, and three days afterwards he deserted her. She
remained single for eight years and a half, for a considerable
time making every inquiry after her husband, of whom she
could gain no tidings. Flaying received from Brown an eli-
gible offer of marriage, she informed him of her situation with
respect to her former husband, whom she concluded to be
dead, when they consulted the Clerg}man by whom she was
afterwards married to the deceased, who told her that her hus-
band having been absent for more than seven years, without
her being able to obtain any tidings of him, sho could marry
again without committing any legal offence. The second
husband died in 1835, when, after being eighteen months SI
widow, she accepted an offer of marriage from Charlesworth,
to whom she was united at the parish church at Hull. A!)out
four months since, in passing along the sir; et, her first hus-
band, Norton, recognised her, and, having tcund out her
residence, as well as the above circumstances, ins ituted this
prosecution. The Learned Recorder, in summit g up the
case, put it to the Jury whether the prisoner had m t acted as
she had in the full conviction of her husband's death, and if
they believed that, after due diligence, she had been unable to
obtain tidings of his being still alive, they must acquit her.
The Jury immediately brought in a verdict of Not Guilty.—
'' Hull Paper.