The Sun.
London, England, 1852-06-19 00:00:00

PRICE OF SUGAR.

The average price of Brown or Muscovado Sugar, corn.
puted from returns made in the week ending June 15,
1852, exclusive of Customs Duties paid or payable thereon
on the importation thereof into Great Britain :
From the British possessions in America 235. 100. per cwt
From the Mauritius ... 235. 9d.
From the East Indies 21s. ld.
Average price of the three foregoing de-
scriptions of sugar, jointly, computed as
above, and exclusive of duty ... 235. 34d. „
By authority of Parliament,
HENRY BICKNELL, Clerk of the Grocers' Company
Grocers'-hall, June 18.

MR. WHISTON'S CASE.

THE DEAN AND CHAPTER OF ROCHESTER V. THE REV.

MR. WIIISTON.

This case, the arguments in which were postponed
some days ago, came on yesterday morning, before the
Lord Bishop of Rochester, Mr. Baron Parke, and Dr.
Lushington. The argument in the case was re-
sumed by
Dr. ADDAMS (with whom was Mr. Cowling) who said
that he had the honour to address them on behalf of the
Dean and Chapter of Rochester, and he hoped, not-
withstanding tne able defence of Mr. Whiston, it would
not be necessary for him to detain them at any consi-
derable length. Mr. Whiston was served with a notice
to show cause why he should not be removed from the
Cathedral Grammar Sohool, and he appeared to that
citation, and put in a protest. He was served with
a citation on the 7th of September, and on the 6th of
Slctoher he put in a pretest. He was infornaked he
protest bad been over-ruled -rugs,
he had put in a further protest, making, on the whole,
ninety-three articles. These protests were over-ruled,
and then Mr. Whiston appeals, not with reference to the
protests, but on the merits. He did not object to that,
although it was not altogether a regular proceeding, for
he was sure the Court would look into the merits of the
case. There were two reasons put up against the deci-
sion of the Dean and Chapter. The first was, that no
h
reason had been given why he should be removed, and
the second was, that the Dean and Chapter had been
thejudges in their own cause. lie could not see how Mr.
Whiston could make out that the Dean and Chapter
were judges in their own cause, and all that he made
out in support of that argument was that they were the
plaintiffs.
Mr. Baron PARKE.—That point was settled by the
Court of Queen's Bench, and you need not trouble your-
self farther on the point.
Dr. ADDAMS said the second edition of the pamphlet
contained new matter more libellous, if possible, than the
first edition. The remedy of the defendant was in the
Court of Queen's Bench,
and that Court had held in so-
veral cases that a person guilty of libel, as Mr. Whiston
was, could be removed. The Learned Gentleman then,
at great length, proceeded to cite a great number of
eases, and to comment upon the facts of the case, which
must be familiar to our readers.
Mr. COWLING followed on the same side, insisting
that the statutes sufficiently authorised the course pur-
sued by the dean and chapter, they having the power of
inflicting the punishment they had done, and proceeded
to show upon the statute of Elizabeth and the Chester
case that the offence of gravins delicium had been estab-
lished by the publication of the pamphlet, and which,
upon the judgment of the Court of Queen's Bench, gave
the dean and chapter the power of adjudication,
by acting to the extent of removal, and that re-
duced the whole question as to whether the pub-
lication was libellous, and of which the Learned Counsel
contended there could be no question ; the charges being
that of the suppression of offices for objects of malver-
sation, and held up to public odium, the charge being,
in fact, that they had embezzled the property of the
community itself ; the libel failing, a more grievous case
could not exist than that put forth by Mr. Whiston.
Although the address of Mr. Whiston had occupied
seventeen hours in delivery, in his address ho bad en-
tirely failed in proving a single case of malversation by
the dean and chapter. The Learned Counsel, at half-
past four, having closed the first portion of his argu-
ment, was stopped by
Mr. Baron PARKE, who said the Learned Counsel
had not better open any new point of argumeat then, as
the Court would, from the lateness of the hour, adjourn
until Wednesday next.
The further bearing was accordingly adjourned till
Wednesday next.

CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT.
OLD COURT.
(Before Mr. Baron ALDERSON.)
George Augustus Davis, a person of gentlemanly ap-
pearance, surrendered yesterday to take his trial upon a
charge of wilful and corrupt perjury,
who with Mr. Bodkin and Mr.
Balran
leangteinetwWma
instructedasiNs to conduct the prosecution,
said that he and his Learned Friends having carefully
considered all the evidence for the prosecution, had come
to the conclusion that it would not be advisable to offer
any evidence in support of the charge against the gen-
tleman who had just surrendered to take his trial. It
appeared that there had been a long course of litigation
between the defendant and the prosecutor, and there was
reason to believe that the statements complained of bed
been hastily made without any improper motive, and
that the charge of perjury, therefore, could not be sus-
tained. The object of the prosecutor was to relieve his
character from the imputations that were cast upon him
by the statements in question; and as those imputations had been entirely withdrawn by the defenp dant, he
thought the proper course to be taken was not to offer
any evidence on behalf of the prosecution.
Mr. CLARKSON, who with Mr. l)oarsley appeared for
the defendant, said he was perfectly ready to accede to
the proposition of his Learned Friend. He believed the
fact to be that both gentlemen had acted under a cols"
take, and that there was no ground for imputing a criEjti; nal offence, or an offence of
either of them. He was'happy, therefore, to fall into d,
any other descrip.tion,the
suggestion made by his Learned Friend, and 11°
beg
111 0
on the part of the defendant, to le ithdraw
an imputation upon the character of the eyerytng
prose"
A verdict of Not Guilty was
fendant was at once discharged. je, the fallest
[As we are at all times desirous of giv7eharacter is
particulars in every metter in which P
eoryivatreport, at the
then taken,
concerned, we willingly insert the 11-40 cannot think
the de-
request of one of the parties, although be placed on the
that any injurious construction could
condensed report contained in our impression of yester-
day.—En. Sun.]

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smoking half-a-dozen ho ue— jet than tobaceo. Taking a
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planted one and then Put
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The Assembiee Nationale has the following on the
speech of the Duke Of WELLINGTON 011 the Militia
Bill. This journal, whilst it pays a just tribute to
the candour, probity, and good sense of the Duke,
observes that his mode of delivery, of which, how-
ever, it could have no personal knowledge, indicated
the effects of age. This may be true, but it would
be difficult to find in the speech, as reported by the
English journals, any indication of such effects on
the mind. On the contrary, the speech is remarkable
as indicating a warmth of imagination which is not
often witnessed even in statesmen who are thirty
years the juniors of the Duke of WELLINGTON. The
• Assembles says—
" The speech by which the Duke of Wellington sup-
ported the Ministerial measure merits attention. It was
seen that age weighs on the Duke; his elocution, never
easy or brilliant, has become more painful and embar-
rassed. But his clearness of thought still exists. It
is curious to see with what cold reason, with what
abandonment of false national vanity, the old general
spoke
the
eofthe English armies which he commanded. To
prove that the militia may form good troops, he lays
down
precedin principle that there is no man, of whatever
country he may be, and whatever may have been his
does not fear to make a • •and to find an example, he
g habits, who cannot, with time and persever-
ance,acquired. The :mulct eof
good soldier, .
under his orders it has
a . two-thirds of the glory which
take from. the English army, who served
called to mind that
a third only of
ro.
brave, and did their duty as Wellington
1 jects. The other two-thfradY was compose
a were,however,
d
British
more frankly frankly treatedbe sta,notless
well. The soldier was never
only worth something
posed of. The desire aobltY manner in which he is the-
:lothdimathematical
individual
It alh onou r
unity,anand
military
s
glory seem here reduced
there exists another country in We know not if
yet
the
words that country
uro
soldier of the national army wn Pi,e, in which the first
speak of the military calling; but-a-t"
have dared so to
is not France. And
the Duke of
Wellington will offend no one in En I
only be seen in them, what there really is there will
exact
we see in this faCtial°" and
reasoning, regard being had to the natio-nails' p v e!r. 3'
manners. But bow clearly
liar genius of the English nation, and how the pecu-
tional nature of its institutions is explained!" the excep-
There is an article in the Union on the affairs o
the East, in which the writer indulges rather freely
in aspersions upon England, for having, as he -
pre-
tends, intrigued to monopolize influence in that part
of the world. We had begun to think that the un-
friendly feeling so long manifested by the chief organ
of the Legitimist portion of France towards the
English had subsided, but it appears that we were in
error. The language of the Union, however, is very
mild as compared with that of the Univers on the
affair of M. MATHER. The Univers is hardly decent.
It says :—.
" The presence at Florence of M. Bulwer induces a
hope of a solution favourable to the interests of the
Mather family. In the meantime Lord John Russell
and Lord Palmerston have turned the question to
account to attack the Ministry. The last sitting of
the House of Commons was entirely devoted to the
discussion of the reparation due to the honour of
England, which had been insulted in the person of
one of her subjects. This is a very tender
subject, and one on which the opposition reckons
largely, in order to influence the electors. We
hope that the Tuscan Government will not be inti-
midated by all this noise. Spain has given her a lesson
how to act with the intermeddling diplomatists of Eng-
land. If it will suffice, iu order to acquire a fortune, to
go to Florence and insult an Austrian officer, the Grand
Duke will soon see arrogant tourists arrive in his do-
minions in greater numbers than the emigrants for Cali-
fornia and Australia. If the Tuscan Treasury establish
the disastrous precedent of paying too dearly for the
blows which the English may bring on themselves on
the part of Austrian officers, it will soon find itself un-
able to provide for all the demands made on it. It has
not been proved that M. Mather received six Wows, and
yet 6,000 E have been offered to him. However heavy
Austrian blows may be, more than ono hare- brained
tourist of Great Britain would present himself to receive
blows at the same price. It will be high time for the
Governments of Italy to come to an understanding to-
gether to put an end to these insolent aggressions of
England. The whole of Europe would applaud an ener-
getic determination, which would prove that not at
Florence, any more then at Madrid, would the Govern-
ment tremble before the agents of the policy of the Rus-
sells and the Palmerstous. Asto the English Ministry,
itataajw anythingbut obFy the impulse
given to it by its opponents. Thls'is a sorrraiiituderai
it on th,• eve of the el..cliOns."

The Patric of Thursday evening says :—" It is po-
sitively stated that the session of the legislative
Body, which was to have closed on the 28th, is about
to be extended for a period of 15 days. The cause for
this measure is said to be the immediate presenttation
of two bills relative to the concessions of the Paris
and Cherbourg, and Bordeaux and Cette Railways."
Toe Caen and Cherbourg Railway has been con-
ceded to the Rouen Company.
Count D'Onsar has, says the Union, been ap-
pointed " Superintendent of Fine Arts" at the Elysee,
with a salary of 25,000 f. A Paris letter, in the In-
dependance of Brussels, states that the PRINCE PRE.
SIDENT has placed at the disposal of count D'ORSAY
300,000 f. for the purchase of pictures, statues, and
other works of art.
We read in the Constitsttionnel :—" The Patrie of
Wednesday evening announced that the Prince of
CArua had just left Paris_ for Malta, where he pos-
sesses large estates. This is an error, as the Prince
has been at London for the lust six months, and has
no intention of quitting England. The Prince pos-
sesses at Malta merely a small villa, which he has
rented for some yearE.".

--7 The Bank of Prance is about to establish a branch
bank either at Rochefort or La Rochelle, in the de-
partment of the Charente InfZrieure. This will make
the number of branches 32.

The Bourse was firm to-day, with a conuiderable
of business doing in Railway Shares. The
per Cents. opened at 1001. 55c., and
Orleans Rsilway Shares,
efkmooicti-duaeatnnt:-10-01foi::jdFoaa.tfo7rotr.h1)7.;d of the mouth; the Three
Ter
l'...vigtion,
1,242 f. 50c.; 'town, 860!-.; Havre, 327 f. 50e.;
3901. ; Vierzon, 6201. ; Basle, 2671. 50e.;
Tours
Bad 75c.; Paris and Strasburg; 582 f. 50e. ; Tours
Had Nantes, MI; Paris and Lyons, 6581. 75e; the
NPsv Austrian Loan, 944,
BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE
LON
18. DON S 4CIIA.INGE, JUNE Dutch Rhenish, 4T,340CK ,—East Indian, 23—Grand Jun,tion 7
France, 4f
Fr—Luxei, 3 %—Namur and Liege,c 6 T,, of
Northern oance4nhourl.4, g—Paris and Lyons, 11%—rar's
and Strasbourg, 23 Va, 2
ex_ d.—Sambre and Meuse, ea—Tourti
and Naate, 12—Western of France, 8.
IMMI•m•••

Madrid journals of
are generally without interest.
T 13th Gazette of the
-3th does not contain the ex-
pected aunounc€:ment of General LAVA as Minister
SP AIN
the 13th have arrived, but they
.
of War, and er,.,.. , -r,
Gen r.SPELETA as Minister of
Marine. It was still reported, however, that these
appointments had been made.

Their 12 BELGIUM.
the
eit
oyal Hi hnesses the Duchess D'ORLEANS,
Co-1111 t DE Rfats, and the Duke DE CHARTR,ES
arrived
at Liege on the 16th. They were attended
by Madame la Mar6chale Comtesse de Lobau, Coun-
tess de Montesquiou, Marquise de Vince, Duke de
Trevise Count de Segur, and M. de 13s-Millon.
,
The Countess de Lobau, and the Countess de Montes-
quiou subsecfuen
tly proceeded to Brussels.

Copenhagen of the 15th, in a Berlin
DENMARK.
jouArnlaelt,tsetr faterin
states that the king of DENMARK, in a coun-
cil held on the signed the deeds
relative to the arrangement effected with the Duke
Of AIIGTISTENBVEG:
ove intends to protest in
The lithographici correspondence of Berlin states
that
theeraanic Diet priFsianbrrnment
against the decree of the King of
itticoirtx, declaring that the loans raised by the
revolutionary Government of Holstein will not be
recognised.