The Sun.
London, England, 1841-12-16 00:00:00

COURT OF COMMON PLEAS, Dec. 15.

(Sittings in London before the LORD CIIIEF JUSTICE and
a Special Jury.) .
HARRISON AND OTHERS V. lIEATHERN AND OTHERS.
(Continued from our Afternoon Edition.)
For the plaintiff it was proved that bills of exchange
to the amount of 6,0001. drawn by the defendants, and
accepted by the plaintiffs, were paid by the latter, upon
an agreement that the drawers should be severally liable,
if the Company should fail.
The defence was that the Company was not legal, in-
asmuch as the provisions of the Act, the sth and 6th
Geo. IV., commonly called the "Bubble Act," had not
been complied with, and that therefore the money was
advanced for illegal purposes, and the plaintiffs had no
claim against the Shareholders.
The trial occupied the Court from half• past nino
o'clock in the morning. until half-past four, when a ver-
dict was returned for the plaintiffs, with leave to the
defendants to move for a nonsuit upon several points
reserved.

ADMIRALTY COURT, Dec. 15.
THE NORMANDY.—SALVAGE
This was a suit for salvage service rendered to the
Normanby, while on a voyage from Stockton with a cargo
of coals to Chatham. Off the coast of Suffolk the vessel
ran on the Cutter Sand, on the 28th September last, but
was got off shortly afterwards ; but being leaky, signals
tor assistance were hoisted, and the Hero and Aurora's
F beenclui Increa.se ran up to her assistance. The Normanby was
safely., conducted into port notwithstanding the weather
Was s
made
3".1:0hfe5 valueeL of the ship and cargo was esti-
mated at 1 300/ ; a tender for the services of the salvors
had
The COURT
said h t ere was not much difference between
the partiesthe .
The vessel had been in a leaky state, and
assistance rendered '
Therehad was not more than pilotage ser-
vice.tender of 50/. 0
would not condcueng
mark its opinion
action for 2501., it
nomine expensarum.
not beer: much danger or risk, and the
hi t to have been accepted. The Court
oirthe salvors in costs, but in order to
felttlir conduct, in having entered an
THE COURIER
This vessel, a French 1
the Branken-moor on the
Dorchester, while on a voyar.,
The former being very muiii
were entertained that she would
n„ a BASQUE.
taking place-in the night, the captain
bound to condemn them in 10/.
t,tr, came in collision with
July last, off the coast of
fromd Havre to Bayonne.
soattlnag9d, and as fears
sink, the collision
and got' on board the Branken-inoor, lilt ci•rew left her
into Cowes. The pilot-boat Flora fell in with
taken
the Cou-
rier Basque on the following morning, in derelict,
after very great difficulty and danger, succeeded inand
steer
ing her into Cowes, where she was delivered over to the
qtptain.The
value of the property thus salved, wa-,'
3,250/.
Drs. ILIGGARp and JENNER appeared fur the salvors,
and contended that a most praiseworthy service had been
rendered by their clients, not only in saving so valuable
a property, but in removing from the Channel a vessel
which, from its not being under control, might, during
the night, have come in collision with other ships. In
the attempt of the salvors to get on board, one of them
was cast into the sea, of the name of Jonas, but he was
fortunately saved. So precipitate was the abandonment
of the Courier Basque, that the crew left their money
and watches on hoard. The Court would, under these
circumstances, reward the salvors liberally.
Dr. ADDAMS and Dr. PRATT for the owners, did not
deny the salvors had saved the ship and cargo, but it
could not be contended that the vessel was a derelict, as
it had been the intention of the Captain and crew to go

again on board of her. The Learned Advocates com-
plained of the mode in which tho suit had been conducted.

- Dr LUSIIINGTON said the principal ground upon which
the salvors must rest their claim was the danger incurred
in rendering their services. The vessel was run down
by a ship of 300 to 400 tons burthen on the 21st of
July, and it was fortunate that she had not been sunk.
The crew and passengers, thinking their lives were in
peril, immediately got on board the Branken-moor, and
the Courier Basque was left to the mercy of the winds
and waves, without any one on board. The pilot vessel
was the only salvor, and by the exertions of its crew
property of the value of 3,2501. had been saved from de-
struction. The Court must consider this a case of
derelict, but derelicts differed in degrees. The largest
reward ever given under the most perilous circumstances
was a moity of the value of the property saved. In the
present case there had not been any very great peril, and
the Court thought the salvors would be amply rewarded
by receiving 750/.