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LA TV INTELLIGENCE.—(This Day.)

SHERIFFS' COURT.
(BTfore Mr. Joyce.)
SALES IN THE CORN MARKET-IMPORTANr DECISION

REED AND ANOTHER ♦. BROWN.
This was an action to recover £2l 16s. DI loss on the
re-sale of 116 quarters of wheat.

Mr. Moss appeared for the plaintiffs, and Mr. Tindal
Atkinson, instructed by Mr. Beard, for the defendant.

Mr. Moss stated that on the sth November last defen-
dant, who is a miller, purchased of the plaintiffs, who are
corn and seed merchants of Hythe House, near Rochester,
and have a stand in the London Corn-market, 116 quarters
of wheat at 635. and 645. per quarter. The sale note was
delivered, but defendants neglected or refused to clear the
wheat, and it was re-sold at a loss of £2l 16s. 9d.
Mr. Reed was called, and after he had given his evi-
dence, Mr. Atkinson asked him to produce the bought and
sold note.

Mr. Reed said he had it not, and Mr. Moss remarked that
he would call the other partner, who would no doubt throw
some light upon the subject.

Mr. Atkinson—You may as well confess that you are in
a difficulty. You have no bought and sold note, and the
wheat was rejected within two days.
Mr. Moss—l should hardly think you would avail your-
self of the defence under the statute of frauds.

Mr. Atkinson—l have a good defence upon the merits,
but I avail myself of the legal defence.
His Honour ruled that the amount being over £2O, in the
absence of a bought and sold note or contract, plaintiff must
be nonsuited with costs.

POLICE INTBLLIGENCE.—(This Day.)

MARLBOROUGH-STREET.

TURNING THE TABLES.—THE EFFECT OF BEING
GOOD-NATURED.—EIIen Henderson and Emma Gardner,
two well-dressed females, were charged with assaulting
Mr. William Edward Shuckhard, a clerk at Lloyd's, Royal
Exchange.

Mr. Shuckard said he resided at Kennington, and on the
previous night he was in Tichborne-street about 8 o'clock,
when his hat was knocked off from behind and much in-
jured by the females. He did not wish to proceed against
them any further.

Mr. Tyrwhitt—You are very kind.
Mr. Shuckhard—Why, the fact is, I got myself into a
misfortune by interceding for them last night, for I got
locked up on the charge of being drunk.

Mr. Tyrwhitt—Well, the women are discharged.
Mr. Shuckhard then stepped into the dock to answer the
charge of drunkenness.

Cornell, 109 C, said that the defendant charged Hen-
derson and Gardner with assaulting him, and on their
beginning to cry defendant said he was a rate-payer, and
he had a right to liberate them. He made use of very bad
language, and said the police were a set of vagabonds. The
defendant then left, and afterwards returned and knocked
loudly at the station-house door, and said that if they did
not give up the women he would go to Sir R. Mayne, that
they were a set of vagabonds, and that he (Cornell) was the
son of -.

Defendant—The fact was I reflected a little, and thought
it a pity the women should be incarcerated.
Mr. Tyrwhitt—You (defendant) seem to have used very
bad language.

Sergeant Draper said he should not have taken the charge
against the women, but that a respectable 'witness said he
saw him assaulted. The defendant's hat was damaged,
and he had been drinking.

Mr. Tyrwhitt—You (defendant) seem to have been very
good-natured. The police, however, were quite right in
not discharging the women without bail after the charge
was made against them, fvr if they did so all sorts of charges
would be made and afterwards retracted. You are dis-
charged, and I hope never to see a man of your appearance
in such a place again.

The defendant, who is a man about 0 years of age, and
of very respectable appearance, bowed and left the court.

TOBACCO Smua GLlNG.—William Mudge, the chief mate,
and William Vent, second mate of the ship Bingle, in the
London Dock, were brought before Mr. Selfe, charged with
smuggling cigars and tobacco.

Mr. A. Wright, examining officer of customs, said that
the Bingle had recently arrived in the London Dock, after a
long voyage. He asked the prisoners if they had anything
liable to duty in their berths. Mudge produced a small
quantity of tobacco and a few cigars, and said that was all
he had. Witness searched the vessel and discovered a false
beam in the cabin, and under it 3 lbs. of foreign manufac-
tured tobacco. Mudgo said the tobacco belonged to him.
On further search he discovered 100 cigars in a locker under
the chief mate's bed place, which he also owned. In Vent's
berth he discovered 4 lbs. of foreign manufactured tobacco.
Vent denied all knowledge of the tobacco, and said it had
been placed in his berth by some other person.
Mudge, in defence, said that he intended the tobacco and
cigars for his own consumption and not for sale.
Mr. Selfe—Very likely, but you first told the officer a
falsehood, and you appear to have concealed the tobacco in
a very mysterious manner. .

Vent protested his innocence, and said he never had pos-
session of the tobacco found in his berth, to which others
had access, and this, upon inquiry, turned out to be the
case, and the magistrate said he was not quite satisfied that
Vent knew anything of the tobacco, and discharged him.
He inquired the quantity of tobacco and cigars found con-
cealed under the beam and in the chief mate's locker.

Mr. Wright—There is 5 lbs. in all, and the value and
duty is £3.
Mr Selfe said the defendant Mudge held a good position
in the ship, and ought to have known better. He fined
him £9, the treble value, and in default one month's im-
prisonment. The penalty was paid.

THIS DAY'S .31AREETS.

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CORN EXCHANGE.

Fresh up to-day, the arrivals of English wheat were very
limited, and for the most part of poor quality. Good and
fine dry samples were disposed of without difficulty at fully
Monday's currency; but for damp parcels the trade was in
a sluggish state, on former terms.

Holders of foreign wheat were firm in their demands,
and although the inquiry was chiefly for retail quantities,
the quotations were well maintained.

Floating cargoes of grain were held at full prices.
Fine barley met a fair sale at full prices ; but all other
kinds were quite neglected.

Malt changed hands to a limited extent, on former terms.
All descriptions of oats moved off heavily, at lower cur-
rencies.

Beans were in steady request, at quite previous rates.
Peas attracted very few buyers, yet their value was un-
altered.

A fair business was passing in flour, and prices ruled firm.
ARRIVALS THIS WEEK.
Whelt. Barley. Malt. Oats. Flour.
648 231 3,100 167 I 920
Irish — 1,282
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F0reign........ 32,390 10,296 63,307 7,0425ati0
400 brls.

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AFFAIRS OF TURKEY.

We have received Constantinople letters and
journals to the 27th March. The following sum-
mary of events is taken from the Levant Herald:—
". His Excellency-General Durando, the Sardi-
nian Minister, has had a conference with the French
ambassador with reference to the church of St.
Benedict, which having been originally founded
by the Genoese, the General represented that
Italy was perfectly willing to allow it to remain Gal-
lican under the protection of France, but not in the
hands of the Jesuits and Lazarists. Mr. Churchill,
H.M. Agent and Consul-General at Jassy, has re-
turned to his post from Galatz, whither he had been
ordered to superintend the embarkation of the
Sardinian arms on board the Banshee. Arif Pasha,
the new governor of Silistria, left on Saturday last
for his post via Varna. Before leaving he was deco-
rated with the Ist class of the Medjidieh, and was
invested with the military as well as civil command
of his new pashalic. He has the reputation of
being an upright and energetic man. A part of his
instructions is, to encourage cotton culture through -
out his jurisdiction, and with this view to afford
every facility to farmers who may be disposed to
try the crop. The steam frigate Shaiki-Ghadi, and
a screw corvette left yesterday with troops for Mon-
tenegro. Owing, it is said, to the res augustac at
the Malieh, the fleet, which is already coaled and
provisioned for the coast of Dalmatia, will not
leave the inner Horn for 15 or 20 days. During
the past week 16 employes were despatched from
the Porte into Roumelia to superintend the applot-
ment of the taxes on the new system of perception
the particulars of which we recently described.
Twenty-four others will proceed in a few days into
the remaining districts of the province for a similar
purpose. Two officials have also been sent to
Salonica to regulate the cadestre of that
town and pashalic on Suby Bey's 'plan, the
details of which we have already also ex-
plained. Yesterday—the 15th day of Ramazan
the usual annual exhibition of the Prophet's Cloak
took place in Stamboul, at the beautiful little mosque
called Hiskie Cherif, where the precious relict is
preserved. His Majesty the Sultan and the whole
of the Ministers were present at the ceremony, as
were also all the chief civil and military dignitaries
of the capital.—On Saturday a funeral mass was
celebrated at St. Anthony's church, Pera, in honour
of the persons who perished in the recent affair at
Warsaw. The church was densely crowded by a
large audience, consisting of Poles, and numerous
deputations from other nationalities. The Italian
band was in attendance, and played numerous na-
tional airs.—Upwards of 800 workmen are now
employed in the imperial foundries and workshops
at Tophane and Zeitoun-bournou casting, boring,
and rifling cannon and muskets, which are to be
served out to the army as fast us finished.—
Mehemel-Effendi, law adviser to Fuad Pasha, ar-
rived from Beyrout a few days back on a special
mission to the Porte. He gives a very gloomy
picture of the state of affairs in Syria. Five thousand
piastres have been awarded for each house burned
in Damascus, but there the compensation stops,
money being wanting to pay the sums thus allotted.
Mehemet Effendi comes with urgent demands for
20,000 purses to be thus applied. Fuad Pasha
had himself gone to Aleppo to investigate the cases
of the chiefs of the late incipient fanatic out-
break in that town, and to find room fcr some
of the houseless Damascus Christians there and
at Alexandretta. It was said at Beyrout that a
petition to Fuad was in course of signature by a
large number of Christians for leave to emigrate to
Algiers.--The 33 Regiment of Cavalry of the Im-
perial Guard is under orders to proceed to Syria.
Four steamers carrying troops are to sail this week
for the same destination.—The Messagerics Impe-
riales' steamer Amerique, Captain Sourer, which
arrived on Saturday from Marseilles, ran down the
Prussian barque Seejungfer, Captain Marses, near
Gallipoli. The latter vessel was laden with barley
for the United Kingdom. The captain and crew
were fortunately able to save themselves in one of
the ship's boats, but the barque rapidly filled and
went down.—The brig Salina, of New Quay, Wales,
Capt. Jones, with a cargo of barley from Ibraila for
the United Kingdom, was run into on Wednesday
morning at one o'clock, in the Marmora, about 30
miles from the Bosphorus, by a Sardinian vessel, in
ballast, coming up. The shock was so great that
the brig instantly began to fill, and shortly after-
wards foundered, the captain and men having only
time to escape by jumping on board the Sar-
dinian brig. The crew, nine in number, are now
at the Sailors' Home, Galata.—On Friday night,
the Greek brig Despina, Capt. D. Veralla, with
a cargo of wheat from Soulina for the
Mediterranean, foundered near the entrance of the
Bosphorus; the entire crew perished with the
exception of a boy who reached the shore on a
spar. The same night the Wallachian brig
Eftemia, Capt. Demetrio Georgidi, w ith a cargo
of Indian corn from Ibraila, for Corfu, was totally
lost at Amondis, all hands saved. Letters from
Birejik on the Euphrates report that on the 23d of
February that river was frozen nearly half over.
No similar degree of cold was remembered to have
ever before occurred at Mesopotamia."
The Levant herald has the followng article on the
financial situation of Turkey :
The financial condition of the country is, in
effect, this :—There is a revenue of about
£10,500,000, and an expenditure of about
£15,000,000. This can only be safely and per-
manently balanced by finding new resources, by
regulating the outlay, and by improving the mode
of collecting the revenue already in existence. It
requires but little acquaintance with the financial
state and capabilities of the country to understand
how easily all three of these objects may be
achieved, without in the least oppressively adding
to the burthens of the population ; how, in fact, an
economy of fully two and a half, or three, millions
sterling may be effected by most easy retrench-
ments, and an equal addition to actual revenue be
made with the very readiest facility. We have
ourselves more than once explained in detail bow
this may be accomplished. The first necessity,
however, is the preparation of a budget,—the
second, the appointment of a commission empowered
to reorganise and control the whole financial ad-
ministration of the country. The former of these
is said to be in progress ; the latter must be
formed if the Augean stable at the Malich is ever
to be cleared out. In limine a debt of about ten
millions sterling—including pay due to the troops,
arrears of salaries of civil employes, local depart-
mental debts, and the remainder of the outstanding
caimes—is to be grappled with ; and how is this to
be done ? Evidently, it cannot be done at present
out of revenue. But it may easily be done by con-
solidating a portion of these obligations, and by
adopting the suggestions long ago thrown out by
Sir H. Bulwer, and now again by the author of the
pamphlet above referred to—of issuing five or six
millions of guaranteed paper money. The objec-
tions to this latter are, we grant, neither few nor
trifling; but, as compared with any other form of
remedy immediately at the command of the Porte,
it is, we think, at once the most practieable and the
most efficient that could be essayed. The precise
amount to be put into circulation would depend on
the wants of the country for the current purposes
of local trade ; and, to give notes a value at all com-
parable with metallic, they must be exchangeable
for metallic under conditions and within a term
which would induce general confidence in their con-
vertibility. One of these conditions would be such
a commission of control as we have above referred
to, to which might be assigned say four or five
hundred thousand pounds sterling per annum of
revenue for the payment off at par of so much of the
paper money in circulation. To ensure this pay-
ment, two, three, or four years' quotas of revenue
might be guaranteed to such a Caisse before-
hand; and, with that and a personnel deserving
of confidence, the Commission should have no
difficulty in keeping the notes at a value in the
market little below their nominal worth. Or, by
a statesmanlike dealing with the Crown lands,
many times more than this amount might not only
be guaranteed, but be actually realised, and by an
investment in the English or French funds, of the
sum thus raised such a credit might be at once
given to these notes as would render them little, if
at all, inferior to metallic in the general estimate of
the people. And not only would this give local
confidence, but it would raise the credit of the
Porte abroad, which is hardly, if at all, less neces-
sary than the resuscitation of faith in its solvency
at home. But, after all, this is only one of the
many obviously facile means by which the Govern-
ment may, if it will, extricate itself from its mone-
tary difficulties and infuse a new life into the trade
of the country, We have already pointed out
others. Will the Grand Vizier, with whom the
initiative lies, have recourse to any of the whole, or
will he permit a continuance for a single month
longer of the status quo ? If he does, the conse-
quences can hardly fail to be disastrous not merely
to his own political fortunes, but to the gravest in-
terests of every class—native and foreign—of the
population of the country."

A VICTIM TO ROUTINE.—A certain society lately
gave a grant to build a parsonage-house. Among-
other
things a well was to be dug, and the society had a regula-
tion depth for their wells. Long before this depth was
reached, a perpetual spring of excellent water was found,
but found in vain. The regulation depth must be reached,
and was reached. The water was not very good, but the
unhappy parson was obliged to drink it. After a time he
became seriously unwell, when it was discovered that the
well sinkers had dug into a spring of mineral water, and
the poor man had been drinking a tonic every day of his
life, because his benefactors were two conservative,..—No.
tional Review, for April,