The Sun.
London, England, 1852-02-16 00:00:00

TURKEY.

Letters which have reached Paris from Constanti-
nople (says the Constitctionnel) announce that great
irresolution reigns in the councils of the Ottoman
Porte. It was generally expected in the Turkish
capital that Reschid Pasha would soon return to office.
A letter from Constantinople of the 31st ult., says :
—" The Greeks have succeeded in preventing the
ratification of the arrangement respecting the holy
places, and fearing new changes have exerted their
influence to procure the dismissal of Reschid Pacha.
On the 28th ult., however, he was appointed Presi-
dent of the Council of State, in place of Rifaat-Pacha,
who has been dismissed."

QUEEN'S BENCH.-(THIS DAY.)
(Sittings at Nisi Prius at Westminster, befure Lord
CAMPBELL and a Common Jury.)
SKINNER V. WALLIS.

This was an action to recover compensation in damages
for slanderous language.
Mr. Charnock conducted the plaintiff's case, and Mr.
Gifford appeared for the defendant.
The plaintiff, Mrs. Eliza Skinner, was the widow of a
soldier who was killed in Spain while one of the legion,
and the defendant, Mr. Wallis, kept a coffee-shop in
Compton-street, Brunswick-square. The plaintiff had
been for some time employed by the defendant in manag-
ing his business; in November, 1850, she left his ser-
vice, and shortly afterwards he accused her of receiving
3s. from customers without giving any account of the
money, selling seven gallons of coffee and two quartern
loaves, of the value of 95., and only paying over 4s. td.
Ile repeated these accusations on two occasions, and
once said she had done quite enough to enable him to
give her a ride across the water. Application was sub-
sequently made to him for an apology or for compensa-
tion, but as no answer was returned the present action
had been instituted to recover some compensation for the
injury she had sustained.
For the defence it was contended that as no malice
was intended in making the assertions. the defendant
having no wish to impute to the plaintiff the act of em-
bezzlement, there was no sufficient grounds to warrant
the action being brought.
Lord CAMPBELL having summed up,
The jury found a verdict for the defendant.

MIDDLESEX SESSIONS.
(THIS DAY.)
The February General Sessions were opened this
morning at Clerkeiawell. The number of names in the
calendar was seventy-seven, but the offences of a grave
character are rather below the average number.
The ASSISTANT-JUDGE, in a lengthened address to
the Grand Jury, assured the gentlemen sworn to serve
on that body, that he regretted the unnecessary and
fruitless waste of their valuable time, in being called
away from their business to go through a routine of it.-
quiry which in no respect whatever promoted the ad-
ministration of justice.
William Baldrey, aged 33, a person of respectable ap-
pearance, was indicted for stealing twelve mahogany
veneers, of the value of 71., the property of Henry Searle
and another, his masters and employers.
Mr. Ballantine prosecuted, and Mr. Metcalfe defended
the prisoner.
Mr. Stirling, a cabinet-maker, carrying on business in
Edward-street, Kingsland road, stated that the prisoner,
who lived in the same street with him, called at his
house on the 30th of January last, and offered fur sale
twelve veneers, which were worth 71. 4s. by measurement,
but for which he was willing to take 51. The witness
knew the prisoner to be a surveyor in the employment
of the Messrs. Searle, of Hoxton, timber merchants,
from whom a day or two before he (the witness) had
bought a bundle of veneers of the kind of which the pri-
soner described those to be which he offered to sell,
Witness went next day, by appointment, to the prisoner's
house, in Edward-street, where the latter drew out the
bundle of veneers from under a sofa. The moment the
witness saw them he recognised them as having been
cut from the same piece of wood as those which he had
previously bought from Messrs. Searle, and he at once
suspected that the prisoner had not come honestly by
them. However he offered to pay 4/. 10s. for them, and
appointed a time in the evening when he should call fur
them. In the meantime he gave information to the pri-
soner's employers, and, accordingly, when Baldrey
came out of his house with the goods, he was taken into
custody.
Mr. H. Searle, J. Bonello, his foreman, and another
witness, a sawyer in the prosecutor's employment, iden-
tified the veneers, by the quality of the wood, the fashion
of the cut, and the numbers marked upon them. There
had been 180 veneers cut out of the same log, and of
these twenty-three only had been sold, but not more
than three to one person, but twelve were found in the
prisoner's possession, and that number wore missing
from the stock. The prisoner had access to the ware-
room in which those goods were kept, but he could not
easily carry off so large a bundle as thou() twelve veneers
would snake without being observed.
Mr. METCALFE, in defence, was willing to admit that
the property charged in the indictment had been im-
properly removed from the premises of the prosecutors,
but he contended that the prisoner was not proved to
have stolen them. In fact, he never knew until he was
taken into custody that the veneers had belonged to his
employers. If he had known that he would not have
offered them for sale to a neighbour, customer, and friend
of the Messrs. Searle. The Learned Gentleman called
several witnesses, who gave the prisoner a very high
character.

The jury found the prisoner Guilty. He was sen-
tenced to be imprisoned and kept to hard labour in the
House of Correction for twelve calendar months.

MARLBRO'-STREET—(THIS DAY.)
CIIARGE OF CRUELTY.—Henry Dunn and Timothy
Macarthy, two men in the employ of Mr. Tilby, cow-
keeper, were summoned before Mr. Bingham by Mr.
Thomas, the secretary of the Royal Society for the Pre-
vention of Cruelty to Animals, for cruelly ill-treating
and torturing a horse by beating it about the head with
a whip.
Mr. John Smith, pianoforte maker, 17, Grafton-place,
Fitzroy-square, deposed that on the 6th inst., between
the hours of five and six in the evening,
he saw a horse
drawing a heavily-laden cart down Bromlewmews. The
horse could not move, and the defendant Dunn stood
before it, and with the thin part of the whip in his
hands struck it over the bead with the butt end.
ness remonstrated with Dunn on
ahipsieccoruoefl
timcobnd‘oVawcittn-
Ins
je:edrahlisbelrowas;
when Macarthy told him to go to lie—hottrnsde
tbhuiscikneas9s.a
mlanc,saratrhnly
atnhdentattouockk upth
on the back. The cart was full of grains and was going
down an inclined plane.
The son of last witness corroborated the above evi-
deuce.
Watson, a constable belonging to
the
duced the piece of timber with which Macarthy struck
the horse; was about
three feet long,and
society, pro.
three inches thick. from two to

The defendants, in reply to the charge, said they used
no wore force than was necessary to cause the horse to
draw.

Mr. BINGHAM said he always thought that the way to
make a horse draw was by treating it with kindness
and gentle coaxing, and not beating the poor animal ill
the manner stated by the respectable witness. As 's
caution to them for the future, he should fine them 53'
each and costs.

Wa understand that her Majesty visits the Lyceum
this evening, at eight o'clock.
The Speaker's first Parliamentary dinner NYPS given
o n Saturday.

AT

'TAMS.

Leasing Businessltail"aYL Conipanies. Paid. )(mina' Frie°B" done to-day.
& Blotch-
ley • Lon. & N.W. all
& Ox-
ford Juncion,
guaranteed • • Gt. Western all 29 —3O
Do., without a
guarantee .. De all 28 —29
woiver.,
& Dudley, gua-
ranteed •• Do .. all 29 —3O x.d
Do., without a
guarantee •• Do . .. all 28 —29 x.d
Buckinghamsh. Lon. &N. W. all 174 17% 17%
Clydesdale June Caledonian all 44 —4G
E. Lin., Guar. 6
per Cent. •• G. Northern all 33% 344 344
Gloucester and
Dear. Forest Gt. Western 20 14 —24 p 24% 26
Elartlepl Dock Yrk, New.,
and Railway and Ber.
111111 and Selby Yk. So N. M. all 104 106 x.d x.d
Do. 36 Shares Do •• all 52 —SE x0:1 x.d
Do. 4 Shares Do .. .. all 24 —25 x.d
Leeds and Brad. Midland • all 100 101 x.d 1004
Lon. and Green. S. Eastern .. all 11% 124 124 12
Do., Pret. .. Do .. all 24 -- 26
Lowestoft, Gd. 4
per Cent. • • Norfolk • . all 15 —l7
Do.. 6 per cent De .. all .. —• •
Middlesbro' and
Redcar, 6p. et Stockt.& Dar all .. —• •
N. & East. 6
per Cent. •• E. Counties . all .. —• •
Do., 5 per cent. Do. .. all 56 —5B
Do. New .. Do 43 56 -58
Preston and S L. &N. W.} all 44 ---46
Wyre • • •• t. &La.& Y.
D 0.34 SharesA Do 11 p
Read., Guild.,
and Reigate .. S. Eastern all 214 --21% 21% %
Roy. & Hitchin G. Northern 64 84 814.
Shep. Ex.. Do .. .. all 84
Shef., Roth. and
Goole, 5 per et. Lane. & York 18 11 6 • •
south Staffords. Mr. M'Clean 94 1 14 die. 7%
Wear Val. 6 per
Cent. gua. Stock.& Dar. all 274 - 284 x,d x.d
Do. du. .• Do .. 25 —• •
Do. do. .. De .. 23 • -
Wilts & Semers, Gt. Western 1100 92% 934

SHILIZES„

Nominal Prices. IB minutia dose
to-day.

2 —1% die.

7% - 7X
16% - 17
5 -5% cl.
2% 3

/',i - 'X P
ii - 3‘• P
11% - 12
9% - 10

12 %

•I
••
% 1 dig.
1414 14%
1 P
7% ...- 7%

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1%
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Lai 334

- P
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.. - ..
140 - 145

10% 2U - 1 p.
21h
11X 11%
12% 12%
VP
•••••

Agua Fria . ..........
Anglo Californian ••
Acturan ..... •• ••
Australian
Ave Maria
Blaenarvon Iron & Coal
British Australian Gold
British Iron
Brazilian Imp, (is. 5/, F.)

Cocacti and Calabit

Do. St. John del itey..
Cobre Copper •
Copfano .. ••• • • •
Eng. & Australian Copper
General .... .
Gold Mountain •••• • • •

Great Polgooth . .. •
Mexican& S. American
N,alvemt Monde ...• •• ••
‘Santitigo de Cuba ••••••
Tin Croft .......•
Un;ted Mexican. • •• •• ••
West Mariposa •• ...-
30INI

- ISP
%- % P

dis P

••
1,4 dl3

Awn.ralasia • •• • •
British North America..
Colonial ..............
Commercial of London..
London Joint Stock ....
Lonidon and Westminster
National Provincial Eng.
National of Ireland
Oricnital Bank Corporat.
Pr.3vmcial of Ireland....
Da. New .. • ........

•••..
00
134 - 2
- 1
22% - 23%
33 -34
4 5
P
9%-10%
par 3 P
par P
4
% P
434 5.

1 li
% X

30% X'd

7 10— --11
all 2 —24
1 par —5 P
STOCK 3138N88
all 38 39%
50 46 —4B
25 tly4
20 24 —25 4

!84 3
! 170-
,1
Ld

as % g

Union of Australia

Union of London ..
7aion Of Al adrld

17% 17
30 31% s.d
43% —45
151;„ 163(
35 —304
3 —3%
--- 15%

/VIM

Canaan
Oen. Steam Navigation .
Penin. & Oriental Steam.

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Data ditto
Royal Mail Steam ......
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rill not be influenced by

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intereste

.ANEOI7B.
48 49%
27 28%
70 —7l x.d
17% 18
77 78%
Le errors of the OftlclB.l I.''
correspondentl.l

MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS.
CITY, TWO O'CLOCK.
The sales of Cotton at Liverpool on Saturday we,,roe
estimated at 8,000 bales, including 500 American's
Pernam and Marunham at 51(1. to 61(1., 200 Bahiast t".e d.;
to 51-d., 250 Egyptian at 6d. to 8(1., and 2,000 Surat '1
127 d. to 4d. per lb. The market closed firmly, and prics
had an upward tendency.—Railway Shares were flat°
lower prices. tb;
There are official comparative returns made up °f
quantities of grain, flour, and live stock, imp9rted t°
various countries, including the colonies. The officiniif
value of the imports is given, but the declared vslse to
the exports, and this gives an apparent preponderanicaeces
the former, the official values being highest. The P—e '-
with which we did the most trade, in 1850, are the .°
lowing:—

Exports.
Imports.
£6,609,136 ... £1,454+771
Russia Russia
Prussia 3,150,850 ... 5 545
Hanseatic Towns
h 42 '
Holland
Belgium
France 8,454,193 ... 2,401,v,,
864,92'
Spain
Turkey
648,5
Egypt
British India
Chinallßritish
ti Australia
145
5,849,025 ... 19574,255
r i.e.a.
511
:. 4(5) 4669,7
~.
0,1
06546 - • ,60-, 1
WNoerstthlnAdmiees ... 3.236.05
0 030 229
United States 20,656,481 -•
Brazil
i 6,26°
Chili 648,167 ... -'l5 39
845,6
Peru : the 1,390,865 •••
The above figures represent the imports ,eto r
United Kingdom, from the places named, and the ex'
ports thereto. Anyone looking into these items Will
see that the balance would be all the other will if 410-
ecivaxo
ppeorrttas,wtebroeuvgahluietd araccuosrtdbiengadtoithtteesa.t.nah. same
that
civla-4ilt:elil:061
uTnhierieesffitchiaelbvaalleaneceofistdbeecidedly azainst IL!' f ,qOl5
anti live stock, was in the agimg
eluding those items 97,297,0541., 7741., laced/fi
value of the exports of British produce and of 00113°051i
turps sent from the United Kingdom was
on
69,557,708/. f., de-
rpeograt
gate
Bi, exclusiveB72
The letters via Marseilles from Indiawhile htbavee bdeeec-frce.
livered this morning, end they read unfavourable es
,ve,
gards commercial matters. The prospect of ir°Pr°l,•
meat in the import trade was considered very Zicierlc
The American advices to the 3d inst. from ~-.e- , by
apprise us of the voting of the Mexican Icideinn'tYwai
the Congress at Washington. The Cotton nittrket
dull. Breadatuffs were in request. firm in
From Hamburgh we are informed that a large m"biiiil •e g
lia
the tobacco trade has suspended payment, the
being 1,800,000 francs, and the assets very small" t• 036
The Amsterdam Stock market on the 14th ins Tiro-
rather firm, and a large business was done ill the ' bid
and a-Half per Cents. Spanish Bonds were some' 0
demand.f eeb feeble,
There th e
waa Threeno
Mexican.
The English Stock Market has been tolerablY III;
mated, and the quotations are well supported. ie° for
have been h i
t , -e-ng the same for Transfer as le
Account. The New Three-and•a Quarter per Cent& h 5 I,
been 99i. i. and the Tb . -Cents. 98 to ii. 13eftb,
ree per ,.. i 9 Ivo,.
Stock is firm at 216* to 217; EastJudia Stock ism'
258 to 259. Exchequer-bills are worth 555. pretty
pvearriaCtieonnts•, which wr.e.
or
and India Bonds 68s. •in Portuglie.-
„i hawing Ore'
Foreign Securities have been very 3,-- risen
4 perstill take
eecent.,
t.t,hve i
zl e,atdo,
2t hlt,i.
tikoe2t i 27. Brrhue Deferred h30,./.,e,
n3ab:dforal 8 i
to ai. Mtxican tsoeas Lave bee, up to 4,
Lid are now 32g3 i• The value
d 98, and
Stock has b - -•
and ...,„
been advanced to 97
Equador 0'0:
of the Deferred to 481,- and 49i.
up to 4-1 i. Venezuela Deferred bring 131, and -13°3891
Ayres 51. Sardinian Stock is rather higher, kriefbree
to 4
2 • Spanish Five per Cents. are 23i, and the patch
per Cents. at 41 to pi., a decline of / per cent'
Two-and-a Half per Cents. are steady at 594, doing ia
___li is Jot
Railway Shares are duller, and
not inuu
Mines. 7111?.°.
QUARTER TO
of Peruvian 01
.... _

..
Ditto Account, March 11

971 i
..• V
„.„ 1
4
, 4
cLOS, ,0
.., _
oNE PliiC
:117,
"RILES OF BRITISH FUNDS O'CLOCIC
90.,
Bank_ Stock
3 it' Cont. iseaueed Anne.
997 s
8 p,3r Cont. Consols Annuities........ 97%14 '"" 2•••• 55
:e--., 314 c, per Cent. Aims.. •• • . ..... 9k/c 7"
India Stock
0 y
',die liondo,, 1,0004 , -97 YA
Ditto under 1,000/.... „
C -,,,,1g for Account
Kxchequer Bills, 0,40. 53 P
I.,Jout.
500/. --
Small. ..
*
oNE,
PRICES OF FORKION FUNDS. O'CL°s",,--,
0
• raziitan Bonds, 5 per Cent. ... ..... -- .....
Ditto, New, 1829 and 1839 ... ""'" 51
Buenos Ayres Bonds, 6 per Cent ..- 4%
Ditto Account 5l EL
Al 4 ...-
Equadcr Bonds , WA'
tirmada Bonds, 11/2 per Cent 221/4 21" 84°
Do. Ex Dec., 1849 Coupons.
BE/00,274/. --'
Ditto, Deterred ................. -7,
....
Greek Bonds ..... •••• ............ ^, OVO
r-due Coupons
44

b.,,?.itid
G this
day a
Ditto ex Over-due ... .
• 32V
21 ix,ncin 3 per Cent., 1816 ...... .. . V,
. 324/ li, :1/
Ditto, Account .................... 4 -727 E; ~..,.
Peruvian Bonds. 5 per Cent-
Ditto, Account 97 98 49
Ditto, Deferred ................... - ,
Sardinian Bonds, 5 per Cent.
llitto, Account
•89104 234
42131! 41
os,
per 1e18f.4
SpanishPDPa uiittit°:;os3rn:.ollCwre re
Deferredr36.lt Cert. CllotluBp4.' no. .t
.funded. ...
Guild 1854 ,t,
light
DV "L euonntNcie
tphat
breezen:e:l Dividends
eßalfpneoEerdnr . dficdslon,,e
iiiin3.6._B:t, s.
the per.l,l..)ay.133 i
STRANGFORD,V.e.ea.pt...a:y abTe3:3n4 London. 59N
, 9%
shore north of the .
LLOYD'S SHIPPING-- (THIS DAlr.)
~
t noon S.W
00
loss of mainmast, Bay of Dundruna, 12th I,
Of roter, WItl"
ST. IVES, FE
to London •• B, 15.—The Celerity o. . 1 01,
......, is in a d it 16 exP
that she m very leaky state, an
ust dischar to
HOLYH ' ge.
f nnol
LAD, FEB. 15.—The Sisters, 'Avert-
rip
Dublin, was abandoned 13th lust. off Orals Read,
15.—A schooner
./vs,s. seen
pumps choked, and leaky. , al the
MONTE VIDEO, JAN. 6.—The Matilda, ir„°--_,,oas&
coast of Patagonia, has put in here leaky, and l'-'
cut away, &c.; cargo discharging. h able)'
BUENOS AYRES, JAN. 4.—The Coralie (Frenehool(
from Pasages to this port, grounded on the EagliaP The
in this river Dec. 14, is discharging to be got off. re to
Helen, of Guernsey, Cadiz to this port, got on till„(31, in
the river previous to Dec. 24, came off, and 08"
deep water.
sailedJhi os tru eNn ,70731'9, NEW
bligNecoEei
dnwofgoc
rkßt
docked
aapr irnosbdrwaardrieocypeKs, FEB.an 21.9- -,
gotT u -023 T to
01
„,, Olt°
on the 20tb, but assisted off and into Brier' ..-er to
return
HALIFAX, NOVA SCOTIA, ,--TllO Fanny
,fobs
Rudolf,
Galway to New FEB.. into L 000"
York, put un
Jan. 26, leaky.
fish vessel
FRANCISCO, DEC. 31. Tar hierpeeadGi: es otrog ee nAa bnineo6
(Sri'
vessel) has been wrecked at Queen Char lured
Island ; crew and 24 passengers (Americans) C3r been
and claimed by the Indians. An armed force bag
dispatched to their relief. to Val"
LIVERPOOL, FEB. 15.—The Pickwick, hence - ~frii,
paraiso, which had been in contact with the Chitnvibis
was fallen in with by the steam-tug Preside Agnes
morning, off the Calf of Men, in tow of the rf-lit
schooner. The President toe,k her in tow,
her in here, quite tight and not much injured; cargo
not supposed to be damaged. The men left on bound
after the collision were taken off by a schooner ou;06
to Donaghadee. The Sisters sloop, hence to Dublirtaite
fallen in with yesterday off Ormshead, with Josef ibet.
and a derelict, and towed in here by the steam-tug 14- tho
16. By the last accounts it was uncertain whether
woo
Romulus, of Arbroath, had left Salonica. Sheens.
stated to have left oth December for ucon.
town or Falmouth, and shad not been hoard of at
stantinople up to the latest dates from thence. sp-
end bro f, 0
SOUTHAMPTON, FEB. 15.—The wreck of A brig, 11th
parently some time abandoned, was passed on toe
inst., Ist. 50 N., long. 17 W. ; arvool s°
CASTLETOWN, FEB. 15.—The Eliza, L.Y--. ~a is
Limerick, ran on the Dog Rocks off Bearhaven, 5'
brcaking up; crew saved. ao for
DUBLIN, FEB• 15.—The Sarah Jane, of -.Ake)"
Wexford from Dublin, ran on the Carig Rock in
Sound, and was abandoned. stie to
DUNBAR, FEB, 15.—r
.—The Mary Ann, Nelve,ti oticl is
Culross, is on shore three miles to the eastwsror•
Likely do 11"CM° 5 mai wreck; crew paired.