The Sun.
London, England, 1852-05-14 00:00:00

EXCHEQUER.—(THIS DA.Y.)
(Sittings at Nisi Pries at Gnifiball, ixfk,re the LORD
CHIEF BALION and a Common jury.)
IVINDI.P. V. A.ZiDZItSO:"7.
in this action, which was brought for a breech of con-
tract, the plaintiffs were Messrs. Windle and Company,
ship brokers, of Gould-belt:are, Minories, and the de-
fendants were Mesirs.- Anderson and Moline, merchants.
Mr. Bramwell and Mr. Bev, kirs eppared for the
plaintiffs; and Mr. Batt ft:r the defendants.
The particulars of the case were brit fly as follows:—
On the 30th Jttratiary, 1851. the defendants entered
into a contract with the plaintiffs for the importation of
between 400 and 500 tens of rough ice from Norway.
The plaintiffs accordingly chartered a vessi:l• calltd the
Prima, which proceeded on her voyage to Nor',4Y, and
hh o arrived in England with a full cargo of ice on
the 2-1 of April. Notice was given to the defendants
of her arrival, with a rt (pest that they would clear the
cargo, but. they neglecteu to do so. Tho plaintiffs sub-
requently bold the ice, but the Market price having if]
the mean time fallen they did so at a very great reduc-
tion. The action was brought to rectrier the difference
between the arnoutit obtained from the sale and the
"mut of freightage agreed upon between the parties.
No defence was effs-red, and a verdict by consent was
fouud for the plaintiffs for 1251.

CRIMINAL COURT-(THIS DAY )

OLD COURt.'
(Befit-Et Mr.l3aroti PLATT.)
DIMIDER.—Duvid .13e!use°, aged 27, deFcrilicd as a
tailor, was placed in the dock, charged with the wilful,
mu►der of Robert Clarke.

Mr. fluddlestonu conluc'erl the case for the prosecu-
tion, awl Mr. Bat' amine, with whom was Mr. Robinson,
for ih© deterce.

This case has been 'so recently hJore the public that
the facts" must be familiar to our readers. The prieoner
was the keeper of a house of ill-fame, in Banbury court,
Idart-street, and a f:w weeks agcy the deceased, while in
a state of intoxieatiJn, repaired there late at night, with
two women. They were shown up stairs, but it was
then found that the deceased had no money, and the
prisoner went up to tutu them out. A scuffle, 'then
ensued, owing to one of the girls calling the deceased
" and 'his 'afterwards refusing to leave the
place, and in the course cf the altercation the
prisoner peshcd the deceased, and he fell down the
stairs, breaking his neck in the fall. Tie deceased
never rose seem; but the priioner, assisted by someone
else, idled the hotly up and pined it against the wall of
the house on the opposite side of the court. The priso-
ner then sent for some gin, and treated the two women,
telling them to say nothing ebent what had occurred,
but as they left the house they ereenntered a policeman,
t) whom they related what taken place, and the prisoner
was taken into custody. This aspect of the can) was
deposed to by the two wemvn. The prisoner, before he
knocked the deceased down,- pulled and pushed him
about very much, and one ot•the girls said, " Don't
hurt the man," end the prisoner replied, " You are a
woman of the world, and ought to know better," and
neither of them interfered to prevent the ill usage.
Mr. BALTANTINE addressed the jury for tee defence,
and afterwards proceeded to call a woman, who said she
was a servant of the house, and who gave a flat contra-
diction to the statement of the two females. Mrs.
Belasco and the two women wero trying, she said, to
get the deceased away, when one of the girls pushed
against him. and he fell down the stairs head foremost
The prisoner, she swore, was not on the landing at all,
and all that he did was to shake him while he lay on
floor at the bottom of the stairs, and she it was who
carried him out into the court. There was a man and a
woman in the front parlour during the disturbance, and
the latter, a Jewess, swore that the prisoner was smok-
ing a pipe in the parlour when the altercation took place
Upstairs. She heard the deceased fall, and the prisoner
opened the parlour door and tried to shake him up, but
she saw that it was a woman's quarrel, and advised him
to return to the parlour and leave the girls to settle it,
which he did.

Mr. Bsron PLATT summed up, and
The jury, witbout any hesitation, found the prisoner
Guilty of manslaughter, and upon their expressing an
opinion that two of the witnesses for the prisoner,
a man named Turner, and a woman nutted Levinson, had
conitnitied perjury, the Learned Judge ordered them
into custody to be tried fur that offence.
The prisoner was sentenced to be kept to hard labour
for twelve months.

BOW-STREET.7—(THIS DAY.)
John Middleton, the person who was on Wednesday
last a uecond time remanded upon the charge of sending
a threatening letter to the Earl of Derby-, was this day
again brought up before Mr. Henry.
The AlearsTrixrx having heard further medical eri-
denea of the prisoner's insanity, said that he must sign
on order for his removal to the Asylum at Colney Hatch,
Unless his friends were prepared to give bail for his safe
keeping.
Mr. Baxter, the gentleman who had on previous occa-
sions shown great interest in the prisoner's affairs, de-
clared himself ready to put in th© necessary bail; but
the prisoner's solicitor declined the offer, and Middleton
was accordingly ordered to be recuov,d to the Asylum.

ATLANLIC AND PACIFIU SHIP CANAL

. •
COMPANY.
By the advices this week truth New Yotk, it appears
that commissioners from the American Atlantic and Pa-
cific Ship Canal Company were expected to leave e.'moit
immediately fur England, together with Colonel Childs
(tot oattly the chief engineer of the Sato of New York),
to sehreit, according to the Lonclon agreement of Oeto
ber,, 1850, the completed surveys and estimates of the
work. It will be remembered that the negotiations at
that period result( d in a pledge on the part of some of
our leading firms, that if the undertaking were found
practicable at a cost that would promise a fair revenue,
it should be introduced with all their influence to the
.legliele public, the company, in return, pledging them-
selves to allow, under those circumstances, a participa-
tion, upon t quitakle terms, to the extent of one-half,
so that the interests of Great Britein and America
Might be identical. It is now understood that, after
a thorough exploration by hinrielf and his exploring
corps, the report of Colonel Childs will demon-
strate that, both as regards cost end difflculty, the
enterprise will not only be dew serious then many of
the ordinary aindertekiogs carried out in the United
'i3tites but such as to cause surprise that it should
tvor !Ave been neglected. Instead of the elevation of
487 feet, supposed to exist on the slip of land which
separates Lake Nicaregua from the Pacific, it beaus
that the highest rise is 48 feet, vihi'e with rt gatd to the
river San Juan it has been found that the greater part
is perfectly available, and, that in the portion where
the river cannot be deed the excavation will be through
land entirely level and without rock. Ueeltr these
circumstances the compauy, it is raid, are pie
pared immediately to proceed, either alone or
in concurrence with Eegland, as may be decided
upon. The temporary transit which was opened in July,
1851, has yielded a return which is proportionately
Without example, and inspired by this experience and by
the ardour which is now manifesting itself on the sub.
ject throughout the entire Union, the leaders of the un-
dertaking,while they express an undiminished desire for
a mutual arrangement, elate themselves at the same time
to be indisposed to any further delay. A prompt and final
adjustment of the question is, therefore to be anticipated.
In the eighteen months which have `elapsed since the
commissioners originaty visited England the Australiati
discoveries have doubled the urgency as well as the
temptations of the work, and the intentions of the United
States to seek a direct intercourse with Japan, and to
Establish forthwith a steam route to China, have also
developed new motives of a momentous character. The
impulses towards an immediate settlement are, therefore,
of the strongest kind, and there can also be no doubt
that in case the company should require' it, their own
Geverualect will he prepared to aid diem to the full ex-
tent of its constitutional powers. Times.

,
THE 4,RRES7' COLONESPATFLONDON FREMONT
In the:United Stat.„.is' Siliat,, ou tt,
Gwin,moved to take up tho Bill to
create
28th ult., Mr.
commissiUners for the., ocaniiriation - ruenar a board of
claims against the . United Ststea,.; growing Pa)reh of
conquest of California: Re said, 4. 1 will bo.ut of the
the reasons which induce me to make thiskif fiS
state
this time.- By. the mail this morning 1 rirt!°vildut
latter from Colonel J. C. Fremont, late of thisseilbe- a
datedlLonden,,April 13, in which he states th body,
at on the
evening of the Bth instant, as he was stepping into
a carriage with his family to visit a fiiend, be was'
arrested by a party of four- Bow•street officers, Who
were of a low .order, rudo and inoolent;, that they. were
accompanied by a solicitor's,elerk sof the some chi:meter.
No time was allowed him to collect informa(ion. or
havw,intercourse with his
,friends. Ufa was simply in-
fettled that ho was arrested on the mit of unknown
parties for the sun of 50 ,000 dolls • that. be subse-
quently riscertained that he was arrested. on liabiliiika
connected . with the military eperations in. Calitoruia
during 1846.7. That be was confined under lock and
key for twenty-four hours, and . subjected to. the
most oaf)/ bitant extortions. He also says that he.
shall be compelled
to retain an expensive lawsuit, em-
PMY solic't3t
anxiety, . _ a and a!)le counsel, and go thrpugh all the.,
Yi celay, and • 'd . the. law, ..
0,000 dolts. 'lle met ental expenses of
lieve that this suit further says that he has reason to be-
-1 trge amount*, be will be tollowed by many others for.
parmanently encial3;:en?, his ability to give security, thus
reason to believe tnatinf.hl?i'l! Waning libtrty. I have
usual, and such as wotilcl 'ills wiaple proceeding was nia-
lishman of charsettT, and ihnt,have happened to an tog-
rican claims, resident in Loarilt is considered by Anse-
circumstancas,-not only an outrage cc, conversant with, the,
but disgraceful to 'Gni; Goverritbra.ge to Colonel Fremont,
Colonel Fremont to bring the ,-e11,1:'• I am requested- by
Congress, and in doing so I • ittikt,,,pct to the notice of
&n ate toup,the bill I have indit‘hii appeal to the
1-.. Ti a subject of ,these claim's
,viaB.l4edo ancl act,upon,
pilled by the Senate,three years ago, thoroughly eza-
by Mr. Cars aa el .t.l* und a Bid repo d
was ps e , provi ing for the c . rte
board to examine these claims, rigid apprd • creation of a
dells. for their. . • Th B'l-' ' Priatipg 700 000
pa) meat. e 13tH tt •
tiled in the II
.oail i • •
g, 0 difficulties about our territorial • ..-se'
which ulisfin';:edmost of 1 1 • •
~
that • .at the close a'
' ses"". —4nzerican Paper,

LUMLEY V. WAGrizi.—We understood that the
defendants in thiz suit have served the plaintiff with notice
of appeal against the decision of Vied-Chancellor Sir James
Paiker. The Lotice
day of teiro. given fur the 2d instant, the first
ST. -BARTHOLObiIiW'S lios.rrlA.7,._Yesterday the
Lard Mayor, accompanied by the sheriffs, trustees, and go-
vernors of St. Bartholomew's Hospital, Geld their annual
visitati( n, and proceeded through the different wards. They
were accompanied by the principal medical officers of the
establishment. The whole of the arrangements were much
approved of by the -9444 the lactiopy ausi entitagen
Who, by iitrugni9l/1 Were talpfie4 to B*Eop th gal,

LITERATURE.
ANcoiEbuTnOz.NlA.N..... B
C O.N FE SSlOci.\i'S ?oiccroft.
To those who enjoy OF
(ketches and
anecdotes, this book will afford great enttrtainment._
the autobiography of en Etonian;
tThleiroengilis nvoerrnyin
about Eton. The hero wanders
about in nil directions, and certainly with vary ill
luck attending him, which no one can wonder at
from his imprudent actions and want of resolution.
After twice mistaking one Tiling lady for another,
he was compe',led to fight a duel with the brother of
the one mistaken by him for the object of his regard.
The consequences were very distressing—he wounded
his antagonist dangerously, and was obliged to..fly to
France. There nee' troubles await, q 1 him. Meeting
with his inamorata abroad, and not wiahing to h`v,z ird
an encounter with her family under the circumstances,
he changed his name and assumed diAguise.; but the
French authorities mistook him for a thief ,avoiding
justice. He was seiz?d, i•earched, and certainly' the
isfp,:araiaces were most unpropitious for bis cause.
Afterwards he eft cted his escape,'through the
intervention of a friend. Sub,equently ha'. con-
trived in disguise to enter the presenee Of the. fair
Lavi:da and her redoubtable aunt ; but it did ,not
further his purpole much, for it was not until'. after
many more troubles had been endured, and many
more dI'L-nilties overcome, that ho at last enjoyed ,
good fortune.

A JOURNEY TO THE TEA COUNTNES
OF C THN El. Hy Robert Fortune, Author of
" Three Years of Wanderings in China." Murray.
This work includes a visit to Sung-to and toe
Bohea Hills, and a notice of the East India Com-
peny's tea plantations in the Himalaya Mountains.
The author observer, "As I went far inland, and
visited many districts almost unknown to Europeans,
I now venture to lay an account of my travels and
their results before the public. My object is to give
a peep into the Celestial Empire, to show its strange
bilk and romantic valleys, its rivers and canals, its
natural productions, whether in the field, or on the
hill side, or in the garden, and its strange and inte-
resting people, as they were seen by me in their every-
day life. As I hope my readers will accompany me
through the whole of my journey, I shall have the
pleasure of taking them to India and the Himalayas,
and showing them the Government tea plantations,
from which much is expected, and which are 'likely
to prove of great advantage, not Dilly to India, but
also to England and her wide-spreading colonie,."
will therefore be seen tbat the descriptims and
experience of the author are not limited to
any particular spot. There are sixteen illustrations,
of which the most striking is a view in the green tea
district, the mode of gathering the ling, and .a bird's-
eye view of the Stream of Nine Windings. The
method of gathering the ling is very singular. It
is a plant that grows in the water, and produces a
fruit that is much esteemed. Women and boys sail
about in tubs. Their appearance is said to be very
ludicrous, "swimming on the lake each in his tub."
The account of drying the leaves of the tea plant is
very interesting—it shows the different treatment of
the black and green tea. The writer gives a more
favourable idea of the country than of the inhabitants ;
though he does not absolutely accuse them himself,'
we gather from his pages that they are avaricious
and false, with very little regard for the truth. The
amount of information to be obtained from the volume
is considerable, and the readers must feel great satis-
faction in the successful results cf the journey of so
painstaking and persevering a traveller.