The Sun.
London, England, 1845-02-08 00:00:00

MARKET NEWS.-(THIS DAY.)

NEWPORT.
Each hind of prime Meat was in steady request at fu;
prices, while other qualities were somewhat inactive.

GSGATE.

W TiITECHAPEL.

RAT M./MEETS.
SmyrnFlELo.—Coarse Meadow Hay, 3/ 10s to 4/ 15s ; use-
ful ditto, 4/ 16s to 5/ 48; fine Upland ditto, 5/ 5s to 5/ 108;
Clover Hay, 4/ lOs to 6/; Oat Straw, It 12s to I/ 14s ;
Wheat Straw, 11 14s to 1/ 16s per load. Supply rather
limited, and trade dull.

CUMBERWM.—Coarse Meadow Hay, 3/ 10s to 4/ 16s ;
useful ditto, 4117 s to 5/ 63 ; fine Upland ditto, Si 7s to 5/ 12s;
Clover Hay, 4/ lOs to 5/ 18s; Oat Straw, 1/ 14s to 1/ 16s ;
Wheat Straw, 1/ 16s to 1/ 18s per load. A fair average
supply, and a steady demand.
WHITECHAPEL.—Coarse Meadow Hav, 3/ 12s to' 41 16s ;
useful ditto, 41 12s to 51 4s ; fine Upland ditto, Si 5s to
5/ lOs ; Clover Hay, 4112 s to 613 s ; Oat Straw, 1/ 12s to 1114 s ;
Wheat Straw, li 14s to 1/ 16s per load. Both Hay and
Straw moved off slowly at but little variation in prices.

WAKEFIELD CORN 11ARKET.—FRIDAY.
There is only a limited trade passing in Wheat at this
market to-day, at barely the prices of last Friday. No altera-
tion in the price of tine Barley, common sorts very bad to
sell. The demand for Baans is good, and they fully support
late prices. We nute no alteration in the price of Oats.

Per qr. of 60 lb. to the bushel.
Wheat—Suffolk, Essex, and Kent •. • • Red.. 44 to 45 —EXTRA.
to 46
Ditto ditto
Norfolk • •• • • Red.. 43 44 45
Ditto ditto •• • White.. 45 48 50
Lincolnshire and Cambridge Red.. .42 43 45
Ditto ditto •• • White.. 46 48 50
Yorkshire ...... . .....
Ditto ditto •• • Wldte.. 45 48 AO
English, Old Red.. •- 43 48 48 54
Foreign ....... •• • • Red.. •• 41 46 48
Ditto ditto •• • • White.. 48 50 52
Per quarter Imperial.
Barley—Norfolk and Suffolk ••. 34 35
Yorkshire and Lincolnshire .
Per qr. of 6313. to the bushel.
36 38 44
••••• • • • 36 37 42
••••• • • • 35 40 42
•••• • • • • 10(1, 11d —4,124
•••• • • • • 104, 11d —d,—d
•••• • • • • 10,1, Ild --el, 12,1
••• • • • • 255, 26s —5, 27s
•• • •• • • 40 42 43
Per qr. imperial.
Pease—Blue and White Boilers... ...... .•• • 40 44
Grey and Feed
Rapeseed—English, per Last Imperial
Foreign • 23/., 251.

Beans—Small line
Ticks ..
Foreign • • . ....... ..........
Oats—Mealing, per Stone
Feeding • ........... .....
Foreign
Shelling, per Load ............ ......
Malt, per Loaa of 6 8u5he15•........

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.
(RECEIVED THIS DAY.)
BETTING AT MANCHESTER.—FRIDAT.
CHESTER CUP.
10 to 1 agst Semiseria 30 to 1 agst Zanoni
13 to 1 agst Obscurity 33 to 1 agst Eaton
20 to I agst The Era (t) 35 to 1 agst Pride of Kildare
20 to 1 agst Cataract 40 to 1 agst Extempore (t)
30 to 1 agst Strathspey (t) 50 to 1 agst Fitzallan
30 to 1 agst Pug 50 to 1 agst Trueboy
RBY.
35 to 1 agst Ironmaster
40 to 1 agst Fitzallan
Very little doing.

14 to I agst E edger
35 to 1 age Annandale
The rest as before.

OXFORD, FEB. 7.

The following are the questions submitted on behalf of the
Board of Heads of Houses and Proctors. respecting the proposi.
tions to be brought before Convocation ill the matter of Mr. Ward;
and opinion of the Solicitor-Oeneral, Sir Charles Wetherell, Dr.
Addams, and Mr. Cowling

" QUESTIONS.

" 1. Whether the University has any power of depriving a
party for any cause of any degree which has bees conferred upon
him ?

"2. Whether the extracts given in the notice issued by the
Board of Heads of Houses and Proctors contain sufficient cause to
justify the degradation of Mr. Ward ?
"3. Whether the House of Convocation has the power of de.
gradation in this case ?
"4. Whether in proceeding to degrade Mr. Ward the Univer.
sity will render itself liable to a writ of mandamus at his suit ?"

"•tiSWES.

"1. We are of opinion that the University has the power to
degrade, and that that power is by no means limited or confined to
cases of prior conviction of an offence by a court of competent
jurisdiction, nor to those particular cases enumerated in the statutes
to which degradation is specifically annexed.
" 2. We are of opinion that the extracts set forth in the notice
contain sufficient cause to justify the House of Convocation, as
representing the University, in taking cognisance of them, and
coming to a decision on the subject, with a view to the degra.
dation of Mr. Ward : but whether, in the result, the charge
preferred against him shall appear sufficient to justify the house
in degrading him is a conclusion which must rest entirely with,
and be formed by, the members of Convocation upon considera.
tion of the whole matter.

" 3. Provided Convocation shall upon consideration come to
the conclusion that Mr. Ward ought to be degraded, we are
aware of no ground for impeaching or questioning the validity
of the degradation.

"4. If the determination of Convocation should be to degrade
Mr. Ward, and he should apply to the Court of Queen's Bench
for a writ of mandamus to restore him, we are of opinion that it
be an answer to it, that her Majesty is Visitor of the Uni.
versity, and that the subject lies exclusively within the pro
since of her Majesty as Visitor, and that any complaint against
the proceedings of Convocation must be made to her Majesty in
that capacity, and cannot be withdrawn from her jurisdiction.

" FRED. THESIGER.
CHARLES WETHERELL.
J. ADDAMS.
JOHN COWLING."

EXTENSIVE FIRE AT RICHMOND.—This morning,
between twelve and one o'clock, a very serious fire broke out at the
King's Head Tavern and coach office, situate at the corner of
Bridge Rise. Engines from Richmond, Mortlake, Barnes, and
Kingston, were prompt in arriving, but from a blunder on the part
of some one, the turncock was not called up, and for the space of
20 minutes the engines were kept standing still for the want of
water; meanwhile the fire continued to spread fearfully. Mr. Hen.
derson, one of the officers of brigade, with Mr. Cennorton, super.
intendent or the West of England Company, were both prompt in
arriving with their engines and firemen from London, The mains
at length yielded an abundant supply of water, but the fire was not
extinguished until the upper part of the extensive:ptemises was
destroyed, and the lower portion seriously injured. Captain Page,
who was staying at the tavern, had a narrow escape; he had to
be taken from one of the upper windows by the police and ladders.
Fortunately the loss is covered by an insurance in the Phoenix
office. The origin of the fire is unknown.
THE MONEY MARE ET.—There is still a very ir-
regular pressure in the money market in town, and we find it ne-
cessary, to correct misapprehension, to repeat that it has arisen ex.
elusively from the bankers holding the deposits of railway com-
panies providing for paying over the required per.centage prior to
the introduction of the Bills to Parliament. We have been mi.
nute and special in our inquiries on this subject, and can
find no other mode of accounting for the demand in the best.in.
formed quarters, and the conclusion, therefore, is that the matter
is entirely temporary. There is no difficulty whatever in the
commercial discount market, but, on the contrary, money has
been rather less in demand in that direction than was generally
expected by this period of the season. The money for the deposits for
Railway Bills is in many cases not yet actually required, but the
bankers have generally received notice to have the necessary
amount in readiness, so that the effect upon the market is nearly
the same as if the payments were required to be simultaneous. The
immediate effect has been to raise the rate of interest fully one-half
per cent., measured by first class paper; and, as we previously
observed, there is no question but it would have advanced consi-
derably higher had it not been kept in check by the Bank of Eng-
land advancing on securities at the rate of two and a half per cent.
per annum.—Morning Paper.
THE LATE MURDER AT SALT HILL.—The paro-
chial officers of Farnham Royal, in which parish the unfortunate
woman, Sarah Hart, met with her untimely death, having
been bound ever by John Charsley, Esq., the Coroner (who
presided upon the jury which returned a verdict against
John Tawell of " Wilful murder"), to prosecute the accused at
the ensuing assizes for the county of Bucks, they have re-
tained the services of Mr. Sergeant Byles and Mr. Prender-
gast on the part of the Crown. Mr. Long, solicitor, of Windsor,
has been engaged by the parochial authorities of Farnham to con-
duct the prosecution. The trial is expected to commence on
Wednesday morning, the 11th of next month; but from the num
bar of witnesses to be examined, both for the Crown and the
prisoner, the trial is expected to last until a late period of the fol.
lowing day. There will be nearly twenty witnesses to be examined
for the prosecution.

The promenaders on the Boulevards were yester-
day attracted by the sight of a huge truftied turkey, lying in the
window of the well known Maison du Friand, at the corner of
the Rue Choiseul. A ticket attached to this dainty intimated that it
had been ordered for the Duke of Wellington, and that the price
was 500 fr. The weight was stated to be 251b.—Galignani.
SERIOUS CHARGE AGAINST A MASTER OF A VESSEL.
—On Friday a warrant was issued against Mr. James
Simpson, master of the barque Thomas Bell, lately
arrived at Swansea, with a cargo of copper
ore, from St. Jago de Cuba, charging him, on
the information of one of the crew, named John
Edward Brown, with having, on or about the Bth of
December, while on the passage homewards, violently
assaulted a seaman on board his vessel, named: Thomas
James Graham ; " and that afterwards, on the 21st of
December, the said Thomas James raham died on
board the said vessel, while at sea." On the evening
of that day the defendant appeared at the office
of Mr. T. Attwood, before the Mayor and Starling
Benson, Esq. T. Edward Thomas and Thomas
Penrice, Esqs., county magistrates, were also pre-
sent during a portion of the examination of the first
witness, but took no part in the proceedings then or sub-
sequently. When the matter became known to the
public the interest manifested was considerable. Mr.
Tripp appeared for the defendant. No professional
gentleman was in attendance on the part of the
prosecution. After a lengthened examination, the
defendant was then committed upon the minor
charge of assault, the effect of which will be
that the expense of the prosecution will devolve upon
the friends cf the deceased, unless they successfully pre-
fer before the grand jury an indictment for manslaughter.
In that CRSQ th' jni.t can convict of the, minor charge
should they not be satisfied that the other is fully esta-
blished. The defendant gave bail for his appearance.—
Cambrian,

COVENT—GARDEN.
For the time of year we had a fair average quantity of
Vegetables on offer, while the supply of Fruit was rather
extensive. Generally speaking, the demand was active, and
prices were steadily supported.

I'iTTZWO.A.T2I3 AND ZEILDENHATaii
Although the supplies of each kind of Meat here was
somewhat on the increase, a full average amount of business
was transacted, and prices were steadily supported.—Bed
from 2s 6d to 3s 6d ; Mutton, 2s 10d to 3s 8d ; Veal, 4s 4d to
5s 8d ; and Pork, 3s to 4s 6d per Blbs, by the carcase. We
had a very large supply of both Game and Poultry here,
Owing to which the trade was heavy, and prices were with
difficulty supported.

There was a very plentiful supply of Fish, yet the demand
was steady at late rates.

Athough the supplies of Meat were rather extensive, a fair
business was doilig at full prices.

nuNGEuroan.
For prime Mutton, Veal, and Pork we had a steady de-
mand at full prices, but otherwise the trade was in a very
sluggish state.

BREAD.
The prices of Wheaten Bread in the Metropolis are from
7d to 71d ; of Household ditto, 5d to qd per 41bs leaf

RIMS NiliatZLET.
Raw Hides, at per stone of 14Ibs :—Best Steers and Heifers,
5s 64 to 5s 10d; Middling Hides, 4s 8d to 5s 4d; Inferior
ditto, 4s 4d to 4s 6d. Sheep and Calf Skins, at per skin :
Market Calf, 6s 64 to 8s; Long-w•oolled Sheep, 3s 6d to
4s 9d; Shearlings, 6d to ed.