The Sun.
London, England, 1839-11-20 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 20, i 839.

THE QUEEN V. THE MAGISTRATES OF MARGATE.

Sir F. POLLOCK moved for a rule to show cause why
a mandamus should not issue against the Magistrates of
Margate, commanding them to issue a warrant of dis-
tress against a person named Waddington, for the pay-
ment of 2/. 18s. 3d., under a rate laid by the Margate
Commissioners, which they had refused to do on the
ground that the whole of a previous rate had not been
collected.
His LORDSHIP granted a rule nisi.

COURT OF EXCHEQUER, Nov. 19.
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(Sittings in Banco.)
SHELDON V. IVIdORINE.
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respectable wasT arguedh ,a, as that whichii
A few days ago, an Englishwoman of
appearance and good address, giving the name
sharesewl t
of
of Anna v. M'Morine." It related to the sale of fifty
Johnson, presented to the banking-house Messrs. the Brighton Railway Company by the pintif
Malachy Daly and Co., Place Vendome, a them.to the
, a letter of defendant, and the refusal of the latter to accept
credit for 2001, in the names of Messrs. Barnett, Hoare, The plaintiff sold them after the refusal to accept by h
and Co., of London, who at the same time recommended
Aa defendant, and brought his action for the losste
her to the civilities of the Paris banker.
Messrs. aly and consequent upon such re-sale. The verdict was
Co. were not the usual correspondents ofßar- for the plaintiff. Rules for new trials were obtained
nett, they entertained doubts as to the authenticity
to callof in each case, which were argued at great length a few
the letter, and retaining it, requested the ladydays ago, when it appeared in our columns ; but after
the following day for the money. It was soon
aster-im Mr. Cresswell had argued the case for the plaintiff, and
tamed that the letter was a forgery, and it %las had left the Court, a new question was raised; viz.,
diately placed in the hands of the police, some of white- whether the transfer of the shares offered to the de-
officers went to the Hotel Bristol, in the Rue Traver_ Pendant, being in blank, were legal, and so made a
siere St. Honore, where the adventuress had given her l :gal tender according to the contract. That question
address, and where she was found in the act of writing ow came on to be argued, and
mr. a letter to her confederate in London, expressing her CRESSWELL contended that the instrument of
fears that the scheme would fail. She is in custody, transfer was not a deed. The Act of Parliament
At Havre she succeeded in getting cash on a bill in the merely required that the sale and transfer of all shares
name of Messrs, Laffitte and Co., of Paris.—Galig- should be made by a written document, which was af-
nanf: Messenger. terwards to be t s amped for the benefit of the Revenue ;
FLOODS.—In consequence of the late heavy but there wasnonecessity for its being delivered as the
of rains many of the lowlands of the county have been act and deedthe party. On the contrary the clerk
completely flooded, and much stock has been injured of the Company must make a memorandum of the tran-
or destroyed. Several small bridges have also been saction in
. the books of the Company. He instanced the
damaged by the
swelling of the rivers. In some places case of writs and hsu peones which were notoriously
Court
where fords run across public roads there has been great sealed with the seal of the '-
in blank—again it had
danger in e • been held over and over •
Tossing them.—Western Times. again that bills of exchange
A skeatta, in lc signed bcldcell excellent p reservation, Was re- inlank might be filled up subsequently, and from
cently found in a
fie
near Winchester. The right that time became a legal instrument ;so he contended
appropriation of this ancient coin is involved in much was the case here. The transfer was made from Prit-
doubt, but they are
The
esufially assigned to the sixth or 1 chard to any one who might be nominated by the plain-
seventh century.
of a snake on this speci- tiff. The Learned Gentleman cited -
men seems to indicate somethingge many cases from
?f a Danish connection, the books, in support of the arguments he addressed to
and it varies triflingly from one given by Ruding, in his the Court.
uryHerald,work on our coinage.—Saliab
1 Mr. COWLING having followed on the tame side,

JOHN COOK, shipbuilder, Inverness, Nov. 25, and Dec.
23, at one, at the Royal Hotel, Inverness.