The Sun.
London, England, 1847-04-13 00:00:00

MARKETNEWS.-(T HIS DAY.)

NAY MARHETS.
SMITHFIELD.—Meadow Hay, 2/ lOs to 3/ 17s•' Clover
ditto, 3110 s to 41 17s; and Straw, 1/ 12s to 11 16s per
load. Trade dull, at the above quotations.
CUMBERLAND.—Meadow Hay, 21 12s to 41; Clover
ditto, and Straw, 1112 s to 1/ 16s per
oi at clor.
and a steady demand.
%Itl
Air
IOsEC il AtoP moderateE4 1 5-8 suyM; d w Hay, 21 lOs to 31 16s;
Clover ditto, 31 10s to 51; and Straw, 11 12s to I/ 15s
per load. upply good, and trade dull.

COLONIAL.
SUGAR. —The market for British Plantation is heavy,
only about 70 hhds having been sold privately at rather
lower prices. The public sales have offered 127 hhds
Barbadoes ; 9,315 bags Mauritius ; 3,617 bags Bengal ;
and 808 bags Madras ; which went off heavily, Barba-
does selling in some instances about 6d lower,
whilst the Mauritius, Bengal, and Madras were
nearly all withdrawn ; a small portion of the
Mauritius (principally damaged) being realised at a
decline of fully Is. The Bengal Oiledy found, buyers,
but at a further reduction of 6d to Is. Nearly all the
Madras was taken in. The quantity of British Planta-
don landed in London this year to tho Ist inst. has
been 8,539 hhds 1,138 tierces, against 11,503 hhds
1,272 tierces, to the same time last year. The
c nsumption was 11,904 hhds 1,436 tierces, being
a reduction of nearly 7,000 hhds and 700 tierces. The
stock in London, on the Ist instant, was 3,098 hhds
481 tierces, against 5,472 hhds 727 tierces at the same
date in 1846. The imports of Havannah, Brazil, Mau-
ritius, Bengal, and other East India, have decidedly
increased. and there is also a material advance in the
consumption. The stocks are larger, as regards Mau-
ritius and East India, but there is less Brazil.
MOLASSES.-64 hhds Bengal realised 22s to 24s for
mid to good quality, being lower prices.
RU3l.—The quantity landed in London this year up
to the Ist inst. was 3,443 puns 2,658 hhds, against
4,362 puns 1,910 hhds to the corresponding period cf
last year. The consumption has increased about 500
puns ; and the stock iu London is 11,216 puns 3,460
hhds, against 13,579 puns 2,513 hhds to the correspond-
ing date of last year.
COFFEE.—The quantity of British Plantation landed
in London this year is 81 hhds 19 barrels and bags,
against 1,118 hhds 600 barrels and bags to the same
reeirsi pod of
an
dblaagsst,yaegaari.nstT2h,eossBtok ishchds 11:722189
bhahrd l, r
es l
sa3nld4
bbaagr
s
to the corresponding period of last year. The imports
of Foreign have increased, ss well as the deliveries for
honleolarge as in
consumption. TAhpril, estloBc4kB.s on the whole are
scarcely
ExcE.-4,080 bags Bengal were taken in at 19s 6d for
good white, being the previous value.
TALLOW.—P.Y.C. is 49s 3d to 49$ 6d per cwt. on the
spot.
TEA.—The market has been steady, and the deliveries
last week increased.

DEATH OP CAPTAIN COTESWORTII, R.N.—We
have to announce the demise of this distinguished naval
officer, who expired on the 7th instant at his residence in
Devonshire, at an advanced age. After a probationary
service as midshipman, the deceasedofficer, in 1814, was
appointed to a Lieutenancy, and in 1829 was advanced
to the rank of Commander. He was a midshipman in
the San Josef at the siege of Cadiz, and, in 1810, while
holding similar rank, he served in the Andromache, on
the occasion of the capture of the United States frigate
the Presidoat. His next services were on the occasion
of the capture of Algiers. In 1824, when Lieutenant of
the Thetis, he commanded the boats of that vessel in an
action with the Ashantees.
EXPRESS TRAVELLING ON THE GREAT WESTERN.
—The twelve o'clock up express train on the Great
Western yesterday was, owing to some derangement in
the engine, upwards of half an hour late at Bath. At
Swindon the train consisted of ten carriages, weighing
100 tons, and with this load the engine gained eight
minutes in a run of 77 miles upon the ordinary express
speed of 43 miles per hour. The average rate at which
this train of 100 tons, and conveying 320 passengers,
travelled between Swindon and Paddington, was 52
miles per hour.

MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS.
CITY, QUARTER TO THREE.

The Cotton market at Liverpool yesterday was ani-
mated ; sales 8,000 to 10,000 balc3, at 4-1. per lb.
advance in prices. The sales consist of about 8,000
bale; : Anacrioan at qd. to 7-0., 400 PernaLos at Gad.
to 70., 100 Egyptian at Id. to 8, 500 Surat at 31(1. to
per lb. Railway shares were heavy.
An iatproved feeling is apparent in the mercantile
and monetary circles again to-day. I: is true that the
value of money keeps high, and that it may possibly
rule more against those who require acommodation.
oven upon what are held but a shade below first-clasi
s..etn itit-s. But it cannot be doubted that matters will
soon t igbt themselves. People begin, in fact, to think for
n hat reason has Consols gone back so low as is the
ease. Public credit is good. Trade is good, though not
speculatively active (and so much the better for ulterior
r, sults), and the demand for manufactures for exports-
Von and home consumption has recently been on the in-
crease. Taking then all things into consideration, we
think we are justified in representing that the recent
monetsry and other difficulties have passed their perihe-
lion, and are lowering to a more steady and safe con-
dition.

A considerable degree of interest is taken in the in-
tended commencement of lailways in the East Indies.
Yesterday the first general meeting of the scrip-
holders in the East India Railway Company was
held, and a most favourable report was presented
to the subscribers. But it is still thought that over four
per cent. ought to be guaranteed by the East India Corn.
parry, and for a longer period than fifteen years, fur the
really immense advantage which will inevitably accrue
from a train of rapid communication, per rail, in the lo-
calities marked out for this bold, and undoubtedly neces-
sary- enterprize. The amalgamation of the East Indian
Company with the Great Western of Bengal Company,
hinted at yesterday, is considered a most wise and s )und
point to be accomplished. Th 3 scripholders in the
latter projected line are to meet on Wednesday next,
to consid r the mode in which the amalgamation is to
be made, which, without doubt, will be carried into full
and entire effect.

In the City there are no late arrivals announced this

trorning.

A very considerable amount of business has been
transacted in the public Securities this morning. Con
sols both for Money and the Account opened at 86ii, and
subsequently receded to 85T."1, for the Account. For
Money the prices improved subsequently to 86 and
BGb. The Scrip of the New Loan has been sold at
3i discount. Exchequer-bills were at 4 discount, and
East India Bonds at 7s. discount. Bank Stock is down
t,.; 192, a fall of 6 percent. since the Ist instant.
In the Foreign Stock Market the Four per Cent.
Portuguese Bonds have improved to 35. Spanish Five
Cents. have been sold at 25? ; the Spanish Three
per Cents. at 36 ; Brazilian for the Account at 83 ;
the Dutch Two-and-a-littlf per Cents. at 58, and the
Four per Cents. at 90.
The Railway Shale Market has not been very ani-
mated to-day. There was, it must be stated, symptows
Hof weakness in many of the lines completed, and, in
operation a; well as those in progress, still, upon the
whole, there is a better feeling apparent.

BRIT ISII 1 UNDS. ONE CLOSING
O'CLOCK. PRD.'ES.
Bank Stock .. •• 194 193 195 192 192
Three per Cent. Reduced Annuities 85 84% a 51,4 85
Three per Cent. Consols Annuities 86Li 85% sti!.i, 86 86%
New Three-and-a-Quarter per Cent. Anus. 86%%%
Long Annuities, Expire Jan. t, 1860 .. 98%
Ditto, 30 years, Oct. 10, 1859 .. 8 13-16 8 13-16
India Bonds, 1,0001. .. .. 7 die 7 dis
Ditto, under 1,000/. par par
Consols for Account .. • . 861 i 85% , 86

Three per Cent. Consols, Scrip • • • • . 3 did
Excliequcr d. 2d.
par 4 dis
bat°, Small par 3 dis

3% dis
par
3 dis

ONE cLOSIN6
FOREIGN FUNDS. O'C .uC K. PtclC ES.
Brazilian Bonds, 5 per Cent ..
Ditto, Small .• • • . • .. 83 83
Grenada, 1 per Cent „ 19%
Mexican Bonds. 1846, 5 per Cet.t. 21
Portuguese Four per Cent .. 34% 35 35
Ditto. for the Account 351 A 343. 34%
Russian Bonds 110
SAnish Bonds, 5 per Cent 25 25%
Ditto, for the Account • • .. 26
Ditto, Passive Bonds ..
Ditto, Three per Cent .. 364,y 36%
Ditto, for the Account .. 37 37
Venezuela lionds, 2 per Cent .. 39%
Dividends on the above payable in London.
Belgian lour-and-a-Halt per Cent .. 961,4 961,4
Dutch Two-and-a-Dalt per Cent .. 58 581 A
Ditto. 4 per Cent. Certificates .. 90!4 90 90
P.USINESS
PRICES OF CLOSING
RAILWAY 511A1t PAID. DONE AT
ES. PRIOEt.
ONE O'CLOCK.
Aberdeen.. .. .. 30 .... • • ........ 26%
Amber., Notting., Heston, anti

Eastern Juliet-con .. 2%.... ..... . . . . . 134
lllrminKhaiu and Oxford Junction 5 .... 13%th ........ 13%
Divining., Wolver., and Dudley.. b 10%.......... 10%
C aledunian 30 .... ........ 24

Eastern Count:es

20 . 181i';••••••••

Do. I'erpet., 5 per Cent. No. 1. 6/. 13s. 4d. p...... p
Ditto, ditto.. .. .. No. 2. 6/. 13s. 4d. %p par .... ar
Ditto, York Extension .. •. .... 414
East Lancashire .. .. • • .. 17 ••• • .........

Ditto New .. .. 7!4.... BIA ........ •.
Ditto, tiltt* New Scrip 1 a ..........
East Lincolnshire .. .. 4 .... 6 .. ••• .....
Edinburgh and Glasgow 51) .... 70 • • •• .. 70
Litto, Quarter Shares • • .. 12Y, .... 1754 17,4
Ely andlluntingdou .. 15 .... 15 •• .. 15

Great Northern 3N . 3 •...
Great Southern & West. (Ireland) 30 .... 2434 25 24..., 24
Great North 01 England . ..100 .... 23 l% 23014,... 231
Ditto, New . .. 20 .... 58;i •• • • ...•
Great Western .. 85 •• .. 114 115....,.,, 115

Ditto, Quarter Slimes 12R, .... 17% 17 ......
Ditto, New ..
_414 7 . .....

and Selby .. •• •• ..103— •• ....... 103
Ditto, Hall' Shares .. 25 .... 51 .......... 51

Lancaster and Carlisle .. .. 50 .... 61% . 6l
Leeds and Thirsk 22% ....
Ditto, Preference 6 per Cent. !. 3% .... 7.. • 4

I.olldoll aut Blackwall .. 151. 133. 4d. •....,,,
Ditto, New, No. 1 b •.........
London, Brighton, and S Coast • . 50 .. • • 5I N, . 51%
Ditto, Consul. Eighths .. 10 .. • • 11 .......•.. 11%
London 411 North-Western • .100 .• .- 173 172.• • ..... 172%
Ditto, Quarters
Dltto ditto, New Shares • • .. 2 .... 11% 14%...... 113{
Ditto, 40/. Shares M. &B. .. 40 .. • • 66 .......• 66%
Ditto, 101. Shares M. &U. (B) 5 .... 101.4 .......... 104
Ditto, 101. Shares M. &B. (C) 1 .... 6%
London and tcouth•Western • • 41/. Gs. 10d... 63% ....... 63%
Ditto, Tenths (Consolidated) .. 50 .... 52% x, .• 52%
4%
Lynn and Ely .. .. 20 .... 21 .•.. • 21%
Lynn and Dereham .. • • 20 .... 21 .......... 21

lisuichester and Leeds.. .. •• 82 ••

Ditto, Quarter Share:, .. .. 12 .... 15% :... ..... 15U
Ditto, Sixteenths .. .. .. 6,4 .. •• ••••• • •• 7
Ditto, Thirds (Reg.).. .. ..71. 45..... 1% 3ip•• •• 1% P
M.lnchester, Buxton, k, Matlock 425..... par.... •••• •• 4 P
Manchester and Southampton .. 2 .... 1% 1•.•• .. .. 1
Cidiand .. .. .. .. .. ..100 ....112 113•• •• •• •• 113
Ditto, New ........2 .... 4 .• ...• .... 414
Ditto, Birmingham and Derby 100 .... 90 .. •• • • .... 00
Newcastle and Berwick .. .. 20 .... 25 2434 25U ..
Ditto, New .. .. .. .. . 5 .• •• 7 674 i 7N• • • • 7%
Norfolk .. .. .. .. .. —lOO •• .. •. • • ...... 13ZN
Northern Counties Union • • •• 2% •• • • 1%
North British .. .. .. •.•• 25 •
•• • • 31% 32 • • •• •• 32
Ditto, Half Shares .. .. •. 12,4 .... 15 .. ....... 1514
Ditto, Thirds .. .. •- • • 1••.. .2 74 3.. ..... 3
Northern and Eastern .. .. 50 .• .. ... ... 54
North Staffordshire .. •. •. 3 .... 7V4%... . . . . . 7%
Preston and Wyre .. .. .. 25 .• .. 33% 304 .•• 34
Ditto, Half Shares (A) .. .. 81,4 .... .......... 11%
Royston ant Ilitchin . • . .. 1%.... 134 .......... 1%
Shrewsbury and Birmingham .. 3y, .... .......... 3•X
Shropshire Union .. .. .. .• 425. 1:23 i 115...—. 1.% dis
South Eastern and Dovor .. •• 33;6.... .......... 35
1)o.. New (do. 33/. Gs.Bd.) No. 2. 12 .... 12%
Do.. Ne w (do. 151.) .. No. 4. 5 ..•. 5 431 :: •• • • 12%
South Yorkshire, Doncaster, and 4%

1 3/
West Riding Union • • • • .. 4/. 2s. • • %1 p
P
York and Newcastle .. .. 25
DUO, New.. .. .. 10
......
14
Ditto, l'reference .. 4 .... C;r, % .

York :tad North Midland
..........
Ditto, Extension .. 25 ~ 391 39
Ditto. Preferencc, • . 2 •••• 9%•••••••••• 10%
FOREIGN RAILWAYS.
Central of France (Orleans and
Vierzon) .• • • • • 12 .... 14 14%
Demerara .. ... 334 ki
Dutch Rhenish .. • • • • 7 • • 4 ••••• • • • • • 4
East In . ss. .... se .........,
Northern of France .• 8 .... 12N % .... • . 12)4
Paris and Rouen .. • • .. 20 .... 351 A 35
Paris and Strasbourg .. 5 ....
Sambre and Meuse .. 12 .... G3y..

JOINT-STOCK BANKS.
Union of London .. .. 10 .... 12% ........

Union of Austtalia

-"" .......

MINI:S.
Real del Monte. Unreaistered .. .... 3% ••• • •

12%
24%

LLOYD'S SHIPPING—(THIS DAY).
LONDON, APRIL 13.—Wind N.E. to E.N.E., fresh
gales, and dull hazy weather.
DEAL, APRIL I2.—Wind S.S.E. to S.W.—Arrd. Pre-
ciosa, Jacobsen, New Ycrk, and sailed for Rotterdam.
Arrd. from the River, City of Poonah, Madras ; Som-
nauth, Bombay; Berbice, Berbice ; Margaret, Quebec ;
Waterman, Quebec; Espadarte, Madeira ; Mary Houn-
sell, Rio Janeiro.
DovErt, APRIL 12.—Wind S.W.—Sld. Grange, New
Yolk. Off port, Adelhaide (Danish ship), Havannah
for Hambui gh.
Cow Es. APRIL 12.—Wind S.W.—Arrd. Ann Smith,
Hogg, Cuba.
LIVERPOOL, APRIL 12.—Wind N.W. to W.N.W.,
light.—Arrd. Sophia, Alexander, Honduras ; Princess
Royal, lluguid, New Orleans, sailed from the bar 13th
ult.; Hindoo, Lawrence, ditto ; Ambassadress, Banner-
man, ditto; Pollock, M'lntyre, ditto; Margaret, Black,
ditto; Yorkshire, Tripp, Mobile; Lady Milton, Hayes,
ditto; Speed, Grundell, Savannah, sailed 15th ult.; Col-
chester, Withers, Charleston, sailed 16th ult.; Roanoke,
Kelly, Baltimore ; Logan, Trent, New York ; Fidelia,
Haekstaff, ditto, sailed 16,11 ult. Ski. Ann New
York; Lc)! d Sandon, New Orleans.
Mem.—The George, for Qty•bec; London, for Staten
Island ; anti Omega, for Boston, did not sail yesti rday,
Re reported.
Suc ), APRIL W.—Arrd. American Bill,
Beatty, New York; Adna, Sherman, ditto. 81d. Inventor,
Philadelphia; Dromaheir, New Yin k.
ABERDEEN, APRIL 10.—Wind N.W.—Sid. S:T Wil-
liam Wallace, Quebec.
DuNDLE, APRIL 10.—Wind N. to W., strong gale.—
Arrd. Euphrates, Valparaiso. Put back, Ariel, Ritchie,
for Montreal.
SUNDERDAND, APRIL 11.—Wind N.W.—Sld. Gem,
Quebec.
LOUGH SWILLY, APRIL 9.—Arrd. R. H. Douglas,
Norville, Baltimore, for Sligo.
HULL, APRIL 12.—WiLd W.N.W.—SId. Fergus,
Quebec; Llan, Rummy, ditto.
WrirrErtAvErr, APRIL 1 o. Wind SAV.—Sld.Richard-
son, Quebec.
LEITH, APRIL 10.—The Sarah schooner, of Yar-
mouth, was abandoned off the Humber on the Bth
inst., and yesterday seen off Bridlington; crew saved by
the Royal William steamer, arrived here.

NOTICE TO M ARINERS—BUOYS ADRIFT.
Llnoansrians, APaIL 10.—The East Tongue buoy on
Margate Sand, an I the Border buoy, on the Gulls, have
broken adrift and bepn taken into Ramsgate.

CHANCERY.-(THIS DAY.)
The Lord Chancellor resumed his sittings to-day,
after tho Easter recess. His Lordship sat in his Court
at Westminster, and, after disposing of several luna#,:c
petitions in his p :per, proceeded to hear appeals.
APPERLEY P. PAGE.
This case came before his Lordship upon appeal from
the decision of the Vice-Chancellor Knight Bruce over-
calit,g a demurrer put in by the defendants to the bill
tiled by the p!aintiffs on behalf of themselves and others,
shareholders in the Midland and Easter Counties Rail-
way Company, cgainet the defendants, directors of the
sail company. The bill stated that in July, 1845, this
line was projected from the Northern and Eastern Coun-
ties Railway, at Cambridge to Worcester. That the
capital was to ba 1.500,0001., in 60,000 shares, at 251. a
share, on each of which the deposit was 21. 12s. 6d. The
plaintiffs paid their deposits, but they alleged that they
did so upon the faith that the whole of the shares would
be duly and properly allocated, but that they subse-
quently learned the fact to be, that only 35,000 shares
were allocated, and that of these 17,840 were not ac-
cepted. The total, deposits paid amounted to 47,6701.
At the date of the Parliamentary contract, the 29th of
October, 1845, the directors well knew that the project
had failed, and become impracticable by reason of the
insufficient allotment of shares, and they incurred the
expense of surveys and other charges, although having
failed to raise the required capital, they were unable
to apply to Parliament for an Act for the projected line.
The defendants, however, applied last session for an Act
for a small portion of the line, extending thirty-eight
miles, from Cambridge to Weedon. The Bill passed the
House of Commons, but was rejected in the House of
Lords, and it has been since finally abandoned. Pursu-
ant to the standing orders, 39,0001. was lodged with the
Aecoan:ant• General by the defendants, on account of the
Cambridge and Weedon line, which sum consisted of the
deposits paid for the line to Worcester. The defendants
obtained an order for the payment out of Court of the
39,0001. to discharge liabilities, but the money had not
yet been paid out. The bill prayed, that as the objects
and purposes for which the company was proposed, had
failed, through the neglect and mismanagement of the
defendants, they might be declared not entitled to
•leduct expenses under the circumstances stated, and
that an account might be taken of all proper expenses,
and that the plaintiffs might be declared liable to said
expenses iu the proportion which the number of shares
held by them have to the 6,000 shares originally pro-
posed ; and that after the payment of such expenses
there should be a distribution of the deposits. On the
part of the defendants it was contended that as the bill
suhrtuntially pra)ed for a dissolution of partnership,
there was a want of parties, the majority of the share-
holders not having been made parties to the suit. On
the case coming before the Vice-Chancellor Knight
Bruce, his Honour ordered the demurrer to be overruled,
and from that decision the present appeal was brought.
The arguments occupied his Lordship the whole
morning.

ROLLS' COURT.-(THIS DAY.)
His Lordship sat to-day at Westminster, and was
occupied in hearing cases which were of no gentral in-
terest.

VICE-CHANCERY.--(THIS DAY.)

(Before the VICE-CHANCELLOR Of ENGLAND.)
his Honour the Vice-Chancellor of England resumed
his sittings to-day in his Court at Westminster.

WALL V. WALL-JUDGMENT.

His lloNourt gave judgment to day in this case,
which was argued before him some time since on fur-
ther directions.

By a settlement, dated in 1802, the Baroness de
Thorin became entitled to a reversionary interest in a
fund of 14,0001., contingent on the death of her lather
and -mother, of whom the former was now deceased.
1' he lady had intermarried in 183 t with the Baron de
herin, who. by the marriage, acquired an interest
in the same fund contingent upon the event of his
surviving his wife. By the will of William Wall, en
opulent banker, in Worcester, which took effect in
1842, a sum of 18,0001. was bequeathed to the Baroness
do 'Morin, conditionally that she should relinquish the
benefit received by the settlement of 1802, and a re-
ference was in consequence directed to the Master to
inquire whether it was for the benefit of the wife that
she should accept the provision under the will in lieu
of that made by the settlement; but on the Master
reporting in favour of the bequest under the will, a
difficulty arose by the husband refusing to surrender
his contingent interest in the settlement of 1802, so as to
sanction the wife's election. Application was, there-
t'ore, made to the Court for the purpose of having
determined whether the wife's election could stand
independently of the concurrence of the husband.
A second question arose under the same will. The tes-
tator gale to his widow.an annuity of 1,8001., issuing
out of certain real estates, vested in trustees, and the
words employed in the devise were, that " she should
have a yearly sum of 1,800/., clear of all taxes and de-
ductions whatsoever." The Income and Property- Tax
Act, schedule A No. 4, sec. 10, directed that the trustees
in whom land is vested, charged with the payment of
annuities, should deduct at the rate of 7d. in the pound
on such annuities. The doubt was whether the widow
was to take the 1,8001. unbroken, or less by the income-
tax. The Court was clearly of opinion on the second
question that the income tax ought to be paid by the
widew, but with respect to the question of election, his
Honour thought that the record, as at present framed,
did not give the Court jurisdiction to decide that. his
Honour thought the best course would be to set apart
the sure of 18,000/. until the Court was in a condition
properly to decide the question.