The Sun.
London, England, 1842-10-28 00:00:00

PRICE OF SUGAR.

The Average Price of 131ownor Muscavado Sugar, coml.uted
from the Returns made in the Week ending Oct. 25, 1842, is
345. 20. per cwt., exclusive of the Duties of Customs palci or
pa 3 able thereon on the importation thereof into Great Biitain.

CG URSE OF EXCHANGE.—(THIS DAY.)
Amsterdam CF. 12 9 ,Gibraltar
Ditto, at sight
Rotterdam .2 U. 12 91, Genoa . ai 10
Antwerp l2 B_l`,lllan
Hamhurgh M.B. 13 15 Venice
Alums - l4 131' N aples
Paris, 3 days' sight ... 25 75 Palermo, per oz 12ti
Pitto, 3 mouths t:6 0 ;Lisbon
Marseilles
13ourdcaux ',6 5 Rio Janeirs 23/
Frankfort on Mainc ...152 'Bahia
l'etcrsburgh, 3 Us. ... 37 ,Buenos Ayres
Berlin... 7 !New Yerk,2l days sight .it
Vienna, efft:c. fl. 3M. 10 3 l'hiladelphia t ti
Trieste, ditto
Madrid ..
Cadiz
Bilbao
Barcelona
Seville ... 36 ISilver in Bars... ..... 0 4 114

PROMISSORY NOTES.
( From Last Night's Gazette.)
An account of the average aggregate amount of Promisiory
Notes payable to bearer on demand, which have been in cireul,.-
lion in the United Kingdom, distinguishing those circulated by
the Bank of England, by Private Banks, and by Joint Stock
Bank', in England and Wales, by the Banks in Scotland, by
the Bank of Ireland, and t y all other !:anks in Ireland, and of
the Average Amount of Bullion in the Bank of England, during
the four weeks endicg the 15th day of October, lts42, pursuant
to the Act of 4th and sth Victoria, cap. 50

THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING OCTOBER 2',1 iB4?

Turkey pulled at 655, and Spanish 35s to 40s. New
Denia Raisins are selling at 30s, new red Smyina 325,
Sultana 655, Muscatels old 40s to 455, new 56s to'9os ;
new French Plums 61 .ss, Imperial cartoons 61 5s to
91 lOs ; new Jordan Almonds 91 to 101, and Valencia
100 s per cwt. Prices of Fruit rule 19w in comparison
with those of former seasons.

SAGO—For the lower descriptions of Pearl Sago prices
have slightly given way ; 11s 6d to 12s for low mid-
dling, and lOs for ordinary ; but good and fine sorts
have heen sought after, and 25s to 24s paid by private
contract.. •Sago Flour at 12s Os to 13s. per cwt. Ar-
row root ba.s been little asked for. Tapioca, middling,
5d to 6d per lb.
PROVISIONS.—There has arrived a small quantity of
India and Mess Beef to the trade, and the prices asked
as below. Inferior quality Mess Pork for consumption
in the country at 4d to. 4.1 per lb ; Beef, prime
new India •71 lOs per tierce, ditto MeSs 5/ lOs
do ; Pork, Prime India 51 5s per fierce, ditto Mess
3/ do, prime Bacon do 21 I7s per brl, 2nd quality do
2/ lOs do.—Not any new Foreign Provisions in bond
has yet arrived ; India Beef 3/ to 6/ per tierce, Mess
ditto 415 s to 4/ 105 do; India Pork 5/ to 515 s do; Dantzic
do new 2/ 17s 6d per brl, ditto old 2/ lOs do, Danish, do
new 21 lis 6d, ditto old 218 s to 2/ 9s, Hainburgh ditto
new inferior 2/ 12s 6d, Konigslyn new in bad condition
21 12s. New American 21 Gs per barrel in bond, Canada
21 8s duty paid. Prices free on board, Dublin, India
Beef,: 61 12s 6d per tierce. Mess do 41 15s do Sligo,
India Beef, Si 106 per tierce, Mess, 41 15s do.
The accounts received from New Orleans state that
large shipments of salted Beef and Pork were making
for this country ; the quality is favourably spoken of,
the meat having been well fed and cured ; .preparations
arc making to supply us largely and recularly. At
Monte Video enorts of salt Ad Beef are making for this
and the ii6.rp,a,l markets.
RlCE.—Bengal Bice, mid white, at 11s to 1 Is 3d ; good
mid to fine, 11s 6d to 12s 6d per cwt ; Java, 11:; to
Gd for low to mid ; 12s to 12s 6d for good white ;
and Ss Gil to 103 for yePow. Carolina, 305 paid for the
best, and 26s to 28s for other sorts. Patna at 16s 6d to
21s per cwt : the supply is rather small.

(For StrGAE, CorrEE, &c., see the Third Page.)

TERRIFIC COMBAT WITH
POACHERS.

MURDER •OF A GAMEKEEPER.
(From the Chester Chronicle of to-day.)
We regret to have to record a most sanguinary
combat which took place on Saturday evening last,
between the keepers of John Tollemache, Esq., of
Tilston Lodge,' M.P., and Edwin Corbett, Esq., of
Darnhall, and a party Of poachers, and which resulted
in the defeat of the former, one of whom, named
Richard. Cheaters, died in a few hours afterwards,
from the injuries he received in the conflict. The
following are the facts as near as we have been able
to collect them :

It appeared, that from some information that had
been obtained by Robert Bostock, keeper to Mr. Cor-
bett: he had reason to apprehend that a poaching
party would be out on the night in question. He
called that morning upon Daniel Bebbington, who
was engaged by Mr. Tollemache to look after the
game at Wcttenhall, and told him that he expected
there would be some poachers in Wettenhall Wcod
that night; and they arranged to meet at the
Wettenhall side -of the wood at eleven o'clock.
About nine o'clock on that evening, Bostock called
upon John Noden, waggoner to Mr. Corbett,
and John Bebbington, under-keeper to the
same gentleman. They went to Wettenhall Wood
to watch, and found Daniel Bebbington and Thomas
Bebbington, his grandson, a young boy, who had heard
the report of fire-arms a few minutes previous, and
were awaiting the arrival of the remainder of the keep-
ers and their party. It was a moonlight night. They
went some distance by the side of that part of the
wood called Botrey.s-pipe, and crossed a field of John.
Boffey's, which adjoined the Pipe, where they saw four
or five men,' who, as soon as they saw them (the keep-
ers) called 00 them to stand off. Three of the men had
guns, one of them was identified by Bostock as Joseph
Baker, and one of them had a bludgeon. Those who
had guns pointed them towards the keepers. As the
keepers advanced the poachers retreated slowly back-
wards, and Baker cried out, " D— their eyes, don't let
us go back, let us stand!" Daniel Bebbington said,
"My lads, we are five as well as ye," counting his
grandson as one. When they came to close quarters,
John Bcbbington seized hold of one of the men,
and seized his gun by the muzzle, and threw him down.
In the struggle the gun went off, as the poacher had
hold of the lock. This man was dressed in dark
clothing. Dania Bebbington came up during the
struggle, and threw himself- upon the man, and john
Bebbington left him in order to pursue the other
poachers, and immediately another of the gang came
up dressed in a short darkish coloured slop, and struck
Daniel Bebbington over the head and arms, and ena-
bled the other man to escape. Robert Bostock
seized the man who had the bludgeon, and was beaten
severely by him ; the second blow knocked him down,
and stunned him, and kis gun was taken from him and
discharged. When John Bebbington left Daniel Beb-
bington in charge of the poacher he had prostrated, he
pursued John Baker who had rue alongside of the
wood for a short distance, and 1-e- d during the pursuit
got over the "hedge irate the wocd, John Bebbington
being close to him, and in fact was with him as he
got over the hedge, Baker's gun being under him.
They had a struggle, when Richard Chesters, an-
other of the keepers (and who afterwards died of
the injuries he received), came up, and the two se-
cured Baker. John Bebbington said to his prisoner
" I know thee." He called him Duke Baker; and
he answered " Well, thou knows me, let me go."
In about five minutes, whilst still in the wood, the
keepers heard some men who were coming up the
side of the wood, calling out—" Now my lads, how
are you coining on ?" and John Bebbington
who supposed they were the remainder of the keepers,
said "we are here. They then came up, there
being three of them, and stood on the hedge top,
when Bebbington saw that they were the companions
of his' prisoner Baker. He said to Chesters,
" Shoot the first that comes over." Chesters then
took up his (Bebbington's) gun, lying by his
side, but held it in his hand, and did not pre-
sent it. The men then came over the hedge,
when Bebbington let • Baker go. One of • the
poachers, the man in the lop, struck Bebbington
on the head and stunned him, and he received several
other blows, which induced him to keep calling upon
Cheaters to shoot. The men then left Bebbington,
ar.d attacked Chesters. What took place then Beb-
bington is unable to say, as he was stunned by the
blows he had received ; and when he came to himself
he was in the brook close by. Bostock, after the con-
filet he had been engaged in was ended, and he had re-
covered from the blows he had received, went towards
the place where Bebbington had had the struggle with
Baker, but he did not find him as he had gone
away; but he saw the bcdy of Chesters lying there.
He saw four men just out of the wood, and one of
them looking through the hedge, but he could not
recognise any of them. He went across the
wood towards Wettenhall, and, in .the field
next to the wood he met Bebbington, who
wos at that time bleeding very much from a
bad cut across his head. They went•to the public-
house at Wettenhall for assistance, and having ob-
tained it they went for Chesters whom they found
lying on the ground, where Bebbington had last seen
him, before he was attacked by the poachers; and
they carried him to the Boot and Slipper public-house.
Whilst the above conflicts were going on, John
Noden had a struggle with the poacher armed with
the bludgeon ; and managed to fight him for a con-
siderable period with his stick. and ultimately
wrenched the bludgeon from him. They then
got into the hedge, and,had a severe struggle, when
the poacher got uppermost, and jumped with his feet
upon Noden's belly, and then set off into the wood.
Noden was so much injured as not to be able to get up
for some time; and when he did get up the men had
all gone away.
When Richard Chesters was taken to the Boot and
Slipper public-house, he was in a state of insensi-
bility ; and he died about half-past twelve o'clock on
that day.
On Wednesday an inquest was held at the Boot
and Slipper public-house, Wettenhall, before Henry
Churton, Esq., Coroner, on the body of Chesters.
Mr. Churton had the assistance, in pursuing the in-
quiry, of Mr. Tollemache, .-Mr. Corbett, and Mr.
France, Magistrates of the county. Mr. Dumvile,
Solicitor of Tarporley,
attended on the part of the
prosecution.
The evidence was chiefl y corroborative of the state-
ment we have just narrated. The prisoners, Charles
Hitchen, William Warburton, Richard Evans, and
Samuel Cousins, were severally identified without
difficulty by a variety of circumstances.
At the conclu3ion of the evidence, the prisoners
were cautioned that any statement they might make
would be used against them, when each of them
swore they had been at homz: the whole of the night
in question.
After a patient investigation, and a lucid summing-
up by the Coroner the Jury returned a verdict of
" Wilful Murder against Charles Hitchen,
Warburton, Samuel Cousins, Jos. Baker, and Richard
Evans ;" and the four prisoners in custody were im-
mediately committed on his warrant to Chester Castle
to take their trial at the assizes for that offence ; and
were conveyed there the next morning by Mr. Baker
and his assistants.
It is expected that Baker will not be able long to
evade the search making for him.

For the future, Swedish and Norwegian vessels
arc to enjoy in Russian ports the same privileges as
Russian vessels, and are to be subjected to no higher
duties.

It will give all admirers of true poetry gratification,
to hear that her Majesty has conferred a pension of
3001. a year upon William Wordsworth. Long may
he live to enjoy it !
Sir James Graham returns to tc wn from D ay(n
Manor on Monday next.