The Sun.
London, England, 1849-12-26 00:00:00

AI A V.. 1i..E1 T .1'1; 7:.--: \VS...--( T lI'S DAY.)

C N•EXCHAN DNESDA Y
The t.ita! quantity of Ef Wheat r, e(dved
tip to our market this week coastsAi.,e h;:s been oily 340
q ifirt(ri; hence the supply on oil r. to-day yr:l,i very
••• the r;:tendlue, of buyors was small,. he demand
kinis cu:l Floc-
Y;rrigu huat3 vo.A•e arld
lulerier kinds very little business was trait: acted. We
had a fair sale for Mdting Barley at extreme cut rrr,cil s,
but grinling and distilling sorts were neglected. Mielt
Was is short supply and heavy detuznd t,t latit wc(k's
currencies. There were very :em parcels r9fidy for de-
livery. Fine Oats moved eff steTlily at full prict.s.
Otherwi •e tht, derrr.rd was in a 6legv,ish state. B-ats,
Peas, and all ether ~rtie:s ware vcry all.

ARREVALS THIS WEEK

WheAt

Barley.

Oats.

Malt

I. ,our.

Qrs. Qra. Qr 4.
340 2, 90 3,360

Qrs. Sacks
2,8)9 810

English • • •• • •
Scotch.. •• • • • •
Irish •• •• •• • •
Foreign •• •• • •

1,420

6,350 1 4,610

tIOUGUGH LZOP

Our rnarkct is decidedly flat. In [gic,,s, however, we
have no change to notice. The supply offcrng is by no
means hag..

%VIEXTECELA.PEL.

Very little business7a;transuctedFrito-day's market,
and prices had a downward tendency. Beef, from 2s 6d
to 33 ad ; Mutton, 2s 8d to 3s 103; Veal, 3s 4d to 3s
103; and Pork, 3s 4d to 4s per Sibs, by the carcase.

SECONDARIES'.-(THIS DAY.)
(Before Mr. Secondary POTTER.
SADG ROVE v. CLEIIO.

The plaintiff in this action is an attorney, and delktn-
data is an auctioneer in the City. The plaintiff claimed
151. 153. on the defendant's guarantee for costs in taking
a person named Lockwood through the Insolvent
Debtors' Court.

Judgment was allowed to go by do'ault, but a Mr.
nORDEN appeared to watch the preeeedinzs, stating that
judgment had been signed through the error of defen-
dant's attorney.
Mr. Sad;rove called his clerk, who proved that tl
charges were such as allowed by the Insolvent Cou:t
rules ; 31. 3s. hail been paid on account.
Mr. IIonDEN then urged that the verdict must be for
nominal damages, for the declaration stated that the bill
was for work and lahour done for defendant, and at his
request, whereas it was done for a third party; but as
judgment had gone by default, a verdict must go against
defendant; but if he had pleaded, plaintiff must have
been nonsuited.
The Learned SECONDARY left the case as it stood to
the jury, and directed a verdict for 121. 123.

WORSHIP-STREET,—(THIS DAY.)
Daniel Lorden, a weaver, living in Parliament-court,
Artillery-ground, was charged before Mr. Hammill with
committing the following murderous assault upon his
wife, Catherine Lorden, who is in the London Hospital,
and who was unable to attend in consequence of the se-
vere injuries she has received.
Policema❑ Kelly, LI division, said that about twelve
o'clock on Monday night he was on duty in the Artil-
lery-ground, when the prisoner's daughter came up to him
and requested him to accompany her home, observing
that her father was murdering her mother, and that he
had struck her a violent blow on her head with an iron
bar. He proceeded there, and found the woman seated
in a chair; her clothes were covered with blood. He
spoke to her, and found her insensible. The prisoner
thou remarked that she had fallen over the table. Hig
dahhter Observed." Oh, no, father, you struck mother
with a bar of iron."

Inspector \room?, H division, produced an iron bar, on
which there were marks of blood. He also produced a
certificate from the London Hospital, in which it was
state l that she was in danger.

The prisoner was remanded for a week.

IRELAND.
(FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)
DUBLIN, DEC. 24.—The streets presented to-day
all the bustle which usually characterises the eve of a
holiday, which is nowhere kept in greater honour
than .in Ireland. No business is doing, except
amongst the grocers and butchers ; the thoroughfares
being thronged by citizens and visitors from the rural
districts, all engaged in the purchase of creature
comforts. As the Irish newspapers never publish on
Christmas day, the Dublin journals, whose publica-
tion falls on to-morrow, are issued this evening;
whilst with many of the provincial pipers, there will
be no publication for a week I Amongst the journals
taking things thus easily, are the three Limerick
ones.

The discussion in the Corporation is still the sub-
ject of much talk and animadversion. The scene of
coarseness and vituperation—the motives imputed,
and their fierce and vulgar repudiation—and the
seemingly corrupt abandonment of duty on the part of
the Corporation, have disgusted every class,
high and low, the intelligent and the ignorant.
There are, to be sure, many honest and respectable
men in the Corporation ; but it is to be regretted
they are in a minority, and still more to be lamented
that they had not the moral courage to outstay the
scene of violence in which the motion of Mr. Reynolds
originated, and then, by an independent motion, have
vindicated the character of the Corporation from the
charge of dishonesty and corruption now openly
made against its members. A glance at the facts,
which are undeniable, will lay open the entire case.
The town clerk, Mr. Ford, who holds seven other
situations, has 5001. per annum for the office, but its
duties are performed by a young gentleman named
Farquhar, to whom Mr. -Ford pays SO/. a year,
making up the sum to 1001., by obtaining a vote
of 201. annually for Mr. Farquhar's services
in the revision of the burgess roll. Besides
this sinecure of 4201. per annum, Mr. Ford
receives three guineas a day when travelling, and is
paid all expenses as between attorney and client
when preparing bills, or doing any other legal work
for the Corporation. Now, whilst this job is thus
perpetrated, and the civic funds squandered, the bills
of unfortunate tradesmen remain unpaid, the Corpo-
ration property is sunk in debt, and a borough rate is
continued, contrary to covenant, on the over taxed
citizens. And what is the cause of this job ? Owing
to the illiberality of the Bank of Ireland in refusing
accommodation, the trading community have been
coerced to resort to the Hibernian Bank, with which,
in some way or other, but very few of the Corporation
are unconnected. So that, in fact, the Town Council
represent, not the citizens, but a banking establish-
ment, of which Mr. Ford is a director, as well as a
member of that dread committee of three, whose
province it is to decide upon all piper sent in to the
bank for negotiation.
Great dissatisfaction is felt in the printing trade
here concerning the mode in which the contract for
printing for the Irish Government is disposed of. It
appears that every sheet of paper and article of sta -
tionery used in the thirty or forty public departments
in Ireland come from London ; and the firm of
M'Culloch and Co , which supplies them, has also the
disposal of the contract for printing. This contract
is duly advertised ; but the advertisement is only a
pretence, for one printer alone, Mr. Alexander Thom,
has the means of performing the gigantic contract,
which will not be divided, and must therefore con
tinue a monopoly. One master printer, with appli-
ances extensive enough for an ordinary business,-
applied for the work advertised for the Education
Board, and was asked had he provided, or could he
provide, within one month, three steam presses of
the largest size and greatest power; and would he be
then ready to take in from twelve to
fifteen thousand reams of paper, to proceed
with and work up at once ? This startline query was,
of course, answered 'in the negative, and the appli-
cant retired, satisfied that the advertisement inviting
competition was " all a barn." By the way, it is
said—l know not with what truth—that the Hon.
Member for Montrose is a sleeping partner in this
great printing concern. Certain it is, his signature
in a commercial capacity is not unknown in Dublin.
Messrs. Butt and J. D. Fitzgerald, Q.C.'s, are men-
tioned as candidates for Ennie, in room of O'Gormau,
who is, it is said, about to be provided for in the
colonies. Both gentlemen belong to the Munster
circuit, of which Ennis forms a part. Mr. Fitzge-
rald is a young lawyer of great celebrity as a special
pleader, and has great practice in record cases espe-
cially. In politics he is a Whig; Butt is a Conser-
vative Nationalist, whatever can be spelled out of the
term.
This day was clear and frosty, but foggy towards
evening.
THE FUNDS.—Three per Cent. Consols, 951-; ditto
for opening, e ; Three-and-a-Quarter per Cent. Stock,
961 ; Patriotic Insurance Company (101. paid), 61 ;
Great Southern and Western Railway, 30 ; Roy al
Bank,"111; Midland Great Western and Royal Canal, 23i.
CORN EXCHANGE.—The market bein.; held out of
course, in consequence of Christmas-day falling on
Tuesday, it may be considered almost nominal. Prices
ruled as last day. Foreign Wheat and Indian Corn
were held at more money, and, in some instances, higher
prices were obtained.

A NEW TELEGRAPH COMPANY.--A new telegraph
company has been recently formed, under the firm of
Ilowse, Brett, and Wilmer, who, it is said, are to in •
troduce their form of telegraph into various countries;
Mr. Howsa, who is an American, to have the sole ma•
nagement of the business in the United States; Mr.
Brett, over the continent of Europe; and Mr. Wilmer
in this country. We learn that a recent trial from
London to Norwich proved to be eminently successful.
This principle of telegraph possess s several claims to
public favour. It requires only one wire, and it prints
the communication legibly in ca,oitali, on long narrow
strips of paper; so that what is spelled at London by
the sender is printed at Norwich, and the whole re-
Eponsibility awl risk of the receiving clerks, and the
most prolific source of error in transmission, are wholly
got rid of. Instead of working two needles by handles,
the operator plays on keys like those of a pianoforte,
each key, on being pressed down, printing a capital
letter on the paper at the other terminus of the wire.
This is not on!y more accurate in its operation, but it
Will save much Limo now lost in various ways between
snider and receiver. In fact, the instrument is a tell-
tale, and a self-acting printing-machine or copyie..—
Manchester Guardian,