The Sun.
London, England, 1857-12-24 00:00:00

MARKET NEWS.—(This Day.)

CORN EXCHANGE.
GENERAL AVERAGE PRICES OF BRITISH CORN
For the week ended Dec. 24, 1857, made up from the Re-
turns of the Inspectors in the different Cities and Towns in
England and Wales, per Imperial Quarter.
WHEAT 1 BARLEY 1 OATS I RYE I BEANS I PEAR
48s 3d 37s Od 225 8d 35s 7d 408 3d 405 5d
THE SIX WEEKS' AVERAGES.

WHEAT I BARLEY I OATS RYS I BEANS PEAS
49s lid 38s Od 23s 8d 34s 4d 42s 4d 41s 7d
ENGLISH GRAIN SOLD LAST WEEK.

Wheat, 101,379; barley, 96,863 ; oats, 9,334; rye, 97 ;
beaus, 4,597 ; peas, 1,795 quarters.

METROPOLITAN CATTLE MARKET.

An unusually small supply of beasts was on sale in our
market to-day, yet so heavy was the demand that prices
were nominal. The few sheep on offer were not disposed
of. Calves were very few in number, and there was ne
inquiry for thorn. The value of pigs was nominally the
same as on Monday.
Per Sibs to sink the oilals.
s. d. e. d.I s. d. s. d.
Interior Beasts.... 3 4to 3 61PrimoSouthdown 5 0 5 4
Second quality....f 8 4 0; Ltrge crso. calves 310 4 6
Prime large ox6n 4 2 4 4Trime small do 4 8 5 0
Prime Scots, do. 4 6 4 B'Largo hogs
Inferior Sheep ...3 2 3 8 wnall porkers
Second quality ...3 10 4 olSuckling calves 0 0
?rime crse.-wiled.4 2 4 101Quartor old pigs -- 0 0
TOTAL SUPPLY: y I FOREIGN SUPPLY.

Beasts
Sheep and lambs
Calves ll Calves
Pigs — Pigs

NEWOATE AND LEADErTHALL.
There was very little doing hero to-day, yet prices wore
supported.

Per Sibs by the carcase.
s. d. s. d.
Beef, interior 3 0 3 4
Do., middling 3 6 3 8
Do. prime large 3 10 4 2
Do., do. small 4 4 6
Pork, large 3 6 4 4

s. d. R. d
Mutton, inferior 3 3 3 4
Do., middling ..... 3 6 4 0
Do., prime .4 2 4 8
Veal ~4 0 4 6
Pork, small 4 5 5 4

MEAT MARKETS.

SOUTHALL, Dec. 23.—The show of stock here to-day
was limited, and the trade ruled heavy, at almost nominal
quotations : Beef, from 3s 4d to 4s 8d ; Mutton, 3s 4d
to 5s 2d 1 Veal, 4s Od to 5s Od ; Pork, 43 Od to 5s Od
per 81bs, to sink the offal.
ROMFORD, Dec. 23.—Each kind of stock was in mode-
rate supply and limited request, at our quotations :
Beef, from 3s 2d to 4s 10d ; Mutton, 33 0d to 5s 4d ;
Veal, 4s Od to 4s 101; Pork, 4s 01 to 5s 2d per 81hs ;
Milch Cows, —/ to --1; Suckling Calves, —s to —s each.

TIM BUELL() IN SPAIN.

A bulky series of documents has been sent to trA
for publication, all relating to a quarrel betwee❑
Don Narvatz and Don Guell y Reute. So far back
as October, 1856, General Narvaez met Guell y
Rente at the house of a mutual acquaintance, and
insulted him. A challenge was the result, but
before any duel could come off, Narvaez was
ordered by the military authorities not to fight,
and the next day he was appointed President of
the Council, which indefinitely retarded the duel
desired by Guell y Rente. Some time since Nal-
vaez left office, and Guell y Rene, returning to
Math id, sent him the f Mewing letter :
_

" Monsieur the Duke of Va!entia, —at the 9th of
October, 185 G, I was at the house of Madame Donna
Lo,l)res Bonilla de Meson, Countess de la Pena (la
Moro, when your visit was announced.
" I to receive you like a well-bred man, with all
requisite politeness.
" You twice stared at me, then a third time, but, with
an imperious gesture, to which Ireplied, with the greatest
courtesy—' Guell y Rente, Loy general.' lam not
your general,' you say to me, because you are a clod-
hopper, a fellow whose blood I would drink and tear his
heart out.' Speaking thus, you threatened me with a
stout cane, with which you touched my coat.
" I instantly replied, That I required a satisfaction
as great as the insult done to my honour.' You rejoined,
That you felt haste to give it me, and that you should
like to tear out of my heart the words I had uttered
in the Chamber of Deputies.' I replied, That your
wish should soon be gratified.'
" After your departure I went and confided my
outraged honour to the Lieutenant-Generals, my
friends, the Count of Reos and the Count de la Pena
del Moro.
"Returning home, I found a letter from Lieut.-
Gen. Don Francisco Lersundi and the Brigadier
Villate, who had come on your part, after the ioeult
I had received, to inform me of your will.
"I replied to them, that I had confided my honour
to the Counts of Reos and de la Pena del Moro, who
told your seconds that I, a man of letters, who had never
had any taste for disputes with weapons, chose the small
sword for the satisfaction of my honour ; but that, if the
use of this weapon were unknown to you, you might
choose any weapon you preferred. You and your '
seconds accepted the small sword, as was your duty, and
agreed to be on the ground fixed for the duel OR the 10. h
October, at eight o'clock in the morning.
" From that day neither you nor I were at our own
disposal, we were chained down by a question of honour ;
but shortly before the duel you gave your word not-to
fight to the Captain-General of Madrid, and as I had
refused to give mine, I was arrested in my house.
" Forty-eight hours after you were named President
of the Council of Ministers.
" With the same sang froid wherewith I had received
the insult I resigned myself to the inability of fulfilling
the most binding obligation on a man of honour.
"Her Majesty the Queen desired that you should be
President of the Council of Ministers ; and I, a leyal
man, who profess all the respect due to the laws and the
powers of the State, bowed my head ; and, full of resig
nation and grief, have waited patiently a year, my brow
being ever polluted by the insult you dared to offer me.
" To-day, without hated, or vengeance, or wrath, be-
cause I am a man devoted to study and nothing else, I
write you this letter in the same way that, without
uttering a complaint, without replying to your insults by
similar insults, I have devoured my despair by silence,
but not my dishonour, because no one's insults degrade a
man like me; I live by my reputation, and no one
can tarnish my reputation.
" In the society wherein we live, there is a law, a
custom, a formality that is sacred to me ; you offered
me a grave insult before a lady, your hand holding a
weapon ; come now with a sword, as is the duty of
every man possessing a sense of shame ; come and tear
out my heart, as you promised.
" You were elected to the Presidency of the Council
of NJ inisters after you offended me, after you sent me
your seconds, after you accepted the weapons and indi-
cated both the hour and the ground at and on which we
should meet, so that what was an exeu,e there is no
longer so now. I now hope that, as soon as you received
this letter, you will decide upon repairing wttb the pru-
dent reserve that becomes a gentleman to the appointed
spot, and at the appointed hour, in order that God, who
is always just, may do reason to him who is in the
rght.

JOSE GIIELL Y RENTE.

"Madrid, November 5, 1857."
This letter led to new arrangements for a duel, but a
difference arose as to the weapons. It appears that M.
Guell's representati'e bad precise orders, and could
admit no weapon save the small sword, because this
arm bad been chosen by the two parties when the con.
ditions of the duel was settled a year before.
The seconds of the Duke of Valentia, although armed
with sufficient powers to admit any arm whatsoever, have
conceived it their duty only to authorise a duel with
pistols, admitting, nevertheless, to the adverse party
the absolute right of fixing all the conditions of the duel,
and the nature of the weapons. To justify their refusal
to come to an understanding with M. Guell's seconds,
the seconds of General Narvaez have alleged with effect
the various considerations proceeding from social posi
tion, the difference of age and skill between the adver-
saries, adding, nevertheless, that they desired an equal
and frank combat, such as might give M. Guell the most
complete satisfaction on the ground he chose. M. Guell
believed he had the right only to fight with the small
sword, and he refused to surrender that right. The
Duke of Valentia's seconds maintained on their bide the
choice of the pistol, and there the matter has remained.