The Sun.
London, England, 1846-11-07 00:00:00

BANK OF

(From last Ni
An Account, pursuant to the Act 1
the Week ending on Saturday, 1
issuz DEP.

gotes 155ued......•• 28,309,895

£28,3)9,:.95

Dated the sth day of November,

BANKING D
X.
Proprietors' capital.. 14X3,000
Rest .. ••• • • 3,463,463
Public deposits (in-
cluding Exchequer,
Commissioners of
National Debt, Say-
inls-banks, and Di-
vidend accounts)• • 4,622,177
Dther deposits ••• • • • 8,761,736
Seven eay and other
billS. ••••••• .• • • • • 1,016,015

X 32,416,391

Dated the sth day of November,

AN ELOPEMENT STOPPING TELELEGRAPIL—OD
Thursday a Mr. Kerrison, of Yarmouth, who keeps a
coffi e-shop (one of those coffee-shops in the country
conducted on the " total abstinence from all sorts of
alcoholic drinks" principle), applied, in a spasm of pre-
cipitation, at the Yarmouth station, to ascertain if his
cara sposa had not shortly before booked herself and
her bandboxes for Cambridge, Kerrison suspecting that
she had faithlessly flown thitherward to a paramour, a
son of the glue-pot and plane, who had recently been
his lodger, but who, having obtained work as a journey-
man carpenter, was now plying his vocation at Cam-
bridge. Kerrison, with piquant pain. and precision, de-
scribed the lady and the two damsels, who he suspected
had accompanied her, all of whom were in plaid dresses
and identically decked bonnets. A gallant guard at the
station informed him that he had a perfect recollection
of the fugitives, then on their way to Norwich. Kerri-
son hereupon calmed, and commanded the equipment of
a special train, but his ecstacy knew no bounds on being
informed that by means of a whisper and a wire he would
be at Norwich before the fugitives. The telegraph was
set to work and sent on its electric detenu, and the flying
fair, upon the instant and in spite of protestations and
implorings, were detained at Norwich until the wronged
Kerrison rushed up, and escorted them back to Yar-
mouth, glorifying the telegraph as a godsend and as a
work of miracle in the maintenance of his rights marital.
EASTERN COUNTIES RAlLWAY.—Considerable im-
provements and alterations have been carried out during
the last few weeks, while others are in the course of
completion. At Lea-bridge and Tottenham stations a
width of land has been excavated for the purpose of
laying down additional rails. On these stations a reserve
carriage will be placed, in the event of a number of
passengers arriving beyond what can be accommodated
by an ordinary train, as occurred on some occasions this
year. At Stratford, the new station which is to serve
both for the Essex and Cambridge trains is nearly
finished. A very convenient building has been erected,
with a platform for each line, of above two hundred feet
in length. At the Tottenham station the pens for the
sheep and cattle are completed, these being at the west
side upon a raised ground. There are about forty of
them, each of which is capable of containing from twenty
to thirty sheep, which, when brought up to this station,
and when not in the pens, feed in the marshes and
fields in the neighbourhood. These pens are lighted
with gas. Recently boards have been put up at a short
distance from each station, with the word " whistle " on
them, in addition to other boards which have for some
time past been fixed on the up-line, directing the speed
of the trains.
FATAL ACCIDENT IN THE LONDON DOCKS.—Yes-
terday afternoon an inquest was held
i before Mr. William
Baker, at the King George Tavern, n B treet
ping, on the body of James Edwards, Beer-street,
, Wap-
ping, thirty, a
labourer in the employ of Messrs. Cubitts, builders. For
some time the deceased has been engaged on the new
range of warehouses now building in the London Docks.
On Thursday morning last he was assisting in hoisting
a large column, when the screw of the crane gave way,
and the column fell with a tremendous crash upon the un-
fortunate deceased, who was standing directly underneath.
As speedily as possible, the ponderous mass of stone was
removed, and the deceased released, who was found to
be quite dead. Verdict,—" Accidental death."
Ile porters of the Bridgewater Trust, at the
Duke's Duck, have presented a very handsome silver
tankard to Mr. James N. Cockshott, who, for man)
years has been the cash-keeper there, on the occasion of
his removal to the Old Quay Dock, where he has suc-
ceeded Mr. Gayton, who has retired owing to ill health.
A collation was given at the American Hotel, on Mon.
day last, when the men enjoyed 4 very pleaspt evening,

LAW INTELLIGEN ,-.),' 4Y- r-: '''-
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ROLLS' COURT, Nov. ,I. ' irk CARP3IEAL V. POWIS. .i.:7 ,-.• V..''' -*-T-• :- In this case Lord LANGDALE took ti..1911:::‘,...-. di:* •
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and fur general petitions the 24th instant._„..3..;,..Azie
VIOE•CHANCERY COURT,W%-.Tor '
(Before Sir J. WIGRABI.)
FRASER V. JONES AND OTHERS.
This was a bill filed on behalf of the Glamorganshire
Banking Company, with the view of establishing a
mortgage against the defendants, Messrs. Batley
Jones, John Jones, and John Powell, which bad
been given to the banking company for a consideration
of a sum of 6501. The question at issue was whether
the banking company were trust mortgagees, or whether
John Jones had not a prior claim to 200/. of the sum.
It appeared that in September, 1842, B. Jones and Mr.
Powell applied to the company in question to advance a
sum of 6001., in security of which he offered
them a mortgage on certain house property, on which
Powell represented that he had a mortoge of 1,800/.,
and further stat,d that he had deposited this mortgage
with Mr. J. Jones fur a sum of 1,000!.. which he was
indebted to him. The company advanced the sun/ de-
manded,
notes,
requiring, merely as security, seven pru:nisicry
which were accepted by Mr. B. Jones, and en-
dorsed by Mr. Powell. A mortgage was executed, in
which the former mortgage was mentioned, as well as its
lodgement with Mr. John Jones, as also that another
mortgage existed to a gentleman named Parry. It
was alleged on the part of the plaintiff that
when the advance was made there was no debt of 1,000/.
due to Mr. J. Jones, nor any deposit of the mortgage
deed. It Was also alleged that the object of Powell was
to obtain a priority of caim over the bank.

COURT OF QUEEIV'S BENCH, Nov. 6.

PICKFCRI) V. LACON.-TAKING PLACES IZr A COACH.
This case was tried in the Bail Court on Tuesday last,
before Mr. Justice Patteson, when a verdict was found
for the plaintiff on the first and second counts, with the
leave of the Learned Judge to move for a rule to show
cause why the verdict should not be entered for the
plaintiff upon the first count, with 31. 4s. damages, or
upon the second count, with ICs. or 17s. damages. The
application turned entirely upon the finding of the jury.
The plaintiff is proprietor of a coach running between
Yarmouth and London, and the defendant applied to
have three places reserved for him in the coach—one in-
aide and two out—for which he paid a deposit of a guinea,
but had refused to pay three guineas more, the
cost of the three places being 41. 4s. The pleas
set forth, first, the general issue ; secondly, that the
plaintiff did not reserve for the defendant and other
persons the seats they required, and that the plaintiff
was not ready and willing to convey the defendant and
other passengers; there was also a plea of payment.
Ihe places were taken on the 16th of June, and the
next day the defendant took his seat on the box, his
maid-servant at the back, and Mrs. Lacon
inside. At Renton, some miles from Yarmouth,
several little girls were placed on the coach, and at Yox-
ford, thirty miles from Yarmouth, the defendant and his
wife left the coach, declining to proceed any further.
They left the servant behind and proceeded themselves
in a post-chaise to London. It could not be said that
the plaintiff did not fulfil his contract; the seats were re-
served, and the parties were not subjected to any more
of the inconveniences than generally attended a journey
in a coach.

The ATTORNEY-GENERAL said he was in the case at
the trial, and had some recollection of an infant—fre-
quently no pleasant companion in a long journey—being
a passenger by the coach.—(Laughter.)
Mr. WATSON said a young child could not have taken
up much room, and considered that no breach of contract
could be charged on that ground.
Lord DENMAN inquired how many persons altogether
were in the coach ?

Mr. WATSON said fifteen, thirteen being the number
they were licensed to carry ; but then the majority were
young children, who did not occupy anything like the
room of adults. The lady inside had her full 16 inches
of mom, in accordance with the Act of Parliament.
Lord DENMAN said—Then in point of fact, according
to the view of the Learned Counsel, the license was to
be measured by the extent of the bodies of the pas-
sengers.—(Laughter.) If the plaintiff was licensed to
carry thirteen, and carried forty instead, the defendant
and his friends were not bound to go by his coach.
Mr. WATSON also held that the defendant was bound
to pay for the journey to Yoxfurd, and for the journey of
the servant to Lundon.

Lord DENMAN said it was possible that by taking the
defendant to Yoxford he was placed in a worse position
with respect to getting to London than if he had not
left Yarmouth.

The application was acceded to with respect to the
first count.

COURT OF COMMOIt PLEAS, Nor. 6.
Sittings at Nisi Prius, in Middlesex, before Mr. Justice
CRESSWELL.)
APPS V. REID AND OTHERS.

The Court was occupied all the morning with this
case, which is an action brought by Mr. Apps, a gentle-
man residing in Blackfriars-road, against Reid and Co.,
brewers, to recover damages for an accident occasioned
to the plaintiff, arising from one of their drays coming
in contact with his gig, and overturning it, while passing
down Liquorpond street.
The defence was that the accident arose from the
carelessness of the plaintiff.
Verdict for the plaintiff—Damages, 31. 10s.

PARRATT V. BENNASIT. - RAILWAY ADVERTISEMENT

ACCOUNT.

This was an action to recover the expense of insert-
ing advertisements in several London and provincial
newspapers. The plaintiff was an advertising agent, and
the defendant a provisional director of a railway com-
pany. The case was tried at the last Warwick assizes,
before Mr. Justice Patteson, and a verdict given for
the plaintiff for 1,1001. The claim made was 1,600/.
Mr. WHITEHURST now moved for a rule to enter a non-
suit, on the ground that there was no material evi-
dence adduced at Warwick. The defendant on
the trial pleaded non-assumpsit, and paid. The venue
was removed to Warwick on the plaintiff's allegation
that there existed material evidence there. This point
the defendant denied. Among other papers, an adver-
tisement appeared in a Warwick paper, and this was
the material evidence returned. He submitted this was
not material evidence.—Rule refused.
HEAD V. HENDERSON.—THE WOOD PAVEMENT.
Mr. Sergeant BYLES moved for a new trial on the
grounds of misdirection and that the verdict was against
evidence. The action, which was for an alleged in-
fringement of a patent for constructing wood-blocks for
paving, was tried at the last Surrey assizes, before Mr.
Baron Parke, and a verdict was given for the defendant.
The COURT refused the rule.