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

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The demand for allkinds of fine Hopi—the supply of
which is extremely small—rulei heavy, at alinostr.noini-
nal prices. In all other qualities very little •is
and late rates are not supportd. New Mid. and EsSt
Kent. pockets, 6/ 6s to 111 Ile ; new Weald of Kent
ditto, 61 3s to. 81 5i ; new Sussex ditto, 51 8s to 61 10i;
new -Farnhams, 121 to 131; yearling Kent,,, 3/ to 4/ Ss ;
yearling!Stissex, 21.8 s to 3/ 12s ; old Hops;ill to 3110 s.

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COLON:TAT...
SUGAR.--There • has been a limited business only
transacted in British Plantation, but the quotations have
role! much the same as last week. There have been no
public sales of Barbadoes. :Mauritius, 5,785 bags 185
casks only about ha f found buyers, and the previous
value was le maintained; mid to good yellow,
37s - to. 38s 6d; low, 354 Gd to 36s 6d; and tine
bibwn9 34s 6tl to 355. Bengal, 3,979 bags, went
is to 2s cheaper fJr brown; Benares good to mid white,
38s 6d to 39s 6d, fine 404 to 40s 6d, grainy yellow,
49s Gd to 43s 6d, and Khaur, 285 6d to 30s. Madras,
2,392 bags partly sold at Is decline; ord and very low
'soft brown 27s to 28s 6d, and low to middling yellow
30s Gd to s3s.

FORElGN.—Privately a fair business has been done,
and at auction yellow lia.vaunah-has been taken in at
393 to 43s 6d for mid to fur, and Bahia 'as 393 64 to 44a
for low to good white, and 36s to 40s for low to good
brown, being above tae value.
COFFEE.2Thero is no Increased activity in this arti-
cle, but holders are not pressing sales. Native Ceylon
has been sold at 585.. Plantation f. fine ord to mid at
62s to 715, good ord at 55s 64 to 603. pea berry 'Et
51S 6d to 665, and triage at 44s to 52s 6q. Brazil has
been rather lower, f. fine ord colbury Bahia 57s to 58s,
and good ord pale Rio at 54e.
SPICES.—Ca-zia Lignea has been at steady 'prices.
Bengsl Ginger has realised 19s 6d to 20s 6i ; and Coy-
lon Cinnamon has been sold at 3s 2d to 3s 1011 per lb.
SALTPETRE.—HoIders continua very firm, and rough
Calcutta, 4 and 2:-} per cent Telma:ion, has been sold at
28s to 28s- 6d per cwt.

CocoA.—Tlie market has been dull.
RlCE.—Very little has been done in Bengal. Penang
has been taken in at is 6d per cwt.
ARROW-ROOT.—B:rmucla bai been taken in at is 9d
to 2s 2d, and St. Vincent has been dull.

COTTON.—In this' article very few purchases have bc en
made, and some parcels offered by auction have been
taken in.

TALLOW.—P.Y.C. has been heavy at 36s 6i to 36s 91
per cwt, on the spot.
TEA.—Prices have continued much the same, t7ith.mc-
dcrste transactions.

GREEN FRIIIT.—The market for Oiangea- has Len
well supported this week; the increase in price at the
ontports having its infhence here. Three cargoes from
St. Michael, sold by Keeling and Emit, at public sale,
were taken freely by the trade at the advance oLtliesd
last week. The price of Nuts well supported. Lemons
in demand. Sevil:e Sours scarce, and faw packages re,
maining. The prico of Alineira Grapes is lower, and
have been held over too long, the consumption now Laing
of a diminished Charaeter.

AMERICAN HOPS. —A parcel of 150 haler, offered at
public sale by. Keeling and Hunt, WRi bought in at 755.
per cwt,, duty paid. This article continues dull of sail',
the reduced figure for English growth tending to further
depiess the price fur Anwricao.

• ." CHAN.CERY.„-(THIS DAY.)
The Lord Chancellor having disposed of all the. uc-
opposed lunatic petitions on his paper, proceeded to hear
the further arguments in .the part-heard epreal against
tho 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 t;laster of the molls was occupied throughout the
morning in hearing motions which were only jnteresting
to the parties immediately concerned.

VICE-CHANCERY.-(THIS DAY.)
-(Before the VICE-CHANCELLOR Of ENGLAND.) - •
Unoppose d 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 WIGiA3I.)
NEWMAN V. HUTTON—JUDGMENT.
His HONOUR gave judgment to-day in this case which
came before him some time since upon motion fur
a new trial of an issue directed by the Court to the
Court of Exchequer, fur the purpose of ascertaining,
whether the plaintiff rras of sound mind or not. The
jury;,found_infavour of the defendant, and his Honour
saw no reason for objecting to that finding. lie must
therefore refuse the motion for a new trial.

CRIMINAL COURT.-(THIS DAY.

OLD COURf.
(Before e the LORD CHIEF BARON end Mr. Justice

CREBSWELL.)

Ann Merritt, 31, a widow, wnsindicted for the wilk
murder of her husband, James Merritt, by administerin/
to him en the 24th of January last, in the parish of St
John, Ilachney, a quantity of white arsenic.
I►fr. 110131E1N, who attended with Mr. Clerk to conduct
proselution on tho part of, the Crown, said the &-
ceased we in the employ of the East London IVatet-
works Corny:any, and his duty laid in the neighbourhood
of Hackney, ,:here he resided. Ile had been married to
the prisoner for many years, and had several children by
her, end it appeared that though they occasionally
quarrelled, there was none cf that spirit of bitterness
between them which might suggest that either contem-
plated taking the life of the other ; hit the cir-
cumstances , under which the death of the deceased

took place required the strictest investigation. The
deceased was in his usual health en Wednesday, tae 23d
January, when, titer discharging his ordinary duties,
he returned home in tho evening, about nine o'clock.
On the following day he Was seized with sickness, which
continued during the greater portion of the day. lie
went out several times to get something to cure bite,
and finally returned at one o'clock, atter which he was
unable to kayo his home. His illness increased, wail
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 he body took place, nod
on the stomach being analysed, it was found that it con-

twined a portion of arsenic, which appeared 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 Toulicia aas
sent for, but he arrived too late to be of any
servile. When the prisoner was told that ri
post mortem examination of the body would be
made, she objected to it, saying her husband had re-
quested her not to permit anythizg of the kind. Ship_
was taken into custody on the 2d of February, and when
told that it was thought he had died of 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 she 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 heroelf, but
hod afterwards changed her mind. She observed
also, that she had put the poison in the place
whore her husband was in the habit of keep-
ing some seidlitz 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 ho had stated.

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Samuel Pickering, a labourer, living at Coldbuth-lene,
Hackney, was, then called, and said the deceased was a
fellow-workmen of his for about a fortnight before hia
death. On the 23d of Jannary, at nine o'clock, be was
in Ma usual health, having only a alight cold. He caw
him again at his house on the 24th (next morning) at
eight o'clock, whenl,e was vomiting in the yard; he said
he bad taken come broth and some hot tea on that, and
he supposed it bad turned sick on bis stomach. They
went out together as far as Clapham-square; 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 daceaflod'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 clone he handed the basin to his wife, who
asked if she should put it on the bob and keep it warm,
and he said he did not care what she did
with it. • He saw him again at two; he was then worse
and in bed, and asked witness to do pis work for him. He
said he did not wonder at hie being ill, ae the work be

had to do was enough to kill a horso. That was the last
Uwe he saw th© deceased alive.

Thomas Denman, also a turueock, deposed to seeing
the deceased 'on the 24th, when he was very ill and
vomiting.
James Ashby, a fellow labourer, gave similA tes-
timony.

Mary Giilatt, who lives next door, said she saw the
deceased on the 24th, when he complained of great thirst,
a burning heat at his chest, and a violent pain in •his
stomach, and she gave him some water five or six times
Her husband was sent by the deceased for Mr. Toulmin,
and that gentleman arrived with his brother at ten
o'clock. but he died at twelve.
Mr. Francis Toulmin, surgeon, said he was acquainted
with the deceased for several years. Oa the evening of
the 24th he was called to attend him, and on going to
his house he found him in bed. He was suffering from
pains in his stomach and cramp in his legs, and his pulse
was low. He sent seine medicine that night, and called
on the following morning, when he was dead. He told
the prisoner that as the death had been somewhat sudden
it would be somewhat satisfactory to open the body, and
she said she had no objection herself; but had po 0-
misod her husband that no such examination should take
piece. Under those circumstances he did not press the
subject. Ho subsequently Of ened the body at the e-
quest of the coroner, and sealed up the contents of the
stomach and transmitted them to the London Hospital
for experiment. The coats 4,f the stomach appeared to
have been subject to some irritant poison.
Mr. Letheby, professor of chemis,ry, said he had
analyzed the contents of the stomach so transmitted to
him, and found traces of arsenic. He produced Si grates
in a Metallic shape vs hieb he had taken from the stomach,
and said this was sufficient to'cause death. Five grains
were enough to take away the lifi of a person. The
poison appeared to have been administered within a
period c-,f three or four hours of death. •
Other evidence was then given of a similar nature,
but the trial had not concluded when our repart lift.

NE W GO !II: T.
(Before tha RECORDER.)
No CO.SC cf any inoportanee occurred in this courtio,lay.
The Third Court sat before Mr. Commissioner 13u1-
lock, and disposed of several petty easel..

BOW-STREET.—(fiIIS DAY.).
Two fashionably attired girls, named Carlow aid
with several aliasea, and a young man named../o/in
'ere charged with attempting to pick pockets.
A police-constable of the C division stated that last
he was on duty in New-road, in plain clothes,
when be observed the prisoners in company. together,
and knowing that Ellis had been several times convict(-1
as a pick-{rocket, he felt it to be his duty to watch them.
He saw the two females walk arm-in•arm from Judd-
street towards the Tottenham-court-road, the male pri-
soner following at a short distance behind. Oa the way
the feinales,stoppsd two ladies, and wbile•Ellia engaged
them inconvenation, Carlow lifted up the side of their
dresses, nerd appeared to fumble about their pockets. lie
aftera ards ascertained from the ladies themselves that
they bad lost nothing, and, then continued his watch upon
the prisoners, who still kept in the direction of Totten-
ham-court-road. About half-way down, the road he saw
them stop another lady and repeat the process of lifting
the dress and searching the pocket. He ascertained from
this lady that she was conscious of the prisoners havieg,
sttemptcd to pick her pocket, and _thinking it war now
high time to pat an cad to their proceedings, he took the
la ty with him, uial on meeting an officer in uniform, he
gave them all three into his custody. The man
ho had often seen lurking about the streets but he knew
nothing v;rong of him nor of Carlow, but Ellis had been
thrde times committed from Marlborough-street for
picking rockets in lieg,ent-strect.
Mrs. Pierce, the lady referred to by the officer, stated
that the two females stopped her in Tottenham-ci,urt-
road aed asked her the way to Lambeth-walk. While
she was directing thein Ellis lifted up her dress and ex-
amined her pocket. Sbe taxed the prisoner with having
hsd ter hand in the pecker, when the prisoner exclaimed,
" What should my hand do in your pocket?" To which
she replied, "Well, I don't know, all I know is that your
hand wan there."

Two °Mears idenVfied th© two females as well-known
pickpockets. Carlow, whose proper name was Andrews,
and Ellis, whose right name wai Drees., had often been
corranitt,d. The man vs as always with the prisoners
whcn they were seen in the streets.

Mr. Viontner, who attended for the man henry, con-
tendal Unit there was no oVidence to implicate his client
in the transtxtion. The females said nothing.
Mr. LIENr,Y thought it was perfectly clear that they
wore all thieves of a very dangerous chits, and as the man
had refused the option of • being remanded to produce
evidence of character, he should commit all of theta to
the :House of Correction fir three calendar months each.
The prisoners wne accordingly removed in custody.

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THE GORHAM CASE.

JUDICIAL COMMITTEE .OF THE
PRIVY .COUNCIL.-(THIS DAY.)

GORHAM v. • THE BISHOP OF EXETER

JUDGMENT.

The MASTER of the ROLLs has just pronounced
the-judgment of the Privy Council in this important
case. After stating the circumstances attending
the presentation of the Reverend Mr. Gorbain
to the living of Bampford Speke, and the refusal of
the Bishop of Exeter to institute him on the ground
of unsound doctrine ; and also the proceedings of the
Court below, from whence this appeal to the- Privy
Council came, his Lordship said the question they
had to decide was not' whether Mr. Gorham held
sound or unsound doctrines, but whether his opinions
were contrary or repugnant to the doctrines of the
Church of England, as expressed in her articles and
formtilaries. The Committee of the Privy Council,
with the exception of his Honour the Vice-Chan-
cellor Knight Bruce, were unanimously of
opinion; that the opinions of Mr. Gorham were not
contrary or repugnant to the doctrines of the
Church of „England, and that the Bishop of Exeter
was not justified in refusing to institute him to the
living of Bampford Speke. They therefore reversed
the decision in the Court of Arches.