The Sun.
London, England, 1861-03-18 00:00:00

METROPOLITAN CATTLE MARKET.

The total imports of foreign stock into London last week
amounted to 2,494. In the corresponding week in 1860 we
received 2,025—in 1859, 2,524—in 1858, 537—in 1857,
I,2lB—in 1856, 503—and in 1855, 1,330 head.

IMPORTS INTO LONDON LAST WEEK.
From. Beasts. Sheep. Lambs. Calves. Pigs.
Rotterdam
Harlingen
Hamburgh ll5 .. 805 .. .. --
Oporto
Vigo. 65 .. --
Dordt .. 175 • • —• • —• •
Amsterdam — • .
Antwerp .....
Boulogne...
Tonning .. —
Medemblik -
Nieu Diep
Total 954 1,374

64

The yearly comparison of weekly imports is as follows :
Beasts. Sheep. Lambs. Calves Pigs.
1860 203 .. 1,629 .. .. 165 .. 28
1859 155 .. 2,319 .. .. 50 ..
1858 225 160 ~ 152
1857 491 532 `'.. 191
1856 485 .. - 45 .. .. 73
1855 BlB . . 137 ..
Per 81bs totink the offal.

s. d. s. d. j
Cree. & inf. beasts 3 4 3 8
Second quality do. 310 4 2
Prime large oxen 4 4 4 8
Prime Scots, &c. 4 8 4 10
Crse. & inf. sheep 3 6 3 10
Second quality do. 4 0 4 4
Lambs, Os I
Suckling calves, 18s to 22s
23s to 30s.
TOTAL SUPPLY.

345 ..

8. d. s. d 8
Primecrs-wool do. 4 8 5 6
Pme.S'thdowndo,s 8 5 10
Largo arse. calves 5 0 5 6
Prime small do 5 8 6 0
Large hogs 4 0 4 6
Small porkers 4 8 4 10
Id to Os Od.

Beasts
Sheep and lambs 18,450
Calves .. 46
Pigs

and quarter •old store pigF,

FOREIGN SUPPLY
Beasts
Sheep ..
Calves
Pigs

There was only a moderate show of foreign stock on offer
in to-day's market. On the whole, the demand for it ruled
steady, at quite last week's prices.
From our own grazing districts the receipts of beasts fresh
up exhibited a falling off when compared with Monday last,
but their general quality was prime. Notwithstanding that
the demand foT all breeds was inactive in some instances,
the quotations advanced 2d per 81bs. The general top
figure for Scots was 4s 10d, but very superior stock realised
fis per 81bs.

From Norfolk, Suffolk, Essex, and Cambridgeshire,
we received 1,960 Scots and short horns; from other
parts of England, 600 various breeds; and from Scotland,
160 Scots and crosses.

There was about an average time-of-year supply of sheep
in the pens, and the general quality of most breeds was
inferior. The mutton trade was slow, at the late decline in
values. A few very superior old Downs sold at 6s in the
wool; but the general top figure was 5s 10d per 81bs. There
were about 3,500 shorn sheep on offer, at about is per Sibs
beneath those in the wool.

Lambs—the supply of which was limited—moved off
steadily, at from 78 to 8s per 81bs. From the Isle of Wight
40 lambs came to hand..

We have to report a steady sale for calves, at very ful I
prices. The supply was limited.
Pigs moved off slowly, at last week's quotations.
A statement and comparison of the supplies and prices of
fat stock exhibited and sold in the Great Metropolitan
Cattle Market on Monday, March 19, 1860, and this day,
Monday, March 18, 1861:

Per 81b.s, sinking the offal.
March 19, 1860. March 18, 1861.
a. d. s. d. a. d. a. d.
Coarse and inferior beasts . . 3 4to 3 6 4to 3 8
Second quality ditto. . .
Prime largo oxen 4 2 4 6 4 4 4 8
Prime Scots, &c. . .
Coarse and inferior sheep . . 3 8 4 0 3 6 310
Second quality ditto . . . . 4 4 4 8 4 0 4 4
Prime coarse-woolled ditto . .4 10 5 4 4 8 5 6
Prime Southdown ditto . . . 5 6 5 8 5 8 510
Lambs . . . . . . . 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Large coarse calves . . . 4 8 5 0 0 5 6
Prime small ditto
Large hogs . . . . .
Neat small porkers . . .
Beasts 3 B4O 3,360
Sheep and lambs . . 21,070 18,450
Calves
Pigs
SUPPLIES ON SALE, March 21, 1859.---Beasts, 3,263 ;
sheep, 18,500 ; calves, 96 ; pigs, 350.

March 22, 1858—Beasts, 3,912; sheep, 18,500; calves,
56 ; pigs, 310.

NEWGATE AND LEADENHALL.

The trade for both beef and mutton—the supplies of which
are large—is very inactive, at our quotations. Veal and
prime small pork are firm in prices; but large pork is
selling on rather easier terms.

Per Blbs by the carcase.
s. d. s. d. 1

Inferior beef, .... 2 10 3 0 Middling mutton
Middling d 0.... 3 2 3 4 Prime do
Prime large do.. 3 6 3 8 Veal
Do. small d 0.... 3 8 4 0 Small pork ..
Large pork . 3 8 4 4 Lamb..........
Inferior mutton.. 3 4 4 0

BOROUGH HOP.

s. d. s. d.
4 24 4
4 64 8
4 0410
4 65 0
00 0 0

There is no improvement to notice in the demand for any
kind of hops. Fine samples fairly maintain previous rates,
but the little business passing in medium and inferior quali-
ties is, for the most part, at prices somewhat below those
current last year. Since our last the imports have been 6
bales from Ostend, 14 from Harburg, 109 from Hambro',
51 from iotterdam, and 172 bales from Antwerp.
per cwt.
80s to 200 s
60s to 168 s
60s to 126 s
80s to 170 s

Mid. and East Kent pockets
Wealds .. ..
Sussex • • • • •
Yearlings .. .. •

BOROI7GH AND SPITALFIELDS.

Since our last report full average supplies of home-grown
potatoes have been on s ale at these markets, but in very
middling condition. MI fine samples have changed hands
at full prices, otherwise she trade has been in a depressed
state at barely previous rates.

York Regents.
Scotch ditto ....
York Flukes " loos to 115 s ~
*** ,,
130 s to 150 s
Scotch Cups. . Bos to 100 s ~
Do. Rocks
.. Bss to 100$ „
Dunbars
Other kin.ds •• •••• l6os to 1808 „
.- *** 658 to 958 )9

WOOL MARKET.
The public sales of colonial wool have been fairly attended
by buyers, and for all good and fine qualities the bidding
have ruled steady at previous rates. Inferior parcels, how-
ever, are still difficult of disposal, and rather large quanti-
ties continue to be withdrawn. Port Philip—Clean sheep's,
Is 9d to 2s 8d ; super, 281 9d to 2s lOid ; scoured, is 6d to 2s
104; 10 7d to 20 ,j4l; slips, is to is 53/4d. Sydzkey—.

LAW INTELLIGENCE.—( This Day.)

HOUSE OF LORDS.

(Peers present—The Lord Chancellor, the Lord Bishop of
Carlisle, Lord St. Leonards, Lord Cranworth, Lord
Chelmsford, Lord Wensleydale and other peers.)

BROOK V. BROOK-MA.RRIA.GB WITH A DECEASED WIPE'S

SISTER ABROAD.

This was an appeal from the Court of Chancery. The
appellants are James William Brook, Clara Jane Brook,
Amelia Brook, and Sarah Helen Brook, all infants, under
the age of 21 years, by their next friend ; and the respon-
dents are Charles Brook, jun., John Edward Armitage, and
Edward Armitage, trustees of the will of William Leigh
Brook, late of Meltham-hall, near Huddersfield, Yorkshire,
and her Majesty's Attorney-General. The questions in-
volved are whether a marriage duly solemnised on the 7th
June, 1850, at the Lutheran church of Wandsbeck, near
Altona, in the duchy of Holstein, in the kingdom of Den-
mark, between the said William Leigh Brook and Emily
Armitage, the sister of his first wife, Charlotte, then deceased,
is or is not a valid marriage ? and whether the issue there-
of are not legitimate, or are not to be considered to be
entitled to succeed to real or personal property of their
father, as legitimate according to the laws of England, the
said marriage being valid and the issue thereof being legi-
timate according to the law of the said duchy ? and whe-
ther Charles Armitage Brook, deceased, one of the children
of the second marriage, having died, the appellant, James
William Brook, the son by the first marriage, is not his
heir at law, and as such capable of inheriting his real
estate ; and the appellants, James William Brook and Clara
Jane Brook, Charlotte Amelia Brook and Sarah Helen
Brook, are not his next of kin, and as such capap %hie of taking
his personal estate. William Leigh Brook married on the
20th May, 1840, Charlotte Armitage, who died in 1847, and
had by her two children—namely, the appellants, James
William Brook and Clara Jane Brook. In 1850 ho married
at Wandsbeck, near Altona, Emily Armitage, the sister of
his former wife, and by her, who died only two days before
himself, had three children—viz., the appellants, Charlotte
Amelia Brook, Sarah Helen, and Charles Armitage Brook;
since deceased. Up to and at the time of the second mar-
riage, as alleged by the respondents, the parties were domi-
ciled in England, and bad no permanent residence in the
country where it took place. The father made his will
19th September, 1855, by which he gave to his eldest son,
James William Brook, his mansion of Meltham-hall, with
gardens, house, ground, and farmer's cottage and land
adjacent to it, not to include his mill property of any
description. He then gave to his second son, James Wil-
liam Brook, his daughter, Clara Jane Brook, to his "re-
puted" son Charles Armitage Brook, and his "reputed"
daughters, Charlotte Amelia and Sarah Helen Brook, the
rest of his property, share and share alike, except that he
gave to his two sons a double portion of the property die -
posed, the property of Meltham-hall being already appro-
priated to his eldest son, with reversion to his second
and "reputed" son Charles, in the event of his eldest
son dying during his minority. In the event of
both sons dying before the age of twenty-one,
the I roperty of Meltham-hall was to be realised at the
discretion of the trustees of his will, and the proceeds
to be divided in equal portions befween the surviving sisters
and "reputed" sisters who should attain the age of 21. The
testator died of an attack of cholera at Cologne on the 19th of
Sept., 1855 ; and on the 26th of Dec., 1855, letters of achni-
nistration, with the will annexed, were granted to the
trustees named therein ; and they have ever since continued
in possession of his large real and personal estate as trustees
and executors. The children by the second marriage, on
the Bth of March, 1856, filed a bill against the trustees and
James William Brook for the administration of the estate;
but before the cause came on for hearing Charles Armitage
Brook, the son by the second marriage, died, and, according
to the appellants, his rights to the real estate vested in
James William Brook as his brother and heir-at-law ; and
as to his personal estate, the other children, the appellants,
became entitled thereto as his next of kin. The title of
the appellants to the real and personal estate of the said
Charles Armitage Brook was denied by the Attorney-
General on the ground that the marriage of his father and
mother was not valid, and his property was claimed for the
Crown. The cause came on before Vice-Chancellor Stuart,
who held the will to be established, but directed an
inquiry whether the children of the second marriage were
the legitimate issue of the testator. The Chief Clerk, by
his certificate, found that the second marriage was cele-
brated at Wandsbeck, in Denmark; but the parties were
at the time of the marriage, and at the time of their deaths,
domiciled in England, and that their marriage was lawful
according to the law of Denmark. The matter was argued
on further consideration before the Vice-Chancellor, as-
sisted by Sir Cresswell Cresswell, then a judge of the Court
of Common Pleas, who gave his opinion that the marriage
having been solemnised between the testator and his de-
ceased wife's sister, however lawful it might be in the
country where it took place, was, under the statute sth and
6th William IV., c. 54, which declares that such marriages
were absolutely null and void, of no effect, and the children
illegitimate. In this opinion the Vice-Chancellor con-
curred, and made a decree, declaring the marriage, whether
oelebrated in the kingdom of Denmark or elsewhere, null
and void to all intents and'purposes, and that the Crown was
entitled to all the real and personal estate of Charles Armi-
tage Brook, deceased. This decree having been enrolled, the
present appeal was brought. The appellants contended that
the validity of a marriage and the legitimacy of its issue is
to be determined according to the law of the country where
it was solemnised; that according to the law of Denmark the
marriage in Denmark was valid, as the marriage of a widower
with his deceased wife's sister is not within the prohibited
degrees of consanguinity and affinity in that country ; that
the statute of Wm. IV. is only a territorial law and does not
apply to her Majesty's colonies, or any other place out of Eng-
land and Ireland; that if the statute does apply to such mar-
riages by British subjects wherever they may be solemnised,
yet it only made null and void such marriages as, if the
statute had not been passed, would have been voidable in
the Ecclesiastical Court ; and that the particular marriage,
regard being had to its being valid by the law of Denmark,
would not have been voidable in the Ecclesiastical Court
during the lives of the parties. The respondents urge that
by the Act 5 and 6 William IV., c. 54, every domiciled
Englishman is made personally incapable of contracting a
marriage with a deceased wife's sister either in England
or elsewhere; that although the law of England admits in
general the validity of a marriage between British subjects
when duly celebrated in a foreign country, yet that rule
applies only to the solemnities required to constitute a
binding contract, and does not affect the original capacity
of the parties to the contract ;• and that even if the law of
the place of contract were held to extend beyond the limits
assigned to it in the above argument, it could not be so far
extended as to render valid a marriage between domiciled
English persons, which is incestuous by the law of Eng-

land.
The Lord Chancellor delivered judgment at great length.
After referring to the dicta of jurists and institutional
writers and several Acts of Parliament, in particular the
Marriage Acts of Henry VIII. and William IV., and
citing foreign and English decisions on the subject, he said
he had come to the conclusion that the appellant's mar-
riage with his deceased wife's sister was not lawful, and
affirmed the decision of the Court of Chancery, and dis-
missed the appeal with costs.
,tber noble lords concurred with his lordship.

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DISASTROUS COLLISION AT SEA.—LIVERPOOL,
Monday Morning.-The Joseph Fish, which sailed from
Liverpool on Thursday last, for Key West, put back to
Liverpool yesterday, having been in collision with the ship
Tuniata, bound from the Mersey to Baltimore. The latter
vessel sank in ten minutes after the contact, and 14 of the
crew are reported missing. The Joseph Fish was a good
deadl damaged.
endelssohn's " Walpurgis Night" is to be per-
formed at the next concert of the London Musical Society.
it is reported that the University of Oxford is to
have a new monthly periodical of its awn—to be entitled
" Old Tom."
The life of the late Professor Donaldson will be
written, we believe, by his brother, Sir Alexander Stuart
Dep.aldson.