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THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, JUNE 7, 1854.

worldly-minded mother. What he got by mar-
riage was in some degree "self-acquired." There
was what the law deemed "a valuable considera-
tion." He should have some unmistakeable evidences
of Royal favour. Accordingly, two pensions were
given, one charged on the Post-office revenue, the
other on the " Beer-tax." These charges amount-
ing in the aggregate to 10,7001., have been duly
paid for One Hundred and Seventy-two years,
and, as we have stated, the receipts have amounted
at compound interest to no less than TWELVE
HUNDRED AND FIFTY MILLIONS OF POUNDS ster-
ling. This it is which arrangements have been
made to purchase--arrangements to which the
legislative sanction is indispensable. It is for the
public to say whether the guardians of their
purse shall give that sanction. They can judge
for themselves on the simple facts above 'elated I

LAW INTELLIGENCE.-(TBIS DAY.)

COURT OF QUEEN'S BENCH.

(Sittings in Banco.—Before Lord Campbell, Mr. Justice
Erle, and Mr. Justice Crompton.)

THE QUEEN V. HARRISON.-EIGHTS OB NAVIGATING THE

RIVER BY NON•FREEMEN OF THE WATERMEN AND

LIGHTERMEN'S COMPANY.

This case came on in the shape of a special appeal, for
the opinion of the Court upon the construction of the
acts governing watermen, lightermen, and wherrymen,
to navigate boats, vessels, and wherries upon the River
Thames, between Windsor and Yantlet Creek.
The defendant in this case had been convicted by Mr.
Ingham, magistrate at the Thames Police-court, for
navigating a steam-tug, he not being a freeman of the
Watermen and Lightermen's Company. The offence
he had committed was that of having towed The Pacha
of Egypt packet from l3lackwall to Gravesend, he not
being a freeman of the said company. The appeal had
not been carried to the Quarter Sessions, but had by
consent been made special.
Sir F. Thesiger, who appeared to support the appeal
against Mr. Ingliams's conviction, contended that the
Legislature never contemplated that large vessels should
be governed by this act, which, although it set forth,
wherries, lighters, and other craft, did not include
steam-tugs which were used for a special purpose.
Mr. Ballantino having been heard in support of the
conviction,

Lord Campbell said that he was clearly of opinion
that this conviction could not stand. There was no
doubt the Legislature intended to include a steam-tug
within the meaning of the act, but this was not a ves-
sel employed to carry goods or passengers, and it was
never intended that the act should give a monopoly to
the Watermen's Company, and extend their functions to
those which did not belong to them.
M r. Justice Erie was of opinion that the penalty could
not be recovered, as the defendant had not navigated a
lighter, wherry, or other craft within the meaning of
the act. A steam tug might be called a craft, but it
was evident that, used for the purpose it was, namely,
to tow the hull of a vessel down the river, did not come
within the intention of the Legislature.
Mr. Justice Crompton said he entirely concurred with
his learned brothers, and thought that no penalty could
be recovered.
The appeal was alloWed, without costs.

COURT OF BANKRUPTCY.
(Mr. Commissioner Fane was the Commissioner of the
day, but the only cases were audit meetings not requir-
ing the attendance of his Honour).

SECONDARIES COURT.
(Before Mr. Secondary Potter.)

THE GAREAS LEAD MINE.-COLLINS AND OTHERS T. COX.
The plaintiffs in this case represent the Garras Lead
Mining Company, near Tavistock, and the action was
brought to recover the value of a certain rope, which
defendant by allowing judgment to go without pleading,
admitted he had unlawfully converted to his own use.
Mr. Harcourt and Mr. West appeared for the com-
pany._.

- It did not appear from the statement of the learned
counsel how defendant became possessed of the rope,
but as he had not pleaded the only question was the
damage sustained.

Mt:: Harcourt submitted, on the authority of cases
Harrison v. Harrison, and Carrington v. Payne, that in
an action for trover, which was merely to recover the value
of property unlawfully converted, and without requiring
contingent damages the plaintiff was entitled to the
fullest vaiue. The learned counsel rather humorously
put the case to the jury, and said the action was not
for special damage, but as the plaintiffs could not get an
old rope to suit, they were entitled to a new rope, at the
present rate of prices, which have considerably increased
since the war.

Mr. J. Diamond, Mr. Fos, and other mining agents,
were called to prove the value.
The Learned Secondary, in addressing the jury, said
he was always inclined to tell the jury that in such
cases they should take a liberal view. for, in many in-
stances, the intrinsic value of an article might be light,
but the loss might be severely felt.
The Jury gave a verdict for 601., being the amount
estimated by the witnesses.

LATEST FOREIGN NEWS.

THE WAR.
THE SIEGE OF SILISTRIA.

VIBNNA, Tuesday Morning, June 6.—Divers
private despatches from Bucharest state that
the Russian loss in the affair at Silistria, on the
28th, was 186 killed and 379 wounded.. General
Silvan was killed, and Colonel Costanda and Count
Orloff, jun., severely wounded. The latter was
shot through the eye.

Under date of Sebumla, May 31, the Presse
says :—" On the night between the 29th and 30th
the Turks made a sortie from Silistria. There was
a fearful carnage. The Russians lost from 1,500
1,800 killed."

A letter from Bucharest, of the 2d June, says
that the Russians have taken possession of some of
the outworks of Silistria.

The Ost Deutsche Post says that since the 2d
inst. Silistria has been completely invested by the
Russia's, and that 3,000 Russians were advancing
on the road to Basardschik.

The Moniteur of this morning publishes a tele-
graphic despatch from Belgrade, dated June 5,
which confirms the news of the recent success of
the Turks at Silistria, but gives May 27 as the
date of the engagement. There werel,soo Russians
slain and 3,000 wounded.

The Moniteur announces that Mussa Pasha,
Commander-in-Chief of Silistria, addressed to Omer
Pasha on the 24th of May the letter of which we
give a translation below. It will be seen that it
confirms and developes the accounts given by the
telegraph relative to the energetic resistance made
by the place. It will also be recollected that news
of a more recent date by a week made known that
the resistance of Silistria continued on the 29th
with the same success :

" SILISTRIA, May 21.—Yesterday (Saturday) the
Russians sent a few troops against the outerworks. We
made it our duty to repulse them, and we succeeded,
thanks to the valour of our soldiers, after having expe-
rienced a slight loss. The Russians had more than 150
men killed and a great number wounded.
" To-day (Sunday) the Russians have again attacked
the external fortifications. During the action two Cir-
cassian Mussulnians, lieutenants of cavalry, named
Osman and Hassan, left their posts and passed over to
us, induced by their love of Islamism, to make us ac-
quainted with the projects and movements of the Rus-
sians. According to their statement, the enemy
marched upon Shistria with three corps d'armee.
"To-day (Sunday) they propose to carry Stiistria, or
to annihilate their troops, and they are snaking every
arrangement to carry their intentions into effect. At
-the moment I write the enemy seems disposed to at-
tempt a general attack upon the outerworks. The fire
from the ramparts, however, preventing the enemy from
approaching, he has ordered his battalions to halt
beyond the reach of cannon shot. As for us, our troops
have been stationed and spread about the fortifications,
in order to enable them to sustain the shock and to
repel it."

CONSTANTINOPLE.

CONSTANTINOPLE, May 30.—Sir George Brown,
with a division of the Rifles and 7,000 men, left
yesterday for Varna. Mehemet Pacha, formerly
ambassador at London, replaces the Grand Vizir.
Halil Pacha is appointed Capudan Pacha.

SEMLIN, June 6.—A Tartar has arrived from
Constantinople with the following news (without
dates):—The Minister of Marine, Mehemet Pacha,
is appointed Grand Vizir, in lieu of Mustapha
Pacha, who is dismissed. Halil Pacha is appointed
Capudan

From Vienna we learn that there has been a
change of Ministers at Constantinople.
Mehemet Pasha, recently Minister of Marine,
and formerly Ambassador in London, has been
appointed Grand Vizier.

Halil Pasha, brother-in-law of the Sultan, suc-
ceeds Mehemet Pasha as Minister of Marine.

THE DANUBE.

Intelligence received from Belgrade of the sth,
at noon, states that the Pasha of Widdin writes
that on the 31st of May an affair took place at Sla-
ting, where the Russians, with 2,000 men and four
guns, held a position in front of the bridge across
the Aluta.

When the Turks advanced to observe their poFd-
tion. the Russians attacked them, but the Turks,
taking the offensive, killed about 600 of the enemy,
and took the four guns, besides some prisoners.

Russian fleet, defied in its ports, has not dared to leave
them for the purpose of avenging that check ; that it is
interdicted, under pain of capture, to the Russian flag
henceforth to plough the waters of tlte Black Sea, which
hitherto the Czar has put forth the pretension of making
a Muscovite lake ; if one considers, in fine, that all the
Russian possessions on the coast of Circassia have been
destroyed or abandoned, and that, consequently, the
dank of the Russian army in Asia finds itself uncovered,
one cannot help acknowledging that the first phase of
the operations of the squadrons already produced
results which are pretty notable, all to the advantage of
the Western Powers, and all to the detriment of the
Russian influence in the Black Sea.—l am, with respect,
ace.

" HAMELIN,
" Vice-Admiral, Commander-in-Chief of the
Black Sea Squadron."
The following letter from the Black Sea fleet
gives its latest movements, and some further par-
ticulars of the ill-fated Tiger
4' CONSTANTINOPLE, May 25.
"The English and French fleets, with the exception
of the Agamemnon, Highflyer, Sampson, Mogador, and
Charlemagne, arrived at Baltschik on the morning of
the 20th ult. to water. The Turkish squadron is at an-
chor there also. The Inflexible was sent to Varna for
bullocks for the squadron. A few cases of scurvy have
made their appearance in the Vengeance. The Retri-
bution arrived at Varna on the 20th with despatches
from Rear-Admiral Lyons. Before leaving the ad-
miral, she captured two vessels off Ghelinjik, with
troops on board, and sixty-five women and children.
The latter were landed, together with those who
were sick and wounded among the troops. The
vessels were under Greek colours. The Caton with
the French admiral, and the Furious with the Eng-
lish admiral, arrived at Varna on the 22d to confer
with Lord Raglan, expected from Shumla, whither he
proceeded with the Turkish Minister of War, also Mar-
shal St. Arnaud and Omer Pasha. They returned on
the evening of the 22d, and after a short council with
the admirals, they respectively embarked in the steam-
ers Caradoc and Berthollet for Constantinople, where
they arrived on the evening of the 23d. The Furious
went to Odessa on the 14th, and was allowed to send
things to the crow of the Tiger. Accordingly, money
and what clothing the officers could spare were sent to
them. Captain Giffard had suffered amputation of the
left thigh, and the right leg was badly wounded. His
nephew (Giffard), a midshipman, suffered amputation of
both legs, and died shortly afterwards ; three of the
crew were killed ; all are being well treated by the Rus-
sians. The Vesuvius arrived at Constantinople on the
23d, with a prize in tow. The Niger arrived on the 23d
with a prize, and left this evening for Malta, to be
docked, Waving been ashore for four hours off Kertch,
and towed off by the Highflyer. Russian sol-
diers to the number of between 200 and 300 are now
prisoners in the fleet. The admiral would gladly ex-
change them for the poor Tiger's. There is a report
that a French boat's crew, while watering on the Cau-
casian coast, were made prisoners. Mr. Osborne Dal-
yell, mate of the Britannia, is appointed acting-lieutenant
of the Terrible, vice Seraggs, who has been allowed to retire
by the admiral. Numbers of merchant seamen are now
volunteering for our men-of-war. The Cyclops has re-
turned from Gallipoli, and is now alongside the Megmra,
embarking stores for the fleet. Lieutenant-Colonel
Pratt. R. M., Lord Ashley, and eight clerks, R.N., have
gone by the Niger to Malta, en route to England. The
clerks are for service in the Baltic fleet. On the after-
noon of the 11th of May the Tiger, Vesuvius, and
Niger were detached from the fleet, with orders to recon-
noitre Odessa. Immediately after a dense fog led to
their separation, and on the following evening, at half-
past six o'clock, the Tiger grounded close to the light-
house, and under a high cliff. They immediately got
out her boats and laid out anchors astern, and lightened
her by throwing guns overboard. Some time afterwards
the Russians discovered her misfortune, and brought
down field-pieces, with which they attacked -her, de-
fencelesss as she was, when she surrendered, but not
until young Giffard, a midshipman, and Captain Giffard
were wounded, and three men killed. The enemy gave
them permission to remove their effects, hut, unfortu-
nately for them, the Niger and Vesuvius hove in
sight a few hours after their capture, when to
avoid a recovery of the vessel, the Russians re-
commenced firing on the Tiger, and succeeded in
blowing her up. The Niger and Vesuvius
beat to quarters and commenced firing shell
at the enemy with good effect. The Niger had three
men slightly wounded, but they are now at their duty.
The Highflyer had been ashore on the Circassian coast ;
a battery of guns opened fire upon her, but she
silenced it at once, and then hauled off. The Queen's
birthday was celebrated in a right loyal manner
by the regiments at Scutari. There was a review in
the morning, and the afternoon was devoted to English
sports—such as those of the Camp at Chobham, to the no
small diversion of crowds of Turks, Armenians, Greeks,
&c., who for the first time in their lives saw the game of
jumping in sacks, although the sack has been lone. used
by Turks for a far more serious purpose. A considerable
number of Turkish and Armenian ladies were present
in their carriages, who enjoyed beyond measure the
tumbling of the men in the sacks. The Guards erected
a column in the centre of their encampment, which was
decorated vory gaily, and in the evening they illumina-
ted it with some hundreds of glass lamps. The Cyclops
sailed last night for the fleet. Ships now lying at Con-
stantinople :—The Magmra troop-ship, Commander
Johnston ; the Niger, 14, Commander Heath ; the
Vesuvius, 6, Commander Powell ; Caradoc, Lieutenant
Derriman ; and Banshee, Lieutenant Reynolds."