The Sun.
London, England, 1850-04-19 00:00:00

COLONIAL.

SUGAR.—An increased business has been done in
most descriptions, holders having accepted rather lower
rates. British plantation has found buyers at about 6d
decline. Barbadoes by auction realised 40s 6d to 42s
for fine yellow, 37s 6d to 40s for mid to good, and crys-
talized Demerara brought 41a to 41s Gd for good
yellow, 37s 6d for low, and 33s 6d to 34s fur brown.
REFINED has been firm at 48s to 503 for grocers' lumps.
EAST INDIA.—A fair business has been done privately
in these descriptions, and at auction 3,713 bags Mau-
ritius went steadily; fine and good yellow at 375 to 38s
6d, fine brown at 33a to 345, and low to good refining
sort at 33s to 375. Bengal: 16,526 bags nearly all
found buyers, but white Benares went a little cheaper,
viz., 39s to 40s for fine, 36s to 38s Gd for low to good,
46s to 46s 6d fur fine grainy white, and 32s to 35s 6d
fur low to good soft ditto. Some China produce was
taken in et 35s 6d to 36s Gd for greyish yellow.
FOREIGN.—Porto Rico of good quality has been sold
at full pri( es, good and fine at 40a to 42s 6d, and very
low to mid and soft at 34s to 395. Yellow Havannsh
has been taken in at 38s 61 to 39s for good, and white
at 28s to 31s 6d for mid to good. Bahia was taken in
at 35s to 37s for brown, and at 40s for white. Java has
been put up to the extent of 1,216 baskets, 3,247 bags,
and about half sold at 39s to 42s 6d for mid to fine
grey, and at 393 to 41s for damp and washed.
COFFEE.—There has been a very heavy market again,
and prices hr.ve given way. Native good ord Ceylon
has dropped to 45e, after having been done at 48s during
the week. P,antation kinds are relatively better 54-
ported, but there is not much doing in them. Mucha
has been sold at 77s 6d for good, and at 43s to 45s f..r
triage, part being taken in at 60s. These also are ch-
eidedly lower rates. Java partly sold at 45s to 46s 6d
for fine and fine ord, being a fall of 3s to 5s per cwt.
COCOA.—Trinidad has bEen sold at 35s to 39s fcr ord
to good, and at 41s to 43s for good red, and Grenada has
been taken in at 37s to 38e.

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SPICE-S.—The quotations for most articles have been
rather in favour of buyers. Cassia Lignea Las been
sold at 77s 6d to 91s. Pimento was taken in at 5 dto
51.1. Malabar half heavy Pepper has been sold at 3lcl
to 38d per lb. White and good ord dingy had realised
4*l to 4id. Nutmegs have been sold at from is up to
3s 4d, and Mace at 2s to 2s 9d.
RICE.—The demand has rather improved, and prices
are somewhat firmer.

Rux.—This article has not been in much request.
COTTON.—There has been a firm market, and with a
moderate business doing.
TALLOW.—The price for P. Y. C. has been 36a 6d and
37s per cwt. on the sprat, with moderate purchases.
TEA.—At the public sales nearly 14,000 packages
were offered, and only about 4,000 found buyers; tire
Gunpowder going at rather lower rates.
GREEN FRUIT.—The weather has been prejudicial
to the sale of Oranges, and this, combined with the
fruit landing out of condition, has depressed the price;
two cargoes St. Michael, sold by Keeling and llunt,
went at a reduction of 2s per box. Lemons have im-
proved in price, the stock on hand being short. A
quantity of Palermo Sours, received via Liverpool, have
mt t with a ready sale, although the advanced period of
the season has been against the price. Barcelona Nuts
held firmly by the importers, and as the trade are get-
ting out of stock, au improvement in price may be
looked for.

ROLLS' COURT.-(THIS DAY.)
Petitions, and the further arguments in the part-heard
motion of blunt v. the Shrewsbury,:Sae., Railway Com-
pany,:occupied the Master of the Rolls the whole day.

VICE-CHANCERY.-(THIS DAY.)

The Vice• Chancellor of England took unopposed
cause petitions, short causes, and cauase petitions to-
day, none of which possessed the least feature of interest.
Nothing of any interest, except to the parties con-
cerned came before the Vise-Chancellor Knight Bruce
and Wigram during the whole day.

COMMON PLEAS-(THIS DAY.)
(Sittings in Banco bcfore the LORD CHIEF JUSTICE,
CRESSWELL, WILLIAMS, and TALFOURD.)
The business before the Court this morning was quite
unimportant.
(Sittings at Nisi Prius before Mr. Justice MAULE.)
The Court was occupied this morning with the case
of Orchard v. Rackatraw, which was an action brought
by the plaintiff to recover a horse from the possession of
the defendant, a livery-stable keeper, who retained the
horse after repeated demands had been made on him to
restore it. There was a second count in which it was
alleged that while in the possession of the defendant the
horse had receivsd several injuries, by which it had be-
come lessened in value.

For the defence, it was alleged that the horse was re-
tained as a ph dge for the payment of certain sums due
to the defendant by the plaintiff for the keep of the
horse, and though this did not give him a legal claim,
still he had a lien upon it by reason of expense, which
he had incurred on account of the horse; such as veteri-
nary surgeon's bill, farriers, and other items. In reply
to the second count, it was urged that the dtf, ndant
was not responsible for any damages sustained by the
horse, as the plaintiff himself bad expressed a wish that
the horse should be ridden out for an airing, and the
accident had occurred on that occasion.
The case was proceeding when our report left.

QUEEN'S BENCH.—(THIS DAY.)
Before Lord CAMPBELL and Justices WIGHTMAN
ERLE, and PATTESON.) ,
THE AGRICULTURAL CATTLE INSURANCE COMPANY

V. FITZGERALD.

Mr. GREENWOOD said, in this case, which was tried
before Mr. Justice Wightman, at Westminster, at the
sittings afar Hilary term, and in which a verdict was
taken for the plaintiff by consent for 158/. I is., leave
was granted to move, on the part of the defendant, t)
enter a nonsuit. This was an action brought by a
joint stock insurance company against the defendant,
as a shareholder, for arrears of call, and the declaration
stated that the company was a completely registered
company. The pleas were, first, nuntquam indebitatus ;
secondly, denying that the plaintiffs were completely
registered; thirdly, that the company was formed
after the_joint Stock Companies' Act, but 1101

by deed, under the hands and seals if the
shareholders,. The objections were that there
was no legitimate proof of registration; secondly, tl,at,
there way no t-mtlittient proof that the defendant was a
sharehold,r at the time be executed the deed; and that
the deed, even in evidence, was not in compliance with
the Act of Parliament, because it did not contain the
clauses directed by the Act. In order to prove that, the
company was couipletdy registered,- the plaintiff pro-
duced in evidence a book from the Joint Stock Compa-
nies' R•giatration-office to show that there was an entry
of the registratieu of the company. He (Mr. Green-
wood) now, attd at the trial, contended that the curly
proof of registration would be by the production of the
certificate of registration, which was not forthcoming.
Lord CaIuPBELL—TakP a rule to show cause.

EXCHEQUER.-(THIS DAY.)
(Btfire the LORD CIIIEF BARON and Barons PAP ICE,
RULFE, and PLATT

KERNEY V. SUNDERAND MARINE INSURANCE COMPANY

Mr. Kisowi.Es applied in this case, which was tried at
Durham before Mr. Baron Rolfe, nod in which a ver-
dict was given for the plaintiff, for a rule to show cause
why the verdict should not be set aside and a new trial
granted, or why judgment should not be arrested, on
the ground that the verdict was against the evidence.
The actien was brought to recover 300/., the amount of
a policy of ihsuranee effected upon the cargo of a semi
called the Mary, which was appointed to sail from Alex-
andria to this country, but which, on its voyage thither,
was over teken by a storm and totally lost. The princi-
pal plea was that the policy had been obtained by false-
' hood rind misrepresentation; and it was shown at the trial
that the plaintiff represented to the underwriter,
on taking out the insurance, that he did not
know when the vessel was about sail, while
in reality he bad received information that it
was to leave Alexandria on a certain day then past.
The plaintiff alleged that it was immaterial to mention
the day of sailing, and that if there had been no wilful
concealment of any circumstance the policy could not be
vitiated. Mr. Knowles contended at the trial, and also
now, in support of his present application, that if the de-
fendant, at the time he effected the policy, gave incorrect
answers to the questions which were put to him, he had
been guilty of misrepresentation, and would not therefore
be entitled to recover against the company. He also
argued that the omission to state the day of sailing had
kept back from the knowledge of.the defendants a cir-
cumstance which might have materially 'affected their
opinion respecting the safety of the cargo, owing to the
winds which prevailed at certain periods.
The COURT granted a rule.
CHAMBERS V. JONES.

In this case, which was tried at the last assizes for
Flintshire, before Mr. Justice Cresswell, and in which
the plaintiff was non-suited,
Mr. TOWNSEND moved, in pursuance of leave reserved
by the Learned Judge, for a rule to show cause why a
verdict should be entered for the plaintiff. The action
was in assumpsit to recover the amount of an attorney's
bill for legal proceedings, taken at the instance of the
churchwardens of a parish in Flintshire, to obtain the
removal of a pauper. The overseers, Kho gave instruc•
Cons to the plaintiff to prosecute these proceedings, had
since retired from office, and their successors denied
being liable for the expenses which they had incurred.
The Learned Counsel contended that, by the 11th and
12th Vict., c. 91, the duty was incumbent upon the
overseers to pay the debts contracted by their prede-
cessors, and said it would be extremely hard if parties
wer• compelled to look for payment to overseers who
had retired from office, and who might have left the
parish or have become insolvent, and been rendered un-
able to pay.
The COURT re fused to grant a rule, being of opinion
that the overseers who bad made the contract were per-
sonally liable, and that their liability could not be
transferred to their successors.

MARLBRO'-STREET..7(THIS DAY.)

A BEGGING lIMPOSTOIL—John Lofts, a tall, cedave-
rous-looking fellow, was brought before Mr. Hardwick,
charged w ith attempting to excite the generosity of the
charitable by shamming a fit.
Police-constable 34 C stated that on the previous
evening he was on duty in Duke-street, St. James's,
when :a gentleman came up to him and gave him a
shilling, with directions to take it to a poor man who
was sitting in a door-way in the street. He immediately
went to the spot, and there saw the prisoner lying on
his back, apparently in a fit, surrounded by a mob of
more than fifty persona, some of whom, out of
compassion to the prisoner, gave him money.
At that time the prisoner was foaming at the
mouth, and witness believing him to be really ill, pro-
cured assistance and conveyed him to the station. On
the way there witness met Pclice-constable A 46, who,
on seeing the prisoner, recognised him as a notorious
impostor, and stated that be had had him in custody
more than twenty times for shamming fits, and that to
cause the foaming at the mouth, he always had a piece
of soap to place therein. On arriving at the station the
prisoner fell down again as if dead, but on Inspector
Whale directing a pail of water to be applied, he speedily
recovered. _

The prisoner, who did not deny the charge, was corn-
mitted to the House of Correction for one month, with
hard labour.

NEWMARKET RACES.

(BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.)

Handicap. T.Y.C.

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