The Sun.
London, England, 1849-11-06 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON,

MARKET NEWS.—(THis DAY.)

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COFFEE —387 bags 215 casks Plintation Ceylon, and
31 casks Jamaica, were mostly disposed of at prices
bsrely supporting those previously current; 1,014 bags
fine ord I.a Guayra were withdrawn, with the exception
of about 300, at 45 850 bags good ()id Rio sold pri-
vately et 41a to 41s 61, being extreme: pric,s; Native
Ceylon continues in good demand, and snverat parcels
have changed hands privately at 43a to 43s 6d, with a
few very superior at 44a p•r cwt.
1113:U.—The quantity landed bat 'week at the Eart
and Wes.: India Docks was 334 puns, 20 hhds; there
were taken for home consumption 184 puns, 23 hhds,
and exported 80 puns, 105 htidi. Tee stuck in the same
OA, s is 23,186 puns, 2,039 tilds.
JUcE.-500 bags Bengal went at easier rates, viz., 9s
to 9s 61 for low mid white.

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SALTPETRE.-250 bags Bengal were disposed <A at 3f
decline, 8} per cent. retraction, 263 6d, and one lot al
27s per cwt.

fALLow•.—P.Y.C. is 37s to 37s 3d per cwt. on the
spot, and T«wo 39s 6(1, with a fair business.

TEA.—Black is dull, and Green well supported.
COTTON.—This article is quiet.

LAW INTELLIGENCE.

CHANCERY.—(THIS DAY.)
The Lord Chancellor sat in his court in the Old IIa:
Lincoln's Inn, to day.

ROBERTS V. ROBERTS.-JUDGMENT.
His Lonpsuir gave judgment to day in this case,
which has been argued before him for two days. The
arguments were concluded esterday. The case came
bt-fore his Lordship upon appeal front the decision of the
Vice Chancellor of England, refusing to grant a new
trial of an issue directed to the court for the purpose of
trying whether the plaintiff was the next of kin of
Catherine Lloyd, who left considerable property in
Wales, and died intestate. The jury found i❑
favour of the claim of the plaintiff, and the
Vice-Chancellor of England having, upon motion for
that purpose, refused to grant a new trial, the parties
appealed to this branch of the court. The Lord Chan-
cellor, after going at length into the case, distnissei the
motion for a new trial, with costs, and .decreed that the
pLintiff was one of the next of kin of the intestate, and
directed an inquiry to the Master for the purpose of as-
ses taining who were the other next of kin.

FOLLETT V. lIEFFREYS.
The farther arguments on this part-heard motion oc
copied the Court the remainder of the morning.

ROLLS' COURT.---(THIS DAY.)
His Lorddhip the Mister of the Rolls sat to-day in
his Court, Rolls-yard, Chancery-lane: His Lordship,
having diq3osed of the cam) of "Robertson-v. Shelton,"
which stood for judgment, proceeded -to hear motions
and petitionsoNhich occupied the Court the whole. day.

'ICE-CHANCERY.—(THIS DAY.)
(Before the VICE-CHANCELLOR of ENGLAND.)
His Honour, after hearing in his private room the
arguments in a case, the facts of which it was thought
advisable not to make public, took his seat in his Court,
in Lincoln's lon, and I roceedtd to hear the further ar-
guments in the part-heard petition of
NEATE V. PINK.
This case came be fore his Honour upon the petition►
of certain parties entitled to the rents of the moiety of
tan estate in Jamaica, called the Bindless ALiiety. The
object of the petition was that the petitioner's claims
might be satisfied out of the proc:.eds of the whole et.
tate,which were standing in the name of the Accountant-
General of the Court of Chancery in this country. The
facts of the case possess not the least point of interesr,
except to the parties concerned, and the arguments
occuided the Court the remainder of the day.
(Before the Vice-Chancellor KNIGHT BRUCE.)
His Honour heard causes to day, but no case of
interest came before him during the morning.
(Before the Vice-Charicelior WIGRABL)
REYNELL V. SPRYE.
His HONOUR having handed down to the parties his
written judgment in this case, proceeded to hear the
further arguments in the part-heard case of " Coope v.
Cart: r."

EXCLIEQUER.—(THIS DAY.)
(Sittings in Banco, teFore the Loud CHIEF BARON, Mr.
Baron PARKE, Mr. Baron ROLFE, and Mr. Baron
ALDERSJX.)
CROOME V. FAIRRAIRN AND OTHERS.
The ATTORNEY-GENERAL said, in this case, which
was tried at Guildhall, before the Lord Chief Baron, on
thy- 9t.h of July last, and a verdict found for the plaintiff
fur 4501. beyond the money paid into court, he had to
move for a new trial on the ground of the reception of
improfer evidt•nce, and that the verdict aas against
evidence. The real defendants were the Admiralty, and
it was an action of assumpsit for the price and value of
goods so7l and delivered. The defendants paid 1,0001.
Into court, and adm:ted no damages under it. The
Messrs. Fairbairns, the defendants, aro large ship-
builders, and some time ago undertook to.: build one
of two steam-vessels for the Government, namely, the
Madeira and the Vulcan. These vessels were on the
screw principle, and bavieg been recommended by the
Messrs. Rennie to the plaintiff, Mr. Croome, as a prac-
tical engineer, the Messrs. Fairbairn entered into an
engagement with him to make the slide-piece and other
fittings necessary for the screw of the vessel;
and for that work he charged 2,2804 10s., the
payment of which the defendants resisted on the
ground that it was excessive. With the view of proving
the exorbitancy of the charge, the defendants called a
Mr. Mare, a large ship-bulls:et. on the Thames, who de-
posed that he made the very same articles tor the steam-
vessel Vulcan, which was cf the satne size as the Ma-
deira, for 1,2001. At the trial the plaintiff produced his
books, and showed the expenses he had incurred in the
making of those articles, and the jury were misled in
finding their verdict on that supposition. A great por-
tion of the charge of the plaintiff was for buil ling fur-
naces and making tools to do this very work, and the
counsel for the defence contended that that was no de-
ment in the cost of the manufacture of articles of this
description, any more than if he (the Attorney-General)
took his watch to be repaired to a watchmaker in the
Strand, the tools and nails used by the artisan ought to
be included in the charge for repairing the watch.

Mr. Baron ALDERSON—Upon- that principle an engi-
neer might charge the expenses of his education.
The ATTORNEY-GENERAL—TO be sure. Besides, tle
dt fendants calved a number of witnesses in large busi-
nss, compptent to do work of the kind in question,
who all swore that 1,2001., or thereabouts, was the full

The CouRT granted a rule to show cause generally,
leaving the question of the payment of the costs of the
rule which was in dispute to be subsequently argued.

MIDDLESEX SESSIONS.
(Tins DAY.)
(B&oro the ASSISTANT- JUDGE.)
The Novemter general session commene, d this morn-
ing. at the Sessions House, Clerkenwt
The number of prisoners in the calendar is seventy.
James Byrne, aged 22, was indicted for stealing a
hanekerchief, a gold ring, and the sum of 165. 6d., the
property of Catherine Pickley, nom her person.
The prosecutrix, a servant out of place, stated that
she and some other females went en Wednesday. night
last to a " dance," at a public-house calh d tha Hope, in
Stairord-street, where she met the pi isoner, with whom
she had had some acquaintance. lie accompanied her
a part of the way home, anti at another public-house in
the same street she treated him to some drink; in pay-
ing for which she took out the handkerchief containing
her money and a-wedding-61w, purchased for her by a
oung man to whom she was flout to be married. The
prisoner snatched the ),handkerchief and its con-
tents out of her hand and ran away with
it. On the following day one of his comrades
returned the ring. She afterwards met the prisoner,
restoreand
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policemanerot property. He v eHmlehdilmagu4gvi hen
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had not been cut of place a week for seven years.
Mr. PAYNE, for the prisoner, commented severely
ict i
going upon the impropriety of the girl's conduct, in going, to
a dance_ i a a
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place,blh public-hood.
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"respectable young woman
iu such a place.
Several countrymen of the prisoner and the prosecu-
trix gave the former a good character.
The A SSISTANT JUDGE said that a most disgraceful
attack had been made upon the character of the prose-
cutrix. It wgs true she was an Irish girl ; but what-
ever faults might be in the Irish ch,racter, the modesty
of the young women in the Liwer classes was a jewel in
it, and was acknowl.dged by every one who had as much

opportuniiy of Eeririg them under various circumstances
as he had. They Were th9ughticss, and often thd what
others who had mere wickedness would not do; and

there was nothing at all strango in her going to
this dance with her country follc3, just after leaving
her service, or in her treating the lrisoner,. who was one
of their friends.

The jury iound the prisoner Guilty, and he was sen-
fencc•d to be impribon,A for six mouthy, and kept to
hard LL:ur.

rti AR LBR(Y-ST REET—( THIS DAY.)
Mary Wilson, a woman of the town, wtri brought
before arr. 13ingliatn, charged with having assaulted u
gentleman named Dulman, by brealdng his head with a
coup - plate.

Thu complainant, whose head was bound with ad-
hesive plaister, stated that on the previous night he was
i❑ Alexander's Coffee-house, in Titchborne-street,
partaking of some alamode, when the prisoner and two
other women came in and set down at the same table,

SMITHFIELD.—Meftdow flay, 2/ 10s to 31 10;; Clover
ditto, 3! Os to 4/ 10s; and Straw, ti 4s to 11 10. per
!oad. A moderate supply, and a st.,ady trade.
CUNFIERLAND.—Meadow Hay, 2 12s to 31 12s; Clover
ditto, 31 Os to 41 lus ; and Straw, 11 5s to 'll 10s per
:oad. Supply tolerably good, and trade dull.
WHITECHAPEL.—Meadow Hay, 2/ lOs to 31 10s;
Clover, ditto, 3/ Os to 4l 12s; and Straw, 114 s to 1/ 10s per
load. Trade steady, at full prices.

SUGAR —There continues a steady demand for Bri-
tish Plantation, the sa!e3 exceeding 770 hhds, including
123 hhds Barbadoes, at auction, which realised 381 6
to 403 6d for mid to good yellow; 7,830 bags Bengal,
and 470 bags Madras, sold briskly at rather higher
rates, the former at 43s to 48s for mid to fine crystalised,
39s to 40s 6d for Benares, acrd 335 6d to 41s 6,1 for low
yellow to fine pale date kind, and the latter at 36s 6d to 418
6d for low to fine ?:rainy yellow. The quantity of B. iti,h
Plantation landed last week at the E4st and West India
Docks was 2,165 hhds, 232 tierces, 1,039 barrels; there
were taken for home consumption 1 603 (Oils. 187 arcs,
288 btrrels. The stock in the same plac.t is 1,844 hills,
2,548 tierces, 5,571 barrels.

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and called for sumo ri.fie,huaent. Just before they left
the hill*c the prisoner came up to him and asked him to
"stand some gio. lie declir:ed acceding to.
her teauest, when she called him by a ahy expret,ion,
and, taking up a Fou p-p la' 0, struck him with such vio•
knee on the head that the plate was broken in several
pieces, and the blood fl weei in torrents from the wound
she had inflicted. He called out for the weiter, who
came and washed his head, and applied some adhesive
plaister to the wound. Witness then walked to the
door, and, having called a constable, gave the prisoner
in charge.

Two—witcesses were called, who proved seeing the
prisoner strike complainant with the plate.
The prisoner, who denied the charge, was fined 41.,
and in default to be committed for one month.

Al A GAZIN &c.—(CONTINUED.)

DAVID COPPERFIELD. No. 171. By
Charles Dickens.

Seventeen years hive conducted little David to
that intermediate period between bayhoul and man-
hood, when the thoughts, the manners, and tl e
sensations of the stripling may be depicted in one
word, as the thoughts, the manners, and the sensations
of extreme awkwardness. He has, like Byron at
Missolonghi, to look around, and choose his ground,
~.nd not to take his rest, but select his profession.
Mr. Dick at one time, in a moment of inspiration,
suggests that Trot should be made " a brazi-r"—
but for ever afterwards holds his tongue on the days
of consultati, n. At last aunt Betsy resolves that,
as a preliminary step, he shall make an excur-
sion, just to see a little of life prior to
settling down in any employment going
first to London and afterwards to Yarmouth to visit
the Barkises and Peggottys—bidding him before his
departure, however, to emulate his immortal sister
Betsy Trotwood, that hypothetical baby, that wholly
supposititious infant, which we have already designated
the Mrs. Harris of the nursery. Before leaving for
the metropolis, Trot goes to bid farewell to all friends
at Canterbury. The Old Soldier comes out in great
strength; Mr. Wickfield- betrays a yet more deplor-
able affection for the port wine bottle ; dear old Dr.
Strong purposes giving up his academy • and Uriah
Heep gives yet more visible indications of his knavery.
Little Agnes, though she says nothing about it, and
though the author himself says nothing about
it, is, we cannot help conjecturing, in love with David.
A portent of calamity to poor dear old Dr. Strong is
muttered by the biographer, who says that "it fell
like a stain upon the quiet place where I had worked
and played as a boy, and did it a cruel wrong." It is
sufficiently manifest to us that Jack Maldon, who is
coming back from India on a pretence of ill. health,
will elope with Annie, between whom and Mr. Wick-
field there appears to be a profound suspicion. Starting
at last by the coach-and four to London, Trot expe-
riences his first " fall " in life—being degraded from
the boxseat to make room for " a shabby man
with a squint, who had no other merit than
smelling like a livery-stables." After that
terrible rebuff says the victim—" I felt completely
extinguished and dreadfully young." He meets with
scarcely more exhilarating treatment on his arrival at
the Golden Cross, Charing-cross, where the waiter is
familiar, the people generally act towards him without
respect, and the very chambermaid seems to mock at

him by bringing hint " shaving water" in the morn-
ing. On all occasions and at all tittles the feeling of
David seems-to be an overwhelming sense that he is
" dreadfully young." At night, after going to the
play, Trot 'encounters an old schoolfellow—the
u.ecting is beautifully told :
" • Swerforth I won't you speak to me?'
" He looked at me—just es he used to look, sometimes
—but I saw no recognition in his face.
" You do-n't remember me, lam afraid,' said I.
" My God!' he suddenly exclaimed.. 'lt is. little
Copp,
I grasped him by both hands, and could not let
them go. But fur very shame, and the tear that it
might displease him, I could have held him round the
neck and cried.
never, n. ver, never was so glad! My dear Steer-
forth, I am so overjoyed to see you!'
"' And I am rejoyced to see you, too!' he said, shak-
inx my hands heartily. Why, Copperfield, old boy,
don't be overpowered!' And yet he was glad, too, I
thought, to see how the delight I had in meeting him
affected me.

I brushed away the tears that my utmost resolution
had not been able to keep back, and I made a clumsy
laugh of it, and we sat down together, side by side."
Steerforth conducts his young friend, whom he chris-
tends 4' Daisy" by reason of his freshness, to his
home at Highgate—the waiter having previously
altered his demeanour to Trot in consideration of his
acsiudintance. "He attended on us, I may say,"
observes Daisy, "in sackcloth and ashes." At
Steerforth's home we are introduced to a Miss Dartle,
otherwise Rosa, Steerforth's lady-mother's companion.
Here is her portrait in four lines :
" She was a little dilapidated—like a house—with
having been so long to let: yet had, as I have said, an
appearance oF good looks."
Steerforth's servant, Littimer, is still better drawn, and
promises to be of some importance—his chief charac-
teristic being respectability. "If his nose," says the
cuthor, " had been upside down he would have made
that respectable." Ultimately Daisy and Steerforth
proceed together to Yarmouth. The meeting of
David with dear old Peggotty, now Mrs. Barkis, is
exquisitely true and simple. Here, it
" Is Mr. Barkis at home, ma'am? I :aid, feigning to
spaak roughly to her.
Lie's at home, sir,' returned Peggotty, ' but he's bad
with the rheumatics.'
Don't he go over to Blunderstone now?' I asked.
When he's well, he do,' she answered.
" you ever go there, Mrs. Ballets?'
" She looked at me more attentively, and I noticed a
quick movement of her hands towards each other.

" Because I want to ask a question about a house
there. that they call the—what is it?—the Rookery,'
said I.

"She took a step backward, and put out her hands in
an undecided frightened way, as it to keep me off.
" Peggotty r I cried to her.
" She cried, My darling boy!' and we both burst into
tears, and were locked in one another's arms."
Barkis proves to be too rheumatic to be shaken hands
with, " but he begged me to shake the tassel on the
top of his nightcap, which I did most cordially."
"As he lay in bed," says Daisy, " face upwards, and
so covered, with that exception, that he seemed to be
nothieg but a face—like a conventional cherubim—
he looked the queerest object I ever beheld." Leaving
the Barkises atter a delightful day there, David and
Steerforth proceed 'at night acros the Yarmouth
flats to the ship, where they find Mr. Peggotty, Mrs.
Gummidge, Ham and Em'ly, all in a high state of
health and good humour—the two latter being that
moment betrothed to each other I The way in which
the love passages between Ham and Em'Jy are re-
counted by Mr. Peggotty, and the way in which the
stalwart Ham, trembling, corroborates the tale of
his love, are beautiful. Ham, indeed, feeling com-
pelled to say something, speaks as follows with much
taultering and great difficulty :
" She warn'e no higher than you was, Mas'r Davy—
when you first come—when I thought what she'd grow
up to be. I see her grow up—gent'lmen—like a flower.
l'el by down my life for her—Mas'r Davy —OH most
content and cheerful! She's more to me—gent'lmen—
th,in—ahe's all to me that ever I can want, and more
than ever I—than ever I could say. I—l love her true.
There ain't a ges►e'lmen in all the land—nor yet sailing
upon all the sea—that can love his lady more than I love
her, though there's many a common man—would say
better—what he meant.'

"I thought it affrcting to see such a sturdy fellow as
Ham was now, temblieg in the strength 01 what he felt
tor the pretty httle creature who had won his heart."
Steerfottli threatens to mar all the joy and inno-
cence of this charming "family picture"—Euely
I.eirg very ber.uticul and he very profligate.

THE ST. JAMES'S. Edited by J. B. Burke, Est.
The editor comes forward in propria persona this
month, and relates a recent visit to btoneletgh Abbey
in such an agreeable manner, that we hope for the
future he will, whenever he takes a trip into the
country, record his thoughts and impressions in the
pages of the magazine. Mr. John Hay commences
"lioscobel—a History," being a narrative of the adven-
tures of Charles 11. during his escape after
" Wor'ster fight." The present instalment concludes
with the close of the adventure of the Royal Oak.
There are various other articles of merit on subjects
of antiquarian research, besides the Heraldic Re-
gister and Annotated Obituary for the month.

THE DUBLIN UNIVERSITY.
The papers composing the number of this periodi-
cal for the present month are clever and varied as usual.
We may mention, as a strange fact, that the present
awful condition of Ireland is not referred to in her
national magazine. Indeed we can well conceive bow
ry uninviting must be that theme at this moment to
an honest Irishman, and we are therefore disposed to
t.ttribute the omission to other feelings than indiffer-
ence.. It opens with a learned and scientific paper en-
cal:A "Physical Geography—the Air," introducing
some very interesting extracts from Humboldt and
others on the currents of the ocean and atmosphere,
the gradations of heat and electricity, &c. " Recol-
lectiens of a Circassian Campaign," a translation from
the, journal of a German officer in the Russian service,
is full of new and stirring incidents. The "Portrait
Gallery" is embellished with an etching of the much
respected father of the Munster Bar, George Bennett,
Esq , Q.Ci, a name, in the words of his biographer—
" Associated with honest worth, private virtues, per-
sonal excelk'nce, and professional ability; the name of
one possessed of that smount of natural good sense and
fairness of mind, which, inits higher departments, is a
Form of genius ; who has lived for half a century in
his prof, ssion ; bas won the esteem of competitors and
compaukus, the confidence of the Bench and the jury_
box, every attestation to merit which public opinion
and private respect could ordinarily bestow; and yet he
is still, as we sketch him, Vain George Bennett, without
official rank or judicial elevation."
There is not one who has the happiness of knowing
Mr. Bennett, either in his public or private capacity,
who will not give a hearty concurrence to the estimate