The Sun.
London, England, 1847-02-12 00:00:00

MARKET NEWS.-(THIS DAY.)

CORN EXCHANGE-FRIDAY.
Up to our market this week, coastwise and by land car-
riage sample, the arrivals of English Wheat have been on a
very limited scale, and we had a trifling quantity on offer.
All kinds moved off readily, at an advance on Monday's
quotations, of from lx to 2s per quarter. In Foreign Wheat—
the supply of which on offer was small—a large business was
doing, at an improvement in value of from is to 2s per quarter.
Fine malting Barley was scarce, and was readily taken off at
full prices. All other kinds were quite as dear. Malt was
held for higher rates, which the brewers were very reluctant
to give; consequently, comparatively very little was doing
in it. Oats, Beans, Peas, and Flour moved off readily, at
extreme currencies.

ARRIVALS.
Wheat. I Barley.
Z 450 qr 3. 1,820 qrs.

Englisk ......
Foreign ......

Oati 1 Flour
1,120 qrs. I 2,260 sk.,
6,110 and
I 900 2,260br1s

1,441
Malt, 2,870 era.
STOIXTELPIELD.
We bad a very moderate supply of Beasts, owing to which
and the prevailing cold weather, the Beef trade was steady,
and Monday's quotations were well supported. From Hol-
land we received 122 Beasts and 300 Sheep, and from Scot-
land 110 horned and polled Scots, nearly the whole of which
found buyers. With Sheep we were scantily supplied, while
the Mutton trade was firm, at late rates. The sale for Calves
was steady, at full prices, with a moderate number offering.
Piga moved off slowly, at unaltered currencies. Milch Cows
were very dull, at from 16/. to 18/. each, including their small
calf.

Per filbs. to si
s. d. to s. d. s. d. to m. d.
Inferior Beasts.. ... 3 4 3 6 Second quality ditto 4 0 4 2
Second quality -• •• 3 8 310 Coarse-svoolled ditto 4 4 4
Prime large Oxen.. 4 0 4 2 Southdown Wether 410 5 0
Prime Scots ...... 4 4 4 6 Ditto out of the wool
Large coarse Calves 4 2 410 Large Hogs • . •• • 3 8 4 6
Prime small ditto .. 5 0 .5 4 Small Porkers • 4 8 5 0
Suckling Calves —lB 0 28 0 Quarter old Pigs ..16 0 19 0
Inferior Sheep ••• 3 6 310 Lambs . •
SUPPLY AT MARKET.
Beasts. Sheep. I Calves. I Pigs.
829 2,290 127 290
NZVIGATII AND LEADENHALL.
The general demand was steady, at full rates.
At per stone by the Carcase.
s. d. to s. d. s. d. to s.
Beef, inferior.. 2 6 28 1 Mutton, inferior •• 3 4 3 6
middling .. 210 3 0 middling.. 3 8 310
prime large .. 3 2 3 4 prime •. 4 0 4 4
prime small •• 3 6 3 8 Pork, large.... ••.. 3 6 4 6
Veal•• ••••••• • • • • • 4 4 5 2 5m511.... ••• • 4, 8 410
Lamb. Os Od to Os Od.

Ink the offal.

SOILOITGII BOP NIALIZNET.
We have no change whatever to notice in this market.
Selected Hops, in pockets, move off steadily, other kinds
slowly, at our quotations.—Sussex pockets, 41 to 41 8s;
Weald of Kent ditto, 41 5s to 41 16s; Mid and East Kent
ditto, 4115 s to 6/ lat.

PRIVY COUNCIL-(THIS DAY.)
The Judicial Committee of the Privy Council sat again
to-day to hear colonial appeals. The Lords present were:--
Lord Brougham, Lord Campbell, the Master of the Rolls,
the Judge of the Admiralty Court, the Chancellor of the
Duchy of Cornwall, Sir Alexander Hope Johnstone, and
Sir Edward Ryan.

WISE V. XISIIENKOOMAR BOUO.
Their Lordships were occupied the whole morning with the
further arguments in this case, which came before them upon
appeal from the Supreme Court of Bengal.
The Court rose at two o'clock, in order that their Lord-
ships might attend her Majesty's Levee.

CHANCERY.--(THIS DAY.)
The Lord Chancellor sat in his Court in the Old Hall,
Lincoln's Inn, to-day, and, after disposing of the unopposed
lunatic petitions on his paper, proceeded to hear the further
arguments in the part heard motion of the Electric Telegraph
Company v. Nott and Gamble, which occupied his Lordship
till the rising of the Court.
His Lordship rose at an early hour to attend her Majesty's
levee.

VICE-CHANCERY.-(THIS DAY.)
His Honour the Vice-Chancellor of England took unop-
posed cause petitions, short causes, cause petitions, and causes
to-day, but no case of any public interest came before his
Honour during the whole morning.

(Before Sir J. K. BRUCE.)
IN RE BRIXTON SCJIOOL.
The further hearing of the petition in this cause, in which
the question at issue was as to the right of the trustees of
this charity to remove the schoolmaster, was postponed for
four weeks.

MOSIWYN V. MOSTYN.

This was a petition in the suit, praying for the payment of
a sum of 4804 the residue of a legacy of 900/., which bad
been left by the testator, Sir John Mostyn, to a female chari-
table institution in North Wales. The petitioners were the
stewardesses of the institution and their husbands, and their
being no treasurer they contended that they were entitled to
receive the money in question.
The matter was ordered to stand over.

QUEEN'S BENUH.—(THIS DAY.)
(Before Mr. Justice ERIE and a Special Jury.)
TOUTER V. GRANT AND ANOTSER.
At the sitting of the Court this morning,
Sir F. THEsicien said he was happy to inform the jury that
their further attendance would not be required, as the de-
fendants had consented to a verdict being taken favour of
the plaintiff. The parties had come to an arrangement. It
was right to state that no imputation rested upon Mr. Dar-
nell (the author, and not the publisher of the book) with
respect to the publication of the copy-books. The matter
was a fair one for inquiry in a court of justice.
The arrangement was understood to be this—that the par-
ties should continue to sell their respective books, and that
they should pay their own costs.
The verdict was then entered for the plaintiffs.
Several witnesses were examined in support of the defence
—that the copy-books of Mr. Foster contained nothing new,
nothing but elementary principles which had been in use for
upwards of forty years.
Mr. Lewis, of 113, Strand, said he had taught writing for
forty years, and that for nearly the whole of that time he
had used the system (substantially) which Mr. Foster styled
his own—the principles were merely elementary.
Mr. J. Carstairs, Mr. Darnell, Mr. Frost, and Mr. Smart,
of St. Ann's School, Soho, gave similar testimony.
THE LINCOLNSIII&E AND EASTERN COUNTIES RAILWAY—
GRIEVE V. LUMSDEU.
This was an action brought by the plaintiff, a lithographer,
to recover from the defendant, who was a member of the pro-
visional committee of this railway, the sum of 331/. for maps
supplied for the use of the company. The project was one of
those of which the autumn of 1845 was so prolific ;
bat, like the majority of them, the " panic " cut
it off in its bloom, leaving most of its debts
unpaid, and the directors most unwilling to discharge
the remainder. An attempt had been made to get each of
them to pay his share of the liabilities, but although a few
of them had expressed their willingness to do so, and one or
two had paid something, the defendant, who was and is
the Lord Provost of Glasgow, had not paid anything towards
them.
It was proved that the defendant consented to become a
member of the committee ; and that several prospectuses
containing his name were circulated in the Stock Exchange
of Glasgow, which the defendant was in the habit of fre-
quenting. Prospectuses were sent to him. Moreover, the
Clydesdale Bank was appointed the Scotch bank of the com-
pany at his suggestion. No proof, however, of registration
was tendered.
Sir F. THESIGSR submitted that there was no case to go
to the jury; there was no proof of registration, which was
absolutely necessary to give ground of action.
Mr. Justice ERLE considered that there was not sufficient
evidence to go to the jury; but if it went to the jury, and
they gave a verdict for the defendant, the plaintiff might
tender a bill of exceptions. It appeared, however, that ,the
defendant consented to become a member of the committee,
that he took shares, and obtained the appointment of the
Clydesdale Bank, with which he was connected, acting in
the whole matter, no doubt, to obtain profit. If the verdict
was for the plaintiff, he would give the defendant leave to
enter a nonsuit, on the ground of insufficient evidence.
Sir F. THESIGER preferred to have the decision of the jury
on the matter. He addressed the jury, and contended that
the defendant, with about 300 others, simply lent the use of
their names to the promoters of the line, Messrs. Loveland
and Beckett, solicitors, of Lincoln's Inn-fields, by whom, and
by Mr. Smith, the engineer, the plaintiff was employed,
but not with the intention of becoming liable, in any
way, for the expenses that might be incurred. No
proof of registration had been adduced : he had a perfect
right, therefore, to assume, that it never was registered, and
that, in fact, the company never had any legal existence;
besides, the defendant never had the shares allotted to him
for which he applied. It was impcssible under such circum-
stances that they could give a verdict for the plaintiff'.
Mr. Justice ERLS told the jury that they must not look
at the interpretation of the liability of a provisional com-
mittee-man in 1847, but at the time the defendant joined the
project in 1845. It bad been considered that a provisional
committee-man was liable for the debts contracted by a
company, in the same way as a partner in a mercantile
firm ; bat the Courts had differed on the question of
liability, and the Exchequer Court had, after the
most mature deliberation, solemnly decided, that the fact
of a man consenting to become a member of a provisional
committee was no evidence at all for a judge to submit to a
jury that the party who had so consented had thereby given
any authority to any person to make contracts, for that
company on his account, #nd for which he was still held
liable in law. The defendant had never attended any meet-
ings of the company, and there was no evidence to show that
he took any part in contracting debts. It was for them, as
men of common sense and business, to say whether they
considered the defendant liable or not.
(The jury had not returned their verdict when our report left.

COMMON PLEAS.-(THIS DAY.)
This being the last day of the Westminster sittings, the
Court took common jury CALMS. None of them, however,
were of any interest except to the parties concerned.

SURREY SESSIONS.-(THIS DAY.)
John
Tfraller, were indicted for
feloniously
Charles Wil-
kinson, at Horslydown.
T
table 249 M, said that, on the
aslite stealing
andha half a Thomaspi g, the property Edger,
16,
of
ac seize half a pig that was
evening of
Nest,the police-constable,
o ecutor, ulipletreto-imo, he saw the prisoners approach
the shop• door o
hanging at the door, and run away. Ile pursued them, and
tookthern into custody, near Bermondsey Church. The
prisoners threw the pork into a gateway which they passed,
and knocked him down and endeavoured to escape, but
another constable came to his assistance, and secured them.
In their defence the prisoners said that they picked up
the pork in the street, and intended to have delivered it to
the inspector at the station-house, but the constable Caine
to them so abruptly, that they were afraid of being taken into
custody, consequently they ran away.
The jury returned a verdict of Guilty, and the sentence of
the Court was that they be imprisoned in the House of Cor-
rection for three months each.
ASSAULTING A MasTEn OF A WORKHOKSE..- William
-
.Tudge, a powerful-looking man, was indicted for having un-
lawfully assaulted Richard Robinson, the master of St.
George's Workhouse, Southwark ; also with threatening
his life.
The prosecutor said, that on the evening of the 3d inst.
the prisoner applied to the board of guardians for relief.
Having been often assisted by them to no purpose, and his
character being bad, the guardians refused to assist him any
more. As soon as he was told so, be rushed into the board-
room, and swore at the guardians, when he (prosecutor) at-
tempted to eject him, and in doing so the prisoner struck him
onthe back of the neck, felling him to the ground,where he re-
mained insensible for several minutes. A police-constable,
who was in attendance, assisted him, and took the prisoner
into custody. •
One of the guardians heard the prisoner threaten to mur-
der Mr. Robinson as soon as he should have his liberty,
and he believed, unless he was res'ar4::.cd, that he would do so.
In his defence the prisoner said that before he touched
gr. Robinson, the latter threatened to knock him down