The Sun.
London, England, 1854-11-06 00:00:00

RIOT IN CAMBRIDGE.

FIGHT BETWEEN THE UNDERGRADUATES
AND THE POLICE.

On Friday night a gentleman essayed to give a lecture
against the use of tobacco in the Town-hall, at Cam-
bridge. The room was crammed long before he com-
menced, most of those present being gownemen, provided
with pipes and cigars, and with their pockets and de-
positories of squibs, crackers, and fireworks of various
descriptions.
The lecturer had not proceeded far when he was in-
terripted by cries of "Three cheers for Sir Walter
Raleigh," and becoming angered at last with the in-
creasing disorder, he somewhat injudiciously said that
he had expected on coming to a university town to ad-
dress gentlemen, and not a lot of blackguards. After
this the noise and confusion rendered hearing what he
said out of the question. Pipes and cigars were set
alight in all directions, and a number of persons who
entered the gallery (which had been closed to the
undergraduates) were saluted with a shower of squib-,
and crackers.
At this juncture Mr. C. E. Brown, an active
borough magistrate, arrived at the hall, aid seeing that
a riot was inevitable, despatched messengers for the
police, and himself went for the Mayor (Mr. Brimley),
with whom he soon afterwards appeared upon the plat-
form, by the side of the lecturer. The place by this time
was a perfect Babel, and the Mayor, after repeated inef-
fectual attempts to obtain a hearing, declared the meeting
dissolved, and the lecturer then retired into the Alder-
man's parlour. The gownsmen immediately stormed the
platform, and proposed an amendment, " That tobacco
was anything but pernicious."
It is probable that all might yet have passed off,
with no worse result than the noise and uproar, but for
the silly action of an undergraduate. He was stand-
ing near a seat, the back of which was partially broken :
he splintered a piece off, and commenced belabour-
ing the rest of the form with it, with the view of
breaking it up. Mr. Brown, who was near him with
Jaggard, the superintendent of police, expostu-
lated with him, but he refused to desist, and
Mr. Brown then demanded his name and college.
g
The gownsman refused to give it, and as he con-
tinned his work of demolition Jaggard collard him ; he
immediately struck out, and raised the shout of "Gown."
A rush of all the gewnemen was immediately made, and
the silly fellow was borne off in triumph, amid the crash
of seats and the loud hurrahs of the undergraduates.
The whole of the police force had by this time arrived,
and the affair soon came to fisticuffs. A gownsman struck
a policeman, who retorted by collaring him ; another
rescue was attempted, and a desperate fight ensued, the
police using their staves freely, and succeeding in
making
sundry prisoners, whom they lodged in the
.t sessions
room just as the Rev. Mr. Edleston, of Td rim col -
lege, the senior proctor, arrived. On the arrival of
Mr. Edleston, the prisoners capitulated, and, having
given their names and colleges, were allowed to pro-
ceedo to the latter in anything but an enviable plight.
A
investigation into their conduct and that cf
others
who were most forward in the affair is to take
place so soon
as a sufficient time has elapsed after the
..sth of November to allow feelings of irritation to subside.
On 8 aturda •
assisted by anotwithstandingthat the proctors,
assisted
number of masters of arts, paraded the
town, several skirmishes took place
and it is feared that the Friday night'sw affairthth ewill
a fearful town-andtownsmen, produce
the celebration of 1 n riot on the 6th inst., the day for
gunpowder plot.

THE INDIA, CHINA,
VhDe iA_I3STRALIAN MAILS.
Southampton, Saturday.
81? s, Captain Soy, be-
longing to the Peninsular and
this afternoon with the heav
of the India' and
I°A.onntralian contract
y perr,r '44 Company' left
nn tgleilryus China mails, and the usuaplamssoe
mails. The number of
for conveyance to the Mediterranean card the Indus
Indies, and Australia is 154, viz.,
1p1ort;, the East
children, 14 second, and 15 servants. 7 irst-class, 8
A. SOLEMN HIGH -.MASS IN THE ROMAN C'la°
CHURCH FOIt THE SLAIN IN THE WAR..—YesterrdaYrUc '
was announced at the Sardinian A rubass:i.dor's- cl4', it
Duke-street, Lincoln's-inn-lelds, by the Rev. Mr. Prise,
who delivered tho sermon, that a solemn high mass and
requiem would take place in the chapel next Tuesday,
for those brave men who had fallen during the presert
war. It was 11.9,1 announced throughout the various
ill.iiripels within the metropolitan diocese that a jubilee, to
f.,9•4.. • tir , u e two months, would commence during the week;
': 'by,r3N!er of Cardinal Wi.,eman. the proceeds of the jubi-
lee...44;o towards a fund for the relief of those 6rphar:s
-°,!1114,,d been left destitute and friendless by the cholera.

SPORTING NOTES.

LOOS OUT AT LIVERPOOL.

Not a scrap of intelligence is to be picked up respect-
ing the meeting which will take place to-morrow and
Wednesday at Liverpool. Not even a rumour of the
vaguest description is in circulation relative to the sport.
Two opinions only exist as to the gathering ; one is to
the effect that if the weather be fine the sport will be
tolerably attractive ; the other is, that if the skyey influ-
ences be unpropitious, few people will care about ex-
posing themselves to the damp and cold to witness the
racing.
Mr. Topham has certain done his best to compile an
attractive programme, and he deserves well of the
Liverpudlians for the pertinacity with which he adheres
to Aintree, and the determination which he evinces to
get up sport of some sort there. Ten events are ap-
pointed for decision during the two days, the steeple-
chases, of cotirse, presenting one of the most prominent
"features" in the list of sport. I shall indulge in no
elaborate speculations on the "probable results," for,
indeed, the subject is surrounded by no little uncertainty
and mystification. I will, however, briefly state what
I think. The Croxteth Welter Cup, then, ought to be
carried off by Titterstone, Morning Star, or Hazlennt.
Of the thirty-nine animals weighted for the Sefton Han-
dicap the most noteworthy are Grapeshot,Maid of Team
Valley, Grand Inquisitor, Ammonia, Neville, and
Seducer. From this lot I should, were I certain of a
start, select Grapeshot and Ammonia against the field.
The Cock of the North shall do battle for me for the
Tyro Handicap, albeit at the last moment inclination
may compel me to cap to the Maid of Cadiz.
Were Alonzo in form, he would doubtless be a for-
midable competitor for the Aintree Plate, but as I am
in doubt as to his condition, I shall stand on Catherine
Parr, Ulster, and Roebuck. The " jumpers" are too
clever for me. As the Man in the Street says, I will
not attempt to determine what their game may be ex-
clusive of plunder.
• FRESH MAN.
November 6.

LAW INTELLIGENCE.-(THIS DAY.)

QUEEN'S BENCH.
➢AZLET V. DANES.

Sir F. Thesiger applied to the Court for a rule to show
cause why a nonsuit should not be entered in this case,
or a new trial had on the ground of excessive damages.
This was an action for falsely aid maliciously procuring
the plaintiff to be adjudged a bankrupt • and on the trial
at the last Stafford assizes the jury found for the plain-
tiff, damages 5001, The plaintiff was a publican and
plumber and glazier, carrying on business in Stafford-
shire ; and the defendant was a timber merchant, resid-
ing in the same county. In July, 1852, the defendant
alleged that the plaintiff was indebted to him in the sum of
96/., and he proceeded under the Bankruptcy Law Con-
solidation Act to make an affidavit before a Bankruptcy
Commissioner, for the purpose of procuring a. debtor's sum-
mons against Farley. The summons was returnable on
the 14th ofAugust, and on that day Farley appeared before
the commissioner, and admitted part of the debt which
the defendant claimed, but disputed the residue, stating
that he had a good defence on the merits. The same
evening, after the hours of business, Farley, as he alleged,
called upon Danks and paid him the 851. lls. 10d.,
which Danks received in discharge of his claim ;
but on the other hand Danks always asserted
that although it was perfec3ly true that Farley
called upon him, yet he refused to receive the
money, because he had placed the whole matter in his
lawyer's hands. Seven days after that transaction
Farley was adjudicated a bankrupt ox the application
of Danks, but the case was subsequently taken before
the Lords Justices, who superseded the bankruptcy, and
directed an issue to be tried to ascertain whether there was
a debt due from the plaintiff to the defendant or not.
The result of that issue was a verdict in favour of Farley,
and, fortified by that decision, he commenced the present
action, which ended in his obtaining 5001. damages. It
was now contended, however, that the action could not
be maintained, and for this reason : it was insisted that
inasmuch as the bankruptcy proceedings were instituted
in a Court of Record, the act of making the plaintiff a
bankrupt was the miscarriage of the commissioner, and
the defendant was no more liable for the consequences
than if he had gone before a magistrate and made aSate-
ment which, thought not sufficient to warrant a con-
viction or a charge of felony, should induce
the magistrate to issue a warrant against the
third party alleged to be implicated in the matter.
Danks had stated nothing but what was true, but still,
as Farley had committed no act of bankruptcy, the
commissioner made a mistake in adjudging him to be a
bankrupt, but for that mistake Danks could not be held
liable in law. With regard to the question of damages,
they were, the learned counsel urged, clearly excessive,
and they would not have been awarded by the jury had
it not been erroneously stated on the trial that Farley
had been put to an expense of 4001. in defeating the
bankruptcy.

The court granted a rule nisi upon the first point.

EXCHEQUER.
HIED V. &IKIN.

Mr. Knowles applied to the court for a rule to show
cause why a new trial should not be had in this case, on
the ground that the defence set up at the trial before
Mr. Justice Crowder, in Liverpool, had taken the plain-
tiff by surprise. It appeared that in the early part of
the year the David Fleming, a fine ship, heavily laden
with timber, and on her first voyage arrived in the
Mersey from North America, but at the time she
.arrived the tide was not sufficiently high to admit of
her being docked. She was accordingly taken into a
part of the river called the Sloine, where there was
always deep water and safe anchorage. Here she re-
mained until the next spring tide, when the defendant
was employed to tug the ship across the river, but it
was found the first time the attempt was
made that there was not sufficient water or
an obstruction in the stream known as the Flock-
ington
Bank, and she wall taken back to her former
moorings. The next day the defendent placed two
steam tugs, the Liner and the Eclipse, of a hundred
horse power in requisition, and succeeded in getting the
ship over, but directly she was got alongside the quay
of the Brunswick dock basin the Eclipse tug left her,
and the tide beginning now to ebb fast, it was discovered
that without the aid of two tugs the ship could net be
docked. It was therefore determined to tow her back
to the Sloine, but in recrossing the Flockington Bank
the water was so low that she capsized. The vessel was
afterwards got off again, and the plaintiff having been
put to an expense of 6,0001. for her repairs, he brought
the present action to recover damages for the injury he
had sustained by reason of the second tug having left
her before the ship was got into dock ; but, at the trial,
the defendant took the plaintiff by surprise in setting
up for defence that, had the ship been floated broadside
across the bank, the accident could have been avoided.
The Court granted a rule to shoW cause.

STATE OF TRADE.

( From the Manchester Guardian of Saturday.)

MANCHESTER, Nov. 3.—The general tendency of
prices, both in yarns and goods, continues to be against
producers. But, in the former, this tendency is still a
♦ery slow ene, being, in some kinds, scarcely perceptible
in the course of a week ; in others kid. per lb. during
that time. In the latter, the depression proceeds, as it
has all along done, in a greater ratio. There hare lat-
terly been some indications of a disposition among mer-
chants to speculate in goods specially adapted for the mar-
kets of India. For India mule twist offers at a further
reduction in price. Yet, as to piece goods, we see
that the shipments to Calcutta in the last month were
nearly 22 million yards against 11. million in October,
1853 ; and, in the ten months of 18$4, seventy per cent.
more than in the first ten months of 1853. We hear
from some large sellers of cloth that they perceive some
increase of general inquiry to-day. And, as to the
general yarn market, we see, as yet, no change for the
better in the disposition of buyers. The Liverpool cot-
ton market is not only firm, but inclined to harden in
price.

BRADFORD, Nov. 2.—Wool—The supply in the mar-
ket is fully equal to the demand ; prices are a little in
favour of the buyer. Noils and brokes are good sale.
Yarns—There is no better state of things to report.
Pieces—We cannot report any material change to-day.
The general opinion is, that stock■ do net accumulate.
The amount of idle machinery was never so great at any
period as at present. Prices are ruinously low.
NorrnionAm, Nov. 2.—Some additional orders have
been receives for hosiery goods this week, which has in-
fused a little life into this business. The lace trade is
still very flat, without any appearance of amendment.
There is no change in the price of yarn so far as regards
late prices.