The Sun.
London, England, 1853-03-01 00:00:00

MA RKET INTELLIGENCE.

( From tke London New Price Current of
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Yln•)din,
SuGAR.--To-day there were ready buyerspri
sugar for home consumption, and the
fully equal to those of Friday both for grocery and refining
are
sorts, but business was checked by a scanty supply niAngt
auction 300 hhds and 10 boxes Barbadoes went freely at
firm rates ; fine yellow at 39s to 40s, middling to g00d37.
to 33s 6d ; 76 bads Demerara crysalized, brown 32s 6d to
35,4 6d, and ordinary to good yellow 36s to 39s 6d. Total
operations amount to 460 hhds, Sic., and the market closes
with a firm aspect.
REFINED.—To-day the home trade demand was active
for refined sugar, and stiff prices were obtained ; brown
lumps selling at 45s 6d, and low to fine grocery 46s to 48s

CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT-(THIS DA T.)

OLD COURT.
THE ALLEGED MURDER IN ACRE-LANE, BRIXTON.

Mr. Clarkson applied to the Court this morning to
postpone, until next sessions, the trial of Mrs. Vickers,
who, it will be recollected, stands indicted, on a coro-
ner's inquisition, with the wilful murder of her master,
Mr. Jones, in whose service she had been for some years
as housekeeper. The graund on which the learned
counsel made the application was, that the prisoner, for
whom he appeared, would be unable to prepare her de-
fence during the -present session, as the indictment
against her had just come into his hands ; and, more-
over, as the case was one of a very difficult and compli-
cated character.
The Recorder thought it would be better to accede to
to the application, as the case was a very important one
and would occupy a considerable time, and as the judges
were desirous to proceed to the assizes with as little
delay as passible.
The case was accordingly postponed until next
session.

LARCENY.—John Fowler, aged 40, and described as a
clerk, surrendered to take his trial on an indictment
charging him with embezzling and stealing the sum of
51., the money of John Henry Heep and others. He
was also indicted for misdemeanour.

Mr. Giffard prosecuted and Mr. Parry defended the
prisoner.
It appeared from the evidence that the prisoner was
assistant-secretary and collector to the London Philan-
throphic Society, and in those capacities was intrusted
with the collection of subscriptions and the payment of
tradesmen's bills. It was his duty to account to the
committee once a month for the monies which passed
through his hands, but he was allowed on
the score of illness to omit doing this for
a considerable time. He delayed the production of his
accounts, however, so long that the committee became
impatient, and they at length, in December last, re-
quested to know the reason why he had kept them back;
whereupon he said, " I may as well be candid with you
—I have made free with the society's money—l am
sorry for it, but I have had an action against
me, and I was obliged to use your money." He then
gave an account of his defalcations, from which it ap-
peared that he had appropriated to his own use three
checks for 41. 14s. Bd., 51. Bs. Bd., and 41. Bs. 11d.,
which were intrusted to him for the payment of bills
due to tradesmen for goods they had supplied to the
society. It transpired in the course of the trial that the
prisoner's salary was only 101. a year, and that during
the two-and-a-half years he had been in the service of the
society, he had not received more than 271. 10s., which
included both his salary and commission ;
that he was a married man and had a large family.
At the conclusion of the evidence, the Recorder said
he did not think the indictment could be maintained,
the prisoner appeared always to have paid the tradesmen
in cash, and before the jury could convict, they must be
satisfied that at the time he took the cheques he mean
to steal them. _

The jury at once returned a verdict of not guilty.

RAILWAY TRAFFIC RETURNS.

LONDON AND SOUTH-EASTERN EAlLWAT.—Traffic re
turn for the week ending Feb. 26, 1853 £9,886 5 8
Corresponding week last year 9,625 18 10

Increase in 1853 £26o 6 10
LONDON, BRIGHTON, AND SOUTH COAST RAILWAY.—
Traffic return for the week ending Feb. 26,
1853 £7,065 1 8
Corresponding week last year 7,669 10 3
Total of the half-year to this date, 1853.
Total of the half-yest to this date, 1852 68,763 11 9

THE AUTHOR OF MARGARET MAITLAND.—The new
novel, entitled "Harry Muir; a Story of Scottish Life,"
by the author of " Margaret Maitland," &c., in 3 vole.,
is published this day by Messrs. Hurst and Blackett,
successors to Mr Colburn, and may now be had at all
the libraries. Also just published-2. "The Dean's
Daughter; or the Days We Live-In," by Mrs. Gore, 3
vols. 3. " The First Lieutenant's Story," by Lady
Catherine Long, 3 vols. 4. " Castle Avon," by the
author of " Emilia Wyndham," 3 vols. . " Unole
Walter," by Mrs. Trollope, 3 vols. 6. "Broomhill ;or
The County Beauties," 3 vols.
NORFOLK RAILWAT.—The half-yearly meeting of the
proprietors of this company was held yesterday at the
office, Guildhall-buildings ; Mr. Peto, M.P., in the
chair. The report stated that the revenue of the half-
year showed an increase of about 3,2001., as compared
with the corresponding period of the previous year,
whilst no addition is made to the working expenses. The
Eastern Counties Railway Company having declared a
dividend of 6s. per share, the proprietors of the Norfolk
stock will be entitled to a dividend of 1/. 10s. per 1001.
stock, and of 4s. 6d. per share on the new 201. shares
(151. paid up), and of 6s. on the like shares paid up in
full. The dividend warrants will be payable on the 15th
March next. The interest on the new 41. per cent.
debenture stock will be calculated to this date, and pay-
able on the 15th March. A motion for the adoption of
the report was put and carried unanimously ; after which
the meeting separated.
HEALTH OF MR. J. A. ROEBUCK, M.P.—lt affords
us much gratification to be able to assure our readers
that a letter from Dr. Gully has been received in Shef-
field, in which he expresses the strongest confidence of
Mr. Roebuck's restoration to health after a not very
protracted interval. Rest and quiet in the meantime
are essential, but with these the Doctor gives an assur-
ance of our lamented member being enabled to resume
his Parliamentary duties.—Sheffield Times.
NEW Music.—A new song entitled, "Oh, then, I'll
Think of Thee," has just been published in Dublin. It
is a particular musical production, which has createl
a greater sensation in Ireland than any song which has
appeared there for years past. The words are by
Thomas Dillon Jones, Esq., and the music by George
Lindley, Esq., and the composition has already reached
a third edition.
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