The Sun.
London, England, 1852-05-15 00:00:00

COMMERCIAL NEWS.

RIO DE JANEIRO, APRIL 13.—The exchange has ex-
perienced considerable fluctuation since date of our last
circular, 13th ult. The rate opened at 27, and after
having advanced to 27i and 27i, receded again, and
closes to-day at 27 60 days, to 27i 90 days. The
amount of bills negotiated we estimate at about 330,0001.
on London, principally at 27 and 27i; 970,000 francs on
Paris, at,348 to 353; 480,000 M. 800. on Liamburgb,
chit fly at 650 rs. -
The shipments in March were 157,050 bags coffee
(against 193,953 bags in the same month of 1851); 1,475
cases, 12 boxes, 2,351 barrels, 2,836 bags sugar; 3,289
hides, 55 tanned half hides, • 13,450 ox and cow horns,
545 pipes rum, 200 bags rice, 2,573 rolls tobacco, 631
barrels tapioca, 352 planks jacaranda.
TUESDIY, APRIL 13, 2 PA.—Exchange—Consider-
able business has been done both yesterday and to day
at 27d., closing flat at this rate. --
Cuffie—Nothing doing. Shipments this month 85,000
bags.

RAILWAY RETURNS

TRAFFIC RETU FOR THE PAST WEEK.

Mlles
opened,
1652.

NAME OF RAILWAY.

Receipts,

Itol.

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(From the Morning Chronicle )
We are certainly n matter-of-tact 'people, In our
eyes sentiment cannot subvert moral obligatior, 'sor can
it transform a breach of contract into an interesting ro-
Man Ce. To cur dull unimaginative apprehensions fair
play is fair play, and a bargain a bargain, whether its
subject be the loose of a firm or the voice of a prima
donna Whit. ver
_tray be ,aid to the contrary; we can
both value genius and reward it; but there is one price
which we are unwilling to give for it, and we utterly
decline to pu7chase its enjoyment at the expense ot
honour arid fairness.
So long as the original suit of "Lumley v. Wagner"
was pending in the Vice-Chancellor's Court, we ab-
stained from offering any comment upon facts which
sp ,Ise but too plainly for themselves. But M Wegner
is determine dto leave us no alternative. He courts eon-
chinn ,t.on and in.ists upon exposure. Not astisfi.`d,
with the details ot his case which have already uppearea
-before the public, er with the decision of Sir_ James
Parker, he' has -ennovnced his intention of appealing to
another ir:hunal. What honest object Nl,_.Wagner cr
his advisers propose to themselves in taking this step, it
is dial...els to imagine. Wo oily hope that be will dis•
cover, before he has done, that, if England ":can only
reward wi:h her money," she can at least puOish With
her contempt.
Seldom have the circumstances of a Chancery' suit
excited such interest or received such publicity as Nave
atteoded the proceedings in this case. 'I he mate.`tal
facts, although distributed by the ingenuity of cuuns.4
over some three or four days, may be compressed into
almost as few words. It appears that, ha October last,
Mr. Darnley 'proposed to secure the services of Madlle.
Wagner fir the present summer, upon condition, inter
alia, that she should not be at liberty to enter into any
other professional engagement during that perited. The
Wagners objected to the restrictive clause, and a new
agreement wes drawn up, in which it was omitted. This
agreement was pieced in the hands of Dr. Bachei,'—e
gentleman whom the affidavits of each party' describe as
the agent of the other—and he repaired 4ithit.tio Farb."
met Mr. Lumley on the lath 'of November.,
.'Lumley, on seeing that the original conditionbad
been expunged from the contract, insisted upon its
of Madlle. re-
insertion; and Dr. Becher thereupon consented, on be- .
half
and her father's nt with
the addition. Wagner—and, as he asserts, with her
authority—to sign the agreement

Thus far, it may perhaps be doubted whether any-
hthing had _been done which could legally bind the
Wegners. But, on tha-27th Of the semis month, we find
Madlle. Wegner Writing a letter to Dr. Becher,
in wbich
she refers .to the document in its altered' state as a eAb-
sisting agreement, and, to all appearance, Adopts it
ix tote; A letter of her father's was also in evidence, in
which, while complaining of the additional clause, ho
clearly recognises its validity. The payment of part
of the consideration money was fixed for the 15th
of M. Wagner him-
of March, and the debut of Madlle. Wagner for_the 2d of
beende lauynedders to
understood,
la 5s th a of
April. At the request, however,
saenldf,
itthe6elaernttesr wasteuvenbtave
course, that the stipulated advance should be postponed
for a proportionate period. Whether Mr. Lumley ac-
tually offered to pay the money on the day specified_
or even whether any particular day bed, under the al-
tered circumstances of the case, been specified—does net
appear by the evidence. At any rate it is shown that
he made a formal tender of the money on the 15th of
April. But; on the sth of the same month, we find the
Wagners in treaty with Mr. Gye.
So stand the facts of the case. Lot us now see what
was the defence set up by M. Wagner. That defence
was threefold. First. it was contended that Mr. Lumley
was not so well off as Mr. Gye. Secondly, it was
urged that by the law of Prussia the plaintiff was not
entitled to his injunction—an allegation which, however
weighty in itself, loses a considerable part of its logical
force from the circumstance that Prussia is not England.
Thirdly, it was alleged that Mr. Lumley had acted most
unjustifiably in attempting to prevent Madlle. Wagner
from appearing on any other stege than his own. But,
unless we suppose that the proprietor of an operatic es-
tablishment enters into a professional engagement with
the sublime ambition of benefiting all the stray specu-
lators in London, and of developing the musical genius
of Young England into the bargain, we can hardly see
why Mr. Lumley should send all the way to Berlin for
Madlle. Wagner, in order that she might electrify a
crowded audience at Covent-garden or Exeter-ball. We
never heard before that distinguished opera singers were
like some eminent Queen'a counsel, .and might receive
fees from rival claimants without intending to-fulfil their
engagement with either.

That a Court of Appeal will consent to reverse the de-
cision
of Sir James Parker, we cannot for a moment
imagine. But even supposing that it be unhesitatingly
confirmed, it is impossible to deny that Mr. Lumley has
sustained a grievous injury. He has obtained his in-
junction, but he has obtained little else. Prima donnas
are not like " little birds," which, when they " can
sing and won't sing, must be made to sing;" and the
Court of Chancery, although it may prevent Madlle.
Wagner from violating her engagement, cannot compel
her to perform it. There is but one person from whom
Mr. Lumley can hope to obtain the redress to which he
is entitled, and that person is Me,dlle. Wagner herself.
It is still in her power, by freely consenting to fulfil
her engagement, to show that she, at any rate,
has had nu share in the very questionable transaction
. .

THE LONDON GAZETTE, May 14.

LORD CHAIIBERLAD'S OFFICE MAY 12. 1852.

N.)ric.: her.ay given, tha., har Mai -acy will hold a
1),-,ving-r.i.nn, at. oa Thursday, the

3I oi Jaae a X Itt t k
Witt OFFICE. AAY 14.
Royal Regim,,nt of 1-1 oise Guar is—Lieutenant the
11,:u. George Watson Milks to b 4 Captain, by purchase,
vice Lord Alexander Francis CCa-i'lea Gordon Lennox,
who retiree; Cornet Lird George Charles Gordon Lon
Mix to be Li( utenaut, by purchase, vice Ntillea, nay 14.
21 Dragoon Guards—William ta•Cormick, Gent., to
be Cornet, by purchase, May 14.
4th Dragoon Guards—Daniel Pvploe Webb, Gent.,
to b- Cornet, by purchase, vice Ntorgan, promoted,

May 14.
6th Dragoon Guard4—William Thomas Betty, Gent.,
to be Cornet, by purchase, Hay 14.
Ist Dragoons—Edmund Pepys, Gent., to be Cornet,
by purchase, vice Cannon, appointed to the 3,1 Dragoon

Guards, May 14.
4th Ligbt Dragoons—Humphrey Brook Firman,
Gent., to be Cornet, by purchase.
17th Light Dragoons—Lieutenant John Pratt Winter
to be Captain by purchase, vice H sworth, who retires;
Philip Musgrave, Geet., to be Cornet, by purchase,
May 14.
Scots Fusilier Guards--William, Viscount Ennis-
more, to be Ensign and Lieutenant, by purchase, vice
Stevenson. who tires, Mss 14.
Ist Regiment of Foot—Rtcnard Llewellyn Williams,
Gent., to be Ensign, by purcnase, vice Smith, promoted,
May 14.
9t"i Foot—William Nugent, Gent., to be Ensign, by
pt, chaff., vice Terry, promoted in the 3rd West India
Regimelitc, May 14.
12th Foot--William Henry Paul, Gent., to be Ensign,
by purchase, vice Wolseley, appointed to the 80th Foot,
May 14.
21st Foot—Jobn; Charles Sheffield, Gent., to be En-
sign, bs; purchase, vice Steward, promoted, May 14.
340., Foot—Lieutenant William Warry to be Captain,
by purchase, vice Bellew, who retires; Ensign George
Percy Barnard, to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice
Warry, May 14.
35th Foot—t7aptain George Lennox Rawdon Berke-
ley, from the 36th Foot, to be Captain, vice Ord, who
exchanges, May 14.
36th Foot—Captain Augustus William Ord, from the
35th Foot, to be Captain, vice Berkeley, who exchanges,
May 14.
39ta Foot—Norman Macdonald, Gant, to be Ensign,
by purctosse, vice Maine, app Anted to the 86th Foot,
May 14..
48th Foot—Arthur George Wyse, Gent, to be En-
sign. by ourchaip, vice ('rent, promoted, May 14.
55th Foot—ll 'bert Wesrrop Ellis. Gent., to bgi Ea-
sir.zn, by purcnase, vice Elton, promoted; Lieutenant
;Valli Warren to ne Adjutant, vice Frend, who resigns
tue Adjwantcy only, May 14
57th Foot—Willi ,ma Wills L e, Gent , to be Ensign,
by purcnase, vice V.i.q, who retires; Edward Coipop
J,,hoson. to be Ensign, by parcbiwe, vice Vincent,
who retirees.

65th FoO—Andrew Nicholson M.tgra..h, Gent., to be
Ensign, without purchase, vice Bulkeley, promoted,
May 14; Augustus Ntchotas Wilson, Gent., to be Eu-
sign, by purchase, vice Servantes, promoted, May 15.
66th Foot—Lieutenant Webster Thomai Gordon to
be Captain, by Purchase, vice Caulfield, who retires ;
Ensign George Glaic4itt Newton to be Lieutenant, with-
out purchase, vice Gordon, May 14.
74th Foot—Ensign Frederick Rennell Thackeray to
be Lieutenant, without purchas-, vice Carey, killed in
action, Nov. 7; Anthony Delacombe Gent., to be
Eh-ign, without purchase, vice Thackeray, May 14.
77th Font—Francis Alder, Gent., to be Euiign, by
purchase, vice Walmesley, promoted, May 14.
81st Foot—Arthur Henley, Gent., to tie Ensign, by
purcha P. vice Chichester, promoted, May 14; Charles
James Hughes, Gent., to be Ehsign, without purchase,
vice Hirle, deceased, gay 15.
86th Foot—Richard Charles Brown, Gent., to be En-
sign, without purchase, vice Jerome promoted, May 14.
90th Foot—Paul Andrew Lewis Phipps, Gent., to be
Ensign, without purchase, vice Denison, promoted,
May 14.
93rd Font—Staff Surgeon of the Second Class John
Ramsay Brush, M.D. to bti Surgeon, vice Sall, who ex-
changes. May 14.
95ta Foot—Robert Garrard, Gent., to be Ensign, by
purchase, vice Polhill, promoted, May 14.
Ist West India Regiment—Arthur Purcy Kerr, Gent.,
to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Mignay, promoted,
May 14.
3rd West India Rigiment—Blake G,tble, Gent., to be
Ehsign, by purehate. vice Leig'a, promoted. May 14.
Cap M muted Riflemen—Lieutenant Archibald Henry
Plantagenet Stuart Wortley, to be Captain, by purchase,
vice Wood, who retires, May 14.
HOSPATAL STAFF —Surgeon William Sall, M.D. from
the 93 t Foot, to be Staff Surgeon of the Second Class,
vice Brush, who exchanges, May 14.
BREVET.—Lieutenant John Granville Lightfoot, of

the Bombay Artillery, doing duty at the East India
Company's depot, at Watley, vice Sheppard, resigned,
to have the local rank of Lieutenant, while so employed;
Mr. Christopher Vaughan Foss, formerly Adjutant of
the North Cork Militia, and Staff Officer of Pensioners
at Fort Garry, in the Hudson Buy territories, to have
the local and temporary rank of Captain in Western
Australia while employed as Staff Officer of Pensioners
in that colony, May 14.
MEMORANDUM —The Christian names of Major-
General Home are "John Home," and not "John," as
previously stated.
Commisiion by the Lord-Lieutenant of Kent.

West Seat Rgiaient of Yeomanry Cavalry—Oswald
Augustus Smith, Gent., to be Cornet, vice Bowden, re •
signed, May 10.
Commissions by the Lord-Lieutenant of Warwickshire.
Warwickshire Yeomanry Cavalry—Henry Charles
Palmer, Gent., to be Cornet, vices Reid, promoted ;
William Stratford Dugdale, jun., Gent., to be Cornet
vice Leigh, promiyed, May 6.
NATIONAL DEBC OFFICE, MAY 14.

The Lords Commissioners of her Maksty's Treasury
baying, by virtu of the powers vested in them by the
Act 3 William IV., cap. 14. revolted and recalled, by
warraot under their hands, the tables here.ofore in
use for granting annuities upon single lives, and ann,ti-
tits to continue for a certain term of years, under
the said Act. and having approv.d and authorised
the Commissioners for the Reduction of the National
debt to adept, until further notice, cert•dn ocher tables
to be used in lieu and in place of the tables so revoked
and reaalled as iroret,sid; the said Commissioners f')r
the Reduction of the NaLional Debt hereby give notice of
such revocation and of their Lordship,' approval of such
new tables, and that they are ready to issue such net*,
table to the trus'ecs of savings' banks and p -.obis'
societies, and to grant annuities in conformity therewith.
A. Y. SPEARMAN. Comptroller• General.