The Sun.
London, England, 1845-06-20 00:00:00

WEST INDIES.

The Royal Mail steam-ship Forth, Captain Chapman, arrived
at Southampton last night, from the West Indies, with mails from
Jamaica to the 25th of May, Hayti 27th, St. Thomas 31st, ani
from the Windward Islands and Guiana from the 18th to the 30th
of May inclusive. The crop- of sugar is nearly completed, and
presents in all the colonies an average amount. in Jamaica
nearly the whole of the crops were in, and exceeded the most
sanguine expectations of the planters. The fine season was
much in their favour, and there is no doubt that the
amount will be over 60,000 tons. The prospect for the future,
too, it appears, is good. The island was generally
healthy, but when the packet left on the 24th ult., the heavy rains
had just commenced. The Blundell, with 260 hill coolies, had
arrived ; they were all in excellent health and spirits, and
appeared to enjoy the change. Lord Elgin had taken a great
interest in the matter, and had located them in large numbers, to
give the system a fair trial. The whole of her Majesty's troops
stationed in the island were in a healthy state.
The Forth brings on freight 928 doubloons, 869 ounces of silver,
988 ounces of geld dust, 241 barrels of ginger, 631 b. of platina, 3004
worth of pearls, besides 43 packages of succeades, arrow-root, &c.

COWES, JUNE 19.—Her Majesty, Prince Albert,
and suite, arrived at Osborne, in the royal yacht this day. It
being near high water, the royal party landed on the beach, in
front of the house. About a hundred workmen have been em.
ployed laying in foundations, &c., tin yesterday, when the work
was stopped. It is expected it will remain so till after her Ma-
jesty's departure from the island. It is generally believed that
the alterations that have been commenced are so extensive that it
will take two years to complete them. The fleet at Portsmouth
consists of eight sail of the line and two frigates, all which manned
yards and saluted her Majesty as the yacht passed.—From our Cor-
respondent. _

THE QUEEN'S ACCESSION.—This day being the an-
niversary of her Majesty's accession to the throne in 1837, the
Park and Tower guns were fired, and flags displayed from most
of the churches and public buildings in the metropolis.
Nothing could have been more to the farmers'
wishes than the weather has been since our last. The appearance
of everything in this neighbourhood has Improved very much, and
the crops of hay and straw promise to be abundant. A little hay
has been stacked in excellent order, but though mowing is now
pretty general, haymaking is hardly so; and if the weather proves
fine, (he stack.yards wilt be uell Sited again this ycar. A few
young pieces of turnips look well, and we hear very little complaint
of the fly.—Brighton Gazette.

CITY, QUARTER TO THREE.
The sales of Cotton at Liverpool yesterday were 8,000
bales, 2,M of which were on speculation. Egyptian, 6d. to
B%d. ; Maranham, 4 Md. to 514 d. ; Surats, 2%d. to 3d. ; and
American, 314 d. to sd. The market was steady, but with-
out change in prices. Shares were without animation, and
there was less business doing than for some time ipast :-
Bandon and Bantry, 6s. ; Barnsley Junction, 7%; Bir-
kenhead and Cheshire Junction,lll/8 4 ; Birmingham and
Gloucester 136 ; Blackburn, Burnley, and Accrington, 51/2 1/1 ;
Blackburn, Darwen, and Bolton, 5; Belfast and Ballymena,
8% ; Belfast and County Down, 1M ; Bolton, Wigan, and
Liverpool, 1514 ; Caledonian, 11%; Cambridge and Lincoln,
88s. 9d. %; Chester and Birkenhead, 62 63; Ditto, New.
Shares, 551/2 58 ; Ditto, Half Shares, 31% • Chester and Holy-
head, 17% ; Churnet Valley, 514 ; dork and Waterford,
41s. ; Derby and Crewe, 1% 2 ; Dublin and Belfast Junc-
tion, 101 ; Dublin and Wexford, A 18s. 6d.; Dublin and
Galway, 41/ 4; Dublin, Mullingar, and Athlone, 5 ; Grand
Junction, Eighth Shares, 22 ; Grand Union, 7s. 125.; Great
Grimsby and Sheffield, 3% ; Great Western, Fifth Shares,
45% ; Huddersfield Canal and Railway, 7% 7 ; Hudders-
field and Sheffield, 6% ; Lancaster and Preston, 53; Leicester
and Birmingham, % ; Limerick and Waterford, 8% 18s. 9d. ;
Liverpool and Manchester, New Shares, 403/4 ; Liverpool,
Ormskii k, and Preston, 3%; London, Oxford, and Chelten-
ham, %7s ; London and Windsor, 114 ; Londonderry and
Enniskillen, 4%; ; London and York, 4 ; Leeds and Thirak,
6% ; Leeds and West Riding, ; Manchester and Bir-
mingham Continuation, 1 3365. 6d. ; Manchester, Sheffield,
and Midland, ; Mancheoter and Leeds, Quarter Shares,
2514 ; Matlock and Midland, 5 %; Midland Railway, 187 ;
Ditto, 401. Shaves, 29 28% ; Newark and Sheffield, ;
Newcastle and Berwick, 18% %; Newry and Warrenpoint,
114 ; North British, Half Shares, ; North Kent, 4%;
North Union (A), 160; North Western, 414 ; Oxford and.
Birmingham Junction, 41,4 3/4 ; Oxford, Worcester, and Wol-
verhampton, 5% 1/2 ; Shrewsbury and Herefordshire, 3a ;
Shrewsbury and North Wales, % 6s. 6d. ; Shrewsbury, Os-
westry, and Cheshire, 4% 41 Shrewsbury and Trent Union,
114 ; South-Eastern and over, 47% ; Ditto, flew Shares, No. 1,19 M ; Ditto, New Shares, No. 2, le% 17 ;
Ditto, New Shares, No. 3, 9 ; Scottish Central, 6% ;
South Wales, 5% ; Staffordshire and Shropshire Junction,
Bs. 9d. ; Trent Valley, Continuation, 48s. 9d. ' • Ulster, 50;
Wakefield, Pontefract, and Goole, 18% ; Welsh Midland, 41%
6s. 6d. ; West Yorkshire, 2 ; Worcester and Tring, 2%;
Whitehaven and Furness, 2%; York and Carlisle, 295. ;
Central of Spain, 3s. 2s. 6d. ; Northern of France (Laffitte's),
ss. 3s. 9d.; Northern of France (Rosamel) 21. 3s. 9d.; Paris
and Lyons (Laffitte's), 3/. 60s. 6d. ; Ditto (French), 2% ;
Sambre and Meuse, 1019 ; Verona and Ancona, 51s. 6d.
MANCHESTER STOCK EXCHANGE, JUNE 19.-The sales are
-Blackburn, Burnley, and Accrington, 9M ; Bolton,
Wigan, and Liverpool, 15 ; Caledonian, 11% ; Cambridge
and Lincoln, 414 ; Churnet Valley, 5%; Clitheroe Junction,
3 13-16 ; Derby and Crewe, 11%
prem. ; Glasgow and Dum-
fries, % 15-16 • Grand Union, 1/2 % prem. ; Great Grimsby
and Sheffield junction, 4; Quarter Shares, 1/4; Huddersfield
and Manchester Railway and Canal, 63/4 ; Huddersfield and
Sheffield Junction, 63/4 ; Leeds, Dewsbury, and Manchester,
10% 1-16 ; Leeds and West Riding Junction, 73% 3 ; Lei-
cester and Birmingham, 2% ; Liverpool, Ormakirk, and
Preston, 2 15-16 1-16 ; London and South-Western, New
Shares, 15%; London and Windsor, 11% ; London and Wor-
cester, Oxford and Rugby, 2 15-16 1-16 ; London and York,
; Manchester, Buxton, Matlock, and Midland, 54 3-16 ;
Manchester and Birmingham, New Quarter Shares, 71/i ;
Ditto Continuation and Welsh Junction, 2 1-16; Manchester
and Leeds, Half Shares, 78 ; Quarter Shares, 25M ; Sixteenth
Shares, 9 ; Midland Railway Consols, 401. Shares, 29 ; Newark
and Sheffield, 2 15-16; North Western, 4 3 -16 ; Nottingham
and Mansfield, 21% ; Nottingham, Erewash, Ambergate,
and Manchester, % prem. ; Oxford, Worcester, and Wol-
verhampton, 5% 4 ; Freston and Wyre, Half Shares, 33/4 ;
Ditto and Dividends, 53% ; Sheffield and Lincolnshire
Junction, 1%; Shrewsbury, Hereford and North Wales, %
prem. ; Shrewsbury and Trent Valley Uuion, 214 IA, ; South-
Eastern and Dover, 48 ; Ditto, No. 3, 8 13-16 1-16; Trent
Valley, 1914 ; Ditto, Continuation, and Holyhead Junction,
2 5-16 A ; Welsh Midland, 4 3 16; West Yorkshire, 2;
Whitehaven and Furness, 2 15 16 ; Worcester, Shrewsbury,
and Crewe Union, 3jy prem. ; York and Carlisle, 1 5-16 pm.
The Forth steamer has arrived very promptly, and before
she was considered due. She brings late accounts from all
the West India Islands, but is not the bearer of any Mexican
mail. Except in Barbadoes, the weather had been very fa-
vourable for the crops, which in Jamaica would prove ex-
tremely luxuriant. Hill Coolies were beginning to arrive,
and what with immigration and the expected introduction
of British capital to carry out some of the projected railways,
the colonists were kept quite on the qui vice, and in high
spirits. From Hayti there is nothing new, but the West
Indian papers contain a statement of Texas having refused
annexation.

The further proceedings in the case of the Bank of Man-
chester have attracted some attention, as although this ill-
fated and mis-managed concern is being wound up as well as
could be expected, it still affords a striking illustration of the
extent to which the best institutions may be perverted, and
of the necessity of shareholders looking carefully, even though
unsuepiciously, into the proceedings of their Directory. How
so much capital could have been irrecoverably lust in the
time, would appear a mystery to those who have not wit-
nessed many similar break-ups, and investigated the causes
of them.

The Funds are to-day rather firmer, and there is no incli-
nation to press sales. Consols have been 99 to 994; New
Three-and• Quarter per Cents., 102% to %; and the Three
per Cents. 99X. Bank Stock has been at 212, being rather
better.

The Foreign Bonds are dull again, with one or two ex-
ceptions. Spanish Five per Cents. have been 28% %, and
the Three per Cents. 41%. Portuguese Converted,are 67
to 1,4. Mexican have realised 371. Belgian Four-and-a-
Half per Cents. have been 99 to %, and Dutch Two-and-a-
Half per Cents 633/4.
Railway Shares, though supported generally, are still
rather quiet. Great Western, Birmingham, South-Eastern,
and Brighton, are a shade higher, as also Blackwall, and one
or two other of the old lines. A few of the Scrips have like-
wise been more buoyant. The French Shares are steady,
but there is not much doing in them.

....
ONE CLOSING
PRICES OFEBRITISII FUNDS. O'CLOCK. PRICES.
Bank Stock
3 per Cent. Reduced ... 99% 9914
New 3% per Cents .1021/1% 102%
Long Annuities to expire Jan. 1860 11 7-161/ 111,
Consols for Account . 991/a tii 9914
Exchequer Bills, 1,0001., I%d. ... 57 55:55 pm. 59
Ditto 5001. .
Ditto Small .. 53 55 pm. 59

ONE CLOSING
PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS. O'CLOCK. PRICES.
Columbian Bonds, ex Venezuela. 1734
Mexican, 5 per Cent. 1837 ...... 371,12 373/
Ditto, Deferred — 21%
Portuguese 5 per Cents.
Ditto, Converted 67 6714
Ditto, Account —671 A
Ditto Small
Spanish 5 per Cent. 1840
Ditto Account
Ditto,s per Cent. 1841 2414 241 A
Ditto, Passive
Ditto Deferred
Ditto 3 per Cent.
Belgian 4% per Cent.
Di,' h, 21/- - -,- Cent . 63:N % 63,

futcn, 4,-/,_ per ~ 63/, i
~A,
Ditto, Account 6334 633/i
Ditto, 4 per Cent., Certific 991/81A 99%
PRICES OF .cLOSINo
PAID. A ONE O'CLOCK.
RAILWAY SHARES PRICES,

Aberdeen~..

Armagh, Coleraine, and
Portrush l% 2l„ 2%
Birming. and Gloucesterloo
Ditto % Shares
.. 4%
Birmingham and Ox-
ford Junction
Bristol and Exeter 7O

Do. New ..., . ......... 2 ...... 11% 12
Caledonian
Ditto Extension ...... VA-- 23,?;%
Cambridge and Lincoln 14 ...... 41% A
Chester and Holyhead... 10 ' 16% I6E4
Chichester and Brighton 20
Cork and Waterford ... 11,(y 2I,E 2 2
Cornwall
Dias, Beccles, Yarmouth 1%
Direct Northern
Dublin and Galway... .. 2%.:.... 3%%14 3
Dublin and Mullingar... 2% 54
Eastern Counties 141. 165...... 203/4 21
Ditto New 41. 16s.
—..— . . ..

Ditto Perpetual, 5 per
Cent, No. 1....5/. 13s. 4d. ll4 l 4
Edinburgh and Glasgow 50 —
Ditto, New Quarters.. 214 71,4
Ely and Bedford
Great South. and West.

(Ireland)
Ditto Extension
Great North of England..loo
Ditto New 2 35% 35
Great Western BO 204 205
Ditto Half Shares 5O 116

Ditto, Fifths
Guildford, Fare'm, Ports. 2% ... .. 5% % 5%
Harwich
Hull and Selby 5O 107% 1071,(
Ditto, Quarter Shares 12%......
Do. Half Shares
Lancaster and Carlisle... 20

London and Birminghm (5t0ck)...241 243 242
Do. 4 Shares
London and Blackwall. 16/. 133.4 d lll4 11%
London and Brighton... 50
London and Croydon, 131. 15s. 9d. 20 1
Do. Guaranteed 5 per
Cent.
Loud. & S.Western 411 6s 10d...... 83%
Do. New
Do. New
'V Vi

London and York 214 4% 3% 3),
Londonderry and Ennis-
killen 2% 43/4 45,E
Lynn and Ely
Lynn and Dereham l% 2%3/4 234
Manchester and Leeds... 73

Do.',. Shares
Manchester, Buxton, and
Matlock 225 44
Midland 100 lBB 186%
. , 187

Do. New
Newcastle and Berwick 1% lB% lB
Newpt & Abergavenny 212 —
Northern and Eastern... 45 ... 7014

North Staffordshire 22s. ... ..
Newry and Enniskillen. 21 ..... 43/ 4%
Newark and SLeffield .. 11,4 2 ... 2T
North British
Do. New
North Kent
Oxford and Worcester... 21/2 54
Rugby, Worstr, & Tring 1
Scottish Central
Scottish Midland 1!4• •—• 314 314
Shrews., Wolverhamp.,
Dudley, and Birm 2%. .. 43%
Shrewsbury and Trent
VaileriJnion
South Eastern & Dover 33/ 2s 4d —

Do., No. 1 8
Do., No. 3
South Wales 21,1 6% 5% 614... 57,
Trent Valley 2 . 19 ... . l9
Trent Valley and Holy-
head Junction
Welch Midland
Waterford and Kilkenny 1 ..,. . ••• ~ S
Wilts, Somerset, & Wey-
mouth
York and North Midland 50 109% lO9
Ditto Scarboro' Branch. 25
Do Selby 2O
Do. Extension lll 203/414 20%
FOREIGN RAILWAYS.
Boulogne and Amiens... 4
9% 9
Bordeaux and Toulouse 2
Bordeaux,Toulouse, and
Cette rirfellese,, 9.., 2 tillse 2 2

21/f3M

Great North. of France
(Laflitte's)
Louvain and Jemeppe... .

Lyons and Avignon ,
,
Kunur and Liege
Orleans and Vierzon ... 6 ...... 1641 17
Orleans and Bordeaux._ ~i
Paris & Lyons, Laffitte's 2
Pans and Lyons, Gan-
neron's, ... ..
Paris and Strasbourg
(Ganneron's)
Do. (Cotopte de L'Est) 2
Rouen and Havre
Sambre and Mcuse .... 4 2'',l.i 9
Tours and Nantes, Mae- _ , ,

kenzie's
Verona and Ancon
JOINT STOCK BANKS.
British North American 50 ..
I ondon andlVestnaint.ter 20

251,i

!-,
G 1
:2 4,
5%

21A
2%
303/4

50
26,i

MARKET NE IV S.-(THIS DAY.)

CORN EXCHA7M3E-FRIDAY.

Since Monday the arrivals of Wheat of home produce have
been moderate, thinly from Lincolnshire. The number of
samples offering to-day was by no means large, yet the de-
mand was in a sluggish st ate, at about stationary prices. Fo-
reign Wheat was extremely dull, but nut cheaper. Grinding
Barley was quite as dear, but other kinds were a mere drug.
In Malt very little wac doing, at late rates. Oats, :Beans,
and Peas, moved off steadily, at stationary figures.

F:ngllsh • • • • • •
Irish . .....
Foreign ......

AftRIVALS.

Wheat.
4,450 qrs.

Baricy.
90 qrs,

2,620 2,520 I
Malt, .3,!.450 firg.

Oats. I
1 Flo 7.
SOO A,6.,0
2,710 f -
14,450 I -

Although the supply of Beasts was extensive, the bed
trade was active, at an advance of 2d per 81bs. We had on
show 350 Scots from Scotland, and 60 Beasts from Holland,
mostly in good condition. The numbers of Sheep were
good, yet the inquiry for them was firm, and Monday's
prices were readily supported. Lambs, the supply of which
was but moderate, moved off readily, at full rates of cur
rend-. The Veal trade was active, at an advance of from
2d to 4(1 per Blbs. Pigs were in request at full prices. Mulch
Cows sold at from 16/ to 181 10s each, including their small
calf.

177.1WGIATEi 11.7srp L0A21317.723.1k1T..
We had only a moderate supply of Meat. The demand
was firm, at full prices.
BOROUGH HOP TYLARILMT.

Our accounts from the plantations not being very favour-
able, the demand here for most kinds of Hops is steady, and
List week's quotations are well supported.

EXCHEQUER.-(THIS DAY.)

(Before the Lorin CDIEF BARON.)
LIBEL.—TDONIAS WAKLEV, E6Q., N.P. V. HEALEY AND WETFICRS.
Ills Lordship took his scat on the bench soon after nine o'clock.

The jury having been sworn,

Mr. BRANNELL opened the case, and said this was a complaint
for a public libel. The defendants had not pleaded but suffered
judgment to go by default. _ _ _

Mr. Jetty's, Q.C., said he appeared as Counsel for Mr. Wakley,
who complained of a libel disgraceful and serious in its character.
Mr. Wakley was Coroner for the county of Middlesex, a high
and important office. He was also Member for the borough of
Finsbury. It was unnecessary to allude to his politics, which
were well known ; but it was well known that in this country po.
litres were never allowed to Intrude into a court of justice. Mr.
Wakley was also well known as the proprietor of the Lancet pub.
lication. He was sorry to say that one of the defendants, Mr.
Healey was a barrister, and Mr. \Vethers, the other, a surgeon.
They were the proprietors of the Medical Times newspaper, a paper
of considereble circulation. The libel was published in a letter
which appeared in the Medical Times of the 25th of January last,
and was printed in large type. The Learned Counsel then read
the letter. It is of great length, and is headed, " A Proposal for
Mr. Wakley's Trial by a Jury of Gentlemen ;" and, among other
statements, charges him with ruining the London College of Medi-
cine, the British Medical Association, and the Medical Protection
Association, by taking them under his protection. The following
extract will give the reader some idea of the libel :
" Three National Associations sunk helpless under his aid!
Three hostile Colleges flourishing by his opposition! Himself con-
temned here, spurned there, suspected everywhere! Such is the
terrible result of a whole life's ceaseless action ; such the awful
shipwreck of a fortune steered by the helm infamy !—What a spell,
mystic and divinely misguiding, in a ruined repute! Fate will not
even have good by such an instrunzent !"

The Learned Counsel continued—There were some parts of this
letter as vulgar as they were unintelligible, but, on the whole, it
was highly calculated to damage the character of any man. What
he chiefly complained of was that the malignant charges made in
the letter were of so general a nature that there was no such thing
as answering them. If these were 500 charges, however grave
they might have been, he would have engaged to reply to them,
but no man could reply to those sweeping and general accusations,
pointing to no one act, and mentioning no one fact. The letter
raised suspicions of a thousand t.mes more heinous in their
character than any direct change could set forth, and this was the
reason this vague mode of writing was selected. if the letter was
not sfictated by personal malice, it could only have been got up fur
the still more selfish purpose of pushing a paper into circulation.
He was instructed to say that Mr. Wakley felt more poignantly the
course taken by the defendants. They did not even condescend to
explain the charges they had made, so that even when damages
were awarded the public would still say something remains hidden
which has not been explained—there is a stain upon Mr. Wakley
which has not been obliterated. Mr. Wakley, as much as any man,
admitted the right of a public journalist to canvass his public conduct
in the fullest manner, but tl.ere was not a single paragraph in this in-
famous letter which did not reflect upon his character as a man.
The Learned Counsel concluded by calling on the jury to give such
amount of damages as would mark their sense of the atrocity of
the libel.

Proofs, were then handed in of the ownership of the publication,
whereupon
Mr. Islealey one of the defendants (a barrister), said he rose under
great disadvantages to reply to the accusations of the Learned
Counsel. Ile could assure the jury that the letter referred to was
written with no such motives as those which had been assigned.
He disclaimed entirely any of those feelings of enmity towards Mr.
Wakley which the Learned Counsel had attributed. He was in-
fluenced by no such feelings He thought the whole question was
whether the letter affected Mr. Wakley in his public character or
not ; for if it did they would return only nominal damages, as the
custom of commenting on public characters, as such,
was too well established and recognised as to admit
of its being longer questioned or disputed. Had the
letter one personal allusion had it a single remark
on his private character—was it any way calculatedlto disturb his
fireside, or in any way affect his domestic relations ? No such thing.
Mr. Wakley was a public man—had rendered himself very
prominent as such—and it was in this light, and this light
only, the letter applied. The Learned Counsel went on to corn.
ment on the paragraphs in the letter, and went on to say that
nothing could be more injurious to the publication itself than to
publish merely defamatory matter, for its readers comprised a
jury who would, as Mr. Waklcy will knew, be the most ready to
punish, by the Instant withdrawal of their countenance
and support, any breach of social order, any merely
malicious attack upon an individual. The Learned Counsel,
who quoted a variety of instancess where great freedom
had been used by editors of newspapers in their re-
iroatks upon public men, concluded by calling on the jury to
respect the liberty of the press, put a liberal construction on the
letter, and return.a farthing damages. The letter got into the paper
by an accident, rather than anything else, and the object of the
plaintiff was to ruin a rival publication.
Mr. Wethers, the other defendant, then rose to reply, but eat
down again without doing so.
The CHIEF BARON said the publication was one which the
plaintiff had a right to complain of. If the defendants stood
upon their right as public journalists, they ►hould not
have pleaded guilty, but as they had not done so, the only question
for the jury was the amount of damages. The liberty of the press
should, if exercised with freedom, be at least exercised with fair-
ness, but there was no right, on the part of the public press, to
assail with wanton and malignant abuse, or from worse motives,
any public men. By the Act respecting libel, passed in August,
1842, a defendant might, in mitigation of damages, offer an apology
before the commencement of the action, or as soon after as he bad
an 'opportunity. He might plead that it was inserted without
malice, and that at the car:icst opportunity an apology was in-
serted, or that it was published from gross neglect. Again, the
defendant might plead the truth of the libel, or he might
pay a sum of money into Court, which the plaintiff might
accept or not, and forego or persevere in the action, as he
pleased. None of these courses had been pursued by the defend-
ants, who had suffered judgment to go by default. If this letter
were not a libel it would be difficult to say what was. His Lord.
ship then read the paragraphs of the letter seriatim, commenting
upon each as he went along. The letter was written with a con.
siderable share of a certain kind of ability, and the plain meaning
of it was, Mr. Wakley Is a very bad character ; he damages every
cause with which he is mixed up, and we call for inquiry; and
these opinions enforced with phrases of considerable power. The
jury would give damages commensurate with the injury done to
his reputation, and to his wounded feelings, and none could so pro_
perly determine that amount as a jury. The conduct of the de-
fendants in the present case had not been to aggravate the libel,
but they must award such damage as the circumstances of the case
and the nature of the libel demanded. The damages ought to be
fair and satisfactory, and of such a nature as to mark the just sense
which they entertaiwed of the value of character.
The jury retired, and after the lapse of two hours, returned into
Court with a verdict for the plaintiff—Damages, 1501.