The Sun.
London, England, 1854-02-02 00:00:00

PUBLIC REVENUE.

The house then resolved itself into a committee of the
whole house, Mr. Bouverie in the chair.
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER then
rose to move a resolution upon which to found a bill to
bring certain public charges and expenses upon the
Consolidated Fund, so that they might come under the
control of Parliament. These charges and expenses ap.
plied to the salaries of judges, pensioners, and parties
engaged in collecting the revenue. The right hon.
gentleman stated that the estimates connected with the
Inland Revenue, the Post-office, and the Customs De-
partments were in a forward state, and he hoped shortly
to be able to lay them on the table.
Mr. HUME said nothing of late years gave him
greater pleasure than the introduction of such a mea-
sure as that indicated by the right hon. gentleman.
He suggested that a schedule should be laid upon the
table showing the items proposed to be charged, and the
manner in which they were now charged.
Mr. WILLIAMS also bore testimony to this being
a movement in the right direction.

Mr. DISRAELI announced his intention to support
lie measure.

The resolution was then agreed to, and leave was
given to bring in the bill.

- The house then resumed, and the Chairman reported
accordingly.

QUEEN'S SPEECH.

On the motion that the Queen's Speech be considered,
The SPEAKER read that passage in it which re-
lates to the estimates, after which,
Mr. WILSON moved that a supply be granted to
her Majesty.
The motion was then agreed to.
The remaining orders were then disposed of and the
house adjourned at a quarter to six o'clock.

TATTERSALL'S.

(THIS EVENING.)

CHESTER CUP.
25 to 1 agst Star of Surrey (taken).
30 to 1 agst Peggy (taken.)
30 to 1 agst Nabob (taken).
30 to 1 agst Newminster (taken).

DERBY.
sto 1 agst Autocrat.
Bto 1 agst King Tom.
13 to 1 agst Dervish.
25 to 1 agst Acrobat.
33 to 1 agst Scythian.
Business very dull.

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ACCEPTANCES FOR
HANDICAP CRA

Age st lb
Nabob 5 9 2
The Reiver 4 8 10
King of Trumps _ 5 8 10
Adine 5 8 7
Defiance 4 8 4
Little David 4 8 4
Prime Minister
Trifle (h-b) 5 8 0
Rattle 4 8 0
Ethelbert 4 8 0
Brocket 4 7 13
Indian Warrior 5 7 12
Jouvence 4 7 12
Mentmore Lass 4 7 10
Nutpecker 4 7 9
Dove
Mr. Sykes 4 7 7
Caracara
Khadidjah 5 7 7
Tonic 6 7 7
Sandhurst 4 7 4
Ticton
Nicotine 4 7 1

ACCEPTANCES PG
SUBURBAN

Age at lb
Daniel O'Rourke 5 8 7
King of Trumps 5 8 6
Orestes
Little David 4 '8 5
Adine 5 8 4
Hunca Munca
Indian Warrior 5 8 4
Lambton
Prime Minister 6 8 3
Rattle
Eulogist 4 8 3
Harbinger 5 8 2
Brocket 4 7 11 j
Jotivence
Invasion
Mr. Sykes 4 7 7
Annie Sutherland 4 7 5
Catspaw 4 7 5
Nutpecker 4 7 5
Lieutenant
Sandhurst 4 7 3
Pug Orrock
Voucher ...... 4 7 1
The Friar, byCowl 4 7 1
England's Glory 6 6 13
Br to Grey Tommy 4 6 12
Mistletoe
Hybla 4 6 10
Don Quixote 4 6 7
Itch
La Belle 4 6 7
Old Noll
Woodcote
The Queen's Own 3 6 5
Vixen 3 6 4

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LAW INTELLIGENCE.—Feb. 1.

COURT OF EXCHEQUER.
KIRBY V. DE LARA.-BILL TRANSACTIONS,

This was an action upon a bill of exchange drawn by
the defendant upon and accepted by a Mr. Erle, and in-
dorsed by a person called Wallis, to tholaintiff: a tailor
in Great Russell-street, Bloomsbury. The defendant,
who is a Spaniard, had formerly been a colonel in the
Carlist army, but had been residing in the country for
some years as a wine merchant, and teacher of languages.
Mr. T. Jones appeared for the plaintiff; and Mr.
James and Mr. Hawkins for the defendant.

It appeared that the defendant had advanced 1,0001.
to a Mr. Erle, and on the 22d of June last he obtained
that gentleman's acceptance for 1001., which he placed
in the hands of a person called Wood to get it dis-
counted, but he had never seen the bill since or received
a farthing for it. Upon arriving at maturity the bill
was not paid, whereupon the plaintiff brought the pre-
sent action. The defendant had put several pleas on the
record, the most important of which was that he had
been swindled out of the bill, and had not received any
consideration for it.

The plaintiff stated that he had discounted the bill for
a solicitor of the name of Greave, of Devereux Cha.m-
bus, Temple. Greave was indebted to the plaintiff for
clothes in about 421. He had charged at the rate of 681.
per cent. per annum for discounting the bill, &c. He
did not know how Greave got t4ie bill. On cross-
examination he admitted that he had seen Greave since
he had learned that defendant had been swindled out of
the bill, but he did not ask him anything about it.
Greave owed him between thirty and forty pounds on a
promissory note when be discounted the bill.

ACCEPTANCES FOR T.
LITAN

Tr"

Age st lb
Hungerford
Newminster 6 8 9
Ariosto
Rataplan
Little David 4 8 0
Muscovite 5 7 7
Huncamunca
Jouvence
Pantomime
1 Exact 4 7 4
Haco
Gossip
I Dove
Windsucker 5 7 0
Black Doctor
Mr. Sykes 4 7 0
Cariboo a 7 0
Feversham
Poodle
Lindrick
Annie Sutherland 4 612
Pancake 5 6 111
Dagobert
England's Glory
Mayor of Hull 4 6 8
La Belle 4 6 6
Ulster 4 6 3
Stamford
Nonsuch (h. b.)
The Event 5 5 13
Dear Polly 4 5 13
Brown Brandy 3 5 10

- The Chief Baron, in leavinc, the case tctthe jury, said
bat if a man's receiving stolenb goods at one half their
alue was to be taken as evidence that he knew they
were stolen, surely the analogy should apply to a case
like the present, where the plaintiff had not given one
half the value for the bill in question.
The jury found a verdict for the defendant.

THE SUN, LONDON, TFTURSIDAY EVENING, FEERTTARY 2, 1854.

possessed. The point as to.the description was renewed
by Mr. Bianscomb. The question was whether the term
"pedestrian" was a business or an occupation. Itwas
urged that the insolvent lived by it, and he said he had
a gentleman who backed him to run a race. When he
won he got something, but when he lost he got nothing.
Mr. Commissioner Murphy could not consider that it.
was a business or occupation. Had a prizefighter applied
to the court he could not make him describe himself as
such. It was a point put forth by an astute attorney,
but he could not be made to appear that he had decided
that it was not proper.
The final order was granted.
IN RE GEORGE MAITLAND INNER.

This insolvent, whose case was mentioned yesterday,
attended and made an amendment to his schedule, set-
ting forth the creditor holding a promissory note.

WESTMINSTER COUNTY COUR
MEREDITH V. WALL.

The plaintiff sued the defendant as the owner of the
cab No. 1,803, for damage done to his omnibus on the
28th day of November last.
The defence set up was that he had let the cab in
question for hire, on the usual terms, namely, 14s. per
day, and that consequently he (the defendant) was not
liable for any damage done by the party to whom it had
been so let, having by such hiring divested himself of the
ownership or control thereof for the time being.
The learned judge, on referring to the Metropolitan
Hackney Carriage Act, held that the defendant was not
liable, as the prisoner could not be construed as being a
servant of the defendant. He, therefore, directed the
plaintiff to be nonsuited.

silver, and a bank book of the Woolwich Savings Bank,
were found in them, and Mrs. ehapinan took possession
of all the articles. She was very kind and attentive to
the deceased all the time he lived in the house, and he
was never visited by any relation, and nothing was
known of his having any relatives until after his death.

Re-examined--Witness was satisfied that upon both
occasions when the papers were signed, the deceased had
not the least idea what lie was doing.
In addition to the evidence of this 'witness, other tes-
timony was adduced, among which was that of the me-
dical officer of the union, who had attended professionally
upon the deceased, which went to Show that for several
days prior to the death of the deceased he was in a com-
pletely unconscious state, and quite incapable of under-
standing the nature of such an instrument as a will.
Other facts were also deposed to which tended clearly to
show that the instrument in question was a forgery, and
that it had been obtained under the circumstances above
narrated. The prisoner Chapman, it appeared, how-
ever, bore a very good character in Woolwich, and there
was nothing to show that she had acted otherwise than
kindly and attentively towards the poor old man during
the period he had lived in her house.

Mr. Payne, in addressing the jury for the defence, urg-
ed the probability that the old man really intended to
give all "his little property to the prisoner Chapman, in
return for the kindness he had received from her, and
particularly when it was recollected that during his life-
time no relation appeared to take the slightest interest in
him. He also urged that even supposing the prisoners
had, in an ignorant and bungling manner, obtained the
mark of the deceased to the will in the manner stated,
yet, if he really intended that Chapman should have had
the property, no fraud had been committed upon any
person, and therefore the prisoners were entitled to an
acquittal.

Mr. Justice Wightman having summed up, the jury
consulted for a short time,' and then returned a verdict
of Guilty against both prisoners, but at the same time
recommended them to mercy on account of their good
character, and also on the ground that the deceased did
riot appear to have been treated in any way unkindly
by the prisoner Chapman.
Judgment was postponed.
The trial of Wm. Anderson, for forgery, is fixed for
Friday. Sir F. Thesiger is specially retained for the
defence.