The Sun.
London, England, 1850-04-23 00:00:00

comorxxar.

SUGAR.—The rn ailtet for 13titiah Plantation continues
without material alteration; sales about 380 hhds; Mau-
ritius, 6,000 bags were nearly all di.iposcd of on rsther
easier tetras ; Bengal, 5,970 bags were about two-thirds
sold, at a reduction of 6d pet cwt. Privately, 500 boxes
yellow Havannah told at 193. Gtl., and a floating cargo of
brown Bahia, at about 18s. The quantity of British Plant-
ation landed last week at the East and West India
Docks was 1,874 lihds, 182 tierceF., 100 barrels; there
were taken for home consumption 1,041 lands, 170 tierces,
209 batrils. Tho stock in the same places is 6,247 bhds,
1,229 tierces 1,395 barrels.

COFFEE.—Tbe market is exceedingly heavy. Pri-
vately about 5,000 bags Native Ceylon have changed
hands at 43s per cwt.
C 000.1.-146 bags Trinidad at auction were with-
drawn at nominal prices. •
Eux—The quantity landed last week a the East and
West India Docks was 573 puns 45 libels; there was
taken for hcma ccnsumption 259 puns, and exported 57
puns 77 hhds. The stock in the 6arne places is 14,257
puns, I,BOS hhds.

RICE.-4,260 bags Bengal mostly sold at steady rates,
from 8s 6d to lOs for low mid brokm to good white.
SALTPETRE.-2,580 bags Bengal were about half sold
at 25s to 25s 6d for 124 to 5 per cci.t. rt fraction, being.
fully 6d lower.
SPICE.S.-100 Robin's Black Pepper sold steadily at
31 to 3P fur fair Estein; 100 cases Cassia Lignea
realised 73s to 78s, being again lower.
TALLOW.—P.Y.C. is 37s per cwt on the spot, and
Town 38s.

TEA.—The market is quiet, with fair deliveries.

ROLLS' COURT.-(THIS DAY.)

The Master of the Rolls was occupied the whole
morning with petitions possessing not the sliglves pub-
lic interest.

VICE-CHANCERY.-(THIS DAY.)
(Before tho VICE-CHANCELLOR of ENGLAND.)
THE KING OF THE TWO SICILIES V. WILCOX.

This case came before his Honour this MOllithg for
argument, upon a demurrer put in by the defendants,
the Peninsular and Oriental l*Aenin-packet Company,
to the bill filed by the royal plaintiff, the King cf the
Two Sicilies. Our readers will doubtless rec olket that
the ease has been before his Honour in various shapes,
first for an injunction to restrain the steam-packet com-
pany from parting with or delivering up a steam-ship
called tho Bombay to Prince Granateili and Signor
Scallia, who, it was alleged, were agents sent to this
country in 1848 by the usurping Government of
Sicily, upon the ground that the vessel had been pur-
chased with moneys taken out of the public treasury,
and therefore the property of the plaintiff, who regained
his sotereign power in April, 1849. The injunction
was granted, but subsequently dissolved as against the
steam-packet company, as it appeared that a few days
bef.ze the filing of the bill they had parted with all their
interest by registering the ship in the names of other
parties. The case was then argued upon a demurrer to
the plaintiff's bill, upon which demurrer it was contended
that the plaintiff hsd admitted a Government de facto
during his dispossesion, but claimed as King de jure,
which involved a question of Sicilian law, of which there
was no averment; that 'the plaintiff's right to sue was
doubtful; and that the members of the rebellious Go-
vernment were necessary parties, and the treatises by
Puffendorf and Vatiel on international law were referred
to, besides numerous cases. In support of the bill it
was argued, that the rebellious Government being stated
throughout as "unlawful," was a sufficient averment
that it was contrary to the Sicilian law; that the plaintiff
had a right to sue; that the public money could be fol-
lowed as belonging to the plaintiff as King, and that the
rebellious Government were not necessary patties to the
bill. Upon that demurrer his Honour gave judg-
ment in February last, observing that there
was no case on the record of belligerent
parties, but merely of a party who, being an absolute
Sovereign, part of his subjects were in rebellion against
him, and took that opportunity to possess themselves of
somaes part the o
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thing, after the principle which had been laid down in
the cases of " the Nabob of the Carnatic" and " the
King of Spaio," that any difficulty should have been
raised. It appeared upon those cases to be laid down
plainly, that an independent Sovereign of a state was
competent in this country to sue for his personal
rights; and recover that property which had been
taken possession of by his rebellious subjects.
His Honour's opinion, therefore, was, that the demurrer
must be overruled, with costs. Since then another de-
murrer had been filed to the plaintiff's bill, on the
ground that as the bill sought a discovery of the whole,
transaction, and as that discovery, if given, might ex-
pose the defendants to a criminal prosecution, they
were not bound to answer any matter that subjected
them to any such results.
Mr. STUART opened tie demurrer this morning, and
the arguments occupied the Court the whole day.
(kefore the Vice-Chancellor KNIGHT BRUCE.)
Cases of no general interest occupied his Honour the
whole morning.
(Before the Vice-Chancellor WIGRA3I.X '1..t„.714.17;