The Sun.
London, England, 1839-12-06 00:00:00

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1,400

SMITHIELD.
The supply of Cattle was but an average one, but the de-
mand being slight, the trade was very heavy, with a decline in
prices. Beef and Mutton barely maintained last Monday's
prices. Veal and Pork, 2d. lower. Price pc: stone of 81b.,
sinking the offal :—Beef, 3s. 4d. to 4s. 4d. ; Mutton, 4s. to
56, ; %real, 4s. 4d. to ss. ; Pork, 3s. 10d. to 4s. 101 Head
of Cattle at market :—Beasts, 525 ; Sheep, 3,640 ; Pigs, 568 ;
Calves, 157.

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BILLINGSGATE MARKET.
There were tolerably good supplies, and a fair trade, prices
much as last quoted. Turbot Bs. to 255. ; Cod Bs. to Ns. ;
Soles 10d. to 3s. 6d. per pair ; Lobsters 10d. to 4s. ; Oysters,
12s. to 40s. per bushel; Whitings sd. to 10d. ; and Had-
docks Bd. to s. 6d.

TEA SALE--(FIFTH DAY).
The Sale was rather flat, and the attendance limited. There
was not much buying in, but still the sale is not brisk. The
sale is now over, and a very small portion has been brought in,
very much less so than for some sales last past.
PUBLIC SALE OF COTTON.

There were public sales of Cotton, amounting to 1,800 bales
of Madras, and 4,200 of Surat were put up at sale. There was
a fair attendance of the trade. and most of what was put up
sold ; prices much as i rnic usly given.
COLONIAL MARKET;

There was not much business doing, and prices were very
steady. British Plantation Surgar sold steadily at 60s. for
brown, 634. for middling, and 635. for fine ; 3,200 bags Mau-
ritius went at 50s. to 60s. Rice has sold at 121. to 12s. 6d.
for good fine Bengal. Saltpetre, a. small parcel sold at 235.
Coffee, 500 bags, 9d. duty, at 565. for mid yellow• Spices
were at their previous worth.

LLOYD'S SHIPPING-(THIS DAY.)

DEAL, DEC. s.—Wind N. W.—Arrived the Pacific,
Morrison, from Quebec: Wandsworth, Nelson, ditto;
New York, Richardson, Pictou. Sailed, the Victor, Rid-
ley, Madras; London, Gunton, Alexandria.
LIVERPOOL, DEC. 3.—Wind N. W., fresh.—Arrived the
United States, Barr, from Philadelphia ; Jessie, M'Al-
pine, Miramichi ; Venture, Wilson, Quebec; Jona, Camp-
bell, ditto ; Porcupine, Cook, Smyrna. Sailed, the Tyn-
wald, Porteus, Vera Cruz ; Amicitia, Havatmah.
PLYMOUTH, DEC. 4.—Wind N.E.—Arrived the Done-
gal, Dixon. Corunna.
FALMOUTH, DEC. 4.—Wind N.N. E. to N.—Sailed,
the Tyrian packet, folthe West Indies ; West Indian,
Turner, Jamaica. Off Port, the Harrison Chilton
M'Gregor, Quebec.
SCILLY, Nov. 30.—Sailed the Friendship, Grey, for
Alexandria ; Emerald, Thomas, and Merlin, Duff, for
Terceira.

CORK, DEC. 3.—Sailed the Ft. John's, Newfoundland.
SHIELDS, DEC. 3.—A schooner was seen to sink off the
Coquette on the 30th ult. by the Advance, Park ; put
back to this port with loss of bulwarks, &c.
PLYMOUTH, Dac. 4 —The George, from Jersey to St.
Übes was fallen in with on the 23d ult., in lat. 46, long. 7,
dismasted, and half fall of water, and towed into Corunua
on the 28th by the Minerva of London.

VESSELS SPOKEN wrrti. —The David Scott, Spence
China to Lcndon, 11th Aogust, in the Gillolo Passage,
by the liasheney, arrived at Anjer. James Leman, Liver-
pool to St. John's. New Brunswick, 29th October, lat.
46, long. 45, by the Justitia, arrived at Newfoundland.
St. Lawrence. Liverpool to Rest igouche, 28th October,
lat. 47, long. .59 ; Halifax, Livertiool to Halifax,l7th ult.,
lat. 50, long. 18, by the Congress;lrrived at Fleetwood,

EXTRACT OF A LETTER POSTED AT
LLYOD'S.

GENOA, DEC. 27.—The Chamber of Commerce of
this city has notified having received official news, that the
Ottoman Government has prohibited the exportation of
wheat, and of every sort of grain, from every port de-
pendent on the said empire.
To W. Dobson, Esq., Secretary at Llyod's.

SPIRIT of the PUBLIC; JOURNALS.

FROM THE MORNING PAPERS OF THIS DAT.
(From the Morning Chronicle.)
It is much to be regretted that Parliament is only to
meet for the dispatch of business on the 16th January,
as the assembling only a few days earlier—on the 11th
for instance, would, we understand, have bad
a mate-
rial bearing on the very important issue in which the
House of Commons can no longer avoid acting with a
high hand. The Sheriffs have unnecessarily p.laced
themselves and their officers in jeopardy. They ittih 1i"
have so acted as to be secure from the Queen's Benet..
and the House of Commons ; but punished they now
must be, whatever course they may hereafter adopt.
The House of Commons can never suffer to be seized
with impunity, at the time it is not sitting, the goods of
a man for acts done in pursuance of its orders ; for
were it to overlook such an infringement of its privi-
leges, its privileges would be at an end. The Sheriffs
have, therefore placed themselves directly in opposition
to the House, the resolutions of which were communi-
cated to them. They will soon learn, to their cost, whe-
the House can reach them. The House must act coer-
cive:y, and the means by which it can so act are well known
and of sufficient efficacy. We will to-morrow return to
this important subject. They who think the issue can be
any longer staved off, labour under a grievous mistake.
The following edifying printed hand-bill and catalogue
of some of the effects of Messrs. Hansards, printers
and publishers to the House of Commons, were yestey-
day circulated among the " trade" by Mr. Crook, the
Sheriff's auctioneer :

" To PRINTERS AND OTHERS—Two hydraulic presses,
two standing, ditto, eleven Stanhope ditto, and one wood
proof ditto, Lincoln's-inn-Fields.—To be Sold by Auction,
by Mr. Crook, on the Premises, Titchbourne-court,
Whetstone-park, Lincoln's-inn-Fields, on Tuesday, the
17th of December, 1839, at Twelve for One o'clock pre-
cisely, by order of the Sheriff of Middlesex, under a writ
of ficri facias, in a cause Stockdale v. Hansard and
Others.' Conditions of sale as usual. The lots to be
paid for and cleared immediately after the sale.

" A CATALOGUE

" BACK WAREHOUSE: GROUND —Lot. I, one
bydraulic press, with force pump, complete ; 2, one ditto ;
3, one standing press with Athol power ; 4, one ditto.
" FIRS r PRESS-ROOM, ONE PAIR —Lot 5, one Stanhope
press with bank and horse, and inking-table, complete;
6, one ditto, ditto ; 7, one ditto, ditto.
" SECOND PRESS-ROOM—FIRST FLOOR.-Lot 5", one
Stanhope-press, with bank and horse, and inking-table,
complete ; 9, one ditto, ditto; 10, one ditto, ditto; 11,
one ditto, ditto ; 12, one ditto, ditto.

" UPPER PRESS ROOM—UPPER STORY.-Lot 13, ohe
Stanhope-press, with bank, and horse, and inking_
table ; 14. one ditto, ditto; 13, one ditto, ditto; 16, one
wood-press.

"To be viewed the morning of sale. Catalogues may
be had on the premises, and of Mr. Crook, Auctioner,
&c.. 45, Skinner-street, Snow hill."

This document, it will be observed, gives the parti-
culars of the general advertisement of sale we noticed
yesterday. We understand that Messrs. Hansards,
acting under legal advice, decline to pay the execution
voluntarily, choosing that the whole proceeding against
them shall be compulsory. The Sheriffs of Middlesex,
their deputies, and bailiffs, will, therefore be placed in an
awkward situation. From the course of the procedings,
they have hitherto been acting apparently underthe forms
and orders of the Courts of Westminster. Whether
these officers will or not hold the produce of the sale as
an indemnity against their own liability to Parliament,
remains to be seen. We view the entire proceeding as
most humiliating and disgraceful to the House of Com-
mons. The privilege of publication is essential to the
due discharge of the most important functions of the
House of Commons, and exercised for the benefit of the
people. The advertisement above quoted glaringly ex-
hibits the consequences of the procrastinating and pusil-
lanimous conduct of the House of Commons last Ses-
sion. We apprehend, however, that our representatives
must now take a decided course, and act on the offen-
sive the moment Parliament meets. It is not a little
curious that the identical Report on Gaols, the subject
of the alleged libel, was, by resolution (recorded in the
Lords' Journals), directed to be printed by the Lords,
and has been printed and distributed for the Upper
House. All Parliamentary printed documents of the
House of Lords are distributed by their Lordships' or-
ders., and copies forwarded to the reading rooms of our
public institutions, such, for instance, as the British
Museum. This is " publication," or amenability to the
law of libel, as expounded by Lord Denman. If Mr.
Stockdalc brings his action also for this publication, it
remains to be seen how the Lords will defend themselves.

ELECTION OF A TEMPORAL PEER —The
writs for electing a Temporal Peer for Ireland, in the
room of the late Lord Kingston, bearing date the 09th
of last month (November), have issued, and notice of
tile fact has been published by the Clerk of the Hanaper.
SHERIFF-SUBSTITUTES.—The burgh of Wick
has followed the example of several of the southern
towns (which we hope will become general in Scotland)
of petitioning the Lords of the Treasury in favour of
an augmentation of salary to the Sheriff-substitutes.
THE NORTHERN BURGIIS.—Mr. Loch,M.P.,
has returned south, after visiting his constitutents of
the Northern Burghs, from Dingwall to Kirkwall.
After the most careful and accurate investigation,"
says Mr. Loch, " I can assure you, that whenever a
contest shall come, if it shall come at all, our majority
will be most triumphant." We sincerely trust that the
contest will not come ; for its only effect will be, over
a wide tract of country, to cause strife and dissension,
a needless waste of money, and all the idleness and
dissipation usually attendant on a contested election..
But if such a struggle does take place, and if Mr.
Dempster of Skibo be determined to lead the forlorn
hope, we are happy to think that the result will be the
same as at present.—lnverriess Courier.
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