The Sun.
London, England, 1847-11-12 00:00:00

His HONOUR, however, considered that the non-
keeping books bmr,unted to reckless trading.

SECONDARIES'.—(THIS DAY.)
(Berore Air. Secondary POTTER.)
GIBSON V. SHAW.
This was an action brought to recover the sum of
71. for rent.
The defendant pleaded that he was not indebted.
It appeared by the evidence that in 1845 the de-
fendant took p irt of a warehouse in Stoney-lane,
Borough, at the yearly rent of 301., but he ultimately
shut up the p'ace and sent the key to the plaintiff,
who accepted it, and now sought to recover the
quarter then becoming due. It was proved that the
defendant now resided within the city of London, in
which place he admitted the debt.
The defence was, that the action being for rent the
venue was local and ought to have been laid in Sur-
rey, where there was a county court. In reply, it
was urged that the admission in the City formed a
good ground of action, and justified its being brought
in the superior court, as at the time the writ was
issued the new Act for recovering small debts in the
Sheriffs' Court, London, had not passed.
The Learned SECONDARY held in favour of plain-
tiff, but said that the point a 3 to whether an action
for use and occupation was local was open for argu-
ment before the Court above, and he would retain the
writ for four days for that purpose.

MIDDLESEX SESSIONS.
(THIS DAY.)

Anne Jones, a young girl of very lady-like appear-
ance and address, and whose connexions were said to
be most respectable was indicted for feloniously
attempting to steal a purse from the person of a
woman whose name is unknown, at the Paddington
terminus of the Great Western Railway.
The charge against the prisoner depended solely
upon the testimony of one of the company's officers,
who stated that shortly after the arrival of the train
from Bristol, and at a time when there were a number
of passengers in the station he saw the prisoner
standing beside a lady who was leaning over the
balcony, and saw her put her right hand into the
lady's pocket, when he seized hold of her arm
before she had time to withdraw it. She
had no luggage with her. Upon taking her
into custody, she offered to take the officer
to her residence, and prove to him that she was
a most respectable person, but he declined, and took
her to the station-house, where she was searched, and
two gold watches found upon her, besides a quantity
of other property, with respect to the acquirement of
which she afforded the most satisfactory account,
having stated where she bought the watches, which
was found, upon inquiry, to be true. When asked
where she came from, by the train, she said, " From
Liverpool."
Mr. Sergeant WILKINS addressed the jury for the
defence.

The ASSISTANT-JUDGE summed up, and the jury,
after a lengthened deliberation, returned a verdict of
Not Guilty, to the evident satisfaction of a very
crowded court.

WORSHIP-STREET.—(THIS DAY.)
Joseph Cunningham was brought before Mr.
Arnold, charged with being found in the public
street in a state of nudity, at half-past two o'clock
this morning.
Police-constable 110 H stated that he was proceed-
ing on his beat at the above time, in Coventry-street,
Mile-end-road, when his attention was directed to an
entire suit of man's wearing apparel, hung upon
some iron railings in regular succession before seve-
ral of the houses—first, a hat, then a coat and waist-
coat, next a pair of trousers, and lastly, a pair of
shoes and stockings. He at once removed them, and
had not proceeded many yards ere he perceived a man
naked with the exception of his shirt, which was
adhering to his skin, in consequence of the torrents
of rain, which was then pouring down, having
thoroughly saturated it, and well-nigh drowned him-
self. He was conveyed to the station-house at
Spitalfields, where he was properly attended to by
Sergeant Coleman and others, but a considerable
time had elapsed before he was made conscious of
what had happened.
The unfortunate man appeared to be still labour-
ing under the effects of what he had endured, and
The MAGISTRATE discharged him with an ad-
monition.

LAMBETH.—(THIS DAY.)
Mr. Plum, clerk to the guardians of the poor of
St. Giles's, Camberwell, applied to Mr. Norton for
upwards of thirty summonses against the owners of
houses in Bukley-street, Peckham New-town, for
nuisance. lie stated that the place was rendered a
focus of pestilence by the extraordinary negligence of
the inhabitants and their landlords. The houses were
all occupied by Irish people of the lowest order, who
had imported and adhered to the habits of their own
country, A filthy pool of stagnant water extended
the whole length of the street, and sometimes over-
flowed into the houses. The parochial authorities
had in vain remonstrated, although the inhabitants
themselves were sufferers, as the place was seldom
without fever. Sedgely, the beadle, stated that there
were at present sixteen cases of fever in the locality.
The whole district was in danger of contagion.
Mr. NORTON immediately granted the summonses.

DREADFUL CALAMITY.— CINCINNATI, OCT. 15.—
The Fashville papers just received bring intelligence of
an awful calamity at that place, the effects of the storm
on Tuesday evening last. The lightning struck the
powder magazine, causing an awful explosion. The re-
port was equal to the loudest earthquake. The destruc-
tion of life and property was immense-100 houses wore
destroyed or injured, and ten dead bodies hare been
already taken from the ruins.
PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS.—This
Society have deposited two powerful levers at the South-
wark side of London-bridge for the gratuitous use of
carmen whose shaft-horses may fall down in descending
the dangerous declivity from Tooley-street to Welling-
ton-street, to raise the load from off the poor animals
and enable them to rise.
A portion of Franconi's celebrated equestrian
troupe, from Paris, consisting of seventy-five ladies and
gentleman and twenty-four splendid horses, arrived at
the St. Katherine's-wharf yesterday by the General
Steam Navigation Company's steam-ship Venezuela,
from Havre.
PRODUCE OF THE URAL MINES.—The Oesterreichis-
cher Beobachter states that the produce of the Crown
and private mines in the Ural, during the first six
months of the present year was 166 poods of gold and
29 of platina.
THE BUILDERS' BENEVOLENT INSTITUTION.—Yes-
terday evening a meeting of the committee and members
of the above institution was held at the Freemasons'
Tavern, for the transaction of business, and confirming
the rules. The report congratulated the supporters of
the charity on the great success which, considering the
shortness of time it has been established, the committee
had met with ; the treasurer reporting that he had paid
into the hands of the bankers, on account of the Belief
Fund, 2451. 9s. 10d., and on account of the Building
Fund. 163/. Ils. ad., making a total of 4091. Is. 4d. The
report concluded with expressing a hope that it was only
necessary to announce to the masters of the different
branches of the building trade that such an institution
exists, to insure support. Amongst the subscribers are
William Cubitt, Esq., M.P., S. M. Peto, Esq, M.P., &c.
PERSHORE.—ACCIDENT.-011 the night of Wed-
nesday last a temporary bridge, which had been erected

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for the purpose of the Oxford, Worcester, and Wolves
hampton Railway works, near Wyre Piddle, fell in. A
gentleman, who was travelling from Evesham in his gig,
in the darkness of the night, very narrowly escaped
driving into the chasm, and it is almost wonderful that
no fatal :accident occurred during the night. On the
following day a boy was posted near the spot, to warn
off travellers to take a more circuitous route. We un-
derstand that the accident was attributable to the work-
men having incautiously undermined the supporters of
the bridge.—Worcestcrshirc Chronicle. •
last, Lord Reidhaven gave a battue in the principala ur ay
SHooTING fr‘ GLEN-URQUIIART.-011 S t d
covers surrounding the house of Balrnacaan. The party
were in all four guns, viz. his Lordship, the Hon. George
Stuart, Brodie Dunn, Esq., of Milton -Brodie, and
Francis Palmer, Esq. The sport commenced at ten
o'clock, and between that hour and four, the party
bagged 312 head, consisting of pheasants, hares, rabbits,
and 12 woodcocks. The shooting gives great credit to
Mr. Stewart, gmekeeper to Lord Reidhaven, for his
having succeeded in rearing so fine a stock of game
(pheasants being unknown in this glen three years ago),
as well as for the admirable way in which he conducted
the battue, with a large number of beaters.—lnverness
Courier.
A SMUGGLER CAPTURED.—The Vigilant, revenue
cutter, Captain Gowliard, arrived off Chatham on Tues-
day afternoon, with a smuggling cutter, of about 35
tons, called the Ilinnah, of Maldon, having a crew of
four able fellows. The cargo of this vessel has been
lodged at the Custom-house, Rochester, and consists of
125 bales of tobacco, of 50Ibs. each, and 500 packages
of snuff. The import duty would be about 1,3001. This
smuggler was captured at the Nore, on Monday night,
after a spirited chase of half an hour.
A NEW SOPRANO.—We perceive by the Dublin
papers that Mr. Allen, the accomplished tenor, has in-
troduced a pupil of hii own to the stage, in the person
of Miss Julia Harland; and that the success of the
young lady has been complete. Her voice is described
as a soprano of considerable strength and exquisite
sweetness. The opera selected for her debut at the
Theatre Royal Aas the Sonnambula, in which she sus-
tained the character of ihnina to the Elvino of her pre-
ceptor, and according to the Dublin critics she has
' achieved a great triumph. Since the opening night
Lucia di Lammermoor and Loder's Night Dancers have
been produced to crowded audiences, and Mr. Calcraft,
the manager, has offered terms to induce Mr. Allen and
his fair pupil to prolong their stay.
DARING HIGHWAY ROBEERIES,—OH Thursday
near Wolverhampton, Mr. John Griffiths,
nd robbed ; a few minutes be
eveningo the-Oa
Oak last,Farm Iron Works, was attacked biy,h.hiltps,igh-
jwaymen afore Mr.
sGteoourrgberißdgoerr, awsoans,
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un.. of Penn, escaped from the same party through the
sitoirbibtinofgthoins
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his Orne u' Friday
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ee men are cus o y
Ashwood, Kingswiuford. r
tacked and robbed by weTahrmed highwaymen, near
for this latter outrage.