The Sun.
London, England, 1847-05-25 00:00:00

BAH, COURT, May 24.

(Sittings in Banco, before Mr. Justice COLERIDGE.)
Judgment was given this morning in several cases o
no public importance.

LAYDON V. PLATT.

Mr. PEARSON moved for a rule calling upon William
Wilks to show cause why Ln attachment should not
issue against him for not attending to a subpoena. The
affidavit stated that the subpoena was served upon the
defendant, and it being within the bills of mortality a
shilling was handed to him for expenses, to which no
objection was made. He stated at the time of receiving
it that he should not attend to it. When the cause came
on for trial Wilks was in Court, but stated that if called
upon his subpoena he should not attend, as he was afraid
of certain disclosures which he should be compelled to
make if put into the box.
Mr. Justice COLERIDGE—Take a rule nisi.
The other cases heard here to-day were utterly de-
void of interest.

COURT OF COMMON PLEAS, May 24.
(Sittings in Banco.)
HAMPiON V. HARRISON.

Mr. M. SMITH moved in this case that the rule should
be made absolute for obliging the payment of costs,
which had been adjudged in a suit instituted by Mr.
Harrison against a person for whom Mr. Hampson was
the executor. A suit for ejectment had been brought by
Mr. Harrison at the last Spring Assizes, in which the
verdict was for the defendant in that action. The
Court, however, took time to consider the judgment,
and it was finally decided on the Ist of February that.
judgment should be entered to for the defendant, to
whom costs were adjudged by the Court. On the 26th
of March Mr. Justice Erie gave an order for execution
nuns pro tune. In the meantime, however, between th,
trial and the ultimate decision of the Court, the defen-
dant in the first action had died, and the lessor of the
plaintiff, who indeed had become the actual plaintiff, re-
fused to pay. It was now sought to make the rule ab-
solute, in order to compel him.
Mr. BUTLER, Q C., appeared for the defendant. In the
present case Mr. Harrison . contended that as the de-
fendant in the previous action had died, that the pow( r
of recovery was lost, for the only mode for ensuring it
was by attachment, and it was therefore clearly evident
that such a process could not issue.

Mr. M. SinTli conceived that if attachment could have,
been issued apinst one person, the power for obtaining
its effect was equally applicable to the other. There were
s,rue cases in which it was beyond the power of the
Court to interfere, and in that now before them there
was, he allowed, no direct remedy, but they could grant
a writ of sciere f..cias, on which a suit could be irrititut,
for the rt covery of the costs by the executor, and for
this he preyed,
The COURT, after deliberation, took time to consiler
the points which had been raised.

COURT OF EXCHEQUER, May 24.
(Sittings in Banco.) -
The cases heard to-day were taken from the peremp-
tory paper, but no case presenting any feature of public
interest was brought before the Court.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
BOW-STREET.

A young man, who gave the name of Joseph Squires,
was placed at the bar, charged with being concern( d
with others, not in custody, in picking the pocket ot
Captain Mervyn Archdall, M.P., of the Enniskilien
Dragoons, under the following circumstances
Captain Henry Dalrymple White, of the same regi-
ment, stated that about four o'clock on the afternoon of
Sunday he was proceeding to the Hungerford-mark-t
Pier with his friend, who was in advance of him, v, hen
he saw the prisoner, who was accompanied by others,
put his hand into the prosecutor's coat pocket, up •u
'Which he called out to him, and laying hold of the pri-
soner he held him fast until a constable came up, to
whom he gave him in charge. Previous to taking him
to the station ,the captain's pocket-book produced was
found at a short distance, where it was possible he might
have thrown it to an accomplice.
Constable Thompson, F division, proved that he found
3/. upon the prisoner, together with a valuable diamond
ring, having a private mark upon it, which he attempted
to swallow. Tne prisoner was well known to him as an
associate of convicted thieves, and he resided in the
neighbourhood of Shoredttch, although he refused to
give his address.
The diamond ring was ordered to be detained, and
the witnesses being bound over, the prisoner was
directed to stand committed for trial. •
MANSION. HOUSE.
Mr. Goidham, the clsrk of Billingsgate-market, ap-
peared before the Lord Mayor for the purpose of maki,:g
a representation, at the ttquqst of some highly respect-
able dealers and several of the inhabitants of Billings-
gate, involving a question of much importance to the
poor. An Act had lately passed. which had the effect
of repealing the statute of the 10th and 11th of William
IV., which permitted the sale of mackerel on Sun-
days, between the hours of divine service. Now the Act
which repealed that statute presented some serious difli•
culties as to the constructions to which it was liable. It

appeared, in the opinion of some, that the recent Act ex •
tended to the prohibition of the sale of mackerel gene-
rally through the metropolis, while others thought that
it affected the sale of the perishable commodity in Bil-
lingsgate market alone, and that mackerel might be sold
on the premises of salesmen which were not connect& d
with the market. The market was, of course, completely
closed against the vending of mackerel as well as of other
tish on Sundays; but two salesmen who resided in the
immediate neighbourhood, and who pat the latter con-
struction upon the Act, had opened their premises, an,l
sold away by wholesale on the Sunday, to the great
chagrin of the great body of the market salesmen, and
the annoyance of the inhabitants, who looked for the
enjoyment of peace and quietness on the Sabbath in that
locality. The partial operation of the Act, under these
circumstances, was an evil which was very severely felt.
Mr. Goldham, the chief clerk, upon being referred to
by the Lord Mayor, said it appeared to bini, judging
from the words used in the Act, that the market and the
regulations of the market were only meant to be affected,
and that the prohibition did not extend to the premises
of salesmen, or others throughout the metropolis.
There was, however, such remarkable ambiguity in
the phraseology of modern Acts of Parliament, that it
appeared to be indispensably necessary to consult the
framers of Bills themselves on the accurate construction
of them.

The LORD MAYOR—It is my wish to give the most
liberal construction of the meaning of all Bills which tend
to interfere with the comforts of the poor. To prevent
the s•tle of so perishable a fish as mackerel, the very pe-
rishableness of the nature of which makes it imperative
upon the dealers in it to sell it at a rate practicable to
the poorer classes, is what I should be very sorry to be
called upon as a magistrate to give my sanction. We all
know that a very few hours will, in such weather as oe
yesteraity, uecompose mackerel, Emu it was an that
account that the sale of the article on Sundays was le-
galised. Ido not know how we can be considered act-
hug justifiably by doing away' with the cheap luxury of
that fish upon the only day on which the poor may be
able to enjoy it.
Mr. Goldttam repeated, that as far as he was capable
of understanding the Act of Parliament, it merely re.
ferred to the supply of fish to the market, and the regu-
lations of the market. But perhaps it would be advisable
to have the advisers of the measure before the Lord
Mayor, in order to ascertain what they really meant by
repealing the Act of William which sanctioned so ex-
cusable a practice.
His LORDSHIP adopted the suggestion of Mr. Gold.
ham, and directed that the gentlemen who framed the
Bill should be requested to attend at the justice room,
and intelligibly express their meaning.
Tun OVERLOADING OF STEAM VESSELS.—A gentle-
man appeared to complain of the conduct of the persons
who exercise an authority in the Greenwich steam
vessels. His object was, he said, to prevent the destruc-
tive accidents which, if the magistracy did not interfere,
must take place in the river in consequence of the ras-
cally system acted upon by those to whom the manage-
ment of the boats was entrusted.

The LORD MAYOR expressed his gratification at the
determination of the public to seek for the protection of
the magistracy in cases in which their authority was no
longer questionable. .

The applicant said that he got into No. 12 Waterman
steamer at Greenwich, having under his care a little
boy. Immediately after he gut in such multitudes fol
lowed as completely prevented the possibility of his re-
turn to the shore, and there he was penned up with
hundreds until the arrival of the vessel in London. The
greatest alarm prevailed on board, particularly amongst
the females, many of whom were in tears, and making
appeals to the persons who seemed to have authority,
hut who wholly disregarded, and indeed ridiculed com-
plaint, although the water was coming in upon the deck.
No effort whatever was made at the place of embarka-
tion to prevent a greater number from entering beat
,at
than the Court of Aldermen's regulations authorised, so
that there rewained no alternative to those who
got on board but to stay on board, and to run all the
hazard and to endure all the annoyance of the terrific
crowd.

The LORD MAYOR—Have you ascertained the master's
name? The applicant—lt was quite impossible to get
near the master. We were all crammed together, and
could not get a foot beyond the position in which we
were either way. When danger was spoken of, the
officials laughed at those who complained.
The LORD MAYOR—YOU must apply to the clerk of
the Watettnan's Company for the name of the master,
and summon him here. There is plenty of evidence of
the commission of a serious offence; but a Tad deal de-

r ends upon the determination of individuals to follow up
• • e.e t T l t!rat T shell
efeze to y duty by en-
foreing the highest penalties for any infringement of the
ee
law. I very much tear that the necessary impression
will not be made until we hear of some dreadful eatas-
trop:le in the river.
Toe applicant said that on the continent policemen
were stationed at the several places of embarkation t•
prevent more persons from embarking than there ap-
peered to be room and accimmodation for. It was his
intention to follow up the complaint.
Sir PETER LAURIE stated to the Lord Mayor that he
had just received from Holland the following letter, re-
lating to that indefatigable nuisance to society, "Joseph
Ady," the Quaker. The correspondence of Ady now
extended to all parts of the world, and as the Britisn,
hew could not touch him (a defect certainly disgraceful
to the statute-te.ok) his impositions were altogether
without bounds.
" To Sir Peter Laurie, Deputy Lord Mayor of London.
"My Lord—l have received a letter from Sir Joseph
Ady, of London, of which I do myself the honour to
send you a copy herewith, because your name is foal
at the head of it. I hope you will not take it ill that
am so hold as to address you, and ask you to be so kin.
as to inform me, as agent of my mother, the widow 01
my late father, Gerard Cornelius Vladeracker--first,
I myself, 9r
whether it is requisite or necessary that
somebody authorised by me, shuld go to London,lBl
order to fetch personally the sumo of 1,000/. and uPwar°,__
awarded to my late father; or whether I can trust t;,..
providing of it, without any obstacle or large costs, t. 6
Sir Joseph Ady. the author of the enclosed note, who
unknown to me?
" Second. What documents are demanded in the last-
mei:aimed case? and,
‘• Third. Whether you, sir, the Deputy Lord May °T'
for
will be so kind as to tell me when it wasp ossible,
what reason, and by what person, the sum of 1,000/. vas
given or bequeathed to my late father? in
" I feel great interest in making these inqui
flpere
order that I may return my thanks, if possible,
they re so justly due. for
" I request you will excuse me, my Lord Marl.' d
the liberty which I, who am unknown to England nu
ignorant of the British customs, take in addressing °Y.
self to you, and in recommending my interests in the
affair
Beggingi n),questionou
to
honourtoyour
mLeo awdisthhi pa'n at
s per
the greatest respect, your servant,
" G. C. VAN VLADERACOI/.
" Alkmaar, May 16, 1847.
"My address, G. C. Van Vladeracker, ondegrach i°
Alkmaar, Province Nard, Hollanpowerful. pro
1
anateevriti°
d."
°.

Joseh Ady's Cication.
" Sir,—' As yopu would that men should.do to you de
you even so the.'
Sir Peterto Laurime, Deputy Lord Mayor of Londie%
on.
—The undersigned is able to inform you of soineth
considerably to your advantage (value I,OOOL and" 131);'
wards), on receipt of twenty shillings by ororderhitechapel Post-office, as an equivalent for his troub
Wle
andwi costs generally, which money you or your legatee.
II lose unless immediate attention is paid theretoe:
and should you find any difficulty the gent' tbf:
named will frank you from all expenses except pos.'".,e*
which you must pay both ways.—Respectfully,
" JOSEPH ADY, Accounts
" York-street, Charlotte street,. quarter of a mile ea"
of %Vhitechapel Church, London, May 8, 1847*"
The reading of these documents caused some laughter
in the justice-room.
Tne Loup MAYOR—I have been just considering,
propriety of summoning Mr. Ady to the Court o
quest for twopence, which I have been charged fort.!
communication of his to me, and I think I shall try ,a,a,
case with him. I apprehend that his success must 7.
considerable, or he would not so pertinaciously adhere w
his old plan. is a
dr
eismSgierradcly;.
ILEUstuhaceihEla—awnlaocbfautnshenisoatsch,:heulp repeating that it
his letters to all countries,
Albert lithographed at the top, as a security for
genuineness of the article. of
fist.thryAthdthyeathethwelrene:irstsrolunt:
urgileinetl
law show us that the only remedy appears to heialitea
press, to which I am constantly obliged to ePPea'
urgently pressed.
MAYOR—The decisions oil:these:9u:: nu::
pressg(i.

RAILWAY COMMITTEES.

(YESTERDAY.)
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CoTurhties GROUP XLVIIL
GLASGOW', AIRDRIE, AND mornsuassio
nCaoymi
nm itthtee ec
hmaeitn yesterday at twelve o'clock; Lord
(COWLAIRS SEANCE.)
This Committee was engaged all the day in settli.ng
the clauses of the Bill, and after considerable discus
ersl
stoo
clauses were introduced, giving the Monkland
R,ilways running powers over the main line of the
Airdrie, and for the protection of the interests of M.
and Mrs. Reid, who bad petitioned against the Bill.
The ComMittee then adjourned at five o'clock.

RAILWAY SHARE MARKETS.
LIVERPOOL,
"cor
V.—ERTPhOereOLi,s
an t
MA T
STocx EXCHA
share market to-day. and prices range higher than last
quoted, with a better business doing. The sales are—Birker
head, Lancashire. and Cheshire Junction, 2 dis.—Bir
mingham and Oxford, 61/S p.—Buckinghamshire, 17 (Us.'"
East Lancashire, New, 2% dis.—Ditto, New (scrip), '§ diL
Edinburgh and Glasgow, Halves, 644 p.—Fleetwood, Prep
ton, and West Riding Junction, 11, dis.—Great Northern'
1:! dis.—Huddersfield and Manchester Railway and Canal,
dis. ex int.—Ditto, :Extension, Bs. 9d. ex int.—Leeds; and
Dewsbury, Halves, y, dis.—Leeds and Thirsk, Preference"
par—London and North-Western, 1691/2—Ditto, Qum°
(G. J. ), 1514 p.—Manchester and Leeds, Fifths, 31/4„ V*:
Ditto, 32/. Shares (late Extension), dis.—Ditto, neLvy'
( late L. and B.), 14 dis.—Ditto, Fifths (late West Riding
Union), % dis—Midland Stock, New,ll4—Ditto, New'
rt
p.—North British, New Quarters (scrip), 14 1:).—No
Staffordshire, 13/4 p.—York and Newcastle (late N. and I.),
Preference, 25/s p.—Belfast and Ballymena, 11 dia.
EDINBURGH, MAY 21.
STOCK ExcglNGE.—The sales are—Dundee and North
Junction, 293.—Dundee and Perth, Quarters, 52s.—Edin-
burgh, Leith, and Granton, Quarters, 103. 6d.—Edinburgh
and Northern, New, 555. 6d.—Edinburgh and Perth, 28e.--
Ditto, Halves, 6s. 6d.—Great Northern, 38s. 6d.—North
British, Quarters (scrip), 13s. 3d.—Ditto, Thirds, 43e. 6d.
GLASGOW, MAY 22.
STOCK EXCHANGE,—The sales are—Edinburgh art,
Glasgow, Quarters, 16%'—Edinburgh and Perth (New Co-)
30s. 6d.—Glasgow, ilmarnock, and Ayr, 115/ . —Dian.an.
Halves, No. 1, 84—Kilmarnock and Ayr Direct,
125.—Ma'
chester and Southampton, N. 3d.—Stirling and Dunfoar
line, 5/.

PORTLAND HARBOUR OF REFUGE AND BREA-K:
WATER —The works at Cherbourg were opened in greet.
pomp in the presence of the French Empress, tic.,
If her most gracious Majesty Queen Victoria would
please to condescend to be present at Portland on theb
commencement of the great national work theretc!:
would be a great satisfaction, and become an historl
fact worthy of Britain's Queen.—Bath Journal
Bill
received Portland
the
rHoyaarib ou
susre
notf
onR etfhueg el 1
tattli d
lust. B r e awk we
gs evsfet
this welcome news, and think it is now time to segg!..„
that, as Mr. John Harvey, postmaster, of Weymouth, 07
a claim on the press, to state that his exertions ha"
been very instrumental in this great cause of hutnttnitYi
and naval and commercial interests of the nation at
n g
pfruoomn s
be Weymouth.
opened
in
large, and that he thereby has a just claim of grat,""d„
fromi
the public, especially in the line of railroads lea
sub-
seri •manner
hisW e
hbeehgal
ft,o
in
suggest
similar that
as for Mr. Rowland
On the 15th and 16th of May, 40,000 mackerel
were caught in the west bay, Weymouth, of the best
quality, in excellent condition.—lbid
SALMON FISUINGS ON THE CONON, &C....T1343 01'
ings on the Conon, which have throughout the season
been rather unproductive, is now, we are glad to learn,
rapidly improving, upwards of forty excellent fish having
been tak n during the last eight days. From the au-
incrons spawn that have during the last six weeks been
daily seen passing downwards to the sea,—far more
numerous than the oldeet fisherman on the station has
ever observed before—it is confidently expected that by
the next high tide, the fishing will begin tog y
et very
flourishing. The same may be said with regard to the
13:>azily and Chanonry Point stations, which are also still
backward. We trust these anticipations may be realized
to make up for the deficiency experienced during the
earlier part of the season.—Rosshire Advertiser.

BIRTHS.
On the 20th inst., the wife of Mr. William Foard Tribe, of 4)
Worthing, solicitor, of a son.
On the 21st inst., Mrs. James Butler, of Regent-street, of

daughter.
On the 19th inst., in Dublin, the wife of Charles Tapper,

Esq., 7th Royal Fusiliers, of a daughter.
On the 20th inst., the lady of S. K. Scott, Esq., Devon.
shire-place, Brighton, of a son.
On the 21st inst., Mrs. Hubbard, of Queen-street-place'

City, of a son.
On the 20th bast., at' Melville Castle, North Britain, the
lady of the Hon. and Rev. Charles Dundas, of twine, a 8012
and daughter.
On the 21st inst., in Devonshire-place, Brighton, the WV
of J. Y. Vernon Shaw, Esq., of a son.
On the 21st inst., at Thoby Priory, Essex, the lady of T.
Helms. Esq., of a daughter.
Esq
oonkltehotir
eb22gdhi:sttre.,etth,
of a
the wife .;
Edward Costs Banks,'
meof
M
of Oansotnh.e 22d inst., in Cadogan-place,
the:
f.
eof Charlesth e Morgan,Rev.e.
At the Rectory, South Hackney,
P. Lockwood, of a scn.

MARRIED.
On the 20th of April, John Sicklemore, Esq., Lieutenant
Royal Navy, to Augusta Charlotte, daughter of Rear-Ad-
miral Searle, of Kingston, Hants.
On the 20th inst., at St. James's Church, Exeter, Frederic
Roberts, Esq., Surgeon to the Forces, to Katharine, daughter
of Lieutenant-General Herbert.
On the 22d inst., at St. Mary's, Islington, the Rev. J.
Wood, of the Church Mi-sionary College, Islington, to
Sarah Anne Spencer, of Til•bertcn-street,

DIED.
On the 17th inst., at Brighton, Major Theophilus Drinaley
Butler, late of the 4th Dragoon Guards, aged 54.
On the 17th inst., at Greenwich, Mr. Henry Potts.
On the 17th inst., at Charlton, near Dover, Marianne, ti"
widow of William Sprakeling, Esq.
On the '2oth inst., at Islington, the Rev. Sydney Ha
Beresford, Chaplain to the British residents at the Hague-
o
On the 19th inst., at Torquay, Mrs. Cumberbatch, relict
the Rev. Edward Carleton Cumberbatch.
On the 20th inst., at Old, Northamptonshire, Elizabeth
Bund Willis, eldest surviving daughter of Mr. and MO'
Wao
Iple Willis, aged .
On the 20th inst. 6, -Samuel Worthington, Esq., of the
Mount, Whitchurch, Salop, aged 86.

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