The Sun.
London, England, 1847-12-13 00:00:00

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SUN OFFICE, Seven o' Cluck.

COMMON PLEAS.-(THIS DAY.)

The Lord Chief Justice sat to-day at the Guildilall:to
try common jury cases. The Court wag engaged all the
morning in trying an uninteresting case of alleged illegal
distress.

WORSHIP-STREET.-(THIS DAY.)

James Scraggs Foster was brought before Mr. Ham-
mill, charged with fraudulently obtaining money from
tradesmen transmitting goods by the Eastern Counties
Railway.
A clerk in the granary department, named William
Fearn, stated that it was the duty of the prisoner, who
was also a clerk in that department, and who had been
in the company's service for several year past, to make
out from the invoices duplicate copies of tickets for grain
sent by the carmen for delivery to houses in town, and
that in consequence of its having been discovered by
accident that fradulent overcharges were being com-
mitted inquiries were made, and it was discovered that
the prisoner had been e:ttensively engaged in such
transactions, and he was accordingly given into custody.
A clerk, named Bolton, in the employment of Mews.
Noble, seedsmen, Fleet-street, proved that cn the 19th
of list month their house received by one of the com-
pany's trains 11 quarters of peas from the country, for
the freightage of which 13s. Ild. was char,Ted in a bill
ho produced, and Bs. for the cartage. The bill and
goods were delivered by a man named King, the carter
employed, to a him the.money was paid ewl who received
the ticket.

Mr. Fearn deposed that the ticket in question was in
the prisoner's handwriting, and produced a book in
which the proper account was entered. Witness added
that Messrs. Noble had 1. esti greatly overcharged, and
that the prisoner had only paid to him the correct value
of the freightage and delivery.
Sergeant Price said that, from information he re•
ceived from Mr. Capper, one of the superintendents of
the Eastern Counties Railway, he proceeded to the ad•
dress given by the prisoner,which,however, proved to be
a fictitious one, and he was at length found at a house
in Wellington•strcet, Stepney, in a very ill state of
health. Upon his person he found ten tickets not in
any way accounted fur to the company, and on making
further inquiries he discovered that a great number of other
trade men around the metropolis had been defrauded in
a similar way to the one above described by the prisoner.
It was also stated that the prisoner, by his delin-
quencies in the way stated, wai in the habit of m' king
about 31 per week over and above his salary.
The prisoner was ordered to find bail, himself in
2001. and two sureties in 1001. each, for bis appearance
here next week.

THE AUSTRALItiN MINING COM-
' PANY.—(TIIIS DAY.)
An extraordinary general meeting of the share-
holders of this company, to receive the report of the
directors, and to fill up the vacancies in the direct on
occasioned by the resignation of Sir Hyde Parker,
Bart., and the decease of Samuel James Capper,
Esq., was held to-day at the Company's Offices,
No. 1, Adelaide-place, London bridge J. Master-
man, Esq., junior, took the chair, and
after the usual preliminaries. the secretary
read the report, from which it al4 eared that thei e
was every prospect of the Company's having a good
range of ore to break down, aril economical mearr,
of bringing it to ,he surface. Tha transfer of 2,000
shares sent to the colony was attended with com-ider-
able difficulty, and the shares had consequontly been
returned. The committee in Au.Vralia had conse-
quently drawn upon the directors in London, at sixty
days Fight, in favour of the Bank of Australia, or
4,0001. A mining officer had been sent out to the
colony, and the directors considered that it would be
advisable to send out a resident superintendent to the
mines.

The CHAIRMAN said they must consider the distance
of the colony, the difficulties that necessarily encum-
bered the working of the mines there, and the total
want of practical mining knowledge in Australia. The
latter cause was then removed, and they hoped under
the skilful management of Captain Philips, whom they
had sent :out to the colony, that the causes that
led to the -delay in their onward progress would be
speedily removed.—(Hear.) He regretted extremely
that from the return of the shares it was necessary
that they should make another call upon the share-
holders of 10s. a share before they could make any
good dividend. The chairman concluded by moving
the adoption of the report.
Mr. hoGAN seconded the motion.

Some discussion ensued, in the course of which an
Hon. Proprietor read letters from parties resident in
the colony, which stated that it abounded in the:richest
mineral vtealth, and offered a favourable field for
speculation in this country.
The resolution. was then unanimously adopted.

They then proceeded to the ballot for the election
of the directors, which being concluded, the meeting
broke up.

IMPELUAL PARIAAMi<AII.

(THIS EVENING.)

HOUSE OF LORDS.

The Earl of SHAFTESBURY took his seat upon the
Woolsack (in the absence of the Lord Chancellor)
shortly after Five o'clock.
TURNPIKE TRUSTS.

The Duke of RICHMOND presented several pe-
titions, praying for an inquiry into the state of
turnpike trusts.
PENINSULAR MEDALS.

The Duke of RICHMOND gave notice that he
should to-morrow ask when the Peninsular medals
would be distributed, and whether it was the inten-
tion of the Government to do a similar act of justice
to the other officers. soldiers, and sailors engaged in
the late war.