The Sun.
London, England, 1848-02-01 00:00:00

THE NUN, LONDON, TURSIDA.Y

MOINEY andCOMrviERCIAL NEWS.

CITY, QUARTER TO TIIREE.
The Cotton Market at Liverpool yesterday was firm.
Saks were 4,000 to 5,000 bales, of which 3,500 bales
were American, at 41,1. to Gid, per lb. American
was 1. per lb. higher than on Friday last, but Surat,
though firm, had not advanced. Railway Shares were
dull in the morning, but improved subsequently.
Trade is expected to revive shortly, and there will be
more sales this month to test the strength of the markets
for produce. In the meantime we may hope for some
improvement in the demand for manufactures.
The express in anticipation of the overland mail is
announced as having arrived, and the accounts are given
in another column of Vie Sun.

It is satisfactory to hear, by nearly every mail front
the United States, of the increasing prosperity of the
locul Governments in arrears to their fure:gn, creditors.
We are informed that " the operation of the taxation
system recently adopted by the Legislature of Ohio has
been so favourable that a sinking fund of nearly fifty
per cent. of the revenue derived from the public works
can be set apart this year for the extinguishment of the
State debt. Tho increase in taxable property in the
State is so rapid that in a few years we have
no doubt the entire net income from the public
works can every year be added to the sinking
fund for the payment of the State debt. The
income from the mill tax for the general revenue, from
the si mill tax for the State debt, and from the one-
half mill tax fur schools, in 1846, was 998,509 dolls ,
and in 1847, 1,202,528 dulls., showing an increase this

year of 204,019 dolls. The tax levied for the purpose
of raising revenue for the payment of the in-
terest on the State debt, end the net income
of the public works, in 1846, left a surplus of 622
dolls., after paying the interest. Again, it is announced
that the Lower House of the Legislature of Indiana has
passed a Bill authorising the Auditor and State Trea-
surer to borrow of the State Bank of Indiana 95,000
dollars, at 6 per cent., to meet the payment of itsprest
due January Ist, 1841, on :State bonds—the sum bor-
rowed to be repaid by the Ist of April, 1848.
An arrival from Adelaide, South Australia, furnishes
dates of Sept. 18. The question of mining royalties
engaged chief attention. Some revolting acts of can-
nibalism had been traced to the natives, one or two of
the women having destroyed their children.

The English Funds hare been rather lower again to-
day, and money stock seems to be more offered. The
extent of business done is not large, and probably a
good proportion of the surplus money intended for in-
vestment in the Funds has already come into the market.
Consols have been quoted 89k to 881 for present trans-
fer, and 891 to 89 for Account. The New Three-and-a-
Quarter per Cents. have realised 90} to 901, and the
Three per Cents. 891 to 891. Bank Stock is worth 200
to 202, and East India Stock is worth 241 to 243. Ex-
chequer-bills have been quoted 345. to 39e. premium.
In the Foreign Market the dealings have been at
about previous rates generally, but we must except
Spanish Bonds, which are dull. The Five per Cents.
are quoted 211, and the Three per Cents. 311 ; Mexican
have been marked 181 ; Chilian, 911, and Peruvian, 40.
Brazil Bonds have been at 85; Russian Stock has
realised 109 to 1091. Dutch Two-and a-Half per
Cents. have been at 54 to I.
Railway Shares have been firm again.

ONE CLOSING
eItICES OF BRITISH FUNDS. O'CLOCK. PRICES
Bank Stock
3 per Cent. Reduced Anns 89►%% 89%
3 per Cent. Consols Annuities 89%14 88% 89% 89
New 3% per Cent. Anns 9Ol/=1 % 901,E
Long Anns. to expire Jan. 1860 -16 9
Ditto, Oct. 10, 1859 .....
India Bends, 1,0001.
Ditto under LOOM . .......
South Sea Stock
Consols for Account
Exchequer Bills. 3d.
1,0001.
5001. .... ..
Small
ONE
PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS. O'CLOCIE.
Brazilian Bonds B5
Ditto, Account —
Ditto, Small B4
Chilian Bonds 6 per Cent 91%
Mexican, 5 per Cent. 1846 lBl4

39 p
35 p
35 p

CLOSING
MICE&
8514
85
85%
111%
1814
184
40

Ditto, Account . —
Peruvian Bonds, 6 per Cents 4O
Portuguese 5 per Cents. —
Ditto, 4 per Cent —
Ditto, Account —
Russian Bonds .. 109% 109 109
Spanish 5 per Cent. 1840.
Ditto. Account - 21VI
Ditto, Passive
Ditto. 3 per Cent 31% 31%
Ditto, Account — 3134
Venezuela Bonds, 2174 per Cent 4O 39!%
Ditto, Deferred ll 11
Dividends on the above payable in London.
Dutch, 2% per Cent., 12 Guild 5414 54 54% 54%
Ditto. 4 per Cent. Certificates 8534% 851 A
PRICES OF PAID. BUSINESS DONE CLOSING
RAILWAY SHARES. AT ONE O'CLOCK. PRICES.
Aberdeen 45
Amber., Nott., Boston,
and Eastern Junation 2%......
Ayrshire and Galloway.. 2th
Belfast & County Down 10
Birmingham and Ox
ford Junction .... ... 20
Birmingham, Wolver-
hampton, and Dudley 10
Birming.,Wolverli'pton,
and Stour Valley 101. 145... ••• ••• -
Birkenhead, Lancashire,
and Cheshire June.... 73/4 — ••• • •••••••••
Boston, Stamfd & Birm. 5
Bristol and Exeter BO
Ditto, Thirds ......... 20
Buckinghamshire... 121. 4s — .....
Caledonian
Ditto, Half Shares

2 die
86
1

Ditto,ClydesdaleJunc 50
Chester and Holyhead...
Ditto, Preference 12.....
Clarence
Do. lst Class, 6 per Ct. 10
Do. 2,lClass, 5 per Ct. 10
Do. Government Loan,
4 per Cent.
Direct London & Ports-
mout h
Dublin and Belfast June 25 ......
Dundalk & Enniskillen 17% —
East Anglia, 251., L. &
E. and L. and 25
Do., 181., E.& H.... 18
Do., 31. 10s.
Eastern Counties........ 20
Ditto (B) 2ll .
Ditto, Extension, 5 per
Cent., No. h..... 6/. 13s. 4d.... .......
Ditto ditto, No. 2-61. 13s. 4d... % p
Do., North. & Eastern 50
Do., Quarters .... 12% —
Do., New 23
Eastern Union 5O
Ditto, Quarter Shares 12% —
Ditto, Thirds .......135.4d..
Do. (guar.6 percent.) 10
East Lancashire
Ditto, New
Ditto, New Quarters Bs/......
East Lincolnshire ...... 16%
Edinburgh and Glasgow 50 ...... 44
Ditto, Half Shares ... 15
Ditto, Quarter Shares 121,
Edinburgh and Northern 22%
Ditto, New.. 334 —
Ditto, Newport l2
Ditto, ditto, New VA.
Exeter,Yeovil, & Dorch. 2:)4 —
Ditto, New
Glasgow, Dumfries, and
Carlisle
Glasgow,Kilniar., & Ayr 50
Ditto, New ... 4O
Do. Preference Consul. 15 •• ••• ••• •••
Great Northern
Do., London and York ••••••
;reat South. and West.

21%

tith
......
16ti

--
1 T,
/S r

4%

( Ireland)
Great North of England.loo ......
Ditto, New 40/.
Ditto, New 301
Ditto, New, 151.
Great Western 9O lO3
Ditto, 1,4 Shares 5O ......
Ditto, 14 Shares
Ditto, Fifths 2O - •• .......«
Ditto, New 171 .. .. 91,4 ll 107 i .... .....
Huddersfield and Manch. 24
Ditto, Thirds
...

hill and Selby
Ditto, Half Shares 23

1.4 Shares
.pswich & Bury St. Edm. 17,4 —
Do., do., and Norwich 15
Do., do., Extens. Scrip
(late Camb. & Ely) 21/t —

lo7'

Lancaster and Carlisle 50 - ......
Ditto, Thirds
Lancashire & Yorkshire 93
Ditto, ditto
Ditto, IA Shares - ...
Do. Quarter Shares... 141,4 —
Do. Fifths... ......... ... 8
Do. Sixteenths 614 _
Do. Thirds (1teg.)....10/.45...... 4% dis...
Do. Liverp. and Bury 33
Ditto I,i'2 (late Hud-
dersfield and Sheff.) 33
Do.(Wakefield,l'onte-
tract, and Geole)..- 47%••••.•
Do.( W. Riding Union)4/.21...... 2114 dis .. 2% dia.
Do. (Preston & Wvre) 2t►
Do. % Shares (A)... 9 ......
Ditto ditto (B) ... 11%
Leeds and Bradford
Leeds, Dewsbury, Esc... 421/2 — ............... 7

Do:, Half Shares l5
Do.Newßranch (blue)

Do.lixtension (green 71; —
11, 211-

_Jo. New Ex ter4pin.
Leeds and Thirsk ...... .

Ditto, New
Do., Prefer., 6 per Ct. 31A... ..
Liverpool, Crosby and
Soutbport . 2 -
Liverp., Mnelistr &New-
_. .

S lis

castle Junction 2l/2 —
London & Black wa11...13/. Ss. 8d....
Do. New, No. 2 ... 4/. 13s. 4d.... die s dia.
1)9. Extension

4214

London, Brighton, and
South Coast
Do. Consol. Eighths. 30
Do. Guarant. 5 per et-, 9 ......
I/ .. l'i et. Con.s per et. 50 ~ ... 471,4 i
Ditto, ditto.— 1852 50 —
London and Greenwich 12115 s 4d...
Ditto, Preference... 18 ' 17s 2d...
Loudon and N. Western 100 ...... ...
Do., Quarters L. & B. 22 —
Do., do~ New
Ditto Fifths ......•.........2 ......
Do. ti Shares (G. J.) 25
Do 401.Shares(L.M.) 15
Do. 40/. (M. & B.) ... 40
Do. 10/. (M. & B.) A. 71,x
Do. 10/. (M. & B.) B. 7% — ......
Do. 10/. (M. & B.) C. 1
Lon I. &S. Western ...41/. 6s. 84.... 54% •••••• 54%
Do. New Consol. Bths 40
D). New 50/. ... ..... 32%.. .. 28% 28%
Do. Ne v 40/ .. 2G
Do. Tenths (Consol.) 50 ...... .... ... •••••
Ditto ditto ....... .... 40
Ditto, Thirds B/. 6s. 8d....
L aion, Salisbury, sad
Yoovil
Londonderry&Weraine 27% —...••-......••
Londonderry and Ennis-
killen .. ..
Manzhester•Busiton,and
Matlock • 3
idauchest en Sheffield,
and Lincolnshire ...100
Do. Quarters (No. I) 13
Ditto ditto (No. 2)..J '25
Ditto ditto (No. 3)... 71,4
Ditto and Grimsby.... 25
Ditto ditto . ... ..... 7
Ditto••
to ditto ......
Ditto Sheffield and
Lincolnshire 7%..• • s ...•••• .. —
Manchest. & Southampt 21......
Midland
Do.'Consolidated Pref.100
Do. 40/. Shares
Do. 501. Shares
Do. Birm., and Derbyloo
Do•Consol. Bristol and
Binning., 6 per ct.... 100 ...... ..-
Ilidlnd, Brist. &Glocstr. 36 -
Ditto, ditto ...... - 111.35. 6d — ..... .... .....
Midlnd, Leicest. & Swan-
nington, 8 per ct.guar.100
Midland Great Western
Irish -
Nowcastleand Carlisle...100
Do. Quarters 25
Newmrket & Chesterton! 18%
Do. Extension .........21. 125....
Newport, Abergavenny,
and Hereford .--
Nowry and Enniskillen 7
Newry, Warrenpoint,
and Rostrevor 12%
. _ •••

-
4 7 1,2

7

Norfolk ... ..... .. ....... ....100
Do. New 20/. .. 6
Do. Extension
Do. Guaranteed s%pc. 5
Do. Scrip, 1847, North
of Norfolk 2 - ••• ..... ...••
Do. do. Waveney Val. 2
Northern Counties Union 4
North British ... .... ... 23
Do. Half Sharks, 12%...... 1214 12',4
Do. Quarters 4.
Do. Extension
Ditt , Thirds
Nora Staffordshire lO ...... 10% %.. .. ...... 10%
North Wales

-
51A

North Western
)xford, Worcester, and
Wolverhampton ...... 35 ... .. --20%
Reading, Guildford, and
Reigate -
Royston and Ilitchin ... 1% 1%1,4 ...... .. .. lt,
Scottish Central
Scottish Midland 22% . .... —
Ditto, New 10
Sheffield, Rotherham,
and Goole
Shrewsbury and Bina— I
Dine ditto. Class B. 4
Shrewsbury & Chester
(Nor. W. Min.) l6
Ditto Halves ... ditto 8 ...... .. ....
Ditto Oswestry ...... 13
Ditto New
Do. $ per Cent. Pref. 5 - •.. —
Shrewsbury and Herefd. 2
Shropshire Union
South Devon 40
De. Preference
South Staffordshire
South Eastern & Dover. 33% 31% • 31%
Do., No. 1 24
Do., Nc. 2.
Do., No. 3 .-.... ...... 28
Do., No. 4
South Wales ...... 16 - ••• •••••• •• •••
South Yorkshire, Don-
caster, and Goole 3 - ... 1% ...
Swans. St Loughor &Ca-
meron's Stun. Coal. ... 6
raw Yale Extension ... 4
Thames Haven Dock
and Railway .......... 171,4... .. •
Vale of Neath ••• .• ...... 4
Waterford and Kilkenny 11,2...... ..

b~

Waterford and Limerick 40
Waterfd,Wirfrd,Wieklw,
and Dublin
West Cornwall
lY hitehaTen & Furness 18
Windsor, Staines, and
South Western........ 525. —
ills, Somerset, & Wey-
mouth
I'. silt, Newcastle, and
Berwick. ........ 25
Do. Original New and
Berwick ........ 25

17%

Do. North Shields rur. 25 --
Do. Extension No. 1. 15 — ...... .... ... 20
Do. do. No. 2......... 10
Do. tir.N E.Preference 8
York and North Midland 50 —
Ditto, Preference ...... 10
Do. East and West Rid-
ing Extension

FOREIGN RAILWAYS.
Boulogne and Amiens... 20
Central of Franco (Or-
leans and Vierzou)... 14 ...... •••
Central of Spain
Ceylon
Demerara
Dendre Valley 4
Direct Bombay and
?t1 adras
Dutch Rhenish ......... .
East Indian ...
Great Indian Peninsular ss.
Italian and Austrian.... 4
Jamaica S. Mid. J unction 1
Louvain 1. la Sambre ...
Luxembourg... 0

13%

Lyons and Avignon..... 5
Madrid and Valentia... 2
Namur and Liege
Northern of France
Orleans and Bordeaux 6
Over Yssel 4/ 384 d......
Paris and Lyons lO ..... 5% •••
Paris and Orleans
Paris and Rouen ........ 20
Paris and Strasbourg ... 8
Rouen and Havre
Sambre and Meuse l3 ..... 74 67' 7
Strasbourg and Basle ... 14
Tours and Nantes 8
Tournay, Jurbise, Lan-
den, and Hasselt ...... 16
West Flanders 81,6•••••

11 ie

-
5N

JOINT STOCK BANKS.
British North American SO 44
Union of London..- ..... 10 ......
London Joint Stock
MINES. _ ..

Real Del Monte, Unreg.

LLOYD'S SHIPPING--(THIS DAY.)
LONDON, FEB. N.W. by N., light breeze,
and fine clear frosty weather.
DEAL, JAN. 31.—Arrd. Gladiator, Bunting, New
York. Arrd. from the River and sailed, Lydford,
Sydney, New South Wales; Jannet Wilson, Batavia;
Phoebe, Madras ; Smithamley, Bombay ; Fifeshire,
Bombay; Richmond, Algoa Bay; Meteor, Sierra Leone;
Chiller], Lima; Rowley, Demerara; Ilindostan Cuba;
Loodianah, New Orleans; Gentro, Mobile; David Can-
ning, Mobile; Countess of Durham, Cuba; Ann Dash-
wood, Charleston; Thetis, New Orleans; Ceylon, Mobile;
Providence, Coquimbo. Sld. Chilian, Lima; Ranavalo,
Marajatta, Cape Coast Castle.
FRASERBURGII, JAN. 28.—The Jane and Catherine,
of this port, is on the beach with keel broken Amid ships.
The James and Mary, Newcastle to Peterhead, put in
here 27th inst. leaky.
LIVERPOOL, JAN. 31.—The Aram steamer, hence to
Malta and Constantinople, which wis in contact, 23d
instant, below Tuskar, with the Susquehana, is sup
posed to have foundered, as tbt water had risen above
her furnaces previously to Captain Easterby quitting her,
and her light suddenly disappeared as the Suaquehana
was bearing down towards her.

MARKET NEWS.—(THIS DAY.)
HAY StIAIMETS.
Ilay, 2/ 10s to la 12s ; Clover,
slito. 8/ 103 to 41 15e ; aid Straw, 11 3s te 11 8a
per load. Trade dull, at the above quotations.
C.MISIERLAND.—Meadow Hay, 81 10s to 81 14s ;
Clover ditto, 31 10s to 41103; and Straw, 113 s to. Lit 10s
per load. Supply but moderate, and trade dull.
WIIIITECHAPEL.—Meadow Hay, 81 10s to 81 13s;
Clover ditto, 3/ 10s to 41 15s ; and Straw, 1/ 3s ta
11 8s per load. A lull average supply, and a sluggish.
dernsud.

CRIMINAL COURT.-(THIS DAY.)

OLD COURT.
(Before the COMMON SERGEANT.)
Henry Mansell and Henry Essint,r ton were indicted
for conspring to defraud one Richard Wilson, a
copperplate manufacturer, residing in George-street,
Islington, of property to the value of 691. and
upwards.
The prisoners, in June last, represented themselves
to the prosecutor to be master and servant ; and upon
the faith of Mansell's representations, Mr. Wilson was
induced to supply them with a large quantity of
copperplates for the engraving of a literary work
which Mansell pretended he was on the point of pub-
lishing. The plates were received by Essington, who
assumed the character of servant to Mansell. On
ascertaining that Mansell was hawking thorn about for
sale, lie caused the two defendants to Iv apprehended,
and then it transpired that the plates had been pledged
by Mansell with Mr. Brown, the pawnbroker, of
Fetter-lane.
Upon cross examination, the prosecutor admitted
that shortly after the delivery of the plates the de-
fendant Mansell was engaged upon a Mr. Breeze's
work, while Mansell was ltd to offer the plutc s for
sale through a stratagem which he resorted to of
prevailing upon an oilman named Walter to assume
the name of Faversham, and wait upon Mansell to
induce him to sell the plates. Ile caused the two
defendants to be carried before a police magistrate
upon a charge of obtaining goods under felse pre-
tences, but the charge broke down, and the defendants
were liberated.

Mr. Brown, the pawnbroker, produced the plates,
and proved that they were pledged in the name of
Mansell.
In cross-examination by Mr. CLARKSON, he stated
that it was a common practice for artists during
periods of temporary distress to pledge their un-
finished works. Mansell had repeatedly before pro-
cured from him temporaryipecuniary assistance in the
same manner. Had no doubt whatever that Mansell
pledged these plates merely to supply a momentary
want, and intended redeeming them when his affairs
improved. Mansell had long °been in the habit of
pledging plates with him, and had as often redeemed
them.
Mr. CLARKSON then addressed the jury for the de-
fence, contending that no case of conspiracy had been
made out. The plates were intended for engravings
to illustrate the letter-press of Breeze's " Series of
Engineering Works on Railway Practice," and
several of the plates had actually been used for
that purpose ; but Mansell, before the work
was completed, fell into difficulties and pledged
some of the others to supply his temporary wants.
The transaction ought to be viewed in the light of a
common debt.

The jury returned a verdict for tho defendants.

MIDDLESEX SESSIONS.
(THIS DAY.)
The Sessions comme❑ced this mornirg at Hicks's
Hall, before Mr. Sergeant Adams, the Assistant-
Judge, and Mr. Witham.
The Learned JUDGE, in charging the grand jury,
then took occasion to make known a new arrange-
ment which the Magistrates had adopted, and which
would come into operation this day for the first time.
It was, that the Court should take the cases of male
prisoners only on the first day, and of females only
on the second—the bail cases to be tried as usual on
the Thursday. By this arrangement one half the
loss of time hitherto incurred in attendance at these
sessions would be saved to prosecutors and witnesses,
as they would have to attend only one day at most.
In the course of the morning, after several cases
of petty larceny had been disposed of,
The Learned SERGEANT observed to the jury, that
they might already perceive the great benefit of the
new arrangement, not only in the diminution of the
numbers which used heretofore to crowd the court
and its approaches on the first morning of the sessions,
but also in the unwonted order and quiet which pre-
vailed. _ _ _

Win. 'larding, a boy, fifteen years old, and two
or three other lads about the same age, were con-
victed of various thefts, and it appearing that they
had each been previously convicted, and had suffered
different terms of imprisonment, together with whip-
ping, the Judge sentenced them to be transported
beyond the seas for seven years, observing that these
cases showed how entirely useless was the punish-
ment of flogging.
Upon hearing the sentence of transportation pro-
nounced, some women, relations of the prisoners,
broke out into violent screaming, and exclamations of
" Oh, my Lord, mercy, mercy !" and one of the
youths had to be removed from the dock by force,
protesting that he " would not be transported."
The JUDGB, addressing one of the women, who
was in a violent paroxysm of grief, said that the
sentence of transportation was only formal, and that
her boy would be withdrawn from temptation and bad
company to the asylum at Parkhurst, in the Isle of
Wight, where he would be taught a useful trade,
and have a chance of returning to society an honest
man.
POT STEALING.—Two prisoners convicted of pot
stealing were sentenced each to four months' impri-
sonment with bard labour, the Judge declaring that
in no case of pot stealing would he pass a more
lenient sentence, as the offence was very much on
the increase.

BOW-STREET.—(THIS DAY.)
Sylvester MIA, a young man of gentlemanly
appearance, was charged before Mr. Henry with dis-
charging a pistol at Sophia Summers, with intent to
murder her.
The complainant stated that she met the pri-
soner near the Lyceum Theatre, at half-past one
o'clock this morning, and accompanied him at his
request to the Brunswick Hotel, in Bow-street, where,
after drinking two pints of wine, they went to bed.
In about an hour and a half she got up, and the pri-
soner insisted that she should go to bed again. On
her refusing he said he would do for her, and
going to one of his pockets he produced
pistol, which he presented at her. She
thought he was only joking, and said
laughing, " Oh, you don't mean that," to which he
replied, " Oh, but I do, though," and instantly dis•
charged the pistol at her. The ball passed through
the wainscot of the room. She attempted to es-
cape, but he pulled her back, and, she thought,
loaded the pistol again, and was presenting it at her
when the porter of the house and other persons
came into the room, alarmed by the report of the
pistol, and she ran up stairs
The prisoner said the complainant's statement was
for the most part a fabrication. it was true that lie
showed her the pistol, but he allowed her to take it
out of his hand, when she discharged it either inten-
tionally or by . accident. He said this was evident
front the direction in which the ball went.
The ball, which was found on the stairs, was pro-
duced by the porter.
Mr. libsar adjourned the case to give the prisoner
time to obtain legal assistance, and have the wains-
cot examined, for the purpose of ascertaining whe-
ther the direction of the shot would corroborate his
statement.

MA.HLBRO'-STREET—(THIS DAY)
Robert Cragg and George Hedger, two suspicious-
looking fellows, were brought before Mr. Bingham,
charged on suspicion of stealing two silver tea caddies.
Sims, E 32, said about three o'clock yesterday
afternoon he was on duty in Tottenham-court road,
when his attention was called to Mr. Keyser's shop.
lie went in and saw the prisoner Cragg offering for
sale a silver caddy and the pieces of another now
produced. He asked them how they carne by them,
and as they would not give a satisfactory account'as
to how they came possessed of them, he took them
into custody.
Louis Bandon, shopman to Mr. Keyser, said the
prisoner Cragg came into his employer's shop and
offered the articles produced for sale. Witness
asked him if they were his Own property ? The
prisoner replied, "No, they are not, a man sent me
with them to sell. Witness told him he should not
purchase them unless he saw the man who; ent him.
The prisoner Hedger then came in and said • • t was
all right, the silver was his property." Witness,
however, had his suspicions that all was not right,
and sent for a constable and gave thorn in charge.
The prisoners, who declined to say from whom they
got the property, were remanded till Thursday.'

WORSHIP-STREE r.—(THIS DAY.)
James and William Edgar, brothers, were charged
as follows :
William Butler, sworn constable at the Britannia
Theatre, Hoxton Old Town, deposed that about nine
o'clock last evening his attention was aroused to a
portion of the pit in which a disturbance had sud.
denly briken out, and where he learnt that a lady
had been robbed. He remonstrated with the pri-
soner James Edgar, who appeared to be foremost in
the ,vow, but was assailed in return with the most
oppro:irious epithets, and on his attempting to remove
him this prisoner struck him in the face. This was
quickly .Followed by repeated blows from the prisoner
William 17idgar, and witness was knocked down and
for the momvnt rendered insensible.
The prism iers made a rambling defence, and
Mr. 11AxiVILL, addresing, said that he should call
upon the prisomer James Edgar to pay a fine of 205.,
or fourteen tre imprisonment, ys' and the prisoner
William Edgar., who had behaved so cowardly as to
strike and kick thes officer while he was engaged with
t
the former prisoner, to pay the penalty of 405., or one
months' imprisonment.

ET, JAN. 29.—We have
P RISVOL SUGAR Maim
had an improving market during the whole of the wek k,
and prices are fully Is. per cwt. dearer than they were
this day week. Our supply is I)ecoming very short.
There is a good demand for rums, and prices must be
quoted 2d. per gallon dearer. 'There have not been any
lexiyals durin the week.