The Sun.
London, England, 1846-11-23 00:00:00

COURT OF COMMON PLEAS, Nov 21.

LOCHLAW V. JORDEN.
Mr. MILLER, in this case, which was on action of
crim. con., applied to have the trial put off, on the
ground that the defendant had carried away the plain-
tiff's witnesses, his own sons, who are under age. This
was the second action, but in the first he was non-s tilted
through the absence of witnesses, and the defendant had
thrown him into prison for the costs.
The COURT granted the application.

EXTORTIONS AND IMPOSITIONS.—We understand,
with unfeigned regret, that a numerous and otherwise
highly respectable body of traders are availing them-
selves of the present awfully agitated state of society to
convert the miseries of their fellow-men into a source of
illegitimate profit. We allude to the bakers of the me-
tropolis. It is true that within a few days past they have
been terrified by the outcry raised against them and
their exorbitant charges into a reduction of the price of
bread, but still the reduction is by no means commensu-
rate with the reduced price of corn, or the necessities of
the public. At present the price of wheat varies from
9s. 4d. to 9s. 6d. per 701b5., or from 11. 17s. 4d. to 11. 18s.
per sack. It is reckoned that each sack, weighing
2801b5., produces 86 quartern loaves, which, at 9d. a
loaf, returns a gross sum of 545. 6d., leaving a gross
profit of 16s. 6d., which, after all deductions for rent,
losses, &c., puts into the baker's pocket a clear profit of
at least 14s.—a very princely profit upon a ready-money
and an everturning trade. If the greatest money broker
in London was satibfied that the outlay of 38s. would
return him an interest of 140., and that he could every
hour turn the same capital with the same gain, he would
deem himself a very happy and a very prosperous man.
But, in an article of food most essential to our existence,
and for the obtaining of which at the least possible price
we have upset Cabinets, and convulsed the United King-
dom from one extremity to the other, such stock-job-
bing, and such exorbitant profits, will not, cannot be
tolerated.—Sunday Times. _ _

COLLISION ON THE Rivca.—Yesterday afternoon,
as the Waterman steamer 11, on its way to Greenwich,
had reached the Dreadnought, it attempted to pass
between two large brigs, when one of them struck the
steamer midships, and knocked down her funnel. Most
of the passengers were in the cabin, and the steamer
having partially turned on one side, so much so that the
cabin was for a few minutes thrown into darkness, the
passengers, who imagined that she was sinking, rushed
in a body towards the deck, but in their hurry to get
out, choked the cabin stairs, adding to their terror.
Those on deck were thrown down by the collision, and
the funnel having fallen on the deck, covered them with
soot and smoke. It fortunately happened,
however, that
the brig, by another motion, cleared the steamer,an thrt an d
the latter escaped without any further injury than
which the funnel and paddle-boxes sustained by the
concussion.
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micians whose opinion was sought by Lord Morpeth
respecting
the Wellington equestrian statue, were unani-
mous
location on the arch, with the exception
against its
of two—those being Mr. W. M.,, (MS.), and Sir W.
Ross, wTurner, the poetical
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n"oFtoarliloancsiefsorofallgooodpe-natured easy acquise-
cence everybody and everything. As we have from
thefirst moment of the argument laboured for the result
which is now obtained, we are glad to be relieved from
further discussion of a subject on which the public had
become somewhat weary and impatient. The almost
unanimous press has now been reinforced by the almost
unanimous Academy—and by the Institute of British
Architects; and if these be not, as is pretended, fit re-
ferees on a matter of artistic principle and effect, it
would be difficult to understand what is the use or mean-
ing of art academies or institutes.—Atheneum.
MARRIAGES AND CHRISTENINGS WITHOUT FEES.---
Yesterday, in consequence of the authorities -of the
parish of St. John, Clerkenwell, having discovered that
numbers of the poorer classes inhabiting that district
were living together without regard to either of the
above ceremonies,
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Whit Sundays christenings would be performed gra-
tuitously, and marriages on the first Monday in* 'De-
cember and May.
A BARGE SUNK IN THE 11wErt.—Late on Saturday
night, a barge laden with coals, that was coming up the
river
into Arundel Wharf, was observed to be filling and
rapidly as she neared Temple Bar Pier. By very
powerful exertion she was brought past the pier, but just
as she cleared it, and was being hauled into the adjoining
dock, she reeled over and sank.
The sum of 71. 145., sent under cover to Mr.
Gibson Craig, one of the iords of the Treasury, has been
duly received, and has been paid into the receipt of the
Exchequer.