The Sun.
London, England, 1847-12-22 00:00:00

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t From the London New Frice Current of Dec. 21.)
SUCAR.—To-day the market exhibited a firmer ap-
pearance for raw Sugar, and there was a less quantity
on offer. There was more inclination manifested to
operate, and in some cases merchants were enabled
to obtain better prices. In West India Muscovado
sales to a fair extent were concluded, both for the scale
and the pan, whilst the rates paid are equal to those
of Friday and in some cases rather above. The quan-
tity sold amounted to 450 hhds, &c., including a public
sale of 152 hhds Barbadoes, which went at the former
value—very fine yellow 46s 6d, fine 41s 6d to 445, good
39s 6d to 40s 6d, middling 385 to 395, and low 36s 6d
to 37s per cwt.
FOREIGN.—Since oar last report holders of Foreign
Sugar have not been so willing to realize, and there is
a falling off in the supply at market. Prices have suf-
fered no further depression; the market, however, has
been in an inactive state; from exporters the demand hav-
ing been limited for all sorts, whilst our refiners working
under bond have been purchasers to a moderate extent
only, although there are many orders on hand for loaves
and crushed sugar; the grocers have been cautious in
their proceedings. By private contract the principal sales
are 600 chests of Bahia.

REFINED.—To-day refined goods were :much sought
after for home consumption, but few parcels to be ob.
tained, standard lumps realised 539 Gd to 545., and brown
grocery 52s 6d to 53s per cwt. The market is firm for
bonded crushed Sugar, and a good demand exists at 30s
to 31s for first sort. For Loaves the demand is exten-
sive, and prices tend upwards.
COFFEE.—This afternoon Plantation Ceylon was dealt
in with caution, end of 798 bags 10 casks at auction, a
small part only found buyers, at rather lower rates; fine
bold eolory went at 70s, good 56s to 58s, middling 48s to
545, fine fine ordinary 43s 6d to 445, fine ordinary 38s,
good ordinary 365, ordinary 345, damaged 14$
6d to 43s 6d. The market is in an inactive
state for native, and 681 bags went at 333 6d for good
ordinary, and at 28s 6d to 32s for damaged, which are
rather lower rates ; 91 bags of Mauritius sold at 27s
for good ordinary yellowish heated, and at 25s 6d for
damaged, being moderate prices.
TEA —A more favourable opinion is entertained to-
wards Congou, and during the last few days purchases
to a fair extent have been made; prices, however,
do not improve, as the market is 3et plentifully
supplied, and holders showing a desire to sell.
The purchases made in Souchong are tri-
fling, although low and middling can be obtained
at 8d to is, and good to fine is 2d to 2s. Pouchong is
neglected, and can be obtained at 3d to Bd, according
to quality. There is not the least improvement in the
value of green, as there is an abundant supply. The
operations are upon a more extended scale.
SAGO.—To-day at public sale 135 boxes of Pearl Sago
sold at lower rates, and went at 17s to 18s 6d for tine
small white pearl.
RICE.—To- day there was little passing privately in
East India Rice, and 2,582 bags of Bombay at auction
sold at a reduction on former rates of 6d to Is per cwt—
fine white went at 12s to 12s 6d, low and middling dusty,
small 9s to 10s, good greyish white large pearl, but
rather broken 9s 6d to 10s, middling ditto 9s to 9s 6d,
and damaged Ss to Os per cwt.
SPICES —To-day Pimento was only in limited demand,
and t 29 bags at auction sold at a decline of per lb—
good went at 4d to 40, good mid 34d, mid 3id to 31d,
low ord 3d, good ord 31d, and damaged 3d to 31d; 3 cases
Cinnamon sold at is 5d for Madras, and is 7d to Is 9d
for damaged Bombay ; 14 cases 2 bags of Penang Nut-
megs sold at full rates.

COCOA.—For West India former rates are required ;
the sales made privately are, however, t• a small extent
only, red at 40s to 495, and grey at 37s to 445. 127
bags of Bahia at auction sold at 36s for fine bright red,
which is cheaper. Six bags of Caracca went at the high
rate of 60s 6d for bold dark grey.
SPIRITS.—To-day few purchases were made in any
kind of Rum, and sellers offered to accept rather lower
rates. We quote proof Leewards at is 6id to is 7d,
East India is 5d to is 6d, Jamaica 30 to 36 per cent
over proof 3s 4d to 3s Bd, good and fine 3s 9d to 4s 6d
per gallon. _ _

FRUIT.—To• day at public sale 126 pkgs of damaged
Patras Currants were nearly all taken in at 38s to 395;
41 do. of Zante 39s to 40s; 72 do. of Old Patras 32s to
335, and 119 do. of Zante at 32s to 33s per cwt.
SALTPETRE.—To day Rough met with little attention
privately, and 432 bags Calcutta at auction sold at 31s
6d to 32s for good strong grey, 4d per cent. refraction,
being rather lower rates.
T&LLow.—There is no further advance to notice in
the value of Russian, although the arrivals continue
small, and the demand on the spot having been active
from both the town and country trade. On the part of
merchants there is firmness, and they are obtaining
46s 6d to 47s for P. Y. Candle. For delivery
in the spring months a good business has been
concluded at 45s 6d. Home made sells readily at 47s to
48s nett cash; the supply will be more plentiful ere
long. For other kinds of Tallow prices have slightly
given way, as the quantity brought to market was large,
the demand, however, has been good.
OlLS.—There is more firmness on the part of holders
of common Fish Oils, and the market has been less freely
supplied, buyers also have operated with more freedom.
and a rise in the value of all sorts is apparent. Seal
met with a good sale. Cod has been in excellent request
at 251 to 251 10s, and at which there are not generally
sellers. Southern of all descriptions is wanted, the
supply is however small. Sperm has declined in
value, as an increased quantity has been brought
to market, but a good demand pr.!vailed, and 120
tuns at public sale were all sold. The home trade are
the chief buyers of Fish Oils ; only small parcels have
arrived since our last report. Cocoa Nut is little re-
quired, and prices are on the decline, although the sup-
ply continues to be small. In Olive several purchases
have been made, holders however are still willing sellers,
although the stock does not increase. Lard Oil sells
slowly at 48s to 58s.

f MURDER AT CASTLE TO WN,
I NEAR HEYWOOD, LANCASHIRE.
A shocking murder W.'S committed on Saturday
evening, upon a labouring man named James Duck-
worth of this place, originating, it is believed, from
revengeful feelings. It was committed upon the car-
riage-drive leading from a newly-erected hall, be
longing to Mr. Richard Kay, cotton manufacturer,
near Castletown. Duckworth was in the habit of
sleeping at the hall. On Saturday evening, a few
minutes after eight o'clock, as John Kay, a groom,
who lives close to the entrance gates, was coming
down from the hall to go home for the night, and was
about one hundred and eighty yards from the gate, he
distinctly heard four blows struck in the direction lead-
ing to them. Imagining that a cow had got upon the
lawn, and that some person was beating down the turf,
with the view of obliterating the traces of her hoofs,
he determined to take the trespasser, if he could
catch him, up to the house, and ran towards the spot
from whence the sounds proceeded for that purpose.
It had been raining a great deal during the day and
evening, and though not a fine night, the moon shone
a little, and he had not got far before he perceived
something lying on the ground in the middle of the
carriage- way. He hastened to it, and the moment
that he reached it heard the gate close with a " bang,"
but neither heard nor saw any one. He found
Duckworth lying on the Nr,,und, with his face (low n-
wtads, and in a pool of blood. He lifted up his head,
but it fell again to the ground, as if lifeless. He
ran home, told his father and brother, who were
there, and also a next door neighbour, named John
Leach, what he bad seen, and then hastened
to the hall to tell Mr. Kay. Meantime, a wheel-
barrow was procured, and the man taken to the Dog
and Partridge public-house. This public-house is
very little more than a hundred yards from where the
body was found ; in fact, there intervenes between it
and the gates a row of four houses and a large barn.
A new landlord, named Thomas Fenton, had entered
upon it that day, and this event caused it to be very
full of company in the evening; so many as forty,
we are told, being there at one time. Amongst the
company was Duckworth, a man named James Tet-
ler, a spademan, who was discharged from the hall
four or five weeks since, another named Benjamin
Garnett, who worked there twelve months since, and
a third named George Wolstenholme, who was at
work there till Monday, when he was apprehended on
suspicion of being concerned in the murder. From what
we have been at present able to learn, it appears that
they had been there a considerable time; ever since
dusk, when Duckworth said he must go home.
Wolstenholme induced him to stay a little longer,
and, it is said, went out himself. Duckworth, at
length went out, and was immediatly followed by
Tetler (it is not positively ascertained whether Gar-
nett went out at the time or not), who returned in a
very short space of time ; and on his return made use
of a very remarkable expression to a man named John
Scott, who is also employed by Mr. Kay as fore-
man of the spademen—namely, " I'll gan you sum-
mat, he'll not goo up yon to-neet." Almost imme-
diately afterwards the intelligence was brought of
the finding of the body, which was brought into the
house; all the company except Tetler, Garnett, and
IVolstenholme, were anxious to see the body, and
saw it ; and the two latter eventually " swore that
they would see it, and did accordingly, but Tetler
did not see it, though he betrayed very great anxiety
about the man, and frequently asked how he was
going on. Mr. Pickford, surgeon, was sent for and
attended Duckworth, who was quite insensible and
never rallied even so much as to open his eyes, but
died about eight o'clock on Sunday morning. A
police officer was sent for, and on examining the spot
where the body was found, several foot marks were
found, as were also two pieces of oak about four
inches thick, which had formed a cart leg used for
propping up the shaft. It had originally been
rather more than four feet long ; the shorter
piece, about seven inches in length, was found
just opposite the spot where the body was
found, sticking in a perpendicular position in the
soft soil to the left of the body, as if being broken
by a violent blow, it had risen a considerable
height, and fallen in the position in which it was
found. The other and longer piece was also found
nearly close to it, but it had evidently been flung
carelessly up the brow of the lawn, which outside
forms a kind of sloping terrace, and had rolled down
again. This cart-leg, it is positively ascertained, had
been taken from a cart which stood in the yard of
the public-house, and which having been the pro-
perty of Mr. James Beswick, the outgoing landlord,
had been valued to the present one. We should
have stated that when Duckworth was found his
hands were in his trousers pockets, so that
there is no doubt that he was felled to the ground
by a sudden and violent blow, and that it was
followed up by others, which occasioned the
noise heard by Kay the groom, who it appears
was on the spot, but just too late to save the poor
fellow's life. The murderer or murderers must have
been close at Duckworth's heels after he had entered
the gates, and were enabled to approach him without
noise by means of the grass border on the sides of the
road, escaping back again under cover of the raised
lawn, for had they run down the carriage way Kay
must have heard them, and if they had gone down
the opposite side of the lawn he must have seen them.
In the meantime, and before the police-officer came,
Tetler and Garnett had left the public-house and gone
to the Farewell Inn, at Castleton Moor, where they
were found about ten minutes past twelve, by Ser-
geant Pridden and another officer, who, after exa-
mining their shoes, and seeing that the nails and
make of Tetler's corresponded with those near the
body, took them both to the police-station at Hey-
wood, and, in consequence of further information, the
same officer apprehended Wolstenholtne at the place
where the murder was committed. On Monday an
examination of the prisoners took place at the police-
station, Heywood. They were remanded till Wed
nesday. The inquest on the body will be held at
eleven o'clock to-day. The deceased, James Duck-
worth, has left a wife and five or six children.