The Sun.
London, England, 1826-12-15 00:00:00

THE FUNDS.

CITY, (Tats Day), Twelve o' Cluck.
The agitation in the British Funds still continues; Consols
opened this morning at 78, and went down subsequently to 774,
they have since been rather better, and are quoted at 774 b ; a
defaulter of some importance has been declared in the English
market. In the present state of affairs it is extremely difficult to
give the actual prices, as different shades of quotations are men-
tioned at the same time, as they are Bulls or Bears ; Exchequer
Bills are 2 4 pm. To-day is settling day in the Foreign Funds,
and the dealers appear very shy of each other ; some failures are
anticipated from the heavy fluctuations that have taken place,
amounting, in several instances, to 10 and 11 per Cent. ; five or
six persons have already declared their inability to meet their en-
gagements, and we fear still further mischief; a great deal of for-
bearance will be required to let the present aceount be settled
without some heavy defalcations ; Mexican Bonds have been 594
60, but have since been 61, buyers ; Colombian are now 31,
buyers ; Greek are quoted at 14 16 ; in this latter the halt-year's
dividend, being the last in hand, is advertised to be paid by Messrs.
Ricardo; Portuguese are 65 7 ; and Spanish, 124 13. The
price of shares are nominal, and sales, if effected, must be made
at considerably lower rates than the quotations given in the list.
Exchequer Bills, 2 4 pm.
FotElow FuNns.—Brazilian, 58 60; Buenos Ayres, 55 60;
Chilian, 35 40 ; Danish, 524 34 ; Colombian, 1824, 30 2 ;
Mexican 5 per Cent., 48 50 ; Ditto 6 per Cent , 594 604 ;
Peruvian, 28 30 ; Portuguese, 65 7 ; Greek, 14 16 ; Russian,
79 80; Spanish, 124 13..
1054Iiissi.x;s.TeAaingdloei 35 30 dis. ; United Mexican, 12
Monte, 140 60 pm. ; Tlalpuxahua, 65 70
• Bolivar, 2 pm. ; Colombian, 10 12 pin. ;Brazilian, par, pm.'
per Share. _

Two a' Clock.
Consols have improved to iN, and considerable business
has been transacted. This ia by Rome attributed to the na-
ture of the account, whilst others seem to imagine the first
alarm relative to the continuance of peace is wearing away, and
men connected with the Funds begin to calculate somewhat more
reasonably. 4 Per Cents, 1826, 92j. ; India Bonds 910 ;
Exchequer ,
xchiee Foreign
Bills 1 4 premium.
Tlse.
n Punch have also advanced from 2 to 3 per Cent.;
from the same cau s
33 a —Mexicans are up to 63i 4. 'Colombian to

Some say this originates in the purchases made of the
account of those parties, who are unable to meet their accounts.
Consols, 79, bu
y THREE 0' CLOCK
ers, the market looking well.
FOUR O'CLOCK-...CLOSING PRICES.
Consuls ----
Danish Bonds 56
Do: fbr Ac. 791 Greek Do. 1825 17
Brazilian Bonds 584- Mexican Do. 1825, 64}
Buenos Ayres Do. Peruvian Do. 30
Chilian Do. Russian Do. 80
Columbian, 1824, 33} Spanish Do. 12i

SMITHFIELD MARKET.—(Tura DAT.)
This day's market exhibited as great a supply of Beasts as is
frequently seen in it on a Monday in the spring of the year, and
amongst them a good many Oxen, Steers, and Heifers, of very
superior quality ; it was also well supplied 'with other kinds of fat
stock. Prime Beef sold, with a degree of briakense, at from 2d. to
6tl. per stone beyond Monday's quotation., from which Mutton,
rather receded ; in prim of middling and inferior Beet; Veal,
and Pork, no alteration.
PRICES PIP. STONE OF ELBS. TO SINK THE OFFAL&
s. d. to s. d. s. d. toe. d.
Inferior Beasts 2 8 3 2 South Down Wethers ."'3lO 4 2
Second quality ditto 3 2 3 6 Large coarse Calvea.„,-3 6 4 0
Prime large Oxen. 54'5 8 Prime 'roan ditto 4 8 5 0
Prime Scots, Ise. s 4 6 6 Large Hogs ........ 310 4 2
Inferior Sheep 2lO 3 C Small Porkers .......
ato 5 2
Second quality ditto.„ 3 2 3 6 Suckling Ca1ve5...123. to 325. each.
Coarse-woolletl ditto 3 8 910 Quarter old Pigs ..10a to 16s. each.
There were no iii Cows, of even middling quality, in the market.
SUPPLY, AS TER CLERICS STATEMENT.
I Sheep. Calves. I rigs'
5,750 165 100

Beasts.
1,39 t

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NEWGATE AND LEADEN HALL MARKETS.
At per atOne, by the Carcats.
a. d. to s. d• a. d. tea. d.
Beef ...
Mutton 2 6 2 6 Pork ........................ 3 6 6 0

LAW INTELLIGENCE.

VICE-CHANCELLOR'S COURT.—(This Dar.)
INJUNCTION.

ALDERSON v.
Mr. KNIGHT applied for an injunction to restrain the defendant
from selling, mortgaging, or otherwise encumbering the land in
the Bill mentioned, and also from pledging 'or depositing a grant
of license from the Commissioners efworks and forests for mining
and working under the surface of said lands. It appeared, that
previous to November 1825, a partnership subsisted between the
parties for working certain chalk and gravel pits on the lands in
question. In November 1824 the partnership was dissolved,
and late in that month a commission of bankruptcy
issued against the plaintiff. His friends, however, being
anxious to re-establish him in business, offered to advance
him a sum of money, provided the defendant would consent to
take him again into partnership. The defendant did consent, and
between the declaration of bankruptcy and the obtaining his cer-
tificate, the plaintiff advanced the money. He was at the same
time desirous of having it secured, to this the defendant objected
on the grounds, that the plaintiff bad not yet obtained his certifi-
cate. In June last, at a meeting of the friends of the parties,
two drafts were prepared, one of an assignment to trustees of the
pits, and the other of a deed of partnership between the plain-
tiff and the defendant, in which it was provided, that as soon
as the plaintiff should contribute to the partnership fund as
much as would, with his former advance, amount to 2,300
pounds, he should be entitled to have security for that sum by
way of mortgage on the lands, and en the grant of license for
working the chalk and gravel pits ; at the foot of these drafts
there were memoranda that deeds were to be executed to give
effect to these arrangements; the plaintiff had since obtained his
certificate, and swears that lie brought into the partnership more
than the required sum ; lie made repeated application to the de-
fendant to fulfil his part of the engagement; the defendant, how-
ever, merely deposited the lease of the lands with the trustees,
but refused to give up the grant and license from the Commis-
sioners of woodland forests to work under the surface; the plaintiff
further states that the defendant has frequently threatened to assign
the land, and to pledge and deposit the grant and license.
The Vres-CtraticEtton.—l doubt whether he can transfer
any interest by assigning the grant—he certainly cannot part with
the legal estate whilst you have the deed. I suppose you merely
want to prevent the necessity of introducing into 3our suit the
additional party, who must spring up in case the threatened as-
signment takes place. Take the injunction, but it is not worth
the parchment.--Injunction granted.

COURT OF KING'S BENCH.—(Ttas DAY.)
GOLDING V. WEN.

When this case came on only three of the Special Jurymen
who were appointed to try it answered to their names; it was con-
sequently deferred, and the nine Jurymen who did not attend
were fined.

The Court was occupied during the rest of the morning, wit
a case of no public interest.

PREROGATIVE COURT.—(Tats DAY.)
(Before Sir J. McHott..)
The regular business of the Court cot having been disposed of
within the Term, after Sittings were appointed, the first of which
was fixed for this day.

WESTMEATH V. vritsilizArit.

The reading of the documents and exhibits which were intro-
duced in this case,.baving been goue through, after occupying the
Court for the greater part of two days, the arguments of Counsel
were. commenced.

Dr. Jetosua, as counsel for Lord Westmeath, appeared to
support the decision of the Consistory Court, which was now
appealed from. The learned Counsel said that the suit was
originally instituted by Lord Westmeath, for the restora-
tion of conjugal rights. His Lordship's suit was met by her
Ladyship, with a suit fir a divorce, upon the grounds
of crnelty and adultery, and after being fully argued,
before the Judge of the Consistory Court, it was decreed that her
Ladyship was not entitled to the relief for which she prayed ; and
that her suit must be dismissed. Under these circumstances, her
Ladyship applied to this Court; but he contended that the evi-
deuce furnished no sufficient reasons to Induce the Court to re-
verse the judgment of Sir C. Robinson. The charge against his
Lordship was two-fold. He was charged with inflicting personal
violence upon his Lady, and carrying on an adulterous intercourse
with other women. The charge of cruelty depended almost en-
tirely upon the evidence of Sarah Mackenzie, with whom Lady
Westmeath closely identified herself. The evidence of this witness,
however, was contradicted in the most distinct manner by Lady
Weatmoath's letters. Immediately subsequent to the period at which
LordWestmeath was charged with violently assaulting her Ladyship
her Ladyship's letters proved, that she was living with her Lord
on the most friendly terms, and that he evinced the greatest kind-
ness of disposition towards her. It did appear that the parties
frequently quarrelled, and these quarrels, upon almost every
occasion, arose from one circumstance which appeared to have
taken the strongest hold upon Lady Westmeath's mind. It ap-
peared that Lord Westmeath bad two natural children before his
marriage, and Lady Westmeath lost no opportunity of upbraiding
him with this circumstance, which was the source of continued
irritation. There were altercations and squabbles between the
parties, but there was no proof that Lord Westmeath had ever in-
flicted such cruelty upon Lady Westmeath, as could be consider-
ed to have endangered her life, or affected her health.—
These were the only legal grounds upon which the Court
could pronounce for a divorce by reason of cruelty ;
and as to the charge of adultery, it MS so weakly sustained at the
outset, and so completely negatived in the progress of the cause,
that he understood it was but little if at all relied upon by his
Learned Friends at the other side. The Court was aware that
some of the individuals originally produced to support the charge
of adultery were found guilty of conspiracy and perjury. Without
remarking more at length on this part of the case, he could not
help referring, especially to the evidence of Lady Salisbury, the
mother of the Marchioness of Westmeath. Lady Salisbury's evi-
dence was to the effect, that she was i■ habits of constant inter-
counie with the parties from the period of their marriage
up to the time of their separation, and that Lsdy West-
meath had never complained to her of the cruelty and
violence which she now imputed to Lord Westmeath.—
Lady Salisbury's evidence, it seemed, was displeasing to the Mar• •
chioness of Westmeath. She•hed a jointure of 1,300/. per an-
num, independent of his Lordship, from whom she desired to se-
parate herself, and so ardent was she in the pursuit of this
favourite object, that she folgot the sacred ties of nature, and
suggested the most abominable insinuations against her own
mother. If any thing was wanting to prove the character of Lady
Westmeath, and the method. to which she would resort to effect
her purposes, it was to be found in the cruel interrogatory put by
Lady Westmeath to her own mother. The interrogatory was to
this effect :—Did not Lord Westmeath threaten if you did
not give such evidence as he desired, he would expose some secret
particulars of your conduct during the last forty years, with which
he was acquainted ? The answer to this interrogatory, which in-
sinuated that Lady Salisbury committed perjury, was a decided
negative ; but with what temper and spirit must Lady Westmeath
have carried on the suit, when she instructed her agents to put
such an interrogatory to her mother? From all the circumstances,
it was evident that Lady Westmeath had only recently thought of
coupling a charge of legal cruelty with transactions, which, upon
their occurrence she did not seem to conceive as matters of any
moment, or calling for such a decided step as a separation
from her husband. The immediate occurrence which caused the
separation, the Court would perceive, did not involve any charge
of serious misconduct on Lord Westmeath. Lady IVestmeath
had taken a house in Felten-street, in which Lord Westmeath,
with his own consent, had separate apartments. Her Ladyship
stipulated that she should have the entire management of
the establishment, Which consisted of ten servants, and only
one groom was allowed to attend upon his Lordship. Such
a situation was calculated to rouse the pride, anti excite the
temper of any man. It had that effect upon Lord Westmeath,
and Olson some occasion when he felt that one of the female ser-
vants had misconducted herself, he declared that he would
not permit any separate establishments in the house for the
future, and upon the servant before alluded to, persist-
ing in refusing to let his Lordship have some papers which
he desired, he broke open a safe where those papers were kept.
Lady Westmeath was not present during this occurrence, but on
becoming acquainted with it she protested that she would not live
any longer in the same house with Lord Westmeath; and from
that period the parties ceased to cohabit. The Court would per-
ceive that here there were no grounds for a legal separation, any
more than in the antecedent eau which were pleaded. Under all
the circumstances, he submitted that the Court was bound to
confirm the decree of the Court below.
Dr. Puittastoste followed on the same side, and insisted that
the evidence furnished abundant proofs that although Lord West-
math might be subject to an irritable and impatient temper, he
was a man of unbounded good nature, and that Lady Westmeath,
is saw the !cut, was a lady of an uncommonly warns temper.
Drs- LIJIMMNGTON and ADAMS, were to be heard tosmerrow
for the Apellant (Lady Westmeath.)

LORD CLANRICARDE—This Noble Lord, in his
quality of Under-Secretary of State,
has all South America eon-
fided to his official management.._ihNin Nvening Post.