The Sun.
London, England, 1857-02-28 00:00:00

BANKING DE'

Proprietors'capital .. 14,553,000
Rest ...... 3,521,386
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cluding Exchequer,
Commissioners of
National Debt, Sav-
ing's Banks, and
Dividend Accounts) 7,445,290
Other deposits . . 9,294,508
‘t.ven Day and other
726,1:0

$35,550,544

Dated the 2Gth day of February,

AVERAGE PRICE OF SUGAR.

The Average Price of Brown or Muscovado Sugar, com-
puted from the returns made in the week ending Feb.
24, 1857, exclusive of the Duties of Customs paid or
payable thereon, on the importation thereof into Great
Britain : s. d.
From the British Possessions in America 3B
Muscovado, the produce of the East Indies 36 4
Average of the two above deseriptions„ ~ 37 5i

At the Carli4o Spring Assizes, on Thursday, before Mr.
Baron Martin, William Graham was tried for the murder
of Thomas Simpson, g tirekeeper, in the service of Mr.
Featherstonhaugh, of Staffiold Hall, in the county of Corn-
bErlabd. Mr. Oven-qv-I, Q.C., and the Hon. Mr. Liddell
were counsel for the prosecution, and Mr. Monck, Q.C.,
with Mr. Leeming, for the prisoner.
The widow of the murdered man, Margaret Simpson,
would have been called as the first witne,s, but she was
confined on the very day of the trial. Her evidon co, taken
before the magistrates, was read, and showed that, on the
night of the 15th November last, her husband came in from
watching about 9 o'clock. He had been out several times
through the evening. He heard several guns fired, but
thought they were on Sir G. Musgrave's aids, over the
river Eden. He put on his upper coat about ten. He drank
up his coffee, and went out in a few minutes. He put his
pistol in his inner breast pocket. He said he was going to
the place where lee generaly went to watch at night, be-
hind some wall. He was alone. He went out, and she
beard him run up the garden. In a very short time she
heard a double-barrelled gun fired close at hand up the
field. She heard nothing more. He never returned. She
heard him say on the day before his death, or the day be-
fore that, that he had seen one of the Grahams swaggering
with his gun, but that he (her husband) did not let Graham
see him. He said he believed they were poaching, and he
was going to look after them. On the morning of his death
he got up before daybreak to look out for the Grahams. He
did not say that he suspected any other persons. Next day,
which was a Sunday, men went out to search for Simpson,
who had not been seen anywhere since he left home. His
top coat •was b id that day. James Elliott, the farm
bailiff, and John Pharoah, one of the county police, on
Monday found the man's dead body lying in the river.
There were marks of blood from the river to a spot near it,
where brains and a pieceof skull were found scattered about.
The man's head had been smashed to pieces. It was proved
that Graham, who was" a farm labourer, on the evening of
the murder URI another- man, Francis
-Bari/item),• that he -
was going out to -sheet that night. He saidhe knew where
their game sat.‘ He knew every foot and track Of the ground,
and "if their -- keeper comes to me this night out goes
his brains ; but I will speak once to him. I will tell him to I
stand bank, and if he stirs an inch towards me after I speak
out goes his brains. I neither fear heaven nor hell, God or
devil. I will:be in either heaven or hell before a month is
over. I will never die with my shoes off. Now, mark my
words—t' is night, this very night, I will be the -----
He then put his hand up to his breast and said, " I are the
man that'll do the deed. Thou knows all about it. There
never shall al-- about Statfield-hall take me." He then
pat his hand up to •liis neck and said, " I don't care a
if I be hung up by thei neck to-morrow. He turned and
went straight out:: An hour or two afterwards he came
very tipsy to the houie of a woman he knew, Susan Ho-
garth, with a gun. He said it was fine and feet and he
would fetch them down. She said, " William, go home
and go to bed ; that man will be watching." She meant
Mr. Featherstonhaugh's keeper. The prisoner replied,
" Let the -- stand hack." She said, " William, go home
and go to bed. God bless you ! Go home and go to bed,
do." And he said, "I will, Susan, I will;" and shut the
door, and she saw him no more.

After prisoner was taken in custody he male, on the
21st December, the following statement :—" I was very
drunk, and I went out to shoot, in Eden Banks. I saw a
man. He told me to stand. I ran away, and he fired a
pistol, which did not hit me. After running ten or a dozen
yards I tumbled. He came up and got hold of me, and
we had a scuffle. He tried to get the gun from me. I
cleared myself of him, and then struck him two or three
times with the small end of the gun. The third blow
felled him, and the gun broke off behind the lock. I then
took the stock from the barrel, and brayed him till be was
dead. I trailed him to the water, and put him in."
The prisoner's brother, Henry Graham, stated, that on
the day after the murder prisoner told him the same.
This being the evidence, the learned judge observed that
there was but one point in the case which required consi-
deration. If the pistol wore really fired, the man had a
right to act in self-defence:
Mr. Monck then addressed the jury for the defence, stig-
matising as a gross fabrication the story of Boustead, upon
whose testimony alone the charge of malice aforethought
could be sustained.

His lordship likewise in summing up treated that wit-
ness's evidence as ",vile concoction, simply and solely for
the purpose of obtaining 'the reward of 1001. which had
been offered. If the jury were of the same opinion, it
would be their duty to bring in a verdict of manslaughter;
if not, it would require a jury of lawyers to distinguish
the case from one of wilful murder, were it even susceptible
of such a distinction.

The jury consulted for a few minutes, and then found a
verdict of Manslaughter."
The announcement was received with loud cheers and
clapping of hands.
His Lordship, then sentenced the prisoner to be trans-
ported for life, remarking that his crime approached as
near to, that of murder as could possibly be.