The Sun.
London, England, 1850-01-17 00:00:00

IRELAND.

DUBLIN, TUESDAY MORNING.—THE PROTECTION-
IST MOVEMENT.—Among not the least significant
indications of the hollowness of the movement having
for its ultimate object a return to the old scale of
prices for all articles of human food, is the abandon-
ment, under " false pretences" of the Protectionist
meeting of Clare. This county was one of the first
to declare against free trade, and the requisition
headed by Sir Lucius O'Brien bore the signatures of
men of all creeds, whether in politics or religion ; the
unusual circumstance of four Roman Catholic clergy-
men having affixed their names to the document being
of itself regarded as proof positive of the universal
desire for a return to the old system. Even with
these unlooked-for auxiliaries, the Clare Protectionists
had, to say the least, too much discretion to continue
the warfare in the face of the recent disastrous de-
feat at Down, the Austerlitz, as it were, of the boot-
less campaign of 1850.
REPRESENTATION or MAro.—The number of can-
didates for the seat about to be vacated by Mr. Dillon
Browne has already swelled to five, each of whom
seeks the suffrages of the electors on claims inde-
pendent of one another. For instance, Colonel Knox
Gore starts as the champion of the anti-free-traders,
and his canvass among the dwindled constituency is
said to be progressing satisfactorily for his party.
Mr. Higgins hoists the raggsd flag of repeal, and
everything or anything else that may suit the palate
of Dr. API-Tale, under whose patronage, it is said,
this gentleman has been induced to take the
field. Mr. John Browne, a relative of the
Sligo family, and a Roman Catholic, though
not any particular favourite with the clergy
of that persuasion, also comes forward, badly
sheltered under the faded banner of " Protec-

tion," upon which question he grounds his pretensions
for support. Sir William O'Malley rests his hopes of
success on the fact of his being a general supporter of
Whiggery ; and though last, most certainly not
least, " big" Mr. Joseph Myles MlConnell, of Doo
Castle, and who sat for the county in the former Par-
liament, means to try his luck in the forthcoming
scramble, on the score probably of old acquaintance
sake.

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THE WEATIIER.—DubIin is just now a Western
Siberia. The cold, which for the last four days, has
been almost intolerable, last night reached its climax,
and after long threatening there was a fall, though a
slight one, of hard dry snow between two and three
o'clock this morning. From the state of the tem-
perature there is every prospect of a season of un-
usual sererity in there latitudes. Tne wind is at
E.S.E., and is blowing a fierce and bitter gale.
REPEAL ASSOCIATION.—The rent for the week
ending yesterday amounted to 121. 4s. 6d. Mr.
John O'Connell announced that he had no intention
of resigning his seat until the electors of Limerick
were prepared with a staunch Repealer to occupy his
pl 2 ce.
THE FUND3.—Three per Cent. Consols, 964 ;
Three-and-a-Quarter per Cent. Stock, 97i, 98, 97k;
City of Dublin Steam-packet shares, 73i ; Dublin
and Drogheda Railway (thirds), 8i; Midland, 23i

STATE OF TRADE.
:(From the Manchester Guardian.)
MANCHESTER, TIJESDAY.—Some kinds of water
mule and mule yarns have again shown an upward
terilency ; and in all the rest the utmost firmness
has been maintained. Spinnings suitable for India
are, in fact, so completely bought up, that their
value can hardly be tested ; and the contracts in
hand for home manufacture are so ample, as
to render the producers exceedingly independent;
so that, under these circumstances, the hesitation
which many of the buyers feel about yielding to the
present advance is little noticed. Doubled yarns are
in fair request. Single yarns, for the continent, con-
tinue in a most unsatisfactory state, from the diffi-
culty of selling, and the disproportion betwixt the rise
in them and cotton. Although the transactions in
light and medium cloths are not of large abso-
lute amount, yet they are in full propor-
tion to the unengaged supply. The different widths
( f printing cloths, and also 46-inch shirtings, com-
mand ready sale at the quotations ; but 40-inch shirt-
ings are not equally buoyant. Some little business
is doing in domestics : it i, however, most difficult to
effect any improvement upon previous rates ; and the
makers of these articles find themselves falling from
week to week into an increasingly discouraging
position.
ROCHDALE, MONDAT.—We have had a rather
quieter market to-day, as might be expected at this
time of the year. In the wool market there is also
little change, and prices may be quoted the same as
those on the preceding Monday.
MNCCLESFIELD, TUESDAY.—We have no change of
importance to note since our last weekly report. We
hear of fair business being transacted in manufac-
tured goods at advancing rates. There has been some
inquiry for goods for the French markets, which is
an unusual occurrence in this neighbourhood. Most
houses being now fully occupied for the spring trade,
there is a scarcity of weavers felt. In thrown silks
the sales are to a moderate extent ; the stocks being
reduced very low, higher prices are expected for
what is coming round for the market. The position
of the raw silk market remains unaltered. Public
sales are announced to take place at Liverpool on the
17th instant; the quantity to be brought forward is
hut small. _ .

HUDDERSFIELD' TUESDAY.—There has been a very
brisk market to-day. Rvery description of woollens,
either in superfines or low gouda adapted for the season,
hive been bought up with the greatest avidity. Tnose
who have visited us to-day in the expectation of buy-
ing remnants of stock at a low price have been dis-
appointed, for many sales have been effected at an
advance upon the offers made a few weeks since.

HALIFAX, SATURDAY.—An average amount of
business has been done in our Piece Hall to-day,
chit fly with mixtures, and with no material variation
in prices. The yarn market is rather stiller than it was,
the weather having checked the purchases of the ship-
ping houses ; but there is a large demand for home
consumption, and the quotations have undergone no
change. The spinners being, in general, fully sup-
plied, there is not much activity in long wools, and
prices have experienced no alteration. There is a
brisker inquiry for short wools, at a slight im-
provement.
LEEDS, TUESDAY.—Both on Saturday and to-day
there has been more animation in the markets. A
fair amount of business has been done. Stocks are
low, and prices are a shade better. In the ware-
houses business is pretty good, both for the home and
foreign trade.

DARING HIGHWAY ROBBERIES.
BIRMINGHAM, WEDNESDAY.—The immediate vici-
nities of this town have during the present winter
become unfortunately notorious as scenes of the most
determined highway robberies. Yesterday evening,
about half-past six o'clock, Mr. Scott, jun., son of
Mr. Scott, accountant, on his return from business to
his father's residence in the Moseley-road, was near
the house of Mr. Colmore, Highgate (scarcely a mile
from the Birmingham Market-hall) surrounded by
four men, one of whom knocked him down, while the
others held him on the ground, and rifled his pockets
of a gold watch and chain and a purse containing a
small sum of money. Mr. Scott, passing the toll-
gate about 150 yards nearer Birmingham, observed
his future assailants standing in the road. They
f)llowed him, and on arriving nearly opposite the
Highgate fields, one of the party exclaimed " Now's
the time," and Mr. Scott was immediately
prostrate on ' the ground. He attempted to
give an alarm, when one of the fellows called upon
his companions to " throttle him." This they
did so far as to stifle his outcry, and having
succeeded in their object, the thieves escraped—
one or two through the adjacent fields leading from
Highgate to the Pershore-road, and the others along
the public highway in the direction of Bordesley.
Information having been communicated to the police,
Chief-Superintendent Stephens in the course of the
evening saw Mr. Scott, and the place where the rob-
bery was effected ; but the footpads are as yet un-
known. Similar outrages have lately been committed
with impunity in other outskirts of the town. Last
week Mr. Anster, a respectable manufacturer of Bir-
mingham, residing in Carpenter's-road, Edgbaston,
was returning through Church-road, when he was
stopped by a man in every way answering the de-
scription of a ruffian who is supposed to have com-
mitted several depredations of similar atrocity which
have occurred within the last few weeks. The man
put a pistol to Mr. Anster's head, and having ob-
tained a few shillings by his menacing conduct suc-
ceededin making his escape. Great blame is attributed
to the corporation for not providing the borough with
an adequate police force ; for, however active and in-
telligent the present constabulary may be, they are
not sufficiently numerous to perform efficiently the
duties imposed upon them. The suburbs are almost
entirely unprotected at hours when the police are most
required.

PROPOSED RAILWAY AMALGAMATION.—The ne-
gotiations for a proposed amalgamation, which have
been fir some time pending between the East Lanca-
shire and the Bolton, Blackburn, Clitheroe, and West
Yorkshire Railway Companies, have been finally broken
off by the latter company, and an agreement entered
into with the Lancashire and Yorkshire Company in•
stead. The terms of this agreement will be submitted
to a meeting of the shareholders cf the Bolton, Black-
burr, Clitheroe, and West Yorkshire line, on Thursday,
the 24th inst., fcr their approval or rejection.—Man-
el/ester Guardian.
MONSTER IRON WARIIHOUSE.—A Most COMM-
diou3 iron warehouse, intended for exportation to Cali-
fornia' has recently been built et Liverpool. It is 60
feet in length by 40 in width, and its extreme height, by
external measurement, is 36 feet at the gables, and
about 26 feet 4 inches at the eaves, and is divided into
thre3 stories; the first of which is 11 feet in height, the
second 9 feet, and the third 8 feel. The whole is lighted
with about 60 windows, all of which have iron mullions.
Ihe weight of the whole will little exceed 30 tons.—
Manchester Examiner.

LAW INTELLIGENCE.
COURT OF QUEEN'S BENCH, Jan. 16.

THE QUEEN V. THE INHABITANTS OF CAMBERWELL.-

THE NIINHEAD CEMETERY.

This was an appeal against an order of the justices of
Surrey, with respect to the assessment made upon the
Nunhead Cemetery Company. It appeared that the
justices had assessed the rates upon the whole receipts of
the company.
Mr. GURNEY now appeared in support of the appeal,
and argued that the assessment was manifestly unjast
and illegal, inasmuch as no deduction was made for the
heavy expenses of carrying on the concern, such as
the making of the vaults, the salaries of the directors,
the chaplain, and the London offices expenses, which
amounted to a considerable sum. He prayed the Court,
on these grounds, to quash the order at sessions.
Mr. BovILL appeared in support of the rating, and
contended that the order was perfectly fair, and in ac-
cordance with the rules which governed , the rating of
public companies.
The Court took time to consider the points raised.

COURT OP EXCHEQUER, Jan. 16.
(Sittings in Banco.)
GREENLAND V. CHAPLIN, M.P.
This action was tried by the Lord Chief B iron, at
the last sittings in Middlesex, when there was a ver-
dict for the plaintiff, with damages 2001.
Mr. Sergeant SHER now moved for a rule, calling
on the plaintiff to show cause why a new trial should
not be had, on the ground that the verdict was against
the evidence. The action was brought against the
defendant as ono of the proprietors of the Thames
steamer Bachelor, which plies between London and
Vauxhall bridges, to recover compensation for injuries
sustained by the plaintiff in consequence of a collision
which occurred between that vessel and another
Thames steam-boat, called the Sons of the Thames,
on board of which the plaintiff was a passenger, the
collision in question being charged in the declaration
to have been occasioned by the negligence of one of
the defendant's servants. The negligence attributed
to the Bachelor, as on the part of the Sons of the
Thames was, that another steam-boat being athwart
the stream, the Bachelor attempted to get between
the head of the Sons of the Thames and the other
steamer, so as to pass round her, and then
enable herself to continue her course down the river.
This was the allegation against the defendant's vessel,
which the defendant had to answer. The Learned
Counsel contended that the evidence of several per-
sons connected with the Bachelorcompletely disproved
it, and the verdict for the plaintiff had been returned
accordingly.
The LORD CHIEF BARON—I have no doubt as to
the grounds on which the verdict proceeded. If this
had been a simple question between A and B, the
mode in which the case ought to have been deter-
mined is sufficiently obvious. The difficulty, however,
of ever getting a verdict, where a man comes to com-
plain of a personal injury, is such as to make one al-
most wish there was some other way of determining
every such case.
Mr. Sergeant SHEE—I think I may collect from
your Lordship's summing up, that your Lordship
would have been far more satisfied with a verdict for
the def-ndanf.

The LORD eHIRT BARON—Oh, yes. I think you
asked for a nonsuit. I could not properly nonsuit,
but I think you would have exerci6ecl a proper discre-
tion if you had not called witnesses at ail.
Mr. Sergeant SUER—AII I can say is, that if I had
not called witnesses, I should have fund myself in a
terrible scrape.—Rule granted.
WILSON V. ASHLEY.
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