The Sun.
London, England, 1846-11-16 00:00:00

COURT OF EXCHEQUER, .A'ov. 14.
The Court was occupied until two o'clock thig day
in hearing motions for new trials, none of which,-how-
ever, presented the slightest feature of public import-
ance. At two o'clock the Court rose for the purpose of
meeting the judges of the other Courts in the Exche-
quer Chamber, for the purpose of taking into considera-
tion the various Crown cases reserved on the circuits.
The Judges present were the Lord Chief Justice of the
Queen's Bench, the Lord Chief Justice of the Common
Pleas, the Lord Chief Baron, Baron Parke, Baron Rolfe,
Baron Platt, Baron Alderson, Mr. Justice Coltman
Mr. Justice Coleridge, Mr. Justice Wightman, Mr.
Justice Williams.
There was a large attendance of barristers from
the various circuits, but the cases brought forward
were not of such a nature as to call for any public
notice.

COURT OF COMMON PLEAS, Nov 14.
On the first day of the present term the Lord Chief
Justice announced that it was the intention of the Court
to allow the bar to move at the opening of the Court
according to their standing at the bar, giving,
however, Sergeants-at-Law having patents a pre-
cedence over Queen's Counsel. This rule has
been acted upon throughout the term, but it is
looked upon by the bar to be not only an inconvenient,
but an invidious distinction. Accordingly this morning
Mr. Sergeant Channell applied to the Court to have the
rule abrogated, and the custom of " going through" the
bar in rotation adopted in its stead.
The LORD CHIEF JUSTICE said the Court would con-
sider the matter.
CHILDS V. TOOK AND OTHERS.
This was an action of debt brought by the plaintiff, a
civil engineer, to recover 1,5601. from the defendant, as
one of the provisional committeemen of the Tunbridge
and Rye Harbour. There were eleven actions against
eleven different defendants for the same debt, and on a
former day Mr. Bramwell obtained a rule to show cause
why ten of the actions should not be stopped till the
eleventh had been tried and decided upon.
Mr. Seigeant Channell was heard against the rule,
and Mr. Bramwell in support of it.
The COURT ruled that as the defendants upon their
own showing could not obtain the relief they then asked
through a circuitous means, such as pleading in abate-
ment, the Court had no right or disposition to grant it
nominally. The difficulty in the case arose from the
peculiar circumstances and position of the association
into which the defendants had entered, and therefore
the defendants had by their own act sur-
rounded themselves with embarrasments which
the Court had no power to relieve them
from without throwing a degree of hardship upon
the plaintiff, who had not in any way abused the remedy
or the course of seeking a remedy, which the Legisla-
ture and the law gave to him. He could not safely
bring his action against the whole, because there was a
doubt whether the whole were liable jointly ; and, un-
der these circumstances, however anxious the Court
might have felt to reduce the difficulties, they could
not so do without entangling themselves and the
plaintiff in still further difficulties. The difficulty was
one which a court of law could not remove, and as it
was increasing daily in magnitude, perhaps it would
shortly receive the attention of the Legislature,
Rule discharged with costs.

DEATH 01' EDWARD NEALE, THE PIIGILTST.--Yes-
terday morning, at eleven o'clock, Mr. Edward Neale,
aged fifty-one, expired at his residence, the Roseand
Crown Inn, Norwood, Surrey, after a lingering illness,
universally respected by all who had the honour of his
acquaintance. The deceased, who was the hero of so
many battles, had been in a declining state of health
for a considerable period, notwithstanding everything
that medical science and skill could suggest. His last
appearance was about a month since, to witness the fight
between Jem Scully, of Southwark, and M'Gee, of
Chelsea, which came off on Horley-common, on which
occasion he was carried in a chair to witness the combat.
The :deceased, who was better known as Ned O'Neale,
has left a wife and son to deplore their loss.
SHERIFF CRIMINAL COURT, EDINBURGH. ••••• On
Tuesday Violet Bell, Dalkeith was convicted of stealing
clothes, and sentenced to 40 days' imprisonment ; and
yesterday William Dickson, collier, Dalkeith, was con-
victed of assault, and fined 40s. or twenty days' impri-
sonment. An amusing incident occurred in the trial of
this latter case. A collier boy, after being sworn, was
asked by. the Procurator Fiscal the usual question,—
" Has any body told you what to say ?" The boy hesi-
tated, and on the question being repeated, answered
" Yes." " Who was it (said the Fiscal), was it that
man?" pointing to the accused. " No." " Who was it
then ?" It was him, there," said the boy, pointing to
Mr. Sheriff Tait ; "he bade me tell the truth I." The
Sheriff joined heartily, saying, " very good, very good,
quite right, boy, quite right."—Caledonian Mercury.
MEND YOUR WAYS.—A few days ago, while
locked up in Graceehurch-street, where we stood mo-
tionless for twenty-five minutes, " by Shrewsbury clock,"
we made an approximate calculation of the time lost
annually for want of proper road room. The result was
startling, as our readers may see, if they call to mind
that kss than 9,000 hours make a year, and that if only
double that number of persons lose half an hour in the
day, more thin three hundred years of active life are
wasted ith ill the twelvemonth. This is very far from
the amount of tine really wasted (satisfy yourself of it,
curious reader, by calculating the number of persons in
every yard of road, when you are next compelled to
(awl) front the Poultry to St. Paul's), and although it
may be laughed at al fanciful, unquestionably deserves
to be remembered.— The Builder.

FIRE .IN UPPER THAMES. STREET.—Yesterday
afternoon, at a quarter to four o'clock, the extensive five-
story warehouse, belonging to Messrs. Edwin Eddin and
Co., wholesale druggists, No. 154, Upper Thames-street,
opposite Allhallow's Chinch, was discovered to be on
fire. With all possible expedition numerous engines
arrived, when the firemen found smoke in dense bodies
issuing from every floor in the building, which led them
to believe that the whole of the interior was in flames.
The water being abundant no time was lost in setting the
engines to work, but it was with the greatest difficulty
that the firemen could find out the exact seat of the fire.
At length, however, they ascertained that the fire had
began in a cupboard under the staircase on the ground
floor, and had obtained a strong hold of theflooring. By
five o'clock the flames were entirely extinguished, but the
damage done is very- considerable. The cause of the
fire could not be gleaned in consequence of no one being
on the premises. The same premises were totally de-
stroyed by fire about three years stnce.
FlRE.—Yesterday morning, between the hours of
seven and eight, a fire, that did considerable damage,
broke out in the premises belonging to
.Mr. J. Pitt, a
hat-manufacturer, No. 10, Wellington street North,
Strand. The flames originated in the front shop, and
were discovered by one of the neighbours seeing smoke
issuing through the window shutters. An instant alarm
was raised, and the inmates, after some trouble, suc-
ceeded in effecting a safe retreat. The engines of the
parish, London Brigade, and West of England Company
were prompt in their attendance, but the flames bad, by
the period they could be set to work, travelled com-
pletely' round the shop, destroying in their progress the
whole of the stock in trade, and extending from thence
through the partition into the adjoining tobacconist's
shop, in which they also did a deal of damage. The
supply of water furnished by the New River Company
being very abundant, a copious stream was discharged
by the engines into the blazing property, which soon
extinguished the flames. The whole of Mr. Pitt's stock
of hats is destroyed, and the shop is burnt out. Had it
not been for the early arrival of the firemen, the whole
of the building must have been destroyed. The origin
of the fire, or whether or not the sufferer was insured,
could not be ascertained.

GENERAL REDUCTION IN STEAMBOAT FARES.--.
Yesterday, in consequence of the competition existing on
the River Thames, the fares of nearly all the steamers
underwent a permanent and very extensive reduction.
The fares are now consequently, between Gravesend and
London, 6d. each person; between Woolwich, Green-
, wich, and London-bridge, 3d. and 4d. each; between
the latter pier and Chelsea, 3d.; and between London-
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ran during yesterday, between London and Westminster
bridges, at the extraordinary low fare of one halfpenny
each person. —:,
PARDON TO THE CONVICT DONOVAN.—It will be
remembered that on the occasion of an Orange-Catholio
affray in the streets of Bradford, at Whitsuntide, 1844,
a person was killed, and a man named Daniel Donovan
was tried for the homicide, convicted of manslaughter,ta
and sentenced to transportation for life. t 4
Donovan wa
s
innocent, always
strongly protested by his friends that
innocent, and that an alibi could be clearly proved in his
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favour. When Lord Morp t
- h "alast at Bradford,
s his Lordship,
evidence on the subject was laid before'
who bngaged to bring the case under the consideration
of the Home Secretary.
This having been done, Sir
George Grey has communicated
the decision to Lord
Morpet,
hin the following larte . bearing date White-
hall, 2d November, 1840 :—" My Lord—Having bad
under consideration the application which I had the
honour
to receive from your Lordship in behalf of Da-
niel Donovan, who was convicted at York Assizes, in
July, 1844, of manslaughter, and sentenced to be trans-
ported for life, I beg to acquaint your Lordship, that,
under all the circumstances of the case, I felt warranted

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Kingdom, should his conduct have been good since his
arrival in Van Diemen's Land." The intelligence has
citacktinogn condition
been received with great pleasure by Donovan's friends,
and has, of course, been communicated to his wife and.
family, who are living at Cork.—Leeds Mercury.
TILE PRICE or Gm—We understand that the
gin drinking community will, in all probability, have to
pay a higher price for this beverage than they have paid
for years, in consequence of the distillers having made
three advances upon it within a brief period, and
amounting in the whole to upwards of one shilling per
gallon. This would not have occurred if sugar were
allowed to be used in distillation.— Sunday paper.
The number of letters posted in Liverpool during
the last three or four days has decreased in a most ex-
traordinary manner. We are informed that the number
has not been so small for several years past.—Liver-
pool Mail,

George Hudson, Esq., M.P., the Lord Mayor of
York, has appointed as his chaplain the Rev. Robert
Satton, M.A., canon of Ripon, rector of St. Mary,
Spurrier-vac, and perpetual curate of lFulford, near
:York.

LAW INTELLIGENCE.
ROLLS' COURT, Nov. 14.
PERRY V. MEADOWCROPT.
(Continued from our Afternoon Edition of yesterday.)
Mr. KINDERSLEY: followed in support of the report,
and had not concluded his arguments at the rising of the
Court.