The Sun.
London, England, 1862-12-26 00:00:00

MARKETS-THIS DAY.

MARK-LANE.
Imf ERIAL WEEKLY AVERAGES. - Wheat, 46s 6d ;
barley, 34s 7d ; oats, 20s 6d ; rye, 328 Od ; beans, 37s 2d ;
and peas, 398 4d.

THE Six WEEKS' AvEith - Wheat, 478 8d ;
barley, 358 3d ; oats, 21s id ; rye, 331 lld ; beans, 38s sd;
peas, 40s 10d.

ENGLISH GRAIN SOLD LAST WEEN.—Wheat, 80,322;
barley, 107,546 ; oats, 16,299 ; rye, 63 ; beans, 4,203 ; peas,
1,739 quarters.

METROPOLITAN CATTLE MARKET.

There was only a limited number of beasts on offer here
to •day. Good and prime breeds commanded a steady sale
at quite Monday's currency, the best Scots being worth
rather over 5s per 81b ; otherwise the beef trade was inactive
on former terms. The show of sheep wan trifling, and all
breeds moved off freely at very full prices. The best Downs
realised quite 5s 10d per 81b. Calves were in short supply
and fair request at full quotations. Scarcely any pigs or
milch cows were in the market.

Per 81b. to sink the offal.
s. d. a. d. a. d. a. d.
Crse. &inf. beasts 3 4 3 6 Primecrs-wool d 0.5 0 5 6
Second quality do. 3 8 4 0 Pme.S'thdowndo.s 8 5 10
Prime large oxen 4 2 4 8 Largo orse. calves 4 2 4 8
Prime Scots, &c. 4 10 6 0 Prime small do 4 10 5 2
Crse. & inf. sheep 3 8 4 2 Large hogs 3 8 4 4
Second quality do. 444 10 Small porkers 4 64 8
Suckling calves, lOs to 20s; and quarter-old store pigs,
20s to 30s.

TOTAL SUPPLY. FOREIGN SUPPLY.
Beasts
Cows 4O Sheep
Sheep .. 1,000 Calves
Calves 36 Pigs ~....
Pigs. 4O

NEWGATE AND LEADENHALL.
The supply of meat on sale is only moderate. Generally
speaking, the trade rules firm at our quotations.
Per 81b. by the carcase.
sded
Inferior beef .. 2 6 2 10
isliddling do. .. 3 0 3 4
Prime large do. 3 6 4 0
Do. small do. .. 4 2 4 4
Large pork .... 3 2 3 10
Inferior mutton. 3 4 3 8

edsd
ididdlingmutton 3 10 4 4
Prime do 4 6 4 8
Veal
Small pork ~
Lamb

BOROUGH HOP.

The business doing in all kinds of hops is exceedingly
small. The best qualities support previous quotations;
otherwise have a downward tendency.
Mid and East Kents 9os to 180 s per cwt.
Weald of Kents
Sussex
Bavarian
Belgian
American ll5B to 130 s „

The Perthshire Courier states that the Perth,
Almond Valley, and Methven Railway have sold their line
to the Scottish North-Eastern Company, who are to refund
to the former company all their outlay. This arrangement
takes effect as 80011 as an Aot of parliament can be got,
This will not be before 1864,

The Imperial Court of Paris has just given judgment in
an appeal against a decision of the Tribunal of Correctional
Police, in a suit between a Mine. Vernier, patentee of anew
kind of spring petticoat, and MM. Tomson and Prevost,
also manufacturers of the same description of article. Mine,
Vernier charged the defendants with having infringed her
patent by making petticoats exactly like hers, eighteen of
which were seized on Prevost's premises and a dozen on
Tomson's. So far the case appeared clear against the de-
fendants; but the statement of their counsel gave it a very
different aspect. In the first place, he declared that the
plaintiff's pretended invention was of no value whatever, and
that the present proceedings had no other obj,ct than to give
it a factitious importance. no further explained that the
petticoats which were seized had virtually been made by the
plaintiff's own orders, since her son-in-law, a man named
Martin, had taken the models to tLa defendants and ordered
them to make a certain number for a M. Gallet, of Troyes
and even superintended their execution ; but as soon as the
goods were ready for delivery, they were seized in the name li
of Mme. Vernier, and it was ascertained that M. Gallet
had never given any order of the kind, The Tribunal, how-
ever, had decided that, however blameable the manoeuvre
which had been practised, no instigation could justify an
illegal ad, and condemned the defendant to pay a fine, with
501. damages. Against that decision M M. Prevost and Tom-
son now appealed, and their counsel argued that, as the
petticoats had been made by the patentee's orders, the appel-
lants were blameless, and in support of his argument he
cited a decision of the Imperial Court in an exactly similar
case, tried in 1858. The Court, adopting this interpreta-
tion of the law, accordingly quashed the judgment appealed
against, ordered the goods seized to be returned, and con-
demned Mme. Vernier to pay 500 f. damages to each of the
defendants, with all costs of suit,

The Tribunal of Commerce has just given a judg-
ment of great importance to tradesmen who are in the
habit of transmitting orders by telegraph. M. Souchet,
residing at Melle (Doug-Sevres) some time since sent a
conditional order for goods to MM. Jeanti and Sons,
with a request that if his terms were accepted, an
answer should be returned at once by telegraph. MM.
Jeanti accepted the offer, and at once handed in tae
answer to the telegraph office, but the olerk unfortunately
mistook Melle for an abbreviation of Marseilles, and sent
the message to the latter city. The error was discovered
during the day, and the message was then sent to its proper
destination, where it arrived iu the evening. Meanwhile,
however, M. Souchet had purchased the goods he wanted
of another party and refused to take those of MM. Jeanti.
The latter accordingly commenced proceedings against him
for breach of contract, and demanded 2,000 fr. damages, on
the ground that they had forwarded their answer by the
means selected by M. Souchet, and that he alone was re-
sponsible for the consequences. After hearing counsel for
M. Souchet, the Tribunal decided that the telegraph was as
much the agent of one party as of the other, and that the
responsibility must fall on the person sending the message ;
it therefore rejected the plaintiff's demand with coats.

The Civil Tribunal of the Seine gave judgment
yesterday in an action brought under the following
circumstances :—Some years ago M. Renon, prin-
cipal tenant of the Hotel de Castillo, at the cor-
ner of the Rue Richelieu and the Boulevard des

Italiens, let on lease one of the shops on the boulevard
to a Mlle. Maillard, a stationer, for 4,000 fr. a year,
with a stipulation that she should not dispose of
her lease without his consent, and that she should remain
responsible for the rent with the new tenant. Subsequently,
Mlle. Millard sold her lease with Renon's consent to a M.
Gantry, who was restricted to carry on no other business
than those of glover and perfumer. Not long after, M.
Gautry ceded the remainder of the lease to M. D3uval, a
jeweller, and on this occasion Renon intervened, and autho-
rised the latter to carry on his business in the shop, on con-
dition of an increase of 3,500 fr. in the rent, of which Renon
was to receive 1,500 fr. and Gautry the rest. Mlle. Mail-
lard, deeming this last ce3sion an invasion of her rights,
as being made without her consent, and contrary to the
terms on which she had transferred her lease to Gautry,
cited MM. Gantry, Duval, and Renon before the Tri-
bunal with a view to recovering possession of the shop.
The advocate of M. Renon maintained that his client was
fully entitled to act as he had done, and that, as he now
relinquished all claim on Mlle. Maillard, as guarantee for
the rent, the latter had no longer any interest in the matter.
Tho Tribunal, considering that the release offered to the
plaintiff by M. Renon put her entirely out of court, rejected
her demand with costs.

The Correctional Tribunal of the Seine was on
Tuesday engaged in the trial of a female, named Pauline
Lariviere, charged with victimising several tradespeople at
Montmartre, by passing off new and bright sf-pieces. A
baker deposed that the prisoner had procured the centime
pieces from him by saying that she wanted them as play-
things for her children, and added that a few days after-
wards she again called, and, purchasing a loaf, paid for it
with what he thought was a 5f piece, but which, after she
had left, he discovered to be only one of the centimes.
Several other tradespeople whom she had cheated in a simi-
lar manner appeared against her, and the court condemned
her to six months' imprisonment.

RAILWAY COMMUNICATION TO CONSTANTINOPLE.
—A project has just been set on foot by an engineer,
named Dumont, to continue the present railway from Paris
as tar as Constantinople. The published proposal says :
" It is well known that the present European network of
railways extend as far as Bazias, a small port on the D%nubs
at 650 kilometres (f of a mile each) distance below Pesth.
The line from Paris to Bazias by Strasburg, Munich,
Vienna, and Pesth, is about 2,100 kilometres in length, and
the journey may be performed in 60 hours. How, then,
should this line of railway be extended to the Black Sea and
Constantinople ? Two directions are possible : one by Bel-
grade, Servia, Bulgaria, and Roumelia is the line already
surveyed by the English. The other, which we do not hesi-
tate to prefer, and which we have in a great measure studied
on the spot, would be more easy of execution without being
much longer. It would reach Constantinople by Roumania,
passing by Craiova, Bucharest, Rustchuck, Schumla,
and Adrianople, crossing the Balkans at the mast available
point, in the neighbourhood of Aidos. From Bazias to the
Roumain frontier the banks of the Danube would be fol-
lowed without great difficulty, and on entering the Rou-
manian territory large and magnificent plains are met with,
where few engineering works would be required, and where
the establishment of the line would create an important
local traffic. A. branch would run to Cernavoda to join the
Kustenje railway. This branch, which might be executed
several years before the passage over the Balkans, would
have the immense advantage of uniting the European rail-
ways to the Black Sea, and of abridging, especially in win-
ter, the journey to Constantinople, Another branch from
Bucharest to Galatz would join the principal line to the
network of railways projected in Moldavia, and one of
which has just been conceded to a company, namely, the
line between Lemberg, the extremity of the Gallician lines
and Galatz. Lastly, a third branch would proceed to
the foot of the Carpathians from Bucharest, to facilitate
the working of the mineral wealth which those districts
contain, and especially the magnificent mines of roeksalt
possessed by the Roumain Government. The total length
of the proposed lines would be about 1, iOO kilometres, thus
divided :—On the Austrian territory from Bazias to the
frontier of Roumania, near Orsova, 125 kilom. ; from
Orsova to Rustehuck by Bucharest, 353 kilom. ; from
Rustchuck to Constantinople by Sammie, Aidos, and
Adrianople, 600 kilom. ; giving a total from Orsova to
Constantinople of 1,085 kilom. The branches from Bucha •
rest to Brazil and Galatz, and those from Cernavoda to the
foot of the Carpathians, would be together about 400
Horn., making a total length of 1,485 kilom."
THE CASE OF THERM,. P. APLAUGHLIN.--A note
of suspension was presented on Tuesday, with a motion for
interim liberation of the prisoner, to Lord Neaves. His
Lordship granted interim liberation, on Mr. M'Laughlin
finding caution, to the extent of .£25, to return and undergo
the remainder of his sentence in event of the suspension
being refused. It is understood, says the Morning Journal,
that his Lordship was influenced in respect that the Lords
of Justiciary are at present scattered, and there being no
meeting of these Judges before the 11th January, and as
he had no power to refuse the suspension of himself, the
term of imprisonment would expire before the hearing. In-
terim liberation is generally granted as a matter of course
when caution is found, and therefore this affords no indi-
cation of what the ultimate judgment may be. In the Jus-
ticiary Court there is no Lord Ordinary, and the case can
only be heard before the assembled Judges, Lord Neaves'
duty last evening being merely to grant a first deliverance
on the application, having no power otherwise to dispose
of it.

FATAL WRECK.—AR express forwarded from
Longue to the Custom-house by Mr. Crawford factor at
Tongue for the Duke of Sutherland, gives the Melancholy
tidings of the wreck of a brig there,g supposed to be the
Omega, of Dundee, from America,
with her entire crew.
Mr. Crawford states that the vessel came to anchor to the
eastward of Rabbit Islands, in the Kyle of Tongue, on Fri-
day last, during the hurricane, and that during the night
she dragged anchors, and struck on the bar of Kyle. The
entire crew seem to have perished, two bodies having been
taken from the wreck. Neither the captain's nor mate's
body was found. 'The two bodies which were discovered
on the wreck had each Shipwrecked Mariners' Society
medals, which have been preserved with a view to identifi-
cation. The bodies have been decently interred under Mr.
Crawford's superintendence. Little of the cargo (flour and
butter), can be saved. The hull is a good deal sanded up,
and large quantities of barrels are floating about,—Northern
.Ensign.
ANOTHER YOUNG LADY BURNT TO DEATH
THROUGH CRINOLINE.—Yesterday a most heart-rending
accident occurred, which has terminated fatally, to Miss
Augusta Bousfield, aged 24 years, who resided in Upper
Eaton.street, Belgrave-square, Pimlico. The unfortunate
young lady was passing the fireplace, when her dress of
light muslin, which was distended by crinoline, took fire,
and she was speedily enveloped in a mass of flames. Her
screams drew the attention of the servants to the parlour,
and the flames were extinguished as soon as possible. Sur-
gical assistance was sent for, and the poor young lady was
removed to St. George's Hospital, but she expired shortly
after her admission;