The Sun.
London, England, 1851-03-25 00:00:00

COLONIAL.

SuaAß.—The market for British Plantation remains
without material alteration, sales about 370 hhds; Maui-
tins at a public sale of 7,380 bags, sold irregularly at 6LI
decline. Bengal, 1 100 bags was mostly withdrawn, but
5,6 t 0 bags Madras found buyers at 6d to is redu tion.
FouraGx.-260 chests low brown Bahia have been sold for
refining at 355. The quantity of British Plantation landed
last week at the East and West India Docks was 498
bhds 32 tierces; and there were taken for hone consump-
tion 587 hhds, 9 tierces, 95 barrels. The, stock in the same
places is 5,561 hhds, 514 tierces, 367 barrels.
COFFEE. —The tune of the market is firmer. At auction,
380 casks Plantation, 413 bags Native Ceylon, and 2TO bags
Bahia was nearly all taken in, holders being unwilling to
accept present rates,
Ruar.—A large business has been transacted at rather
lower rates. The quantity landed last week at the East and
West India Docks was 231 puns 36 hhds. There were taken
for home consumption 302 puns 12 hhds, and exported 120
puns 128 hhds. The stock in the same places is 11,634 puns
1,208 hhds.
SALTPETRE.-980 bags Bengal were taken in refraction
131/2 per cent. at 26,,, being above the value.
SPICES.-340 bags Pimento sold at 41/2d to id, according
to quality.
TALLOW.—P. Y. C. is 40s 6d per cwt on the spot, and
Town 41s 6d.

TEA.—The prices are as follows Congou ordinary to
good ordinary I I%d to 1134 d, blackish leaf is 21,0 to
Is 3%d ; Souchong good ordinary to but middling is to
Is ls, mddling to good middling Is 4d to 2s 8d; Flowery
Pekoe, is 8d to 3s; Scented Caper Is to is 6d; Twankay
good ordinary to but middling lld to 1 i 1/2d ; middling to
Hyson kind is to Is 2d; Hyson good ordinary Is 2d to
Is 3d; middling to good middling is 8d to 3s 4d; Young
Hyson is 2d to 3s; Imperial is 4d to 2s 6d ; and Gun-
powder is 8d to 3s 6d per lb.

EXECUTION OF THE ESSEX
CRISIINALS.-(THIS DAY.)

CHELMSFORD, TIIESDAY.—This morning, in 'pur-
suance of their sentences, Thomas Drory and
Sarah Chesham, the wretched beings who were
convicted at the last assizes, expiated their
respective crimes on the scaffold of the County
Gaol at Springfield, near this town. As is customary on
similar melancholy occasions, the vicinity of the gaol
was crowded with thousands of persons of all classes,
whose morbid anxiety to witness the dreadful spectacle
not only brought them from the neighbouring localities,
but from distant places by railroad.
Drory was calm and resigned to his fate, and appa-
rently attended with much fervour to the religious con-
solation of the chaplain (Rev. G. B. Hamilton) to the
last; notwithstanding, it is understood, that many_
statements he had made, for the purpose o
palliating his crime, are totally devoid
notof
f
truth, still it is gratifying that he has
withheld the only atonement he could make to so
ilc_etyt
by a thorough admission of the main facts of his
Mrs. Chesham has, it is believed, made
admissions, but to what extent is not known. The
partial
bodies, having been suspended the usual time, were cut some
n g
yet
down.
pen
CHELMSFORD, ded b
(LATEST PARTICULAROS.)
O'CLOCK.
After the wretched criminals bad
"dead-house,"
usual time, they were cut d
andeenresmusoved to the
e
wereow inspected by the sur-
o _taciais.
It is most extraordi-
geon of the gaol and other
sof the medical profession, as
nary the number of applie Lions that have been made to
the governor by members
also by agents for Ma dame
Tussaud's Chamber of
Horrors, all of which, by direction of the visiting magis-
trates,appeared to have undergone little
chargehe body
beyond
were refused.
T
of a
man who had
met a voluntary
death by strangula
don. The effect upon Sarah Chesham
onodf Drory
that
was somewhat different, her neck appeared to be broken;
she died without a struggle.
On the admission of the reporters into the prison,
after the execution, they were informed that Sarah
Chesham died impenitent. She exhibited no sign of con-
trition, and she died as she lived, an awful example to
those of her sex who, in the county of Essex more
especially, have been guilty of the frightful crime
of arsenical poisoning, for the purpose of obtaining
paltry allowances from burial clubs and other societies
set on foot for such purposes.
Drory's admission of his crime has been fully stated;
beyond that admission, he has added nothing, his friends
urging him not to make a written confession, a course
which he pursued to the last moment.

Thus both criminals died, one acknowledging the
crime for which he suffered, the other denying leer guilt
of the crime for which she was compelled to forfeit
her life to the offended laws of her country.

During the trial of the convict Drory his father, with
many others, had a strong conviction that his son was
innocent. He was present at the trial, seated among
the numerous friends of the prisoner, until the reply of
the counsel for the prosecution. In the course of that
speech he burst into tears and left the Court, stating
that, until that moment, he had believed the asseverations
made by his son that he was innocent, and that the girl
had committed suicide. The able and masterly reason-
ing of Mr. Edwin James upon the facts of the whole
case had convinced him, as it did all who heard it, that
the evidence for the prosecution was unanswerable. It
has been stated that the prisoner had been known to
have read some accounts of strangulation by the Thugs
in India, hence the idea arose of thus getting rid of the
girl, whose existence he dreaded.

ADELPHI THEATRE.
A new drama from The pen of Mr. Tom Parry, en•
titled The Disowned ; 01, Helen of the Hurst, was pro-
(limed here last evening, and aleeit it acted for nearlY
four hours, yet, thanks to the great talent of
the Adelphi company, and the admirable manner in
which it was put on the stage, it achieved a decided suc-
cess; we should, however, strongly advise a judicious and
rather free application of the pruning knife, if it be
desired that the Disowned should run after the usual
fashion of Adelphi dramas. In dramas of this character,in
which eery member of a company has to be fitted'
the artist-like construction of plot must be necessarily in
some measure sacrificed to the development olcbaracter,
and the introduction of s!rikiog incidents of startling
dramatic effect, and such is the case in this drama. The
Disowned is a certain Leonard, a young West Indian, di"
owned by his father; he falls into the power of a rascally
steward, who endeavours to make him an instrument of
vengeance against the father; this plan, however, is
frustrated, and poor Leonard is killed by the
explosion of a brace of pistols in a burning
house, just at the moment that hie father is
ready and willing to acknowledge him. On this slender
thread is strung a variety of thrilling and melodramat°ic;
incidents, in the elaboration of which the whole talent
Not only
the Adelphi company is brought into play.
have we Madame Celeste acting the disowned boy As she
alone can act suc parts, and infusing into re
me
melodrama a pathos and a grace which raises it in
many instances to the level of refined tragedy, but we
have Miss Woolgar acting the part of Helen
able
I lurst, the heroine of the drama, in the most admirable
stale le possible; and Mr. S. Emery making his abut before
an Adelphi audience in a regular 0. Smith character,
and acting it in such a manner as to prove that he nt
the legitimate successor of the greatest melodramatic
actor of the day. We have Paul Bedford as a drunken
innkeeper, wheeled on the stage in wheelbarrow
of the
by Wright, and exciting shouts of laughtfr,
and Wright himself, dressed in one of the,
most eccentric of costumes, acting after his own
row?ts
amusing fashion, and convulsing the audience 101
laughter. The raise en scene was superb, s boas r
plause at the close was most enthusiastic. The
was crowded to suffocation.

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LYCEUM THEATRE.
Cool as a Cucumber—such is the title of one of the
whom the cucumber was the prototype, and who, upon
a • cigar-case,
the strength of having picked up
the property of Mr. Barkins, jun., who is on a tour uP
the Rhine, takes up his abode in the house of Mr. Batro-
kins, sen., and on the return of the son threatens _
give him into custody as a burglar. Tthbee
rcooduarcseed, bare list evening._
laughter:
the farco convulsed the house with
Young Barkins has clandestinely married, and
the father refuses to relent; thereupon the ouel
gentleman
interesting and dramatic, and taking a seat declares that
announces that the situation is becomPic.
he will be one of the audience,' and watch the denou
ment, Ile then calls upon the old man not to be flinty'
:linictlielloann of
hearted, and reminds him that people who have Pt:
their money to see a farce, expect that it should be
remains
properly concluded, but as the old Mall
obdurate, the cool gentleman says, " Well, then, there
andsc
is nothing left for it, ring down the curtain;
cordingly the curtain is rung down, and the cool
gentleman comes forward to address the audieng:
when the old gentleman announces that he
relented, and the curtain again rises on the tableaut.
The applause and laughter were continuous throughout
the farce. The author of this most amusing WO
is Mr. Douglas Jerrold, jun.

IRELAND.
SERIOUS OTTTRAGE IN TIIE COUNTY OF reachedDCWs
DUBLIN, MONDAY EVENlNG.—Accounts have (ratio,'
town to-day, stating that on Thursday last Mr. Tatlow,
A. C. Sheriff, and one policeman, the Sheriff's county'proceeded to some lands near Bambridge, in the 6
of Down, for the purpose of serving
1:Pon entering
tenant who owed four years' rent. 0
directiond
the estate they perceived the people in• all
leaving their houses and running together, andsummone
by the sound of horns, upon which the Sberiff re
Mr. Tatlow, jun., went towards a house to
i inquior,
into the cause of the movement, Mr. Tatlow,, Ise° _f
walking up the road to make the same inquiries ().
the people. He had not, however, proceeded 200 Yarn;
a writ °.
when three shots were discharged at him by some Died
ensconced behind a ditch, one of which struck his hat and
the other grazed his person. Upon hearing the reP°rtat'
the Sheriff and young Mr. Tatlow, coming to theftsP°
perceived the rising ground to the right and, ,1:
copied by 200 people, who commenced firng oe_
berately at the Sheriff and gentlemen, the policenieu_
and Sheriff's bailiff at the first firing having pi upon ii:
car, and left the grounds. The firing was note aY°
ley, but one shot followed another to the numof fiftt
or upwards, but-- providentittlly without fatal effe°
After the general firing, one man rushed opt from he'
hind Magill's house, with gun in band,
He was met by young Mr. Tatlow, who very 01'1
ran up to close with him, which the man perceived, aOA
rapidly retreated without having fired, and escarp
From this fearful position the gentlemen resolved to re'
treat, which they did slowly and deliberately, resinhing
Bambridge by circuitous route in the evening. Official
accounts of the outrage have reached the Government'
A proclamation will be forthwith issued offering are"
ward for the apprehension of the ringleaders.
Prepared to fire.

WEST INDIA and PACIFIC MAILS.

ARRIVAL OF THE AVON.
SOUTHAMPTON, TUESDAY Monfirri•
The Royal Mail steamer Avon, Lieutenant Flap
Hest, R.N., Commander, arrived here at five o'clock
this morning, with the usual West India and Pacific
mails in charge of Lieutenant Purver, R.N., Admiraltf
Agent.
Her dates from Jamaica are to the 27th ult.; fro
Demerara to the 27th; Trinidad, 27th; Chagres, 25$
ult.; St. Thomas, 6th inst. ales
The Avon experienced very severe nerth-enst
from the 19th to the 23d inst. She brings on frog'
specie and bullion, value 947,467 dolls.; also 741 seronn
indigo, 232 serons bark, 177 cases cigars, three live tur-
tle, and sundry merchandise.
From Demerara we learn that the combined Court
opened on the 26th with a speech from the Governor,
who proposed bold and comprehensive measures of re"
duction for those burdens which pressed most heavily oo
the poorer classes of society. The reductions in tax .7
tion would amount to 200,000 dollars. Tbe weatnneri
during the fortnight was very favourable to planters,
the colony was healthy. The Bishop of Guiana ay.
returned to his diocess. In the matter of " the Queen,
G. A. M'Kid, printer of the Colonist newspaper,' lor 5
alleged libel on Governor Barkly, the
a verdict of Not Guilty on. both indictments. .publicthe
meeting had been held, and a piece of plate voted to
et
solicitors for the defendants. The Demerara mark d
was fairly supplied with bread stuffs. Exports to go°
demand. Freights, 2s. to 2s. 3d.
The King of Mosquito paid a visit on board the
at Grey town. sad
When the packet left Jamaica the cholera bad Ceased
to exist on the south side of the island, but on ,the
jury had returna
northern shores iu all the sea-port towns it continuer' to
add fresh victims daily to swell the catalogue of death'
It even went up the hills of St. James's as far as the
military garrison at Maroon Town, where several were
attacked. In some of the rural districts, where the
cholera had committed great ravages, it was feared that
the crops (which are very fine) would not be cut down
in time, and a deficiency in sugar is consequently anti'
cipated.
At Barbadoes and all the Windward Islands the
weather was considered moat favourable for sugar
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Exchange on London,• The supPlY °
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LICENSES IN THE CITY OF IVESTMINSTER.---10'
day the adjourned meeting for the granting of licenses in
the City and Liberties of Westminster, was held in the vestry
of St. Martin's. The magistrates present were NV. B. France,
Esq., Ebenezer Fearnie, Esq., Edward Antrobus, EscbP
Captain G. Bayne, R.N., &c. License was granted to the
Rose and Crown, Drury-lane. The following houses were
refused licenses.—Salisbury Arms, Durham-street, Strand,
and White Swan, Long-acre. Inspector Penny reported
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these as gambling-houses. Ile stated in ort that he
his rep
saw deposits paid on various occasions to a party inside the
counter. Mr. Bodkin appeared for the owner:f
nthot to be Salise
bury Arms, and contended that the license ougt
refused, as there v as no judicial intimation to his client that
he was doing wrong in keeping a betting-list. Mr. Parry
contended that as betting on racing was not illegal, there
was no ground for refusing his client the license. Ile said
his client was a sporting man, and so was Mr. Baron Martin.
In support of his argument he referred to the 7 and 8 Vie..
chap. 108. The parties gave notice of aPPe______
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BIRTHS.
OF A SOY.
he
On the 20th inst., at Brighton, t wife of the Rev. Divie
Ro
Thebertson.
lady of E. G. Oelrichs, Esq., Herae-hill-lodge, Dul-
wich, Surrey, of twin sons.
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of Rupert H. Warre, F A
Esq.
Eamsgate, the wife
On the 22d inst., at West•cliff-terrace,
DAUGHTSF-
New-road, the wife of J.
On the 22d iust., at Union-place,
D. Finney, Esq.

DIED
on the 21st inst., the Hon.
At Percy-cross, Walbam-green,
Sir Alexander Duff, G.C.11.,
On the 21st inst., at the 1100, Beds, Thomas Lord Dacre.
On the 18th inst., at Brighton, Major-General M. Mahon.
On the 18th inst., at Selling Vicarage, the Rev. E. Rutter
Theed, M.A., rector of Fletton, Huntingdonshire, and vicar
of Selling, Kent, aged 64.
On the q2d inst., T. Vir:ilker, Esq., of Peckham-rye, aged 82.
On the 21st inst. at Norfolk- terrace, North Brixton, Mr.
Joseph Dormer, aged 49. aged 74.
aged 17, Mary Robinson,
the younger daughter of Robert B. Latter, of Pinfieldt
On the 20th inst., at Torquay,
Bromley, Kent. ire. s
67, Mary, relict of the late George Overton, Esq., of
On the 21st inst., at Gwailodygarth,Glamorganslioil
Llair
thelly-house, 13reconshire.

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