The Sun.
London, England, 1851-01-23 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, JANUARY 23, 1851.

I men as Messrs. WILLIAMS and LIISHINGTON, Lord
DUDLEY COUTTS STUART, Si: BENJAMIN BALL, Si
DE LACY EVANS, and Sir JAMES DUKE, ex-Lord
Mayor of London. Nothing could possibly be more
unanimous than the sentiments expressed by all
parties throughout the evening's transactions, no
single reform out of the whole category of well-
known schemes for legislative improvement appealing
so directly or irresistibly to the judgments of the
miscellaneous population. Every man feels more or
less the reasonableness of the desired change, because
all of us in a greater or lesser degree experience the
severity of the infliction complained of. While some
may question the propriety of repealing the malt-tax,
and some even may doubt the necessity for abolishing
the detestable tax upon incomes, scarcely
a single individual throughout the length and
breadth of the country can venture to affirm
that the duty levied upon windows is not most
grievous and intolerable. The inconvenience
resulting from the long continuance of this evil
has become at last too serious and perceptible to
admit of being passed over in any way as a matter of
indifference. We find it affecting not only the mode-
rate requirements of domestic architecture, but inter-
fering almost insurmountably with the carrying out
of any systematized reform of a sanitary character.
With the maintenance of the window-tax the arrange-
ment of any adequate scheme of ventilation appears
to be little short of being absolutely impracticable.
For the consequence of the tax in question is not
merely the exclusion of the daylight, but of the
free air in like manner. Hence it has fallen out that
many thousands of our labouring poor have been
compelled, through the costliness of windows, to live
habitually in actual as well as in mental darkness,
and to breathe, physically as well as morally, a vile
and pestilential atmosphere.
What is required, therefore, is the immediate and
total abolition of the window-tax—not its gradual,
but its immediate abolition—not its partial, but its
total abolition. Upon this subject there must be no
compromise whatever. The ill does not admit of
being but half eradicated. We must either do all or
nothing, if we would effectually benefit the population.
Hence we must not be told of house-taxes by way of
compensation, or of any other method of bolstering up
in a wrong direction the ricketty portion of the system
presided over by the Chancellor of the Exchequer.
The window-tax must be repealed entirely, and the
deficit created thereby in the national income made up
in some other way than by a house-tax. About this
there can be no hesitation in the minds of our more
experienced and reflective Reformers. Consequently
upon a consideration so very obvious we need not di-
late on any account whatever.

That we should have a peculiar satisfaction in ob-
serving the earnest agitation now making throughout
the country, but especially within the boundaries of
the metropolis, cannot be matter of sur-
prise to our readers, seeing that they
will doubtless bear in mind how heartily
we have advocated during a succession of years the
abolition of a system which seems to be at length
approaching its downfall. Remembering, moreover,
that within the last fortnight we called upon the more
sincere and practical Reformers of the United King-
dom to hold meetings in the chief parishes of the
land, and otherwise to re-animate the promoters of the
movement against the window-tax—we have watched
with particular pleasure the ready response yielded
to that call by the speedy assembling together of the
promoters of the desired improvement. Last evening's
discussion of the question must be regarded as not
the least remarkable that has taken place now
for a considerable period. Not, of course, but what
most of the arguments employed by the different
speakers have been already brought forward repeatedly
with a similar intention. Not but what scarcely
a statistical fact was mentioned that had not been
reiterated very frequently before, so frequently in
some instances as to have rendered those facts almost
worn out and threadbare. But these same facts and
arguments, unanswerable under all circumstances,
were placed last evening in a light so cogent and for-
cible as to withstand all possible opposition. After en-
larging upon the iniquitous nature of the particular tax,
for the purpose of protesting against which the meeting
of yesterday was convened, Mr. WAKLEY observed,
with very significant emphasis, that it would be just
as well to avail themselves of the present fervour with
a view to the carrying forward of other and yet larger
legislative improvements. He maintained, among other
things, that it would be ridiculous and contemptible to
rest satisfied with success in this one direction, and not
to endeavour to force the small end of the wedge of in-

novation in still further. If the Reformers continued
satisfied with a solitary triumph like the one here pro-
jected, they must, heinsisted, be made of different stuff
from what might have been anticipated. "Why, if they
do," he exclaimed, if they do find themselves so very
easily satisfied in their hunger after improvement,
" they must be mere homceopathists in reform to be sa-
tisfied with such avlobule." Such, however, we do
not at all regard as probable. A feeling has been
excited throughout the country such as cannot so
readily be appeased, a feeling of hatred towards that

most execrable system of taxation which has at last,
we believe, been doomed to destruction by the grow-
ing enlightenment of the community.

It is scarcely worth while to attempt to conjecture
with any degree of preciseness the measures which
the Ministry have prepared to submit to Parliament
in reference to what is familiarly termed the Papal
aggression. The nation cannot now be much longer
kept in a state of suspense in respect to the course to
be adopted upon a subject in which it has so univer-
sally interested itself. In less than a fortnight the
Ministerial curtain must be drawn up in St. Stephen's,
and the views of the Government be unveiled to as
anxious an auditory as probably was ever assembled
in the House of Commons. But though the anxiety
will be intense to ascertain the result of the delibera-
tions of the responsible advisers of the Crown, yet
will Parliament approach the discussion of the
vexata qucestio with considerable advantages.
The pulse of the united empire has been felt through-
out. The wishes of the country could scarcely have
been more clearly ascertained than they now are, if
there had been a special appeal made, and a new
Parliament convened expressly to legislate upon the
grave difficulties presented by the extraordinary pro-
ceedings of the Vatican. It is remarkable that at all
the meetings, clerical and lay, the proceedings have been
characterised by a moderation and an unanimity truly
astonishing. Considering the excitable nature of the
subject upon which they were convened to petition, and
the extent of the injury sought to be inflicted upon
the rights of the Crown, we should not have been
surprised had popular resentment pressed for the re -
vival of statutes of a severe and forbidding cha-
racter. It has proved otherwise. Whatever the
spirit of toleration has effected, in a consti-
tutional manner, for the religious welfare of the
community at large, they sought not to infringe
upon. They limited themselves to requiring
that the nature of the remedy to be devised should
not go beyond the necessity of the case ; in a word,
that Parliament should, by law, practically place
matters, in regard to the public exercise of the Ro-
man Catholic faith, as they stood previous to the
celebrated apostolical letter of the POPE. Such, and
in so far as the civil part of the controversy was con-
cerned, was the moderate course which the people
were inclined to see pursued by the Legislature.
Every Member of either House ought, by this time,
to have hisimind free from any oscillating opinion ;
at any rate, after the example set by the country, he
must be prepared to come to the senatorial debate in a
calm and dignified spirit.
Peels IX. seems, however, to be bent upon
forcing the British Senate to look to his hierarchy in
Ireland, as well as to that which he has recently set
up in England. A second bull is come to light,
severing an ancient Roman Catholic diocese cf. Ire-
land, and appointing an additional Bishop with the
title of Bishop of Ross. Dr. KEANE may be a very
worthytpeasrtat
noft
etmmheapnip,rebo.ut we denounce this proceeding on the
PEBasefoarebretaheeh
RofelfiaeifthA:
we were assured that we could always ti
depend
hewpae 3n thisdp usPps teoodn:
the allegiance of the Roman Catholic Bishops, because
they were always selected by the POPE from among
the three names submitted to him by the priesthood in
Ireland, who bad themselves, subjects of the
British Crown, from their own body elected
to recommend them as respectively eligible to fill
any vacant see. In Dr. CULLEN'S case the Poe%
broke through this principle, his HOLINESS wan,.

tnnly destroyed this safepard. If the POPE is to he

Jermitted-tci split up diocesti's at will ma pleasure,
and, ex mero mobt, appoint new bishops, bow many
foreigners may we not have sent amongst us to fulfil
functions of the highest importance in the State ?
It was attempted to be made out both by
the POPE and Cardinal WisEmAN, that the
British Government were supposed to be fa-
vourable to the project which was carried
out by the celebrated bull of last September. That
attempt signally failed ; and yet,- when no such ex-
cuse could by possibility be offered, when the hosti-
lity of the Administration to his schemes is patent to
the world, another bull, fraught with a dangerous
principle, and without the least countenance of the
Ministry, is sent from the Vatican. The POPE tries
to carry matters with a high hand ; we are mis-
taken if he does not speedily discover that Parliament
can put a wholesome check upon these rampant
manoeuvres.

THE FRENCH REPUBLIC,

We have received the Paris journals of yesterday.
The Ministerial crisis still continues. The Patrie
says—
" The negotiations for the formation of a new Cabinet
have as yet led to no result ; there is every probability
that the denouement of the Ministerial crisis will be de-
layed for some time."
The PRESIDENT of the Republic sent for M.
ODILON BARROT on Tuesday evening, and it was
immediately reported that the PRESIDENT had com-
missioned him to form a Ministry. The Journal
des Debats, however, of yesterday morning contains
the following announcement :
"M. Odilon Barrot requests us to announce that he
has not received any mission to form a new Cabinet.
The interview which he had yesterday evening at six
o'clock with the President of the Republic was passed
in a general conversation on the present state of affairs."
It would seem that the PRESIDENT of the Republic
will not appoint M. ODILON BARROT as his Minister
unless he should be actually forced on him, for he
emphatically declared to a representative on Tuesday
evening, "that he should not choose his Ministry
from among the majority of 41.5, nor, above all, should
he choose them from amongst those who had abstained
from voting."

M. SENARD had been sent for, and there was at one
time a rumour that he would be appointed Minister
of the Interior ; but M. SENARD will accept office
only on two conditions—first, that the electoral law of
31st May shall be repealed, and second, that M. Louis
NAPOLEON BoNAPARTE shall pledge himself not to
becoms a candidate for the Presidency in 1852.
The Gazette de France mentions a rumour that M.
DE LAMARTINE, again solicited by the PRESIDENT,
had undertaken to form a new Cabinet, the first act
of which would be to introduce a measure for the re-
peal of the electoral law.
It was considered probable that M. BILLAULT
would be entrusted with the formation of a new
Cabinet.
The PRESIDENT has sent for several Prefects of De-
partments and 'Receivers-General to consult them on
the crisis; many of them arrived in Paris last night.
The Constitutionnel announces the discovery of
another secret society, and publishes a seditious ma-
nifesto alleged to have been seized, but which bears
no signatures. This circumstance is very suspicious,
as is the fact noticed by the National, that whenever a
difference occurs between the PRESIDENT and the
Monarchists, M. CAItLIER, the Deus cz Machina,
discovers a Socialist plot to frighten " the naughty
boys" back to obedience. With regard to the finding
the seditious proclamation, we would remark that i❑
all TITUs OATES Plaats, the finder is the hider.
The following is in the Moniteur :
" The Commission, formed by decree of the 14th of
December last, and presided over by M. Fould, Mi-
nister of Finances, to examine into the question of the
coinage, has declared—That the recent nepreciation in
gold has been principally produced by accidental causes,
the effect of which is beginning to decrease ; that the
influence which permanent causes might have exercised
on that depreciation cannot be now sufficiently deter-
mined ; that in this state of things it is necessary to
collect precise information on the production of the pre-
cious metals, principally in California and in Russia.
The commission, in consequence, is of opinion that
from the facts stated, there are no grounds for making
any change in our monetary system."
The Assembly has passed the law authorizing the
arrest of Members for debt, by a majority of 456
to 196.
The members of the BAROCHE Ministry have
quitted their official residences.

The Opinion Publique states that the following
officers of the National Guards have given in their
resignation, in consequence of the dismissal of General
CHANGARNIER :—Colonels, MM. Roger (du Nord),
Humann ; Chefs d'Escadron, MM: de Pontalba, de
Reims, de Corberon, Labouchere, Amyot, Millot, and
Tardu ; Captains, M. de Noailles (two), de la Guiche,
de Rothschild, Amerlee Achard, de Larinthie, Odiot,
Collot, and Talon.

PARIS BOURSE, WEDNESDAY, JAN. 22.
The firmness of the market continues, and the Minis•
terial crisis seems to be, as it were, forgotten. .t fair
share of business has been done, prices at the close being
a trifle better than yesterday; Threes tor the account
leaving off sit 57f. 15c., and Fives at 95f. 35c. The mar-
ket closed as follows:-Threes, for cash, 57f. 10c.; for
Account, 57f. 15c.; Fives, for cash, 95f. 25c.; for ac-
count, 95f. 35c.; Bank of France Shares, 2,230 f.; Spanish
Threes, 38f. 25e.; Neapolitan not quoted.
RALLwAYs.-Shares have been rather in demand to-
day, and prices are somewhat better than yesterday.
Orleans closed at 847 f. 53c.; Rouen, 675 f.; Havre, 270 t.;
Avig,,on, 1861. 25c.; Vierzon, 387 f. 50c.; Northern,
4701. ; Paris and Strasburg, 353 t. 75c. ; Nantes, 2471.
50c.; Bale, 141 f. 25c.; Dieppe, 1921. 50c.

BIiSINkSS DONE 1N FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT TLIE

LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE, Jam. 22.
Boulogne and Amiens, 914—Central of France (Orleans
and Vierzon), 15% ex int.—Luxembourg, 2t—Nortbern
of France, 1474 ex int.—Orleans and Bordeaux, 3%__
Paris and Strasbourg, 9—Tours and Nantes, 5.

rem sin. The Minister of the Interior is charged with
tat ad znlerzia u: ctur utl,

ITALY.

The Conservatore of Florence, of the 15th, an•.
nounces the arrival at Leghorn of a French squadron
under the orders of Captain RIGAULT DE GENOUILLY.
It is composed of the Vauban, the Eclaireur, the
Salamandre, and the Solon; the latter is appointed
to c uise off the coast of Sicily.

THE SHARE MARKETS.

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VION Elt duo CuitturiLai,t, MAL NEWS-
CITY, TWO O'CLOCK.

The sales of Cotton at Liverpool yesterday were esti-
mated at 3,000 bales, comprising 2,000 American, 450
Pernam and Maranham at Bd. to Sid., 100 Bahia a' Bd.
to 8 d., 250 Surat at sd. to 4,-d., and 60 Sea Island at
ls. 2d. to ls.Bd. per lb. The market was dull, and prices
tending downwards.—There was no change in the
general tone of the Share Market, though in some in-
stances higher prices were obtained.
The six weeks' average price of Wheat is 38s, 9d.
per quarter.

Messrs. Franks and Millard, in advocating a gradual
reduction of the tea duties, write to us as follows:
" Even to this day Ministers of Finance are extremely
timid in touching—or what they call tampering
with'—any article which contributes an important
item to the unavoidable exigencies of the Govern-
ment. This is the case most especially with
Tea. The excessive rate of duty upon it—probably
about 200 per cent. on the average value—yields some
millions to the revenue directly; but we are satisfied the
revenue would, directly and indirectly, be much more
benefited it the duty were reduced gradually to half that
amount. There are many considerations which con-
firm us in this conviction. First, if the duty were thus
reduced to ls. per lb., the price of the article
would be diminished, and its consumption increased,
in a much larger proportion. Secondly, the best
authorities assure us that the power of China to
supply us with the article is unlimited, or rather that it
has no limits, except our demand for it; and our de-
mand for it is only restricted by the high price which
the heavy duty imposed upon it. In the third
place it must be remembered that whatever
might be the additional sum we should have
to pay to the Chinese for a larger quantity
of their great agricultural staple, it would be paid by an
equivalent in our own manufactures. Every additional
chest of tea imported would ind.cato so much additional
employment afforded to our manufacturing operatives;
and thus their power to purchasetea would be augmented
in a duplicate ratio—first by its greater cheapness, and
'next by the demand which the larger supply would create
for their labour in exchange. Nor, finally, must it be
forgotten that whenever we reduce the price of one
article of general consumption, we increase the
consumption nut only of that article alone, but of
all other articles of a similar character. We give
the masses, by so doing, an enlarged power of
consumption generally, and other revenue-yielding
articles thus become more profitable sources of
taxation to the Government. For instance, it the con-
sumption of tea were doubled, as under a shilling duty
many believe it would be, the Government would only
lose upon tea per se the additional five per cent so ieju-
diciously added to the duty some years ago, and that
sacrifice would be more than conipeotsated fur by the in-
creased consumption of sugar.
The advices by the West India steamer are not of
commercial importance, the cholera having put a stop to
trade as well as agriculture.
At Amsterdam, on the 21st inst., the Funds were
qaiet. Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents. 57 to 1-16.
The Frankfort quotations on the 20th inst. were 72i
to 73 for Metallics, and 33 to t- for Spanish.
The Bank of England has not raised its terms of dis-
count to-day.

The English Stock Market is rather buoyant, and
there is an increased money business doing. Consols
have realized 96i. for Transfer, :stud 96 for Ac-
count, at one period being almost buyers at tne highest
of these rates. The firmness of the Paris Bourse serves
to tranquillise the uneasiness that might otherwise be
lelt as to the issue of the French Ministerial crisis, but,
on the other hand, there is a rumour that Lord Claren-
don has resigned upon the Catkiolic question. II
it were believed Consols would certainly go down. The
New Three-and-a-Quarter per Cents. have been 98i to 99.
and the Three per Cents. 971 to 1. Bank Stock is sup-
ported at 214 to 2144. East India Stock is 266 to 268.
Exchequer-bills are 565. to 595.; and India Bunds 70s.
to 735. premium.

Foreign Investments have been inactive. Peruvian
Four-and-a-Half per Cents. have been quoted 77i to
78k; and the Deferred 32i to 33k. Equador Stock is
steady at 3i. Danish Five per Cell Is. have been at 102;
Russian Four-and-a Half per Cents,. at 964; and Dut,
Two-and-a-Half per Cents. at 571 ts,s 58.
Railway Shares are decidedly buoyant again, and with
the favourable traffic, are naturally attracting more
attention.

The lust week's Railway Receip ts, ascertained up to
,his day, are in round figures as under:--

185.1. 1850
Great-Western £13,6r1 ~. £12,752
North-Western
South • Western 8,250 ... 7,147
Brighton
Midland
South-Easteru
North Stafford
Caledonian 6,218 ... 5,667
QCJAR7I it TO THRE /2
COuaols 96f
Ditto Account 96f
BRITISH FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK.
(From the Official L jet,/

.......214. 214%
k ank Stock
3, er Cent. Reduced Annuities .
3 per Cant. Consols Anna
New 34 per Cent. Anns. 987;., 99 98%
;di,nonift
StockAnnu .....
Annuities, Exp. Jan. sth, 11860....
268 7
2136-616
Do. Bonds, 10001
Ditto under 1.0001
South Sea Stock
Ditto Old Annuities .. 96%
(!onsols for Account .. 965431h
E Echequer Bills. I % cl• 2d.
Marc IL June.
1,060/...• ' . 56 59 p
5001
Small — 56 59 p
PRICE 'OF FOREIGN FUNDS A T ONE O'CLOCK.
Danish Bonds 1825, 3 per Ce nt....
Ditto, 5 per Cent .................. 102
Equador Bonds .......... ....... 3%
Peruvian Bonds, 4% per Can t —
Ditto for the Account -- 7Bl 77% 78
Ditto Deferred ............
Russian Bonds. 1822, 5 per Of :nt —
Ditto 4% per Cent
Dividen4s on the above payable in London.
Belgian 4% per Cent. — 92
Dutch 2% per Cent., 12 Guild
Ditto 4 ner Cent. Cerfrificat es

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LLOYD'S SHIPPING.— ( THIS DAY.)
LONDON, JAN. 23.—Wind at noon S.W., light breeze
and fine.
PORT•AU-PRINCE, DEC. 2. The French barque
Henry, British brig Confidence, No rwegian brig Juno,
American schooner Tellus, and Haytian schooner
Eclipse, were wrecked at Jeremil daring a heavy gale
previous to 27th Nov.
FREDERICIESHAVEN, JAN. 13.—Whe Geiser, of Co-
penhagen, bound to Messina, is rep orted to have been
wrecked on the West Coast.
BELIZE (HONDURAS), DEC. 18.— .The Eleanor was
driven on shore near Caratasea due ing a heavy gale at
N. 24th ult.; crew and part of mat terials saved. The
Albatross was driven on shore at 'h.?. Ullua Bar during
the same gale; a small part of her z, aaterials have been
saved. 21. The Charlotte ingofionrg :,isnevtooothheohoarsr,howarheoo
she of
Bon
gotaia struckoffmakuipng upon
twelvea ree
inches vi ater per hour, andf, lay
has arrived at English Key; she has been surveyed, and
reported to be much strained and.dax caged, and dechtred
unseaworthy. She will be brought into the harbour
and discharged.
RANSGATE, JAN. 22.—The brig Robert, of Stettin,
Dordt to Rochefort, laden with bad k and linseed, it is
feared is lost on the Goodwin Sands.
KINSALE, JAN. 21.—A number al cask staves, also a
small green box with an anchor of I. P. painted' white,
with a P. in the corner, and J. art d W. Peters, Ham..
burgh, branded on the inside of the lid, have been washed
ashore at Howes Strand.
SKIBBEREEN, JAN. 20.—A boat, with " Necter, of
Plymouth," was picked up at sea, ant I towed into Crook-
haven, on the 18th January, and cm i the 14th another
boat, marked "Henry Mitchison,'" greatly damaged,
was towed into Berehaven.
ROCHESTER, JAN. 22.—The Areth ma, from Blyth, in
working up Chatham Reach on thu 19th January was
in contact with her Majesty's ship :Iris, when she lost
bowsprit.
ROE ISLAND, NEAR ULVERSTONI; JAN. 20.—The
stern of the Caroline, of Inverness, wa a washed on shore
on the west aide of Watney Island 171) a January. Fr( m
its fresh appearance it is concluded th. at the vessels were
wrecked during the last gales.
NEWRY, JAN. 20.—The Solid, her toe for Newport, in
putting back struck the bar of Carh.ogford Lough, be-
came teuky, at,d has been placed on to e patent slip.
DEAL, JAN. 22.—Wtha W.—Arrd.. from the River,
Bolivar, Sydney, New South Wales ; Nonpareil, New-
foundland. Arrived from the River and sailed, Jane
Pink, Calcutta ; Margaret Evans, Net w York ; Patrick
Henry. ditto. Sid. Centaur, Algoa IS ay.
FALNGUTII, JAN. 22 —Wind W., fresh breeze.—
Arrd. Oihello, Rio Janeiro, for HaM.C•urg,h ; Julia and
Pepita, llavannah. Sld. her Majesty's, steamer Volcano,
Coast u Atrica. Off port, Waldimare Porto Plata, and
sailed for Ilaelburgb.
GUERNSEY, JAN. 22. Wind N. 1,9 V. Sld. Gipsy
Queen, Az res.
BRISTOL, JAN. 22. Wind W.N., W. Arrd. Ann
Hood, Africa.
LIVERPOOL, JAN. 22 —Wind W., ftl,sh.—Arrd. Roth-
say, Bonny ; John H. Jarvis, New I:trlesns ; Mancuis,
Shanghae ; John Bibby, Canton ; A t alanta, New Or
leans; Az, New York; Aberdeen, Says ,nnab; Sir Henry
Smith, St. Jelan's, Now Brunswick.. A schooner of
about 100 tons, with a plain white stre4 .k, about 4 inches

inst,l.Tit. 15 mil!,;;S 5.7.7, or P3re.rv.

E A3l SCIATE, ti AN. Berrna Africk;
Twenty-one casks of marked 11. T. awl S
" yb. C." underneah, On on«. end, also. ts IS3" (01 the
other end, have been picL.d up near thy ILtitish Knock
and landed here, Ftipposed to he pant of the car go of 6
vessel lost 012 the Goodwin Sar,cis night of the 20th inst.
A brig, lai.`en with cinder, end si-ipposed to have been
lost at the same time, tart a v;i'«-A:lr, as on the
"rids this morning. r«i:Nl a sail, inaik:_,d " Guiiiold,
make r, North Shi«,ld‘."
JERSEY, JAN. 21.--The Flora, on CorLiero Becks, has
become a complete wreck.
MILFORD, JAN. 21. A piece of hoard, marked
" John, of Liverpool," a head ur quarter-board. marked
" Y. P. S. 0.," about 9 inches lone,
the end of be
with " John Pearson, Liverpool," on it, and another end
marked " Miler, and Rimest, `)l7, Front-Weer,
a
New York," have been picked up at West Dale.
PORTSMOUTH, JAN. 22.—1 V ind N.W. to W-S•VC'---
Sld. Widmer Castle, Madras and Calcuttr.; Lancashire
Lass, St. Thomas's. Put back, Princess Viotoria,Tubl
Bay, leaky.

MARKET N W HIS DAY.)
ZZEIXTGATE AND IMADENII.BI.3I.•
fall
On the whole the general trade ruled steady, at
prices.—Beef, from 2s to 3s 4d; Mutton, 2; 4d to 3s 10d;
Veal, 3t to 3s 10d; Pork 2s 6d to 4s per 81b5, by the
carcase.

HAT RiZaalittrZZ:fie.,
ilviiTllFlELD.—Meadow Ha 2/ Ss to 31155; Clover,,
3l Os to 4l Os ; and Straw, 11 04 to 1/ 6s per loaa.
Trade dull, at late rates.
C 41MBEL1LAND. Meadow Hay, 2/ 103 to 31 17s 1
Clover, 3/ Os to 4l Os; and Straw, I/ Is to I/ 8s per load.
Supply good, and trade firm.
WHITECHAPEL. Meadow Hay, 2/ 8s to 31 155'
Clover, 3106 to 4/ Os; and Straw. 1/ Os to 117 s per load.
A lull average supply, and a dull trade.

MEAT Pitanicwrs.
SOUTHALL, JAN. 22.—Prime Beet and Sheep Were 1!_l
moderate reque“, at full prices. In other kinds of stoex
e•
very little was doing.—Beet from 23 4d to 3s Sci ; mutto
3s to 4s 4d; Veal, 35 to 33 8d; Pork, 3s to 3s Bcl Pet
81bs, to sink the offals.
RoMFoRD, JAN. 22.—Beef was in good request,
uttenft
extreme quotations.—Beef trom 2s 6d to 3s 8d; Isi
3s to 4s 6d; Veal, 3s to 3s 6d; Pork, 3s to 39 Gd
Blbs. Quarter old store Pigs, 16s to 20s each.
LEWES, JAN. 21.—Our market was very flat tc)-dg:
as follows:—Beef from 3s to 4s • Mutton, 39 6d to 49
Pork, 3s 2d to 3i 6d per Blbs.

CORN AVERAGES-
GENERAL AVERAGE PRICES OF BRITISH C°ls
fth
For the Week ended Jan. 16,1850, made up from the Bcturilsewsio
Inspectors in the different Cities and Towns in England and
per Imperial Quarter. I:mAris sAg,
I WHEAT. I 1
IBARLEY. OATS. IRYE.I I -
PRICE .. I 28s Od 122 s 8d 16s 9d 24s 8d 26s 7L.

DUTIES ON FOREIGN GOILN. FOS;
?MEAT. I BARLEY. I OATS. RYE. I BEANS. lls O.
Is Od Is Od Is Od Is Od Is Od
,
QUANTITIES OF GRAIN SOLD IN THE PAST ,
Wheat, 79,384; Barley, 95,594 ; Oats, 22,468; Rye, 57 EB.sDeaa

5,672; Yeas, 1,421 quarters.;

CHANCERY.—(THIS DAY.) titv.
The Lord Chancellor eat to day in the Old flalltri-ed
coin's Inn. Thursdays in term are generally sPril-he
by his Lordship for the hearing appeal hlotteDs' lotrtid'
part-heard appeal of lanes v. Sayer occupied his
ship the whole morning. The case was partly °Pelipeal
yesterday, aed came before his Lordship upon sPP-0•
from the judgment of the Vice-Chancellor Wig Ara.
Them facts of the case may be thus shortly stated
the
Mrs. Judith Miles, by her will. gave several stuns t° r
Sailors' Home, the Strangers' Friend, and several othhee
societies, but there was a defective execution of ti;d.
power of appointment under the will of her hesba-d..
The Vice-Chancellor Wi ram however, notwithsteh a
in g the defect, gave effectgto the lacluests, on the g.rirtube
hat they were charitable; and from that clecisl°
other legatees appeal ed.
The arguments appear likely to occupy the whole of
the day, if not part of to-morrow.

ROLLS' COURT.—(THIS P-1-1-11g
His Lordship the Master of the Roth, after disr-
of the case of Dickinson v. the Grand Junction
way Company, which stood in the paper to be srkneill°o;
proceeded to hear motions, none of which called
special notice.
VICE-CHANCERY—(THIS 3512 j.)
(Before the Vice-Chancellor KNIGHT Bitn"--..

JOHNSTONE V. JOHNSTONE.
ease 10-
The arguments in this part -h eardban krupt c
ing been concluded,
His HONOUR 'ded but Do cage °I

. proceeded to hear notices, -
interest came before him during the morning.
(Before Vice-Chancellor Lord CRANWOR
His Lordship beard notices to-day.
METAIRIE V. CARDINAL WISEMAN AND 0T0519i kilt
The bill in this case was filed by the next, °o.to
of a person of the name of Carre, who came °to of
this country many years ago and amassed
about 7,0001., which was invested in the Reduced Av sod
ties. When he was very nearly 80 years of aige'ribter
within a few hours of his death, a Chancery bfir,:iya
and a Roman Catholic priest obtained from for
deed assigning this stock to them in vrtl9;iect
a Roman Catholic school in Somers-town. Thl3;,;oo'
of the bill was to set aside the deed, and for sa
tion restraining the trustees from parting with the stgr.
A few days since our readers will recollect thBl-,0" d•
a forta
Bethell, at the rising of the Court, applied to his 'cirog
ship for leave.to amend the bill, the plaintiff bNo-p
designated the principal defendant as Arcllbt
e
of Westminster instead of calling him Vicar-Arsllo
of the London district. His Lordship then gilvi:(l
leave required, and the bill having now been awe °'-'OO
Mr. BETRELL, with whom was Mr. Kinglak.e,,,,vire
this morning about to move for themitinetior', its"
c
strain the defendants, the trustees, ardin"i the
man, from transferring, or in any way parting
stock, when
Is° sr
Mr. Rem., with whom was Mr. Bagshawey
nswat
peered for the defendants, applied for time roao-s-bing
the affidavits, and upon an understanding tbsv n 0 to'
should be done in the meantime by the defenala3dered
wards parting with the stock, the motion was °r
to stand over to the last day of the term.
The Court then proceeded to hear motions.

QUEEN'S BENCH.—(THIS I)l3",lthe
The Court sat in bunco this morning, and I°—„blic
new trial paper, but there was no case of sutlicior3 P-
interest to call for a detailed report.

EXCHEQUER.-(THIS DA 11:.) giCt
Before the LORD CHIEF BARON, and Barons -A-
ALDERSON, and MARTIN.)

JAQUES V. WHITE. 40 00
This action was tried before Mr. Baron bilar"Aaste
Monday last, when a verdict was found for the de ion"
on the first and fifth issued.
plaintiff on those two issues for 481. 145., or such; °Lig
the
v
Mr. BOVILL now moved to enter a verdict r
for
sum as the Court might think fit. The aosi.ork .7to
brought to recover the expense of an investigation lob
the genuineness of the title of certain property wb
the
the defendant had agreed to mortgage 10 ni of
plaintiff in consideration of his advancing the 8t1,:- be
2,000/. The title turned ow, in the opinion o', ttbe
plaintiff, to be a bad one, and he refused to aeolVfe-n.
mortgage, and a question arose as to whether the ae ifi.
thatit,L
view there
cfPni
dant was bound to bear the expense which had bee ripe
curred by the plaintiff in instituting the inquir)'• A-be
dverrednicdtanptacssoendtenodnedthtshea case.good
ments of the Learned Counsel involved •
a nice il `ll 0.
as to collateral heirship, but the particulars .e
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wo-
teresting.title,
T es:Firtreit :I;
The Comm' granted a rule.

SHERIFFS' COURT.--(THIS D"—
(Before Mr. Under-Sheriff BuncHELL.)
THE MARQUIS OF SALISBURY v. CHERRY.'OP
This was an action brought by the Marquis of f the
bury against the defendant, who is a magistrate
ate
county of Hertford, and a trustee of the Enfield s;
Road, to recover damages for breaking down a ibi:roold.
up on a private road, It ading from Bell Bar to 1114,,„" de'
The defendant having suffered judgment to go by
fault, the present inquiry was to assess damages. crea!
The case was not of any general interest, but —ea
number of witnesses have to be called, and the,easer last
a similar one against another defendant, is likely t°
all day.