The National Register.
London, England, 1822-11-04 00:00:00

TUT PORTSMOUTH cAr,r.

After a very considerable diseit..sion, this cnuse was ordered
to stool till Tuts&ay : in the mean 11111 c, no Alidarit, nitrite
(Jr. It.itilheati and Mr. France, aas to he read h) his Lordship.
In the course of the diseusstoo, 1,r.l euilicstlongly denied the
reports that appeared in the daily papers of the ttatimaction in
the month of Uctober last. The question to be ti,,.itat ed was
descithed as tom of the very liightst impoit.inee. It was inti-
mated that a comaiissioh ►hould go down to investigate the situ-
ation of his Lordship, and that Dr. Bankheud should be WIC.

COURT OF kING'S BUNCH.
S‘Tit:RAI, No‘. 2.
AI4TIN c. FRY.

Mr. Scarlett Mated that vtlie plaintifr was a livery-atable
keeper, and 11.5 prtaeut action wilt brought to recover if 0111 11:C
tiert 11.1.111 l the value of a mare, %bleb be bad kt to his, and
Ira bn,l bred injured by improper C4III4IUCt.
The Jilt) funad a verdict fur the plaintiff—Damages 2Sl.—'
Cuid!. .

• COURT OF COMMON PLEAS.
bELI.V. V. DOUDWIN AND UTDEKS.

Sergeant Fell stated time case for the plaintiff. The defen-
dants were owners of the Coach amid Horses, public-Infuse, in
St. John street, Clerkeilwell. The plaintiff relinquished a lu-
crative business in the country, its the hope :of increasing his
prolits by coining to town and becoming the defendant's truant.
—The plaintiff, when taking the house, understood from Lie
agreement with the del, octants, that whaler( r money he should
expend un repairs al.ould be repaid. lie continued in the
house three years, during which time he expended -131. 17s. in
necessary repairs, which had not bleu repaid hint ; and this
sum forams port of that liar which the present action is brought.
The renenumler of the SUM claimed by the plaintiff beat the de-
fendants, was the difference between the valuation at which he
could have sold the furniture and fixtures of the house, when
leaving it, to a tenant who wet ready to pay him the money,
and the valuation at which be was obliged, under the pressure
o. the defendant's distress, to sell them to a tenant of their own.
—A person of the name of Fancy, who wished to succeed the
plaintiff in the bueiness, offered to pay him -1201. fur the furni-
ture and lixture.., which he was obliged to sell to a person
named by the defend ruts for 2:e21 ; which ruination was made
by one person, the constant broker of the defendants, and ano-
ther, the occasional broker, who was iu possession of the fur-
niture valued at the time under the defendants, and who was
too much in their influence to be disinterested. As these trans-
actions took place in the year 1819, it may be thought that t e
plaintiff had Leen dilatory in seeking justice ; but the truth was
Le was broken down by misfortunes. flu did not a k the jury
for the weight of their opinion against time wealthy brewers ;
but he did ask thrum to protect the pour and much ihjuimol
publican.
%Vitt esses proved the case as stated, and
. _

The C..ief Jurlice recapitulsted the evidence to the Jury, •nd
charged them that there wan uo justice in the distinction wade
by the defendants respecting the repairs. If they had made a
verbal agreement, they were bound by it, and their wax no
courtesy is, the ease. The Jury would judge whether, after
she evitieuce that had been given of the fairness of the value
lion on which the plaintiff had been paid for the futiaiture and
listures, be could be entitled to claim an additional nuns.

At three o'clock the Jury retired, and after remaining in con-
sultation tan I:ours, Irtuimal a verdict for the plaintiff—Da-
mages 1501. and cord,
e..nse e%ciled grew interest, hulls amongst brewers and
1.14 , and many of each were in Court during the
tital, and ion omit to learu tue verdict.

Tux Bisitor •r CLonitett.—lt is said, that in
consequence of the ideas associated with this title, on
account of the conduct of the individual thus ex-
communicated and driven into exile, the name of the
See will be changed from Clogher to Tyrone.
The Marquis 'if Hertford, it is said, has strength-
ened his Parliamentary influence by an arrangetnL
in a Suffolk borough not 50 miles from Aldboro'.
ACCIDENT Daum GAS.—On Tuesday at noon,
the open.-b00.,e end otrAthtiodi w..s thrown tutu the greaten
colossi rnatiou, by u sudden and tremendous subterraueous ex-
plosion, tail was more like the discharge of heavy ordnance
under ground than ant thing else. All the inhabitants in the
new shops constituting the Opmad iiiii se Arcade, and in the
houses on the opposite side M the way an far as Cockspor-
street, were instaistaiwously out of their resideucee, thinking
that their own habitations were tumbling shoot their ears.--
l'all-mall mid the Opera-house Arcade were aliaiely filled
with people; and their alarm anul amazement were nut diminish-
ed oil ►eholding aim immense volume of name, aecompanied,
with a strong smell, issuing both from the dilapidated trent of
the house belonging to the •‘ Westminster W int Company," at
the corner of the Operamouse Arcade. The shop fronts were
completely blown from their stations, and dashed to pieces:
Three individuals hurried forth from the premises, presenting
a s extraordinary appearance. One of them elevated his hoods,
from which blood wan copiously running ; the second bad
still a wilder and inure extrsurdioary look, the hair on his hemp
being singed nearly to its roots ; and the third person, appa-
rently one of the masters of the Westiniiister 11 ice Company,
had run from the premises on hearing the tertilic explosion,
and on beholding the shop windows and other fixtures blown
from their stations with the most frightful crash. The immense
explosion and this sudden rubs were the result of an accidental
ignition of ,gas that bail escaped trent the gas pipes, owing to
some defect in them, or to the gas not having been properly
" turned oil," and had wholly occupied the cellars under the
Wine Conipaity's shop or conoting house, at the corner of this
♦rcade. The clerk and cellarman were proceeding to the
similar to WWI snore orders, and the approach of u lighted
mode (-sub.-al the ignition of a vast body of gas that Lind
cm-mm.l from the pipes and lilted the cellars. The whole of
immediately exploded, and fur a time I. ft the two in-
di% iduals almost suuseless.