The Sun.
London, England, 1834-10-13 00:00:00

HEPPLE V. PORDHAM.

This was an action of attachment under very singular
circumstances :—George and Charles Fordharn, retail mer-
chants, sometime since became embarrassed in circum-
stances, in consequence of which they were obliged to stop
payment. About the time of their failure they put into the
hands of Mr. John Hepple, wine and spirit merchant, 551.
for the benefit of their creditors under certain conditions.
These conditions will be inferred from the acknowledgment
which Mr. Hepple gave the Fordhams, which was to the
following effect :—" Received from Messrs. George and
Charles Fordham 551. for the benefit of their creditors, pro-
vided they come to terms within one month ; if not, the
money to be returned." The creditors did not come to
terms, and Mr. Hall, one of their number to the amount of
more than 901., who had learned the circumstance of the
money being in the hands of Mr. Hepple, attached it with
the view to the part payment of his individual debt.
Mr. Bullock, for the defendants, Messrs. George and
Charles Fordham, contended that the money could not be
attached. It was given for a specific object, and that ob-
ject not being accomplished, it must, in terms of an express
stipulation in the receipt to that effect, be returned to his
clients.

The RECORDER had some doubts as to whether the note
from Mr. Hepple should be considered as a receipt, or only
as a simple acknowledgment of a deposit having been made
in his hands. There could be no question that it was com-
petent for Mr. Hall to attach the money.
The Jury returned a verdict for the plaintiff.

SINGULAR PHENOMENON.—EarIy last Monday
morning this city was visited by myriads of a small sort of fly,
larger than the midge, but much smaller than the common
house fly, and having very long wings. The air was filled
with them, and they settled by hundreds upon the persons of
those who were abroad at the time. We learn by the Lincoln-
shire Chronicle, that a similar phenomenon was observed at
Spalding, on Sunday week, and that the annoyance occasioned
by these insects was sufficient to remind one of the plagues of
Egypt.—York Courant.

A very shocking accident occurred on Friday last
at the factory of Messrs. Martins and Grout, of Norwich.
Thomas Kelf, a boy between 13 and 14 years of age, in oiling
the works of the steam-engine, had his apron caught by the
shaft, and was wound up by it. He had the presence of mind
to clasp his arms round the shaft and cling close to it, but one
of his legs fell down and was crushed to pieces. His head
also struck against another part of the engine at every revolu-
tion of the shaft, and was very dreadfully injured. It is sup-
posed that the shaft had revolved sixty times with the poor
boy in this situation, when one of the men came into the room
and stopped the engine. ' His clothes were obliged to be cut
from his back to get him out, when ho was immediately taken
to the Hospital. His fingers and some of his toes are crushed
to pieces, and his body is so much swelled that it is hardly
possible to tell what injury he has received. He was alive on
Monday morning, and there was some hope of his recovery.—
Cambridge Chronicle.