The Sun.
London, England, 1853-11-08 00:00:00

LIVERPOOL RACES

(THIS DAY.)

(BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.)

TYRO HANDICAP.

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Eleven ran.

INDIA AND CHINA.

(BY SUBMARINE TELEGRAPH.)
TRIESTE, Nov. 8, 8.30 A.M.
The steamer Calcutta has arrived, after a run
of 113 hours, from Alexandria.
The India mail had arrived at Alexandria, with
dates from Calcutta, October 3 ; Bombay, October
14 ; Burmah, September 17 ; and Hongkong,
September 27.
Our troops in Burmah are in a state of siege, and
the country in possession of the followers of Meaton
and other chiefs of equal rank, who give out that
they are acting under the authorities of the King of
Ava. Our steamers are fired upon in going up and
down the river, and the country is becoming a
desert.

M. James Thomason, the celebrated GOvernor of
he Agra Presidency, is d sad. Reports are current
. .

that ;Russian army is invading Kiva and Bochara ;
that Russia has entered into an alliance with Dost
Mahomed and with Persia, and that a large
Persian army has been collected in the, valley of
Sooltania for the purpose of co-operating with
Russia against Turkey.
Trade in India fair. Exchange at Calcutta, 2-1.

Shanghai has been occupied since the 7th of
September by a band of insurgents. At Amoy,
on the 12th Sept., the rebels completely routed a
body of Government troops.
Mexican dollars are to be current in China.
Exchange on London, 7s. 2d. to 7s.

LAW INTELLIGENCE.-(THIN DAY.)

COURT OF EXCHEQUER.
• (Sittings in Banco.)
CROUCH V. THE GREAT NORTHERN RAILWAY COMPANY.
This action was tried before Mr. Justice Erie at
York, when a verdict was found for the plaintiff on all
the pleas, with the exception of the 12th and 14th,
which were found for the defendants.
Mr. Atherton moved, by leave of the learned judge,
to set aside the findings on these two pleas, and to enter
them for the plaintiff. It appeared that the peti-
tioner is by business a carrier and undertaker, to de-
liver small parcels to different places in the pro-
vinces, at a rate lower than is charged by railway
companies. His mode of proceeding is to collect
these, and to make up such as are addressed to a parti-
cular destination into one large parcel familiarly called
"a packed parcel," and to transmit it by railway for the
cost of a single parcel to his agent, who opens it and
sends the conter.ts to the parties to whom they are di-
rected. This practice was demurred to by the railway
company, who thought that it interfered with their le-
gitimate profits, and they augmented the scale of charges
for pickages of the description mentioned. The ques-
tion involved in the 12th and 14th issues on which
the present case turns, has reference to the right of the
company to impose such additional sum, and has been
repeatedly decided by the courts at Westminster, both
for and against railway companies ; but in this instance
an additional ingredient has been introduced, inasmuch
as, in the private act of the company, power is given to
them to demand, in respect of certain small parcels of
great weight, any sum they may think fit to propose.
The Court granted a rule to show cause, intimating
that this particular clause had been "shamefully"
smuggled into the company's private act.
In the course of the argument of Mr. Atherton, it
was discovered that one of the volumes of the Exchequer
library was missing. This excited the displeasure of the
Lord Chief Baron, who observed that, a short time ago,
some books which had been lost for two years were re-
turned to the Court, having, in the interval, been in use
at the Westminster Sessions House, and who intimated
that, if the practice of taking books away from the library
continued, it would be necessary to treat the offence as a
contempt of court.

CITY OF LONDON COMMISSION.

(THIS DAY.)

The Commissioners resumed their inquiry this morn-
ing in the Council Chamber of the Judicial Committee
of the Privy Council. Mr. Acland took up the thread
of his examination where he left it on Friday, and pro-
ceeded to point out the injustice and inconvenience
which attended the management of the Irish estates of
the Corporation. He also dwelt at some length upon
the impolicy of excluding the city from such general
acts as the County Court and other similar acts ; and
stated that the city was often put to the expense of ob-
taining separate acts for matters which had already been
extended to every other part of the country. Mr.
Acland was under examination all day.

MASSACRE OP A BRITISH' CAPTAIN AND
CREW ON THE AFRICAN COAST.

The Castletownsend correspondent of the Ship-
ping Gazette writes on the 3rd
"The schooner heroine, Stafford, of London, arrived
in Castletownsend Harbour about noon this day. This
vessel has been the scene of a tragical event on the coast
of Africa. She sailed from London about 18 months
ago, on a trading voyage to Africa ' her owner, Captain
eormack, being iiiaster. Ile traded with the sing of
Tabou) and his OW1)16 bfi credit to be paid by palm oil,
&c, and) :;ter every exertion, failed in getting what he
was promised. He then took the King and some of his
people and kept them on board of his vessel, until their
put of the toiattact snOuid be fulfilled. The King's
subjeets hilt indignant at this, and were determined to
h',We revenge, and came off in their canoes with a num-
ber of casks filled with water, and only two of palm oil,
and got on board th.e tessel. Poor Captain Cormack was
completely. thrown off his gnard, although well armed,
and *lieu ,in the act ,Of Stdoping dyer the side of the
vessel lcldkiii trite the Canoes, laden With oil as he
thought, he was stabbed from behind by the King's son
and pitched overboard ; they then attacked and mur-
dered the remainder of the crew except one boy from
Ireland, who has rertiained at the Ariieridan settlement
on the tnaSt, iii eiPeaatiOn or gettidg a passage to Ame-
rica, where his father and mother reside.
" The King and his men took the vessel close in
shore, determined to burn her for her copper and iron ;
but in two days after the brig Tweed; Boaden, of Bristol,
chanted to anchor at night at the Same jiladel stud hear-
ing of what had happeneo, went on board and induced
the natives to give her up to him on paying something
for her, and ran her to a place of safety by part of his
crew, and subsequently gave her in eharge to Captain
Stafford., first officer Of the ehatco, of Bristol, to bring
her home With a crew of three white men and Kroomen,
and on the 22nd of October she was dismasted in a
heavy gale near the Western Islands,
" Capt. Stafford deserves great praise for his exer-
tions in getting the vessel to a harbour of safety, con-
tending with heavy gales in his disabled state, and
having nothing to subsist on but salt meat and bread
for a great part of the voyage, and the men being kept
at the pumps almost constantly. It is supposed_ that'
Captain Cormack's widow resides in London."

SERIOUS CASE Or STABBING.—On Saturday ovenitig
a man named Lawson quarrelled with another named
Edward Clarke, at a beershop in George Leigh-street,
Manchester, and they commenced fighting. Lawson
was seen to pull out a knife, and a woman seized his
hand to restrain him, but he contrived to open it with
his teeth, pushed the woman away, and stabbed Clarke
in several parts of the body. The wounded nian was
taken to the Infirmary, and it seems very improbable
that he will recover. Lawson was brought before the
magistrates yesterday and retnanded I
MSLANOIIOtt Dta.tH or LADY LAI4GFORD.The death
of Lady Langford, by drowning, near balbriggan; cotinty
of Dublin, has caused a most Painftil Sensatidn. iter
ladyship had been on a visit At Arcigillan dastle, the re-
sidence of Qolontl taylor, and about one o'clock yester-
day ehn Went, accompanied by her maid, to bathe at the
bathing-place cihnlitated,owsitpeit;;heilcztille by a bridgge near
ft
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te ur tal
caiiieci by tne waves into oeeP wader', ia'nij
drowned before she could be extricated from the violence
of the sea. The deoeaSedladS was the daughter of the ,
late Colon'el.C6nollyi,M.P.i f' - dnegaL
tifithigo§ FORT or LONDON.—In the general
13UsIness of the port of London during the past week
there has been much activitv narticularly in some
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briVnenes of trade, the arrivals,hayiiiis cop!iderattly in.
creased, The number of vesels reported inwards was
20 lUei'e4S4 ,of. lif over the prev,itia weep.
Many Were front the Baltic with timber,
Om. The total quantity a grain rep'ortei IS more than
double that of the previous week, being 76,955 quarters,
ineltiding 49,472 quarterS of Wheat. In addition, there
Welt 6,00,4 )3alil6hi Or Amefiddii, 6,08 Sac ks of
trench and Spanish flout. Of sugar there were reported
11,341 bags, 1,132 htids., and 289 casks; of tea, 17,110
packages;_ of coffee,_soB bags.and 1,764 casks and cases ;
arid of hops 867 bales. The importations of hops during
the last three or four weeks have been larger than for
' many years, owing to the failure in the English hops
this season. The number of vessels cleared outwards
was 125, being 1.9 over the previous week. Of these
27 were in ballast, and 10 for the Australian colonies,
as above stated. The actual exports to those colonies
have diminished t ) a still greater extent than at the last
report: They inciatied 20,460 'yards of cambrics, crapes,
gauzes, &c. ; 211.4671 yards of calicoes, plain and pal-
-41.1151 j jiitittarti es of the declared value of 23;96,2,',