The Sun.
London, England, 1851-01-11 00:00:00

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.

It is reported that the Duke cf Richmond's Compass
died a short time since, and that several other horses in
the stable have been amiss.

SALES.—We hear that Mr. Robert Ellis, of York, has
sold his three year old filly by Lanercost out of Modesty,
by Malek, engaged in the Lancashire Oaks, at Liverpool,
and other stakes, to Mr. Winteringham, and she has
joined his string at Richmond. Mr. W. Hudson, of
Brigham, near I)riffield, has sold his yearling colt by
Melbourne, out of Lady Elizabeth, by Sleight-of-hand,
granddam Sir Tatton Sykes's dam, engaged in the Don-
caster St. Leger, 1853, to Mr. Farrance; the price is
said to be 300 guineas. Mr. C. Pybus, of Catterick, has
sold his brown colt by Lord of the Manor out of Lady
Langton to James Pearson, Esq., of Thornton-le-Moor;
Mr. Pybus has refused large prices for his Red Deer and
Provost colts.

RACING FIXTURES FOR 1851.
The following are the present fixtures as nearly as
we can ascertain:—

FEBRUARY.

Lincoln

6 I Liverpool Spring

MARCH.

Coventry 4
Doncaster Spring
Warwick Spring
AP.
Cromton Park .. 1
Catterick Bridge 3
Epson Spring 4
Newmarket Craven
The Hoo l2

Kipling Coates
Northampton .
Newcastle-on-Tyne S 2B
Malton l5
Newmark. First Spring 21
Abergavenny 24
Cheater

Newnikt. Sccond Spring 6
Shrewsbury 8
Plymouth Spring

York Spring
Bath l3
Epsom
E.
S. Lancashire (Newton) 18
Stockbridge
Winchester 2O
Newcastle

Ascot
Beverley, Hull, &c 4
Hampton ll
Manchester ll
8ibury....... . ls
JU
1
....... 1

Newmarket
Carlisle ...

,Y.
Liverpool . ........ .... ..
Stamford

Lancaster
Worcester
Ripon
Brighton 6
Wolverhampton ..... 11

Nottingham
Goodwood
lIST.
Lewes 13 or 14
York
Egham 27

SEPTEMBER.
Warwick
Radcliffe 8 Eglinton Park ... 23 or 24
Weymouth .. 10 Manchester Autumn.... 25
Doncaster
Sandbach
OCTOBER.

Monmouth
Richmond
Chester

NOV:

:BE.

Worcester..

... First week.

VIOLENT DEATH AT POOLEWE
On Tuesday, 24th Dec. last, a case of violent death
took place at Poolewe, accompanied by painful cir-
cumstances. It happened as follows :—A respectable
young roan, about thirty years of age, was following
his vocation as a tailor in the house of one Macgregor,
a merchant, in the second court of Poolewe, who also
keeps an unlicensed drain-shop. On the evening of
Saturday, the 24th Dec., a large quantity of spirits
was drank in Macgregor's house, by several persons,
of whom the deceased was one, and the party re-
mained to a late hour. It seems undoubted, however,
that the tailor was quite fit for, and busily occupied
with, his work about eight or nine o'clock in the
evening of that day. Three or four hours thereafter,
an uncle of his was called in by Macgregor's mother,
and he then found his unfortunate nephew stretched
upon a bed, and in the agonies of death. He con-
tinued in that state till two P.M. of Tuesday follow-
ing, when he expired. When urged by his brother
to reveal the cause of his death, he replied that he
would do so if they removed him out of Macgregor's
house. Unfortunately this was not done, and the
case remains consequently to be determined by other
evidence. On the 26th he was interred, and
two days thereafter the proper authorities were ap-
plied to for an investigation. Accordingly Sheriff
Cameron, Mr.l Macalester, Fiscal, and Dr. Smith,
proceeded to Poolewe, and on Friday, the 3d current,
they got the body disinterred, and its state examined
in the usual manner. The result was a full conviction
that the deceased came to his death by violence, but
the difficulty remained of tracing the calamity to its
author or authors. This, we trust, will be succes-
fully brought about, from the ability and exemplary
attention of the legal gentlemen to whom the task
officially belongs. At the request of Dr. Mackenzie,
of Eileanach, the Sheriff addressed the spectators on
the occasion of re•interring the body, both in English
and Gaelic, with characteristic clearness and solemnity.
He directed their attention to the corpse of their
young kinsman, when being committed a second time
to its grave, as a warning of the most painful kind
against the thirst for ardent spirits, as not only sinful
iii itself, but as the inducing cause of other and erro-
neous views, such as contempt of all authority and
law, whether divine or human, profanation of the
Sabbath, and the violent removal of life itself. The
authorities are now pursuing the investigation.—
Inverness Courier.

MARKET INTELLIGENCE.
(From the London New Price Current, Jan. 10.)

SUGAR.—To-day West India Sugar was operated in
with much caution for all purposes, and previous rates
are barely supported; by private treaty only 338 hhds,
were sold, including at auction 96 hhds Demerara crys-
talized, which went rather cheaper, from 42s to 465, and
one lot low yellow.4os 6d per cwt. For the week the
total sales are only 1,246 hhds, &c., and prices are 6d
per cwt lower than on Friday last,
REFINED.--To• day purchases are upon a limited scale
in Refined goods by private treaty, and sales of low to
good brown have been made at 49s 6d to 50s 6d per cwt.
In Crushed Sugar there is yet little to report.
MAURITIUS.—AIthough there are further arrivals, still
the stock is less than at this period last year by nearly
2,000 tuns; the private operations have been trifling for
all purposes, although there are sellers rather under
previous terms; of 4,400 bags at auction only one-halt
bound buyers, fine yellow went at 41s to 42s 6d, good
38s to 40s 61, low to mid 37s to 38s 6d, refining kinds
from 36s to 40s, fine brown 36s to 375, grainy white 45s
to 47r, and yellow ditto 41s 6d to 43s per cwt; the chief
part consisted of the better descriptions, and this is likely
to be the case during the season.
EAST INDIA.—This afternoon the only public sale of
East India Sugar was that of 413 bags Madras, and
nearly all taken in at 32s fur ord damp yellow; a few
lots good brown sold at 30s to 31s; these are rather
lower rates.

FOREIGN.—To-day there was no public sale of Fo-
reign sugar, and only a cargo of 2,000 bags brown
Bahia sold at 20s.

MOLASSES.—To=day there is a better demand for
West India Molasses, and fur the week the sales are
250 casks at 15s 6d to 16s.
TEA.—Te-day the public sale of 770 plcgs Assam
Tea went freely at firm prices; palish black dust realised
100 to 'lid; Bohoa 1 lid to is 30; Souchong is 3d
to 2s ld ; and Pekoes 2s 3.1 to 3s 6a per lb.
COCOA.—British Plantation is not cheaper, there being
only a limited supply at market, but the demand has
fallen off for home trade purposes by private treaty; at
auction 94 bags of Trinidad were taken in at 56s for
good red, and at 48s for grey. In Foreign there has
been little done, at the same time holders will not sell at
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PORT or LYNN.—A meeting of shipowners was
held at
.the Town Hall, Lynn,on Saturday, having been called
by the Mayor, to take into consideration the present heavy
burdens upon the shipping interest of that part. The result
was a reduction of :Os. per voyage in the sailors' wages, and
1/4d. per ton on those of the coal porters, which were pre-
viously Id. The number of men employed in clearing a
vessel is also to be lessened. As might be supposed, this
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LAW INTELLIGENCE.
VICE-CHANCERY COURT, Jan. 10.
(Before Lord CRANwoRTn..)

➢IOWATT V. WEST CORNWALL RAILWAY COMPANY

His Lonvsnii' at the sitting of the Court stated that
he had written his judgment in this case, but he under-
stood the matter was settled between the parties, and
that his judgment was not desired. If that were so he
would return the papers.

Mr. BETHELL said he believed the matter wa3 settled.
Mr. JAMES PARKER said that if not settled there was
every prospect of its being so.
His LORDSHIP observed that be would retain the papers
for the present.

IN RE WILL OF JAMES ROSS, AND THE TRUSTS ACT.

The testator by his will, made in 1824, gave a sum of
3,000/. Consuls to trustees upon trust for Ann, his wife,
for her separate use, independently of any husband she
might afterwards marry; and he directed that the sum
should remain during her life under the direction of the
trustees a duly administered provision for his said wife,
and the interest thereof paid to her on her personal ap-
pearance and receipt by any bankers in London or
elsefehere whom the trustees might appoint, as should
be convenient to the parties, by half-yearly payments of
451. each. The widow married a second husband, and
during the life of her second husband assigned her in-
terest i❑ the 3,0001. Consols by way of security for an-
nuities which the second husband had granted. The
husband died, and the trustees transferred the sum into
court under the Act. The petition was presented by
the assignee under the security for payment of the divi-
dends to him during the life of the widow.
Mr. Southgate was for the petitioner.
Mr. BETHELL and Mr. THOMAS SIDENHAN CLARKE,
for the widow, contended that the effect of the directions
that the half-yearly payments should be made on the
personal appearance of the widow was equivalent to an
express clause against anticipation, and that the aliena-
tion or attempted alienation during the second coverture
was invalid.

Mr. Berkeley was for the trustees.
His LORDSHIP said he had, no doubt whatever as to
the rights of the parties in this case. The Court, in es-
tablishing the doctrine as to the separate interests of
married women, had requited to be perfectly satisfied
that the intention of the settler or donor was, that the
husband should be excluded from the interest in the pro-
perty given to the wife. A limitation to the " absolute
use" of the wife did not intimate this, and the separate
use clause thus arcse. The establishment of this right
to a separate enjoyment of the property still left it sub-
ject to the ordinary incidents of property, and amongst
the rest, to the wife's power of alienation. The question
discassed in Lord Thurlow's time, whether a married
women could be deprived of, or protected against, the
right of alienation, resulted in the adoption of the
well-known clause restricting her power of an-
ticipation. It had been truly said by Mr
Bethell that no particular form of words was
necessary to have this effect, and that Lord Cottenham
could not have held that any such particular form was
required. The substance of the limitation was alone re-
garded by the courts of law, except, perhaps, in some
few forms of conveyance having a feudal origin. The
particular words " without power of anticipation" were
not aeceesary, but it must be clear, that this was pro-
bably what Lord Cottenham had held, that the words
used, whatever they were, must have the meaning attri-
buted to them. The question was, did the words in this
case impose that restriction? He thought not. The
personal appearance of the lady was implied in the direc-
tion to pay into her proper hands, but that direction had
over and over agein been held not to restrain the power
of alienation. The payment must bo made to the peti-
tioner. The costs of all parties to he paid out of the
fund.