The Sun.
London, England, 1846-02-18 00:00:00

IVIARKET NEWS.-(THIS DAY.)

CORN EXCHANGE-WEDNESDAY
The arriv.(ls of English Wheat since 3londay have been again oft
a very moderate scale. Although the show of samples of that
article here was swell the demand for all description was Inactive,
yet previous quotations were mostly supported. Free Foreign
Wheat, the holders of which was very firm, was a slow inquiry, at
last week's prices. In Corn under lock so little was doing that its
value was almost nominal. The Barley trade was extremely dull,
at Monday's decline in value, In Malt very litte was doing, yet,
prices ruled about stationary. Oats, Beans, Peas, and Flour were a
chill sale, but not cheaper,

ARITITALS.
Wheat. 1 Barley.
4,820 gra, 6.7,90 qrs.

F.nglish
........
Foreign ......

Oats Fleur.
3,530 qrs. 4,410 sts,
4,370
1,600

1,230

640 ,
Malt, 5,710 qrS.
WIEETECHAPEL.
The supplies of liot on slier 10-day were small, yet the demand
was somewhat Inactive, at our quotations. Beef from 2s Sd to 31; $1;
Button, 3s 6,1 to 4s Sd ; Veal, 48 24 it) 58 ; and Pork, al ma vi
2.1 per Ribs.

LLOYD'S SHIPPING.-(THIS DAY.)
LONDON, Feb. IB.—Wind W., light breeze, and fine.
DEAL, Feb. N.W. to W.N.W.—Arrived the Sering.-
patam, Feckett, Ceylon. Arrived from the river and sailed, lt,ten
Duncan, Cape of Good Mope.,
OFF DUNGENESS, Feb. It—Albers, New Orleans, for Bremen.
SOUTHAMPTON.—SAiIed Tweed steamer, Parsons, West Indies.
Gunicsn, Feb. 9.—Arrived the Bannah, Alexander, Newcastle,
with bowsprit sprung, having been in contact; Maid of Ahearn,
Maelion, London, for Marseilles, leaky, having shipped a sea.
ILFRACOMBE, Feb. 13.—Sailed Euphernia, Marshall, St. Kitt's,
OFF Sr. Ass's 'lnn, Feb. 14.—Eliza Grant, Buenos Ayres fir
Liverpool.
LIVERPOOL, Fn. 17.—Wind N.W., light.—Arrd. Celt, Allies.
Mary Wood, Bartlett, Valparaiso ; Oberon, Tacker, Africa ;
Waverley, Smith, Mobile; General Parkhill, 31`Kown, Charles/on Ilttrun, Clibbeson, Charleston; St. Patrick, Praal, New York;
Britannia, Coulthart, St. John's. New Brunswick; Martha. Bad-
deley, Azores. The Glendower, hence to Pert Matlock. which went
on shore there, has been towed round here.

DUBLIN, FEB. 16.—A bottle, containing a paper, on which lb•
following is written, was picked up on the Island of Dalkey yester-
day ;—" Brig Spey (or Issey) Jan. 4, 1846—Six feet water In the
hold. We expect to be soon all lost, unless some help arrives, We,
are about 37 deg. 46 sec. oil Sherries. The captain was lost two
days ago, and the mate is dead; he died of yellow fever about L
week ago. (Signed) JOHN IGO, seamen."
FEB. 16.—The Trent has been surveyed, and will discha.lgg,
Ysastourn, FEB. 16.—The Thomas and Mary, of Newcastle, wens
on shore this morning, on the Know], but got off without assistance,
11114 proceeded.

COURSE OF EXCIIA:
Anisterdatu •.c.r. 12 91,
Ditto, at sight • • 12 514
Rotterdam .... ••2 U. 12 10
Antwerp....
Hamburg-1a .... • • M.B. 13 1414
.Mona •.
l'ari‘, 3 days' sight .. . • 25 75
Ditto, 3 mouths.... 26
31arse111es • . ....... 26 10
Bourcleaux.... .•.• • 26 10
Frankfort on Maine.... 122%
Petersburgli, 3
•

GE.-(YESTERDAY.)
Gibraltar.. .. .. ..
-Leghorn ........
Gen0a.........;
Mi1an...... ...
Venice„ . .. .. ..
.
Naples ... .....
Palermo, per oz..
Lisbon ..... .....
Oporto... ......
Rio Janeiro ....
Bahia ...... .
Buenos Ayres ........
New York, 21 days' sight
Philadelphia .........
PRICES OF BULLION, RE 07.
Foreign Cold in bars .. £3 17 it
Portugal Gold Coin .• 3 17 5
New Doubloons . ..... 0 0 0
New Dollars .... •• • • 0 4 94;
Silver in bars ...... . • 0 4 11 ,', MaIIIIIM...1•1111111•11Mb

••• • • • 30 7r,
••• • • • 20 10

39%,
119%
52&
52i
21!,,

•••••••••
Vicrota, effee.flo.. • • • 10 10%
Trieste, ditto„ • • lO 103-k
Madrid ••.• " • • 36
Caiis .. • •
Barcelona .... „..

SUDDEN DEATII()F MRS. BRAIIADI.—We regret to
announce the demise of Mrs. Frances Brabant, the lady of the emi-
nent singer, which took place suddenly on the night of Sunday last,
at Mr. Braham's residence, No. 8, Gloucester-road, Victoria•lkte. -
Bayswater. Mr. Braham had for some days been absent from town
on a professional tour in the city and neighbourhood of Southamp-
ton, which had proved very successful. On Sunday morning Mrs.
Braham bent to church, and in the afternoon took a walk in liyate
Park. On her return home, site complained of a slight faintness and
sinking, far which she could not account. Having, however, dined
with her family, she seemed restored to perfect health. About
eight o'clock in the evening Mr. Brilliant returned from his tour in
high spirits, and, after passing an exceedingly cheerful and happy
evening, the faintly retired to rest about twelve o'clock. Scarcely.
however, had Mr. and Mrs. Bulk= been in bed about half an hour,
before Mr. Braham was alarmed by his wife saying, " John, I'm
dying," and her leaping out of bed, declaring she had broken some-
thing at her heart. Mr. Braham instantly alarmed the family, and
the servants were dispatched for medical aid, and with intelligence of
her illness to the deceased lady's brother, Dr. Bolton, and Lady
Waldegrave, her daughter ; but, before five minutes had elapsed.
Mrs. Brabant breathed her last in the arms of her eldest SOD, 2ta
r.
J, Hamilton:Braham, while smiling on his face. Mrs. Braham r__
W _
a remarkably fine and handsome woman, 48 years of age.
was of aal gentleman who first attended opened a vein, but it w.
thro7
avail, life being unite extinct. The melancholy event has
the family into the most poignant grief.
vips —A MEETING OF GENERAL EVANS'S FRIENDS.--A
meet-
ing of :Sir De Lacy Evans's friends took place .Yft whichejaepn,u4r. pe, at the
Temperance Rail, Broadway, Westminsteavtid,!
some severe hits to
M.P., presided. General Evans gave,
recent adoption of the views of
Sir
Robert feel, in
alluding
to
"iFit he believed It to be a complete
the Anti-Cern-law League. li
Roebseart red was the only man to curry
etY4ero,b
jheeethtaod
watt
debt iion to suppose that ,
Milted' as some agriculturists
not hare much objection. That showed
he would a , szeiri t 'min' °ch.
repeal, that
out the measure of total
.4tesald.idLiaits,tt
Mimic of the people may have attune
he was a very squeezable person,—(Laughter.) It was not unlikely
, the Premier to state his desire to surrender this
'they would find that he wOuld
hte,:iitcatu,ghter and eh e /
e rs. It, however,
last little
et tni. aixi.ttiliefeetnxi,i,iipuibceisikporots.t,eoher
they 100
- • • nder anything, Provided the great body of the peopi,,,
protection. --(Laughter
iaireaYtsect?'"tilLet he shoidd.—(ll ear, hear.) Everybody known that the
the fast thirty years he had veered round iu the most extraordluary
ma nner•—tLatlifhter.) Three vehement cheers were given for General
Housx, KEVT.--On .Monthy
Evans. and t he meeting separated.
A FIRE AT FROGBIORE
evening a tire broke out at the residence of Viscount Sidney I,
nalehurst, Kent. It commenced in the dies,sinroggfrnoo6me
!ilf°lu.ie';'Lnttedaar'sehlip. It is supposed to have originated trom some bet
teals escaping beneath the hearth, and communicating with the
rafters under the flooring, where it slumbered for some time, and
then burst into names.
m When discovered, the fire had nearly everything in the room, and would have consumed thedeetroy man-
ed
sion, but for the prompt and plentiful supply of water by his Lord-
Meg seryante, and the working people in tin neighbourhood.

LAW INTELLIGENCE.
COURT OF QUEEN'S BENCH, Feb. 17.
(Before Mr. Justice WIGHT MAN and a Special Jury.)
BREACH OF PROMISE OF MARRIAGE.
SMITH V. LORD FERRER&
(Continued from our Afternoon Edition of yesterday.)

The ATTORNEY-GENERAL then proceeded to address the jury for
the defendant. He commenced by calling upon the jury to give
their calmest consideration to this most important case, for it was
one which, In his professional experience, he had never seen equalled.
At present all appeared to be unintelligible and mysterious, and he
con*ssed that he had never heard of a case that appeared so
inextricaS!le. But he would pledge himself that, before he
sat dovrr., he would have satisfied the jury, beyond the
possibility of all doubt, that this was a most false and flagitious pro-
ceeding from beginning to end ; and though the result of the verdict
of the jury—if in favour of the defendant, as he had no doubt it would
be—would brand the plaintiff with disgrace and ignominy, yet his
duty would compel him to adopt a course which would have such a re-
sult, in order that his noble client might net appear to be what he
had been attempted to be represented. The Learned Gentle-
man then cited two instances of cases of a description some-
what similar to the one he should make out. One was the case
of a young woman who had left her employment, and In order to
account for her absence told a falsehood, which led on to others, and
at last got herself so involved that she swore she had been taken
away by two gipsies, whose lives had well nigh been forfeited,
had not her perjury been detected, and she was trans-
ported. The other case was somewhat similar. He would show
distinctly and clearly that this was a like case, and that it was from
beginning to end a base and infamous conspiracy, get up by the
plaintiff herself by a series of letters, for the purpose of involving his
client in this action. The Learned Gentleman then went over the
evidence with great care, and pointed out the absurdity of the notion
that Lord Ferrers ever could have written the letters attributed to him.
He called the particular attention of the jury to the evidence of the
plaintiff's mother, to wh•m he had shown several letters folded up,
which the witness said were in the handwriting of her daughter.
These letters he would now produce. Whon he had explained their
nature to the jury, and read their contents, he believed he need go
no further with the case. The jury had heard a great deal about
letters that the plaintiff had written to the defendant, and they had
been posted by different parties, who had been innocently involved
in this scheme; amongst others, a letter with a pocket-handkerchief,
and the jury would very naturally ask, could it be possible
that those letters had not reached their destination. Had
not Lord Ferrsrs received them ? He now came to the
great and important feature of this case, and the most dis-
tressing one. But before he did so, he would just call attention to
ontfor two passages contained in the letters alleged to have been
written by him to the plaintiff. The jury had heard the plaintiff 's
sister swear that Lord Ferrers was in her father's house on the 9th
of December, 1843 ; but he would prove beyond all doubt that it was
utterly impossible that could be true, for he left Chartley that morn-
ing after breakfast, and therefore, in order to have been at Austrey
and back to Chartley, he should have ridden 60 miles before he
started for Welch-pool. lie would prove beyond all doubt that the
whole of this transaction was a tissue of falsehood and forgery from
beginning to end. He then read extracts from the letters alleged to
have been addressed to the plaintiff' by the defendant, in which the
writer was represented as being at 31Ivart's and various ether places,
and of writing of persons whom the Attorney-General would prove
the defendant had never known or never met. Ha then commented
in strong and severe language on the conduct of the witness Holland,
and having referred to the alleged presents of silks, books, &c., he
said he would produce witnesses to falsify all that. He then con-
cluded by reading the following letters, all of which bore anonymous
signatures, and which he said he could Identify as the letters which
the plaintiff had caused to he posted and directed to the defendant.
When the Learned Counsel concluded his address, after having been
speaking nearly three hours, there were symptoms of applause, which
were suppressed.