The Sun.
London, England, 1850-12-14 00:00:00

In the Country.

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J. Gilston, Leeds, woollendraper, Jan. 13, at twelve,
at the Court, Leeds—J. Horsfield, Wheelock, Cheshire,
coal-dealer, Jan. 6, at twelve, at the Court, Liverpool
—J. Worsey, Aston, Birmingham, wire manufacturer,
Jan. 9, at twelve, at the Court, Birmingham—J. Biggs,
Aston, Birmingham, wire manufacturer, Jan. 9, at
twelve, at the Court. Birmingham.
CERTIFICATES GRANTED.

R. H. Gould, Strand, ice merchant, certificate of the
second class—J. Bull, South Audleystreet, ship owner,
certificate of the second class—l. Jessup, Kingsdown,
Kent, farmer, certificate of the second class—G. Kyrke,
Bryn Malley, Denbighshire, lime burner, certificate of
the first class, twenty-one days after Nov. 2i —J. Mere-
dith, Tattenhall, Cheshire, malster, certificate of the
second class, twenty-one days after Dec. 5.
PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED.

G. Parsons and S. Short, Oak-place, o therhithe,
dairymen and carmen—R. E. Smith and F. Atkins, Ser-
jeant's Inn, Fleet-street, attorneys-at-law—J. Winder
and T. R. Winder, Kendal, Westmoreland, ironfounders
—J. Winder and J. Winder, Kendal, Westmoreland,
ironfounders—S. B. Sweetman, W► J. Miall, E. Chap-
man, and B. C. Marshall, Rotherhithe, lime and fire-
brick manufacturers (so far as regards S. B. Sweetman)—
' S. B. Sweetman, S. Billingsley, jun., W. J. iViiall, and E.
Chapman, Rotherhithe, lime and fire• brick manufacturers
—W. Brown and J. Brown, Liverpool, grocers—J. M.
Burton and B. Rix, Ipswich and Adam's. court, Old
Broad-street, printers and auctioneers—J. J. Barnett
and F. Barnett, York, glass stainers—S. Pemberton and
B. Mercer, Blackburn, Lancashire, tailors—S. Stead and
S. Ro% land, Manchester, fent dealers—Mary Black,
Maria Black, J. P. Berwick, Mary Berwick, and J.
Black, Bolton-le-Moors, Lancashire, boot and shoe
makers —J. E. Waterhouse and J. R. Waterhouse,
Carey-street, Lincoln's Inn, law stationers—J.Whitaker,
W. Watson, W. Swallow and J. Bell, Buslingthorpe,
Leeds, dyers—E. Shackleton and A. Naylor, Leeds,
corn millers—M. Hutchinson, R. Roche, and G. Fleet •
ham, Richmond, Yorkshire, Edinburgh ale and
porter merchants (as far as regards M. Hutchinson)
—W. Jones, J. Millington, and %V. Ormrod, Manches-
ter, scale manufacturers—E. Watkins and T. Litton,
Newgate-market, meat salesmen—T. Taylor and O. Holt,
Manchester and Flixton, check and gingham manufac-
turers—R. Hutchinson and E. Hutchinson, Monkwear-
mouth Shore, Durham, timber merchants—W. Butler
and R. Butler, Saint Helen's, Lancashire, clock and
watch manufacturers—E. S. Taylor and H. W. Hewett,
Sheffield. veterinary surgeons and chemists—J. Renshaw
and J. Perkin, Cheddleton, Staffordshire, silk manu-
facturers.

INSOLVENT PETITIONERS.
Robert Eno, jun. Butterwick, Lincolnshire, farmer.
George Knight. East Dean, Gloucestershire, coal miner.
James Herrington, Storrington, Sussex, baker.
Thomas Augustus Bullbrook, Ramsgate, bootmaker.
John Dodge, Dawlish, Devonshire.
Samuel Tutton, Bristol, railway labourer.
George Hedges, Bristol, servant.
Edward Pearce, Scarborough, schoolmaster.
SCOTCH SEQUESTRATIONS.
D. Wylie Methven, Perthshire, farmer, to meet
within the City Hall, Kirkside, Perthshire, Dec. is and
Jan. 1. at two.

L. Fraser, Inverness, coachbuilder, to meet within
the Caledonian Hotel, Inverness, Dec. 20 and Jan. 10,
at one.

PRICE OF SUGAR.
The average price of Brown or Muscovado Sugar, com-
puted from returns made in the week ending Dec. 10,
1850, exclusive of Customs Duties paid or payable thereon
on the importation thereof into Great Britain:—
From the British possessions in America 28s. 4id. per cwt.
From the Mauritius ... 275. 2id. „
From the East Indies ... 225. llid. „
Average price of the three foregoing de-
scriptions of
sugar,jointly,Byauthorityofduty 26,4 2d.
of Parliament, computed as
above, and exclusive
HENRY BICE N ILL, Clerk of the Grocers' Company.
Grocers'-hall, Dec. 13.

LATTER-DAY SAINTS AT TALAWAIN.—OR Friday,
the 22d ult., as police•constable Combs was going his
rounds at night, near Golynos, he saw three men in the
act of stealing coal. They ran off; but he succeeded in
capturing one of them. One of the others, Daniel
Jones, alias Daniel Ty Baee, while in the act of running
away, fell down and hurt his knee ; he having previously,
had a bad knee. The following morning the surgeon of the
works was sent for, who ordered poultices. The same evening
a party of the Latter-day Saints came to see him, he being
a member of that community; they offered to perform a
miracle on him, to which he consented. They immediately
stripped him, and, having removed the poultice from his
knee, anointed him all over with what they called con-
secrated oil; and gave him a dose of oil to drink; they also
laid their hands on him, and prayed over him. The conse-
quence of the interposition of these fanatics was, that when
the surgeon again called his services were declined. Things
thus continued to Friday, the 29th ult., when the surgeon
was again sent for, but it was too late, for mortification bad
taken place, and the poor fellow died on the following morn-
ing. We have heard that the magistrates intend to investi-
gate the cause of the man's death.—Monnumathshire

ATTEMPTS TO MONOPOLISE THE SALT TRADE.—
Considerable excitement has prevailed in Droitwich durinn
the last few days, in consequence of attempts being made by
Messrs. Clay and Co. to stop the supply of brine to the salt
works of Messrs. Noak, to enable them to do which they
have rented the premises near to which Messrs. Noak's brine
pipes are laid, but the Commissioners of 'l' urlipike-roads not
allowing the surface to be broken up for this purpose, head-
ways are being driven across the road, so as by this means to
get at the pipes and break them. A strong feeling against
these proceedings is expressed by the tradesmen and inha-
bitants, as they view with much alarm the prospect of a
monopoly of the salt trade. Several handbills have been
published, showing its injurious tendency to the interests of
the borough. The labouring classes are also very active in
expressing their disapproval of the steps, as being calculated
to throw many hands out of employ, and exhibit their
feelings in various ways, but as yet no serious disturbance
has arisen, the borough magistrates having taken steps to
preserve the 'peace !by swearing in special constables.—
Worcester ardlticle.

THE PAPAL. AGGRESSION.—MEETING AT SEAFORD*
—At a town meeting called by the High Bailiff of Seaford
for the purpose of memorializing the Queen on the subject of
the recent Papal aggression, an address to her Majesty, de-
nouncing the arrogance of the Pope and the treachery of the
Puseyites, was unanimously agreed to ; after which the fol-
lowing addition to the address was proposed and carried
unanimously:_" That this meeting do petition her Majesty
and the Executive Government to institute an immediate
inquiry and examination into all monasteries and Jesuit
colleges in the kingdom; and that they do enforce the
clauses of the Act of 1829, which renders it an offence trans-
portable for monks and Jesuits to neglect to register their
names and places of absde, and the society to which they
belong, &e., before the Horne Secretary." It should be re-
membered that in his evidence in the Sussex Peerage case
Dr. Wiseman stated that he was himself a Jesuit.

LooE, DEC. 9.—Various pieces of cork, a ship's sky.
light, and a few deal boards, the latter apparently hay-
ing been some time in the water, have been picked up.

LAW INTELLIGENCE.
COURT OF CHANCERY, Dec. n.

The Loiw CLIA.NCELLOR, at the sitting of tho Court,
nia,ie orders iu several unopposed lunatic potitions.

RE DYCE SUMBRE (Losracr).-
A petition was presented in this lunacy shortly before
the long vacation by Mrs. Dyce Sombre and the trustees
of her marriage settlement for leave to sell out about
16,0001., part of the settled stock, in order to pay certain
calls on shares in the North-Western and Great
Western Railway Companies. The facts were, that a
portion of the fund in question had some years ago been
invested in the purchase, of shares in the above men-
tioned companies. Subsequently an allotment was made
of new shares, which the proprietors of the old shares
hai the option of accepting, and the trustees accepted a
certain number of those newly-allotted shares. In De-
cember, 1845, an order was made by this Court, upon a
petition presented by the trustees for that purpose, for
the sale of such shares, but only a portion of them were
at that time disposed of, and the object of the present
petition was to enable the trustees to pay the calls upon
the remainder of unsold shares cut of the trust fund.
The petition stood over for judgment.
The LORD CHANCELLOR, triW gave judgment, and after
stating that he had looked through the petition, said that
he did not feel warranted in making the order prayed.
Jr appeared that upon the marriage of Mr. and Mrs.
Dyce Sombre, a considerable gum of stock was transferred
to trustees upon a settlement., with a peer of chenging
the fund with the consent of Mr. and Mrs. Dyes Som-
bre, and it further appeared that a portion of the stock
was sold out and invested in the purchase of shares in
the Great Western and North-Western Railway Com-
panies. Whilst the trustees were possessed of those
shares an allotment wits made of new shares, which the
trustees, upon their own authority, accepted, and which
they afterwards obtained a❑ order from this Court to
sell. Now although this order was made in Dec-mber,
1845, nothing was dune in the matter until October,
1846. That delay was stated to have arisen from the
absence of the trustees, who were parties to the obtaining
the order. At that time, the number of shares being
somewhere about 240, only 44 of them were sold, and
they were sold at 100 per cent. profit. He (the Lord
Chancellor) could not see why the whole of those shares
were not sold, according to the order, the only reason
urged being a general statement of the difficulty of bring-
ing so large a number of shares into the market at one
time, a reason which did not appear to the Court at all
satisfactory. From the time of the sale of these 44
shares, at a large profit, four or five years are allowed
to elapse without anything further being dune under the
order, and then, after the trustees have accepted a fur-
ther allotment of shares without the consent of the
Court, and when the shares have fallen to a considerable
loss, the Court is asked to consent on the part of the
lunatic that a sum of 16,0001., or thereabouts, may be
raied by the sale of stock belonging to the lunatic's
estate, in order to pay the calls upon all these allotments
of shares. The only reason why the Court is asked to
hazard 16.0001. of the capital of the lunatic in a specu-
lation of these shares is an allegation that the dividends
upon the shares, which are now locked up by reason of
the non-payment of the calls, will yield a larger income
than the interest on the stock as it now stands. Having
no ground to satisfy him why the trustees had not acted
on the order of 1845, and looking at the loss which
would accrue, stated to be about 3,0001., he (the Lord
Chancellor) was unable to concede the prayer of the
petition, which must therefore be dismissed.
Mr. GDFFA.RD said that it would be right for him to
mention that the value of shares had very much altered
since the matter was first before his Lordship. The loss
on the capital would now be only 6701., instead of the
amount mentioned by his Lordship.
The LORD CHANCELLOR sisid, on the best calculation
he could make of the loss it would be reduced from
about 3,000/. to 2,0001.

Mr. LLOYD, on behalf of the committee of the estate,
asked for the payment of his costs out of the estate.
The LORD CHANCELLOR said, he could not exactly
understand why the committee had not looked a little
more into the matter. Was he entirely discharged from
all duty and responsibility?

Mr. -LLOYD said that he was not aware that his Lord-
ship would enter into that snbject, or he would have
been prepared to show that the conduct of the committee
of the estate entirely exonerated him from all blame
with regard to any apparent neglect, and would there-
fore ask for an opportunity to clear his character.
Mr. BETHELL interposed by stating that it would be
expedient for the matter to stand over, as there was
great difficulty in ascertaining where the unfortunate
lunatic now was. He had not been heard of for eight
weeks, and it was a matter of doubt whether he was
dead or alive, which of course had caused great anxiety.
The LORD CHANCELLOR then ordered the petitio❑ to
stand over generally.