The Sun.
London, England, 1849-03-23 00:00:00

ARRIVA:
Wheat. I
960 qrs. I

LS THIS WEEK.
I Barley. I Oats.
I 1,450 qrs. 1,230 vs

English • • •• ••

Flour.
2,lBoski

Scotch .. •• • • f --
--
-
F 'reign
Malt, 3,180 qrs.
SDUCTIIPIELD.
Our market tc-day was very scantily supplied with
beasts, the general quality of which was tolerably good.
The few prime Sects on offer sold somewhat freely, at
prices fully equal to those obtained on Monday last.
Otherwise the Beef trade was in a sluggish state, at un-
altered quotation:. The numbers of Sheep were 1,000
more than those txhibited on this day se'nnight. All
breeds moved off slowly, yet the currencies were fairly
supported. The highest general top figure for Downs,
in the wool, was 4s 4d per 8 lbs. Lambs were in mode-
rate request, at from 6s 4d to 6s 8d per 8 lhs ; prime
small Calves wore held at full prices; all other kinds of
Veal met a slow inquiry. Pigs dull in sale, but not
cheaper. Mitch Cows were selling at from 14/. to 181.
each, including their small calf.

Per 819 s. to sink the offal.
3. d. to s. d. s, d. to s. d.
Inferior Bessts;.... 2 4 2 4 Second qual. Sheep 3 4 3 g
econd quality -... 2 8 210 Coarse-woolled ditto 310 4 o
Prime large Oxen.. 3 0 3 2 Southdown Wether 4 2 4 4
Prime Scots ...... 3 4 3 6 Ditto out of the wool 0 0 0 0
Large coarse Calves 3 8 4 4 Large Hogs .. ••• • 3 2 3 8
['rime small ditto .. 4 6 410 Small Porkers .. ••3 11 4 2
-zuckliax Calves • .18 0 28 0 Quarter old Pigs .• 17 0 21 0
Inferior Sheep • , •2 10 3 2 Lambs •—••• • • • 0 0, 0 0
TOTAL SUPPLY AT MARKET.
I 53,980 I
heep. Calve
205 s. I gs.
250
FOREIGN SUPPLY.
Sheep. 1 Calves. I Pigs.
430 66
SCOTCH.
BlBoeasts. I Sheep. I Calves. I Pigs.
250
NEWGATE AND LEADENUALL.
These markets were tolerably steady, at about sta-
tionary prices.

Beasts.
642

13 casts.
87

At per stone by the Carcase.
s. d. to s. d. 1 1. d. to s. d.
Beef,inferior....•• 2 2 2 4 Mutton, inferior .. 2 4 2 - middling •• •• 2 6 2 8 - middling.. 210 3 4
primelarge .. 210 3 0 -- prime .• •. 3 6 3 8
- prime s• mall .. 3 2 3 4 Pork, large.... •••• 2 10 3 6
Veal•• • • ••••• • • 3 8 4 8 - small •• •• 3 8 4 4
BOROUGH NOP ritaILRMT.
The supply of fine Hops of last year's growth, in first
hands, is unusually small. Such descriptions command
a steady sale, at prices fully equal to those paid on Fri-
day last. The middling and inferior kinds move off
slowly, at barely late rates. Old Hops are nominal, at
10i to 2/ lOs per cwt. Sussex pockets, 21 4s to 3/ ;
Weald of Kent ditto, 2/ 125 to 3/ 8s; Mid and East
Kent ditto, 3/ 3s to 618 s per ewL

COLONIAL.
SUGAR.—The marke► for British Plantation has been
ratter lower, and with a very limited business doing.
holders are firm. Refined Standard Lumps have beta
in fair request at 525.
EAST INDlA.—Privately not much has been done, and
at auction 6,563 bags Mauritius and 400 casks only
partly found buyers, at easier rates ; good and find
yellow at 39s to 425, ord and mid at 36s to 38s 6d, ord to
fine grey at 37s to 40s, and syrupy at 353 to
41s 6d per cwt. Of Bengal 7,884 bags were offered, and
part sound buyers at lower prices; good and fine white
Benares, 41s 6d to 435; ordinary and middling, 40s to
41s; strong white, 46s to 48s; strong yellow, 41s to 455;
and brown, 35s to 38s. Mauritius kind, 373 to 403 6d;
Madras, 1,200 bags, partly found buyers; low and mid-
dling soft yellow at 33s 6d to 355, and middling and fine
brown at 31s to 33s per cwt.
FOREIGN.—.There has not been much demand. St.
Croix has realised 41s to 43s 6d for middling to fine
strong yellow.
COFFEE.—Tho dealings in this article have been ex-
tremely circumscribed, and in:West Indian samples there
has been no particular change. Good ord Native Cey-
lo❑ has been sold privately at 32s 6d to 33s 6d. The
accounts received by the overland mail report the crop
to be large. F. fine ord Plantation has realised 44s
to 49s—good ord to mid 38s 6d to 545, triage
27s to 365, and peaberry 45s 6d to 50s 6d per cwt.
Mocha mid clean garbled has been sold at 50s; good ord
greenish mixed with black has been taken in at 50s;
mid yellow sold at 58s 6.1 to 603, and triage at
35s Gd to 375. Malabar pale 455, and Java good
ord 355.

CocoA.—Bahia has been held for 30s.
ItrcE.—The demand has been limited, and lower rates
have been accepted; good mid white Bengal lOs to lOs
6d, and mid dusty, 9s to 9i 6d.
COTTON.—The market has been inactive.
TALLOW.—P.Y.C. has been quiet at 403 3d to 40s 6d
per cwt. on the spot.
Rum.--This article is steady, and there have been
moderate sales.

TEA.—A small butiness is doing without any particu-
lar alteration in prices.

SPICES.—Very. little business has been done in Pepper
Cassia Lignea, or Pimento.
GREEN FRUIT.—The market, owing to want of ar-
rivals, had improved the price of oranges. Two
cargoes ex Gipsey Queen and Neptune, from St.
Michael, sold by Keeling and Hunt at public sale, went
at an advance of 2s per box; 600 barrels of chesnuts,
ex City of Rotterdam steamer, sold by the same parties
at a low figure, being landed in bad condition.
Lemons sustained the advanced price with every
prospect of a continuation. Barcelona Nuts are held
for a further improvement in price. A small parcel of
300 Black Spanish 11_,ve arrived in time for the ap-
proaching Easter holidays. The Lisbon Oranges
arriving by sailing vessels are landing in bad condition,
owing to the length of voyage. Dried Walnuts are
dull of sale. Brazil have advacced 2s. per barrel.

VICE-CHAN UERY.--(THIS DAY.)
(Before Vice-Chancellor KNIGHT BRUCE.)
IN RE TOMLINSON.
M. RUSSELL said this was a petition en the part of a
mother, to be peimitted to retain the custody of her
child, of which it was sought to deprive her by her bus •
beit,d, Mr. Tomlinson, who is a shipoisner residing in
Dublin. The petitioner and her husband were married
in June, 1845; but the conduct of the husband was such
that in July, 1846, they parted, not to meet again. The
child in question was nut then horn. It was born in
March, 1847, and had never been with its father from its
birth to the present time. The child is now two years
of age, and it is afflicted with a spinal complaint, and can
neither walk nor talk. Under the previsions of an Act
of Parliament (usually called Mr. Sergeant Talfourd's
Act), the father has recently sought the intervention of
a court of common law, by means of a habeas corpus, to
obtain fur him the custody of his child; and on Monday
next intends to make a motive to Mr. Justice
Patteson for the custody of the child, and the
wife's brother has given a bond for 1,0001., to have the
child forthcoming on that day. The present petition
was made in anticipation of the intended proceedings
before Sir. Justice Patteson on the habeas corpus by the
father, and it prayed that, for the reason of the child's
tender years, and of its weak and afflicted state, which
required the constant care of the mother, she might be
allowed to retain the custody of the child. The mother
is at the present time living eith her brother, a wine
merchant, residing at Liverpool.
Mr. SWANSTON contended that the Court had no juris-
diction in this case.
His HONOUR suggested to Mr. Swanston that the cus
tody of the child should not be changed until after the
result of the application to Mr. Justice Patteson, on
Monday next, be known, without prejudice to the right
of either party.
Mr. SWANSTON would agree to that suggestion, pro-
vided the lather was allowed to have access to the child
in the interim.
His HoNoua would' not consent to the father's
having access to the child there being proceedings
going on in the Ecclesiastical Court at the present time
on the part of the husband to compel the restitution of
conjugal rights.
Mr. SWANSTON declined to act on his Honour's sug-
gestion, except on the condition of the father having ac-
cess to the child, and fell back upon the objection to the
Court's jurisdiction.
His lioNoua said—l think it right once more to say
that I wish particularly to be understood as not having
intimated any opinion upon the question, if it is a ques-
tion, whether the Act of 1839 confers a new jurisdiction
upon this Court or adds to its powers. I give no opinion
upon the question whether independent of that Act this
Court would have exercised a jurisdiction upon this
petition; but I do state my opinion that if independently
of the Act this Court would have exercised jurisdiction
on this petition it may do so, although the
petition is entitled in the matter of the Act, as well as in
the matter of the insolvent. I assume, for the present
purpose, that the petition is to be considered as a peti-
tion strictly under the Act, and under the Act only;
and so viewing it, I am of opinion that in the particular
circumstances of this case, although the child was at the
time when the petition was presented, and is now, in
the custody of the mother, the Court has, upon the
equity of the statute, jurisdiction. The sense in which
I use the word equity will not be misunderstood.
there
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not use it in the sense, or with the notion, that
equity and
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(Before Vice-Chancellor WIGRAX.)
His HONOUR was occupied during the morning in
hearing the further arguments of counsel in Kirwan v.
Daniel, which was part heard on a preceding day.

RAILWAYS IN INDIA.—It is said that terms favour-
able to the two Indian railway cianpanies were on W,-;‘!-
nesday agreed to by the Court of Directors at the boa
flouse.

At rover, on the 21st MARI7IED
inst., by. the Rev. Joseph Savage'
B. Seymour, Esq , to Jane, fourth daughter of the late 11.01].
Michael Tobin.
On the 20th inst., at Orpington, Kent, Sir Richard Levinga,
Bart., of Knock Drin Castle, county Westmeath, to Caroline
Jane, eldest daughter of Colonel Rolleston, M.P., of Watuall
Hall, .Nottint.thain,,hire.

DIED.
On the 21st inst., at SalisLury, Ambrose Hussey, Escl''
late M.P. for that city, aged 42.
On the htli inst., aged 76, Samuel Ashton, Esq., of role-
bank, Cheshire.

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