The Sun.
London, England, 1847-03-22 00:00:00

HOUSE OF LORDS.-(THIS DAY.)

TIIOIINEYCROET V CiI,CE.ITT AND CaIIERS.
The arguments in this part-heard cape were resumed and
concluded to-day. The case came bethre their Lordships
upon an appeal against a decree of the Vice• Chancellor of
Englarid, in which the question involved related entirely to
the accounts taken between mortgagers and mortgagees.
The details were wholly uninteresting except to the parties.
Their LORDSHIPS, at the conclusion of the. arguments
postponed their judgment.

VICE-CIIANCERY.-(THIS DAY.)
(Before the VICE-CLIANCELLOF: of ExGLAND.)
JOY V. BIRCH.
The arguments in this part-heard case were resumed and
concluded to-day, and
His Hotioca reserved his judgment.

MARLBRO'-STREET-(THIS DAY.)
William Saunders and William Ogle, two rough-looking
Young fellows, were charged with committing a robbery at
the Queen's Head public-house, Little Pulteney-street.
Police-constable 31 C, said he was on duty near the
Queen's Head, on Sunday morning about three o'clock, and
had his attention excited by a creaking noise in the direc-
tion of the public-house door. He saw the two pri-
soners come out and place themselves under the
shadow of the nearest lamp. His suspicions being excited,
the constable said he went up to examine the state of the
house, and found it in darkness, no one up, and the door
open; he therefore made for the prisoners, who, on seeing
they were observed, immediately ran off. An alarm was
given, and the two prisoners were taken into custody by two
other constables of the C dieision, and upon them were found
a quantity of broken cigars, screws of tobacco, money to the
amount of 6s. 6d., including 24 farthings and a quantity of
other coppers, and a bottle of whiskey.
The landlord of the Queen's-head. Mr. Udal, said he left
the doors securely fastened up when he went to bed, but one
of the prisoners had, doubtless, concealed himself within, and
had admitted his accomplice at the dead hour of the night,
when all seemed to be quiet.
The prisoners, who asserted their entire ignorance as to the
circumstances of the charge, were committed to take their
trial at the Old Bailey sessions.

WORSHIP-STREET.—(THIS DAY.)
Henry;Seak, a journeyman mechanic, was charged
with riding in a second-class carriage of the Eastern
Counties Railway, having paid for the third class only,
and refusing to pay the difference, whereby he bad ren-
dered himself liable to a penalty of 40s.
Thomas Abhton, collector of tickets at Shoreditcb,
deposed that on the arrival of the train, at about eight
o'clock last night, the prisoner was found in a second-
class train, but produced a ticket for the third class only.
He had come from Chelmsford, the fare of which was
4s. 6d., a demand of an additional 2s. was therefore made
of him, and on his refusing to comply he was given
into the custody of the acting inspector of the company's
police.
Robert M.Quin, acting inspector, deposed to his hav-
ing taken the prisoner into custody. The latter said he
had been put into the second-class train, although he
bad paid 2s. only. He was not aware of the difference.
He had paid once, and should pay no more. He then
became eery abusive.
Robert Combre, a guard in the company's service,
said he accompanied the train last evening from Bury.
On arriving at Chelmsford, every precaution was used
to prevent passengers from getting into the wrong car-
riages. There was plenty of room in the third-class
carriages.
Mr. BROUGHTON, on being banded a copy of the bye-
laws on railways, said ho was bound to enforce the law.
The prisoner had rendered himself liable to a penalty of
40s. He should, however, convict him in the penalty of
10a. to the Queen, or be imprisoned in the Hut's?. of
Correction one week.

THE ARM Y, &c.
The 88th Regiment arrived at Barbadoes on the 20th
February, per the Herefordshire. There were a few
cases of measles on board, which caused the ship to be
put in quarantine. General Berkeley arrived at Bar-
badoes on the 23d of February, and assumed the com-
mand.
The 16th Regiment left Gibraltar on the 9th instant.
There was not a man in the slightest degree disguised in
liquor, and the entire corps maintained its credit for
steadiness and soldier-like conduct to the last.
The Euryalus, convict ship, arrived at Gibraltar on
the 9th of March.
A line-of-battle ship passed Gibraltar from the west-
ward, without showing colours, on the evening of the
9th of March, and a line-of-battle ship was ,ignalled to
the eastward on the morning of the 10th of March,
supposed to be the Vengeance, with 42d Regiment, from
Malta, but she had not shown colours.

WEST INDIES.
. Our file of papers from British Guiana extends to the
L 7, th L
O. ..ei..r,lary. Lord Grey, in his dispatch to the
sad Attorn.
overnor,
Pa, s high compliment to the Court of Policy
they h Y General- for the zeal and ability with which
..• -a" trained and carried several Bills through the
Legislature to assimilate the laws of the colonies to the
laws of the mother country, among which is an Act for
the establishment of trial by jury, the operation of
which, although a novelty, is carried out b"tter than was
anticipated. Among the parties tried was a male coolie
for the murder of a female coolie. He was convicted
and sentenced to be executed on the 20th inst. An in-
fluential meeting had been held iu Georgetown for the
Irish and Scotch distress. _

The Lady Macnaughten arrived at Demerara in 73
days from Madras, with 200 males, 82 females, 31 boys,
27 girls, and 7 children under one year, in good health.
Three deaths and two births occurred on the voyage.
The exports of produce were considerably on the
increase, there having been, during the first fortnight of
February, as compared with the same period last year,
147 Hogsheads
274 Tierces of Sugar,
125 Barrels
253 Puncheons } of Rum,
26 Hogsheads
753 Puncheons
37 Hogsheads of Molasses,
6 Barrels
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and 307 Logs of Timber,
exported more between the Ist and 16th of February.
1847, than in the same period in 1846 ; and in the same
period the imports of luxuries indicate an improving
condition of the social feelings in the colony ; viz., there
is an augmentation of
21,197 Gallons of Wine,
905 Gallons of Brandy,
1,186 Dozens of Malt Liquors, and
437 Hogsheads of ditto,
more imported than in the corresponding period of last
year. The demand for colonial produce was brisk, at
advanced rates. Tonnage very scarce. The weather
during the month had been exceedingly favourable, and
the appearance of the crops encouraging.
The immediate prospect of the railway being o-m-
-menced, has given life to the inhabitants of the west
coast, and is looked forward to by all the colony as a
most important and valuable thing for the colony.
The papers have begun to discuss the important question
of colonization for European families in the interior of
this most extensive and valuable colony, which appears
to be well suited for the purpose.

The Marquis and Marchioness of Lansdowne gave
a grand entertainment to their Royal Highnesses the Duke
and Duchess of Cambridge, at Lansdowne House, on Satur-
day last. A distinguished circle, comprising his Excellency
Count de St. Aulaire, his Excellency Count Dietrichstein, the
Earl and Countess of Clarendon, Viscount and Viscountess
Falkland, Viscount and Viscountess Mahon,_ Lord Foley, Mr.
Harcourt, &c., were present to meet their Royal Highnesses,
who were attended by Mr. E. St. John Mildmay and Lady
Augusta Cadogan.
Lord and Lady Brougham entertained a distin-
guished circle at dinner on Saturday evening, at their man-
sion in Grafton-street. The guests included the Marquis and
Marchioness of Douro, the Marchioness of Ailesbury, Viscount
and Viscountess Castlereagh, Viscountess Cantalupe, Lord
Lyndhurst, Sir Robert and Lady Peel, Sit James Graham,
the Right Hon. Colonel Dawson Darner, Mr. Montgomery,
Mr. Samuel Rogers, and Lady Malet.
The Right Hon. the Speaker of the House of
Commons had a Pat liamentary dinner on Saturday last, at the
family mansion in Eaten-square.
The Right Hon. Sir John Cam Hobhouse re-
ceived a distinguished party at dinner on Saturday last, in
Berkeley-square.
HEALTH OF THE QUEEN OF PRUSSIA.--A letter
of the 13th, from Berlin, states that the health of the Queen
of Prussia had become so much improved that her Majesty
had been able to leave her bed for several days.
BINDING OF SATAN.—During the past two or
three weeks a number of persons have been going round the
streets on the Surrey side of the water—wearing belts like
those worn by the fire brigade, on which passages from the
Scriptures are painted, carrying with them an ink-horn and
long sheets of paper—soliciting signatures to what they pre-
tend to be a petition to Heaven, for the binding of Satan,
the Prince of Darkness. So eager are those parties to get
the papers signed, that men, women, and children are
stopped indiscriminately and requested to sign. Those who
are too young to sign, or unable to write their names, have
the same done fur them by the men, who do not attempt to
disguise the fact of belonging to the followers of Joanna
Southcott. Upon several occasions a deal of confusion has
been created by the parties, for they generally manage to
go about with knots of forty or fifty persons, and occa-
sionally discussions ensue which are calculated to bring the
Scriptures into perfect ridicule. One person, more intelli-
gent than the men who are hawking the petitions about,
inquired who it is that will present the petition, when the
man replied with the greatest coolness that as soon as a
sufficient number of names are attached to the petition it
will be presented to the throne of mercy. by Joanna herself.
Surely it is high time that such exhibitions are put down
by the police.
DEATU OF Sin ALEXANDER WOOD, K.C., M.G.—
This gentleman, who for so many years was connected with
our colonial Government, died late in the past we,k at his
residence at Holies-street, Cavendish-square, at an advanced
age. He proceeded to Ceylon on the civil establishment in
1801, and after tilling the offices of Member of the Council
and sole Commissioner of Revenue returned to England in
1811. He was subsequently Chief Secretary to the Govern-
ment of Malta and the lonian Islands,'and up to the period
of his demise was Resident Agent in England fur the latter.
The deceased was the son of the late Alexander Wood,
Esq. and an eminent member of the medical profession in
Edinburgh, and in ,cried, in 1807, the eldest daughter of Sir
William Forbes, Bart.
THE SMITHFIELD NUISANCE.—A very distressing
circumstance, arising from the driving of cattle to and from
Eniithfield market, through the crowded streets of the me-
tropolis,adds another fatal case to the numbers which have
occurred from this lung existing nuisance. A young mar-
ried woman, named Lott, residing in Tudor-street. Black-
friars, and who was about seven months advanced in preg-
nancy, on Monday last went out in good health and spirits
to Fleet-street on an errand. She there became so alarmed
by an ox &cm a drove, approaching the pavement, that it
was with difficulty she retraced her steps home, when she
was prematurely delivered, and, notwithstanding the utmost
exertion of medical skill, she could not rally from the shock, '
iota expired yesterday. The infant is likely to do well.