The Sun.
London, England, 1868-08-18 00:00:00

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CRIMINAL COURT.--This Day.

OLD COURT.
(Before the Recorder.)
SENDING THREATENING LETTERS.

Eli Fermi was indicted for feloniously and mali
ciously sending and causing to be received by Basi
Melas certain letters threatening to kill and mur•

der him.
It will be remembered that at the July sessions
the prisoner was tried on a charge of sending
threatening letters to the prosecutor, but the
case was withdrawn from the consideration of
the jury in the hope that the defendant might
gave some security for his future good behaviour
to wards the prosecutor, but various matters since
then having come to light, it was thought advisable

to proceed with the present indictment from the
discoveries that had been made and the previous
antecedents of the prisoner, he having suffered im-
prisonment for stabbing an Italian but a short time
ago. The facts of the case were simply as follows :

—The prosecutor was a gentleman carrying on
business in the City, and the prisoner was a pub-

lisher, and formally the proprietor and editor of a
paper connected with shipping, having at one time
a large circulation, and producing the prisoner
£7OO per annum. A rival paper was started, and

it being conducted on a larger scale, and containing
fuller information, the circulation of the prisoner's
paper began to fall off, and eventually stopped
altogether. The family of the prisoner, in conse-
quence, became so much reduced that they became
in need of temporary assistance. Mr. Melas,
amongst others, was written to for help, and he
with others befriended the prisoner and his family,
but after some time he received letters demanding
a sum of money, no less than £14,000 in amount,
as compensation for the injury he had inflicted on
the prisoner. There was no ground for such
a claim, and of course the prosecutor took
no notice of such a communication, and ulti-
mately a letter was received of the most alarming
description, threatening the prosecutor with death,
telling him his end was near, and that no one could
save him. A strict search of the prisoner's lodgings
had resulted in the finding of a six chamber re-
volver loaded, and many other suspicious matters
that led to the present prosecution.

Mr. M. Williams made a strong appeal to the
jury on behalf of the prisoner, and contended that
the words " make the sign of the cross," and other
such expressions, were made use of by the prisoner
not for the purpose of threatening the life of the
prosecutor, but to strengthen the prisoner's appeal
to the prosecutor for assistance.

The jury returned a verdict of Guilty.
Mr. Metcalf, on behalf of Mr. Dombroach, the
gentleman stabbed by the prisoner last year, sai•.l
he felt that it was necessary something should be
done to protect his client, and he felt certain the
prisoner, on the first opportunity that presented it-
self, would do him an injury, perhaps murder him.
The Recorder said, under such circumstances, he
should postpone passing sentence until next ses-
sion.

MARKETS-7 HIS DAY.

POTATOES.

The supplies of English are bettor, but the pioportion
of Ware is small. Those descriptions aro consequently
dearer, whilst small middlings are relatively abundant, and
sell at enhanced rates. We quote best Regents $8 and £9,
still very scarce and dear. Cabbages very indifferent in
quality, 2s to 4s. per dozen ; greens, 4s to lOs ; carrots, 6s
to 12s per dozen bunches. There are no turnips at mar-
ket. Onions, 48 to Os per dozen bunches ; loose, £7 to £8
per ton.

Fruit is very abundant, very fine, and very cheap.
Plums 3s to 5; apples is to 3; peals 3s to 6s, damsons 4s
to 6s, greengages 3s to 5s per bushel.

HAY AND STRAW.

Supplies of hay stuffs at Whitechapel this morning were
moderate, and the weather being wet the demand was
not so good, with prices, in some cases, barely so
firm, but hardly to alter quotations. Old clover
still ranges up to £7, and now up to £6 15s ;
old meadow to £6; and new to £5 18s. The
new straw comes to market in fair quantity, and is ex-
tremely bright and fine. Fine brings 38s currently, and
owing to the wet some loads of inferior qualities ranged
down to 34s per load.
COLONIAL AND FOREIGN PRODUCE.

Sugar—Transactions of some extent have taken place
in floating cargoes on former terms. Ten to 10} Havana
sold at 24s 3d, and 13 at 20s 9d. On the spot the demand
is dull, and sales easier. The stock has decreased to 77,000
tons, against 100,000 tons last year.
Coffee.—Tho market for colory qualities is steady, but
the large increase in the stocks renders buyers more
cautious in their operations. Native kinds are dull, at
44s to 46s for fair to good ordinary Ceylon.

COTTON.
LIVERPOOL, Aug. 18.—Sales probably 15,000 balm
Market very firm.

SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE—This Day

GRAN7ESEND, Tuesday Morning.
Arrived, Aug. 17—Augusto, from Archangel.
Arrived, Aug. 18—Jane and Eleanor, from Cronstadt ;
Forth, stoumcr, from Hamburg ; Velocity, steamer, from
Calais; Cologne, steamer, from Boulogne.
Sailed—Konilworth Castle, for Calcutta.
DEAL, Tuesday Morning.
Passed.—Charlotte of Colchester, Endeavour (brig),
Autumna (schooner), and Opal of Whitby, from the north,
for the west; Victoria (barque), from the west, :for Lon-
don ; Irene, for Quebec ; Maria, for Norway— both from
London.

EDINBURGH PHILOSOPHICAL INSTITUTION.—Mr.
Bowie, secretary of this institution, has received the fol-
lowing letter from Mr. Carlyle, accepting the office of
President, to which he was elected on the 29th ult.:—
" The Hill, Dumfries, Aug. 10, 1868. Dear Sir,--Your
agreeable announcement has come round to me hero. It
is indisputable. I could not hava been chosen to the pre-
sidency of your distinguished institution in a way more to
my mind, or on terms less onerous. Of course, I accept
the honour, and intend 'to wear it so long as I am per-
mitted. . . . I reckon it a spontaneous, gratuitous, and
honest mark of respect, and value it as I should do few
others. With every good wish for the institution I have
become honorary head of, and regretting that I have no-
thing but wishes to give it, I remain yours sincerely,
T. CARLYLE."

POST-OFFICE INSURANCES AND ANNUITIES.—.The
system of granting small Government insurances and
annuities through the medium of the Post-office com-
menced in April, 1865. At the end of the year 1866 there
were in existence 1,130 life insurances for the payment
(at death) of sums amounting to £86,593 ; at the end of
1867 the number was 1,485, and the amount insured
£111,437. At the end of 1866 there were in existence
282 contracts for immediate annuities, amounting to
£6,423 ; at the and of 1867 there won) 515 for £12,246.
The deferred annuities were 107, for £2,110, at the end
cf 1866; and at the end of 1867 they were 137, for
£2,574.

CRYSTAL PALACE.—One Shilling Day, Mon-
day, Aug. 17.—Admissions by season tickets, 907 ditto
on payment, 6,911 i total visitors, 7,911,