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London, England, 1849-07-09 00:00:00

BARRY v. HILL.

This case, in which but little progress had been made
at the rising of the Court, was sn action of assumusit,
to recovcr a ;:•ortion of the profits male by the defend-
ant on the talp.u-ififion of pa•ldy, cr rough ice, in cons.:-
quwnce of a t!):3-arnutiica,ion made by the plaintiff to the
defendant, at the defPndant's reque.q.
COUR 1' OF ENCILEQUER, July 7.
(Nisi Prins Sitting at Guildhall. opt'ora the Chief Baron
and a Special Jury.)
SHIPTON V. LAUNDER.
This was an action to recover compensation in da-
mages for a loss occasioned in the reinival of a large
quantity of iron plates and hoops, by ress;n of the al-
legal ni,gligence of the de:endsm's serv-iffis.
Mr. Sergeant Alien, aith Mr. Mil, aNeared for the
plaintiff ; Mr. 11,:rtin, with Mr. Bramwell, for the
aefertin%

The plaintiff is extensively engaged as a canal
carrier, and lu-re a wharf and p!ac of ba,in,ss at the
City Canal Ba.in. The defendant is a lighterman re-
siding at Limehouse.
In the month of August last, a quantity of sheet and
hoop iron, of the value of 300/., was sent up by canal
from Staffifdshire, to be for.var,i, ft by a foreign vessel.
and the plaintiff employed the def,ndlnt to cativey
iron in a barge from tha City Canal basin to the Lon-
don Dock,, where P,e vess4 was lying which was to
take the iron to its foreiga destination. The iron was
shipped on board the defendant's barge, at he City
Canal, on the 8:h of August las!, and was brought
alongside the vessel in it w:]s to he shipped on the
10th of August ; but was there foand to be damaged
from wet, a,) that the captain obj,!cted to take it on board,
and Yyglesias and Co., of Mark-lane, the London agents
of the foreign purchaser, declined to receive it or for-
ward it to their foreign correspon lents. The iron was,
therefore, after some unsuccesjul attempts to riavore
the srnoahnrss and polish, returned back to the plaintiff,
and thrown on his hand. The depreciation in value
occasioned by the injury- was said to be 701., and the
carriage by canal, which was also lost to the plaintiff,
was 20L, and the present action was brought to recover
those two sums.
On the part of the defendant it was inshted that he
Was wholly blameless, as the herge in which the iron
Was brought to the dock was in a perfect state, and the
iron itself was covered with three tarpaulins, and care•
fully preserved from wet. The dampness which was ob-
served, it was said, was to be ascribed to an eff,c;, caused
by change of temperature, and known in the iron trade
as" sweating," and it was admitted by plaintiff's witnesses
that the iron when seen in the docks was fit for home
consumption, though not available for exportation, and 1
that the depreciation in value did not exceed ten pounds.
After the defendant's case was opened, a conference
took place between the Learned Counsel, and it was
finally agreed to withdraw a juror, an arrangement by
which each party bears his own costs.
The above was the only special jury case tried during
the day, and the Lord Chi,f Baron announced in the
course of the day that at the Guildhall sitting, after
Michaelmas term, he proposed to reverse the usual
order, and proceed in the fir, t instance with the trial
of special jury causes, leaving the cmninon jury cases to
be tried during the last week of the sitting.

COURT OF BANKRUPTCY, July 7.
(Before Mr. Cormnis,ioner GOULBURN.)
IN RE JOSEPH SLATER.

The bankrupt, a warehouseman, of 36, Friday-street,
camp up to pass his last examination. His debts are
4,3171 and his liabilities 2,7731. Toe assets are—good
debts 2671. and stock that has realised 1,2691., but out of
the latter amount a sum of 1,0031. is claimed by Mr.
William Darby under an execution. Among the prin-
cipal creditors are—Wessrs. Armitage and Wart, Man-
chester, 143 L; John Third and Son, Manchester, 421 L;
W. Darby, South Lambeth. 2581.; John Grave and Co.,
Manchester, 2581.; Mrs. Pell, Islington, 5371.; Todd,
Caston, and Co., 178/ ; Watson, Strayon, and Worthing•
ton, 3411. The bankrupt passed his examination.

CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT.
(Continued from our Afterno )n Edition of Saturday.)
THE TRIAL 01 PRINCE GRANATELLI AND OTHERS
The Learned Coarisel (Sir F. Kelly) concluled a
speech of singular eloquence, by calling upon the jury
not to believe the witnesses for the prosecution; at least,
such of them as had been taken from the very • dregs of
Sicilian society, and expressing a confident hope that
the jury, under the direction of his Lordship, would re-
turn a verdict of not guilty, as it respected all the de-
fendants.
Mr. MONTAGU CHAMBERS, Q C., addressed the jury
on behalf of C,ptain Moody. Tney might have supposed
from the evidence that in Captain Moody they were try-
ing an officer holding a commission in the British army.
If they thOught that they were greatly mistaken, for he
was none other, in truth, than the agent of a great and
pavorful steam company organized in this country for
purely commercial purposes, and knew no-
thi6g whatever of nautical terms or a nautical
vocation. lie contend,d that the meaning of the word
"equip," the most material word in the Act of Parlia-
ment, was, as taken from a dictionary of English syno-
nymes, to "furnish necessary materials." How could it be
said the furnishing of those vessels in the way described
by the witnesses for the prosecution had been such an
equipment of those vessels as answered that sensible de-
finition, or brought the acts of those defendants, and
least of all Captain Moody, within the meaning of the
Act of Parliament under which this indictment was
framed? If an able and meritorious officer like Captain
Moody was to be sacrificed under that Act of Parlia-
ment for acts so innocent as bad been proved against him,
the sooner that Act was burnt by the common hangman
the better.
Mr. Justice COLTMAN summed up the case to the jury.
He said the charge against the defendants substantially
was, the fitting out a vessel to go out on an expedition
on the part of the Sicilian people against the King of
the Two Sicilies. The question was, were the fury
satisfied that this vessel, the Vectis, was fitted out
within her Majesty's dominions for the purpose of
sommitting hostilities and being used either as a vessel
of war, or as a transport, against the King of the Two
Sicilies by the Sicilian people, and that that object was
se carried out in the treating this vessel, as brought the
case within the meaning of the Act of Parliament; no-
thing more was essential to bring the case within that
Act than that the vessel should be one so far prepared
so to be able to go to sea as a sea-going vessel, and
capable of receiving a warlike armament on board of
her, and that that was done with the intent
of carrying on the hostilities erred to. The jury
would have to consider, first of all,whether there was a
if
combination for this purpose ; they were satisfied
there was a combination of the nature spoken of, they
would have to consider whether these three gentlemen,
the defendants, or any one of them, were shown to have
been parties to that conspiracy.
The jury retired at twenty minutes after four o'clock,
• And at ten minutes to five o'clock returned into Court
• •with a verdict of Not Guilty, as it respected all the
prisoners.
The verdict elicited some marks of approbation from
tbe people in the gallery.

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POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
WORSHIP-STREET
on
On Saturday, Thomas Povey, a labourer,
employed
the Eastern Counties Railway, was broughtu
examination, beore Mr. flammill, charged Z i
iohaffivi‘tnhai
feloniously abstracted a quantity of silk tabaret,
of
value of 15L, the property of Messrs. Walters and SDI]
Bilk-manufacturers in Wilson•street, Finsbury, and three'
men, named Samuel Jones, Joseph Lucas, and James
Thompson, were charged with having feloniously re-
ceived the same, well knowing i to be stolen.,
It appeared from the evidence that the property in
question was stolen from a package. consigned to the
prosecutor, during its transit trom Braintree on the 2 1
nst., in one o the luggage trains of the above railway,
and although immediate inrorenation of the robbery was
communicated to the pile- , every effort to elucidate the
transaction, or obtain any clue to the missing grope: ty,
was wholly unsu .cessful until about ten days since,
when it Was discovered that the granter part of it was ex-
posed for sale in /h.. window of Messrs. Hampton and
Russell, furniture dealers, in Leicester-square. Inspector
Shackell, of the railway police, accompanied by Sergeant
Teakle, both of whom were dressed in plain clothes, ac-
cordingly proceeded there, and upon asking the price of
the article, which was exhibitEd to them by a shopman,
the latter informed them that it was 3!:, 9J, a yard, but

lat the same moment one of the partners entered, and
offered to sell it to them at the rate of 3s. 31. The
officers then stated who they were, and on aeking Mr.
Russell, the partner, how he became possessed of the
property, he replied that he had purchased it of a man
named Jones, and produced v. bill of sale relating to the
transaction. Having seccred the property, and after
some difficulty ascertained the residence of Jones, they
proceeded there, and in answer to their questions he ad-
mitted having sold the article, but he had acted in the
matter as the agent of Lucas, who was thereupon appre-
hended, and in the first instance he denied all knowledge
of the property, but on being confronted with Jones, at
length acknowledged he had rect ived it from the prisoner
Thompson, who, being captured in his turn, declared that
he had been directed to dispose of the silk by the prisoner
Povey, upon which the latter was sought out and secured,
when he alleged that he had et en employed by a truck-
' driver, named Bolton, to sell the property at any price he
could procure for it. The man Bolton, however, volun-
tarily came forward, and positively denied all participa-
tion in the matter, or that he had ever seen the silk until
it was shown to him by the officer. Mr. Hampton, of
the firm of Hampton and Russell, stated that, on the
14th ult., the prisoner Jones came to their warehouse,
and offered them for sale the goods in question, consist.
, ing of upwards of 42 yards, for which he demanded 3s.
a yard, but observing that the article had been cut into
four pieces, and was soiled and crumpled, they refused
to allow him more than Is. 3d. per yard, which he ulti-
m tttly accepted, and witness considered that to be the
fair value of the article.

George Cheeseman, the prosecutor's foreman, and
Abraham Brown, the weaver of the goods, identified
the property, and estimated the value of it at si. '3d.
per yard.
Mr. Heritage and two other solicitors addressed the
magistrate on behalf of the three last-named prisoners,
contending that there was no evidence to establish a
guilty knowledge on the part of their clients; but
Mr. HammiLL considered it was solely a question for
a jury, and ordered the whole of the prisoners to be
committed for trial.

THE ARMY AND NAVY.
(From the United Service Gazette.)
THE MAUL VISIT TO IRELAND.—We are enabl©d
to stare that the following vesqels of the Royal Navy
will most likely e)mpose the R,)yal Squadron on her
Msjesty's visit to Ireland next month. They will be all
stoam-vesscls, either propelled by the screw or paddle-
wheel:—
Victoria and Albert Royal Yacht, 2 guns, 118 men,
Captain Lord A. Fitzulareuce.
BLick 11.:agle, Admiralty yacht, 38 men, Master Com.
LA Hogue (screw), 60 guns, 500 men, Captain Mac-

clouisll. •
ivrorgant (.crew), 46 guns, 450 men, Captahl

Fitzroy.
Dragon, 6 guns, 200 men, Captain W. H. Hall.
Sph)nx, 6 o[l3, 160 men, Com. Hesv
Stromboli, 6 guns, 160 iner,, Coca. Lord A. Beanelark.
BaushEe 2 guns, 40
men,
Maitk r Corn. Smitbett.

hire Queen, 29 men, Master Com. AlLn.
The Spbynx and Fire Queen are at Portsmouth; Ls
Hague at Sheerness; the Arrogant is expected from
thu Mediterranean; Dragon is at Kingstown, Dublin;
S•romhdi has proceeded to Sheerness, to be r: fitted.
Ou the coast of Ireland the royal squadron will nuJst
proh4bly be joined by one or two other steamers; the
Shear'sAter, 2, Lieut -Commander Turner; the Trident,
2 Lieut.. Comm ender Ribk; the Lucifer, 2, Lieutenarv.
Commander Ll..yd ; and too Dwarf, 1, screw-steamer,
Lieutenant-Cowtrinder Osborne, rtitheut any wore
eiitunat,si:initig or interfering with the routine duties of
the service. This will give her Majesty an escort of
V;irtmn steamers (including the royal yaeit). mounting
135 gun 4, the aggregate of whose cumplenuent will be
n?,iry 2.000 offic-r+, seamen, and marines.
SIEGE OPEMATI ,NS AT CHATHAM —The siege opera-
tions at Chruhrtui it is expecr,ed will take place anout
the terminati:in of the present tnoidn. -
CHATHAM GARRISoN —We are hrppy to hear, from
the last, communication we have received, that C.,lonel
Wean) is progressing towards recovery, and that his
medical atteudants have given a favourable opinion upon
his case.

GRAND REVIEW IN DUBLIN —lt iS expected that a
review of all the troops in the Duolia districts will take
place during her Mjesty's
WAR•OFFICE APPOINTMENTS.—The Right Hon. Fox
Millie, Secretary as War, has appointed R. C. Kirby,
Esq., to be Chiet Examiner of Army Accounts, in suc-
cession to El ward Marshall, Lg., who has retired.
It is most likely that the Grecian, 16, paid off a short
time since at Davenport, from the Brazils, and now re-
fitter], will be put into commission next week for another
term of service. _ _ _

SANITARY PRECAUTIONS AFLOAT.—The Admiralty
have issued strict injunctions to the respective Com-
manders-in-Chief at the Home Ports, that a medical
officer shall vi,it each ship in ordinary at least once
during the day, whether his services be required on
board or not.

UNIFORMS OF THE ROYAL MARINES,—The Lords
Commissioners of the Admiralty have issued the follow-
ing circular, dated the 4th instant.—" The Lords Corn-
missioners of the Admiralty are pleased to direct, that
the uniforms shall be in every respect the same as at
present, except that the skirts of the coatee is to b© with-
out lace, and a red stripe is to be introduced in the outer
seam of the cloth trousers, the same as the Infantry of
the Line; and Officers hereafter joining, on first appoint-
ment or from foreign service, will be allowed to wear
their uniform with this alteration, which is to be adopted
by the corps on the 231 April, 1850."
RELIGIOUS EXPEDITION.—The Emperor of Morocco
having solicited from the English Government the
means of conveying two of his sons and suite to
Mecca on a pilgrimage to the shrine of the Mussul-
man's prophet, the Admiralty have acceded to his
request, and have commissioned the Growler,
steam sloop, at Devonport, for the purpose. Captain
Studdart, it is expected, will be ready to leave England
by the 26th inst., for Tangier, to embark the Princes of
Morocco, and after he has conveyed them to Mecca, and
back again to Morocco, will join Sir W. Parker's squad-
ron, for permanent service in the Mediterranean.
We have to announce the death of Major-General
Hugh Percy Davidson, at his seat, Stanley Hall, Shrop-
shire. The deceased was formerly Lieut.-Colonel of the
sth West India Regiment.

MINING INTELLIGENCE.
tFrom the Mining Journal.)
The share market has not been brisk this week-
althouV, in the aggregate, perhaps, the amount of
business transacted has not fallen tar short of an
average. The reports from the mines generally are of an
encouraging character, and all that is required to create
business is an advanced standard fur copper, and im-
proved price for tin.
The ample statistical details of the produce of English
and foreign mines during the past quarter must] be
con-idered of much importance, as enabling a clearer
and more correct opinion being formed of the mineral
market than has hitherto been possible. The total sales
of copper ores for the quarter amount to-Cornwall,
3(1,631 tuns, realising 187,1671. 15s. 6d.; and Swansea,
14 925 tons, producing 206 206/. Bs. 6d. The extent of
business transacted by the principal smelters can be
im igined from their public purchases of copper ores
alone, by two houses, amounting to-Messrs. Williams,
105 2411.; and Messrs. Vivians, 91.7801.
We have also given a carefully prepared detail of
the dividends from profits on mines paid to share-
holders from lit of January to the 30th of June,
which will be found to amount to 85.2741. on thirty-one
English mines ; 1.3751. on Irish; 5,0001. on Welsh ;
30,690/. on foreign mines.
During the past fortnight a depression has taken
place in Devon Great Consol Shares-consequently,
several have changed hands at different prices. An
improvement has since been made at Wheal Josiah, in
the 80 fm. level west, where the lode is now estimated
worth 150/. per fm.
Buyers continue for Mary Ann shares, and some bu-
siness has been done-94 tons were sold last week,
realising nearly 1,400/4 60 tons were raised within the
month, and 34 tons were the accumulation of several
months, which obtained a far better price than antici-
pated, and not the raisings of two months, as then inad-
vertently stated. Buyers are to be found for Alfred
Consols, West Caradon, East Wheal Rose, and South
Frances, at limited quotations.
Shares in the following mines have been transacted
since our lasts-Devon Great Consols, South Frances,
Trelawney, West Caradon, East Tamar, Mendip Hills,
Keswick, Mary Ann, Devon and Courtney, South Mol-
ton, Kingsett and Bedford, Calstock, Alfred Consols,
Bedford United, Wellington, Tamar Consols, Camborne
Consols, &c.
The annual meeting of the Asturian Company was
held on Saturday last; but, in consequence of the nego-
tiations pending for the sale of the property, it was
deemed advisable to adjourn to the 31st inst., when the
directors considered they should be in a position to sub-
mit to the proprietors for their consideration offers for
their property from the Duke de Rianzares, as well as
other parties who entertained the matter. The balance-
sheet was prepared, and open to the inspection of the
shareholders, but would not be published before the ad-
journed meeting took place.
At the West Caradon meeting, a profit of 1,135/. 15s.
9d. appeared for the month of March and April, and a
dividend of 50s. per share was declared. The sales of
copper amounted to 5,564/. 3s. 9d., and a balance of 1,7681.
18s. 4d., carried to the credit of the next account.
At the East Wheal Rose meeting, a dividend of 4,4801.
was declared on the workings of March and April,
amounting to 351. per share. The sales of silver lead
ores realised 12,6481., leaving a balance of 2,7171. 4s. sd.
in the purser's hands. From private letters we learn
1 that the mine is looking remarkably well, no official re-
port appearing with the statement of accounts.
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efor April and May workings. Copper ores sold realised
ie dt w o
f o -X.
Ild.-a balance of 6461. 14s. 9d. is carried to the
3,4571., giving a profit on the two months of 1,163/. Bs.
credit
of the next account.
At the Bedford United meeting the statement of ac-
counts showed a balance in favour of the'company of .5531.
16s. 9d.; with ore bills, due 17th, 666/. 3s. 6d.; and
cowing due in August,B7oL I Is. 11d. As at the end of the
currenti month,there was a considerable balance of assets
over liabilities in resiwet of the operations, the meeting
was adjourned to the 28th Aug
declaration and payment of a ciinvsidt,
reports of the prospects of the mine e dividend
i. c e
ht)gnhhseil
me
ar
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.es
ir.g The sales of copp+ i ore, I
this year, amount to 4.2971. 31. 6d.
At the Craddock Moor meeting, a balance of 361.
133. 3d. stood ia favour of adventurers. The agent's
, --
re-
port is favourable as to future prospects, especially e
regards Vivi-in'a lode, which affords, from the discovee-
ris made, every encouragement for more energetic ope-
, rations.
At the Gonamena meeting. the halanc', in favour of
adventurers was found to be 461. 9s. 7d.; but a call of
103. per share was deemed meseary to meet the cur.