The Sun.
London, England, 1849-01-31 00:00:00

BAIL COURT.-(THIS DA Y.)

JONES V. PRITCHARD.
„I This' was a case of libel arrising out of a dispute which
1441,4 taken place between Mr. George Jones, the trage-
....,a; and Mr. Pritchard, the manager of the York cir-
'"a't., relative to a contribution to the fund for preserving.
3bakapere's house at Stratford. The defendant had
Piblished ethe libel in the Yorkshire newspapers, and
:,,aed it to the theatrical world as a circular, and for
or
instance where the circular had reached the hands
coco tee party to whom it was addressed, the plaintiff had
f,4lnleliced a separate action, making in all seven dif-
44':ent suits to recover compensation in the shape of
tramFacgoec rnskfbourth,e same libel. A few days ago, however,
on behalf of the defendant, obtained a.
calling upon, the plaintiff to show cause why
14e Proceedings should not be stayed in all the actions
at
:oae, until that one had been tried, and that rule was
4;,-.ted yesterday.
41• Justice ERLE now gave judgment, making the rule
the stay of proceedings absolute.
Ur. IN RE MR. SOUNDERS.
all.llB applied on behalf of this gentleman, who is
cote, WerekeY of the court, for leave to renew his certifi •
Pying for some years discontinued his practice.
add it „,tiatiee ERIE upon looking over the affidavit,.
tactics_Peared that Mr. Saunder's had been out of
he di Lur the last eighteen years, (luting which time
v,i,h dire his attention to a study entirely unconnected
Odi the law. Under thcse circumstances, he was
ged to order, by a recently established rule, that
el. Saunders should go through the ordeal of a second
:lamination before the examiners of parties applying to
admitted attorneys. •
Mr. Fires said it was true Mr. Saunders had been
studg theology during the last eighteen years, in the
Pacity of a missionary at New South Wales, but if his
4.ordship would look at the certificates, he would see
that Mr. Saunders had been in the habit of associating
Illth the judges and magistrates of that colony.
31_14r. Justice ERLE said that might be so, but it would
in
Th author:sehis departing from the established practice
Sue_
applicationl,l,ll. was accordingly postponed till next

SECONDARIES'.—(THIS DAY.)
A FoßEtota
(Before Mr. Secondary POTTER.)
MILLER AND OTHERS V. SMITH. .
are engineers at II
CONTRACT.--The
-- --I'' and d ' dant is also a wor
ighton, de k-
plaintiffs in this action
/11 eir,
engineer. The action was brought to recover the
'NFU of
Vaintiffs 4'
uso/, for money had and received to and for the
e.
t Mr• CORRIE stated the case.—That plaintiffs had en-
tctred into a contract with the Austrian Government to
lio,up a stear,essei, and it became necessary that Eng-
-I,,:e_ttrtizatis should proceed to Venice to perform the
11. Defendant was one of those, engaged at 365. a
Reek' and all travelling and extra expenses to be paid;
;en 401, was advanced to the defendant. and he was di-
41'nled to proceed to Venice. This, however, he did not;
' cullsecluently, an inconvenience arose; but no
ima e
merely
th_ g Was sought by the present action, but
t_ f e recovery of the amount. As the defendant had su
i' red judgment to by default,there could be no doubt
go
-lithe ease.
Evidence
, was adduced to prove the contract, and that
"et_Eidant did not perform his part.
.1-!..'he jury gave a verdict for the amount.
SINGULAR AND IMPORTANT CASE.—KINGDON V. FORD.
lhe plaintiff in this action is an attorney in Clifford's
Inn, and defendant a baker in the Old Bailey. The
biTatinn was broug,ht to recover the sum of 19/. 25., the
,whiclr theo adejtoeinnd and several bills of exchange, of
ant was alleged to be one of the
Receptors.
The defendant pleaded that he did
• Mr. Kingdon (the plaintiff) not accept the bill.
ing the case called appeared, and after stet.
Mr. Cubley, who stated that he w" lean society. He saw defendant signthtehurustee of a
him by having had two previous transaetio 1, and knew
Nvitness indorsed the bill in the name s .13 s_ with him.
.11oland" (Mr. Roland being at the time a
eoC.tubley and
' hes since retired) to Mr. Kingdon. rustee but
Cross-examined by Mr. Toomes—ls a altar h ld
e o er in
'the society. Indorsed the bill to plaintiff without eon.
lkideration, and employed Mr. Shepherd (Mr. liingdows
P4rtner) to bring the action.
Mr. '1 HOMAS here submitted that there was no ease—
it tras clear the plaintiff had no right of action; j...r) h
fact
Ras one of the parties had been sued in the County
Court, but as nothing had been recovered, the Bill had
b
' 'en put into the hands of an attorney, to sue in the
"Porior court, which the Courts had held he had a
right to do. -'
. -
The SECONDARY said they must keep to the pleadings
‘thich were no acceptance.
Mr. Towles s it was impossible to plead or to
an the facts in all. cases—as in this a conclusive fact

arose on the cross-examination, and surely if he showed
there was no plaintiff the cause must fall.
The Learned SECONDARY said the question was whe-
ther he ought to have admitted the evidence in cross
examination on the plea.
Mr. 'FnomAs said there was a second plea, which he
did net promise, and he would be entitled to show in
evidence that the plaintiff had no title ; and, conse-
quently, there could be no promise on the bill.
The SECONDARY said there was only one plea and
one issue, non•accertance. He would take a note of the
objection, but as the plea sttoti he was decidedly against
the Learned Counsel.
- Mr. Tuosus then addressed the jury, and said that,
according to his instructions, he should be able distinctly
to prove that the acceptance was not in the handwriting
of defendant. _ _ _

The defendant's brother swore positively it was not,
and other witnesses spoke very confidently to the same
point.
The jury, however, almost immediately gave a verdict
for the amount claimed.

. Mr. TnomAs applied for the writ to be retained, on
the ground that the plaintiff had no title in the bill.
The SECONDARY repeated that he thought he ought
not to have allowed the evidence On that point to have
been elicited when there was no plea that he had taken
r. note of the objection.

MR. RIGBY WASON'S FIGURES.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.

Sin,—With your kind permission I beg to correct
an egregious inic,tke in Mr. Wason's " Budget for
the Million," published in your paper of Thursday
last. The error referred to occurs in his numera-
tion. The following figures, expressing, as he says,
the value of realised property, he reads erroneously :-
4,400,000,0001. This sum Mr. W.- calls four bil-
lions four hundred and forty millions; which is pal-
pably wrong. It should be read four thousand four
hundred millions, which is enormously less than the
sum he reads. The difference between the two is as
follows, viz.:—
The amount as read by Mr. W. £4,000,440,000,000
The real amount ... 4,400,000,000

Difference .... £3,996,040,000,000
Which difference would be more than sufficient to
pay off the national debt 4,995 times over, taking the
debt at 800,000,0001._

I am, Sir, your obedient servant,
J. H. ROBEY.

Newcastle-under-Lyme; Jan. 30, 1849.
[The error to which our correspondent alludes was
one of words, and not of figures. Mr. WAsox
calculates the amount "correctly," but called it erro-
neously. It should, as our correspendeot states, be
read four thousand four hundred millions. A billion
was stated by Mr. WASON to mean a million of mil-
lions ; it was therefore manifest that the mistake oc-
curred in the hurry of the moment—was one of form,
and not of substance. The figures he wrote down
were 4,400,000,0001., and surely every one of our
readers could readily comprehend their signification
and amount.—En. Sun.]

IRELAND.

DUBLIN, JAN. 30.---The questio❑ of a discrimi-
nating rate is beginning to make progress amongst the
popular party here. The Freeman's Journal has been
hammering at the principle for a long time, and its
views on the subject are becoming adopted in many
quarters. People who once recoiled from the propo-
sition, are now beginning to talk of giving the pea-
santry an interest in the land. A Conservative M.P.
says that the peasantry could not be employed in
Connaught unless something of the kind was done,
as the majority of the present holders have no means
of giving wages. A landholder in Mayo has let his
farms to English tenants, on a lease of twenty-one
years, at 255. an acre, and undertakes to pay all the
poor rates for them.
The importation into Dublin this week of fresh
American pork has startled some of our Irish graziers.
Mr. Smith, a Dublin provision merchant, has been the
importer of fifty pigs, packed in ice, and they were
perfectly sweet and fresh.

BOOTS WANTED.—In our last paper we inserted
an advertisement, " Boots Wanted for a respectable
Hotel in town." In reply to this announcement, we
have just received the following letter:—" Kilmarnock,
25th Jan.—Gentlemen, I have just seen an advertise..
mint, and have to say that I am just your man, and I
trusht the bargain will be for both our benefits. At the
sale of a man who brok lately, neer haun this, I bought
a bander pair, and they are at your bidding for three
shillings the pair, a' o'er heed.—Your servant, J. T.--
N.B. I have also on hand aboot fifty pair o' shoot), if
they are wanted."—Glasgow Constitutional.
SALE OF THE STOWE LIBRARY.—This sale was
proceeded with yesterday, and again attracted a very
numerous company. The only lots worthy especial
notice were the following:—" Missale in usum Ecclesiaa
Audegavensis," with two large and two smaller minia-
tures, and all the capitals beautifully illuminated, or
rubricated ; this ritual, which is printed in black letter,
upon vellum, and bears date, Anjou, 1489, was composed
for the church of Anjou, and is of extreme rarity. It
does not appear to be mentioned by any bibliographer,
except Brunet, who, in his last edition, refers to this
copy in Sir Mark M. Sykes's sale. The King of France's
library is rich in missals of every provincial department
of France, but no copy of this is mentioned in Mr. Van
Praet's enumeration of that extensive collection. This
missal formerly belonged to the Jesuits' library at Brus-
sels. Its disposal excited an active competition, and it
was at length secured by Mr. Lilly for Gal. "John Mil-
ton's Poetical Works, with the Life of the Author," by
William Hayley, with portraits and plates, after Westall ;
brilliant proofs before letters, is 3 vols., 1794. This
copy was selected for Miss Mary Nicol. It was pur-
chased yesterday 'by the Rev. Mr. Sweet, for 91. 10s.
Montfaucon's " L'Autiquitea Explique3 et Represent ea
en Figures, avec le Supplement et Monumens do la
Monarchie Francoise," 20 vols., 1722, with upwards of
1,800 fine plates. This fine work was bought by Mr.
Bain, of the Haymarket, for 191. The amount realised
by the day's sale was 3791.75. 6d.
GRAY'S INN, JAN. 30.—Frederick James Furnivall,
Esq., of Trinity Hall, Cambridge, 8.A., was this day
called to the degree of Barrister-at-Law, by the Honour.
able Society of Gray's Inn.
At a wedding last week, at Nigg, in Ross-shire,
John Munro, the bridegroom, who happened to go out
at the door of the house where the bridal was being cele-
brated, was seized by three stout men and carried four
or five miles over fields and ditches. ,When he was
missed all was dismay in the party, and the poor bride-
groom did not reach home till six o'clock in the morning,
wet and weary.
An unlicensed Theatre in Maiden-lane, King's-
cross was attacked by the police last night, and eleven
of the actors and actresses taken into custody.

Sir Augustus B. Henniker, Bart., died on
Sunday last, very unexpectedly, of diseased heart. De-
ceased was in his 54th year,' and was rector of Thorn-
ham-Magna, Suffolk, and an active magistrate, and
chairman of sessions of that county. He is succeeded
by his son, Brydges Powell.
ECONOMY PEE RAILWAY.—The reduction in the
price of coal consumed at Bury St. Edmunds, since the
opening of the Eastern Union Railway, has been equal
to the yearly amount of poor-rate levied in that town.

ROYAL FREE HOSPITAL.—Last evening the annual
general meeting of the governors of this institution was
held at the Board-room of the hospital, Gray's Inn lane,
Mr. Pritchard in the chair. The Secretary (Mr. Fenn)
read the report of the hospital for the past year, which
showed the number of patients relieved in 1848 to have
been as follows:—In-patients, 667; out-patients, 27,944;
making a total of 28,611. This exhibits an increase of
39 in-patients and 6,551 out-patients, as compared with
the previous year. The total receipts for 1848 amounted
to 4,5011. 125., being au increase, ss compared with 1847,
of 831/, The expenditure amounted to 4,8431. 9s. Bd.,
including 2,093/. 7s. 7d. as old debts paid off in 1848,
and leaves a balance against the inetaution of 3411.•
17s. Bd. The report further stated that in consequence
of the imperious necessity for praciising a rigid
system of economy. by reason of the limited
extent of the funds, the committee had been compelled
to keep two of the spacious wards of the institution un-
occupied. Nevertheless, these two wards had been held
in perfect readiness to meet any such public emergency
as an outbreak of cholera in the metropolis ; and 154
of the pauper children removed from Mr. Dyouet's
establishment at Tooting had recently been accommo-
dated within them ; 87 of these children had been vio-
lently attacked, but owing to the effective medical treat-
ment of the patients, promptly rendered by the institu-
tion, only four had proved fatal, and even in these four
cases the children were in a very bad state at their ad-
mission, and died within a few hours after. Mr. Christie
then moved, and Mr. Goddard seconded, the adoption of
the report, which was unanimously agreed to, and after
voting thanks to Dr. Marsden (the founder of the hospi-
tal), the committee of management, and • other officers,
the meeting separated.
MILDNESS OE THE SEASON.—‘As an extraordinary
proof of the mildness of the season, a ripe strawberry
may be seen at J. Abraham's watchmaker, gathered on
Tuesday from a hedgo at Venslooe, in the neighbour-
hood of Liskeard, and the flowers of spring, butter cups,
and primroses, are common in the same locality. A very,
beautiful butterfly was caught on Saturday, the 20tb
inst., between Merton and Beaford, by John Mitchell
the blatherleigh and Beaford post messenger. He has
been on the road about five years, and each year has
seen a butterfly particularly early and near the same
spot (the fillies near Merton). Last year he caught
one there as early as the 2d of February.—Devonshire
Chronicle.
A large meeting of landowners, farmers, and
burgesses of Taunton, was held on Saturday last, in the
County Hall, to petition Parliament for economy and a
remission of the window-tax, assessed taxes, and other
obnoxious imposts. Mr. Escott was called to the chair,
and having addressed the meeting at great length, and
'amidst universal applause, proposed a petition, which was
Unanimously adopted by the meeting. The petition is
to be'presented to the House of Commons by the Right
Hon. IL Labotichere, Member fur Taunton.
THE .STREET ORDERLIES.—A meeting of the
Committee of Licensed Victuallers, formed for the pur-
pose of. providing employment for the poor as street
ordvrlies, was held on Monday evening at the Upholder's
Arms,
idlnetgai s
detailing
etta the successful
Poland•-tree!, Oxford-street; the chair was taken
by Mr. C. I
The' reland Lumber Troop Tavern, Fetter-lane.
pohn Srmogarrte,srseoaid
tiaiieeclaobmomraitt,
elaborate
report,
li r.
l
tee, and also the list of subscriptions received
since their
last financial statement, amounting to nearly 70/. Re-
6011.1tiQns were passed •
14 Amur of this system of street

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