The Sun.
London, England, 1850-04-22 00:00:00

NEW-7
-(THIS DAY.)

CORN EXCHANGE-MONDAY.
Letters from tte leading country markets held on
Saturdayik state that the demand for all kinds of Wheat,
English and foreign, ruled heavy, at further de-
pressed rates. Spring Corn and Flour, the supplies of
which were on the increase, had a downward tendency.
T
f ',.reigh Grain markets have ruled extremely lilac-
an the near continental ports prices have not been
4uPPorted. At Oiessa and Dantz:e, as well as at Alex-
-4,1e Wheat was Benin?: at depressed currencies. Up
'ellr market last week the arrivals of home-grown
Grain was somewhat on the ineeesse. From Ireland and
Scotland they were unusually- small. The foreign im-
riations amounted to 2,290 quarters of Wheat, 12:631
▪ „t() of Barley, 38,111 ditto f Oats, 50 ditto of Rye,
;49 ditto of Beans, 216 dlto of Peas, 77 ditto of
ze:aea, 1,759 ditto of Rapeseed, 141 ditto of sundry
The 'B' 4,903 sacks and 150 Carrels of Flour.
,
quantity of wheat received fresh up to this morn-
ing's market coastaise from Essex and Kent aas very
startll.
B 3 land carriage and samp!e, the receipts of that
grain were limited, and of but middling quality. The
Ih7ew of parcels of both red and white aas smaller than
some time past, and a fair clearance was (Bail.).
4,c'
e *l, at prices about equal to those obtained on Mon-
a3' last. The attendance of both town and country
b
1111_Yers was scanty, and we understand that several of
jta continue to import foreign Wheat largely on their
‘.7•
.t 1 account. Offers still arrive from the east coast to
:ittward Wheats at farther depresed rates. The
';‘6a'"' of foreign NV he a', which was chit fly
ITP:'sed of granaried am p les, was large.
a,jr. .dry qualities so sold to a fair extent.
last Week's currencies. In the inferior kinds exceed-

in
g y little ea% doing, at late rates.
blight

Cargoes sfloa

have amour:tellto 8.9 hale from Hamburgh ; 159 ditto.
from the Cape ; 1 251 ditto from Port Philip; 1,232
ditto from Mt.lahie ; 71 ditto from Port Victoria ; ar.d
616 di:to horn Hobart Town. Thus it will he perceivtd
tLit the stoeke in varehouno ere increasing, and that a
fair ave.srage quantity will, in all probability, be offered
pubic Erie next month. In Foreign end Colonial
Wool very little business is in the private con-
tract milrlt..l. British Wools are from Id to lid per lb
lower.

4iillt have been purchased at Is per quarter leas money,
ito. l'ave the expense of landing. The quantity of Eng-
-3141 Batley was very limited ; but that of foreign %sits
~;rge. Malting parcels were in fair request at full
i,• ceB ; but grinding and distilling sorts were dull at
tue late decline. We vvero well supplied with Malt,
ienild for delivcry. Ail descriptiona moved off slowly.
~ 17 Prices, however, we have no change to re-
Fun. There was a large supply of Oats on
acts in
A very extt naive business was trans-
yed in that grain, at stationary figures.
slowly' the show of which was tolerably good, moved off
i,,"13'; but we have no change to notice in value. The
,""cluirs for Peas was almost. w holly in retail, at late
~ es• In Indian Corn and Meal so little was doing that
arrale3 Was almost nominal. The Flour trade was heavy
moil quslities were offering it drooping prices.
Wh CIIttgENCY PER lALPERIAL MEASURE.
-eat—Essex & Bent, 1 M alt—Clievalier. • • • .. 50s to 54s
Rcd, New.... 35s to 40s 'vats—Yorkshire and
Dltto,White, New 39s 46s Lineolr.sh., Feed. 13s :be.
Norfolk and I,ln- Potato
.„ Coln, Red..... 348 37s Youghal and Cork,
ultto, White.. .... 308 405 Black .••• . •• 12s I4s
Irish. Red........ 343 39s Cork, White .•• .. 13s 153
0 Ditto'White...... 38s 41s Scotch, Feed. •• • • 163 Si,
Y4--01(1 .... .....• —s —5 Beans—Tick . ........223 25s
1tajeW........... :• .
20s 22s Pigeons .... 20s 34s
eY—Griuding . .... 153 19s Peas—Grey..• •••• • • • 233 24s
MalteYing ......... 218 23s M
W aple. ••• • • ... -23 t 253
kveellalier .... ... 22s 25s hite... ••- - .. 223 238
"-Suffolk and Nor- Boilers •.• • ....• 24 t 268
f01k.... .. .. .... 43s 48s Flour—Town-made... 323 368
tle'wc ••••• .. .. 403 42s Suffolk •••••• • • -27 s 3i,
',Lagaton and 'Ware 46s 503 Stockta & Norfolk 27s 313

SMMDS.

dull average supplies of most Seeds were on sale to
1t7,: The general demand ruled heavy, at barely last
night's quotatim.s. In Cakes scarcely any business was
transacted. The sales for foreign Clover Seed, this year,
'lave fallen short of those of last scason by upwards of
So 000
cwt.
.flitr
nlNWhite, per bush. 105 to 11:
Red aid Green.... 105 12s,
alllstard, . 83 lls
1,4 White •••••• • • • Cs
9°
r"' BTring • • •—• ..33 ca 430 d
Oln
eittrlearY, Per quarter ~ 685 72s
CID gra"•• ••• •• 205 2t.
rer, Rea Er, (cwt ) 353 50,
White 343 48s
Foreign Red:. 333 5Cs
White.... 323 50s
lref°ll ..... Its sl
sralTurnuar.
Ilting the past week a fax average supply of foreign
6,1°e1, has arrived in the port of Loudon, viz., 1,244 head,
,7193? Beasts and Calves. During the corresponding
rerlud in 1849 the importation amounted to 1,093, and
au the same time in 1848, 1,256 head.
IMPORTS INTO LONDON IN TILE PAST WEEK.
ear°l'l Beasts. Sheep. Lambs. Calves. Pigs
,mbUrgh 40
retnen 16 tner
oteru P •••
am
liath
214 ...
lerting 104

Carraway ;•• • • • 29s 32!
Coriander .•..••.. •• • • 16s 24s
llempsecd, per quarter 32s 35s
Linseed, Eng.::owing 51s 561
Crushing •• •... •. 40s 43s
Baltic •• • • ...... 38e 44s
Odessa • .•..... 421 46s
Linseed Cake, pr.l,ooo—
•. • • .8/ Os 91 Os
Foreign, per ton 51 105 Ti lOs
Rape Cakes, pr ton 41 lOs 61 5s
Itapeseed,New, pr Ist 35/ Os 381 Os

M 6 ... - ... 203 ... -
26 .. - ... 5 ... -

••• .....

Total .....
w . 464 545 ... ... 235 ..
orresponding
seek in 1849.
325 ... 560 ... 20 ... IES 3
same
Week

in 1848— —.532 558 ... 136
ve ...
Y few arivals have taken place at the outports
From Ireland 86 Beasts, 42 Sheep, and 41 Calves have
arrived‘,o , for this market direct by sea. The number
. -eoreign Beasts and Calves on offer this morning was
alight good, that of Sheep small. There was a
improvement in the demand, and prices had an
..
▪ p
ih and tendency. From our various grazing districts
e arrivals of Beasts fresh up, to-day, were consider•
kliblY on the increase, compared with those reported
.on
ti "day last; nevertheless, the demand for that descrip-
t;" of stock—as the dead markets were well cleared of
_geir last week's supply, and the weather was more fa-
vourable for slaughtering—ruled steady, at last week's
Priees, the primest Scots selling at 3s 6d per Blbs. The
ZelzbE'r of Beasts from Norfolk, Suffolk, Essex, and
AMbridgeshire was 2,120. From other parts of England
we received about 700 Herefords, runts, Devons, &c.,
andremainder
from Scotland 320 horned and polled Scots. The
4:,44ainder of the supply was chiefly derived from abroad.
;etrtoenwas a slight falling off in the supply of Sheep, the
general quality of which was good. On the whole the
trade was firm, and a good clearance was
th• eetcd, at an advance in the quotations of 2d per Blbs,
the Primest old Downs, in the wool, selling at 4s 6d,
so out of the wool 3s 10d per 81bs. We were toler-
ably well, but not to say heavily, supplied with Lambs,
the demand for which ruled firm, and in some instances
p..oe.r.eteudr.rencies had an upward tendency.' In Calves only
• imited business was doing, yet prices were well sup-
The Pork trade was in a sluggish state, at last
week's (potations.
Per alba. to ainkthe offal.
Taferio, Beasts....,
to s. d, s. d. to a. d.
eatla 2 4 2 5 Inferior Sheep ••• • 3 0 3 2
rrixat,clualitY •• • 2 8 210 Second qual. Sheep 3 4 3 8
Priam arge Oxen 3 0 3 2 Coarse-weolled ditto 310 4 2
- 3 4 3 6 Southdown Wether 4 4 4 6
gee
coarse Calves 3 0 3 4 Ditto out of the wool° 0 0 0
kopreall ditto 3 6 310 Large flogs •••• • • 3. 8 4 2 3 0
L,rart Calves • lB 0 25 0 Small Porkers •• • • 3 a
•• • .
TOTAL SUPPLY AT MARKET.
/3eastS• Sheep. I I
Calves. rigs.
3.658 20,760 126 230
I
Beasts.FOREIGN SUPPLY.
326 I Sheep. I Calves. I rigs.
330 55
ZrZWG.LITE MEADENELAX.L.
Beatour last report the arrivals of country-killed
coat have materially fallen off, they having Leen chiefly
n
tpaed to about 1:000 carcases of Beet, Mutton, and
poui have
The supplies on offer slaughtered in the metre-
delis
is aye been but moderate. On the whole, the general
steady, and prices are well supported in every
instal:l%
f'• Only about 300 carcasses of foreign Meat
ave appeared on sale.

At per atone by the Carcase.
s. d. to s. d. 13.... i
.(nfertor.• .... a. d. to a. d. 2
0 2 4 Mutton, inferior .. 2 4 2 8
Middling „. ~,, 2 6 2 8 --- middling.. 210 3 0
Phmelarge .. 210 3 0
"---.b. prime small 3 0 prime .... 3 2 3 6
, 441•• •• •• •• •* .. •. •.11
00000
•••
3 4 0
3 2 : Perk, 1arge........ 210 3 4
210 3 8, - 5ma11........
. - . . .

Lamb. is 6d te 5s 6d.

the plaintiffi, and that the direction of the Learned
Judge was tyrong in not leaving it to the jury to ray
whither the dcfi.ndant hal sufficient funds out of %1 hich
to pay the plaitt.ff%'
The Court took time to consider the decision.

COMMON PLEAS.—(THIS DAY.)
(Si:tings in Banco ht fore Lord Chief Justice WILDF:,
and Justices CRE:-:SWELL, WILLIAMS, and TALF..ULD.)
The Court was occupied at great length this day with
the arguments in the case of " Smite v. flarniltoe.
This action, arising from circumstances which may
yet be in the memory of our readers, was one brought to
recover the amount of an insurance alleged to be due
to the plaintiff by the Sun Fire and Life Assurance
Office. The. plaintiff was a draper and upholsterer,
having severed sno-ps in different parts of London. One
of his shops ut :Islington was burnt down,
and the vh. le. .:tif. the Bieck, consisting chiefly
of drarery gAOCTs' ,-deatroyed. Suspicions were
st,..ewed at ti e itie tire had not taken place
from iteci:lental usiases;azid7when the plaintiff brought
his claim agaiust,,the insurance company, they disputed
it, si'tkei the pliiintiff brought an action to recover his in-
surance, whicki was tried at Guildhall, in which the ver-
dict was given for the defendants. A rule for a new
trial was moved for, and obtained last term, and came
on for argument this day.
Mr. Sergeant Byles apt eared for the plaintiff and Mr,
Cockburn fur the defendant,
The reading of the Jm'ge's notes occupied a great
pert of the morning.
The Court also sat at Nisi Prius, before Mr. Justice
Mau'e and a Common Jury, at Vl° Sessions-bostse,
iy ettminster, but no case of sufficient importance t)
nerit a report was brought before it.

Wool.
'l4 IoPQrI4 cf W 9911149 149m19t1 silIC9AdaY lad,

BAIL COURT.-(THIS DAY.)
(Bef ,re Mr. Justice ERLE.)
THE HALIFAX CORPORATION.
Sir F. THESIGER moved for a certiorari calling up6n
the Town Council of the borough of Halifax to bring
up an order for the payment of a sum of money, for the
purpose of being quashed. The motion was made under
the 44th section of the 7th Will. IV. and Ist Vic., chap.
48, which provided that any order of a Town Council
for the payment of money might be removed into this
Court. The order ef the Town Council i❑ question
confirmed the proceedings of their finance committee,
which, on the 22d of March, in the present 3 ear, di-
rected the treasurer of the borough to pay Mr. Wavl,
the Town Clerk, the rum of 961. 155., for profeasional
charges and di,bursements, the particulars of which
were srecificd on the back of the order. Now, Mr.
Wavil was the Town Clerk, in receipt of a salary of
2501. per annum, and these costs and charges had been
paid to him in respect of certain preceediegs for recover-
ing a borough7rate which the Town Council had directed
to be levied under the Municipal Corporations Act. It,
was clear, therefore, that the services be had performed
came within his duties as Town Clerk, for which he re-
ceived the salary, and he was not entitled to t hese ad-
ditional charges. There were two casts bearieg
upon this point, the first was that of Thomas
v. the Mayor of Swansea, reported in the 12th
Law Journal Exchequer 73, and the second
that of Jones against the Corporation t f Carmarthen,
reported in sth Meeson and Wail,by, page 83. In the
first of these uses it was decided that where a town-
clerk performed certain duties in pursuance of his office
he was not entitled to any remuneration other than that
embraced in his salary, unless there was a special con-
tract to the contrary ; while in the latter case, where
the town clerk was in receipt of a salary amounting to
one hundred gain( as a year, with a special contract that
he was to be paid fees for prosecuting or defending
actions at I,w, it was held that he was not entitled to
any additional remuneration for services he might per-
form as town clerk, other than those specified in the
special contract.
Mr. Justice ERLE arid, if his recollection served bile
tightly, in the first of these cases the town clerk was
receiving no salary at all, and yet it was held that as
there was no special contract fur the purpose, he was
not entitled to receive any remuneration fur the services
he performed as town clerk.
l it FREDERICK THESIGER observed that, however hard
it might seem, that was the ruling of the Court, and he
believed it would effectually dispose of this case. There
were two technical points arising here that he thought
it right to mention to the Court. There was no minute
of this order on the books of the Town Council, as it
was made by the Finance Committee and confirmed by
the Council, while the minutes of the Council and the
Committee a ere still in doubt, and had not yet been
transferred to the books. It had been held, however,
in the Corporation of Lichfield, that these omissions
could not stand in the way of quashing the order.
Mr. Justice ERLE.—You may take a rule to show
cauae.—Rule nisi accordingly.

THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, APRIL 22, 1850.

lovely paintings especially arresting observation
Beyond, i❑ all essential particulars, far be- 1
yond his companion iliu'trations to the "Keepsake" '
(1850)—" The Parting Look," 56, and 63, "The
dea'h of CleoLice''—is his charming realisation of one
of those lovely dreams of girlhood which have been
long Parting unexpressed in the popular imagination,
evoked into being by the sensuous poetry of Alfred
Tennyson. Who has not loved his Gardener's
Daughter, where, in the blooming thicket of rose-
bushes,

" Half light, alf shade, she stood ?"
Here is the form so often seen in the mind's eye,
scanned at last by the body's ! No. 234, from the
pencil of Corbould, is the vraisemblance of
the Gardener's Daughter. Elsewhere (98) he has
depicted the " human face divine" of "Maria"; and
the supple and lithesome form (309) of the " Ameri-
can rider, Master Hernandez." No. 271, however, is
the most ambitious of his productions this year, and
represents with considerable force of sentiment that
passage from English history where the beautiful
" Queen Elgiva falls into the hands of the creatures
of Odo, the Archbishop of Canterbury," and
is by them branded with a hot iron on
the forehead. Much in the school of
the charming artist of " The Momentous
question " is the felicitcus picture (258), " Colin
en 1 Jesse," illustrative of one of the sweet poetic tales
of George Crebbe. No. 254, " Going to Service,"
by J. 11. Mole, is full of domestic sentiment and pas-
toral eimplicity. No. 225, "A Sebed, or Public
Reservoir," by 'L. Ilaghe, forms one of the
most attractive and meritorious among the
larger productions in the gallery. It is essen-
tially Oriental in character, and the disposition
of the colouring is a marvel of ingenuity.
No. 202, " Little Red Riding
.Hood," by Charles
Weigel!, a sweet little jewel of a picture, the infan-
tine embodiment of that delightful description of
Scrooge's neice—" A dimpled, surprised looking
capital face, and a ripe little mouth that seemed made
to be kissed." No. 193, " Caxton reading the first
proof sheet from his printing-press in Westminster
Abbey, March 1474," by E. -H. Wehnert, is alto-
gether a noble composition in size, in subject, in
grouping, in colouring, and in general execu-
tion. The theme is essentially enthralling, being one
of the most memorable events in modern history.
The scene is the Almonry, where now stands Henry
Vll.'s Chapel, surmounted by its gorgeous ceiling;
the personages introduced besides Caxton are his
assistants, IVynkyn de Worde, Richard Pynson,
Lettou, and William Alachlinia— for furt hestarticul ars
respecting all of whom see Charles Knight's masterly
biography. We are delighted to see that this splendid
picture is on the eve of being engraved for publica-
tion. No. 123, " Lake Windermere," by George B.
Campion, besides being one of the largest landscapes,
or, rather, we should say lakescapes in the collection,
is filled with numerous beauties. Nos. 100 and 107,
by C. Vacher, are oblong pictures of scenes in the
Wilderness, marvellously beautiful in colour and treat-
ment, especially the former, representing the murder
of an Arab horseman. Ne. 75, "Christ and his
Disciples in the Corn-field," by Henry Warren,
should have been mentioned before this, if
priority of notice implies merit in the pro-
duction. Being to the knowledge of every
frequenter of the S)ciety's Gallery one of the most
eminent leaders of the association, Mr. Warren main-
tains that distinction in the present year by this fine-
spirited composition. Among the admirable works
from the hand of G. H. Leporte, the animal painter
to the King of Hanover, we must also especially direct
attention to (280) a lovely illustration of an incident
mentioned by Youatt, the historian of the " Horse."
Other paintings (such as the fruit pieces of Mrs.
Margetts, the Lance of water colours) will be found
eminently deserving of study in the artistic profusion
of this collection.