The Sun.
London, England, 1827-09-07 00:00:00

CITY MARKETS.

PLANTATION SiGAßS.—Tkere continues to be consider-
able business doing, and prices are is. per cwt. higher
than last week ; about 3,000 hhds. have been sold this
week. The accounts received from Jamaica on Monday
last continue to confirm the former reports of short crops,
and seem to have given the importers greater confidence,
and they are again demanding higher prices : in conse-
quence the grocers (who still continue to hold small stocks)
have been buying freely at the advance ; the Refiners also
have been purchasing, but still with great caution, the ad.
vance on the raw material being much greater than that
on refined.

Delivered last week from the West India Docks, 3,055
hhds. 272 tre.

Stock on hand in the West India Docks on the 3d inst.,
40,057 hhds. 3,659 tre.
Stock on hand in the West India Docks on the sth Sept.

1826, 42,980 hhds. 2,171 trs.
Folmar/ SuoAas.—On Tuesday last 153 chests Bra-
zils were offered by public sale, and part sold at ls, per
cwt. lower prices; ordinary low to good whites, 38s. 6d.
a 435. 6d. ; yellows, 345. 6d. a 375. 6(1. ; browns, 31s.
a 331. In Havannah there does not appear to be any
thing done this week ; a parcel of good middling whites is
offering in the market 521.

REFINED SUGARS.—The demand for low Goods for the
Hamburgh market has been very extensive this week, but
they are exceedingly scarce, and the advanced price quoted
readily obtained: in the middling descriptions of Lumps
and Loaves, and the finer descriptions for the home trade
also, there has been more doing. The late advance ap-
pears to have checked all further operations in Crashed 14
the present, as the business done for this fortnight past
has been exceedingly limited.
COFFEE.—By public sale this week 820 casks Planta-
tion and 1,558 bags Foreign have been offered, the former
consisting principally of the ordinary qualities of Jamaica,
which again sold at lower prices ; the latter sold rather
more freely, good ordinary La Guayra 445. a 455. ; Bra-
zil 425. a 435. 6d. ; Havannah 445. a 455. ; two lots fine
ordinary 50s.
Delivered last week from the West India Docks, 668
casks, 2,350 bags.
Stock on hand in the West India Docks (on the 3d inst. )

12,835 casks 80,450 bags.
Stock on hand in the West India Docks (on the sth of
Sept. 1826) 15,293 casks, 77,988 bags.
FRUIT.—A parcel of Valentia Raisins was sold last
week. There is a small arrival of Red Smyrna Raisins,
which have been divided among the trade at 535. ; there
is also an arrival of Currants from Triao te, which are now
landing, but part are already sold : other descriptions re-
main the same as last week.

FRANCE AND HER REsoußcEs.--The agri-
cultural produce of France, which, during the
war, and for some years after it had ceased, Was
insufficient for her then diminished population,
is now superabundant, although her inhabitants
have been increased by an accession of four
millions of souls. Larger tracts of land have
been put into cultivation ; a better system of
farming has been followed ; the waste occasioned
by the necessities or wantonness of foreign
soldiers has been repaired ; and, in fact, all the
materials, both animal and mechanical, em-
ployed in agriculture, are augmented in a sur-
lprising degree. In manufactures, likewise, the i
improvement has been equally satisfactory. The
woollen manufacture of France is, perhaps, the
most important of all her branches of industry.
The rapid growth which has taken place in the
fabrication of woollen cloths in that country, is
to be attributed chiefly to the enterprise of IVIr.
Ternaux, late a deputy for Paris, who, in addi-
tion to his general business as a clothier, has very
successfully cultivated the manufacture of Cach-
mere shawls, for the purposes of which he im-
ported a number of goats from the East. The
increase of the woollen manufacture may be
judged of,' by comparing the quantity of raw
material consumed in the factories in 1812, and
at the present time. The total quantity of wool
employed in the former period did not exceed
thirty-five millions of kilogrames : it now
amounts to fifty millions a year, including what
is imported from other countries. The cotton
manufacture, which only lately admitted the as-
sistance of machinery, has made still more rapid
advances. In 1812, no more than ten millions,
three hundred and sixty-two thousand kilogrames
of cotton wool were spun throughout France ;
in 1825, the quantity spun amounted to twenty-
eight millions of kilogrames ; and, in the latter
period, the article was wrought to a degree of
fineness, and rendered fit for purposes, of which
the rwanufacturers at the former period had no
notion.-•-Monthly Review.

ASSIZES,-(RECEIVED TIM DAY.)

NORTHERN CIRCUIT.-LANCASTER, SEPT. 5.

SENTENCE OF DEATH PASSED UPON A

WHOLE FAMILY.

Roger Heyworth, aged 23, and George Heyworth, 18,
(brothers), were indicted for a highway-robbery on the
19th March last, between Burnley and Bacup, in this
county, upon James Taylor and Robert Whitaker. The
robbery was attended with extreme barbarity.
Mr. MILNER, the Deputy Recorder of Leeds, stated the
case.
James Taylor stated, that he is deputy-constable of the
Township of Bacup, and on the 12th March last he went
to Burnley, and was returning home in company with
Robert Whitaker, between seven and eight o'clock in the
evening, but being wet, they put into an ale-house on the
road, where they remained till about half-past eight. They
were proceeding up Dortley-hill, and had their umbrellas
up, when he (witness) was struck with something that
went through his umbrella, through his hat, and knocked
his eye out; he did not see any one; he thought after•
wards he was struck with a hammer, but he was senseless
at the time ; the first thing he recollected was Robert
Whitaker lifting him up; he was then lying in a ditch,
near the road-side, under water; he put his hand to his
cheek, and felt his eye upon it ; he had two ribs broken ;
he lost 1/. IBs. 6d. in silver ; he was confined eight or
nine weeks ; the two prisoners lived in Bacup about 200
yards from where lie did.
Robert Whitaker confirmed the testimony of the last
witness.
William Tattersall, a constable, received two bludgeons
from a man named Johnson—[Here they were produced,
and were of the most formidable description, they were of
ash, about a yard and a quarter long, with knobs at one
end, they resembled a man-of-war's handspike.]
Mr. MILNER said that he had the evidence of a man
named Jackson to prove that the prisoners were the per-
sons, but Jackson was an accomplice, and his evidence
was not confirmed.
Mr. Justice BAYLEY said it was a safer course not to
convict upon the evidence of an uncorroborated accomplice,
and directed an acquittal.
The two prisoners then, with William Heyworth, their
father, aged 60, and John Jackson, his son-in-law, the ac-
complice in the above case, were arraigned for a burglary
in the dwelling-house of John Fielden, at Spotland, and
pleaded Guilty. They were also arraigned for a highway
robbery on Joseph Crabtree, to which indictment they
also pleaded Guilty.
His LORDSHIP said that he should examine witnesses to
prove the circumstances attending each of the case* to
which they pleaded guilty.
Hannah Fielden, a fine looking young woman, was then
called—l am the step-daughter of John Fielden, of Low
Clough, near Bacup ; it is a lone house, about a mile from
Bacup, and a quarter of a mile from any other house ; I
and my mother, on Saturday the 14th April, were up,
with two of my sisters, one eleven, and another nine years
of age ; my father and the rest of the family were gone to
bed. About eleven o'clock several persons came in at the
front door, they unlatched the door and name in ; the pri-
soner, Roger Heyworth came in first, George the second,
and William the third, and the fourth, I think, was Jack-
son; I am quite certain of all the prisoners; they
were dressed in dirty smock frocks, and they had
large clubs in their hands ; their faces were coloured
red and yellow, and they wore old bats turned up be-
fore—they had handkerchiefs tied round the lower part
of their faces, they looked at us, and we at them. We
screamed out " father," " thieves." George Heyworth
struck me with a large club over the temple, and I fell to
the ground and was insensible for a few minutes. I then
saw two of them standing in the middle of the floor, and
two of them rushed to my father and struck him, he had a
drying iron in his hand, and tried to defend himself with
it. They said they would have money or they would
kill us. They asked for the old woman's (my grandmother)
money ; she was living with us, and came about Christmas.
My mother was hurt on the I see of the head, but whether
from a blow, or through falling with fear, I cannot tell.
Hannah Fielden, the mother, and James Fielden, the
husband, corroborated their daughter's testimony.
In the case of the highway robbery, to which the prisoners
pleaded " Guilty,"
Joseph Crabtree, stated, that on the 11th April last he
and a man named Ashworth, were going home about ten
o'clock, when he saw four men on his right on the back of
a wall, at a tone part of, the road, at the top of Slate pit
hill, between Todmorden and Bacup ; they had smock-
frocks on, and large bludgeons in their hands ; he picked
the one he now held in his hand up the week following, on
the spot where he was knocked down, (witness produced a
bludgeon loaded with lead); they rushed at him, knocked
him down with a blow that made a hole in his hat. Ash-
worth ran and got away from them. They took his
watch, three shillings, and a silver pencil-case. One of
the men took off his handkerchief and said to the
other " cut his throat." They took his handkerchief away.
Edward Kershaw, of Smithy Bank, near Bacup, stated,
that on Saturday the 24th of March last, about twelve
o'clock at night, he had been buying some groceries. He
had got about half a mile whets he heard a footstep, and re-
ceived a blow immediately; he turned round, and said,
" Can't you let people pass quietly." Whilst speaking he
was struck on the back and fell down ; they beat him
with bludgeons, and then threw him over a wall about
five feet high ; one of them got over too, kneeled upon
him, and began to strangle him, and the other struck him
on the head with something sharp. They robbed him of
two sixpences and three halfpence.
The usual proclamation now being made, Mr. Justice
BAYLEY put on the black coif, and the most death-like
silence prevailed, which was broken by the loud sobbings
of the two brothers, Roger and George, who clung to each
other, bathed in tears, while their hoary-headed father
stood unmoved. Jackson, his son-in-law, stood at one end
of the dock with his back turned to his wretched "relatives,
companions in crime, and glanced at them with a forbidding
look.
His LORDSHIP then addressed them as follows :—lt is
my painful duty to pass upon you that dreadful sentence
which the law inflicts upon the crimes of which you have
been found " guilty."
Old Heyworth.—Do, for Christ's sake, have mercy upon
us, my Lord,--do spare us, for God's sake.
The young Heyworths—(Weeping, and in each other's
arms),—Do, for Christ's sake, spare our lives, we will
never do so again.
His LORDSHIP resumed.—How can I? How is it pos-
sible? The public must have protection. Look at the
deadly instruments made use of by you ; and the man, if
he had not saved himself with the iron, would have lost
his life. We make a marked difference between persons
who chew mercy themselves, and those who, armed in a
deadly manner, inflict cruelty. You three (addressing the
three Heyworths), a father encouraging his sons to this
wickedness—it is utterly impossible he can be saved; and
the sons, sometimes with, and sometimes without the
father, always acting with violence. If you were to be
saved, what protection would poor people have whom ne-
cessity takes from their cottages in the night? It is enough
for people to lose their property ; but it is too much to
meet with barbarity. There can be no security for the
public unless the law were to take its course. In Jack-
son's case, I shall consider whether I can recommend him
to mercy, (the other culprits at this moment turned their
eyes in anger towards him). The awful sentence of the
law is, that you .three be hanged by the neck, until you
are dead, and may God Almighty extend that mercy to
you, which he will to all who are sorry for their crimes.
I hope and trust you will fit yourselves for the short time
you have to live, and look up with repentance to God,
who will show mercy on you ; and may God soften your
hearts at this moment : I have already passed the sentence
upon you.
The prisoners were then removed from the dock, bathed
in tears.
The Heyworths were a dread to that part of the country,
and were called the Baeup Banditti.
The Court WAS excessively crowded.

THE CITANCELLORSIIIP.—TiIe confirma-
tiongiven rise to some well-founded, and some very groundless
of the appointment of Sir William Alexander, has
regret. There is no one who knows this country, and
who knows the high and sound principles of head and
heart which distinguish Lord Plin,ket, who does not, and
who ought not to regret that the choice has not fallen
upon him. But politicians, the wisest and the honestest
of them must often yield to circumstances ; and we believe
this appointment to have been dictated by the purest in-
tentions towards this country, con..l:suled, of course, by
the necessity of the case. Sir William Alexander will not
be the creature of party in this country, such as his prede-
cessor was. Anti even this is a step gained in the march
of improvement in Irish legislation. As was sensibly re
marked by this morning's Register—next to having a man
of good politics, it is desirable in this country to have one
of no politics at all. If we could persuade ourselves to
forget the transcendent qualifications of Lord Plunket, and
the pain that there existed a political necessity for passing
him over for the present, we are satisfied that the new
Lord Chancellor would give great satisfaction. Surely it
is something, at least, gained, to have no longer a party