The Sun.
London, England, 1848-11-16 00:00:00

13.&Y r/lARICETS.

SMITAFraLD.—Meadow Hay, 21 lOs t 3/ 14s; Clover,
ditto, 31 lOs to 41 18s ; and Straw, 11 2s to 11 10i per
load. A fair average supply, and a steady demand.
CUMBEILLAND.—Meadow Hay, 2/ lOs to 31 15s ;
Clover ditto, 31 lOs to 41 15s; and Straw, 11 4a to
I/10s per load. Trade firm, at the above quotations.
WHITECHAPEL.—Meadow Hay, 21 lOs to 31 15s ;
Clover ditto, 3/ lOs to 5/; and Straw, 1/ 2s to 1/ 103
per load. Supply good, and trade rather dull.

COAL MARK Er
Bate's West Hartley 15s 6d
Boddie's W. Hartley 16s Od'
Davison's West HartleyllGs Od
East Adairs Main 14s Od
Hasting's Hartley lss 6d
New Tanfield 153 Od
Ord's Redheugh
Eavensworth's W.Hart 15s Od
Townley l4s 3d

‘.--YESTERDAT.

Braddyll's Iletton lSs 6J
' Haswell l9s 3(1
Hetton
Lambton
Russell's Hetton 18s 6d
Stewart's
Whitwell
Hartlepool l9s :-.!d
Hudson's Hartlepool l6s 6d
North Hartlepool
Ludwith Steam-boat lss Od
South Hartlepool
Thornley
Trimdon ... 17s 6d
Benson
Tees ........... 13s 6d
West Hettoa l6s 6d
Whitworth l5B 6d
DerwentwaterHartley 15s 9d
Bartley ........... 15s Od
Howard's W. H.Neth l6s Od
Nixon's Merthyr 22s Od
Sidney's Hartley
Ships at market, 331.

End, &c
Acorn Close
Bewicke and Co.
Brown's lss Od
Elm Park
Clennell lss Od
Clarke and Co.
Heaton
Ilarton
Hotspur
lledworth
Killingworth l6s Od
Peareth l4s 6d
Eden Main l7a 6d
Larabton Primrose

CORN AVERAGES.
GENERAL AVERAGE PRICES OF BRITISH CORN
For the Week ended Nov. 16, IE4B, made up from the Returns of the
Inspectors in the different Cities and Towns in England and Wale:
per Imperial Quarter.
WHEAT. I HAZLET.' OATS. I ETE. I BEANS. I PEAS.
I PRICE .. its Od 133 s 7d 20s 10d 30: 5d I 37s 2d 40s 2d
DUTIES ON FOREIGN COLIN.
WHEAT. I BAILEY. I OATS. I EYE. I BEANS. PEAS.
0 Od 2s Od 2: Gel 2s Od 2s Od 2s Od

QUEEN'S BENCH.-(THIS DAY.)
(Sittings in Banco.)
At the sitting of the Court this morning Lord Den-
man announced the following decisions:—
Hurls v. Esdale—Rule granted. Ferguson v. Cooper
—Rule for new trial granted. Fitzgerald v. Ford—Rule
refused. Doe on the demise of Charter v. Barnard—
Rule granted.—South v. Calvert—No rule. Warner v.
Buck—No rule. Childs v. Coles—Rule dismissed.
THE QUEEN V. COBBETT.
Lord DENH4N, addressing Mrs Cobbett, said the
Court had looked into the affidavits on this case, and they
found it was similar to the one the Court had decided
in a former term. The habeas corpus must therefore be
refused.

BAIL COURT.-(THIS DAY.)

IN RE THE CHURCHWARDENS OF KNAPTON.

Mr. COWLING applied to the Court for a rule nisi
calling upon the archdeacon of the East Riding of the
county of York to show cause why he refused to admit
Mr. Edward Robinson and Mr. Francis Hobson to the
office of churchwardens of the parish of Knapton. The
gentlemen alluded to were elected by the ratepayers at
Easter last, but, upon their applying to the archdeacon,
ho refused to admit them, on the ground that they had
not presented themselves in a legal manner, in failing to
enter a caveat of their return. Subsequently they made
a second application, accompanied by an attorney, but
again they were refused, the archdeacon stating that in
the absence of others properly presenting themselves he
had admitted the two former churchwardens. Now
these gentlemen had refused to give the parishioners an
account of their proceedings, and hence arose the elec•
tion of two new churchwardens, but the archdeacon being
favourable to the obnoxious holders of the office, was
anxious to keep out their rightful successors.
Mr. Justice PATTESON, under the circumstances,
granted a rule absolute fur a mandamus in the first
instance.

EXCHEQUER.—(THIS DAY.)
(Sittings in Banco.)
POULKES V. WILTS, SOMERSET, AND WEYMOUTH
RAILWAY.

Mr. MARTIN applied for a rule to show cause why an
award made in this case should not be set aside. It ap-
peared that Foulkes had a lease for seventy. five years of
apiece of land, in the neighbourhood of Weymouth, which
he held from the Corporation, and that he purchased,
with the consent of the Lords of the Treasury, the re-
version of the fee simple for 1751. In 1845 the Wilts,
Somerset, and Weymouth Railway gave notice under the
Lands' Clauses Consolidation Act that they would re-
quire a part of the land. The plaintiff claimed the
sum of 7,0001. as compensation, but the company refused
to give that amount, and offered the nominal slim
of fit for the purpose of having a valuation
of the property made. Accordingly a person
0: the name of Powell was appointed arbitrator, before
whom a number of London and other surveyors were
examined, and the lowest sum mentioned by any of them
as compensation for the loss of the property was 7,1001.
No witnesses were examined on the part of the com-
pany, but their counsel alleged that the plaintiff had ob-
tained the lease and reversion, who, he contended,
formed a mere colourable title, in order to get compen-
sation, and called upon the arbitrator to give a small
sum. The arbitrator awarded that Foulkes should
receive in respect of the property 1,735 L, and settled the
costs of the arbitration at 68/. 10s. The Learned
Counsel grounded his motion upon three points; first,
that the arbitrator was not properly appointed, as his
appointment was not signed by two of the Railway
Commissioners, as required by the recent Act; secondly,
that he should have given the real value of the property;
and thirdly, that he ought to hare specified the amount
of costs to be paid on each side, which he had not done.
The COURT granted a rule.

SHERIFFS' COURT.—(THIS DAY.)
(Before Mr. Under-Sheriff BURCIIELL.)
HOLIES V. THE SOUTH-WESTERN RAILWAY COMPANY.
The plaintiff in this action was a guard in the South-
Western Railway Company, and sought to recover the
sum of 61. 10s., balance.of wages deducted by the com-
pany on the ground that he had misconducted himself by
acting contrary to the rules of the company.
The plaintiff's salary as a second-class guard on the
Southampton line had been 255. per week, but on the
22d of January last a deduction by way of fine was
made at the rate of ss. per week, and he was paid
1/. per week up to September (when he resigned), with
the exception of three or four occasions when the full
amount was paid.
Evidence of a very tedious nature was gone into to
prove the different payments, and the Learned
UNDER:SHERIFF suggested that the matter should
be left to a referee or referees, but the counsel for the
company declined, saying, that he had no doubt he
should be able to convince the jury that the company
bad acted properly. The rules and instructions of the
company was put in, and by which both guards were to
have the hand engine and tail lamps lighted at, sunset, or
in foggy weather, and by the 23d rule every person ne-
glecting any of the rules would be liable to fine or dis-
missal, whether an accident occurred or not, and by the
sth and 6th rules each guard was bound to have signal
lamps and Tags, as therein described.
A witness said both guards ought to have their
hand lamps, and the head guard to see
the side and tail lamps. At Bishopstoke the town
divided one for Southampton, and one for Gosport,
and the second :guard went with the latter, and
took the duties of head guard. On the day in question,
plaintiff was guard of the express train which left Lon-
don at half-past five in the evening. The lamps not
being correct, plaintiff signalled the train to stop at
Woking, a station at which they ought not to have
stopped.
For the defendants, it was contended that there was
no case for the jury, for there had been a breach of duty
not only by not having his proper lamps, but by stop-
ping the train at Woking ; and, secondly, that plaintiff
had assented to the decision by receiving the money.
The UNDER-SHERIFF considered that there ought to
be a scale of fines, and it was a question for the jury
Whether the fine was arbitrary and to the extent of a de-
duction in wages ; and, secondly, whether the pla;ntiff
assented,
The case then proceeded, and is likely to last much
longer.

WORSHIP-STREET.—(THIS DAY.)
Martin Williams and William Parr Williams, father
and son, were charged as follows :
Mr. James Brown, farrier, &c., of Swan-yard, Shore-
ditch, deposed that, on Sunday morning last, at about
eight o'clock, he found the windows of the sitting-room,
which is elevated from the ground several feet, par-
tially open. He also discovered that several articles had
been abstracted from that room during the night. In
the course of the following day the elder prisoner came
to witness and said, " All is right, don's fear, my son
took your things, and you will hare them in the even-
ing." They were not, however, brought, and prosecutor
called in the police. The elder prisoner had been prose-
cutor's landlord, and lived next door to him.
police-constable 76 II stated that on entering the elder
prisoner's premises he denied all knowledge of the stolen
property. Witness on entering a bed-room and puiling
up the bed, discovered the stolen articles, so placed as to
produce a smooth surface above. The elder prisoner
said he knew nothing about it. The younger prisoner
said he saw two persons at prosecutor's door, at about
one o'clock in the morning, and heard one of them say
to the other, "Bill, or Jew, is it all right?" but as soon
as witness came up they each scampered off, throwing
the bundle into the street; hence his possession of them.
Police-sergeant 17 H said the elder prisoner, who wa,
in liquor at the time, told him that his son had robbed hitt.
Several persons gave the elder prisoner an excellent
character.