The Sun.
London, England, 1847-06-11 00:00:00

ROLLS' COURT.-(THIS DAY.)

ALEXANDER V. THE DUKE OF WELLINGTON.
This was the petition of the assignees of Messrs. Alex-
ander and Co.. of India, praying for the payment out of
court of a sum of 13,0001., Deccan prize money, to which
Lord Hastings was entitled. It appeared that Lord Hastings
had incurred debts to that amount to Messrs. Alexander and
Co., who were now insolvent. The petition being defective
in a technical point, leave was given to amend it.
There was a vast number of unopposed petitions before the
Court to-day, none of which were of general interest.

QUEEN'S BENCH.-(THIS DAY.)
The Court was occupied during the greater part of this
day with the special paper. A few cases were disposed of
which possessed no public interest, and were merely technical
in their nature.

BAIL COURT.-(THIS DAY.)
(Before Mr. Justice WIGHTMAN.)
CAMPBELL v. BLAKE.
This was an application to the Court for a mandamus to
the custos of a town in Cumberland, requiring that he
should swear in the plaintiff as a churchwarden. It ap-
peared from the affidavits that the parishioners had for a
length of time enjoyed the privilege of appointing,two church-
wardens, without any challenge of the right so to dc; how-
ever, the present custos refused to recognise it, and, under the
canon law, had appointed one churchwarden, leaving the
parishioners the appointment of a second. The affidavits
went on to state, that memory ran not to the contrary of the
parishioners' right to appoint two officers. The present pro-
ceeding was instituted, therefore, to try this right.
Rule to show cause granted.
SMYTH V. HENRY.

This was an application to the Court to have judgment
entered nunc pro tune; it arose out of a suit on breach of con-
tract. It appeared that the defendant was partner of the
plaintiff in the isinglass trade, and in consequence of some
jealousy between them they agreed to separate, hut a large
balance was claimed by the plaintiff as due to him. On the
settling of the accounts the defendant refused to pay the
sum, and the plaintiff accordingly, holding some acceptances
of the other passed for their mutual accommodation, pro-
ceeded to recover upon them. An arrest of judgment was
moved and panted, and the defendant bad since absconded,
and was stated to be residing in France, and although
warned of this application had refused to appear.
Application granted.

SECONDARIES.-(THIS DAY.)
(Before Mr. Secondary PorrEn.)
MANN e. CHATTAWAY.

The plaintiff in this action is a gentleman residing at Bit.-
minuham, and the defendant was connected with the Derby
and Uttoxeter Railway. The action was brought to recover
the sum of 40/. 12s. 6d. for money had and received by the
dthudant, to and for the use of the defendant, and interest
thereon.

The defendant suffered judgment to go by default.
The plaintiff's counsel said the transactia,n r.rose out of one
of the railway schemes of 1845, and the plaintiff bought scrip
for twenty-five shares in the Derby, Uttxeter, and Stafford
Railway Company, ai.d paid the deposits upon them, but in
March, 1846, the project was abandoned, and the d irectors
proposed to make a return to the scripholders of
303. 6d. per share. The plaintiff wrote to the de-
fendant as the secretary, and, enclosing the scrip,
requested him to obtain the money and remit it. Two or
three letters were received from defendant with excuses and
promises, but as no money was forthcoming the present ac-
tion was commenced.

The SECONDARY said all this might have been done as
agent for the company.
The Learned Counsel said that he would prove that after
the writ was issued defendant wrote to plaintiff's attorney
and asked for the amount of debt and costs, which he pro-
mised to pay. This fact having been proved,
The Learned SECONDARY said that the claim for interest
could not be maintained ; the defendant had never guaranteed
to pay it.

the Learned Counsel said that the declaration claimed
1001., and defendant, by not pleading, admitred all to be due.
The SECONDARY said interest could not be recovered ex-
cept under au agreement, or allowed by law.
The jury gave a verdict for the plaintiff, less interest.

BOW-STREET.-(THIS DAY.)
Mr Wylde, the 1,7,11-known map engraver and publisher of
Charing-cross, appeared before Mr. Jardine to answer a
summons at the instance of the Trustees of the British
Museum, charging him with neglecting to deposit copies of
four of his publications at the Museum, within the time pre-
scribed by the Act.
Mr. Wylde when called on to plead, wished first to make
some observation, which lie said would save much time and
trouble to the Court and to Mr. Bodkin, who appeared as
counsel for the trustees of the Museum; but being told that
nothing could be heard till he had pleaded, he pleaded " Nut
Guilty," observing that be did so as a matter of form.
Formal evidence was then given to prove that Mr. Wylde
had published two Nos. of the "Popular Atlas of the World;"
a railway map of Great Britain, and another of Ireland, in the
course of the present year without depositing copies at the
Museum.

Mr. Wylde, in defence, said that he had no wish to avoid
giving copies of his works to the Museum as required by law,
but, on the contrary, he was exceedingly anxious that his works
should find their way into the archives of that institution, and
remain there for ages to come. Neither was he disposed to
dispute the right of the trustees to have copies of all new
editions deposited, as that question had already been decided
in this c•Jurt ; but he really could not conceive that they re-
quired to have copies sent which contained errors,
and others in which those errors had been cor-
rected. In this instance errors had been made in
each of the four publications, and he had only delayed send-
ing copies until they had been correcte,l. He thought that
in courtesy the trustees might have given him some notice
before taking this proceeding, as a aim le note from their
solicitor would have led to au explanation, and saved much
trouble. He was by no means disposed to be illiberal in these
matters, on the contrary he gave away nearly 100 copies of
every work he published to public institutions here and
abroad ; and if lie had objected to give copies of new editions
o❑ a former occasion, he did so as a matter of principle, being
under the impression that the Museum was not entitled.
Mr. Bodkin said he did not believe the defence offered.
He thought that Mr. Wylde was refusing to send these
works from obstinacy, thinking it har.i that he should be
compelled to send copies of reprints. It was not the business
of the Museum to write notes to every publisher who neglected
to send copies.

Mr. JARDINE did not think the defendant's answer suffi-
cient. Even supposing that it was the case that he kept
the works back in order to make corrections and sen i perfect
copies, it was his business to communicate with the
trustees, and nut to wait for them to write to
him. He would inflict the full penalty of 21. for
each offence, making 8/, and 83. 6d., the value of the
works; and he would order him to pay 101. for the costa in-
curred in the prosecution by the trustees.
Mr. Wylde immediately, paid the line.

THE FORGERY BY A GERMAN.—MANCHESTER,
JUNE 10.—This morning Adolphus Schultz, the young Ger-
man who was yesterday charged with forgery, and remanded
for a sv,ek, was again brought up before Mr. Maude, Mr.
Beswick, having obtained further evidence. It appeared
from the evidence, and elso from the confession of tile pri-
soner, that he had forged the two letters of credit, one of
which had been paid in London, and the other in Manches-
ter, and that the third, or original one, had been cashed on
the continent. Mr. George Bests, from the firm of Messrs.
Suse Sibeth. of London, reposed to the handwriting of the
house, in Vienna, from which it appeared that the letters
produced in Manchester and London were both forgeries.
The prisoner was fully committed to take his trial at the next
Liverpool assizes.
THE LATE DR. R AmsnoTtiAm.—This eminent physi-
cian, John Ramsbothsan, M.D., has bequeathed the receipts
which may arise from the sale of his medical publications to
his wife during her life, and has directed that an annuity of
1501. shall be purchased for her, and that she receive the in-
terest of the residue of his property. And at her decease he
leaves to his son Francis Henry Rainsbothain. M.D., who is
the acting executor of his will, the copyright of all his me-
dical worss and all other medical hooks, and his manuscript
cases; and then, after making one or two bequests, lie divides
between his sons Francis and Charles the ultimate residue of
his property. He had stained the age of eighty, and had
purchased only a year before his death an annuity of 1801.
for his life; which was insured in the Equitable and London
Life Assurance Offices.
PANIC AMONG THE SPECULATORS.—It is stated
that the local flour and corn factors, who before resisted every
panic, and could not be induced to part with stocks, expect-
ing a still higher range of prices, have at last been seized
with real alarm, and show the utmost anxiety to force them
into consumption. The quantity of grain and flour, appear-
ing in consequence, is said to be enormous.— Cork Examiner.
ADVANCE IN THE PRICE OF BREAD.—YeSterday a
sudden and unexpected advance was made in the price of
bread by all the bakers throughout the metropolis, tile ad-
vance being one halfpenny on the 41b. loaf—toil,,ec bestothe
or rye
selling at Ilid., the seconds at 10d., the ho
bread at 9d. the loaf. The League Bread household
dny sellsd
one halfpenny the loaf tinder the price charged by
Old Charley
—at
Te Napier,
bakers.
just
hoiCstoedsufhoisDofiltagE.
Portsmouth, has issued
gd
crcharacteristicoased
to 85 o no
men.tice :
—Any 313-ouenrgewfelolofsst'hsewBhto.
whPhlEas
the
Vincentfol following wiami
are fond of fun had better rally
flies
round
Com-
modore,' whose ' bit of blue' iier Old
sd the '
who is looking out for squalls. A on board of her, and
ship." Such an invitation is 1' Apply on board the flag
usual " west-end " mode of
advertisingreished far better than the
showy placards, announcing for seamen by
is in commission, and wants that Somebody, "Esquire,"
" A. B ' • b
but that "none but the best B.
and petty officers,"
need apply."—Brighton Gazette.
EAST INDIA COMPANY.—There
is another vacancy
in the direction of the East India C
Mai9Z-Gocr4l,Ajchibithi uoutmomPany, by the death of

RAILWAY COMMITTEES.

(THIS DAY.)

HOUSE OF LORDS.
Room C.
LONDON AND SOUTH-WESTERN (virawl.
INC% dr.c.)
GREAT WESTERN (E:SANCH TO SORT TOO
LONDON AND SOt7T►N-WESTERN Air

L ,% ETH).
The Committee on this group met to-day at eleven o'clock;
Lord Colborne h: the chair.
The first Bill, which, as will be perceived, is for the par-
pos.e of widening a portion of the South- Western, wasp ast
satt•factory arrangements having been come to with lap

owners.
ile object of the second Bill is to widen the West London
Railway, and to continue it, by means of a bridge across the
Thames, to join the South-Western at Lambeth.
Mr. Brunel was examined. and detailed the nature and ob-
ject f the line. By it the London and North-Western, the
Gr.'at Western, tie South-Wes: Ern, and ultimately the
South-Eastern, would be joined together. The new railway'
to bo. made would be seven miles and seven chains in length;
and the entire cost, including the bridge across the Thamn
above Battersea-br.dge, would be 280,0001. The line would
be constructed on the broad gauge, so that there must of ne:
ce,sity be a break of gauge at the junction with the South
Western.

Rom D.
LONDON, STAXIIES,o
anti sOITTSAITAW"34.
(STAINES TO ASCOT AND WOKINGHAM, WI
T°
BRANCHES).
WINDSOR, STAINES, AND SOUTII-WIJ?
Tmhre. CB
TERN (RICHMOND TO WINDSOR, &c.)
orumnmelithtaeevimngetbaetettlheexuasnulainlehdoiunr this morning.
lines, and the case of the opponents been brought te
having
a close, in
Mr. Sergeant WP.ANGUAM addresseo. the '
committee
reply. opposition to these
IMPORTANT DECISION.

The room was then cleared.
Ta the admission of the parties,
he Duke of RICHMOND said that the Committee
opinion that the preamble of the Windsor, Staines, and W
Western (from Richmond to Windsor) bad been PO"
The
Applclausesause folwered lowe
hen proceeded with, the announcement. itts
and the Conga
t
adjourned till Monday. weriez..°l: