The Sun.
London, England, 1851-08-26 00:00:00

CROATIA.

The Osservatore Triestino of the 12th gives an
account of an attack made on the 3d inst. upon the
village of Bescavalle, in Austrian Croatia, by a body
of about 30 brigands. The miscreants, after having,
by threats and acts of brutality, forced all the inhabi-
tants to remain within doors, assialed the house of the
curate, Don Decanich, and committed all kinds of
atrocities. After ransacking every corner of the
house, they at last decamped with about 2,600 florins
(6,500 f.) in cash, besides plate and other valuable
articles. The authorities of Bescanuor, on receiving
information of this daring outrage, immediately
dispatched three armed vessels after the brigands,
who had been seen getting on board a small vessel,
which they had concealed in a nook at a short dis-
tance from Bescanuova. The result of the chase was
still unknown when the mail left.

COURSE OF EXCH
Amateruam ......•• •• 11 17

N :LEIS DAY.)
Gibraltar.. •• .• •• •... •• --
Leghorn • • • • • • •• •• •• •• 30 52%
,40801% •• •• •• •• •• •• •• •• 25 423
Allan • • - • .• • • • • • • • • ••
Venice.. • • • • •• ••
Naples 41
Palermo, peroz • • • • •..• 1143
Metsina .• •• •• •• •• •• •• 123(
Losbon.• .• • • •• •• •• •• •• 53
,portu•• •• •• •• •• .• •• 63%
Rio Janeiro • • •
E.uenos Ayres
New York,6odays'sight
Philadelphia .... •• ••
rams OF BULLION, Pr* OS.
foreign Geld in bars.. £3 17 9
t'ortwgal Gold Coin 0 0 0
it:apish Doubloons .. 0 0 0
New Dollars •• •• 0 4 l 13(j
Ailver In bars 0 5 0%

Ditto, three Months .. 11 1814
Rotterdam 11 18%
Antwerp. ••••••• •• • • •• 25 30
Brusaels•••••.- 75 30
Mamburgh .... • • M.B. 13 8%
A1t0na........ • • • • • • ••
3 days'sight .... 25 123
Ditto, 3 months .... 25 30
Marseilles .......... 25 30
.
lirankfort on Maine.... 120
Vienna, ea'ec. do.. •• •• 12
Tnesto, ditto.... •• .. 12 2
Petersburgh, Rble.- 37
114drld • • ........ 50
Oa liz. ............. 50%
134,roeiosa ••• • • • ~. • •
5evi11e........•• ••

GLASGOW AND SOUTH-WESTERN RAlLWAY.—Traffic for
the week ending August 23, 1851 ;
Number of passengers 06,474),
goods and parcels, horses and
carriages __.
Corresponding week in last year
for Glasgow and Ayr, and
Glasgow, Dumfries, and Car-
lisle Railways
Glasgow, August 25.

£4,923 9 1

~ £3,505 4 11

MARKET INTELLIGENCE.
(From the London New Price Current, Aug. 26.)
Suai.a.—To-day importers of West lonia Sugar were
not imposed to sell at any further reduction, but the
market presented a dull aspect, both grocers and refiners
9perating:with relnct once, a decline would have taken place
if sales had been pressed. At auction 169 hhds Barbadoes
went off flatly at previous termi, fine yellow selling at
394 to 40s 6d, middling and good 35s 6d to 38s 6d, low
334 to 345; 90 hhds 16 tres Demerara crystaiiz3d went
at moderate terms—good to fine yellow at 39s to 44s 6d,
low to middling 35s to 38a 6,1, and brown 33a to 34s
per owl. The total purchases to-day were only 590
hhds, &a.
REFINED.—To-day operations in Refined Sugar were
upon
small Emile by home dealers, and there are sellers
of brown lumps at 45s to 45s 6JI per cwt. For Crushed
Sugar the export orders are still trifling, and easier terms
were acceded to.

Msuarrins.LTo-day there was no public sale of
Mauritius Sugar, and the small parcels sold privately
were rather under the rates of Friday.
EAST INDIA.--This afternoon the public sales of Ma-
dras Sugar went at rather lower i ates, but the parcels
offered amotritinz to 7,727 bags were nearly all disposed
of. low and middling grocery went at 33s to 35s 6d, good
to tine 36s to 395, soft brown from 26a to 28s, and yel-
low 28s tid to 323. Bengal sustained the termer value,
tie quantity 071 offer being small, but there ie less dis-
pcaittee to operate,
.At puohu sale 200 bags sold at 38$
61 to 434 for tn.:aline :e 1100 white 13euaree. The
market for other sort- of East India also hes a dull ap-
pearance.
kjRLIGIC—Today the market far Foreign Sugar nre-
st nt,d a doll aspect, there vims no public sale, and .pri.
v,-.t.,,1y operatio,ls w,,ro small for ali purPeA.%aalthough
awe! are re t, rs rather under the terms of Friday.
XonassEs.—The traneactions in West India are yet
'open e stLa4 scale, and prices are rather under those of
this day week. Only 200 puns have been sold ; Anti.
Rai nest It 14s to 15s, old 13s 6d; Nevis and St. arm.
cent's 12i 6d; and other sorts of low quality at Ils 6d
to 12s, Bengal and Mauritius are dull of sale at 11s to
Ila 6d; Porto Rico and Cubi 13s to 13e 6d. West India
ay is wanted, and the prices paid are from 36s to
.56' tar low tofine.
C"ntß.—To-day there was an improved demand for
C'Wee, be,h for none conailaiption ai,d t.iiipoing; on the
part of merchants there was also firmness, and the
raatitet. wa,a ~p,,,i •
supplied with ell sorts. The pub-
lic sales of 12TY
casks and 41 bags Plantation
iCeYn
,o went ' at fully former terms; good and
:fine qu,lities real'a• 60s to 645, mid 53 to 54e, low
mid 5 is io 525, 6e.„lte
ee4rd 48s Lo 503, good to fine ord
44s 6,1 totrir
seve.,l
purchme,„
we:go ls to 425. Ot LatiVd Ceylon
fetChOCI 39s to 39a 6d, madeSt a privately. and good ord
40s 6d fur fine ord, and 35s tosal9e,s ter dainag,d.
auction 106 bags realiztiel
COCOA.—To-day at puniic
40 pkgs Trinidad have
to good red, and at 39s to
told at 42s 6d to 493 for mid
large arrivals have taken
411.5Ef0.i.r ll'
—S' ' roi et eh etheisadays t we aedy
et
place here. and important pnblie ,ales will be unnounc( id
eh ,flit'. Tnere
has been a reluctancei on the part of
tows and country d2alers to operate n Convu,
and
export orders executed have been trifli,,
g; the market
the
is well supplied, ited merchants e A re d lvsed
to sell, low
to goad ord at 91d to 104 d, medium to rather
strong blackish leaf 101 d to I lid, and good to tine la to
Is 6d per lb, the superior sorts rerneining least in re-
quest. Oolong. wet, vita litJe att,ntion, and is rather
,eizesper, sales having been made et I Id to Is 4d, and
superior is 5d to Is Bd. In S incieloeg little has been
done, and there ere free sc11:1-:3 at 161'1 to 15 7d,
fine is 9d to 2s 4d per lb: the supply also fir exceeds
consumption. In elreea operations have been tr:fling,
and there is a large quan,ity in the market, wh,reas
.rates are raiber under those a wct k beck. lireuntr,
.Hyson mei clean Canton Gunpowder are stiilwated. and
:he pare is stud ze Liza' fail quotations. S,:ented and

Pekoe Teas ere offering upon rather lower terms, yet
few buyers are to be f urd.
RICE.— I Ills a. tern.,,,tl tn, Ie A:l5 filth desi,f, to ,pe-
rate in East India Rico, at public sale of 683 bags
Bengal, pricas declined 3d to 6d per owl.; good to fine
white selling at 93 6d to 108, and damaged at 7s to 9s
per cwt.
GINGEIL—There is no further reduction in prices to-
day, but the demand was not better. At public sale 27
barrels Jamaica sold at 3115 s to 81 8s for mid to fine.

SPIRITS.—In Demerara Rum several purchases have
again been made, and the rates paid were 2s to 2s 3d for
30 to 40 per cent over proof; on the part of merchants
there is also firmness. Leeward Island has been in fair
request at is 5d to is 6d proof, and the supply remains
moderate. Of East India several parcels have been
again sold at is 3id to is 4d proof. A good demand
prevails for Jamaica, both for home consumption and
shipping; previous rates are also well supported, espe-
cially for the better qualities—fine 34 to 38 per cent over
proof realized 3s 2d to 4s 4d, good mid to good 32 to 34
over 2s 9d to 3s, common and mid 30 to 33 over 2s 6d
to 28 Bd. The rates paid for Havannah are are is 2d
to Is 2*cl proof. Deliveries of Rum are better than of
late, but not equal to the preceding season; stock is
2,500 puns &c. less than it was at that time. Brandy
has been operated in with more freedom, bat at previous
term there are ready sellers, on account of a large stock.
Cognac, best brands of the vintage of 150 can be obtained
at 4s 4d to 4a 6d, 1849 ditto 4s 6d to 4s Bd, 1848 ditto
4s 10d to ss, older sorts 58 4d to 6s 6d, low and mid 2s
6d to 3a 6d, and Bordeaux 2s 2d to 2s 3d. Deliveries
for home consumption have been again to a fair extent.
British made Spirit is yet quoted at 9s 5d to 9s 6d, and
the demand is more active. The value of Gin for ex-
portation is 2s 6d. Of Geneva only limited parcels have
been sold at Is 7d to is 8d for common, and fine la 9d
to 2s.
INDIGO.—The improvement previously noticed of 2d
to 3d per lb for East India is well sustained, and several
purchases have been made by exporters and home dealers.
Madras and good Bengal are still most wanted, and of
the latter supply is less than for some time past. Manilla
is yet attracting little attention, and a small part only of
130 (silts found buyers at Is to is 10d for low and ord,
and 2s to 2s 6d for mid. In Spanish little has been done,
in consvciuknce of the public sales declared for Frida),
comprising 600 serons, yet previous t-rms are well sup-
ported—Sobres selling at 35 10d to 4s Bd, Curtes Is 6d
to 4s, and Flores 4s 9d to 5* per lb.
SALTPETRE.—Today there was a reluctance to ope-
rate in Saltpetre ; and at public sale 419 bags Calcutta
were only in part sold at 26* to 266 6d for mid quality
9 to 7* per cent these are rather lower terms ; whilst
200 bags Madras were taken in at 25s 6d to 263 for
god qutzli,y 8 to B,i, and not retracted 246 per Cwt.
COCHINEAL.—Previous terms are supported, and there
continues to. be a good home and export demand, but
supply remains plentiful, and better qualities are most in
request. At auction 300 bags were sold, Honduras
silvers, good to fine at 3s 4d to 3s 7d, low to mid 2s lld
to 3s 3d, and to good blacks 3s 6d to 3s 11d; Mexican
silvers are held for 3s to 3s 3d, black 3s 2d to 36 6d, and
Teo?riffe 33 3d to 4s. Some parcels are declared for
auction

METALEL—SpeIter can be obtained at a farther reduc-
tion; )et transactions have been upon a small scale at
141 to 141 5s per ton, and stock is increasing. Copper
sells more freely at fully previous terms. In Tin trans-
actions have been small; and East India is cheaper ;
Banca selling at 81s to 81s 6d ; and Straits at 803 to
80+ 6d per cwt ; but fur British rates remain at 84s to
85s per cwt tor Block and Bars. Orci,rs are now limized
fur Tin hates which have decline,i in value: I. C. Coke
selling at 24s 6d to 255, and Charcoal ditto 30s to 31s
per box. Steel is cheaper; Faggot selling at 141 lOs
to 151. For Lead there are now te w buyers. a desire is
evinced to sell British pig at 16115 s to 171, and sheet
181. In common Welch bar Iron a good deal has been
dune, the moderate rates of 41 7s 6d to 4/ lOs being ac
cepted. Oi Rails several parcels have been sold at
41 153 to 5/.

VALLow.—There is still a firm market for Russian on
the spot, and large transactions have taken place; fire
Itary yellow Candle realising 38s 61 to 395, and old 38s
to 38s 31 per cwt, at these rates some parties are no:
disposed to realise. For delivery a good demand pre-
vails, and prices range at 39s 3d to 39s 6d for the
last three months of the year; and at 39s 6d to 39s 91,
fur January, February, and March. Home melted me:
with ready purchasers, and realized 37s to 37s 6d net
cash. Other sorts are in limited supply, and wanted,
whilst stiffer rates are paid. At auction 260 cks Aus-
tralian were sold; Beef at 36s to 375; Sheep 35s 91 to
38s; and 320 pkgs SDuth American at 33s 6d to 37s per
cwt. For auction 800 casks, &c., are declared.
OILS.—Seal continues to be operated in with re-
luctance, and holders are disposed to realise—pale can
be obtained at 341 to 341 10s, and other sorts 311 to 351;
and stock is on the increase. Cod has been operated
in with reluctance, and is offered at 36/.. Southern
is held for 311 10s to 33/ 10a; but only limited
transactions have taken place, and there is an
increasing stock. For auction 210 tons Polar are
declared. A good demand exists for Sperm; holders
have confidence, and obtain for fine British 851 to 861;
American 84/ to 851. For sale 40 tons are declared.
Headmatter realised 911 to 93/, and is yet scarce. Rape
Seed Oil met with a slow sale; Foreign Refined is
offered at 34s 6d to 35s ; British 33s to 33s 6d,
brown 325; East India 31s to 31s Od per cwt, and sup-
ply is on the increase, Cocoa Nut is more in request,
with a limited quantity on offer, and quotations rule
firm; Cochin at 3ls to 33s 6d; and Ceylon 30a to 32,
6d. There is a good demand for Palm; and first realiz. d
27s to 233. With exporters or home dealers little desire is
evinced to operate in Linseed Oil, and there are sellers at
323 61 to 32' 9d on the spot; there is also an increasing
•opply. For future delivery sales h eve been small, and
31e 6d to 321 per cwt accepted. Olive met with ready
purchasers, and there is a firm market; sales of Galli-
poli made at 40/ to 41/; and other sorts at 33110 s to
391 lOs per tun; there is also an increasing consumption.

THE LONDON GAZETTE.
(THIS EVENING.)

At the Court at Osborne House, Isle of Wight, the
2501 day of August, 1851, present, the Queen's Most
Excellent Majesty in Council. It is this day ordered by
her Majesty in Council, that the Parliament, which
stands prorogued to Thursday the fourth day of Sep-
tember next, be further prorogued to Tuesday, the fourth
day of November next.
PALACE OF v‘ ES rMINSTER, LORD GREAT
CHAMBERLAIN'S OFFICE, ATIG. 26. _

Notice is hers by given, that in (lutist quence of the
resumption of the works at the Houseof Lords, the issue
of Tickets for viewing the House will be discontinued
after the 6th September, until the meeting of Parliament.
Vs, LLLOUGHBY DE }ARUM; G.C.
The following buildings have been duly registered
for solemnizing marriages therein:—
Bathe!, Maesyrwyn, Pembrokeshire.
Blanconnin, Llandissilio, Pembrokeshire.
Wesleyan Chapel,_Ashton-under Lyne, Lancashire.

WILL of the late EARL of BRIDGEWATER.
Lerd Crenw,trth judiment in 'h.-. Viro4-
Chalice Cuul 4,, t
connected with the will of the late Earl of Bridge-
water, who died in 1823. The story deserves a tran-
sitory notice from the evidence it affords of the keen
zest with which our great aristocratic houses pursue
the phantom of increased rank. One should have
supposed that men who by their birth are placed in
so high a social position as the late Earl of Bridge-
water could afford to look with complacency
and indifference at the struggle for rank and sta-
tion. Our dramatists and novel writers have drawn
many amusing sketches of vulgar parvenus, who in
the midst of the wealth they may have acquired
in vulgar ways, or by a mere freak of fortune,
think their felicity incomplete because they are
not provided with what sailors call " handles " to
their names. No doubt the spectacle of a
pompous and underbred man who is endea-
vouring through a thousand humiliations to work
his way into a class to which he does not belong
is ludicrous enough. Still, to a certain
degree, such an effort is excusable. It is natural that
he should deceive himself as to the happiness which
results from an unaccustomed salutation. The House
of Peers contemplated from behind a counter in Corn-
hill may appear as an enchanted region to the eye of
the observer. But it would seem well-nigh impossible
for those who have lived behind the scenes—nay, who
have been actually born in the green-room, to deceive
themselves materially as to the real splendour of theat-
rical properties, or the purity of the diamonds in Queen
Huncamunca's crown. Let us not be misunderstood.
When elevation to an upper class in the social scale,
or an increase of rank where rank has been once
achieved, follows as the natural consequence of
heroic actions, or of an eminent civil career, ridi-
cule and animadversion are out of the question.
Let those who have earned the laurel by their
great deeds wear it amidst the general applause. In
such cases the mere outward ma k of social eleva-
tion is the accident of a great man's position—it
was not the prospect of a peerage, or of a " step,"
which nerved his energies through forty years of
struggle within the walls of Parliament, or the sad
vicissitudes of a protracted campaign. Titles and
honours fall naturally on a great man's head ; he
does not propose them to himself as the ul iaiate
object of his ambition. " Victory or Westminster
Abbey," said England's noblest seaman, in en
age of naval paladins, on the eve of one of those
fearful contests which have immortalised his
name in his country's annals. Compare for a
moment such a spring of action as this with the mo
rives which operate upon the minds of paltry intri-
guers for rank—and more rank. We.have great men,
and we have make-believe great men. We have
heroes who win our battles by sea and land, who
extend their country's power and maintain its
security ; we have had statesmen who have success-
fully guided the fortunes of the empire through
many a dark day of trial and adversity. On the
other hand, we have had' gentlemen of England
" who have lived at home at ease," who have done
nothing but amass money and carry on intrigues,
and who have yet contrived to wriggle their names
into a higher position in the Red-book than those
who have borne the brunt of the day. The explana-
tion of such a phenomenon is no mystery to those
acquainted with the secret traditions of our great fa-
milies. Money, land, electioneering, and conse-
quently Parliamentary influence, are the engines by
which such notable results have been obtained.
It is not often, however, that we have the oppor-
tunity of following up the contortions of vulgar am-
bition. A steeple-chase for a dukedom over boggy
ground is not an every-day spectacle. The late Earl of
Bridgewater has been bountiful to his countrymen
is this respect. He made his will in 1823, and in
it he devised his estates to the late Viscount
Alford and his issue ; but upon one condition.
If Lord Alford should die without having ac-
quired the title of a Marquis or Earl of Bridge-
water, then the limitation of the estate to him-
self and his heirs was to cease, and the estate
was to pass to other parties named. So with regard
to the Earldom of Brownlow. The Earl of Bridge-
water—poor maul—in the year 1823 passed away to
regions where an English marquisate or dukedom is
a matter of small account. Lord Alford, however,
did not succeed to the estates until 1849, and in
January of the present year he too died, without having
accomplished the requisite juggle with the decora-
tions of his coronet. Then the case came before
Lord Cranworth. On the one hand the guardians
of the late Lord Alford's infant son prayed that
the will —or at least the certain portion of it affecting
the estates named—might be declared invalid. The
child's uncle, the Earl of Brownlow, asked that its va-
lidity might be affirmed. Passing over the mere legal
hair-splitting- "conditions subsequent" and "con-
ditions precedent," as interesting only to the more dill-
gent inquirersintocontingen t remainders and executory
devises, we find this broad position stated and denied
by the advocates on either aide. A limitation over, with
such a condition attached as in the will tf the late
Earl of Bridgewater, was void in equity, as contrary
to public policy. Lord Cran worth, however, decided
'his matter against the nephew, on the ground " that
it could not, in his opinion, be said that the will in-
duced the devisee to resort to corrupt means for the
purpose of obtaining the title ; on the contrary, such a
condition would tend rather to produce good than dis-
honourable conduct." Had the late Lord Alford lived
long enough to carry the necessary steps into effect it
would have been worth his while to unite with his heir
for the purpose of sacrificing three-fourths of the estates,
that they might hold secure possession of the re-
maining fraction. We are not interested in dis-
cussing the doctrines of equity as propounded by
Lord Cranwortb, but to a man of plain under-
standing it would scarcely appear possible to pro-
pose a greater inducement to rascality and corrup-
tion. The whole tranaction readsmore like a chapter
in the "Duo de St. Simon's Memoirs" than as a his-
tory occurmg in our own time. Bend your thoughts
day and night upon the noble art of money-getting,
said the Roman father to his son in Rome's degene
days,—

Rem;
possis, recd; si non, qu. comque modo rem."
Such is the language of the late Earl of Bridge-
water to his heirs :—" Get a step in the peerage
at any price. Here is boundless wealth—hoard
it up for all purposes save one, then lavish it with un-
sparing hand. Rank, rank, hunger and thirst, and
lust far rank. Let the strawberry leaves which en •
circle the ducal coronet never be absent from your
waking nor your sleeping thoughts. I indeed cannot
bope to wear them. Life is too short for the attainment
of so noble an end. But at least I have the satisfac-
tion of foreknowing, that when my bones are moulder-
tog in the grave, my descendants—my devisees, if
you will—will one day bear that glorious cap for
which my heart has yearned in vain " Com-
pare for a moment this will of the Earl of
Bridgewater with the testamentary dispositions of
Sir Robert Peel. The late Premier had played
at skittles with coronets, but would none of
them. Not only would ha not accept them for
himself, but, should his heir ever feel his veins
tingle with the expectation of a" step" in the peerage,
there is a warning finger ever raised from beyond
the grave, which bids him spurn from him so un-
wortby, so paltry a thought. And yet Sir Robert
had done and said things in bis time which would
have entitled him to place his family in the highest
position British subjects may attain. A comparison
between the will of the mere Lord and the great
Statesman is not devoid of interest or instruction—
Morning Paper.

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