The Sun.
London, England, 1847-01-29 00:00:00

MARKET NEWS.-(THIS DAY.)

CORN-EXCHANGE—FRIDAY.
We have to report the arrival of a fair average quantity
of English Wheat, for our market this week; and the stands
were well filled with samples of both red and white, some of
which were those left over from Monday. The attendance
of buyers being small, the trade ruled dull, at, in moat in-
stances, a decline in the quotations of Is. per quarter. In
Foreign Wheat next to nothing was doing ; yet the holders
refused to accept lower prices. There was an increased
supply of Barley on show ; while the sale for that article
was heavy, and the currencies had a downward tendency.
We could make no progress in the sale for Malt, as most of
the larger buyers were out of the market. When sales were
pressed lower rates were submitted to. Oats, though in short
supply, were dull, at barely stationary prices, Beans, Peas,
aifd Flour heavy, at late figures. Upwards of 20,000 barrels
of Ffdur have arrived from America this week.
1' ' ARRIVALS.
Wheat. ' Barley,.
English —..— 4,210 qrs. 4,050 drs.
[nisi]. .....• • . i—
Foreign ...... 3,100. 3,328
Malt. 3,120 qrs.
szaimiThxyx.D.
The supply of beasts on offer was very limited; yet, owing
to Newgate and Leadenhall being very heavily supplied
with country killed meat, the Beef trade was dull, at barely
Monday's quotations. There were no foreign Beasts or Sleep
offering. The number of Sheep was again-.small : all kinds
met a dull inquiry, but we can notice no decline in value.
Calves were in short supply, and sluggish request, at late
rates. The Pork trade was in a very depressed state, at pre-
vious currencies. Milch Cows ruled heavy, at from 161. te,
181. each, inclddi'ng their small calf.
Per Sibs. to sink the offal.
s. d. to s. d. s. d. to s. d.
Inferior Beasts-- 3 2 3 4 Second qualltyditto 4 0 4 2
Second quality —— 3 6 3 8 Coarse-woolled ditto 4 4 4 8
Prime large Oxen.. 310 4 0 SouthdownWethe.. 410 5 0
Prime Scots •••• .• 4 2 4 4 Ditto out of the wool
Large coarse Calves 4 0 4 6 Large Hogs •••• • • 3 8 4 4
,Prime small ditto .. 4 8 5 0 Small Porkers ••. • 4 6 410
Suckling calves ..18 0 29 0 Quarter old Pigs ..16 0 19 0
Inferior Sheep ' • 3 8 310 Lambs ... ... 0 0 0 0
. ..
strrimx AT MARKET.
Beasts. Sheep. Calves. I Pigs.
I I
689 2,110 J"'lo9 280
NEVIGATE AND LEELBENHALL.
During the present week nearly 7,000 carcases of Beef,
Mutton, and Pork have come to hand from Scotland ; and
nearly 8,000 ditto from.various parts of England. This im-
mense supply produced a very dull trade at lower terms.
At per stone by the Carcase.
s. d. to s. d. Sr d. to s.
Beef, inferior .. 2 4 2 6 Mutton, inferior .. 3 2 3 4
middling •• 2 8 210 middling.. 3 6 glO
primelarge •• 3 0 3 2 prime .... 4 0 4 4
prime small .• 3 4 3 6 i Pork, large.— —.• 3 6 4 4
Vea1........ •••• • • 3 8 410 1 small .... ••• • 4 6 410
Lamb, N Od to Os Od.
BOROUGH HOP IVIARILBIC.
There is still a fair business doing in selected (pantie) of
new Hops, and
.previous rates are well supported. The mid-
dling and inferior kinds command very little attention. In
old Hops so little is doing that prices are almost nominal.
Sussex pockets, SOs to SSs ;' Weald of Kent ditto, 85s to 965;
Mid and East Kent ditto, 95s to 103 s per cwt.
COLONIAL."'
SUGAR.—There has been less demand for BritiSh. Planta-
tion qualities, owing to the large parcels of East India brought
forward. Holders have not hid much on offer, and this has
served to keep up prices better than would otherwise have
been the case. St. Lucia has been sold by auction at 55s to
56s for good bright grocery, and, at 495 6d` to 508'6d for.lotv
yellow.
EAST INDlA.—Bengal has been in good request, but at rather
lower rates, At auction, 4,409 bags sold at 55s 6d to 56s for
good white Benares ; at 533 Gd for mid; at 51s to 52s for
good yellow-like Mauritius; and at 47s 6d to 48s 6d for low.
There has been a large quantity of Mauritius put up, and
prices have receded is to is 6d per cwt. Up to last evening
13,600 bags, 561 casks, and 170 ties were sold by auction, I
besides the private transactions ; fine bright yellow
56s to 56a 6d; mid.and good mid 518 to 533 6d ; and mid and
good grey, 49s 6d to 535.
FllRElGN.—Havannah has been taken in at 27s 6d to 33s
for mid to fine yellow, and some yellow has been sold for ex-
port at 28s.
REFlNED.—Standard Lumps have been 70s to 71s per cwt.
COFFEE.—The market has been rather more animated, and
prices are better supported for British Plantation and other
descriptions. The chief business has been privately. St.
Lucia realised 765, Jamaica, 48s to 60s, and Berbice, 48s to
54s_. Ceylon also has been in request, and there is
some speculation owing to the unfavourable accounts received.
Good ordinary native has been bought to some extent at
41s to 42a, and plantation sorts up to 765. Costa Rica has
been sold at 36:4 and Mocha, at 50s to 5I s. La Guayra has
been taken in at 53s to 555, and Manilla sold at 34s to 38s.
SPICES.—White Pepper realises about 4%d per lb. East
India Ginger 28s 6d to 51s 6d, and Malabar fair half heavy
Pepper, 3d to 31/8d for brown. Cinnamon has been dull, and
only the fine sorts at previous rates.
S.ALTPETRIL —Bengal 15% and 17 34 per cent. refraction
has been sold at 255.
RlcE.—There has been rather less doing. Low white
Bengal is 243 6d, and Madras 24s per cwt.
TEA.—The market is quiet.
TALLOW.—P.Y.C. has been 51s Gd per cwt. on the spo

WORSHIP-STREET.—(T HIS DAY.)
James Easton, Richard Mullins, William Mattin, and
James Key, lads, belonging to the union workhouse of the
parish of Shoreditch, were charged with stealing a quantity
of old iron, the property of the trustees of the parish of
Shoreditch, and Thomas Barton, an occasional pauper, was
also charged with aiding and abetting them in the execution
of their design.
Mr. Thomas, the master of the workhouse; said that from
information he had received, lie set a watch upon the actions
of the first four prisoners, who were inmates of the house,
and subsequently they were perceived one by one removing
from an outhouse pieces of iron, consisting of screws, &c.,
to another portion of the premises. As soon as had been
collected what was supposed sufficient for their bag, the
latter was filled, and one of them got over the wall which
leads to the street, another of them got on the-top thereof,
and to him was handed the bag, which was immediately let
fall into the other lad's arms, but the weight of the bag
knoCked him down. At this moment the prisoner Barton,
who was on the outside of the wall, gave a shrill whistle, to
intimate to the others that they were being watched. They
were all immediately taken into custody.
The first four prisoners said, each of them, that they had
not " grub " enough allowed them' in the workhouse, and
they were going to sell the iron to procure some.
Barton said he knew nothing whatever of the other pri-
soners. He had been relieved at the werkhouse, but they
had put him to break stones, which he was unable to do, as
one side of him was paralysed.
The MAGISTRATE decided that the first four prisoners
should be sent to prison for embezzling the said property,
and that Barton should be discharged, and directed that the
officers should take him to a medical man, in order that it
might be seen what would be the most proper work for him
to do._

THE COUNTY OF MAYO.
The county of Mayo is rather larger than Norfolk. Its
population is less by about 25,000, having been in 1841,
38,000. The total area is 1,363,000 statute acres. Three-
fifths of the whole county may be said to be made up of
waste lands, and of these nearly half a million of acres are
returned as reclaimable. The people of this county, so far
as we can judge from official statements, appear to be as
peaceful as those of any shire in Great Britain. Their ca-
lendars have not furnished arguments to the authors of
Coercion Bills, and the criminal returns of the seven years
ending in 1844 (the latest at hand) do not show a single ex-
ecution. We hear of Mayo chiefly through the crowds of
harvest labourers, who annually scrape together a little
money in England by the most self-denying economy, that
they may pay the rent of potato-plots, and secure a winter's
plenty for their families at home.
The county which is thus possessed of such vast unde-
veloped resources, and which is inhabited by a race who
prove themselves not incapable of toil, frugality, or fore-
sight, belongs to that region of Ireland in which the present
calamity is most deeply felt. The loss of the potato and
oat crops has not been anywhere more extensive, and no
county presents a picture of more wide-spread and. appalling
misery. Famine and fever are rapidly thinning the popula•
tion. The deaths are found too frequent for inquests, and
even the decencies of sepulture are often foregone in the
desperate extremity to which the living are reduced. Yet
there is no outbreak of violence. The strong man wastes
away from day to day, and in the end sinks over his work.
The aged, and the helpless of all kinds, lie down when the
last hope is gone, and calmly await the issue.
The case of this patient and suffering people ap-
peals powerfully to every humane sympathy. All
that the utmost effort can do should be done to
alleviate their misery. But we are also bound to
consider carefully, and to use boldly, the best means
in our power for permanently raising the condition of this
peasantry, and securing them, if it be possible, against a
recurrence of such afflictions. With such a soil and such a
population as we have described, this ought not to be a task
beyond the powers of the Legislature. or e have shown on
former occasions a mode in which, as it seems to us, it might
be performed without difficulty. It is, however, about to be
attempted in a different way. Lord John Russell has dis
closed the leading features of the policy by which he hopes
to regenerate Ireland. If this policy is at all likely to suc-
ceed, it would seem fair to infer that its most striking and
decisive results must be experienced in Mayo. There, if
anywhere, the materials of a new social creation are ready
to the hand of the legislator. No Atlantic intervenes be.
tween the land that wants labour and the labourer
that wants work. The natural resources of a colony,
and the industrial and moral powers of an old country,
are there brought together. A policy which is good for any-
thing ought to be able to produce in Mayo the comfort and
prosperity of Norfolk.

CHANCERY.-(THIS DAY.)
The Lord Chancellor sat at Westminster to-day and took
unopposed lunatic petitions and appeals.
MORRIS V. MORRIS.--JUDGMENT.
The LORD CHANCELLOR gave judgment this morning in
this case, which was argued yesterday upon an appeal mo-
tion from the decision of the Vice-Chancellor of England.
The suit was instituted for the purpose of perpetuating testi-
mony, and one object for which that perpetuation was sought
having been attained, an application was made to the Vice-
Chancellor of England to allow the publication of the depo-
sitions. Against that application,lit was urged that it ought
not to be allowed, inasmuch as those depositions were to be
used in Ireland. The Vice-Chancellor of England ordered
the publication of the depositions, and from that decision the
parties appealed. His Lordship was clearly of opinion that
the course pursued in the Court below was correct, and or-
dered the judgment to be affirmed with costs.
His Lordship having disposed of the unopposed lunatic
petitions in his paper proceeded to hear the further argu-
ments on the part-heard appeal of Morrison v. Morrison,
which occupied the Court the whole morning.

ROLLS' COURT.-(THIS DAY.)
WELLS v. DOUGLAS.
This was a cause which turned upon the construction of a
will. It appeared that the testatrix (Mrs. Mary Learner) be-
queathed her property to her sister during her lifetime, and
after her demise to go in trust for the use of her first cousins
(Mary Johnson, Sarah Lovell, and Lucy Attey), to be paid
to them " separate and distinct from their husbands, and at
their decease to go to their children.
The arguments having been concluded,
His LonDsmr delivered judgment. It was contended by
the words "separate and distinct from their husbands, &c.
that a class of husbands had been created, and that the pro-
perty could not go to the children mentioned in the will,
until the decease of all these husbands. But the meaning
was clearly no other than if the adjective, " respective," had
been used. It was also contended that the pronoun "their"
could not correctly qualify the word " decease," unless it
meant cotemporaneoas demise. The construction was cer-
tainly most careless, but he thought the meaning obvious,
and the same as the preceding period in question. On the
whole, therefore, there could be no reasonable doubt as to the
construction of the will.
ATTORNEY-GENERAL V. MAGDALEN COLLEGE.
The further hearing of this cause, which has been before
the Court for some time, was postponed.

ALLEGED MUTINY ON BOARD TIIE COLUMBIA.—
We yesterday communicated the melancholy loss of Captain
Rathbone, of the Columbia, who, with the mate and several
of the crew, were washed overboard on the voyage from New
York to this port. We have just learned, and with regret,
that after the captain's death, the crew became insubordinate.
There were but six cabin passengers on board; and the crew,
it is alleged, broke into the cabin, pilfered it, and also over-
hauled the luggage of the passengers, throwing what ap-
peared useless into the sea. The Columbia, which had lost
her foremast and several of her spars, was spoken soon after-
wards by the Lady Falkner, and asked if assistance were re-
quired? One of the passengers, with a speaking trumpet,
shouted "yes," one of the crew answering "no." She was
boarded, and the mate of the Lady Falkner took her in com-
mand. The crew strenuously wished to put into Cork; he
took a pilot on board as if for that purpose; but, deceiving
them, brought the vessel here, Captain Cropper, sent out by
the consignees, boarded her this morning in the Channel, and
several of the crew have been placed under arrest.
SCOTTISH HOSPITAL.—A special meeting of this
society was held yesterday, at the house of the Scottish Hos-
pital, in Crane court, to consider a proposal which had been
made by the Commissioners of Woods and Forests for the
purchase of those premises, in order to form a site for the
erection of a public record-office. The proposal was favour-
ably received, and a committee appointed to negotiate with
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VICE-CHANCERY.—(THIS DAY.)
(Before the VICE-CHANCELLOR of ENGLAND.)
His Honour the Vice-Chancellor of England took unop-
posed cause petitions, short causes, and cause petitions t?-
day, none of which possessed any points calling for a parti-
cular report.

MRS. BUTLER'S RETURN TO THE STAGE.—Man-
chester is believed to be selected by Mrs. Butler (late Fanny
Kernble) for her re-appearance on the stage. The terms
offered and accepted are exceedingly liberal. The first
character in which Mrs. Butler will appear will be her ortgi:
QUEEN'S BENCH.—CI'HIS DAY.) nal one of Julia, in the Hunchback.
FLOWER V. ROPER. • DEATH OF LIEUTENANT-COLONEL FREK6 OF TILE
This case was tried last week in the Bail Court before GRENADIER GuAßDs.—Lteutenant• Colonel the Hon. Percy
Mr. Justice Erie. It was an action brought by the plaintiff, Freke, of the Grenadier Guards, died at. Rome on the 15th
whti is an attorney in Chancery-lane, to recovey 135 i. from instant. He was the next brother to the present Lord
the defendant, who was a provisional committee-man of Carberry, and on the death of the late Lord was, with his
the Cheltenham, Gloucester, Stroud, and Southampton surviving brothers and sisters, granted the precedence en-
Junction Railway, for professional services which joyed by the sons and daughters of a Baton. In 1830
from October, he entered the army and Was promoted to a Lieutenant-
he had rendered to the company
C,,loneley by purchase in the ai.:,.ove mentioned corps in '
1845, to July, 1846. The jury found aiver,dnicotffotirietllte,eiti)lAitnd
tiff for 171. 18s. 6d., by the recoil-Imm( au( 18.15. Ile was brother to the lion. Captain Enke, of the `;'d
Judge, who, however, considered it better that the verdict La:, Guards.
IMPORTS FROM THE UNITED SIATES.—The
should' be entered for the defendant, with leave to the plain-
tiff to move to enter the ye: diet in his favour. The defend-
d Zenebia, from New York, and the Lady Falkland and Gos,
and that no signe
The project was sYllium, from New Orleans, which were reported at Liverpool
ant had pleaded never inet.!'tedld.
bill of costs had been delive..- _
and the plaintiff on the 27th inst. bring 5,283 barrels i,f flour, 17,931 bushels
solicitor •; but of wheat, 6,C,00 bags of Indian corn, and 210 barrels of Indian
registered on the 15th of Octobt..; .
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corn meal.
;tit another At
was registered two days after as 11e
the company was subsequently amalgamated .._
At&ORTALITT OF LONDON.--The total number of
and their names were altered to the Liverpool, Glo,.Psler, • q ti • ~ ,
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i.,,,,"Y• On 116 I -'S • Holy. -,
the weekly average average of the ' 1 five winters. The ledgment to become a provisional committeeman, on which tl 3
during k pas
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narjbet4:-,4. 14-. is the wee was 1,034-6 r J males, and
day the defendant was at the board, at which the plaintiff
acted as solicitor. On the 13th Dec. it was contended that 655 females.'