The Sun.
London, England, 1859-04-18 00:00:00

SEEDS.

The linseed market continues very inactive, yet we have
no change to notice in prices. Rapeseed is dull, and lower
to purchase. In cloverseed only a moderate business has
been transacted, on former terms. Other seeds without
alteration. Cakes have been in request, at full quotations.
rurnip,White,p.bus.l2s to 14s earraway .......... 40s to 43s
Swede
Mustard, Brown.., Bs lls Hempseed, per qr 30s 388
White, new l2s 20s Linseed,Eng. sowing 72s 748
Tares, Spring, new.. 9s6d 12s Crushing —8 —s
Old —s Baltic .......... —s —8
Canary, per quarter 56s 76s Odessa 56s 595
Rye grass, new 22s 26s Linseed Cake, p. ton—
Clover, Red Eng., et. 468 768 English ...... £lO Os.£lo 15s
White
Foreign Red s2s 64s Rape Cakes,p. ton 5 Os 6 5s
White 608 88s Rapeseed, p. qr..... 64s 748
Trefoil, new lBs 20s

TALLOW
Our market has become very firm, owing to the high
quotations at hand from St. Petersburg, and prices continue
to advance. To-day P.Y.C. on the spot is selling at 53s 9d
to 518 per cwt. Town tallow, 548 net cash ; rough fat,
2s 112 d.

1855. 1856. 1857, 1858. 1859.
I 59s 9d to 47s 3d to 53s 6d to 55s 6d to 5359 d to
Stock this day.... 32,552 20,079 13.673 12,491 1,330
—s Od 47s 6d
—s Od —s Od 54s Od
Jane 1 76,407 97,647 97,353 96,380 91,221
w"ee 2,290 8,181 2,020 1,607 1,612
21 89 1,121 213
Ditto from June 1 92,259 71,181 ' 94,049 97,158 92,955
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Price 01D:0wn.... Ws Cd 60s 6d 55s 9d ' 67s 3d Ns Od

LAW INTELLIGENCE,-(THIS DAY.)

ROLLS COURT.
(Before the Master of the Rolls.)
JUDGMENT.-SPARROW V. FARMER.
His Honour, the Master of the Rolls, said this is a claim
' filed by one of the members of a benefit building society
called the British Building and Deposit Company, and he
asks to be given up to him the mortgage title-deeds of his
property. It appeared by the 21st rule of the society that
first-class members, of whom the plaintiff was one, were
bound to pay 10s. per month, and at the end of 13 years
they became entitled to receive £336. In 1845 plaintiff
mortgaged his property in Charlotte-street, and received in
advance £lOO. Plaintiff paid up his calls and fines for 13
years, and now claimed the mortgage-deed over his pro-
perty to be delivered up to him. The society resisted the
claim on the ground that by the regulations the society was
not to be dissolved until the funds of the society were able
to pay £l5O to each second-class member, that the funds of
the society were not yet able to pay this sum to each mem-
ber of the society, and the plaintiff was bound to continue
a member until the funds enabled each member to receive
£l5O, and that they were entitled to retain the mortgage
indenture granted by him until the society's funds were
able to pay this sum. In referring to the case of this society
before the Court of Exchequer, and the opinion of Mr.
Baron Mitrtin in that case, he came to the conclusion that
the plaintiff was entitled to have his mortgage deed deli-
vered up to him at the end of 13 years, and to the sum then
due to him as a member, reserving to the society any action
at law they might have against him, in default of future
payments or calls upon him, as a member of the society,
until each member was able to obtain £l5O, in terms of the
rules of the society, and decreed accordingly, with costs up
to the hearing, with liberty to apply.

Mr. R. Palmer, Q.C., and Mr. Lloyd, Q.C., appeared in
the cause.

COURT OF PROBATE AND DIVORCE.
(Before Sir Cresswell Cresswell.)

HUITSON V. HUITSON.

This was a petition for divorce by the wife against the
husband,. a banker's clerk, No. 1, Great Cambridge-street,
Hackney-road, for adultery. The evidence went to prove
the separation. The case was undefended.
His Honour decreed a judicial separation.
BROWN V. BROWN.

This was a petition by the wife for separation from her
husband on the ground of cruelty. The evidence proved
the cruelty of the husband by striking his wife and pawn-
ing his children's clothes.
His Honour granted a judicial separation.

COURT OF BANKRUPTCY.
(Before Mr. Commissioner Goulburn.)

IN RE P. FOLKARD.

The bankrupt was described as of East Beryholt, Suffolk,
builder, and to-day came up to pass his last examination.
The balance-sheet, by Messrs. Hart Brothers, commences
Jan., 1858, with a surplus of £6,518, and the bankrupts now
owe to unsecured creditors, £2,520; dittolholding security,
4744. Creditor, by good debts, £204; doubtful, £2,890
lls. Bd. ; bad, carried to losses, £4,492 ; property; £395;
ditto held by creditors, £5,415; expenses, £419; losses,
£4,851.

Mr. Pennell, the official assignee, said that the accounts
were satisfactory, and the bankrupt passed without opposi-
tion, and an allowance was mad/to him, as there will be a
surplus from the property held by creditors.

SHERIFFS' COURT.
(Before tha Common Sergeant.)

IMPORTANT TO THE SHIPPING INTEREST.-:WALKER V.

WESTBROOK

Plaintiff is a labourer, and defendant is a stevedore.
Plaintiff sought to recover 3s. for nine hours' work on board
a vessel, he having been employed by defendant. The de-
fence was that plaintiff and some of his companions had
pillaged some cases of wine in the ship's hold, and had left
work without being discharged. A claim had been made
for the loss on the owner of the ship.
Plaintiff complained that such charges were made, and
that no steps had been taken to connect him with them.

• His Honour made an order upon defendant, telling that
person he could not set off the loss against wages.
Verdict for plaintiff.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.-(THIS DAY.)

MARLBOROUGH-STREET.

CHARGE AGAINST A TRADESMAN OF DANGEROUS
DRlVlNG.—Charles Robinson, an upholsterer, at Hackney,
was charged with furiously driving a horse and Cart, being
drunk at the time, and endangering passengers.
From the evidence of Tarrant, 299 A, 'it appeared that
about ten on Saturday night the defendant was galloping
his horse along Coventry-street at the rate of nino miles an
hour, till at length he came in collision with a cab, knock-
ing the driver off the box, and had anything been passing
at the time the driver must certainly have had his life in
jeopardy. He was drunk at the time.
Defendant said it was a " moral impossibility" he could
have gone at that rate; it was only about two miles.
150 C said the defendant was going between eight and
nine miles an hour. The cabman was knocked off his seat
like a ball. He assisted the cabman up, but he said he did
not then feel much hurt. The defendant was very violent.
The defendant said he was not drunk, and Inspector Steel,
who took the charge, was sent for, and proved that he was.
On asking the defendant's son, a young boy, some ques-
tions, he said his father had been drinkingat Knights-
bridge, and he could not get him home.
The defendant said he was insulted by everybody. He
had only had two threepenny-worth's of gin at Knights-
bridge.

The boy genied the inspector's statement, but said his
father had left him in the cart for an hour and a quarter,
and was with some porters at a job.
Mr. Beadon said he was satisfied the defendant was drunk
as sworn to, and fined him 40s.

The defendant said he should seek redress at Scotland-
yard, persisting that he was not intoxicated.

THAMES.

TOBACCO SMIJOGLING.—Henry Holloway, a seaman,
was brought before Mr. Yardley, charged with unlawfully
unshipping 21 lbs. of foreign manufactured tobacco, before
the Customs' duties had been first paid and secured.
Mr. Thomas Smith, a tide surveyor, stated that on the
arrival of the General Steam Navigation Company's ship
the Cologne, from Rotterdam, at the St Katherine's wharf,
yesterday, he saw the prisoner get into a boat in a very
hurried manner, and suspecting that he had smuggled
goods about him, he asked him if he had any, to which he
replied in the negative, and at the same time threw a paper
oontainingtobacco overboard. He searched the prisoner and
found suspended round his neck three papers, each con-
taining a half-pound of tobacco, and in his hat another
paper containing a half-pound of tobacco ; making in all
21 lbs. The value and duty was about 30s.
The prisoner acknowledged his guilt, and
Mr. Yardley fined him 40s.

A GREAT NursaNcE.—Ellen Crawley, a wretched-look-
ing woman, with her eyes swollen and blackened, bloated
face, and hair hanging loosely about her face and neck, was
brought before Mr. Yardley, charged with creating a dis-
turbance opposite the Court, and breaking a pane of glass
in the window of the Prince of Wales publichouse, in
Arbour-street East, Stepney.
On Saturday morning the prisoner's landlord, a most
consummate scoundrel and thief, named Willis, of No. 8,
Bluegate-fields, Shad well, and a female named Maloney,
were charged at this court with assaulting and plundering
an Austro-Italian seaman, and they were remanded. The
prisoner, who is strongly suspected of having been concerned
n the robbery—one of the most audacious ever perpetrated
—lived in the same house, and came to look after the fate
of the two thieves, and got very much excited. She left the
court for a short time, and returned in a half-drunken state
and made a disturbance in the passage of the court. She
was expelled from the building, and then crossed the road,
went into the Prince of Wales public-house and demanded
liquor. Mr. Preece, jun., the landlord, refused to serve
her, and she gave utterance to a volley of foul abuse. He
ejected her from the house, and she then pulled off her shoe
and smashed a large pane of glass.

Roche, the gaoler of the court, and Mills, a police-con-
stable, No. 306 K, said the prisoner was a foul-mouthed
and very disorderly woman.
Mr. Yardley sentenced the prisoner to be imprisoned in
the House of Correction for one month, and kept to hard
labour.

DISCOVERY OF A LARGE QUANTITY OF ANCIENT
COIN ON THE PRINCE CONSORT'S FARM.--A field called
the hospital field, belonging to the Shaw farm estate, in the
possession of his Royal Highness the Prince Consort, and
abutting on the Long Walk, has recently undergone the
process of thorough draining, the earth afterwards turned
in, and the ground rolled. Three boys were subsequently
employed to collect the loose stones, when on Friday last
one of them picked up something on the surface of the re-
cently removed earth, which appeared to them to be a lump
of lead, and they were about to dispose of it as such, but
upon further investigation it proved to be a leaden case con-
taining upwards of 150 pieces of silver coin, principally half-
crowns, of the reigns of Elizabeth, James 1., and Charles
1., most of them being in admirable preservation. The boys
divided the coin among themselves, but on the discovery
becoming known to Mr. Tait, the steward of his Royal
Highness, the coins were collected and forwarded to her
Majesty, and the lads suitably rewarded.
THE LIVERPOOL BATHS AND WASHHOUSES.—At
the council meeting, held on Wednesday, the following
statistics respecting the Liverpool corporation baths and
wash-houses were read :—The Cornwallis •street baths had
been used during the quarter by 15,427 males, 1,276 females;
total, 16,763. The St. George's Pierhead baths had been
used by 4,203 males, and 215 females ; total, 4,418 The
Paul-street baths were patronised by 4,490 persons, of whom
4,196 were males, and 294 females ; making a grand total of
25,611 for the quarter, showing an increase of 3,387, of
which 2,598 were to be put down to Cornwallis-street ; 763
to St. George's baths; and 26 to Paul-street. The Frede-
rick-street washhouse had been used during the present
(first) quarter by 7,225, and by only 4,664 in the corres-
ponding quarter of last year, showing an increase in
favour of this year of 2,561 washers, and £54 Os, Bd. in
money.

THIRD EDITION.

SUN OFFICE, Seven o' Clock.

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.

HOUSE OF LORDS--(Tms EVENING).

The LORD CHINCELLOR took his seat on the woolsack
at five o'clock.

THE CIVIL: SERVICE

The Earl of DERBY laid on the table, by command o:
her Majesty, the report of the Civil Service Commission.

THE RED SEA TELEGRAPH.
Lord STANLEY of ALDERLEY said, in the short dis-
cussion that had taken place on Thursday last, he under-
stood the noble earl opposite (Derby) to state that
the guarantee of the Government would not commence
until the line was in working order, but he saw, from a
letter signed by a gentleman named Deane, that the
centract entered into came into force immediately it was
agreed to by the Treasury. He also understoodthat an actual
instalment of the 4- per cent. had been advanced, although
no vote of Parliament had sanctioned such a payment. He
wished to ask whether any such payment had been made.
The Earl of DERBY said he was inaccurate when he
stated on Thursday evening that the Government were
not to make any payment until the line was
in working order. It was quite true that an instalment
had been paid, in anticipation of the sanction of
Parliament, but in making that payment they had only
followed the precedent of the late Government in the case
of the Mediterranean Extension Company. He would not
at that moment enter into any discussion as to whether
such a course was regular, but the late Government had
initiated the course, and the present Government had fol-
lowed it.

THE STATE OF EUROPE.
The Earl of MALMESBURY, in rising to make his
statement with respect to the state of Europe, thanked
their lordships for the indulgence they had accorded him in
allowing him to postpone his statement, but he had done so
in order that he might be in a position to state as fully as
possible the exact position of the affairs of the conti-
nent. It was well known that for some time
the relations of France, Austria, and Sardinia
had been in anything but a satisfactory position; while, on
the contrary, the position of this country with the other
great powers was most satisfactory. With respect to the
position of Austria it was well known, and it could not be
denied that she had in many cases forgot that her duty
to Italy was to set an example to the other states.
The position of affairs in Italy, which for some time had
!-been unsatisfactory, had gradually grown worse, and the
northern d:vision of that country had become a permanent
source of European contention. It was exceedingly difficult
for a country like England, and for any English
Minister, to comprehend distinctly the policy of another
country, but a art had been taken by the ruler of a great
country, which had not lessened the difficulty. Affairs
had daily grown worse, until at the end of February it was
thought desirable to send Lord Cowley to Vienna. Their lord-
ships already knew that nobleman had been in negotiation
with the Austrian Minister as a personal friend. Besides
these negotiations Russia had proposed a congress, and he
had thought that he should not be justified in refusing to
accede to that prCceeding. Assent was given to this, and
on the 22d of March Baron Brunow brought the official
proposition. He (Earl of Malmesbury) then drew up four
preliminary points for consideration. The first was what mea-
suaes should be taken to preserve, for the present, the peace
between Austrta and Sardinia, the second related .
to the best means of promoting the evacua- ,
tion of the Roman States by
,the French trOepi
the third was, whether and, if any, what reforms should be
introduced for the internal administration of the Roman and
Italian States ; and the fifth related to the substi-
tution for the treaties between Austria and the
Duchies of a confederation of the union of the Italian
States for their mutual protection and benefit. Then
there were a variety of questions of details as to
the assembling of the congress. One of the great diffi-
culties was the question of disarmament, for it was
always considered desirable that, in order to receive calm
deliberation, the means of violence, should be removed.
Austria wished a general disarmament. France; roposed
that disarmament should be a question for the consideration
of the Congress; while he proposed the question should be
referred to a number of military officers. The whole of the
powers were agreed except upon one point, and that point
was the precise time at which the disarmament should take
place.

[LEFT SPEAKING.]

HOUSE OF COMMONS-(THIS EVENING).
The SPEAKER took the chair at four o'clock.
PRIVATE BUSINESS.

The Lords' amendments to the Great Northern Railway
Bill were considered and agreed to, and the bill was ordered
for third reading.
The following bills were considered and ordered for
third reading :—Charing-cross Railway • Oxford, Wor-
cester, and Wolverhampton Railway ; Reading and Hat-
field Road ; Salford Borough (No. 2) ; Tenbury Rail-
way ; Witney Railway (No. 2) ; Worcester and Hereford
Railway.

The following bills were read a second time :—Maidstone
Water and National Fire and Life Insurance Company of
Scotland.

YACHT CLUBS.

Lord DALKEITNFUOVed-iliatthere be added to the
return relative to yacht clubs, moved for on the 7th of this
instant April, any statement of the reason for the Admi-
ralty withdrawing the white ensign from the Royal
Western Yacht Club of Ireland in 1858, specifying whe-
ther the circumstance that the secretary of the Royal
Western Yacht Club was in the habit of holding out the
privilege of the White Ensign as an inducement to persons
to join that Club had any influence over that decision ; and
a list of the vessels belonging to the Royal Western Yacht
Club, specifying name, tonnage, and poets to which they
belong.—Agnced to.
ABERDEEN UNIVERSITIES AND COLLEGES.
Mr. S. ESTCOURT hoped that in the absence of the
Lord Advocate the hon. member for Aberdeen .cCol. Sykes)
would not press his motion relative to this subject, and he
would promise that no steps would be taken in reference
thereto until the meeting of the next Parliament.
Colonel SYKES, under the circumstances, acceded to the
request.

THE BOY MARSDEN.
In answer to Mr. BRISCOE,
Mr. S. ESTCOURT said he was happy that this ques-
tion had been brought forward because there was much
misconception relative to it. The inspector-general of re-
formatories attended the inquest held on the body of
the boy, and from his report there was not the slightest
ground of attaching blame to the officers on board the hulk,
and that his death was produced by natural causes.

LIEUT.-COLONEL DICKSON.
Mr. T. DUNCOMBE asked the Secretary of State for
War whether it was his intention to recommend her Ma-
jesty to re-instate Lieut.-Colonel Dickson, late of the Tower
Hamlets Militia, after the verdict obtained by that officer
in the Court of Queen's Bench ?

General PEEL said he could not make the recommenda-
ion in question.

MEDICAL OFFICERS.

In reply to Mr. GROGAN, —.
Sir J. PAKINGTON said that it was proposed to place
naval medical officers on the same footing with medical
officers in the army.

FOREI GN AFFAIRS.--MINISTERIAL
EXPLANATION.

The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said—l
now rise to place before the house the state of the negc.kia-
dons respecting the affairs of Italy. Towards the close of
the last year there had been a considerable degree of irrita-
tion between Austria and France. The Ministers of this
country, and Austria, and France had received instructions
as far as possible to take steps to soften that asoerbity. Cir-
cumstances occurred which rendered the misunderstanding
between these two Powers'a matter of notoriety, and her
Majesty's representatives in those countries had received
instructions to make themselves acquainted with all the
information it was possible to obtain. It was considered
that the time had then arrived when her Majesty might
offer her friendly services as a mediator between the powers
interested in the subject, and it was ultimately agreed to
despatch Lord Cowley to Vienna, in consequence of his
believing himself to be in full possession of the feel-
ings and sentiments of the Emperor of the French
in reference to this matter. The views of her
Majesty's Ministers at the time were those which had
been entertained by the most distinguished statesmen
of both houses and all parties. We thought that it would
be most unwise to adopt any steps that would disturb the
settlement made in 1815, and which was recommended by
the greatest statesmen of the day. The treaty agreed
to at this time gave Austria a large preponderance
in the affairs of Italy, in order to preserve more effectually
the balance of power in Europe. During the efforts to
mediate on the part of this country, Russia suggested that
there should be a Congress of the five great Powers, which
was eventually agreed to. (Hear, hear.) This country
considered, however, that under all the circumstances
it was only advisable to accept this proposition of a congress,
which was to endeavour to effect an arrangement of the
misunderstanding that existed, on four conditions, subject
to the general condition that the settlement of 1815 was not

be interfered with. The first condition was the evacua-

tion of Rome by the foreign troops ; the second was the
reformation of the administration of Rome ; the
third was to consider the best means of pre-
venting the breaking out of a war between
Austria and Sardinia ; and the fourth, to consider the best
mode of arranging the affairs of Central Italy ; a fifth con-
dition was added, by which Austria was to define the third
condition, and that definition was the disarmament
of Sardinia, and that this country was to guarantee Sar-
dinia from any attack on the part of Austria, pending the
deliberations of the congress. Austria desired that
the disarmament should take place before the
meeting of congress ; and France, it was under-
stood, wished that question to be considered first in
congress. Things were in that state when the noble lord
the member for Tiverton put to me the question on this
subject, and which I could not, of course, answer at
the time. At length :it was agreed that there
should be a general disarmament. Sardinia, however,
would not enter into the engagement as she was not ad-
mitted to a place, and refused to disarm. Her Majesty's
Government are desirous of putting the most favourable con-
struction on the conduct of Sardinia, but I do think
that conduct was ambiguous. I still hope that the peace
of Europe will be maintained ; and I have the satisfaction
to inform the house that the Marquis d'Azeglio has
arrived in this country from Turin as ambassador
extraordinary. He is a wise and temperate statesman and
his appearance at present was favourable to the
prospect of a pacific solution of the present differences. I