The Sun.
London, England, 1850-07-12 00:00:00

COLONIAL.

SUGAR.—The market for British Plantation has ruled
dull, and prices have been barely supported. At public
sale Barbadoes sold 6d and is under previous rates, fine
yellow 39s to 41s, and mid 36s to 375. Demerara
crystalized went at 46s 6d to 47s for fine white and at
38s 6d to 43s for greyish. Refined brown grocery
lumps were at 48s 6d and 495.
EAST INDlA.—Mauritius was 6d lower for the better
kinds, and declined 6d to is for inferior. The quart-
city offered was 10,000 bags, and about one-third
sold, low yellow 33s 6d to 34s 6d; good 36s to 375;
and ord to fine grey 33s to 38s 6d. Bengal, 9,500
bags, nearly all sold ; white Benares at previous rates,
but soft yellow Gd to is lower ; fine white Benares 40s
6d to 425, mid 37s to 38s, and low 36s to 36s 6d ; fine
soft yellow 35s to 365, and low 31s to 325. There were
2,022 bags Madras put up, but the whole was taken in
at 28s to 293 for brown, and 29s to 30s for ord to mid
yellow.
FOREIGN.—Porto Rico has been rather lower, ord to
mid yellow 34s to 37s 6d, good 38s to 40s 6d, and fine
40s 6d and 41s 6d. Havannah has been dull, and was
mostly taken in for want of buyers. Yellow low to mid
36s 6d to 395, and good 40s to 40s 6d.
COFFEE.—The market has been heavy, and prices
have been barely maintained. Plantation Ceylon
has realised for fine fine ord and low mid, 47s to s3s,
54s to 65s for mid and good coluury, 43s to 46s 6d for
good and fine. 55s t0i1585 for pea-berry, and 38s to 47s
for triage. Native ord has been at 425. Some fine
coloury was taken in at 755. Jamaica, good and fine
has been taken in at 75s to 955, and mid at 60s; low mid
coloury sold at 53s to 53s 6d, and ragged at 47s to 48s.
Mocha sold well, fine yellow 78s to 798, and triage 355
6d to 45s per cwt.
COCOA.—Grenada has been sold at 36s to 36s Gd, and
fine bright red Bahia has been taken in at 27s 6d.
Mon.—Prices have been supported, good white at 10s.
SPICES.—Most articles are steady, white pepper at 6d
to 6,id fur mid, and at 4V for common. Jamaica Gin-
ger has been at 3/ 133 to 7113►.
INDIGO.—The sales comprise about 12,000 chests, and
are going off with spirit and at firm rates, the finer
kinds of Bengal being dearer since the first day. Com-
pared with the May sales the mid and ord advanced 3d
per lb. Kurpah was' 4d higher, and dry leaf Madras
rose 2d to 3d per lb.
COTTON.—The market has rising about d per lb, and
considerable sales have been made privately.
TEa.—At the public sales, common Congou has
.fully maintained its value, and fine Green has been
rather lower, and privately a large business has been
done since at very firm rates for common and medium
Congou.
TALLow.—P.Y.C. has been steady at 36s 9d to 37s
per cwt. on the spot.
GREEN FRUIT.—The arrival of West India Pine
Apples have been of an extensive character; part of two
cargoes ex Trinity yacht and Susan, sold by Keeling
and Hunt at public sale, realised prices according to
condition and quality. Lemons were lower, owing to
the state of the weather, combined with a falling-off in
the consumption. Barcelona Nuts may be quoted is per
bag lower.

CRIMINAL COURT.-(THIS DAY

OLD COUR''.
(Before Mr. Baron ALDERSON, Mr. Justice PATTESON,
and Mr. Justice TALFOURD.)
_ THE CASE OF WALTER WATTS.

Walter Watts, who stands convicted of having stolen
a piece of paper, the property of his employers, the pro-
prietors of the Globe Insurance Company, was this
morning put forward for the purpose of receiving the
judgment of the Court.
Mr. Baron ALDERSON passed sentence in the follow-
ing terms:—Walter Watts, you were tried at the last
sessions but one of the Central Criminal Court, before
myself and my brother Cresswell, for the offence of
robbing so a very considerable amount the Globe In-
surance Company, of which you were a servant, as
charged in the indictment. A point was reserved in
your case for the consideration of the Criminal Court of
Appeal, while the count upon which you was found guilty
was apparently for a very trivial offence, namely, steal-
ing a piece of paper, but in truth a cheque, which
had been in your custody as the servant of the company,
and the point reserved was whether your destroying it
for a corrupt and wicked purpose was an act of felony
on your part. That question was fully discussed before
the Court of Criminal Appeal, and it has been deter-
mined against you. lam not going to state the reasons
for that determination; they have already been fully ex-
plained by the Learned Judge who presided on the oc-
casion, the late Chief Justice of the:Court of Common
Pleas, and which satisfied him that the judgment of the
Court should be pronounced against you at these ses-
sions. We have therefore taken into our serious con-
sideration the extent of punishment which the Court
ought to give you. The offence of which you have
been convicted is on the face of it very trivial, but the
actual offence you committed was of a serious and heavy
character, for no one can doubt that the only reason why
you took that cheque, which had been returned into your
custody by the bankers, was because you had appro-
priated to yourself the moneys which that cheque was
intended to represent. Therefore, though the formal
charge was in itself the stealing of a mere piece of
paper, probably of no more value than a penny, yet no
one can doubt that the verdict of the jury in finding you
guilty of that offence clearly and irresistibly implies that
in that case you committed a robbery to the extent of
1,400/. There are other charges against you of a much
larger complexion, and the Court, therefore, mean to
punish you, not merely for that of which you have been
convicted, but for the actual robberies you have com-
mitted. Either you forged the cheque, which was per-
haps your real offence, and having got money upon it,
you destroyed that which would have been evidence of
your guilt, or it was a genuine cheque upon
which you obtained money and fraudulently applied it to
your own purposes, instead of that of your employers.
One of these two alternatives is irresistibly deduced from
the fact of your having stolen this piece of paper; and,
therefore, in either view of the case you have been guilty
of a grave offence. We are desirous of explaining
these circumstances to you, in order that it may not be
assumed that we are passing a severe sentence upon you
for simply stealing a piece of paper. We are sentencing
you for what you have really done, namely, stolen from
your employers the sure of 1,4001.; and the sentence
upon you is that you be transported for ten years.
The prisoner, who received the sentence with a sneer-
ing expression on his countenance, was then removed
from the do' k.