The Sun.
London, England, 1847-03-06 00:00:00

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Mr. Mould said he engaged the cab on Thursday night,
when the defendant demanded double the amount of his legal
fare. Observing no number inside the vehicle, and as he
(Mr. Mould) was perfectly aware that extortion on the part
of the drivers generally, accompanied the absence of the
number, he thought it his duty to bring the case before the
magistrate.
Mr. Faucher, the extensive cab proprietor of Mount
Pleasant, said the defendant was in his employment,
and from his own dearly bought experience he trusted he
might make an observation to the magistrates. It magis-
trates when cases of overcharge were proved against cabmen,
were to exercise their discretionary power, and instead of
fining them send them to prison, without the alternative of
a fine, it would be much better for the cab proprietors them-
selves as well as for the public generally. When a fine was
imposed the fraternity clubbed to pay it; so that in point of
fact the actual offender escaped without the slightest punish-
ment, often not even the payment of a single penny out of

his own pocket.
Mr. Mould said he did not wish to press the charge with
any severity against the defendant, and
Mr. COMBS ordered the defendant to pay a fine of 10s.,
and in default to be committed to the House of Correction,
with hard labour, for seven days.

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SALE OF LAND IN TEXAS. Thursday, 16,273
acres of freehold located land, situate in Texas, under the
dominion, and in the southern part of the United States of
North America, were submitted to public competition, at
the Auction-mart, by Mr. Robins. The land comprised
nine estates in the counties of Harris, Liberty, Galveston,
and Bexar, the size being from 320 to 4,605 acres, all of
them surrounded with thriving farms, and from three to
eight miles from the capital city, Houston. The lands
located in the vicinity of Houston, &c., produced &s. 634 d.
the acre ; the unconditional certificates, entitling the
holder to select land in any part of Texas, from 320 to
1,280 acres each remaining unallotted, going at nominal
prices.

ROYAL ORTROP2EDIC HOSTITAL. —Thursday *
general meeting of the governors of this charity for the cars
of club foot, lateral curvature of the spine, and all other con-
tractions and deformities, was holden in the board-room of
the institution in Bloomsbury-square ; Q. Harris, Esq., in the
chair. The numbers admitted during the past year were
117 in and 1,228 out-patients, exceeding those of any pre-
vious year by 376. The treatment of lateral curvature of the
spine, hitherto deemed almost incurable, has been attended
with signal success. The receipts for the year amounted to
2,1671., and the expenditure left only a balance of 212/. 88,,
The anniversary dinner will take place on the sth of May.
GUN COTTON AND MACHINERY. Isaac Mickle,
Esq., of Camden (New Jersey), is applying gun cotton to
the propulsion of machinery in his factory. The engine is
constructed on the plan of the ordinary steam-engine, only
thrre are two cylinders, one working in the other. The gun.
cotton is ignited by electricity, engendered and applied in a
novel manner. Any degree of power may be obtained. It.
is safer than the ordinary steam-engine, and one persop can
run it.