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

NEVPPOT&T.

105%

66y,

3S
1171/2

01%

493,4
22

Beef, from 2s 8d to 33 6d ; Mutton, 3s Od to 33 10d ;
Lamb, 4s Od to 5s Od; Veal, 38 Od to 4s Od; and Pork, 3s Od
to 3s 8d per Blbs.

NVICITECIIAPEX.

Beef, from 2s 6d to Ss 6d ; Mutton, 2s. 10d to 3s 10d ;
Lamb, 3s 10d to 4s 10d; Veal, 2s 10d to 38 10d; and Pork,
28 8d to 38 8d per sibs.
BILLINGSGATE.

Salmon, 8d to is ld per lb; Turbots, 33 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, 6d to 10d per lb; Lob-
sters, 6d 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, 4i to 6d; Prawns,
is 6d to 2s Od per lb; Shrimps, is 6d to 23 Oct 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 6d per 41b loaf.

HIDE DLEIMILET.
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 2,1 d ; ditto, 801 b to
881 b, 2id to 2id ; ditto, 881 b to 961 b ,`id 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, 3i 6d to 4s 6d;
Horn Hides, 5s Od to Os Od; Polled Sheep, Os Od to Os Od;
Kents,Os Od to Os Od ; Half-breeds, Os Od to Oa Od; Downs,
3s Od to Os Od; Shearlings Is to is 2d; Lamb Skins, is 8d to
2s 9d each.

.
EMT MAILKETS.
• S3irrmrtELD— Meadow Hay, 3/ 5s Od to 4/ 4s Od ; Clover
ditto, 3/10s to 41 153 Od;
rade du.
and Straw, 1/ 43 to 1110 a p
TM er load.
CUBERLratherANDll—.Meadow Hay, 3/ 50 to 4/ 4s Od; Clover
ditto, 3/ 5s to 4/ 12s • and Straw, 1/ 53 to 1/ 113 P
Supply moderate, and 'trade dull. Per load,
WHITECHAPEL.—Meadow Hay, 31 5s to 41 4s Od ; Clover
ditto, 8/ lOs to 41 153; and Straw, 1/ 5s to 1/
10e per luau.
Both Hay and Straw moved off slowly-, at our quotations.
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""'"'"-"""'"".----'"27------.-- ------
THE WAISTONIAN CoNTROVE
the charge of
as,.Cuitlotta Com-
CMENCE.—WhiIe Mr. Whiston was defending himself
at
Doctors' Commons on Wednci•day. last, on
" utter unfitness and, unworthiness - as a teacher, his
was reciting his Newdegate Prize Poem ME. Arnold,
be-
fore the "University of Oxford, a composition which poems
and 6' as far above the average of University poems,
and the theme of general admiration."
Severe undulatory shocks of earthquake were felt
on the 7th and Bth inst. at P
Neill, Ra olla, and Barilo, in the
kingdom
of Naples. A subsultory shock was alto experienced
of
on the 6th in the Ischia.
CASS OF Ma ALDER
M
Salomons the AN SALOMONS—In the case
of Chubb v.ground
that,
is about to move for a
new trial, on the
against the evidence at the verdict was perverse, and
that the_LearnedJudge hadimproperly
areirecjectteed4 oat(
jiwn`d.doctimentary evidence, and that be 1184 mid'

IMPERIAL PA RLIAMENT.

(THIS DAY.)

ROUSE OF LORDS;
Their Lordships ass( mb:ed at Two o'clock, the LORD
CHANCELLOR presiding.
The Earl cf iIOPETOITN took thl oaths and his seat.
A number of private Bills were forwarded a stage.
'rho New Raver Compare), (Supply of Water to the
Metrop,ilis) Bdi was read a third time and passed.
The Mptrootlitan Burials Bill was read a second
time pro forma, and ordered to be committed on Monday.

Th.. 6courat Board of licaltiiii7..2siill and the,
Pimlico Improvement Bill were r'ad a second time. •
The Report on the County Rated Bill, with amend-
rnerats, waz 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),
tue Metropolitan Sewers, the Friendly Societies, Y.:. 2,
the Crime and Outrage (Ireland), the IncumbeiTd
Estates (Ireland), the Distressed Unions (Ireland), Jig
Public Health Act (1848) Amendment, and the Bono-
way of Correction Bills passed througu Com-
mittee, and wcro reported to the House.
The Lordships then adjourned.
EX

CHEQUE!,--( THIS DAY.)
(Sittings in Banco.)
JUDGMENTS. •
PROVIDENTIAL ASSURANCE COMPANY V. JOHNSTON.
The question in this case was, whether a bond secur-
ing 3004, on which the plaintiffs sued, bore a sufficient
stamp. At the trial Baron Park nons.uited the plaintiffs,
ou the ground that the stamp WAS insufficient, The
majority of the Court now took a different view to bis
Lordship, and ordered judgment to be entered for the
The Court also delivered judgment in the following
eases:—

GALVANISED IRON COMPANY V. WESLOBY.
Ride to cuter a Lori:mit made abaolute.

CONTOURIER V. HASTIE.
Ru:e absolute to enter a verdict for the plaintiff.
HICKIE V. SALOMONS.
Rule absolute for the plaintiff.

MASTERS V. JOHNSTON.

Rule absolute to set aside writ of e;Piaa without costs.

THOMPSON V. EASTWOOD.

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

SWATMAN v. AMBLER.

Judgment fur the defendant, 011 a tit murrer to a plea
having reference to the purchase of et r,ain inland navi-
gation

BROWN v. NORTH.
Judgment for the plaintiff.

THE MARTIN FAMILY.

The great Martin property haJ' at Past, bsen disposed
ois, end the Law Life Assurance Company, who were
incumbrancers to the amount of 200,0001., have ex-
changed the character of mortgagees fur that of pro-
prietors.

After passing for some time through a high moun-
tainous country, abounding in deep, narrow valleys,
spotted with meriade of lakes, and eo supplied with deep
sat 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
like more beautiful than any he has passed, in the midst
of which stands an island crowned by the rains of as
ancient ceatle; 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-
- sloe. dwelt, till a few years ago, the last descendant
of his race destined to wear the title of that vast
could
dbeatit
fortyifulcountry through which the last Martin
drive
milts without, passing through another
man's domain. The last male perseesor 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 even this
prudent step could not avert her 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, end the Martin
family driven forth, net er 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, and self-imposed misery. And doubtless there is
much improvidence, and much idleness, &c. But
have we sufficiently considered how this has
come to pass ' • how it has happened that e
people confessedly intelligent, oven to an ex-
traordinary degree, have been willing to put up with the
wretched homesteads, the hovels, the caves, the airy
mansions " under ground," which in an especial man-
ner characterize the dicrict 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 fur which wo 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
justice, to neglect to say something about this suffering
population. It is universally admitted that the peanuts
of Connemara are exceedingly: intelligent, and that they
make good workpeople wneu fairly treated and well
managed. But only think of their position now! Here
is an estate running through forty miles of country, on
which there is scarcely twenty shillings a day spent in
any sort of labour. Tho only employer in this district
for a long time past has been Mr. Robertson, of the
Fishery.' . . . All the labourers in his employ are
trucked et a low rate, namely, half a stone of meal a
day for twelve hours' labour, a stone of meal being pur-
chaseable at the nearest market for elevenpence. Well,
then, only consider; here are forty miles of country,
and only one employer, and that employer paying his
labourers in kind. Wits re are the people? W here
will you expect to find them but in the crowded work-
houses of Cadet' 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 oven knitting. n 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 teisadvantageous 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 Assurance 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 Royal Highness the Duke
of Cambridge.
MIIRDER.—A. man named John Collins, residing
with his mother, an aged woman, near Kenturk, in the
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 tier with such desperate
violence that she died under his hands.
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--- ---- ---- --- ------
VAN DIEMEN'S LAND.—Accounts bad been re-
ceived from Launceston direct, to the 10th of March inclu-
sive, which confirms the report of gold having been c_lis7
covered within the colony, but in such small portions that
it would not pay for the labour required to
ect,tr
obtain
great (number of persons, however, were out prosp r g
with the hope of finding it in greater quantity. who
THE NATIONAL EXHIBITION AT COH,rlCa•s
theosine
:084,
number who visited the Exhibition on Tuesday aid paid the
and 6 ~, g,i
of whom 575 were season ticket holders,
andon e fee.s2hsill.lg9a. f 0 r
fe Thefees.
.
Wednesdaywere,
.lea:pay. ib!ajBk.
drcneoaedtagowt4owfloeaainrnase
intervals.
Guardsesp
seasonrilava-scaieolsan
waswa s
itwo
attendanceshilling,
during
r itheng theband
doafy he "iethti,
dtoowtainstou.io
As the early part of the day
within the building, close to the st7esre
freight 11 500
loudly applauded, and
Arts Court. The performanc.es.,_„_g yin, greatly thronged.
duringn part
aodf
mtiht et e dayast h2e,2obroa if
'wing fee. The receipts were
t icke t s, and 429 pi,:aydvritalse.ot6wnd°.
for season tickets 10/. 1 .
ved from Alta r
ra la with gold
Two vessels have ar
; from Port Phil'
IN whence she sailed
:re '
the 3d of March, ,
~_OO, sydne,),whence she sailed the 13th of
Regina, IT .
remittances—the
10,260 ounces. The
February.
withu' ts to 86,000/. aggregate value of these
:Peeve" s 4
:16 :18i Ds
.g;
imports at___

BIBTHR.
OP A SON.
On the 22d inst., at &se-mcunt, Bradford, Yorkshire, the
wife of John Douglas, Esq.
On the 24th inst., at Warwick-square, Belgrave-road, the
wife of W. A. Loch, Esq.

A DAUGHTER.
On the 23d inst., atOF
Swaton Vicarage, Lincolnshire, the
wife of the Rev. Henry Knapp.
On the 23d inst at Gloucester-terrace, Regent's-parks
Mrs. Joseph Gibbons.'

MARRIED.
On the 24th inst., at the British Embassy, Paris, Alice
Anna Catherine, second daughter of Thomas liawkes, Esq.,
late of Himley-house, Staffordshire, to Octavius Warre, son
of the late Sir C. W. Malet, Bart., of Wilbury, Wilts.

DIED
On the 22d inst., at St. Mary's-lodge, Colchester, Henry
Vint, Esq., aged 73.
On the 21st inst., at North Walsham, Norfolk, aged 80,.
Frances Koster, the wife of E. Meade, Esq.
On the 22d inst., Sophia, second daughter of the late Rev.
J. Smirnove, formerly chaplain to the Russian Embassy.
On the 23d inst., in Blandford-spuare, aged 52, Henry W.
Beavan, Esq.
On the 23d inst., Emma, wife of Josiah Blomfield, Esq-,
of
Grove-terrace, Peckham.
London: Printed and Published by MURDO YOUNG, 5,
No. 112, Strand, Printer. at The Eun.GiFace, No. 11
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