The Sun.
London, England, 1831-01-12 00:00:00

Quartern Loaf

'Wheat, Barley. Oats. I Flour, per cwt.
per barrel per barrel per barrel r.—__&_______,
20 stone. 16 stone. 14 stone.' 1 Ist. 2,1.
---- -
s. d. as. (1. s. d. as. el. s. d. as. d. s. (I. as. cl. s. d. as. d.
C0rk..,.,,,,,., 29 6-48 0 12 0-15 6 11 3-13 026 o—'2l 0 7 0-19 0
Limerick i 33 0-38 4 14 6-15 8 11 9-15 0 18 0-22 0 0 0-15 0
Waterford;33 0-38 0 13 0-16 0 12 0-13 0 17 0-22 0 10 0-15 0
Clonmel 32 6-39 0 10 6-15 0 10 6-12 6 20 0-22 0 12 0-18 0
Car10w.,.,,, 26 0-30 0 12 0-19 0 10 0-13 0 20 6-21 0 0 0— 11 0
Beef, Mutton, I'ork, /Sutter.
per lb. per lb. per cwt. Ist. 26. 3d. •Itii. stii.
,
!dr. a d. d. a el. s. el. as. el. s. el. s. el. s. d. s. el. s. el.
Cork —.--- 3j —6 3 —6
21 0 —2B 0 92 0 90 0 86 0 82 1178 0
Limerick— 3 —4 3 4 32 0-35 0',99 093 087 081 075 9
Waterford 2 4 3 5 '29 0— 31 0'96 092 078 008 OW7 0
Clonmel 3 —5 3 —4 29 0 —3l 099 096 0 o__ 01_ 0
Carlow,—,« 4 —sio —0 00 0078074 0 04 0154 0— 0

KiLimNiir.—Butter Ws to 103 s. per cwt. ; Wheat 325. to 355.
per barrel ; Flour '24s. to 425. per bag; Oat.; 12s. to 13s. per bar
rel ; Barley 13s. to 15s. ; Beef 2d. to 44. per lb. ; Mutton 4d.
to 4!,(2d. ; l'otatoes 4d. per stone; Coals Is. 21 per cwt. ; Bacon,
Pigs 3'2s. to 335. per cwt.

GLASGOW MARKETS.
(From the Glasgow Herald of Monday.)
The transactions in Raw SUGARS have been limited
this week; the sales are only 213 Mids. The whole,
with the exception of 36 hhds. Demeraras, were Trini-
dads recently imported. Soft browns at 465., dry browns
465. 6d. a 495. ; and a lot of middling Demeraras at 525.
A small lot of Trinidad Molasses was sold at 225. from
the quay. Refined Sugars are in steady demand at former
rates of 775. a 81s. for brown loaves, and middling 82s. a
945. for flee. Candy 104 d. a 104(1. Crushed is scarce
and dearer, middling 60s. up to 745. for fine white.
British Molasses are selling at 21s.

COFFEE,-140 bags Demerara were brought to sale by
auction, SO bags of the quantity sold, broken at 358. a
365., dark ordinary 365. 6d. a 395., and good middling
at 48s. a 495. ; the remainder, 60 bags dark ordinary was
withdrawn for higher prices.
No sales made in PIMENTO or GINGER.
In RCM there has been little doing. Jamaica, 16 O.P.
2s. 2d. a 2s. 4d. ; and Leewards 19d. a 20d. for proofs.
The transactions in DYEWOODS are 50 tons Honduras
Logwood at six guineas.
In ASHES there has been little done, the holders are de-
manding higher prices ; Pots 345. and Pearls 445. a 455.
Nothing done in TOBACCO worthy of remark, prices
without alteration.

Y.C. TALLOW is selling in small parcels at 475. a 475. 6d.
OILS are dull, and lower; Whale, 471. ; Pale Seal,
461. a 461. 103. ; and Cod, 42/. a 43/. per tun old measure.

The number of foreign vessels that entered the
Russian ports of the Baltic during the last seaso❑ amounts
to 1,423, of which 745 were English, 118 Dutch or Bel-
gian, 107 Prussian, 92 French, 49 Swedish, 48, Amen-
can, and the rest from other countries.

PATENT THEATRES—Mr. ARNOLD'S PETITION.
This evening, at seven o'clock, was the time appointed
by the Lord Chancellor to hear Mr. Arnold's petition, the
hearing and decision of which had been referred to his
Lordship by the Kiog. Upon this occasion there were
associated with the Lord Chancellor, the Chief Justice of
the Common Pleas, the Vice-Chancellor, and Mr. Justice
James Parke. The Vice-Chancellor's Court was the place
appointed for this hearing, and the view which it presented
this night was, perhaps, without a parallel in the history
of Equity Courts. As early as six o'clock the doors were
beset by an impatient multitude eager for access. A
favoured few obtained admission through the private door.
Within a quarter to seven the public entrance was thrown
open, when the rush folly equalled any scene of confusion
ever witnessed in the pit of a theatre, in the best days of
the drama, on the first night of a new tragedy. Beyond
those actually engaged in the cause we noticed hut one or
two gentlemen of the bar, who remained in Court only for
a few minutes. Mr. Charles Kemble, Mr. Bartley, and
other eminent performers were in Court, as were Mr.
Morris, Mr. Arnold, Mr. George Robins, and a number
of gentlemen interested in theatrical affairs. Mr. Caleraft,
M.P., sat immediately under the Bench.
The Counsel in this important legal proceeding, in
which Mr. Arnold means to try the long-considered in-
violability of the Davenant and Killigrew patents, were—
For Mr. Arnold—The SOLICITOR-GENERAL, Sir E.
SUCHEN, and others.
For the Patentees of Drury-lane and Covent-garden—
Mr. Hasteasosr, Mr. ADAMS, Mr. J. BROUGHAM, Mr.
BOUND, and Mr. RUSSELL.
The LORD CHANCELLOR, Mr. Justice JAMES PARKE,
the LORD CHIEF JUSTICE of the Common Pleas, and his
Honour the VICE-CHANCELLOR, took their seats on the
Bench at seven o'clock.
The LORD CHANCELLOR—Mr. Solicitor-General, for
whom do you appear?
The SOLICITOR-GENERAL said the matter in which
he had to appear before their Lordships was not new.
On former occasions he bad addressed most of their Lord-
ships on the leading topics, but the course they had then
to pursue was somewhat new. He appeared as Counsel
for a gentleman well known ta-Ahe public. His client was
Mr. Arnold, who, during a te.ig course of years had had
the good fortune of enjoying the patronage and favour of
the Crown, and the benefit of a license for his Theatre,
which ranked high among the Threes of amusement in this
great city. Mr. Arnold enjoyed his lieense front 1809
until the calamitous fire which destroyed the Theatre and
placed him in the situation under which he then stood
before their Lordships. It .would appear that the effect
of that fire had reduced him to the necessity of accepting
a subscription, being whotly,uneble to rebuild the Theatre
at his own expense. He ives.efortunately in a condition to
petition again for his license, and having always conducted
his Theatre well, no cause could be shown against him
to justify any portion of his Majesty's subjects in op-
posing him for the purpose of setting limits to the license
which was to be considered by their. Lordships. .Mr. Arnold
called on the Lord Chancellor to. admit him to a proof of
the regularity of his conduct.. . Mr. Arnold could prove
that he bad done nothing to forfeit the favour of the Crown.
He was there in Mr. Arnold's behalf, and could assure
their Lordships that his client was not askine. the Crown
to give him, through the hands of that Court, a new
license, but a restoration of the old license. He did not
call upon them to extend the old license, but to decide that
he should not be restricted within the limits laid down by
those who opposed him. Before he proceeded to state the
case, with full confidence of success, he considered it his
bounden duty to his client and the Crown to advert to the
grounds on which the license had been opposed. He
' should not do justice to the cause if he did not impress
• upon their Lordships that his client had to withstand a
rival interest which formed the basis of opposition. They
all knew that for a long series of years there had been
two great Theatres, known by the n tines of Drury-lane
and Covent-garden Theatres. The only opposition offered
to Mr. Arnold had come from the great Theatres. He
should not then state the ground of that opposition, but
simply observe, that as far as he could understand, the
Proprietors of those two great monopolies had been in-
duced to consider that they had the exclusive right of con-
ducting Theatres in the regular way. They endeavoured
to restrict Mr. Arnold, by asserting that in the reign of
, Charles 11. certain patents were granted to their Theatres of
a nature which would go the length of circumscribing even
the prerogative of the Crown, and the Learned Counsel op-
posed to him would state to the Court, not only that the pre-
rogative of the Crown could not be extended to his client, but
their patents conveyed an inviolable right to them to have
the only regular playhouses ; that they were to be mono-
polists, and exclude all the rest of his Majesty's subjects
from the enjoyment of their rights. Their Lordships
would allow him to state that Mr. Arnold claimed no
peculiar right, nothing in which his fellow-subjects could
not participate, nothing that the Crown could not grant
to the rest of his fellow-subjects. He only asked to have
that granted to him which he thought the Crown would
be disposed to grant to him in the exercise of its rights.
He was not desirous of putting this question in a personal
point of view, but to let it rest on the broad and fair prin-
ciple of justice. Mr. Arnold was the son of a gentleman
of great musical
celebrity, t
, who enjoyed the favour and pa-
tronage Third.sit
Mr. Arnold having in
contemplation therg
ap-
plied for a license, and no doubt was then entertained that
the granting of such a license would interfere with the
prerogative of the Crown. He appeared when that license
ofGeorge the
rt
setting
g up of a Musical Theatre,
was applied for as the Counsel for Mr. Arnold's petition.
Their Lordships would find that Mr. Arnold presented a
petition to the Lord Chancellor, and the subject matter of
that petition wee so blended with the question to come
ap • 'tn under the consideration of the Court, that he
should state the substance. It was a petition presented
by Samuel John Arnold, wbo described himself to be
sole proprietor of the English Opera. The petitioner
stated that in 1809 a license was granted by Geo. 111.
to establish an English Opera for the encouragement of
native talent. The petitioner enjoyed the house for se-
ven years after the demise of his august Patron, and in the
year IStti the license was renewed. In February last the
whole of the Theatre and property, to the amount of
sixty-seven thousand pounds, was destroyed by fire. The
petitioner was then tillable, with the assistance of his
friends, to rebuild it, but being at last in a condition to
erect it, the petitioner prayed that his Majesty would be
pleased to extend his benevolence, and permit the interest
of the petitioner to be promoted by directing that the
English Opera might be licensed, and restored to its par-
ticular form, namely, a Musical Theatre for the encourage-
ment of English talent. Titus their Lordships would see
what his client sought. Nothing new was required but
that which was established with the approbation of his
Majesty George the Third. When Mr. Arnold did ob-
tain that unlimited license which he was desirous of keep-
ing, it was considered unnecessary to impress upon his
Majesty that such a license was subject to the objections
of those who oppeeel Mr. Arnold in the present instance.
The Court would see the whole meaning and intent of the
license granted by Mr. Arnold, anti if he should convince
their Lordships that there bad been no misconduct on the
part of Mr. Arnold, he thought they would be of opinion
there existed no ground for refusal to renew to him the
license in the form and latitude originally granted. On
the licence in that form much capital bad been expended,
and all the prospects of that gentleman depended
upon its renewal. The paper to which he alluded was
marked A. It was appended to their proceedings,
as being the prospectus upon which Mr. Arnold had
erected his Theatre and expended his capital. Mr. Ar-
nold applied to establish a School for National Music,
Operatic Drama, and Scenic Painting and Spectacle. The
Lord Chamberlain, the Earl of Dartmouth, was the per-
son applied to. It was urged, as a motive for granting
the license, that immense sums were annually lavished on
foreign artists at the Italian Opera, anti the advantage
which. would arise from an Opera established on English
princtples was clearly pointed out. The plan of Mr.
Arnold was this, and this only, to raise an English
Opera-house, for the encouragement of English music
and English artists, and the improvement of Scehery
upon new mechanical principles. The English Opera
was to he cherished, and to be supported by the taste and
liberality of the public, protected by the grace of the
Sovereign, and conducted with the best energies of Mr.
Arnold. So formed, and so upheld, it was to become the
rival and the direct opponent of the Italian Opera; and
there was never any intention, at least in the mind of Mr.