The Sun.
London, England, 1859-02-08 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 8, 1859.

BRITISH POSSESSIONS.

Share Itailwa s'pap. Closing Business
y. s" Price.. Done.
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100 IA til,aenatslecd&atS
pLerr.
ceenntce J all 78 79
618 Bom.,Baroda& Cent.lna }
9 * i d
p. 5 percent.
18
18 Do. Addit. Capital A 6 1 1 d
18 Do. Do. 13 41 1 4 d
201 Buffalo and Lake Huron all. 7 7
201 Do. New l6l - - d
100 1 Buffalo,Brant. &Godrich lOO 85 90
6 p. ct. bds. 1 Aug., 1872
100 Do. do. 1 July, 1873 100 80 85 83
190 Do. do. 1 June, 1874 100 77 82
20 Clcutta.&S.Eastrn.Lhn. 1. 3. 0. id par par
20 Cape,Eastn. Prov.(Lim.) 2s.
20 Cape Town & Dock Scrip 2s. Pm
20 Central Oude (Limited) 2s. 6d.
2Q Ceylon Guaranteed 6p.c 2 i 1 P
171 Demerara
20 Eaetern Bengal.gu.sp.c 5 1 I 41
Stock East Indian, en. sp. c lOO 101 102 1011 211
20 Do. C Shares. all -
20 Do. E Shares Ext. 10 par i p
20 Do. Jubbulpore 5
100 D0.41p.c. lids. pay.'s9 all -
200. r
GeelongGeelot cloriepol.guraatio 53 6 100 _
.c. all 19 20
st
1, j per cent. Bonds i
Stock Grand Trunk of Canada 100 33 34 331
100 Do. 6 p.c. Deben.,pa.y.'7B all ' 75 76
100 Do. 6 per cent. Pref...
20 Gt.lndiaPenin.gua.sp.c all 100 101 991 104
20 Do. New, gua.s per cent 4 1 Id3l 1
20 Do. do 4 4 d par
20 ( Gt.S.of Ind.Lim.—Scrip 12, _
( guaranteed 5 per cent. )
201 Gt.W. of Canada Shares all 161 16f 164 1
201 Do. New
100 c Do. Bonds pay. '76,with 1 all 105 107
( cpt. till '6O
100 Do. do. '73 till '6O all 105 107
100 Do. do. 'l3 without opt all 102 104 1031
100 Do. 51 p. c. do. '77 do
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20 Madras, guar., 41 p. c. all 17 181
20 Do. do. 5 per cent. all 19 20
20 Do. 4/ p. c. Extension l5 181 19
20 Do. Third Ex. gea.s.p.c lO 1 1 d
20 Do. Fourth do.
Stock Mello. Corp. 6 p.c. Bonds 100
20 /Newßrunswick&Canda.
Ry,&Land(Lim.)g.6pc 10 2 lid
Class ACapitl. Share
• Do. do. Land do ..
20 Do. do. B. Capital do lO 4 3 d
▪ Do. do. Land do
20 c Northof India Tramroad
j Limited, Scrip 2s. _
20 Oude (Limited)
20 Scinde ), 3 4 15 1 1 p
20 Do. i Pit all 20 21
20 Do. New ti Q.
_. 5 1 d par,
20 Do. Punjaub
20 Do. Indus. St. Flo ) u,'"' 5 1 1 d
20 iSt. Andrews & Quebec A 18
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10 •k Trinidad( L i m i t e d ) Scrip 1 id 1 p

LAW INTELLIGENCE-(THIS DAY.)

COURT OF CHANCERY.
(Before the Lord Chancellor and the Lords Justices.)
PETITION BY ORDER.-FLETCHER V. MOORE.

This was an application to the Lord Chancellor to reduce
the fees of 10s., payable on every £lOO of net profits re-
ceived by the receiver of the proceeds of a colliery. The
gross proceeds received amounted to £40,000 annually. The
net profits £6,000. The receiver claimed 10s. fee on each
£lOO of £40,000 gross profits. _ _

The petitioner asserted that the receiver was only entitled
to 10s. fee on each £lOO of £6,000 of net profits.

Mr. Kenyon supported the petition; Mr. Taylor opposed,

The Lord Chancellor fixed the fee at 10s. on each £lOO
net profits, in the meantime, and to see what effect it
would have on the future amount received, and to apply.
Ordered accordingly.

APPEAL MOTION.-THE LONDON AND BRIGHTON AND

SOUTH COAST RAILWAY COMPANY V. THE LONDON

AND SOUTH-WESTERN RAILWAY COMPANY.

This was an appeal motion from a decision of Vice-
Chancellor Sir William Page Wood refusing an injunction
to destrain the defendents from using the joint line from
Hilty to Portsmouth, and vice versa ; and also from using
the booking-offices at Portland station.
Mr. Rolt, Q.C., and Mr. Wilcox appeared for the
appellant. Sir Richard Bethel, Q.C., represented the de-
fendants.

After hearing Mr. Rolt in support of the motion for an
injunction, it was ultimately arranged that the Plaintiff's
should amend their bill by inserting the agreement of the
parties, or such parts thereof as necessary—that the defen-
dants keep a just and accurate account of the traffic on the
disputed line,—that the working expenses be paid, and
that the balance be applied according to the orders of Court.
Reserving all points in dispute until the hearing of the
cause, which is fixed to be heard on the first Wednesday
before Good Friday. The usual notices to be given.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.-(THIS DA Y.)

MARLBOROUGH-STREET.

A SON CHARGED WITH ROBBING HIS PARENTS.--A
BAD CASE.—Michael Crawley, 16, a callous young fellow,
was charged with robbing his father as follows.

This case was a rather distressing one. It appears that
on the previous afternoon the boy's mother had gone to a
dispensary with a sick child, and had left Bs. on a table at
her residence, being the week's rent, and during her ab-
sence the prisoner walked off with the money, first having
waited till the landlord had signed the rent-book for the
amount.

Michael Crawley, the boy's father, said that on tho pre-
vious afternoon on his return from the hospital, where he
had been for advice, being in a consumption, he found that
the prisoner had decamped with the money. He went after
him, and after some trouble found him outside the Victoria
Theatre waiting to enter. Ho asked him what ho had done
with the mony, when he handed him 7s. Bd. back, saying
he had only spent 4d. About a fortnight age he had been
brought to this court for robbing his mother of her shawl,
and he had frequently committed himself before, but he tad
not appeared against him, but he was now compelled.
The prisoner admitted he took the money while the land-
lord was writing, but said, with some amount of confidence,
that the landlord did not see him.

Mr. Beadon said it was a very aggravated ease. He had
behaved with great audacity, and one for which he should
bo severely punished.

Committed for six months with hard latbour.

THIS DAY'S MARKETS.

HAY MARKETS.

.•
SMITIIFIELD.--Meadow hay, £2 15s to £4 lOs ; clover,
do., £4 5s to £5 Os; and straw, £1 4s to £1 8s per load.
Supplies moderate, and trade very dull.
CUMBERLAND—Meadow hay, £2 15s to £4 1O ; clover
do., £4 Os to £5 Os; and straw, £1 5s to £1 lOs per lead.
A heavy demand.

lirniTEcitAPEL.—Meadow hay, 15s to £4 lOs ; clover
do., £4 Os to £5 Os ; and straw, £1 4s to £1 lOs per load.
Both hay and straw sold slowly at our quotations.

COLONIAL.

TEA.—The market has been rather firmer, in conse-
quence of the advices from China reporting the crop short
and prices higher. Common Congou is about 13d. per lb.
COFFEE has been in steady request, and good qualities
of Plantation Ceylon have realised former values. _

SUGAR.—Business has been rather restricted, and prices
remain without any material alteration. In refined de-
zeriptions, also,_ the transactions have been on a limited
scale, at about former values.
RICE.—The market has presented rather more anima-
tion, and the common qualities have been in good request, but
the prices offered having been refused, the sales were
limited.

Rum.—ln this article business has been inactive, and
values remain without change.
SALTPETRE has been rather depressed. Prices, however,
are firmly maintained.

TALLOW.—The market continues ratherbuoyant. P.Y.C.
on the spot is 53s 3d ; and last three months, 52s 6d per
cent.

COUNTRY MABICETS.

COLCIIESTER—FEn. 5.

Only a moderate supply of wheat, but no improvement in
the condition. Trade slow, at last week's prices. Fine
barleys rather dearer; In other sorts no change. Beans
and peas meet a fair sale at full prices.
Wheat, white 46s to 50s Beans, Mazagan..32s to 34s
I
red 36s to 44s Middle & small 33s to 40.
Barley 3os to 42s White peas 4os to 42s
I
Oats 22s to 30s Grey 40s to 42,

SIR R. W. CARDEN, 31. P., ON REFORM.

At a dinner of the supporters of Alderman Car-
den, M.P., at Gloucester, on Friday, the worthy
alderman spoke at some length :—Lord Palmerston
has a reform bill, so has ,ford John Masse ; tnd
then there is Mr. Bright—(oh, oh)—but I need not
talk of him. (Cheers.) I think a man who stands
up in public and denounces the Established Church,
the hereditary peerage, and says that the country
will soon do without a House of Lords, does not
deserve, and certainly will not obtain, much consi-
deration from the people of this country. (Cheers.)
Abolish the House of Lords ! Why, what made its
members hereditary legislators ? Mr. Bright says
that they do not possess herediiary talent. Perhaps
, not ; but it is undoubted that there is more wisdom
in the House of Lords than in the House of Com-
mons. (Cheers.) The majority of those who com-
pose it are men who had made themselves great by
their public services, and deserve to be elevated by
their country, and rewarded by honours which they
can transmit to their posterity. (Loud cheers.)
But even if the members do not possess hereditary
talent, still, as a body, I repeat they possess more
talent than the House of Commons, selected as it is
from all parts of the country. I believe Lord
Derby, although he is a called a Conservative, is
the best reformer in this country. (Cheers.) I
believe he has done more to win public confidence
than any minister in the short period he has been
in office. (Cheers.) Ido not mean to say that
parliamentary reform is not necessary ; on the con-
trary, I think it is. (Cheers.) I think there are
many anomalies in the representative system that
ought to be rectified ; and, depend upon it, gentle-
men, Lord Derby will do it. (Cheers.) He will
give us a good, fair, and constitutional measure
of parliamentary reform; he will propose such a
measure, and he will carry
i it. I say that an ex-
tension of the franchise s necessary. (Cheers.)
There are anomalies in the state of the representa-
tion which ought to be rectified. For instance,
Andover has 241 registered voters ; Chippenham
300 ; Harwich, 272 ; Honiton, 273 ; Tewkesbury,
373; and Dartmouth, 302. Here are 1,750 electors
altogether, and they return 12 members of parlia-
ment. Look, on the other hand, at Cheltenham,
with 2,400 regikered electors ; it returns only one
member. There is another subject to which I will
call attention. There is a famous measure called
the ballot. I am opposed to the ballot—(loud
cheers)—because I feel it is un-English ; because
I feel that it would lead to deceit and falsehood. The
Conservatives have nothing to fear from the ballot;
but I oppose it as the commencement of deceit and
falsehood, and as tending to break down the right
feeling and destroy the confidence which should
exist between man and • man. (Cheers.) Gentle-
men, in the Queen's speech allusion is made to three
important measures of law reform, which will be
promoted in the ensuing session by the govern-
ment • and, really, I think that the valuable time
of parliament would be much better bestowed on
these things than in any consideration on parlia-
mentary reform.

RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE.