The Sun.
London, England, 1848-04-17 00:00:00

TALLOW.

Notwithstanding the limited stock, this market ruled
very dull today, and prices are from 6d to 9d per cwt.
lower tha❑ on Monday last. T.Y.C. on the spot is sel-
ling at 51s per cwt. For forward delivery we have no
sales to report. Town Tallow is 51s net cash. Rough
fat 2s 10d per Blbs.

HOUSE OF LORDS.—(THIS DAY.)
The House sat to• clay to hear appeals. The Peers
present were the Lord Chancellor, Lord Brougham, Lord
Campbell, the Earl of Redesdale, and Lord Wrottesley.

LAPSLEY V. GRIERSON.-JUDGMENT.
Their Lordships gave judgment at considerable length
this morning in this appeal from the judgment of the
Court of Session in Scotland, declaring the appellants
illegitimate. Their Lordships affirmed the judgment of
the Court below with costs. We gave the facts of the
case at length during the arguments, and it is totally
unnecessary to repeat them.
Judgment affirmed with costs.

QUEEN'S BENCH.-(THIS DAY.)

PHILLIPS V, CHARLIES.

Mr. WHATELY, (.2.C., applied for a rule to show cause
why there should not be a new trial in this matter, on
the gruund that the damages were excessive. The
action was for a breach of promise of marriage, and was
tried at Gloucester, before Mr. Justice Paulson, at the
last assizes, when a verdict was found for the plaintiff;
damages 1,000/. The plaintiff was a single woman, 42
or 43 years of age, and had kept a spirit shop, but at
the time of the action was a lodging-house-keeper; and
the defendant was an attorney. At a pie-nic party the
defendant it appeared made a promise of marriage in
the presence of the plaintiff's sister, and subsequently
gave the plaintiff 50/. to purchase the wedding dress
and other articles necessary on tho interesting occasion,
and, moreover, appointed a day when they should be
joined in the bonds of matrimony at Clifton, Bristol.
Instead, however, of the defendant making his appear-
ance at the church at the appointed time, he was, to the
astonishment of the parties, non est inventus, and on the
following morning a letter was received from him,
stating that he had married an old lady, with
whom it appeared he lodged, and who was 70 years
of age, and was obliged to be carried in a sedan chair to
the church, and could only reach the altar by the aid of
crutches. Evidence was given at the trial that the pro-
perty in possession and reversion of the defendant
amounted to 9,000/. The Learned Counsel made the ap-
plication on the ground that the defendant's property
only amounted in fact to 3,000/., that one or two of the
jury were acquainted with the brother-in-law of the
plaintiff, and also that the plaintiff had not suffered in
character or in a pecuniary sense, by the non-compliance
of the defendant's promise.
The COURT refused to grant a rule, observing that the
conduct of the defendant in not seading word to the
plaintiff before the day on which the marriage was ap-
pointed to take place, that it was not his intention to
tulfil his promise, was most unfeeling, and that the jury
were the proper parties to estimate the amount of da-
mages to which she was entitled.—Rule refused.

EXCHEQUER. —(THIS DAY.)
(Sittings in Banco.)
The Court proceeded this morning with the peremptory
paper.

LEWIS V. LORD SUFFIELD.
In this case it appeared that Lord Suffield, the de-
fendant, had requested the plaintiff to negociate for
him a loan of 180,0001. upon the security of his Lord-
ship's estates, and had agreed to pay to the_i)laintitfthe
sum of 4,0001., for negotiating that loan. Negotiations
were accordingly opened with the Rock Life Assurance,
but from some cause or other the loan was not accepted.
The plaintiff upon this brought his action to recover the
amount of his commission. The defendant pleaded to
the action, but allowed judgment to go by
default. The present proceedings were adopted
in order to obtain leave to set aside cognovit
and judgment, and that defendant should be at liberty to
plead to the action, and that plaintiff should answer
the matter of certain affidavits made in the case.
The ground relied upon by the ATTORNEY-GENERAL,
who appeared for the defendant, was, the statute of the
sth of Anne, which enacted, " that all and every scri-
vener, broker and brokers, solicitor and solicitors,
driver or drivers of bargains, who should receive more
than five shillings as allowance or brokerage for every
1001. they might obtain, should for each offence pay a
penalty of 20L,and suffer imprisonment for half a year.
The sum claimed by the plaintiff was considerably more
than the sum named in the statute, and any arrangement
to pay such sum was therefore illegal.
The ATTORNEY-GENERAL, on behalf of the defendant,
expressed his willingness to pay the legal sum, and all
expenses attending the proceedings.
The case was ordered to stand ever until to-morrow,
in order to afford time tor the parties to arrange the
matter.

COMMON PLEAS.-(THIS DAY.)
SMITH V. DEARLEAF.

Mr. BAINES, Q C., applied for a rule nisi in this case,
which was tried betore Mr. Baron Alderson at the last
assizes at York, and a verdict found for the plaintiff for
301. The action was in trover to recover the value of a
carriage and some harness, and the question was whether
the defendant in his character as an innkeeper had a
lien upon the goods left in his possession as a guarantee
for the payment of a tavern bill of 20/., which had been
incurred by the plaintiff. The defendant was the land-
lord of the Queen's Hotel, Harrowgate, and the plain-
tiff, who came there in the summer of last year, occupied
private apartments in a house adjoining the hotel, and
nad accommodation provided for his carriage and norm)*
in the defendant's
.premises. It .was contended at the
trial that as the plaintiff did sot UYQ is the hotel he WAS

not a guest, and that, therefore, the defendant had no
legal lien upon the goods, and that argument was fa-
voured by the summing up of the Learned Judge. It
was proved at the trial that the plaintiff had from time
to time had refreshments at the hotel, and that in addi-
tion a friend of tho plaintiff's was provided with apart-
mentsßaaiinnetsi ffsruebnmdietrteedd htiimiasteltfhleiasbulcmiOngn
in the defendant's house, for the rent of which
plaid grounds Mr.
of the Learned
Judge was incorrect, and that the plaintiff was virtually
laiegnuuepstonofthte plaintiff',hod
defendant,
property.t, R,h
e,therefore, had a good
The COURT postponed the decision until they had
consulted Mr. Baron Alderson.

MARLBRO'-STREET-(THIS DAY)
Henry Thompson, a dirty-looking fellow, was brought
before Mr. Bingham, charged with attempting to enter
the residence of Mr. James Rayner,
26, Saville-row.
John Henry Rust, clerk to the prosecutor, said that
about a quarter to nine on Saturday night, he was
passing down Saville-row, when his attention was at-
tracted to his employer's residence by seeing the
prisoner stooping down, apparently examining
the lock of the door. Witness, to satisfy
himself as to the prisoner's intentions, crossed over
to the opposite side of the street, and watched
him for a short time, when he saw ;him take something
from his pocket, and try to open the door. Witness
then went up to him, and, taking him by the collar, said,
You are attempting to enter the premises, and you
must go with me to the station." The prisoner replied,
"It's a lie; you have made a great mistake." Witness
said, " No, I have not; I have been watching you for
some time, and you must go to Vie station." The pri-
soner then struggled, and threw something into the road
which seemed like falling keys. Witness called out for
the police, and a soldier, who was passing by at the
time, came to his assistance, and secured the
prisoner who, after finding himself in safe custody, threw
away two other keys.. The soldier subsequently searched
the spot, and found the skeleton keys produced.
Andrew Smith, a private in the Scotch Fusilier Guards,
proved finding the keys, and corroborated in a great
measure the evidence of last witness.
The prisoner, who is an old offender, was committed to
the House of Correction for three months, with the addi,
tion of hard labour.