The Sun.
London, England, 1849-12-27 00:00:00

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.

SIR,—As the advocate of the concentration of the
legal transactions or Ireland and England, I address
you. I woted say, as a prellide to the achievement
of this concentration, that et once, and without
expense, an Irish barrister, wishing to relinquish Irish
practice in order to devote himself to your bar, pheula
obtain his admission thereat; and an English barrister,
wishing to become an Irish one, should without
trouble or expense obtain his admission as a practi-
tioner at our bar—and similar measures of justice
should be meted out to the English and Irish students,
in regard to admission to the Inns of Gaul and our
King's Inn. The enlightened, liberal, and fair manner
in which you have put forth this important question
must draw many persons to its consideration. The
present state of Ireland demands sweeping measures
at the hands of her rulers, and our present Viceroy
seems to be a man;who deeply reflects how best can
the future state, of this country be made one of hap-
piness and prosperity. No doubt he is annoyed and
impeded by the buazings of political ranters—their
machinations are despised, as well as not feared by
him ; he has happily broken the heart of Irish agita-
tion. But every well-wisher of his ccuntry must wish
him success in his praiseworthy endeavours. I know
not whether he is favourable or not to this legal
concentration, but before he would come to a conclu-
sion upon so serious a question much anxious
deliberation and research would be had recourse to
on his part. This question, in primacy, must be looked
at in regard to the suitors; and in respect
to these it would appear that an ad vantage
would be conferred upon them, as they would come
under the influence of the highest legal functionaries ;
and, as to expense, little, if any, additional legal
expense would be heaped upon them. The litigating
temperature of their minds would be lessened on
legal proceedings being removed to a distance, and
placed under more frigid control. Going to law, as
the phrase is, would cease in this country to be a
pastime, and the hall of our courts would not be a
place of recreation to legal minded men. As to the
legal practitioners—barristers and attorneys—is the
next consideration. To barristers in leading business
a boon would be conferred, as their business would
naturally accompany them on their removal to Eng-
land. As to this question of legal concentration, those
who consider regarding it seem not to understand its
bearings, and sweepingly condemn this legal concen-
tration as a plan concocted for the purpose of swamp-
ing Irish legal proceedings—
" Durenant quod non inteligunt."
Would the great and gifted young man, J Christian,
our ablest Chancery barrister, the Sir William Fol-
lett of the Irish bar, whose humble manners consort
so sweetly with his great abilities, fear to combat with
the giants of the Saxon law ? Certainly not. Would
his brother competitor, F. Fitzgerald. fear to keep his
head up in England? No. Would Brewster,
Napier, Monaghan, Martley, or Ly net), as columari-
law lawyers, fear to wield their Celtic legal wea-
pons with success? Surely not. Of these Irish
barristers alluded to, Christian, Fitzgerald, and
Lynch, business tardily came to them, and their
humble manners seemed to repel its advance; will
when combined with c:nnmon

1 ()mit the gifted Whiteside and Isaac Butt ? No ;
their iron souls know not what fear consists in. As

to the hordes of bricfless barristers who are to be
found 1 itering in our courts, to predicate the con-
squence that would arise to them, of their removal
to iVestminster, would be difficult. Still I should
say this removal could do them little harm ! I, in-
deed could exclaim in respect to each of these men
—some of whom no doubt are grewly gifted—" Oh!
had he learned to make the wig he wears!" Sheil,
in his graphic sketches of the Irish Bar, considered
the number of young men that " family pride"
caused to flow to our bar, to have apparently no
better inn ntion in doing so than to starve each other.
Now if all the legal business of our courts was di-
vided amougst the.barristers who seek for it, the
recompense from this division would not be adequate
to the starching of each barrister's cravat. We do
not see about Westminster Hull such men as our
" pallid, keen-eyed, anxious aspirants for professional
employment." How melancholy it is that men will
fill the ranks of our bar with their sons and not make
farmers of them! The money it costs a young man
to become a barrister would purchase a small fee-
simple property, on which an useful and healthful life
might be passed. But I ant sorry to have to agree
with Sheil, that " Nothing is so unpopular as pru-
dence in Ireland." As to the attorneys, Ido not see
what damage would result to them from such an
object being achieved. • To the public in general a
great boon would be conferred, and our barristers,
many of them able men, would, under such circum-
stances as then would arise, become useful and able
Members of Parliament; at all events let the ques-
tion be discussed with moderation and fairnes--4.
Dublin, Dee. 4. It L.

THE UOUNTR( MARKETS.
HULL, Die. 26.

Mesirs. Taylor and Bright's circular states: —As
is usual, at this season of the year, business in the grain
trade has b..en almost suspended, and will remain so
until the turn of the year. Transactions have been quite
of a retail character, with a general firm feeling. The
weather has been variable—from the 21st to the 22d
sharp frost, with some little snow and cold north-east
wind; since then the temperature has changed, and it is
to thy comparatively mild, with westerly wind. The
supply of wheat from the farmers to day was only small.
in consequence of the market being held off the usual
day, and altogether business was very limited, without
any alteration in price, except for the best runs, which
ware is dearer. Foreign wheat hell firmly, and full
pi ices p.id on the few sales made. Rather more inquiry
for malting barley, but none of fine quality afloat, and
landed parcels are held above our currency; less doing
in grindir.g qualities. Only a slow sale for other
(If seriptions of spring corn. Not much doing in linseed,
and the. market the turn lower; cakes are also easier to
buy. No transactions in rapeseed, and cakes are quiet
but somewhat dearer. In banes not much doing.
The following are the present prices of grain:-
li. S. I 5. e•
Wheat, English, red 36 to 38yeas, white and yel. 25 28
Do. white
Dant zic and Ko- Linseed, Black Sea 43 —45
nigsberg 46 48,D0. Petersburgh ..„ 37 42
Pomeranian and Do. Riga& Archngl. 36 —3B
Hamburgh . 3B —4O Do. Konigsberg 35 —37
Danish, Holstein, & Par ton.
Friesland . 34 36 Linseed cakes, Hull ... 710 s Od
Isussian and Odessa 32 36 Do. fine foreign , 61 58
Oats, English ..... 12 14 Do. inferiorforeign Si Os
Do. Danish lO 12 Rapeseed
Do. Friesland l5 16 Rape cake5...773 6d to COs Od
Do. Russ. & Odessa 12 14 Tares, English oos 003
Barley, malting 22 24iDo. foreign 20s —24 g
Do. grinding..
Beans 26 321 Bones, do ...... 00s Od to 90s Od
Do. foreign ...... 25 —3l Rye meal 61 Oa
DALKLITU MEAL MARKET, DEC. 24.—!'here wer''
196 bags of oatmeal, 14 of barleymeal, and 5 of pot-
barley at this day's market. Sales middling. Oatmeal
6d t 31 per bag down; barb ylneal, 9d par bag; pot'
barley 9d per hag up.
Oatmeal, per sack, of 280 lbs. First Second Third
imperial .. 23s 6d 22s 6d 21a 9d
Barleymeal, per ditto 178 Od 16s 9sl 16a 6d
Peasemeal —s Od Od —p Od
Flour —s Od —s Od —s Od
Pot barley ... „. 6d —5 Od —5 °C/,
Coax, Dec. 24.—Flour—First 12s 6d to 13s ; extra I4s 81;
seconds, Ils to 12, 6d ; households Os to 10, 6d; thirds, la to 6s
per cwt. Oatmeal 9a to lOs 6d ; Indian meal 7s to 7s 3d ; wheat'
meal, 10s to 10s 6d per cwt. Indian corn 127x61 to 135 s Od per tan'
Bran 31 iOs to 3112 s Od per ton. Hay—Farmers 28s to 375; averse__
33s ; dealers 38, to 40s Od; average 38s per ton. &law—Farm_ ,e.'
I9s Od to 27s Od; average s2s ; dealers 28s Od to 34s
average 00s Od per ton. Bread—Wheaten loaf 6d to 601
household loaf 5d to sid per 41b. Fresh butter, 8d to
9J per lb. Eggs —6s6dto 6s 8d per hundred. Coals-"Z
Newport 15s; Lydney 17s ; Landore 15s ; Best Beath
Culm 14s per
.ton. Tallow 39s Od to 00s per so,'
Whisky, 25 o. p., 5s 9d per imperial gallon. :Me**
—Beef 34d to sd; mutton 4d to sd; veal 44:1
Od ; pork 3id to 4d ; bacon 7d to 8d ; sausages 5d Per
lb. Hops bl Os per cwt. Bangor slates 3/ 2s 6d to 8/ Sill
ton. Bark—Barbary 715 s to 8/ 5s ; Valonia 141 to 01; Fre"
71 53; English 0/per ton. Fleece Wool lOs to 12s per etape:i
Hemp 32/ tooo/ per ton. Fish— Scotch herrings 18s to 19e; re'
ditto 24s to 26s per barrel ; Newfoundland 9' Os to 111 Per
ton. Timber—Memel, 85/ per ton ; deals, first quality, 188;
second quality, 16s per 100. Hides—Market 14s to MI;
salted 141 to 20, per cwt ; calf skins 2d to 2/4 per lb.
Potatoes, white lid to 9d; Minions lld to 12d; Guano!
Peruvian, 11/ 103; Ichaboe, 91 per ton; Tar—Archangel'
19s per barrel.

COAL MARKS'
Cares Hartley
Davison'sWeaLlartley 15s €d
liolywell Main ..... 16s 9d
New Tanfield l4s Gd
l'antlehl Moor
West Adairs . 14s Oa
Wylam ...
Wall's End, &c.
Elm Park
Percy l6s al
Walker
Bell
Belmont l7a 6d
Braddyll
Hetton
Haswell lBs 9d
Jonassohns

N.--YESTXRDAY.
1 Lam bton
I Lumley
I Russell's Hetton
I Stewart's
1 Caradoc .....
Cassop 17s 9clA
Kclloe. 1,85 0.•
Whitworth lss ad,,
Adelaide Tees
Cownden Tees .......• 17s C'''
South Durham l7B Od
Tees
Woodyfield
Cowpen Hartley
Nixon's Merthyr and ~i
Cardiff .........
Ships at market, 44.

THE STRIKES ON THE MIDLAND RAILWAY.---0:
go ds guards and porters at Derby, some hundr Ids 11,
number, returned to their employment 3 esterday (Vent
rrsday) mot ning, the former at their original rate d
remuneration, and the latter for the present at reduce
.0
wages, but with a promise of an advance wheneveir
price of food becomes higher. Although the dire clot
strained every nerve, from Monday morning till,
Tuesday night, they found themselves unable to oars
on their business without the assistance of th(tir
goods guarth; but by extensive importations of agrieua
tural labourers, who for many miles around may 1)e
for very little remuneration, they had pretty neer fi
swamped the more humble class of goods porters, 141„
they have been compelled to seek and accept a color";
mice. The policemen and pointsalen, who a weelt
two ago had their salaries reduced 5 per cent., and who
were too scattered in small timbers along the whole
extent of the various lines to act in concert, have Pt-
tiotmd the board to restore to them the small mod jell
which, they say, without their consent, has been stt )pied
out of their weekly wages, and declare their into 01r-
of giving up their situations simultaneously if the,
petition be not complied with. Should this really ,ocell'e;
the greatest danger to the company's traffic will bo th
result; so much prorrty and t:o many lives constantly
depending upon the discretion of these officials, especits'i,
of th. riot-men.
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SWEATING AMOS:EL—A man and his wife have., d
born arrested at Belleville, charged with being eslipsgeo
in sweating five franc piece.J. At his residence "re,rn
found tiles, graving tools, and other things necessary ,-
carrying on his process. lie conresed that he e td
about 30r. a week by tiling down the rough edge at o'i;
fret:o pieces and restamping the letters. A vonN
changer in the Rue St. Martin, to whom the filings were
olt.l, has also been arrested. The purchases were regudi
Italy entered down in hi. hooks, but without the rev
address of the seller being enregistered.—Gallyncoi• sit
Hon. Henry Fitzroy had an interview with
George Grey yesterday at the Home•office.
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THE WILMINGTONs; a new Novel by the etu.;;
of " Emilia Wyndham," and" Two 011 Men's 'Taifes•
The new work of this distinguished writer is unde retole
to be a most unsparing satire on the follies of tl ie agd
in which we live—especially the taste for luxury' n.„
ostentatious display of wealth—the misuse of Hi dies a
the embarrassment consequent on extravaganct,---°'Df
the base shifts to obtain money rendered neeesst ":6
such habits. The story, we are informed, displays th,e,i,
follies in their most glaring light, and shows ho w l'n"f
the mischief and how deed the guilt to which enrors
this description may lead.
[ADVERTISEMENT.]—Cure of an Ulceratod I„fi
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known in Geelong, Port Phillip, publishes in the Melbourl3l
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case:—" I had been afflicted for three years with an ti leers
pa
leg, and had the best medical treatment in Melbourne ‘3,0,
Van Diemen's Land, without experiencing any relic, f, "'"
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acknowledge that, after using them and attending to the ut„red,
:ions, I found my leg cured in a very short time." Sig'ine
John Olive.—Sold by all respectable Vendors of Wille',
throughout the civilised world, and at Professor Raliciersy
Establishment, 244, Strand, London.

BIRTHS.cCit
On the 24th inst., at Northwood-house, St. Joh3fo-Yl°
the'wife of Mr. Sergeant Bellasis, of a son. .f„, of
On the `?4th inst., at Chauton house, Hants, the wife
Knight, Esq., jun., of a daughter. , , f'•
On the 21th inst., at Bounds-green, Southgate, DO.'
Maples, of a son. J*
On the 25th inst., at Park-place, Brixton, the wife or
H. Linklater, Esq., of a son.
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MARRIED. ejef
On the 22d inst., at John's, Notting-bill, vy lova
Eq., of Ladbroke-villas, Kensington-park, to Ross ,
and youngest daughter of the late J. Blow. Esq.

DIED W'
Cole, 0'
Oa fit-.l3th inst., Frances Anne, wife of the Rev-
Cole, M.A., vicar of Wonersh, Surrey. aged 78 ad'
Ou the 15th inst., Henry Wood Sandford, of Christ Ci'hleat
Oxford, youngest son of the Rev. W. Saudtord, incur')
of Newpurt, Shropshire. age'
Oe the 20th inst., at Southampton, a' an advanee'•
the 11>.v. Samuel L ,cke D.D., to merly chaplain to his v
Ilig:lness the Duke of 'Kent. sei.
On the 22d hist., at Gedelington Vicarag,?, Sophia LticAt
On the 23.1 inst., aged 51, Arthur Cuthbert Marla), `"
of E•Astbury, Hertfordshi, e.
On the 24th inst., in Conduit-street, Hanover-8(4,110,1'47e,
P. Burrell, E.g., lute of Oriel-terrace, Cheltenham, .21ae'ler
On the 25th inst., aged 75, Mr. W. Challis, of the CO
r..)ad, North Prix ton.

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~SrB PrOCLIOL Of the Scorov. tha
Middlesex, Thursday, December 27, 1849. ,