The Sun.
London, England, 1851-06-16 00:00:00

TfiE SUN, .LONDON,

BOROUGH SOP DILAILIEET.
Really fine as well as good coloury hops are certainly
2s per cwt higher than on Monday last, as some of the
plantation accounts ara unsatisfactory. The middling
and interior kinds are in moderate request, at full prices.
Mid and East Kent Pockets, 41. 8s to 71 2s; Weald of
Kent ditto, 31 IGs to 41 8i; Sussex ditto, 31 7a to 41 4s
per cwt.

WOOL.
Last week's imports into London were large—viz., 12
bales from Buenos Ayres, 10 from Naples, 1,700 from
Adelaide, 363 from Taganrog, 1,800 from Launceston,
18 from Trieste, 68 from the Cape, 201 from Odessa,
1,835 from Purt Philip, 820 from Hobart Town, 40 from
Havre, 25 from Hanaburgb, 500 from Wellington, 77
from Alexandria, 617 from Bombay, 46 bags from
Oporto, and 114 from Seville. The amount of business
doing by private contract is very limited, at barely sta-
tionary prices.

TALLOW.
Since our last only a limited business has been trans-
...cted in Tallow, but no material change has taken place
in the quotations. To-day P.Y.C. on the spot is selling
at 37s 3d to 37s 6d; and there are sellers for delivery at
38s 3d per cwt. Town Tallow, 35s to 35s 6d per cwt
not cash; Rough Fat, 2s per 81bs.

1847.

1848. 1849.

1850.

Stock this day •• . •.:

Price of Y. C. • .. [

7,457
50s 9d
to Os Otl

8,513 23,290
45s 6d 38s 6d
to 45s0d to 38s0d
1,897 I 1,035
3,951 i 2,336
1,821
4,962 I 155
47s Od 39s 6d

24,470
36s bd to
37s Cd
1,83
2,538
497
1,784

Delivery last week • •
Ditto from June 1. . • •
Arrivals last week • •
Ditto from June 1 ...

953
2,292
1,535
2,050
533 Od

Price of Town • .....

38s Od

CHANCERY.-(THIS DAY.)

ROBINSON V. GELDART.
Mr. JAMES PARKER concluded his arguments in
this appeal, which was opened on Saturday, and
Mr. SINCLAIR and Mr. BARTON were heard on the
same side.

ROLLS' COURT.—(THIS DAY.)
The list of business before his Honour presented no-
hing of importance.

VICE-CHANCERY.-(THIS D A Y.)
(Before Vice-Chancellor Sir G. K. BRUCE.)
His Honour this morning proceeded with the part-
heard case Jones v. Price; the details of which are in-
teresting only to the parties concerned.
(Before Vice-Chancellor Sir G. TURNER.)
DALGLISH V. JARVIE.

This case, which was opened on Saturday, was pro-
ceeded with this morning.
The following are the circumstances of the case :—A
bill was filed in 1849 for an injunction to restrain the
defendant from applying a " certain design for calico
prints, and from publishing, selling, or ex-
posing for sale any such calico or other woven
fabric to which such design, or any design being the
same as, or a fraudulent imitation of, the plaintiffs'
design, should have been so applied." An esparto in-
junction to the same effect in substance had been granted
by the Vice-Chancellor of England, but he had dis-
solved it upon motion. The order dissolving the injunc-
tion was appealed from, and was heard before Lord
Langdale and Mr. Baron Rolfe, sitting as Lords Com-
missioners, in July last, when the Court refused the
appeal motion, with costs. The plaintiffs, who are
muslin and calico printers, at Manchester, and at Lennox
Mills, Glasgow, had registered the design, which was
for a sprig pattern, on the 19th of December, 1848.
The term of protection given by the Copyright Designs
Act, sth and 6th Vice, chap. 100 (Mr. Emerson Ten-
nent's Act), was nine calendar months, which would
have expired in September, 1849. Under these circum-
stances the question is, to what relief, if, any, the plain-
tiffs are now entitled, inasmuch as protection is out of
the question, and the only doubt is whether, the bill
being brought to a hearing, under such circumstances
the Court will decree au account, without sending the
parties to law, when a verdict would seem to be useless,
except so fur as it may ultimately affect the question of
costs.
Mr. Rolt and Mr. Daniel were for the plaintiffs, and
Mr. Bethell and Mr. Prendergast for the defendant, who
is a calico printer at Manchester, and who contended
that the design or pattern is of French origin.
(The arguments were not concluded when we went to
press.)

QUEEN'S BENCH.—(THIS DAY.)
(Sittings in Banco.)
ROE V. DIANSER.

Lord CAMPBELL said the Court, without wishing to
cast any imputation on the plaintiff, thought there was
sufficient doubtin the case to justify them in directing
a new trial without payment of costs.

THE QUEEN V. GRIFFITHS.
In this case a rule for a quo warranto had been ob-
tained, calling on Charles Robertson Griffiths to show
cause by what authority he held the office of clerk to
the guardians of the poor in the parish of St. Martin's-
in-the-Fields. It appeared that Mr. Griffiths was elected
by a majority of I 1 to 10 votes, but the chairman of the
meeting at which the election took place, refused to vote.
On that ground the election was contended to be invalid
and ♦oid. _ _

Sir F. KELLY, who appeared to show cause against
the rule, intimated that, if the Court thought the ob-
jection fatal, he would consent to the rule being made
absolute on such terms as would prevent any future
litigation.
Lord CAMPBELL said the Court were of opinion that
under the terms of the order of the Poor-law Board the
chairman of the meeting ought to have voted.
An agreement was then entered into tosmake the rule
absolute, Mr. Griffiths undertaking to resign within a
week, and to discharge the duties of the office until
another person should be elected to fill the vacancy.

EXCHEQUER.-(THIS DAY.)
(Sittings in Banco.)
THE ATTORNEY-GENERAL V. THE LONDON DOCK
COMPANY.
The arguments in this lengthy case were resumed
again this morning. Mr. Macauley concluded his ad-
dress, which was unfinished when the Court rose on Sa-
turday, and he was followed by the Attorney-General,
who occupied their Lordships during the remainder of
the morning.

CRIMINAL COURT.--(THIS DAY.)
OLD COURT.
The June sessions of the Central Criminal Court were
opened this morning, before the Lord Mayor, the Re-
corder, and Aldermen Sir James Duke, M.P., William
Hunter, and D. W. Wire, attended by the Sheriffs of
London and Middlesex and the other civic functionaries.
The first edition of the calendar contains the names
of 174 prisoners, of whom 23 are for London, 102 for
Middlesex, 36 for Surrey, and 13 for Kent and Essex.
Some of the offences are of a serious character, 3 being
for murder in Surrey, 10 for cutting and wounding with
intent, &c., 2 for manslaughter, 6 for forgery, and 2 for
rape. The other cases are of the ordinary description.
The grand jury having been sworn and empannelled,
The RECORDER proceeded to charge them as follows:
—Ho said it was a great satisfaction to him to be able to
congratulate them upon the unusual lightness of the
calendar. He was happy to tell them that in the per-
formance of their task as grand jurymen they would find
the list of prisoners to bo both light in the character as
well as is the number of the offences. Comparatively
speaking the calendar was exceedingly light,
but at all events he could safely Bay this,
that in this court they had been in the habit
of dealing with much heavier. It was gratifying to find
that while the streets of the metropolis had been more
than usually crowded, so far from that circumstance
having produced any increase of crime, there was an
absolute reduction in the number of offences returned to
this court. He confessed ho was one of those who had
thought it impossible that a largo assemblage of persons
collected, not only from every part of the country, but
almost from every district in the globe, could be brought
into the narrow focus of this metropolis without having
the effect of increasieg the labours of those who were
entrusted with the administration of the criminal law.
They found, however, that had not been so, for the ex-
perience of six weeks had enabled them to discover:that
it would produce no such results as those which were
originally anticipated. It was also thought that amongst
those whom the Exhibition would draw to London
would be a large number of foreigners of doubtful
character and questionable reputations, who would
come here seeking to encourage political agitations and
promote illegal purposes; but he was happy to say that
upon casting his eye over the calendar, he found nothing
in it to encourage that impression, indeed it did not con-
tain the name of a single prisoner. Having said thus
much, he might almost dismiss them at once to the dis-
charge of their duties, for there was no case in the ca-
lendar that called for any special remark from him, and
certainly none that presented any point of serious legal
difficulty. There was one case of manslaughter, where a
woman appeared to have destroyed the life of another;
but in that case the only point he thought it necessary
to direct their attention to was this—if it should
appear that the wound inflicted by the woman
should have accelerated, if it did not actually
produce the death of the deceased, it would be sufficient
to justify their sending the case for further investigation.
There was another case in the calendar which he thought
it right to direct their attention to. It was the case
where three men were charged with the murder of a
policeman, and
even with respect to this he need not
detain them with any detailed explanation of the law as
it aflected murder. It was sufficient primafacie that
the death should be caused by the violence of the ac-
cused, but at the same time, in order to make the offence
complete, it must appear that the parties were actuated
by malice. Now in t'uis :case it appeared that a police-
man, while in the discharge of his duty, was attracted
to a number of persons who were in a state of intoxica-
tion, creatingdesired
a disturbance in the public tho-
but instead of doing so these three men, who were of
roug h faanr ed.
the party, went deliberately and collected
some stones
with which they afterwards inflicted the injuries that
were the immediate cause of the policeman's death.
That fact he thought was sufficient to establish that the
prisoners were actuated by malicious motives, and it
would be for the Court to decide on their trial whether
or no there was any extenuating or justifying circum-
stances which would reduce the offence below the crime
of murder. These were all the cases that be deemed it
necessary to remark upon, and thanking them for the
attention they had paid to his observations, he would not
detain them longer, but at once dismiss them to the dis-
charge of their important functions.
Tho grand jury then retired.
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Wednesday next will be the thirty-fifth anniver-
sary of the battle of Waterloo; it will be celebrated by the
Duke of Wellington with the usual banquet to the heroes of
the 18th of June.
An attempt is being made to introduce salmon into
the rivers of New Zealand, and also to naturalise the grouse
of Scotland upon the bins of that colony.