The Sun.
London, England, 1849-03-10 00:00:00

THE COUNTRY MARKETS.

WAKEFIELD, MARCH 9.—The arrivals continue good of
all articles. There is little activity in the trade this morning,
and sales of wheat progress slowly at a decline of is per quarter.
Fine barley is rather cheaper, and for inferior qualities there is
no demand. Oats and shelling are sold on easier terms.
Beans Is per quarter lower.

New.

Old.
s.

WHEAT, per qr. 8 bushels 601 b :
Sutfolk, Essex, and Kent, red
Ditto, white
Norfolk and Hunts,, red ...

• S. S.
... 45 to 47
... 49 53
43 45

. to

Ditto, white ... 45 48
Lincolnshire and Cambridge, red ... 41 45
Ditto, white .„ 47 50
Yorkshire, red ..• ••• ... 41 45
Ditto, white ... ••• ... 47 —5O
Dantzic and Konigsburg, white .. 47 50 47 —5O
Lower Baltic and Hamburgh, red... 43 45 42 45
Med.terranean, red ... ••• ••• 36 40
BARLEY, per quarter of 8 bushels:—
Norfolk and Suffolk... .. 27 29 -
Lincolnshire and Yorkshire .. 26 29 -
Scotch
Grinding per 30 stone ... 22 —27 —— -
Foreign 23 —24 —— -
BEANS, per quarter of 8 bushels 631 b :
Small, fine ... 29 32 -
Ticks ... 28 31 -
Foreign ... 28 —3O —— -
OATS, per atone
Mealing • ••• 9d to 10d —d to —d
Feeding „, „ 8d to 10d —d to —d
Foreign ... 8d to 9d —d to —d
SHELLING, per load of 2611 b ... 25 —2G
MALT, per load of 6 imperial bushels 37
PEAS, per Imperial Quarter
Blue and white boilers
Grey and Feed

~ 30 - 34 ----
.30-33 ---

ARA]
Qrs.
• ... 11,398
• ... 3,964
• ... 1,787

Wheat
Barley
Oats
Beans..,
Peas ..
Tares ..

Qrs.

Rapeseed ... ... ...
Shelling ... ... ... 509
Linseed .. ... .. 444
Malt .• • ... • • •• • ....
Flour ... ... ... ... '''

EXETER MARKETS, MARCH 9. Cattle market—The
market to-day has been heavily supplied, far more than the
demand required, and but little animation has been shown.
Fat beef, especially, has ruled very dull—some heifer beef has
sold for 7s 6d per score; very good beef at 8s; and the primest
might be bought for 8s 6d. Cows and calves were also plenti-
ful, and sold from 71 10s to 121 10s. Barreoers not mush asked
for, and no more than 5s per score could be obtained. A few
working oxen were sold from 131 10s to 14/10s each. But,tiors'
calves 44d to 54d per lb. The supply of sheep was also more
than the wants of the market required, and prices ruled rather
below those of last week. A lot of wethers, estimated to weigh
27ibs. per quarter, were sold for 44s each, or about 5d per lb;
but smaller wethers made sjrd per lb., and ewes about sd.
Keeping hogs sold at 26s to 30s each. The market has been
largely supplied with store pigs, which, like other things, met
but a dull sale. Pork Carcasses—The supply was very mode-
rate, less than that of last week, but there has been na altera-
tion in price, which ranged from 7s to 8s 3d per score. Pan-
nier—Turkeys from Si 6d to 8s each; ducklings, bs 6d to
6s 6d per couple ; spring chickens 3s 6d to 4s 6d ditto • fowls,
8s to 4s 6d ditto ; galenas 5s 6d to 6s 6d per couple ; wild duck,
4s 6d ditto ; widgeon, 3s to 3s 6d ditto ; teal, 2s 61 to 3s Gd
ditto; hares, 2s 6d to 3s each ; roasters, 4s 6d to 5s ditto;
butter, s2d per lb ; eggs, 20 for Is. orn Exchange—The
market to-day has been rather dull, and the price in favour of
the buyers. The best samples of English wheat have not ex-
exceeded 6s 6d, and this has not been given in more than a
few instances, the price for warranted samples generally rang-
ing from 6s to 6s 3d per bushel; foreign red wheat has been
sold at 44s to 46s per quarter ; and white ditto at 46s to 50a ;
for the best malting barley, 3s 10P per bushel was given ; oats
were, for seed, sold at from 2s 2d to 2s 6d per bushel.
LIVERPOOL, Maness 9.—There was a small attendance of
the trade at this morning's market, and the business done in
wheat and flour was quite in retail, at a reduction in some in-
stances of Id per bushel and 6d per barrel. Oats were id per
bushel cheaper, and oatmeal 3d to 6d per load also. There
was scarcely any demand for barley, beans, or peas. The best
yellow Indian Corn being scarce, brought Tuesday's rates, viz.,
29s 6d to 305 for flat and round aorn, but the secondary
qualities of white and mixed were 6d per quarter cheaper than
on Tuesday. Fine yellow Indian meal sells at 14s to 14s 6d
per barrel.
Newsom-, MARCH B.—The supply of wheat to.day is
very small, yet fully sufficient for the demand, which ;is ex.
tremely inactive. The rates obtained on the sales made have
been barely equal to last week. Barley, moderate supply, the
demand slack, and last week's prices scarcely maintained.
Beans and peas short supply, fair sale. but unaltered in value.
Oats. large supply; demand slack, and late rates scarcely sup-
ported.
STOWMARKET CORN EXCHANGE, MARCH B.—Since our
last we have had a very limited trade in wheat, millers and
merchants being slow to purchase, and farmers unwilling to
sell, especially at lower rates. The little business transacted
has been at gradually receding prices. In barley more has
been done, and prices have remained nearly stationary. The
quantity of fine barley is getting quite short. Beans and peas
are offered on very low terms. Clover seeds are offered at very
irregular figures, quality being exceedingly various. Wheat:
New white, 611bs, 50s to 53s ; new.red, 601bs, 44s to 465.
Barley: malting, 30s to 31s; distillers, 24s to 265. Beans:
new Mazagans, 24s to 26s ; new ticks, 28s to 30s per quarter.
Seeds : clover, white, 20s to 40s ; ditto, red, 85$ to 53s ; tre-
foil, 15s to ISs per cwt. Flour : Suffulk households, 33s to
335 6d ; Essex, No. 2,34 s • households, 37s to 39s per sack.
WETHERIYMARCH B.—The following are the prices of corn
in our market this day :—Wheat 16s Od to 20s Od; beans 12s
to 16s 6d per load ; oats, 17s to 23s ; barley 26s to 33s per qr.
A. full supply.
NORTHALLERTON, !MARCH 7.—Wheat, white 6s 6d to 6s
9d ; red 5s 9d to 6s ; oats Is 9d to 2s 3d ; beans 4s 6d to 4s 9d ;
barley 3s 6d to 4s.
Tau Ku CATTLa AlAnxisr.—ln consequence of fairs held
on the same day at Camborne and Penryn, there was but a
small supply of cattle at the Truro Cattle Market on Wed•
nesday. These, however, were all sold ; good bullocks fetch-
ing from 45s to 503. There were 195 sheep penned ; nearly
all were sold at about 54d per lb.
INVERNESS, MARCH 6.—New wheat, per qr, weighing 621 b
per bushel, 42s to 455; barley, 541 b per bushel, 245; oats,
4131 b per bushel, 17s to 18s. Oatmeal, per imperial bol, 16s;
second, 15$ ; barleymeal, lls 8d ; peasemeal, 14s to 15s ; bran,
per stone, 6d to 8d ' • first flour, per 2801 b, 40s to 42s ; second,
30s to 325; oatmeal, best, per stone of 141 b imperial, Is 8d;
second, Is 6d; barleymeal, is 2d; peasemeal, is 6d; first flour,
2s 9d cash, 3s credit; second, 2s 3d cash, 2s 6d credit. Pota-
toes, per stone, 6d to Od ; beef, per pound, 6d to Bcl ; veal, 4d
to 6d ; mutton, 44 to 7d ; pork, 4d to 7d ; fowls, each, 12d to
15d; chickens, per pair, 12d to 16d; eggs, par dozen, 4d to
6d ; butter, fresh, per lb, 8d to 9d ; salt, lld to 12d ;
‘croudie
( curds) 20 ; four pound loaf, cash, 6d to 7d, credit, 60 to
7P ; coals, per cwt, 9d; hay, per stone, 6d.

COAL MARKE'
Buddle's W. Hartley 14s 6d
Carr's Hartley
East Adairs Main l2s Od
Holyvrell Main ..... 14s 3d
New Tanfield l3s 3d
Ord's Redheugh
Tanfield Moor
Townley 135 Od
Walker's Primrose
Wylam
West llartley
Wall's End, &c

s.—TESTEADAY.

Brown's Gas . l3s 301
Framwell Gate ..... 14s 9d
Hedworth ....
Hcdley
Hilda l3s 9d
Percy Bensham l3s 3d
South Killingworth 12s 6d
Washington
Wharncliffe
Lambton Primrose
Belmont lss 6d
Braddyll's Hetton lss 6d
Ships at market. 174.

Hetton
Lambton
Lyons lss Od
51orrison l4s Od
Stewart's
Whitwell
Benson
Caradoc .........• lss 6d
Cassop ....
Hudson's Hartlepool l4s Od
Kelloe
Ludwith Steam-boat l3s Od
South Hartlepool
Thornley ...... 14s 9.1
Trimdon ... 14s Oa
Whitworth l3s Od
Adelaide Tees, lss 9u
South Durham l4s 6d
Tees
The :Bishoptees l6B Od
West Cornforth
Hartley
Nixon's Merthyr

Sold, 79. Unsold, 94.

MINING INTELLIGENCE.

COPPER, ORES SOLD AT POOLTMARCHk—TotaI, 3 634
tons; average produce, 8 ; quantity of fine copper, 278 tons
6 cwt ; amount of sale, 19,8321 16s 6d ; average standard, 1051
185. Last Sale—Standard, 1047; produce, 7.
COPPER, ORES SOLD AT SWANSEA, MARCH I.—Total,
2,056 tons. Average produce, 19; quantity of fine copper,
390 tons 10 cwt ; amount of sale, 28,734/ lls 6d.
COPPER ORES FOR SALE AT SWANSEA, MARCH 22.
Bearhaven 534—Knockmahon 503 Cobre 405—Burra Burra
175—Havana 170 —Ballymurtagh 136—Forest Slag 92—Vine
Slag 30—Total; 2,045 21 cwts.

COPPER ORES FOR SALE AT PEARCE'S, TRURO, MARCH
22.—Wh. Josiah, Wh. Fanny, Wk. Maria, and Wh_ Anna
Maria, I,442—Fowey Consols 368—West Caradon 342—Wh.
friendship 213—Poldice 123—Bedford United 113—Theleigh
Consols 111—West Fowey Consols 93—Wh. Bucketts 46
Wh. Maiden 20—Wh. Jewel 14—Total 2,885.

LAW INTELLIGENCE.
COURT OF CHANCERY, March 9.
SHARP v. ARBUTHNOT.
This case, which was before the Court some time ago,
was again mentioned to-day. It will be remembered
that the cauie came by appeal from the decision of the
Vice-Chancellor of England, who granted an injuflction
restraining actions at law brought by the defemciant
against the -plair.tiff on bills of exchange. The bills
were accepted in payment of cotton; but a dispute hav-
ing arisen about the quality of the cotton, the plaintiff
refused pay tricot of the bills pending tho settlement of
the dispute, which had been rtferred to arbitration. The
action at law having ben raised in the meantime by the
holders of the hills, the irjunction to restrain the actions
was granted by the Vice-Chancellor. Upon hearing the
appeal, the Lord Chancellor confirmed the order of the
Court below for the injunction, and permitted the case
to stand over, in order that the
parties might hews, an
opportunity of coming to an arrangement.
It was now stated to his Lordship that the parties
could not arrange the dispute, and the Learned Counsel
(Mr. Rolt) applied to his Lordship to give authority for
the sale of the cotton
His Lordship, however, refused the application.
IN RE DYCE SOMBRE.
The unopposed lunatic petitions having been disposed
of, the further hearing of the argument in the above
cause, on the petition for superseding the injunction, was
then proceeded with.

Mr. HOLT at great length replied to the arguments of
Mr. Bethel, Mr. Calvert, and the other Learned Coun-
sel, who had appeared against the application, and not
having concluded at the rising of the Court, at four
o'clock, the further hearing was postponed till to.tnor-
row (this day), when Mr. Rolt will finish his reply.

ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE.
HOME ClRCUlT.—Chelmsford, March 9.
CROWN COURT.—(Before Mr. Baron PARR:E.)
Hannah Southgate, 29, a married woman, was indicted
for the wilful murder of Thomas Ham, at the parish of
Wix, by feloniously administering to him a large quan-
tity of a certain deadly poison called a hite arsenic.
Mr. R) land and Mr. R.Alwell conducted the prosecu-
tion; and Mr. Ballantiae and Mr. T. Chambers defended

the prisoner.
The Counsel for the prosecution having opened the
case, explained to the jury that the prisoner was charged
with the murder of her former husband, Thomas 'dam.
The principal evidence was that of a woman named
Phoebe Reid, who had lived as servant with the de-
ceased and the prisoner, and who deposed (as well
as other witnesses) to frequent threats made use, of
by the prisoner to take the life of her husband,
and at his death to gratify her preference for another.
This witness gave some vague and obscure accounts
of tea and sago, or arrowroot, having been prepared
by the prisoner for her husband, into whic.h she
infused some powder, and added that after taking ;it the
deceased became very sick and complained of violent
pains in the throat. She also deposed to habits of in-
temperance and infidelity on the part of the prisoner,
during the lifetime of the deceased, and said that her
mistress had been on terms of intimacy with a woman
named Mary May, who had been convicted at the last
assizes of murder by poison, and executed, and that the
two women had mutually rejoiced over the death of the
deceased. In her cross-examination the woman. Reid
made admissions which showed that her own habits
were far from pure, and that she had been charged with
theft. She also acknowledged that poison was kept in
the house (and, as it appeared, in a very careless man-
ner, so that any one might have access to it), I:or the
destruction of rats, and that she did not believe„ when
her mistress made use of the threats, that she really in-
tended to kill her husband. . .

Professor Taylor, lecturer of chemistry at Guy's
Hospital, deposed that on examination of the stomach
of the deceased he detected a large quantity of arsenic,
and that death was caused thereby.
Mr. BALLANTINE addressed the jury OR behalf of the
prisoner, and in the course of his speech he urged upon
the jury that the evidence of the principal witness ought
to have very little weight upon them, and that her own
account of what occurred was highly improbable and
inconsistent. Ho then commeated upon all the other
facts of the case, and submitted that it was very possible
the deceased might have taken the poison by accident.
and that at all events in such a serious charge as this,
and ono which upon conviction would undoubtedly entail
such dreadful consequences, that the evidence was not so
conclusive of the prisoner's guilt as to compel them,
upon their consciences and the oath they had taken, to
return a verdict of guilty.
Mr. Baron PARICF. h... up, and the jury,
atter a snort deliberation, returned a verdict (X--Not
Guilty.
The trial, of which the above summary conveys all the
important points, occupied more than twelve hours,.

0-111; OLK ClRCUlT.—Bedford, March 9.
The Learned Judges of assize arrived here yesterday,
at two o'clock, having travelled together with the bar by
a special train from Aylesbury, and the courts were
both opened this morning, at 10 o'clock. The cause list
contains two causes; and the calendar 39 prisoners, most
of whom are charged with petty offences, the ooJy ex-
ceptions bring one case of child murder, one of man-
slaughter, one of house-breaking, three others im which
parties are respectively charged with maliciously stab-
bing and wounding a constable in the exercise• of his
duty; one in which the party is charged with cutting
and stabbing, with intent to do some grievous bodily
harm, and one with night poaching.
CROWN COURT.—(Before Mr. Baron Borax.)
William Partridge, aged 38, was arraigned on the
coroner's inquisition, for the manslaughter of William
Skinner, at Eaton &con, the grand jury having thrown
out the bill.

Mr. WORLLEDGE appeared for the prosecution, and
called witnesses, from whose evidence it appeared that
the prisoner and the deceased, and other labourers,
having begun " harvesting" on the 29th July last, as
was usual in the parish, they celebrated the event with
" potations pottle deep" in honour of John Barleycorn,
each man having consumed eight pints of beer. As
might be expected, a quarrel arose amongst them ; and
the deceased said to Partridge, who was engaged in a
dispute with a man named Miles, ",_Well, if you are
going to tight, I will go home," on which Partridge told
him to " go to his master and say what a drunken fool
he was." Incensed at this, Skinner dared him to " make
him out a fool," and doubled his fist at the prisoner, who
thereupon struck him on the face with the back of his
reaping-hook. This wits followed by a regular " stand-
up fight," in the course of which the deceased rushed
at Partridge's stomach with his head foremost, intend-
ing to knock him over. Partridge, however, contrived
to slip aside, and dealt his assailant two heavy blows
with his fist on the nape of his neck, which sent him
reeling into the standing corn, from which he
wss picked up in an insensible state. On being taken
home a medical man was sent for, but no efforts could
arouse the deceased, who languished till the 2d of August
when he died. After his death an examination of his
body showed that three of the vertebrae of the neck were
entirely broken through and driven into the spinal mar-
row—a state of things quite sufficient to cause death.
The medical man, however, said, that so severe and ex-
tensive an injury could scarcely have been produced by a
fall; while he thought it equally difficult to attribute it
to a blow. _ _ _

biT, TozEu, on Islet of the prisoner, addressed the
jury, contending that the prisoner was acting in self-
defence, and that as the surgeon had stated his inability
to assign the injuries which caused the death of the de-
ceased to a blow, he therefore submitted that the petty
jury ought to follow the example of the grand jury and
acquit the prisoner, especially as be should show him to
have borne a good characterup to this unfortunate trans-
action.

Ills LORDSHIP, in summing up, said that there was no
ground for the idea that the prisoner could be justified
on the ground of his acting in self defence on this occa-
sion. It was illegal to fight, and this was nothing more
nor less than a fight. Then, as to.the cause of death,
though the surgeon had stated his inability to assign it
to the fall or the blow, yet, if the evidence was to he be•
lieved, the deceased came by the injury which caused
his death from a fall or the blow administered to him by
the prisoner during the fight. It might be that thei e
were many mitigating circumstances, but they were for
the consideration of the Court and not of the jury, who,
if they believed the evidance, were bound to find the
prisoner guilty of manslaughter.
The jury, after deliberating a long time, asked his
Lordship to define to them the distinction between man-
slaughter and accident.
His LORDSHIP having again explained to them that
wherever death ensued from a fight, the survivor was
guilty in law of manslaughter,
The jury found the prisoner yruilty, but recommended
him for the very lightest possible punishment, as they
looked on the death of the deceased as a mere accident.
Mr. Baron ROLFE agreed with the view taken of the
case by the jury, and sentenced the prisoner to be im •
prisoned tor 14 days.

OXFORD CIRGIiI i.— Worcester, March 8.
CROWN COURT.—(Before Mr. Justice COLTMAN.)
Robert Pulley, 49, was indicted for the wilful murder
of Mary Ann Staight, at Broughton, in the hamlet of
with a peculiar expression
sWthalocf Decemberot, in
the parish of Holy Cross, Pershore, on the
Mr. Whitmore and Mr. Huddleston conducted the
prosecution,
of
singular
and Mr. W.
appearance,il. Cooke defended the prisoner,
of countenance, halt idiotic, and halt sinister. He ap-
peared at the bar at least sixty years old, and continually
sneered or smiled during the trial.
Elizabeth Richards, the first witness called, said the
niece,
and who was fifteen years of age, was my
a man
and lived with me. About four o'clock on the afternoon
of the sth of December, I sent her to Mrs. Tyler's shop
for seine goods, and did not see her again until she was
found murdered in a ditch, in the lone which lay in her
road. On oue o3casion, some time before her death, the
prisoner told deceased she wanted her head
knocked round, for she would be better dead than alive.
She was found dead next day.