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London, England, 1868-08-18 00:00:00

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CRIMINAL COITRT.—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 remerubered 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case was withdrawn from the consideration of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
towards 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 ho
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
nave 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, said
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 circum3tances, he
should postpone passing sentence until next ses-
sion.

MARKE7S-7 MS DAY.

POTATOES.

The supplies of English aro better, but the proportion
of Ware is small. These descriptions aro consequently
dearer, whilst small middlings are relatively abundant, and
sell at enhanced rates. We quote best Regents 58 and £9,
still very scarce and dear. Cabbages very indifferent in
quality, 28 to 4s. per dozen ; greens, 4s to lOs ; carrots, 6s
to 12s per dozen bunches. There are no turnips at mar-
ket. Onions, 4s to 62 per dozen bunches; loose, £7 to £8
per ton.

Fruit is very abundant, very fine, and very cheap.
Plums 3s to ss, apples is to 3s, peals 38 to 6s, damsons 4s
to 6s, greengages 3s to 5s per bushel.

HAY AND STRAW.

Supplies of hay stuffs at Whitechapel this morning wore
moderato, 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 new 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 388 currently, and
owing to the wet some loads of inferior qualities ranged
down to 3ls per loid.
COLONIAL AND FOREIGN PRODUCE.

Sugar—Transactions of some extent have taken place
in floating cargoes on former terms. Ton to 10i Havana
sold at 24s 3d, and 13 at 25s 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.—The market for celery qualities is steady, but
the large increase in the stocks renders buyers more
cautious in their operations. Native kinds are dull, at
44s to 4Gs for fair to good ordinary Ceylon.