The Sun.
London, England, 1846-10-09 00:00:00

PRICE OF SUGAR.

The average price of Brown or Muscovado Sugar, the pro-
duce of the British possassions in ♦merica, computed from
the returns made in the week ending October 6, 1846, is
335. 214 d. per cwt.

OLICE INTELLIGENCE.
GUILDHALL.

WHOLESALE FRAUDS IN THE CITY.—A young man,
named Edward Evans, who has been employed at
various large warehouses in the City and the west-end,
was brought up for final examination, charged with
having obtained goods to a large amount from various
houses under false pretences.
The Court was crowded by parties who had been
duped, and a number of cases were entered into, which
occupied the greater part of the day.
Mr. James Easthatn, assistant to Messrs. Swainson
and Co., Watling-street, stated that he knew the pri•
soner some time ago from his repeatedly coming for
goods from other houses. On the 22d September he
came and asked for two pieces of drab and blue furni•
ture for Messrs. Williams and Co. Witness toll him
they had none of that colour, when he said that
buff and blue would de, upon which two pieces were
given him, with a bill of parcels, made out in Williams
and Co.'s name. The pieces produced by the pawnbroker
in Court were those he delivered to the prisoner.
Mr. James Stilwell, of White Lion-street, Norton
Folgate, deposed to the prisoner having called on the
sth of September, and asking for a piece of crimson
damask. Prisoner had been in the habit of coining
from Messrs. Miles and Co., of Oxford-street, but he
now represented that he was living at Mr. Gillows's, in
the same street. Witness gave him the damask, and on
the following Tuesday he came again, and said that the
managing man at his employer's had sold it nearly all,
and liked it so well that he wished for another piece
to show to a lady. This was given, with a bill made
out in the name of Gillows. The value was about 401.
He identified the goods now produced.
Alfred Hulme, assistant to Mr. Bayliss, pawnbroker,
of Aldersgate-street, proved that the prisoner pawned
the articles for 81. each, on the sth and Bth of September,
the days on wh eh they were obtained.
There were several other similar cases which were
gone into, but the number of witnesses was so great,i
and the amount of evidence so voluminous, that it
would be useless to give them. However, seven cases
were established against him, and he was committed on
all. Several were abandoned, and others not sustained,
for want of sufficient evidence. The Court was occupied
several hours in taking down the evidence.

• BOW-STREET.
John Bennett, alias Burn, employed as a dresser at
the Princess's Theatre, was charged with an indecent
assault upon a lad named John Cooke, on the'afternon
of yesterday week.
The alleged offence was committed while the prisoner
and Cooke were looking into a print-shop window in
St. Martin's-lane, and the prosecutor stated that it had
been attempted on two previous occasions by the same
man, although he was then unable to give him into cus-
tody. On the last occasion, however, he followed the
prisoner into some public-houses, and eventually, on see-
mg a policeman, gave him into custody. The prosecutor
stated that the prisoner offered him money and drink to
abstain fom prosecuting him.
Mr. Clarkson, who appeared for the prisoner, urged
the respectability of his client, who had a large family,
and called a respectable tradesman to give him a charac-
ter of twenty years' standing. It was stated that he was
an actor during the greater part of this time.
Mr. HENRY committed him for trial, but consented to
take bail, two in 501. each, and himself in 1001.
MARYLEBONE.

EXTRAORDINARY CUARGE OF ROBBERY. Henry
Riley, a druwmeriin the Ist Regiment Grenadier Guards,
Aas charged with having stolen a horse and cart belong-
ing to Mr. Atkinson, a turner, residing in Manchester-
street, Gray's Inn-road, and also two military coats, the
property of her Majesty.
The case was fully gone into on the 3d inst., and from
the evidence then given, it appeared that on the previ-
ous evening prosecutor went to St. John's Wood Bar-
racks with some goods for the sergeant-major: he de-
livered them to him, and they both went to the canteen
to take some refreshment, and in the course of half an
hour they returned, when he found that his horse and
cart were gone. The prisoner was taken in.o custody
on the sama night near Rosemary-lane. lie was then
in the cart, in which were two military coats, which,
as alleged, he had offered for sale. lie (prisoner) was
remanded.

he was committed for trial.
Yesterday additional evidence was forthcoming, and
SOUTHWARK.
A POLICEMAN CAUGHT NAPPING.—Thomas Ellis, a
policeman of the M division, was charged with neglect
of duty, and absenting himself from his beat.
Sergeant Clark, of the same division, stated that the
defendant belonged to the section of the division at
ilotherhithe, and that he, the sergeant, had occasion to
visit the beat upon whiA he ought to have been on duty.
On proceeding his rounds he c)uld not find the defend-
ant for some time, until at length he discovered him in a
garden lying fast asleep in a summer-house. He awoke
hint and made him go on his beat, and then left him,
but returned soon afterwards, and finding he was again
:absent, went to look after him, and upon this occasion
found him fast asleep in a low shed.
The defendant did not deny the charge, but said
he was so overcome with sleep that he could not walk
about.

The MAGISTRATE convicted the defendant in the pe-
nanity of 16s. Btl., his week's pay.
The defendant, it was stated, would be also discharged
from the polio() force.

_
THAMES.
James troohs, a lighterman, was brought before Mr.
Ballantine, charged with assaulting Ann Wi!liams, a
young woman who carried an infant in her arms, and
whose taco was marked.

It appeared that th; complainant and her husband
went into a public-house called the Red Lion, in Rat-
clitre-highway, to obtain refreshments, and while there
prisoner and another man entered. They fastened a
quarrel upon the other party, and the prisoner challenged
the complainant's husband to fight. He refused to do
so; on which the prisoner attempted to strike him. The
woman got up and said, " Don't hit my husband, he
don't want to fight," whereupon he struck her a violent
blow on the face, and knocked her backwards. The
bruise on her face was in consequence of the blow.
Mr. BILLANTINE said the prisoner might have se-
lected a man in the group to fight with, if he was so fond
of using his fists, and not beat a woman. his conduct
was very base and cowardly, and he fined him 4Z, and in
default of payment sentenced him to six weeks' impri-
sonment.

. _
ATROC7OUS MURDER.—A murder under the most
' dreadful circumstances has just been committed in the
' electorate of Broach. A gang of bigoted ruffians having
lost several head of cattle from disease, attributed their
misfortune to the mains °calms, or evil eye, of a poor
woman, who, with her husband and family, lived in the
jungles. The men proceeded in a body to the house of
these inoffensive people, and, in spite of supplications for
mercy, and attempts at resistance, succeeded in effecting
the horrid purpose for which they had gone. The
husband and other relatives who tried to defend the sus-
pected evil-eyed women were cruelly ill-treated, and she
was tied to a stake and burnt to death. The poor hus-
band has laid his case before the authorities of the Zillah
to which he belongs, and, doubtless, the most stringent
measures will be taken to punish the inhuman perpe-
trators of this act, most of whom are fortunately known.
The authorities are not n the least to blame, as the deed
was committed in a place which is quite isolated, and
inhabited by a semi-barbarous people. Such is the state
of some part of India in 1846. What would railroads
not effect in helping to destroy the last relics of barba-
rism and disseminating civilivation among such a be-
nighted set?—:liombay Gentleman's Gazette.

OPPOSIIES.—Since the Wellington statue
has been put up, the joke amongst medical students has
been, that St. George's Hospital is now opposite to Guy'F.

WOLVERHAMPTON ADDRESS
TO SIR ROBERT PEEL.
(From the Wolverhampton Chronicle.)
The address to Sir Robert Peel, decided apon at the
town's meeting, held at the Public Office, some time ago,
was last week transmitted by Mr. I. Fellows to the
Right Ilonourable Baronet. The following are copies
of the letter accompan3ing the address, and of Sir
Robert Peel's reply _ _

" Wolverhampton, Oct. 1, 1846.
" Sir,—With much satisfaction I fulfil the duty of
transmitting to you the accompanying address, from in-
habitants of Wolverhampton, expressing their grateful
sense of the sacrifices and exertions made 6y you in
promoting the cause of Free Trade, and more parti-
cularly in effecting the recent change of the Corn Laws
—a change involving in principle the total repeal of all
prohibitory or distinctive duties on necessaries of life,
and which they believe will greatly promote the com-
mercial intercourse and prosperity of the empire.
" The inhabitants of Wolverhampton, sir, may justly
claim the credit of having long given their support,
through the medium of their representatives in Parlia-
ment, to the principles of commercial legislation, which
they now have the pleasure to behold generally recog-
nised and extensively adopted ; and it adds much to
their confidence in the soundness of their views, to find
them embraced by a statesman like yourself, distin-
guished for the caution and practical character of his
legislation.
" The proposition for this address was unanimously
adopted at a town's meeting, and it would have been
presented at an earlier date had not the illness and sub-
sequent decease of Richard Fryer, Esq., who presided
as chairman, operated to produce delay.—l sm, sir,
your's very respectfully, " ISAAC FELLOWS.
" To Sir Robert Peel, Bart., Drayton
Manor, Staffordshire."
Drayton Manor,
Manor, Oct. 5, 1846.
" Gentlemen,—l return to you my grateful acknow-
ledgments for the address which you have transmitted
tome.

--;:There is no constituency in the United Kingdom
more honourably conspicuous than that of Wolver-
hampton for a zealous support of the principles which
are favourable to the freedom of commercial intercourse
between nations. They are entitled to a share of the
credit which is justly due to one of their representatives
in Parliament (Mr. Villiers), by whom those principles
have been advocated for many years, under adverse as
well as prosperous circumstances, with great perse-
verance and singular ability.
" I am little disturbed by the imputations which have
been cait upon me, because I know that in the course
which I have pursued I have been influenced by no
other motive. than a sense of public duty, and the con-
scientious belief that the measures I. proposed for the
relaxation of restrictions upon cwntrierce, and the early
repeal of taxes on the impoit of food would be con-
ducive to the general welfare.

"It cannot tail, however, to be very gratifying to my
feelings to receive such cordial assurances of approbation
and esteem as those which are conveyed in your address.
"I have the honour to be, gentlemen,
Your faithful servant,
" ROBERT PEEL.
" To Isaac Fellows, Esq., &c."