The Sun.
London, England, 1831-04-16 00:00:00

COURT OF KING'S BENGH.

The Court this morning preceded with the new trial paper.
COHEN AND OTHERS r. EMMERSON AND OTHERS.
This was an action brought by the plaintiff's, owners of a smack
of sixty tons, against the defendants, owners of one of the Liver.
pool and Dublin steam-vessels. The action was brought to
recover the value of the smack and cargo, which was
run down in the river Mersey Cas was alledged) by the negligence
or inattention of the Captain of the steam vessel. '1 case
was tried betbre Mr. Justice Parke at the last Assizes for Lanca-
shire, when a verdict was returned for the plaintiff, the damages
to be settled out of Court.

Mr. Serjeant CROSS this morning applied for a rule to show
cause why the verdict shou'd not be set aside and a new
trial granted. The first ground on which the Learned
Counsel founded his application was that the verdict was against
the weight of evidence, as there could be no doubt from the
testimony of the witnesses that the accident occurred in conse-
quence of the Captain of the smack changing his course, of
he had not done so the vessels never could have come in con-
tact. The second ground was, that the verdict was in opposi-
tion to the summing up of the learned Judge.
The Court granted the rule on payment of costs.

COURT OF COMMON PLEAS.

IRVING AND OTHERS v. WA KRINGTON AND OTHERS.

Mr. Serjeant TADDY moved for a rule to show cause why
the verdict obtained in this cause should not be set aside, on the
ground that evidence, proving conspiracy, had been improperly
admitted : and also that an action of trover could not be main-
tained, as the transaction was a bona fide mercantile one, and
therefore the plaintiff had no other remedy than to prove under
the commission of bankruptcy which had been issued a few
days atter the delivery of the wool against the defendant.—
Rule granted.

THE FUNDS.-(THIS DAY.)

CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCK.

Up to the present time we are quite barren of any Continental
information. No foreign mails have arrived, or any ship-letters
of consequence. Consols, which left off yesterday at 78% for
the Account, opened at the same price, and went up to 783(
buyers. Since which the market has been rather fidgetty, and
Consols are at present 7814 ,31., with little doing. The success of
the Reform Bill, which at present is rather regarded by the ;pe-
culators as doubtful, in some degree operates on the market.
As yet we do not hear of an express from Paris, although one
is expected.
In the Foreign Market little or nothing doing ; Exchequer
Bills have improved to 14 16.

BRITISH FUNDS.
Bank Stock, 199% :200 Ditto, Reduced,
India ditt•, Ditto, New, 88%
3 per Cent. Cons. 7844 Ti Four per Cent. 11926) 951,i
Ditto, for the Acct. 78% % India Bonds, 3 5
3 per Cent. Red. 77% Exchequer Bills, 17 19
3% per Cent. 86% 7
HALF-PAST ONE.
The Lisbon packet, which was to have sailed on Wednesday
last, has been detained by Government. It is supposed they arc
waiting for despatches from the French Government, and it is
said she will take out despatches of importance from our Go-
vernment.
Although an express has arrived from Paris, it is as yet kept s.
secret, and none of the contents have transpired, nor do we sup-
pose they will.
Consols have been done at 78.4 in the early part of the day,
and are at present 76% %, and for Money 78%, with little or
nothing doing.
In the Foreign Market Spanish Bonds arc % per cent. higher,
owing to 50,0001. having been purchased; nothing doing in other
Foreign Funds.
THREE 0' CLOCK.
Consols 78k.

It is said that the proposed alterations in the
Reform Bill are intended as a sort of rat-hole, to enable
the enemies of the measure to make their escape without
too much exposing themselves. \Ve should not at all be eur-
surprised if this should turn out to be the real object of
the intended change • and that, in fact, the Ministry, and
some of the leaders of the Opposition, have come to an un-
derstanding on the subject. But, be this as it may, the
proposed alterations are really such as might fully justify
those who were opposed to the details of the Bill, rather
than to its principle, in now giving it their support. If
any thing of this kind has taken place, the Ministers have
acted with a great deal of policy, inasmuch as they have
conciliated their enemies, while, at the same time, they
have rendered their Bill more popular.—Morn. Herald.

BIRTHS.
On the 15th inst. in Chapel-street, Park-lane, Mrs. R. Wel-
lesley, of a son.
On the Bth inst. at Heysham, Lancashire, the lady of T. J
Knowlys, Esq., of a son.
MARRIED.
On the 12th inst. at Swindon, A. S. Crowdy, Esq., of Swindon,
Wilts, to Miss Hannah Sheppard.
®On the 14th inst. at St. Mary's, Bryanston-square, G. Drum-
mond, Esq. to Miss Marianne Portman.

DIED.
On the 7th inst. in Bruton-street, Jane, Countess Dowager of
Carhampton.
On the 14th inst. at Brompton, Matilda Countess de Clairvillef
aged 57.
On the 15th inst. at the Public Office, Lambeth:street, after
Esq.,
On
the
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ePhairikd Park, East Grinstead,
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a short illness, the resident Magistrate of that district, Matthei
Wyatt, Esq., of the Inner Temple.
On the 13th inst. at Langley, Newbury, Berk, T. Pocock,
Esq., aged 81 years.
On the Bth inst. Mrs. Elizabeth Tyler, the .wife of C. Tyler)
Twysdefl,
Esq. ; as also on the 3d inst. 'Frances, the infant child, three
days after its birth.
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SUN OFFICE, 112, .

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