The Sun.
London, England, 1851-04-19 00:00:00

PRICE OF SUGAR.

The average price of Brown or Muscovado Sugar, cotn-
puted from returns made in the week ending April 15,
1850, exclusive of Customs Duties paid or payable thereon
on the importation thereof into Great Britain
From the British possessions in America 265. 9d. per cwt
From the Mauritius 275. 1141
From the East Indies ... 255. aid. „
Average price of the three foregoing de-
scriptions of sugar, jointly, computed as
above, and exclusive of duty ... 265. 7d. „
By authority of Parliament,
HENRY BIM( N ELL, Clerk of the Grocers' Company,
Grocers'-hall, April 18. •

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
MARY LEBONE.
MURDEROUS OUTRAGES.—On Thursday, after the
disposal of a great many other cases by Mr. Long,; a
man named Stephen Curtis, lising at 10, North-
street, Manchester-square, was placed at the bar,
charged with having committed assaults of a most
savage and murderous nature.

James Ruff, a painter, deposed that he was em-
ployed upon a job at the house alluded to, and that on
the previous afternoon he went into the ront parlour,
which was the prisoner's apartment, for the purpose
of obtaining the key of the back kitchen door. Pri-
soner's brother remarked that it would not fit, and it
wanted filing, when prisoner, without saying a word,
jumped up, and, rushing at complainant, gave him a
tremendous blow with some instrument, which be
supposed to be a hammer. He fell down completely
stunned, and when he came to a state of consciousness
he found himself lying in the passage.
Mrs. Lee, another lodger, said, that hearing a
scuffle and a heavy fall, she went into the next room
(the prisoner's) to see what was the matter, when she
beheld Ruff lying on his back upon the floor, and the
prisoner standing over him, as if about to strike. She
implored of him to have mercy upon the poor man,
but she had no sooner uttered the words than he went
to the fire-place, and seizing hold of the poker, struck
her therewith several times. One of the blows he
gave her was a dreadful one upon the left eye, which
left her senseless, and she fell into the arms of Sarah
Hall, a fellow-lodger, who had been alarmed at
hearing the noise and confusion in the place.
Sarah Hall and Mr. Newson, a master carpenter,
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corroborated a portion of the above evidence. The
last witness said that he dragged the prisoner out of
the rooman d gave him into custody.
666 A stated that, hearing loud cries of " murder"
and police," he hastened to the house and took the
prisoner in charge. He (prisoner) then gave him a
blow on the breast.
The injured eye of the poor woman Lee was quite
closed up and swollen to a considerable extent.
The prisoner denied
with having used any poker, but
admitted striking his fiat. He was the worse
for drink, and was sorry
or for what had happened.
He was fined 51.
sentence
months, for the assault on
Buff; and the like ce was passed for the attack
upon the woman. He was n
then locked up.
CLER IVKE W ELL.
James Starch, a young man who was respectably
dressed, but who refused to give his address or any
satisfactory account of himself, was put to the bar,
charged with having attempted to defraud the pro-
prietors of the Great Northern Railway, King's-crocs.
A solicitor attended on the part of the proprietors i
of the railway,
s, and called
ticket collector at the platform of '
GeorgeEili
the King b-cie-,:s station of the Great Northern Rail-
way. He said that the tnin from Yoik was due
forty-five minutes past seven o'clock on the previous
hg
even at the above station. Oa its arrival he went
to the first carriage of the second-ciass to collect the
ticket, when the prisoner tendered him a ticket which
tHheerftuforrtahsehrircel;argNeVfiotnrehsissdemanded ss. 6d. of him as
(ThlY entitled him to conveyance to Biggleswade,
London." "ride from Biggleswade to
The prisoner refused to
had not the means to do so ‘T.
pay, saying he
II s asked him why
he did not get. itnes
Biggleswade' He said he
4
thought it was immaterialout at h
stopped there
or not. He was given into
whether e.t,
. custody by -air- Williams,'''' '
the superintendent of
Mr. Thomas Williams,olice at the station.
" the superintendent, said the