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

BREAD.

The prices of Wheaten bread in the metropolis are from
6d to 610; of Household ditto, 414 d to 61,0 per 41b loaf.

HIDE DIARICET.
Market Hides, 561 b to 641 b, lid to 2d; ditto, 641 b to 721 b
2d to 2id ; ditto, 721 b to 801 b, 2id to 24d; ditto, 801 b to
881 b, 2id to 3d ; ditto, 881 b to 961 b, 3d to 3id; ditto, 961 b to
1041 b, 34d to 31d; ditto, 1041 b to 1121 b, 3id to 4d. Calf
Skins, light, Is Od to 2s Od; ditto, full, 4- 6d to es Od;
Horn Hides, 5s Od to Os Od ; Polled Sheep, 5s 7d to 75 Od;
Kents, 5s to 5s 7d; Half-breeds, 4s 6d to 5s 2d; Downa,
3s 4d to 4s 3d; Lamb Skins Os Od to Os Od.

EAT MARKETS.
SMITHFIELD.—Meadow Hay, 2/ 15s Od to 3/15s Od ; Clover
ditto, 31 5s to 4/ 5s Od; awl Straw, 1./ Os to 1/ 6s per load.
A good supply, and a dull trade.
CUMBERLAND.—Meadow Hay, 21 15s to 31 17s Od; Clover
ditto, 3l 5s to 41 4s; and Straw, 11 is to II 70 per load.
Both Hay and Straw sold slowly, at late rates.
WHITECHAPEL.—Meadow Hay, 2/ 15s to 3/ 15s; Clover
ditto, 31 5s to 41 6s Od; and Straw, 11 Os to II 6s per load.
Trade dull, at about stationary prices.

COURSE OF EX(.
Amster au, ......•••. 11 l'l%
Ditto, three months . 11 19
dotterdam .... • 11 191 i
Antwerp 25 4j
drussels ••••.. .. . • 25 40
flamburgh 13 lOM
Altona.
Paris, 3 days'sight ~ 25 25
Ditto, 3 months. 25 45
Marseilles ............ 25 45
Bourdeaux ..... •
Prankiort on Blaine.... 120134
Vienna, effec. flo •••• •• 12 12
Trieste, ditto.... • • .... 12 13
Petersburgh,Sil. Rble.
Madrid .... •• - 49%
Cadiz ..... • • 49%
BarColoMa • • • •• •• • • •

HANGE.—FnmAr.

IGV)raltar.. ••

Leghorn ........ •• •• 80 87g
'lenoa •••••••• • • • • •• •• 25 60
Milan .. e• •••••• • • •• •• ••••
Venice.— .. •• • • ....
Naples 403 i
Palermo, 120
Messina •••••••••• •• •• 1201 c
Lisbon.. •••••••• •• •• •• 52%
3p0rt0................ 52%
Rio Janeiro •
Buenos Ayres
New York, 60 days'sight
Philadelphia
PRICES OW •MILLION, PICS OIL
Foreign Geld in bars.. £3 17 9
Portugal Gold Coin .. 0 0 0
.Spanish Doubloons 0 0 0
Now Dollars .•„.. 0 4 1l;{
Silver in bars 0 5 0%

Bevine.. •• •• •• •• •• •• .

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.
Silt,—A severe domestic misfortune has withdrawn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 observe*
thane? And first with; regard to the statement of
Elizabeth Woodfield in the case of Harriet Newman, at
the Central e;riminal 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 un•
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, .1 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 alio had declared in no moderate tering
that I should never receive a brief from her again. I
never saw her afterwards, and had quite forgotten her,
till her appearauoe in May last on the trial of William
Day, when, a remarkable fact, she never ventured all
such statement as that made by her on the 15th Dec.
need hardly add that her declaration, particularly
0` having given me briefs within two years, is wholly ue.:
true. With respect to the second case, that of Henri
Martin Flanagan, I am sorry that I cannot completeli
explain my knowledge of him without naming a number
of respectable individuals, professional and otherwise,
and souse of superior rank, and this I
.do not feel jur titled in doing, though at the risk of, not clearing 1131.
self of all the obloquy that may consequently attach t° me. I hope my evidence on Saturday will be suffieiento
at least till after the trial. In the mean time I may ot serve, that he has handed briefs to other barristers Teri
recently, and that, on his last examination, he stated,
bad
accounting for the money found on him, that be bv
received six pounds from a gentleman for services rent
dered to him, facts demonstrative of his independence
me. Besides, I have often not seen him for a week t°'
gether, and when he did call on me he remained but
short time. The reason why he was - treated by me, 6:
by many, in a different manner to others of his
class, is the circumstance of his being one of a ne°:
wealthy family, well known in public lite between thirti
sad forty years since.
Bat,
aorta
leaving particulars, will you allow me a gee- ~,,
remark on the faulty system by which barristers on hi
Middlesex Sessions accept briefs from any person
what,
soever, and contrary to an alleged etiquette of the pr-h
fession? They have been blamed for so doing, bat sue,
censure, under present circumstances, is not quite re.,
Burnable. If a counsel refuse to recognise any one of
„,
certain class the mischief to him is not confined to the
loss of a fee. The offended party can and does desce°,,
into an arena where the barrister cannot stoop to folio t
him, and can there, with impunity, villify the charat
and abilities of the other, and thus seriously injure hi`-;
where (in a pecuniary sense) his reputation is 10;0
valuable. I speak from experience, having long tit,
suggested reforms and regulations ; but the 0n1y16,5a
of my suggestions and attempts have been a positiYe
„„d
to myself. I mention this to show that reform of a u'ic
practice ought not to be exp, cted from the bar alone. 0
must emanate from a higher source, which is indepeuded of the influences that weaken and nullify the efforts 0, individuals, and yet by which, in the language of lego
a " reputation is oft got without merit, and lost
wit.„.h°
deserving."—I am, Sir, &c., S. C. HORRI.•
Guildhall, Westminster, Dec. 1851.

Yesterday afternoon the dividend declared at the
meeling of the London Dock proprietors was 2/. 10s, per eel
clear of income-tax, for the half-year ending the 30th .I"'„,,°'
vember. It was announced that the business of the COp/
pany was in a prosperous condition, and that a contract fro
additional warehouses, to cost 43,000 L, had been taken, 0,
provide for the accommodation for the goods of custofee.o
The closing of the litigation with the Customs' and:writ'?
formed a prominent subject of remark, and it was the ones t
mous opinion that the directors had adopted a prude j,
course ie arranging the settlement which had been effecteo
To mark the feeling entertained a special resolution
oft
moved by Mr. Matthew Clark, conveying the thanks 0'
proprietors to the Court and the secretary, Mr. J.
for the manner in which they had conducted this diflicul
question throughout.
h If°
SUICIDE FROM WATERLOO. BRIDGE.--A bout ---ts„i•
past twelve o'clock on Thursday last, a man committeded?
vide by leaping from the eastern parapet of Waterloo-View
into the river. In the fall his body struck against one °los
abutments of the arch, and being observed from the Them
police floating station, a boat immediately pulled 011. itAl,
picked him up. Ile was conveyed to King's College HosP,io,
where Mr. Bridgewater, the house surgeon, examined utio
?lid found he was quite dead, having broken four ribs bY. 00
fall. As he has not been identified, his description 15 ocr
follows :—About 45 years old, 5 feet 5 or 6 inches high'
whiskers, light sandy hair, dressed in an old blue pilot CI
coat, with several large patches, old cloth trouser,
I.:
blucher boots. Information has been sent to the cora°
_0
By the Arctic, which has brought 75,0001. frua,
New York, there has been no news of commercial in:cPIA,
tance. Dates from California, a fortnight later, viii
gua, and several days in anticipation of the regular 1,000,1
had been received. The rains had at length commenced'
increased returns of gold were expected forthwith frerttotici°
large quantities of earth that had been heaped up in,etoos'
pation during the dry season. Nothing further had
pired regarding the movement to the Sandwich Island,'were
cept that an additional company of Californians, wil°,Froili
preparing to leave, had p, stponed their departure.
od
Oregon a party had set off to Queen Charlotte's 1515 es'
search for the gold which has lately been reported as ""
istence there. so°
APOTHECARIES' HALL.—Names of gentlernell,f we'
passed their examination in the science and practice
dicine, and received certificates to practise, on "I" rt,130
Jan. 1, 18:12:—Joseph Stead, Manchester; George
e 4
Ilumble, Ludlow, Shropshire.
EIC hSTER Ent:3DAy.--Sc2c-cely any buglDeco
has been done this week, very little work having been
given out from the warehouses • indeed the week ti
almost a total holiday. Prices Of Ivo:rated remain the
as before.