The Sun.
London, England, 1847-08-17 00:00:00

COLONIAIL.

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COAL MARK ET.—Mo NDAY.

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159 arrival,

129 gold.

CRIMINAL COURT.—(THIS DAY.)
OLD COURT:
George Dickens, a respectable looking young man,
described as a chemist, aged 20, was charged, on
remand from the last sessions, with stealing Si. and
upwards from a dwelling-house in which he was a
lodger.
Mr. O'Brien appeared for the prosecution, and Mr.
Ballantine for the prisoner.
It appeared from the statement that the prosecutor,
Mr. Arundel, a linendraper, carrying on business in
Bristol, occupied apartments in the house of a person
named Robinson, in a street in the neighbourhood of
Regent-street, during a short stay in London in June
last. The prisoner occupied an apartment next to
the prosecutor's, and the brother of the landlord of
the house lodged with him. On the 16th of June
the prosecutor found that a carpet bag, in which he
kept some law papers and a considerable sum of
money—but he could not tell the exact amount, he
believed about 451., amongst which there were three
country bank notes—suddenly disappeared ; and the
prisoner was proved to have a good deal of money in
his possession. It appeared that he had placed 31/. in
the hands of a person to take care of for him, and 9/.
in the hands of another. It was further proved that
up to the 16th the prisoner had been much in want of
money, and that he had sold several articles of clothing
for a few shillings, at the time the prisoner absented
himself from his lodgings, and visited Gravesend, Rich-
mond, and other places.
Witnesses having proved these facts,
Mr. BALLANTINE elicited, in cross-examination, that
two young women occupied one of the rooms of the
prosecutor; one left before the 16th, and the other
remained a week after; and he commented upon the
fact that the prosecutor was living on intimate terms
with one of them, on his own admission, and as no
communication took place between the prisoner and
the prosecutor, was it not very probable that the fe-
male so corrupted knew perfectly well that the
money was in the bag, and might not one or
the other of them have been instrumental in
removing it, for when a woman's body was
corrupted, her mind frequently became corrupted
also. the prisoner was in the hab tof leaving home
for a few days at a time ; and at the time in question
he merely went to Gravesend, and returned a day or
two after. Yet neither of the young women were
called, though they were important parties in the
case, and though the prosecutor had gone to fetch one
of them, a young woman named Hall, who had been
in the service of the prosecutor. No notes were traced
to him, and it was to he assumed that he left 311. in
sovereigns in the hands of a friend, and that he took
these local notes to Gravesend, the least likely place
where notes of such a kind would be available. The
evidence was not sufficient to convict the prisoner.
The prisoner's step father, a Mr. Fulston, a miller
of Derby, stated, about eleven weeks ago he sent the
prisoner three five-pound notes, and about a fort-
night before two ten-pound notes, to fit him out for
a situation that he stated he was was going to take.
In cross-examination he stated he was not sen-
tenced to nine months' imprisonment in Derby Gaol—
he was imprisoned nine months' in Southwell Gaol—
he and others were charged with robbing a small
sum of a person in a public-house—was net aware
that his wife had been called " Devonshire Bess."
Re-examined—The prisoner's mother had an an-
nuity of 401., and she was in the habit of sending him
money. The imprisonment took place some time be-
fore his marriage. There was not the slightest truth
in the imputation that his wife had kept a brothel
at Grantham. (The witness burst into tears on
being asked this question.)
By the RECORDER—Earned a guinea a week in
June and July last. Sent the money to the prisoner
out of money he had saved from his business, which
he gave up four years before. Did not keep it in
any bank during the time ; it amounted to 60/., 231.
of which remained. His wife carried on the business
of a milliner and dressmaker,. and they earned enough
to live upon.
The jury ultimately found the prisoner Guilty.
Sentence deferred. -
THE FATAL DUEL, AT CAMDEN-TOWN.
The trial of Lieutenant Munro will take place to-
morrow morning.

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NEW COURT.
(Before the COAIMON SERGEANT.)
The Court was occupied the whole morning with
Mint cases, none of which possessed.any:points worthy
of notice.

MIDDLESEX SESSIONS.
(THIS DAY.)
The August adjourned sessions for the county of
Middlesex commenced this morning, at the Court-house,
Clerkenwell-green, before the Assistant-Judge and a full
bench of magistrates.
The calendar contained the names of 70 prisoners,
57 of whom were charged with felony, the remainder
being misdemeanants. The educational condition of the
prisoners is stated in the calendar as low as the following
summary :—Unable either to read or write, 29 ; able to
read only, 9; while the remaining 32 were described es

SUGAR.—There has been more disposition to pur•
chase British Plantation, about 400 hhds having been
disposed of at full prices. The public sales have com-
prised 8,262 bags 100 casks Mauritius, and 1,071 bags
Ikngal, all of which sold with spirit, at an advance of
6d to Is compared with the currency of this day week ;
Mauritius brought 37s to 45s 6d for low to good )ellow,
and 31s 6d to 36s 6d for low to good brown ; Bengal
45s to 51s fur low to fine White Benares. The quan-
tity landed last week at the East and West India Docks
was 1,160 hhds 80 tierces, and there were taken for
home consumption 1,401 hhds. The stock in the same
places is 13,694 hhds 1 915 tierces.

COFFEE.-452 bags Ceylon ; 335 bales and 207 half-
bales Mocha • ' 786 gs St. Domingo ; 553 bags Brazil ;
and 200 bags Penang, offered by auction, were all dis-
posed of at lower prices, with the exception of the Mo,
cha, which maintained the former value.
Rum.—The quantity landed last week at the East and
West India Docks was 277 puns. There were taken for
home consumption 151 puns 14 hhds, and exported 236
puns 22 hhds. The stock in the same places is 33,567
puns 1,202 hhds.

- RICE.-1,094 bags Bengal were all withdrawn at I3s 6d
for good cargo.
TALLOW.—P. Y. C. is 48s per cwt on the spot, and
town 525.

TEA.—The market is steady, with a good demand for
consumption.

Charlotte .. .. ...... l6s 9d Braddyll's Hetton ... 18s 9d
Chester Main l6s 3d East Hetton
Davison's West Hartley 17s 9d Haswell l9s 3d
Delaval Hartley ..... 17s 3d Hetton
Hasting's Hartley- l7s 9d Lambton
Holy-well Main ... ..... I6s 9d Murton
Original Tanfield
Ord's Redheugh
Ravensworth's Pelaw l6s Od Richmond ... lBs Od
Stewart's Hartley
Tanfield Moor ..... ... 17s 9d Caradoc ..... .. ......
Townlev l6s Od Hartlepool
Tanfield Moor Butes... 16s Od High Thornley
West Wylam
West Hartley .. l7s 9d Thornley
Wylam
Wall's End, &c. Brown's Deanery l7s 6d
Bewicke and Co l7s 9d Seymour Tees
Gosforth l7s 9d South Durham
Heaton
Hotspur .
Killingworth l7s 9d Derwentwater Hartley 17s 3d
Walker
Wharncliffe
Eden Main lBs Od

BANKRUPT C Y.—(THIS DAY.)
(Before Mr. Commissioner PANE.)
IN RE LYNN.
IMPORTANT TO LOAN SOCIETIES.—This insolvent,
who had carried on business as a painter in Great
Chart-street, Hoxton, came up on his interim order.
Mr. T. B. HUGHES appeared on behalf of the St.
George's Loan Society, Shoreditch, to oppose, on the
ground that the insolvent had become security for a
lean when he had no reasonable means of payment ;
that he had vexatiously defended an action, and had
concealed his property.
The insolvent said that he was to have had the
money, arid the borrower was only to lend his name ;
but when the money was got he kept it.
His HONOUR said that that was not becoming secu-
rity for another, and therefore the first point of oppo-
sition failed.
Mr. HuGuEs said there were no less than seven
loans obtained in two months, and when that from
the St. George's Loan Society became due, defendant
was sumniened, and defended the action in the Tower
Hamlets County Court.
His HONOUR said nothing appeared to show that it
was a vexatious defence, and he could not hear the
case of other creditors to make out that of the one
opposing.

- Mr. -HUGHES pursued the examination, but at
length sat down, observing, that with his Honour's
opinion being so much against him, it was useless to
carry the examination further.
The interim order was granted, and a day named
for the final order.