The Sun.
London, England, 1852-01-03 00:00:00

BIZEILD.

The prices of Wheaten Bread in the metropolis are from
6d to 6%d ; of Household ditto, 414 d to 514 d per 41b leaf.

EIDE IYLEIRMET.
Market Hides, 561 b to 641 b, 14d to 2d; ditto, 641 b to 721 b
2d to lid ; ditto, 721 b to 801 b, 24d to 2Ld ; ditto, 801 b to
SBlb, 2d to 3d ; ditto, 881 b to 961 b, 3d to 3id ; ditto, 961 b to
1011 b, 34d to 3,id ; ditto, 1041 b to 1121 b, 3id to 4d. ' Calf
Skins, fight, is Od to 2s Od; ditto, full, 4- 6d to Os Od;
Horn Hides, 5s Od to Cs Od; Polled Sheep, 5s 7d to 7s Od;
Kents, 5s to 5s 7d; Halt-breeds, 4s (id to 5s 2d; Downs
3s 4d to 4s 3d; Lamb Skins Os Od to Os Od.

RAY MILIZZET'S.
SMITHFIELD.—Meadow Hay, 2/ 15s Od to 3115 s Cd ; Clover
ditto, 31 .5s to 41 5s Od ; and Straw, 1./ Os to 11 6s per load.
A good supply, and a dull trade.

Cumßizr:Ltili).-11,1eAdow Hai, 21 15s to 3/ 178 0d; Clover
ditto, 81 5s to 41 ; and Straw, 11 is to 117 s per load.
Both Hay and Straw sold slowly, at late rates.
WHITECHAPEL.—Meadow Hay, 21 15s to 31 15s; Clover
ditto, 31 5s to 4/ Gs Od ; and Straw, 11 Os to it 6s per load.
Trade dull, at about stationary prices.

COURSE OF EXC
dmster au, .......... 11 19 y
Ditto, three months .. 11 19
Bottcrdam .... 11 19%
Antwerp . • ............ 25 4a
Brussels.. • • ..... 25 40
Elamburgh .... M. 8.18 10%
Paris, 8 days'sight ...• 25 25
Ditto, 8 months .... 25 45
Marseilles •..• •• •• •• •• 95 48
80nrdeanx......... •
Frankfort on,Maine .• •• 120%
Vienna, elec. fio •• •• •• 12 12
Trieste, ditto.... • • .... 12 13
Petersbargh,2ll.Rble..
Madrid ••.. • • 49%
Cadiz • • ...... 49%
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Seville•. •• •• • • •• • • • • •

311 AN GE.-FRIDAY.

Leghorn ........•••••• 20 87g
Genoa •••• •••••• •••••• 25 60
&filen ..,••••••• •••• e•

....
Naples 40%
Palermo, peroa •• 120
Messina •• •• •• •• •• •• •e 1203(
Llabon•• •• •• •• •• •• •• •• 62%
0p0rt0.... • • .......... 52%
-Rio Janeiro ~„„,.
Buenos Ayres
New York, 60 days'sight
Philadelphia .........
mom; Or BULLION, PT 02.
Foreign Geld in bars .. £3 17 9
Portugal Gold Coin .. 0 0 0
Spanish Doubloons .. 0 0
New Dollars ...... 0 4 lig
Silver in bars ...... •• 0 5 0%

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TO THE EDITOR;, OF THE SUN.
SIR,—A severe domestic misfortune has withdrawn
my attention from several articles in different news-
papers in which my name has been lately mentioned,
and especially from a leader in your paper of Thursday
week, which I only saw by accident on Saturday even-
ing. Will you now allow me to reply to your observa-
tions? And first with; regard to the statement of
Elizabeth Woodfield in the case of Harriet Newman, at
the Central Criminal Court on the 15th instant. An
early remark in my address to the jury, that such asser-
tions as those alluded to from such a person carried
their own refutation with them, and that they were nn•
deserving of further notice, seems to have escaped
notice, and when a person like the late Police-Sergeant
Redman declared his opinion of her veracity, I thought
no more was required on my behalf. As, however, more
appears to be required, I will now add it. I never spoke
to Mrs. Woodfield but twice, or at the most thrice, about
eight years since, on each occasion at the Middlesex
Sessions, when I received a brief from her in the re-
gular way. I forget the particulars of the last inter-
view, but I know the result was, as I was subsequently
informed, that she had declared in no moderate terms
that I should never receive a brief from her again. I
never saw her afterwards, and had quite forgotten her,
till her appearance in May last on the trial of William
Day, when, a remarkable fact, she never ventured any
such statement as that made by her on the 15th Dec. I
need hardly add that her declaration, particularly of
having given me briefs within two years, is wholly un-
true. With respect to the second case, that of Henry
Martin Flanagan, I am sorry that I cannot completely
xplain my knowledge of him without naming a number
of respectable individuals, profeedenal and otherwise,
sad serve of superior rank, and this I do nut feel jus•
lified in doing, though at the iisk of not clearing
my-
self of all the obloquy that may consequently attach to
me. I hope my evidence en Saturdey will be sufficieut,
at least till after the trial. In the mean time I may ob-
serve, that he has handed briefs to other barristers very
recently, and that, on his last examination, he stated, in
accounting for the money found on him, that be had
received EiX pounds from a gentleman for services ren-
dered to him, facts demonstrative of his independence of
me. Besides, I have often not seen him for a week to-
gether, and when he did cell on me he remained but
short time. The reason why he was treated by me, as
by many, in a different manner to others of his own
clues, is the circumstance of his being one of a once
wealthy family, well known in public lite between thirty
and fenny years since.
But, leaving particulars, will you allow me a general
remark on the faulty system by which barrister!, on the
Middlesex Sessions accept briefs from any person what-
soever, and contrary to an alleged etiquette of the pro'
fession? They have been blamed for so doing, but such
censure, under present circumstances, is not quite rev
seeable. If a counsel refuse to recognize any one of e
certain class the mischief to him is not confined to the
loss of a fee. 'the oft', tided Party can and does descend
into an arena where the barrister cannot stoop to follow'
him, and can there, with impunity, villiry the character
and abilities of the other, and thus seriously injure him,
where (in a pecuniary sense) his reputation is merit
valuable. I speak from experience, having long SP suggested reforms and regulations ; but the only issue
of my suggestions and attempts have been a positive loss
to myself. I mention this to show that reform of a bad
practice ought not to be exp etc :4 from the bar alone. It
must emanate from a higher source, which is independent
of the influences that weaken and nullify the efforts of
individuals, and yet by whit:6, in the language of Igo,
a " reputation is oft got without merit, and lost without
deserving."—I am, Sir, Sze., S. C. IiORRY.
Guildhall, Westminster, Dec. 1851.
Yesterd

erday afternoon the dividend declared at the
meeting of the London Dock proprietors was V. 10s. per cent.
clear of income-tax, for the half-year ending the 30th No-
vember. It was announced that the business of the coro'
Pally was in a prosperous condition, and that a contract for
additional warehouses, to cost 43,0001., had been taken, to
provide for the accommodation for the goods of customers.
the closing of the litigation with the Customs' authoritie
formed a prominent subject of remark, and it was the unani-
mous opinion that the directors had adopted a prudent
course its arranging the settlement which had been effected•
To mark the feeling entertained a special resolution wag
moved by Mr. Matthew Clark, conveying the thanks of the
proprietors to the Court and the secretary, Mr. J. D. Bowles.
for the manner in which they had conducted this difficult
question throughout.

SUICIDE FROM WATERLOO. I3RIDGE.-A bout half'
past twelve o'clock on Thursday last, a man committed sui"
cide by leaping from the eastern parapet of Waterloo-bridge
into the river. la the fall his body struck against one of the
abutments of the arch, and being observed from the Thaell
police floating station, a boat in mediately pulled off all'
picked him up. Ile was conveyed to King's Collage Hospital,
where Mr. Bridgewater, the house surgeon, examined bna,
and found he was quite dead, having broken four ribs by the
fall. As he has not been identified, his description 19 R 5
follows :—About 45 years old, 5 feet 5 or 6 inches high, uO
whiskers, light sandy hair, dressed in an old blue pilot clod!
coat, with several large patches, old cloth trousers, all°
blucher boots. Information has been sent to the coroner.

By the Arctic, which has brought 75,000/. from
New York, there has been no news of commercial impor-
tance. Dates from California, a fortnight later, yid Nicars°
gua, and several days in anticipation of the regular mail!:
had been received. The rains had at length commenced, and
increased returns of gold were expected forthwith from the
large quantities of earth that had been heaped up
pation during the dry season. Nothing further had trans-
pired regarding the movement to the Sandwich Is!ande, ex-
cept that an additional company of Californians, who were
preparing to leave, had pinstpotted their departure. Frofil
Oregon a party had set off to Queen Charlotte's Island In a
search for the gold which has lately been reported as in m
istenee there. in antici-
pation

APOTHECARIES' HALL.—Names of gentlemen who
passed their examination in the science and practice of Me'
dicine, and received certificates to practise, on Thursday'
Jan. I, 1852:—Joseph Stead, Manchester;
Humble, Ludlow, Shropshire. George Arthur

LEICESTER TRunsDAT.--Scarcely any business
has been done this week, very little work having been
given oat from the warehouses • indeed the week has been
almost a total holiday. Prices ofi worsted remain the saw°
as before.