The Sun.
London, England, 1850-03-08 00:00:00

COLONIAL.

SUGAR.—There has been a limited business only
transacted in British Plantation, but the quotations have
rulel much the same as last week. There have been no
public sales of Barbadoese Mauritius, 5,785 bags 185
casks only about ha f found buyers, and the previous
value was barely maintained; mid to good yellow,
375 to 38s 6d; low, 35s 6d to 36s 6d; and fine
brown, 34s 6d to 355. Bengal, 3,979 bags, went
Is to 2s cheaper .f,)r brown; Benares good to mid white,
38s 6d to 39s 6d, fioe 40s t) 40s Gd, grainy yellow,
40a 6d to 43s 6d, and Khaur, 28s 6d to 30s. Madras,
2,392 bags partly sold st Is decline; ord and very low
sofa brown 27s to 28a 61, and low to middling yellow
30s Gd to 335.

FORElGN.—Privately a, fair business has been done,
and at auction yellow Havannah has been taken in at
39s to 43s 6d for mid to fine, and Bahia at 393 6d to 44s
for low to good white, and 36s to 40s for low to good
brown, being above the ♦alue.
COFFEE.—There is no increased activity in this arti-
cle, but holders are not pressing sales. Native Ceylun
has been sold at-58s. > Plantation f. fine ord to mid at,
62s to 71s, good ord at 55s 6d to 603, pea berry at
51s 6d to 665, and triage at 44s to 52s 6d. Brazil has
been rather lower, f. fine ord coloury Bahia 57s to 535,
and good ord pale Rio at 545.

Si.icEs.—Cassia Lignea has been at steady 'prices.
Bengal Ginger has realised 19s 6d to 20s 61 ; and Cey-
lon Cinnamon has been sold at 3s 2d to 3s 10d per lb.
SALTPETRE.—HoIders continue very firm, and rough
Calcutta, 44 and 21 per cent refraction, has been sold at
28s to 284 6d per cwt.
Cocos.—The market has been dull.
RlCE.—Very little has been done in Bengal. Penang
has bsen taken in at 7s Gd per cwt.
ARROW-BOWL—Bermuda Las been taken in at Is 9d
to 2s 2d, and St. Vincent has been dull.

COTTON.—In this article very few purchases have been
mace, and some parcels offered by auction have been
taken

TALLOW.—P.Y.C. has been heavy at 36561 to 36s 9d
per cwt, on the spot.
TEA.—Prices have continued much the same, with mc-
derate transactions.
GREEN FRUIT.—The market for Oranges has teen
well supported this week; the increase in price at the
outports having its influence here. Three cargoes from
St. Michael, sold by Keeling and Hunt, at public Pale,
were taken freely by the trade at the advance obtAined
last week. The price of Nuts well supported. Lemons
in demand. Seville Sours scarce, and few packages re-
maining. The price of Almeira Grapes is lower, and
have been held over too long, the consumption now being
of a diminished character.

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AMERICAN Hops.—A parcel of 150 baleF, offered at
public sale by Keeling and Hunt, vi as bought in at 755.
per cwt., duty paid. This article continues dull of sale,
the reduced figure for English growth tending to further
depress the price fur American.

CHANCERY.—(TiIIs DAY.)
The Lord Chancellor having disposed cf all the un-
opposed lunatic petitions on his paper, proceeded to hear
the further arguments in the part-heard appeal against
the judgment of the Vice-Chancellor Knight Bruce in
Weaver v. Grant. The principal question in the case
relating to complicated accounts, and possesses no point
of interest except to the parties concerned.

ROLLS' COURT.—(THIS DAY.)
The Master cf the Rolls was occupied throughout the
morning in hearing motions which were only interesting
to the parties immediately concerned.

VICE-CHANCERY.-(THIS DAY.)
(Before the VICE-CHANCELLOR Gf ENGLAND.)
Unopposed cause petitions, short causes, and cause
petitions, of no general interest, occupied his Honour
the whole morning.
(Before the Vice-Chancellor KNIGHT BRUCE.)
His Honour heard causes to-day, but no case of the
slightest interest came before him during the morning.
(Before the Vice-Chancellor WIGRAH•)
NEWMAN V. HUTTON—JUDGMENT.
His HoNoun gave judgment to-day in this case which
came before him some time since upon motion for
4 new trial of an issue directed by the Court to the
Court of Exchequer, for the purpose of ascertaining
whether the plaintiff was of sound mind or not. The
jury:_found_iti.favour of the defendant, and his Honour
saw no reason for objecting to that finding. He must
therefore refuse the motion for a new trial.

CRIMINAL COURT.-(THIS DAY
OLD COURT.

(Before the LORD CHIEN BARON and Mr. Justice
CRESS WELL.)
Ann Merritt, 31, a widow, was indicted for the wilful
murder of her husband, James Merritt, by administering
to him on the 24th of January last, in the parish of St.
John, Hackcey, a quantity of white arsenic.
Mr. BODKIN, who attended with Mr. Clerk to conduct
the prosecution on the part of the Crown, said the de-
ceased was in the employ of the East Loudon Water-
works Company, and Lis duty laid in the neighbourhood
of Hackney, where he resided. He had been married to
the prisoner for many years, and had several children by
her, and it appeared that though they occasionally
quarrelled, there was none of that spirit of bitterness
between them which might suggest that either contemae
plated taking the life of the other ; but the cir-
cumstances under which the death of the deceased
took place required the strictest investigation. The
deceased was in his usual health on Wednesday, the 23d
January, when, after discharging his ordinary duties,
he returned home in the evening, about nine o'clock.
On the following day ho was seized with sickness, which
continued during the greater portion of the day. He
went out several times to get something to cure him,
and finally returned at one o'clock, alter which he was
unable to leave his home. His illness increased, with
vomiting, until eleven or twelve o'clock at night, when
he became in a state of collapse, and death supervened.
A post mortem examination of the body took place, and
on the stomach being analysed, it was found that it con-
tained a portion of arsenic, which app' ared to have been
recently administered, and there could be no doubt that
his death was occasioned by that poison. By the re-
quest of the deceased,: a surgeon named Toulmin was
sent for, but he arrived too late to be of any
service When the prisoner was told that a
post mortem examination of the body would be
made, she objected to it, saying her husband had re-
quested her not to permit anything of the kind. She
was taken into custody on the 2d of February, and when
told that it was thought he had died cf arsenic she ex-
claimed, "You will think then I am. guilty." A short
time before his death the prisoner purchased half an
ounce of arsenic from a chemist named Brown, and
said it was to destroy some mice which overrun her
place, and she had it made up in two separate parcels.
She, however, told the police officer that she neither had
any poison in the house, nor had purchased any; but
when the chemist made his appearance in the room, she
turned pale and agitated, and acknowledged ehe had
bought some arsenic. On the way to the station-house
she said her husband had ill-used her, and, in a pet,
she had purchased the poison to destroy herself, but
had afterwards changed her mind. She observed
also, that she had put the poison in the place
where her husband was in the habit of keep-
ing some seidlita powders, and she supposed he
must have taken it himself. Of course, if she had put
the poison there in order that her husband might take it
instead of the powders, that would amount to the crime
of murder. There was one circumstance which was
calculated strongly to attach suspicion to the prisoner.
Her husband was a member of a benefit society which
gave 101. to a widow on the death of her husband, and
it appeared that she had mentioned this to some neigh-
bours a few days before the death of the deceased. He
should call witnesses whose evidence would prove to the
jury the facts which he had stated.
Samuel Pickering, a labourer, living at Coldbath-lane,
Hackney, was then called, and said the deceased was a
fellow-workman of his for about a fortnight before his
death. On the 23d of January, at nine o'clock, he was
in his usual health, having only a slight cold. He saw
him again at his house on the 24th (next morning) at
eight o'clock, when he was vomiting in the yard; he said
he had taken some broth and some hot tea on that, and
he supposed it bad turned sick on his stomach. They
went out together as fur as Clapham-iquare; when there
he complained of being thirsty, and he went into a
public-house and had some rum-and-water. They sepa-
rated about ten o'clock. Witness went to the deceased's
house again at eleven o'clock and saw him supping some
gruel out of a basin. He did not sup the whole of it.
When he had dono ho handed the basin to his wife, who
asked if she should put it on the hob and keep it warm,
and he said he did not care what she did
with it. He saw him again at two; jre was then worse
and in bed, and asked witness to do his 'yolk for him. He
said he did not wonder at his being ill, as the work he