The Sun.
London, England, 1863-11-06 00:00:00

TIM SON. LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 6, 1863.

LAW INTELLIGENCE—This Day.

COURT OF COMMON PLEAS.

(Sittings in Banco, before the Lord Chief Justice Erle;
and Justices Williams, Byles, and Keating.)
RICHARDSON V. ELGIE AND ANOTHER.

Mr. M. Chambers, Q.. 6., a ith Mr. Needham, applied to
set aside the verdict tonna for the plaintiff on the ground
that it was against evidence. The action, which was tried
before Mr. Justice Keating at the Guildhall, and brought
by the plaintiff, an architect and surveyor, for the prepara-
tion of certain plans for the erection of a large refreshment
booth for the million, with a bar of 70 feet in length, on a
piece of land near the western entrance to the Great Exhibi-
tion of 1862. The defendant, Jeremiah Savage E igie,was ac-
companied by his father, the elder defendant, at the in-
terview but it was denied that he had anything to do with
the speculation. Owing to the great expense of the build-
ing according to the first plans, the plaintiff, at the re quest
of Jeremiah Savage Elgie, prepared other plans, but ulti-
mately the negotiation went off.
The Court granted a rule nisi for a new trial.

PEARSON V. THE COMMERCIAL UNION ASSURANCE COM

PANY -THE BURNING OF THE INDIAN EMPIRE STEAM

SHIP IN THE THAMES.

Mr. Lush, Q.C., moved for a rule nisi to set aside the
verdict found for the plaintiff, with £lO,OO damages and
to enter a nonsuit. The action was tried before the Lord
Chief Justice at Guildhall, and was brought upon a pulicy
of insurance against fire only for three months on the
steamship Indian Empire, then lying in the Vic-
toria docks with lib3rty to go into dry dock. It ap-
peared that adjoining the Victoria docks, there was the
Thames graving dock, which was used for all the purposes
of a dry dock, and there were also great precautions against
fire in the Victoria docks. The Indian Empire was not, how-
ever, taken into that dock, but her paddle boxes were taken
off, and the vessel taken into a private dry dock, two miles
up the river, where she underwent repairs. After that she
was taken into the river, and moored to a Government
buoy to complete her repairs. It was then that
the fire occurred destroying the ship. The defendants con-
tended by their policy they only insured the ship when in
the Victoria Dock or in a dry dock, and that they were not
liable, for the ship was burned while in the river.
Rule ntsi granted.

COURT OF DIVORCE,
(Before Sir J. P. Wilde.)
YEITMAN V. YEATMAN.

In this case the petitioner, who is a barrister, brought a
suit for dissolution of marriage with his wife on the ground
of her adultery with Prince Hohenlohe. The case was tried
before the Judge Ordinary and a jury last July, when a
verdict was found to the effect that the adultery was not
proved, and that the petitioner had deserted his wife with-
out sufficient cause.

Mr. Yeatman, in person, now moved for a rule calling
on the respondent to show cause why there should not be a
new trial on the ground of misdirection by the Judge
Ordinary, and that the verdict was against evidence. The
learned gentleman contended that the jury were not com-
petent to try the question of desertion.
The alleged adultery with Prince Hohenlohe was stated
to have taken place at He delberg.

The learned Judge said as the case had been heard before
the late Judge, and the point had not been decided, the rule
nisi must be granted, and also as against evidence, that he
might have the evidence before him.

COURT OF BANKRUPTCY.
(Before Mr. Commissioner Holroyd.)

RE MARSHALL.

The bankrupt was described as a newspaper proprietor,
of Charlotte-street, Fitzroy-square, and this was a meeting
for examination and discharge.

Mr. Sargood opposed on behalf of Mr. Shipley, on the
ground that the bankrupt had not even attempted to render
a proper account. He had purchased of Mr. Shipley the
copyright of the Lamp newspaper for £4OO, but had only
paid a deposit of £25, but he set it down as worth
£5OO, although he discontinued the publication in a
few weeks after he had possession, He had also
set down as good and doubtful debts £l9O, out of which
only ss, 6d. had been got in. Under the name of
"Harkaway," he had received a large amount on sporting
matters, and in one instance he had received £l,OOO at Tat-
tersall's, which he accounted for by one sweeping item, that
he had paid it to persons who had given him commissions.
He, Mr. Sargood, submitted that this could not be deemed
any account, indeed it had been carefully made out so as to
give no information. He, therefore, asked for an adjourn-
ment, sine die, without protection, or that the petition
should be dismissed.

His Honour adjourned the examination sine die, with
imited protection.

Liverpool Cotton Market—This Day.

Market opens dull and irregular. Sales, probably
4,000 bales.

The action of the bank has completely paralysed
the market, and prices of all kinds reduced one
penny per pound, though there is less pressure to
sell than might have been expected, the very meagre
stock staying any tendency to panic. Committee's
quotations for middling cotton are reduced 1,1 d. in
bowed and ld. in Mobile and Orleans. Sales,
29,910 bales, 7,650 on spec and 5,520 for export.
Actual export, 15,107. Imports, 17,381. Stock,
152,000.

Sir David Brewster and the Abbot of

Kinloss.

A correspondent of the Scotsman says :—" In his
inaugural address delivered in the Music Hall, on
Monday last, Sir David Brewster struck a very
undeserved blow at the Catholic Church. Refer-
ring to the bequest made by the last Catholic Bishop
of Ortrney, for the erection of a University in Edin-
burgh, the learned Principal said :—' In 1558 Mr
Robert Reid, Bishop of Orkney, a prelate of high
accomplishments, bequeathed 8,000 merks for this
important purpose. This sum, however, was with-
held by his executor, the Abbot of Kinloss, and it
was not till 1582 that half the legacy, without
interest, was realised by the citizens of Edinburgh.
The opposition thus made by the Catholic powers
to the erection of a college the metropolis was
fortunately baffled by the zeal of the Reformers.'
" So says Sir David, but authentic history tells
another tale. The Protestant Bishop Keith, in his
Historical Catalogue of Scottish Bishops,' p. 225,
Bishop Russell's edition, observes—' The history of
the family of Sutherland says that this Bishop
(Reid) left a great sum of money for building the
College of Edinburgh,
which the Earl Morton con-
verted to his own use and profit by banishing the
executors for supposed crimes.'
"Now, Sir David must be aware that Morton
was a Reformer and a great enemy of the Catholic
Church; so that whatever opposition was made to
the erection of Edinburgh University was the work,
not of the' Catholic powers,' but of some of the re-
forming party."

SIGNIFICANT DEMONSTRATIONS ON GUY
FAWKES' DAY.—Yesterday was the anniversary
of the celebrated attempt of the notorious Guy Fawkes and
his desperate friends to blow up the constitution in the per-
sons of the Lords and Commons of England. The morn-
ieg was wet, and that circumstance somewhat interfered
with the demonstrations which are ordinarily made on the
sth of November. The persons, however, who had prepared
Guys were not to be thwarted, and a considerable number
of them of large dimensions were paraded through the
streets. The Pope, who used to he the nersen most in re-
quest at these exhibitions, seemed to be entirely forgotten
-yesterday. The Emperor of Russia might be seen every-
where, in some cases flourishing a tremendous knout, in
others with his foot on the necks of some ciseer-looking
persons, supposed to be Poles, but who were much more
like very poor Africans. The American struggle naturally
suggested some of the Guys—the sympathisers with the
North exhibiting various' phases of slavery, while those
whose views were favourable to the South paraded Mr.
President Lincoln in all sorts of vicious shapes. Cardinal
Wiseman was exhibited on a truck, near the Houses of
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of the 10th and 26th of each month, in time for the day
mail to France, to go by the packets leaving Ancona on the
nights of the 12th and 28th of each month. When the
10th or 26th of the month fall on a Sunday, the mails for
the lonian Islands will be despatched from London on the
VILAND HILL, Secretary. General Post-office, 7th
previous evening. By command of the Postmaster-Gene-
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November, 1863.
ACCIDENT TO AN IRISH MAIL STEAMER.-
DUBLIN. Thursday.—The 'Munster mail steamer, which
did not arrive till three this morning, broke her main shaft,
and was towed, in by the Duke of Cambridge ; passengers
all safe.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE—This Day.

MARLBOROUGH-STREET.

HIGHWAY ROBBERY WITH VIOLENCE.—A lad named

. _
Wm. Allen was charged before Mr. Knox, by Sergeant
Shore, 11 F, with being concerned, with others not in
custody, in the following robbery :
Antoine Barral, 33, Church -street, Soho, said that at 11
o'clock at night he was in Moor-street, Seven-dials, when a
boy came up to him and butted him in the stomach with
great violence, and no sooner had he been butted than he
was surrounded by a number of lads who felt in his pockets
and then stole his watch.

Wm. Webster, a young man, living at 25, Earl-street, said
he saw the prosecutor going along, and six lads went up to
him, and one of them butted the prosecutor while the others
stole his watch. The prosecutor then called " Police," and
one of the lads struck him, and then they all made off He
gave information to the police, and on being subsequently
sent for to Bow-street, he identified the prisoner as one of
the lads, though not either of the two who butted the
prosecutor or stole his watch.

Sergeant Shore, 11 F, said that, from information he
received, he apprehended the prisoner in Seven Dials, and
at the station the last witness identified him from amongst
several ethers.

Mr. Knox remanded the prisoner.
A BETTING MAN COMMITTED UNDER THE VAGRANT
Act —John Pilgrim, described as a betting man, was
charged before Mr. Knox with loitering in King-street, St.
James's, for the purpose of committing a felony.
Sergeant Cole, 23 C, said that on the previous night he
saw the prisoner standing at the corner of Litchfield-street,
Soho, in conversation with a man just returned from penal
servitude—a man well known as a " lumberer" (a man
who carries stolen property for thieves, and introduces
them to receivers) standing about two yards off at the time.
He (the sergeant) accompanied by two other officers
(Webb, 112 C, and Weeks, 155 C), followed the men,
but they only succeeded in taking the prisoner
into custody, when he threw from his hand a silver
watch broken off at the bow, and then resisted violently,
and on Weeks attempting to pick up the watch it was
snatched up by some one who got away with it. The pri-
soner said he was not a thief but a " magsman," and he (the
sergeant) knew him as a person who visited fairs and races,
and played at cards. On searching him he found in his
possession an Australian note, some cards (known as
" broads") and a pair of spectacles used by " magsmen,"
to give them when among flats a sedate and respectable
appearance.

Prisoner said he was not a thief, but he would acknow-
ledge that he•got his living by gambling at fairs and races.
Mr. Knox committed the prisoner for three months'
under the Vagrant Act;

THAMES.
SUSPECTED ROBBERY BY A DESERTER.—John Gibson,
a deserter from the 7th Royal Fusileers, and described as
having no home, was brought up on remand before Mr.
Partridge, charged with being in possession of two plated
cruet-stands, which had either been stolen or unlawfully
procured.

A few days since the prisoner offered a plated cruet-stand
in pawn to an assistant in the shop of Mr. William Nathan,
a respectable pawnbroker, in the Commercial-road, East.
The assistant questioned the prisoner, who could give no
satisfactory account as to the way he became possessed of
the cruet-stand. Mr. Nathan's assistant gave the pri-
soner into the custody of a police-constable named
Carter, who searched the prisoner at the station-house, and
found another cruet .stand under his left arm. The name
Matthews, Esq., or Marquand, Esq., was very faintly
written in ink under one of the stands. There were three
D's impressed on the prisoner's left side, indicating that he
had deserted three times. Prisoner had deserted a fourth time
from the 7th Fusiliers at Weimer, in August last. The pri-
soner was fully described in the " Hue and Cry" and Police
Gazette of August 11, 1863. Carter had communicated with
the military authorities, but no one attended to claim the
prisoner as a deserter. The officer believed the prisoner
was so bad that the regiment from which he had deserted
would have nothing more to do with him.
The prisoner made no defence, and refused to give any
account of the way he became possessed of the cruet-stands.

Mr. Partridge said he had no doubt whatever the pro-
perty taken from the prisoner was stolen. It appeared the
prisoner had deserted from his regiment four times, and
there was no doubt he was a man of bad character. He
sentenced the prisoner to be imprisoned for two months in
the House of Correction and kept to hard labour, for the
unlawful possession of the cruet-stands.

MARKETS—This Day,

MARK-LANE.

Fresh up to Mark •lane to-day the arrivals of home-grown
wheat were on a limited scale, but most samples were re-
ceived in tolerably good condition. Millers showed no dis-
position to operate in excess of their actual requirements.
Nevertheless the greater portion of the supply was disposed
of at the full prices of Monday last.
There was a full average show of foreign wheat en the
stands. The transactions in most descriptions were of fair
average extent, but the trade exhibited no activity. The
quotations generally ruled firm.

Floating cargoes of grain were in but moderate request,
at previous currencies.

The market was well supplied with English and foreign
barley. Fine malting parcels commanded extreme rates ;
otherwise, the trade was dull, at fully the late decline in

prices.

Fine old malt was firm in price. Other kinds, however,
met a slow sale on former terms.

The supply of oats was much less extensive. The trade,
however, was rather slow, yet prices were supported.
Beans and white peas sold heavily at the late fall in their
value. Hog peas, however, were tolerably firm.
American flour, the supply of which was good, was in
fair demand at full prices. Other descriptions of flour were
in fair average demand at late rates.

ARRIVALS THIS WEEK.
Wheat. Barley. Malt. Oats. Flout.
Ylngrllsh 780 6lO SLO BOO 1 560
Irish.
Foruign 6,200 11,340 400 , 100 ske,
10,760 brls.