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

COLONIAL.

SUGAR.--The market for British Plantation has ruhd
dull, and prices have been barely supported. At public
sale Barbidoes sold 61 and Is under previous rates, fine
yellow 39a to 41a, and mid 363 to 375. Demerara
crystalized went at 46$ 6d to 47s for fine white and at
38s 61 to 43s for greyish. Refined brown grocery
lumps were at 48$ 61 and 495.
EAST INDlA.—Mauritius was 61 lower for the better
kinds, and declined 63 to is for inferior. The quan-
tity offJrcd was 10,000 bags, and about one-third
sold, low yellow 333 6d to 34s 6d; good 36s to 375;
and ord to fine grey 33s t 38s 61. Bengal, 9,500
bags, nearly all sold ; white Benatez at previous rates,
but soft yellow 6d to 11 lower ; fine white Benares 403
6d to 425, mid 37s to 383, and low 36s to 364 6d ; fine
soft yellow 35s to 365, and low 31s to 325. There were
2,022 bags Madras put but the whole was taken ire
ac 253 to 29s for brown, and 29s to 30s for ord to mid
yellow.

FOREIGN.—Porto Rico has been rather lower, ord to
mid yellow 34s to 378 6cl, good 383 to 403 6d, and fine
40s 6d and 41s 61 Havann&h has been dull, and watt,
mostly taken in for want of buyers. Yellow low to mid
36s 6d to 39::,_and good 403 to 40s 6 I.

G FFEE.—The market has Kean heavy, and prices
have bean barely maintained. Plantation Ceyt n
has realised for fine fine ord and low mid, 479 to 33a,
54s to 658 for mid and good coloury, 43s to 46s 61 for
good and fine. 55s te:!sBs for pea-berry, and 38s to 47b
for triage. Native ord has been at 425. Some fin,
coloury was taken in at 755. Jamaica, good and
has been taken in at 75s to 953, and mid at 608; low mid
coloury sold at 53s to 53s 6d, and ragged at 47s to 48s.
Mocha sold well, fine yellow 78s to 79/, and triage 35a
6d to 458 per cwt.
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Cocoa.:—Grenada has been sold at 36s to 36s 63, and
fine bright red 13.bia has been taken in at 27:
Iticc —Prices have been kupportod, good white at 10s.
SPicEs.—Must articles are bteady, white pepper at 6 i
to 6k ,t f mid, and at 4i for common. Jamaica Gin-
ger has been at 31 13s to 7113 i.

INDIGO.—The sales comprise about 12,000 cheats, am
are going off with spirit and at firm rates, tho fine)
kinds of f 3; ti al bcirg dearer since the first day. Cow-
pared with the May sales the mid and ord advanced 3d
per 111. ICurpah was 4d higher, and dry leaflatha:
rose 2d to 3d p,-r lb.
CiorroN.—The market has rising about lid per lb, and
considerable sales have been made privately.
TEA.—At the public :ales, common Congou has
luny maintained its value, and fine Green has been
rather lower, and privately a lirg• business has been
done since at very firm rates for common and medium

Con gou.
TALLOW.—P.Y.C. has been steady at 36s 9d to 37:,
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, c)mbined with a falling-off in
the consumption. Barcelona Nuts may be quoted is per
bag lower.

CRIMINAL COURT.-(THIS DAY.)
OLD COURT.
(Before Mr. Baron ALDERBON, Mr. Justice PATTESON,
110Fi Mr. Justice TALFOURD.)
THE CASE OF WALTER WATTS.
IValier Watts, who stands convicted of having stolen
a pitce of paper, the property of his employers, the pro-
prietors of the Globe Insurance Company, was this
moroing put fora and for the pu: pose of receiving the
judgment of the Court.

Mr. Baron ALDERSON pissed sentence in the fellow-
ing terns:—Wa'ter Watts, you were tried at the last
sessions but one ef the Central Criminal Court, before
myself and my brother Cresawell, for the offence of
robbing to 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 Lund 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 us the servant of the company,
and the point reserved Ray whether your destroying is
fur a corrupt and wicked purpose was an act of Ilona
on your part. That question vies fully discussed before
the Court of Criminal Appeal, and it has been deter-
mined against you. lam not going to state the reasoee
tor that determination; they have already been fully ex-
plained by the Learned Judge who presided on the oc-
casion, the late Chid Justice of the;Court of Common
Pleas, and which satisfied him that tie judgment of the
Court should be pronounced against you at these ses-
sions. We have therefore take', into our serious con-
sideration the extent of puniahmeut which the Court
ought to give you. 'rho offence of which you have
been convicted is on the face of it very trivial, but the
actual offence yeti committed was of a serious and heavy
character, for ne one can doubt Oat the only reason why
you took that cheque, which had been returned into your
custody by the bankers, was because you had appro.
priated toy ourself the moneys which that cheque was
intended to rt present. Therefore, though the formal
charge was in itsel the stealing of a mere pieca of
paper, probably of no more lain° 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
1,4001. 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 fir the actual robberies you have com-
mitted. Either you foged 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 appliel it to
your own purposes, inste-td of that of your employers
One of these two alternatives is irresistibly deduced from
the fact of your hating 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 pissing a severe sentence upon you
for simply stealing a piece of paper. We are sentencing
ou fur what you have really done, namely, etolen from
your employers the sumn of 1,400/.; and the sentence
upon you is that you be transported fir ten years.
The prisoner, who received the sentence with a sneer-
ing expressicn on his countenance, was then removed
from the dock.

BOW-STREET.—(THIS DAY.)
A young female, most respectably attired, who stated
w
that she was a e.empstress,as charged before Mr. Jar-
dine with the folloAil g daring rubbery:—
It appeared Irem the evidence that she cal'ed at Mr.
Firrnan's private door, .53, St. Marlin's-lane, esterday
afternoon, pretending that she wanted a Miss Steel, a
dressmaker, living there. Knowing a lady without any
servant occupied the second floor, she rung her bell, and
upon Miss Beaten going down to the door the prisotor
begged her pardon tor ringing the wrong bell, and asked
if Miss Steel was at home. Miss Beaten replied that
she vvaP, and the prisoner said, " Oh, thank you; I'll go
up without rinsing her bell to bring her tlown." Miss