The Sun.
London, England, 1861-07-19 00:00:00

ILLINOIS CENTRAL.

It appears that in the land department of this company
the sales of land for the month of June amounted to
104,105 dole., and the collections to 37,879 dols. The traffic
on the rail way for the six months ending the 30th ult.
amounts(' to 1,437,661 CIOIN nc.1.441. 1V2,,,00 m Lim
same
period of 1860, showing an increase of 264,779 dols. The
land sales for the six months amounted to 962,362 dols.,
against 265,086 dols., showing an increase of 697,276 dols.,
and the collection in the land department amounted to
328,134 dole., against 272,478 dole., showing an increase of
55,656 dole.; making the total receipts from all sources
2,728,161 dole., against 1,711,449 dols., showing an increase
for the :,first six months of 1861 of 1,017,712 dole., as
compared with the corresponding period of 1860. The
officials in the report state that the blockade at Cairo
(the southern terminus of the line) deprived the company
of a valuable freight business, and although both the
Mobile and Ohio and Mississippi Central Railways were
working through to Columbus, passengers were so much
molested by mobs in the shape of vigilance committees
that very few ventured south, and those who came north
did so at the peril of their lives. They state that the cur-
rency question was settled in Illinois, and that upwards of
4,000,000 dole. in gold and bank-notes had been delivered at
Chicago from the 25th of May to the sth of July inst. The
corn-fields in Illinois were never larger or more promising
than at present. The winter wheat was cut for a consider-
able distance north, and the yield was large.

THIS DAY'S IIiA.R.KETS.

CORN EXCHANGE.

Fresh up to-day the supply of English wheat was very
moderate. Both red and white qualities, however, move
off slowly. Nevertheless, prices ruled firm.

We were well supplied with foreign wheat. Generally
speaking, the transactions were to meet actual wants, yet
all descriptions were held at quite previous rates.

The dealings in cargoes afloat were by no means nume,
rous,!on former terms.

For grinding and distilling barley we have to report a
slow demand. Prices, however, ruled about stationary.
The malt trade was tolerably firm, but the business
doing was far from extensive.
Oats changed hands steadily, and prices were well sup-
ported.

Beans and peas were a slow sale, but without leading to
any material change in their value.
Flour was in only moderate request at previozs cur-
rencies.

ARRIVALS THIS WEEK.
Wheat. Barley. Malt. Oats. Flour.
830 1 1,680 1 870
1ri5h............ too
15,910 720 1 14,580 1 20 sack
7,920 brls.

LA TV INTELLIGENCE—(2hts Day).

HOUSE OF LORDS-APPEALS.

(Peers present—The Lord Chancellor, Lord Brougham,
Lord Cranworth, Lord Chelmsford, and other Peers.)
EARL OF FIFE ET AL V. DUFF AND ANOTIIER-EX PART'

AS TO CERTAIN RESPONDENTS.

The further hearing of this appeal was resumed this
morning. This is an appeal from a decision
of the
Lords of the First Division of the Court of Session
in Scotland declaring that the appellant heir of entail 111
possession was not entitled to enter into an agreement with
the purchaser for the sale of the lands of Carroldstoun for
£132,000, to the prejudice of the succeeding heirs of entail.
The Solicitor-General, Mr. Roundell Palmer, Q,C., re-
sumed his argument for the appellant in reply. The
blamed counsel contended that if the deed of 1721 did not
make an entail without the deed of 1728 it was abso-
lutely necessary that both these deeds should have been
registered in the Register of Talzies, and, as these deeds
were not registered in terms of the Act, 1685, there was n°
entail of these lands. The deed of 1721 contained only a
personal right to the lands, and there was no entail of the
lands by any subsequent deed; therefore the appellant was
entitled, as heir of provision, to sell the lands in question.
The learned counsel, in support of his argument, referred to
the following cases :—Cathcart (1 House of Lords' cases) ;
Renton (2 Bells, Court of Session cases, p. 227) ; Stair,
book 2, title 3, section 43, second edition, p. 236, 1832 ;
Entail, Morrison's Appendix, No. 1, Talzies ; and urged in
conclusion that the interlocutor of the Lord Ordinary
favour of the appellant should be affirmed, and the decisiow
of the Court of Session in favour of the respondent reversed.
At the conclusion of the arguments the noble and learned
lords retired for consultation.

The Lord Chancellor, considering the great import-
ance of the case to the parties, and as settling important
points of law in Scotland, remitted the case to the Court of
Session, with instructions to take the opinion of all the
judges of the Court of Session, including the Lords Ordi-
nary of both divisions of the court, and to report their
opinions thereon to this house (as was done by Lord Lynd-
hurst in the case of Renton against Anstruther, already re-
ferred to), before giving judgment.