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

RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE.

GREAT WESTERN.--A great convenience and accom-
modation has just been provided at the Paddington
terminus, by the appropriation of a waiting-room, well
warmed and lighted, for second-class passengers; who,
until lately, had no place to wait in, until the departure
of the trains, than in the open space were the tickets are
issued. Similar accommodation has also just been pro-
vided by the company for passengers travelling by the
third-class (Parliamentary penny-a-mile) trains.

NEW STATION ON lIIE EASTERN COUNTIES AT
CAMBRIDGE.—In consequence of the great increase of
traffic on this line, the station at Cambridge is found to
be quite inadequate for the purposes for which it is
required. The directors have, therefore, resolved to
erect a splendid and commodious station, for which pur-
pose they have purchased upwards of fifty acres of land,
which will be added to the site of the present station.

INCREASE OF CHARGES FOR LIVE STOCK ON THE
NORFOLK AND EASTERN COUNTlES.—Considerable dis-
satisfaction exists, we understand, amongst the farmers
and graziers of the district, at the new regulations
issued by these companies, which are considered vexa-
tious and oppressive, besides increasing the cattle rates
one-fourth in comparison with their former scale. A
meeting of the farming and grazing interests is to be
held on Saturday next, at Norwich, to remonstrate on
the matter. „
MIDLAND GREAT WESTERN OF IRELAND.—The num-
ber of men employed on this line, week ending the 15th,
was 4,140, and 358 horses.
If the calculation be correct that 260,0001. are at
present paid per week to labourers employed on railways
in progress of construction, the sum total outlay per
annum upon railway works alone approaches to some-
thing like fourteen millions.
MouraNs AND ST. ETIENNE.—The project of the
route of this line by. Roanne is the subject of a com-
mission of inquiry in the department of Allier. The
construction of this piece of line, which in itself does
not exceed 62 miles, will afford an unbroken railway
communication for Paris and Nantes with Lyons.
The municipal council of Dijon have accepted the
projet for the station which was proposed to them, and
have voted the gratuitous surrender of the land belonging,
to the town which may be necessary for the station.
Some trifling modifications have been proposed, and it
is expected that the works will be immediately com-
menced, in order to afford employment for the workmen
of the town.

LYONS.—The question as to the spot for the station is
not yet decided. The Minister of Public Works, ac-
companied by the Under•Secretavy of State and the
Prefect of the Seine, ; with several engineers, lately
visited the ground.

THE SALT MONOPOLY IN INDIA.—On this subject,
one of considerable importance to the commercial com-
munity, our two commercial bodies, the Chamber of
Commerce and the Commercial Association, have been
co-operating, by means of subcommittees of their bodies
respectively. The sub-committee of the Chamber of
Commerce consists of Thomas Bazely, Esq., president of
the Chamber, and Messrs. Alderman Kershaw, Vincent
Potter, and Jacob Owen. That of the Commercial As-
sociation includes James Aspinall Turner, Esq., presi-
dent, Mr. Malcolm Ross„ vice president, and Messrs.
James Atherton and John Peel. Mr. Hugh Fleming
acts as secretary for the joint sub-committee, which
which meets together in one of the committee rooms at
the Town-ball. One of the means taken by this com-
mittee to bring the subject more fully under the notice
of the community, was to prepare a requisition to the
Mayor, requesting his worship to call a public meet-
ing of the manufacturers, merchants, bankers, and
other inhabitants of the town, to take into consideration
the salt-tax in India, and the injurious effects of the
monopoly of the East India Company in this article.
This requisition, which was headed with the names of
Mr. Bazely, president of the Chamber of Commerce, and
Mr. J. A. Turner, president of the Commercial Asso-
ciation, was placed for signature in the Exchange, on
Wednesday week, and in two days and a half received
the signatures of upwards of a hundred of the most in-
fluential of our mercantile and manufacturing firms. On
Monday last it was presented to the Mayor, who, we
understand, has acceded to its request, and has ap-
pointed a public town's meeting to be held in the large
room of the Town-ball, on Thursday next, at eleven
o'clock, for the purpose stated in the requisition.—Man-
chester Examiner.

RANSOM OF FREDERICK DOUGLASS.—Most of our
readers will remember this eloquent anti-slavery advo-
cate's visit to Newcastle, and the strong sympathy he
enlisted in behalf of his injured race. It is known that,
as he was a runaway slave, he could not return to the
United States, unless on certainty of being captured and
sent back to his former owner. This circumstance in-
duced a philanthropic lady hi this town—a member of
the Society of Friends, and long conspicuous for her
services in the cause of negro emancipation—to commu-
nicate with the person who claimed Mr. Douglass as
his property, to ascertain on what terms his freedom
could be purchased. To that communication the slave-
holder promptly replied, stating the price to be 1501.
This sum, it will delight the friends of emancipation to
learn, has been forwarded to America, more than one-
half of it having been subscribed in this town, and Mr.
.Douglass's ransom papers are now being transmitted to
him. In conducting this transaction, great care was
taken to avoid anything like a concession of the Slav,..
holder's right of property in Mr. Douglass.—Newcastle
Guardian.

A-serious accident occurred, on Saturday morning,
to Westley's Great Western Railway express, travelling
with great rapidity' to save the early train with the
morning newspapers. In a narrow part of the road ap-
proaching the railway, the road is broken up for repair,
and the ground laid out for building. It being dark, the
driver did not ohs, rye a cart laden with bricks in his
way, with which he came in contact, and the express
was completely thrown over. The driver escaped with
some severe contusions, and his front teeth were broken ;
the young man with him, besides severe bruises, had his
collar-bone broken. •

LAW INTELLWENCE.
VICE• CHANCERY COURT, Aion. 21.
(Before Viei-Chancellor Sir J: C. Wimun.)
- PENNINGTON -V. BUCKLY.

Mr. ROMILLY, who appeared for the plaintiff, stated
the case, from which it appeared that the Rev. Abel
Collin Launder, of Nottingham, by a will, dated the
31st of August, 1801, after making several devizes, &c.,
bequeathed to Mr. .J. Rawson'and to Mr. John Exley
and others, heirs in trust, all the stock standing in his
name in the Three per Cent. Consols, with specific
direction to pay the same to Margaret Morton
and others, and to pay, or cause to be paid,
the interest of other stock to certain nnbeneficed
curates in Nottingham, whose income and salaries did
not exceed 351., donations after the following rate, viz.,
to unmarried curates 10/., to a married curt:te with a
family 201.; and it was the intention of the testator no
donation ;If this kiud should be given more than once to
the same party; and that in case of such donations not
being claimed, they should be considered as being lapsed,
and go to the Rer,ll. Thorp and others, afterwards
mentioned in his will, Mr. T. J. Rawson died on the
12th of October, 1843, and appointed by his will the
plaintiffs his executors. Ain-. Margaret Norton died in
the April of 1843, and some of defendants claimed
the money she left as a part of ti;e personal residuary
property of the testator, Abel Cohn Launder, whose
sole representatives they alleged thems,llves to be. The
Rev. George Wilkins, Archdeacon of Nottingham,
claimed ex officio to be entitled to 4,418 L 10s. 3d. divi-
dends accruing since the death of Mrs. Norton under
the will of the testator.

After the arguments bad concluded,
His HONOUR said he would reserve his judgn.lent till
he had read the will.

COURT OF QUEEN'S BENCH; Nov. 21.
SPENCER V. MAYNARD, AND OTHERS.
This was an action brought by the plaintiff in form&
pauperis to recover compensation for an assault and
false imprisonment for six months in the Northallerton
House of Correction, to which he had been committed
by the defendants, who are magistrates of the West
Riding of Yorkshire. The. case was tried some time ago,
when the jury found a verdict for the plaintiff, but the
compensation tlu y awarded was the smallest coin in the
realm. A rule was subsequently obtained calling upon
the defendants to show cause why thEy should not pay
certain costs incurred by the plaintiff in unsuccessfully
endeavouring to obtain his liberation by means of an
habeas corpus.
Mr. KNOWLES, Q.C., showed cause against the rule.
He said the defendants committed the plaintiff on an in-
formation which was laid before them by a person
named Dyer, who was the plaintiff's landlord, setting
forth that he had fraudulently removed his goods, in
order to avoid a distress. After being two months in
prison, ho obtained a writ of habeas corpus, on the
ground that the conviction was informal, and was
brought up before Mr. Justice Coleridge, who, as the
party who originally lodged the information had
lodged another free from the defects of the
old one, sent the plaintiff hack to prison. Mr. Jackson,
the plaintiff's attorney, had advised him not to attend
to the magistrates, but the plaintiff and three others
were committed. An appeal was made to the Quarter
Sessions, where Jackson said this—" Only quash this
indictment against the three, and I'll consent that it
shall be confirmed as against Spencer." The plaintiff
went back to prison, applied for the habeas corpus, was
unsuccessful, and remained there the full term. The
Learned Judge who tried the case told the jury that
they could not include the expenses in their verdict.
The plaintiff by his declaration could not recover ex-
penses, but damages, because they arose out of an act
on his own part quite irrespective of the object- for
which he sought compensation.
Mr. BARNES, Q.C., held, on the other band, that the
expenses were incurred by the plaintiff in order to ob-
tain his liberation, of which he had been deprived by
the acts of the defendants, that he was driven to incur
them, and that the cost was one which might have been
included in a general verdict.
Mr. HALL, who was on the same side, instanced Oar-
expense as the value the plaintiff put upon his liberty,
and contended that it resolved itself into thd nature of
damages.
The COURT discharged the rule, stating that the plain•
tiff had not sufficiently made out a claim to be compen-
sated.

COURT OF EXCHEQUER, Nov. 21.
REYNELL V. LEWIS.

The arguments in this case were resumed to-day by
the Attorney-General, who, at considerable length,
argued that as the contract was originally made with: the
solicitors to the company, Smith, Parkes, and Co., and
that as no orders were received subsequently from the
defendant, nor was there any evidence given that the
liability was transferred at any time from the original
parties who gave the order to the defendant in the pre-
sent action, or any other person who was connected
with the company—under , such circumstances he con-
tended that the verdict should be set aside.
Mr. COWLING then followed on the same side.
The LORD CHIEF BARON—We think it advisable to
take the whole of the cases involving the question of the
liability of provisional committeemen, in order to come
to some decision upon the subject, and lay down a
general principle for guidance in all future cases.
The ATTORNEY-GENERAL—I am informed, my Lord,
that there are some thousands of writs now floating
about, and it is desirable that the Court should give
some decision during the present term.
The LORD CrrrEs. BARON—That is the intention of
the Court, and we propose to take out of their order all
such cases as arc now before the Court : they are the
cases of Webb v. Watts ; Wyld v. Hopkins ; Wyld v.
Sloan ; Rivett and others v. Wood ; Brown and an-
other v. Troup ; Goodwin v. Fisher ; and Smith v.
Fisher. Such cases as may not be disposed of to-day
we shall put on a separate paper, to be taken on Monday.
The decision of the Court in the case of Reynell v.
Lewis was therefore postponed, and the case of
WYLD V. HOPKINS

was proceeded with.
Mr. MARTIN now showed cause against the rule ob-
tained in this case by Mr. Watson a few days since.
""The arguments were not concluded at the rising of
the Court.