The Sun.
London, England, 1847-12-10 00:00:00

FRIDA Y EVENING,

and the twelfth was within six of gaining the actual
majority, polling 125 votes:above the highest Minis-
terial candidate. But tlis is not the extent of the
Ministerial humiliation. M. 13Enona, the friend of
M. TMERS, is particularly obnoxious to the Cabi-
net, and the greatest efforts were made to prevent
his obtaining a majority. He, however, was re-
turned at the head of the poll ; and in order to
secure his appointment to the office of mayor, his
eleven colleagues have agreed to refuse to serve if
appointed.
The Three per Cents. closed on the Paris Bourse,
on Wednesday, at 75f. 60c.; New Loan, 76f.
70c.; the Five per Cents., 116 f. 85c.; the Orleans
Railroad Shares, 1,210 f. ; Rouen, 907 f. 50c. ;
Havre, 481 f. 25c. ; Great Northern, 553 f. 75c.;
Avignon, 561 f. 25c.; Vierzon, 548 f. 75c.; Bordeaux,
486 f. 25c.; Boulogne, 380 f.; Dieppe, 260 f.; Basle,
165 f.; Paris and Strasburg, 413 f. 75c.; Tours and
Nantes, 396 f. 25c.; Paris and Lyons, 390 f.; Spanish
Three per Cents., 29k.

BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE

LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE, DEC. 9.
Boulogne and Amiens, 143j4 —Luxembourg, %—Northern
of France, 1214—Paris and Lyons, e—Sambre and
Meuse, 7 'Ai.

QUEEN'S BENCH.-(THIS DAY.)
Sittings at Nisi Prius in Guildhall.
(Before Mr. Justice ERLE, and a Common Jury.)
WATHEN V. VAUGHAN.

This was an action to recover the sum of 691., being
the amount of an attorney's bill of costs. The defendant
was an extensive builder, and some months ago he
applied to Mr. Dickson, a solicitor, practising in the
City, to negotiate a loan on mortgages to the extent of
42,0001. Mr. Dickson, however, was unable to raise the
money himself, and therefore as the agent of the de-
fendant he retained the plaintiff, who was also an attor-
ney to procure it, but the security at the disposal of the
defendant was not sufficiently attractive to induce any
capitalist to advance the 42,0001. Still the plaintiff did
his best to procure the funds, and this action was brought
to reimburse the plaintiff the costs he had paid out of
pocket as well as to remunerate him for the trouble he
had been put to in the course of the transaction.
Mr. Dickson proved that the defendant invested him
with full and unlimited authority to raise the funds in
any manner he thought proper, and without any agree-
ment as to costs or remuneration.

For the defence it was contended that a special con-
tract was made with Mr. Dickson, and the business was
undertaken by him upon the understanding of "no cure
no pay." In fact, it was alleged that tho arrangement
made between the parties was, that if Mr. Dickson suc-
ceeded in procuring the 42,0001. he was to be paid a
bonus of 5001., but if ho failed he was to receive
nothing. _ _ _

Two witnesses were called to prove the defence.
Mr. Justice ERLE said it was purely a question for
the jury to determine as to whom the credit for truth
was due.

The jury, without a moment's hesitation, returned a
verdict for the plaintiff.

EXCHEQUER.—(THIS DAY.)
(Sittings at Guildhall, before the LORD CHIEF BARON and

Common Juries.)
At the sitting of the Court this morning a large
number of undefended causes were disposed of. Several
cases which were set down for defended were also dis-
posed of, but none of them presented any feature of public
importance.

BANKRUPTCY.—(THIS DAY.)
(Before Mr. Commissioner SHEPHERD.)
IN RE LAWRENCE.
The bankrupt had carried on business as a grocer in
Regent-street and Ealing, and to-day was appointed for
his last examination, which he passed without opposition.
An application was made for a summons for the at-
tendance of the bankrupt's wife, to give evidence as to a
debt on which the bankrupt had been sued.
His HONOUR said he did not see how he could grant a
summons for such a purp )se.
The SOLICITOR said that it was alleged that the debt
was due by the wife, who was milliner to her Majesty,
and had carried on business as a femme sole. She had
kept the books, and it was impossible for them to elicit
the facts unless she could be examined. The fact was,
that a settlement had been made on her, and she was
liable; at all events, it ought to have been a joint action.
The Learned COMMISSIONER said that under the cir-
cumstances he would grant the summons.

SECONDARIES.-(THIS DAY.)
There was only one case set down for hearing, but it
was not of the slightest interest.

CLERKENWELL.—(THIS DAY).
William Williamson, a retired licensed victualler, and
James illandale, potman at the Broad Arrow, Chiswell-
street, were charged, the latter with stealing a 101. note,
and the former with receiving it, well knowing it to have
been stolen.
It appeared that a Mr. Charles Rutland, went with a
friend into the Broad Arrow public-house, and after
having some refreshment at the bar Mr. Rutland took
out his purse, when he dropped the 101. note under his
seat. Ito left the house without being aware of his loss,
and when he became conscious of it he put an advertise-
meat into the papers, stating the loss, and offer-
ing a " handsome " reward for its restora-
tion. The same day (the prisoner Williamson
called upon him and said he had a clue as to where the
note was. but he knew it would not be returned by the
p arty having it, unless he was paid 5/. An information
was then given to the police, when it was ascertained
that Mandale had picked up and handed it over to
WilUmson.

The, prisoner denied any felonious intention, and Wil-
liamson said he merely accepted the note for safety
until an owner could be found, and in order that Man-
dale, who was a simple minded fellow, might not be
wronged in the transaction.
Mr. TYRWHITT committed the prisoners for trial.

INSTITUTION FOR THE ADULT
DEAF AND DUMB.—(TIIIS DAY.)
An extraordinary general meeting of the governors
and friends of the above institution was held at the
chapel of the establishment, 26, Red Lion-square,
Bloomsbury, this forenoon, for the purpose of deciding
whether the committee should petition the corporation
of the City of London, with the view of obtaining losis-
tance towards carrying on the objects of the charity and
on other business.

WILLIAM EVANS, Esq., M.P., occupied the chair.
al.l ter thu transaction of some preliminary business,
The CHAIRMAN proceeded to say, that he had been
particulary requested to attend and take the chair at
the meeting, and he had don? so with great pleasure,
although, for the good of the charity he was advocating,
he could have wished some gentleman of greater ability
and influence had been selected. It was surely sufficient
to he deprived of the power of utterance and hearing,
without being left destitute upon the wide world; he
(the Chairman) need therefore say very little of the great
advantages which that institution holdout to the afflicted
class to which it had reference. If he pictured to him-
self a person deaf and dumb from his birth, he could not
imagine how such a creature could have any ideas of
general wordly matters, or of the existence of a
Supreme Being, and yet in that institution he found
that instead of being in a state of deplorable and
helpless ignorance, they were in a fair way
of becoming honest and useful members of
society, able not only to communicate their
ideas and understand the truths of the Scripture,
but also by the trades which had been taught them in
this asylum they would be competent to support them-
selves by their own industry. lie (the Chairman) him-
self knew a lady in Devon, who, from her own bene-
volence, established a school for the deaf and dumb;
she engaged her own masters, and it was conducted by
her personal superintendence, and what was the result
in the course of a short time? Why, everybody was
astonished at the proofs of understanding evinced by
the inmates. If, then, the deaf and dumb, by kindness
and attention, are capable of receiving such instruction
they should not be left untaught and unprovided for; and
yet by a calculation founded upon the best authority, he
(the Chairman) found that there was not less than
14,000 deaf and dumb in this kingdom, wholly destitute,
and without th.t means of attaining ideas upon any sub-
ject whatever. He (the Chairman) rt gretted to say that
the institution which he was advocating—so thoroughly
charitable in its object, and so benevolent in its details,
was in debt to the extent of four or five hundred pounds.
Towards the liquidation of this debt it was proposed to
memorialize the Corporation of the City of London,
and he doubted not that the noble character and pro-
verbial liberality of that body would not be withheld
upon so urgent an occasion.
effectdratl
that of the
the
petition oriai
J. G. SIMPSON, Esq., having read the report and a
passed to the
The routine business having transpired, thanks were
voted to the Chairman, a compliment which was briefly
namsloruesldolbuetio adopted.
The were
acknowledged, and the meeting separated.
Nearly twenty males and females, deaf and dumb (who
are at present inmates of the charity), were present, and
their general looks evinced the care taken by the charity
in their management and general instruction.

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ADELPIII THEATRE.-Dlr. Sterling Coyne has sup-
plied this theatre with another of his amusing farces,
the success of which has been of the usual decisive kind.
The name of the present extravagance is A Tipperary
Legacy, wherein Mr. Wright personates a Bristol dyer,
who having gone to take possession of an Irish estate,
the " Tipperary legacy," has not been heard of for some
time, loading his friends to believe that he has been
murdered by his tenantry. The absentee, however,
suddenly returns, having been frightened away from
his property by the threats of a local ruffian, much to
the annoyance of his nephew, who had hoped by his
death to gain possession of a certain young lady to whom
his uncle had been betrothed. In order, therefore, to
worry the unwelcome landlord, the nephew induces a
low comedian of the Bristol Theatre to personify the
ruffian in question, and dog the steps of his relative—
the drollery of tho fsrce consisting chiefly in the terrors
of the perplexed legateo. and his endeavours to throw
the supposed Irishman off the scent by denying his own
identity. It will easily be conceived that Wright makes
a great d. al of fun out of these materials, and that ,fir.
Paul Bedford, who enacts the comedian, avails himself
to the utmost of his prescriptive licence to vamp and
"gag." Mr. Munyard, who plays the nephew, is like-
wise a liberal contributor to the general merriment.
In the manufacture of pieces of this description—
" screamers," as they have been characteristically termed
—Mr. Sterling Coyne, has no competitor; and where is
the audience that can resist his comic outrages upon
sense and probability ?