The Sun.
London, England, 1846-12-26 00:00:00

HULL, DE EMBXR 24.

STOCK EXCHANGE.-The sales are-North British, Quar-
ters, 725.-Ditto, Thirds, 58s. p.-Fleetwood, Presr-on, and
West "Riding, p.-Great Northern (London and York),
2%-Leeds and Thirsk, par c. pref.-Ditto, New, % dis.-
North Staffordshire, 414 p.
GLASGOW, DECEMBER 23.
STOCK EXCHANGE.-The sales are-Aberdeen, 251.-Air-
drie and Bathgate, 875.-Ayr and Galloway, 275. 6d.-Cale-
donian, New, 51s. 6d..-Caledonian and Dumbartonshire.. 435.
6d. cum int.-Direct Northern, 465.-Dundee and Arbroath,
451.-Dundee and Perth, 291,4-Ditto, New, 15/.-Dunblane,
Donne, and Callender, 275.-East of Fife, 508.-East Indian
Railway, 11s. 9d.-East Lothian Central, 445. 6d.-Edin-
burgh and Glasgow, Halves, 211.-Glasgow General Terminus,
121-Glasgow, Kilmarnock, and Ayr, 683/4-Ditto, Halves,
8%-Glasgow, Dumfries, and Carlisle, Oh-Glasgow and
Greenock, 171.-Ditto, Preference, 35s.-Glasgow, KiLmar-
nock, and Ardrossan,
955.-Glasgow, Airdrie. and Monk-
land Junction, 735.-Great North of Scotland, 575. 6d.-
Great Indian Peninsular, 65.-Kilmarnock and Ayr Direct,
565.-Madras, Nellore, and Arcot, 3s. 3d.-Manchester and
Southampton, 31s. 6d.-Midland Halves,
(scrip), 325.-Scottish
Halves, 6%_-North British,
Thirds, 798.-Ditto, New Quarters
Central, 213/4-Scottish Grand Junction, 165.-Stirlingshire
and Midland Junction, 50s. 6d.

EDlNBlikai I HIGH COURT OF
JUSTICIARY.
The Court met on Monday, the Judges present being
the Lord Justice Clerk, Lord Moncrieff, and Lord
Wood.
BREACH 01 TRUST BY A BANK OFTICER.--Ronald
Gordon, late secretary and accountant to the Exchange
Bank of Scotland, Edinburgh, was charged with eleven
acts of theft, or breach of trust ; libelled as having been
committed at different periods from 25th January to
19th June, 1846, and involving property amounting in
the aggregate to upwards of 3,0001.
The prisoner pleaded Not Guilty.
Mr. Neaves (with whom was also Mr. Fraser), in a
speech of considerable length, made a number of ob-
jections to the libel ; the charges contained' in it, he
contended, not being sufficiently specific, or according to
the usual form.

Mr. Davidson having replied on behalf of the Crown,
The Court, after consulting with the Lord Justice
General, sustained one of the objections which related
to a departure from the usual style in which the charge
should have been framed in the indictment. The Court
also suggested some alterations in the manner in w• hich
several of the charges were drawn up.
At the request of the Solicitor-General, the Court ad-
journed the case till Tuesday.
James Hawks aid James Buchanan, from Glaap;.,w,
were charged with falsehood, fraud, and wilful imposi-
tion ; as also perjury and subornation of p,-rjury.
Hawks was outlawed for not appearing ; Bu
chanan, having p.eaded guilty, was sentenced to seven
years' transportation.
Melville Anderson, Greenside-place, was charged! with
resetting sums of money and bills of exchange, 86c ~ to
the value of upwards of 800/., which were taken fp.= a
farmer in September. He was found Guilty, but: sen-
tence was delayed till to day.
The Court then adjourned.
JURY COURT.
HIGGINS AND SONS V._DUNLOP, WILSON, AND CIO.

This case, in which ➢lessrs. Vincent, Higgins, and
Sons, iron merchants in Liverpool, were pursuer s., and
Messrs. Dunlop, Wilson, and Co., iron mercht nts in
Glasgow, were Menders, came before the Lord ..irustice
General and a jury on Monday. It arose out of a a offer
made by the defenders to the pursuers of 2,000 to ns of
pig iron at 655. per ton; but as the pursuers did n o t an-
swer the letter containing the offer by return of pusl t, the
defenders held they were freed from it. The issue was
couched as follows: _

Whether, about the end of January, 1845, the pur-
suers purchased from the defenders 2,000 tons of pig
iron at the price of 655. per ton? and whether tb:e de•
fenders wrongfully failed to deliver the same, to the. loss,
damage, and injury of the pursuers?
Damages laid at 6,0001.
The pursuers produced six witnesses to prove th st ac-
cording to the practice in mercantile matters they .were
not bound to answer in course of post, while th .e de-
fenders brought forward an equal number to prove• that
the contrary was the practice, to render the transsation
obligatory.
The jury, after a short deliberation, returned a verdict
for the pursuers—damages, 1,5001.

A FIRE DISCOVERED BY MEANS OF I DC 41.--
The following fact occurred at the conflagratio n in
Drury-lane, last Saturday morning, It was the cu etom
of the foreman of Mr. Noblet on locking up the premises
at night, to leave his dog in the front shop of his we's ter,
and by its continual howling, the fire was found out,, and
the poor animal saved. On the breaking open of the
shutters it ran directly to the hou.e of its mast( in
Bermondsey, who, hearing the animal at his door,
feared that the premises of his employer had been
robbed; and he hastened to Drury-lane, where he Sound
his employer's stock and premises reduced to a hi sap of
ruins.
Pauperism is making frightful progress in Belgium
The number of poor persons inscribed on the registers
the charitable institutions is from 7 to 800,000, out of 4
millions of inhabitants, or nearly the fifth part of the
population. The proportion is still more consider able in
Flanders, where pauperism appears. to be passing !Into 1
chronic state, as in Ireland. This state of this cgs is
attributed to two causes, one accidental and the other
organic—the dearness of articlos of food, and the . deca-
dence of the linen manufacture, occasioned by the ,rev(-7-
' lution which has taken place in the method of fabrAcA, Wu.