The Sun.
London, England, 1850-05-02 00:00:00

BIRTHS IN THE WEEK.

Males
Females

... 729
... 770

Price

.....
16
3g
27
24
111

Total ... ... 1,499
•In this number are included 21 by Scarlatina, 25
by Typhus Fever, 11 by Diarrhoea, and 1 by Cholera.

STATE OF TRADE.
(From the Manchester Guardian.)
MANCRESTER, TUESDAY.—The Europa's advice',
showing the deficiency in the receipts of cotton at the
American ports to be upwards cf 500,000 tales, have
had much the same kind of effect on our market, to-day,
as previous accounts, pointing to the same result, have
of late produced. Vith the raw material still rising on
their hands, the spinners have again raised their quut.4.-
dons; and the manufacturers have followed in the same
course, at least as regards those cloths which are most
in request. In this more, the latter class of producers
have scarcely had any further success than that of
being enabled to obtain, for some articlee, those full
rates which could not be got a week ago. It is enly
in some particular things that the improvement has
amounted to more than what we have just stated ;
while the entire business of the day has certainly been
restricted within narrow limits. Some of the makers
of domestics are doing rather more with the home
dealers. The spinners have succeeded in their de-
mands rather better than the manufacturers. The
impression that cotton is not at present likely
to be lower, and may possibly rise somewhat
higher, appears to have made a little progress amongst
the German buyers, who, though still acting with great
caution and making no large purchases, have operated
more freely, as well as more generally to-day, than for
some time back; paying, in almost every instance, such
prices as they refused to give a few days back. In the
various yarns which they purchase, prices are, prac-
tically, at least el per lb. higher than they were
this day week. In some kinds the gain is rather
more than that. The manufacturers also are pay-
ing about an equal advance for warps and weft; but
they purchase very sparingly. The India houses are
doing but little in yarne, as well as in goods. spinners
and manufacturers feel most painfully that the present
course of things is fraught with serious evils to them.
If a rise in prices should now be made good, they see
that the finished article is likely to be lett further than
before in the rear of the raw material.

RCCLIDALE, MONDAY.—We have had something hke
an average market to-day, both in prices and number of
pieces sold. The wool market is still heavy, and very
little business doing.
MACCLESFIELD, TUESDAY.—Since our last report
there have been a auy buyers of manufactured goods iu
town, but the sales are r,-ported only to a limited ex-
tent. We might have expected larger operations at this
season 4 f the year, particularly as it is generally under-
stood that stocks of siik goods in the wholesale houses
ale comparatively light—the buyers are evidently pur-
chasing for immediate w ants, and we hope, ere long, to
be enabled to report a more active demand. The throw-
ing trade continues iu the saute quiet state it has dote
for the last few weeks, but the mills are still working full
time. In the raw silk market prices remain as bef Ore.
HUDDERSFIELD, TUESDAY.—We have been compara-
tively slack in the mat ket to-day—very little has been
brought into the hall. The warehouses have also been
dull; buyers being very shy except at reduced prices.
HALIFAX, SATURDAY.—There is no noticeable change
in the condition of the worsted trade. The principal
inquiry is for lastings, which are very difficult to be
obtained. In yarn there is a steady business, without
any alteration in price. There is not much doing in
wool, and the quotations remain as they were.
LEkDS. TUESDAY.—We have had a fair average busi-
ness to-day and on Saturday; also considerable deli-
veries bave been made direct to the warehousel. Stocks
are low, and prices without alteration. Tf4e shipping
houses continue busy; but there is not quite so much
doing for the home trade, the very cold w eather we ex-
perience at present having a tendency t,) check the sale
of light summer goods.

LAW INTELLIGENCE.
BAIL COURT, May 1.
(Sittings in Banco, before Mr. Justice COLERIDGE.)
THB QUEEN V. THE PUBLISHER OF THE " MORNING
HERALD."
Mr. Sergeant SHEE was instructed to move for a rule
to show cause why a criminal information should not be
filed against Mr. Chapman, the printer and publisher of
the Adorning Herald newspaper, for a libel published in
that paper. He moved on the affidavit of the Rev. An-
thony Magee, D.D., who stated that he was the clergy-
man or priest of tbe Roman Catholic chapel in the city
of Westminster, and that in the month of December,
1349, he contracted to purchase of and from the Right
lion. Lord Cottenham and others, the trustees of the
Law Life Assurance Society, certain lands situate in
the ccunty of Galway, containing 3,000 acres, being
part of very large and extensive estates known by the
name of the " Great Martin Estate," in Connemara, but
that no conveyance thereof, or of any part thereof, Lad
yet been made to this deponent, nor Lath he yet bed
possession of the said lands so purchased by him. He
then said that in the Morning Herald of the 25th of
April there appeared of and concerning him, and of the
estate he had purchased, the following paragraph
"IRELAND.
"(From our own Correspondent.)
" THE GREAT MARTIN ESTATE.
would appear by the following letter from the
Mayo Conciliation that the vast region known a. the
Martin Estate, in Connemara, is about to be made the
scene of a sweeping ejector ant
Cefden, April 18, 1850.
"'I regret to tell you that the parties interested in the
far-famed Martin Estate have obtained no less a number
than 650 ejectment decrees against the unfortunate te-
nantry of the late Thomas Martin, Esq. By this means
3,000 or 4,000 people will be thrown upon the world.
It is fearful to contemplate such a state of things in a
Christian country. Surely, with our poor-houses over-
flowing with wretched inanates, we shall doubly feel
this terrible addition to eur misery. How will they be
supportel?—where could the means be had? Still, the
old saying holds, 'lt is an ill wind blows nobody good.'
The assistant-barrister's fees on these ejectments (ruled
in a few hours) amounted to nearly 400/., and the attor-
ney's fees I,OOOL, making together a sum of over 1,400/.
It has caused a sensation here that we cannot describe.
" We (Mayo G'onsiitution)confess that we have heard
this statement with astonishment. We wish it were
exaggerated; but from the respectability of our informant
we cannot for a moment doubt it. And still it is hard
to believe that in a season like this, at the end of a famine,
when such exertions are making to crop the land as
never, in our memory, were made before, that 4,000 hu-
man beings should be thrown upon the rates. We can
solve this matter but one way—namely, that the quasi
owners of this property—the English mortgagees—
having brought the estate to the hammer, anu finding
that it did not bring remunerating prices, have adopted
tbe fearful experiment of clearing the country of its in-
' habitants; and never was so short sighted a policy prac-
tised—never was so blind an attempt made to obtain
higher prices. There can be but one opinion of moun-
tain lands, that they are only really profitable in the
hands of a tenantry; and we may ask with our corres-
pondent, who will support this mass of pauperism—
where will the furds be had ? We envy not the feelings
of men who could cast 4,000 people together houseless
on the world. Thank God, the doers of the deed are not
Irishmen.'
" The purchaser cf this property is the Rev. Mr.
Magee, Roman Catholic clergyman, resident at West-
miuster. His reverence says he is compelled to eject
the vast majority of the tenantry, but he mi ans to re-
store all who are deserving—all, in short, who have a
reasonable chance of paying their rents."
The last paragraph consisted of the comments of the
Morning Herald upon the letter. Dr.Magee, in his effi-