The Sun.
London, England, 1846-06-18 00:00:00

QUEEN'S BENCH.-(THIS DAY

(Sittings at Nisi Prins.)
LEWIS V. ROE.
This was an action in trover, brought by Mr. Lewis, the Sheriff 's-
officer, against Mr. Roe, an officer of the Guildhall Pclice-court, for
the unlawful conversion of certain goods in his possession, the pro-
perty of the
.plaintiff, or detaining the said goods for the purpose of
depriving the plaintiff of the use of them. The present action arose
out of certain proceedings that took place last year, arising out of a
seizure of goods belonging to a Mr. Cole, on the part of Messrs.
Bond and Co. At the instance • f the latter Mr.
Lewis made a seizure of a diamond ring. a gold watch,
and chain, and other other articles of jewellery, which were subse-
quently advertised for sale on behalf of the seizing party by Mr. Isaacs,
th auctioneer. A brother of Mr. Cole attended the sale, and made
the purchase of what he conceived to be the seized articles, but upon
exhinination Weenie out that the goods were not' the articles 'that
were seized, but jewellery of an inferior character which had been
substituted. Some proceedings arose- in consequence of this disco-
very, when Mr. Lewis, Mr. Isaacs, and other parties were brought
up before Mr. Alderman larebrother on tile charge of conspiracy,
with intention to defraud. The goods sold to Cole's brother, with
those that were ascertained to be the goods actually seized were
produced in Court, and at tin order of the Alderman, Mr.
Roe, the officer of the Court, was instructed to take possession of
them, and Mr. Lewis was held In bail for a charge that might be
preferred against him at the ensuing Central Criminal Court. The
second examination at Guildhall took place on the 19th of April.
The ensuing sessions were held on the 12th of May, but the
case did not come on then. In the meantime an ar-
rangement was c,me to between the parties, Mr. Lewis
giving an undertaking, that if no further proceedings were taken he
woul,J. deliver up the goods, and meet certain expenses arising out
of the proceedings. On the 9th of June a demand was made on the
defendant, Mr. Hoe, to give up the goods, in order to be able to fulfil
the undertaking entered into by Mr. Cole's attorney. Mr. Roe re-
fused ; and at the sessions held on the 20th Jane, a verdict of " not
guilty" was, with consent, entered, and the matter was disposed of,
subject to the undertaking be lig completed. The present action,
therefore, was brought against Roe for detaining the goods when
demanded to deliver them up on the 9th of June, and after the
parties had compromised the matter.
. .

Counsel to-day was heard on both sides, and a host of witnesses
examined, the Learned Gentleman for the plaintiffdweffing strongly
on the difficulty his client was" placed in, after having made an ar-
rangement, not being enabled to carry it into effect from the deten-
tion 01 the goods, thus being subject to an action for not fulfilling the
contract he had been a party to.
Mr. Justice PATTESoN, in charging thejury, said that it was per-
fectly clear that the magistrate had a light to order the goods
to be detained, to satisfy the ends of justice, and that the officer had
a right to hold them and not to deliver them up to any one till the
matter was finally disposed of in C"urt. Now, the demand was made
on the 9th of Juno, and thi• case was not before the sessions till after
the 20,11; the point, therefore, they bad t consider was, did the de-
fendant, under the circumstances, detain the good with the object of
unlawfully eonverting them to his own use, or of depriving the .plain-
tiff 01 the permanent use of them.
The jury almost immediately returned a verdict for the defendant.

DUTCH PAPERS.

THE HAGUE, JUNE 13.—His Majesty the King sr'
rived yesterday morning, in perfect health, from. his
visit to Weimar.

THE HAGUE, JUNE 15.—The bulletin of the laws
contains, in its last number, a royal decree, fixing at
the millions of florins the capital destined for the re-
payment of twenty•one series of bonds, bearing inte-
rest at 4k per cent. of the late signdicate.
We have received Java papers from-the 3d to the
23th of January last, from which we take the following
particulars, though the overland mail has brought Us
news tali the beginning of April.
BATAVIA, JAN. 15.—0 n the evening of the 14th of
this month, the river Pegra, which flows close by the
house of the President of Soerokasto, suddenly over..
flowed its banks with great rapidity, and did consider-
able damage. On the high road from Soerokasto the
water was in some places five feet deep.
There is an account of the murder of the family of
Mr Kamphins at Bantam. In the night of the 12th
of December the dwelling of the bailiff was surprised.
The bailiff, Mr. Kamphins, with his wife, with five og
their eight children, and Messrs. Pes, Kering', Woubert
de Prus,..ea lost their lives; the wife of Kering. who
had fled with two children, was killed in the neighfl9ur.
hood of Tykandie Jelier. The resident of Bantarile
immediately on learning what had passed, proceeded to
the spot with twenty men. He found the house in the
possession of between 300 and 400 armed natives, end
was forced to retreat, being unable to contend with
such a superior fore?. The garrison then proceeded
against Tykandie Oeduck, and after an engagement
expelled the insurgents, and occupied the house.
Between twenty and thirty of the natives lost their livee•
On our side three men were wounded. 274 persons
were arrested by the police on suspicion of having taken
part in the murder and of resisting the public foree•
Public tranquillity has not been interrupted. in any Psrt
of Bantam.
The papers bring accounts of inundations in several
•
other places, and of considerable fires,
AMSTERDAM, JUNE 12.—We are able positively to
contradict the report that M Van de Heim will defi-
nitely take the office of Minister of the Interior at the
close of the Assembly of the province of South Holleuu•
—Dutch papers, June 16.
WURTEMBURG, JUNE 7.—We are happy to say that
the appearance of the crops of every description is such
as promises an abundant harvest. _

PoLISU FRONTIERS, JUNE s.—The accounts from
Galicia continue to be favourable; some pet-
sons are, indeed, apprehensive of disorders at the
season of the harvest, when the peasants will
have to return the seed-corn lent them by the land-
owners. It is however, believed that if there should be
some cases occur of resistance, they will be isolated ;
and that, on the whole, tranquillity will not be dis-
turbed. The complaints of the drought in most pro:
vinces of the Austrian monarchy are increasing, and
have rather lowered the expectation of a remarkabll
abundant harvest.
TRIESTE, JUNE 7.—Her 'Majesty the Arcbdirehes_
Maria of Parma arrived here to-day, from Venice, on
her way to Vienna.-4lgemeine Zeitung, June 12.

OFFICIAL I'OOR-LAW CIRCULAI
In answer to a question as to the best course of pro:
ceeding to get boys out apprentices to the inerche_t
service, the Commissioners say, that the guard.hur
might advertise in the public papers, and also communed
cate with the Secretary of the Admiralty on the subjee. tv
and the agents " for the protection of seamen entering
on board merchant ships," licensed under the Act ef:
and 9 Vic., c. 116, for providing merchant. ships
seamen.—A widow in the receipt of out-door relie
applied for assistance towards the burial of a child irt
a cemetery belonging to Dissenters, which the relieving
officer refused, under the impression that he was 11,,
43t
justified in giving assistance for the burial of pan-
in any other place than the church-yard. The °,t-ii;
missioners say that the 31st section of the 7th and " s
Vie. c. 101, leaves it discretionary with the guardisie
whether they will or will not bury the body of are
ceased person at the expense of the poor-rates. V"ehs
necessity, however, exists for assistance, they et!gg
not to withhold it solely on account of the reLgi
persuasion to which the deceased may bare bellaens
Che 31st section enacts that, except where the glutra ,he
direct the body of a pauper to be buried ill
parish to which he is chargeable, " every dead bodit
which the guardians or any of their officers, duly IT':
thorised, shall direct to be buried at the expense of the
poor-rates (unless the deceased person, or the hue:
band or wife or next of kin of such deceased person
have otherwise desired) be buried in the churchyard
or other consecrated burial-ground or belonging
the parish, &c., in which the death may have occurree.
The exception,-the Commissioners say, was intends.
to remove undue distinctions between persons of dif-
ferent ferent religious persuasions, and in the present
instance the relieving officer acted very improperly
in refusing to give the widow assistance towards the
burial of her child in the cemetery belonging to dig'
seaters, according to her wishes.- -By the 43d Eliz. c. ar
the churchwardens of every parish are expressly con-
stituted overseers, and are equally responsible for
the contributions required by the euardians of s
union.—ln the absence of a justice, the clergyman, ill
conjunction with a relieving officer, examined several
pauper lunatics required to be removed from a county
asylum, and for which the clergyman demanded a fee of
one guinea, which the Commissioners say he was not
entitled to.—A district auditor requires to be informed
whether he should be justified in allowing the
charges made in the course of the perambulation
of a parish under the 60th sec. of the Act 7
and 8 Victoria, o. 101, which amounted to 731,
including 151. for refreshments. The Commis-
sioners admit that the section of the Act authorises the
payment of " all expenses properly incurred in the
perambulation" by the officer of the parish in setting
up and keeping in proper repair the boundary stones e!,
..he parish (once in three years) ; the amount;ll
thought reasonable by the auditor, may dwell/be
allowed, but the practice which formerly Prev.e"
providing an entertainment to the officers and others
cannot be considered as "properly incurred." The
clerk of Witham union applied to the Commissioners
to be informed whether the board of guardians bad the
power to compel the overseers or an assistant overseer:
to take proceedings for the recovery of relief granted
by way of loan. The Commissioners reply that 1,.13
guardians are empowered to make the application n).:
their officer, but they do not conceive that the law has
invested the guardians with any powers of compellingr
overseer or his assistant to-act.—ln a case where a wife,
who was an habitual drunkard, and had an income
801 a•year independent of her husband, refused to OSSI3C
in maintaining her children, but was willing to tak?,
three of them under her care, but having once so abused
her eldest child that she was bound over to keep the
peace, the husband refused the offer—the
guardians in-
quire whether they can compel the wife to contribute to
the support of the children, or whether her husband can
.
be compelled to deliver up the children to his wife. ."-Dire,
Commissioners say the wife cannot be proceeded agelt,
as the legal obligation to maintain attaches to tuv
husband.

COLLISION ON THE GRAND JUNCTION RAILWAY."'
On Sunday morning last a collision took place on the Grand Jtuictioti,
oonidpCarsesewneg,emi.B,l,ilacnhd causede
dg
in
ne aat
gc or:
at
ruises ; but no life was lost, and W°
sßmiaeanirliw,ityisoe,n,a,etboroeuact
ovfnoetruuyrslong satnrbadei
nyb•
hare not heard of any fractures It seems that the cheap excursion
train, which left Manchester for London on Saturday, May 30,',T
returning to Manchester on Sunday morning last, consisting ofii
first, second, and third-class carriages, drawn by one tuigioe•
was about six o'clock in the morning, the atmosphere very
thick and misty, when the train came suddenly upol four or five
s ationary goods-trucks, some empty and some loaded, and by the
collision with these tracks the plisengers were thrown violeutlf
against each other, or against the inside of the carriages, many "1
ceiving severe bruises on the head„ face. shoulders, &c., and a number
suffered from black eyes. As to tin cause of the collision, it seems a
goods' train from Birmingham, which had preceded, the excursion
train some time, had, by some accident, lost or left a part of its
trucks on the line. Fortunately, owing to*the misty state of the
atmosphere, the' train 'was going slowly at the time, or the cons&
quences of the collision would have been mush more serious.--Onn.
chaster Guardian.
PUBLIC BATHS.—At the meeting of the Chester Towel
Council on Friday last, a memorial was laid before that body, with
reference to the construction of baths for the use of the operative,
classes of this city. The council, having no surplus estates, were of
course unable to aid the memorialists by a grant of public money l?r
the purpose ; but they appeared unanimously to approve of the l
ob-
ject the memorialists had in view, and made the offer of a piece of
land, supposed to be convenient tor the erection of the required bulls'_
ings. The Mayor, and several other members of the council liberal!):
proinised to come forward, if the baths were erected by public sno
scription.-7Chester Courant. _ .

___ __. _ _•
no-
tice that the nightingale has been this year heard in places
nb inc n7shtleb
eaeirirt
taluflir
THE NlGllTlNGALEsaiScetrie.”Aibgaßifa,Bl:Eth:ll:l4feraniTrotrwteocEkvssi..n_ciAalecp.pirgs
to
Lever visaed by ight-
Ittifhalanees:inkeillih°l:ai orEhifi snßys dog.o
marchingz
A s
mnoetreouhsadotnhoert previouslyparts
otEnaland awakenedth
is the
delightfulechoes c:f
songster night.. thraosmbeneui;
• severalyears is that partcf Hampstead.'
alone disturb the silence of mid-
inst., ptiihligae drivenchets..
Nightingaleb
Amongy t h the railroads,oth er
placestherefore
wr ch e must
r the
letheirh searchar:inl,:titaov.yr
tnuenwn e
lr,e,srthi negr
e-
-Inga 1 e s , as steam-whistlethe l t aavneld-hatelhleee'3:sd,
ful woods, by the coustatitt blasting
-1.
VAGARIES or ENod,
would
. or
Marshal
r samnh
make
lk,a,e:vpaiadmceknatrl ofs
h a hounds,
i.
Custom-houseir 'it thirteen
cunning
ammixulotintudeof
the Courrier de la eiron
iti the 11thsPectators
crowded the
d arrived from London couple, which had
Englishman,
whole belonged to a wealthy
_m potosend•itonfestshirtltiye
who possesses an estate in
Bugmeaud has hit
upon a new expedient for capturing Abd-el
of Bo
A " FORLORN HOPE.
his dog. The
g place Is by following in
Ctory,"
of flnding out Abd-el-Kader's hlciln - y thinks that his only chance
the
Kader. lie has taken
of the 10th inst. contains,, fine picture for Versailles—" The
gouhats Garabas, to VI and a poodle at the head of it.--
Punch.
Mascara, June -3 ;_"Colonel
hsladrenresabsl,earnazzimima. IN ALGERIA.—The Mondeur Akeries
the following extract from a letter date
1 D_Cjeobeloni e4eßsesenia,ulthtrheeaslejusagtuerfreomalnsointtg(snt,thaecoLttad:
immense' booty, and a grekt quantity of arms, in.
2,000 sheep, 400 bullocks, 70 camels, 18 mares
remained
In our possession. The loss of the enemy in men killed is as yet un
known ; but it must have been considerable, for the affair was a ver!
Warns one. The inhabitants of Sitten submitted immediately. 1%1
Colonel continued his movement on Arba-Kessar behind the KITT:
mountains, to the west of Rassoul, where the Arabs say the Emir Ill'
repaired with a small cavalry force."
FOOT-RACE FOR 101.—Yesterday the two hundred
yards' race between Collins and Loveday, for 5/. a skle,:came off At
Holloway, and after a good race the former won.
THE KEANs.—The .St. Louis Reveille of the 13a1
ult. says :—" The se truly attractive and clever performers have just
concluded their fiftieth night with Ludlow and Smith. These at,
nights have been occupied between New Orleans, Mobile, and St.
Louis, and from them Mr. and Mrs. Kean have realised fifteen
thousand dollars, being an average of three hundred dollars Per
night. This is truly great, and we know the statement to be cor-
rect. We also know that, during this long business connexion,
the most agreeable relationship has been preserved between
managers, stars, and company, and that the connexion IS
at length severed with regret. This fact speaks well for all
parties, and it is refreshing to record it, in opposition to the
many accounts of professional discontents, jealousies, itc.
Mr. Kean, at the conclusion of the performance on Monday.
night, in obedience to the call of one of the most brilliant
audiences we have ever seen, appeared, and spoke as follows ,---
" Ladies and Gentlemen,—l should be doing injustice to my evir
feelings, and those of Mrs. Kean, were we to leave St. Louis without
some expression of gratitude for our kind reception, and for the
great success that has attended our efforts in this city. The ckr.:
dia!ity with which we have been received, by crowded and brinier,'
audiences, the courteous attention of the management, and the of
manner in which we have been supported by the company'
have rendered our professional tour of nearly three months in the
south and west, one of uninterrupted pleasure. Sincerely hoping
that we may again have the pleasure of appearing before you Pre:
vious to our return to Europe, we now, with every fet-Lin of ,„rgr3e 4
11Wnewt. take our leave."
_pain CITTer artiste. ATP*, --
9.4 IW4 0: WWI , ,