The Sun.
London, England, 1865-09-27 00:00:00

LUE SUN, . LONNM, WEDNESDAY .EVENING, SEPTEMBER 27. 1F65,

LAW INTELLIGEITOE—This Day.

COURT OF BANKRUPTCY.
(Before Mr. Hazlitt.)
IN RE A SCENE.
This morning a learned- counsel (Mr. Bicker-Caarteen)
appealed to the Registrar to take a private sitting. This
being declined, the counsel proceeded to urge that the
Registrar ought to do the work, as ho was well paid for it.
Upon this the Registrar desired the learned counsel not to
make improper remarks.
Mr. Caarteen requested the Registrar not to couple his
name with any such observations, and added, " You have
not treated me like a gentleman, Mr. Hazlitt, since I have
been in this room, and you ought to know it."
The Registrar—l do not want to hear your observations.
Mr. Caarteen—l would say it here or in any other room
in this building.
The Registrar—There, that will do ; you are stopping
all the business.
The matter then dropped.

SHERIFFS' COURT.
(Before Mr. Gibbons.)

VICIOUS HORSES AND THE PUBLIC.-GILL V. HAYWOOD

This was an action to recover damages sustained by the
plaintiff through the vicious conduct of a horse belonging
to the defendant, a coal merchant of Rotherhithe.
Plaintiff stated that he was going along the street upon
a certain day, and he passed defendant's horse, which was
in a cart. The horse snapped at plaintiff, tore his clothes,
and inflicted certain injuries upon him for which he now
claimed compensation.
His Honour asked defendant what he had to say to this?
Defendant could assure the Court that he did not know
his horse had a predilection for biting people.
Plaintiff—But I can assure your honour that when I
called upOn defendant he offered me compensation.
His Honour—Then you should have taken it.
Plaintiff--It was not the amount I claimed. Surely if
defendant's horse injures me I can recover damages.
His Honour—The law says you cannot unless you can
show that the animal was vicious within the knowledge
of its owner. Thus, when a dog bites a person the injured
party must show the court that the owner had, what is
called in law scienta, before he can recover damages. That
law must also be applied to other animals, and unless you
can show me that the defendant knew his horse was ad-
dicted to biting you cannot recover.
Plaintiff—That is very hard.
His Honour—l cannot help it : you can get the Legis-
lature to alter the law, but lam bound by it. You must
be nonsuited.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.—This Day.

MANSION-HOUSE.

ROBBERY BY A PORTER.—William Crocrombe, a porter
lately in the service of Messrs. Miray and Co., clock manu-
facturers, of New Erle-street, Cannon-street, was placed
before Mr. Alderman Carter, charged with robbing his
employers.

Mr. Ernest Murray said the prisoner had been in his
service for two years and nine months. He had been miss-
ing clocks for the last two years, and on taking stock six
clocks were found to be missing. To prevent this stock
was taken again a few days ago, and some property was
again missing. He spoke to the clerks and others em-
ployed, and they each suggested that their homes should
be searched. The prisoner was present, and he gave his
address 8, Shaftesbury-place, Aldersgate-street, and
there found 23 boxes of matches which had been
missing since 1863. He was then given into custody,
and while he was being conveyed to the station-house he
said he had taken away the other goods and pawned them, in
order to oblige a friend. The prisoner was then taken back
to New Earle-street, and there he took 13 pawnbroker's
duplicates from under the staircase, all of which related to
the property of which he had been robbed. It consisted of
carriage-clocks, time-pieces, and bronze statuettes.
Henry Chase, assistant to Messrs. Smith and Dymond,
Newgate-street, pawnbrokers, produced some of the
articles pawned by the prisoner. One was a bronze figure
for 7s. ; another was a time-piece, 4s. ; another bronze
figure for 3s. ; and an ornament in the same metal for 12s.
Alderman Carter (looking at the ornament pledged for
7s.)—You only lent 7s. on this? Why it is worth at least
£2. If you did not know the value of the property, you
ought to have done so. It is a very censurable proceeding
the receiving in pledge so many articles of the same de-
scription from a person like the prisoner without making
some inquiry as to how he came possessed of the property.

Tha bronze articles were castings for the ornamentation
of mantel clocks.

Witness—The prisoner gave the name " John Davis."
Alderman Carter—But the articles he was pledging were
of a very valuable character. _ _

Hancock, the police constable who took the prisoner into
custody, said he had since confessed to him that he had
stolen some other clocks, the manufacturing price of one
of which was £ll. This he had sold to a pawnbroker in
the neighbourhood for 30s.
Alderman Carter said he should remand the prisoner,
and he afterwards directed that summonses might be issued
against the pawnbrokers who had purchased anything of
the prisoner to appear at the Mansion-house and produce
it that day week.

Defendant denied this, and said he was well acquainted
with the owner of the house Who had told him what to do.
Mr. Dayman thought that he had muddled his faculties
with drink until he did not know exactly what he did.
He must pay 55. or be committed for four days.

Destruction of an East Indianian by Fire
This Dap•

This morning the magnificent East Indiaman
frigate, Accrington, was totally consumed by fire
off the Brunswick Wharf, Blackwall. The vessel
had a valuable cargo on board, and was outbound

for Calcutta. The vessel burnt with considerable
fury, and the sight she presented as the black smoke
curled upwards from her decks and the flames issued
from her port-holes from stem to stern, was wit-
nessed by a great many persons who had been drawn
together by the unfortunate occurrence.

Great Fire at Bermondsey this Morning.

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Between the hours of three and four o'clock in the morn-
ing the whole of the inhabitants of the densely populated
and industrious parish of Bermondsey were thrown into a
state of the greatest excitement, owing to a fire of a for-
midable character breaking out on the premises belonging
to Messrs. Kingden and Powell, oil-cloth manufacturers,
carrying on a large business in Queen-street, Bermondsey
New-road.

The buildings, which were destroyed by fire some time
since, were constructed principally of wood, but they have
since been rebuilt in a most substantial manner of brick
and timber. In almost every compartment of these pre-
mises were stored oils, varnish, turpentine, and other in-
flammable stock in the process of drying, which to some
extent will account for the extraordinary spread of the
flames, for in the course of a few minutes the prin-
cipal portions of the factory; at least to 120 feet in
length and 60 feet wide, became encircled in a huge
sheet of flame. The vessels which contained the oil and
turpentine ran along the floors like sheets of liquid
fire, and at that time the watchmtoi had locked himself up
in the premises, and was overtaken by the blazing spirits,
which surrounded him, and burnt the whiskers on his
face and the hair on his head off. For some time he was
unable to find the key of the door so as to let himself out,
and, according to his own statement, he made up his mind
to be burnt to death; but suddenly, owing to the intense
heat, he espied the key and was enabled to release himself.
By that period, owing to opening the door, the flames were
fanned into every portion of the factory, and they rose so
high into the air as to be visible from all parts of the
metropolis. This caused a general turn-out of the Royal
Society's escape in the district, and the engines from al-
most every station in London. Conductors Breton and
Swaine speedily arrived with two of the Society'smachines
and three of Shand, Mason, and Co.'s land steamers, the
manual power one from Southwark Bridge-road having
been set to work, from an abundant supply of water, tor-
rents of the antagonistical element was thrown
upon and into the blazing pile ; but in spite of that the
fire continued its ravages, and mounted so high that even
the Volunteer firemen were called out from Peckham and
Croydon. The firemen, under the direction of their supe-
rior officers, kept to their posts, but owing to the great
number of rolls of cloth the water could not penetrate
them, and the flames could not be conquered until the
whole of the premises were destroyed. The total loss is.
very considerable, and the origin of the catastrophe is un-
known. Mr. Superintendent Braudford and Inspectors
Wise and. Manson, with a strong body of police, rendered
essential aid, for owing to the proximity of a row of small
houses the inmates threw their furniture into the street
and the services rendered by the police prevented the same
from being stolen by the mob.