The Sun.
London, England, 1827-08-03 00:00:00

CITY MARKETS.

PLANTATION SUGARS.—The flatness .noticed last week
has continued up to the present period, and to effect sales
a decline must be submitted to, as the Grocers and Refiners
both act with much caution (though neither hold any con-
siderable stocks) in consequence of the late great advance,
and the business done this week has been at full Is. per
cwt. lower rates, both for the low and middling qualities
the speculators appear to have entirely ceased following up
their purchases, though the deficiency in Mock is very great
compared with the corresponding week of last year ; there
are several vessels to be landed, and further arrivals are ex-
pected, but still there will be a deficiency, and should any
further rise take place it would materially tend to check
the consumption.: in the deliveries of the last two weeks
there has been a falling off.
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Delivered last weekfrom West India Docks, 3,216 hhds.,
276 trs.

Stock on hand in West India Docks- (on 20th ult. ),
23,577 hlls., 2,758 trs.

Stock on hand in West India Docks (on Ist Aug. 1826),
36,506 hhds., 3,286 tra.

FOREIGN Suonits.—The answer to the application of
the Refiners has been received, and states that no extension
of time will be granted, nor will any thing further be done
until the next Session of Parliament : for exportation there
are considerable enquiries, and some sales have been made
at rather an advance on Brazils.

REFINED SUGARS.-The Market has been exceedingly
flat this week, and parties wishing to effect sales could not
obtain the quoted prices; the only buyers at present are
for the low goods, and they appear limited, and watch for
such houses as are under the necessity of exporting certain
quantities to complete their bonds, the time having nearly
expired, and the buyers expecting a reduction in price : for
the home trade very little has been done, nor in crashed
any thing worth notice ; purchases could be made on lower
terms.

COFFEE.-1,270 casks and 219 bags Plantation have
been offered by public sale this week, chiefly of the ordi-
nary descriptions, which have been sold at lower prices,
but for the good andcolouty qualities of Jamaica full prices
were given : a few lots of fine Bethke on Tuesday fetched
from 85s. a 925. ; only about 100 bags Foreign were
offered, for which the prices paid were similar to last
week : 2,000 bags are advertised for sale to-morrow ;
upon the whole, .the Coffee market has been very heavy
this week.

Delivered last week from West India Docks, 660 casks,
1,660 bags, &c.

Stock on hand in West India Docks (on 30th ult.),
12,365 casks, '74,133 bags, &c.
Stock on hand in West India Docks (on Aug. 1, 1826),
17,083 casks, 75,184 bags, &e.
Faurr.—The 'demand continues limited, as usual at this
season of the year ; of Denims in baskets there are none
remaining on hand, and for which there are some en-
.quiries ; red Smyrna raisins also continue exceedingly
scarce, and are enquired after ; in consequence Valentia
raisins begin to be more in demand : in other descriptions
no alteration.

It is very remarkable, that, since the arrival of
Mr. LAMB in this country, there have been very little of
forgeries, fabrications, and falsehoods, comparatively, in the
ultra newspapers of the metropolis or provinces. This
looks well for the peace and harmony of Ireland.—Dublin
Patriot.

Perhaps there is no Establishment of the kind
in the world conducted on a more liberal scale than that
of SALE and Co., 34, Strand. They are now employing
a greater number, of men than perhaps any other Firm in
town, and continue to supply their numerous Customers
with the very best WELLINGTONS, at One Guinea the
pair, equal to those of other makers at double the price;
and every man who consults his own interest will convince
himself by an early trial, that the sale at the above place
is really unprecedented.
Yesterday afternoon Joshua Slade expressed
a wish to see the Chaplain of Huntingdon gaol, to whom
the culprit voluntarily confessed that he was guilty of the
murder of the Rev. Mr. Waterhouse.--Cambridge Clwon.

DREADVVI, AFFAIR AT HADLEY

A DAUGHTER MURDERS HER MOTHER, AND
AFTERWARDS DESTROYS HERSELF.

Yesterday afternoon an Inquest was held before
Tiros. STIRLING, Esq. Coroner, at the White Bear,
Hadley, near Barnet, on view of the bodies of Mary
Spencer, sen. and Mary Spencer, jun. who were
found on Tuesday morning with their throats cut, in
an apartment of their house on Hadley-green. It
was afterwards adjourned to the drawing-roOm in
the house of the late Mrs. Spencer.
After the Jury were empanelled, they proceeded
to view the bodies, which were lying in an anti-
room, and presented a most horrid spectacle, being
literally ingulphed in blood.

The first witness called was Mr. Walter Morrison,
who said, I reside in Barnet, and am a surgeon ; I
was acquainted with the deceased ladies, and had
attended them professionally, but not for thelast few
years ; on 'Tuesday morning I was called upon by,
Colonel Drury to attend at their house, and I found
them in the same position in which they now lay
(and above described); the wound in the throat of
the mother appeared to have been cut in a deeper'
and more dreadful manner than if she had inflicted it
herself; I also observed a wound in one of her
fingers; in conjunction with another surgeon I exa-
mined the bodies again yesterday evening; I found
a razor lying opposite to them, which was covered
with gore:
Did any thing indicate to you which of their
throats had been cut first ?

From the appearance of the throat, and from the
appearance of the adjoining room in which the old
lady slept, I think, and so did Mr. Hammond, who
examined the bodies with me, that the throat of the
mother had been cut first. It would appear as if
the old lady had been attacked whilst in her bed, for
there was a great quantity of blood on the pillow, and
also the mark of a bloody hand. The appearances
also indicated that she had been attacked by the
daughter a second time, and on that spot there was
a great quantity of blood.
Did you make any other observation ?—There
was some blood upon the side of the wall, upon the
door, and the side of the door, and it appeared as if
the mother had attempted to escape.
How was the inside of the mother's hand ?—lt
appeared as if she had resisted, when her daughter
attacked her, and in endeavouring to escape from
the violence of the daughter, her hand got cut. There
was not sufficient blood on the bed of the elder lady
to cause her death.

Was it possible that the daughter had carried her
mother from her bed to the room which we have
seen P—l think not; for if the throat had been cut
in the bed in the manner it now is, there would have
been a great deal of blood on the floor, which would
have flowed from the wound:

Do you think the throat was cut in the bed ?
Yes, I think the throat was cut in the bed, but the
deed was finished in the anti-room.

A Juror here observed, that since the Jury had
examined the body it had been washed, and two
wounds had been discovered in the old lady's throat.
You observe, Sir, that the old lady lies at the feet
of the daughter, who is close to the window. How
do you account for her being in that position ?
I think that when the daughter saw her mother fall,
she cut her own throat, and fell in the position you
have seen her.
The bottle of hartshorn which was in the room
was produced, and the Coroner and medical gentle-
men at once came to the conclusion that the bloody
marks around it were those of the daughter's hand
who had applied it to her face, after she, had destroy-
ed her mother.

Mr. Morrison again viewed the body, and said it
was clear that the throat had been twice cut. At
the second attack the left carotid artery was divided,
and had discharged a vast quantity of blood. I
therefore am persuaded that that artery was not cut
whilst the old lady was in bed.
Mr. William Hammond, another medical gentle-
man, residing at. Wheatson, said—l visited the bo-
dies of the deceased females on Tuesday evening ;
1 found them in the anti-room, lying on the floor,
weltering in their blood. The throat of Mrs.
Spencer, senior, was very much cut ; the windpipe
was divided. The daughter had her throat cut
nearly as deep, but not so wide. In the next room
I found Mrs. Spencer's bed bloody; I found Miss
Spencer's bed free from blood, and the bed clothes
turned down ; on returning into the anti-room, I
found some blood on the paper of the wall near the
door, and one spot of blood on the door near the
handle; I have just been up stairs to look at the
bodies, and have examined the throats more parti-
cularly; 1 think that Mrs. Spencer's throat was cut
more than once ; I find the left carotid artery cut
through, and I believe that to be the more imme-
diate cause of her death ; Miss Spencer's throat is
cut deeply ; but the carotid artery is not cut on
either side; in Miss Spencer's case the bone by
which the tongue is attached is cut through and up-
wards, consequently I should think she would have
lived longer than her mother, a*there are no main
vessels cut through, but only branches; Mrs. Spells
cer's lett hand is cut very deeply on one finger.
As we understand you have attended these ladies
professionally, can you give us any account of the
state of the mind of Miss Spencer P—The mind of
the young lady has always been singular. She was
always very singular in her habits ; I have attended
her for seventeen years; about two years ago, she
fractured the small bone of her leg, and during the
time she lay ill, her mind became much affected,
and she was more odd in her manner than usual ;
she would sit in her bed and write letters for a
whole night together, and these letters she would
send to her neighbours. [Here some of the Jury,
and several persons in the room said, they had re-
ceived some of these letters.] These letters were
not properly expressed, or written in a coherent
style. All indifferent person, upon reading them,
would thin 4 they were letters of business. If she
wrote to me, she would fill four pages with matter
that could have been expressed in a few lines; on
this occasion I remonstrated with her, and said, that
she acted as a crazy person, and that unless she al-
tered her conduct, she must he treated as a crazy
person; this had the effect of stopping her writing,
and as the mother informed me, had the effect of al-
tering her conduct. Three months back, she had an
attack in the head ; the mother, in describing it to
me said, that her daughter seemed for some minutes
to have lost her recollection, and all the power
of utterance ; that she gradually recovered those
powers. Her general health was very much out
of order, .and the state of her bowels warranted
the belief that she might have a temporary pres-
sure on the brain. In the course of a week she
became perfectly well. Three weeks back I was
again called in to attend Miss Spencer ; she was
slightly jaundiced, and very much depressed in spi-
rits; and while attending her, her mother asked
me if I wanted any money, for she said she had
3,0001. in the house; I expressed my surprise at
this, and she referred me to her daughter for an ex-
planation. The explanation her daughter gave was,
that her mother had been at considerable expellee
in fitting up the premises, and that she (the daugh-
ter) had, however, sold out stock and received
money to pay the tradespeople; I then asked the
mother what her expences here. had been, and she
said 1501. ; I then expressed my surprise at the
daughter, that she should have sold Out 3,0001.
when she required a sum of only 1501., and she in-
formed me, that she had other motives for selling
out so much ; the stock had been invested in diffe-
rent names, and as she, knew that she should not
live long in consequence of the complaint then upon
her, she was desirous of investing the whole sum in
her mother's name, in order that her mother might
have no trouble with it at her death. I expressed
my uneasiness at such a sum being in the house,
and begged she would send it back as soon as pos-
sible. In reply, they both instantly said, they would
send it back by the errand-cart, but I said, " Good
Heavens, no; send it by Mr. Cumpton, your stock-
broker," which they did. The last time that I saw
them was on Sunday afternoon, when the daugh-

ter's health was much better; the mother then said
,she was very poor, . and would be glad if I would
take a quarter load of hay of her. I thought it was
singular she should make such a request, and.l
waved the question at first, but she followed me to
the door, pressed me to take the quarter load of hay,
and I said I would take the hay and send the money
back by the carter. I have' observed these oddities
on several occasions, but there did not appear the
least violence between them—on the .contrary, they
were devoted to each other, and the daughter on all
occasions 'manifested a great attachment for : her
mother. Taking all the singular circumstances that
I have observed in Miss Spencer into consideration,
and weighing them attentively, I think she was in a
state of derangement. I have nothing more to
state, further than to corroborate the statement
of Mr. Morrison, that the wound on -Mrs. Spencer's
throat was not inflicted on her while in bed.
One of the Jury here observed, that in May last,
Mrs. and Miss Spencer attended a Missionary Meet-
ing in Finsbury, and behaved in so singular a man-
ner, that the gentleman who conducted the-meet-
ing requested them to leave the room. He was
surprised at this circumstance, because Mrs. Spen-
cer and her daughter were persons of a very serious
turn of mind.
Ann Winter said-1 lived as servant with the
deceased ladies. I saw them on Monday night, but
did not then make any observation upon their con-
duct. On Tuesday morning, about eight o'clock,
I became alarmed, as I did not bear my mistress
moving; she was in the habit of calling us about
six o'clock ; I wished the housemaid to go up and
call them, but she declined, as she thought it was
early; we had been washing on theerevious day,
and we thought our mistress did not like to disturb
us, as she might consider we were tired ; our mis-
tress, on th4,preceding .evening, had told us not to
get up early, but to sleep as long as we pleased.
We thought they might have had a bad night, and
therefore did not awake them ; bat when the clock
struck nine we went up and knocked at the door,
and no one answering, I opened the door of the bed
room, and then discovered they were not in bed,
and that the bed was bloody. I hastened down
stairs as fast as I could, and called assistance.
Did you hear any noise in the . course of the
night ?—I heard them walking about the house
about half-past four o'clock; it was then day-light.
Did you ever see the razor before ?—Never, Sir.
When you got up .in the morning were the win-
dows and doors closed and fastened? They were
quite fast as when we went to. lied at night., On
Monday evening, when I had finished washing, Miss
Spencer came out of the parlour to me, and said, " I
dare say you are tired, for you have worked very
hard. However, I am glad you finished the
washing to-day, because you could not have done it
to-morrow." Mrs. Spencer also, told me on Monday,
that we should have a holiday on Tuesday, but I
believe that observation had reference to a fete that
was to be given by the. ladies of Hadley upon the
green. Mrs. S. had also told me that she intended
she (witness) should sleep in the same room with
her and her daughter, as her daughter 'was in the
habit of getting up many times in the course of the
night, and disturbed her. Mrs. Spencer also said,
that on those occasions her daughter looked very
wild, and her'conduct had much alarmed her. She
seemed to be apprehensive that something of this
kind would occur, and said, " she hoped •to God
nothing would happen to her poor daughter." The
noise I heard in the morning was of no extraordinary.
kind. I never heard any quarrelling or discord be-
tween them ; but Mrs. Spencer said her daughter
spokee-to her very cross sometimes. Ido not know
of any money being in the house. Mrs. Spencer
always said she had no money ; and when she
wanted some money to send to her daughter in Africa,
she said she must borrow it.

Jane Haynes, the housemaid, stated—On Mon-
day night I attended the deceased ladies until ten
o'clock, at which ti me they went to bed good friends,
and I did not hear any noise they made in the course
of the night. On Tuesday I became alarmed, when
I did not hear them move, nor see the shutters
opened, and I went up and knocked at the door ;
about nine o'clock I again went up with my
fellow-servant, and knocked at the door.; but,
as no answer was then given, I went into the
room. I discovered that neither my mistress nor her
daughter was in bed, and that the bed was bloody,
and I hastened out of the room, and called assistance.
All the fastenings in the room were secure, when I
got up in the morning; as they were when I went to
bed; the only persons who slept in the house were
Mrs. and Miss Spencer, Myself, and fellow-servant ;
my mistress had said that she should like to have
my fellow-servant.sleep in her room, lest she should
be taken ill ; I have never seen the razor with which
the deed was done before; but I have heard Mrs.
Smith say that it belonged to Miss Spencer's brother.
Kezia Smith, of Hadley, said—l attended Miss
Spencer as a nurse for three months, when she had
her leg broken, and I also attended Mrs. Spencer
eleven weeks, when she was unwell ; the first fort-
night I attended on Miss Spencer she was very bad
in her head; I have not seen her lately; I have seen
the razor with which the act was committed in the
hands of Miss Spencer, for the purpose of cutting
her 'mother's corns ; it was keßt in Mrs. Spencer's
dressing-table drawer, which was never locked.
Mr. William Poole Attficld said, that when the
circumstances connected with the death of Mrs.
Spencer and her daughter were communicated to
him, he went over the premises, and found every
thing correct; and nothing disturbed; Miss Spen-
cer's gold watch was in the fob at the bed-head.
The Rev. Mr. Thackeray, the clergyman of the
parish, said—l have known Mrs. Spencer and her
daughter about eight or nine years. In consequence
of the very singular conduct of the daughter, and
from the letters I have received from her, I have
often remarked that she would become insane. Iler
conduct was particularly strange when she was un-
well. I visited her on Saturday, and having found
her very dejected, I made the remark to her, but
she made me no reply. On all occasions, when I
have visited them, I found Miss Spencer conducted
herself as a most kind and affectionate daughter.
This was the whole of the evidence.
The Coroner then said, that there could not he a
doubt that Miss Spencer had caused her mother's
death. In the night a paroxysm might have come
upon her, and then she had committed the dreadful
act, not knowing what she was about. Any individual
might commit suicide, but was there any thing to
induce this young lady to destroy her parent, who
had always treated her with kindness and affection ?
The Jury had heard the evidence of the medical
gentlemen as to the manner in which the throat of
the unfortunate woman had been cut, and they must
be satisfied that she had not committed the act her-
self. It•was also impossible that the wound could
have been inflicted upon the throat of the old lady
while she lay in bed, because if the carotid artery had
been then divided, it would have been impossible
that 'SVe could have come out of her room into the
dressing-room where her body was found. There
could be no doubt that the old lady lost her life by
the 'hands of her daughter, and according to the
evidence, there could be no doubt that she was in-
sane.

The Jury then consulted together, and in a few
minutes returned the following verdicts :—" We
find that the deceased, Mrs. Mary Spencer, died in
consequence of a cut throat, inflicted by her daugh-
ter, she being at the time in a state of temporary
derangement."—" We find that Mary Spencer, jun.,
cut her own throat while in a state of temporary
derangement."
The inquiry did not terminate until near ten
o'clock at night.

Despatches were sent off yesterday evening
from the Colonial Office to the Lord High Commissioner
of the lonian Islands.

The Duke of WELLINGTON, as Constable of
the Tower, visited that fortress yesterday, and inspected the
different parts of the edifice.

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.

TAT TERSALL'S.-Au G. 2.

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In consequence of most of the sporting men being at
Brighton, to-day, very little was done in betting at the
Rooms. Nonplus seems tottering, hut others mostly kept
their places, except Mameluke, who has receded a trifle. As
the aristocracy were not many of them present, little re-
liance can be placed upon thebetting of to-day. It was re-
ported that Mr. Gully had purchased Granby, and in one
instauce 4 to .1 was taken on the fact, but it was not
generally believed. It is not likely that there will be
my attendance here next week, for all who can find op-
portunity will start for York to-morrow or Sunday, where
the races are expected to be unusually interesting to the
,porting world.—The following were the odds up to six
o'clock : •

THIRTY GUINEAS STAKES AT YORK.
5 to 4 agst Matilda 5 to 1 agst Moonshine
ST. LEGER.
7 to 2 agst Mameluke (taken) 33 to 1 agst Translation
5 to 1 agst Granby R 5 to I agst Antiope
13 to 1 agst Nonplus 40 to 1 agst Sancho
16 to 1 agst Matilda (taken) 40 to 1 agst Moonshine
IS to 1 agst Lunaria 40 to 1 agst Reviewer
to 1 agst Malek 40 to 1 agst Coalition
2 to 1 agst Lumley's colt 50 to 1 agst Pedlar
1000 even between Pedlar and Reviewer (taken).
9 to 1 agst Matilda and Lunaria, with Reviewer thrown in as a
cock-boat.

DERBY RACES.—WEDNESDAY, Ann. I.
The Noblemen and Gentlemen's Subscription Plate of
60gs., for all ages. Three mile heats.
Mr. Beardsworth's b. c. Chesterfield, 4 yrs 2 1 I
Mr. Massie's b. f. Claudia, 4 yrs

Claudia broke down in the second heat.
Sweepstakes of sgs. each, for three-yr-old colts, Bst. 71b.
Bst. 41b. One mile and a halt: (15 Subs.)
Mr. Giffard's Pantaloon, Bst. '7lb.
Duke of Devonshire's Loraine, Bst. 71b.
Lord G. 11. Cavendish's b. f. by Filho, Bst. 41b. 3
Mr. G. J. Vernon's ch. f. Blaze, Set. 41b 4
Ten paid.

Hunters' Stakes of 5 gs. each, for half-bred horses, that
never won Plate, Match, or Sweepstakes, prior to the
Ist of March, 1827. Two mile heats. (10 Subs.)
Mr. Bird's Velocity, 6 yrs, 12st.
Mr. Wilkins's b. h. Jerry, 4 yrs, 10st. 121 b 2 2
Mr. Athorpe's b. h. The Marquis, 6 yrs, 12st 3 3
Two paid.

The Derbyshire Yeomanry Cavalry Plate of 501. Heats,
Once round and a distance.

Mr. Hinckley's b. m. by Equator, 5 yrs, 11st. 71b. 1 1
Mr. Atherstone's b. m. Maid of the Mill, 6 yrs, 12st. 0 2
Mr. Tempest's br. m. by Master Richard, 5 yrs 2 0
Mr. Eley's ch. h. by Clinker, aged, l2st.
Three others started. '

BRIGHTON RACES.--THURSDAY, AuG. 2.
Handicap Plate of 501. Heats, one mile.
Mr. Shackell's Charmwood, aged, Bst. 101 b. 1 1
Mr. T. Jones's Br. to Richmond, 4 yrs, Bst. 2 2
Mr. Scaith's b. 1. by Wanderer, 3 yrs, 7st. 21b. 3 3
Mr. Brown's Emmeline, 6 yrs, Sst. 7lb. 4 4
Mr. Forth's gr. h. by Octavius dr
An excellent race, both heats won by a neck.—At start-
ing 7to 4 agst Charmwood-6 to 4 agst Scaith. After
.the first heat, 6 to 4 on Charmwood-6 to 1 agst Scaith.
The Ladies' Plate was not run for when our account left.

Our Races commence on Tuesday next, with every pros-
pect of excellent sport. Several horses are already arrived,
and entered for the different plates and stakes, and the
course is in fine order.—Hereford Journal.
The East Sussex fox-hounds are, for the ensuing season,
to be under the management of Mr. Craven, a near rela-
tive (first cousin) to Lord Craven. The kennel is to be
continued at Ringmer, near Lewes, as heretofore.--Brighton
Gazette.

THE LORD HIGH ADMIRAL

SPLENDID BALL.

PORTSMOUTH, Auc: I.—The Lord High Admiral has
graciously condescended to patronize a Bail at the Royal
Clarence ' Rooms, Southeea. The evening is axed for
Monday the 6th of August, and for which the greatest
preparations are making.
We learn that the new Colours to the 50th Regiment,
will be presented by her Royal Highness the Duchess of
Clarence, on her arrival at Portsmouth.
A grand dinner will be given at Portsmouth to his
'Royal Highness the Lord High Admiral, by the. Admirals,
Captains, and Commanders, resident and in the neighhour-
hood of the Port.

This day (Thursday) his Royal Highness partakes of a
sumptuous Banquet, given by the Mayor, Daniel Howard,
Esq. and the Corporate Body of Portsmouth.
Her Royal Highness the Duchess will arrive here on
Saturday. .
It is stated that the 87th Regiment will solicit the
honour of the Duchess presenting their new. Colours. The
87th are at Albany Barracks, Isle of Wight.

On Friday morning, his Royal Highness the Lord High
Admiral will partake of a Dejeune ci la fourchette, given
by the Commandant and Officers of the Royal Marines.
His Royal Highness has obligingly signified hie intention
of being present at a sumptuous breakfast to be given by
the Commandant and Officers of the Royal Marine Artil-
lery, on Saturday morning.