The Sun.
London, England, 1846-10-05 00:00:00

BRIGHTON.

The traffic on the London, Brighton, and South-Coast
Railway the week ending Saturday, September 26, was:—
Passengers, 9,1541. 13s. 6d.; goods, 1,185/.95.; total,
10,3391. 19s. 6d.
LOND9N, BRIGHTON, AND SOUTH-COAST RAILWAY.—
Traffic for the week ending September 26th, 1846,
10,3391. 19s. 6d.; traffic for the week ending September
27th, 1845, 7,700/. ss. Id. Total receipt to this date,
1846, 130,8831. 17s. Id.; total receipt to this date, 1845,
103,400/. 4s. 2d. Total number of passengers for the
week ending September 26, 1846, 62,135.—1 n this and
all future returns the toll payable by the Brighton to the
CrOydon Company in 1845 is deducted from the amount
as now set forth.
The widening of the road on West Cliff is nearly
completed, and will soon be ready for the public. It is
an immense improvement of that part of the town, and
must be extended to the eastward as soon as the funds
of the Commissioners will permit. The battery, also, is
now in the way; but we understand it to be the inten-
tion of the Government to make considerable alterations
when the town works are completed.
The Registration Court for this town and county
opens on Monday ; and from what we hear, it is pro-
bable there will be greater excitement than on any
former occasion. A great number of objections have
been taken on both sides, and the parties are both very
determined. The object of the Protectionists Is to
narrow the franchise as much as possible ; that of the
Free Traders to extend it to the fullest extent the law
admits.—Brighton Herald.

LORD CAMPBELL.
After the late prorogation of Parliament! Lord Camp-
bell spent some time in sea-bathing quarters with his
children at Portobello, previous to his removal to Hart-
rigge House, Roxburghshire. While there the following
address was presented to him :
" To the Right Hon. Lord Campbell, &c. &c., the unani-
mous address of the Magistrates and Town Council of
the Parliamentary burgh of Portobello.
" Understanding that your Lordship is now residing
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in this town, we feel anxious to embrace the opportunity
of testifying our profound respect for your public and
private character by presenting you with the following
brief address:—
.. . _ .

"We have been long admirers of the great natural
abilities, learning, and virtues, with which Divine Pro-
vidence has endowed you. Aided by your untiring
energy and your indefatigable perseverance, you have
raised yourself by your own merits to the very highest
professional eminence, and you have most justly ob-
tained the high distinction of being a peer of this great
empire.
"But what we particularly admire: is the liberal, en-
lightened, and consistent policy which you have pursued.
During a long public life you have always been found
the advocate of justice and freedom. More especially,
we feel grateful for your able assistance in the great
cause of commercial freedom, and we trust you will
never feel satisfied until every restriction and every
monopoly shall be abolished, and free trade be universally
established.
" That you may enjoy long life and domestic happiness
is our earnest wish.
" Signed in our name, and by our authority, in council
assembled, this 14th day of September, 1846.
" WM. VALLANGE, Provost."
To which his Lordship returned the following
answer :
" Mr. Provost and Gentlemen,—l am much gratified
by this mark of your esteem, which I can only ascribe
to your devoted attachment to the principles of civil and
religious liberty which I have supported.
"I feel that you have greatly over-rated any
.merit
which may belong to me ; but at the same time I.
can truly say, that while as a Scotsman I am proud of
my country, I have striven that my country might not
be ashamed of me.
" I shall never abandon the policy which has gained
your approbation, and I shall never feel satisfied until
every restriction and every monopoly shall be abolished,
and free trade be universally established.
" I particularly thank you, gentlemen, for your kind
wishes fur me in private life, being fully convinced
' that domestic happiness' is far more to be prized than
pon er or fame.
" In return, I beg to express a sincere wish that the
magistrates and town council of Portobello may long be
distinguished by an enlightened love of our constitution,
and that the ' roof-tree' of every one of you may, like
mine, witness nought but harmony, affection, and con-
tentment."—Caledonian Mercury.

FORAGE ALLOWANCES TO
CAVALRY OFFICERS.

Yesterday a statement was issued from the War•office
of the daily rates of allowance to general and other staff
officers and to field and staff officers of infantry regi-
ments, in lieu of forage for the horses required to be
kept by them for the public service, for the half-year
from,the let of April to the 30th of September in the
present year, agreeably were
which the charges for forage
will be allowed. But Where a chage at a different rate
has been already made, the same would be corrected ac-
cording to the following scale:-
In respect of the counties in Great Britain, the daily
rate of allowance for Berks is 25.; Chester, 2s. Id.;
Devon, Is. 11d.; Dorset, Is. 10d.; Hants, 25.; Kent, 25.;
Lancaster, Is. 10d.; Leicester, 25.; Middlesex, 2s. 2d.;
Norfolk, 25.; Northampton, Is. I Id.; Northumberland,
Is. 10d.; Nottingham, is. 10d.; Somerset, 25.; Suffolk,
25.; Sussex, is. I Id.; Warwick, is. 11d.; Wilts, Is. 9d.;
Worcester, 25.; York, is. lid.; Wales, 2e.; North Bri-
tain, Is. I Id.; counties in which there are no contracts,
Is. Ild.; Monmouth, Is. Ild. For Jersey the sum fixed
is 2s. Id.; for Guernsey, 2a. 3d.
In respect of Ireland the rata for Antrim is Is. 8d ;
Armagh, Is. Bd. ; Carlow, Is. 9d. ; Cavan, Is. 7d. ;
Clare, is. Bd. ; Cork, Is. 9d. ; Donegal, Is. 9d. ; Down,
Is. Bd. ; Dublin, Is. Bd. ; Fermanagh, ls. 7d. ; Galway,
Is. 7d. ; Kerry, is. Bd. ; Kildare, is. 7d. ; Kilkenny,
Is. 6d. ; King's County, Is. 9d. ; Leitrim, Is. Bd. ;
Limerick, Is. Bd. ; Londonderry, is. sd. ; Longford,
Is. ad. ; Louth, is. 9d.; Mayo, Is. Bd. ; Meath, Is. 9d.;
Monaghan, Is. Bd. ; Queen's County, ls. ad. ; Roscom-
mon, Is. 6d.; Sligo, Is. 9d.; Tipperary, Is. Bd.; Tyrone,
Is. 9d. ; Waterford, Is. Bd. ; Westmeath, Is. Bd.; Wex-
ford, Is. 7d. ; Wicklow, Is. Bd. _ _

The highest allowances are for Guernsey, Middle-
sex, and Jersey. The lowest are for Kilkenny and
Roscommon.

FATAL CART ACCIDENT.—An inquest was held
on Friday evening before kr. Payne, at Guy's Hospital,
on the body of Richard Fieldwood, aged 56, a gardener.
From the evidence of the witnesses it appeared that on
Tuesday last the deceased, and a man name;Thompson,
were sating on the shafts of a van as it passed St.
Mark's Church, Kennington, when the horse started at
the noise made by an omnibus. Thompson jumped
off to stop the horse, and the deceased followed him,
but his foot, unfortunately, caught in the wheel, and
he was run over. He died in the above hospital on
Thursday last. The jury returned a verdict of " Acci-
dental death."
SUBMARINE RAILWAYS. Mr. De la Haye, after
the reading of a paper " Oa Ancient and Modern Modes
of Travelling," at the Liverpool Polytechnic Society, on
Monday, in which he expatiated upon the advantages of
railway transit, and expressed his belief that, by-and-by
a daily communication would be established between
China, India, and London, by means of the electric tele-
graph, alluded to his invention of submarine railways.
Mr. De la Haye's plan is to construct an immense iron
tube, to be lowered from above, and rivetted together by
means of the diving-bell. When completed, rails are to
be laid down, and locomotives, unaffected by external
influences, are to career beneath the bosom of the deep.
His theory is, that the violence of the most violent stoZras
is not felt lower than twenty feet below the surface, anti
that the pressure of the water, together with the accu-
mulation of sand, &c., would retain the tube in the posi
tion in which it might be placed. Mr. De la Haye is a
British subject, of French extraction, and is very en
thusiastic in his hope as to the adoptioa, ar4 faiecegs of
big instico"-hiveipuel Staulaci,

LAW INTELLIGENCE.
COURT OF BANKRUPTCY, October 3.
(Before Mr. Commissioner GOULBURN.)
His Honour sat specially to-day for the purpose: of
hearing applications for certificates.
During the proceedings Mr. LAWRENCE, who appeared
for serei al of the bankrupts, said that the court not

closing for any vacation, great inconvenience arose to the
profession as well as the court.
The Learned Commisstoisza said there mild be no
doubt that it would be a great convenience to all parties;
.he himself had oome up to town a great many miles to
preside on the present occasion, rather than preclude
the bankrupts from applying, and it was necessary that
the application should be made to the Commissioner
who had heard the case throughout; this might be
avoided by closing the court for a month or
six weeks, as every other court was during the
vacation, and no injustice would be done to the bank-
rupts. Mr. Commissioner Holroyd laid down a rule,
and it was a good and proper one, that except in very
rare cases, where certificates could with justice and pro-
priety be granted at the earliest period, time should be
given to see what the estates produced, and the conduct
of the bankrupt subsequent to his bankruptcy, before he
was allowed his certificate. The only difficulty would
be, whether some new fiats might not issue, and a loss
arise in great estates by the delay.
Mr. LAWRENCE said one Commissioner might sit to
open fiats and for the choice of assignees.
His HONOUR said, that if Mr. Lawrence would make
application in the proper quarter, and repro sent the ease,
probably it would have weight with the Lord Chan-
cellor, and he would order the court to be closed for a
short time during the year.
(Before Mr. Commissioner SHEPHERD.)
This Learned Commissioner was occupied nearly all
the morning in hearing summonses under the Small
Debts Act, and several new points were raised.
Mr. STURGEON contended that it was not necessary
that the plaintiffs should attend personally ; if so, the
greatest inconvenience might arise, as some o the debts,
though small, were due to wholesale houses, and the
principals knew nothing about them.
Mr. BUCHANAN said, in the new Act it was made
peremptory that the plaintiff should appear.
The Learned COMMISSIONER considered the plaintiff
must be present to be examined, if defendant chose.
Mr. BUCHANAN said it would, however, cause con-
siderable loss, and the smaller the debt, and the greater
the rank or the more extensive the business of the plain-
tiff; the more certain the loss to him, for the defendant
might appear by his advocate although the plaintiff was
bound to be present.
The Learned COMMISSIONER said it was clear that
under the Small Debts Act the plaintiff was bound to
attend to be examined, if required.
Mr. STURGEON then urged that a rule should be laid
down that defendant should give notice that he wished
to examine.
The Learned COMMISSIONER said he had no power.
several cases were therefore dismissed in consequence of
,he absence of the plaintiff.
MOSS V. SMITH.

This was a summons under the Small Debts' Act to
enforce a judgment obtained in one of the superior
Courts for 2/. 17s. 6d. and costs. The plaintiff was
leader or conductor of the band at the Kensington
Theatre, and the defendant was the manager at the
time the debt was contracted.
On the case being called on the defendant did not
appear, and the plaintiff, on being sworn, stated that, on
serving the defendant with the summons, he said he did
not owe the money, and would not attend. An order of
commitment was therefore made out, but in less than an
hour the defendant appeared, and said that Mr. Moss
told him that any time between eleven and three o'clock
would do.
Mr. LEWIS, for the plaintiff, contended that the case
could not be gone into as the order had been made.
The Learned COMMISSIONER, however, considered it

only fair if there had been any real mistake.
The defendant denied owing the debt to the plaintiff,
and said that he had paid almost all the parties in-
terested, and they were members of the band of the 2d
Dragoon Guards, who had been engaged for the orchestra
of the theatre in the season of 1844; there was, how-
ever, something due to two or three, whom he could not
find, ss. 3d. or 7s. 6d. each. After he was served with
the writ at the Opera stage-door, he went to the plain-
tiff's attorney to explain that he did not owe the debt to
plaintiff, but to the band, to whom he was liable as
manager, and that he had tried to find those of the
orchestra who belonged to the regimental band, but
they had gone from Kensington to Windsor; and the
attorney required 21. to be paid down for costs,'which being
unable to pay at the moment he was obliged to let the
case take its course.
The plaintiff, on being sworn, stated that he was en-
gaged to find the band at 51. ss. a-week, and at the end
of the week he got only one-half, and was told he
should have the other on the Monday, but the house
was shut up.
The defendant said he promised to pay when the
house opened. He did not pay the defendant for him-
self, but with the consent of the band, to divide between
them. Defendant was to have ss. a-night, and the others
engaged by him 3s. 6d. It was quite out of character 1
that any one -else should be liable to a theatrical band
but the manager.
Mr. Lxwis said it was through the laches of the de-
fendant that the case had gone by default, and not been
tried.

The plaintiff said whatever had been paid by defendant
had been paid since the action, and he (plaintiff) had no-
thing to do with it.
The Learned COMMISSIONER said he could not try the
question. He was bound to make an order.
The defendant said he had no means of paying at
present.
Mr. LEWIS said defendant was a musical teacher, and
was also engaged at the Opera at 21. a-week, and his wife
V. 10s. The plaintiff would be content with a prospective
order, the payment to begin when the Opera season
commenced.
The Learned COMMISSIONER said he had not the power
to grant a prospective order. He would, however, ad-
journ the case till that time.
It was ultimately arranged that the summons should
stand open till March next.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
GUILDHALL.
The inquiry respecting the Nottingham heirs-at-law
case was resumed on Saturday by Alderman Sir Wil-
liam Maguey, and further evidence was given to com-
plete the proof that there existed no barrister of the
name of Fitzgerald Strachan, under pretence of paying a
fee to whom the prisoner, William Thomas Poyser, had
obtained the aura of 201. from the prosecutrix. After a
long argument between the legal gentlemen on both
sides, the Alderman expressed his belief that the false
pretence was sufficiently made out to warrant him in
committing the prisoner for trial. Leave however was
given to the prisoner to find bail, himself in 1001., and
two sureties in 501. each.
BOW-STREET.
Sergeant Carr, F division, entered the court and in-
formed Mr. Henry, the sitting magistrate, that being on
duty in the Strand, about twelve o'clock on Thursday
night, he observed a young female of prepossessing ap-
pearance and .genteel address, who was evidently a
stranger in town, wandering about the streets as if
anxious to get some place of shelter, and, being annoyed
by some loose women, she requested that he would pro-
tect her. She stated that she resided with her parents
at the Kirbred Collieries, near York, but about a week
back having left home with her brother for Birmingham,
they remained there until Thursday last, when they
arrived at the terminus in Euston-square, at five o'clock
in the afternoon, at which time her brother was some-
what affected with drink. They then took a cab and
drove to a coffee-shop in Great Russell-street, Blooms.
bury, where, having taken some refreshment, they left a
travelling bag and other articles, and proceeded to the
Adelphi Theatre, which they left about eleven o'clock,
and on getting into the street her brother called a cab,
into which he got, telling her to return to the coffee-
shop, where he would call upon her in the morning.
Seeing that she was perfectly sober, and col-
lected in her manner, he conveyed her to
the station-house, where she gave the name of Mary
Anne Beaver, and some suspicion being excited in con-
sequence of tke abrupt disappearance of the person she
called her brother, a temporary lodging was procured
for her at the Globe Tavern, next door, where she re-
mained for the night, apparently satisfied with the pro-
tection afforded her. Yesterday morning, having again
waited upon her to ascertain what further steps she
would wish to take, he discovered that she had in her
possession a Si. note, and some silver, and having ex-
pressed a wish that he would accompany her to the
coffee-shop, to learn something about her brother, he of
course complied; but on arriving there they were told
there were no tidings of her brother, upon which she
became instantly affected in her mind, tearing her bonnet
to atoms, together with the 5/. note, the greater part of
which she destroyed with her teeth, and swallowed the
fragments. With some difficulty she was carried to the
court, and while in the charge-room she appeared quite
frantic.
Mr. HENRY having ordered her to be brought into
court, and seeing her in a much excited state of mind,
considered that the only course he could pursue was to
hand her over to the parish authorities, and directed the
sergeant who had the key of the carpet bag to open it
for the purpose of getting some clue to her parents, who
should be written to upon the subject.
Mr. Boswood, who had been sent for, said that he
would take charge of her for the purpose of obtaining the
opinion of the medical attendant at the workhouse.
Three young men between sixteen and seventeen
years of age, named Charles Howard, William Lewis,
and William Stewart, were charged by a girl named
Clarissa Keyworth, aged sixteen, with having each com-
mitted a capital assault upon her person.
From her statement it appeared that she came up to
London on the 30th of September, and at one o'clock in
the morning, when walking across High-street, St.
Giles's, she was accosted by Howard, who offered her a
shilling if she would take a walk with him. She con-
sented, and he led her to a stable, where the two other
prisoners joined them, and there perpetrated the offence
complained of. Her shrieks were not heard for some
time, but at length the police entered and took two of
the prisoners into custody, and the other (Howard) the
next day, in Drury-lane, who immediately said to the
policeman, before he was taken, "I suppose you
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of most awful threats to the prosecutrix, unless she sub-
mitted to his wishes.
They were all fully committed to take their trial at
the next sessions of the Central Criminal Court.
MARLBOROUGH-STREET.
Charles Dring, charged on a former occasion with
steaing a brooch, value 151., from the Round Table
Tavori;, St. Martin's-court, was brought up again this
day.
Mr, John Carf said the defendant slept on the night
the 24th hit, U:A room on the second U sof WS )14/115e,