The Sun.
London, England, 1848-04-19 00:00:00

bfANCHESTER, Aritzi:lB.

STOCK EXCHANGE.—The sales are—Birkenhead,. Lanca-
shire, and Cheshire Junction, 71/4 n. dis.—East Lancashire,
New, 7 15.16 dis.—Ditto, Quarters, 4,4 —Lancashire and
Yorkshire, Fifths, IX, dis.—Ditto, 321. Shares, 87,k dis.—
Ditto (West Riding Union), 4 5-16 dis.—Ditto, Preston
and Wyre, 32744—L0nd0n and North-Western (Manchester
and Birmingham), Quarters (A and la), 1 11-16 c. p.—
Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire. Eighths, 51/2 dis.
—Ditto (Grimsby), 201. Shares, 8 dis.—Ditto, ditto, 121. 10s.
Shares, 5 dis.—North Staffordshire, 3 5-16 dis.—South-
Eastern and Dover, No 4, 334 dis.
NEWCASTLE-UPON-TYNE, Arnm 18.
SzocK EXCIIANGC—The sales are—Newcastle and Car-
lisle, 107—Ditto, Alston Branch, 3% p.—North British,
Thirds, 1% dis.

LAW INTELLIGENCE.
COURT OF COMPENSATION, April 18.
(Before C. B. STUTFIELD, Esq. (chairman), C. S.
BUTLER, ,Esq., W. How/trip, Esq., and J. 11.
BLACK, Esq.)
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tained by their shop windows being broken, and other
demolitian of property, by the late riotous mobs that
assembled on the Bth of March last.
The parties present to substantiate their claims were
Mr. Turner, tobacconist, Whitechapel-road; Mr. Plump-
ton, linen-draper, and Mr. Salisbury, straw bonnet
manufacturer, of the same place; and Mr. Robert Dodd,
of High•street, Whitechapel, chemist.
The proceedings had been instituted under the ith
and Bth George IV. The case of Mr. Turner was first
called on, which he conducted in person.
Mr. Turner proceeded to show that on the day named.
after the mob had left the Chartist demonstration in
Trafalgar-square, a number of them appeared in the
neighbourhood of his residence, and at about seven
in the evening, having been joined by other disreputable
characters, they commenced demolishing his windows
and those of his neighbours, and committing other acts
of violence, occasioning thereby a serious pecuniary loss
and much alarm and terror. his claim would be limited
to 51., and he contended that the 7th and Bth of George
IV., cap. 31, clearly gave him compensation to that ex-
tent against the hundred.
Witnesses having been called to prove the attack and
injury,

Tice worthy CHAIRMAN said that the Court could but
express great sympathy on the case, it having been ex-
pressed by different law authorities that no compensation
could be granted in the absence of direct felony being
established, the words of the Act being "feloniously
demolished."

The other gentlemen then said, as that was the opi-
nion, or rather the decision of the Bench, they would not
take up the time of the Court unnecessarily, and they
thanked the magistrates for their courtesy and sympathy.
They, however, were certain that if due precaution, as
on a late occasion, had been taken, no such tumult and
disaster would have ensued.
Mr. Dodd remarked, that as Acts of Parliament were
so easily crept out of, he should resign his office as
special constable, with a determination to protect his
property to the best of his power.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
MANSION-HOUSE.
Yestorday, James Seymour, alias Brooks, and Samuel
West Alabaster, were brought before the Lord Mayor,
charged with having committed a forgery.
Mr. Humphreys appeared for Alabaster. There was
no solicitor for the prosecution.

Mr. Hicks, of l'hilpot-place, Philpot-lane, and of
White Lion-street, plumber and painter, stated that he
had accused Alabaster, who had previously gone by the
name of West, of having committed a forgery by
signing his (Hicks's) name to a letter of recommendation
of himself, so as to procure credit for the party so re-
commended.

The I.onD MAYOR desired the prosecutor to state
accurately the particulars of the accusation, and at the
request of the prisoner directed that the witnesses should
withdraw until called for.

The prosecutor said that unfortunately the gentleman
who held the letter in which the name had been inserted
was not in town, and he begged that his Lordship would
bo•se good as to postpone the case until so important a
witness could attend, The letter states (said the prose-