The Sun.
London, England, 1852-09-20 00:00:00

Wednesday, the accounts showed-Receipts, 4,8941. 11. •
11d.-Expenditure, 4,827/. 18s. Id.: leaving a balance
of 66/. 13s. 10d. The balance of assets over liabilities
was 3681. 12s. 4i.
At Exmoor Eliza Mine meeting on 7th Sept., the ac-
counts showed-Jane cost and payments, 118/. 15s. Id.;
July, 1951. 6s. 6d.=3141. Is. 7d. By balance last ac-
count, 861. 12s. 6d.; calls received, 1471.: leaving
balance to next account, 801. 9s. ld.; which, with esti-
mate of August and September costs, 340/., makes
4201. 9s. ld. liability, against arrears of calls due, 201.
10s.; and call now made, 510/. 155., would leave 1101.
15a. lid.
At Wheal Trelawny quarterly meeting, on Monday,
the accounts showed-Lead ore sold, 4,207/. 4s. 7d.; old
junk sold, 6/. 155.=4,213/. 19s. 7d. Agency. 98/. 17s. 9d.•'
carriage of ore and materials, 911. 65. 2d.; tutwork, 8621.
10s. 4d.: tribute, 4831. 15s. I Id.; sundry labour, 1001.
ss. 11d.• dressing ore, 343/. Is.; lord's dues, 257/. 9s.
2d.; coals, 445/. ss. 4d.; merchants' bills, 7281. 3s. 6d.;
sundries, 512/. 45.; leaving a profit of 2911. Os. 6d.; add
balance last account, 2311. 15s. 3d., makes 5221. 15s. 93.;
less arrears of call, 651.: leaving balance to next ac-
count, 457/. 15s. 9d.
At Butterdon Mine quarterly meeting, held on Sept.
13, the accounts showed-Balance last account, 1121.
13s. 2d.; April cost, 1281. 4s. 2d ; May, 124/. 14s. 2d.;
Jane, 1141. 14s. = 480/. 3s. 6d.-Calls received, 4611.:
leaves balance to next account, 191. 35. 6d., and arrears
of calls due, 1851. A call of 7s. 6d. per 812th was made,
and Mr. Phelp, the purser, was instructed to put all those
is arrears of calls into the hands of Mr. Stokes, the
solicitor, in order to obtain recovery of the amount.
At Pendarves Consols Mine meeting on September 7,
the accounts showed-Balance last account, 414/. 6s.
10d.; labour cost to end July, 4351. 15. 6d.; merchants'
bills, 113/. 183.963/. 63. 4d. Call in March, 5131.;
copper ore sold, 83/. 4s. ld.; raundic, 71.
3s. 6d.; spare
materials, 241. 103.: leaves balance to next account, 33.54
Bs. 9d. A call of 103. per share was made.
At the North Basset bi-monthly meeting, held at the
offices, Threadneedle-street, on Wednesday, the accounts
for May and June showed-Labour coat, 1781. 133. 4d.;
tribute, 365/. 15s. Id.; merchants, 4281. 16s. 2d.; royalty,
187/. 9s. 2d.; sundries, 1201. 12s. 2d. =1,981/. ss. 9d.-
By balance last audit, 1,2431. 17s. I Id.; sale of omreolssn:,9.d&lascl3:
1.1.,
', 816/ 13s 3d • leaving toeans
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a0n17139,/.
Cogunt, 830/. 53. 103.• Jan. cost,
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Sargent,97/. 2 sf .0
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damages,d. June, 79/. Bs. 4d.;
934/.atcBtesßho.eua2lndaWt.ns; Feb. 1221. 93. 91; March, 1251. 14s. 6d.;
; 57/ ; mer-
JApril,
68061/..
114215. .; 6
lad .
and office expenses,
chants' bills, 75/. 183. 6d.; travelling
501.: leaving balance to next account, 911. 153. 3d.; and
arrears of calls unpaid, 881. 10s.
At the Rocks and Treverbyn meeting, on Monday,
the accounts showed-Labour cost for June, 657!.175. 4d.;
ditto, July, 7301. 53. 3d.; merchants' bills, 6901. 14s. Id. 1
,-_-_-2,078/. 16s. Bd.-By balance last account, 2741. 18s.;
taaig,rita,
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At Carvannal Mine bi-monthly meeting, on the 7th
Sept., the accounts showed—Balance last account, 14/.
2s• 6d.; call for July, 2641.; copper ore sold, 147/. 14s.
9d. = 425/. 17s. 3d.—June cost, 2081. 6s. 6d.; July, 1931.
4s. 3d.; lord's dues, 9/. 16s. I Id.: leaving a balance to
next account of 14/. 9s. 7d. A call of 78. per share was
made.

At Great Wheal Baddern bi-monthly meeting, on
Tuesday, the accounts showed-Balance last account,
222/. 3s. 2d.; lead ore sold, 975/. 133. 7d.; black tin,
2081. 169. 6d.; 66 tons of mundic, at 19s. 6d., 64/. 75.;
received of W. H. Gray, 11. Is. 1,4721. Is. 3d.
At Wheal Unity bi-monthly meeting, on Tuesday, the
accounts showed-Balance last account, 531. 4s. 7d;
coppora ore sold, 2301. Bs. 11d.; tin ore, 3291. 173.; calls
received, 1,464/. 9s. 2,0771. 199. 6d. A call of 29. 6d.
per share was made. I
At Hennock Mine bi-monthly meeting, on Tuesday,
the accounts showed-Balance last account, 421. 163.
11d.; received for July call, 3791. 103. 442/. 63. 181.
A call of 55. per share was made.
During the week, shares have changed hands in Al-
fred Consol, South Tamar, Treviskey, North Basset,
Brewer, Bedford, Merllyn, Devon Consols, West Provi-
dence, Trehane, South Tolgus, West C &radon, Great
Polgooth, Wheal Seton, Lovei, S. pearne Consols, Tre•
lawny, Golden, Condurrow, Clive, Cubert, Tehidy,
South Carn Brea. Sidney Godolphin, Leeds and Sc.
Aubyn, Great Bryn, Halamanning and Croft Gothal,
Trannack United, North Buller, Wheal Uny,
Whitford, Wheal Fortune (South Tawton), Gar.:
rog, Prideaux Wood, Wheal Anna, West Wheal
Alfred, Tavy Consols, East Tamar, Porkellis, Cwmdyle
Rock, Okel Tor, Bronfloyd, Tremollet Downs, Nant-y-
Car, Crowhill, Hingston Down, Great Baddern, East
Alfred Consols, Coniston United, East Seton and Maude,
Union Tin, Great Crinnis, Boringdon Consols, Caradon
Wood, East Russell, Comford, Leeds Town, Bell and
Lanarth, Holmbush, Mining Company of Ireland, Len-
mare, Glenaulin, and Gorn.
RACING FIXT

SEPT:

Tewkesbury
Redditch 2O
Cheadle (Cheshire) 2O
Walsall
( )agar
Bedford
Tenby 2l
Eglinton Club
Leicester 22
Liverpool H. (Hoylake) 22

Chester
Royal Caledonian Hunt
and Edinburgh Club 6
York Union Hunt 6
Monmouth
Wrexham
Harrogate

URES FOR 1852.
EMBER.

NOVE:

Worcester Autumn 2
Epsom 4
Liverpool Autumn lO
Cowbridge Hunt
IRISH RAC

Manchester Autumn 23
Pains Lane 27
Newmarket F. 0.
Sandbach 2B
Chesterfield
Weaverthorpe 29
Western Meeting
Upton•on-Severn
Breconshire..... ...... 30

Newmarket S. 0.
Perth
Pontefract
Holy well Hunt
Richmond
Lanark .. 22
Newmarket Houghton.. 25
IBER.

Aberystwith
Shrewsbury Autumn 23
Kilkenny 2B

iS TO COME.
SEPTEMBER.
Johnstown 2l I Cashel
Tuam

OCTOBER.
Curragh l2 I Carlow
Down Royal Corp 2O

INTERNATIONAL POSTAGE ASSO-
CIATION.
The following letter has been addressed by the se-
cretary of this association to the Foreign Ministers in
London, and replies of the most favourable descrip-
tion have already been received from their Excellen-
cies the Ministers for Austria, the United States,
Spain, Brazil, Sardinia, and Portugal :
Society of Arts, Adelphi, London, Sept. 7.
Sir,—l have been desired by the council of the
International Postage Association to make your Ex-
cellency acquainted with their proceedings, in the
hope that you and the Government which you re-
present in this country will yield the association
some assistance in its researches into the best mode of
simplifying the complicated system of postage which
has hitherto proved such an impediment to commer-
cial transactions, and to that frequent friendly com-
munication between the citizens of different countries
which must he one of the surest bonds of union be-

tween nations.
will
The association trust that
your Excellency
find that their object is not merely to raise a popular
clamour for cheap postage in this and other countries,
to sacrifice
of obtaining their object without proposing
but calmly and deliberately to discuss iscuss the best means
the independence of the postal arrangements of each
state, which must depend in a great measure upon
the taste and habits of its people, and the form of go-
vernment under which they live.
The association would esteem it as a favour if
your Excellency
com-
municating this letter to the Government which you
represent, and would take an opportunity of
the association will at all times be
happy to consider any observations, suggestions, and
even difficulties, which your great experience may
enable you so well to offer. The Right Hon. Earl
Granville is president of the association, and I
have the honour to enclose a list of its members,
joined it during the Exhibition of
Should your Excellency require any further
information on the subject, I and other members of
and
dll giving every explana-
name a time for such
tlon in
tiT council will think it an honour to have an oppor-
tunity
of waiting apiotwinegr,onif
youyou
an interview.

LETTING HOUSES
TTAOjcA.VOID TAE HOUSE
At a meeting of the assessed tax commissioners, held
last week at Plymouth, there were several appeals the
ground that the rent was under 201. per year. Some
rentals were fixed at 19/. 195., as it was considered, and
even admitted by the appellants, who said when asked
that the shilling was taken off to save the tax. The
commissioners decided the houses to be worth 20/. per
annum, and confirmed the assessment, They were sup-
ported in that decision in consequence of the following
case forwarded to the surveyor of the district by the
Board of Inland Revenue:—"--, of the town of Black-
burn, appealed against a charge made on him of 201.
rent. He stated on oath that he took his house about
twelve months since at 19/, 184, and on being asked by
the surveyor to explain why a sum so unusual in rents
had been agreed on, he admitted that it had been done
to avoid the then expected house duty. The landlord
corroborated this statement, and admitted that, but for
the inhabited house duty, the rent would most probably
have been 20/. The surveyor, in support of the assess-
ment, contended that as the rent had been fixed on to
stiive2letano:pected house tax, it was but fair to as-
v r a
siht
canotdttechreei2vhoeloln
relieved
ehe
leiwey
va
ews
dewrtoehr
et
bound
appellants.2uOn/d. yT ht
he
el,orAchcaolt
surveyor commis-
sionersan d,
fi secia:iodnedofatchaese for the opinion of judges,theand on
house duty." 1852,g they gave their opinion, that the
week coining of the localjudges
m .1 de commissioners ners
appellantss 1 i wrong.'bio to the
lust of the appeals at the meeting last
within the scope of the case, the business
was 80011 got through; the receipts fur 191. 19e. and
similar sums, being
swers of the appellants,
produced, were held, upon the an-
ants, to be agreements to avoid the
tax, and upon the above case they were rofused relief.

RAMEWOR. It-KNITTERS' STRIKE. -- A hundred
fran,ework-knitters,.
employed by a firm in Nottirgharn, are
at present out on strike.,

GAS-LIGHT AND COKE COMPANIES.
Dividend Amount
Name of Company. per of Paid. Price.
Annum. Share.
X. a. d. X. a. d.
British • • •• •• •• • • • • •• - - - -
Ditto Provincial- •• 11. Be. 20 0 0 20 0 0 la
Brighton ••••••• • • • • ' 51. 20 0 0 20 0 0 16
City of London .. •• •• 61. 100 0 0 150 0 0 -
Continental (Thi diCap ) 41. 75 0 0 43 10 0 67
Equitable.. •••••• • • •• 50e. 50 0 0 50 0 0 26
Great Central:• ••• •• • 10 per cent. 10 0 0 10 0 0 143
Imperial .. • • ........ 31. & bonus. 50 0 0 50 0 0 -
Independent ....• •• •• 61. 40 0 0 40 0 0 46
London • • .... •• ••• • • • - 50 0 0 50 0 0 -
Do., Parl. Preference 61. per cent. 25 0 0 25 0 0 25
Phcsnix .••..•• - - - nl. per cent. 50 0 0 49 0 0 26U
Ratcliff •.•••.. • • • • • 51. 100 0 0 90 0 0 -
United General .. •• • • 11. 50 0 0 50 0 0 2036
Westminster Chartered 51. per cent, 50 0 0 50 0 0 36
Ditto,New 5l. per cent. 50 0 0 10 0 0 I 6%
NAST OP SCOTTISH COMPANIES' PRICES
Dividend Amount
Name of Company. per of Paid. Price.
Annum. Share.
----. --- -. __ _
-...
£ s. d. £ s. d
Bank of Scotland
British Linen Company 81. per cent. 100 0 0 100 0 0 208
Caledonian Bank
City of Glasgow Bank 51. per cent. 10 0 0 10 0 0 10%
Clydesdale Bank•• •• •• 6/. per cent. 20 0 0 10 0 0 12,10 s
Commercial Bank •• •• 71. per cent. 500 0 0 100 0 0 181
Eastern Bank .... •• •• 61. per cent. 25 0 0 10 0 0 10
EdinbitGlasgow Bank 31. per cent. 5 0 0 5 0 0 4
Exehange Bnk of Scot.. - 100 0 0 31 5 0 9s. Od
National Bank 6% per cent. 50 0 0 10 0 0 16
Northof Scotlandßank 51.pereent. 20 0 0 210 0 3
Royalßank of Scotland 5/. per cent. 100 0 0 100 0 0 13414
Unionßank of Scotland 81. per cent. 100 0 0 50 0 0 92
Western Bank --• • • • 71. per cent. 50 0 0 50 0 0 71
Alliance Fire and Life 8% /.pr cent. 10 0 0 10 0 0 21%
British Guarantee
Caledonian Fire Incur. 101. per cent. 100 0 0 10 0 0 24
City of Glasgow Life 6/. per cent. 25 0 0 2 0 0 4/. 15e
Colonial Life
Edinburgh Life Incur. 6/. per cent. 100 0 0 15 0 0 I 23!•4
Eng.& Scot, Law Life 51. per cent. 50 0 0 217 6 1 3%
Life Assoc. of Scotland 61. per cent. 10 0 0 110 0 '3/. 17s
National Fire and Life 5/. per cent. 10 0 0 1 0 0 303.63
North British Incur. ••61. per cent. 200 0 0 20 0 0 I 3434
Scottishlinionlnsrnce. 71,1. pr cent. 20 0 0 1 0 0 1321.9 d
Standard Life •• •• .. -5/. per cent. 50 0 0 7 0 0 1 123{,
United Dep•Assurance 51. per cent. 10 0 0 1 0 0 ,19s Gct
7/lISCELIaLIVEOITS.
Dividend Amount
Name of Company. per of Paid. Price.
Annum. Share.
........---------
X. a. d. S. e. d.
Assam Tea ••..•• .• • • - 50 0 0 20 0 0 -
Auction Mart •••• • • • • 21. 51. 50 0 0 - 26
Australian Agriculturl 11. 100 0 0 35 0 0 20
Australian Trust •• -6/. per cent. - 85 0 0 -
Australian Royal Mail - 10 0 0 2 0 0 414
Anglo-Mexican Mint.. 11. 10e. 10 0 0 10 0 0 22
British American Land 15s. - 13810 0
Canada •••••- • • .. -61. percent. 100 0 0 32 10 0 50
Do. 5 per cent Bonds - - - •-
Ditto, 6pr ct. Bonds 61. percent. - - 1151,i
City Navigation Bonds 3} per cent. - - 97
Electric Telegraph (A) - 25 0 0 20 0 0 -
Ditto .. •••• .. .. (B) - 25 0 0 710 0 -
Equitable Reversienry 51 pr. cent. 100 0 0 100 0 0 119
Ditto liew ...... • • - 50 0 0 10 0 0 -
Gen.Revers.Bc Invest. sp.c.Scbs,2l 100 0 0 100 0 0 100
Gen•SteambTavigation 10 p. ct. 15 0 0 14 0 0 291 A
Hudson's Ba,y•-• • • • •• - Stock. - 220
Ilungerford .. .. ••• • • • 21. 51. 100 0 0 100 0 0 47
London Institution .• • - 78 15 0 5
London Reversionary 5/. per cent. 15 0 01 15 0 0 15
i Russell Inetitution •• • • - - 112 10 0 -
Price'sPatentCand.Co. 10/. per cent. 20 0 0117 10 0 25
; Reversionary Int. Soc. 4%1. pr cent. 100 0 0 100 0 0 106
Royal Mail Steam-- 41 share. 100 0 0 60 0 0 79
RDuth Australian P.
25 0 0 25 0 0 25
Trust and Loan ...
" M.Per
share.
C 1 of U Comp.
Upper c
aanada„- 20 0 0 I 3 0 0 -

st
i a—e— G's.4r c.iNG
pasTho;;,Nof
ACCIDENT.—Soon after the
the arrival ofurtlimail on Wednesday 'evening, and be-
foreduty at Totnes stationef6.s down train, the switchman on
with his hat knocked oeund a man lying across the rails,
much cut. He was groaand with his head and face very
dying state. The porters were
and to all appearance in a
to procure medical assistance,
called away from the station
shutter to Coombe's Railway' ande to convey the body on a
train being detained during the timtele, near the station, the
served a quarter of an hour previously,The man was ob-
cated ;he was smoking a pipe, and very much intoxi-
porter to put it out, after which he was ordered by the
platform, and was not again seen till discoveredmediately left the
It is supposed that he had fallen over the
on the line.
bridge which crosses the railway. A medical
lpet of the
arrived, who examined his head, and found one O'f'a:',lli soon
had been knocked out, and his forehead and face seys e3Tys
cut. It is thought that there is not the slightest chance
of
his recovery. It is also thought that he left Plymouth in
the morning by the excursion train and was intending to
return in the evening. He was a poor man, and was
dressed in a long brown great coat, dark trousers and waist-
coat, was thin, and about 30 years of age.—Plymouth Journal
•
APOTHECARIES' HALL.—Names of gentlemen who
passed their examination in the science and practice of me-
dicine, and received certificates to practise, on Thursday,
Sept. 16, 1852:--George Yates, Birmingham; Henry James
Franks, sWhittlesey, Cambridgeshire; Stephen Walmsley,
Bickerstaffe, Lancashire; Charles Royston, Harrow House,
Paddington.

LAW INTELLIGENCE.
INSOLVENT DEBTORS' COURT, Sept. 18.
(Before Mr. Commissioner LAW.)
IN RICHARD DOIDGE.

This insolvent was opposed by Mr. Duncan on be-
half of the detaining creditor, Miss Perry ; and Mr.
Cooke supported.
The insolvent had been a farmer, occupying some
70 acres of land, at Fords, near Tavistock. The op-
posing creditor resided in the same neighbourhood,
and in consequence
,of some imputations cast upon
her by the insolvents wife in conversation with a
female friend, she brought an action for slander,
which was tried in March last, and a verdict returned
for the plaintiff, with 251. damages. The costs were
taxed at 2471. 35., but were subsequently increased
by 251. in consequence of an application on the part
of the defendant for a new trial, which was refused.
Immediately after the trial the insolvent's property
was sold off, and he himself came to London, where
he was arrested.
Upon the part of the insolvent it was urged that in
consequence of his omitting to plead justification he
was unable to call a number of witnesses, whose evi-
dence would have produced a different verdict. Himself
and his wife were examined upon the plea of the
general issue, but the plaintiff was not called as a
witness. An offer of 501. had been offered but re-
fused by the creditor.
Mr. Commissioner LAW thought the case was clear,
that a verdict for damages having been obtained, the
insolvent availed himself of the interval pending the
argument for a new trial to get rid of all his property
in order to defeat the judgment of the plaintiff. If
the case was pressed there must be a lengthened re-
mand upon both grounds—the damages in the action
and a making away with property. It would be very
advisable for some arrangement to be effected, other-
wise the judgment must be a severe one.
The case was then adjourned.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
111ANS10N-HOUSE.
Lionel H. Thompson, of I, Riches-court, Lime-
street,agent to the ship South Sea, was summoned
before the Lord Mayor by Frederick Parker for
breach of contract. The decision upon the case will,
it is believed, operate in a great number of instances
connected with emigration to Australia.
Mr. nobler attended for the defendant.
The summons stated that Mr. Parker contracted
with the defendant, as the agent of the South Sea, on
a voyage to Port Philip, and that the former, having
been at the place of embarkation on the 15th cf Sept.,
141, the passage money, payable under such contract
anointed, and having paid the sum of
previouslyapdlatri to embarkation, by the neglect of the
dhonuort obtain a passage in the said ship, nor
tdoteethhurerde a passage in any other equally eligible ship;
in 48 hours from the expiration of that day
by reason whereof the plaintiff was entitled, by the
Passengers Act, to the aforesaid sum of 141., and such
other sum, not exceeding 101. for the loss and incon-
venience sustained by him, as the Lord Mayor might
consider just and necessary.
Mr. H obler said his client was, upon his recom-
mendation, willing to return the money, and to make
compensation to Mr. Parker for the inconvenience
sustained by that gentleman, who certainly owed the
annoyance to which he had been subjected to Mr.
Baines, of Liverpool, whose agent in the business Mr.
Thompson was.
Mr. Parker declared that Mr. Thompson was not
agent to Mr. Baines, for the latter repudiated the con•
nexion altogether upon being applied to to carry out
the contract.

Mr. Hobler—l have a letter from Mr. Baines, of
the 15th ityat., which shows the agency, and I have
receipts of Mr. Baines for large sums of money which
my client has transmitted to him for passages to Aus-
tralia. These must be conclusive.
Mr. Parker—l was informed at Mr. Baines' offices
in Liverpool, when I went there to join the vessel,
that Mr. Thompson had no authority whatever to
engage passengers for that house. I am not at all
disposed to compound the case. I have been treated
with the greatest possible insolence at Mr. Thomp-
son's offices upon going there for an explanation, and
I apply now
to the Lord Mayor for his decision,
which will probably guide many other cases of the
same description.
Mr. Hobler—Very well go into your case.
Mr. Parker was then sworn. He said—l am a
master mariner. I entered into a contract on the Ist
of September at the defendant's office. The following
is the memorandum
1, Riches-court, Lime-street, City, London,
Ist September, 1852,
" Memorandum,
_ _

" That we have received from Mr. Frederick Parker
the sum of 141. as passage to Port Philip in the ship
sailing on the 15th of September. Name of the ship,
with embarkation order, to bo forwarded to Ashstead-
lodge, Ashstead, Surrey.
" For Thompson, Brothers, " G. SHOTTER "
I paid Mr. Shotter the money. When I went to Li-
verpool I found that the ship in which I received no-
tice I was to sail was in the graving dock on her
beam ends, and that it was impossible she could sail
on the 15th inst., the day appointed. Here the em•
barkation order was put in. It stated—
. __

No. 1.111.
" Mr. Frederick has paid the sum of 141. for passage
money p .r ship South Sea, Captain Brett, bound for
Port Fnilip ; tho balance not being paid, nono can
embark.
" For Thompson, Brothers. R. H. WILLMOTT."
I was at the place of embarkation on the 15th. Upon
my return Mr. Thompson acknowledged the con-
tract, and said that Mr. Baines ought to have received
me passenger. He also offered me a compromise,
but a
objected to have the business settled in that
way. No other vessel was found for me forty-eight
hours after the refusal to receive me as a passenger
on board the South Sea.
Cross-examined,by Mr. Hobler—l saw Mr. Shotter
in Mr. Thompson s „office, who called me a liar, and
used other most abusive language.
Mr. Hobler—Did Mr. Baines say that Mr. Thomp-
son was not his agent for the vessel ? Witness—
There were some person; who appeared to be in autho-
rity in Mr. Baines s offices who said so, and who ap-
peared to be very angry at the transaction.
Mr. Hobler, in
~orde r to show that Mr. Thompson
was perfectly justifiedin stating that he was agent to
wouldthe ship South Sea, begged
read the following cora,
or to
tMh sets st
hr se.
munication :
LBO ar idn eAsi a ays

" Liverpool, Sept. 13, 1852.
" Messrs. Thompson Brothers, 1, Riches-court, Lime

street, London.

will
jtaWA:eieEths
are receipt of your telegraphic
eBIA,o,
iNEs passengersand c pero. , p
eSouthr j . c Sea,a to
month of September. Please let 112 have
with amounts paid.—
YourssailandGentlemen,—No particulars
respectfully,
4, Messrs. Thompson Brothers, 1, Riches-court, Lime.
of names, ages, &c.,

street, London.

,_....w reare in receipt of your letter of yester-
day's have communicated the contents to Cap-
tain Brett, the owner of tho South Sea, for whom we
are only acting as agents. Ile wishes us to request you
to state what number and what class passengers you can
give, and if we like the terms we shall berth them on
receipt of passage money.—We are, Gentlemen, yours
respectfully, „ _
JAMEs BAINES and Co., per J. Call.
" P.S. The South Sea will sail in all this month."
The course pursued by Mr. Thompson was as direct
a course as could be adopted towards those to whom
he acted as agent, as well as to the passengers for
whom he provided berths, and, although the blame in
the present instance lay with those who had refused
the passage upon the application of the complainant
at Liverpool, he was willing to act at once upon the
suggestion of the Lord Mayor, who would, no doubt,
take into consideration the fact that the defendant was
in the habit of paying considerable sums of money for
the passengers ho introduced.
The LORD MAYOR said that, with respect to the
agency which was stated to exist upon the part of
Mr. Thompson, although there were circumstances in
the case calculated to show that agency was implied,
there certainly was no direct agency existing. The
32d section of the Act said, " If any Passenger, or
person acting on his behalf, shall have contracted
with the owner, charterer, or master of
any ship,
whether a passenger ship or otherwise, or with any
person acting on behalf of such owner, charterer, or
master for a passage for such passenger," the obli-
gation lay upon any one of these persons to give
satisfaction. Now, it was quite evident that the
complainant stood in the position of an equitable
claimant in the case.
W. Parker having then intimated that the sum of
71. 10s. would satisfy him for the inconvenience to
which he was put by the disappointment.
The LORD MAYOR ordered that Mr. Thompson
should return to the complainant the passaga-money,
amounting to 141., nod 71.103. for expenses and costs.
The money was paid.
WESTMINSTER.
Robert Burnell, a fellow sixty years of age, who
has been before convicted of a conspiracy to defraud,
and who is also stated to be a returned transport, was
charged with the following infamous mode of extor-
tion :—On the 30th of June last the prisoner went to
Mrs. Ann Edwards, a respectable lone woman, living
at 17, Montpelier-row, Brompton, and stated that he
had an indictment against her for keeping a disorderly
house. She expressed her surprise and denied that
there was anything disorderly in her house, but he
declared that it was one, that proceedings had been
instituted in consequence of a complaint of Mr. Har-
ness, a clergyman, by the direction of the Society for
the Protection of Females, of which he (prisoner) was an
officer, and showed her a paper which he said was the
indictment. She dthat she did not keep a
repeate
bad house and she would immediately go to Mr.
Ilarness on the subject, but he assured her that would
be of no use, as her neighbours had been there before
11,1', and Mr. Harness would not hear a word she had
to say. Prisoner said he was the principal agent in