The Sun.
London, England, 1839-11-14 00:00:00

Grande tv er e io the same state as when the last picket
§dled ; and with reference to the nortThern province 5,
And that the rebels had succeeded in taking aLd
imriting two or three villages in the neighbourhood of
Maranhamo and that they had in several skirmishes diii-
corn6ted the Government troops sent to oppose them.
Manuel A.:ltonio Galva°, Prime Minister.
O. M. La Game, Foreign Maim,
F. Ramiro de Aggi 9 Coelho, Justice.
M. Alves Branco, Finance.
genors Conde de Lagos and Jacinto Roque de Sena
Pereira fetain Cieir respective portfolios.

JOHN Fausr.—We cannot publish the letter of
G. P. 1L attacking the London Press, for calumniating,
as he says, Mr. Frost. The London Press is necessarily
bound to publish all the information contained in the
depositions taken before the Magistrates, and besides
them we have not noticed many comments in the
Papers, and very few rumours of what was Mr. Frost's
intentions. We trust that our Correspondent is mistaken
in asserting that any parties or persohs are bent on de-
stroying Mr. Frost by a perversion of law, and that
they are preparing the way, by calumniating him, for an
exhibition which would disgrace the days of Castle-
reagh. The Press, at least, we are sure, would not
nd itself to any such unrighteous purpose ; but,
without any perversion of law, Mr. Frost seems to have
placed himself in a situation of great danger. We may
add, for ourselves, that party feelings, which seem to be
strong as places are remote from the metropolis, ought
to be careully guarded against, and every appear- '
ante of partiality or injustice scrupulously avoid. d. On
this account we regret to observe that the examination of
Morgan Jamcs,which went to criminate both Mr Frostand
Mr. Jones, and had little or no bearing on the case of
Thos. Aurelius, should have taken place at such length,
in their absence, when they bad no counsel or friend pre-
sent to cross-examine him. We learn from our corre-
spondent that the London Chartists have sent an intel-
ligent person to Newport to inquire into the particulars,
and report them, and we should certainly like to learn,
and to publish, the view which the Welsh Chartists take
of tht it own conduct. _

We published three weeks ago a letter reflecting on
the treatment of Lovett and Collins in Warwick Gaol.
similar to that which appears in The Sun this day.
The Warwick Advertiser attempted to contradict the
statement in the first letter, but in fact admitted the
main part as to the nature of the food, and the refusal of
the Chaplain to allow Lovett the perusal of Tait's Ma-
gazine. Both the defender of the Magistrates and our
correspondent state that these political prisoners never
taste animal food, that they have soup only twice a week,
and that during the rest of the week they live entirely on
bread, potatoes, and gruel. It is not surprising, there-
fore, that a man accustomed to a different diet should
be confined in the Infirmary, but it is surprising that a
local journal should state that Lovett is in the possession
of good health, and that his friends in London should
know the very reverse—" that he has been confined to
his bed in the Infirmary ever since his imprisonment."
From the very admissions which the defender of the
Warwick Magistrates has made, added to the communi-
cations of correspondents, no doubt can remain that the
treatment of these men is needlessly severe, and that in
place of deterring the Chartists, or reconciling them to
the administration of the laws, it has the opposite effect.

ROLLS' COURT.-(THIS DAY.)

The Court took motions.
DUFFIELD V. ELVES•

Mr. BEVAN moved in this case on behalf of Henry
Wilton, that Abraham H. Chambers (the prceedings
under whose bankuptcy have been so often before the
public) might stand bommitted to the Fleet. In support
of the motion, an affidavit of Wilton was read, stating
that the regular orders had been made on Mr. Chambers
for the payment of his bill of costs, amounting to
G7l. 10s. 4d. and that on the 12th of June last, the
usual four-day order was made. Mr. Chambers bad not
complied with these orders, and therefore the present
motion was made.
The MASTER of the ROLLS—Take the order.

QUEEN'S BENCH.-(THIS DAY

(Sittings in Banco.)

THE VICTORIA (HULL) STEAMER-THE QUEEN V. WM

BATCHELOR BROWNLOW AND OTHERS,

In this case a rule had been obtained calling upon
the Coroner of the county of Middlesex, Wm. Baker,
Esq., to show cause why an inquisition taken before him
on the 16th June last, on view of the body of Andrew
Browne, who was killed by the bursting of the boiler of
the Victoria steamer, in the river Thames, on the 14th
June last, should not be quashed. The jury found a
deodand of 1,4001. upon the steam-engine of the vessel,
and the objections taken were, first, that the names of
the jury were not set out in the inquisition at full
length ; second, that no place was stated, and no time
mentioned, when the death took place ; and, thirdly,
that the jury found a deodand on the steam-engine of
1,4001., whereas the cause of death was the bursting of
the boiler, and that they had no right to lay a deodand
upon anything except what bad caused the death of the
party.
The ATTORNEY•GENERAL (with whom was Sir F.
Pollock) now appeared to show cause against the rule.
The inquisition was signed by the Jury in the manner in
which they usually attached their names, which was de-
cided to be the legal mode of affixing a signature, but
in the body of the inquisition the names of all the Jurors
were set out at full length. In the case of " The King
v. Bennett," 6th Carrington and Payne, an objection
was taken, that although the names were set out at
length in the information, one of the parties had signed
his name " Wm. Seetb." Baron Gurney, before whom
the case was argued, said—" Is every man obliged to
sign his name at full length ? I cannot entertain such
an objection as this." He (the Attorney-General) sub-
mitted that as a satisfactory answer to the first objec-
tion. The next objection was, that no time or place
had been specified for the death :of the party ; but it
appeared that a time and place when the mortal stroke
was given was set out ; then there followed, " of which
mortal stroke he instantly died."
Lord DENasAN—" Of which he then and there," is
the usual form.
The ATTORNEY-GENERAL submitted that the word
" instantly" following the statement of the time and
place, when and where the accident occurred was suffi-
cient to specify the fact distinctly, and the omission of
the words " then and there" could not render the whole
inquisition a nullity. With respect to the third objec-
tion, that it was upon the boiler and not the engine the
deodand should have been laid, that was an objection
which, if it was of any avail, should have been met by
traverse. Anything moving to the death of the party
was always held to be liable to a deodand, and it could
not be said that the engine which was in fact connected
with the boiler was not a part of the moving cause by
which the death of the party had been occasioned. On
these grounds he submitted that the rule must be dis-
charged, there being nothing to call for the interference
of that Court. _ _

Sir F. POLLOCK and Mr. WIGHTMAN followed on
the same side.

Sir W. FOLLETT, in support of the rule, contended
that the usual course, when objections were taken to
the inquisition, was to bring it into that Court that it
might be quashed.
Lord DEN MAN—It is a very inconvenient course. First,
a motion is made, and then we have the motion argued
at great length by several gentlemen, instead of having
the case submitted as an issue to a Jury. It is a course
which certainly is not very desirable.
Sir WM. FOLLETT could only plead that it was the
usual practice. In the present case, the boiler, which
was the only moving cause:of the de ith, was the thing on
which the deodand should have been laid. The Jury might
as well have laid the deodand on the vessel itself as on
the engine. It was distinctly held that any thing which
increased the momentum of the moving power was deo-
dand ; but that could not be said of the engine in the
present case, which was not moving at all when the
accident occurred. But he apprehended the inquisition
was, clearly bad, because no precise time or place of
death was stated, and referred to several cases in sup-
port of that position.
Mr. PLATT followed on the same.