The Sun.
London, England, 1845-01-20 00:00:00

say the evicted proprietors of Schedule A , was
carried by brutal violence, because the Reform
journals called for " brick-bats and bludgeons ;"
the Times being the only Reform journal that
ever made the savage and treasonable appeal.
The Whig Ministers, say their sorrowing friends,
were driven from office by a fanatical rage,
excited by the orators of Exeter Hall ; the
Times, the Standard, and the Morning Herald de-
nouncing the Roman Catholic clergy as " sur-
pliced ruffians," a " demon priesthood," &c. &c.,
the truth being that no Exeter Hall orator ever used
such foul and gross language; nor did any journal,
except the Times, ever print such phrases—as, indeed,
we lately had occasion to explain in our own defence.
Thus it happens that the Times leaves its stain
upon every party which it encumbers and soils
with its temporary support. The stain is, how-
ever, a wound when inflicted upon a public man,
and we are sorry to be obliged to declare that we be-
lieve that in this case it is intended to attack the peace
of Europe through the sides of Lord Aberdeen.
The Times is known to be odious—most justly odious
in France—and let Frenchmen be once persuaded
that the Foreign Minister of England entertains as
his organ the journal that for a year has done
little in its foreign department but heap the foulest
insults upon France, her functionaries, fleets, and
armies, and they must regard that Foreign Minister
as . an enemy, and even their own ministers as
treacherous servants in keeping on terms of civility
with such a Minister, and vouching for his good in-
tentions. The Times will not disclaim the Foreign-
office organship; for when did the Times ever sacri-
fice the chance of a shilling upon its day's sale to
any public object ? And, therefore, we, who know
just enough of the Foreign-office to know that it has
no connection direct or indirect with any newspaper,
are therefore under the necessity of exposing the foul
and mischievous misrepresentation. Of course ene-
mies will ascribe the part we take to jealousy, as the
Standard has been so often untruly called "the Go-
vernment organ;" our reply to such a charge is that
we never, either directly or indirectly, pretended to
the title, and never omitted an opportunity of respect-
fully but explicitly disclaiming it.

MONEY MARKET and CITY NEWS.
OBSERVER.—It may be conceded as a favour-
able indication of the rising prosperity of the country
that the purchases of the Government brokers on
account of the savings-banks, is a feature- not to be
questioned, as exhibiting the resources of the middle,
and we may truly say, no small portion of the lower
classes. In all districts of the United Kingdom where
savings-banks are now formed (and the establishment
of other similar most excellent institutions is in rapid
progression), the deposits are, we believe, without ex-
ception, in a ratio far exceeding the withdrawals.
WWhen, too, it is recollected that those gradual accu-
mulations of resources, the fruits of honest and per-
severing industry, are periodically transferred to the
Commissioners for the Savings Banks, and by
them laid out in the purchase of Stock,
not much wonder need he excited at the present high
values paid for the Public Securities. And, notwith-
standing the " Reduced" Three-and-a-Quarter per
Cents. have scarcely been so firm this week as previ-
ously, owing to some sales for temporary purposes,
yet, at the termination of business yesterday after-
noon, a value equal to 4*l per cent. above par
was most willingly paid. If, as it is very currently
believed, the Chancellor of the Exchequer intends to
attempt a reduction of the Three per Cents. Reduced
in the course of the forthcoming session of Parlia-
ment, how fortified will he be by the result of the last
conversion. Figures speak for.themselves. At about
the period when it was pretty well known that Go-
vernment intended to reduce the Three-and•a-Half
per Cents. to the present rate of interest their quota-
tion was about 102. For some time past—say from
the commencement of the present year—the Three-
and-a-Quarter per Cent. Annuities have reached
within a fraction of 4} per cent. above par.
Among the more prominent articles of foreign pro-
duce imported into this country, and which may, with
the utmost truth, be said to be interwoven with the
domestic economy of the mass of the population of the
United Kingdom, is that of tea. In the more distant
ports of Great Britain—in Liverpool—in Bristol, &c.,
a movement has long since been made to impress upon
her Majesty's Ministers the policy—nay, the absolute
nesessity—of an important reduction in the duties
upon the leaf. At the eleventh hour the influential
merchants connected with the trade to India and
China have held a meeting—a private one, to which
the trade only were invited—at the Jerusalem Coffee•
house, and at which there was a pretty full attendance.
The resolutions passed were in accordance with those
which have previously been sanctioned in the pro-
vinces. But in the opinion of many, it would have
been much the wisest course to hare called a public
meeting on the subject, and then a memorial to the
Prime Minister would have received the signs-

tures of the mass of the tea-drinking public of the I
City and elsewhere, in favour of the concession,which I
is asked for on the part of her Majesty's subects. If
a reduction of the duty to ls. the pound were to be
made, it is the opinion of competent judges and of
practical men, that, with the rising prosperity of this
country, the consumption would be so far increased,
as to leave but a small deficit in the duty under this
item of revenue, at the end of two, or at the utmost
of three years. An immense boon would thus .be
yielded to the poorer classes, and golden opinions be
formed of the administration of Sir Robert Peel, under
which many important concessions have been already
made to popular feelings, by the new tariff. Such is
the competition of the traders now, that were the
duty to be lowered to the point referred to, i. e., ls.
per pound on teas all round, the millions would have
the full benefit of the reduction of the duty.
As so much is said and written upon the eve of the
new Parliamentary campaign, relative to conflicting
claims for a reduction of duties, it is very fairly a
matter to bring prominently before the attention of
every patriotic Member of the House (who, without
being wedded to particular crotchets, or trammelled
by particular interests, sincerely desire the welfare of
his country). How great might be the advantage of
simplifying our tariff, by striking off a multitude of
minor articles, which bring but an unimportant sum
in the aggregate towards the revenue, and yet lead to
an enormous expense in collection relatively to pro-
ductiveness ? Thus, about five hundred articles could
he struck off, to the great relief of trade, and with a
loss of only about half a million sterling.

LAW ‘.INTELLIGENCE.
VICE-CHANCELLOR'S COURT, Jan. 18 .
EX-PARTE THE VICAR OF TIVIVERTON.

This was a petition by the vicar of Twiverton, other-
wise Twerton, Somersetshire, and the provost and scho-
lars
of Oriel College, Oxford, for payment out of court of
a sum of money paid in under the Great Western Rail-
way Act, and that the Railway Company might pay the
costs thereof. The vicarage, with the garden, orchard,
and offices belonging to it, was purchased by the Great
Western Railway, and the purchase-money was paid into
the Bank of England, as directed by the Act, and laid
out in the purchase of 2,f1861. 17s. 9d. Three per Cent.
Consols. The Act contained a direction that in case the
Railway Company required the vicarage and land, the
purchase-money was to be laid out in the purchase of other
lands, or in erecting another vicarage-house. The vicar
upon his house being taken, purchased land as a site for
a new vicarage for the sum of 1,286/., which money was
paid out of Court for that purpose, and the costs paid by
the Railway Company. A new vicarage house had
since been built by the petitioner for 1,775/. 16s. being
more than the residue of the sum paid by the Railway
Company for the original vicarage. The present peti-
tion was by the vicar and the provost and scholars of
Oriel College, Oxford, who were the owners of part of
the land about the vicarage, and it prayed that the re-
mainder of the snm of 2,8861 17s. 9d., might be paid out
of Court for the building of the new vicarage-house, and
that the Railway Company might be ordered to pay the
costs thereof.
Mr. Osborne, for the Great Western Railway Com-
pany, contended that the Court had no power to direct
the Company to pay the costs.
The VICE-CHANCELLOR :said he bad nothing to do
with the abstract juctice of the matter, nor could he
speculate upon what the Legislature intended to do ;
he could only construe a certain set of words con-
tained in the Act of Parliament. His Honour then read
the 9th section, as before quoted, and stated that, in this
case, the application was, not to have the purchase-money
paid out of Court simply, but to have part of the money
paid out to defray the expense, not of purchase of land,
but of building the vicarage-house on land which had
been purchased by the Government securities already
paid out by order of the Court. He could not, there-
fore, allow his mind to be influenced by his personal
notions of what was justice in the abstract. He could
only say, that on the true construction of the Act, the
case for which the vicar contended had been omitted or
had not been provided for. The vicar must, therefore,
pay the expenses; but as to the costs of this application
he had a discretion, and he should not give the costs to
the Company.

COURT OF QUEEN'S BENCH, Jan. 18.
(Sittings in Banco.)
The Court took the Crown paper to-day, and were
occupied the whole morning with a case as to the liability
of a parish to be rated, which possessed no public in-
terest whatever.

COURT OF EXCHEQUER, Jan. 15.
(Sittings in Banco.)
HA RRISON V. BILLING.
This case was tried before Mr. Baron Rolfe on Tues-
day lest. The action was brought upon a promissory
note for 49/. 10s. made on the Ist of March, 1839, by
the defendant, payable to the order of Potts, and endorsed
by him to the plaintiff, lb solicitor in Birmingham. It
was pleaded by the defendant that the note was made for
the joint accommodation of himself and Potts, that it
was given to the plaintiff for the purpose of being eis-
counted, and that it was now held by him without con-
sideration, the promised advance upon it having never
been made. The jury found a verdict for the defendant.
Mr. M. D. HILL, on behalf of the plaintiff, now moved,
on the ground of misdirection, fore rule calling on the
defendant to show cause, why the verdict in his favour
should not be set aside, and a new trial had.
The argument turned on a point of special pleading.--
Rule ret