The Sun.
London, England, 1842-02-14 00:00:00

COMPLNY

The arguments in this partZheart case were proceeded with. The
object of the application was to dissolve an injunction obtained by
Mr. Gordon against the Railway Company, to restrain them troni
proceeding with certain erections on his land.
The arguments had not concluded when our Evening Edition
went to press.
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VIUE-CHANCERY. DAY.)

ATKINS V. IdATrON.

The arguments in this part-heard case, which came before the
Court upon further directions, occupied his Honour the Vice-
Chancellor of England the whole morning.

QUEEN'S BENCH-(THIS DAY.)
(Sittings at Guildhall,)
HILLS V. POOLET.,
This was an action of debt for wine and spirits sold and delivered
by the plaintiff to the defendant. The facts of the case were of no
public interest. A verdict was returned for the plaintiff, with
341. 17s. damages and costs.

THE MARKETS.-(THIS DAY.)
CORN EXCHANGE.
The supplies of Wheat last week were moderate, but
tolerably good of most other Grain. The fresh arrivals were
small. Wheat sold at last quotations, with rather more done
in Foreign. Barley still very dull. Beans and Peas un-
changed. Oats met a slack demand at last week's terms.
Flour dull of sale, at last week's decline in value.
oittitlVALS OF GIYAIIi 1N LONDON DURINtI LAST WEEK.
Wheat_ Barley. Oats. , Flow
V English
Irish -- ---- 3,995 '
Foreign - -
riatrAts OX BOARD OF SFIP
Wheat,Red (old) - s. s. Beans, Small (new) ...38:.405.
-.White (01d)...., -s. -s. -- (old) .49. 468.
- Iled;,1841).. 5425. 556. - Tick (new) ‘8 30s,
Fine sbs. 635. ------ (old) 38.. 4t s
-- Superfine 645. C 65. - Harrow (new) 326.348.
-White (1841)....515. 585.
-- Fin:: 6os. 62s Brank
--Str,iertine -Os. 725. Oats, Feed
----Foreign free 565. 765. -- Ness 16,.215
Ryt ' 3Bs. 40s. - Poland
Barley 268. 325 New 205.251.
-- Grinding...... ..... ;As. 30s, - Potatoe
- Malting .338.305.
Malt s6s, 60s, -.- Scotch 26s.2bs.
- Fine New.. -62 s ti4s. --- Irish 15s. ... 185.225.
Pease, Grey, New 10s. 325. Flour Town (per sack).... 561.605.
- Maple New 3ls. 335. -- Seconds 525.545.
-- White .345. 365. ---- North Country .... 50s. 545,
---- 8011er5....... .365. 38s, Bran '7s, tia.
SMITHFIELD.
There was a good supply of Cattle, moderate of Sheep, but
short of Calves and Pigs. The market was well attended by
the trade, yet. the present quotations of Beef were, with diffi-
culty, supported. Mutton met with a middling de.v,and, and
the present prices were fully realized. The demand for Veal
and Pork was brisk, and the whole sold well at present prices :
-Beef 3s. 4d. to 4z. 6d. , Mutton, 3s. Bd. to 4s. 10d. ;
Veal ss. to 6s. 2d. ; Pork 4s. to ss. 2d.. Beasts, 2,935 ;
Sheep, 20,210 ; Pigs, 512 ; Calves, 56.
TEA MARKET.
Free Trade Tea was firm, and the demand good ; low sound
Black ls. 10-1-d. to Is. 1 Id„ and Green Is. 100. Company's
Congou Is. 100. cash.
TALLOW MARKET.
There was a fair business transacted, and prices were firm.
Yellow Candle on the spot, at 48s to 48s. 3d., and 48s. 6d. to
495. for delivery. Tallow, 50s. per cwt., and good request.
HOP MARKET.
A firm market for all kind of Hops, especially for the batter
sorts. Stocks arc small in first as well as in second hands.
METAL MARKET.
Spelter dull, and prices are on the decline ; sellers 371. 10s.
on the spot. Iron held firmly, with a fair demand. Load
not much in request, but prices firm.

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NEWPORT, ISLE OF WIGHT.
(FROU OUR CORRESPONDENT.)
FEZ. 2.—The failure of the Old Bank is, we are sorry to hear,
likely to involve in ruin far greater numbers than we at first anti-
cipated. Their liabilities are now stated to exceed 100,0001, and
their notes nominally of it. each are selling at 11. ; indeed it is
much doubted if the purchasers are not making a bad speculation.
The firm, which was generally considered to consist of four part-
ners, turns out to be only one person, three having been dead many
years, James Kirkpatrick alone remaining. He appeared in Friday
evening's Gazette. Proof of debts is to be made at Ryde on the
21st instant, and here on the 22d. The accounts from Ryde
notesare
most distressing, few seem to have escaped ; the amount of
and deposits there are said to be between 25,0001. and 26,0001.—
rich and poor, all have suffered, many having lost all they possessed.
The amount subscribed for the proposed new church there, 8001.,
and 1001. for the burial.ground, were placed in this bank. At
Cowes the amount is much larger than was at first imagined, and
is now supposed to be little short of 12,0001. The trade of the
island is completely paralysed, suspicion and fear are traced on
every face--confidence is entirely destroyed. Ruin and misery must
fall on hundreds who have lived in comfort, and on many in afflu-
ence. The poorest escapes not, the widow's mite, the labourer's
savings, the deposits of the different friendly societies—in fact, such
unbounded confidence was placed in this bank, that it was the
general deposit for the cash of the whole island ; and no one can
tell why, beyond its being " The Old Bank," which, like an old
house, has actually fallen down from old age, without any other
known cause. It is now said to have been insolvent for twelve
years by some, by others twenty; but the conductor lived at such a
tilling expense, was always at his business, and had such large
estates (and the fact of their being mortgaged unknown), that he
was thought to be extremely rich, till sometime after he stopped.
Bank of England notes, which people in the island looked at very
suspiciously, fearing they might be forged (always preferring Kirk.
Patrick's), are now caught at, forged or not ; and they have even
left off sounding sovereigns in their fright, The very handsome
conduct of Lord Yarborough should not be passed over unnoticed,
nor that of Mr. Mills, of the house of Sir It. C. Glynn and Co., in
the unasked assistance they Immediately tendered our other bank
(Sir IL Bassett and Co.) which otherwise might, under this an.
looked.for stoppage, and the panic it produced, have stopped also ! !
They were nobly backed by G. H. Ward, Esq., Sir R. Simeon, and
a hundred others, and thousands on thousands placed at their soma.
mend. The agriculturists will be as severe sufferers as the inha-
bitants of the different towns. Directly or indirectly the whole
population will be sufferers by this failure.
'1 he Discovery, the ship in which Captain Clarke accompanied
Captain Cook on his last voyage of discovery in 1776, sailed from
Cowes roads on Tuesday last for Antwerp. She is now under the
Belgian flag, and her name has been changed to the " Itubens."
She certainly cannot be much less than seventy years old, but has
the appearance of a tine brig, and draws 17 feet water.

CHURCH OF SCOTLAND.
(FRost A COKREJWONDENT.)
It is rumoured in well informed circles, that Lord Panmure
is to le Lord High Commissioner of the next General Assem-
bly, which meets at Edinburgh in the ensuing spring. His
Lordship's well known attachment to the Kirk of Scotland,
eminently qualify him to be her Alajesty's representative. The
appointment does infinite credit to Sir Robert Peel, who has
fixed on a nobleman who will entertain the Scotch clergy in a
style of splendid hospitality, worthy of the Bench of Bishops,
and seldom witnessed in the metropolis of Scotland. We
understand that Patrick Robertson, Esq., the eminent bar-
rister, is to be his Lordship's purse-bearer ; a better selec-
tion could not have been made. It will gratify the
clergy, and convince them that conviviality is to be the order
of the day. During the sitting of the Assembly the Lord High
Commissioner will occupy the ancient Palace of Holyrood,
which his purse-bearer has already designated the Royal
manse, facetiously recommending that a general fast should be
held before the arrival of the High Commissioner, his Lordship
being determined to act with the strictest impartiality, and to
" veto " any proceeding on the part of the Church, which might
tend to keep aloof the moderate party, or any party, from the
good cheer which will be prepared for them in the Royal manse.
Alas ! old Neil Cow is no more, but Lord Panmure's excel-
lent private band is practising for the occasion ; and Dr. Chal-
mers need not despair, be will have the " Reel of Bogie" to his
heart's content, and the purse-bearer for his partner.

DEATH Or MR. HECTOR.—(From a Cortes-
PGlldelit.—Petersfield, Sunday.—llied this afternoon, of apo-
plexy, at Stodham-house, near l'etersfield, J. C. Hector, Esq.,
late M.P. for Petersfield, atter a few weeks illness, brought on
by over excitement through certain parties gross misconduct in
causing his banking-house to suspend payment for a short time.
The death of Mr. Hector has thrown the town of Petersfield
and neighbourhood into sad gloom, he having been a very
benevolent man to the poor, also affording the greatest ac-
commodationM.P.7, to all parties at his banking establishment. He
until the death of his late Majesty, June 1837. He was op-
posed by Sir H. Jolliffe, Bart., and after a very severe con-
test lost his election b a maorit of one wily. He unseated
183, and sat
Sir H. Jolliffe, by petition,-which came on Feb. 14, 1838,
wad sat for the borough from that time until the last Dissolu-
tion. His age is about 6b.
Fox CHASE EXTRAORDINARY.—Much mut
• h
has been excited in the little village of Temple Coombe, So-
merset, this week by the ffollowinglaughable occurrence. On
the evening of Sunday last as four old women, whose united
ages amount to 297 years, were sitting down to tea, about five
o'clock, a noise was heard in a building just behind their own
cottages ; upon which the four frightened amazons sallied forth,
and found that their alarm and apprehensions proceeded from a
large fox, whom they immediately attacked, and Mary Chant,
one of the four, aged 76, eventually killed reynard, and now
shows the brush in triumph.—Dorset County Chronicle.