The Sun.
London, England, 1856-01-30 00:00:00

CHINA MARKETS.

EXCITANGE AID BULLION.
CANTON Dec. 12.-0 London, 4 101 to 4.104 ; on
Bombay, 225 to 226 ; on Calcutta, 219 r. ; carolus dol-
lars, 27 per cen plemion .
HONGKONG, Dec 14.—0 a London, six months' sight,
4.9 k, sight 4.8 ; on rombay, 225 to 226, on
Calcutta,l2 .9r. per 100 idols. ; on SycLey and Melbourne,
30 days' .1;211t, 4.7 A ; Si-P, spore, par.
SHANGHAI, DEC 6.—On London, 6s. 9d. to 6.. 04d. ;
on India, 310 r. to 312 r. Drafts on Canton, 28i per
cent. rii con t.

MANILLA DEC 4 —On London, six months', 4s. nd.;
30 nays' ag. t, 4s. f 4 i, ; on Ca.ncon, 4 per cent. pre-
mium ; ou Amoy, 6 per cent. p;•mium.

OPIUM

CANTON, DEO. 13.—N.w Patna, $3874 ; New Be•
knee, $405 ; Malwa, $540 ;Turkey, $460.
SHANGHAI, Dec. 6.--,via wa, 420 dole to 422 dole ;
Patna, 323 (lois to 324 dole per onest.

FREIGHT AND TONNAGE.
CANTON.—TO Lo, don num.ua,l, 41. for tea,
SHANHAL—To London, 4/. for tea, and 51. for silk.
To New York, 14 dole per t n of 40 cubic feet.
MANILLA.—To Loudon, 31. 10s.; Aubtralia, 41. To
United States, nominal, 12 dols al round.

WEST INDIA AND PACIFIC MAILS.

SOUTHAMPTON, WEDNESDAY MORNING.
By the Royal mail stiorn-ship Atrato, Captain
Woolley, with the West Indian, Mexican, and
Pacific mails, we have dates from Havannah and
Jamaica, Jan. 10 ; Demerara and Trinidad, Jau.
9 ; Barbadoes, Jan, 11; and St. Thomas's
16.

The Atrato brings 62 passengers, 699,895 dollars
in specie, 4,6001. in jewkllery and precious atones,
and the usual cargo.
In consequence of the boisterous state of the
weather no mails or specie were received on board
from Tampico. At Vera Cruz the mails were put
on board by a shore boat, but no specie. All the
.West India Islands were reported healthy, except
Porto Rico, at which place cholera was raging
fearfully.

From- Jamaica there is nothing of importance.
Little alteration had taken place in commercial
affairs. The market was inundated with bread, i,ut
there was no flour. Corn and coffee were wanted.
Sugar sold at 20s. to 255, according to quality.
Exchange for bills on LoAou at 60 days were
quoted a 1 per cent. premium._

- At Dt-Inerara the Legs'ature have been actively
engaged in improving the laws fur the better go-
vernment of the colony. The average yield of
sugar has been found to be.somewhat less during
the past year than iii 1854, and trade throughout
the year was dull.

Tie damage done to the sea defences Las been
partialiy repaired.

The exports during the fortnight were—sugar,
1,295 hhds., 86 ti,rces, 826 barrels, 290 bags ;
ruin, 605 puncheons, 46 blids., 13 barrels ; mo-
lasses, 137 puncheons, 100 casks ; shrub, 3 casks ;
cocoanuts, 11,800 ; coffee, 11 barrel.
Barbado, a was more than usually healthy, and
the sugar business was very favourable.
The new Governor had not arrived, but was ex-
pected. He was at St. Thomas's, waiting the next
windward bound steam-ship.
Mexican news still reports that Republic to be
in the most tin ettled state, and that it appeared to
be cl,,sely boviering upon a dissolution.
A correspondei2t said that ere long the new Re-
public, composed of the Cohahuila, Nuevo Leon,
and Tamaulipas, would shortly declare itself and
become separated from the Mexican territory.
News from Port au Prince to the 10th of January
states that the Emperor F..ustin passed the frontier
of the Republic of St. Domingo on the 20th of De-
cember with three army corps—one in the north
from the Cape, one in the south, and one from Port
au Prince, commanded by himself. He was, how-
ever, repulsed everywhere, sustained heavy lees,
and was obliged to make a precipitate flight.
Eighty cases of ammunition were captured by the
Dominicans.

After his defeat the Emperor left for the Cape,
where a revolution was threatening to upset his
empire. _

Several Generals, for retreating, were tried by
court-martial, and condemned to death.
Business was at a complete standstill.

BEVAN v. TIIE EARL OF OXFORD.

In the Court of Chancery, yesterday, the Lord Chan-
cellor delivered the judgment of the Court in the case of
Bevan v. the Earl of Oxford. The question was whether
by virtue of the 27th of Dirtbeth, or by virtue of the let
and 2d of her present Majesty, ..certain judgment ere
ditors of the late Lord Oxford had a right to claim];
un',er a voluntary settlement made by the Earl of
Oxford in the year 1738. It aPpeared that before
the passing of let and 2d of Victoria a settlement
was made under which Lady Oxford was made tenant
for life, and the question was whether the judgment
creditors of Lord Oxford had a prior claim against the
settlement of Lady Oxford and her trt*tees. The
statute of Elizabeth deeared that it any person ahoul
make any conveyance of land, .after such conveyance
should sell, demise, or charge the same lands for money or
otber good consideration' then the former conveyance
should be deemed to be absolutely null and void.
The present judgment creditors contended that
they bad a title superior to that of those who
claimed under the voluntary settlement ; he con-
fessed, however,
that he had come to the conclusion
that they had no
'such right, It did not seem to
him that tbose credit'.ors were purchasers within the
meaning of the act of tht, 27th of Elizabeth, for it could
not be said that they had plucha-ed any portions of the
lands by virtue of their jtedgmeets. In the case of
Brace v. Duchess of Marlborough, the question amen
whether a mere judgment creditor could convert his
and it was held that it could
ju gment into a
netbedone.- This principle
was net er queationed ex-
cept in the two old, cases referred to by Mr. Waiker,
which were very loosely re-putted, and which were in-
consistent with what had been cotesidered the state of the
law in subsequent cases. The irresistible conclusion to
which the Court had arrived, from a consideration of
those cases in which the law had been clearly laid dewro
was, that judiment creditors had no right as purchasers
within the meaning of the statute. With regard to
the further question as to how the statute of Victoria
operated, it was provided by that act that all judgment
creditors, although they had a valid - lieu
.befere the
passing of that statute, had to keep theirjudgments re-
gistered from time to titne,ns otherteise_they weed not
have a priority of charge. He did not think that any
question arose under this statute, as Mr. Taylor, one e
the judgment creditors, had a valid lieu under the old
law, and was not assisted by the act of Victoria. With
regard to the 13th of Elisabeth, there were no facts
before the Court to make a case within that statute.
The appeal must therefore be dismissed, and the costs
must be borne by the fund ; and Lord Justice Turner,
in. a lengthy judgment, concurred with the Lord Chan.
cellor.

RPTMIN OP Tim Counr TO LONDON.:-Her Majesty,
his Royal Highness Prince Albert, and the Royal chil."
dron and silite, arrived at Packiagbam ream this f9rq.
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