The Sun.
London, England, 1830-07-24 00:00:00

LAW INTELLIGENCE.

COURT OP KING'S BENCH, Juts 23.
TAYLOR V. STREET AND OTHERS.
Mr. F. POLLOCK said, that the plaintiff in this
ease was Mr. Taylor, a gentleman of property in
Lancashire; and the defendants, Messrs. Street,
Millington, and Gilbert, were attorneys. The
plaintiff, wishing to lay out 1,5004 on mortgage,
employed the defendants to find out an eligible in-
vestment. The defendants laid out the money in
Mortgage on premises belonging to a Mr. Robinson;
they were situated at Poplar, and, though called by
the line name of the " Asiatic Depot," were used
for the purpose of lodging and boarding, or lodging
and starving, Lascars. Mr. Robinson became a
bankrupt, and did not pay ls. in the pound. The
premises turned out to be worth not more than
200/. or 3001. He made no imputation against the
defendants: they were no doubt gentlemen of un-
exceptionable character; but the ground of this
action was, that in their capacity of attornies for
Mr. Taylor, they had not used reasonable care and
diligence.

The Jury returned a verdict for the plaintiff.
The sittings of the Court were adjourned till the
18th of October.

FURTHER PARTICULARS OF THE LATE

FLOODS IN SCOTLAND.

BANFF, Jut 10.—This district of country has
again been visited by another flood, which, though
not so extensive in its ravages as the former, in
August last, yet has been accompanied with results
of a very serious kind to many individuals unfortu-
nately placed within its range. During the night
between Tuesday the 6th, and Wednesday the 7th,
a great quantity of rain fell, which continued, with
little intermission, till about seven o'clock on Wetl-
nestle)? morning. The rain was then succeeded by
a thick mist, which lasted most of the forenoon,
when the rain again came on, and continued
throughout the remainder of the day, during which
there was almost a dead calm. By this time the
burns and small rivulets were considerably swollen,
but little beyond what has been seen from a summer
shower. About seven o'clock the Deveron began
to swell gradually, till eleven o'clock, p.m., when
it suddenly rose several feet, and continued to in-
crease till four o'clock next morning, at which time
it had attained its greatest height, Long before
that the river had overflowed its usual channel, and
spread itself over the haughs and adjacent ground,
and filled the hollows in every direction. Early in
the morning, a great body of water broke out from
the bulwark opposite Kirkside, and soon overflowed
41 great part of the grass parka near to Did House,
and the gardens of the Earl of Fife, The Market.
p
ilue and lower part of the town of Banff were, in
him manner, soon under water. In the Market-
place the water stood about four feet deep, and in
some of the shops in Bridge-street at least eighteen
itches. Higher up the river, we are sorry to learn,
very extensive damage has been done to several
farms, and great quantities of hay were floated down,
and carried out to sea. About Cullen this deluge
seems to have expended its greatest force, and the
swelling of the waters there much exceeded that of
the flood of August, 1829. The damage, in came-
-1 quence, has been proportionably Treater. Within
the beautiful park of. Cullen House, the burn of
Cullen was swollen to a most extraordinary size, and
became a raging torrent, overwhelming and tearing
up every thing within its grasp. The delightful and
extended walks which the Hon. Col. • Grant had
caused to be formed along its banks,and which were
finely embellished with thriving trees and ornamental
plants of all kinds, were sadly cut up; and the beau-
tiful flower-garden near by the burn side, where were
collected the choicest flowers and flowering shrubs
of almost every clime, and where they were grow-
ing in the richest luxuriancy of foliage and flower—
these, too, with the artificial water-works, and other
interesting - ornaments of 'that fairy spot, have all
been greatly injured by the devastating element—
the further progress of which was intuited by the
destruction of the bridge near the New Cullen, and
along which the turnpike road from Cullen to Fe-
chabers passed. Most of the farms towards the
upper part of the burn have suffered serious injury;
and particularly that of Mr. Wilson, Tochineal,
where, we understand, in a field of twenty mores of
tnrnips, not less than nineteen acres of the land have
been rendered useless for the season ; and his new
garden, and the plantation encompassing his house,

lettrly laid waste.
FLOODS IN TIM BOOM AND DEVICRON.—During
:he 6th and 7th current the rains had fallen s 0 Co.

piously that the Bogie and Deverou rose to an
alarming degree. A bridge over the Bogie, in the
neighbourhood of Cathie, parish of Clardy, was
completely carried away by the force of the over-
whelming torrent. The greater part of the-em-
bankment of the bridge at Red Craig, adjoining the
lands of our eminent agriculturist, Captain Gordon,
of Green-haugh, was also washed away. This ern"
bankment was only repaired some months ago from
the damage it had sustained from the memorable,
floods of 4th August, 1820; but as the damage is
not so great in the present ease, it is hoped that it
will be easily and speedily repaired. From the re-
membrance of the great devastations of the floods of
last year, and the frightful appearance of the swol-
len state of the river, preparations were made at the
manufactories -had bleach.fleld for removing every
,moveable article, in case of the water increasing, or
not soon subsiding.--Elgin and .Forres Journal.