The Sun.
London, England, 1848-12-23 00:00:00

In the event of a decision in his favour, and an ex'
pression on the part of the Court that Mr. Duffy ought
to be admitted to bail, the Attorney• General will
pose his discharge, and the Lord-Lieutenant detain hull
in custody under the Habeas Corpus Suspension Act.
REMOVAL OF STATE PRISONERS.
On Wednesday night the following prisoners wer
brought from Belfast, and then conveyed to Kilmainhatn
gaol, where they were handed over to the care of Mr•
Allison, the governor :—Messrs. Patrick O'Higgins'
Stephen, J. Meany, and Joseph Brennan. It has not
been stated why the parties have been removed. Mr.
Rea, of Belfast, who is at present confined in Kilmaln-
ham, memorialised the Government to liberate him en
bail, but his application has been refused.
Mr. O'Higgins is charged with treason, and with
having an immense quanity of gun-stocks in the rough
on his premises. Meany was sub-editor of the Tribune,
and Brennan sub-editor of the Felon. Rea is an attor-
ney. He maintains that he never did anything of a trea-
sonous character—he was only an active member of a
Confederate Club.
STATE OF THE COUNTRY.
We have generally remarked that cattle lifting is a
common offence about this period of the year as sheep-
stealing is at Midsummer. The boys show their good
taste so lar. Beef at Christmas, and mutton when the
turnips are in season. The southern papers have a
variety of paragraphs like the following:—
" A few nights ago five cows were stolen from off the
lands of Kilgoblin, near Kilrush, the property of, the
Rev. Mr. Howard."

Five cowsi ttokn from one gentleman, and in one
night. We must presume the very active police of the
district will at least recover the hides and horns.

Mr. Lawford and Mr. Watson had an interview
with the Right Hon. H. Labouchere yesterday, st
the office of the Board of Trade.
Earl Granville left town yesterday for Alderham
Park, Bridgenorth.
M. COLBURN'S NEW PUBLICATIONS FOE DECNIP
BER.—Now ready at all the Libraries:-1. Lucille Bet
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()Id Judge; or, Lire in a Colony," 2 vols. 3. The Mid-
night Sun, a new Christmas book, by Fredrika Bremer,
translated by Mary Howitt, 1 vol., 10s. 6d. 4. Mr'
Burke's Anecdotes of the Aristocracy, 2 vols. 5. Chß-
teaubriand's Memoirs of His Own Times, part 2, price
only 2s. 6d. 6. The Castlereagh Letters and Dispatches,
2 vols. 7. Mrs. Gore's new novel, "The Diamond and
the Pearl," 3 vols. 8. Miss Strickland's Lives of the
Queens of England, complete in 12 vols., 105. 6d. each.
9. Adventures in Borneo, dedicated to his Excellency
Sir James Brooke, K.C.8., 1 vol., 78. 6d.
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a
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[ADVERTISEMENT.] A DREADFUL ABSCESS
UNDER THE CHIN CURED BY HOLLOWAY'S °MVO°
AND PlLLS.—Robert Davidson, shoemaker, of Atia:
struther, had suffered for more than fire years Will'
very dreadful abscess under his chin. During this ti°3-
„-
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by all druggists, and at Professor Holloway's establish'
ment, 244, Strand, London.

BIRTHS.
On the 17th inst., at Bandon, the lady of Captain kittens'
late of the 74th Highlanders, of a daughter.
On the 19th inst., at Hertford, Mrs. J. L. Forster, of a
daughter.
On the 20th inst., at Albion-villas, Queen's-road,
palatal
Mrs. H. P. Taylor, of a daughter.
On the 20th inst., at Tottenham, the wife of Thomas IC.
Fletcher, Esq., of a son.
On the 20th inst., at Ring William-street, City, the wife
of the Rev. G. Bryant, incumbent of Trinity Church, Sheer-
ness, of a son.
On the 20th inst., the wife of G. Hearn, Esq, of Shirt-
street, Curtain-road, and Cbigwell, Essex, of a daughter.
On the 21st inst., the wire of John:Surman, Esq., at Doric-
lodge, Bow-road, of a son.

MARIED.
On the 18th inst., at Bas,R
aleg Church, Monmouthshire,
William Styles, Esq., eldest son of Captain Styles, R.N., 151'
Bicester-house, Oxfordshire, to Rosamond Marian, eldest
daughter of Sir Charles and Lady Morgan, of Tredegar-
park and Ruperra Castle.
On the 20th inst., at St. James's, Norland, Notting-hill'
Donald M'Donald, Esq., of Margate and Fort William, to
Miss Emma Jane Brasier, of Margate.

DIED.
At Bournemouth, on the 20th inst., Thomas Wentworth
Beaumont, Esq., of Piccadilly-terrace, London, Bretton-park,
in the county of York, and Bywell-hall, in the county of
Northumberland.
On the 22d inst., at Tavistock-villas, Tavistock-so. are,
aged 38, Sarah Phillips, the wife of the Rev. W. Webster,
M. A., of King's College.
At Malta, on the sth inst., William H. Hotham, Esq.,
Lieutenant 44th Regiment. eldest son of the Hon. Captain
Hotham, RN., and the Lady Susan Hotbam.
At Tenby, on the 14th inst., George R'chards, Esq., of
Promenade, Cheltenham, late Fellow of King's College, Cam-
bridge. aged 64.
At Chichester. on the llth inst., Ciiptain E. M. Brown,
late of the 23d Regiment of Foot, aged 71.
On the 19th inst., at Ladbroke-villa, Notting-hill, aged 62,
Major. B. M'Mahon, of the lion. East India Company's Ser-
vice, Bombay Presidency.
On the 20th inst., at Brighton, Sussex, George Drysdale,
Esq., M.D., R.N., aged 67.
On the 21st inst., at Tavistock-square, Solomon Sheldon
Esq., aged 77.
On the 20th inst., at Tottenham, Betsy Rogers, the wife of
Charles Browne, Esq., late Under-Secretary to her Majesty's
Excise.

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Middleaex, Saturday, December 23, 1848.

RA.ILWAY STIARE MARKETS,
BRISTOL, DEC. 22.
STOCK EXCHANGE. —The sales are—Great Western, Quar-
ter-,
4 dis.—Ditto, New Shares, 2 13-16 dis.
LIVERPOOL, Dzo. 22.
STOCK EXCHANGE.— The sales • are—Birmingham and
Dudley, ',4% p.—Caledonian, Preference, 6s. 3d.
Great
Northern (A Shares), Deferred, 4%—Lancashire
and York-
shire (late Manchester and Birmingham), Fifths, Si. 183.91 dis.—Ditto, 16/. Preference, p.—London and North'
Western, 122—Ditte, Fifths, 4% p.—Ditto, New Quarters,
11/—Ditto, Quarters (C), 2 p.—Manchester, Sheffield, and
Lincolnshire, 101. Preference, 101,4—Midland Stock, So--
Ditto, New Halves, 9% dis..—South-Eastern and Dover,
23% —Ditto, No. 4, Thirds, 7% dis. —York, Newcastle, and
Berwick (G. N. E. Purchase), % dia.
MANCHESTER, DEC. 22.
STOCK ExcuAzom.—The sales are—Caledonian, Prefer-
ence, p.—West Riding Union, 514 dis.—Preston and
Wyre, 6 11-16—North Staffordshire, 514 dis.—Sheffield,
Qum tors, No. 1, 7114 dis.— Ditto, Eighths, 7 dis.—Sheffield
p.—
and Lincoln, 14 dis.—Sheffield, Preference, 10 9-16--
Manchester and Birmingham, Quarters (C), 2 3-16 P• 7
Leeds, Fifths, 33/ dis.—South-Eastern and Dover, No. 4,7% Grimsby, 20/. shares, 1114 dis.—East Anglian, 3%--Mid-
land,
501. Shares, 9 dis.—Old Sheffield, 45.
BIRMINGHAM, Die. 22.
STOCK EXCHANGE. The market continues to look UP,
and apparently greater confidence manifested by buyers.
The sales are— North Staffordshire, 5% dis.—Shrewsbury and
Birmingham (A), 7 dis.—Ditto (8),4 1-3 dis.
YORK, Disc. 21.
STOCK EXCHANGE.—The business transacted to-day was
as follows :—Great Northern, 8% c.—North British, Halves,
614—Ditto, Thirds, 414—York, Newcastle, and Berwiol,
(G. N. E. Purchase), 71. 3s. 9d.
GLASGOW, DEC. 21.
STOCK Excnarreac.—The sales are—Dundee and. Perth,
26—Glasgow, Dumfries, and Carlisle, s—Glasgow, Kilmar-
nock, and Ayr, 47%—Ditto, Halves, No. 1, s—Great
Northern, 8/. Is.—Scottish Central, 26.

IRELAND.
DUBLIN, THURIDAY MORNING.—There is little in'
tylligence of interest either in the Dublin or provincial
papers received this morning. The former are occupied
with local matters, including the new sanitary
measure,
and the Dublin Improvement Bill; and the latter with
the details of the suffering under the pressure of scarcity
of employameut and food.

MR. DUF'FY'S TRIAL.
There was no allusion made yesterday, in the Com-
mission Court, to the case of Mr. Duffy. The judg-
ment on the points raised on Tuesday will probably
not be given before to-morrow; of the result there is,
little doubt. The Freeman's Journal of this morning
says—" The prophecy we ventured upon yesterday
in the absence of our ordinary report, that the
bill against Mr. Duffy would be quashed, will, we be-
lieve, prove strictly true, and we should not be much sur-
prised if Mr. Duffy were to eat his Christmas dinner
with his family outside of Newgate. The means by
which this result will have been brought about Mr.
Justice Perrin compels us to shroud in darkness for the
present, but we bill probably be able to resume our
prophecies to morrow."
DUBLIN, FRlDAY.—Shortly after Judges Perrin and
Richards had taken their seats in the Commission Court
yesterday, counsel for the Crown and Mr. Duffy being
present, the senior judge observed that they had not bad
time to look into all the authorities cited by one side
and the other, and could not, therefore, pronounce their
opinion on the plea in abatement. As there were but
three more cases for trial, the Court hoped to be able to
give judgment tomorrow (Friday). The Court did
not wish to have the jury lucked up during Sunday and
Monday, therefore they thought the better course to let
the trial stand over until Tuesday morning. It Wee
clear that, no matter what their decision might be on
the plea in abatement, a trial could not be had before
Christmas, and of course the time at which it might be
commenced should depend upo❑ that decision.
The ATTORNEY-GENERAL acquiesced in the sugges-
tions of the Learned Judge. He would not expose the
jury to the inconvenience of being locked up on Sunda!
and Christmas-day.
After a few more rather colloquial observations be-
tween the bench and the bar, the subject dropped.
So sanguine are Mr. Duffy's legal advisers of getting
a favourable judgment on their crochetty plea, that they
had bailsruen ready to go security for his future appear
twee, should the Court have ordered his discharge Yes-
terday.