The Sun.
London, England, 1850-05-04 00:00:00

ERELID.

The prices of Wheaten Bread in the Metropolis are
from 6d to 6id; of household ditto, 4d to sid per 41b
loaf.

nILLINGSGATE.
Turbots, 4s to 12s; Brill, 2s to 65 6d; Cod Fish, is
6d to 83 3d; Whiting?, 4d to 6d; Lobsters, is to 2s 9d
each; Soles, 6d to 2s 3d per pair; Eels, 4d to 1 Id per lb;
Haddocks, 4d to 8d each; Oysters, 108 to 42s per
bushel ; Flounders, 6d to Is; Smelts, Is Id to Is 6d;
and Bloaters, 10d to Is Id per dozen; Mackerel, 3d
to 4d esch; Salawn, is to ls 4d per lb; and Salt Fish,
2d to 4d per lb.

HIDE DTATLEET.
Market hides, 561 b to 641 b, lid to lid; ditto, 641 b to
721 b, lid to 0,1; ditto, 721 b to 801 b, 2d to lid; ditto;
80Ib to 881 b, 2d to *1; ditto, 881 b to 961 b, 3d to 3i(i;
ditto, 961 b to 1041 b, 3id to 3id; ditto, 1041 b to 1121 b,
aid to 4d. Calf Skins, light 2s 6d to 3s 6d; ditto full
Os Od to 6s Od; Horn Hides, 6s 6d to Os; Polled Sheep,
5s 6d to 7s Od ; Kents and Half-breds, 4s 6d to 5s 8d;
Downs, 4s Od to 5s Od; Shearlings, 7d to 9d; Lamb
Skins, is 6d to 2s 4d each.

ELES.Ir DIALICILETS.
SMITHFIELD.—Meadow Hay, 21 8s to 31 83; Clover
ditto, 31 Os to 41 8s ; and Straw, 11 Is to 1/ Es per
load. Supply tolerably good, and trade very dull.
CUMBERLAND.—Meadow Hay, 21101, to 31 10i, Clover
ditto, 3/ Os to 41 4s ; and Straw, 11 2s to 1/ 8s per
load. A fair average supply, and a heavy demand.
WHITECHAPEL. Meadow Hay, 2/ 8s to 3/ 8s;
Clover ditto, 3/ Os to 4/ 8s; and Straw, 1/ is to 1/ Ss per
load. Trade dull, at banly late rates.

QUEEN'S BEN CH.-(THIS DAY.)
(Sittings in Banco, before the Lord Chief Justice CAMP
BELL and Justices PATTESON, WIGHTMAN and ERLE.)

ELSDON V. BAKER.

Lord CAMPBELL celivared judgment at the sitting of
the Court this morning in this case. He said this action
was brought by the executor of Elsdon against the
executor of Baker, on a promissory note for 1,0001.
made by Baker, and payable to Elsdon on the expira
tion of six monthsl after notice of payment. The fourth
plea, on which the question chiefly turned, alleged that
Baker was surety fur one Last, and along with Last made
the promissory note, and that Last gave a mortgage to
Elsdon to secure that said sum of 1,0001., with a cove-
nant under seal to repay the 1,000/. The fourth plea
alleged that Elsdon accepted the mortgage for 1,0001.
in place and stei.d of the promissory note. Now there
was no evidence offered on the subject beyond what
appeared on the face of the plea, and that raised
the question whettler the note was mortgaged
on the separate security under seal ; and
after looking into the authorities, the Court was
clearly of opinion that it was not. On tisat plea the ver-
(het ought to stand, and therefore there would be no rule
to show caue.
IN RE THE CORONER OF WORCESTERSHIRE.

Mr. ALEXANDER said in this case he had to show
cause against a rtne which had been obtained calling on
the justices of Worcestershire to show cause why a
mandamus should not issue commanding them to pay a
sum of money out of the county rate as compensation to
Mr. William Samuel Price Hughes, one of the coreners
of that county. This question turned on the 7th and
Bth Viet., cap. e 2, which was passed in 1844, for amend-
ing the law respecting the office of county coroner, the
second section of which provided for the di-
vision of counties into districts for the pur-
pose of the office of the coroner by the magistrates
on a petition to the Queen in Council. On the 19th
Dec., 1846, an order was made by the Queen in Council,
authorising the county of Worcester to be divided into
three coroners' districts; and on the sth March, 1847,
the magistrates of the county, at the Easter quarter
sessions assigned one of those districts to Mr. Hughes,
who had previously . been one of the coroner's for the
county. On that assignment Mr. Hughes petitioned 12, r
Majesty for compensation under the 6th section of the
Act, which provides foe compensation in such cases.
The prayer of that petition eas granted, and in July,
1947, the Lords of the Treasury assessed the amount
compensation due to Mr. Hughes. 'I he magistrates had
since refused to pay the compensation so awarded, on
the ground thati the true construction of the compensa-
tion clause n the Act in connexion with the =cum-
stances under which the office of coroner was exercised
previous to the passing of the Act, did not warrant its
being paid. That clause provided that the order of the
Lords of the Treasury granting the compensation should
set forth that the county "had been customarily divided
into districts, for the purpose of hearing inquisitions
before the coroner for seven years before the passing of
the Act." Now these words had been omitted,
both in the order of the Queen in Council
in this case and in that of the Lords of the Treasury,
and he contended that the insertion of those words was
ebtential to giving jurisdiction in the matter under the
compensation cleuae. The magistrates had said the
county nut " customarily divided into districts;"
and he (Mr. Alexander) therefore submitted that the
rule in point of law could not be maintained, on the
ground of the omission of the words in question.
The ATTORNEY- GENERAL, on the part of Mr. Hughes,
contended that, before the alteration, that gentlemnn
had a much larger district to work as coroner than he
had now, and that under the proper construction of the .