The Sun.
London, England, 1848-11-10 00:00:00

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NotAitloqatiding the ,upply of Beats on sale in to—
day's market was but moderate aid the weather very
favourable for slaughtering, the Beef trade, owing to the
large supplies of tnevt ►n the deed markets, was in a very
►'uil state, at barely, but at nothing quotable beneath,
Monday's prices. At the close of business a clearance
was not rif cted. With Sheep, esp. cially English breeds,
we were scantily supplied, nevertheless the demand for
that description of stock was heavy, at prices barwly
equal to those obtained on last market day. Very few
Calves were on offer, hence the Veal trade was firm,
and the primest qualities were a shade higher. Pigs
were in steady request at extreme currencies, Mulch
Cows moved offslowly at from 141 to 171 each, including
their small calf. • •

7%

404,
29
22

% P

Per Sibs. to sink the offal.

s. d. to e. d
Interior Beasts-- 2 6 2 8
second quality ..• 210 3 2
Prime large Oxen.. 3 4 3 8
Pritne Scots ...• ••3 10 4 0
Large coarse Calves 3 4 3 8
Primesinall ditto .. 310 4 4
Attain% Calves ..18 0 24 0
Inferior Sheep .. . 3 2 3 6

Beasts.
1,057

Beasts.
281

83%

s. d. to
Second quality ditto 3 8 4 2
Coarse-weolled ditto 4 4 4 8
Southdown Nether 4 10 8
i)itte out of the wool • 0 0 0
Large Hogs •.••• • 3 10 4 4
Small Porkers .... 4 6 4 8
Quarter old rigs ..17 I 22 0
Lambs .....• ••• • 0 • 0 0

15%
7
3%
37

88

TOTAL SUPPLY AT MARKET.
S 5 Imp . Cal 17v40 3 . I
P 2110..
FOREIGN SUPPLY.
1511167. I Ca7lves. I Pig..

24

6%

NEVITGILTII AND LEADENXIALL.
These markets were heavily supplied with each kind
of meat, the demand for which was in a very sluggish
state, on the fidlowilig terms:—

At per stone by the Carcase.
s. d. to s. d. e. d. to s. d.
Lieel,lnierior...... 2 2 2 4 Mutton, inferior .. 3 2 3 4
- middling .. •• 2 6 210 middling.. 3 6 3
primelarge .. 3 0 3 2 prime .. ••3 10 4
- prime small 3 4 3 6 Pork, large.... ••• • 3 6 4 4
Veal.. ••.. • • I 3 4 4 2 - small •••• •• •• 4 6 4 8
BOROUGH HOP MAILZET.
The supplies of most kinds of Hops on offer were
seasonably extensive. For the best prods of the pre-
:ant yew's growth the demand is steady, at prices quite
equal to thole paid last week. The middling and infe-
rior kinds are a slow inquiry, at barely I.,te rates.
Yearling and old Hops are almost nominal in value.
Duty 2C5,0001. to 210,0001. New Hops:—Sussex pockets,
44s to 60s ; Weald of Kent, ditto, 48s to 70s; Mid
and East Kent ditto, 563 to 108 s; and Farnhams, 108 s
to 112 s per cwt.

COLONIAL,
SUGAR.—The market for British Plantation has not
improved this week, and the business done has been cir-
cumscribed. Yellow Barbadoes by auction sold at 40s
to 41s, and low to mid at 35s to 36s 6d.

REFlNED.—S:andard Lumps have been at 48s 63 to
49 per cwt. and not much doing.
EAST INDlA.—Madras 6,857 bags were offered by
auction, but were _nearly all taken in at 29s 6d to 31s
6d, the rest selling 6d to is lower; mid damp yellow 31s,
low 30s; fine brown 295, and very fine ord 25s per
cwt. Bengal has been dull, and very little has
been done privately, although lower rates would
be accepted. Mauritius, 8,720 bags, receded 6d per cwt
for the lower kinds—low yellow 33s 6d to 345, mid 35s
to 365, fine 38s to 40s, good and fine brown 32s 6d to
33s 6d, and low to fine grey 34s to 37s 6d per cwt.
FOREIGN.—White Ilavannah Sugar has been sold at
16s to 20s for damaged, and 495 bags yellow were
chiefly taken in at 37s to 38s for sound mid and
washed. Other sorts have been dull of sale and generally
cheaper.

COFFEE.—The market for all kinds has been very
quiet, and the supply of most descriptions is large.
British Plantation has been held as firmly as could be
expected. Plantation Ceylon has been sold, but not
freely, at 60s for fine, 528 to 55s for goal, 39s to 43s for
low mid, and 338 to 38s for fine fine ord. Native good
ord pale 27s to 278 6d, and ord 26s to 26s 6d per cwt.
Madras, 434 bags, sold at 45s to 52s for fine fine ord, and
at 35s to 41s for fine ord.

COTTON.—The market has been rather good. At
public sale 1,700 bales Tinevelly, and 1,050 bales Surat
were offered. The former were nearly all taken in at
aid to 3id per lb., and Surat partly sold at 2iel per lb.;
damaged 210 to 2id per lb.
Rica.—The demand has been good; Bengal has
realised Ils 6d to 12s per cwt., Madras 9s to 9s 6d
per cwt for good pinky white, being fuller prices.
Rust.—This article has been neglected, and has been
again cheaper. Proof East India is id to Is 3id, and
Leewards is 3id to is 4id, Jamaica 32 per cent. over
3s per gallon.

SAGO.—For a few parcels sold, 19s 6d to 20s have
bee❑ paid.

SPlCES.—Jamaica Ginger has been taken in at 655.
Nutmegs have been sold at is Id to 3s 9d; Mace has
been at is to 2s sd; and Cloves have realised is 5d to
2a 6d per lb. In Pimento, Cassia Lignea, and Pepper
very little has been done.
TALLOW.—P.Y.C. has been steady at 45s to 45s 3d
per cwt on the spot. The business transacted has been
limited, and the quotations are not buoyant, although
some parties rather anticipate an improvement ere long.
FRIIIT.—Tbo demand continues. Black Spanish Nuts
have advanced 5s per barrel, which rise has operated in
favour of all other descriptions. The cold weather,
combined with a limited supply, has tended to improve
the price of Chesnuts. 4eo baskets of Hamburgh
Grapes, sold by Keeling and Hunt at public sale, went
at a reduced figure, the quality being indifferent. The
first entire cargo of Almesid Grapes is to hand, and
opened at a high figure. Lisbon continues depressed in
price, the quality not having been of a keeping character.
Lemons are scarce, arrivals from Messina being daily
expected, as well as a cargo of Oranges from Fayal,
which has been dispatched to this market.

CHANCERY.—(THIS DAY.)
The Lord Chancellor sat in the Old Hall, Lincoln's
Inn, to-day, and after disposing of the unopposed lunatic
petitions in his paper,: and the petition and motion in
Eubery v. Morris, proceeded to hear appeals, but no case
calling for a special report came before his Lordship
during the morning.

ROLLS' COURT.—(THIS DAY.)
aNIGEIT r. MAR.TORIBANKS.—JUDGMENT.
The MASTER of the ROLLS gave judgment at great
length to-day in this important case, which was before
him in the early part of the present year for seven or
eight days. The suit was instituted by the plaintiff.
Joseph Knight, who is the assignee of General Lautour,
a bankrupt, and by General Lautour, against Stewart
Marjoribanks and others, with a view to set aside two
deeds, of the 4th of August, 1829, and the 12th of May,
1836, on the ground that they had been executed by
General Lautour under c ircumstances which, in equity,
amount to fraud, and under pressure, without a full
knowledge, on his part, of his rights, and for an inade-
quate consideration. It appeared that previous to No-
vember, 1825, Captain B. B. Thomas had got a promise
of a grant from General Darling, Governor of New
South Wales, of 20,000 acres of land in that country,
and 20,000 acres in Van Diemen's Land, and being,
acquainted with Colonel, now Major-General Peter
A. Latour, and the other parties, he agreed to
enter into partnership with them for the pur-
pose of working the land. William Kershaw, one of
these parties, was then a partner in the firm of Mar-
joribanks and Co., King's Arms-yard, Coleman-street,
of which the other two partners were Stewart Marjori-
banks and his son A. John Marjoribanks; and it was
agreed that the firm of Marjoribanks and Co. should be
the commercial agents of the new trading company. In
September, 1825, application was made for the grant,
and on the Ist of November, 1825, a deed of partnership
was prepared and executed between Captain Thomas,
General Lautour, Colonel Edward Gibbs, Robert Keate
(a surgeon), W. Kenhaw, and Lit utenant-Colonel James
D. B. Elphiastone, whereby, after reciting that the Go-
vernor-General of New South Wales had agreed to
grant to Thomas 20,000 acres of land in that country,
and 20,000 in Van Diemen's Land, it was agreed that
the parties should enter into partnership (to continue
for a term of twenty-one years) for establishing a repo-
sitory for breeding horses, sheep, and other cattle, and
for selling them there, and for buying and exporting
English horses, cows, &c., and selling them in those
countries, and for the cultivation of wool, hemp, flax,
&c., and the firm was to be called "The New South
Wales and Van Diemen's Land Ltablishment." The
capital was to be 24,000/., to be raised in shares of
1,0001. each, of which four shares were to belong to
each partner, on each of which he was to pay up im-
mediately SR instalment of 400/., to set the company
afloat, except that Thomas, who had no money,
was nut to be called upon to pay his subscription.
It was also agreed that the capital was to be employed
in the business ; and, if necessary-, six new shares of
I,OOW. each might be added, to be held by not more than
two persons approved of by the firm, unless the partners
themselves thought fit to take them ; and all the pay-
ments were to be made out of the stock, and further
instalments to be paid up when called on ; that Thomas
should go out and take possession of the lands on behalf
of the partners (who were to hold them as tenants in
common in fee), and to take the whole management of
the business, under the direction of the company in Lon-
don, and that Thomas should be allowed 5001. a year by
way of salary for his trouble, and 500/. for an outfit ;
the repayment of which, however, together with his pro-
portion of the capital, or the instalments thereof duo
from him from time to time, should be made out of his
share of the profits, which was to be set apart for that
purpose. The accounts were to be taken by Thomas
every year, with rests ; and that there should be an ap-
praisement or valuation of the stock, &e. ; and that on
the 21st of June in every year, an account, with rests,
should be taken by the company at home, and that
the account, when signed by alt the parties, should
be binding. The deed contained a power of expel-
ling, after notice duly served, any of the co-partners
who should apply to his own use 100/. or more of the
money of the firm, should engage in private speculations
or should become insolvent; and there was a power also
of expelling Thomas, if he contravened thet provisions of
the deed. Captain Thomas, in pursuance of this arrange-
ment, set out for Van Di( men's Land, and arrived there
in the month of May or June, 1E26; and an order of lo-
cation was obtained by him, by virtue of which ho was
put in possession of 10,000 acres of land (to which was
given the name of " The Cressy Estate"), at a distance of
thirty miles from Launceston, and about one hundred
miles from Hobart Town. On his leaving this country,
Majoribunks and Co., as the agents of the company (who
usually assembled at their places of business to advise) had
purchased and shipped large quantities of stock and agri-
cultural implements, and also some cattle, which Thomas
took with him. After his arrival there he purchased for
the company a farm called " Duncan's Farm," containing
1,530 acres, for 9,0001, in respect of which he drew
bills on the company. This land was reclaimed,
whereas the company's grant was not. The business
went on, and various sums of money were required
(amounting to far more than the 1,6001. contributed),
as well to meet the bills drawn by Thomas as to pay
for articles purchased and sent out, so that it
was all outlay and no return at first, and in conse-
quence of Una disappointment began to be felt at home.
At last it appeared that Captain Thomas had forgotten
his duty, and instead of devoting himself to his bull-