The Sun.
London, England, 1852-04-06 00:00:00

LLOYD'S SHIPPING--(THIS DAY.

LONDON, Arm, 6.—Wind at noon light airs and
fine,.

VALPARAISO, JAN. 26.—The Orthezien, from San Fran-
cisco, which put iu 16th December, has beon condemned and
sold.

FALMOUTH, APRIL s.—The Mary, Newcastle to Civita
Vecchia, which put in 2d inst. leaky, has been surveyed, and
is'discharging. The Fanny, of and for Baltimore, from Li-
verpool, was abandoned in a sinking state 11th March, 42
N., 38 W. ; crew saved.

SICIBBERBEN, APRIL 4.—The St. Johannes, Galata to
Bremen, put into Castletownsend 2d inst. leaky, and will dis-
charge.
FALMOUTH (JAMAICA), FEB. 23.—The Concordia brigan-
tine, in leaving this port, 13th ult., got on a reef, was as-
sisted off, and proceeded.
PARIS. APRIL s.—The Leopold, of and for Bordeaux,
from N antes, foundered 14th ult. ; crew saved.
SYDNEY (NEW SOUTH WALES). Nov. 29--The Two
Friends, Fort Macquarie to Hobart Town, was lost between
the Gap and South Reef yesterday; crew and passengers
saved.

MARKET NEWS.—(THIS DAY.)
HAT MARKETS.
SMITILFIELD.—Meadow Hay, 2115 s Od to 3/17i Od; Clover
ditto, 3/ 5s to 41 4s Od; and Straw, 11 3s to 118 s per load.
A tall average supply, and a sluggish demand.
CUMBEELAND.-.- Meadow Hay, 21 16s to 410 s Od ; Clover
ditto, 3/ 5s to 4/ 4s; and Straw, 1/ 4s to 1/ 9s per load.
Trade steady, at late rates.
WILITECHAPEL.—Meadow Hay, 2l 15s to 3/ 18s Od; Clover
ditto, 31 5s to 41 4s Od ; and Straw, 11 2s to 11 8s per loan.
Supply good, and trade dull.
COLONIALS.
SUGAR. —There is not much doing, and the public sales
are limited. The quantity of British Plantation landed last
week at the East and West India Docks was 118 hhds;
there were taken for home comsumption 1,463 hhds, 93
tierces, 252 barrels. The stock in the same places is 7,319
hhds, 761 tierces, 2,287 barrels.
COFFEE:—The market is not brisk.
Rust.—The quantity landed last week at the East and
West India Docks was three puns; there were taken for
home consumption 236 puns, 7 hhds, and exported 257 puns,
68 hhds. The stock in the same places is 12,464 puns,
931 hhds.
TEA. - Last week's deliveries rather fell off.
TALLow.—P.Y.C. is 35s 6d to 35s 9d per cwt on the spot,
and Town 38s.

CRIMINAL COURT.-(THIS DAY.)
OLD COURT.
• (Before the RECORDER.)
PERJURY.—John Stowell, Thomas Stowell, and George Gar-
nett were indicted for conspiring to defraud Mr. Kennett,
a publican, and for perjury. The prisoners pleaded not
guilty.

- Mr. Parry (with whom was Mr. Woollett) conducted the
case for the prosecution, and Mr. Ballantine (with whom was
Mr. liuddlestone) defended the prisoners.
Mr. PARRY having opened the case to the jury, stating
that the perjury and•conspiracy arose out of an action which
the two first defendants brought against Mr. Kennett in the
county court, and suing to recover a sum of money which bad
been previously paid, he proceeded to call several witnesses,
from whose evidence it appeared that on the 12th of De- ,
cember last Thomas Stowell summoned the prosecutor in the
Lambeth County Court for 31/. 105., and the two other prisoners
gave evidence M support of the claim, although they well
knew the account to which the action referred had long pre-
viously been settled. The County Court gave a verdict for
the prosecutor, and the plaintiff immediately absconded. A
reward was offered, however, for his apprehension, and the
prosecutor ultimately paid 151. to a man who disclosed the
retreat of Thomas Stowell, when the present indictment was
preferred against the three defendants.
The case was proceeding when our report left, and was-
likely to last the whole of the day.

NEW COURT.
The Common Sergeant was occapied during the morning
in trying Mint cases, none of which presented any feature of
more than ordinary interest.

AMERICAN NE WS.

LIVERPOOL, TUESDAY MORNING.

The arrival of the British and Royal North American
steam-ship Asia, Captain Judkins, places us in possession of
four days' later intelligence from the United States generally*
and the British possessions in North America, than has been
hitherto receive I. The Asia sailed from New York direct
for this port on the 24th ult., with seventy-two passengers,
and 84,000 dolls. in specie. She experienced moat severe
weather on her voyage.
The capture of Caravajal by a Mexican General is con-
firmed.
Kossuth was on his way to New Orleans. No movement
had as yet taken place to give him a public reception.
Business was in a very healthy condition throughout the
States. Money is in moderate demand, but stocks and se-
curities inactive. The prices of the latter, however, were
firm.

In the market for breadstuff there was not much activity
displayed. Prices had receded slightly. Western Canal
flour, 4 dolls. 621/2c. to 4 dolls. 75c. per barrel, steady; Ge-
nesee prime wheat, 1 doll. 12c. to 1 doll. 14c. per 601ba. ;,
India corn, round yellow, 64c, to 66c. per bushel;
meal, 3 dolls. 37%c. to 3 dolls. 50c. per barrel.
There was little business done in cotton, prices slightly
receding. New Orleans and Mobile, mid. fair to fair, 95/4C-
barrel ; grain to Liverpool, sd. to Per
to 9:Ylc. per lb. ; Uplands and Florida, mid. fair to fair, B%e.
unchanged in price. Flour to Liverpool, Is, 6d."
to B%c.perplebr.
bupshroelviisicoontstonintofa
ridveemrpaonodl,, 3a-tla6ddv.
advancing
ppreircelsb..
to Freightsts. 9d.
on London, 1093/4 to 10; Pari 5 a. 20; Bremen, 78% 3/4 ;
Hamburgh, 3534 36.Eachane

CAPE Or GOOD HOPE.
LOSS OF THE TROOP-SHIP BIRKENHEAD.
[BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.]
PLYMOUTH, TUESDAY MOANING.
The Propontis mail-packet, which left the Cape on the
3d of March has just arrived. On the frontier the Geyer'
nor's call for the burgher's levy was a failure; and although
there were some expectations of the receipt of intelligence
at head-quarters, on the Bth of March, of the success of.
General Somerset's patrol, yet the appointment of a new
governor was likely to induce Sir Harry Smith to confine
his efforts to the most simple operations.
Neither the steam-frigate Megmra, with the rifle coil's
(60th), nor the Hydra, with General Cathcart, had arrived,
The Hydra left Sierra Leone for the Cape on the 2d of March.
Mr. Davison, surgeon of the 43d, has been waylaid and
killed by the Kafirs when .on escort. Four hundred of-,
the British troops were in hospital at Ring Wilhite"
Town. •
The Propontis brings the distressing intelligence of-the loSS;
of the Birkenhead troop-ship, on the 26th February, neat
Simon's Bay; 416 persons are missing. Naval officer/
drowned: Salmond, commander; Brodie, master; Speer,
second ditto; Davis, ditto; Whyham, chief engineer; Hare,
master's assistant ; Macclymont and Deely, assistant engi-
neers; the boatswain Harris, and the carpenter Roberts; Military officers drowned Second or Queen's Regiment, En'''
sign Boyland ; 6th Regiment, Ensign Melford; 73d Regi
ment, G. W. Robinson, and Lieutenant A. H. Booth ; 7401'
Highlanders, Major Seton, and Ensign Russell; 12th Lita' cers, Cornet Rolt.

UNION OF THE RAILWAYS ON THE SOUTH SIDE Or
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the lines on the South-Eastern systetn. It is also intended
to erect a large station at Wandsworth, from whence the new
line, to be called "The north and South-Western and Brighton
and Dover Junction," will run into the London and Brighton
line a short distance north of the present Croydon station.
It waa surmised at one time that the proposed union would
have been effected nearer town, but the enhanced value of
property required for building purposes, consequent upon the
daily extension of London on the south of the river, ren-
dered that proposal nugatory, unless at a very dear price; and the example of the enormous cost incurred by the South-
Western Company in forming the extension from Nine Elms
to Waterloo-bridge was quite .sufficient to deter them from a second experiment. Power will be applied for in the Bill
to enable all the contracting companies, under their proposed
charter of incorporation, to use each other's lines and sta-',
tions in common. Shculd the Fleet Valley Central Ter-
minus scheme be carried out, then the above companies will,
cross the river by one common line.
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BIRTHS.
OF A BON.
On the 2d inst., the wife of E. Mocatta, Esq., of Devon-
port-street, Hyde-park.
On the Ist inst., at Swakeleys, Middlesex, the wife of
Captain Thomas Cochran, R.N.
OF A DA.UGFITEB.
On the 2d inst., at Brighton, the wife of Septimtts Child,
Esq., Lieutenant I.N.
On the Ist inst ,at Gloucester-gardens, Hyde-park, the
wife of Captain Meeting.

DIED.
On the Ist inst., at Chatham, W. Bryant, Em., aged 69.
On the Ist inst., at Plymouth, aged 80, Mrs. Power, relict
of N. Power, Esq., of Queen-square, Bloomsbury.
On the 2d inst., at Dulwich, Surrey, S Page, Esq., aged 81.
On the 2d inst., Rotherham Cecil, Esq. of Dronfield-manor,
Derbyshire, aged 24.

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THE CRYSTAL PALACE.
The following letters have been published:—
" Immediate.
alce ofesinstepril It.
" Gentlemen,—We are` directed by her tm
Majestyr, 's ACommis.-
sioners for the Exhibition of 1851 to transmit to you the ac-
companying extract irom a letter which the Commissioners
have received from the Office of Works, showing that the
Government disapprove of the Exhibition Building being ap-
propriated to any purposes other than those which are speci-
fied in the Royal warrant.
"The Commissioners expect that Messrs. Fox and Hen-
derson will strictly conform to the requirements of the Com-
missioners of Works as expressed in this extract.
We have the honour to be, Gentlemen,
" Your obedient servants,
"J. Scorr RUSSELL,
" P. S. A copy of the Royal warrant is enclosed.
Messrs. Fox, Henderson, and CO."
Co
Extract from a letter to herpy.)
Majesty's Commissioners for
dated March 26:. m
the Exhibition of 1851 , from the Office of Works,
" ' Lord John Manners feels it to be his duty therefore to
take the earliest opportunity of apprising the Commis-
sioners for the Exhibition that he cannot in any way coun-
tenance the appropriation of the building to any purposes
courseit
other than those which are specified in the Royal warrant of
the 26th of September."
This communication was not received by Messrs. Fo
and Henderson
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