The Sun.
London, England, 1850-02-22 00:00:00

COMMON PLEAS.-(THIS DAY.

'Sittings at Nisi Prins, at Guildhall, latfore the Lord
Chief Justice WILDE and a Special Jury.)

THE ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH COMPANY V. BRETT.

This case, which commenced yesterday morning, was
prcceeded with this morning. The relative scientific de-
tails cf both patents were gone into with considerable
minuteness, and at great length on the part of the plain-
tiff, with the view of proving that the principal points
of Messrs. Brett's patQnt were identical with those of
the Electric Telegraph Company, and that Messrs. Brett
bai infringed on the specifications of the Electric T'elc-
graph Company.
(The case was proceeding when our repot t left.)

COURSE OF EXCIL
Amsterdam ......•••• 12 2N

kNGE.—erms DAY.)
Leghorn .............. SO CO
(lenoa • • • • .• • . • • • • • • • • 25 90
Allan .. • • • • • • • • • •
Naples •• ...• •• 4134
raienn 0, peroz .. 122 vi
Messina 121%
Lisbon—. • • .......... 53;i
0p0rt0.... • • .... • • .. • • LS%
Rio Janeiro .........•
Buenos Ayres .. .• ..
New York, 21 days'sight
Philtuielphia .. • • ..

Ditto, at sight ...... 12 1 -
Rotterdam • 12 3
Antwerp ..... ......... 25 75
Llamburgh 13 1334
Paris, 3 days'sight r. 2b 50
Ditto, 3 months .... 25 70
lEarsoil las • . 25 10
Bonnie:tux.— . 25 70
Frankfort ou Main 0.... 122
Petersburgh, Sll. Rble.. 37%

Baiill.• .. • . • . .. • • • •
Vienna, effec. flo•• • • • • 11 39
Trieste, ditto.... • • .... 11 39
Madrid .... •• 493
Bilbao.. •• •• ......-
Barcelona •• • • • • • •• .. --

PRIORS OP BULLION, PER OZ,
Foreign Geld in bare.. 43 17 9
Portugal Gold Coin .. 0 0 0
Spanish Doubloons .. 0 0 0

_
'Now Dollars ...... 0 4 10 kg
Silver Da bars ........ 0 4 11%

Seville.. •••••••• •• ••.

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.

HOUSE OF LORDS, Feb. 21.

TI a Bishop of OXFORD moved for the appointment
of a Select Committee to consider the best method to be
adopted for the extinction of the slave trade.
IRISH POOR-LAW.

Lord STANLEY presented a petition from the
owners of land in the Balinaslee Union against the
Irish Poor-law, and praying far protection to agri-
culture.

The • Earl of DESALT considered that the peti-
tion which had just been presented by his Noble
Friend wculd form a proper introduction to the motion
of which he had himself given notice. He rose to move
the following resolutions : 1. That under the pro-
visions of the existing Pooz-7aw the resources of many
di: tricts have been found utterly inadequate for the sup-
port of the population; and that while the Act has thus
filed to accomplish its purpose, it has produced bank-
ruptcy and ruin in some districts, has driven capital out
of the country, and has enfeebled and paralysed tie ef-
forts of both farmers and landlords. 2. That it is the
opinion of this Howe that these mischiefs have resulted
from the extension of the Poor-law of 1838, and the adop-
tion of a system of out-door relief nt that time not con-
templated; and it is further their opinion that no per-
manent system for the relief of the poor can be carried
out in Ireland safely, and beneficially to receivers ur
payers without a return to the principle of the original
law, by a strict applicationof in-door relief to all classes
of yaupers." Before addressing himself to the subject
a his motion, he begged to remind the House of the
vital importance of the question to Ireland; that it was
a question on which hung not the well-being or pros-
perity of any ono class, or of any one in,erest, but en
which hung the existence and prosperity of every in-
terest and even the very life of the people of
Ireland. Whtn that House mat in 1847, that
portion of the kingdom was labouring under