The Sun.
London, England, 1845-10-29 00:00:00

MARKET INTELLIGENCE.

(From the London Commercial Price Cu; rent of Oct. 28.)
B. P. SUGAR.—The West India market has opened with
an appearance of considerable firmness. -The transactions
reported this day amount to 640 casks, at full former rates to
6d per cwt advance. 103 casks Barbadoes went at from
51s 6d to 54s 6d for good middling to very good quality.
Of MAURITIUS SUGAR 5,343 bags were brought forward and
partly sold at previous rates; good middling yellow at from
51s to 52s 6d per cwt.
BENGAL SUGAR.—A large quantity has been brought for-
ward by the public sales to-day---6,922 bags, a large propor-
tion consisting of the grainy descriptions. Former prices
have generally ruled, and but little remains unsold. Fine
grainy brought 59s 6d to 625, good middling to good 52s 6d
to 595, middling 47s to 52s per cwt; soft white, grayish, good
middling, from 52s to 51s per cwt.
REFINED has partially recovered from its declined state
last week; prices are tending higher, but there is no great
activity in demand at presei.t
FOREIGN.—The parceli offered by auction this day have
met no demand at the rates required; 540 brls middling to
good, soft Cuba Muscovado taken in at 255; 135 chests
Bahia, grayish white 27s to 295, brown 23s to 255.
COFFEE.—Nothing of importance has transpired in this
market. Of Mocha 191 bales were partly sold at from 63s
to 69s 6d per cwt for good quality, which is according to its
market value.
COCOA is without alteration ; 57 packages Grenada brought
39s to 43s per cwt for ord to good red qualities. Of Pimento
173 bags good sold at 3id to 3id per lb. 251 pkgs Bermuda
Arrowroot partly sold at from 10d to is lid per lb.
small parcel of 220 packets Bengal went at
21s 6d to 22s per cwt for good white of the sound portion,
being about its former value.
CINNAMON.—The public sales were commenced yesterday.
and closed this afternoon. 2,375 packages were offered, of
which 600 packages sold. Good qualities of Ist, 2d, or 3d
sorts sold well, and 2d to 3d per lb advance were realised;
but the bad qualities were unsaleable, even at a considerable
reduction. Government sort brought 3s 5d to 3s 6d for 2d,
and 2s 7d to 2s 9d per lb for 3d sorts.
CorroN.—The market here is very quiet. At Liverpool
also there is no animation in the demand, only 2,000 bales
having changed hands yesterday, but without involving a
change of rates. The Cambria from Boston was off that port.
TALLOW continues very firm, 41s 9d being the price on
the spot for Y. C. and 42s for delivery next month. The
letters from St. Petersburgh report that market steady. About
5,000 casks had been sold at from 109 to 112 rbls, at which
the market remains firm. Exchange 37 29-32 15-16.

CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT.
OLD COURT.

Ann Craft, a very respectably dressed girl, was plaeed at the
bar charged with having robbed her master, the Rev. Mr. Reeve,
of Mortlake.

(Continued from our Afternoon Edition of yesterday.)

Mrs. Sophia Reeve (wife of the prosecutor) corroborated the
former evidence. She admitted, on cross.examination, that not
three or four, but at least a dozen servants had been discharged.
Caroline Taylor, kitchen.maid, proved having taken a box
to Elizabeth Neeves ; and, on cross-examination by Mr. Clarkson,
admitted that in the nine months in which she was engaged in the
reverend prosecutor's family no less than nine servants had been
discharged.

Mr. CLARKSON then, in an eloquent and telling speech, pro-
ceeded to address the jury for the prisoner. In the course of his
remarks, the unfortunate girl, who was probably exhausted from
standing for three hours at the bar, sobbed very violently, and,
although supported by the humane gaoler, the hysterical paroxysms
increased till she fell back in the arms of the officials behind her. A
murmur of a very mixed character pervaded the Court. The
Learned Counsel concluded by praying the jury to mark their
hatred of persecution—a persecution which ought to be foreign
to the reverend gentleman's profession as a minister of the Gospel—
by acquitting the unfortunate girl at the bar of the crime imputed
to her charge.
Several respectable persons were called as witnesses to character,
who each and all bore testimony to the honesty and sobriety of
the girl.
The RECORDER then summed up. He said that the principal
matter for the jury to inquire into would be, whether the articles
were taken with a felonious intention, or whether they were not
rather abstracted because they were deemed of no further use to
the family. If they thought the former, they must—however paltry
the theft, or however they might think this prosecution had been
pressed on with more vigour than charity or necessity demanded—
they must still perform a duty, painful though it might be, by
finding against the prisoner ; but if, on the other hand, they came
to the conclusion that there was no felony intended, they would
acquit her.

The jury requested leave to retires and, after being absent a short
time, returned a verdict of Guilty, but recommended her to the
kind consideration of the Court on account of her previous good
character.

Thla extraordinary verdict—extraordinery, Ole* the eunantliig
up of the judge, and the whole tenor of the evince—was re.
ceived with the utmost astonishment by ail who had attended to the
case, and the only persons in Court whe seemed unmoved were the
reverend prosecutor and his wife.

The Learned RECORDER proceeded to pass sentence, but was in.
terrupted by the reverend gentleman, who, in obeeillice to some
wish of Mrs. Reeve, expressed in `• dumb show," ru*ed to the
witness-box, but was in the same " dumb show" requested to re-
tire by the Recorder and the Alierman sitting beside him.
The Learned JuncE again proceeded. He said that, in ac-
cordance with the recommendation to mercy given both by the jury
and the prosecutor--

Mr. CLARKSON suggested that the prosecutor had not shown or
expressed any such merciful disposition.
_ _

The RECORDER—Then in consequence of the recommendation of
the jury, he would not remove the prisoner from the present gaol ;
he would, as it was her first offence, not order her into the society
of felons, and the sentence of the Court should be that she be kept
in the gaol of Newgate for fourteen days.
This, although considering the verdict a very lenient sentence,
had such an effect upon the prisoner, that she fainted, and was car..
tied from the bar by the gaolers.
The reverend gentleman and his wife then retired.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
(YESTERDAY.)

MAiVSIUN-BOUSE.

A female of respectable appearance named Ann Fox, aged
between 34 and 35 years, was brought before the Lord Mayor
in the custody of In,pector Waller, charged pith having
tired a pistol, at and wounded a young man, of the name of
Thomas Monis, with grape shot. The prisoner. upon being
placed at the bar, appeared to be agitated in the extreme.
She was defended by Mr. Pelham, and did not utter a word
during the examination.

The prosecutor said he accused the prisoner of having
shot him in the thigh. On the preceding evening he was
coming out of a chemist'.4 warehouse, in Laurence Youltney-
lane, in which he was assistant, and the moment the prisoner,
who was opposite to the warehouse, got sight of him, she fired
a pistol at him. About twenty shots penetrated the skin,
and most of them dropped out of themselves. Wben she fired
she was at the distance of two yards or two yards and a
half from him. He immediately closed the door, and went
into the warehouse to examine the wound which he felt she
had inflicted.

The pistol produced was a small one, and had been pur-
chased by the prisoner a short time before she used it in the
way described, at the shop of a pawnbroker. in Oxford-street.
Mr. PelLam--llid you see her level the pistol at you ?a
Prosecutor—l saw the flash in front of me, and felt that I
had received the contents of the pistol.
Mr. Pelham—You have known her before, I presume?
The prosecutor—Yes, I have known her before.
The Loan MAYOR (to the prosecutor)—This is the female
you had brought before me some time ago for following and
annoying you, and whom I held to bail to keep the peace?
The Prosecutor—She is the woman.

Mr. Pelham—You knew her formerly at Islington, where
3 ou were foreman to a chemist, and she was your fallow-ser-
vant? The prosecutor—She was servant in the huuse in
which I was assistant.

Mr. Pelham—You were paying your addresses to her ?
The prosecutor—Not at all.
. .

Mi. Pelham—You have had intercourse with her ? The
prosecutor—Yes, certainly.
Mr. Pelham—Have you not seduced her ? The prose-
cutor—l do not think 1 have.
Mr. Pelham—Have you not promised her marriage over
and over again ? The prosecutor—No.
Mr. Pelham—How long is it since the intercourse com-
menced between you ? The prosecutor—About two years
and a half ago.
Mr. Pelham—Have not several letters in a complete love
strain passed between you ? The prosecutor—Not upon my
part. (Here the prosecutor gave the Lord Mayor to under-
stand that there was nothing at all in the sentimental way
between them, and that what did take place took place at
her request. )
Mr. Pelham—Are you not two or three and thirty ? The
prosecutor—No. I am but twenty-three ; she is thirty-five.
She has been ever since annoying me.
Mr. Pelham—To perform your promise of marriage? The
prosecutor—l never promised anything of the kind.
Mr. Pelham—Have you not sworn to stick to her and pro-
tect her as lung as you had life? The prosecutor—No. The
only promise 1 ever made to her was to call and see her now
and then, and she is for ever annoying me and following me.
Mr. Pelham—Was she not in the family-way? The pro-
secutor—l do not know.

Mr. Pelham—Did she not tell you that your treatment of
her, on refusing to marry her, had so severely affected her
feelings that she was seized with premature labour? The
prosecutor—She said something of that kind. (Here the pro-
secutor repeated that his only object was mere animal grati-
fication.)
Mr. Pelham—Do you recollect that she was bequeathed
some money by a relative? The prosecutor—l do.

Mr. Peihain—You then recommenced the intercourse
which had for some time ceased between you? The prose-
cutor—Yes; but not on that account at all.
Mr. Pelham—Pray, are you married?
The prosecutor (to the Lord Mayor)—Am I bound to
answer that question?
The Lonn MAYoll—Yoll need not.
The prosecutor—Then I shall not answer it.
Mr. Pelham—Did you tell her you were married? The
prosecutor, after some hesitation, said " Yes."

- Mr. Pelham—Has she not told you she would destroy her-
self? The prosecutor—Yes, and that she would destroy me,
too. She has frequently threatened me.
Mr. Pelham—The wounds you say are superficial ? The
prosecutor—Yes; they only passed the cuticle, ai.d a great
many of the shots dropped out when I laid the place bare.
Mr. Pelham—Might not the pistol have gone otl* by acci-
dent ? The prosecutor—No, not at all.
Mr. Pelham—Have you and the prisoner not had quar-
rels? The prosecutcr—No, not to say any particular quar-
rels.

Mr. Pelham—And when did the intercourse between you
entirely cease? The prosecutor—Some months ago.
Mr. Pelham—Did she not appear to be in a distracted and
frenzied condition upon the occat.ion of your separation ?
The prosecutor—No, not more so than usual.
Mr. Pelham—She has several letters of yours? The presc-
cutor—l dare say she has.
Mr. Pelham—And you have several of hers? The pro-
secutor—No, I have none of hers; they are all destroyed.
Mr. Pelham—Were they not tilled with expressions of
love and affection? The prosecutor—No, not upon my side.
Mr. Pelham—Then it was upon your side nothing but
a brutal acquaintance? The prosecutor—Call it as you please.
It was just the same on her side. I saw her three nights
after the Lord Mayor held her to bail, and would have given
her into the custody cf an officer, but she got away.
The LORD MAYOR—Was it before or after that she
threatened to destroy you? The prosecutor—A month or
two before that she said if I did not continue my visits to
her she would certainly shoot me.

Mr. George Mallison, who is always employed on the pre-
mises in Laurence Pountney-lane, stated that he came out
of the warehouse before Mr. Morris, and saw the flash of the
pistol. He thenseized the prisoner, who, he believed, had fired
it, and the pistol was found at her feet.
Policeman No. 491 stated he went, upon being sent for,
into a public-house in Laurence Pountney-lane, where he
saw the prisoner in a fainting state, with several people
about her administering water. She appeared to be greatly
agitated, but said nothing. She was then taken to the sta-
tion-house.

Inspector Waller said that he asked her at the station
whether she had anything to say, and she replied with a
simple negative. The female searcher found some powder
and shot in her pockets.
Mr. Pelham said he should reserve the defence, and the
Lord Mayor immediately committed the prisoner for trial.