The Sun.
London, England, 1850-05-14 00:00:00

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LLOYD'S SHIPPIN G.—(THIS DAY.)
LONDON, MAY 14.—Wlnd at 1100t1 W.N.W.: fresh
breeze and cloudy.

SWANAGE, MAY 12.—The Trial, which ran upon the
sands, has got off without damage.
ANTWERP, MAY 11.—The Olymphe, from Valparaiso,
has been totally destroyed by fire at San Francisco. The
Z aan Gallipoli to Stettin, touched on a rock mar the
former port and capsized; crew saved.
LAUNCESTON, V. D. L., DEC. 19.—The John Bull,
hence to San Francisco, has been reported at the Mar-
qu-sas shc.rt of provisions..
RAMSGATE, MAY 13. —Wind E. to E.N.E.—Arrd.
Amor, Waller, Ilamburgh for Liverpool. with damage.
PILL. MAY 13.—Wind E.N.E.—Sid. Pacific, New Or-
leans; William Carson, Quebec.
BRISTOL, MAY 13.—Wind N.E.—Arrd. Courrier de
Brest, Troby, Borun.
DEAL, MAY 13.—Wind N. to N.E.—Arrd. Helen,
Galswotthy, Trinidad; Fairy, Cuba. Arrd. from the
River, Lady M'Donald, Madras; Sumatra, Rio Janeiro;
William and Ann, Quebec. Arrd. from the River and
ski. William end Thomas, Montreal. Sld. Vigilant,
Hobart Town; Victoria, ditto; Lord I'etre, Mauritius;
Meteor, Quebec.
COWES, MAY 13.---Wind N.—The Earl of Durham,
London to Halifax, which grounded at Brook ith
came off on the Btb, and sailed for Portsmouth today to
be docked.

LIVEIIPOOL, MAY 13.—Wind N.N.W.—Arrd. Ocean
Queen, Gore, Apalachicola. Std. Hudson, Sydney, New
South Wales; Albert Edward, Hong-Kong; John Spen-
cer, Calcutta; Electric, ditto; Junior, Bombay; Hermes,
Lima; Peruana, Bordeaux and Callao; Schillizz,, Rio
Grande; Savage, Hayti; Gladiator, Curacoa; Science,
Santa Martha; Ellerslie, New York; Patriot, Boston;
Bell Rock, ditto; Prometheus, ditto; Crescent, ditto.
The Sandersons, R,,aligo to Punta Arenas, has 1:1-en
tot Ally lost in the Pacific; crew and passengers saved.
A vessel, commanded by Captain Foord, has been lost
in the Cocos Passage. The Queen s•eamer, for Genoa,
having been found free from damage, proceeded latt
night.

PETERHEAD, MAY 12.—Wind W.—Arrd. Enterprise,
Cardico, Greenlend, with 11,030 seals.
14:Demi, Mar 12.—The Ann, Fowey to Middleton,
in coming up the river, 30th March, got on the Middle
Sand, and ie.:( ived considerable damage, but was got
off alter discharging part of cargo, and is in the patent
slip for repairs.

iiCARBOROUGH, MAY 12.—The Hermility of this port
has been totally disanstel, and bull much damaged,
from contact with the Richard Watson, of Newcastle, off
Rayburn Wylie.

MARKET NLWS.-(THIS DAY.)

SLAY rateauluiarb.

SMITHFIELD.—MeacIow Hay, 2/ Ids to 3/ 103; Clover
litto, 31 03 to 4/ lOs ; and Straw, 1/ Is to 11 8s per
Supply but moderate, and trade dull.
C EMBERLAND.—Meadow Hay, 2110. co 3/ 10s; Clover
ditto, 31 Os to 41 5s ; and Straw, 11 2s to 1/ 94 pe;
load. A full avera,;e supply, and a sluggish demand.
lIITLCHAPEL. Meadow Hay, 2/ 83 to 3/ 10.,;
,71over ditto, 310. s to 41 10s; and Straw, 1/ Is to lt 83 per
load. Trade dull, at but little alteration in prices
COLONIAL.
SOGAR.—British Plantation continues in good de.
wand, and the sales were about 600 hhds, at rather
higher rates; 3.700 bags Mauritiu3, and 4,700 bags
Bengal at auction sold with spirit at 6d to is a.t-
vance, the greatest improvement being on the
latter. 229 bags Penang sold freely at a
rise of fully 61, grey and yellow realising 33s
to 365; and brown, 28s to 32s 6d. Privaiely, 7,000
bags brown clayed Manilla sold at 35s 6d. The quan-
tity of British Plantation landed last week at the East
and West India Docks was 1,157 Ws 320 tierces 441
barrels. Th, re wore taken for home consumpti,in 1,437
hhds 221 tierces 209 barrels.. The stock in the sal:. e
places i 3 7,482 hhds 1,637 tierces 2,515 barrels.
COFFEE.-500 bags 120 casks Plantation Ceylon were
only partly sold at 46i to 57s 6d for fine ord to good
calery pea-berry ; 400 casks ord Native Ceylon sold
steadily at 393 per cwt. Good ord Native has been
about 40: to 403 6d privately.
Rum.—The quantity landed last week at the East and
West India Docks was 368 puns 65 hhds; there were
taken for home consumption 252 puns, and exported 24
puns 30 hhds. The stock in the same places is 15,274
puns 1,1:59 blids.

SALTPETRE.-3,235 bags Bengal sold at rather ad
vanced rates, viz., 244 Cci to 26s for 114 to 5 per cent
refraction.

TALL,W.—P.f.C. is 37s per cwt on the spot, and
Town 3Ss per cwt.
TEA.--The market is steady.
COTTON.—This article i firm.

HORRIBLE SUICIDE FROM THE
DUKE OF YORK'S COLUMN THIS DAY.:
A painful excitement prevailed this morning through-
out the whole of the west-end district, owing to a re-
port which prevailed that the Saxe-horn player of her
Majesty's Theatre had committed suicide, by throwing
himsalf fcom the Duke of Yoz k's Column.

It appears that shortly after ten o'clock the unfortu-
nate deceased, whose name is Albert Stephan, Saxe-
horn player at her Majesty's Theatre, and brother-in-
law to M. Pettit, maitre de ballet at the same place, paid
his sixpence and ascended the Column. The money-
taker noticed nothing in his manner to lead him to sup
pose that he was contemplating suicide. He had been
up for nearly twenty minutes, having been there all
alone, and directly after the Horse-Guards clock had
struck half-past ten, he (the door-keeper) heard a
shriek from a female. He ran out to ascertain the
cause, and when he turned round to the west side
of the pillar, he there saw the lifeless body of the
gentleman who had, but a few minutes before, gone
up the Column. He bad jumped from the west
side, or that portion of the pillar facing Chevalier
Bunsen's mansion, in Carlton-gardens, and, in coming
down his head came into fearful contact with the base
of the Column, and shattered it to atoms. His brains
were scattered all over the base of the pillar, and on the
ground for some yards round. When picked up life
was quite extinct. The force with which his feet came
to the ground caused his boots to burst from their soles
and completely smash his right foot. Police-constable
Barber, of the C division, was soon on the spot, and he,
with the assistance of other constables, conveyed the
unfortunate man to St. Martin's Workhouse. The only
property found on him was two sixpences, a purse, a
white pocket handkerchief, marked S. T., and Mr.
Lumley 's t ngagement. He was very respectably attired,
beirg dressed in a black surtout, black trousers, and a
dark waistcoat. Ile was an unmarried man, and about
fi ty- five years of age. His brother was unable, through
grief, to see him for some time after the melancholy
cccurreace.

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QUEEN'S BENCH.—(THIS DAY.)
,Sittings at Nisi Prius, at Guildhall, hi fore Lord CAMP-
BELL and a Commons Jury.)
LODER V. HUTTON AND OTHERS.
The plaintiff in this case is a furniture dealer, and
he de!endants are dealers in Berlin wool; and the
action was brought to try the validity of a bill of sale
given by Mr. Stanley, a stationer, and comprising the
whole of his stock and furniture, to the plaintiff, under
which it was sought to set aside an execution by the de-
fendants, who sere creditors to the extant of about 40/.
Mr. M. Chambers and Mr. Hawkins were counsel for
the plaintiff, and the defendants were represented by
Mr. Crowder and Mr. Ball.
The bill cf sale in question having been put it,
Mr. John Stanley, a stationer at Sydeuham, proved
that at the end of last year he was indebted to the plain-
tiff about 1401. for furniture. In November last he had
a distress in the house for rent. Witness executed a
bill of sale cf the furniture to the plaintiff, and the goods
seized under the execution were the'same as those men-
tioned in the bill of sale.
Cross-examined by -Mr. CRowDEß—First received the
goods from the defendants in March, 1849, to the
amount of about 401. His (witness's) wile carried on a
toy-shop business, and witness the stationery. Gave
Loder, the plaintiff; some bills. Messrs. Jones and Rock,
to whom witness owed mor,ey, also sued him. Witness
is also an attorney, but had not taken out his certificate
since 1844. He owed one Mrs. Holmes about 301., and
he put one Simpson in on behalf of Mrs. Holmes, who
coniinuedther e till the bill of sale was given to Loden
Re-exstnined—The stock in the shop was worth about
3001., but the whole with the furniture only sold for 65/.
Mr. Joseph Loder, plaintiff's son, a furniture dealer,
proved that he (witness) furnished goods to the Stanleys
to the amount of 140/.
Mr. CROWDER, on the part of the defendant, sub-
mitted that the bill of sale. was only intended to defeat
the righteous claims of the defendants, the execution
creditors. He contended that it was a' fraudulent and not
a bond fide transaction.
Lord CAMPBELL left it to the jury to say whether the
plaintiff Loder had acted merely with the intention of
securing his own just claims on the Stanleys, or whether
he had wished to protect their property, and so to di -
fraud the other creditors, by giving a false colour to the
way in which Stanley' was currying on his business.
The jury returned a verdict for the defendant.
Lord CAMPBELL told the jury he could not at all dis-
approve
to their verdict. Those secret hills of sale ought
never to be favoured.

EXCHEQUER.—(THIS DAY.)
The sittings at Nisi Prius in London, 'l,fier East( r
term, comm. need this morning at Guildhall, before the
Lord Chief Baron and a Common Jury.
There are nineteen remanets, which have been brought
o►er from the las: sittings, and fifty-five Lew causes
entered for trial. _ _ _

Several undefended cases having been disposed of, the
Court proceeded with the cave of Armstrong v. Nor-
mandy, which was brought to recover 62/., for coals
supplied to a defunct undertaking, calltd the Patent
Elastic Pavement and Kamptulicon Company, but the
details la ere devoid of the slightest public interest.

COMMON PLEAS.—(THIS, DAY.)
(Sittings at Guildhall b6tore Lord Chief Justice WILDE
and a Common Jury.)
DIARRITT V. CANN.

In this case Mr. Sergeaut 13)les appeared for the
plaintiff, and the defendant conducted his own case.
The proceedings were unimportant, and arose from the