Star.
London, England, 1818-01-14 00:00:00

LONDON MARKEn JAATARY

COTTON.-The •extensive sale on „Friday, consist-
ing td13,241 bales, went off with much briskness;,
the quality of the Surats was inferior to what there
has:latekr been brought forward at the India. House;
the middling and Fair quality went ofr lid. per lb.
higher. The Bengals in several instances realised
tcf. to id. pet lb. advance, but generally the prices
of the ratter were without variation.
The purchases of Cotton by private contract since,
and at arother public sale, were about 1300 packages
-50 Peraams 2s. ltd.; 60 Bowdes 20d. ; 20 Car-
riacou 23d. ; 900 Surats, fair common quality to good,
15d. tit 160.; and 300 middling to very goad Ben-
gal% lOid. to 123 d.; the latter both in bond, and at
an improvement in price of about td. per. lb.
Suown.-The alteration in the duty of Muse°.
vades, and the details of the damage done by the late
hurricane, have produced little variation in the prices
of Sugar; one or two parcels were reported to be
taken on account of some French houses, as they cal
culated the effects of the gale at Martinique would
produce a very short import into that country ;
the purchases were made at the previous prices of
Ilthe market towards the close of the week the de-
Imand became less animated, and several parcels were
disposed of at rather lower rates, though no general
depression could be stated.
This forenoon the market continues rather heavy :
the few purchases made are at prices a shade lower..l
,The deliveries last week are very extensive.
The Import of Sugar into London for 1817 is
about 175,000 hhds, being about 10,000 hhds less
then the year preceding ; the noel is hOwever more
extensive than in January last ; the prices are now
nearly the same as January 1817.
The demand for Refined goods early in last week
was brisk and rather extensive; the exporters evinced
a renewed disposition to enter into contracts for goods
deliverable in spring at nearly the present prices; the
refiners generally declined their offers : towards the
close of the week the request however gave way, and
several parcels were purchased at prices a shade
lower.-Molasses were steady. It is difficult to cal-
culate the quantity of refined goods in London ; it
is, however, very trivial, much less than preceding
years ; there are about 1200 hhds. crushed ; the prices
of refined are nearly the same as in January, 1817.
The alteration in the duty on Muscovades produced
no change on the bounty given on the export of re-
fined sugar, except to Ireland. A new double loaf
standard has been substituted in London, in order to
receive the bounty; it is much finer than the 'former.
In Foreign Sugars there is no business doing ; the
quantity of Havannah Sugars is supposed to be 200
chests; of Brazil about 400 chests.
Comm.-There were two public sales brought
forward last week! the first attracted great attention,
being the first sale of the year' and for several weeks
previously there had been no Coffee brought forward;
there was in consequence a very full attendance ; it
consisted 0f•47 casks 162 bags British Plantations,
660 bags Brazil descriptions I the whole went off
with briskness, but at very irregular prices ; generally
ls. to 2s. higher than the previous rates by private
contract* and 4s. higher than the last public sale,
which had been brought forward in December ; fine
ordinary Dutch realized 975. and 98s; good mid.,
dling 1695.; the same descriptions 106 s. 6d.; ordinary
Brazil 935. and 935. 6d. ; good ordinary 955. 6d.
The second sale being. of considerable extent, may
be considered a criterion of the market; it went off
steadily, but without briskness, much about she pre.,
vious prices by private contract : fine ordinary Dutch
975.; middling 100 s.; good middling, extensively,l
105 s. and 105 s. 6d. ; good ordinary Jamaica 925. tol
935. 6d.; fine ordinary 945. and 955. 6d.
The imports of Coffee into London in 1817 sue
much the same as in the preceding year ; the stock
of West India is very deficient of the usual supply ;
of East India it is estimated there are about 82,000
bags: the prices are 14s. to 15s. per cwt. higher since
Tuesday last.
Imam Paovistons.-There is little variation in the
provision market ; the holders expect a renewal in
the demand, which it is calculated will have the effect
of advancing the prices of prime parcels, which are
comparatively scarce.-Bacon is steady. There have
been no arrivals of Butter of any consequence; the
holders do not appear anxious to effect sales; they
anticipate a revival in the demand.
Ott..-The demand for Oils continues limited ;
Greenland may be quoted at a decline of M.-Rape-
seed may also be stated at prices a shade lower. Se-
veral parcels of Gallipoli are reported to be offered
at a small decline.

HSMP, FLAX, and TA tow.—The demand for Tab.
low has again revived; the prices are improving on
account of the limited supplies.—Hemp and Raz are
also in request at an advancing currency.
Rum, BRANDT, and Hou.axus.—The demand for
Rum continues limited ; one 'or two parcels of some'
extent have however been taken for exportation ; the
purchasers, in consequence of the heavy market, have
bought at about 2d. to 3d. per gallon under what
was considered the market currency.—Brandy has
also given way very considerably.—Geneva may be
quoted at a deprrlsion of sd. per gallon.

COURSE OP EXCHANGE.
A:r.gtetdam 37 48. 2U. I Bilboa, effective 34
Acto at sight 37 0 I Seri'.le ......

Amsterdam ll 10 C.F.
Ditto at sight. 11 7
Rotterdam.... ll 11 2U.
Antwerp, ezano 11 1!
liarnburgh... 34 4 24U.
Alton& S4 7 till
Path, 3 day's date 24 40
Ditto 44 60 2U.
Bourdeaux do. ...24 50
Frankfort on the
Maine 145 ex-sto.
iadrid, effective 38i

Gibraltar 511,
Leghorn at
Genoa ....
Venice Ur 45
Malta
Naples 4.1
Palernto l46d per or.
Lisbon 5B
Oporto .....
Rio Janeiro .65
It per coat.
Cork... Si

CLONMILL, JAN'. 7.—Monday night last, an attempt
was made by three prisoners confined in the gaol
here,- in double irons, to break out of prison—two
convicts, and one charged with horse-stealing, and
all part of the gang who, a very few weeks since,
made a similar effort. Confined in the upper corri-
dor, they had the address, by the help of instruments,
to break some of the locks, and with skeleton keys,
to open others, and let themselves down through the
whole building, and out into the yard, where they
got into a sewer, through which they had proceeded
but a short way, when they found tbernselves 017-
strueted by the iron grates. Mr. Vowst soon rtibe
alarm, and succeeded in recovering them.

FATAL DrIL.
Bow-maind.--,-Yestierday morning, another inves-
tion took place before RICHARD BUM?, Esq.
rLctlng the calm of the death of Lieutenant ED-
WARD Batt.tv, of the 56th Regiment of Foot, who
was'sh6t in a duel on Monday morning, in a field
Derr Chalk Farm.
Theodore O'Callaghan, Esq. who is charged with
being a principal in the cause of the death of the
deceased, was brought to the Office, to undergo a
second examination, as were Mr. Charles Newbolt,
his second, and Mr. Thomas Joseph Phelan, the se-
cond to the deceased.
Mr. George Raid, the Surgeon, of Hampstead,
who had omitted to attend the examination on Mon-
day evening, attended yesterday morning, and stated
that he-was sent fur on Monday morning with great
speed to go to Mr. Adams's house in England-lane,
to attend a Gentleman who had been severely wound-
ed. He arrived at Mr. Adams's house about ten
o'clock, where he saw a Gentleman who had been
wounded lying on a sofa. He proceeded to examine
the wound, and he found a ball had ted on
his right side very nearly in a line witKlT:ranavel.
He proceeded to examine him on his left side, when
he discovered that a ball was resting between his
ezin and the muscles. He succeeded in extracting
the ball from the wound, and then dressed it. The
three Gentlemen who are the prisoners were present
in the room at the time he examined she wounds of
the deceased. After Lieutenant Bailey died, he open-
ed the body, and found his intestines had been.
wounded in three diffeion places, and which he had
no doubt had caused his death.
Mr. William Adams, who acted so human* in
this unfortunate transaction, attended again, and
stated, that After the deceased had called Mr. O'Cal-
laghan to him on the sofa, he shook hands with him,
and said every thing had been conducted in the
most honourable manner, and that he forgave him.'
lie asked Mr. O'Callaghan if he would have done
the same by him if he had wounded him ? To this
Mr. O'Callaghan replied, most certainly he should
have acted as he had done, and followed up the ob-
servation by saying, I wish I had been wounded in-
stead of you. Mr. O'Callaghan appeared much
affected, and said, you touched me in the first fire on
one of my legs, by what is called a graze, and then
exhibited his trowsers and boots, and it appeared that
a ball had passed through both the legs of his trow-
sers and one of his boots. He saw the deceased,
Lieutenant Bailey, shake hands very heartily with
Mv. O'Callaghan previous to their parting.
The three Prisoners were ordered to be detained
in custody.
On the application of ..n Attorney engaged for the
Prisoners, Mr. Bums agreed to their undergoing
another investigation, previous to its being finally
-determined as to their commitment for trial; aid

the Attorney wrote to Mr. Adams, requesting it as
a favour that be would attend again last evening at
seven o'clock, at which hour the three Prisoners wore
• brought again to the Office, and Mr. BIRNIF having
taken his seat on the Bench, Mr. NorAN, Mr. ARA.
BIN, and Mr. GOOLE', presented themselves to the
Magistrate in behalf of the Prisoners.
- Mr. NOLAN observed, that as the Coronet's Inquest
had not yet sat, and would not sit till to-morrow,
the prisoners were now in safe custody, the Ma-
gistrate would let theift remain where they had been,
hitherto confined ; for he well knew that to urge any.
• discretionary power the Magistrate possessed as to
bailing them would be vain till the deci-ion of the
Coroner's Jury was known. All he wished for was,
that they might be remanded till to-morrow morn-
, ing. After the Coroner's Inquest had sat upon the
body of Lieutenant Bailey, and returned a verdict, it
would then be a question whether all or any of the
Gentlemen should be admitted to bail ?

Mr. ARABIN also pressed the Magistrate that the
prisoners' commitment be deferred, and they might
be admitted to bail.

Brays, in reply, said it was his wish to do
justice to all, The prisoners had all been found on
the spot. Ile did not know that Magistrates had
any thing to do with Coroners' Inquests. It was in
evidence before him that one of the king's subjects
had been deprived of life, and upon prima fade evi-
dence it was murder. He had now made up his
mind, that the three prisoners must all be committed
to Newgate, to take their trial for the murder of
Lieutenant Bailey, and he was convinced that the
three Learned Gentlemen would allow that he had
d_•cided right.—The Gentlemen bowed and retiree.
The Prisoners were given into the custody a- the
gaolers, tc be conveyed to Newgate.

CHARGE OF MURDER.
NiBLEOROUGII4T nit Eir,--David Evans, a journey-
man soap-maker, about forty years of age, was
brought up from St. Anne s Watch-house, charged
with the wilful murder of his wife, by striking her
repeatedly with a poker on Saturday night, at his
lodgings in Falconberg-court, Crown-street, Soho.—
Ann Desmond stated, that she occupied the first
Boor of No. 3, Falconberg-court, over the prisoner's
bed-room. On Saturday night her husband came
home drunk, and after having had a few words with
the prisoner, who busied himself about • the street.
door, he threw himself on the bed with his clothes
or. The prisoner used very bad words to witness
after he had got into his own room. Witness waited
On. the.stairs, and heard him beating his wife; her
groans were loud and repeated ; she alarmed the
other lodgers, stating that murder was being com-
mitted in the house; but she could not rouse any
one, and she dared not go alone. The groans of the
deceased grew more languid; she did rot see her the
next morning: Witness saw the prisoner the next
morning wiping spots out of the floor with a wet
cloth, in the front parlour.
Rebecca Mucclewhil, a genteel-lcoking married
woman, who occupied an apartment in the second'
floor, corroborated the former witness relative to the
groaning of the deceased, until after two o'clock in
the morning: it was like the moaning of a dog.
Vr. Webb, Constable of St. Anne s, examined the
front parlour, and found' the floor and the wainscot
round the room lies= withblood. An attempt
had been made to c it, but the very moulding:.
of the room out of reach were splashed with it. Ile
could not find any of the deceased's clothes, but a
pair of boots, which were bloody. He
_afterwards
saw the body in the cefrm, in the bo.rocuo, covered
Over with a sheet. The cap the head was in a
gore of bleed, arid a long of hair was matted

viat,b one mai: of blood ; the kick Part of the ilea,l
was beat to atoms, so that a fingirtentld be bared
in the wounds. This room was also besprinkled-Ai
blood. Witness took a poker from the fire, whirl
from the appearance of blood, was no doubt the nt;
strnment of death. The prisoner refused to gr,-e sty
account of the clot es; but witness crtsnAd
a man named Davis, who resided next dew, vi.g
worked with the prisoner, near St. Ciles's Chr.rch,
them in a bundle. Webb traced thebrr.dle, and
clothes confirmed the horrid fact. _

George Gillen, scat to the WatCh-house-kcslt,
corroborated Webb, and added, that the prim.
told him that he quarrelled with his wife becautef4
could not account far twoAillings and ter_ 1„%,(,,
halfpenny, out cf eight shilftgs; that he wett fit.!
one public-house to vnother until lie was drunk, azd
that a mai told him he was living with a woman net
his wife. He then related about wiping the bi
off his face, applying warm bricks, &c.
The prisoner's defence was an echo of what hs b-.
told Webb and ; that Davis 1.71-1 he wt„
about until he got very drunk, and that he found .
sail going on leaving the first house. S% hen he tz
one he could just remember that an Irishmaz haj
Istrack him ; and one of the women, Demiond,
him that her husband had criminal latowle42 of his
wife. He next spoke about the money shuit,
ing kicks to her feet, making her tea in
cier going to bed, and that Davis and he fotmdies
dead in the bed in the morning. Ms eau; +r ,
was had from Westminster.
sagistrate.—Jiow often did yo raike her? and
the town so bloody?
Prlscoor.—l suppose the blood moo Irons soy WM he
I was very tipsy, and do Lot resoeniter steddrg her rice sla
once.

Alagicume.—llow came the blood es the yokes?
Pri►oner.—l might have struck We bead when she wet
by the fire-place, as I tried to pick her or, but being giddy, :Is
her fall again, I helices. '
The prisoner was remanded till Friday, whmtii
undertaker and his man, and the twe worm
laid the deceased out, were ordered t Ettn,.2.