The Sun.
London, England, 1845-01-13 00:00:00

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142 1.670 370 1,931
139 1,130 220 920

Dilltrence since our last 3 SO 150 1,010
BON.OUGH AND SPITALFIELDS.
The arrivals of Potatoes have been somewhat liberal
during the week, viz., 2,000 tons, 100 tons being from
France, 150 ditto from Ireland, 300 ditto from Jersey,
200 ditto from Guernsey, the remainder from Scotland
and our own coasts. The demand is tolerably steady,
yet prices are drooping. York Reds, 70s to 80s ; Perth
ditto, 60s ; Early I)evons, 60s to 658 ; Cornwall ditto,
60s to 655; Jersey Blues, 55s to 60s; Wisbeach Kidneys,
60s to 65s ; Guernsey Blues, 60s ; Prince Regents,
65s to 70s.

BOROUGH HOIP MARKET.
Fine colory pockets, the supply of which, on offer, is
extremely small, are in active request at, i■ some in-
stances, rather more money. In bags a very good busi-
ness is doing, and prices are supported without the
slightest difficulty. A large portion of last year's Hops
has already passed out of the planters' hands.

WOOL raiimiczT.
The past week's imports of Wool have consisted of
170 bales from Portugal, 600 from Russia, 91 from the
East Indies, 504 from Turkey, and 308 from Port Phillip.
The best samples of foreign and colonial Wools are in
steady request, at full rates, but in English very little is
doing. The total imports of Wool into the United King-
dom during the past year, ending December 5, were
67,323,897 lbs., against 45,703,383 lbs. at the corre-
sponding period in 1843, 41,492,563 lbs. in 1842, and
49,188,615 lbs. in 1841.
TALLOW DIARILET.
This market remains the same as to prices, and the
demand is good. There is yet from 800 to 1,000 casks
of New South Wales Tallow coming forward for public
sale either the next or following Friday. The finest lots
of this description of Tallow sell readily at 41s and up-
wards to 425. Town Tallow is 41s to 41s 6d nett cash.
Fine Cocoa Nut Oil 294 6d, middling qualiti 28s
cash.

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DEATH FROM TUE
17."7:TURE OF IA
NEEDLE.—
On Saturday rnoriling, a girl, named Elizabeth Davis,
fifteen years of age, sapirod in St. Bartholomew's Hos-
pital, under OP following circumstances:—On the 21st
ult., deceased, who was the ncice of Mr. Midgley, the
proprietor of the Twelve Bells Tavern, Bride-lane, Fleet
street, while assisting in laying down a carpet in an up-
stairs room, sustained, with a broken needle, a puncture
of the fore-finger of the right-hand. At the time little
or no notice• was taken of the circumstance, but the next
day, excessive pain, followed by an immense swelling of
the finger, took place. The patient was promptly at-
tended by a medical gentleman, and she was afterwprds
received into St. Bartholomew's Hospital. Messrs. Vin-
cent and Moure, the senior surgeons, were most assidu-
ous but, notwithstanding everything which human
skill and kind attention, could suggest, was administered
excessive ftner cnuled; and she expired.

EXCHEQUER.-(THIS DAY.)
(Sittings inßanco.)
COODLIFFE V. FULLER.
Mr. CocanunN applied for a rule to show cause why
two letters in the possession of the plaintiff should not
be inspected by the defendant's attorney. The action
was for breach of promise or marriage. Some time since
the plaintiff; in consequence of something which had
taken place, wrote to the defendant to the effect that if
he would return all her letters she would return all his,
and so release him from his engagement. The defendant
did not return the letters which he had received from
the plaintiff, but the latter subsequently declined to
performed her part of the agreement. One of the letters
ought to be inspected, containing the promise, on the part
of the lady, and on this account was considered neces-
sary to the defence.
The COURT doubted whether they had any power to
compel the production. The proper course for the
Learned Counsel to adopt was to file a bill of discovery
in a court of equity.
Mr. WATSON said it was not until the last moment
that the application was made.
Mr. COCKBURN said the notice of trial had been served
on the 20th of December, and in two or three days
afterwards the defendant's solicitor applied for the
letters. The letter which they more particularly wanted
was received by the defendant from the plaintiff in the
month of 'January, 1844. In that letter she said, "If
you begin to freeze, it is quite time that I should begin
to grow cold. If you will return my letters, I will re-
turn yours."
Mr. WATSON said he should certainly oppose any ap-
plication for a postponement of the trial. This letter
having been written in January, 1844, the action was
commenced in the October following, The defendant
pleaded on the 15th of November, and there was no ap-
plication until then.
Mr. Baron ALDERSON said he had told the parties at
chambers, that they had better file a bill of discovery.
A desultory conversation then ensued, whereupon
The LORD CiIIEF BARON said, he could well under-
stand why a gentleman should delay till the last moment
the making a matter of this description public. Until all
chance of arrangement had passed away, he would na-
turally hesitate to make the affair public in two courts.
Was there an affidavit denying the existenou of the
letter ?

Mr. WATSON said there was not, and in all
probability he should produce it in evidence, but he
would net undertake to do so.
Mr. COCKBURN said that was not the only letter.
Mr. WATSON said he had an affidavit, wherein it was
stated by the lady that all the letters, except this one,
were destroyed.
Eventually the Court intimated an opinion, first,
that this cause was not a proper one to be tried in term,
and, secondly, that the proper course would be to post-
pone it until the sittings after the term, the defendant in
the mean time filing a bill of discovery.

BAIL COURT.—(THIS DAY.)
(Sittings at Nisi Prins, before Mr. Justice liruzrems.)
NATRAN V. lIEWGILL.
This was an action brought by the plaintiff', the well-
known dealer in masquerade dresses, against the defend-
ant, a gentleman of Eton College, under the following
circumstances :—lt appeared from the evidence that,
on a day or two previous to the Eton Montem, a
deputy lieutenant's dress had been hired to be worn by
the Dlarshal at the Eton procession. The price to be
charged was three guineas for a night, with an ad-
ditional thirty shillings if retained for the week. The
dress was not returned at the time, and in October the
defendant addressed a letter to plaintiff, stating that &s.
additional would be charged for every week the dress
was so detained. The plaintiff, in reply, stated that the
dress was in the care of a Mr, Baxter, a tailor, where it
was got by the plaintiff is October. The present action
was brought to recover the sum indebted for such deten-
tion. The plAintiff's bill of particulars stated the amount
at 27Z
The jury found for the plaintiff—Damages 154

AN(l3l(efeirteUir. TeoCraYncii.ss—
io(nTer
The insolvent, aINn
street, Blaokfriars, -per and.appraiser, in Bridge-
was opposed by eimed for his interim order, and
an attoro,— , Sturgem, on behalf of a Mr. Kine
y, the only opposing creditor. ,
tie insolvent's debts it appeared amounted to some
250/., and he was in receipt of an income averaging
annually 300/. The only offer he was prepared to make
his creditors was the surrender of some doubtful debts,
amounting to above 400/.
The insolvent was examineol at considerable length
with regard to the furniture in his residence in Bridge-
street, which, however, he stated belonged to his
daughter.
The case was further adjourned in order that the in-
solvent might have leizure to make some more satisfac-
tory offer to hisfcreditors.

INSOLVENT COURT—(THIS DAY)
IN RE GEORGE NESBITT.
In this case Mr. NICHOLLS applied, on the part of a
creditor named Allisson, to have the recognizances of the
insolvent estreated.
It appeared that the insolvent had been arrested in
the month of August last, when he induced a person
named Barnes, the proprietor of a coffeehouse in
Muswum-street, to become bail, in conjunction with i

CHANCERY.-(THIS DAY)
The Li rd Chancellor did not sit to day, in conse-
quence of having to attend a Privy Council at Windsor.

VICE-CHANCERY.—(rinS DA Y.)
The Vice-Chancellor of England, after disposing of
the cases of Boazman v. Cazenove, and Barrett v. the
Stockton a-id Darlington Railway Company, the points
of which were of no public interest, proceeded to hear
petitions, whicu occupierkthe Court the whole day.
(Before fir J. WIGRAM.)
LEE V. PAIN.—JUDGMENT.
His HONOUR gave judgment is this case this morning;
it was argued on several 'days of last term. The case
came beibre the Court on exceptions to the Master's
report. The testatrix had, by her will, bequeathed
various legacies, both to public charities in London
and to individuals, and, by a codicil of a sub-
sequent date, also bequeathed legacies to the same
parties as those mentioned in the will, in some cases of
the same amount as the first bequests, and in others of
a different amount, while there were parties mentioned
in the will who were not noticed in the codicil. Under
those circumstances, the question arose, were the be-
quests in the codicil additional and cumulative to those
in the will, or were they merely to be consi-
dered repetitions confirmatory of the dispositions
in the will. A reference had been directed by the
Court to the Master, to whose report exceptions had
been taken by the executors and those of the legatees
who conceived themselves aggrieved by the Master's
decision. It was on these exceptions that his Honour
now gave his judgment, overruling those taken by the
executors, and allowing such of the exceptions of the
legatees as related to well-founded claims ; the cost of
the first thirty exceptions (those of the executors) to be
paid out of the estate. On the question of the costs of
the remaining exceptions, his Honour intimated to coun-
sel that he would hear them on Monday next.

QUEEN'S BENCH.—(THIS DAY.)
(Sittings in Banco.)
THE EARL OF CARDIGAN V. THE COURT JOURNAL.
The SOLICITOR GENERAL moved the Court in this
matter for a rule to show cause why a criminal informa-
tion should not he granted against the publisher of the
Court Journal for publishing a libel on the Earl of
Cardigan, in his paper of the date of the 28th of De-
cember last. The libel complained of set forth that an
officer of a regiment now stationed in Ireland, and com-
manded by a Noble Lord, had applied for leave of ab-
sence to come to England to see his wife, who was
dangerously ill, but that his request was refused, and,
upon the application being repeated, leave was granted,
but too late, for the wife was dead when the officer ar-
rived. This was stated to be a report which,
notwithstanding the genuiness of the source from which
it was derived, it was hoped was unfounded, for they
could not believe that a gentleman or a man would act
towards another in such an unchristian or unfeeling
manner. The affidavit of the Earl of Cardigan denied
in the fullest terms that there was one woad of truth in
a statement which was calculated to do him serious in-
jury in the estimation of the world. There was the
affidavit of General Brown also, who stated that there
was no regiment in Ireland commanded by a Noble Lord,
except the 11th Hussars, which was commanded by Lord
Cardigan.
Lord DENMAN—How is the statement denied ?
The SOLICITOR-GENERAL—Lord Cardigan states that
nothing of the kind ever occurred at all—that it was
wholly false and without any foundation whatever—that
no application or request was made to him by, or in be-
half of, any officer of the 11th Hussars for the purpose
alleged, or that he ever refused any such request. The
Learned Gentleman submitted that upon this state of
facts he was entitled to a rule to show cause.—Rule nisi
granted.

COMMON PLEAS.-(THIS DAY.)
(Sittings in Banco.)
THE RING OF HANOVER-THE CROWN JEWELS.
This morning but three of the judges sat, the Lord
Chief Justice being engaged in the Lord Chancellor's
private room, on the subject of the King of Hanover 's
claim to a valuable portion of the Crown jewels, as heir
male of King George the First, whose property these
jewels are alleged to have been.

GIBBS AND. OTHERS V. RING.
The particulars of this remarkable case hare been
very often before the public, in the Bankruptcy Court,
in the Queen's Bench, and the Common Pleas. The de-
fendant it will be remembered obtained possession, under
a bill of sale, of much valuable property, which a Mr.
Birch, who kept a boarding-house of superior style in
Bedford-place, Bloomsbury, was alleged by a host of
creditors to have fraudulently obtained. In this Court
the creditors, after a trial which occupied two or three
days, obtained a verdict against the defendant for the
whole amount of the property; and in the Queen's Bench,
under an indictment for fraud, he was convicted and sen-
tenced to eighteen months' imprisonment in the Queen's
prison. That sentence he. is now undergoing, and several
months of the term are still unexpired.
Sergeant CHANNEL this day applied to their Lordships
for a writ to bring the defendanqinto this Court for judg-
ment, in the cause tried here and found against him.
The Learned Sergeant appealed to the Court to inter-
pose, inasmuch as from the commencement of the pro-
ceedings, the defendant had suffered a great length of
punished incarceration, and had been by this time sufficiently
.
Their LORDSHIPS refused the application, this not
being the proper court in which it should be made.
The other motions heard this morning were, for the
most part, motions of course, end devoid of interest.