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

COURT OF EXCH 4'QUER,JuIy 7.
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(Nisi Prius Sitting at Guildhall, imure the Chief Baron
and a Special Jury.)
SHIPToN V. LARNDER.

This was an action to recover compensation in da-
mages for a loss occasioned in the re mqval of a large
quantity of iron plates and hoops, by reason of the al-
leged negligence of the defendant's servants.

Mr. Sergeant Allen, with Mr. Hill. appeared for the
plaintiff ; Mr. Martin, with Mr. Bramwell, for the
defendant.

The plaintiff is extensively engaged as a canal
carrier, and has a wharf and place of business at the
City Canal Basin. 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 L, was sent up by canal
from Staffordshire, to be forwarded by a foreign vessel.
and the plaintiff employed the defendant to convey the
iron in a barge from the City Canal basin to the Lon-
don Docks, where the vessel was lying which was to
take the iron to its foreign destination. The iron was
shipped on board the defendant's barge, at the City
Canal, on the Bth of August last, and was brought
alongside the vessel in which it was to be shipped on the
10th of August ; but was there found to be damaged
from wet, so that the captain objected 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 correspondents. The iron was,
therefore, after some unsuccessful attempts to restore
the smoothness and polish, returned back to the plaintiff,
and thrown on his hands. 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 insisted that he
was wholly blameless, as the barge 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 effL ct 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 fir, for home
consumption, though nut available for exportation, and
that the depreciation in value did not exceed ten pounds.
Alter 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 Chief Baron announced in the
course of the day that at the Guildhall sitting, atter
Michaelmas term, he propoaP&l to reverse the usual
order, and proceed in the fir.t indanco with the trial
of special jury causes, leaving the unntnon jury cases to
be tried during the last week of the sitting.

COURT OF BAAKIIUP .INly 7.
(Before Mr. Comtnis-i)n-r GOULEURN.)
IN RE SUSEPII 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. Tne assets are—go id
debts 2671. and stock that has realised 1,2694 but out of
the latter amount a sum of 1,0031. is claimed by Me.
William Darby under au execution. Among the prin-
cipal creditors are—Messrs. Armitage and Ward, Man-
chester, 1431.; John Burd and Son, Manchester, 4211.
W. Darby, South Lambeth, 2581.; John Grave and Co.,
Manchester, 2581.; Mrs. Poll, Islington, 5371.; Todd.
Gaston. and Co., 1781 ; Watson, Strayon, and Worthing •
ton, 3411. The bankrupt passkd his uxamination.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
WORSHIP-STREET.

On Saturday, Thomas Povey, a labourer, employed on
the Eastern Counties Railway, was brought up for final
examination, before Mr. Minitelll, charged with having
feloniously abstracted a quantity of silk tabaret, of the
value of 15/., the property of Messrs. Walters and Son,
silk-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 it 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 from Braintree on the 2d
inst., in one of the luggage trains of the above railway,
and although immediate information of the robbery was
communicated to the police, every effort to elucidate the
transaction, or obtain any clue to the missing propel ty,
was wholly unsuccessful until about ten days since,
when it was discovered that the greater part of it was ex-
posed for sale in the 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 ahopman,
the latter informed them that it was 3s. 9d. a yard, but
at the same moment one of the partners entered, and
offered to sell it to them at the rate of 3s. 3d. The
officers then stated who they were, and on asking 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 a bill of sale relating to the
transaction. Having secured 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 received 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 peen employed by a truck-
driver, named Bolton, to sell the properly at any price he
could procure for it. The mail Bolton, however, volun-
tarily came forward, and positively denied all participa-
tion in the matter, or that he tt.d ever seen thw silk until
it was shown to him by the officer. Mr. Hampton, of
the firm of Hampton and Russell, statt.d 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, fur 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
mately accepted, and witness considered that to be the
fair value of the article.

George Ctieeseman, the prosecutor'a foreman, and
Abraham Brown, the weaver of the gouda, identifiedthe property, end estim4ted the velar of it at Ba. 3d.
per yard.