The Sun.
London, England, 1847-05-18 00:00:00

MARKET NEWS.--(THIS DAY.)

RAY MARKETS.

Sbarnputz.D.-41eiClow Hay, 2112 s to 3/ 162 ; Clover ditto.
il
318 s to 4/ 16s ; and Straw, 11 lOs to 1/ 14s per load. Trade
dull, at barely late rates.
CUIII'ERLA RD.—Meadow Hay, 2/ 15s to 31 18s; Clover
ditto, 3/ 10s to 4/ 14s ; and Straw, 11 12s to 1/ 16s per load.
A full average suppl and a sluggish demand.
WzirriccuaPur..— eadow Hay, 21 lOs to 31 16s ; Clover
ditto, 8/ 108 to 51
; and Straw, 1/. lOs to 1/ 14s per loal.
Supply good, and trade dull.

SUGAR.—The marketOLONIAL
for British plantation is steady,
about 450 hhds having been sold without alteration in value.
The public sales have consisted chiefly of 10,522 bags Mauri-
tius, 4,669 bags 141 chests Bengal, 1,723 bags Madras,
and 210 hhds Porto Rico, nearly all of which sold at
steady prices, with the exception of the latter, which
being htild above the market value was all withdrawn. Pri-
vately about 5,000 bags Manilla have been disposed of at
44s 6d, being a full price. The quantity of British Planta-
tion landed last week at the East and West India Docks was
1,451 hb,ds 104 tierces there were taken for home consump-
tion 1,143 hhds 140 tierces; the stock in the same places i 3
10,180 hhds 892 tierces.
CoFFR E..-133 bags Plantation Ceylon, 422 bags Mysore,
and 141 !bales Mocha. The Ceylon realised steady prices, but
the Mysc rre and Mocha were taken in.
Rum.- —The quantity landed last week at the East and
West India Docks was 876 puns 37 hhds. There were taken
for home consumption, 325 uns 70 hhds,and exported 88
puns 52 hhds. The stock inp the same place is 9,120 puns
504 hhds t.

Rim.--At auction 2,937 bags 1,857 pockets Bengal, 2,538
bags Ma dras, 285 tierces Carolina, 2,940 bags Java, and 493
bags Ma villa, which nearly all sold, the better qualities at
the previous currency, whilst on the lower kinds a reduction
of 3d to 6d was submitted to.
SALTY ICTRE.-1
,F--AA -- bags Bengal were withdrawn.
SPICE 3.-20 bags Pimento, 314 bags Malabar Pepper,
and 140 chests Cassia Lignea were offered by auction. The
Pimento and Pepper realised former prices, but the Cassia
Lignea wi is withdrawn.
TALLOvr.—P.Y.C. is 478 to 478 9d per cwt on the spot, 1
and Town 49s 6d.

TEA.—'lbis article is quiet.
CorroN,-.-There is an increased disposition to buy.

MIDDLESEX SESSIONS.
(THIS DAY.)

The May adjourned sessions for the county of Middlesex
commenced this morning a. the Col:rt-house, Clerkenwell
green, before the Assistant-Judge and a full Bench of Ma
gistrates.

The names of 82 prisoners appeared for trial in the calen-
dar, of whom seven were charged with misdemeanour, the
remainder being indicted for felony. Of those, 46 were de-
scribed as able to read and write imperfectly, 9 only able
to read, and 27 wholly unacquainted with either reading or
writing.

The ASSISTANT-June, in his charge to the grand jury,
said there was one most important matter with respect to
the effects likely to be produced upon females who were sen-
tenced to transportation, to which he could not allow the
present opportunity to pass without adverting—he meant
that system of reformatory discipliue which the Government
had established wtthin the last four years in relation to the
female convicts in Van Dieman's Land. By that system the
colony of females received the best of moral and religiousin-
struction, and were also instructed in such domestic duties as
would fit them for becoming useful members of society,
and when they showed by their conduct that
they had availed themselves of the benefits of the system,
tickets of leave were granted to them, and they were placed
out as servants with persons of approved character. It was
true the period of three or four years was not enough to
enable them to form an opinion of the perfectability of a
system like this, but still there were sufficient tacts to enable
them to come to the conclusion that it was one fully deserv-
ing of a trial, and he hoped it would have a fair one. The
Learned Assistant-Judge concluded by adverting to the
system at present pursued at Parkhurst, so that boys under
a certain height were refused admission, by which many
fitting objects were precluded from its benefits.
Wikiam Burke, for picking pockets, against whom there
were several previous convictions, WEI.S sentenced to ten years'
transpor t at ion.
Adward Aiken was indicted for stealing a purse containing
seven sovereigns and other monies, the property of Lothian
Nicholson, from his person.
The prosecutor, an officer in the Royal Engineers, was
coming up from Woolwich by one of the steam boats, and
upon the vessel reaching Blackwall he missed his purse, and
recollecting that a man very like the prisoner, who carried
a cloak on his arm, had pressed closely against him, he gave
information to one of the pier police, who took the prisoner
into custody. Six sovereigns were found upon him when he
was searched, and he accounted for them by first saying
that they were the result of his -hard work as an umbrella
maker, and next that ho got them from a young girl to
whom he was about to be married. The prisoner denied
that the cloak was his, but it was identified by a policeman as
belonging to the prisoner.
The ASSISTANT-JUDGE said, the prisoner was a most noto-
rious character, and always hanging about the Blackwall
steam-vessels and piers, for the purpose of robbery; and he
should, therefore sentence him to be transported for the term
of ten years.

MARLBRO'-STREET-(THIS DAY.)
Thomas Sparrow, a cab driver, badge No. 2,535, appeared
in answer to a summons charging him with making use of
abusive language to Mr. David Falake, 394, Oxford .street.
The complainant stated that on Saturday, the Bth instant,
about a quarter to one o'clock, he called the defendant's cab
off the rank opposite the American stores in Oxford-street,
and told him (the defendant) to drive to Park-lane, and
from thence to Grosvenor-square, when he got out for about
a minute. He then ordered him to drive him (complainant)
to 36, Park-street, and then to No. 107 in the same
street, at each of those places he remained about
five minutes. Complainant then desired defendant
to drive him back to Oxford-street. Instead of driv-
ing him to his own residence, defendant drove
to No. 384, where complainant got out and offered defendant
ls. 6d. for his fare. Defendant refused to take the money,
and said " What do you mean? that is not my fare." Com-
plainant then took some silver from his pocket and told de-
fendant to take what he thought was his fare. Defendant
replied that be was not going to be given in charge for a
robbery, and declined taking any. Complainant then told
the defendant that he lived at No. 394, and that he could
have redress by summonsing him. Defendant would neither
do one thing or the other, and began to abuse him and call
him a swindler, and said he (complainant) should not
swindle him. Complainant then said that he
would summons the defendant, who replied that he
did not care, as he had got plenty of money.
Complainant was then surrounded by a mob of at
least one hundred persons, who hooted him and pushed him
about. At length a neighbour, who saw the predicament in
which he was placed, came to his assistance, and wished him
to come into his house; but the defendant refused to let him
go, and detained him till his (complainant's) brother came
and paid the defendant 25., who returned 4d. change. Com-
plainant then managed to get away, followed by a mob, who
hooted him all the way home.
Mr. Wontner, who attended for the defendant, called several
witnesses, who proved that the complainant was very abusive
and excited, and that the defendant was remarkably civil
and temperate in his behaviour.
Mr. BINGHAM, after going through the whole of the
evidence, dismissed the summons, and ordered the com-
plainant to pay the costs.