The Sun.
London, England, 1847-12-09 00:00:00

STATE OF TRADE.

MANCHESTER, TUESDAY.—There has been no change
in the market since Friday; and, owing to the season,
very little business has been done. There continues
to be some demand for the Levant, and the lighter de-
scriptions of domestics and long cloths have not only
been easy of sale, but some rather considerable orders
have been taken for future delivery. In most other
descriptions of cloth, and in yarn generally, the
dulness of the market has its customary effect upon
prices ; and rather lower rates have been accepted in
some few cases. Still, production continues to ex-
tend ; and we hear every day of the resumption of
work by concerns which have been standing for
months past.
ROCHDALE, MONDAY.—The flannel market has been
much like that of last Monday. There has been a
rather thin attendance of buyers, and a limited quan-
tity of business done, at low prices. There is little
or no change to report in the wool market; prices
are steady, and the purchases made are for immediate
use.

HALIFAX, SATURDAY.—There was a better at-
tendance of merchants in the Piece Hall to-day than
there was this day week; but we do not learn that
many more goods change hands. The yarn trade
continues in pretty much the same state as noted in
our last report; and we have no alteration to quote
either with respect to long or short wool.
HUDDERSFIELD, TUESDAY.—There has been again
an improvement in our market to-day, especially in
the better sort of vestings; and some of the mer-
chants connected with the home trade have purchased
larger parcels of woollens than for some weeks past.
LEEDS, TUESDAY.—There was a slight improve-
ment perceptible to-day in our market; so very
slight, however, that it would have escaped notice in
ordinary times. But when the current of business
runs so very still as hitherto, the least disturbance of
the surface becomes matter of observation. The
elements for a near approach of brisker times are at
work, and the symptoms keep strengthening every
week.—Manchester Guardian.

ALARMING FIRE IN GREENOCK.
GREENOCK, DEC. 6, QUARTER TO TEN P.M.—There
is now raging the most extensive and perhaps disastrous
fire that was ever witnessed in Greenock. Three large
ropeworks, extending the whole length of Lyne-
doch-street, have been, in little more than an hour,
almost entirely consumed. The fire began in Messrs.
A. Tough and Son's rope work, at the north-
eastern end ; and, as there was a strong north-
easterly breeze blowing, the flames shot along like
wildfire, and spread to the other ropeworks adjoining—
Messrs. Quintin Leitch and Co., and William Connell,
jun., and Co. There could be no effectual resistance
offered by the fire-engines, as not only the materials
composing these ereetions,but the goods contained in
them—tar and hemp—are of the most inflammable na-
ture. The engines are playing with great force upon
the large flax mill of the Gourock Ropework Company,
and we are informed it is in a state of conflagration, with
little hope of saving it.—/Vorth British Mail.

LAW INTELLIGENCE.
COURT OF QUEEN'S BENCH, Dec. 8.
RODGERS V. OAYSBROOK AND ANOTHER.

This was an action of trespass, to recover compensation
for the loss the plaintiff had sustained through being
kept out of possession of property of which he was the
mortgagee. The defendants, who were the assignees of
a bankrupt named Ruben Hunt, a paper maker, had taken
possession of certain premises in Berner-street, Mile-
end- road, where the bankrupt formerly carried
on his business, and sold a quantity of machinery they
found upon the building, which had previously been
mortgaged to the plaintiff ; and the present action was
instituted to recover compensation, not so much for the
loss of the machinery as for the injury the plaintiff had
suffered through being deprived of possession of the pre-
mi,es, of which he was also the mortgagee, from the
month of December, 1840, to September, 1841.
The jury returned a verdict for the plaintiff—Da-
mages, 5001.

JOIINBON v. WYLD.

Mr. Whateley and Mr. Ogle were counsel for the
plaintiff, and Mr. Crowder and Mr. W. Ball for the de-
fendant.

The plaintiff was a printer, carrying on an extensive
business in St. Martin's-lane, and had established the
Nassau Steam-press. The defendant was the eminent
mapseller at Charing cross, and Member for Bodmin,
and the action was brought to recover a sum of between
4001. and 5001. for the use and occupation of some pre-
mises in bt. Martin's-lane, and for the use of certain
steam-power to drive a lithographic press. The de-
fendant pleaded a set-off, and the amount in dispute was
very much reduced. It appeared that in the autumn of
1845 the defendant had an immense demand for litho-
graphic plans for railways, and arranged to take some
premises of the plaintiff in St. Martin's-lane, in which
he put up a French machine, which was to be driven by
steam supplied by an engine belonging to the plaintiff.
=The witness relied on by the plaintiff was a Mr. Bush
a builder, who stated that in the autumn of 1845, in con-
sequence of a conversation he had with the plaintiff, ho
saw Mr. Wyld relative to the premises he was then tem-
porarily occupying belonging to Mr. Johnson. He told
the defendant he had been sent by Mr. Johnson
for the purpose of treating for the hiring of
the premises in question. Mr. Wyld said he was
anxious to take them for a term, so that be could bring
the whole of his printing•presses from Southwark. They
had several meetings ou the subject, and Bush agreed
with the defendant to let him the premises for 175/. per
annum for three years, to commence from Christmas
1845. They then went into the plaintiff's counting-
house, and, at the request of both the plaintiff and the
defendant, the witness reduced the terms into a written
agreement. A second agreement was also entered into
between the plaintiff and defendant, that the latter
should allow the plaintiff 1501. a year for steam-power
for his printing machine. They were read over in the
presence of the defendant, who did not object to them,
but said he would take one of each home with him, to
look over. They were not signed. The parties were on
most intimate terms.—(The defendant's counsel objected
to the papers being read, and the Learned Judge ruled,
that by law they could not be read; but he permitted
the witness to read them to the jury as an account of
what had taken place between the parties.)—The de-
fendant brought his printing:machine to the premises
which he occupied till Christmas, 1846, and then ten-
dered the keys to the plaintiff. The witness did not
think at the time that the rents were at all too much;
such property at that time, under all the circumstances,
was exceedingly desirable. The witness could not tell
why the papers were not signed, hut the defendant said
he would take them home and look them over.

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and others said that the machine was frequently at a
stand still for want of steam power. One witness, how-
ever, went so far as to say, that the machine was so
stopped every fire minutes.
Mr. Justice ERLE, in summing up, left it for the
jury to say how much they would allow the plaintiff
for the rent from September, 1845, to Christmas,
1845 ; how much from Christmas, 11145, to Christmas,
1846 ; and how muck for the steam power for the year.
The jury said 40/. for the rent from Michaelmas to
Christmas, 175/. for the rent for the year, 1501. for the
steam, which, with 551. admitted to be due upon other
items, amounted to 4201. ; there was from that to be
deducted 2391. admitted to be due from the plaintiff to
the defendant ; so that the verdict was for the plaintiff
for 1811.

Plaintiff's attorney, Mr. Harbin ; defendant's attor-
ney, Mr. Sergeant.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
MANSION-HOUSE.
John Prudence, alias Rust, alias Ziller, was brought
up. for final examination, upon charges of fraud com-
mitted through the medium of advertisements.
Upon the first examination of the prisoner he was
charged by a Mr. Boutherway with havirg obtained
money upon the promise of supplying that complainant
with a situation in the house of Rust and Co., of Beer-
lane, all the members of which firm he contrived to
represent himself.

A great number of letters from victims have been
received by the Lord Mayor, in consequence of the pub-
lication of the particulars of the first examination,
complaining of similar robberies perpetrated by the
prisoner upon them. In some of the instances the
persons who were plundered had made great sacrifices
to procure the price of the situations to which they were
led to consider themselves permanently appointed.
When the prisoner was placed at the bar several indi-
viduals crowded towards the witness-box. After the
witnesses in the case of Mr. Boutherway were bound
over to appear at the Central Criminal Court, the fol-
lowing was selected from a considerable lumber of
transactions, as calculated to show in a prominent
manner the genius of the system:—
William Charles Lucy, of No. 121, Wardour-street,
Oxford-street, said, in March last I advertised for a
situation, offering a douceur of 301. for one. I received
an answer to that advertisement, in consequence of
which I went to Cannon- street, and saw the defendant.
Ile told me he would give me a situation as town tra-
veller and collector to a firm in Bush-lane, the name of
which he did not mention at the time, but he said he was
related to that firm. I left him to consider the subject.
I had some further correspondence with him, and the
affair was dropped until I received another letter from
him, in the following terms:—
" Sir,—l will endeavour to be at your friend's house,
4, Chapel-street, on Saturday at three. I have some-
thing to state.—Yours,
" J. P., at Messrs. Zciller and Co.'s 8, Bush-lane.
" To Mr. Lucy." ." 23--3-47."