The Sun.
London, England, 1836-12-03 00:00:00

A FEW CASES OF SIGHT RESTORED.

Mrs. Guppy, N0.36,N ei;on-square,lllackfriars-road,cured of Ophthalmia.
Miss Mary Roades, Market-lace, Winslow, Bucks, cured of Ophthalmia.
Witnesses to her cure, Mr. John Roades, father, and R. Walker, Esq., a
magistrate.
Mr. A. M'lntyre, aged 65, No. 3, Silver-street, Golden-square; cured
of Gutta Serena.
H. Liston, Esq., Marine Library, Ramsgate, Kent; cured of Cataract.
Mrs. Burberow ; cured while at Jamaica of Gutta Serena, No. 37, Mary.
street, Regent's Park, I ander].
Mr. P. Saunderson, No. 10, Harper-street, Leeds; cured of Cataract.
Mr. H. Pluckwell, Tottenham-house, Tottenham, Middlesex, cured of
ophthalmia.
Miss E. Englefield, Park-street, Windsor: cured of Nervous Head-ache.
Madame F. Lespis, facing the Church, Park-street, Windsor; cured of
Dimness of Sight and Head-ache.
George Smith, Esq., 6, York-place, Kentish-town; Weakness and Dim_
ness of Sight removed by its use. _ _

Decimus Blackburn, Eaq., Chertsey, Surrey; Head-ache, Weakness and
Dimness of Sight cured.
Numerous original Testimonials from Medical Gentlemen and Families
of the first respectability, proving the above, may be seen
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And 24, King-street, Long-Acre, London.
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TESTIMONIALS.
Opinion of the Editor of the Albion, 12th Sept., 1835:—" We have
witnessed that Grimstene's Eye Snuff has justly excited such notice in
almost every quarter of the globe, as t a induce Don G. Lobe, Consul,
&C., &C., &c., and exclusive dealer in drugs and chemical products, at the
Havanaah, in the Isle of Cuba, to so icit the sole agency in that quarter, to
which he has been appointed by Mr. Grimstone, through the medium
of Don Pedro Ortiz de Zugasti, 12, Artillery-place, Finsbury, the Spanish
Consul-General to the Court of Great Britain Attested, &e., before two
witnesses.
The following is a copy of Don G. Lobe's letter
Mr. W. Grimstone, London. Havannah, 28th April 1835.
Sir,—My house, G. Lobe, doing business exclusively in drugs and che-
:nical products in the Island of Cuba, and this part of America, it will
not surprise you to hear, that I have known of your excellent Eye Snuff
for the sight, and removal of pains in the head, ke. &c., for some time,
and that I should have procured it by means of my correspondents in
London, Messrs. Pinto and Co., 36, Crutched-friars. It has proved such
an unfailing and certain remedy, that it has given universal satisfaction;
and the demand I have for it, with its undoubted efficacy, has called my
attention to its practical effect. Ido consider it to the interest of my
house to solicit the sole agency for the Isle of Cuba; not doubting your ac.
ceptance of my terms, as I shall always send the cash with my orders, as in
this case. 1 have enclosed you a bill five days' sight, or. Charles Buttar,
Esq , 15, Angel-court, Throgmorton.street, London, for which you will
please to send 500 cases of your celebrated Eye Snuff. It will further oblige
me, if you will have some of your testimonials translated into Spanish.
Sir, I am your's faithfully,
DON G. LOBE,
Caballero de la Orden del Leon, Consul General de S. M.
el Rey de los Paises Bajos en la Isla de Cuba, Agents
de la Scciedad de Comreercio Nederlands, Chihandel,
Moatschappy &c.
COPY of a LETTER sent to MR. GRIMSTONE, July 9th, 1835.
Sir—Having been afflicted with bad Eyes for along time, a friend who
had received benefit from using your Eye Snuff, recommended it to me;
I have taken the contents of two of your 2s. 4d. canisters, and am happy
to say my sight has much improved; the weakness and dimness is re-
moved, and, Sir, it is my wish 'that you make this known for the good of
the public Yours, GEORGE SMITH.
No. 6, York Place Kentish Town. July 9th, 1835.

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COPY of a LE TER sent to MR. GRIMSTONE, June 24th, 1835.
Sir—Having received very great benefit from the use of your Eye
Snuff, I take this opportunity to thank you fir it, and to assure all those
who are afflicted with head acne, dimness or weakness of sight, that they
will find this a pleasing, cheap, and effectual remedy fot all diseases in
that important part of the human frame, the Eye.
I remain, Sir, yours trul
Chertsey, Surrey, June 24th, 18.35. y, DECIMUS BLACKBURN.
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Per Ton,

COALAIAR;
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Bensham 21 0
Picton 2l 0
Pontop Windsor lO 6
Wylam 23 3
Walls End Bewicke and Co 23 6

Walls End Hotpur 23 0
Walls End Killingworth
Walls End Newmarch 22 6
Walls End Northumberland 22 9

Walls End j'e-a-;41-til l9 6

End Perkins '22 0
Ships arrived since L

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Per Ton. S. d.
Walls End Primrose
Walls End Braddyll's 25 n
Walls End Haswell
Walls End Hetton 25 0
Walls End Lambtnn 25 n
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Walls End Russel's Hetton 26
Walls End Stewart's
Walls End Gallon 23 9
Walls End Tees
Cowpen
last market-day. 8.

COUNTRY CORN MARKETS DURING THE WEEK.

Per Quarter. I Wheat. Barley. I Oats. =L Pease.
A 60 65 40 42 21 29 i 4 40
Basingstoke 46 69 34 44 22 30 39 46 37 40
Bath . 56 '6O 28 32 22 24 36 32 42 46.
Bridgewater 48 56 22 26 20 25 32 34 42 46
48 56 22 32 16 20 34 38
Chesterfield 60 68 38 42 26 30 42 46
Derby 64 6$ 41 42 .24 28 44 47
Doncaster 36 40 36 46 21 31 36 42
Dorchester— 69 30 21 40
40 54 28 34 20 28 36 40
G10uce5ter............ 46 54 34 46 20 32 40 49 40 44
Rungerford 38 60 30 39 22 30 34 44 37 41
Leicester 53 36 24 44 34 ...-
Newbury*. 49 68 32 44 20 32 41 48 32 42
Beinsey 40 51 36 43 28 2? 33 40
Shaftesbury 54 25 17 41 —.-
Sliepton Mallet 52 59 36 42 25 28 44 50
Sherborne 48 56 32 40 24 30 40 45
l'aunton*. 46 'KJ 12 . 36
Yarmouth 46 52 30 39 28 30 34 36
Yeovil 54 60 32 36 22 28 38 48
Per Bushel. s. 0. s. c 3. a. d. s. ds.d.s.d.a.o.s. d. S. d. s.d
Shrewsbury 84 8 8 5 0 5 9 3 3 48, 00 0 0 0 0 06
BIRMINGHAM CORN MARKET, Dec.l
Wheat, 62 ib.
Barley, imperial quarter
Do. Grinding, 49 lb.
Oats, 391 b
Old Beans, 661,41 b l6 6 18 0
New ditto
New White Boling Pease, 3 imp. bush.
Ditto Grey ditto

New White Boling Pe
Ditto Grey ditto

Mr. Dyson, of Waltham Cross, lately received a
Norfolk turnip, containing a hare, a rabbit, a brace of phea-
sants, a leash of birds, and two couple of snipes. It mea-
sured 18 inches in circumference. .

On Tuesday, about half-past twelve, the inhabi-
tants of the houses in Wharf-street, Suffolk-street, Bir-
mingham, were suddenly alarmed by a strange noise, upon
hearing which they rushed out of their dwellings in great
alarm, and in five minutes no less than five or six houses,
and a shoeing smith's shop, occupying a frontage to the
street of about a hundred yards, were swept down level
with the ground by the force of an immense body of water,
which had escaped by the bursting of the embankment of
the Old Birmingham Canal-wharf, immediately at the
back of the premises. We have not been able to ascertain
what loss of human life attended this awful catastrophe ;
report says two or three persons are missing. The cellars
and lower rooms of most of the neighbouring houses were
most completely inundated.—Birminghain Paper.
The weather in Orkney has been most boisterous,
and been productive of much injury to those remote isles of
the sea. Many of the farmers in the south and north isles
have only succeeded in getting one half their crop cut down,
and what has been reaped and gathered in is in a very bad
state indeed. The most prevalent winds, from north to
north-east, with a heavy fall of snow, and there seems to be
no sign of changes ; in consequence of whidh all kinds of
provisions are far above the usual standard price.

The arguments in this case, which were opened on Wed-
nesday, were to day concluded. The bill was filed for the
purpose of compelling the defendant, Joseph Neale, to
suffer a recovery of a small copyhold estate at Thornbury,
in the county of Gloucester, and that in the meantime he
might be restrained from proceeding in an action at law for
the recovery of the said estate. The bill stated that a
surrender of the property had been made in 1747, and an-
other in 1794, by which Joseph Neale surrendered his estate
in reversion to his wife for her life, with remainder as he
should appoint. By his will of the same date, he devised
his estate to his sons, James and the defendant Joseph, and
died without having suffered any recovery. In 1800 the
wife entered into possession, and having intermarried
with a person of the name of Day, she in the follow-
ing year, at the Court of the Manor, formally admitted
into possession, and agreed to give it up, with the
furniture and stock, to her sons James and Joseph, in
nsidere tion of their bringing up and educating their
younger brothers and sisters. James and Joseph farmed
the estate up to 1809, when, Joseph having married, James
agreed to reside with him as a lodger. In 1820 the mother
died, and, in 1821, the two brothers were admitted to the
estate, under their father's will, as tenants in common in
fee, and in the same year they agreed to make a partition,
by which the property was djvided into equal portions, which
the brothers dealt with as absolute owners. James died in
1831, having made his will, by which he devised his share
of the estate to the present plaintiff, and gave his brother
a legacy of 60/. In order to pay the legacies it became
necessary to mortgage the estate, and the defendant agreed
to accept the promissory note of the plaintiff, and give a
release to James for his share of the estate from his legacy.
In 1828 the copy of the Courtlroll of 17471 was accidentally
discovered, in a drawer in the bedroom of the defendant's
son, and upon this document the defendant brought an ac-
tion of ejectment for the recovery of the estate. The plain-
tiff had since filed his bill in equity, and obtained au in-
junction to try the proceedings at law, which the late Lord
Chancellor (Lord Brougham) had refused to dissolve. Under
these circumstances the case now came on for hearing.
Mr. TINNEY, on behalf of the plaintiff, contended that
an arrangement had been entered into under a direction in
the father's will, and that a species of purchase had taken
place, by which Joseph took part of an estate to which he
had no title.

Mr. J. RUSSELL appeared on behalf of the mortgagees of
the estate.

Mr. PEMBERTON, on behalf of the defendant, submitted
that the bill ought to be dismissed, and that an account
ought to be taken, as against the plaintiff, of the rents and
profits of the estate.
His Lordship the MASTER of the ROLLS should look
through the pleadings and the evidence before he delivered
his judgment.

EXCHEQUER COURT, DBC. 2.
ROBINSON V. LAINSON.

Mr. KELLY stated the plaintiff's case. A person of the
name of Hancock had been his debtor, but had for some
time gone out of the way. No account could for a long
time be got of him, notwithstanding the most diligent
search. He was at last found in the Fountain public-house
in Serle's-place, Carey-street, Lincoln's Inn-fields. Plaintiff
had brought and action, and recovered judgment, and duly
issued execution upon it. It was delivered to the officers
of the Sheriff of Middlesex, but when they came to take
possession a person of the name of Jones, residing in
Whitetriars, set up a bill of sale from Hancock, and claimed
the property, though Hancock had been openly and before
the world living in the house for months before, exercising
acts of ownership, his name over the door, the license
transfemd to his name, acting in the bar, and receiving tho
money. Was he now to be allowed to say he was not the
owner of this property, that the very day he entered he
made an assignment of it to this Mr. Jones ? The man
being thus before the world the owner of the goods, it was
the duty of the Sheriff to have made the seizure, and levied
the amount of the execution, instead of making a return
of nulla bona—that Hancock had no goods upon which to
execute the writ. He believed there would be no dispute
about the judgment having been duly obtained, and the
writ of execution regularly sued out. He trusted the Jury
would award damages against the Sheriff, for his neglect
of duty.
Mr. Baron GURNEY summed up the evidence, leaving to
the Jury the question of ownership or possession.
The Jury found for the plaintiff as before, with 32/. 12s.
damages.

INSOLVENT COURT.—Fmmar, DEC. 2.

John Pearson otherwise Captain Polhill, was opposed by
Mr. WOODROFFE, on the part of Messrs. Stuckey, bankers,
at Taunton, and for the West Branch of England. He
was supported by Mr. COOKE.
The insolvent, it appeared, from his examination, had not
been in the army or navy, but bad assumed during his re-
sidence at Taunton, Somersetshire, the name of Captain
Polhill. He was not related to Captain Polhill, M.P.
for Bedford, and denied that he had ever made such a re-
presentation. He had formerly been cashier in the banking-
house of Messrs. Bond, Sons, and Company, who became
bankrupts in 1831, and he then left for Somersetshire, and
to prevent being annoyed, and under the fear of imprison-
ment from the assignees of that firm, he assumed the name
of Polhill. He was a debtor to the house of 10,0001., for
which sum he gave his bond with security, and between
4,000/. and 5,0001. on the account had been paid. His
debts contracted within the last year amounted to nearly
600/., and that there were no credits or assets ; that a pro-
missory note for 1001. had been discounted for the insol-
vent by Messrs. Stuckey, dated the Bth of January, 1836,
at three months ; that the note was drawn by the Rev. Wil-
liam Brocklebank in favour of Captain John Polhill, and
that he (insolvent) endorsed it in the name of Polhill. The
Rev. W. Brocklebank, by the evidence of the insolvent,
was now living as curate at St. Nicholas or St. Hippolite,
at Hitchin, in Hertfordshire, (from the noise in the Court
it was impossible to say which) ; that he knew the insol-
vent by the name of Pearson, but at Taunton the insol-
vent was not known by that name ; tkat the note was not
payable to order ; and that two notes of fifty pounds each ,
drawn under similar circumstances, had been cashed, the
one by the West of England Branch Bank, and the other
by an attorney named of Brown ; none of these notes had
been paid. The Rev. W. Brocklebank did not owe him
(the insolvent) any money, but had obliged him with his
name to the notes. In March last, before the notes came
due, the insolvent left Taunton, and an inquiry was now
gone into to know what had become of household property
and plate to the estimate value of 500/., from which it
appeared that a sale had been made of the household goods,
on which the insolvent affirmed he lost 3001. Part of the
plate had been pawned for 25/., and the money had been
spent ; the remainder was in the possession of his mother,
who had a claim against him. Whilst living near Taunton
he had a pony and pha'eton, and had contracted within the
last year about 600/. of debts in that neighbourhood, and
he had upwards of twenty tradesmen.
Mr. Young, a solicitor, deposed that two months ago he
had written a circular to all the creditors of the insolvent,
by directions of the mother of the insolvent, offering to pay
ss. in the pound on his debts. It had not been acceded to
by all the creditors, and consequently had not been acted
upon ; had all agreed, it would have been carried into effect.
In answer to a question of the Court, the insolvent said,
the Rev. Mr. Brocklebank had lent him his name to a
former promissory note, which had been cashed, and which
the insolvent had taken up.
Amongst the creditors were 25 tradesmen at Taunton,
whose debts amounted to upwards of 600/.
Mr. WOODROFFE commented in strong language on the
conduct of the insolvent, and expatiated on the circumstance
of the notes not being payable to order. He called on the
Court to adjudicate in such a manner as should prevent the
insolvent from quitting prison for a very considerable time.
Mr. COOKF: replied, and argued, amid other things, that
the form of the note, omitting the words " or order," arose
from inadvertence ; and that if the insolvent had meant it as
a fraud, he would not have tried the scheme on two bankers
and an attorney, the very persons who would be most likely
to detect it. As to the plate in possession of the mother,
it would be given up, and the trinkets of the wife should
also be rendered.
It was proved that the brother of the insolvent had of-
fered to pay the creditors five shillings in the pound, pro-
vided they all came into the arrangement. The opposing
creditors had refused the terms.
Mr. Commissioner LAW adjudged the insolvent, at the

Mr. Walter, an ironmonger, at Bromley, in Kent, stated
that the prisoner Cursinven called upon him and took a
house from him at the rate of 401. a year, giving him a
reference to a Mr. James, of Charlotte-street, Islington.
Witness called, but Mr. James was out. He, however,
saw a lady who called herself Mrs. James, to whom he told
his business. Witness soon afterwards received a note,
purporting to be written by Mr. James, and stating that
the person who had given the reference was a most re-
spectable gentleman, whom he had known for several
years, and that no doubt the gentleman would turn out
to be an excellent tenant. Witness let the house upon
the strength of this recommendation, and he had no
doubt that it had been taken for the purpose o Liffording
facilities in plundering tradespeople. When Cursinven got
into the house he observed to witness that he wished good
wine, and spoke of getting some from London ; to which
witness replied that good wine was to be had at Bromley
if a good price were given for it, and the hint was soon
taken. Witness's wine-merchant was applied to, as well
as the butcher, of whom forty-six pounds of beef were got
by Cursinven.

Cursinven—Never, to my knowledge.
Mr. Walter said that as good luck would have it the
house was a very short time occupied before it was disco-
vered what sort of an inhabitant it had.

Cursinven—l would have paid every one of my trades-
men if I had not been taken.

Mr. Charles Crook, of George-yard, Long-acre, livery-
stable keeper, stated that the prisoner Cursinven hired of
him a horse and chaise for twenty-eight days. Witness
heard that Cursinven was in custody just as the time ex-
pired, and caused the property to be detained. Cursinven,
when hiring the horse and chaise, wrote down the name
of Thompson on a card, which was prodticed in the po-
lice room.

Cursinven—l did not take the horse and chaise.
Mr. Crook—No ; but your boy, who stands next to you,
took it in your name.—(Here Macknell laughed.)
A police officer produced a note which the prisoner Cur-
sinven wrote in the Compter, no doubt for the purpose of
aiding in the humbug which he was carrying on. It was
addressed " Mr. Thompson," and professed to advise that
gentleman where to place his (Mr. Thompson') horse and
chaise, and intimated that he had h imself been charged
with forgery. In another note, addressed to a different
name, he mentioned that he had got into trouble, and was
in Giltspur-street Compter, &c.
Mr. Wray, corn-dealer, of Bromley, said that Cursinven
obtained goods of him in the name of Peters.
Cursinven—l never saw you before.
Mr. Wray—The fellow ordered hay and other goods.
Cursinven—You sent no bill with it.

Mr. Wray—No ; the order was not completed. I should
have transmitted the remainder, but the parties disappeared.
The Prisoner—There's no person I ever dealt with that I
didn't pay.—(Laughter.)
Mr. Acton, wine-merchant, of Bromley, said he called
on me, and said that Mr. Walter, in whose house he re-
sided, recommended me to him as a person who could sup-
ply him with good wine, and he ordered four dozen of port
and sherry. I did not like his appearance, and only sent
him half the quantity, for I thought him to be a scamp as
he is.—(Laughter, in which Cursinven heartily joined.)
Cursinven—lf you had sent in a bill you should have
been paid every halfpenny.—(Laughter.)
Mr. Acton—ln two hours, I believe, the wine was in
London. Some of the creditors said that the straw which
was ordered in was, they had no doubt, to make beds
with, as everything valuable was sent into town. There was
no furniture whatever in the house.

Cursinven—No, I had no time to send in furniture.—
(Laughter.)
Mr. Lecomb, a harness-maker, stated that Cursinven
ordered a set of harness and a bridle and saddle at his shop.
The boy took them in at No. 9, Huiton-street. itness
could get no sight of Cursinven after the delivery of the goods.
Cursinven—l didn't ask you to give Mr. Thompson credit.
Besides you know me well.
_ _

Mr. Lecomb—Know you! I know nothing about you
I solemnly declare.
Cursinven—No ! Why you know that I have given
your brother credit for hundreds.—(Great laughter.)
Mr. Lecomb—l am convinced that you never knew
him. You some how learned that there was such a person,
and the only knowledge I had of you was derived from your
corning in and asking whether he was in town.
Cursinven—l never asked you to give Mr. Thomson
credit. When I introduced him to you, I had no idea that
he intended to ask you for credit.—(Laughter.)
The LORD MAYOR—I dare say we shall have several
other tradesmen here on Tuesday next, to which day I re-
mand the prisoner.