The Sun.
London, England, 1851-01-01 00:00:00

MARKET NEWS.-(THIS I)tl`.Y•)

CORN EXCHANGE-IVEDNE;T)AY•
Notwi4istanding that the supply of EnglU Wheat
on offer in to-day's market was extremely s mull, the,
demand for all kinds ruled heavy in the ex tre me, a"
barely Monday's reduction in the quotations, and at
which a cl, aralice of the stands .i.ras not effect( ni. Up'
wards of 11,000 valters of foreign Wheat have come
fresh to hand this week, chiefly from the westvo,,ard. b°
little business was transacted in that article that late
rates were nominally unaltered. The show- of both
English and foreign Barley being on the incres.se, the
Barley trade was very dull, at barely stationary prices.
In Malt scarcely a transaction took place. A:1000
the supply of Oats was far from extensive, that grata
met a very dull inquiry, at barely last week's cur rencies.
Beans, Peas, Indian Corn, and Flour were lower to
purchase.

ARRIVALS THIS WEEK.

' Wheat. Barley. Malt. I Oats. I Flour.
Qrs. Qrs. Qrs. Qrs. Sackl•
870 3,610 780 2,760 1,000
--

English •• • • • .
Seoteh•
Irish •• • •
Foreign

7,580 -
2,81 Q 6,610

11,4;0 I 4,576 -
I,IITHITZCECAPEL.
Prime Beef and Mutton were in moderate request. It
full prices. In other kinds of Meat, the supply of which
was good, exceedingly little business was transacted'
Beef, from 23 4d to 35 4d ; Mutton, 2s 6d to 3s 10d
Veal, 3s to 3s 10d; Pork, 2s 10d to 4s per 81be, by the
carcase.

XIOROUGX NOP &EMMET.
So little business is doing in our market, that the
general quotations are almost nominal.

SURREY SESSIONS.—(THIS DAY')
(Before Mr. PUCKLE and a Bench of Magistrav es.)
Joseph Cook, aged 53, a pork-butcher's assistant, stir'
rendered to an indictment charging him with steolingll
hand of pork from the shop of William Baker, a peril'
butcher, at Croydon, on the 30th November last.
The evidence of the prosecutor and his shop-boy wall
clearly to establish the prisoner's guilt.
The jury found a verdict of Guilty, with a recour
mendation to mercy in consideration of the prisoner°
previous good character.
The BENCH sentenced him to fourteen days' solitary
confinement.

Elizabeth Bowery, a ruddy country girl, aged 18, with
a child in her arms, was convicted of stealing a 101. 135111
of England note from Thomas Gray, in whose service sb°
had been living at Kingston.
She was sentenced to be imprisoned and kept to hard
labour for six calendar months.

BOW-STREET.—(THIS DAY.)
A cab-driver named Joseph Darling, was charged
with stealing a watch.
Last night, Mr. Whiting, the landlord of the Snri
public-house in Clare market, invited a few friends NI
supper to see the old par out and the new year in, o'l
amongst the parties present was Mr. Hill, the person
whose watch was stolen. The year had scarcely dawned
A
before Mr. Whiting and Mr. Hill foolishly commence"
quarrelling over their cups, and while the former RSA
struggling to turn the latter into the street, the prisoner'
who happened to be at the Sun bar, coolly walked up t,t),
Mr. Hill and snatched the watch in question from ba:
waistcoat pocket. Mrs. Whiting, who was appreheneii!"
that her husband would receive some injury in Wcei
course of the scuffle, kept her eye upon the beligerents, 011,
saw the whole maueeavre of the prisoner, whom she at onv",,
acciked of the robbery. He denied it, but immediatcu
afterwards the watch was found at his feet, and as bir,t
Hill had distinctly seen him take it from Mr.
waistcoat pocket and place it in his own, a polieeroo'
was called in, and he was given into custody.
The prisoner protested that he did it all out of a lark'
He was drunk, and though he intended to assist JP
Whiting in putting his friend out, he had not the 1
mutest intention of appropriating his watch.
The police-constable who apprehended the prisoner;
said he knew him as the associate of thieves. He low
once before been charged of robbery, but the evidence
was insufficient to prove *the ease, although the stolen
property was found upon him, and he was discharged.
Mr. HENRY said the case must go before a jury. „
The prisoner was accordingly fully committed 10'
trial.

FRENCH EMIGRATION FROM THE
PORT OF LONDON.
It will probably be remembered that a short tiro°,
since a case of some public importance, as regards tii°
protection which our laws extend to foreigners, °
well as to natives, about to emigrate from this coon'
try, was reported as being brought before the Lao
Mayor, at the Mansion-house when the circumstances
appeared to be of a very peculiar and complicated nbr
rector, and the person inculpated (a Frenchman, 01
had chartered the ship Abyssinia) was, in default ea
payment of the sum claimed by the applicants 01)
awarded by his Lordship, committed to prison for tbre"„
months. Subsequently and at different times, other
parties mixed up with the affair were summoned
under the 8.2 d and 33d clauses of the Passengers Ael
to obtain justice for the complainants. Protessioo
gentlemen were employed on both sides, and tbB
result ultimately was that the brokers took the liabi'
lities of the principal upon themselves. He was then
discharged from confinement, and the ship in question.;
having been purchased by the brokers, was fitted an`'
equipped by them ; the passengers were embarked,
and she sailed from hence the beginning of this month
for her destination—California.
The passengers were 65 Frenchmen, who came
over here to proceed in the Abyssinia to St. Fran'
cisco, and who, in the course of their appeal to Eng:
lish justice, felt so strongly the support they had in°
with in the distress and trouble in which they were,
involved, that when they were extricated from tbeP,
embarrassment they presented a grateful addrel
to Lieutenant Lean, R.N., the able and most
efficient emigrant officer for the port of London, sir
the Charge d'Affaires of France also very have
comely acknowledged, in a letter to the Lord mayq
and Lieutenant Lean, the assistance they list:
met with. We append these letters to the gallant
emigration agent, as not only being interesting,
as a proof of the readiness of the French Governmee"
to acknowledge the efficient aid afforded on this nc:
casion. Moreover, it is another instance of how much
Lieutenant Lean 's judicious and faithful services are
estimated, both at home and abroad :
py
(Co.
" A MONSIEUR LE LIEUTENANT) LEAN, CHARGE DE 14'1.
DIRECTION DE L'EMIGRATION.
" Monsieur,—Les passagers de l'Abyssinia soussigte
au moment de quitter l'Angleterre et de faire voile poll'
la California se reunissent taus dans un profond seuti;
ment de reconnaissance pour vous. Its etaient arrives
Londres sous les plus facheux auspices, leur confiance
avail 6'6 tromp 6, leur depart semblait devoir etre ine6;
finiment ajourne, si non impossible, mais l'hospitali'e
Anglaise veillait sur eux.
" C'est a votre chaleureuso intervention, monsieur.
qu'ils doivent le sueees de leurs c'e uarches: partout, en
touto occasion, et a toute heure, vous avez e c pre' 'I
cifendre leurs intel (.ts; vous avez enfin si largemec‘
compris vos devoirs en leur favour quo dans lo fonctiolr
naire chargé de les protezer ils ont trouve le devoueraeaS
d'un Fore.
" Les passagers Francais seraient heureux, monsieur+
si vous Vollii, z bien consentir a etre leur interpret°
aupis du tie. honourable Lord Maire do la Cie de
Londres. Its n'oublierent jamais le ferme et Joysl
appui quo ils ont trouvce nape.; de co magistrat
i ninenr.
"En vous priant de remplir cotte mission honorable
ils croient avoir tronie la souls recompense digne de vous
et la preuve la plus certaine de leur inalterable gratitude'
" Ihnneur au pays qui a d'aussi nobles representantg*
" Londres, le 29 Novembre, 1850.
"Les delegues de 50 passagers de l'Abyssinia.
"ERNEST LEFORT. J. PELATON.
CLERC. BRIATTE, CH.
O."
(Copy.)
" Londres, to 18 Decembre, 1850.
" Monsieur,—Je n'ai pas laisse ignorer a mon goo'
vernement Is g 6 é ease assistance; que "sous area Wen
voulu priiter I quelques limigrans Francais qui se soot
tronl6l ici dernierement dans un grand embarras, ar
suite de la mauvaise foi d'un Sieur Urbain.
" J'ai la satisfaction de pouvoir vous annoncer que je
suis officiellement charge par le Ministre des Affairs°
Estraugires do la Republique de vous exprimer la re'
connaissance quo lui ont inspire° Yes proce les si nobleS
et si delicats en favour de nos compatriotes.
"Agreez, monsieur, l'assurance de ma consideratioo
tres distinguee.

_
" Le Charge d'Affaires de France,
"1). MARESCALCIIL
" Mona. le Lieutenant Lean, R.N."

DEATH OF CAPTAIN G. W. BINGHAM, R.A.—lil4,
telligence has been received in the garrison at Woolwich of
the death of Captain George William Bingham, of the Bth
company Bth battalion of the Royal Artillery, on the 10th
of October last,.at Ceylon, where he was acting in command,
of the Royal Artillery at that station since the death 01
Lieutenant-Colonel Evans, who left Woolwich in May lagt
to take the command, and only survived a short period after
his arrival. The late Captain Bingham had nearly completed
26 years' service, and was greatly esteemed by the corps to
which he belonged.

SALFORD PEEL TESTIMONIAL COMPETITION.—In
examining the twenty-four models for a statue, which have
been submitted, there does not appear much originality of
composition, or even a departure from the conventional
attitude which the few public statues in England commonly
display; yct seine of these designs in particular have been
very successful in impressing the idea of an educated states-
man in a habit characterising the manners of the time in
which he lived, together with a desire to please the ex-
pressed views of the business-like Manchester mind, and
which, if perpetuated in bronze or marble, might carry down
to an admiring posterity the cut of every variety of coat front
the "dress" to the "Nicolls' paletot" and the "railway
wrapper."—Builder.

Among other distinguished persons who visited the,
Panorama of the Ganges, on Monday evening, were the Earl
and Countess Grey and their sons.
_ _

The British Museum closed yesterday afternoon for
the purpose of cleansing, &c., and will be re-opened to the
public on Wednesday, the Bth instant.
STRAWBERRIES.—A few days since a dish of straw'
berries was gathered in the garden of Mr. Turner, at the
Blooming Myrtle, Fore Hamlet. They had been grown hl
the open air—such has been the mildness Qf thG aettso.—.2.
Ipswich Erpress.