The Sun.
London, England, 1846-06-20 00:00:00

CANTON MARKET, APRIL 20.

An extreme dullness prevails in the import market gene-
rally. There is a great scarcity of money, owing to very
large sums having been sent into the tea districts, as ad-
vances upon next year's crop, and there is much want of
confidence among the Chinese, owing to the allure of an
extensive tea broker. The hopes that were entertained of
Shanghae proving a vent for the surplus imports of manu-
factures being at an end, foreigners evince great anxiety to
realise.
SH.ANGHAE, MARCH 8.

Since my last, there has been another stoppage, the second
principal native merchant here, and although his liabilities
are not nearly of so large an amount as the preceding failure,
it must have an increased and powerful tendency to rarify
the trade at this emporium, and cause our business to
be carried on through the agency of a number of small
traders.

This new state of affairs will, of course, have a depressing
influence upon the trade of this port, until it fairly comes
into operation, and until the confidence of the tea and silk
men is established in the working of the system, which must
sooner or later ensue. Strange to say, however, notwith-
standing the difficulties in which they have been so recently
involved (cases of extreme hardship to many of their num-
ber), the producers from the interior pertinaciously ad-
here to the old established principle of extensive hongs,
and object to their business being thrown into numerous
, channels.
Tea—Very little doing, except in greens, in which there
have been lately a few operations at comparatively high
rates.
Silk—Little really first-rate remains in the city, but there
is no doubt that a moderate quantity might be obtained from
the interior by the purchaser paying for it in Sycee or iu ap-
preciated imports, say good assortments of Spanish striped and
long ells. This export still continues most difficult of ex-_
change, so far as our staple imports are concerned.
Middling Taysaam may be quoted 270 dole. to 310 dols.
for Sycee ; Tsatlee being 80 dols. to 100 dols. in advance of
these rates; 12,000 bales (all kinds) have already been ship-
ped from this port, and we may possibly, before the year's
export is completed, find some 3,000 more, making the total
shipments for this season about,. ; 000 bales, more than half
of which will be Tsatlee.

Opium—Patna 695 dols. t°79a 1 )-1, payment in dollars.
Really first class Malwa held for 770 dols., but at that value
not in requisition. Holders of the new drug have fixed a
high price upon it to enable them to clear off old stocks, but
as the supply has become extended by the arrival of the
Island Queen and Denis, we shall, in all probability, expe_
rience a decline from present rates.
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ranging from ofmor
8 patyumleont
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cent.

REIGHTS.
6/. per ton, and not at all likely to recede, as tonnage is
much wanted.

CUSA, MARCH .
Sales of Patna have been N
made here3o of late at 710 dollars,
and 1 suppose it will recede to 680 dollars. There isf agooci
deal lying at Woosung under limit of 725, clear.
every-
thing ; and as it has been there some time,
upon it will not be small.
and none at Shanghae,
There is no Sycee here whatever,
in g
nhkue3feaopcust
E nin to take Spanish
ures
teueomurraewhere and at Woosung they will
likely be much higher.
1 dollars freely without weighing,
dull here,
" Business is very.!lral
of' black cambrics at 91,4 re. ;
going on except
_by.,736, 5 to 6fr rs. at auction ; for rhubarb,
c aarenangsced, tlnlooabsstaleSesrvYceeeo,fswintilialt
grey and whito shim
at 18 dols ; and o f twist at 26 to 27 dols. ; for camphor, at
. .
an d rhubarb, at 18 dols. I have refused
2 dols. •
14 dole. to
c. for 16 dols. ,
so
me white shirtings.
60
,
" I learn that 200 000 pieces of shirtings have
come over.
land from _.
Foo-chow- to Ningpo, having been bought at
1 dol.
70c.from the native bankers, who sold them off by
auction; and this is the cause of sales having all at once
ceased to be made at 2 dols. 90c. to 3 dols. 15c. per piece.
" I fear very heavy losses will be made from Shanghae in
-teas, snore especially those lately shipped, as all appeared to
be taking what they could get out of the godowns, and ship-
ping it off in very bad order.
" Malway of No. 2 quality and under has been selling
largely of late here at 650 dols. to 14 chests for 1,000 dols.
The Anonyma and Island Queen have brought on some very
bad stuff, which is being sold very cheap. The Gem passed
through the bay two days ago, with, as reported, 900 chests
on board of No. 1, and 200 bales of cotton. Turkey, of which
there is none here, is wanted at 570 dols., but supplies ex-
pected soon. The Sapphire, I hear, has brought rations for
the troops up to the end of July."

CHARGE OF MURDER.—A painful case has occurred
at Shefford. Some lightermen quarrelled at the White Horse Inn,
atßiggleewade, and a tight between two of them afterwards was the
result. After the fight, a young man of tke name oft Gray, one of
the combatants, was leaving, when his adversary gave him a brutal
kick 11 the abdomen, and caused instant death. His bladder was
burst. After killing him, the brute was about to threw the body iA
the leeks. but was presented. • '

ALEXANDRIA.
JUNE B.—Soobhej Bey, Mehemet All's private secretary.
is to proceed to Constantinople in a couple of days, to make
the necessary preparations for the arrival there 9f.the Viceroy,
who seems now bent upon undertaking thitveyuge.
Prince Waldemar,, of Prussia, who e3me to Egypt by the
last Bombay steamer, took his departure for Trieste by the
last Austrian steamer, which left,on the 27th of May. The
passengers who came froin Bombay by the same opportunity
are loud in their praise of the affability and kindness of the
Prince, who, the evening before he sailed, invited them all to
dine With him at • the hotel. Avery heavy shower 'of rain
fell in Alexandria on the night of the 27th of May, a re-
markable occurrence, as it very seldom rains at all in this
country between the months of March and November.

Mehemet All's eldest daughter, Nazlet Hanem, widow of
the late Deftardar Bey, arrived her from Cairo on the 30th
the one
v
of May, to spend the summer with her father. She he,
taken up her residence at the Pacha's harem, where his
High. Mehemet Alißay onlyhnae"haB,
at
t present
.the s
motheryoungest d
oa
and
Said
Pac
fa-
vourite son, is also here ; he and Said Pacba being the only
two sons his Highness has in Egypt, his other three Sons—
Ibrahim Pacha, Houssien Bey, and Haleem Bey—being In
Europe.
The water in the Mahmoudieh Canal and the Nile is now
so very low, that the directors of the transit are obliged to
resort to various expedients to get the passengers throues,
the country, and a number of camels, donkies, and mules*
have been sent to different points on the canal to assist in
carrying them on. Mehemet Ali has endeavoured to remedy
this by supplying the Mahmoudieh Canal, by means of a
branch canal, but the latter pauses through an estate of Said
Pacha's, the water is all turned off into hl own lands, and
the Mahmoudieh remains dry.
The Austrian Consul-General here, who has never been in
good odour with the Viceroy, has recently had some angry
words with his Highness regarding certain monopolies which
are still kept up by him, though he is bound to allow the
trade to be quite free throughout the country. An Austrian
subject having last winter obtained from the Government a
firman to buy in the upper country a certain citillititY of
gum arabic, which his Highness maintains his right to as a
menopoly, brought down a larger quantity than was spa"
cified, and on his arrival at Cairo the surplus was seized by
the Custom-house. On the merchant's application, the AuS
trian Consul immediately communicated with the Viceroy,
Who said that the Custom-house officers had acted on his
orders. The Consul intimated that he would be under the
necessity of seeking redress at Constantinople, to which
Mehemet Ali answered, that after paying his tribute, the
Sublime Porte could command him in nothing. It is gene-
rally believed that his Highness will eventually give up the
gum to the merchant.
The Peninsular and Oriental Company's steamer Precursor
arrived at Suez on the sth inst., with 78 passengers. By
this opportunity we have received intelligence from Zong-
Kong to the 25th of April, and Bombay to the 12Z.tk
of May. - - - _

The Precursor sailed from Calcutta on the Ed of May.
arrived at Madras on the 9th, sailed from Madras on
the 10th, arrived at Galle on the 13th, sailed from Galls
on the 14th, and arrived at Aden on the 27th, sailed from
Aden on the 28th of May, and arrived at Suez on the 25th
of June.
The following is a list of the passengers who landed at
Suez :
Mr. and Mrs. Menard, Dr. D. *Pherson, Colonel Irvine,
Major M'Donald, Mrs. *Donald, „Colonel and MY. and Mrs.
Frith, Captain Huddlestone, Captain Ludlow, Mr. J. C. Ab-
bott, Lieut. Morgan, Mr. David Jardine, Mr. Spiers, Colonel
Browne, Mr. Johnstone, Colonel Osborne, Captain Fenton.
Lieut.-Colonel Phillips, Mr. Higgins, Hon. Mr. Ansen
and six children, Mr. and Mrs. Rechling, Captain Wood:
Master Shirreff, Mr. Thomson, Lieutenant Jones, 15th Hus-
sars; Lieutenant Tulloch, Captain Yanshaw, R.N.; Lieut..-
r. ant-Colonel Jones, her Majesty's 57th Regiment; Lieutenant
Clancey, Captain Cooper, Mr. J. Davis, Mr. P. Dumeresque.
Mr. J. F. Gillman, Mr. J. Strachan, Mr. D. N. Spooner, Mr:
W. Fryer, Mr. G. Humpstone, Captain M'Murdo, Senhor
Navarro, in charge of the Spanish mail; Mr. Withers, Cap-
tain Grant, Mr. Davidson, Mr. Peking, two Messrs. Smalley,
two Messrs. Casella, Chevalier Bartolucci, Tilliard, Mon-
sieur and Madame d'Abbadie, Monsieur and iaademe Bohn',
Sir Robert and Lady Arbuthnot and two childreU Mr. Boyd,
Mr. Barstill, Captain Graham, and Lieutenant Purvis.
The cholera has broken out at Aden, and when the Pre"
cursor left five deaths were reported daily. The epidemic
was travelling westward.

LA W IN TELLIGENCE.
COURT OF.QUEEN'S BENCH, June 19.

Sittings at Nisi Prius, before Lord DRNMAN and a Common
Jury,)
WELD V. LEAHY AND ANOTHER.
(Continued from oar Afternoon Edition of yesterday.)

A number of witnesses were called on behalf of the pain.

tiff, who proved that the plans had been altered or delayed,
and the plates altered; and that the wages paid to the parties
engaged in getting the plans and sections up as it approached
towards the 30th November were from 6 to 10 guineas
a week, and in some instances five shillings an
hour. It was also alleged that a great deal of the
extra expense arose from the conduct of the plaintiff's in not
supplying the copies to be engraved in a proper time and
manner.
Mr. MARTIN replied at some length, maintaining that as the
plaintiff had entered into a contract to execute the work at a
certain price, he was forced to do so, and that the alterations
complained of arose from the incompetency of some work-
men engaged in getting up the plates. He also put 112
some documents to:prove the contract, and correspondence,
to show that subsequently the plaintiff admitted the prices
originally agreed upon to be correct for the work he was
executing. The Learned Gentleman denied that: any delay,
such as that complained of, had taken plac,e or that the
defendant's conduct had been the cause of the extra expense
incurred. He submitted, in conclusion, that sufficient had
been paid to meet all reasonable charge.
Mr. CROWDER replied in reference to the documents.
Lord DENMAN summed up at some length.
The jury, after a short consultatiou, returned verdict Or the
plaintiff 200 L, in addition to 31. paid into Court, and 40s. Cog&

CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT.
NEW COURT.

BlGA:stY.—Joseph Mortimer, indicted on two different
charges of bigamy, and one of larceny, was placed at the bar,
and pleaded not guilty on all.
On the first charge of bigamy, it appeared, by the usual
evidence from the parish register, that the prisoner, in 1839,
married Josephine Langhorne, who was proved to have been
alive in New York on the 25th of March of the present year.
But it was also proved that, on the 7th of June, 1844, he
married Caroline Wright, his first wife, Josephine Mortimer,
being at the time alive.
The prisoner, when called upon for his defence, handed in
a written paper, alleging that according to the law of the
United States, where he had become a citizen, he was le-
gaily separated from his wife—both mutually agreeing to
this on the consideration of giving her a power of attorney
to collect certain money for her own support.
The Learned REcoupEr., in addressing the jury, said that
the prisoner, a native of Ireland, was a British-born subject,
and whether he had become a citizen in the States of Ame-
rica, or whether anything had been done in the matter of a
divorce by any Court there competent for the purpose, of
which, however, there was not a tittle of evidence before
the jury, he nevertheless still owed allegiance to the British
Crown, and was amenable to British laws.
The jury, after consulting a few minutes, returned a verdict
of Guilty.
The second indictment charged the prisoner with marry.
L.tih
a Phillip
the time
liPsChurch
alive. Liverpool,
Mr. Shutwood, brother-in-law to Mrs. Wright, was led, by
hisi n g
former Mary Susanna
wife,
Mrs. right.
Lovei yg, hatt,
being
questions put by the prisoner, to make some rather unplea-
sant revelations. He said that the woman had left the pri-
soner in consequence of a theft he had committed on herself,
having taken up her gold ring and absconded. The prisoner
returned to her a second and third time, and as frequently
made off with money belonging to his unhappy wife.
Isabella Kay identified the prisoner as one of the parties
concerned in the marriage with Mary Lovejoy at Liverpool.
The Jury after a short consultation returned a verdict of
Guilty.
The case of larceny, on which the prisoner was further
pyeeir; who
statedli vtehdatat7,
she
advertised Chap el- co nrf
for
r a
Union-street,
Woio
indicted, has already appeared in all the papers in all those
details so peculiar to the case.
s.
housekeeper, and that in consequence she had re-
enLiletter from the prisoner offering marriage, and repre-
ccervkietr
ah
sentini, himself as a New York merchant, with an income of
7001. per annum. The sequel has already appeared in the
tolumns of The Sun. An agreement to many was
mutually resolved on. From the 'Rainbow Coffee-house,
Commercial-road,
Grosvenor-square,to another residence in Duke-street,
and thence to Paris, went the New York
merchant and his future spouse, who, with a liberality quite
amazing, defrayed all the expenses, and kept Mr. Mortimer
she had given him an.
sojourn wellin pocket.there a n They hteoyo
took
returnedu p their ae
residence Paris
aaftert t
the
e sfortnight'smnib
poor woruares funds were by. this time fax
pawn her wearing ap.
Coffee-house. The
othe
other reduced,
of 271.,f0 a afternd onnoewlarpgroe
cPeaidmedestto,
which were the subject
a few articles in a box, of the - present
panel to keep Mortimer in money. All was pawned, except
inquiry. Mrs. Loyer removed from the Omnibus Coffee-.
.t
Mortimer, 0n thelsttl hi of
though
an
old stager.
gouat
house to the Rainbow Coffee-house, her consort consenting
and also begging to be allowed to bring along the box to
taidll tvetriteisem 18th
advertisement
of
calSulagyh
their new lodgings. She gave him permission, and neverms own thh i m aganotherain
. .

It was given in evidence that the box was found at the
Duke's head public-house, Queen-street, Chelsea. There too
was Mr. Mortimer, and on his
belonging
to
ohe keys of the box.
which contained the articles b
The prisoner was most indefatigable in giving Yenery an-
noyance he possibly could to the Court and the witnessesv iss
the course of the inquiry.
The Learned RECORDER sent the case to the jury, and
told them if they had no doubt that the prisoner had used
stratagem for the purpose of obtaining possession of the box,
which he afterwards carried away, they would find him
guilty of a larceny as set forth in the indictment.
The jury in a short time returned a verdict of Guilty ate
indicted.
The Learned RECORDER, in pronouncing sentence on the
prisoner, expressed in the strongest terms his detestation of the
unexampled baseness of the prisoner, who, not content with
having bereft the poor woman of all her money, obtained
from her under promise of marriage, had allowed her to
pledge her clothes to supply him with more, and took base
measures to get possession of the few articles of apparel
which remained, and then deserted his victim. He sen•
tenced him to transportation for seven years.
The Learned RECORDER reserved sentence on the two
charges of bigamy.

Mr David Pollock (elder brother of the Chief Baron
of the Exchequer) has just received the appointment of Chief justify,
of Bombay, the salary of which is 8,000/. per annum. Mr. Pollock is
now on circuit, discharging the duties of Commissioner of the /now
vent Debtors' Court, which office he has enjoyed for about two year
having received that appointment on the death of the late.ldr. Co.m.
'Wagoner Bowen. The salary of the Commissioners of the InSol
Court is 1,5001. a year. Mr. Cooke, the eminent barrister, prac
in the Bankrupt and Insolvent Courts, is generally expectedtiniti.
the vacancy caused by the removal of Mr. Pollock.
Sir R. Peel, in the course of his speech last night,
spoke of the death of Mr. Barrow, late editor of the Mirror of Per.
natural. Sir R. reel was misinfurraacl oa that point. lir. Buret
14 still living.

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