The Sun.
London, England, 1852-06-26 00:00:00

NEWPORT.

Beef, from 2s 8d to 3s 6d ; Mutton, 3s Od to 3s 10d ;
Lamb, 4s Od to 5s Od; Veal, 35 Od to 4s Od; and Pork, 3s Od
to 3s 8d per Blbs.

WHITECHAPEL.

Beef, from 2s Gd to 3s 6d; Mutton, 2e 10d to 3s 10d;
Lamb, 3s 10d to 4s 10d; Veal, 2s 10d to 38 10d; and Pork,
2s 8d to 3s 8d per Slbs.
BILLINGSGATE.

Salmon, 8d to Is ld per lb; Turbots, 3s Od to lOs Od;
Brills, 2s Od to 6s Od ; and Cod Fish, is Od to 5s Od each ;
Soles, 4d to 2s Od per pair; Eels, Gd to 10d per lb; Lob-
sters, Gd to 2s Od; Crabs, 6d to 2s Od; Crawfish, Is 6d to
2s Od; and Mackarel, 2d to 4d each; Bloaters, is Od per
dozen; Dorys, is Od to 5s Od each; Skate, 4d to 6d; Prawns,
is Gd to 2s Od per lb ; Shrimps, is 6d to 28 Od per gallon ;
Smelts, 9d to is per dozen.

BREAD.
The prices of Wheaten Bread in the metropolis are from
6%d to 7d; of Household ditto, 5d to Gd per 41b loaf.
HIDE MARKET.
Market Hides, 561 b to 641 b, lid to Od; ditto, 641 b to 721 b
lid to 2d; ditto, 721 b to 801 b, 2d to 24d; ditto, 801 b to
881 b, 24d to 21d ; ditto, 881 b to 961 b ,2id to 3d; ditto, 961 b to
1041 b, 3d to 34d; ditto, 1041 b to 1121 b, Od to Od. Calf
Skins, light, is Od to 2s 6d; ditto, full, 33 6d to 4s 6d;
Horn Hides, 5s Od to Os Od ; Polled Sheep, Os Od to Os Od;
Bents, Os Od to Os Od ; Half-breeds, Os Od to Os Od ; Downs,
3s Od to Os Od; Shearlings is to Is 2d; Lamb Skins, is 8d to
2s 9d each.

RAY MARKETS.
SmrrnmELD.—Meadow Hay, 3/ .58 Od to 4/ 4s Od; Clover
ditto, 3110 s to 4/ 15s Od; and Straw, 114 s to 1/ lOs per load.
Trade rather dull.

CUMBVILAND.-111eadow Hay, 31 5s to 41 4s Od ; Clover
ditto, 31 5s to 4/ 12s; and Straw, 1/ 5s to 1/ 11s per load.
Supply moderate, and trade dull.
WitrrEcHArEL.—Meadow Hay, 31 5s to 4/ Od ; Cloovaaer.
ditto, 3/ lOs to 4/ 15s; and Straw, 1/ 5s to 1/ 10s T;,ro. 1,9.
Both Hay and Straw moved off slowly, at our quotatio

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in the House the late Duke of York,
died in that town on Monday last, aged 74.
Severe undulatory shocks of earthquake were felt
on the 7th and Bth inst. at bieltirna II
kingdom of Naples. A subsultor _ Po a, and Barilo, in the
on tho 6th in the Island of y shock was also experienced
Ischia.
CASE or MR ALDERMAN Q
of Chubb v. Salomons the ,A.LomoNs—ln the case
new trial, on the ground llaintiff is about to move for a
against the evidence -'tlthat the ♦erdict was perverse, and
,i set the Le
rejected oral and d Learned Judge had improperly
thrected the jury. documentary evidence, and that ho had mis-
directed 1 j
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IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.

(THIS DAY.)

ROUSE OF LORDS;
Their Lordships assembled at Two o'clock, the Loan.
CHANCELLOR Presiding.
The E.iri of HOPETOUN took the oaths and his seat.
A number of private Bills were forwarded a stage.
The New River Company (Supply of Water to the
Metropolis) Bill was read a third time and passed.
The Metropolitan Burials Bill was read a second
time pro forma, and ordered to be committed on Monday.
The General Board of Health (No. 2) Bill and the
Pimlico Improvement Bill were read a second time.
The Report on the County Rates Bill, with amend-
ments, was received and agreed to.

The Metropolitan Water -Supply, the Thames Embank-
ment, the Excise Summary Proceedings, the Woods,
Forests, and Land Revenues, the Valuation (Ireland),
the Metropolitan Sewers, the Friendly Societies, No. 2,
the Crime and Outrage (Ireland), the Incumbered
Estates (Ireland), the Distressed Unions (Ireland), the
Public Health Act (1848) Amendment, and the Hollo-
way House of Correction Bills passed through Com-
mittee, and were reported to the House.
The Lordships then adjourned.

EXCHEQUER —(THIS DAY.)
(Sittings in Banco.)
JUDGMENTS.
PROVIDENTIAL ASSURANCE COMPANY V. JOHNSTON.
The question in this case was, whether a bond secur-
ing 3001., on which the plaintiffs sued, bore a sufficient
stamp. At the trial Baron Park nonsuited the plaintiffs,
on the ground that the stamp was insufficient. The
majority of the Court now took a different view to his
Lordship, and ordered judgment to be entered for the
plaintiffs.
The Court alio delivered judgment in the following
cases:—

GALVANISED IRON COMPANY V. WESLOBY.
Rule to enter a nonsuit made absolute.

CONTOCIRIER V. HASTIE.
Rale absolute to enter a verdict fur the plaintiff.

HICKIE V. SALOMONS.
Rule absolute for the plaintiff.

MASTERS V. JOHNSTON.

Rule absolute to set aside writ of eapias without cost!.

THOMPSON V. EASTWOOD.
Judgment for the plaintiff on a demurrer to a repli-
cation.

SWATMAN V. AMBLER.
Judgment for the defendant, on a demurrer to a plea
having reference to the purchase of certain inland navi-
gation tolls.

BROWN V. NORTH.
Judgment for the plaintiff.

THE MARTIN FAMILY.
The great Martin property has, at last, been disposed
of, and the Law Life Assurance Company, who were
incumbrancers to the amount of 200,0001., have ex-
changed the character of mortgagees for that
of pro-
prietors.
After passing for some time through a high moun-
tainous country, abounding in deep, narrow valleys,
spotted with myriads of lakes, and so supplied with deep
sea bays penetrating into the interior, that no portion of
the district is situated more than a few miles from the
means of navigation, the tourist in Galway arrives at one
lake more beautiful than any he has passed, in the midst
of which stands an island crowned by the ruins of an
ancient castle; while, appearing through a grove of
trees, the glittering roof of a mansion of modern build,
rears its head at some distance farther on. In those
ruins dwelt the founder of the Martin family,
whose Irish location dates far back to the first
invasion of the sister country. In the modern man-
sion dwelt, till a few years ago, the last descendant
of his race destined to wear the title of that vast
and beautiful country through which the last Martin
could drive forty miles without passing through another
man's domain. The last male possessor died during the
famine, and was succeeded by his daughter, who, sur-
rounded by difficulties which few women, or indeed
men, could cope, married her cousin. But oven this
prudent step could not avert hor doom. Having made
herself liable to a Galway merchant for seed and pro-
visions supplied to her tenants during the famine, and
the tenants having failed, through the partial loss of
their harvest, to pay her as agreed, an execution was
put into the house, every stick sold, and the Marti▪ n
family driven forth, never again to set foot upon that
property, as their own.
It is the custom to speak of the improvidence of the
lower orders of the Irish people, of their idleness, igno-
rance,i and self-imposed misery. And doubtless there ▪ s
much improvidence, and much idleness, &c. But
have we sufficiently considered how this has
come to pass ; how it has happened that it
people confessedly intelligent, even to an ex-
traordinary degree, have been willing to put up with, the
wretched homesteads, the hovels, the caves, the ai▪
ry
mansions " under ground," which in an especial man-
ner characterize the district of Connemara? We, who
have insisted on these points when it was not the fashion
to make any allowance for the Irishman, but to deal with
him as one would with a race which successive benevo-
, lent and enlightened endeavours had pronounced to be
irreclaimable, are entitled, now that people begin to
have different opinions, still to insist on those views of
this question for which we once did battle alone, and
which, we are happy to see, are now admitted as correct
by all who have authority to speak upon this matter.
Look, then, at the great property which has
just passed into the proprietorship of the Law
Life Assurance Company, and what is the state in
which the poor upon this property have hitherto
been kept? Let us not speak from ourselves,
but bring forward extraneous evidence. In a little
book, published some two years ago, we find
the following passage:—" Having spoken of the
poor of the estate, I ought not, in common
justices to neglect to say something about this suffering
population. It is universally admitted that the peasants
of Connemara are exceedingly intelligent, and that they
make good workpeople when fairly treated and well
managed. But only think of their position now! Here
is an estate running through forty miles of country, en
which there is scarcely twenty shillings a day spent e
n
any sort of labour. The only employer in this distri▪
ct
for a long time past has been Mr. Robertson, of ' the
Fishery.' . . . All the labourers in his employ are
trucked at a low rate, namely, half a stone of meal
day for twelve hours' labour, a stone of meal being pur-
ehaseable at the nearest market for clevenpence. Well,
then, only consider; here are forty miles of country,
and only one employer, and that employer paying his
labourers in kind. Where are the people? Where
will you expect to find them but in.the crowded work-
houses of Clifden Union?" He then describes a number
of evictions. " Yet the industry of this people is
very marked. All along the road the cars in this dis-
trict are pursued by women and children, striving to
sell woollen socks of their own knitting. On the moun-
tain sides, too, there are occasional patches of oats and
potatoes, the.property of the occupant of some adjacent
cabin. Even under the most disadvantageous circum-
stances, it is obvious that they strive to earn an honest
livelihood. Well may I say strive,' for what a desperate
struggle it must be!"
What can we expect from a people thus situated?
How it has come to be so is not very material here.
We are speaking of the claims of the peasantry to our
consideration, ay, and to our deepest sympathy. And
let us hope, now that the Law. Life Assnrance Com-
pany have become proprietors of this great property,
that its character will speedily be changed, and that the
intelligence, good conduct, and industry of the people
will be encouraged, and their extraordinary patience re-
warded.—Advertiser.

On Thursday the 2d Life Guards, under the com-
mand of Lieut.-Colonel Williams, was reviewed in Windsor
Great Park, by Major-General his loyal Highness the Duke
of Cambridge.

witAhluhuisuEmno.t—herA,
anln aangeanaT•oeindanJ, onbenarCoKlleinntsu,
county of Cork, has been committed for trial at the assizes,
on the coroner's warrant, charged with the murder of his
parent, by dragging the poor woman out of her bed in the
middle of the night, and beating her with such desperate
violence that she died under his hands.
0 f
which II voauPs:111::780
were
VAN DIEMEN'S LAND.—Accounts bad rbkre'e:slildritnelig•e•
ceived from Launceston direct, to the 10th of March inclu-
sive, which confirms the report of gold having been dis-
covered within the colony, but in such small portions that.
it would not pay for the labour required to obtain itc.t.n:,
great (number of persons, • however, were out prospe 1
with the hope of finding it in greater quantity.
The
ortx•
THE NATIONAL EXHIBITION AT
of whom 575 were season ticket holders, and
number who visited the Exhibition on Tuesdea9sow,
ticket 41. 12s. 6d.;
4psaid the
one shillg fee. The receipts were, for season
applauded, a t in rlValnBlB4d.,
-e 7th pricellragoon Guards
was two shilling,, as the band of th
and 251. 9s. for fees. On Wednesday the
was in attendance during the day of admission
awnet the band waste placed
le_eading down to the Fine
se:';,:e4sr2l. 18s.; total 531.103. Ca
As the early part of the day
The receipts were
greatly thronged.
during part of the day
Awritthsincot huer
t...b u i 1 drri
hn
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rofsoer :in:
aatillbeef:s:eit.
i.a. i n g
The entire admitted w
tickets, and 429 paid
12s• 6d.;
for 'season tickets 101. . d A
have arrive from ustntlia with gold
Two vessels .
~ _ Syria, from
Port Philip, 2,20 J, of
fee
whence she sailed
remittances—the -
h baying on freight 11,500 ounces, and the
the 3d of Marc ,
fromwhence Sydney, she sailed the 13th of
Regina-,
with 10 60 ounces. T
February, ,- - • he aggregate value of these
ounts to 86,0001.
imports aril
tiaaestl!v

THE' ELECTORS OF THE COUNTY OF
MIDDLESEX.—The Dissolution of the present Parlia-
ment being imminent, it becomes your duty to consider who
yon will return to represent you in that which is to
replace it. Somewhat more , than six years ago the
distinguished honour was conferred upon me of being called upon
by you to come forward and fill the vacancy causei by the death of
the late lamented Mr. Byng. I responded to that invitation, and
I%:as subsequently further assured of your confidence and support by
successfully passing through the ordeal of a contested election.
Having endeavoured since that period to keep up a ready and
constant intercourse with all classes of those whose interests were
thus entrusted in my charge, and not having received any intimation
of having forfeited the good will of those whose free suffrages
have placed me in my present position, I hope I may be permitted
to conclude that you have not repented of your choice.
Under these circumstances, having neither relaxation, modifies-
lion, nor mystification of political principle to offer you, but only
that simple consistency which seems now to be so much out of
fashion that I am almost alarmed at being under the necessity of •
avowing it, I beg to take this means of announcing to you that my
bumble services, such as they are, will be at your disposal for the
new Varliaments should you think fit to require them.

I have the honour to be,
Brother Electors,
Your obedient and faithful servant,
ROBERT GROSVENOR,

WO THE ELECTORS OF THE COUNTY
OF MIDDLESEX.
IiENTLEMEN,—A Dissolution of the present Parliament may be
loeked for within a few days. I therefore beg to announce my inten-
tion of seeking.a renewal' of your support at the coming Election.
In Joly, 1847, when comparatively unknown and untried, you con-
fided in my professions and returned me to Parliament, on liberal
and independent grounds, by an overwhelming majority. Since
that period the Division Liars of the House of Commons will show
that on all the great questions of the day my votes' have been
recorded in favour of a wise economy and an enlightened progress.
I again solicit your suffrages as an unwavering promoter of Free-
trade principles, alike opposed to an open reversal or more insidious
modification of the healing measure of Sir Robert Peel, the success
of which recent events have so triumphantly confirmed.
Should you again honour mo with your confidence, I am prepared
to advocate a further extension of the franchise, and to give my
support to any Government, irrespective of party names, who shall
prove by their legislative acts that the general good of the entire
community is n ot postponed to the interests of a class.
I have the honour to be, Gentlemen,
Your faithful Servant;

Mouse of Commons, June 25, 1852.

RALPH OSBORNE,

GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY.
CHEAP EXCURSION TRAIN.
On SUNDAY, June 27, a Train will leave Paddington at a Quar-
ter before Eight o'clock, for Cirencester, Stroud, Gloucester, and
Cheltenham, and will return the same evening, from Cheltenham at
Half-pa.st Six o'clock, calling at the same Stations.
Fares there and back in closed calriages
To Cirencester or Stroud and back - -

- 9s. and ss.

To Gloucester or Cheltenham and back - - -10 s. and 6s,
Tickets may be had previously at the Paddington Station ; 27,
Xing-street, Cheapside, and 269, Strand. Passengers having Lug-
gage can only be conveyed at the ordinary fares.

THE TRUST AND LOAN. COMPANY OR

Notice is hereby given, that the Directors are prepared to receive
OFFERS of LOANS on their DEBENTURE BONDS, bearing In-
terest at the rate of Four-and-a-Quarter per cent. per annum, and
for periods of Five, Seven, or Len years.
By order,
65, Moorgate-street, Jane 24, 1852.

T. 3LICDONALD, Secretary.