The Sun.
London, England, 1845-06-17 00:00:00

COLONIAL.

SUGAR—A good business continues to be done in British
Plantation, about 1,000 casks having been sold, inclusive of
those offered by auction, at fully previous prices, and in
some instances rather dearer. The public sales have
been rather extensive, consisting chiefly of 427 casks
West India, 9,250 bags Mauritius, 5,547 bags Madras, and
1,135 boxes damaged Yellow Havannah. The great part of
the West India found buyers at 40s to 48s for low brown
to good greyish St. Lucia, &c., and 46s 6d to 56s 6d for mid
to fine yellow Barbadoes, being for the latter is lower for the
finer soli a, and for the former previous prices. All the Mau-
ritius and Madras sold briskly, the former at 35s to 43s for
low to fine brown, 43s 6d to 52s 6d for low to fine yellow,
and 36s to 44s for low brown to good mid yellow Madras,
being generally 6d dearer for the lower descriptions. The
Havannah sold at 21s 6d to 27s 6d for low soft (in bad
condition) to tine yellow. Privately, a cargo of Brown Ha-
vannah, consisting of 1,400 boxes, has been sold afloat at
245, deliverable in Hamburgh. The quantity of British
Plantation landed last week at the East and West India
Docks, was 5,237 hhds 63 tierces 953 :barrels ; and there
were taken, for home consumption, 1,481 hhds 175 tierces
281 barrels. The stock in the same places is 11,608 hhds
1,275 tierces 2,065 barrels.

COFFEE. —249 casks 132 barrels Jamaica, 1,479 bags Cey-
lon, and 314 bags and barrels Rio (British Plantation kind),
have been offered by auction, and all disposed of (with the
exception of the Rio) chiefly at 80s to 93s for fine ord to mid
colory Jamaica, and small very good ord colory Ceylon at
4E3 6d to 495, being for the Jamaica rather higher prices, and
for the latter previous rates. The Rio was mostly taken in
at 30s to 40s for good to fine ord, and 47s to 54s for fine ord
to mid calory.
COCOA.-113 bags Trinidad, at auction, were nearly all
taken in at 42s to 49s 6d for mid greyish to good light red.
Rum.—The quantity landed last week at the East and
West India Docks was 550 puns 19 hhds; there were
taken for home consumption 236 puns 56 hhds, and exported
258 puns 56 hhds. The stock in the same places is 8,163
puns 2,110 hhds.
Spic Es.-200 bags Malabar Pepper offered by auction was
mostly taken in at 31/2d for good heavy bright brown
Malabar.

TALLOW.—P.Y.C. is 40a 6d to 40s 9d per cwt on the spot,
and Town 42s per cwt.
TEA.—There is a steady demand.

SHERIFFS' COURT.-(THIS DAY

(Before Mr. Under-Sheriff BURCHELL.)
CRIM. CON.—CREA.GEI V. HENYGILL.
This was an inquiry to assess damages for criminal conversation
with the plaintiff's wife.

Mr. Sergeant Talfeurd, with Mr. Painter, appeared for the plain.
tiff; and Mr. Robinson for the defendant.

The Learned SERGEANT stated the case. The plaintiff is a cap-
tain in the 54th Regiment, and the defendant had formerly been
also an officer in the army, but had retired. The lady who is the
unhappy subject of the present inquiry, was related to an English
family of the highest respectability, who formerly resided at Bou.
logne, and at present at Paris, but whose name he should refrain
from mentioning. The plaintiff married in 1839 or 1840, and in
1841 he was called to England on duty, and went into
barracks; he afterwards went to Ireland, and, in 1843,
came to the resolution of taking a house in Dublin.
During this period the plaintiff and his wife had
been separate on several occasions of Mrs. Creagh going on
visits to her relations, and from necessity, through the professional
duties of the plaintiff; they, however, were always on the best
terms, and on parting in August, 1843, for Mrs. Creagh to visit
an aunt, at Woburn, before taking up her abode at Dublin, they
did so on the most affectionate terms, and, on the part of the plain-
tiff, with the full expectation of her return, as up to that time
there was not the slightest suspicion of any improper intimacy
existing. Mrs. Creagh, however, left her aunt, and it was soon
afterwards discovered that she had eloped with the defendant to
Belgium, where they resided for some time. The defendant, how-
ever, returned to England for a short time, when he was
served with process in this action, and he again returned to
Belgium, where they still resided, under the assumed name of
Carter. The Learned Sergeant said the plaintiff had adopted these
proceedings, not from a vindictive motive, but to enable him to
take ulterior proceedings to effect a legal divorce from one to
whom he was fondly attached, but who had been estranged from
him by the conduct of the defendant, and with whom all hope of
future happiness was entirely and for ever at an end. His object
very properly was that only, and not to put money, the price of his
wife's dishonour, into his own pocket. For that reason he (the
Learned Counsel) did not wish to aggravate the case by any remarks,
but to leave the plain facts before the jury, expecting such damages
at their hands as would vindicate the character of the defendant,
and prove that there had been no misconduct on his part which
had in any way tended to bring on this melancholy crisis. The de-
fendant was said to be in a state of great poverty; but the jury
must not take that circumstance entirely into their consideration
in giving their verdict, or poverty might sin with impunity. Un.
fortunately, from the nature of the plaintiff's professional duties,
it would be impossible to give any strong evidence as to the terms
of affection in which the plaintiff and his wife had lived up to
the time at which the defendant had formed the acquaintance
which had terminated so unhappily for all parties.
Evidence was adduced, but (as observed by the Learned Under.
Sheriff) was very slight and meagre as to the terms on which plain-
tiff and his wife lived.

Mr. /toutNsoN addressed the jury and expressed the defendant's
obligations for the moderate manner in which the case had been
opened, and urged that the domestic happiness and comfort of the
plaintiff could not have been great when the separations were so
frequent; he also urged that there was a great disparity in age,
the lady being now only 22 or 23, and the plaintiff 34 or 35—the
defendant being about 27 or 28. It had also been shown in evi-
dence that, when the parties were traced to Belgium, they were
found in a miserably small house, miserably furnished, the defen-
dant in his shirt-sleeves kneading bread for the next week's con.
gumption, and had been suffering under a paralytic attack, and de-
pending on the lady's friends.
The UNDER SHERIFF briefly summed up, observing that the evi-
dence was ♦ery weak to show the domestic happiness of plaintiff
and his wife, but that, nevertheless, the jury must estimate their
damages on that account alone, without taking the poverty of
defendant into consideration.

The jury consulted for ten minutes, and then gave—Damages,
3004

CRIMINAL COURT.-(THIS DAY.)
OLD COURT.
(Before the RECORDER and Mr. Alderman Huoims.)

Sarah Silver, a delicate-looking girl, aged 18, was indicted f.r
concealing the birth of her male child.

The prisoner was in the service of Mr. Light, •f the Queen's
Head, Church-lane, City. On the 20th of May she gave birth to
the child in the water.closet, which was subsequently found em-
bedded in the soil. When taken ill, it appeared that she sent for
her mistress. There was no evidence to show that she concealed
the birth, and the jury acquitted her.
The RECORDER desired Mrs. Light to be recalled, and he said
there was no imputation on the prisoner's character beyond the
unfortunate occurrence of giving birth to the child. He hoped,
therefore, she would endeavour to do what she could for her, that
she might not be utterly ruined.

Mrs. Light said she would adopt the Learned Recorder's sug,
gestion

Mary Ann Salisbury, aged 19, the young woman who was taken
into custody for attempting to commit suicide at Westminster.
bridge, and who told so romantic a tale to Mr. Norton, the magic.
trate of Lambeth Police-office, was indicted on three separate
charges of felony.

The prisoner, who is a pretty looking girl, upon being asked to
plead, fainted. On being restored, she pleaded guilty to each of
the charges.

Mr. O'BRIEN said the prisoner had for some time past been
guilty of the most strange conduct. He then called the pri-
soner's sister, who said she came from Bath. She said her sister
left her home some time ago, but whether with a young man or
not she did not know. She (the prisoner) was intimate with a
dark young man, named Alfred Wrightman, and that she had
acted very strangely since she was acquainted with him.
The persons were in attendance whom the prisoner had robbed.
They were not anxious to press the charge against her, believing
her not to be right in her mind.

Mr. Evans, a friend of the parents of the prisoner, whose father
is a local preacher in Bath, and carrying on the business of a
shoemaker, said he had known the prisoner for four or five years,
and had frequently remarked that her conduct was strange and
flighty.

The REcortnEn, after putting a great number of questions with
respect to the conduct of the prisoner without eliciting anything to
denote that she wa:; labouring under aberration of intellect, but
simply that her conduct had been rather eccentric, said the Court
would consider what sentence it would pass upon her, and gave di-
rections to the governor to make further inquiries respecting her.
She was then removed.

TILE THAMES YACHT CLUB.—Yesterday the an-
nual match for the Grand Challenge Cup was sailed for by four of
the best yachts of this club—the Mystery, the property of Lord
Seaham ; the Blue Belle, the property of Mr. T. Hodges; the
Vixen, the property of Mr. Heighington ; and the Prima Donna,
the property of Mr. C. R. Tatham. This cup cannot become the
property in perpetuity of any owner of a yacht sinless won in two
successive meches by the same yacht, and, consequently, at the ex.
piration of each year is sailed for in order to decide who shall be
the ultimate owner, and test, in the severest manner, the merits of
the boats. It has bees won for the year by the Gazelle, the Ada,
the Champion, the Enigma, and the Mystery, but has annually
changed hands, and never become the heir-loom of any member of
the club. The match was yesterday sailed over the old comae,
from Greenwich to Coalhouse Point and back. The start took
place at a quarter to twelve o'clock, the wind blowing lightly
from the south.west, and the tide running down. The Mystery
led, the Blue Belle second, the Vixen third, and the Prima Donna
fourth. In rounding the flag.buoy at Coalhouse Point, the Blue
Belle was first, rounding at 18 minutes to 3 o'clock ; the Mystery
following her at 15i minutes to 3 o'clock; the Prima Donna at
14 minutes to 3 o'clock ; and the Vixen at 13 minutes to 3 o'clock.
In returning the Prima Donna took the lead off Gravesend, and
kept it till the end of the match, which was won at 20 minutes
after 7 o'clock, the Vixen following in five minutes after. The
Red Rover steamer, carrying the flag of Commodore Harrison,
attended the match, and conveyed the company, which was nume-
rous and highly respectable.

PARLIAMENTARY DIVISIONS.

(From the Votes and Proceedings of the House of Commons.)
MONDAY, JUNE 16.

EASTERN COUNTIES RAILWAY (CAMBRIDGE AND BURY
ST. EDMUND'S EXTENSION) BILL.

Motion made, and Question proposed, " That the Bill be now
read a second time :"—Amendment proposed, to leave out the word
" now," and at the end of the Question to add the words " upon this
day six months :"—Question put, " That the word now' stand part
of the Question." The House divided:—

MAJORITY-AYES, 47.
Aldam, William Greene, Thomas Parker, John
Bannerman, A. Grosvenor, Lord R. Pendarves, E. W.
Baring, F. T. Hatton, Captain Philips, G. R.
Barnard, E. G. Hinde, J. 11. Phillpotts, John
Bell, Matthew Hope, Alexander Plumridge, Captain
Beresford, Major Horsman. Edward Redlngton, T. N.
Bowring, Dr. Humphery, Alderman Stuart, W. V.
Brotherton, Joseph Inglis, Sir It. H. Trelawny, J. S.
Busfeild, William Johnson, General Vane, Lord H.
Cavendish G. H. Lemon, Sir C. Wawn, J. T.
Christie, W. D. Lennox, Lord A. Wilshere, W.
Clive, Robert H. M`Geachy, F. A. Wilmington, Sir T.
Collett, W. R. M"Tagg,art, Sir J. Wrightson, W. B.
Duke, Sir J. Maher, N.
Duneombe, Thomas Mitealfe, Henry TELLERS.
Esteourt, T. G. B. O'Connell, M. J. Ward, 11. G.
Forster, Matthew O'Ferrall, R. M. Duncan, George