The Sun.
London, England, 1849-11-06 00:00:00

NEATE V. PINE.

This caso came beforo his Honour upon the petition
of certain parties entitled to the ren!s of the moiety of
an estate in Jamaica, called the Bindless Moiety. The
object of the petition was that the petitioner's claims
might be satisfied out of the proceds of the whole es-
tate,which were standing iu the name of the Accountant-
General of the Court of Chancery in this country. The
facts of the case possess not the least point of interest,
except to the parties concerned, and the arguments
occupied the Court the remainder of the day.
(Before the Vice-Chancellor KNIGHT BRUCE.)
His Honour beard causes to day, but no case of
interest came before him during the morning.
(Before the Vice-Chancellor WIGRA3I.)
REYNELL V. SPRYE.

His HONOUR having handed down to the parties his
written judgment in this case, proceeded to hear the
further arguments in the part-heard case of " Coope v.
Carter."

EXCHEQUER.—(THIS DAY.)
(Sittings in Banco, beforo the Lord CHIEF BARON, Mr.
Baron PARKE, Mr. Baron RoLFE, and Mr. Baron
ALDEP.SON.)

CROODIE V. FAIBBAIRW AND OTHERS.

The ATTORNEY-GENERAL said, in this case, which
was tried at Guildhall, before the Lord Chief Baron, on
the 9th of July last, and a verdict found for the plaintiff
for 4501. beyond the money paid into court, he had to
move for a uew trial on the ground of the reception of
improper evidence, and that the verdict was against
evidence. The real defendants were the Admiralty, and
it was an action of assumpsit for the price and value of
goods sold and delivered. The defendants paid 1,0001.
into court, and admited no damages under it. The
Messrs. Fairbairns, the defendants, are large ship-
builders, and some time ago undertook to: build ono
of two steam-vessels for the Government, namely, the
Madeira and the Vulcan. These vessels were on the
screw principle, and having been recommended by the
Messrs. Rennie to the plaintiff', Mr. Croome, as a prac-
tical engineer, the Messrs. Fairbairn entered into an
engagement with him to make the slide-piece and other
fittings necessary for the screw of the vessel;
and for that work he charged 2,2801. 10s., the
paym,eut of which the defendants resisted on the
ground that it was excessive. With the view of proving
the exorbitancy of the charge, the defendants called a
Mr. Mare, a large ship-builder on the Thames, who de-
posed that he made the very same articles for the steam-
ves&el Vulcan, which was of the same size as the Ma-
deira, for 1,2001. At the trial the plaintiff produced his
books, and showed the expenses he had incurred in the
making of those articles, and the jury were misled in
finding their verdict on that supposition. A great por-
tion of the charge of the plaintiff was for builling fur-
naces and making tools to 'do this very work, and the
counsel for the defence contended that that was no ele-
ment in the cost of the manufacture of articles of this
description, any more than if he (the Attorney-General)
took his watch to be repaired to a watchmaker in the
Strard, the tools and hails used by the artisan ought to
be included in the charge fir repairing the watch.
Mr. Baron ALDERSON—Upon that principle an engi-
neer might charge the expenses of his education.
The ATTORNEY-GENERAL—To be sure. Besides, the
defendants called a number of witnesses in large busi-
ness, competent to do work of the kind in question,
who all swore that 1,2001., or thereabouts, was the full
price.

The CouRT granted a rule to show cause generally,
leaving the question of the payment of the costs of the
rule which was in dispute to be subsequently argued.

MIDDLESEX SESSIONS.
(THIS DAY.)
(Before the ASSISTANT-JUDGE.)
The November general session commenced this morn.
in 7.7, at the Sessions House, Clerkenvacil-green.
The number of prisoners i►► the cAlendar is seventy.

James Byrne, aged 22, was indicted for stealing a
hanekerebief, a gold ring, and the sum of 16s. Gd., the
propclty of Catherine Pickley, from her person.
The prosecutrix, a servant out of place, stated that
rho and some other females went on Wednesday night
last to a " dance," at a public house called the Hope, in
where she met the priwuer, with whom
sShttaff,hoard-
rlLtreedt,
some acquaintance. He accompanied her
a part of the way hora,,, and at another public-house in
the same street she tr( ated him to some drink; in pay-
ing for which she took out the handkerchief containing
her money and a wedding-ring, purchased for her by a
young man to whom slue was about t' be married. The
prisoner snatched the handkerchief and its con-
tents out of her hand and ran away with
it. On the following day one of his comrades
returned the ring. She afterwards tnet the prisoner,
and threatened to give him into custody if he did not
restore her property. He laughed at her, and her sister
then called a-policeman and gave him into custody. She
had nut been out of place a week for seven years.
Mr. PAYNE, for the prisoner, commented severely
upon the impropriety of the girl's conduct, in going, to
a dance in a public-hous;,—she, being an Irish
servtnt out of place, would not if she was a
"respectable young woman going to be married," be
seen in such a place. _ _

Several countrymen of the prisoner and the prosecu-
trix gave the former a good character.
The ASSISTANT•JUDGE said that a most disgraceful
attack had been made upon the character of the prose-
cutrix. It was Due she was an Irish girl ; but what
ever faults might be in the Irish character, the modesty
of the young women in the lower classes was a jewel in
it, and was acknowledged by every one who
.had as much
opportunity of Feting them under vat ions circumstances
as he had. 'They were thoughtless, and often did what
others who had rtic.xt wickedness would not do; and
there was nothing at all strange in her going to
this dance with her country folks, just after leaving
her service, or in her treating the prisoner, who was one
of their friends.

The jury found the prisoner Guilty, and he was scn-
tencA to be imprisonud for six month:, and kept to
hard labour.

ARLBRO.-STR EET-(THIS DAY

Mary 117i1son, a woman of the turn, was brought
before Mr. 13ingham, charged with having assaulted a
gentleman named Dolman, by breaking his head with a
soup-plate.

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'The complainant, whose head was bound with ad-
hesive piaister, stated that on the previous night he was
in Alexander's Coffee-house, in Titchborne-street,
partaking of some alamode, when the prisoner and two
other wealen came in and set down at the same table,