The Sun.
London, England, 1859-07-22 00:00:00

COLONIAL.

TEA.—There has been a steady demand for the better
qualities of congou, and prices are well sustained. Common
congou is quoted 15d. per lb. buyers.
SUGAR.—SaIes to a fair extent have been effected in Bri-
tish plantation at a slight advance on former rates. Foreign
qualities are also in good demand at fully late values, and in
the refined markets a steady business has been done at pre-
vious quotations.
COFFEE.—Plantation Ceylon at public sale sold for full
rates, and superior qualities were a shade higher. Native
Ceylon brought about former values.
RlCE.—There has been a good demand for fine Bengal
descriptions, and prices enerally are firm; fine white sold
sold for lOs to 10s 6d peg Cwt.
SPICES.—The inquiries have not been very active, but
the few dealings recorded are at fully late quotations.
SALTPETRE.--A slight advance bas taken place in values
and the demand has been slightly on the increase.
TALLow.—The market continues inactive. P.Y.C. on
the spot is quoted 535, and last three months, 545. per cwt.

The-bar silver by the West India steamer has
been disposed of at 621 d., and the Mexican dollars at 61id.
per ounce. This shows an advance of id. per ounce on bar
and of id. on dollars as compared with te rates realised for
the supplies by the previous packet, although the same
prices within id. were obtained at the end of last week,
before the departure of the China mail.
[ADVERTISEMENT.]—HoIIoway's Ointment and Pills.—
Air—variations, in the temperature—dryness and moisture
of the atmosphere—chiefly produce disease. They not
only effect the health, but the perfection of the species.
Hence, the noblest of the human race into the Caucassian,
because a medium temperature ever there prevails. In
England, but too frequently, Russian cold and Italian heat
divides the day, excessive changes which few can bear with
impunity. Colds, influenza, consumption, fever, dysentry,
are the diseases usually springing from our variable
climate ; these, in their early stages, may be readily cured
with Holloway's remedies, which neutralise in the blood
the morbific products of the changeable and impure atmo-
sphere, brace the relaxed frame, prevent inflammation in
the robust, and annul fever.

HOME CIRCUIT.—CIIELMSFORD, July 21.
Richard White, who had been admitted to bail;
and who surrendered to take his trial, Jas. White,
his brother, 33, Edward Jessamine, 23, and James
Taylor, 32, all labourers, were charged with a but-
glary in the dwelling-house of Abraham Matthews.
and stealing gold and bank notes to the amount of
£2OO.
Mr. Bridge conducted the prosecution. Mr.
Pearse defended the two Whites and Taylor, and
Mr. Doyle defended Jessamine.
The case occupied the court a great many hours
on Wednesday, and was not brought to a conclu-
sion until nine at night. The prosecutor occupies
a small farm in the parish of Great Bentley, near
Colchester, and is 74 years of age, and he has been
bedridden for a considerable time. The only inmates
of the house were the prosecutor, his wife, who is
69 years of age, and a female servant, named Eliza
Firman ; and it appeared that the prosecutor was
in the habit of keeping considerable sums of money
,oefi
e February
r ut ahrayt
in gold and notes in the house, and this money was
generally kept in a small box, which was locked up
in an old-fashioned clock case. The burglary in
last,
night Mr.i. Matthews and the servant went to bed,
question
and was
it
appeared committedtha
to n the
about
nine 2 8t h o
the former sleeping on a sofa in her husband's
bedroom, and the latter in a room over

hem. About one o'clock in the morning
Mrs. Matthews was alarmed by hearing the window
of the servant's room smashed, and several men get
into that room by means of a ladder. Mrs. Mat-
thews, who, although at a very advanced period of
life, seemed to have exhibited great coolness and
courage upon the occasion, upon hearing the noise,
called out, " Well, you have come at last ; I have
expected you for some time; you don't make much
noise about it ;" and while the• thieves, were ran-
sacking the upper part of the house she dressed
herself and tried to go out of the door leading to the
garden, but found that it was held by some one on
the other side, and she said, " Well, if you will not
let me out, I will stay where I am," and returned
to her bedroom and took from her husband a bag
containing sixty sovereigns which she had given
him shortly before to take care of, and put it up the
chimney, and this money was fortunately saved.
After a short time had elapsed three men came into
the bedroom where the prosecu trix and her husband
were, all of them having their faces blackened, and
one of them made a threatening motion towards
Mrs. Matthews, and she exclaimed, " Come, come,
none of that, Mr. White," and she stated that she
knew him by his living in the neighbourhood, and
recogniSed him from his having remarkably thick
lips. The men then rummaged about the place,
and broke open the clock case, and took out
the money, and she went into the kitehen, and
there saw a fourth man ; and one of the party,
whom Mrs. Matthews stated, she believed to be
James White, called out to him to " Take care of
the old brute;'' and upon this the man who she stated
she believed was the prisoner Taylor, laid hold
of her, and forced her back against a copper, and,
held her in that position while the other mea were
plundering the house. During these proceedings
the robbers repeatedly said—" Money we want,
and money we will have ;" and after they had ob-
taided possession of the hoard in the clock case,
one of them called to the man in the kitchen, and
said, "Come on, Jack, I've got what we want," and
the ruffians then left. Mrs. Matthews very shortly
afterwards went into the village and gave an alarm;
and the two Whites and Jessamine were appre-
hen led the same morning at their lodgings, but
they denied all knowledge of the burglary, and it
appeared that no money was found in their pos=
session, neither was there any appearance of their
faces having been :blackened, and no black matter
was found either on their clothes or bedding. The
only question in the case was whether the pri-
soners were the persons who committed the out-
rage, and the principal testimony upon this point
was that given by Mrs. Matthews, slightly con-
firmed by her husband, and 'by some other trifling
particulars.

- The learned counsel for the prisoners each ad-
dressed the jury on behalf of their respective
clients, and they argued with a good deal of in-
genuity and ability that the evidence as to their
identity could not be relied upon, and evidence was
adduced in behalf of three of the prisoners to es-
tablish an alibi.

Mr. Justice Crowder having summed up.
The jury, after a very short deliberation, ac-
quitted all the prisoners;

MIDLAND ClRCUlT—NoTTrNcarisiu, July 21.

ATTEMPT TO POISON.

Jane Riley, aged 14, was charged with having
on the 22d of May administered to Sarah Ann
Notman and her two children a quantity of
copperas, with intent to kill and murder I hem.
Mr. O'Brien prosecuted, and Mr. Boden defended
the prisoner.

Sarah Ann Notman was the wife of John Not-
man, and lived in Plumtree-street, Nottingham.
Prisoner was servant in the family. On the morn-
ing in question Mrs. Notman prepared her children's
breakfast ; they had been ill for a fortnight and
were taking gruel by the doctor's order. When
making the gruel ready she tasted it, and found
that it tasted very disagreeable. Four of the chil-
dren were going to take it, because the two little
ones liked it. The room was rather dark where
they took the gruel, but when Mrs. Notman got
up stairs and the light fell on the gruel, she noticed
that it was discoloured, having a blue-green cast.
She kept one basinfull, saying she would show it
to the surgeon. The rest she threw away. The
prisoner was by, and heard her say this. Mrs.
Notman had told the prisoner on the Thursday
previously that copperas was a deadly poison, and
that if the children had eaten a bit as big as a pin's
head they would die. None of the, children tasted
the gruel, but the mistress was very ill in conse-
quence of tasting it. She asked the prisoner what
she had been 'mating in the gruel, and told her she
must inform her directly, or ste (the witness) would
not live long enough to know. Prisoner admitted
having put copperas in. She was then asked if she
wanted the children to die, or whether she wished
to kill Mr. Notthan. She answered that she did
not want to kill anybody.
Verdict, guilty of administering the copperas,
but not with intent to poison.
The prisoner was acquitted.

OXFORD CIRCUIT._STAFFORD, July 21.
WARNER V. SHIPLEY.--PREACH OF PROMISE OF

MARRIAGE.
Mr. Huddleston, Q.C., was for the plaintiff, and
Mr. Sergeant Pigott for the defendant.
The parties live—the defendant at Satenhill, and
the plaintiff at Barlow-under-Nedwood—in the
parish of Tattenhill, in North Staffordshire. The
defendant is a small farmer, living on his own land,
and the plaintiff is a housekeeper, with £9 a year
wages, in the household of a farmer, named Shin-
ton. She is about fif-y years of age, whilst the
defendant is nearly sixty. Defendant had paid.
£lO into court. This sum Mr. Huddleston ridi-
culed because of its smallness, and enlarged
eloquently upo.i the " blighted hopes," " ruined
prospects," and " disappointed affections" of his
client, who he said was " a clean, buxom, motherly,
well-behaved, butter-making person." Defendant
and plaintiff had "met at market," and arranged
to become man and wife on the next Easter Tues-
day, a month afterwards. The defendant, who
was a widower, but without children, bought the
license and the ring, and continued to pay his
addresses to the plaintiff up to the night be-
fore the day fixed for the wedding, speaking
to his neighbours about his intention to marry
plaintiff, and settle all his money upon her.
At ten o'clock at night, however, he came to Mr.
Shinton's, saw his lady-love, said he had "heard
something," and declined to marry her. Aftereer tmhios.
interview the plaintiff returned into the house,
" weeping bitterly." The " something" that de-
fendant had heard was, that plaintiff was h
ther of an illegitimate child. In about a week after
Easter Tuesday defendant returned to the plaintiff
and offered to marry her, but refused to settle upoi
her his money. Upon this the plaintiff turned
scornfully away, and said she had placed lnaceeddatieheetemnaeteteer.
in the hands of her lawyer, m
tended that the defendant was aware opfrethmeispeldainte-
tiff having been a mother when he
marry her, the birth having taken place when his
client
dwi
oats
f2or years
aoifo
ta
fg e
damages £2O, including
the £lO paid into court.

THE ELECTION PFTITIONS.—The committees ap-
poti4ed by the House of Commons
to try the petitions
against returns at the late general election commence their
sittings 91 Tuesday next, when the Ashburton and Wake-
field petitions will be proceeded with. The petitions for
Berwick-upon-Tweed and Pontefract, which were to have
been heard at the same time, have been withdrawn. The
members of both cornmitttees will be sworn at the table of
the house on Monday and will sit on the following dayWe understand that only 16 petitions have been selected for
hearing this session, of which several have already been
withdrawn. The remainder will stand over till neat I
session.