The Sun.
London, England, 1849-12-24 00:00:00

LAW INTELLIGENCE.

JUDICIAL, COMUITTEE OF THE
PRIVY COUNCIL-(THIS DAY.)

GORHAM V. THE BISHOP OF EXETER,

A statement in the Western Times of Friday to the
effect that the Committee of the Privy Council, so far
as respected this case, stood adjourned to this day,
induced us to think that judgment would have been
given this morning; but from the inquiry of one of
our reporters at the office of the Privy Council this
morning, we find the statement referred to above is
incorrect, for the Council did not sit at all to•day.

COMMON PLEAS.—( THIS DAY.)
The Lord Chief Justice Wilde and a common jury
were occupied this morning in trying the case of
Steer and others v. Goodall, which involved a matter
of account transacted on the Stock Exchange, only
of interest to the parties immediately concerned.
This is the last day of the sittings after term.

EXCHEQUER.—(THIS DAY.)
(Sittings at Guildhall, before the LORD CHIEF BARON
and a Common Jury.)
UPSHER V. TRUNDLE.
The plaintiff in this case was a draper, carrying on
business at St. Ives, Huntingdonshire, and he sought
to recover from the defendant, who is a miller at
Spalding in Norfolk, the amount of a bill of exchange
for 259/.

Mr. Watson and Mr. Duncan appeared for the
plaintiff, and Mr. Martin and Mr. Willes for the
defendant.

The particulars of the case were simply these :—A
person named Charter, a draper, at Grimstone, in
Norfolk, obtained a quantity of goods from the
plaintiff, for which, owing to embarrassed circum-
stances, he was unable to pay ; the plaintiff brought
an action for the amount, when Charter got his
father in-law, the present defendant, to give a bill of
exchange to the plaintiff for payment of the debt and
costs. Subsequently Charter became a bankrupt, and
the defendant refused to meet the bill of exchange,
and the consequence was the commencement of the
present suit.

The defence was, that the bill of exchange had
been satisfied by an agreement entered into between
the parties, and several witnesses were called to prove
that this was the case, and the question simply re-
solved itse:f into the amount of credibility which
could be attached to the witnesses on either side.
The jury interrupted his Lordship almost as soon
as he had commenced summing up, to state that they
bad already made up their minds that the verdict
should be for the plaintiff.—Verdict accordingly for
the plaintiff, for the full amount.

MARLBRO'-STREET-(THIS DAY.)
EMBEZZLEMENT BY A CLERK.—Thomas Eagles, a
well-dressed man, was brought before Mr. Hart'wick,
charged with emb( zzling upwards of 58/. belonging to
his employer, Mr. John Rogers, tobacconist, 392, Ox•
ford-street.

The prosecutor stated that the prisoaer was employed
by him as clerk and collector. It was also his duty to
take orders and collect in all moneys due to the estab-
lishment; and the utmost confidence was reposed in him
up to the 6th instant, when he absented himself from his
employment. Not making his appearance the following
day, witness suspected all was not as it should be, and,
upon subsequent Inquiry, be discovered defalcations in
the prisoner's accounts to the amount of 581. Witness
saw nothing more of the prisoner until the 10th inst.,
when he met him in King's-road, Chelsea, and imme-
diately taxed him with robbing him. The prisoner
expressed his sorrow that things had taken such a turn,
and begged to have a private interview with prosecutor,
when, no doubt, all would be made right. Witness
accordingly made an appointment with the prisoner to
meet him between eight and nine the next night at
his (witness's) house. The prisoner came at that time,
and, in the course of conversation, he asked witness to
convert the money in question into a debt, and
pressed him much to do so, promising to pay
him 11. per week, till the whole amount was paid. Wit-
ness declined to acoede to these terms, but told the
prisoner if he could find good and substantial security
for the payment, he (witness) would consider about
employing him again. The prisoner then left the house,
and, in consequence of further defalcations having been
discovered, prosecutor gave information to the police,
who succeeded in apprehending the prisoner at his lodg-
ings on Saturday night. The prosecutor could, if the
prisoner was remanded, bring several other charges
against him.

—Mr. HARDWICK remanded the prisoner until Thurs-
day II( xt.

BENEVOLENCE.—The Magistrate requested our re-
porter to acknowledge the receipt of 11. 145., being the
proceeds of a sixpenny subscription for the relief of the
casual poor, collected by Master Charles Cook, of No.
8, Clifford-street, Bond-street ; from the Goldsmiths'
Company, 201. (annual) ; and from E. C., the whole of
a Bank note for 51., to be applied to the same benevolent
purpose.

CAPE OF GOOD HOPE.
We have received Cape of Good Hope papers
to the 3d of November inclusive, but the intelligence
they contain differs very little from that supplied by
many of the late arrivals from that colony. The
people at large maintained most firmly the " pledge ;"
but the Government had always obtained what they
required for convicts, troops, and every one else who
needed assistance. The Admiralty House is converted
into a cattle kraal, and the Court House into a
slaughter house. The Government makes its own
bread and biscuit, kills its own cattle, and procures
its own vegetables, without the aid of contractors.
Some fifteen or twenty individuals have incurred
grave censure by supplying Government, either
directly or indirectly, with different kinds of food.
Among the number are the names of Messrs. J. B.
Ebden and Co., Hpdrick Morkel, sen„ Henry
Boase, and Samuel Drake. The strictures upon
the conduct of Mr. Ebden have been exceedingly
severe, for Mr. E. occupied the chair of the Anti-
Convict Association for a considerable time. He was
one of the first who advocated and insisted upon ap-
plying the " pledge" to the naval department at Si-
mon's Bay, and so impressed was he with the neces-
sity of resistance, that he even promised to die in the
cause of the people. This gentleman is now charged
with selling some 2,000 muids of wheat to the Go.
vernment. Mr. Ebden has written the following
letter in justification of himself:—
" Cape Town, Oct. 31, 1849.
" Sir—ln reply to your letter of yesterday, received
at a late hour last evening, stating that you had been
directed by the Anti-Convict Association to ascertain
from me the correctness, or otherwise, of a report
that I, or my firm, have either directly or indirectly
been supplying government departments, I hasten to
say, without recognising for a moment the right of
the association to catechise me, or in any way to inter-
fere with any transaction of mine, in the ordinary
course of business, that neither I nor my firm, have
teen supplying government departments;' but while
I make this statement without any mental reserva-
tion, I have no wish to disguise or to conceal from
the public the fact of my having sold a quantity of
wheat to Mr. Edmund Leahy, for cash, which wheat,
as I have been informed by Mr. Leahy, has since been
resold by him to the Government at a considerable
profit.

" From the 18th of June list, the day on which,
as one of a deputation from the Anti Convict Asso-
ciation, I presented an address to his Excellency
the Governor, up to the present hour, I have had no
connnunication, either directly or indirectly, with the
Government, or any department of the Government,
regarding supplies or any other transactions of
business ; and it is matter of notoriety that, since the