The Sun.
London, England, 1847-08-20 00:00:00

COLONIAL.

SUGAR.—The supply of most descriptions continues
to be fully adequate to the demand, and prices have been
a shade lower for British Plantati• n, although some im-
provement occurred yesterday, there being more dispo-
sition to buy. Low kinds are not so well supported as
the good and fine. At auction Barbadoes has realised
44s 6d to 46s for fine yellow, and 40s to 41s 6d for mid;
white chrystallised St. Vincents brought 55s 6d to
56s 6d, and good and fine yellow 44s to 518.
EAST InDlA.—Ber, ares, 1,298 bags, sold Is lower ;
good white, 46s to 46s 6d ; and good soft yellow 41s ;
Madras low damp 3ellow sold at 32s 6cl ; Mauritius,
5,234 bags 20 casks 17 barrele, went 6d to is lower, ex-
cept for tne better sorts; good yellow, 40s 6d to 43s 6d;
low to mid brown, 32 to 33s ; low to good grey, 35s to
395; and strong white at 50s 6d to 51s 6d per cwt.
FOREIGN.—Bahia has been taken in at 45s to 47s for
low to good white ; and at 39s to 42s for low to good
brown ; Porto Rico low yellow brought 40s to 40s 6d ;
and mid brown, 38s 6d per cwt.

REFlNED.—Standard Lumps have been 55s 6d per cwt.
COFFEE.—This article has not exhibited much ac •
tivity. Jamaica has been sold at 35s to 58s per cwt.
Ceylon has been tolerably steady. Native has realised
36a 6d to 375, and Plantation has been sold at 63s to
64s 6d for mid. coloury, at 69s to 70s 6d; for pea berry,
and soiled parcels as high as 80s. La Guayra has been
sold at 39s to 39s 6d; for tine ord. being rather lower.
RUM.—Proof Leewards has been 2s 4d per gallon,
and Madras proof with certificate as low as 2s.

RlCE.—Bengal has been sold at 16s to 17s for good
mid white, good and fine being taken in at 17s to 19s.
Madras has been held at 12s 6d to 13s for fine bold clear
yellow.
SPlCES.—Pepper has been taken in at 2jd to 3d per
lb. for Malabar, and sah.s of Tellicherry sorts have
been made at 2d to 3id per lb. Pimento has been sold
at 5d per lb. Sumatra Pepper is rather higher.
COTTON.--The market has been inactive,
TALLOW.—P. Y. C. has been quiet at 47s 6d to 48s
per cwt en the spot.
TEA.—The market has been rather more lively. Gun-
powd, r has been rather lower at public sale. but Canton-
made was dearer. Assam has been taken by auction at
very full prices, namely, 1 s 2id to 3s 6d per lb.

SECONDARIES'.—('PHIS DAY.)
The cases to-day were not of the slightest interest,
being on bills of exchange, and undefended.

BANKRUPTCY.—(THIS DAY.)
(Before Mr. Commissioner FONBLANQUE.)
IN RE ONION.
This insolvent, who was described as an artist, in
Loughborough Park-terrace, Brixton, attended on a
summons to be examined as to property alleged to have
come into his possession since his having obtained his
final order.
Mr. PEARSON appeared as counsel for a creditor, and
examined the insolvent, who obtained his final order in
1843. It appeared that, under his father's will, he was
entitled to the reversionary interest in the sum of nearly
2,0001. He alleged, however, that he transferred his
interest to his mother, in 1841, in consideration of 1001.
money cdvanced at the time, and a previous debt of 3001.
No deeds, however, had been executed, and on the
death of his mother, in 1846, it appeared that
she had left that and other property to the
wife of the insolvent for her sole and separate use, and
the insolvent was appointed trustee and executor under
the will. He, however, received the dividends from time
to time, and applied them for the purposes of his family,
never taking any receipts from his wife, and ultimately
drew out the whole of the money, and bought two lease-
hold houses in Brixton. The leases were granted to him
not as a trustee. He said he believed all the parties who
knew anything about the advances by his mother
were dead, and he had no papers connected with his
mother's estate, as his solicitor was dead, and his widow
kept the papers as a security for law charges.
His HoNotin said that the insolvent answered in such
an unsatisfactory manner, that unless he answered more
distinctly he would commit him. He could not remem-
ber what occurred when the final order was granted, but
he found a memorandum that the insolvent should
come up every six months to give an account
of his property and abide by the order of the
court. The insolvent's statement was highly impro-
bable, and the case was one of the worst which had come
before the court. Not a word was stated in the schedule
as to the insolvent's interest in the property.
The insolvent was further examined as to other pro-
perty which had not been inserted in the schedule.
His HONOUR ultimately said that, unless the insolvent
adduced proof of the assignment of his reversionary in-
terest, the final order would be rescinded, and if it was
proved to have been made, as there was no trade
assignee, the official assignee would, on being indemni-
fied, try the validity of the transaction—there could be
no doubt there had been a juggle.
The case was then adjourned.

CRIMINAL COURT.—(THIS DAY.)
OLD COURT.
EMBEZZLING COFFEE WARRANTS.—A respectable-
looking man, named Thomas Smith, described as an
agent, was indicted for stealing on the 4th of June,
seven warrants fur the delivery of 57 bags of coffee,
value 901., the property of Mr. Thomas J3uckthorne,
coffee-dealer, of Nos. 1 and 2, .Mincing-lane.
Mr. Ballantine appeared for the prosecution and Mr.
Clarkson and Mr. Parry for the prisoner.
Mr. Henry Oliiver, the prosecutor's clerk, deposed
that the prisoner had dealt with his employer for twelve
months, and that he was at the present momert indebted
to him in the sum of 270/. for coffee and other articles.
The prisoner applied to him for the warrants in question
on the 4th of June, which had reference to sonte coffee
which had been unshipped from the Morning Star, but he
at first declined to let him have them, as he had them
some time before and was perfectly acquainted with the
quality of the coffee, and besides he could famish him
with samples. He said ho wanted the warrants to en-
able a person at Newcastle, who he thought would pur-
chase
the coffee, and who was a very particular person,
to inspect the coffee. Oa this representation he handed
the prisoner the warrants on his promising to return
them within an hour. He did not return them, and on
the following morning he received a note from him
saying that he had expected to have paid the
prosecutor that morning 270/., adding that if he would
call at the Bank of England on the following Wednes-
day, he wouldireceive that amount, as he would pay it
into the Bank through the Newcastle Bank. Be added
that he had sold the coffee, that he should pay for it on
Thursday, and requested that the invoices might be sent
to him at the post-office, Newcastle, and hoped the pro-
secutor would not charge more than 345. fur the coffee,
as the transaction would be a cash one. A second note
was received intimating that he should settle his account
in the course of the week.
Cross-examined—The prisoner was not the agent of
his employer; he merely dealt with him; he gave him
credit. Before this transaction he had purchased coffee
to the value of 1,0001. This coffee was et an inftrior
quality, but it was good; it was offered to him at Us.,
which was below its value. The last transaction took
place a fortnight before. Did not tell him it he did not
return the warrants within an hour that he should ex•
pect him to purchase the coffee. If he had brought back
the money in his hand he did not think he should have
taken it unless he had also produced the warrants. Was
not award that an applicationT was made to the prisoner's
office in St. Swithin s-lane before the note was received
from him. Having a high opinion of the prisoner at
that time they did not send for the warrants, as they
thought he might have been detained.
Mr. Buckthorns said, when the prisoner asked for the
warrants he said, " Why, Smith, you had them before."
He then went out, leaving the prisoner Elt his courting-

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house. Shortly after he met him, and finding that
iolliver had given him the warrants, he asked him to .
turn them as he returned from the docks. He rephe
that hr would most assuredly do so.
Mr. Charles Bunyan, a grocer in Shoreditch, had
ltnown the prisoner a year and a half. On the 4th
him
June the prisoner called upon him andsoke to
about the warrants, saying that he should have tho. e
e
coffee to which they referred much cheaper than `celled
price he had named on a previous occasion. He cal e
He said he Wf.i.i?
upon him again the next morning.
much in want of money, and asked him to lend him 501.
on the warrants, on the promise of redeeming them in 5
few dam when he had sold the coffee, as hoe
to
do, to a person at Newcastle, and that if be did not
they should be forfeited. He advanced him 51, and Mr.
Heraud, a neighbour, advanced 451.
Mr. Heraud corroborated the evidence of the lot
witness. He said a person could sample as ioug asbe
had the number of the svarrant : it was not necessary 10
produce it on all occasions. 251 b of
Ortiii, a police-constable, jstated that on the
June last he took the prisoner into custody at Ev4n-r,
door,
Hotel, Covent-garden. He knocked at a bed-room he
it was opened by the prisoner, and on seizing 111 1,0
pulled out a pistol from his coat-pocket, Whi:ci he
wrested from him. He drew our another, wh`c-tbis
also got from him. He did not arrest him on
charMgr.e.
011iver was recalled, and stated that he w„entditl
Newcastle and saw the father of the prisoner. Ile 701,,
not invite the father to pay for the coffee or the =
if '' ~,„
nor to withdraw the officer who accompanied him
did so.
Mr. CLARKSON addressed the jury for the prisoner,
and contended that the charge could not be Latilgrta7 of
as it was a mere mercantile transaction. The. 'ac'tbe
Mr. 011iver being sent to Newcastle, and vistingthig
prisoner's father, showed that it was treated in to
light, and that if some arrangement could be coe doubt
that no proceedings would have been adopted. 1,,c)0,i1d
the present proceeding was an afterthought, Cm - sac-
not have been adopted if the negotiation bad beentthe
cessful. If, however, they took an adverse view„, °‘, of $
case, he held that they could only find him owl -
simple misdemeanour. r the
Mr. Justice ERLE said, as the circumstances °' x.
ot e
ea
case were peculiar, it would be necessary for him
plain what kind of larceny the prisoner Was chsl4o
with. If a man obtained goods from smother ori ,:„0.
representations, and with the intention of defraell
the owner of them, he committed larceny. }let:l:elf' 0
illustrate the case by saying—if a man wish on on the
horse to another, and that person got on its bee. - t the
pretence of trying it, and rode away with it Wins-The
owner's consent, the man committed larceny"
e•--
questions which they would have to decide Wetreo.,
were the warrants delivered to the prisoner for 1 tiaje ;
porary purpose, to be returned within a limiteui.a the
and instead of complying with this condition, ul sot
prisoner appropriate them to his own use and eg wed
the will of the owner, anti did he, when be obt;- or
them, intend to appropriate them to his own use ~ of
were they delivered to the prisoner for the purr!,oorf
being
sold to him, and as a transaction in the or,"'t the
course of business ? It was worthy of remark "'with
prosecutor met the prisoner after he left his offiredocks.
theTwharrants going in an opposite direction to the
e jury found the prisoner Guilty. itted ill
Mr. Justice ERLE said the offence was coiletn,--A both
an unusual manner, but the evidence bad satis'e',,e the
the jury and himself that he intended to upproPrL`., one
produce of the warrants to his own use ; and everj,b
engaged in mereanti:e pursuits must know that such
transaction was as much a theft as if the artielest be
been stolen. The sentence of the Court was:, thoa of
be imprisoned and kept at hard labour in the god
Correction for three months.

n
MARLBRO'-STREET—( THIS c)0
invorts!lui
There was not a charge of the least public bei
before the Court this morning, ll the charges
disposed of by eleven o'clock a

CLERKENWELL.—(THIS -n AY.)
Mary Williams was charged with stealing a " pro'
of wearing apparel, books, and other articles, the pro'
perty of her master, Mr. Wm. Cordell, of Teti°
road. lit who
It appeared from the statement of Mrs. Corde arted
was so aged and infirm as to be obliged to be sePriddee
into the witness box, that her husband „as bed- rt
for along time, and the prisoner was their serOri,niy to
in that capacity availed herself of every oPP°rt? boolt6;
rob them. Several articles of dresq, a number am
at isse°
and some trifling articles of furniture having be'
different times, suspicion at length fell upon t who
sorer, when information was given to the
pobel "
Ongl
took her into custody, and found some books
to the prosecutor in her possession. of the
lice,
The police had been as yet unable to trace 01. ht be
other articles, and requested that the prisoner Wig
remanded. .l nee
Mr. TYRWIIITT remanded the prisoner until
Monday.
THAMES.--k THIS DAY.) Guards'
Edward Dorly, a private in the Coldstream , ,
and Joseph Storey, one of the Grenadier GU3rU ore
bSie gol3
charged on suspicion of having stolen a valetl
t sece°
watch and appendages.
abon..o tbo
Sergeant Conway, II 7, stated that
o'clock yesterday evening a pawnbroker eawehi'd Cie
station•house and gave information that he .7" band'.
tamed two soldiers, who had brought him `-scitne6'
some gold watch, chain, seals, &c., Pto ledge';„ ‘ Vbiteni
immediately accompanied him to his sheP "`"„ss ed
chapel, and on inquiring how they became P°steo 111`;
the property, Storey said that it had been oar'
by his father, who resides in Cumberland, eigu; after
ago. Dorly corroborated this statement, hil,"„,iveo
wards they said a girl of their acquaintance ha° F"
to them, and if he liked they could point her otit;oteliff'
ness for that purpose accompanied them t° otle
highway, but they wandered about, and went fir°o thel
place to another for about two hours, till at la 131
acknowledged they could not find the feniale'rey sal
morning they again changed their tale, and
S
watch 1. Tb°
that a girl at Westminster had given the
and Dorly had asked him (Storey) to pledger:os°:
watch, &e., was then handed to the magistrate. ve of -
dently of some value, the gold guard-chain bel There
e Jure.
very handsome pattern, of foreign manufacture'
id
was also a brequet chain attached. don b
Mr. YARDLEY inquired , to
been gained respecting
the probable owner. op he
Inspector Forbes said information had been be
osed t°
their respective barracks, as it was supP
whether any inforMe--
Ore
property of an officer. r the 0
Some time afterward, Sergeant Rune, °I-,*
nadier Guards, and Sergeant Foxwell, of the 'the toent-lis
Guards, made their appearance They gave Guards
excellent character, Storey having. been in L'e
a
o nine years.
Mr. YARDLEY said he should remand the aye f 0
,
week, for further inquiry, as at present it b°"tben rj
suspicious appearance. The prisoners were tits,
moved in the custody of their respective sergeto
the magistrate directed that a description of /wi[tb vi
&c., should be circulated amongst the police
of tracing the owner.

SPORTING IN TELLIGE'
AT •
(Of
YORK AUGUST MEETING,—WEDNO-
D
CLUDED).
LATEST DERBY BETTING* ,
13 to 1 agst Mr. Mostyn's Surplice--te-freall
16 to 1 agst Mr. Bowes's Springy Jack-4
25 to 1 agst Mr. Green's Assault
25 to 1 agst Mr. Mostyn's Loadstone
25 to 1 agst Mr. Green's Flateatcher
freely
5400
ttao
asst
tt
Mr.Mr,Green'sSwiss Wrefod'sWhitsto_notakeo by f
eitlg o
A great sensation was produced this toor pg,o.
report, received by electric telegraph, that the coPP
the French had been shot. It was afterwards
dicted through the same channel. and
THURSDAY. elDile
The Filly Stakes of 25 sous. each, 10 ft. `ill" over
nod
three quarters.
Sir C. Monck's fby Touchstone—Caststeel, wi/ h (Si
The Old Three Yrs Old Stakes of 100 sovs• eaoc.des• 1
for colts, Bst 51b; and fillies, Bst 21b. „91:10100)
Major Yarburgh's Sally Mags (31b) (J•
Mr. Stephenson's Victress (allowed 31b) ,riter• 50
2tol on Sally Maggs, who won in ac- with
The Chesterfield Handicap of 10 sous. eac13,
added. One mile. (14 Subs.) (Nat)
Sir C. Menck's Vanish, 4 yrs, 7st 12119 "' ••• 3
Mr. Taylor's George Hudson, 3 yrs, 6st 81b••• ••• 4
Mr. B. Green's The Conjuror, 4 yrs,
Mr. L. Fox's Shelforth, 4 yrs, 7st ." 6
Mr. Lillie's Spithead, 4 yrs, Bst •••
Mr. Meiklam's Fancy Boy, 4 yrs, Bst 101 b ••• ,00
A fine race. Won by a neck. dried, v
The Free Handicap of 10 sous. each, and 50 6 1
mile and a half. ( °Cali)
Da
Robertson's Blackbird, 4 yrs, 7st 2119 k
Fox's Hannah Raine, 4 yrs, sst 91bs .sst 4110 4
J. Scott's Alderman's Daughter, 3 yrs' ." 5
H. Baker's Plover, 4 yrs, 63t 7lbs
Bst 41b 5
Hill's Burlesque, 4 yrs, 7st 6lbs ••• h'• of
Won in a canter by three lengt
ws•eepsto
rg,
The County Cup, value 1501., added to S four
20 soya. each, for three yrs okl. 7st 51195,;,, 9st 10
9st llb; five yrs, 9st 8lbs; six yrs and age" 1
&c. Two miles. (14 Subs). (A. MI)
Mr. Gully's Mathematician, 3 yrs ••• 3
Mr. 111eiklam's Godfrey, 6 yrs• Lord Zetland's Coheiress, 6 yrs ••• h;
Mr. Meiklam's Poyutar, 4 yrs ..• half a le
7 to 4 on Mathematician. Won easy by Is Of
Coheiress a bad third.
The Bramham Park Stakes of 100 sonv;i). 30 ft' f°,nrolearads
, 1
1844; colts, Bst 71b; fillies, B.t
Baler) 0
and a half. .... •••
Mr. A. Featherstonhaugh's Quicksand ..
Mr. Brook's Luminous
Wo adds
half lengto. 50
The Constitution Stakes of 20 sovs. each, 1
for four yrs old. Two ruiles(Edward,)
Mr. B. Green's The Conjuror..• ••• •"
••
Wn cleverly by' and

Sir J. Gerard's Grimston ••• "•
Mr. L Fox's Hannah Maine ... ... ••• ~
Lord Westminster's Jocose ... ...
••• bad
Won cleverly by half a length, Hannah Baitle a
third. of 1°
The earthAmat urse of 501.. added to a handicap
says. Gentleman Riders. TWO
oil!e51;s) 1
Mr. Dawson's Crim. Con., 5 yrs (Captain Willi°
... 1
Mr. Nicoll's C
Won anieleopard, 5 yrs ••• •''
cleverly by a length.
YORIC.
LATEST BETTING AT
t nE
GREAT YOR 6KSEIRE STAKE 1
S. ,
11 to 2 agst Epirote I 8
to 1 ttggs
4 to 1 agst Montpensier
Helias is declared not to start.
BARNET RACES.—Tutiastait• ~,, 3fr.
The Railway Stakes were won, in two heats, 11
o astiltilei4rldisale
to.