The Sun.
London, England, 1852-06-03 00:00:00

CORN AVERAGES

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GENERAL AVERAGE PRICES OF BRITISH COBS tho
For the Week ended May 27, 1852, made up from the Returno of
aith
In-pectors in the different Cities and Towns in England and W
per Imperial Quarter.
WHEAT. I EAELEY. 1 OATS. 1 1
EYE. 1 BEANS.
PRICE •• 140 a Id 27s 11d 20s Id 30s Od 31s 7d 275 24

DUTIES ON FOREIGN CORN.
WHEAT. I BARLEY. I OATS. I RTE. I BEANS. I ."4:1
is 04 Is Oil Is Od is Od Is Od
ti QUANTITIES OF GRAIN SOLD LAST WEEIC.
Wheat, 90,158; Barley, 6,971; Oats, 14,998; Rye, 751
5,239; Peas, 570 quarters.

SHERIFFS' COURT,—(THIS DAY.)
(BeforeV. W.
PBatrlnNefnELßLE:Lnild a special Jury.)
HARRISON
actTiohniafowrabartseawchritofof p
ri )01 1 airey, tohe assess Pcinarplaglss.gin •
defendant
Buf-
fered judgment to go by default.
The damages were Lid at 5,0001. I,fr. Peters
Mr. Sergeant WILKINs with whom .
c,
duff) stated the plaintiff's case in his usual eloquentat.:
forcible manner. The plaintiff is the daughter of the
late Thomas Harrison, Rai , of Blackheath, and
.defen-
dant is a gentleman of considerable property at lien'
sham, Surrey. The plaintiff and defendant had been
acquainted for about six years, and defendant's cond
Wt
theB
Sid
tions towards the plaintiff. The Learned Sergeant 9
Indaerfekneddantthahtaidt was the oapnidniohnenoefuarlalholabseinrtveeur.
that be had no doubt that the discretion of his Learned_
Friend, the counsel for the defendant, would not attempt
vtoddisepeuarrariny, and defied censure, etheconduct of
nme, for her
the young lady ; tindsh
iteconduct Wars
as unimpeachable and pure as any lady in the land'
The acquaintance was kept up to autumn II":
when on an occasion at which they had been
invited to the house of a gentleman nne37/
Roper, at Godalmiag, he made a direct offer
marriage, and introduced her to his
relations• :d
his intended wife; and the plaintiff having 04°.
with her widowed mother and received her sanction
to the proposed union, defendant was introduced m
her family. He (defendant) could not plead youth 0110
sudden impulse as an excuse for his proposal, for he Pm
pjaasnsueadrythhee
continuedmeridian oaf
aeries
eafndaaftrsomwhiOchctoibefetr:o
/re
doubt that his intentions were honourable. —,
had carried matters to the extent of taking,
house, ordering the wedding ring, the wedding
cards, and actusily named the 10th of Febro,4
for the ceremony to take place. Before the time
the defendant's conduct was as strongly marked by nr9'
feet as it had previously been by attention, and on be„11,
written to by the brother of the plaintiff on the subbed
defendant at first sought to evade the matter by sending
a medical man, who by insinuation and inuendo enders
e
Toured to induce the plaintiff's friends to believe to_
defendant's state of health was such as to render 021!,r„,
riage undesirable; bat upon the brother asking 134;
to say on his word of honour whether there was any
thing of that nature, ho then admitted that they
was not, and defendant, so far from being in the
health, was following the hounds and pursuing all
A,
sports and life of a country gentleman. Finding, he o
ever, that that excuse did not avail, he wrote a letter
plaintiff's brother, and expressed his regret that be ha
entered into the agreement too hastily, after a state-
nervous excitement, in which he mistook esteem for a
"-
warmer feeling. The Learned Counsel ridiculed Ea,e
idea of a man of 40, and after a five years' Writ!'
anceship, proposing, in a fit of nervous excite'
ring, the cake,ae
meat—proposing, taking a house, ordering Z.
wedding dresses, d
stuhdedenclyarddsisconvmng eivtenbad
occurred through bad health and nervous exciteales'
The Learned Counsel denounced defendant's aoudad as
Cruel, cowardly, and mean; and as it had led not only to
blighted hopes of happiness, but the dang ,
erous 1.110e,1
of the plaintiff, ha felt justified in calling on the jell fen
exemplary damages.
e,
It was understood that an offer of 4001. .as-
bean
made and rejected.
Evidence was then adduced in support of the statemeni
of the Learned Counsel.
(The verdict was not returned when our report left*)

DIAMOND DUST.
(From Eliza Cook's Journal.)
Our minds are like ill-hung vehicles, when they have
little to carry they raise a prodigious clatter, when
heavily laden they neither creak nor rumble.
What we wish to do we think we can do, bat whey
we do not wish a thing it becomes impossible.
One-half of mankind pass their lives in thinking bow
they shall get a dinner, and the other in thinking what
dinner they shall get; and the first are much less in-
w e brow,
view
jured by occasional fasts than are the latter by constant
feasts.
The great struggles in life are limit: d to moment"
in the drooping of the head upon the bosom,—in the '
pressurelvit
h what
athe d i
fth,eavnedo
tuepyeens tdhoe
it is our own and when it is another's
an action when
Life is too short, and time too -. P mous to read every
new book through to satisfy re
' worth
oneself that it is not
reading, .

One thing is
Family jarring vulgarizs • family union elevates.
like Plutus, or uu angel, it is no me abusing her; one
quite clear, that whether Fortune be more
mgy as well throw stones at a star.
What the impulse of genius is to the great, the ill"
8 tioct of vocation is to the mediocre; in every man there
Is a n2aguet,—in that thin', which the man can do besl
there is a bads.tone.

GERMAN THRATRE.--rjer
Majesty and his Royal Highness Prince Albert, attended by
E
the Marchioness of ly, the Hon. Miss Murray, the Hon.
Miss Kerr, Lord Galway, Colonel Grey, and Colonel Bou-
Yerie, honoured the performance of the German Plays
with their presence last evening. Her Royal Highness the
Duchess of Kent attended by Lady Fanny Howard, the
Baroness de Speth, Lord James Murray, and Sir George
Couper, also honoured the theatre with her presence.
STRAND THEATRE.---AIT. Henry Lee's New Fect-
tore, which was so successful on its introduction to the public
at Saville House, Leicester-square, a short time ago, has been
removed to this pretty little theatre, and bids fair to become
exceedingly popular. The pieces represented by the " living
Marionettes" are the Waterman and the Swiss Cottage. We
L.. :J,:for, si,okeif so very favourably of Mr. Lee's clever
little troupe, that we need only say that a regular stage,
scenery, &c., adds greatly to the effect of the performance.
The direction of the musical department i,9 dill ado' tto
at* 01141.4;00mo 4f ac,J. Mal ley.