The Sun.
London, England, 1848-10-23 00:00:00

RUSSIA AND POLAND.

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The St. Petersburgh advices of the llamburgh
Impartial Correspondent announce that the Russian
Cabinet recently expressed a wish to the Court of
Austria (couched in the shape of advice), that the
latter would, with reference to Italian affairs, enforce
the principle of a strict maintenance of existing trea-
tries. The Russian Government not only deems
itself pledged to afford moral as well as material sup-
port in all the conflicts that may arise from the pre-
sent complicated state of European affairs, but it is
said to have made a proposal to the Cabinet of Vienna
to adopt the most energetic measures for the pacifica-
tion of Hungary and Galicia, in the event of the en-
tire force of Austria being occupied in the south and
west.

DISTURBANCES IN CEPHALONIA

(From the Corfu Government GazeOg.)
Early on the morning of the 26th of September
about 200 armed countrymen, from the villages of
Frangata, Valsamata, and Trojanate, assembled on
the road to Cranea, some hundred yards distant from
the suburbs of Argostoli, with the intention of en-
tering the city and destroying the registers, docu-
ments, and judicial proceedings which are preserved
in the Palace of Justice ; and about the same num-
ber of countrymen assembled in the vicinity of
Lixuri.
The director of police, having information of these
movements, collected about thirty constables on the
bridge and in the suburbs, in order to protect the
city, but several shots being fired at them, they re-
tired as the countrymen advanced.

The director of local police communicated these
circumstance to the Resident, who immediately or-
dered his palace guard, consisting of a sergeant and
eleven soldiers of the 30th Regiment, to accompany
him to the entrance of the city. On his arriving there
with his guard, the countrymen fired on them, and
Sergeant Luke Dunn, seeing their numbers, retired
a short distance to the head of the bridge. When they
followed him, he ranged his soldiers with great pru-
dence, and opened a constant fire on them, during
which one of his men was killed and three wounded,
but as the relief of his guard, consisting of eleven
more soldiers, came up, the countrymen dispersed,
leaving three dead and four wounded on the road.
At Lixuri, the armed countrymen from the vil-
lages of Anoi and Condogenada obliged the constables
to retire from the Palace of Justice, and followed
them ; they.
were in the act of entering violently
into the office in which the archives are situated,
when a detachment of fifty men of the 36th Regi-
ment disembarked from the steamer lonia.
This detachment made a forced march towards the
Palace of Justice, attacked the rebels, and drove
them from the city without any loss of the military.
Three of these rebels are well known, and will, no
doubt, be very shortly arrested by the police.
The fulloWing is the report of Sergeant Luke
Dunn, who commanded the little party that followed
the Resident :

"At the above date, being the sergeant in charge
of the Resident's guard, about seven o'clock A.M. I
was ordered by the Resident to make my men load
their guns and follow him to the bridge, which I did.
On arriving there the Resident first went towards a
street to the right, then towards another street to the
left, passing a church; the guard under my orders
continued to follow him. The Resident gave me
orders to hold my men ready to fire, which I did,
when we arrived at the flank of a vineyard, whence
a great number of men came out armed with guns,
swords, and other arms. I then, on my own autho-
rity, made my guard (consisting of myself and eleven
men) return again to the bridge and faced the soldiers
round. The rebels fired and wounded two men,
Pox and Elsom. I then ordered my men to fire in
line, which they did, knocking down five or six of
the rebels.
" The rebels were divided, part on the mole, part on
the bridge, and another part on the road opposite the
bridge. Being now reinforced by the arrival of the re-
lief guard from the Resident's, I ordered them, with the
assistance of the police, to arrest some of the rebels.
All this time the rebels were firing, and we were re-
turning it. Whilst standing at the head of my party
a man seized my bayonet, and whilst I was strug-
gling with him he was killed by one of my soldiers,
and at the same time I saw one of my soldiers, Daniel
M‘Namara, brought to the ground by a gunshot, and
James Ledwell badly wounded. Balls passed through
the chaco of James Madden, as also through his
drawers and the sleeve of his coat, and his arm was
slightly wounded. A ball also passed through the
chaco of Corporal Roberts. A few minutes after the
arrival of the relief guard, which consisted of twelve
men, the rebels retired, carrying off their killed and
wounded. They did not fire on the police, but directed
their whole fire against the military, crying out,
Soldiers, go to your barracks,' and endeavouring to
make us go by the opposite road, instead of by the
bridge, whence we came."

A GRAND JURYMAN ACTING WHILE IN A FIT OF
APOPLExY.—W bile Mr. John Yearsley, ironmonger, of
North-street, was acting as foreman of the grand jury
at the Lewes Sessions, on Tuesday morning, he was sud-
denly seized with a fitgof apoplexy. In order to allow the
rest of the jury to proceed with the business, he was
removed to the large room in which they sat,
where he lay during the day attended by a sur-
geon, who expected every minute to see his pa-
tient depart this life. In the evening he rallied, and was
removed by his wife and relatives (who had been sent
fur) to a bed room in Mr. Cowper's residence, at the
back of the County Hall. ➢lr. Yearsley passed a very
restless night; but on the following morning he had re-
covered sufficiently to ask a variety of questions, indi-
cating that he bad no recollection whatever of what had
passed subsequently Iv the uttuck.—,Brighton Gazette.

IMPORTANT QUESTION RE-
LATING TO BETTING SECURITIES.

THE BILLIARD MATCH BETWEEN THE INLY"
MOUTH STAR AND CHARLEY HicxmAN.—ln the
City Sheriffs' Court on Friday, before Mr. Commis-
sioner Bullock, thz.,, ;residing 'Judge,, an action was
brought by a Mr. Levy, well known in the sporting
world, against a person of the name of Barlow, to
recover the sum of Si., being the amount of an I 0 TJ
given by the defendans to the plaintiff, for the amount
of a bet won by the plaintiff of the defendant on a
game of billiards played by third parties. Mr. King,
an attorney, who appeared for the defendant, said he
would save the time of the Court by admttting the
facts, as the objections he had to make went only to
the legality of the ,transaction. Plaintiff's attorney
—" Then you admit the bet was made, and that the
defendant gave the I 0 U ?" Mr. King—" Yes ; I only
go upon the question of illegality." The Learned Judge
requested that the facts admitted should be stated.
Mr. King, on the part of the defendant, admitted
the bet was lost to the plaintiff by the defendant on
the occasion of a grand match at billiards for 50/.
aside at the Cross Keys:Hotel, Gracechurch- street, on
the 10th of August last, between the Weymouth
Star and Charles Hickman, well known billiard
players, and for which the defendant gave the plain-
tiff his U, which, having been dishonoured,
the present action was brought. Mr. King contended
that the plaintiff must be nonsuited, as the transac-
tion was illegal, and that an 1 U, which was in
the nature of a promissory note given as security
for the payment of a bet or wager, whether at a game
of skill or chance, was null and void
under the statute of the 9th Anne, cap. 14,
sec. 1, and in support of that view cited the
case of Sigell v. Gebb, 3 Starkie, in Harrison's
Digest. The plaintiff:s attorney said that the statute
clearly referred to bets above 101., and exempted
those under that sum. Mr. King said that was not
so ; the present action was on an I 0 U, given as
security for a bet which was clearly null and void by
the statute, and the law was rendered more clear by
the Bth and 9th Victoria, cap. 109, sec. 18, which
expressly enacted that the contracts or agreements,
whether by parole or in writing, by way of gaming
or wager, should be null and void, and that no suit
should be brought or maintained in any court of
equity for recovering any sum of money, or valu-
able thing alleged to be won upon a wager, or which
should have been deposited in the hands of any per-
son to abide the event on which any wager should
hare been made, that being the express law, and
clearly applicable to the present case, he (Mr. King),
on the part of the defendant, submitted that the plain-
tiff must be nonsuited. The plaintiff's attorney said
there could be no doubt the intention of the Legis-
lature was to confine the Act to cases above 101. The
Learned Judge, on looking at the Act and the case
cited, said that no sum whatever was mentioned in the
Act, and that he was clearly of opinion that it was
intended to apply to all securities given for bets at
wagers, or games of skill, or chance, of which bil-
liards came within its meaning, without regard to
the amount, he was, therefore, of opinion the plaintiff
must be nonsuited. Judgment of nonsuit was entered
accordingly.
It was stated that there was a number of other
cases arising out of bets made under similar circum-
stances upon the game, dependent upon the above
decision.