The Sun.
London, England, 1850-07-09 00:00:00

MARKET NEWS.-(THIS DAY.)

BAY DIAILKETs.
SMITHFIELD.—Meadow Hay, 2112 s to 3110 s; Clover
ditto, 31 3s to 41 8s; and Straw, 11 2s to 11 lOs per
load. A moderate supply, and a sluggish demand.
CUMBERLAND.--MCadOW Hay, 21104 to 31103 Clover
ditto, 31 Os to 4/ 4s ; and Straw, 11 Ss to 1/ lOs per
load. Trade steady, at full prices.
WHITECHAPEL. -- Meadow Hay, 21 8i to 3/ 105 ;
Clover ditto, 31 5s to 4/ 104; and Straw, 11 24 to 1/ 104 r
load. Supply good and trade dull. New Meadow Hay
was selling at from 215 s to 21 lOs per load.
COLONIAL.
SUGAR.—The market for British Plantation is firm,
the difference of duty being, on an average, equally
divided between buyer and seller. Ot West India the
sales have been 152 hhds. The other transactions in
Colonial comprise 5,378 bags Mauritius, 3,200 bags
Khaur Bengal, 3,300 bags Madras, 538 hhds and 137
barrels Porto Rico, went off with spirit, nearly three-
fourths fieding buyers at fully f firmer rates for
the finer descriptions, the importers gaining the
whole difference of duty, and on the lower
sorts about one-half ; low to fine brought 36s to 43s per
cwt. The quantity of British Plantation landed last
week at the East and West India Docks was 1.836 hhds
241 tierces 121 barrels; there were taken. for home con-
sumption 958 hhds 124 tierces 342 barrels. The stock
in the same places is 1,399 hhds 1,720 tierces 3,526
bsrrele.
COFFEE.—The market is dull. Native Ceylon con-
tinues in request at 43s 6d, but little business bas taken
place, owing to the unwillingness of owners to sell
thereat.
Rom.—The quantity landed last week at the East arid
West India Docks was 331 puns 2 hhds; there were
taken for home consumption 118 puns 1 hhds, and ex-
ported 17 puns 149 hhds. The stock in the same places
is 15,125 puns 1,359 hhds.
Rica:.-2,178 bags and 448 pockets Bengal were
offered, but the greater portion of the former was with-
drawn above the value ; the remainder sold steadily at
8s 6d to 10s 6d for broken to good white.
SALTPETRE.—Of 1,800 bags Bengal offered, about
two-thirds were disposed of at rather easier rates; 131
to 2i per cent. refraction at 25s 6d to 27s 6d per cwt.
SPICES.-780 bags half heavy Malabar Pepper sold
at the previous value of 3id to 344, and 30 bags White
at 6-0 to 6id. 160 bags Pimento sold at sid to 61c1
per lb.
TALLow.—P. Y. C. is 36s 9d per cwt on the spot, and
Town 38s.
TEA.—The market is firm with fair deliveries.

HOUSE OF LORDS.-(THIS DAY.)

The House sat to•day to hear appeals. The Lords
present were Lord Brougham, the Earl of Roden, and
Lord Gage.

GIBBON V. TOPHAM.
This appeal from the judgment of the Vice-Chancellor
Wigram occupied their Lordships the whole day.

CHANCERY.—(THIS DAY.)
(Before the Lords Commissioners, Lord LANGDALE and
Mr. Baron ROLFE.)
The Lords Commissioners sat in the Old Hall, Lin-
coln's Inn to-day, to hear appeal motions.

INDERWICIL V. SNELL.
The further arguments in this part-heard appeal mo-
tion occupied their Lordships the whole day.

QUEEN'S BENCH.-(THIS DAY.)
(Sittings at Nisi Prius, at Guildhall, before Lord
CAMPBELL and a Special Jury.)

WHITMORE, ASSIGNEE, V. SCHNEIDER AND ANOTHER.
This case was part beard yesterday. The plaintiff, as
assignee of the estate of the late Benjamin Smith, a
bankrupt in March last, had brought an action to re-
cover 4,1471. odd from the defendants, the value of cer-
tain copper delivered by the bankrupt to them between
the 26th February to the 4th March last.
On the part of the plaintiff, it was contended that the
copper had been delivered by way of fraudulent pre-
ference to the defendants over the other creditors, and
that the action was brought to obtain a sum of money
for the purpose of dividing it among the creditors. The
defendants, it appeared, carry on copper and smelting
works at Swansea, and were in the habit of purchasing
copper from the Lankrupt, who manufactured it
under a patent. In February, the bankrupt
having been taken ill, his son Stephen took upon
himself the management of the business. There
was a large sum due to the defendants for several trans-
actions, and one agreement was entered into on the 12th
of February between the bankrupt and the defendants,
by which the latter agreed to give an acceptance for
4,4471. 15s. 7d. for 150 tons of copper. The bankrupt
.topped iDayment on the 4th March. There was a de-
livery of copper to the defendants on the 26th of Fe-
bruary, and similar deliveries were continued up to the
time of the bankruptcy. It was contended on the part
of the plaintiff that all those deliveries were fraudulent,
in that they showed a preference to the defendants over
the other creditors.

For the defendant, on the other hand, it was submitted
that this was not the case of a fraudulent preference,
but that the goods were supplied upon a contract pre-
viously entered into between the bankrupt and the de-
fendants.

Lord CAMPBELL told the jury, that if they were of
opinion the copper was delivered in the fair and bora
fide execution of a fair and bona fide contract, they ought
to find for the def±ndants.

The jury gave a verdict for the defendants.
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Lord aimiBELL, on calling on the last cause, told the
jurymen not in the box, that they might take their de-
parture, adding that he was happy to state that by the
valuable assistance of the jury, every cause that was
standivg for trial in the Court of Queen's Bench, at
Guildhall, and Westminster, was now disposed of, so
that it could not be said there was any delay of justice
in the superior courts of Westminster Hall.

COMMON PLEAS.-(THIS DAY.)
(Sittings at Guildhall at NibiPrius, before the Lord Chie,
Justice WILDE and a Spt cial Jury.)

The Court was occupied this morning witn'the case 6f
Jones and another v. Lord A. Denison, which occupied
,t part of yesterday. The proceedings were not termi-
nated when our report left the court.

CRIMINAL COURT.-(THIS DAY.

OLD COURT.

(Before the RECORDER and Sir CHAPMAN MARSHALL.)
Alexander Moriarty, 19, described as a cabinet maker,
pleaded guilty to a charge of stealing ten sovereigns and
195., the moneys of Maurice O'Connor, in the d
house of William Parker, and was sentenced to seven
years' trasportation.
Joseph Bailey, aged 45, described as a gilder, and
John Lawler, 26, a printer, remanded from last session,
were indicted for a conspiracy to defraud one Thomas
Bland of his moneys. .

Mr. Clarkson conducted the prosecution, and Mr.
Parry defended the prisoners.

M. CLARKSON, in opening the case, told the jury
that in popular language the prisoners were charged
with conspiring together to cheat the prosecutor at a
game of skittles. The prisoners formed part of a gang
of fellows who frequent skittle-grounds, and " pick up '
any stray but unskilled player they may hap-
pen to meet. Their mode of action was
this: one of them either pretended to be
drunk or assumed the character of a countryman who
knew little or nothing of skittles, and being challenged
by another of the gang to play, it invariably happened
that he lost money to a serious extent, which induced
unwary bystanders to join in the play. The powers of
the drunkard or countryman, however, now begin to
develop themselves, and he wins with the stranger as
fast, nay faster, than he lost with his confederate, till the
eyes of his dupe are opened to the fact that instead of
playing with a novice he is vainly contending against a
practised skittle thrower. Now, on the 3d of April last
a man named Ward, with whom the prosecutor had a
alight acquaintance, called upon the prosf tutor, who is a
butcher carrying on business in Rufford's-buildings,
Islington, and invited him to go and have a glass of ale.
The prosecutor consented, and accordingly they repaired
to the Peacock public. house, in Brewer. street, where
they found the prisoner Lawler drinking brandy and
water. While they were drinking the ale the prisoner
Lawler managed to get into conversation with them,
and almost immediately afterwards in came Bailey, who
appeared to be very much intoxicated. A general con-
versation then ensued about the price of meat, in the
course of which Bailey voluntarily told them that he had
been waiting for a lady at the Angel, who had disap.
poiutcd him by not keeping her appointment, although
he had the night before paid six guineas for a dress to
present to her. He added that he had just come into an
estate worth 3001. a year, and as Bailey, the butcher,
had given him some wholesome advice about the value
of meat, he had no objection to treat him to a glass of
brandy and water, which the prosecutor declined to ac-
cept. Lawler then asked Bailey if he understood
" Knock-'em downs." Bailey said he did not, for in his
part of the country they only played at bowls. " Oh,"
replied Lawler, " if you understand bowies, you can
play at knock-'em-downs," and agreed to adjourn to an-
other public-house, the John Bull, and play a game for
a bottle of wine. Of course Bailey lost the bottle of
wine, and not only that but several five-pound
notes too, when Lawler, thinking ho had
won enough money, gave way to allow the
prosecutor "to go in and win." No sooner had the
prosecutor joined in the game than, strange to say, for-
tune turned the tables in favour of Bailey, and he won
all before him. If the prosecutor knocked the pins
down in six goes, Bailey floored them in five; if the
prosecutor scored five, Bailey chalked four; in fact he
was always one under the prosecutor, and ultimately the
prosecutor found himself minus 581. and an I 0 U for
251, when it naturally struck him that he had been
realising the idea conveyed in the well-known print of a
flat between two sharps. Finding that the prosecutor
bad no more money, Bailey suddenly remember, d that
he had an appointment t) keep with his " dear Mary,"
and seemed anxious to get away. The prosecutor, how-
ever, challenged him to another game, and he said
he would accept the challenge, but he must first
retire to perform a necessary act. Bailey then
walked out into the street, and in a few minutes after-
wards the prosecutor and Lawler followed, when they
found Bailey had taken to his heels and was a long way
up the street. The prosecutor was about pursuing him,
hut Lawler said, "Bland, you had better stop here, and
I'll go after him and fetch him back." Accordingly,
away went Lawler, and from that time till the time they
were taken into custody, the prosecutor never saw the
prisoners again. Subsequent inquiries, however, satisfied
the prosecutor that Ward, Bailey, and Lawler who were
confederates, had conspired to cheat him, and he deter-
mined to indict them, but ever since the transaction
Ward and another party who was present during the
games had been non est.
The case was proceeding when the report left.