The Sun.
London, England, 1851-12-17 00:00:00

3C6 Barley 11s 3d to 11s 10d
92 Ditto lls 10d to 12s Od OOs Od-46 do
0 Ditto
0 Bere Os Od to Os Od

N Od

156 Oats 9s 6d to 9s 10d
217 Ditto
114 Ditto los Od to 103 61
332 Pigs. 26s Od to 291 6cl 27s 6d per cwt
Quantity sold at the Highest Prices:-
18 barrels white wheat; 31 red ; 62 barley; 0 bare; 14 oats;
pig.
. . . .

Viantity of Grain and Number of Pigs sold last week i
Wheat, 1,400. Barley, 2,015. Oats, 7,101. Pigs, 1,555

PRICES OF BUTTER.
CANT. CU ARINCY.
First quality ... 77s First quality ......... 68s
Second quality
Third quality ..... 66s Third quality s7s
Fourth quality
Fifth quality
Sixth quality 485 Sixth quality
Return of Cattle sold for week ending Dec. 6.
Pigs, 1,639. Sheep, 207. Cows, 259.
CORK.—telour—First lls 6d to 12s 6d; extra 13i 6d;
seconds, 10s Od tolls Gd; households 8s to lOs Od; thirds, 75 toes
per cwt. Oatmeallo, 6d to 11s; Indian meal Gs Gd to 7s Od; wheat.
meal, Ps to 9s 6d per cwt. Indian corn 61 Os Od to 61159 Od per
,on. Bran 85 sto 87s 6d per ton. Hay—Farmers 238 to 30s; average
2Ss •' dealers 34s to 40, Od; average 00s per ton. Straw—Farmers
14s Oil to 24s Od; average 185; dealers 30, Od to 34, Od;
average 005 Od per ton. Bread—Wheaten loaf bid to 6d;
household loaf 4d to 5d per 41b. Fresh butter, 9.1 to
10d per lb. Eggs-5s 6d to 6s Od per hundred. Coals—
Newport 16s Od ; Lydney 17s ; Landoro 00s ; Culm,
13s Od per ton. 'fallow 00s Od to 40, per cwt.
Whisky, 25 o. p., Si 9d per imperial gallon. Moss
—Beef 4d to 6d; mutton 5d to 6d; veal 4d to
6d ; pork 4d to Oct; bacon Gd to 7d ; sausages bd per lb.
Hops 818 s to 910 s per cwt. Bangor slates 2/17s 6d to 310 s per
ton. Bark—Barbary 71 Os to 81 Os; Valonia 151 to 01, French
61 Os ; Spanish 01 per ton. Fleece Wool 14s to 15s per stone.
Hemp 291 to 341 per ton. Fish—Scotch herrings 19s to 00s; red
.4itto, 24s to 00s per barrel ; Newfoundland, 101 Os to 11/ per
ton. Timber—Memel, 70s per ton ; red pine, 315 s ; Tellow
ditto, 2/ 155 per ton; deals, 151 to 181 per 100. Hides—
Market 215 to 30s; salted 22, to 305 per cwt ; calf skins
3d to 3id per lb. Potatoes, white 7d to 11 d ; Minions,
00d to (X/d. Guano— Peruvian, 11110 s ; Ichaboe, Si to 911 s
per ton. Tar—Archangel, 19s per barrel.

LAW INTELLIGENCE.
COURT OF COMMON PLEAS, Dec. 16.
(Sittings at Nisi Prins, at Guildhall, before Lord
Chief Justice JERYIS and a Special Jury.)
SIAINIONDS V. SOYEIL AND STMONS.
Mr. Humfrey, Q C., and Mr. Lush were counsel
for the plaintiff, and Mr. Sergeant Wilkins and Mr.
Joseph Brown for the defendnnts.

The plaintiff in this action is a silversmith in
Southampton-row, Bloomsbury, and the defendants
were the proprietors of the well-known Symposium.
M. Soyor, along with his then partner, Mr. Feeny,
applied in the early part of the year to know on what
terms the defendant would let plate, linen, and other
articles included in the technical term of " butlery,"
for the use of the Symposium ; and after some delay
a written agreement was entered into on the sth of
May, by which the plaintiff undertook to furnish and
lend on hire for six months tables, seats, linen, and
butlery, and to provide persons to take charge of the
same, and clean and keep the various articles in
proper order, while Messrs. Soyer.and Feeny were
to find proper conveniences for washing the dishes
and plate, and for keeping them safe, and to provide
accommodation for the persons employed by the
plaintiff. Payment was to be made every week at
the rate of 203. for every 100 persons who dined
for 2s. 63., of 30s. for every 100 who dined for
55., of 50s. for every 100 who dined for 7s. 6d., and
of 60s. for every 100 who dined for 103. Gd., these
various amounts for dinner being exclusively of wine.
A power was contained in the agreement for either
party to determine the contract on giving a week's
notice. The plaintiff made many complaints by
letter and otherwise of the loss and ill-treatment of
his goods, and of the incivilities he experienced from
the servants about the establishment, and gave notice
several times that he would determine the contract
and remove his property. Equally numerous coun-
ter-complaints were made by M. Soyer of the insuf-
ficiency and badness of the things supplied, notwith-
standing the praises of the furniture which the
Learned Counsel for the plaintiff read from M. Soyer's
own book on the Symposium in the following terms :
—" Thus far have we traversed the interior of the
Symposium, dwelling, perhaps, somewhat too fondly
on the architectural and pictorial beauties of the
various apartments, while, at the same time, we
have been in some degree chary; in affording in-
formation as to the furniture and the uses for
which they are designed. The fact, however, is
that we should have considerable difficulty in
being eloquent on the subject, for the sole and most
glorious purpose to which the interior of the Sympo-
sium is turned is the consumption of eatables and
drinkables. The necessary furniture to enable peoples
to eat and drink comprises knives, forks, plates,
chairs, and tables, all highly useful articles, but not
very susceptible of picturesque description or elo-
quent imagery, so the reader must be content with
imagining, if he will take our word for it, that the
Symposium knives and forks are the handsomest
knives and forks procurable, that the Symposium
plates are the most splendid plates indeed, and the
Symposium chairs and tables are the very cream f
upholstery." On the Ist of July Mr. Teeny retired
from the partnership, and the present defendant" Sy-
mons, joined M. Soyer in the undertaking.
The
plaintiff had then given a notice to remove his
to his own evidence had a
goods, and according
meeting on the sth of the month with the de-
fendants, when he said he would no longer
continue to let the goods -
unless he was guaranteed
1001. a week. Symons answered such a thing
was preposterous, when
'
plaintiff added, he would
then remove the things.
A great deal more talk took
and some mention was made of selling the things