The Sun.
London, England, 1854-07-13 00:00:00

LAW INTELLIGENCE--(THIS DAY).

QUEEN'S BENCH.
THE LATE FORGERIES IN THE CITY.- GURNEY V.
WORHSLEY AND ANOTHER.
This was an action brought to recover the sum of
30111. 9s. 7d. upon a forged bill of exchange, which the
plaintiffs bad paid.
The plaintiffs are Messrs. Overend Gurney, the
bankers, and the defendants are bill brokers in the city.
The jury found for the plaintiffs.

THE COURT.—It is confidently stated that her Ma-
jesty the Queen and the Royal Family will take up their
residence in Windsor Castle soon after the prorogation
of Parliament, and that the annual visit to the High-
lands will either be considerably shortened or entirely
postponed. The reason assigned for this arrangement
is the probable -necessity of holding frequent Privy
Councils during the progress of the war ; and there are
unequivocal symptoms at the Castle that the arrival of
the Court is there considered as no remote contingency.
Lady Octavia Shaw Stewart was safely delivered of a
son on the 11th inst., at the mansion of Sir Michael
Shaw Stewart, in Belgave•square. Her ladyship is
daughter to the Marquis of Westminster.
Ma. CLAUDET.—Her Royal Highness the Duchess of
Kent, attended by Sir George Couper, Bart., and Lady
Anna Maria Dawson, visited Mr. Claudet's new photo-
graphic gallery, Regent-street, yesterday morning, and
honoured him with a sitting for a stereoscopic portrait.
We have to record the demise of the Hon. Miss
Monckton Milnes, a member of the noble house of Gal-
way, who died a few days since, at an advanced age.
Her ladyship was aunt to the present Viscount Galway,
M.P.

LORD GC:MGR.—This noble veteran and hero arrived
on Saturday on a visit to his son, the Hon. Captain
Gough, of Rathonan-house. His lordship, we are happy
to say, appeared in the full enjoyment of good health.—
Clonmel Chronicle.

THE NEW SECRETARY Or STATE'S OFFICE.—The es-
timate of the expenses of the new office of the Secretary
of State for War was laid on the table of the House of
Commons on Tuesday evening. The total sum required
will be 14,3071., of which 10,4071. is for the regular
salaries of the officers, 2,8881. for contingencies, and
1,0121. for messengers, salaries, and bills. The Secre-
tary of State is to have 5,0001. per annum. Two under-
secretaries 1,5001. each ; three senior clerks from 6001.
to 1,0001. ; fbur assistant senior clerks, 3501. to 5451. ;
four junior clerks, from 1501. to 3001. ; and four proba-
tionary clerks, from 1001. to 1501. each. There are
other allowances for private secretaries, &c., but as
several of the clerks will be taken from the other public
offices, a proportionate counterbalancing reduction will
take place.
THE BOURSE. —The last accounts from the Paris
Bourse last evening show an average fall of 14 per cent.,
with apparently heavy sales for money. At Vienna
there has been rather m3re steadiness.

EXCHANGE,—The continental exchanges remain with-
out material alteration, but the tendency is not favour-
able as regards France, and if there were any Austraiian
gold in the market rather large amounts would be taken
for transmission.

The Dover Royal Mail Service steam-packet Violet
conveyed from Dover to Calais, on Monday night, the
largest India mail ever sent across the Channel. The
mail consisted of no less than 101 boxes.

The screw•steamer Himalaya has been fitted up to take
out 2,000 soldiers and 500 horses to the East. She will
take in soldiers and horses at Devonport.
A 'Arty of the Ambulance corps will be taken out to
Turkey in the Himalaya.
The Simla is to take out a cavalry regiment from
Devonport. She is to be provided with a flat boat to
land the horses and troops.
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Mr. Sullivan, the naval instructor of the Tiger, and
who is a prisoner of war at Odessa, has been ill with
fever and ague, but not dangerously so.
Mr. Joseph Dodd, gamekeeper to C. K. Mainwaring,
Esq., took from a line in Blackmere, near Ellesmere,
adjoining Oteley Park, an eel, which, on opening, con-
tained a full-fledged young pheasant. How the bird got
in the power of the eel remains a mystery to be solved
by naturalists.—Shrewsbury Journal.
THE AYRSHIRE Moons.—Recent inquiries over a
pretty large surface of the moor land in Ayrshire con-
firm the accounts of considerable mortality among the
grouse just about pairing time, and many birds are yet
picked up dead, and others very weakly. It is some-
what strange that the black game, though on the same
food, are unusually plentiful. The recent continued
rains, however, will doubtless have destroyed many broods
of both black game and grouse.—Ayr Advertiser.
HERRING FlSHlNG.—Several attempts have been made
at the herring fishing in the north, but with very poor
success. Thirty to forty boats were at sea last week,
but only one morning did they reach a quarter of a cran.
There are several English and Scotch buyers in the
market, and the price of green fish is likely to rule
pretty high for the next eight days. The quality of the
fish is improving daily. The Stornoway fishing con-
, tinues prosperous, with a good demand for fresh fish.—
John o'Groat Journal.

The estimates for the mail-packet service for the year
1854-55 have just been printed. The total sum required
is 812,826/. Nearly the whole of this sum is for the
payment of steam-packet companies who contract for the
carriage of the mails. The following are the sums set
apart for the service between the places named :—Liver-
pool and the Isle of Man, 850/. ; Holyhead and Kings-
town, 25,000/. ; Southampton and the Channel Islands,
4,000/. ; Dover and Calais and Dover and Ostend,
15,500/. ; Soithampton and Vigo, Oporto, Lisbon, and
Gibraltar, 20,500/. ; Liverpool and Halifax and Boston,
and Liverpool and New York, 172,840/. ; Southampton
and West Indies, 240,0001. ; England and West Coast
of Africa, 22,500/. ; England and India (overland route),
205,600/.

SHEFFIELD, MONDAY.—A young woman, named
Ann M'Canna, employed in a flax-mill at Rotherham,
committed suicide yesterday by taking ➢oison. She had
been seduced by a man of the name of Courtney, who
had promised her marriage, but afterwards refused to
do so.

ROBBING THE DEAD.—On Monday John Alderson,
sexton of All Saints' Church, Newcastle•on-Tyne,
was brought before the borough magistrates, charged
with stealing lead from the coffins interred in the old
graveyard. The prisoner was committed for trial.

FATAL ACCIDENT.—A small sailing boat, containing
four persons, was upset off Wandsworth meadows on
Monday afternoon, through the unskilfulness of the per-
sons in her. Two of the party were unfortunately
drowned. Their names were John and William Sawyer,
and they were both under 20 years of age. The two
others, named Robinson and Valentine, saved them-
selves by swimming. The two unfortunate youths re-
sided in William-street, South Lambeth.
A GANG OF SMASHERS.—At the County Magistrates'
Court, Shrewsbury, on Saturday last, the four indi-
viduals alluded to in our last as having been apprehended
on a series of charges for uttering counterfeit coin at
Hookagate, Longden, Pulverbach, &c., were brought
up for examination. They now gave their names as
George Lane, paper-stainer, of Liverpool ; William
Rhodes, brickmaker, of Bilston ; Jane Webber of
Wellington and Shrewsbury ; and George Griffiths,
shoemaker, of Stafford. The derositions of a large
number of witnesses were taken, and the cases were
very clearly made out against them ; but in accordance
with the usual custom they were remanded till Saturday
next, in order to communicate with the authorities
at the Mint. The amount represented by the base
coin found in their possession is 251. 13s. Shrewsbury
I°7:ESaiENT non THE DUTCH GOVERNMENT TO THE
SOCIETY OF ARTG.—A
having arrived • -
Society of Arts,
esty's Treasury have
in this country, the same having been
sent as a present quantity of books, maps, &c.,
from the Dutch Government to the
the Lords Commissioners of her Ma-
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purpose.
given directions for their free
dmiuion for that p