The Sun.
London, England, 1849-11-24 00:00:00

NEWPORT.

73/4

Beef, from 2s 10d to 3s 8d; Mutton, 2s 10d to 35 10d;
Veal, 3s 4d to 4s Od; and Pork, 3s 6d to 43 4d ptr
Bibs.

WHITECHAPEL.

Beef, from 2s 8:1 o3;B,l;Mtitton, 23 8d to 3s 10d;
Veal, 3s 4d to 4s Od; and Pork, 3s 4d to 4s 4d
per Sibs.

BILLINGSGATE.

Salmon, is to is 3d per lb ; Turbots, 3s to 12s ;
Brills, 2s to ss; Cod Fish, 3s Od to 7s; Whitings, 4d to
10d; Lobsters, 10d to 2s; Crabs, 4d to is 9d each; Soles
6d to 2s per pair ; Eels, 9d to is per lb. ; Large
Haddocks, 9d to is ; small ditto, 5d to 7d each ;
Crimped Skate, 8d to 9d ; and Prawns, 2s to 23 6d per lb;
Shrimps, is 6d to 2s 9d per gallon ; Bloaters, is 4d to
is 9d per dozen; Common Oysters, 9s to 14a; Scotch
Pearls, 16s to 20s ; and Best Natives, 42s to 62s per
bushel; Flounders, 9d to Is per dozen.

BREAD.
The prices of Wheaten Bread in the Metropolis are
from 64d to 7d; of household ditto, 5d to 6d per 41b*
loaf.

HIDE WEATLILET.

....
8%

4%

Market hides, 57113t(76411T,1171 to id ; ditto, 641 b to
721 b, lid to 2d; ditto, 721 b to 801 b, 2d to 2id; ditto,
801 b to 881 h, lid to 3d; ditto, 881 b to 961 b, 3d to 31d;
961 b to 1041 b, 3kd to 3id; 1041 b to 1121 b, 4d to Od. Calf
Skins, light is 6d to 3s, ditto full 5s 6d to 6s; Horn Hides,
7s 6d; Polled Sheep, 3s 7d to 5s ld; Hunts and Half-
breds 3s 2d to 4s; Downs, 2s 4d to 3s 4d.

43/
_ _ 4

-
61A

30%
16%

5%

BAY NIAMLEICS.
SMITHFIELD.—Meadow Hay, 21 103 to 31 10s; Clover
ditto, 81 Os to 4/ 10s; and Straw, 112 s to 11 6s per
load. Trade very dull, at our quotations.
CUMBERLAND.—Meadow Hay, 2i 10s to 31 12s; Clover
ditto, 3/ Os to 41 los ; and Straw, 1/ 2s to 11 7s per
!oad. Supply but moderate, and trade dull.
WIIITECHAPEL. Meadow Hay, 21 8s to 3/ 10s;
Clover, ditto, 3/ Os to 41 12s; and Straw, 1/ Is to I/ 6.1 per
load. A full average supply, and a sluggish demand.

114,
26%

17%

LAW INTELLIGENCE.

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11%

CHANCERY.-(THIS DAY.)

SCARFF V. SOULBY.—JUDGMENT.
The LORD CHANCELLOR gave judgment to-day in this
case, the arguments in which were concluded a few days
since. The case came before his Lordship upon appeal
from the judgment of the Vice-Chancellor of England.
The facts of the case may be thus shortly stated :—John
Milner, who had been a woollendraper, in the Old
Jewry, and subsequently became a stockjobber, exe-
cuted an indenture in December, 1842, by which, after
acknowledging a cohabitation of several years with
Eliza Quilt( n, and that she had borne him four children
he stated that such cohabitation was discontinued; but
that, iu consideration of past connexion, be covenanted to
provide her an annuity of 250/., and for that purpose as-
signed to her two policies of insurance on his life for
sums exceeding 5,000/.; and he also undertook to keep
up the premiums. Milner died in 1846, and a bill
was filed by his creditors against his executors
and Mrs. Quilten, alleging that Milner was insolvent,
and deeply indebted at the time he executed
the indenture, and praying that it be set aside as a
fraud on the creditors. The executors, in their answer,
admitted there were not assets to pay the creditors, but
Mrs. Quilten asserted that Milner was not indebted or
embarrassed at the time of the assignment to her. Evi-
dence was read both for and against the insolvency, and
the Vice-Chancellor came to the conclusion that to be
indebted at all, although not insolvent or in embarrassed
circumstances, was sufficient to avoid a deed made
without consideration to the prejudice of creditors, and
he therefore directed the policies to be made available
assets for the benefit of the creditors. His Lordship,
after going at some length into the case, ordered the
decision of the Court below to be reversed.
ANDREWS V. WALTEN.— JUDGMENT.
The LORD CHANCELLOR also gave judgment in this
case, which came before the Court only two days ago,
upon motion for the discharge of the plaintiff out of
custody. This cause has been before the Court in
various forms since 1830, and has been argued before
Lord Brougham and Lord Lyndhurst, and also repeatedly
before the present Lord Chancellor. The bill of the
plaintiff (who sues in forma pauperis) was dismissed in
1893, with costs, amounting to 1071. 19s. 2d., for the
non-payment of which an attachment was issued, and
the plaintiff arrested thereon, on the 15th of
January, 1833. Two days afterwards, he, how-
ever, was discharged, a question of privilege arising,
as at the time he was taken into custody he was attend-
ing the Registrar of the Court with reference to certain
proceedings in the cause. In the month of March fol-
lowing he was again arrested for the same debt, and has
been in custody ever since, now sixteen years. The
point on which the present motion turned was whether,
as the defendant had himself discharged the plaintiff
from custody—he having made no application to the
Court for his discharge, on the ground of the irregu-
larity of his arrest—the discharge was not a complete
and final one. Many cases were cited at the bar in sup-
port of this position.
The LOD. CHANCELLOR, this morning, in giving
judgment, went at considerable length into the case,
and ultimately decided that there was no ground what-
ever for the motion for the discharge of the plaintiff
from custody.
Mr. M`QUEEN, who appeared as counsel for Mr.
Walten, said, that such being the judgment of the
Court, he was instructed, by his client, to make a
proposition to Mr. Andrews. Hitherto his client had
offered to Mr. Andrews his release from custody,
on the condition that he would not annoy him by any
further legal proceedings; he had now to offer to Mr.
Andrews his unconditional release, and he did so, not o
the ground of any doubt as to the validity of his client's
claim, but solely from motives of humanity.
The LORD CHANCELLOR thought that the proposal of
the defendant was highly creditable to him.
Mr. Andrews was then ordered to be discharged, and
left the court, not, as usual, in the custody of Allen the
tipstaff, but surrounded by his friends.
We believe that Mr. Andrews has been repeatedly
offered his discharge, but has refused to accept it, con-
tending that he is legally entitled to the same, and also
to large damages for the imprisonment he has already
undergone. The defendants in the suit have suffered
greatly from the long-continued litigation to which they
have been subjected, and the expenses attendant thereon-
IN RE THE CORONER Or SALOP.
This case stood in the paper to be spoke to. Our
readers will recollect that yesterday, Mr. Cooper,
with whom was Mr. Kerslake, moved that a
writ recently issued for the election of a coroner
for one of the districts of the county of Salop, might
be set aside. The reason was that the district being
very extensive, the magistrates had previously resolved
that upon the death of the late coroner (Mr. Dicken) to
make an application to the Crown to divide the district.
Mr. Dicken died on the Bth inst., and already had some
of the freeholders procured a writ to be issued for the
election of a new coroner, and the sheriff had fixed
Monday next for such election. Under these circurn"
stances, as the magistrates had not yet had time't°
make their application to the Crown, his Lordship was
asked to set aside the writ, or at any rate to stay the
execution of it until they had had such an opportunity.
The Lord Chancellor stated yesterday, on the motion
being made to him, that he considered the object of the
application was most praiseworthy, and he should be glad
to comply with it if any precedent could be shown for such
a course. It, however, appeared to him, that the writ
was analogous to that issued for the election of a Meta-
her of Parliament, and that after it bad once issued be
had no control over it, unless there had been fraud in
procuring it to be issued. No such fraud bad been
alleged in the present case, and surely it could not be
said that the freeholders had not a right to have the
writ issued. With respect to the staying of the execy
Lion, the same difficulty arose—namely, that the Great
Seal had no longer any power over the writ, and it We!
therefore only a matter for the discretion of the sheriff'
He regretted that the application must be refused.
On the case being called on this morning,
Mr. COOPER said that after the intimation of the
Court yesterday he must decline proceeding further witil
the matter.
EX. PARTE HARWOOD, RE HARWOOD.
The arguments in this bankrupt petition occupied the
Court the remainder of the morning.

ROLLS' COURT.-(THIS DAY.)
Petitions and short causes, of no general interoott
occupied his Lordship the Master of the Rolls the whole
morning.

VICE-CHANCERY.—(THIS DAY.)
(Before the VICE-CHANCELLOR OF ENGLAND.) ,:g
His Honour having disposed of the petitions on
paper, proceeded to hear the further arguments in the
part-heard cause of "Allen v. Wilson," which occupied
the Court the whole day.
(Before the Vice-Chancellor KNIGHT BRUCE.) ~a
His Honour heard causes to-day; but no case of the
least interest came before him during the morning.
(Before the Vice-Chancellor WIGRAbI.)
TIDMAS V. THORNTON.—JUDGMENT.
His IloNoutt gave judgment to-day in this case,
directing the costs to be paid out of the estate.
THOMPSON V. ROPER.—JUDGMENT. • 11
His HoNoun also gave judgment in this case, vvill°
was argued before him a few days since. The suit iv6i:
instituted for the specific performance of a contrac_,
by the plaintiff, the purchaser, against the delendancl.
the vendor, of certain portions of land. The contra
was alleged to have arisen out of a correspondence be,a
tween the parties. The effect of the contract was to lea,
the plaintiff to believe that the defendant had the fee
_vo'
the property. But subsequently to the contract..tv_f
latter had joined with his son, who was tenant in tail
_v.,
the property, in re-settling it, by a voluntary cuntraac.ol
upon his (the defendant's) wi'e and family in eer-tele
proportions. By his answer the defendant stated 5
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circumstances, and alleged that it was out of his .
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