The Sun.
London, England, 1851-05-27 00:00:00

AMENT.

CHELMSFORD, MAY 23.—P& te-day were as follow:
Wheat, white, old 41s to 468; new 40s to 461; red,
35s to 41s; new, 35s to 40;; barley, 26s to 30s ; chw
22s to 30s ; grinding 19s to 25s ; oats 16s to 22s ; malt 53.
to 55s ; chevalier 54. to 56s ; peas, partridge, new 27s to
29s ; old, —s to —1; white, new, 26. to 281; old, —s to —1;
dun, new, 26s to 28s ; beans, tick, new 24s to 26s ; old, 24s
to 275; harrow ticks, new 25s to 275; old 00s to 00s; ma-
zagan, new 23, to 25s ; old 00s to 00. per qr.
COLCHESTER, MAY 24.—Wheat, white 42s to 461 ; red 36s
to 42s ; barley 22s to 28s ; beans, mazagan W.s to 241; middle
and small 24s to 28s ; peas 26s to 28. per qr.
KIRKALDY, MAY 24.—The following are the quotations
for grain

- Wheat. Barley.
First 448 Od 278 6d
Second 40s Od 243 6d
Third 368 Od 23s Od
Oatmeal, per bag of 2801138
HADDINOTON, MAY 23.—Tim
grain at our market to-day :
Wheat. I

Beans. Pc
-s Od —3
—8
Od —a
—8
Od —s
30s Od to 32s Od.
are the prices of

Oats.
22s 6d
20s 6d
18, 6d
imperial,
i followin
1 Barley. Oats. Bs. First ... ... 43s Oct 1 31s Oct 24s Od 338
Second ... ... 39s 10d 27s lld 228 2d 31s
Third ... .. 33s Od 21s Oct ISs 61 29,
Total quantity of Wheat in market 469 qrs., 469 sold
Do. Barley
.do. 114 qrs., 114 sold
Do. Oats do. 234 qrs., 224 sold
Do. Beans do. 92 qrs., 92 sold
GLASGOW, MAY 21.—Provisions—Cheese, 33s to 42s Od
per cwt ; retail, 5d to 6d per lb. Skim milk, 20s Od to Os per
cwt. Country fresh butter, ICd to Us Od per lb. Irish pow.
dered, in lumps, 9id to 10d; country powdered, wholesale, 9d
to Od. Country eggs, 8d per dozen ; carried hen ditto, 48 6d
per 120, or 6d per dozen. Hens, 2a 6d per pair ; Ducks,
2s 6d.
FALKIRK' MAY 22.—The supply of grain in this day's
market was 247 bolls; wheat at 18s 6d to 20s Od per boll ;
barley, lBs 6d to 198 3d ; oats, 15s 6d to 16s 3d; beans, 155 9d
to 17s 6d per boll ; oatmeal, Os to Os per load.
PERTH, MAY 23.—Wheat, old, Vs Od to Os Od; ditto,
new, 378 to 425; barley, new, 22s ud to 25, (Id; oats, ltis to
21s ; peas and beans, 24s Ori to 28. per quarter. Oatmeal,
per sack, 00s to 28s.
KELso, MAT 23.--Wheat, old, ON to 00s ; ditto, new, 261
to 31s Od ; barley, new, 1213 Od to 18s 6d • ditto old, Os to Os;
potato oats, Uos to 00s ; ditto new, 149 6d to 16s Od ; common
oats 00s Od to 00, Od ; ditto new, 14s to 158 Od ; peas, 208 Od
to 21s Od ; beans, 2 )s to 21s per boll of six imperial bushels.
HAWICK, MAY 22.—Wheat, new, 29, Od to 30s; barley,
new, 18s to 2Us 6d ; ditto eld, 16s Od to 17s Od ; potato oats,
12s 6d to 14s ; common oats, 13, 6d to 14s 6d ; peas, 19s Od
to 22s Od; beans, 19s Od to 21s Od per boll of six imperial
bushels.
BERWICK, MAY 22.—Wheat, 37s 3id ; barley, 24511}d
oats, 193 4id ; rye, 23s 4id ; beans, 25s 9,kel ; peas, 00s Od
average per imperial quarter.
STIRLING, MAY 23.—Wheat, foreign, 20s to 24e; ditto,
home, Os to Os; ditto ditto new, I9s 6d to 20s 6d; barley, par
boll of 6 bushels, Os Od to Os Od ; ditto new, 18. Od to I9s Od.
Oats, common, 00s Od to 00s; ditto new, 13s Od to 148 6d;
ditto, Flemish, Od to Os Od; ditto ditto new, ON Od; malt,
distillers, 31s 6d to 331; ditto brewers, 32s ed to 34s ; beans
per boll, ON Od to 00s Od; ditto new, 14s sd to 17s 6d; pease 13.
lid to 14s 6d; flour, new per sack, 31s to g3s Od; ditto common
ditto, 18s 6d to 20s Od; oatmeal, per load, 00s Od to ois Od ;
ditto new 31s 6d to '32s Od ; ditto per peck of 71bs, 9d to 10d;
fresh butter, per lb, 9d to 10d ; eggs, per dozen, 6d to 7d ;
hay, Kerse, per ton, 77s 6d to Os; ditto, Dr yfield, 75s to 00s,

COAL MARKET.—YEsTenney.
Buddle's W. Hartley.. 14s Odj Bell
Carr's Hartley ..... ... 14s Od !Belmont ... 14a Od
Chester Main l2s 9d : Braddyll
Davison's West Hartley 14s Od lEi etton
Howard's W. H. Neth. 14s Od (Haswell .... 168 6d
Holywell
. 14s Od Keepier Grange
North Percy Hartley.. 138 6d'Richmund .. .. .....
New Tanfield
Tanfield Moor ......... 12s 6d.Lumley l3s 6d
Tanfield Moor Butes... 12s 3d ' Pensher
Townley
West ifartley - 15s 6d
West Wylam
Wall's End, &C. 'Kenos.. .........
Acorn Close
Brown ... l2s 3dlWest Hartlepool

Bowden •• •-••• ••• ••• 41. 13s 6d

Whitworth .

..... 14s 63

Elm Park l3s Odl
Hebburn
Radon
Lawson l3s Od
Northumberland l3s Oo
Eden Main
Lambton Primrose

Backhouse l3s 9d
Cownden Tees
Derwentwaterllartley 14s 0 I
Hartley
Nixon's Merthyr and
Cardiff

Ships at market, 214

Sold, 68 .....Unsold, 146,

SHIP NEWS.

GRAVESEND, MAY 26.—Wind N.N.W., light breeze
and cloudy.

Arrived—Laurentine, from Fee:imp—Elena and Elisa-
beth Maclure, from Denmark—Helsingar, from Elsinore
—Newton, from Memel—Lion and Leonore, from Grave-
lines—Elvira, from the Mauritius—Soho, from Antwerp
—Tiger, from Hamburgh—City of Paris, from Boulogne
—Rhine, from Havre—Fyenoord, from Rotterdam--
Royal William, from Havannah.
Sailed—Poblano, for Bil boa—Germania, for tbeßaltio.
VESSELS SPOKEN WITIL
Larren ship, from Liverpool for Valparaiso, on the 7th
of March, in lat. 52 S.. long. 56 W.
Ny mph schooner, from Liverpool, April 17.
Carthagenian, from Swansea for Charlottetown, Prince
Edward's Island, April 25.
Atalanta barque, from Havannah for Cowes, May 15, in
lat. 45 N., long. 27 W.
Simon Hardy, from Queenstown, May 15, in lat. 48 N.,
long. 13 W.
Skylark, from New York, May 12, in lat. 46 N., long,
26 W.

SEABORNE MAILS.
[N Aignifles that the mails are sent front the General Post-024:4 by the night—and SI by the morning--4lspatch.]

When made up in From what
PLACES. General Post-office port dio• When
London. patched. due.
America (by Brit. pkt.) N May 30 .. Liverpool • • June 2
America (by U.S. pkt.) N May 27 .. • • !Liverpool .
America (by US. pkt.)lll June 4 .• Southampt. May 29
Africa ( West coast)" N 14th of the month Plymouth June 3
Alexandria* ........ N 19th tt. 30th of mo.,Dover .. May 28
Belgium .. •• N Daily ••• . .. Dover • • Daily
Brazil .. • .. 3119th of the month Southampt. Jane 12
Buenos Ayres 31 9th of the month Southampt. June 12
California(viaChagres)M 17th of month Southampt. June 5
Cape of Good Hope N 14th of month Plymouth.. June 3
Constantinople* Nl7 th 17th 27th of mo,Dover .. May 30
Central America .. 3112 d & 17th of mon. Southampt. June 5
Channel Isles Mon., wed.. &FrLSoutharnpt. Ta. Th.S a
Chili„„ •• •• M;' of the month iSouthampt. June 5
France .. M &N.Twice daily .. ,Dover • • Twice
ily
Greece* .. .• N; 7th 17th 27th ef mo Dover .. May 30da
Hamburgb N,Tuesday & Friday London .. Thee. Sat.
Holland .. • .. MI Wednes. & Satur. Louden .. Mom. Thri
Honduras Nil 7th of the month Southampt. June 20
Ireland .. Ike& N, Twice daily .. 'Holyhead Twicedaily
India(via Southamp.) 3120th of the month Southampt. June 23
India (via Marseilles) N, 7th& 24th ofmonth Dover • • June 2
Mediterranean (via j
Southampton) .. M 20th of the month gouthampt. June 23
Mediterranean (via I
Marseilles) N 7th&24th ofmonth Dover • • June 2
Mexico .. 3f 2d of the month.. SonthaMp Jane 5
t.
Madeira •• • • „. M 9th of the month Southampt. Jane 12
Malta* N 7tb,17th,19th,27th
/ ft 39th of month
"over Jisy
2$
Naples* .. •• • • N,sth 15th 25th ofmo Dover .. ,June 2
Papal States* ,y 15th 15th 25th (gum Dover ,June 2 Peninsular .. .. 3f , 7th 17th 27th of mo Southampt.
Tuscany* .. • . Ntth 15th 25th ofmo Dover • • Jane 2
West Indies .. 3ftllth of the month Southampt. June 20
West Indies (except
Havanna & Nassau) Mild of the month .. Southampt. June 5
si The mails to those c ountries thus marked (*) are conveyed b 7
French packet via Marseilles.
CALIFIVINLA..—MaiIs to and from California, via the United Itate
are now dospatohed anti due by every American wicket_

via the United Wits
.11 packet.

Two CHILDREN MURDERED.--itSaturday 0 night
information was forwarded to the Metropolitan Commis-
sioners of Police, that on the morning of the 20th inst. a
male child was found dead in a ditch, in a place called the
Moors, in the parish of Dallington, a short distance from
Westbridge, Northampton. From the examination made by
the surgeons who have been called in, there appears no
doubt but that the child had been strangled. The police
have obtained possession of a piece of old plaid, in which the
body was wrapped, which it is expected may probably lead
to the apprehension of the guilty parties. About the same
time that the above discovery was made the body of a girl
was found nailed up in a small deal box, aad wrapped in a
piece of fine cambric, in a field near the village of St. Bees,
Rettenden. There were two extensive wounds on the left
side of the head, which appeared to have been inflicted with
some blunt instrument. Mr. Lamb, the coroner, has com-
menced an inquest on the body, but to allow time for the
police to search after the guilty party, the inquiry has been
adjourned to the 211th inst.

LEGACY DUTY.—A return has been published re.
lative to the sums upon which legacy duty has been paid.
' The amount of capital on which legacy duty was paid in
Great Britain in 1850 was 45,815,694/. 10s. 11d., and in the
year preceding it was 45,282,070/. 9s. 4d. The total amount
of capital on which legacy duty has been paid since the year
1797 is 1,661,109,3281.85. 3d. The amount of legacy duty
paid in Ireland in 1850 was 55,6331. 7s. 6d., being on capital
amounting to 2,404,4911. 7s. 3d. In the preceding year the
legacy duty amounted to 71,8461. 83., the capital being
2,47r4,948/. 19s. 9d. The amount of duty paid ou probates
and letters'of administration in Ireland in 1849 and 18.0
amounted respectively to 73,3921. 10s. and 68,9181. 105. In
Great Britain the legacy ddties produced in 1850,1,190,76(1/.
2s. 3d., and the probates. administrations, &c., 957,2601.
155.6 d. ; in 1819 these two sources of revenue had been re-
spectively 1,144,665/. Os. 9d. and 887,181/. 14s. 6d. The
amsoinuenet
Ir7e9ce7ivi:d4l6.7lBl7eg3a6crt diu7tay.
4i nd.,G_aureadt
Irelandtotal
&c., 37,197,156/. 143. 2d.
THE LADIES' MAN.—It may be of importance to
for probates,
the ladies to know that N. Y. Willis, who edits the Rome
Journal for the especial benefit of the •' upper ten thousand"
of New York city, i
.8 of opinion that there is no more harm
in improving the ccmplezion by assisting nature in the dis-
tribution of white and red, than there is in making up a fas-
cinatiug figure which at sight kap cm,: the back lg. Wilk.
What I livaiblt t

HOUSE OF LORDS, May 26.
The LORD CHANCELLOR took hi•i seat upon the Woo:
sack at Five o'clock.

PETITIONS.
Lord HATHERTON presented a petition praying
for an alteration in the law regulating the payment of
wages.
Lord CAMPBELL presented a petition from several
most respectable solicitors of Liverpool in favour of the
Registration of Assurances Bill, and expressing their ap-
proval of a central metropolitan regulation ; also a peti-
tion from Denbigh in favour of extending an equitable
jurisdiction of the County Courts.
The Duke of RUTLA.ND presented several petitions
against Papal aggression.
The Earl of HARROWBY presented petitions from
the Leicestershire Trade Society, and from other similar
societies, praying for a measure to facilitate the arrest
of absconding debtors.
The Earl of EGLINTON presented several peti-
tions from Scotland aeeinst Papal aggression.
Lord WHARNCLIFFE presented a petition from
bankers, merchants, and other's in the West Riding of
Yorkshire, in favour of the Bill for amending the law
against absconding debtors.
Earl FITZ WILLIAM presented a petition in favour
of the giving to county courts Equitable jurisdiction; also
785 several petitions against Papal aggression.
e5O CRIMINAL LAW AMENDMENT BILLS.
Lord CAMPBELL moved the recommittal of these
620 Bills. Sundry amendments bad been introduced into
them with the advice of Lord Lyndhurst, and he moved
- their recommittal, in order that they might be reprinted
with amendments.
The Duke of RICHMOND approved of the Bills, and
paid a high compliment to the Noble and Learned Lord
the Chief Justice; he hoped that ho would succeed in
reforming effectually the criminal law.
The Bill was then recommitted.
PLTNJAUB PRIZE MONEY.
The Earl of ELLENBOROUGH then rose to move,
according to notice, that there be laid before the House
a copy of a letter from the directors of the East India
Company to the Governor-General of India in
Council, directing the payment of a donation, equal to
Od six months full batta, to the Commander-in-Chief.
pi{ the generals, and the other officers, non-commissioned
Od officers, and privates, who served during the last
campaign in the Punjaub; also, account showing the
total sum paid as so directed to the army, and the por-
tion thereof paid to officers and corps stationed on the
left bank of the Sutlej, on the 17th of September, 1848;
Od also, showing the sum so paid to the Commander-in-
-6d Chief, and to each general and other officer, non-com-
missioned officer, and private, according to their respective
ranks; also accounts showing the total sum realised by
the sale of the state jewels and other property taken pos-
session of by Brigadier Campbell, C. 8,, and her Ma-
jesty's 53d Regiment, under the direction of the resi-
dent at Lahore on the 17th September, 1848, and by
the sale of other state property and booty which came
into the possession of her Majesty's forces, and of the
troops of the East India Company, during the
last campaign in the Punjaub ; also account
showing the estimated value of such of the state jewels
and other property and booty as may remain unsold, and
the present disposition thereof; and also account showing
the manner in which the sums realized by the sale of such
state jewels and other property and booty have been ap
plied, and the authority under which such application has
been made; also to move, that an humble address be pre-
sented to her Majesty, praying that her Majesty will be
graciously pleased to give directions that there be laid be-
fore this House any papers elucidating the steps which
her Majesty may have been advised to take for the pur
pose of ascertaining the rights of the Crown over the
state jewels and other property taken possession of at
Lahore on the 17th of September, 1843, and over all other
state property, and the bo:'ty which came into the pos•
session of her Majesty's forces and the troops of the East
India Company during the late campaign in the Punjaub.
The Noble Earl contended that the East India Company
had been in this instance dealing with property with
which they had no right to deal, inasmuch as the whole o'
the property with which the company proposed to deal
belonged to the Crown. He contended that the batty
was a grant of the East India Company, and this.
the booty money belonged to the Crown ; and
that, therefore, the East India Company had
no right to deal with it. The opinions of the
law officers of the Crown was, like the oracles of
old, most dubious, but he contended that injustice had
been done to the Indian armies, and he trusted that the
representatives of that army would have an opportu-
nity of being heard before the Judicial Committee of
Privy Council; and to their decision he would bow.
Lord BitOUGFITON observed, that the first part of
the Noble Earl's speech related to that part of this
transaction of which the Noble Earl and himself bad
particular cognizance. In reply to the speech which
the Noble Earl had made on the 3d of July, 1849, he
had thought it his duty to lose no time in inquiring into
!the objections which had been made to the course taken
by the East India Company, and in performing that
'which seemed to him to be dictated by duty. The
'Noble Earl then appeared to him to say, that if the
troops engaged in the campaign in the Punjaub were
given six months' batta they would have no grounds of
complaint. He now appeared to regret having said so,
and to think that though they had received that amount
of batta full justice had not been done them. He (Lord
Broughton) regretted very much that the Noble Earl
bad brought this discussion forward a second time; for,
with his high talents and great knowledge of India, he
must know the perilous consequences of what ho was
doing—he must know that throwing out these doubts as
to the justice done to the army was placing the Go-
vernor-General as well as the Commander-in-Chief in
India in a position of great peril.—(" Hear, hear," from
a Noble Lord on the back Ministerial bench.) He denied
in tote that any injustice had resulted to the army of India
from the course which had been pursued towards it.
The sum of money granted to the army in batta was at
least as great as that which it would have received sup-
posing the booty of war had been granted to it; and
since the year 1849, when the papers relative to the war
in the Punjaub were laid upon the table, no compliint had
reached the ears of the authorities in India, either at
home or abroad, from soldier or from civilian, save the
Noble Lord opposite. Knowing, as he did, how dear the
interests of India and those of the soldiers of India were
to the Noble Earl. he could not understand what earthly
reason had induced him to bring this motion forward.
The Noble Earl had told them that he wanted the rights
of the Crown to be preserved, both as to the past and
the future operations of war. Now, it seemed to him
(Lord Broughton) that if her Majesty had not considered
the rights of the Crown to have been duly protected in
the treaty with the Maharaja she would not have
granted a higher honour in the peerage to the
high fanctionary who sanctioned it. The Noble
Earl had not only accused, in his speech of
that night, the authors of that arrangement and
those who approved it, but had also declared
that they had not done justice to the officers and sol-
diers who achieved these great victories. After re-
butting those observations with great force, the Noble
Baron proceeded to comment on the remark of the
Noble Earl, that the army, if it had got its share of the
booty, would have got a larger sum of money than it
received in batta. Now, he did not know on what
authority the Noble Earl put forth that assertion ;
but this he did know, that the Commander-in-Chief,
Lord Gough, had made no complaint of that kind, nor
any other officer. He must correct a mistake into
which the Nubia Earl had fallen, when he said that
the siege of Moutons lied no reference to the campaige
of Lahore. He must remind the Noble Earl that
Moultan and its citadel belonged to the State of La
hore.—(Lord ELLENBoROLIGH I know that."]
Why, teen, had the Noble Earl endeavoured to draw a
distinction between the army in Lahore and that before
Moulton ?
The Earl of ELLENBOROUGH observed, that all
he meant to say was that the property in Moulton did
not belong to the Maharaja as Sultan of Lahore.
Lord BROUGHTON observed that, instead of troub-
ling their Lordships with any quotation of authorities,
he would now proceed to inform them what was the
question which ho had submitted to the law officers of
the Crown, and to three other legal gentlemen of high
standing in the profession. That question referred en-
tirely to the arrangement made at Lahore. He might as
well inform them, in the first instance, that the case
drawn out for the Queen's Advocate, the Attorney-
General and the Solieitor-General, was drawn out in
such a manner as to contain the whole of the Noble Earl's
speech two years ago, as also a private letter which the
Noble Earl had addressed to him on the subject. It was
perfectly true that the other three gentlemen did not see
the case with the private letter in it. Bet ho happened
to know that that letter was read to them by one of the
law officers of the Crown. The question asked at the
conclusion of the case was—

"Whether the arrangement of the 29th of March,
1349, concluded by Lord Dalhousie with Maharaja
Duleep Singh, and ratified by the home authorities, could
be impugned on any legal grounds? " and the reply was,
" We are of opinion that tee arrangement of March 29,
1849, concluded and ratified as stated in this case, cannot
bo impugned,

" April 30, 1851."

" JOHN DODS )11.
" A. E. COCKBURN.
" W. P. WOOD.
" FREDERICK. TIIEOIGER•
" FITZROY KELLY.
cc LOFTUS WIGRAM."

The Earl of ELLENBOROUGH, interrupting. ob
served that he did not like to refer to what had passed
between the Noble Baron and himself in private. But
be understood the Noble Baron to say that his letter and
his speech were originally in the case; but that, in con-
sequence of the interference of the solicitor to the Court
of Directors, hie letter and his speech had been subse-
quently withdrawn from it.
Lord BROUGHTON (as far as we could bear him is
the gallery) replied that the Noble Earl must have mis-
understood him, and repeated his former statement.
Though these documents were not in the case submitted
to the threo other Learned Counsel, those gentlemen had
had before them all the information suctuitted to the law
offic.ra et' the Crown.

The Earl of ELLENBORMIGH impel skit, as the
Nuble Baron had produced the whole of tao fiat case, ho
would have no objection to produce the whole of the 80-
cond case also.

Lord BROUGHTON then proceeded to comment on
the main point of the speech made by the Noble Earl
that t vPning. The Noble Lord had said that the Go-
vernor-General in Council had no right to appropriate
this booty to the Treasury of India, as it was the pro-
perty of the Crown. Now, ho should like to know
what difference existed between this case and two others,
to which he would briefly refer. The first was the
Noble Earl's own transaction with respect to Sindia
and Gwalior, in which his practice did not seem to have
been essentially different from that of Lord Dalhousie,
The Earl of ELLENBOROUGH—There was no pro,
Petty is *0 gase OzgePt the elm taken in the Add.