The Sun.
London, England, 1862-04-28 00:00:00

LINDSEY V. LEA.TIIET.

COURT OF EXCHEQUER.

COURT OF COMMON PLEAS.
HOWES V. FAWCETT.

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1858. 1859. 1860. 1861. 1862.
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Stock this day.... 11,044 11,271 29.918 I 70,501 36.168
55s Od to 58s Od to 5559 d to 59s0d to 46s 6d to
Price of Y.C.
—s Od --s Od —s Od —s Od —s Od
Delivery last week 1,157 1,050 1,428 1,526 1,421
Ditto from June 1 98,778 93,631 75,112 72,967 112,874
Arrivals last week 510 513 178 1,046 379
Ditto from June 1 98,109 93.315 92,919 116,374 92,736
Price of Town .... 57s 3d , 5Ss 9d 56s 9d 57a 3d i 47s 9d

LONDON, April 28.—Wind this day at noon—North-
Westerly; light breeze, and fine weather.
FALMOUTH, April 26.—Wind E.—Sailed—Elizabeth,
for New York; Basford Hall, for Havannah ; Modern
Greece, screw steamer, for the West Indies.

SHERIFFS' COURT.
(Before Mr. Kerr.)

PORSTSMOTJ TH, April 27.—Wind S.W.—Sailed—Her
Majesty's ship Fox, for Woolwicb.

PLYMOUTH, April 27.—Arrivcd—Her Majesty's ship
Himalaya, from 6 ibraltar.
SWANLEA, April 26.—Wind N.E.—Sailed—Countess of
Malmesbury, for Bilboa.

OFF HURST CASTLE, April 28.—Arrived—Shannon,
steamer, from the West Indies.

CARDIFF, April 27.—Wind W.—Sailed—Angele, for
Mauritius; Jacobus M artinus, for the Cape of Good Hope;
Hermann, for Rio Grande.

OFF QUEENSTOWN, April 28. Arrived Niagara,
steamer, from Boston.

(BY SUBMARINE AND MAGNETIC TELEGRAPH.)
GRAVESEND, Monday Morning.
Arrived, April 27—Agupina, from Smyrna ; Abbot, from
Genna ; Kho-i-Noor, from Hong Kong; Pandora, from
St. Michael's.

Arrived, April 28—Prince Albert, from Guernsey.
DEAL, Monday Morning.
Anchored—lslander, from London, for Barbados.
Passed—Europa, for Newport; Tally Ho I for Fal-
mouth ; Cossack, screw steamer, for Malta—all from Lon-
don.

INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION. The sale of
season tickets proceeds with the greatest rapidity. At
Exeter Hall this morning the sale between 10 and half-
past 12 exceeded £BOO. The advantages of the entrance
from the Horticultural Gardens being now appreciated, a
large proportion of the sales are for the five guinea tickets.
It is now finally settled that the ceremonial of the opening
will coTmence at one o'clock, and not at two, as before
announced.

THE CONDEMNED SCOTCH MURDERESS.—A COM-
munication has been received at Dumfries from the Home-
office, stating that after the most careful consideration, and
communicating with the judge who presided at the trial,
Sir G. Grey can see no ground for recommending that the
capital sentence in this case should be commuted. The pri-
soner will therefore be executed at Dumfries to-morrow
(Tuesday).

POLICE-THIS DAY.

SUCIDE IN THE REGENT'S CANAL.—On Saturday
Mr. Humphreys held an inquest at the George the Fourth,
Green-street, Bethnal-green, on John Frederick Smith,
aged 60. The deceased had been an inmate of the lunatic
ward of St. George's Workhouse, having suffered from
el‘lirium tremens, brought on by excessive drinking. He
had frequently threatened to destroy himself, and his body
was found in the Regent's Canal. Verdict—" That de-
ceased drowned himself wh le in an unsound state of mind."

MARLBOROUGH 'STREET.

THE LIEUTENANT-GOVERNOR OF GREENWICH
HOSPITAL. - Vice-Admiral Sir Stephen Lushington,
K.C.8., who commanded the Naval Brigade in tho Crimea,
is, we aro informed, likely to succeed the late Rear Admiral
Sir W. F. Carroll as Lieutenant-Governor of Greenwich
Hospital, and should this event take place, there will be ano-
ther vacancy on the flag list, which will promote to be an
active Rear• Admiral Captain George Goldsmith, C. 8., the
Hon. Keith Stewart, C. 8., and Captain Lydiard not having
served sufficient time to entitle them to such an advance-
ment. Captain Charles Frederick, one of the Lords of the
Admiralty, will then be the senior captain for removal to
the effective list. A captain's goon-service pension will
also be at the service of the Duke of Somerset.—Army
and Navy Gazitte.

" The Japanese Ambassadors," says the Sleds,
" will not leave for London until Wednesday next. A
French vessel will be placed at their disposal at Calais, to
convey them to Dover. An attache of the Ministry of
Foreign Affairs is to accompany the Legation until it shall
have been confided to the care of the English authorities.
The embassy will only remain for 12 days in England, and
then proceed to Holland, where they are to remain until
the end of May. They will afterwards F pen dlO days in
Berlin, and about the same at St. Petersburg. Portugal
will only receive the ambassadors after they have again
been to Paris, where they propose to remain another fort-
night. A French vessel will afterwards convey the whole
of the Legation to Japan, via Suez.
IMPORTANT EXTENSION OF COPYRIGHT IN ORNA-
MENTAL DESIONS.—It is pretty generally known
(says the Birmingham Post) that the Chambers of
Commerce of Birmingham and Sheffield have been en-
gaged for some time in endeavouring to effect an extension
of copyright in ornamental designs. It will be seen by the
following communication, addressed to the Birmingham
Chamber, that the effect had been completely successful, a
result that shows in a marked manner the practical value of
such commercial associations :—" Office of Committee of
Privy Council for Trade, Whitehall, April 9. Gentlemen,
I am directed by the Lords of the Committee of Privy
Council for Trade to acknowledge the receipt of your me-
morial, praying for an extension of the terms of copyright
for ornamental designs applied to works in metal, and sup-
porting your application by statements of manufacturers
personally engaged in the several departments in that
branch of trade. From the evidence thus furnished, it ap-
pears that the time occupied in preliminary arrangements,
and the preparations of designs previous to the manufactured
article being presented in the market varies from 6 to 24
months. The majority of those by whom these statements
are furnished asked that a period equivalent to the time
thus consumed may le added to the existing term of protec-
tion, thus extending the whole to five years. My lords direct
me to inform you that, considering a case to have been
shown for the expediency of this extension, instructions
have been given to the officer at the head of the Registry of
Designs to take the necessary steps for extending the copy.
rights of all articles in metal included in class 1, from three
years, as at present, to five years for the future.---T am, gen-
tlemen, your obedient servant, J. EMERSON TENNENT.—
To the Council of the Chamber of Commerce of Birming-
ham and the Midland District."

FATHER DALY'S APOLOGY.—The Galway Vin-
dicator states that the following is an accurate copy of
Father's Daly's apology to Bishop WEvilly :—" I beg
leave to express my sincere regret in not having obeyed th•
mandate of my bishop, issued to me on the 26th December
last, which was preceded by several letters of entreaty and
remonstrance. I have also to express my sincere regret
for having violated, by the public celebration of mass, and
by hearing confession, the suspension inflicted on me by
my bishop. I regret having addressed the people on
Sunday, January 6, in the chapel of Bushy-park, and,
subsequently, in this parish church of St. Nicholas,
en the subject of the suspension. I regret the excite-
ment created in the 11011e0 of God, and in the pub-
lic streets, and, as a minister of religion, I conjure those
who behaved irreverently in presence of the blessed Sacra-
ment, to make reparation for the insults offered to our
blessed Lord in the Sacrament of his Love. I desire to
express my entire disapprobation of the use of language de-
rogatory to the office and authority of my bishop, and of
any line of conduct, or form of expression, on the part of
any person whomsover, calculated to coerce or overawe
those whom alone the Holy Ghost has appointed to govern
the Church of God, in the free exercise of that authority,
confided to them by the exercise of St. Peter, the supreme
visible head of God's Church, the Vicar of Christ upon
earth. Ido hereby request of my bishop, in virtue of the
powers specially delegated to him by the Apostolic See, to
absolve me from the suspension he inflicted on me, and the
irregularities I incurred by its violation."

A letter from Leipzin speaks in high praise of
the remarkable pianoforte playing of Mr. Dannreuther, a
young American, pupil at the Conservatory there.
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A new opera, by Herr Bott, "Anises, the Young
Girl of Corinth," has been produced at the Royal Opera
Donis at Berlin.

This cause, which was orignally tried at Guildhall, was
brought by the plaintiff to recover the sum effected as an
insurance on a ship called the Harbinger. The vessel in
question became disabled and so much damaged during a
voyage that she was compelled to put into Algoa Bay. The
plaintiff claimed for a total loss, and the company, repre-
sented by the defendant, contended it was only a partial
loss. At the trial the decision was in favour of the plain-
tiff. Mr. Botill was about to move for a rule calling upon
the plaintiff to show cause why a new trial should not be
granted, on the ground that the verdict was against evi-
dence, when

The Lord Chief Ju.tice said he was compelled to absent
himself when the case was set down for last week. On that
occasion he had informed his learned brothers, that there
ought be a new rule, and that being so, he thought it would
save time now if the rule was granted without the facts of
the case, which were very lengthy, being entered into.
Rule granted accordingly.

THE CORPORATION OF GREAT YARMOUTH V. GROOM.

Their lordships were occupied the whole of the early part
of the day in hearing the arguments in this case, which
were without the slightest public interest. The principal
point appeared to be the tolls to be levied from the inhabi-
tants of the town of Ipswich for a stall in the market place.
The Court gave its decision in favour of the plaintiffs.

This was an action brought to recover compensation for
injuries received. Ihe defendant contended that the plain-
tiff himself conduced towards the accident.

The defendant was a builder, and a quantity of scaffolding
fell from a building which was going on under his direction,
and the injury complained of was received by the plaintiff.
The defendant said that the plaintiff loosened the mate-
rials by jumping from one part of the scaffolding to the
other.
SHIPPING- I THIS DAY. The jury gave a verdict for the defendant,

THE "LONDINIAD" AND ITS POET.-CURIOUS ♦CTION•-

LIDSTONE V. WALLIS.
This was an action to recoTer for 100 copies of a work
called the " Londiniad."

Plaintiff put in the order signed by defendant, in which
defendant agreed to take 100 copies of the work with a cer-
tain poem, and businet s card inserted.

Defendant said he had a little history to relate to the
court, which would much surprise all present. A gentle-
man called upon defendant, who is the proprietor of a ledger
index lately exhibited by the Society of Arts, and with some
flow of language praised the valuable invention to the skies.
"I have," said the mysterious visitor, "written a poem
upon it—would you like to hear it P" Defendant, of course,
much pleased, listened to the strain, and finally the visit
ended by an order for 100 copies of the " Londiniad," with
poem recited by the visitor, and defendant's busi-
ness card inserted. In course of time the
" Londiniad " arrived, but in only seventy-six
copies was the poem, it being excluded .in the remaining 24.
When defendant read through the book he found to his
amazement that he was not the only inventor of ledger
indices wor, by of a poem, for the " Londiniad's" poet had
called upon his muse to assist him on behalf of other gentle-
men whose works were much lauded.

Defendant, with some gusto and considerable dramatic
accent, read some of the poetry, which provoked great
laughter in court, and his Honour not being satisfied that
the whole 100 copies delivered, contained the poem found
for the defendant, with costs.

PROFESSIONAL MEN AND REPERENTES—DANE V. RIDDLEU.
His Honour said he had asked a dentist to take a reference
in this case, which was about artificial teeth, and the dentist
had refused.

Mr. Buchanan had no objection to omit.
His Honour— I think counsel could take the case as well
ae a dentist.

Mr. Buchanan—Oh, quite.
His Honour—Mr. Gibbons will take it.
Mr. Buchanan and Mr. Langham then conferred, and
agreed that the case should be referred to Mr. Gibbons.

DARING HIGHWAY ROBBERY.—FREQUENT NIGHT
ROBBERIES.—Wm. Angel, a tall, rough-looking fellow,
was charged with the following highway robbery.
Henry James Wessen, a porter at Mr. Burton's, iron-
monger, of Oxford-street, said, that at five minutes past 12
on Saturday night, the prisoner came up to him at the
corner of Goodge-street and asked him an address. He im-
m3diately belt the prisoner's hand at his watch, and the pri-
soner started off, having taken the watch and leaving the
guard dangling. He immediately pursued the prisoner with
the cry of "Si op thief," and while he did so be was twice
bonnetted by men who he bad irdoubt were tae prisoner's
friends, in Pitt street. He afterwards gave the prisoner in
charge in John-street. The watch produced was his pro-
perty.

John Strode, a painter, of 4, Pitt-street, proved hearing
a cry of " Stop thief," and pursuing the prisoner and stop-
ping him.

James Craske, 160 E, said he was informed by a little boy
that a man had been stopped in John-street. On going up
the prosecutor gave the prisoner in charge. He afterwards
received the watch from ihe landlord of No. 87, John-street,
the prisoner in his flight having thrown it down the area.
The prisoner was remanded by Mr. Knox for a week.
FISHING IN THE SERPENTINE.—ASSAULT ON A PARR-
KEEPER.—Henry Ovens was charged with assaulting John
Browning, Hyde-park constable No. 21.

Browning said he stopped the prisoner yesterday morning
at eleven, and told him, he having children with him, that
ho must not fish in the Serpentine. Prisoner said, " What,
do you call this fishing ?" He (witness) took the can away
from one of the children, and then the prisoner made an
attack on him and bit his thumb, and behaved in an ex-
cited manner, and called out to the bystanders to assist
him.

Defendant—l was wheeling a child along at the time in
a perambulator, when the park-keeper came up and said I
hed been fishing. The park-keeper seized a can from the
child to throw it in the water, and I tried to prevent him.
If I had known I was not allowed to fish, I would have
given up the fish at once.

Mr. Knox said when a park-keeper came up to do his
duty he must not be assaulted. It was absurd to talk of
its being an once for little children to catch the fish ;
but he (defendant) had lost his temper, and acted wrongly.
His only fear, when he (the magistrate) went to see for
himself, wee that the little children might fall in. They
did not seem to be in anybody's way. lie had on a former
occasion told the park-keeper to take the sticks and bottles
away, but not to bring the children to the oourt in custody.
The defendant was fined ss.