The Sun.
London, England, 1827-07-12 00:00:00

THE MARKETS.-(THIS DAY.)

HAY MARKETS.—(At per Load of 36 Trusses.)
ST. JAMES'S.
.E. s. .Z. s Z. s. X. s.
Lowland Mead. Hay 4 oto 5 0 Clover Hay 4 15 to 7 I
Upland Ditto 5lO 610 Oat Straw llB 2 !
Rye-grass Hay 5lO 610 Wheat Ditto 2 2 2li
New Ditto 4lO SlO
A limited supply, and a steady trade; prices as last quoted
• SMITHFIELD.
X. s. .£. s.
Lowland Mead. Hay 4 Ow 5 0
Upland Ditto 5 0 6 6
Rye-grass Hay 5 0 6 C
New Meadow Hay 410 5 0
Supply short, and trade rath

1 .f. s. .Z. s
Cloy. Hay generally 5 oto 7
Do. extra fine...—. 0 0 7 1
Oat 5traw............ 2 0 2
Wheat Ditto . ...... 2 5 21(
cr brisk, at Tuesday's prices.

FISH-MARKET, BILLINGSGATE

The market this morning was tolerably well supplie,
with most kinds of fish, which generally met with a brisl
sale. The following were the prices:—
Prime large Turbots, gs. each ; small do. 4s. to 6s.
each ; fine Salmon, ls. to ls. 2d. per lb. ; do. inferior
Sd. to 10(1. do. ; Salmon Trout, 6(1. do. ; fine Whitings
ss. per basket (containing fifteen); large ditto, ss. (con
taining seven) ; Brill, 3s. each ; Soles, 2s. per three pair
Eels, 31. per 51b., or 12s. per draught; Flounders, ls.6d.
to 2s. per quartern ; good Lobsters, 10s. per score
Shrimps, 2s. Od. per gallon ; fine Newcastle Pickled Sal-
mon, 28s. per• kit ; very inferior do., 12s. do. ; Ne‘,
Yarmouth Red Herrings, 12s. per hundred; New Cod
Sounds, 6s. per barrel ; fine Dutch Pickled Herring*,
ss. 6d. per do. No variation in the prices of other fish.

The most cheering accounts were receive(
last week from all parts of the country as to th(
state of the crops.—Bath Chronicle.
In Sheffield, so popular is the Prime iVlinister
that a Benevolent or Friendly Club has beet
named, in compliment to him, " the Carmine
Sick Club."—Shefeld Iris,

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SHEEN, THE SEIPPOSED INFANTICIDE.

TO THE EDITon or THE SUN.
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SlR—lt is with no small surprise that, in a Journal so
highly distinguished for intelligence and inforrJation as the
SuN, I read such remarks as you have this evening pub-
lished* in relation to the case of Sheen, the supposed in-
fanticide.

The object of those remarks is to show that this indivi-
dual, notwithstanding his former acquittal, may again be
tried for the murder which be is alleged to have committed ;
and the attempted proof chiefly hinges on the case of
Houssart, in 1724, who, having been tried on an indict-
ment for the murder of his wife, and acquitted, was after-
wards re-tried for the same offence, on an appeal of mur-
der, brought by the brother of the deceased ; and, being
found guilty, was condemned and executed.

The bare statement of thiccase mutt instantly satisfy any
person of legal education that it bears no conceivable analogy
to that of Sheen. Those who arenot lawyers will, I trust,
he convinced of the same truth by attending to the two fol-
lowing observations:—
First, in the instance of Houssart—The second trial was
on an appeal of murder; and every body knows that an
appeal of murder, following an indictment, constituted an
exception to the general rule, that no man can be put
twice in jeopardy of his life for the same offence. This was
not by the Common Law, hut by the Statute of S Henry
VII., cap. 1 ; and the effect produced was of this, very
anomalous kind,—that an indictment might precede' an
appeal, but could not follow it; for an acquittal on the ap-
peal was an answer to the indictment, though an acquittal
on the indictment was no answer to the appeal.
Secondly=Appeals of murder, and, indeed, all criminal
appeals, were for ever abolished by the Statute of 59 Geo.
111., c. 46. So that, even if a case exactly parallel in all
is circumstances with that of Houssart were now to occur,
t could not possibly terminate in the same manner, inas-
much as an acquittal once obtained on the merits would ha
tn effectual bar to any other judicial animadversion on the
same offence.

It must, therefore, be obvious, that the supposed piece-.
lent, to which the writer in the SUN refers, has no
relevancy.

It does not, however, follow, nor do I mean to assert.
:hat Sheen cannot again be put on his trial. 'On this
Joint, as being of deep importance to the individual con-
erned, I would speak with diffidence, more especially as I
to not recollect the precise circumstances of the former
trial, and have not time or means to look back to them.
But, if the person charged to have been murdered is mis-
tamed in an indictment, and the charge, fur that reason,
'ails to be proved, I do not conceive that such an acquittal
would he any answer to another indictment, naming
the murdered party correctly. That I have been acquitted
:if the murder of John Bell, is evidently no proof that
have not murdered John Pell. In fact, the two charges
ire net the same, but different ; and, therefore, the plea of
'zutrefois acquit has no place. For, in so pleading, I
should be stating, or assuming that John Bell in the
former indictment, meant John Pell, which is precisely
what the law would not permit my accuser to prove to
my prejudice, and what, therefore, I have no right to
state or to assume to my advantage.

CCECILIUS;

London, July 11, 1827.
[" The article alluded to waa copied from a Morning
Raper.--Ennos.]

SURREY THEATRE.

Mr. Elliston's Walter, in the delightful burletta
of " The Children of the Wood," attracted last,
night a full house. Since the retirement of Ban-
nister no one has played this character with such
impressive effect as Elliston, or shown such ability
to make an audience laugh and cry almost at the
same moment. His dramatic talents possess truly a
Protean versatility. Aftet the burletta the opera of
" Rosina" was performed, for the purpose of intro-
ducing a Miss Atkinson as Rosina. The talents of
this young lady, though obscured by diffidence, are
of a very superior order. Her voice is rich,' and
modulated with a perfect knowledge of music; her
figure is pleasing, her face pretty, and her manner
engaging. If, however, she wishes to become po-
pular, she must raise the tones of her voice, and,
above all, endeavour to overcome the reserve which
at present clouds her talent.