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THE SUN, (14,04D0N, SATURDAY *EVENING, FEBRUARY 4, 185 4.

LAW .IN'

Feb. 3,

proceed by railway to Plymouth for embarkation and ser-
vice in the James Watt, 90, screw steam-ship, recently
commissioned by Captain George Elliditt, at Devonport.

COURT OF EXCHEQUER.

(Sittings at Nisi Prins at Westminster—Before the Chief
Baron and Common Juries.)
TAYLOR V. CROWLAND GAS COMPANY.
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ROYAL ARSENAL.
The greatest activity prevails in every department of
this great naval and military establishment. Colonel W.
Cator, Director-General of Artillery, Colonel J. A. Chal-
mer, Inspector of Artillery, Lieutenant-Colonel W. H.
Pickering, Assistant Director General of Artillery, Lieu-
tenant-Colonel Wilson, Director of the Laboratory, and
Lieutenant-Colonel Alexander Tnlloch, Inspector of the
Royal Carriage department, have been for the past fort-
night on a tour in the provinces, and have extended their
journey as far as Aberdeen.

,
Mr. Chambers and another learned gentleman appeared
for the plaintiff, and Mr. Watson and Mr. Digby Sey-
mour for the defendants.

This was an action to recover the sum of 321. for services
rendered by the plaintiff, who had formerly practised as a
solicitor at Crowland, for services wich he had rendered
as secretary to the directors of the Crowland Gas Com-
pany. It appeared that at the time of the company being
provisionally registered, the defendants sent the plaintiff
51., and subseqnentiy 101. more during his illness. A Mr.
Blood was appointed to succeed the plaintiff before ho
was told that the directors had dispensed with his ser-
vices.

The jury found for the plaintiff for 411. in addition to
the 15/. which had been paid.

THE GREAT EXTRA-MURAL BURIAL ASSOCIATION V.

ADAMS,

This was an action to recover the sum of 1,6501., being
the first call of 3/. per share on 550 shares in the Great
Extra-mural Burial Association. The secretary stated that
the defendant had executed the deed of settlement, that
the company was still in existence, and the bill would be
before Parliament this session.
Mr. Pollock, who appeared for the defendant, did not
offer any defence ; and the verdict was accordingly entered
for the amount claimed.

CONSISTORY COURT.
(Before Dr. Lushington.)
WEA.THERLEY V. WEATHERLEL-DIVORCE.

On the admission of the libel in this case, the novel
point arose whether it was competent to plead ante-nuptial
incontinency, by way of corroboratory proof of subsequent
adultery with the same party.
Dr. Dasent argued against the admission of the disputed
articles, and Dr. R. Phillimore in their support.
Dr. Lushington said the point was one of great import-
ance, and he should therefore take time to consider his
judgment.

ADMIRALTY COURT.
(Before Dr. Lushington.)
THE ARAHINTA.-SUBTRACTION OF WAGES.

This was a suit brought by three seamen, named Hart,
Stafford, and Shelton, against the owners of the ship
Araminta, to recover the'sum of 8/. 10s. each, which had
been deducted from their wages under the following cir-
cumstances :—The ship sailed from Liverpool with a crew
of thirty men, who were nuclei articles to take the ship
out and bring her home. When they arrived at Gee-
long the master permitted most of his crew to go for a
certain time to the diggings, and they accordingly pro-
ceeded to Ballarat, where they met with tolerable suc-
cess. Fifteen of them, however, refused to return,
and the remainder, after some dispute, were in-
duced to take the ship into Bombay, the master agreeing
to divide the wages of the 1i deserters among them. In
the course of the voyage he calculated what would have
been due to the recusants, minus what he had advanced
to them for their outfit to the diggings, and he then divided
'the money, 8/. 10s. per head, amongst the sailors ; bat when
the ship returned home the owners thought fit to treat this
as an advance, and to stop it out of their wages. Hence
the present suit.

On the part of the defence it was alleged that the men
had been guilty of insubordination, and that the owners
were entitled to their services out and home for the sum
stipulated in the articles.
The Queen's Advocate and Dr. Spinks appeared for the
sailors ; Drs. Addams and Twiss for the owners.
The Court took time to consider its judgment.

BUCKINGHAM PALACE, JAN. 30.
This day had audience of the Queen—Narvik Pacha,
accompanied by Monsieur Muslims, Envoy Extraordinary
and Minister Plenipotentiary from his Imperial Majesty
the Sultan ; to which audience his Excellency was intro-
duced by the Earl of Clarendon, K.G., her Majesty's
Principal State for Foreign Affairs, and conducted by
Major-General the Hon. Sir Edward Oust, K.C.H, Master
of the Ceremonies.
PRINCE OF WALES'S COUNCIL-CHAMBER,
SOMERSET-HOUSE, JAN. 31.
Francis Howell, of Ethy House, in the county of Corn-
wall, Esq., has been appointed Sheriff of the county of
Cornwall.

DUCHY OF LANCASTER, FEB. 2.
The Queen has been this day pleased to appoint Richard.
Fort, of Red Hall, Esq., to be Sheriff for the county pala-
tine of Lancaster for the year ensuing.
BOARD OF TRADE, WHITEHALL, FEB. 1.
The Right Hon. the Lords of the Committee of Privy
Council for Trade and Plantations have received, through
the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, a copy of a
despatch from her Majesty's Consul at Lisbon, reporting
that the Board of Health at that place has declared Vigo
to be infected with cholera.
BOARD OF TRADE, WHITEHALL, FEB. 1.
The Right Hon. the Lords of the Committee of Privy
Council for Trade and Plantations have received, through
the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, a copy of a de-
spatch from her Majesty's Consul-General at Christiania,
enclosing a notice issued by the Royal Norwegian Marine
Department, declaring that, in consequence of malignant
cholera having ceased to exist in the country, vessels arriv-
ing from foreign infected ports will be subjected to the
Norwegian regulations in operation before the infection
broke out.
BOARD OF TRADE, WHITEHALL, FEB. 2.
The Right Honourable the Lords of the Committee of
Privy Council for Trade and Plantations have received,
through the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, a copy
of a despatch from Her Majesty's Consul-General in Chili,
enclosing a Translation of a Decree authorising the Estab-
lishment of Bonded Warehouses at the Port of Talcahuano
(the Harbour of Concession), of which the following is an
extract :
Art. I. From the Ist of January, 1854, Goods may be
deposited in the Custom House of the Port of Talcahuano
upon the same terms as that in Valparaiso, according to the
Customs Ordinances.
Art. 11. The Collector of the Customs of Talcahuano
will contract for those Stores, belonging to private indi-
viduals, which are to be rented for the purposes and de-
posit of Goods, according to the foregoing Article.
BOARD OF TRADE, WHITEHALL, FEB. 2.
The Right Hon. the Lords of the Committee of Privy
Council for Trade and Plantations have received, through
the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, a copy of a
despatch from Her Majesty's Consul-General at Warsaw,
reporting the prohibition from exportation from Poland
of certain articles of food, as follows :
Art. I. It is prohibited, from and after the Ist January,
1854 (20th December, 1853, 0.5.), until the 13th of Aug.
following, to export beyond the frontiers of the kingdom,
rye, barley, oats, every description of flour, all kinds of
grits (" kasza") and potatoes.
Art. 11. Are exempted from the foregoing prohibition
all articles above named, if coming from the empire of
Russia, or passing through the kingdom of Poland, in
transit from other states ; and also such and every of the
said articles, being the produce of this kingdom, if inten-
ded bona fide for the city of Cracow, and as such passing
through the Custom House of Michalowice.
WAR-OFFICE, FEB. 3.
Ist Regiment of Life Guards—Troop Corporal-Major
Hugh Hanly to be Quartermaster, vice Binnie, deceased,
Feb. 3.
4th Dragoon Guards—Luke Byrne, Gent., to be Veteri-
nary Surgeon, vice Rainsford, who retires upon half-pay,
Feb. 3.
3d Light Dragoons—Brevet-Major Walter Unett to be
Major, by purchase, vice Brevet Lieutenant-Colonel Yer-
bury, who retires ; Lieutenant Charles Russell Colt to be
Captain, by purchase, vice Unett ' • Cornet Edward Howard
Vyse to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Colt, Feb. 3.
12th Light Dragoons—Veterinary Surgeon Thos. Hur-
ford, from the 15th Light Dragoons, to be Veterinary Sur-
geon, vice Thacker, who exchanges, Feb. 3.
15th Light Dragoons Veterinary - Surgeon William
Thacker, from the 12th Light Dragoons, to be Veterinary -
Surgeon, vice Hurford, who exchanges, Feb. 3.
14th Regiment of Foot—Assistant-Surgeon Thomas
Macdougall Bleckley, from tho Staff, to be Assistant-Sur-
geon, Feb. 3.
17th Foot—Walter Moses Gibaut, Gent., to be Assistant-
Surgeon, Feb. 3.
19th Foot—Lieutenant Hugh Francis Massy to be Cap-
tain, by purchase, vice G. V. Macdonald, who retires;
Ensign Henry Ladbrooke Weller Clarke to be Lieutenant,
by purchase, vice Massy ; Ensign George Dickson Thomas
Stockwell, from the 46th Foot, to be Ensign, vice Clarke,
Feb. 3.
20th Foot—Lieutenant George Shirley Maxwell, from
the 47th Foot, to be Lieutenant, vice Maycouk, who ex
changes, Feb. 3.

35th Foot—John Newbold Wilson, Gent., to be Ensign,
by purchase, vice Chaplin, appointed to the 56th Foot,
Feb. 3.

39th Foot—Assistant-Surgeon John Halyburton Ross,
31.8., from the Staff, to be Assistant-Surgeon, Feb. 3.
44th Foot—Ensign Richard Fitzßichard Eyre, to be
Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Deriug, why retires ; Joseph
Logan, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, Tice Eyre,
Feb. 3.

46th Foot Lieutenant John Hickinbotham Cham-
bers, to be Captain, by purchase, vice Dickins, who
retires ; Ensign Niiholas Dunscombe to be Lieute-
nant, by purchase, vice Chambers; Henry Lawson,
Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Stockwell, ap-
pointed to the 19th Foot, Feb. 3. Edward Hawker Hel-
yar, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Dunscombe,
Feb. 4.
47th Foot—Lieutenant John Gittens Maycock, from the
20th Foot. to be Lieutenant, vice Maxwell, who ex-
changes, Feb. 3.
49th Foot—Major John Weech Randolph, from half-pay
Unattached, to be Major (repaying the difference), vice
Hart, who exchanges; Capt. Charles Thomas Powell to be
Major, by purchase, vice Randolph who retires ; Lieut.
William Whitaker Maitland, to be Captain, by purchase,
vice Powell ; Ensign William Watts Conan, to be Lieu-
tenant, by purchase, vi e Maitland ; George Kemp Chat-
field, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Corban,
Feb 3.

56th Foot—Lieut.-Colonel James Richard Rotton, from
half-pay Unattached, to be Lieut.-Colonel, vice Brevet-
CoPawl Eden, who exchanges ; Major Soulden Oakeley to
be Lieut.-Colonel, by purchase, vice Rotton, who retires ;
Captain Samuel Symes Cox to be Major, by purchase, vice
Oakeley ; Lieut. Henry John To! :her to be Captain, by
purchase, vice Cox ; Ensign Richard Jones Hobson to be
Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Tolcher ; Ensign Clifford
Waterman Chaplin, from the 35th Foot, to be Ensign, vice
Hobson, Feb. 3.
67th Foot—Richard Edwyn Barry, Gent., to be Ensign,
by purchase, vice Cameron, who retires, Feb. 3.
89th Foot—Assistant-Surgeon Thomas Frederick Wall,
from the Staff; to be Assistant-Surgeon, Feb. 3.
Rifle Brigade—First Lieutenant John Ross to be Adju-
tant, vice Peter Macdonald, who resigns the Adjutancy,
Feb. 3.
2d West India Regiment—Major Henry Wase Whitfield,
to be Lieutenant-Colonel, without purchase, Feb, 3.
Gold Coast Corps—To be Lieutenants, without purchase
—Ensign and Adjutant Edward Hill, Ensign John Eve-
rani Deane. Ensign Charles Fox Duke, Feb. 3.
To be Ensigns, without purchase—Schoolmaster-Ser-
geant George Pasco, from the 17th Foot, vice Hill, Feb.
3 ;BGREeovrEgr.—
eChxrar John Weech Randolph, aikjoe, Gent, viceDeaßnae,Foelbp.h4;
of
the
49th
Foot, to be Lieutenant-Colonel in the Army, Nov. 11 ;
Captain Jame 4 Garner Holmes, of the 49th Regiment of
Bengal Native Infantry, to have the rank of Major in the
Army in the East Indies, May 9.
UNATTACHED.—Lieutenant and Adjutant Peter Mac-
donald, from the Rifle Brigade, to be Captain, without
purchase, Feb. 3.

COMMISSIONS SIGNED BY LORD LIEUTENANTS.
County of Nottingham Sydney Wm. Herbert Pierre-
pont, Esq., commonly called. Viscount Newark, to be
Deputy Lieut. ; John Evelyn Denison, Esq., to be Deputy-
Lieutenant ; Henry Sherbrooke, Esq., to be Deputy Lieu-
tenant; John Henry Manners Sutton, Esq., to be Deputy
Lieutenant ; Wm. Hodgson Barrow, Esq.,to be Deputy
Lieutenant ; Edward Valentine Pegge Burnell, Esq., to
be Deputy Lieutenant ; John Handley the younger, Esq.,
to be Deputy Lieutenant • Thomas Dickenson Hall, Esq.,
to be Deputy Lieutenant; Charles Paget, Esq., to be
Deputy Lieutenant; Robert Warrand, Esq., to be Deputy
Lieutenant ; Samuel William Welfitt, Esq., to be Deputy
Lieutenant.
Carmarthenshire Royal Regiment of Militia—Lloyd
Price, Gent., to be Second Lieutenant, vice Thomas, pro-
moted ; Henry Byers Jeffries, Gent., to be Second Lieu-
tenant, vice Lewis' resigned.
Ist Regiment of the Royal Surrey Militia—To be Lieu-
tenant—Horace Devas, Esq., Jan. 24:

BANKRUPTS.
Thomas Davis and Wm. W. G. Garrett, export oilmen,
Oxford'-street, to surrender, Feb. 11, at half-past one, and
' March 29, at one, at the Court. of Bankruptcy. Nichol-
, son, official assignee, Basinghall-street ; Wheelock, Chan-
cery-lane.
George Lambourn, timber merchant, Taplow, Berkshire,
Feb. 15, at two, and March 14, at eleven, at the Court of
Bankruptcy. Graham, official assignee ; Linklater, Sise-
lane ; Micklem, Maidenhead, Berks.
Joseph Francis, baker, Manchester, Feb. 14, and March
7, at twelve, at the Manchester District Court. Fraser,
official as ignee, Manchester ; Boote, Manchester.
James Osborne, tailor and draper, Kidderminster, Feb.
15, and March 15, at eleven, at the Birmingham District
Court. Bittleston, official assignee, Birmingham ; Boycot
and Tudor, Kidderminster.
Thomas Honey, grocer, Launceston, Feb. 14 and March
9, at one, rt the Exeter District Court. Hirtzel, official
assignee, Exeter; Bishop and Pitts, Exeter.
Henry Shead, miller, Witham, Feb. 14, at one, and
March 20, at twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Lee,
official assignee, Moorgate-street; Stevens and Satchell,
Queen-street, Cheipside ; Banks and Stevens, Witham.
Daniel William Lucas and Isaac Dods, hemp and flax
merchants, Arthur-street West, Feb. 14, at two, and
March 20, at one, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Edwards,
official assignee, Sambrook-court ; Parnell and Willaume,
New Broad-street.
Henry Allen, chemist and druggist, Stokes Croft, Bris-
tol, Feb. 14 and March 14, at eleven,atjthe Bristol District
Court. Miller, Bristol, official assignee ; Bevan and
Goring, Bristol.
Thomas Norbury and Richard Blindloss, silk manufac-
turers, Manchester, Feb. 20, and March 27, at twelve, at
the Manchester District Court. Fraser, official assignee,
Manchester ; Sale, Worthington, and Shipman, Man-
chester.

James Paul, sen., brewer Portsea, Feb. 17, at half-
past twelve, and March 17, at half-past eleven, at the
Court of Banlumptcy. Cannan, official assignee, Alder-
manbuiy ; Wigan, Fnrnival's-inn, Holborn.

SCOTCH SEQUESTRATIONS.
James Hamilton, lace manufacturer, Hamilton.
Robert Hutcheson, boot and shoemaker, Tradeston,
Glasgow. _ _

Thomas Jenkins, machine maker, Arbroath.
John Buchan, spirit dealer, Glasgow.
DIVIDENDS DECLARED.
Joseph Heath, of Chesham, Buckinghamshire, chemist,
first dividend of 6s. id. in the pound, payable at 18, Ald-
ermanbury, City, on any Aronday.
Charles Scott Rendle, of 4, Brook-terrace, Old Kent- NOVEL PATENT.—Among the new patents announced
road, and Briiton-hill, Surrey, blot manufacturer, first in last night's Gazette, is
one to Adolphus Theodore
dividend of 2s. 7jd. in the pound, payable at 18, Alder- Wagner, of Berlin, in the kingdom of Prussia, professor
manbury, City, on any Monday. of music, for the invention of "a psychograph or appa-
Damel Keith and Thomas Shoobridge, of 124, Wood- ratus for indicating, persons' thoughts by the agency of
street, Cheapoide, warehonsemen, third dividend of 24d. ' nervous electricity. '

THE LONDON GAZETTE OF LAST NIGHT. in the pound, at 76A, Basinghall-street, on Thursday,
February 9, and three following Thursdays.
Francis English, of Manchester, power-loom cloth manu-
facturer, first dividend of lOs 641. in the pound, payable
at 45, George street, Manchester, on Tuesday, February
14, and any subsequent Tuesday.
Robert Thorman, of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, engine
builder, second and final dividend of ls. 6id. in the pound,
payable at 21, Royal-arcade, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, on
Saturday, February 11, and any following Saturday.
Wm. Cantrell, of Belper, Derbyshire, chemist, a divi-
dend of 3s. 34d. in the pound, payable at the County
Court-office, Belper.
John Whicker, of Southleigh, beer-house keeper, a
dividend of 4s. 10Id., in the pound, payable at the County
Court-office, Honiton.
DIVIDENDS TO BE DECLARED.
James Figg Wright, of Deptford, Kent, clerk, February
25 James Henry Lemere, of Mallon, Essex, draper, Feb.
25—George Brooks, Pettit, of 17, Brook-street, St. Pan-
cras, and 10, Upper St. Martin's-lane, ironmonger, Feb.
25 Henry William Hemsworth, of Primrose-street,
Bishopsgate-street, wine merchant, March 2—Thomas Pope,
of Kidbroke, Kent, cowkeeper, Feb. 25—William Rains
Collins, of herstow, Monmouthshire, grocer, March 3
James Leader, of Liverpool, slater, Feb. 27—John Simp-
son Leake, of Wheelock, Cheshire, salt merchant, Feb. 24
—Edward Brookfield, of Woodcott. Cheshire, farmer, Feb.
24—J. Marlow, of Walsall, Staffordshire, iron founder,
March 7—James Warner, of Tipton, Staffordshire, flour
dealer, March B—James Ibbetson, of Bradford, Yorkshire,
bookseller, Feb. 24—Thomas Avison, late of Leeds, York-
shire, stone merchant, Feb. 24—Richard Jackson and
Richard Yale, of Leeds, Yorkshire, engineers, Feb. 24.
CERTIFICATES TO BE GRANTED.
Thomas Chapman, jun., of Chenies-street, Tottenham-
court-road, and Great George-street, Euston-square, dairy-
man, Feb. 27—George Turner, of North Brixton and
Wandsworth, baker, Feb. 27—Robert Mooney, of 13 and
14, Pleasant row, Holloway-road, and 4, Cropley-street,
Hoxton New Town, tea dealer, Feb. 24—Moses Draper, of
288 and 163, High-street, Southwark, and Ramsgate, Kent,
straw bonnet maker, Feb. 27—John Innell, of Weston,
Herefordshire, out of business, Feb. 27—Robert Alfred
Dorrington, Manchester,-woollen cloth manufacturer, Feb.
28—James Win ieyer Lowty, William Henry Partridge,
and Edmund Lewty, of Wilden, Worcestershire, iron and
tin-plate workers, March 2.
INSOLVENT PETITIONERS.
John Terry, of Brighton, Sussex, baker —Wm. Holds-
worth Bakes, of Halifax, Yorkshire, innkeeper—William
Dyer, of Holton St. Mary, Suffolk, out of ousiness—Joseph
Henry Wiggins, of Attleborough, Warwickshire, gentle-
man—Charles Carter, of Mahlon' Essex, ironmonger—
William Newman Webb, of East Brighton, Suffolk, gen-
tleman.