The Sun.
London, England, 1846-02-13 00:00:00

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Only a limited business was transacted here, and prices were barely
supported.

BON.OUGH HOP 1K.A.22.1LET.

Although the transactions in all kinds of flops during the present
week have been by no means extensive, prices are pretty generally
supported. The supply of Hops; in pockets, is small.

HOUSE OF LORDS.-(THIS DAY.)
Lord Brougham, Lord Cottenham, and Lord Campbell, sat iu the
House of Lords to-day, to hear Scotch appeals.
iuscrusitarai v. CRAME.
The argumentS were concluded on this appeal, and theii Lordships
postponed their judgment.

CHANCERY.—crEns DAY.)
The Lord Chancellor sat in Lincoln's Inn Hall to-day. The Master
of the Rolls also sat with his Lordship, for the purpose of hearing the
petition in the matter of Whiting, which, it will be recollected, re-
lates to the performance of the duties:of the clerks of the Master. We
refrain from entering further into the case till the arguments are
concluded on both sides.

V I CE-CHANCERY.-(T HIS DAY.)
The Vice-Chancellor of England was occupied the whole meeting
with unopposed petitions and short causes.

EXCIIEQUER.—(TI-I Is DAY.)
(Sittings after Term at Nisi Prius, before the LORD CHIEF BARON
and a Common Jury.)
BATSON V. RICHARD.
Mr. Watson, with Mr. Smythie, appeared for the. plaintiff,:and Mr.
Jervis for the defendant.
This was an action brought by plaintiff, the drawer of a bill of
exchange, against defendant, who was the acceptor, and refused to
honour it when it became due. The consideration given by plaintiff
for the acceptance was thirty tons of boiler plates, at 131. 10s. per ton.
The defence set up was, that the plates were of inferior quality,
and that they were not delivered at the proper time.

SECONDARIES.-(T HIS DA Y.)
(Before Mr. Secondary JANES.)
BROWN V. GOOCII.
This was an action to recover the sum of 51., for money lent. The
defendant pleaded that he was never indebted.
Mr. HUGHES stated the case. The plaintiff is a licensed victualler
in Philip-street, Heaton, and hi September last kept the Norfolk
Arms, Norfolk-street, Edgeware-road. The defendant is a surveyor,
&c., and had been in the habit of paying his men at defendant's
house, and occasionally borrowing money, which was always repaid
until the 6th of September last, when be borrowed 51. On being ap-
plied to for it sometime after, he at first said that he hael repaid it to
plaintiff's wife ; and on a subsequent occasion that he had paid it to
his daughter. The defendant's plea, however, did not support that
assertion, as he had not ventured to show payment. It therefore
was only necessary for the plaintiff to prove the loan to entitle him
to a verdict.
John Bowen was then called, and distinctly proved that the money
was advanced.
The defendant's attorney said it would be wasting the time of the
Court to contend against this evidence. His instructions yvere that
the money bad never been lent.
The SECONDARY said the jury could hear the evidence of the appli-
cation for the money, but no proof of payment could have been re-
ceived under the pleadings.
The jury gave a verdict for the amount. This was the only cause
on the list.

BANKRUPTCY.-(THIS DAY.)
(Before Mr. Commissioner HOLROYD.)
IN RE CHAMBERS V. CHAMBERS.
This morning a special meeting was held for the proof of debts
under this estate of these bankrupts, who were bankers, in order
that the creditors who had not already proved might partiCipate in
the dividend already declared on the joint estate.
The debts proved amounted to 1,225, principally small balances of
banking account.
An application was made to the Learned Commissioner for a pri-
vate meeting to go through a variety of deeds and documents con-
nected with the assignment of debts to the amount of nearly 10,000/.,
as it appeared that, by some accident, a debt of 1,4001. had been
omitted in some-of the assignments, and A dispute had arisen as to
who were the parties entitled to the dividend on it.
The Learned COMMISSIONER said that if the documents, or abstracts
of them, were furnished to him, he would endeaVour to come to a
decision without putting the parties to the expense and inconveni-
euee of a meeting ; as the debt had been admitted to proof, it would
not interfere pith the dividend.
The meeting then terminated.

SOUTHWARK-.(THIS DAY.)
Elizabeth Nash, alias Challis, an old woman, was charged with
being found drunk, and in the possession of a 401. nOte,and ten sove-
reigns, supposed to be stolen.
A policeman of the M division stated that, on the preceding after-
noon, he. found the prisoner lying drunk in the kennel, in St. George's-
circus. Her pocket was outside her gown, and on searching it he
found a 401. note and ten sovereigns, tied up in a piece of dirty rag.
He conveyed her to the station-house, and that morning, when she
became sober, on accounting for the possession of the money, she said
she found it on Monday, in Cationbury-square, Islington. When
examined before the Magistrate she gave the same account, and said
that she lived in Frying Pan-alley, Clerkenwell, and that being no
scholar, she was ignorant as to the amount of the bank note.
Mr. Tames. said that she ought, on finding the bank note, to have
taken it to the station-house, and delivered it up to the Inspector—
that she had acted a most dishonest part, and had now rendered her-
self liable to a charge of felony.
The old woman began to cry, and said that she thought 11'hat
people found in the streets they were entitled to, and that she only
acted as she thought other people would have done,,under similar
circumstances.
Mr. TRAILL adjudged her to enter into her own recognizance to
appear on Thursd y, and that probably by that time the owner
would be found. •

PARLIAMENTARY BUSINESS.
(From the Votes and Proceedings of the House of Commons.)
THURSDAY, FEB. 12.
The following Petitions for Railways were reported, and the Bills
ordered to be brought in isy the undernanted Hon. Members :
Moldjunetion—Sir S. Glynne and Sir J. Hamner.
York and North Midland (East Riding Branches—No. I)—Mr.
Broadley, Sir J. Lowther, and Mr. Hudson.
York and Noith Midland (Leeds Extension)--iir J. Lowther and

Mr. Hudson.
Manchester, Buxton, Matlock, and Midland Junction—Viscoun
Duncannon, Mr. G. 11. Cavendish, and Mr. M. Gibson.
North and South Junction—Mr. C. Wocd and Mr. Protheroe.
Aylesbury and Theme Junction—Mr. B. Hamilton and Mr. Osborne.
Direct London and Portsmouth—Mr. W. Denison and Sir W. Jonife,
South-Eastern (from the Greenwich Railway to Chart, near Ash-
ford, with Branches to Tunbridge and Riverhead)—Sir E. Filmer,
Mr. Dodd, and Mr. Douglai.
South-Eastern (from the Waterloo-road, near Hungerford-bridge, to
the Greenwich Railway)—Mr. Plumptre, Sir E. Filmer, and Mr.
Douglas. •
South-Eastern (Greenwich Railway to Chilham, near Canterbury,
with Branches to Sheerness and Faversham-creek)—Mr. Plumptre,
Sir E. Filmer, and Mr. Douglas.
Stirling and Dunfermline—Sir J. Hope and Mr. F. Mackenzie.
Liverpool, Manchester, and Newcastle upon-Tyne Junction—Mr.
Patten, Mr. Entwisle, and Mr. Greene.
London and Bjighton (Dorking Branch)—Mr. Kemble and Mr
Elphinistone.
Edinburgh and Northern (Newport Railway and St. Andrew's
Branch)-,Mr. E. Ellice and Mr. G. W. Hope.
Edinburgh and Northern (Lochgelly and Leslie Extensions)—Mr. E.
Ellice and Mr. G. W. Hope.
General Terminus and Glasgow Harbour Railway—Mr. Oswald and
Mr. Lockhart.
Edinburgh and Leith Atmospheric—Mr. Rutherford and Mr. Craig.
North British (Gretna Branch)—Mr. F. Scott and Mr. P. Howard.
Brighton and Chichester (Steyning Branch)—Mr. Kemble and
Captain Pechell.
Edinburgh and Northern (Kinross, Woodmill, and New burgh
Branches)—Mr. E. Ellice and Mr. G. W. Hope.
Edinburgh and Northern (Pettycar and Perth Harbour Branches and
Deviations)—Mr. E. Ellice and Mr. G. W. Hope.
Edinburgh and Northern (Strathearn Deviltion)—Mr. E. Ellice and
Mr. G. W. Hope.
Edinburgh and Northern (Branches from the Dandee and Arbroath
Railway and Tay Ferry Improvement)—Mr. E. Ellice and Mr. G.
l W. Hope.

The following Railway Bills were presePted. read a gr.' time, and
ordered to be read a second time :
Lancaster and Carlisle (Extension to Caledonian Railway) and
Lancaster and Preston JunctionRailways Amalgamation—" to
enable the Lancaster and Carlisle Railway Company to extend and
enlarge their Station, and extend their Railway at Carlisle, and to
amalgamate the Lancaster and Preston Junction Railway Company
and the Lancaster and Carlisle Railway Company, and for other
purposes."
Wisbech, St. Ives, and Cambridge Junction—" for making Rail-
ways from Wisbech to St. Ives, and to Fenny-Drayton, to be called
The Wisbech, St. Des, and Cambridge Junction Railway.' "
York and North Midland (Widening and Enlargement)—" to
authorise the Widening and Enlargement of part of the line of the
York and North Midland Railway, or the construction and mainte-
nance of a Railway enjoining thereto."
Newcastle and Darlington Junction (Thirsiand Malton Branches)
—" for enabling the Newcastle and Darlington Junction Railivay
Company to make a Railway from or near Thirk, to Mallon, with a
Branch to Helmsley."
Newcastle and Darlington Junction (Durham and Sunderland
Railway: and Wearraouth Dock Purchase and Branches)—" for
enabling the Newcastle and Darlington Junction Railway ComPaDY
to purchase the Durham and Sunderland Railway and the Wear-
month Dock, and to make certain Branch Railways, in the county of
Durham, and for other purposes."
Brighton, Lewes, and Hastings Deviations, and Eastbourne, Hail-
sham, Seaford, and Newhaven Branches—" for making Railways
from the Brighton, Lewes, and Hastings Railway to Eastbourne, to
Hallsham, and to Seaford and Newhaven, and certain Deviations
from the Line of the said Railway, all in the county of Sussex."
Leeds, Dewsbury, and Manchester (Deviations and Branches)—
" for altering, amending, and enlarging the powers of the Leeds,
Dewsbury, and Manchester Railway Act, 1845, and for authorising
certain Deviations from the Line and Levels of the said Railway, and
for making and maintaining certain Branches and Extensions
therefrom."
North Union—" for vesting In the Grand Junction Railway Com-
pany and the Manchester and Leeds Railway Company the North
Union Railway, and all the works, property, and effects appertain-
ing thereto."
Grand Junction " Dayton and Aston," " 'Layton, •Prescot, au i
St. Helen's," " Warrington anti Kenyon," " Warrington and Park-
side," " Showhill and Portobello," and " Edgehill and Huyton
Branches") —" for enabling the Grand Junction Railway Company to
make certain Branch Lines of Railway, to be called 'The Huyton and
Aston Branch,' The 'Layton, Prescot, and St. Helen's Branch„
"file Warrington and Kenyon Branch," The Warrington and Park-
side Branch," The alhowhill and Portobello Branch,' and The Edge-
hill and Huyton Branch,' and for amending the former Acts relating
to the said Company."
Manchester, Sheffield, and Midland Junctien—" for making a
Railway from Sheffield to Chesterfield, and klakewell, with a Brani h
in connexion therewith, to be called The Manchester, Sheffield, and
Midland Junction Railway.'"

Standing Orders Committee—Resolutions reported :
" That, in the case of the London and Brighton Railway (Dorkixg
Branch) Petition, the Standing Orders ought to be dispensed with :
That the parties be permitted to proceed with their Bill.
" That in the case of the Pow of Inchaffray Drainage ; ItatiffA
a ire
Railway ; Scottish Southern Railway ; St. Albtes, Hatfield, nd
Hertford Junction Railway ; Lesmahagow, Dalsert; and Coatbridge
Mineral Junction Railway ; Edinburgh and Hamilton Dit ea Rail-
way ; Hamilton and Strathaven Railway ; East of Fife Railway ;
Scottish Central and Caledonian Junction Railway ; Por de
t Gordon
Harbour ; Paisley, Barrhead, and Huriet Railway ; Go
ball
orbals Gravita-
tion Water-works; and, Wath-upon-Dearne Improv
for leave to present Petitions for Bills, the Standing Order ought t
Peti-
o be
dispensed with :—That the parties be permitted to present their
tions accordingly." ,
" That, in the case new he Pre,ton and Wyre Railway, Harbour,
\
and Dock Company ( deck and railway) Petition for leave to
present,a Petition for a Bill, the Standing Order ought to be dispensed