The Sun.
London, England, 1849-03-24 00:00:00

MARKET NEWS-(THIS DAY.)

COVENT-GARDEN'.
Tqe supplies of both Fruit and Vegetables were tole-
rably extensive for the time of year. Generally r peaking,
the demand was firm at prices equal to those paid la, t week.
Fruit—Pine-apples (Queen's), 5s to 7s; and foreign Grapes
(black and white), is to Is 6d per lb; Apples. 4s to 6s
per bushel; ditto Eating, 4s to 6s per half sieve; Pears,
12s to 18s per half sieve; Lemons, 5s to 10. f.; and
Oranges, 8s to 14s per 100; Chesnuis 2s to 4• pH. peck;
hothouse Grapes, 11 Is per lb. Vegetables—Spinatei, is
9d to 2s per junk; Horseradish, 2s 6d to 37 61; and
Celery, 9d to Is per bundle ; Asparagus, 3, to 6s
per 100; Onions, 2s to 2s 6d; and Ash•leave,l kidney
Potatoes, 6s to 8s per bushel; Cape Brocoli, 12s to IBs
per dozen bundles ; Mushrooms, 9d to Is ptr Pottle;
Spanish Onions, lOs to 15s per box; Endive, is to
Is 3d per score; Savoy Cabbages, tid to Sd pi r dozen;
Turnips, is to is 6d; Carrots, 2s 6d to 4s; and Greens,
Is to is 6d per dozen bunches; Parsley, is 6d to Is 9 1 per
half sieve; Forced Sea Rail 9d to Is fid per punnet;
Cucumbers 5s to 7s per brace; Forced phut arb, 5s to
9s per dozen bundles ; Beet-root, is to is 31 per
dozen ; Brussels Sprouts, is to is 6d ; and Jerusalem
Artichokes, is to Is 3d per half sieve; Parsnius, 6:1 to
9d per dozen ; Cornish White Brocoli, is 6.1 to 3s per
dozen; Turnip Greens, 6d to 8d per bushel; Leeks, 8d
to is per dozen bunches; New Potatoes, 8d to is per lb;
French Beans, 2s 6d to ,3s 6d per 100; Radishes, 4d to
6d per punnet; Red Cabbages, 2s to 3s 6d p,.:r dozen;
Shallots, 4d per lb.

NEWGATII AND LEADENHA.I.L.
POULTRY—Turkeys, 4s to 10s; Geese, 63 to 8s ;
Ducks, 2s to 4s; Tame Rabbits, is 3d to is 9d;
Wil,l ditto, 7d to is ; Yi. eons, 7d to Is; and
Roasting Pigs, 5s to 8s each; Surrey Fowls, 9 to I3s ;
ditto Chickens, 6s to 9s; Barn-door F0w1,,, 4s to
7s 6d per couple; English Eggs, 6s to 8s; French ditto,
6s to 6s 3d per 100. Fresh Butter, is Id to is 2.1 per lb.
GASlE.—Hares and Leverets, 2s to 3s ; Wood-
cocks, 2s 6d to 3s 6d; Snipes, is to is 6d; T« al, 6d to
Is; Wild Ducks, is 6d to 2s; Widgeons, is to Is 6d;
and Plovers, 6d to is each.
VTIIXTECIIAPEL.
Beef, from 2s 2d to 3s 4d; Mutton, 2s 81 to 3s 8d;
Veal, 3s 6d to 4s 6d; and Pork, 2s 10d to 4s per 81bs.
NEWPORT.
Beef from 2s 6d to 3s 4d; Mutton, 2s 8d to 3s 8d; Veal,
3s 8d to 4s 8d; and Pork 3s 6d to 4s 4d per 81b5.
BILLINGSGATE.
Turbots, 5s to 12s; Cod Fish, 3s 6d to 8s; Haddocks,
4111 to 6d; Whitings, 4d to 6d; Mackerel, $d to 10d; Lob-
sters, Is 6d to 2s 9d; and Crabs, 6d to 2s each; Soles,
6d to 2s 3d per pair; Eels, 6(1 to is 2d, and Salmon,
Is 2d to is 6d per lb; Thames Flounders, is to is 6d,
Smelts, is to Is 6d per dozen; Oysters, 14s to 24s per
bushel.

The prices of Wheaten Bread in the Metropolis are
rorla 7d to ;id; of Household ditto, 5d to Gid per
4lbs loaf.

HIDE IVIAREET.
Market bides, 561 b to 641 b, lid to lid; ditto, 641 b to
?21b, lid to ditto, 721 b to 801 b, 14d t,) 2.1; ditto,
801 b to 881b,.2id to 24d; ditto, 881 b to 961 b, 21d to 3d;
ditto, 961 b to 1041 b, 3d to 34d; ditto, 1041 b to 1121 b,
to 4d; Calf Skins, each, 5s to 58 6d; Horse Hides,
7s 6d; Polled Sheep, 5s 6d to 6s 4d; Kent and half•
breds, 4s 10d to 5s 4d; Downs, 3s 10d to 5s 0;1; Shear-
ings, 6d.

11.A.T 211871L82rTS.
SMITMFIELD.—Meadow Hay, 21 15s to 4/; Clover
ditto, 31 103 to 51 ; and Straw, 11 8s to 11 12s per
load. Supply moderate, and trade firm.
CUMBERLAND.—Meadow Ray, 21 18s to 4/ 33 ;
Clover ditto, 3/ 10s to 4/ 16s ; and Straw, 1/ 8s to
1/ 14s per load. A fair average supply, and a steady
demand.

W HITECHAPEL. - Meadow Hay, 21 15s to 4/ ;
Clover ditto, 31 10s to 5145; and Straw, 1/ 8s to 11 124
per load. Trade firm, at very full prices.

CHANCERY.—(THIS DAY.)
(Before the LORD CHANCELLOR.)
COOPER V. THE EARL OF POWIS.
It appeared from the statement of Mr. Malins, the
counsel for the plaintiff, that in the Parliament session of
the year 1846, which was remarkable for the nu:Tiber of
railways that were ushered into existence, and for the
extent to which they went to supersede the use of canals
in the Midland Counties, the Birmingham and Liver.
pool, and the Chester and Ellesmere canals, being
situated in a part of the country in which thero were
various schemes propounded for the constructi,:n of rail-
ways, were marked out for amalgamation, wit?: various
lines of railroad in Shropshire, under the titht of the
Shropshire Union Railways and Canal Con-Tilly. The
plaintiff sued on behalf of himself, as•the subscriber of
seventy-three 20/. shares, and a member of th ix:corpo-
rated company, consisting of the canals and the railway
company. The defendants had made calls on the Itoithrs
of those 201. shares in this united company, not, as
the plaintiff contended, for the purpose for hich
that capital was created, namely, the construction of the
railway, but for the purpose of paying off a considerable
mortgage debt which existed on the canals before their
amalgamation with the railway company. The object
of the present suit was to restrain the defendants rum
doing that.

The arguments had not concluded when our report left,

VICE-CHAN CERY.—(THIS DAY.)
(Before the Vice-Chancellor itzuwar BRUCE )
HA.YWARD V. PIIRSET.

This was a suit for the purpose of setting aside four
under. leases, dated the 15th of April, 1843, executed by
a Mr. Saville Godfrey, who formerly lived at 10, Mount-
gardens, Lambeth, and also to bring back to his estate
certain sums of stock, amounting to 1,0001. Three per
Cent. Annuities, purchased by him in tae name of some
of the defendants, one Mr. Coombes and his wife, and
of their children, in different sums, on the 11th of
January, the 13th and 24th of February, the 12th
of April, the 25th of May, 1843, it being alleged that the
said Mr. Godfrey was then of unsound mind. A com-
mission of lunacy had been sued out against the unfortu-
nate gentleman in 1845, and the evidence taken on that
occasion went to show that in a period embracing the
years 1842, 1843, 1844, and 1845, he was the subject of
strange hallucinations at intervals. On one occasion he
took into his head that there were several women who
wanted to marry him, and he applied to a friend for
money with which to buy clothes tor his wedding. On
another occasion, in August, 1843, while he was staying
in the company of a friend at the Ship Hotel, Dover,
the chamber-maid hearing a noise in the middle of the
night in the house after all the inmates had retired to
rest, gut up to ascertain the cause of it, when she found
Mr. Godfrey in his night-shirt in the lobby, vivnflering
about, not knowing where he was. The chambermaid
conducted him to his bed-room, when he declared to her
his belief that he was in a disreputable house, and that
she was a woman of a disreputable character. At an-
other time when she went into his room he desired her
to look at things which did not exist—such as soldiers
in the street, when there were no soldiers there. His
gardener deposed, that on one occasion, when Mr. God-
frey came into the garden he pointed witness's attention
to some images which stood in the garden, and remarked
to him how finely they grew. Another vvitneis deposed
to his being in the habit of asking the chairs in the room
how they did, and of attempting to shake hands with
them; and at other times of crawling on the ground on
all fours.

Mr. STEVENS was continuing to read the depositions
when we went to press.
(Before Vice Chancellor WianAm.)
His HONOUR was occupied during the morning in
hearing short causes.

DEATH OF MRS. JERMY.—It is with extreme
regret we have to announce the death, on Thursday
evening, of poor Mrs. Jermy, after intense suffering.
Eliza Chestney is also in a precarious state; so that it
is still uncertain if Rush's trial will come on, as deposi..
tions cannot be put in while the parties are living; and
there is, we fear, little h,,pe of the poor girl bei:T; able to
attend in court.—Cambridge Independent.
DEATH OF MR. HUSSEY, LATE M.P. FUR SALIS•
BURL—We regret to announce the demise of t!iis gen-
tleman, formerly M.P. for Salisbury, and one OF ;hr. most
uncompromising champions of the agricultural ;n!Trest.
He died at his residence near that city on Wy.inesday
last, at the early age of 42.

undentaod tilat tlx house of M. G. '.;rahle
will be prepared to pay a further comiderableiwtnikuent
on the 10th of April.

ALISON'S HISTORY OF EUROPE•

Eighth Edition. Vol. I.
ILLUSTRATED WITH PORTRAITS.
Another edition of Mr. Alison's renowned " His-
tory of Europe, from the Commencement of the French
Revolution to the Restoration of the Bourbons," i 5
now being issued from the establishment of the
Messrs. Blackwood. It is the eighth edition pub-
lished of this extraordinary work—a work not lose
remarkable for its laborious research than for the'
lucidity of its style and the eloquence of its composi-
tion. On the 9th of June, 1847, when speaking of
the smaller volumes then appearing in succession, we
observed in The Sun as follows :—" It only requires
now the publication of a series of engraved portraits
of the many extraordinary personages whose lives
are comprised in this European history to render the
edition perfect." In speaking thus, we were only
expressing an opinion which had doubtless already,
occurred to the historian himself and to his eminent
publishers. The labour is now accomplished—the
narrative has at last received its crowning decoration,
We have here submitted to our consideration the first
volume of an edition superbly embellished—printed
in octavo with new pica type—and accompanied with
a re-issue of the costly atlas produced by the distill,
guished geographer, Alexander Keith Johnston. The
engravings introduced in the opening chapters are,
very appropriately, the likenesses of the unfor-r
tunate King Louis THE SIXTEENTH and his beautiful
Queen MARIE ANTOINETTE—the interest attached to
the portraits being enhanced by the assurance con-
tained in the " advertisement," that they are copied
from originals " selected with the strictest regard to
authenticity and correct resemblance." Both plates
afford a striking corroboration of that assurance.
One, taken from the painting by Callet, represents
the gentle-hearted descendant of Capet —that good,
forgiving, amiable Louis whom Robespierre always
mentioned as " the tyrant!" The features although
clumsily chiselled and almost obese, are nevertheless
suffused with the delicacy of expression and softness
of outline peculiar to the race of the Bourbons, that
race at first so august and heroic, at last so weak and
effeminate. In the formation of the mouth of Louis
you have the clue to his destiny ; it reveals at once
the goodness and the vacillation of temperament that
led to his misfortunes and ultimately to his destruc-
tion. It is nearly impossible to look at any truthful
effigy of the greatest victim of the Revolution without
regarding him as a man who has completed at least
five decades—and yet Louis was only thirty-seven
when he perished so bravely on the scaffold! His
career constitutes one of the most affecting pages in
the annals of humanity, and his portrait is conse-
quently associated with all the privations and pomp,
the agony and joy, the serenity and the melancholy,
the weakness and the valour, the tears and the blood,
which make up the chequered materials of his biogra-
phy. A fitting companion, and yet a striking contrast,
to the portrait of the last of the Feudal Sovereigns is
that of the graceful, haughty, and lovely Antoinette.
Her countenance—the very mirror of her character
has been here transferred, from the celebrated minia-
ture of Benezack. Both of the plates have been ex-
quisitely engraved by the hand of T. W. Harland.
They are only the forerunners of a long catalogue.
They are to be succeeded by others of—Mute/matt,
the Orator and Genius of the Revolution—DAN-roe,
the author of the massacre of September—MAßAT, the
bloodhound, who demanded 300,000 heads from the
guiIIotine—ROBESPIERRE, the creator of Terrorism•-"'
MOREAU, the victor of Hohenlinden—NEy, the
bravest of the brave—Bo IME.—SUWARROW—the
ARCHDUKE CHARLES—NELSON—EvrT—Fox—WEL-
LINGTON —GEORGE the THIRD—CASTLEREAGII--"
JOSEPHINE—MURAT, the great horseman of the
Empire—BLUCHER—METTERNICH—TALLEYRAND--"
ALEXANDER—NAPOLEON BON APARTE, the General
—and, besides many more, NAPOLEON the Emperor.
The volumes, we have said, are accompanied in succes-
sion by a re-issue of the illustrative atlas; and the
history would be almost as incomplete without the
atlas as the atlas would be without the history. We
shall watch the progress of this splendid edition with
considerable interest, as the work will, when brought
to a conclusion, constitute a double testimony of the
genius of the historian and of the enterprise of the
publishers.