The Sun.
London, England, 1848-01-28 00:00:00

COLONXAkL.
SUGAR. —The market :or British Mantation has been
firmer at au improvement of 6d to is per cwt On last
Friday's rates. Barbados by suction has real sed 44
to 45s for fine yellow ; •418 6d to 42s for good aid;
39s to 39s 6.1 for low and refined. Stand,rd Lumps
have been at 55s to 55s fid per cwt.
EAST INDIA 1,200 brigs 168.caAs 134.7-,,: .1 "xcnt at
6d advance ; s, ft. yellow, hut din: y, 40, 6.1 to 41s ;
Benares fine sound white, 47: to 47s 6fl ; 3 el!ow, 34s to
35s ; and damaged, 26s to 34s 6d pt .r cwt. 3,994 trigs
Mauritius went at is to is 6d advance, mid and good
yellow, 37s 6d to 42s ; fine, 42s Gd to 43s ; and low,
36s 6d ; mid brown, 32s to 34s per cwt. Madras low
brown has been at 31 s.
FOREIGN.—A moderate business has been done at
steady rates.
Corssz.—British Plantation has been steady. For
Native Ceylon the demand has been more active. Good
ordinary, rather colory, 33s ; and low, 19s per cwt.
Plantation, good ordinary' and colory, 60s; mid 50s to
535; and fine grayish ord 38s to 41s 6,1 pot. cwt; Pea-
berry, 44s to 51s; and Triage, 27s to 33s per cwt. Costa
Rica, 3.388 bsg*. nearly all damaged, sold at 21s to
36* 64; and Porto Rico good and fine at 31s 6d to 34s
per cwt. RIO, fine ord, 29s 6d per cwt.
Sncits.—Pimento has been sold at 3lui to 4i-d per lb.
Mace at 2s 6d to 2* 7d, Nutmegs at 2s to 31 7d. Jamaica
Ginger at 2/ 5s to 111 per cwt.
RlCE.—Madras, 2,986 bags sold at 10s to 10s 6d for
good pinky white, being rather lower, and Bengal at
10s to 13s per cwt.
Rum.—There has been a fair demand. Proof Lee-
wards Is 6(1 to 15 GAd, and Jamaica plain and mid 30 to
36 Over 3s 7d to 3s 9d per gallon, East India proof is id
to 1$ lid per gallon.
COTTON.—The market has been rather duller.
SALTPETRE.-804 bags partly found buyer s at 30s to
321 6d fur 6} and 4i per cent. refraction.
TEA.—There has been a fair business done in this
article.

TALLOW.—P.Y. C. has been 475 6d to 47s 9d per cwt
on the spot.

CHANCERY.—(THIS DAY.)
The LORD CHANCELLOR sat to day at 11 O'clock.

LACY b INGLE—JUDGMENT.
The LORD CHANCELLOR gave judgment to-day
in this case, which came before his Lordship some
time since, upon an appeal from the decree of the
Vice-Chancellor Knight Bruce, declaring that the
plaintiff was not entitled to redeem a mortgage with-
out satisfying a lien claimed of the defendant. His
Lordship reversed the judgment of the Court below,
and declared the plaintiff entitled to the decree asked
by tit, bill for the redemption of the mortgage.

HODRIXSON V. BARROW _JUDGMENT.
His LORDSHIP also gave judgment in this case,
reversing the decision of the Court below.

Tax ATTORNEY-GENRRAL V. THE MERCHANT VEN-

TURRRS OF BRISTOL.
The LORD CHARCRLLOR also gave judgment in
this case, which came before the Court upon an ap-
peal from the decision of the Master of the Rolls,
directing the defendants to account, for the surplus
income of the estates of Colston's charity, in the city
of Bristol. The information was filed for the better
administration of the charity. Certain lands and
houses had been conveyed to the society for the main-
tenance and education of one hundred poor boys.
These lands were valued at the time of the convey-
ance, and the society was contented to accept the
supposed income for the performance of the trust.
During some years afterwards, as it was alleged, the
fund proved insufficient to sustain the charity, but
there was now a considerable surplus, which it
claimed to retain for its own use, and the object of
the information was to have that surplus applied to
the benefit of the charity. The Master of the Rolls
held that the charity was entitled to the disposition of
the surplus, although the society had originally ex-
pended some of their own monies for the support of
the boys, and although there had been a contract with
the donor, because he considered the society to be the
mere trustee of the funds. From this decision the
defendants appealed to this branch of the Court, and
the L T judgment this morning,
dismissing that appeal with costs.

COTHER V. THE MIDLAND RAILWAY COMPANY.
The Loan CHANCELLOR also gave judgment in
this case, which was an appeal- from the decision of
the Vice-Chancellor Wigram, continuing an injunc-
tion restraining the defendants from taking certain
land of the plaintiffs. His Lordship thought the
judgment of the Court below erroneous, being of
opinion that the motion for continuing the injunction
ought to have been dismissed with costs.
The Court then proceeded to hear lunatic petitions.

QUEEN'S BENCH.—(THIS DAY.)
(Sittings in Banco before the LORI) CHIEF-JUSTICE and
Justices PATTESO/i, COLERIDGE, and WIGHTMAN.)
CASE OF THE REV. DR. HAMPDEN.

TEI QUEEN V. THE ARCMRISIIO? OF CANTERBURY.
As soon as the Learned Judges had taken their
seats this morning,
Lord DENMAN said (addressing the Attorney-
General, who appeared in his place)—We think it
beet to mention, with respect to the case of the Queen
against the Archbishop of Canterbury, argued yester-
day, that we shall give the judgment of the Court on
Tuesday, in order that it may not interfere with the
regular business of the Court.
THE QUEEN V. CHARMS, SIR WILLIAM YOUNG, AND

OTHERS.-CONSPIRACY.

This was a prosecution against the defendants and
others, for conspiring to procure a cadetship by sale.
The defendants were found Guilty.
The facts of the case will no doubt be fresh in the
recollection of our readers.

The ATTORNEY. GENERAL prayed the judgment of
the Court upon the defendants.
Captain Charitie was the only defendant that ap-
peared on the floor of the court. Sir Wm. Young
was absent frons indisposition.
Mr. COOLBUIRN, on the part of Sir W. Youg,
moved fir a rule to show cause why a new trial
should not be had on the ground of misdirection on
the part of the Learned Judge who tried the case
(Lord Denman), and also on account of the verdicts
being against th• evidence adduced at the trial. It
Nan important that it should be borne in mind that
Captain Chariti• was found guilty on the first and
7th counts, and that Sir W. Young was only found
guilty on the 7th. A portion of the money paid
through Mrs. Stewart for the support of Mr. Wea-
therspoon found its way to the account kept by Cap-
tain Charitie at his bankers, but there was no evidence
to show that Sir W. Young had received any portion
of it. He was guilty of nothing more than falsehood
and artifice. He simply used his influence as a di-
rector to have Mr. Weatherspoon put down as one of
the candidates for a cadetship, in accordance with an
arrangement between the directors. He had no
power to sell the office, and hence he could not bar-
gain for the sale of an office which was not in his
gift.

- Lord DENMAN said, perhaps the Learned Counsel's
observation would apply in a case in which a person
bargained to sell an office which he had no power to
dispose of; but if he had, and that was a question in
this case, the case would be different.
Mr. Justice COLERIDGE said, if a person nominated
another to the next presentation to a living for gain,
it could not be said that the Dean and Chapter who
elected him were responsible. Surely the sale of a
mere voice in the election was equivalent to the sale
of the sole right of election.
Mr. Justice PATTESON said the statute on this point
spoke of the " sale of a cousint," and made such an
act punishable.
Mr. Cocxnunx said the Learned Judge should
have told the jury that a person could not sell an
office which was not in his appointment. A cadet
did not obtain his commission until he arrived in
India; before his arrival he was not in the service,
of the company, and that being the case no sale could
have taken place. Then it was not unlikely that
there was confusion in the minds of the jury on
account of the wording of the two counts, because the
ending could not fail to strike every one as unsatis-
factory and inconsistent. He submitted on these
grounds that the verdict ought not to stand.
Mr. CROWDER then moved, on behalf of Captain
Charitie, and said the argument of his Learned
Friend would apply to his client. He contended
that, under the 4th of Geo. 111., c. 126, sections 3
and 4, his client could not be found guilty, inasmuch
as it said that the sale of a " place or occupation"
should be deemed a misdemeanour, and a cadetship
could not in ordinary parlance be considered " a
place or occupation."
Lord DzstatAN thought the objection an important
one, especially in regard to the question whether this
was a conspiracy to sell the nomination to the office i
sr not. Looking at the construction of the statute t
i!ppeared to him that the charge against Captain
Uharitie was nothing more than using his influence
With a director of the East India Company, no
grounds for an appointment to a cadetship.
Lord DENMAX granted a rule upon all the objec-
tions ur—rcd,
both with respeet to the indictment and
misdirection. He did not think much stress could
be laid upon the inconsistency of the verdicts. The
question whether Mrs. Stewart's letters were ad-
missible against Captain Charitie depended upon the
nature of the other evidence.
lIIIABLIOTT V. TUE COMMISSIONIIRS OF WOODS AND
This was a
FORESTS.
case of compensation under the 9th and
10th of Victoria, for constructing Battersea Park to
assess the value of a small quantity of land belonging
to the plaintiff, required for that purpose. The plain-
tiff claimed about 10,0001., but the jury gave a ver-
dict for 7431.
Mr. M. CHAMBERS moved for a rule calling upon the
Commissioners of Woods and Forests, and also upon
the Sheriff of Surrey, to show cause why a prohibi-
tion should n.Jt issue directing the sheriff not to re-
cord the verdict and judgment of that jury. The
Learned Counsel said some confusion must have been
caused in the minds of the jury by a dispute that
existed with the corporation respecting the greater
portion of it. The Sheriff unfairly and unjustly
omitted to ask the jury, as pointed out in the statute,