The Sun.
London, England, 1867-06-13 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, TRURSDAY EVENING, RINE 13, 1867.

SHARE MARKETS.—This Day.

ORDINARY SHARES AND STOCKS•

Railways.

I Paid.r
Closing Business
rioe. done.

et ;liristoi and Exeter 100
et 'Caledonian lOO
at 'Cambrian
100

80 81
113 115
40 45

ri3ork and Bandon ,
10 !Cornwall 1 all
st Dublin & Belfast June, 100
st Dan„Perth, & Ab.Juno.o, 100
00 if. London, bcrip Certi.l all
Do. lact
st Glasgow &S. Western: 100
st Great Eastern, Ord. stk.' 100
st Do. E. Angl. st. No. 2' 100
st Great North of Scotland 100
st Great Northern 100
at DJ. A 5t0ck........ 100
st Do. B stock I 100
Do. New, Is. at 25 poi 10)
st (it S, and W. 01 1 reland• 100
st tit. Western -Original lt,o
st Do. S. Val. Rail gua. 100
st Do. South Wales , 1(.0
st Do. W. Mid.—Ustiord! 10C
st Do. Newport
et Do. Hereford
it Lanolshire Yorkshire! 1
st LJndon and
st ' Lon., Brig-h., 41 5 Coast!
it Lon., Chat., auu DJver'
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4 6
65 63
70 72

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109 111
31 35
6 7

117 119
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48 49
128 12J
112 113
9i 93

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it Sian., She., Lineoli;
it 3tetropolitan....
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st v. &S. W. Junction
25 Scottish Central
st 'Scot. V. E , Aber. stock
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st Shropshire Union
at South Devon
st south E.stezn
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LAW INTELLIGENCE.—This Day,

COURT OF EXCHEQUER.
THE SLADE BARONETCY CASE.
This morning the Barons of the Court of Ex-
chequer gave judgment in the case of " Sir Marcus
John Slade, Bart., v. Alfred Frederick Adolphus
Slade, who appeared as Sir Alfred Fredk. Adolphus
Slade, Bart."
The epitomised narrative of facts shows that the
late General Sir John Slade in 1832 settled certain
estates on his sons successively for life, with re-
inainder to their issue in tail male. The elder sons,
Henry and Charles, died without iSSUC, and the thild
son, Frederick William, succeeded under the liwi-
tation of settlement to the estates and title. In
1833 Frederick William Slade was married at St.
G,,,orge's, Hanover-square, to Maria Barbara, the
daughter of Mr. Charles Brown Most yn, of Kidring-
ton, and had by her several children, of whom
Alfred, the resent defendant, is the eldest of the
sons. In 1863 Sir FrAerick Win. Slade died, and
his son Alfred entered into po:ssession of the family
estates, and assumed the title of Sir Alfred Slade,
Bart. General Marcus Slade, the twin brother of
the late Sir Frederick, disputed Sir Alfred's right to
both the title ani the property, and commenced an
action of ejectment to recover possession of the
manor of North Petherton, in the County of Somer-
set, and certain other lands entailed in the Slade
family, and it was agreed that the action should
come before the Court in the shape of a special case.
According to the case of the plaintiff, the mar-
riage between Sir Frederick Slade and his wife was
void, because the lady had previously contracted
marriage at Milan, in 1825, with one Baron von
Korber, who survived until the year 1853, and it
was maintained that that was a valid marriage ac-
cording to the Austrian law, and consequently that,
as Baron von Korber was alive at the time when his
wife married Sir Frederick Sade, the second mar-
riage was bigamous and void, and the issue of it,
including the defendant was illegitimate. On the
part of the defendant it was alleged that Lady Slade's
marriage at Milan was void by Austrian law, and
that she was consequently free to marry again, as
she did afterwards in 1833.
Baron Piggott, in delivering his judgment -in
favour of the plaintiffs, stated that he had care-
fully weighed all the evidenca, which had been ably
laid before them, and his conclusion was that the
first marriage of Lady Slade was perfectly legal,
and that the second one was consequently not so.
His lordship then very minutely weighed all the
points in the case, giving elaborate arguments as to
the reason for the decision he had arrived at.
Baron Bramwell, who was of the same opinion,
said that they were called on one side to decide
whether the second marriage was legitimate, and
on the other whether the first marriage was not
legitimate. IVith regard to the first marriage, there
was everything about it that would stamp it as
legal. Look at the ceremony itself. The bride
and bridegroom consented, the bride's muther as-
sisting and consenting. There were two priests,
one belonging to the Artillery, to which
Korber belonged. They were quite content ;
and there was also a lawyer there, who drew
up a contract. When, therefore, they quarrelled,
and separated, what ground was there for saying
that the marriage was not legal, but void? Surely
no one would say that a French girl, who married
with her father's consent while under age, an
Englishman could be put on one side on the
ground that the marriage was void. The only
argument adduced that required sifting into was
the point concerning the banns, and on this they
appeared uncertain, but it, even admitting the
irregularity, went for nothing. The learned Baron
then went into a long argument as to the validity
of the marriage, and ended by giving his judg-
ment in favour of the plaintiff.
Baron Martin, in delivering his judgment, said
that a great deal of doubt appeared to have been
thrown on the testimony of Lady Slade (he called
her so for the sake of distinction), but he thought
that it was clearly corroborated by other evidence of
a collateral character. It had been stated that she was
a perjured woman. If such an expression had been
addressed to a jury one would know how to deal
with it. His lordship then at great length reviewed
the whole of the evidence, and gave his reasons for
the decision which he had come to in favour of the
defendant.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.--This Day.

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MARLBOROUGH-STREET.

ILL on Diu:rm.—James Reynolds, a miserably clad
young man, and who appeared to have suffered groat
privations, and to be in a bad state of health, was charged
before Mr. D'Eyncourt with being drunk and begging.
Sergeant Bedford, 14 C, said —Yesterday evening I saw
the prisoner begging off two or three persons in Berkeley-
square, and receive something, and I then took him into
custody, when I found that he was drunk.
prisoner was not drunk. I fell from weakness, not
having broken my fast for a day or two. 1 have an abscess
in my side, and am very faint. I wont to St. Giles's
Workhouse on Monday to ask for a doctor's order, and had
to leave for a certain purpose, and on my return I was
told that I could not have one, because I was not there
when the doctor's orders were given out.
Mr. D'Eyncourt —Have you ever been in the union ?
PliSoller—No.
Mr. D'Eyncourt —How do you get your living ?
Prisoner—Well, I will tell you the truth, I beg. If you
send a policeman to the workhouse with me, as it is no
use my going there without one, and they admit me, I will
stay there.
Mr. D'Eyncourt (to the sergeant)—Take him to the
workhouse, and if Lis story is true leave him there—if
not, bring him back.

Prisoner--I want to go to the workhouse.
The sergeant took the man to the workhouse, and le.
Lira there.

ETHIY 0

,CIETY.

Yesterday evening an ordinary meeting of this
society was held in their rooms in St. Martin's-place
the president, Mr. John Crawford, in the chair.
The first paper was read by Mr. F. BO LE, on the
Indians of Central America, of whom there are five

tribes, nominally under the dominion of Spain, who

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are in a barbarous state, and obstinately resist the

intrusion of Europeans. From his account it appeared

that the inhabitants have sadly deteriorated in civi-

lisation since the first discovery of the country, and
comidered that the only practicable means of itn-

proving them was by annexation with the United
States. lle described Central Anyirica as an El
Dorad) requiting proper government to develope

abundant riche 3.

Sir JOHN LuanDcl dirt ref from Mr. B )yle iu
opinion as to the nnans of improving the Ildian3.
lle contende 1 that in every initvieo im whieli a

superior race had come in contact with an inferior
one the result had been the deterioration of both.
lie thought it questionable whether the Indians of
America, when dicovere.l by the Spaniards, were
not eqaal in civilisatio❑ to their conquerors, and tae
contort of the two people had been injurious. lie

regretted also to be obliged to express the opinion
that the missionaries had done no good, and that
missionary efforts among savage people in general
had been very unsuccessful. The only way in which
the people of the United States could improve the
Indians of Central America, he feared, would be
"to improve them off the face of the earth." With
respect to the probable discovery of gold in that re-
gion he thought that would not tend to improve the
people, but rather the reverse, for he considered the
great influx of gold into this country from Australia
and California had produced an injurious effect.
Mr. CRAWFURD combated that notion of Sir J.
Lubbock's, and adverted to the prosperity of Aus-
tralia as an instance of the improvement effected
by the discovery of the precious metals.
Mr. CARTER BLAKE referred to the discovery of
highly ornamented pottery in Central America, and
to the identity in pattern in those ornaments with
the ornaments and pottery discovered in Egypt, re-
marking on the inferences that might be drawn
from such resemblances in support of the unity of
the origin of man, though that was an opinion he
did not hold himself.
Dr. LOCKHART also made a few remarks on the
paper.
The next paper, by Mr. CRAWFURD, " On the His-
tory and Migration of Cultivated Plants used as Con-
diments," was a continuation of a series of papers
by him on the migration of plants ethnologically con-
sidered. He entered into the subject very elabo-
rately, commencing with black pepper. It is a vine
consisting of 50 species, and is exclusively a tropical
plant, being confined to Eastern Asia and its islands,
its geographical range not going beyond 12 de-
grees from the equator. Its native country is most
probably Malabar, on the most souther❑ part of the
west coast of India, where it is found wild, and
where it has been immemorially cultivated. Pep-
per, in the time of Pliny, was a condiment of con-
siderable consumption in Rome, and he quotes its
price at 15 denarii the pound. Reckoning the
denarius at Bid., and the Roman pound at one-
fourth part less than our own, the cost of a pound
avoirdupois of pepper in the Roman market would
in our money be about 14s. 9d. Of all the commo-
dities which come under the head of luxuries, black
pepper is, he said, after sugar, tobacco, and perhaps
capsicum, that of most universal consumption, owing
chiefly to its cheapness. It has been immemorially
in use by all the people of Asia who have attained
any considerable amount of civilisation from the
Bosphorus to Japan, and by the nations of Europe,
and, since the discovery of America, by all the civi-
lised inhabitants of the New World. There is, how-
ever, one exception to this, and it is a singular one ;
it is that of the producers themselves, and this ob-
servation applies equally to the clove and nutmeg.
'These commodities are hardly used at all by their
grow. rs, and all are produced by them for strangers.
Some estimate of the consumption of the nations of
Europe in the article of black pepper may be formed
from our own duelings in it. We import some
14,000,0001 b., of which we furnish other nations to
the extent of 10,000,0001 b., consuming ourselves
4,000,0001 b., equal to a consumption per head of
21oz. The two next commodities of which he gave
au account were cloves and nutmegs, which, how-
ever unimportant now in the trade of the East,
formed three centuries ago the most considerable,
or, at least, the most envied branch of it. Their
history, in an ethnological sense, is of deep
interest, since it was the effort to reach the
country producing them by the only race of
men capable of conceiving and achieving such enter-
prises which led to the discovery of ane w world, to
the circumnavigation of the globe, and which for the
first time in the history of the world brought nearly
all the races of man to the knowledge of each other's
existence. Cinnamon and cassia, Mr. Crawfurd
said, have been in immemorial use in Europe and in
Asia. The principal source of its supply is China,
and it must have found its way to ancient Rome by
way of Tyre and Alexandria. But of all vegetable
condiments he regarded as the most important, be-
cause of most general use, capsicum, or red pepper.
It is of universal use, and amounts almost to a neces-
sary of life in every tropical or sub-tropical ccuntry
of Asia, Africa, and America. In every country of
tropical Asia the capsicum of one species or another
is of universal culture, and has been so immemorially.
A notion has, notwithstanding, been entertained by
some distinguished botanists that the plant is an ex-
otic in Asia and Africa, and was introduced from
America, but he was satisfied that was a mistake.
In the discussion that followed the reading of the
paper General Balfour and Mr. Campbell took part,
and Mr. Crawfurd added to his remarks on pepper
that white pepper is produced from a portion of black
pepper, and yet at one time the East India Com-
pany were so ignorant of the subject that they sent
instructions for the cultivation of white pepper in
preference to black.
The meeting then adjourned.