The Sun.
London, England, 1865-04-01 00:00:00

LAW INTELLIGENCE—(This Day.)

SHERIFFS' COURT.
(Before Mr. Commissioner Kerr.)
SEIGPREID V. BREMBRAGE.

This was an action to recover damages for the loss of
certain property in defendant's coffeehouse.
Mr. Buchanan appeared for the plaintiff, who is a waiter ;
Mr. Beard, representing defendant, who is a coffeehouse-
keeper.

Mr. Buchanan said that his client was a waiter, and he
had a room at defendant's house. In this room there was a
chest of drawers for the plaintiffs use, end he put his
money and a gold chain in a little box, which being locked,
was placed in one of the drawers. When he first took the
room ho used to lock his door and give the key to the land-
lord, but as the landlord (defendant) said there really was
no occasion for his doing so,.he left the key in the door
when he went out. Upon his return one day he went to
his box and found that he could not unlock it, and dis-
covered afterwards that the lock had been forced.
All his money, some £5, and his gold chain had been taken
away, and a foreign farthing, which had been lying loose
in the drawer put in the box. Under these circumstances
plaintiff applied to defendant to make good the loss, and
upon a refusal the present action was brought.
Mr. Beard took an objection, that this case did. hOt come
within the terms of the Innkeepers' Act at all. •

Air. Buchanan urged that where a person kept open
house for refreshment and let beds, ho became an innkeeper
within the meaning of the act, and was liable for property
lost in his premises by a guest.
Mr. Beard inquired how plaintiff was the guest in this
case.

Mr. Buchanan said that ho took tho room at ss. per
week.

Mr. Beard—Then that is a mere lodging, and takes the
case out of the act at once.
His Honour (Mr Kerr)—Yes, that would bo so ; Mr.
Buchanan, you cannot get over this.
Mr. Buchanan—l soe it, your Honour, and I will elect
to bo nonsuited.
Plaintiff nonsuited.

Railway Traffic Returns for the Week.
Miles Opened. Receipts.

Railways.

180 1864.
_ _

Belfast and N. Counties . . 136
Belfast and County Down.... 49
Blyth and Tyne 2O
Bristol and Exeter l2ll
Caledonian 2Bll

2,144 2.001
726 714
1,831 2,734
6,208 5,971
18 531 17,971
1,668 1.407
336 322
133 17J
905 438
1,752 1.603

Cambrian ..... —.
Cork and Bandon .

Cork, Blaekroek, Az Passage... 32i
Cork and Youghal .. • 6}
Cornwall 651
Deeside 0 17
Dublin & 13elf ast Junction .... 83
Dublin and Drogheda 75
Dublin and Meath

249 212
1,287 1.i74
1,395 1.430

Dub. &Wicklow and Wextd 9ll
Furness, &o 5O
Glasgow & South-Western
Gt. Eastern,Nrfk.,&E.Union 683
Great Northern lO4
Great North of Scotland 6B
t. Northn. & Wes tn. (Irel.) 7lf
ILSoutlin. & Westn.(lrlnd.) 3871
Great Western 12681
Irish North-Western 145
Kent Coast 27
Lancashire & Yorkshire 4u3
Limerick and Ennis... 24f
Limerick and Foynes 2Bl
Llanelly 461
London & North-Western
London and Blackwall 5
London & South-Western
Lond. Brighton, &S. Coast 267f
London, Chatham, & Dover 721
Do. Metropolitan Extension 111
Lon., Tilbury, & Southend
& Lincolnsh 24.4
Mauch. S.J un.& Altrinch am 9f
Maryport and Carlisle
Metropolitan
Midland (incl. N.-Western) BO3l
Midland Gt.Westn. of Irind 282
North British, Edin., Perth

261 217
2,167 2,281
2,412 3,0 5
9,153 *4,496
10,019 31,527
80,161. 30,255
1,776 1,544

451 352
7,913 8,467
63_00 6 ,659
1,459 1,6 t 2

,
500 800
36,10 38,047
201 195
71 97

744 833
101,386 101,071
1,665 1,818
10,263 21,692
15,b54 67
4,408 5,807
1,675 1,521
3,039 1,067
17,388 18,973
1,187 1,7:8
1,413 1.601
2,403 2,136
41,6;8 46,971
4,111 4,007

and Dundee
N-Eastern and Stock. & Darl 1069
North London 9
North Stailordshire 251
Rhymney
Scottish Central
Scottish North-Eastern . . 138
Somerset and Dorset 66
South Devon
South-Eastern 3OB
Taft Vale 57
Ulster
Vale of Clwyd
Vale of Neath 431
Waterford and Kilkenny 3l
Waterford and Limerick 77
West Cornwall 274
W. Ha: tlepool Harbr.&ltail 521
Whitehaven Junction l2
Whitehaven & Furness Jun 35
FOREIGN AND COLONIAL.

21,042 19,730
56;.:93 57,181
2,971 3,307
7.7 t 9 8.458
1,054 1,014
5,482 5.313
5,10 4,769
"38 GO5
3.580 3,726
17,697 21,123
5,600 5,417
2,391 2,497
161 775

401 896
1,264 1,216
81g 714
4.078 8.5:3
766 1,109
802 1,106

Bahia and San Francisco
Belgian Eastern unction 20
Bombay, Baroda, & Cen. India 1851
Detroit and Milwaukie lB9
Dutch Rhenish
_ . _

348 315
5,105 3,5u3
: ,69•$ 6,011
5,6 2 5,35

Eastern Bengal .. llO
East Indian
Grand Trunk of Canada 1377
Great Central of Belgium —
Great Indian Peninsula 585
Great Luxembourg 134
Great Southern of India
Great Western of Canada 345
Northern of Canada ..... 94
Northern of France V2B
Norwegian Trunk
Ottoman

22.601 21,110
6,291
2 c,372 12,683
4,08 4,387
659 369
8,931 13,894
1,361 2,225
51,310 50,21
82 1,098

481

Recife and San Francisco. &c. 77.
Scinde...

439 2;6
1,588 1,207
1,691 2,160

Do. Punjab, &c 3L
South Austrian, 4tc .... IESI
Victoria
Welland. 25

1527
196

244 034
48,767 00,569
11.080 9.,086

West F1ander5............

LONDON GAZErTE--Last Evening.

LORD CHAMBERLAIN'S OFFICE, Meilen 31.
Notice is hereby given that her Majesty's Birthday will
be kept on Wednesday, the 24th of May next.
ADMIRALTY, Minos 28.
Royal Marine Artillery—First Lieutenant John Chesterton
Crawford to be Lieutenant and Quartermaster, vice
Savage, promoted.

COURSE OF EXCHANGE—Last Evening.

Amsterdam Short. 11 16i
Ditto 3 Months. 11 19i
Rotterdam
Antwerp — 25 47
Brussels
Hamburg
Paris Short 25 17k
Ditto 3 Months. 25 421
Marseilles
Frankfort on the Maine 1204
Vienna — 11 32k
Trieste — 11 35
Petersburgh
Berlin

11 17
11 19i
12 19
25 52
25 52
13 9
25 271
25 50
25 50
121

11 371
11 45
31

Madrid
Cudiz
Leghorn
Milan
Genoa
Naples
Palermo
Messina

47f
47f
25 55
25 55
25 55
25 55
25 55
25 55

47f
48
25 60
25 60
25 60
25 GO
25 GO
25 60

Lisbon 5l 611
Oporto 5ll 511
Foreign Gold in Bars (Standard) per oz. .£3 17 9

PROPOSED USE OF TREACLE IN BREWERIES.—
Some official correspondence has been laid before
Parliament on the subject of allowing syrup, treacle, and
other refuse liquid or semi-liquid produced in refining
sugar to be used in breweries. The correspondence states
the regulations which the Commissioners of Inland Re-
venue suggest, with a view to prevent (as far as practi-
cable) damage to the revenue. With relation to other
damage, it appears that London brewers express little or
no desire for legislation in favour of the proposal, and some
of them state that the result will be to lower the standard
quality of beer, and increase an existing practice resorted
to by unscrupulous dealers, retailers, and exporters, of
mixing beer of inferior quality with that made by brewers
of established reputation, and selling the mixture as the
produce tf the best breweries. Messrs. Barclay, Messrs.
Hanbury, and Messrs. Whitbread state that they should
not avail themselves of the proposed law, as they flud that,
the quality of beer is never so good as when malt only is
used. Certain Liverpool sugar refiners reply that the want
of visible interest in the subject on the part of the London
e x desiret
s itvheel y 13,6 :Bin and Bst
°ant
abnredwwersoulisd nnootparvooailf tthhaetnitsheelyredsoof notu
indifference on the part of the brewers ought not to de-
prive sugar refiners of an outlet for their lowest product.
TERRIBLE ACCIDENT FROM A PILE-DRIVING
MACHINE.—On Wednesday last an accident oc-
curred on the South Yorkshire Extension Railway. A
time-keeper, named George Truswell, was writing in a
time book on the top of a pile that had been partly driven
in to form the dam precious to the erection of a bridge,
when the pile-driving machine was put in motion, and the
hammer came down, striking his head, which was much
cut, and then both his hands. The left hand was smashed
to pieces, and two of the fingers of the right hand were
injured very much. Medical assistance was obtained, and
it was found necessary afterwards to amputate the left
hand.

ACCIDENT TO A MAIL TRAIN.—On Thursday
morning, about three o'clock, an accident occurred to the
Scotch down mail train, which left London at 8.40 on
Wednesday evening. After leaving Lancaster, a bank
engine followed, and, overtaking the mail train, ran into
and completely doubled up the rear vans. The guard and
a commercial gentleman were injured, and so great was the
shock that the mail was delayed fully two hours.

The Nazione of Florence announces the arrival
in th t city of the Bishops of Versailles and of Soissons,
the former going to Leghorn, and the latter being about to
make some stay in the new capital of Italy.
A letter from Padua states that, owing to the
students having publicly burned the Jncyclical, the prelate,
Mgr. Panolla, resigned his post as rector of the University ;
but his resignation has not been accepted.
A singular accident occurred three days back to
the mail diligence which runs between Liege and Arlon.
The vehicle had arrived at Bosson, and the horses had been
taken out to change, when a storm, which was raging at
the time, set it in motion and drove it backwards down the
hill which it had just before ascended. The vehicle ran
alone for about a hundred yards, and then upset into a ditch
at the side of the road. Fortunately, only one passenger,
a young man, was inside, and he escaped uninjured.