The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-03-20 00:00:00

COUNTY CO URT—Yesterday.

(Before JOSEPH POLLOCK, El., Judge.)
Mottnitas v. CUNARD.—This was an action, brought 5
Mr Morgan, formerly owner of a vessel named the "
Maidstone," against Mr. Joseph Cunard, of the firm ofellnl.rh;
Brett, and Austen, to recover £22 3s. The claim of "10
plaintiff was that, defendant having sold the vessel
question for him as a broker, retained the amount it
question, in addition to his commission, as the ctcig
of advertising, whereas it was alleged by the Piaui—
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that the agreement was to include the expee6? for
advertising in the commission. The vessel was via
£1,700, upon which defendant received the usual coma:l44ino
of one per cent, amounting to £l7. Defendant Pesiti vy
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denied that any agreement was made to have the advertion.,
pad for au'. of the commission, and added that he had to Ps;
the buying broker £8 10s, half his commission, in order
effect a sale. He urged, therefore, that it was highly tml
bable he could have agreed to pay £22 3s' where he I'm
only received £8 10s. His honour gave judgment for
defendant.

I THE FORCE FOR CHINA.--The United Service Geette
~ora
says :—" When the regiments arrive from England,
will be a force of 10;000 men at Hong Kong."
A h 61.
SERIOUS CONFLAGRATION—Loss OF tio
o'clock on the morning of the 14th inst., a most deslrlince,,
fire broke out on the premises of George Neale and ion
millers, Coleraine, Ireland. On the alarm beieg. gv" ith
numbers hastened to the scene, and all seemed to Tie at
each other in praiseworthy anxiety to arrest the Pr°,s,-,t
of the devouring element. The fire originated in 11".relf
termed the shelling mill, which' has been almost auto
consumed. One of the night men employed thereigke,
not yet been found ; he must be literally burned to had,
The other unfortunate man, after being severely ecordcoutet
as a last resource, jumped a distance of sixty feet ole
into the mill pond, and was so severely injured that
ne is
hopes are entertained of his recovery. The injury
estimated at about £3,000, but the premises are
insured. for
RAILWAY TRAFFIC.—An abstract of railway retu'eass
the half year ended June, 1856, just laid before theeii
of Commons, sets forth that the receipts during th;(1 to
months from the conveyance of passengers amours 449;
£3,849,267 ; from passengers' luggage. dcc., £3 571;
from mails, £148,985 ; general merchandise, 1-,3,‘"—lira
from val and other minerals, £1,383,155 ; and frotees of
stock, £204,619. The total receipts from all sour half
traffic of the railways in England and Wales fort hs%otch
year being £9,198,276. Tho total receipts of the of the
Irish railways for the same period was £1,068,094 ; an sys
£515.381. Taking the aggregate of the railicon the
the United Kingdom, there were 8,493 miles open preYed
30th June, 1856; the number of passengers 0: length
during the half year preceding was 58,224,121; t,,boi miles;
of mileage travelled by passengers was 800,204,7-4°;2 4571
the weight of general merchandise carried was 11.7.00,;.0f
tons, and of coals and other minerals 19,137,1931 d
olls trod
stock, 4 738,679 head. The number of gOO ued
i tr
was 553,249 ; and there were 17,956,7311 miles
by goods trains.