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

PET IT lONS ON PRIVATE BILLS.
HOUSE OF COMMONS.
(Room 22, before Mr. Examiner SMITH.)
UNOPPOSED LIST.
In the following unopposed cases the customary formal
proofs were completed:—
Leeds and Thirsk Railway (for supplying water to Leeds
and the neighbourhood, and selling same to the Corporation
of Leeds, and the Leeds Waterworks Company).
York and Neweastle Railway (Wearmouth Dock Enlarge-
ment).
York and Newcastle Railway (Hartlepool Dock and Rail-
way, and Great North of England, Clarence and Hartlepool
Junction Railway, Lease and I"o.lThaSe Act).
York and Newcastle, Newcastle and Berwick, and North
British Railways Amalgamation.
Axholme Railway (from the Leeds and Selby Railway to
Gainsborough, with Branches).
Manchester Corporation Waterworks (with power to pur-
chase the Manchester and Salford Waterworks Company).
Manchester Corporation Waterworks (with power to sell
to the Manchester and Salford Waterworks Company).
Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire Railways (Station
at Sheffield, and Branch to the Sheffield Canal).
Scottish Equitable Life Assurance Society.
Great North of India Railway Company.
Shropshire Union Railways and Canal (Shrewsbury to
Worcester).
Oxford, Worcester, and Wolverhampton Railway (No. 1—
Extension and Amendment).
OPPOSED CASE.

Kilmarnock and Ayr Direct Railway (Railway from Kil-
marnock to Ayr, with Branch to the Harbour of Ayr).
This opposed case was part beard, and adjourned till to-
morrow.

(Room 23, before Mr. Examiner MA y.)
ti NOPPOSED LIST.

In the following unopposed cases, the customary formal
proofs were completed :
Direct London and Portsmouth, Brighton and Chichester,
and London, Brighton, and South Coast, and London aid
South- Western Railway Companies Acts Amendment.
Waterford and Limerick Railway (Deviations in Line, Ex-
tension of Time for Purchase of Lands, further Rights and
Privileges as to allowing Interest and giving Security and
Amendments).
Edinburgh and Northern, and Edinburgh, Leith, and
Granton Railways Amalgamation.
Dunfermline Waterworks (for the better supplying the
town of Dunfermline, and places adjacent thereto, with
Water).
Tranmere Docks.
The British Commercial Insurance Company.
Western Gas Light Company.
City of York, Freemen's Strays or Common Pastures Re-
gulations.
Stockport Manorial Tolls and Bridges.
Lytham Improvement.
Bristol Building and Improvement Act Amendment.
OPPOSED CASE.
Manchester and Southampton Railway (Line from South-
ampton to Cheltenham, to join the Midland Railway, with
connecting lines, to join the proposed London, Oxford, and
Cheltenham Railway, the Great Western Railway, and the
Basingstoke and Salisbury and Bishopstoke, and Salisbury
Branches of the London and South-Western 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 undertaking). '
This adjourned opposed case occupied the rest of the day,
but only three allegat►ons were sustained, and they were not
of any great importance. They chiefly had reference to
slight inaccuracies in the plans and sections. Several me-
morials were withdrawn.
The case was further adjourned.

STANDING ORDERS COMMITTEE.
Ths 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 ARTOB E OND NLLORTH-WESTERNBRANCH.) RAILWAY
(PO
Standin, 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 (HURNCASTLE BRANCH).
Parties allowed to proceed with the Bill.
TAW VALE RAILWAY.
Allowel to proceed.
KING'S NORTON, (NORTIIFIELD) RAILWAY.
Standing orders complied with.
The Committee then adjourned.

LAW INTELLIGENCE.
COURT OF EXCHEQUER, Feb. 23.
(Before the LORD CHIEF BARON and a Special Jury.)
DAWSON V. TRIUT.

Mr. Martin and Mr. I,7Vllles were for the plaintiff, and Mr.
Ilumfrey and Mr. Ileggins for the defendant.
This action was brought to recover a sum of nearly 5001.,
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 111 h 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 defendant's connexion
with the company ; and there was no evidence to 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 had arisen be-
tween Mr. Patter and the defendant, the former not being
satisfied with the conduct of the defendant.

The LORD CU LEV BARON, in humming 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 be did not think that he was
liable Mr 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, fur
the defendant.

ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE.
NO ClRCUlT.—Carlisie, Ft b, 22.
The assizes for the county of Cumberland commenced
here this morning. 'Their Lordships sat at ten o'clock. Mr.
Baron Alderson presided in the Crown Court, and Mr. Baron
Rolfe on the Civil aide. There are nine causes enter( d for
trial. The calendar contains the names of twenty prisoners.
Of these one stands charged with murder, four with bur-
Wary, one with forgery, and one with cutting and wounding.
The other offences in the calendar are cases of petty theft.
( Before Mr. Baron ALDEasos.)
His Lordship during the day disposed of a large number
of the minor cases, which presented no point of public in-
terest.