The Sun.
London, England, 1859-04-05 00:00:00

CHELMSFORD—ArRn 1.

At this corn market to-day there was an average show
of wheat, and the prices of all descriptions of grain were
the same as last week. Business transactions were entirely
confined to buyers for present consumption.
Wheat, white 39s to 51s Peas, Partridge ..40s to 45s
red 37s to 49s White 38s to 40s
Barley 30s to 40s Boiling 4os to 45s
Chevalier ....32s to 43s Dun 38s to 40s
Grinding 258 to 33s Beans, Tick ....36s to 398
Malt 578 to 63s Harrow Ticks 38s to 428
Chevalier 6OB to 66s Mazagan 35s to 38s
Oats 22s to 32s

KIRKALDY—APRIL 2.
We had moderate supplies of wheat to-day, good of oats,
but small of barley. Seed demand for barley and oats in-
fluenced prices a little, so that generally they are in favour
of sellers. .
Wheat (N). Barley (N). Oats (N).
First.... 35s Oct 25s Od 20s Oct
Second .. 42s Od 32s Oct 24s 6d
Thirds.. 46s Od 34s 6d 26s Od
Wheat (0). Barley (0). Oats (0).
First.... -s Od --a Od —s Od
Second.. —s Od —s Od —s Od
Third .. —s Od —s Oct `PI dO

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HOUSE OF LORDS: -4, ' -7- A. f- 47
THE DUNBOYNE PEERAGE.'; ib: q S
The Committee of Privileges met this ma: mint atimlf.
past ten o'clock to consider the claim of the Right lion.
Frederick Temple Blackwood, Lord Dufferix L and Clande.
boye, to this peerage of Ireland.
APPEAL.—SMITH V. KEAY. '
The further hearing of this appeal was 3 ;,ostponed till
Friday next.
The Committee of Privileges will meet iIL Thursday
next to consider the claim to the Berkeley pe(r rage.

COURT OF BANKRUPTCY.'
(Before Mr. Commissioner ETan.ll .) -
THE METROPOLITAN SALOON 01INIIMS d.OMPANY.--=
In this case there was a petition with the view of winding
up the affairs of this company. This was d n adjourned
meeting for the same purpose, there havingbe4 n soine error
in the proceedings, and Mr. Linklater, for thi i petitioners,
withdrew the petition, so as to be enabled to 30mnience d.
novo.

The petition was accordingly dismissed.

CITY SHERIFFS'' couitT. •
(Before the Common Sergeant and a 3x try.)

MORRISON AND OTHERS V. DULLEN AND OT:RERS-BRI

TISI{ AND FOREIGN TRADE-IXFORTANT7i CASE.

This was a case of the greatest importance 'to the com-
mercial world, and one which involved a principle of trade
that attracted a dense crowd to the Court',
Mr. Laxton, instructed by Messrs.-lanai t, Son, and
Morris, appeared for the plaintiffs;. 'Denny, in_
strubted by Mr. Bird, of Guilford-street; for -the; defendants.
Plaintiffs are the well known Morrison -and Dillon of
Fore-street, and they sought to recover a 3a.- 4d., loss sus-
tained through the short delivery of some ribbain. velvet by
the defendants. From a voluminous mass of evidence it
appears that, in December last year, defendant a' traveller
called upon Mr. Pegg, one of the plaintiffs' b uyere, and
offered same German ribbon for sale. After sore haggling
as to price, Mr. :Pegg, having samples, agreed. to 'take the
goods, and they were duly sent in. A second lot was. offere4
in January in the present year, and accepted by plaintiff.
These goods were sent out to a variety of.custoroters, and a
Mr. Roach, of Pimlico, sent a commtinicatien to plaintiff
notifying that the pieces were short about 3} yards each.
The principle of trade involved is this—lnunense quantities
of velvet ribbon are manufactured. in_ Germany for Eng•
land and the continent. Those ribbons made far England
are invaribly 171 yards, or from 17 to 171 yards in the
piece ; those manufactured for the foreign states are from
14 to 15 yards to the piece. Now the goods giving rise to
the present action were called " German ribbon velvet,"
and as such were accepted as 17f yards, and the price as
such paid. The various witnesses called for plstintiff were
men of considerable experience in the trade, and they posi-
tively swore that in their knowledge of the trade the term
German ribbon velvet meant 17f yards in the piece. If by
any chance (a most rare occurrence) any velvet manufactured
for a foreign market found its way into this country the short
measure was always notified. All the ribbons supplied by
defendants were short, and plaintiff had allowed Mr.
Roach £3 14s. 9d. ; and having measured those remaining
in their own stock, they found a further deficiency of
£4 Be. 7d. These two sums formed the amount claimed.
Upon applying to defendants to reimburse the plaintiff for
this loss, Messrs. Dillon refused, saying that no length
was mentioned. Mr. Denny made this defence now, and
the Common Sergeant said all were agreed'upon that point,
and it only remained to prove the fact of what was under-
stood in the market by " German ribbon velvet?'
Defendants were called, and said that the ribbons were
job-lot, and that meant short measure ; but this was denied.
'Mr. Slater, one of the firm of Morrison and Dillon, said
that he pointed out to defendants th'e well-known rule in
the trade. Defendant's, however, persisted thattarge,quati-
tities of German ribbon velvet of only 14} yards in the
piece were sold in London, and that. the price. asked was
much lower than paid for the piece of 171 yards, but the
jury stopped the case, and found for plaintiffs. •

CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT—(rhis D'ay).

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OLD COURT:
(Before the Recorder.)

• WATCH ROBBERY.
James Smith was indicted for stealing a gold watch, the
property of a lady named Da Silva Lever.
From the evidence of the prosecutrix it appeared that
she was, on the 14th of February last, passing along
Darnley-road, Hackney, when the prisoner came up to her
and inquired the way to " the Downs." She lifted her
hand to point out the direction, and the next moment she
felt something at her side, and immediately afterwards she
discovered her watch had been stolen. She accused the
prisoner of the robbery, but he denied it and ran away.
She told some of the persons near her of the robbery, and
the prisoner was pursued and captured. The watch was
not recovered.

The jury found the prisoner guilty.
A city police-constable proved a former conviction for
felony.
The Recorder sentenced him to four years' penal servi-
tude.
A young women, named Lanchester, was indicted for
concealing the birth of her child.
Mr. Lilly appeared for the prosecution, and Mr. Sleigh
defended the prisoner.
Mr. Everett, a surgeon residing at Hornsey, said—On
the 16th of February I went to a cottage at Muswell-hill.
The prisoner was a servant there. I was shown up to her
bed-room, and I asked the cause of her illness. She told
me she had not been quite right for some time, and having
taken an aperient it had made her unwell. I told her I
could not be satisfied with such an answer. I informed her

I was a surgeon, but she positively refused to allow the
slightest examination of her bed. I told her I thought she
had lately given birth to a child, but she said she had not.
I said if she persisted in her refusal I would send for a con-
stable. I sent the other servants up stairs, and in a shore
time afterwards I was called upstairs and was informed a
bundle had been discovered. I took the parcel into ano-
ther room and found it contained the body of a male child
not many hours old. He was tied up in an old apron.
Ellen Maylie said—l was on the afternoon of the 16th of
February sent upstairs! by *Dr. Everett, who told me I was
to search the bed. I did so, and a bundle fell from between
the bed and the palliasse. The prisoner picked it up and
placed it under her night-dress.
Mr. Sleigh contended that that circumstance did not
amount to felonious disposition of the body within the
meaning of the Act.
The learned Recorder was of the same opinion.
The jury immediately returned a verdict of not guilty,
and the prisoner was discharged.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.-(THIS DAY.)

MARLBOROUGH. STREET.

STEALING WEDDING RINGS.--William Johnson and
Catherine Johnson, the latter with an infant in her arms,
were charged with stealing two gold wedding rings from
the shop of Messrs. Gass and Co., jewellers, of 166, Regent-
street.

James Bowden, shopman in the employ of Messrs. Gass,
said the prisoners came in a little before four o'clock, and
the female asked to see some wedding rings. He showed
her several, but there being none to fit, he said he would
either alter or make one for her. While She was examin-
ing the rings the man, who was holding the child, shifted
it between him and the rings, and at that moment witness,
who was watching him, perceived him give a signal to the
female, and she took two rings off the counter. He taxed
her with it, when she replied " Me I what do you mean l'"
At that moment Mr. Gass came forward, and another shop
man saw a ring fall from her just as the other was taken
from her. The value of the rings was 18s. each, and on
the prisoners being searched all the money found on them
was lld.

Mr. Beadon said perhaps, living near the Kent-road,
they would give some reason for being in that part of the
town.

—The male prisoner said business brought him there.
A constable said a jeweller in Oxford-street was present
in court, at whose shop they had been previous to going to
Messrs. Gass, but was not positive whether lukhad lost
anything.
Remanded.

is expected to be negotiated
have received
_ the Royal assent Its
tedibai
shallloan
announcement may therefore be looked for early next week.
The Russian loan hproceed rospect of being seriously
damaged by the presenings of the Emperor Napo-
leon.
LONDON-BRIDGE AND CHARING-CROSS RAILWAY.
—The committee of the House of Commons (Mr. Ingham,
chairman), which has been enraged during the past fort-
night in considering the Charing-cross Bill, yesterday
afternoon decided that the preamble had been proved, but
they required clauses to be inserted in the bill with refer-
ence to the compensation to be paid to the governors of St.
Thomas's Hospital. The committee has been most pains-
taking in their inquiries into the merits of the case, having
adopted the unusual course of personally visiting and exa-
mining the London-bridge Station, St. Thomas's Hospital,
the crossing of Wellington-street, the interior of St. Sa-
viour's Church, and the Borough Market. A decision
come to after so careful an investigation must necessarily
give considerable confidence as to its soundness. _

THE QUEEN'S VISIT TO THB BRITISH MUSEUM
LIBRARY.--On Saturday afternoon, as the bell was about
to be rung as the signal for closing, her Majesty the Queen
and his Royal Highness Prince Albert, with the Princesses
Alice and Helena, accompanied by the ladies and gentlemen
in waiting, entered the new reading room of the British
Museum Library. The presence of the royal party ex-
cited no little interest among the departing readers, and
when, after a visit of an hour's duration, her Majesty
emerged from the hall, the broad crimson cloth which had
been extended from the outer doors over the steps and
down to the carriages was closely lined on either side with
students, old and young, including several ladies, who had
been anxiously awaiting their sovereign's re-appeaninee-
Her Majesty, who appeared in excellent health, alVl_whoo
with the princesses, was attired in the simplest
_fashic.a4
seemed pleased at the attention offered,
nantly as she moved along leaning on the arm o and guilf
Shade Pbeniringce
to the littlo crowd who had tarried to witness
Consort, and on re-entering the carriag° bosvehord
departgramousurloy.

CANTERBURY HALL, Westminster-road.—
Proprietor—C. MORTON.
The public is most respectfully informed that the FINE
ARTS GALLERY, in connection with the above Hall, IS NOW
OPEN DAT AND NIGHT, from 11 o'clock a.m. until 12
3'clock p.m. The New Gallery contains an extensive Collec-
Jon of Pictures, by Ancient and Modern Masters :and is also
devoted to Art productions generally. The Proprietor feels
he may confidently assert that, viewed altogether, the exist-
ing Music Hall, the New Fine Arts Gallery, and the recently
added Ante-Hall, will present an attraction which, whether
as regards the architectural beauty of the structures them-
selves, or the varied and hitherto unattempted combinations
within, will be found to be wholly without parallel in tie
Kingdom.

The MUSICAL ENTERTAINMENT
Seven o'clock.
In addition to the usual entertainment, the SAUVLET
FAMILY, of Amsterdam, Eight in number, whose varied
Instrumental performances have created so marked a sense-
don in the principal cities and towns of the Continent, will
.)erform every Evening at Nine and Eleven o'clock.

as usual at