The Sun.
London, England, 1865-02-18 00:00:00

LAW INTELLIGENCE—This Day.

SHERIFFS' COURT.
(Before Mr. Commissioner Kerr.)
THE GLOBE PARCELS EXPRESS COMPANY AND THE CARRIERS'

ACT.-WHEATLEY V. UTROFF.

This was an action to recover £lO for the carriage of
certain goods to Madrid. _

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Mr. 0. B. 0. Harrison appeared for defendant, who paid
£5 into court.

The plaintiff said that he was proprietor of the Globe
Parcels Express Company, and in September last he re-
ceived a parcel for Madrid. Knowing that the expense of
carriage would be very heavy, an estimate was sent in,
and defendant desired the goods to be sent.

Cross-examined —We do not guarantee parcels for
Spain, nor is there any specific timo for goods to reach
Madrid on account of the difficulties with the Spanish
Custom House.

Mr. Harrison—The defendant's answer to this case is
that the goods did not arrive in a reasonable time. The
plaintiff surely cannot be alloWed to set up that ho is not
liable for delay.
His Honour—The effect of the defence will be to com-
pel Mr. Wheatley to put a clause in his agreement with
the public to the effect, that he will not be answerable for
delay.
Plaintiff—We do tell the public so, but it is not put in
the receipt given to the parties.
Mr. Harrison—Then it is not brought to our knowledge.
His Honour—lt certainly ought to have been put in the
contract with defendant.

Mr. Harrison—The goods sent to Madrid were cheese
and biscuits, and though the carriage was just double the
value of the parcel, my client had an object in such parcel
reaching Madrid by a certain time. That object was
frustrated by the delay.
Plaintiff—The goods were detained at the Spanish
Custom House.

His Honour—Here is a letter from the agent at the
Spanish frontier, who states that the goods were detained
at the custom house. There are many points in the case
which should be settled, and I cannot do better than
refer the matter to some gentleman.
Plaintiff and Mr. Harrison both agreed to this, and the
case was referred.

Liverpool Cotton Market—This Day,

Market quiet. Sales, 3,000 or 4,000 bales.

SEIIPPING INTELLIGENCE—This day.

LONDON, Fob. 18.—Wind this day at noon—South-
Westerly; moderate breeze and cloudy weather, with
rain.

PLYMOUTH, Feb. 17.—Wind N.E.—Arrived—Benita,
from Porto Rico for Bremen ; Kate Upham, from Liverpool
for Rio Janeiro.

CLYDE, Feb. 16.—Wind S.E.—Sailed—Ceres, for Mel-
bourne; Antonio, for Havannah.
FALMOUTH, Feb. 17.—Wind N.E.—Arrived—Three
Sisters, from London for Newfoundland, leaky, and with
other damage. Sailed—Violet Swinson, for Nassau.
SOUTHAMPTON, Feb. 17.—Wind S.W.—Sailed—Atrato,
steamer, for the West Indies.
BRISTOL, Feb. 17.—Wind N.E.—Arrived—Jacinto,
from St. Michael's.
KINGROAD, Jan. 17.—Wind N.N.E.—Arrived—Ocean
Empress, from Manilla.
COWES, Feb. 17.—Wind S.W.—Arrived—Catherine,
from Macao. _ _

PORTSMOUTH, Feb. 16.—Wind N.E.—Sailed—Fathero,
for Poole.
NEWPORT, Feb. 17.—Wind S.W.—Arrived—Mary Ann,
and Saladin, from Bilboa.
SWANSEA, Feb. 17.—Wind S.W.—Sailed—Claudine, for
Valparaiso.
QUEENSTOWN, Feb. 17.—Wind S.W.—Arrived—Glas-
gow, steamer, from New York, and proceeded for
Liverpool.

(BY MAGNETIC TELEGRAPH.)
GRAVESEND, Saturday Morning.
Arrived, Feb. 18—Moselle, steamer, from Antwerp.
DEAL, Saturday Morning.

Passed—Strathmore, from Cochin ; Zeolite, schooner,
from the west ; Northumberland, ship, from Singapore ;
Braintree, from Algoa, Bay ; Hero of the Nile, from Ceylon
—all for London ; Delta, screw steamer, from London, for
Bordeaux.

THE BALL AT THE PALMS ROYAL—The ball
given on Saturday last at the Palais Royal by P;in-
c,ess Clotilde and Print° Napoleon is still the talk of the
day. This is the first entertainment of the kind witnessed
within those walls for many years, and the suites of apart-
ments having been lately new furnished and restored, much
curiosity was felt by the beau monde of Paris to penetrate
within and judge of the taste which had presided over the ar-
rangements. These are declared to be perfect. Upwards of
24 saloons and galleries barely sufficed for the accommoda-
tion and free circulation of the two thousand and two or
three hundred guests, who, by dint of petitioning and im-
portunity, had succeeded in extending to themselves the
1,500 invitations originally issued out. Tho Prince and
Princess did tho honours admirably, their palace being
converted, through the myriads of lights and lustres
which lighted it up, and shrubs and flowers which
adorned it, into a perfect palace of the " Arabian
Nights," with its illusions of fairy effects. Not the
least interesting of the saloons was that containing
many relics of the great Napoleon, which had passed
into the hands of his brother Hrome, and thence into
those of the latter's son, and at one time formed part of
Prince Napoleon's collection in his Pompeian villa, Avenue
de Montaigne. Another smaller room is fitted up in imita-
tion of that in which the founder of the dynasty was born
at Ajaccio, and contains, in fact, the self-same meubles. Ono
part of a voluminous library is also entirely devoted to works
connected with the life and history of the first Napoleon,
while in the saloon styled salon des six bastes are placed six
heads of the first Napoleon, executed at various epochs
of his life—when a collegian at Brienne, at the head of the
armies of Italy, as Consul and then Emperor, at the
Tuileries, and, finally, at the close of his chequered career,
as a prisoner at St. Helena. The resemblance of the heads
of the uncle and 313 phew was most striking, and did not
fail to draw forth many observations from the bystanders.
The artistic taste of the possessor is easily to be recognised
in the details of the palace, which abounds in pictures,
statues, and objets d'art of every description.—Paris Cor-
respondent of' The Queen.
The PANTELEGRAPH.—We have several times had
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to another the words of a despatch, but the very hand-
writing of the person that sends it. As this new telegraphic
system is now beginning to receive a practical application
on a large scale, a description of the apparatus may not be
uninteresting to our readers. Imagine a cast iron frame
shaped like an A, and a pendulum suspended from its apex.
At each foot of the frame there is an olectro-magnet, through
the action of which the pendulum, which is two metres in
length, oscillates between them, according as an electric cur-
rent passes from one to the other. About the middle of the
shaft of the pendulum there is a sort of arm or cam,
which, at each oscillation, causes a lever fixed to the cross-
bar of the Ato describe a circular arc. At the end of each
oscillation, this lever twice meets a click-and-spring work
fixed to the same cross-bar; at the first stroke the metallic
vibration is interrupted, and at the second a fork is set in
motion, the prongs of which alternately set on the teeth of
ratch, which is thus forced to turn, and in so doing com-
municates motion to an endless screw cut, into its own
shaft. This endless screw causes two small chariots
to move simultaneously : each chariot carries a fine
still point or stylus. Now as, in virtue of the endless
screw, these two points move uniformly in the same direc-
tion, the progress of one not differing from that of the
other even by a hair's breadth, it follows that what-
ever stroke will be described by the one, will
he imitated with mathematical exactness by the other.
Now, suppose a metallic plate to be placed under each point,
these plates being curved like the circular arcs described by
the points, then, after a certain number of oscillations of the
pendulum, these points in moving along will have described
upon the plates as many parallel lines infinitely close to
each other as there have been oscillations ; hence the whole
surface of the plates has been gone over. The plates are in
direct communication with the ground by means of chains,
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upon the tin, the electric fluid will escape into the earth ;
but no sooner does it meet the ink of the writing, which is
a non-conductor, than the fluid, not finding an escape there,
will seek it along the wire which connects the two points
together. Thus the point which works on the chemical
paper of the recipient will produce a blue stroke on the
latter for every black stroke on the despatch ; for steel in
contact with cyanide of potassium, and under the influence
of a positive current, produces blue. Hence, supposing the
despatch to have been written in black in Paris, and trans-
mitted to Lyons, the correspondent at the lattef place it ill
receive, in blue, the exact fan-simile of the sender's hand-
writing. An order to pay a certain sum may thus be trans-
mitted with perfect safety.

SNOWBALL RIOTS ON THE Livtnroor, EXCHANGE
FLAGS.— On Thursday and yesterday snow fell
heavily in the middle of the day at Liverpool, and a num-
ber of young fellows having begun to snowball each other,
a general meke on both days ensued. A force of police
was marched on to the flags, and were subjected to a
severe buffeting. They charged in line, but the line was
speedily broken, and every rioter taken into custody was
speedily rescued. Yesterday hose were brought on to the
flags, and the water turned on to wash the snow away.
Mischievous people, however, cut the hose, and the water
streaming around and into thci mob added to the confusion.
Throughout, however, the most marked good humour was
observable both on the part of the "public" and of the
police.