The Sun.
London, England, 1846-07-09 00:00:00

IFIISC ELLANEOUS.

74. All communication to the comptroller-general
from officers of the establishment will be forwarded
through the visiting magistrate, who will inquire into the
points referred to, and will request the superintendent to
transmit the necessary information respcetiag thcm, in
any case of uegiqicy, a statement may be made to the
comptroller-general direct.
75. Visitors to the officer:; of the establishment must
be furnished with an order of admission from the Lieu-
tenant-Governor or the Comptroller-General. They
will enter their names and ad iress in a book to be kept
for that. purpose. They ate not to g.o over the establish-
ment unless accompanied by an oCer. Visits made to
the superintemi,nt, matron, or religious instructor by
their rrsonal friends, are not included in the regulation
rendering previous permission necessary ; but the names
and address of such visitors are to be recorded in the
book referred tr
76. No female convict is to be allowed to leave the
establishment, unless under a contract for service,
Without the Lieutenant-Governor's sanction being pre-
♦iously obtained.

LAW INTELLIGENCE.
COURT OF EXCHEQUER, July 7.
(Nisi Prius Sittings at Guildhall, before Chief Baron Por,
Liam and Special Juries.)
BANKS v. 11111.

This was an action by an advertising agent, carrying on
buiness at Wellington-street, in the Strand, to recover from
Charles Popham Hill, the defendant, who resides in Devon-
shire, a balance of about 1001., for advertisements of the
prospectus of the Salisbury and Leamington Railway Com-
pany, inserted in forty-three different newspapers, between
the 25th and 29th October last.
The facts connected with this project were brought before
the public in a case of " Banks v. Goode," tried some ten
days ago at Westminster Hall, when the verdict was taken
for the defendant. In the preser.t case it app-arcd that the
defendant authorised his name to be inserted in " the direc-
tion," through a Mr. Downes, on the 20th October, and his
name accordingly was published in a prospectus dated the
25th October. The defendant never attended any meeting
of the committee, or acted in any manner; bat on the 7th
November it was agreed to abandon the project
for the present session, and the defendant, in answer
to a letter from the secretary, wrote to say, that
if the other members of the committee sulyeribed their pro-
portions to defray the bond fide preliminary expenses, he
should willingly do the same. The debt in respect of which
this action was brought was incurred under the express
orders of Messrs. \Veall and Berkeley, the solicitors of the
company, and who had taken an active part in establishing
it ; having, as it appeared, given indemnities to several re-
spntable persons, Neil() had therefore allowel their names to
be inserted as provisional committeemen. It was now con-
tended that the credit was given in this instance, not to the
defendant, or even to the whole body of provisional coimnit-
teemen, but to the solicitors, %Veal! and Berkeley, as provyd
by the fact that the, had inserted advertisements, through
the instrumentality of the plaintiff, before any provisional
committee was appointed.
The CHIEF liAaoN left it to the jury to say if they be-
lieved the defendant had authorised his name to be in-
serted as a committeeman, so as to wedge his credit for
preliminary expenses; and also whether the plaintiff, in in-
sera% those advertisements, a':•ted up,n the. credit and re-
sponsibility of the defendant. If they found ether of those
questions In the negative, their verdict should be for the de-
fendant.
The jury, after an hour's deliberation, returned a verdict
for the defendant.