The Sun.
London, England, 1847-03-24 00:00:00

Ariadne

Rhin ... ...

Somme

... 20
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Fortune ... ...
Lampiore ... ...
Sarcello ...
Phaaton ... ...

AMERICAN.

Columbus (pendant)
Independence
Congress ...
Savannah ...

Cyane ... ... ...
Saratoga ... ...
Portsmouth ...

Warren ...
Dale ... ...

Shark ... ... ...
Relief ...
Erie ...

90
54
50
50

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The above does not include troop, store, surveying, or
other partially armed vessels, to the best of our belief;
nor does it include the French 46 met by the Talbot at
Rio, going out to Otaheite with the new Governor.

PROFESSIONAL ATTENDANCE IN TEE NEW COUNTY
CGURTs.—There appears to exist some misunderstand-
ing as to the attendance of professional men in the new
county courts. They complain that the fees allowed to
be charged are too insignificant for them,to appear in a
cause. The fees allowed are certainly of a very limited
character, and it will become a question for future con-
sideration whether a graduated scale would not have
been more expedient, in order to induce respectable
men to practise in courts whose jurisdiction extends to
20/. Persons who are sued for 181. and 201. will re-
quire assistance to get up their defences, and some one
to address a jury on their behalf. By the 91st section
9f the County Courts Act, it is provided that no person
shall be entitled to appear tor any other party in any
proceeding in any of the said courts unless he be an at-
torney of one of hor Majesty's superior courts of record,
or a barrister-at-law instructed by such attorney on be
half of the party or by leave of the judge, or any other
person allowed by the judge to appear instead of such
party, but no barrister, attorney, or other person, except
by leave of the judge, shall be entitled to be heard to
argue any question as counsel for any other person in
any proceeding in any court holden under this Act, and
no person not being an attorney admitted to one of her
Majesty's superior courts of record shall be entitled to
have or recover any sum of money for appearing or act-
ing on behalf of any other person in the said court, and
no attorney shall be entitled to have or recover therefor
any sum of money unless the debt or damage claimed
shall be more than 405., or to have or recover more than
10s. fur his fees and costs unless the debt or damage
claimed shall be more than 51., or more than 15s. in any
case within the summary jurisdiction given by this Act,
and in no case shall any fee exceeding 11. 3s. Id. be
allowed for employing a barrister as counsel in the cause,
and the expense of employing a barrister or an attorney
either by plaintiff or defendant shall not be allowed on
taxation of costs in the case of a plaintiff where less than
5L is recovered, or in the case of a defendant where less
than 51. is claimed, or in any case unless by order of the
judge. Each judge has exclusive jurisdiction in his
court to allow an advocate or not, and to make an allow-
ance for assistance rendered, as also to admit or exclude
a class of men called " agents," who practise as attorneys
without the necessary qualification.
FOREIGN POTATOES.—The latest arrivals of po-
tatoes from ♦arious foreign countries have included the
following:—The Magnet, from Harlingen, brought 13
bask,-ts; the Sarnia, from Jersey, 20 tons' weight; the
Eclipse, from Madeira, four barrels; the Countess of
Lonsdale, from Hamburgh, 4 barrels; the Flora, from
Leghorn, 3 casks; the Favourite, from Cadiz, 124 tons
weight; the City of London, from Rotterdam, 20 bas-
kets; the Hama, from Malaga, 25 mats; the City of
Rotterdam, from Harlingen, 40 baskets and 29 bags;
the Sarah Sands,,from New York, 90 barrels; the Eight
Sons, from Halifax, Nova Scotia, 5 bags; the Jacobus
Begeman, from Harlingen 35 tons weight; and the
Olympe, from Bordeaux, 350 bags of the article, the
produce of France. This list comprises the arrivals
during the past week at the ports of London and Liver-
pool, and presents many features of interest, not so much
on account of its extent, as for the variety of places
from which the supplies took place, in some instances
for the first time, including some from Holland, Jersey,
Madeira, Hamburg, Italy, Cadiz, Malaga, the United
States, Nova Scotia, and France. These supplies, the
produce of different foreign countries, vary as to their
degrees of quality and adaptation for seed purposes, but
it is understood that all of them, to a greater or lesser
extent, are of very fair, and in many cases excellent
quality. The principal shops in Covent-garden and
other of the large markets of the metropolis, having the
name of the producing country appended to the dif-
ferent parcels exposed for show, present a very remark-
able appearance, and one which until lately was not the
case.
A WORKHOUSE CENTENARIAN.—Died, on Tuesday,
March 16th, at the Cheltenham Union. Workhouse, Mrs.
Sarah Bradstock, aged 105 years and nine months, and
for upwards of forty-seven years an inmate of the estab-
lishment. In chronicling this event we cannot confine
ourselves to a mere record of the fact that the " oldest
inhabitant" has thus passed away from amongst us, but
as her death was attended with circumstances alike
honourable to all parties, we make no apology for intro-
ducing them to the notice of our readers. Mrs. Brad-
stock has been well known to the visitors of the Chel-
tenham Workhouse for many years past, her amiability
of disposition and good conduct having procured for her
the respect of all who knew her history. She was a
woman of great activity and industry, of cheerful and
unrepining disposition, and, it is believed, of sincere piety.
She was, up to nearly the time of her death, always the
first in chapel for morning prayers, and although retir-
ing early to rest, she never did so until after evening
prayers were concluded. She was married in early life,
and had one daughter. Her faculties were good almost to
the last, and her death did not arise from any particular
disease, but from a gradual and imperceptible decay of
nature: her end was peace. The funeral, which took
place on Saturday, was attended by a large number of
persons. It had been decided that she should not be
buried in " the poor ground," but a spot in the new
burial ground was selected for her, the churchwardens
kindly foregoing the fees on the occasion. Through the
exertions of Mr. Belcher, and Mr. and Mrs. Porter, the
master and matron of the union, the ceremony of inter-
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J. N. Belcher, and
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has commenced a subscrip-
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it is understood that the Rev. F. Close, the incumbent
of the parish, will forego the customary fees for its erec •
don.— Cheltenham Examiner.
Mplra.eße.elc Belcher
EFFECTS or RAILWAYS ON THE LONDON FISH
MARKET.—Yesterday afternoon upwards of 200 pads of
mackarel, containing 20,000 fish, caught at Plymouth,
219 miles from the metropolis, were brought into Bil-
lingsgate-market through the medium of the Great
Western Railway. The sudden glut so reducing the
prioe of these fish that the retail &Wert were able to
sell them at six and eight for a shilling.