The Sun.
London, England, 1815-03-25 00:00:00

CANADA.

'We insert the followirig extract respecting the
trade of this itivalable colony front the Montreal
Herald of Saturday, January 7th, 1815, with
-much pleasure. It fully proves the assertions we
have often made of the f;reat importance of Bri-
tish North America to the manufacturing and
shipplitg interests of the mother country ; and
we trust; in any finther arrangements with the
United States, that every security and encourage-,
meat will he afforded to our own colonies, and
that the fisheries 0.1 then coasts will be wholly
confined to British industry and British capital.
" We have been favoured by a friend with the
amounts ot. the Imports and Exhorts at the .hurt;
of Quebec in 1814 ; and with the assistance of
1 that friend, have ascertained their actual value on
Custotn-house entry. This is a subject we dwell
upon with no ordinary pleasure; because it Was-
!rates the growing prosperity of the country,
'amidst the din of war mid devastation, which to
many appear paradoxical. The import of Wines at
prime cost (this is the rule we go by) is .2'.25,0001.
currency ; colonial produce, including Brandies,
Irish Spirits, and TeaS, nearly 923,000/. ;
Dry Goods, all manufactured in the British Isles,
come to nothing short of 1,00,000/: The Cus-
tom7house duty is charged at die manufacturers'
price, to which we add 15 per cent—for all
charges to Canada ; and we believe we scarcely set
down enough ; •so that the total value of the
imports will be found to exceed 2,75u,000/. cur-
Pettey. to 1800 they were not a quarter of this
amount ! The exports cannot be counted beyond
430,0001. currency. Although the value in 1409-10
was of three times tin; extent ;,yet this is no in-
dication of a declining prosperity. For two years
t'w crops have been t;ood in both provinces, and
the prices of all necessaries fetch double any for-
mer average, one article with another. To this
may be at-counted the great augmentation of 111..
ternal constimption, owing to the increas of the
army and navy, and the various departments at-
tacned to them."

ATIE3IPI to POI3ON a WHOLE FAMILY.

A-circumstance of the most, atrocious nature
• lias just come to our knowledge, the full' particu-
Jars' of which we are not as yet at liberty to dis-
close. A female servant in the family of a Mr.
T--u, in the west end of the town, mixed a
large quantity of arsenic in a pie, which was
served, up to table, of which the whole
consisting of seven persons, partook ; and they
were shortly afterwards seized with the most
alarming symptoms of the effects of this deadly
poison—violent pipings and vmnitings. Sur-
geons Ogilvy and Marshall, (d. Half-Moon-street,
Piccadilly, were immediately sent for, who, on
their arrival, administered emetics, and other me-
dicine, to repel the effects of the poison, and
there are hopes that none of the family will fall
sacrifices to this diabolical attempt, although they
are at present confined to their beds in a most
dangerous state. On examining the dish, a quan-
tity of arsenic was- found in it, and which has
been ascertained to be stolen out of a drawer in
Mr. T--R's beaureau, which he bad for the
purpose of destroying rats, and, to prevent 'ac-
cident, the word 6 Arsenic' was written in large
letters on the back of the paper in which it was
11 contained. What motive the wretch who coin-
mitted the deed must have, we cannot tell. Sus-
picion iv attached to a maid-servant in the fami-
ly, ‘rho also, it seems, took part of the contents
of the dish,, the butter to escape Oetection, and
who is now confined to her bed ; and, we under-
stand, a Police Officer has been ordered to watch
her, until she la in a fit 'state .tv Ile rewovcd to
Fison,

SUSSEX ASSIZES

TRIALS FOR MURDER.

HOR;IJAM, THUrIDAY, 11AacJi 23.
Jane Barnett, wife of a public:,a at Liudfield,
in this county, was indicted for the wilful mut der
of Sarah Lee, a pauper servant, arid the indict-
mein charged the murder to have been committed.
by a series cruel beating., and refusal of irroper
food and aliment.
One of the witnesses, who was a fellow-ser-
vant
.With the deceased, did not appear at the
trial, having gone out of the way, and was called
on his subpoena. The evidence adduced in sup.,
port of the indictment was as follows :
J. Everest, the overseer at Lindfield, static,
that the deceased was a pauper belonging to that
parish. At Ladyday, 1813, else had been put out
to service'with a shoemaker in the parish, 4f the
name of Shelly. She staid with him the year,
and the next' year she was sent to the prisoner's.
She staid with them nutil February, when. she
,came hack to the worklutuse in very bad health,
and in a few days died. He could •not- say the
cause of her death, bat she came back very much
put of Once during the year she rail
away, and came to the poor-house. Mrs. Bur-
nett, the prisoner, came after her,, and. she was
sent hark.
Thomas Shelly, a shoemaker, at Lindfield, de-
posed, that the deceased lived with his family from
Ladytide 1813 to Ladytide 1814, during 'which
time the girl was in good health ; she was not a
very good-Jooking girl, nor very " laudy in her
Willa," but she did things as well as she was able,
and they had no fault to find with her.
Charles Cox, a •labonring man, lived near the
prisoner. lie was at the house one day, and
saw the prisoner strike the deceased with a broom
one or two hard blows, hut he did nut see any ill
effects from the bloWs.
William Porter said, be lived within twenty
rods of the prisoner's house ; be knew the de-
ce3sed ; she was -tot a very healthy looking girl,
and as the cold weather approached lie observed
that sip- lost flesh,very fast, And appeared to be
very much .out of health.

Charles Watford,,a higler Lindfield, who-was
in the constant habit of going to the prisoner's
house,. deposed 'to expressions used by the pri-
soner relative to the deceased.

Robert Martin, on the 6tL of August, saw the
prisoner beat-the deceased. He afterwards saw
her with a black eye; but did not know how she
came by it.

Sarah ,Stanley had seen the prisoner beat the girl
once with a boot.

\VV►n. Tupping, surgeon to the parish, stated,
that he attended the girl when she was brought
to the workhouse; she had a wound on the arm
which she said was occasioned by being kicked
down stairs; she ha►l also another wound in the
foot, which he thought was a neglected chilblain.
.Her constitution v% as very debilitated, and she was
of an irregular habit. He could not say she died
of ill treatment.

• On this evidence the Learned Judge directed
the Jury to acquit the prisoner, who returned a
verdict of Nut Guilty. •
Joseph Stevens, an old man of 63,
.was indicted
.for the wilful murder of Solomon Young, .by
stabbing hint with a knif.e in the side on the 15th
of March last.

The prisoner and the deceased were both paupers
in Seaford poor-house. On the 15th of Match
the deceased was sitting on the table in the com-
mon room, making himself a new smock-frock. The

prisoner came into the loom intoxicated, having
t►vo herrings in his baud, which he "wished to

dress at the fire. The deceased's night-cap was
hanging on a chair before the fire, which the pri-
soner threw away. This .produced a slight alter-
cation between them as to there being. room
enough or not, when the prisoner dabbed his
herrings in the deceased's face. The deceased

upon this gave thy-prisoner a push, who having
his knife in his band, with which he had just
dressed his herrings, made a blow at the deceased,
which unfortunately struck him on the side and
penetrated bt-tween the ribs. lie was put to bed,
aid died in ti.vo days ; but before he died he ex-
pressed his conviction that the prisoner had not
intended to do him the injury which had hap-
pened. The Jury found him Guilty of Man-
slaughter, and he was sentenced to one year's
imprisonment.