The Sun.
London, England, 1847-02-24 00:00:00

BasirThg—Vrce---anc Sali v and Bishopstoke, and Salisbury
Branches of the London and South-Westera Railway, with
power to purchase the Andover Canal, with power to the
Midland Railway Company and the London and South-
Western Railway Company to subscribe towards, or to take
or use the undertakirg).
This adjourned opposed case occupied the rest of the day,
hut only three allegations were sustained, and they were not
of any great importance. They chiefly bad reference to
slight inaccuracies in the plans and sections. Several me-
morials were withdrawn.
The case was further adjourned.

STANDING ORDERS COMMITTEE.
The Standing Orders Committee met yesterdayat the usual
hour, for the dispatch of public business.
The following decisions were announced during the course
of the day :
THE LONDON AND NORTH-WESTERN RAILII. AY
(PORTOBELLO BRANCH.)
Standing orders complied with.
BLANDFORD AND BRUTON RAILWAY.
Parties allowed to proceed.
THORNE AND CROOLE MOORS DRAINAGE AND
IMPROVEMENT BILL.
Standing orders complied with.
GREAT NORTHERN (HORNCASTLE BRANCH).
Parties allowed :o proceed with the Bill.
TAW VALE RAILWAY.
Alloxe•t to proceed.
KING'S NORTON, (NORTHFIELD) RAILWAY.
Standing orders complied with.
The Committee then adjourned.

.I.4AW INTELLIGENCE.
COURT OF EXCHEQUER, Feb. 23.
(Before the LORID CHIEF BARON and a Special Jury.)
DAWSON v. TROUT.
Mr. Martin and Mr. Willes were tor the plaintiff, and Mr.
Hunifrey and Mr. Hoggins for the defendant.
This action was brought to recover a sum of nearly 500/.,
for printing and advertising done by the piaintiff, who is an
advertising agent, for which the defendant was alleged to
be liable, in his capacity of promoter and provisional com-
mitteeman of the projected Direct London and Hastings
Railway Company.
On 'he part of the defendant, it was alleged that the so-
licitor to the company, Mr. Potter, had given to him, on
condition of his becoming a member of the provisional com-
mittee, an indemnity against all liabilities, which circum-
stance was proved in evidence. It also appeared that the
original order for the insertion of the advertisements had
been given to the plaintiff by Mr. Potter, the solicitor to the
company, previous to the time of the defendans connexion
with the company; and there was no evidence MI show that
the terms of the order had been subsequently altered.
The plaintiff, in reply, stated that the indemnity had been,
withdrawn in consequence of a dispute which bad arisen be-
tween Mr. Potter and the defendant, the former not being
satisfied with the conduct of the defendant.

The Loup CHIEF—BARON, in summing up, said that, in his
opinion, the solicitor had not the power to annul the in-
demnity given to the defendant by him during the time that
the liability which had commenced when he first became
connected with the company was continued. At least he
could not annul his agreement without placing the defen-
dant in the same position as he was prior to his connexion wit h
the company. With respect to the defendant's liability, in-
dependent of the indemnity he did not think that he was
liable for the present claim, as the order was given by Potter,
the solicitor to the company, prior to the name of the de-
fendant appearing as a provisional committeeman of the
railway. _ _

The'jury, after a brief consultation, returned a verdict for
the defendant.

MIDDLESEX SESSIONS.

The February adjourned session for the county commenced
yesterday morning, at the Court Hquse, Clerkenwell-green,
before the Assistant-Judge and a bench of magistrates.
The Learned ASSISTANT-JUDGE, in charging the grand
jury, said, in allusion to the means resorted to for the re-
formation of juvenile offenders, that he had visited Park-
hurst prison since the last sessions, and there he found the
system quite unsuited to the end, in his opinion. The disci-
pline did not treat children as children and adopt the system
of rewards to childish capacities. At Parkhurst there was
plenty of work plenty of books, but no play, and the old
adage was but too true, that " All work and no play makes
Jack a bad boy." It was not enough to tell those poor chil-
dren they would by good behaviour in prison probably be-
come respectable men .in their old age, they
should, as the reward of good conduct, enjoy
some privileges which they could understand as children, and
even a game of cricket might not be too great a luxury for
stimulating them. At present a child of ten years old, for
stealing a penny-worth, must be sent to the same prison,
and subject to the same discipline, as the hardened felon of
40 or 50. But perhaps the greatest evil of the existing
system was throwing the respensi!dlity of supporting those
children upon the State. When the child was convicted, the
father was released from all expense on his account; but, in
his (the Assistant Juc ge's) opinion. the chilli's parish should
be made responsible for his support, while the parochial
authorities should have the same power to compel the parent
to pay back the amount thus expended as they had to make
him pay for the support of his family under the ordinary cases
of desertion or otherwise.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
MANSION-HOUSE.

William Mali', the master of the vessel called the
City of Rotterdam, appeared before .the Lord Mayor
upon an information filed against him for having ne-
glected to take on board a certain number of apprentices.

- Mr. Swainsun, from the office of the solicitors to the
Admiralty, attended for the prosecution, and stated that
the defendant was charged with having violated the 7th
and Bth Vic., cap. 112, sec 37, which was entitled, " An
Act to amend and consolidate the laws relating to mer-
chant seamen, and for keeping a register of seamen."
The vessel of which defendant was masts, belonged to a
.00mpany to which several other vessels belonged, acme
of which went on voyages without having any appren-
tices on board at all, to the great injury of the service,
in which it was indispensably necessary to keep up a
constant supply of able and efficient seamen. The pro-
secution was instituted at the instance of the officer of
the Registrar-General of Seamen, and the penalty for
each infringement was 13/ , which could, at the discre-
tion of the magistrate, be reduced to one-third of the
amount.

The defendant pleaded guilty.
Mr. Swainson said, that as the object of the Lords of
the Admiralty was to press the observance of so neces-
sary an act for the support of the sea service, and as the
defendant and others who had been also chargeable with
neglect of the kind, had readily expressed their determi-
nation in future to carry out the provisions of the Act,
he would be satisfied with the mitigated penalty and
costs. At the same time, he trusted that the prose-
cutor of the case would render any future representa-
tion of the kind unnecessary.
The Loan MAYOR said it must be obvious to every
experienced man, that the infringement of so important
an Act was calculated to do serious mischief by relaxing
the vigour of a service to which England owed
so much. As the solicitor to the Admiralty
had expressed a wish that the penalty should
be reduced, the sentence upon Captain Watts was
that he should pay the fine of 101. and ss. costs. His
Lordship at the same time intimated that if any other
cases were brought forward and proved, the full penalty
should in every instance be niflicted. •
The Captain returned thanks for the indulgence, and
paid the fine and costs.
A woman named Sarah Scott was brought up charged
with having committed a robbery in the shop of Mr.
Hall, the extensive linendraper in Bishopsgate-street
Without.

This was the fifty second robbery committed upon the
prosecutor. The woman had gone info the shop to pur-
chase a small quantity of ribbon, and she contrived to
hide two pieces under her shawl. The prosecutor's un-
fortunate experience enabled him to judge the moment
one of his shopmen spoke to him, that the prisoner Lad
some of his property concealed about her, and he seized
and took it from her himself.

The prisoner was committt d for trial.
The prosecutor has been more than once the victim of
some of the persons employed n his premises. At the
last session of the Central Criminal Court a young man
named John Boraston, who was behind the counter. and
who stole a large quantity of silk end kid skin gloves,
pleaded Guilty; and since that thee Mr. Hall discovered
that a trunk belonging to the prisoner was detained at
a coffee shop at which the fellow lodged, for a score,
and he went from tne Mansion House for the purpose of
examining it, on the belief that it was filled with his
goods.

MARLBOROUGH-STREET.
Edward Crawshaw, a gentleman of military appearance
residing in St. Alban's-place, appeared in answer to a sum-
mons charging him with committing an assault upon Mr.
Adam Clarke, post-office-keeper, 132, Jermyn-street.
Complainant stated that, about three o'clock on Monday
afternoon, the defendant came into his shop for the purpose
of posting three letters. Whilst the young lady in the shop
was giving him change,
a dog ran into . par-
lour, and began to worry a cat. He took up an umbrella and
drove the animal out of the room. The defendant then took
a cane which he had in his hand, and began to belabour him
(the complainant) most unmercifully across the shoulders.
He eventually got away, and ran into the parlour.
The complainant would not press the case if defendant
would make an apology in the public court, and give a sove-
reign to the distressed Irish.
Defendant, in a contemptuous manner, said he should not
make an apology to such a man.
Mr. BINGHAM said it was a case that ought to be sent to
the Quarter Sessions, but as it would cause additional trouble
to complainant, he would fine defendant 51.
The defendant, as he was leaving the court, threatened the
complainant, when Mr. Bingham called him back, and be-
sides the fine of 51. called upon him to enter into his own re-
cognizances of 1001., and two sureties of 1001. each, to keep
the peace for six months.

SHORT-TIME IN THE FACTORIES OF GLASGOW.—
We are informed that during the present week a number of
the power-loom factory employers of Glasgow and subutbi
have put their workmen upon short time—some of them
working only during day-light. This, we believe, is occa-
sioned by dullness of trade, and is a matter of no little con-
cern to those engaged in this descriptim of business. We
are also authorised to state that manufacturing business gene-
rally in Glasgow is in a more depressed state than it has been
for several years previous.—Glasgow Post.
IMPORTANT TO THE HERRING TRADE.—We are
now given to understand that Lord Palmerston has succeeded
in inducing the Russian Government to remove the discrimi-
nating duty in favour of Swedish and Norwegian herrings,
but that hitherto the Belgian Government remains inflexible,
and will make no concession whetever in the tariff tle.t
favours the Dutch. The differentia' duty in favour of Datcl.-
cured herrings in Belgium is rot less than 16 francs p:r
barrel, which is to all intents and pirposes an entire prohibi-
tion of the import of British cured fish.—Rosshire Advertiser.
THERMOGENIC DRAWING.—. scientific friend has
favoured us with the following irgenious mode of trans-
ferring the forms of natural objects (r the patterns on ribbons
to paper :—Saturate common wriing paper with porter,
coffee mixed with sugar and creari, or a solution of achill.
then place the objects whose form it to be transferred on the
prepared paper and expose them •it) the action of the sun's
rays or those of a common fire. Various other solutions
may be used for the same purpose, as bichromate of potash,
yellow chromate of potash, &c. When figured satin ribbons
are saturated with such solutions, end exposed to the sun's
ray's, the raised patterns are giver in b?autiful relief in a
lighter tint of the sante colour as the ground. The prin
ciple is capable of a very
extendet application.—Lirerpot,l
Journal.