The Sun.
London, England, 1848-01-22 00:00:00

VICE-CHANCERY.-(THIS DAY.)

(Before the VICE-CHANCELLOR of ENGLAND.)
SMITH V. THE EAST INDIA COMPANY.

The arguments in this part-heard cause occupied
his Honour the Vice• Chancellor of England the
whole morning. The suit was instituted by the
plaintiff, Captain Smith, the captain of an Indiaman,
against the East India Company, for the purpose of
obtaining the benefit of a bond entered into by the
plaintiff in respect of certain transactions relating to
the sale of a quantity of cotton.

BAIL COURT.-(THIS DAY.)

CADDICK V. SALTER AND OTHERS.

Mr Sergeant TALFOURD moved for a rule nisi to
remove the indictment in this case, should any such
be found at the Staffordshire Sessions, into this court.
The defendants were large mining proprietors at
West Bromwich, holding mining land as the lesseees
of the Earl of Dartmouth. In the centre of the;
property there was a small slip of land, belonging to
the plaintiff, and the defendants had unconsciously
bored under the surface of the plaintiff's property.
Now, under the 7th and Bth George IV. it was de-
clared to be a felonious act for the proprietor of
mine to search for ore of any description in the land
adjacent to his own property, and upon the plaintiE
discovering that the defendants had accidentally vio-
lated this law he had them taken before a magistrate,
who required them to give bail to appear at the
Quarter Sessions, and answer the indictment, which
the plaintiff intended to prefer against them. It had
since been discovered that the case would involve
several important points of law, and therefore the de-
fendants had instructed the Learned Sergeant to move
for a rule to show cause why the indictment should
not be removed to this court.
Application granted,

WORSHIP-STREET.--(THIS DAY.)
A respectable-locking female presented herself
before Mr. Arnold, and complained that she had been
defrauded by a wholesale firm in the City.
The complainant said she was a capmaker, and was
in the habit of furnishing the firm with goods, and it
was her uniform practice to send with them the hr
voice. The last order she had executed was forty'
eight dozen of caps, which, as usual, was acconr
periled by the invoice. The latter, however, she
had since discovered, had been altered to forty-five
dozen.

The invoice alluded to was here handed into the
Court, and it was manifest that the figure 8 bad been
altered into 6.

In answer to a question from the magistrate, the
complainant said the principal of the firm was at
present out of town. She had seen one of the as'
sistants, whom she believed to have made the alt.'
ration, but could obtain no redress.
Mr. ARNOLD said that if the fraud had been com-
mitted as alleged it bore a very great affinity to a
forgery, and would, perhaps, prove more serious to
the perpetrator than he might at present imagine. Be
(Mr. Arnold) would advise the complainant by 41
means to lose no time in seeing the principal of the
firm.

The applicant thanked the magistrate and withdrew.

TERRIFIC FIRE IN THE BURLING-
TON-ARCADE.—(THIS DAY.)
One of the most alarming fires that has occurred in
the metropolis for some time broke out shortly before
five o'clock this morning, and which, in a compare•
tively short period, laid in ruins four or five houses,
and materially damaged several others.
(LATEST PARTICULARS.)
The dreadful catastrophe occurred first in the shog
of Mr. Russell. Mr. Inspector Whall, of the
division, his superintendent, a brother inspector, and
upwards of 100 constables, repaired to the spot at the
first outbreak. By five o'clock the West of England
and City engines were in full work on the burning
mass, but notwithstanding, by six o'clock, not less
than six different shops, dwellings, &c., were com-
pletely destroyed. It is said that 10,0001. will not
cover the loss.

The following are amongst those who have lost
their property, some portion of which is insured in
the Sun, Globe, County, and other offices :—Messrs.
Russell, Jeffs, Perry (two shops), Beaumont, and
Marshall.

Towards ten o'clock this morning things appeared
to be somewhat more safe, and some of the engines of
the Brigade and West of England returned to their
stations, at which time a most minute inquiry was in
progress as to its origin, which was believed by many
to have been occasioned through an escape of gas.
Fortunately no lives were lost, though some por-
tions of the buildings remained in a dangerous state.