The Sun.
London, England, 1840-01-16 00:00:00

by alone complete and triumphant success can be ob
tained over the commora foe. •
(Signed) " JOHN MORRIS, Chairman."
Mr. KEMP moved that the Annual Report ba nt.tretl
on the minutes, _and that it be printed anal circulated
among the members.
Mr. TAYLOR seconded the motion.
The CPLAIRMAN put the resolution, which was agreed
to unanimously.
The members present paid their subscriptions.
Tnanks were then voted to the Chairman, after which
the meeting separated at a late hour.

LAW INTELLIGENCE.

COURT OF EXCHEQUER, Jex. 15.
(Sittings in Banco.)
SOLOMON V. HEATHORN AND OTHERS.

This action was tried before Mr. BaiOniiPlfe at the
sittings in
London after last term, when a verdict was
found for the defend int.
o n Mt
the groundKY tnhoawt vve edr dfori waari ge ani duliai forae
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with Groves, who commanded her. Some
yearstrTaiaghloe
defendant trial,
was part owner of the ship Eliza in conjunc-
tionhe sailed her to Singapore, but died on the outward voy-
age. A man named Marshall then assumed the command,
and on the voyage home, between Singapore to St.
'galena they met with very tempestucua weather, which
drove them much oat of their course. On reaching St.
Helena they were reduced so far that the very last piece of
meat on board was cooked. The crew had been
long on short allowance, and it was necessary that
provisions should be immediately procured. A
clerk of the plaintiff was the first on board,
and tolim was the order given. He supplied provisions,
stores, and money to the amount of 6001., for which sum
he brought his action. The defendant resisted the action
on the ground that they had an agent at St. Helena—
that it was notorious and well-known to Marshall, who
ought to have employed him ; but on the other hand it was
proved that some of the provisions were left in the ship on
her coming to England, which were taken away by the
defendants, and dealt with as their own, and in settling the
Captain's accounts the defendants took credit for some
sums advanced by him to some of the crew out of the
money supplied him by the plaintiff. It was also further
proved tha iGroves; when in command of the ship, recom-
mended the plaintiff, and told hits: to deal with him on his
arrival at St. Helena, and that at that time Groves was
part owner, and had a right to deal where he pleated. He
at that time had as good a right to employ or appoint an
agent as the other part owner.—Pule granted. •

COURT OF COMMON PLEAS, JAN. 15.

INGRAM V. LAWSON.

This was an action for a libel brought by the owner of
the ship called the Larkins, against the printer and pub-
lisher of the Times, for a libel that appeared in that paper,
in the shape of a letter, setting forth that the ship Larkins
(of which the plaintiff was the captain and owner) was
old, leaky, and totally unfit for service. .

The cause, our reeders will remember, was tried at
the last London iiiittings, and the Jury found their verdict
for the plaintiff—Damages, 9001.
HUMIIHREYS now applied to the Court for a rule to
show cause why there should not be a new trial or an
arrest of judgment. He moved on two grounds; first, that
the Learned Judge omitted to tell the Jury that it was
a case in which the plaintiff could only recover in respect
of Malice proved; and, secondly, that he misdirected them
by leaving, to their consideration the amount of damages
that arose alter action brought.

The COURT refused the rule, stating that the malice need
not be considered, as it was a libel on the p'aintitr in re-
spect of his business ; and, secondly, that evidence at the
ttial was offered as to the average profit of a voyage, and
the Jury were obliged to estimate, not the datages sus-
tained, but likely to be sustained by the injury.

HOSPITAL ACCIDENT RELIEF

SOCIETY.

On Monday the Committee and friends of this excel-
lent Charity dined together at the London Tavern, Mr.
\V. J. Wakelin, the Sub-treasurer, in the Chair. The
Society was instituted fcr giving food to the families of
provident and industrious mechanics and others when
plunged Into distress by accident. The report, after wet-
ingt.Ce fact that nearly 20,000 accidents annually occurred
in the metropolis, involving a vast number of the families i
of the labouring classes, detailed the cases of several poor l
persons whose wives and children were relieved from
dreadful necessity by the Institution.
After the usual loyal toasts were drunk, and the Rev.
Mr. Boddington had addressed the company in a very
eloquent manner on the Institution,
Mr. Calx-roN, the Secretary, in rising to acknowledge 1
the prosperity of the Society, bogged to remark that tile
char,ty was never in so prosperous a condition as at the
•
present trument, that the list of contributors was increas-
ing, and the means of more extensive usefulness were 1
daily multiplying. It was, he said, with feelings of deep
regret he telt it to be his duty to advert to the death of
Mr. Henry Phipp Elope, the munificent friend of the
Charity—to wkatever part of the report the ecanpa.ny
would turn they would meet the name of that gentleman.
Amongst the philanthropic pawns of the Charity he was
the first, and it might be truly said that their best Hope
was gone. He tiusted, however, that ti%als would start
up without delay, lie held in his Land, he said, several
letters from clergymen and gentlemen of fortune and in-
fluence, expressive of their high admiration of the Charity,
and amongtt them was one from the Hon. Member for
Middlesex, Mr. Byng, in which the Hoa. Gentleman
rematketi, that although he subscribed to several hospi-
tals, he had no objection to the erection of one for
accidents, evidently supposing that the object of the So-
ciety was to build an hospital for accidents cxelusi; ely ; but
although the Institution was called the Hospital Relief
S,ciety, its operations had nothing to do w Alt the liuspi-
tal, bey end seeing the patient, and knowing that he was
confined in consequence of accident. lie felt anxious to
be distiectly understood on that point, because he knew
that the term hospital, as appearing in the title of the So-
ciety, and he thought most unhappily, hed created feelingv,
in stone prejudicial to the Institution, and therefore he was
desirous of removing the impression by nsserting that this
Society supplied the family with food while the man re-
mained in the Hospital.—(Cheers.)
A long list of contribuCOns was read. Amongst the
patrons and patronesses of the Society, the offices of which
are in Finch•-lane Chambers, Cornhill, we observed the
names of Lord Viscount BereA'ard, Lord Bexley, Lord
Te.igtimouth, Henry, Thomas Hope, Esq., M. P., Lady
Louisa BereArd, ;vim Delmar, &e.

Yesterday furenOon her Majesty's Crown, under
the care of a warder, was removed in a hackney conch
from the Jewel-room in the Tower to Buck;;lgham
Palace, preparatory to the opening of Pa►!;Kment by
the Queen, in person, this day.

ORIGIN OF FRANKING LETTERS.—The
frzn'.ting letters by Members of Parliament ceased yes-
terday. We find the origin of that privilege thus detailed
in the 23d volume of the Parliamentary History.
It occurred in. the debate on the Post•office Bill,
in the year 1660:—" Colonel Titers reported the Bill
for the settlement of the Post-office, with the
amendments. Sir Walter Earle deliyered a proviso,
for the letters of all Members of Parliament to go free,
durios their sifting. Sir Heneage Finch said—" It
was a poet- mendicant proviso, and bolos the honour
cf the House. Mr. Prynne spoke also against tlr,!
Treviso : Mr. Bunckley, Mr. Boscawen, Sir George
Downing, and Sergeant Charlton, for it. 1 the
latter swing the Council's letters wr-„t free.
The question being called for, the Speaker, Sir Har-
bottle Grimstone, was unwilling io put 'at, saying, he
was ashamed of it.; nevertheless, the pt'oviso was car-
ried, and made part of the bill, which was *ordered to
be engrossed. The Lords subiequently disagreed
to this proviso, and it was ultimately thrown
out. At a subsequent period both Houses did not feel
it to be below their hon Our to secure for themselves
this exemption," Great value is attached to some
franks. Ono by Lord Byron has been known
to fetch seven guineas at an auction. Those
by Single-speech Hamilton are very rare, as also
Horne Tooke's. Canning franked to a friend in Ire-
land three volumes of Clarendon's History, one frank
to each volume. Dresses, boots, shoes, &c., have been
frequently sent under a frank ; and a whole suite
oaTf
hbsouv
nicnksdoonww.
sc
Tuf trhaaeinnkse
dDuke havet
oDoverbeens
frank_
last week for a guinea. The finest collection
extant forms part of the splendid and truly unique
collection of autographs in the possession of Mr. Up-
mu, of Islington ; and which ought ta enrich the British
d. It
Museum ; but, in all probability, tno opportunity of pos-
Wellington's pbasys e is said,
it will be neglected. until some foreign poten-
tate hears away the treasured prize.—Mirror.
DEPORABLE DESTITUTION.—On Tuesday, at
10 o'clock, an inquest was held before Mr. Baker, ,at
the George and Vulture, Rateliff-highway, on view of
the body of Daniel Flynn, aged 60 yeaas. Elizabeth
Larbdown, of No. 10, Sparrow-court, Aldgate, deposed
that she knew the deceased; who was a porter at the
docks, but had latterly been very much reduced in
his circumstances in consequence of having scarcely
any employment. On the previous Friday night he
called on her to borrow sixpence, which she lent him.
In about three-quarters of an hour afterwards his
(deceased's) wife came, and said she thought
her laishand was struck with death. She (witness)
went instantly, and • found him sitting on a chair ;
be never spoke until stwo o'clock on the following
morning, when he exclaimed, "I am a dead man." He
never spoke afterwards, and expired at five o'clock on
Saturday morning. By the Coroner—The deceased
had four children, and with . the sixpence she tent
him he purchased some coals, a candle, and a
half-penny worth of oatmeal. By the Fore-
man—The wife of the deceased worked for a slop-
scller, but, in consequence of her great distress, she was
obliged to pawn some of her work to procure food, as
they had nothing hut potatoes and oatmeal to eat. By
a Juror—The deceased said on the Sunday previous to
his death, that unless the work which his wife had
zledged was redeemed, he should die of a broken heart.
Mr Garrett, s'irgcon, of Ratcliff-highway, deposed to
havit g been called in to attend the deceased, to whom lie
adiniei,tered some brandy and wine and water, but he
expired at five o'clock on Saturday morning, Halt no
druht he died from natural camies, but his dee:fa was
manifestly aocelerated from the want of the common
tn.c2ss.;rieA of life. By the Coroner—The deceased re-
el iced is. and a 4lb. loaf P week from the board of
guardians. Verdiet—" Natural death."