The Sun.
London, England, 1849-02-16 00:00:00

IN RE DICE SOMBRE.

This case, which stood on the paper to-day was post-
poned till Wednesday next.

VICE-CHANCERY.-(THIS DAY.)
(Before the VICE CHANCELLOR Of ENGLAND.)
Unopposed cause petitions, short causes and cause
petitions occupied his Honour the Vice-Chancellor of
England the whole morning.
(Before the Vice-Chancellor KNIGHT BRUCE.)
His Honour was occupied the whole morning with
cause petitions of no general interest.
(Before the Vice-Chancellor WIGRAHO
3I`CALMANT V. RANKIN.
The further arguments in this part-heard case were
resumed this morning, and occupied the Court the
whole day.

QUEEN'S BENCH.—(THIS DAY.)
(Sittings at Nisi Prins, at Westminster, before Lord
DEN3IAN and a Special Jury.)
THE QUEEN V. KENDALL AND OTHERS.
The further hearing of this case was resumed this
morning. It will be remembered that it is an indict-
ment prosecuted at the instance of the East Itntia Com-
pany, charging certain persons, named Mr. William
Richard Creed Kendall, Mrs. Maria Binks, Mrs. Violet
Linley, and Mr. George Bickley, with having illegal y
conspired together for the procuration and sale of a
cadetship in the East India Company's service, in the
year 1845, on behalf of the son of a Mr. Moore, a ship-
owner, residing at Plymouth.
idr. MONTAGUE CHAMBERS, Q.C., addressed the jury
on behalf of the defendant, Mrs. Linley, this morn-
ing. What atom of evidence was there, he asked,
to show that Mrs. Linley ever conspired with these
parties, and more than that, that Kendal should obtain
the reward and profit ? With regard to Kendal obtain-
ing the money, it was perfectly clear that there never
vvti, any conspiracy. They were all charged with de-
siring to have a participation in the profits;and did the
jury suppose that if Mrs. Binks was a conspirator Mr.
Bickley was a conspirator too ; above all, did they sup •
pose it likely that they conspired with a view that
Kendall should obtain the money? Why, the thing was
contradictory. The charge was that all the money that
was obtained should be obtained by Mr. Kendall,
and that the other parties should not have
a single farthing of the profits. The case
contradicted the very idea of such a suggestion.
He contended that there was no positive proof that Mrs.
Linley was engaged in any one of these transactions,
and if that were so, he submitted that she ought be be
acquitted. The question would be,-upon what count of
the indictment it was possible to convict her.
Mr. Sergeant SHEE then addressed the jury on behalf
of Mr. George Bickley, another of the defendants, who
is an attorney. He contended that the charge against
Bickley had reference to a time subsequent to, and not
before, the appointment had been obtained through the
influence of Lady Ripon. The charge against him was
after that date. Mr. Moore swore yesterday that he
then advanced Bickley 100/. He (Mr. Sergeant She,)
asserted that Mr. Moore had sworn what was false,
and had sworn it for a purpose, and in the
hope of gain to himself, and sworn it falsely
that he might earn from the Government what
he was to earn, immunity from punishment, or money,
or an appointment for another son. He implored them,
on the testimony of a man like Moore, not to destroy an
honourable man's character.

Mr. Sergeant WILKINS followed on behalf of Mrs.
Binks. He observed that it had been said by English-
men when speaking of themselves that they were pro-
verbial for their love of fair play. He could not say he
thought, if an impartial observer had been called upon to
pronounce on the truth of that observation, he would
have said that it was true in reference to the manner in
w bleb this case had been conducted on the part of the
Crown. His client must, therefore, look to the jury
alone for fair play. It seemed to him that it was
quite impossible they could convict all the parties, at
any rate, who were named in the indictment. The very
character of the inquiry itself was enough even to make
an innocent man tremble. Being innocent himself, and
perhaps having no evidence to adduce in support of his
innocence, except that of the parties accused with him in
the indictment, he might find it utterly impossible to
rebut the imputations, the insinuations, and the accu-
sations that had been urged against him on the other
side. Take, for instance, the case of Mr. Bickley; he
was a solicitor, and nineteen-twentieths of his arrange-
ments with his clients were of necessity, and not
from choice, of a secret character ; and so
highly did the law regard that secrecy, that if he were
put into the witness-box to-morrow in possession
of a secret imparted to him by his client of the utmost
importance, the law shut his mouth, and said he should
not divulge that secret. Engaged as he was for two par-
ties included in this indictment, whom was he to call to
make out his innocence? Were he as innocent as inno-
cence itself, it was quite possible, nay, probable, that the
only parties whom be could call to establish that inno-
cence were the parties who were mixed up with him in
that indictment. Adverting to the evidence given yes-
terday by Moore and Lavers, the Learned Sergeant said
no one could set bounds to the moral evil resulting to
the public mind from such a spectacle as that presented
by those witnesses. Whatever might be the verdict of the
jury, beyond all question those who were clothed with the
greatest amount of infamy, would leave the Court not only
unscathed, but in the hope of reward. What effect
could it have on the public mind and morals, and parti-
cularly on the untutored mind, when it was seen that
vice was thus rewarded! and escaped untouched, and
that the jury were asked to convict their fellow creatures
on the testimony of men so worthless. He submitted
that the whole of this case had originated in the disap-
pointment and vindictiveness of Lavers.
Lord Chief Justice DENMAN then proceeded to sum up
the case to the jury. He said the Learned Counsel who
had last addressed them bad said prosecutions of this

kind did great harm, by the disclosures which they
made ; but in his (Lord Denman's) opinion,
they were calculated to do great good. Unless the land
was to be over run by corrupt practices and profligate
feelings it was highly expedient that cases of this kind
should be exposed in courts of justice, and, whatever
might be the result of the verdict, investigations of this
kind appeared to him greatly calculated to discounte-
nance those practices by the disgrace which they cast
upon the parties implicated in them. He thought they
were higbly indebted to the East India Company for iu-

stituting this prosecution, and in his judguheni it was
highly important to keep in view that it was an offence
❑ot merely ♦iolating an Act of Parliament, but it was an
offence which went to the moral principles of all men by
violating not only an Act of Parliament but the first
principles which ought to regulate the conduct of all of
us towards each other. His Lordship was still address-
ing the jury when we went to press.

EXCHEQUER.-(THIS DAY.)
The Court of Exchequer sat in Banco to-day, and
proceeded with the demurrer paper. The cases that
came on in the course of the morniNg were not of suffi-
cient importance to justify a report, as they involved
questions entirely of a technical character.

THE MACKEREL BOATS.—DEYONPORT, WEDNES-
DAY.—The mackerel boats have been very successful.
The night before last they had a wonderful catch, and
sent yesterday to London by South Devon Railway
nearly 100 tons.
WHITEHATEN AND FURNESS JUNCTION RAILWAY.
—Mr. Dees, the resident engineer, fully calculates on
being able to open the line for coal traffic from Mire-
house, near this town, to the river Calder, a distance of
some eight or ten miles, pri-vious to the halflearly
meeting on the 26th inst. This section of the line will
accommodate the inhabitants of St. Bees, Nethertown,
Braystons, and the several other villages in its locality.
In the month of May next Mr. Dees also expects to be
able to open the line from Mirehouse to the station in
Preston street, in this town ; and we may also observe,
that capital progress is being made with the [contract
from Calder to Drigg, from which point to Ravenglass
the line is already on the eve of completion ; and the
Bootle contract still further south, is in the like forward
state.—Cumberland Pacquet.
KING'S COLLEGE HOSPlTAL.—Yesterday afternoon
a quarterly general court of the governors of this excel-
lent charity was held at the board-room, Portugal street,
Lincoln's Inn-fields. The report read by the secretary
stated that the number of in-patients during the year
had been 1,253. and the out-patients no less than 19,383.
A legacy of 501. was reported from the late C. T. Pearce,
Esq., and after the disposal of some routine business,
the meeting separated.

REPORTED DEATH OF MR. DROUET AT TUE PAU.
PER ASYLUM.—The report of the death of Mr. Drouet,
as stated in our paper of yesterday in the proceedings of
the St. Pancras Vestry, is not true. Mr. Drouet has for
some days past been suff,ring from bevk re illness, but
Mr. Kite, the surgeon to the establishment, pronounces
him to be out of danger,

10;iEY arld COMME'RCIAL
CI f'l7, QIIAR I'Ell TO TfIREE.

The drintnd for Cotton at Liverpool ) esterday was
acti e, ai‘n a large hAsnwsr, was done, and very full prices
1,a1',1 for all f!(seriioions. The sales were tstienatcd at
14 0)0 to 15,000 1.4,1!c5, including a con4ierable pertion,.
on ,p,e&.,ttion. The li.tilway blaze Market was better
to•ala.
. .

Tee Corn Market is very heavy spin to. day.
The further triumph of the French Ministry, and the
consequent advance in the Dente has afforded much
satisfectien here, although for the moment its influence
here is neutralised by the large money sales of stock that
are being pressed.
The progress of the South American States towards
the redenspi. n of the foreign claims upon them has
been so satelactory of late as to command the respect of
Europe, and afford, ac the same time, a st,iking contrast
to what has been accomplished in the Peninsular. Por-
tugal, by sheer bad government, finds itself unable
to maintain its credit, even under the last reduced ar-
range mtirt accomplished by the forbearance of its cre-
ditors ; and Spain has been content to pay a paltry
annual sum upon its debt, h-aving the arrears steadily
and most injuriously to accumulate. We feel especial
pleasure now in chronicling a return to dividend pity-
tnents by the State of New Grenada, which has not met
the interest due for all last year, but now by laudable
exertions is about to do so. The agents, Messrs. Baring,
Brothers, and Co. have intimated to the Committee of
Spanish American bondholders that they have in hand
13,3851., and that by the last advices from Bogota they
receiv,d intermation that the Government had directed
500,000 francs to be remitted. This will be adequate
with the amount in hand to pay the two dividends, and
there is a poetise that a fourth part of the duties at
Sante Martha shall in future he sent to England.
The question of shortening the date of bills accepted
in India is of considerable importance, and must be
pressed to an early solution. Trade can never be in a
sound condition while credit is strained, and the main
point will be to see that no parties are injured, or un-
duly favoured by an alteration of the system. The
rapid overland conveyance may bring drafts and advices
of markets, but the transport of go-ds occupies the same
time as of old. The merchant thus finds himself
drawn upon ere he has, time to place his goods, for
which, in the ordinary course, he in turn must give
credit to the buyer, and so far the manufacturer is
placed in a better position than himself. We merely
allude to this view of the case, admitting that there is
much to be said on the other side, because we have not
observed that any of our contemporaries have touched

upon it.
Consols opened with an improving appearance, and at
higher rates than those obtained last night, but a reac-
ti o was soon occasioned by a renewed supply of mope,:
stock, said to be for account of the Scotch banks as well
as for the railway companies, which have their dividends
to meet. Presuming that the latter have invested to any
extent, we might expect a very considerable deprecia-
tion in priceS, but generally, we believe, Exchequer-
bills are taken by corporate bodies which are likely soon
again to want their surplus funds. Greater activity in
trade will have some effect in inducing sales, but the

bankers generally have as yet plenty of money to se'
comtnodate their customers at comparatively low rates•
Consols, atter being 944, have since ;declined to 93} it
and are now 93i 4 for present transfer. Time bargains
have been made at 944 to 931. The New Three-and-a'
Quarter per .vents. have bee❑ 934 to 94k. Bank Stock
is 195 to 196. Exchequer-bills of March are 40s. to 4316
premium. India Stock is at 245.
The Foreign Securities have been without much varia.
tion. Spanish Five per Cents. 18 to 18k, and Porta"
guese Four per Cents. 25i to 26. Mexican 251 to it
and flat. Grenada at an advance to 16i and 17. Bra-
zilian firm at 82. Dutch Two-and-half per Cents. steadl
at 50:i.
The Share-market is rather good, although there has
been a decline in a few of the lines. Caledonian, Mid-
land, Scottish Central, and Hudson's are scarcely so good.
The rest generally firm.

0 , E tWir,ts°
5.
,t ,itirrizill. °UND* o'cLOCK
sank Stock 196 195 197,
ei Cent. Reduced Arns 9C41,4 9334 Olt
3 oe: Cent. Consols Annuities 941,E 931% 93%
s:evf 3% per Cent. Anus.— , 95111 95 94% 94/
~ong Anns. to expire J an. 1860 -16 3-16 9 3.".
India Stock 245 248
ndia Booth, 1,0004
Ditto under 1,0001...
Consols for Account 94% 9334 94 933/ 93%4

xchecuer Bills.
2 ihd. & 2d.
1,0601. March ...... ........... 40 43 p 43 P
1,0001. June
500/. Mulch.
500/. June ... 46 49 p 49 P
Small, March.. 44 p 44 P
Small. June
PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS oN.E. CLOTOd
O'CLOCK. PRICgS.
Austrian, 5 per Cent. ...... ......... 20 20
3raziltan tionds
Buenos Ayres Bonds, 6 per Cent. 26

84
Cuba Bonds, 6 per Cent .. ...... ... —1%
ail
Equador Bonds
.6%
Grenada Bonds, 1 per Cent. lO4 17 163/4
Ditto Deferred 314% 254
Mexican, 5 per Cent. 1846 2SV/2
Ditto, Account
2514
Ditto, Small — 75
Portuguese 5 per Cents. '-3 25
Ditto, 4 per Cent 2534 26
Ditto. Account ............
174
Spanish 5 per Cent. 1840.
Ditto. Account lB 17% 177°
Ditto, Passive
Ditto, 3 per Cent
Ditto, Account . —291 A
Dividends on the above payable in London.
Dutch 2% per Cent., 12 Guild.... 5034 50
t
Ditto, 4 per Cent. Certificates 80% 81 80 0
PRICES OF BUSINESS DONE CLOS,-,,4.
PAID.
;•AILWAY SHARES. AT ONE O'CLOCK. Pitled;sl
Aberdeen
Birmingham and Ox-
ford Junct., calls duly 264
paid, or with a guaran. 20
Boston, Stamtd& Birm. 5

Caledonian
Ditto, Quarter Shares 1114
Do. New 10/. Pref..... 71/2 .. 87g 3j4.... •••••• 29,,
Chester and Holyhead... 50
Ditto, Preference l5 ...... 13% 6
Dublin and Belfast June. 35 ......
ast Anglia, 25/., L. & 34
... _

E. until. and D...... 25 ...... 3%% _
21/1,1
Do., 31. 10s.
Eastern Counties 2O ...... 115%..
Do. New Guaranteed 1111
6 per Cent.....
Ditto, Extension,s per X 9
Cent., No. 1 61.135. 4d.... 14 p
Eastern Union, Class A
...--
(late E. U. Shares) 25
Do., Class 13 (L & B.) 22% 9% 0
East Lincolnshire ...... 25
Edinburgh and Glasgow 50
i4,xeter,Yeovil, & Dorch. 2% 17,,4 lOl4
Great Northern
Do~ 1/2 A Deferred
Do., % B 6 per Cent. 51g
guaranteed ...
real South. and West. \ 33,L
(Ireland)
t great North of England 100 ......240 x 2.......•..... ..
.„,
Great Western 100 ..... ............ "' OA

Ditto, 1% Shares
Ditto, Fifths
Ditto, New 17/... . 15

Lancashire & Yorkshire 93
75 -- 'IA

Ditto, ditto
Do. Quarter Shares 1712., - 81,4
Do. Fifths.... ...... ..... 10
Do. Sixteenths 614 — — —9,
1)0. N ew, Gua. 6 heret. 7;4 —
Do.( W. Riding Union) 8 ..... 4%
—— 8 /
Do. (Preston & Wyre) 25
London & Black wa11...13/. 68.8 d.... 4%
, ondon, Brighton, and 95r9
Staith Coact 5O ..... 3514 %
Ditto, New 51., guar. 5';9
6 per cent. .. 5
Western 103
London and N. We
140 141 ......... .... 115 if
Ditto, New
Ditto, Fifths ..... ..
!10. 10]. (111. & B.) C. 1 ..... ............... 41/
Lond. &S. Western
) N...., ha. ... ..... 421,4..
Ditto, New, 40/

Ditto. Thirds.. ......... 15
Manchester, Sheffield,
and Lincoln:hire ...100
D 0.% Shares (No. 3) 1214 • 0./Lit
Nlidlan 921,42 931- 92... 20'04

_
Do., do., 50/. Shares 25 ... .. 20%14.......... .. ,L
D ,Consol Bristol and 00
Birming., 6 per ct 100 ......124% ....... ••••• •,',L
Norfolk .
Do. Guaranteed 5 p et. 20
'orth British ....... 25 ..... ..• •—••••••• 3.g
Ditto, Quarters
Ditto, Thirds .... .. 814 .. 43/4 lO
North Staffordshire l5 ...... 12,4 % ............
Oxford, Worcester, and 14
___

Wolverhampton ... 60
Reading, Guildford, and 1514
11,4

Reigate
.
Scottish Central
........... 13:1i
Scottish Midland
Shrewsbury and Birm... 10
Ditto ditto. Class B. 6
Ditto, New Guaranteed 8 ...... 9A ... ..........
Shrewsbury & Chester /
(Nor. W. Min.)

••• 00000
Ditto Oswestry ... .. 181/2 OO
15 ............. • _IA,
Ditto New
Do. 8 per Cent. Pref lO
Shropshire Union
16
2 1/2... ..........
South Devon 5O
.... ..... "• 1.41,4
Do. Preference
South Staffordshire 71,4 4% 1/2 • ..... ' ?,71
South Eaqtern .. ,
13 1/2 253/4 ..... ... • • '''
Do., No. 3 ............. 30
D0., Scrip No 4
South ,% ales
..
.. 33
19 .... ........... ,)11;
South Yorkshire, Don-

caster, and Goole
Cork, Newcastle, and.
Berwick. .... ......... 25 .. • • ...... "". 28
Do. Original New and 217
Berwick ........ 25 284........ ..... ,04
Do. Extensioß No. 1. 20
Do. do. No. 20
Do. G.N.E.Preference 8
York and North Midland 50 55%......• .....
FOREIGN RAILWAYS.
Boulogne and Amiens... 20
Central of France (Or-
and Vierzou) ... 18
Dutch Rhenish _ - .
.. ...
v 2 11
11 ...
...........
....
7 . ..
i)

Luxembourg. 7 _ ......... Si
Ditto ...... ...... .. ...... 10
Namur and I. iege
Northern of France.— 122 91/234% ..
20
".
..
84'79
.....'
......
144
....... ,
_v
Orleans and Bordeaux 7 ...... 33A% ........ ;. . 19795
Paris and Ronan..., 2O ...,.. 20 19,A ex• u 10
Paris and Strasbourg
&milli and Havre
Semi and Meuse 2O ...... 12 1134 ••• ....... 53,)
20 ..... 6 53/4 .......... 10
Tours and Nantes
West Flanders... ..
834 .... 2 ......... 0
JOINT STOCK BANKS. ....
London & Westminster. 20 ....« ..- ........: ..