The Sun.
London, England, 1851-09-22 00:00:00

Deptford, where she will discharge the old stores she
brought from Rio.
Falmouth, lighter, Carrick master, sailed from De-
vonport on Friday, with the goods and furniture of
Mr. Atherton, chief engineer, removed from Devon-
port to Woolwich.

- Goodwill, lighter, arrived at Devonport on Friday
from Sheerness, with the furniture of Commodore
Seymour.

DEVONPORT, FRIDAY.—The Dutch frigate Prins
van Orange, Captain D. Bylde de Vroe, arrived in
the sound last night from the Mediterranean, home-
ward bound. This morning she saluted the citadel
and the flag of the port-admiral, Sir John Ackworth
Ommanney, and subsequently the captain and prin-
cipal officers, accompanied by John Luscombe, Esq.,
consul to his Majesty the King of the Netherlands,
paid the usual ceremonial visits. The Prins van
Orange will remain at this port for some days, to
afford her officers an opportunity of visiting the
Great Exhibition.

PORTSMOUTH, SUNDA.Y.—The Carnatic Indiamen,
sailed on Friday evening; but having left two pas-
sengers on shore she looked in again on Saturday
morning, and took them on board.

A large American, Bremen, and New York packet
steamer passed through Spithead for Southampton on
Sunday morning.
The ,^tlor, Indiaman, Captain Lay, arrived from
Land. •sterdsy, to embark passengers and stock
for Cal.,- VI.
Mr Y.' kinson, of Gosport, has been appointed
Vice- 1 for the empire of Russia at this port, vice
March, eased.
The s, saner yacht Dolphin, Mr. WilliaM *Sratib
owner, afid friends, sailed to day for the Mediterra-
, nean for the winter.

The Waterwitch, 8, Commander Gardner, arrived
at Teneriffe on the 21st ult., and sailed on the 23d for
the coast of Africa.

The Dauntless, 33, Captain Halsted, will go to
Spithead to-morrow to try her engines, &c.
Of the ships fitting out at the eastward, the Water-
loo, 120, Captain Stopford, has her topmasts pointed,
and is entering men slowly. The Monarch, 84, Cap-
tain C. Hope, is 70 short of her complement. The
London, 92, Vice-Admiral the Hon. J. Percy flag-
ship, is about 25 short of complement. The Modeste,
18, Commander Lord W. Compton, is in the stream ;
she hat only entered half her complement; and the
Dido, 18, Captain Morshead, is in dock to be ready
for sea by the 10th proximo. The late flag-ship at
Sheerness, Ocean, 80, i 3 ordered to Chatham to be
paid.
WooLwrcu, SEPT. 20.—The Blazer steam-vessel,
of 527 tons, was towed up the river by the Sprightly
steam• vessel from Portsmouth to Deptford, and is to
take on board the submarine telegraph, to be laid
down under the guidance of Captain Bullock in the
Fearless steam-vessel, as a means of telegraphic com-
munication between England and France.
Mr. Humphrys, late chief engineer of this dock-
yard, has been directed by the Admiralty to attend
on board her Majesty's screw steamer Desperate, now
at Plymouth, to witness experiments about to be
made with the engines of that vessel, with the view
of ascertaining the value of using steam expansively
in her Majesty's steamers under various circum-
stances.

THE FRENCH FLEET.—The victualling of the
French Mediterranean squadron is being carried on
with the greatest activity at Toulon, and it is ex-
pected that it will be again ready for sea by the 18°h.
It is, it is said, to be reinforced by the Henri IV.,
now at Lisbon, and by the Ville de Paris, at Cadiz.
If so, they will outnumber our Meeiterranean
squadron. The Sardinian fleet has sailed for Malta.
THE GERMAN FLEET.—The present plan for main-
taining the German fleet is that of a threefold divi-
sion of the naval Confederation. Austria and Prussia
will each retain a separate fleet ; the Northern States,
Hanover, Oldenburgh, Bremen, Hamburgh, and
Mecklenburgb, with the Southern States, will com
tribute collectively to a division of the Baltic fleet,
but the Southern States in a smaller proportion than
those of the North.

SHIP NEWS.
NO ricE TO MARINERS.

LIGIITHOUbE ON THE ISLAND OF LAGOSTA.

The following was posted at Lloyd's on Saturday
morning:—
" A new lighthouse has lately been .erected on the
Island of Lagosta, in Dalmatia, instead of the tempo-
rary one hitherto existing there. It stands on the sum-
mit of the point of land which in the map of the coast
navigation, published by the Military Geographical In-
stitution in Milan, is marked Punta Scrigeva, and com-
mands the Porto Rosso, formed by the same point of land.
" The geographical bearings of the lighthouses are
42 deg. 43 min. N. lat., 14 deg. 31 min. E. long., from
the meridian of Paris.

"The lighthouse is illuminated in the night from the
15th of May, 1851, with a fired light, by means of the
Fresnet apparatus, 13t class. The height of the tower
is 330 Vienna feet above the level of the sea. Its light
is apparent in clear weather to an observer raised 12 beet
above the surface of the water at a distance of 25 miles,
at 60 to a degree."

GRAVESEND, SEPT. 21.—Wind N.E., strong breeze,
eloudy.
Arrived—Don Colino, Crescent, Prince Albert, and
Veritas, from Guernsey; Glen lluntly, from Sydney;
Arbutus, from Guernsey; Lima, from Dantzic; Anna
Maria, from Emden; Morgensten, from Rostock; Dun
Pedro II , from Rio Grande; Tantivy. from Cephalonia;
Triton, from Ostend; Seine, from Boulogne; City of
London, from Dunkirk; Fame, from Calais; Rainbow,
Citizen, and Giraffe, from Rotterdam; Livia and Ros-
common, from Harlingen; Stadt Dordrecht, from Dordt;
Fleche, from Ghent; Green Isle. from Nieu Diep; Nep-
tune, from Tonningen; Dromo, from Cape Coast Castle.
Sailed—The Burgermeistar, Batavier, Earl of Auck-
land, and Ocean, for Rotterdam; Lord John Russell, for
Tonningen; Francis, for Newport; Panther, for Ostend;
Melody, for Elsinore; Menai, for Calais; Tiger, for
Tonningen; Atlantic Ocean, Thames, Countess of Lons-
dale, and Cmsarea, for llamburgh, Dee Oostsee, Diana,
Mercur, Hermann. Celeritas, Heinrich Robertus, and
Mary Mitcheson, for the Balic; Bordeaux, for Bor-
deaux; Cumberland, for Demerara; Columbine, for
Havre; Diana, for Amsterdam; Gustave Adolphe, for
Antwerp; Leopolda, for Cadiz; Eleanore, for Constan-
tinople; Perseus, for Aden; Catista, for Honduras;
Iris, far Port Natal; Wilberforce, for Tonningen; Mag-
net, for Bremen; Rhine, for Ostend; Baron Osy, for
Antwerp; Sarator4a, and Inca, for Wales; Patrick
Henry, for New York; Favourite, for Constantinople;
Viscountess Canning, for Leghorn; Susannah, for Riga;
Glasgow Packet, for Ferrol.
VESSELS SPOKEN WITH.

Melbourne, froln London fur Port Philip, July 21, in
lat. 9 S., long. 28 W.
T. H. Skatton, from Bahia for Cowes, July 28, in lat. 9

N., long.. 26 W.
William Penn, from Liverpool for Bombay, July 29, in

lat. 10 N., long. 26 W.
Clymene, from Liverpool for Calcutta, July 11.
Maidstone, from London for Calcutta, Aug. 1, in lat. 14
N., long 26 W.
Gratitude, from Algoa Bay for London, Aug. 13, in lat
28 N., long. 38 W.
Chieftain, from Madras for London, Aug. 24, in 38 N.,

long. 34 W.
Isabella Watson, from Callao for London, July 29, in lat,
5 N., long. 29 W.

Jhelum, ship, from Liverpool for Valparaiso, July '25, in
lat. 11 N., long. 25 W.
Orleana, from Bombay for Liverpool, July 27, in lat. 14
N. long. 26 W.
'Washington, from London for Calcutta, Sept. 13, in lat.
49 N., long. 6 W.
Marquis of Bate, from Cardiff for Quebec, Sept. 4, in
lat. 50 N., long. 10 W.
Jersey Lass, from London for Cape Coast Castle,
Aug. 21, in lat. 34 N., long. 17 W.

SEABORNE MAILS.
[N signifies that the mails are sent from the General Post-Office
by the night—and M by the morning—dispatch.]

THE GOLD REGIONS.
The discovery of gold-fields in New South I;.Vales
will produce very different effects on different n itnds •
some will lament over it as calculated to intro duce ;
new element of corruption into an atmospher s only
just recovering from the moral taint with whirah we
have so sedulously inoculated it; while other with
perhaps more justice, will regard any discovery ,which
tends rapidly and permanently to augment the
amount of wealth possessed by the human race as a
subject which, due allowance being made for all
drawbacks, cannot be contemplated without feelings
of self-gratulation. As it is not in our power to pre-
vent the existence of that cause which is sure to give
rise to these speculations, we think that we should be
employing ourselves more profitably in considering
the question in its more immediate relations to the
welfare of the colony than in abstract speculations on
the advantages or disadvantages of that which is
clearly inevitable.
In California the discovery of gold was made in a
country where society was as yet rude and unformed,
and no branch of industry had been cultivated with
any degree of prominence or success. The new
State is the creation of the gold mines, and its popula-
tion consists, not of inhabitants of the country who had
relinquished their regular occupations for this more at-
tractive pursuit, but of persons drawn from every quarter
of the earth, and whose absence, from their respec-
tive communities, was in many cases felt to be a
relief rather than a burden. The case of the Aus-
tralian colonies (for this purpose they may all be
considered as one) is as different as can possibly be
imagined ; besides the usual occupations of agricul-
ture, they have, as everybody knows, become a field
• for pastoral enterprise on a scale of unequalled mag-
nitude. The sheep, which constitute their princi-
pal wealth, are divided into flocks varying from
four hundred to a thousand in number, each of which
is intrusted to the care of a single shepherd. Two
of these flocks are generally driven together to the
same station, where a third person resides, whose
duty it is to change the hurdles and watch the
sheep by night. The country being infested by wild
dogs, it is absolutely necessary that some one
should always be present with the sheep, in
order to protect them from this cause of destruc-
tion, and the force required for this purpose is
about three men to every twelve hundred sheep.
Now, in the year 1848, the number of
sheep in New South Wales and Port Philip exceeded
eleven millions six hundred thousand, not to speak of
the flocks of South Australia or Van Diemen's Land.
It is not, probably, unreasonable to calculate that in
the three years which have elapsed since this return
was made the number of sheep had increased to at
least fourteen millions. This enormous amount of
property exists from day to day by virtue of the un-
ceasing care and attention bestowed upon it by the
shepherds under a rigid system of central superin-
tendence ; without that care it could not exist for a
single week. Now, let our readers imagine the effect
which must be produced on the minds of the pro-
prietors of these fourteen millions of sheep by the in-
formation that a gold-field has been discovered which
is certain to attract away from their existing engage-
ments every shepherd and hut-keeper in their employ
ment. It will be vain to attempt to retain them by
offlrs of increased wages. One employer of labour
may compete with another, but who can bid against
the imaginary riches of an Eldorado in which every
adventurer expects to find a splendid fortune impa-
tiently awaiting his acceptance ?
Nor is this all. The shearing of the sheep, which
takes place about the month of October, is an opera-
tion not generally intrusted to the shepherds, but to
persons who travel round the country fur the pur-
pose. Shearing cannot he long deferred in Australia
without ruin to the fleece, from the presence of the
seed of a particular grass, well known to the pur-
chasers at our wool sales. If the fleece is not shorn
before November, it is very greatly deteriorated in
value. Now, these professional sheepshearers are
exactly the persons who, from their itinerant way of
life and reckless habits, will be the first to swell the
ranks of the gold finders. Add to this that the reck-
less and desperate characters who, having served their
sentence of transportation, now swarm in all the Aus-
tralian colonies, will flock to the gold-field as a com-
mon centre, not so much with a view to labour as to
profit by those opportunities of plunder which such a
scene of confusion and excitement must necessarily
afford, and we have enumerated causes quite sufficient
to overthrow a social and economical system far more
firmly established than that of New South Wales.
The difficulty of carrying supplies into the interior
through roads which will soon become infested with
banditti, and under the care of men who will be far
more disposed to desert their charge and join the
general hunt for gold than shed their blood in the
defence of their masters' property, will be no incon-
silerable aggravation of the crisis.
There is but one remedy for all these things, and
that is the prevention by armed force of unauthorised
intrusion on the lands of the Crown, and the preser-
vation from plunder of the valuable public property
recently discovered. The gold region has not yet
passed into private hands, and even if it had the
royal mines of gold and silver would still remain the
property of the Crown. There is, therefore, a clear
right to reserve this public property for public use,
and when it is considered how materially the revenue
derived from it might lighten the burden of tax-
ation to the colonists, the duty to preserve it is
as obvious as the right. All the proceeds of the
gold• field, beyond the wages of the miners and
the profits cf the capital employed in working it, are
clearly the property of the colony, to whose use
they are to be applied, according to the statute 5 and
6 Victoria, c. 36, under the direction of three Lords
of the Treasury. The right and duty to preserve
this property being thus clear, we sincerely wish that
our power to do so were equally manifest. With a
commendable economy, which this unforeseen event
by no means impugns, Lord Grey has reduced the
troops in the Australian colonies, beyond those re-
quired for the coercion of the convicts, to a number so
small—some few hundreds, we believe—as to be
wholly unable to cope with the general rush towards
the land of promise. And yet upon their ability to
do so depends, as we have shown, not merely the pre-
servation of the gold-fields from the hands of unau-
thorised intruders, but the actual existence for another
year of the flocks and herds which form the wealth of
the colonists. Had we that regular and rapid steam-
Communicationmedy to the evil before it becomes intolerable. Asit is,
have
been
provided,
de
di t,
v‘.e Australiainig h wt hope hi c h
toou
applylongago to
sorner
e-
our most strenuous efforts may possibly come too late.
enable
the
colonial regulations
The duty of Government is nevertheless perfectly
p G,r laia—to se
s ma
na yy
which it shall think fit to make for the preservation of
its property. Unless something of the kind be
Government
out
ment such
to a
maintain foreea
speedily done, it is hardly too much to anticipate that
the desperate ruffians whom we have been for years
thrusting into the social system of our reluctant co-
lonies, being drawn to a single point by one common
purpose, may learn to appreciate their own strength,
and, bursting from the control of a Government too
weak to coerce them, establish for a time a lawless
tyranny over the peaceful inhabitants of the country
which the mind shudders to contemplate.
Hardly a newspaper arrives from California with-
out some complaint of the outrages committed by
Australian " expirees" who have found their way to
that country. What are we to expect in a second
California, not separated by the vast Pacific Ocean,
but placed by nature in the very centre of those
colonies which we have selected for the haunts of
crime ?

traeaneuvefanet:
There is also an English as well as a colonial
aide to this question. One of our great branches of
manufacture has suffered considerably by the scarcity
wto
uf itseie hi a r
menaceat wh r meaatteentrhei
dea 1
v—ewrcyi ot thet
xo
ins, Thelcaer o
fpwoollen
flocks
upon
which we depend for the supply of the finer descrip-
tions of wool. The only means of averting this cala-
mity is to protect private property in New South
Wales by enabling the Government immediately to
assert its dominion over the public lands. These
considerations are so obvious that we cannot doubt
they will ultimately be attended to. What we prin-
cipally urge is the imperious necessity of the utmost
dispatch, arising from the perishable nature of the
property injeopardy, and the danger only too likely
to arise from the desperate character of that penal
population which is sure to meet for the first time in
large and uncontrolled masses on the gold, fields of
Australia.— Times.

INLAND REVENUE DEPARTMENT.—We are glad
to ]Earn that Lord John Rua ell, in the most kind and hand-
some manner, and wholly unsolicited by any one, has ap-
pointed Mr. James Brotherton. barrister-at-law, and son of
Joseph Brotherton, Esq., m,p., to the office of Receiver •
General in the Inland Revenue Department. If anything
M.P., took occasion to express his own
could add to the grace of this unsought and spontaneous
views to
ttliheesecoenfttrhaery::,rael.l.
attention to the subject know
appointment, it would be the very handsome manner in
which Lord John Russell, in communicating his intention to
etat
ir,i,ityei‘e
imstr. ofal.
many
kgßnGei
yirotoeevtipsnheptsreetnrastminotneceenNsnt?ever Bhr a u k
reisrp.eßctra°ntbder:e°gna'rd for that gentleman, as a truly liberal and
where his conscientious
dispassionate politician. This appointment cannot be con-
founded with the ministerial reward of the services of a
against them,—..Vancloster Guardian.
opinionsst pre-
cept whonat thoroughiGnohave,el many,erpiaamirhi teliivnms
from voting

guillex.

THE ST INDIE
From Colombo, eylon, the dates are to t. he 7 St' !gust. The events of the month had not , 13('012 )f
:tame. The condition of the island wes a2a in
!thy, and the influx of labour had been gene rally
_a ale weather on the whole had been seasons, b although stormy interior, and very dry in the mt ri-
time provinces. Regarding the crop, former vie WS
appear to be confirmed, namely, that there is no pi •.o.
hability of an increase in the plantation kinds, a 1.
though there may perhaps be a slight one in nativ e.
There had been an advance of prices in the face c )f
bad accounts from Europe, principally caused b 3 purchases for the French market. The Governot •
had at length returned to Colombo after an absencei
of seven months in the hills, and it was expecte
several measures of importance will be brought befor e
the Legislative Council if it should assemble in th e
next month. Meanwhile the alleged inefficiency ( )a•
that body, as it is now constituted, was the subje ct
of much comment, as well as the delay in filling up
the vacant appointments. "It can never be reall:a
effective," it is said, " until the unofficial memberei
equal in number the official, and the Governo ought not to be in it." The steamer with Ui)
last mail from England had again arrived on tho
22d of the month, the quickest passage yet knowri
being under 29 days. The Peninsular and Oriental
Company were showing by a reduction in the rate*
of passage also that prospeetive opposition was not
without benefit. As they can make these passages
with the old steamers, which used to arrive between
the 27th and 30th of each month, they might, it is
urged, still save some days if the really fast vessels
of the present line were employed. Tonnage was
rather scarce, and three or four vessels would have
found ready employment at full rates. The import
market was excessively dull for metals and piece
goods. Batavia advices are to the 19th of July. The
imports from England continued large, and had al-
ready exceeded the total imports of the preceding ;
year. On the whole, these heavy supplies had bee, a
borne well, but it was not expected prices could b e
maintained. The news of the gold discoveries i;
New South Wales had caused several shipments
produce, consisting- of rice, sugar, and coffee, to tiai
sent to that colony. The Mauritius advices came
down to the 23d of July. The administration of!
Government affairs, it is stated, showed progress ani a
improvement. The question of steam communise.
cation continued to be discussed, and the decisicin
of the Council in favour of the Aden line having
met a decided opposition from the mercantile,
body, the Chamber of Commerce bad prepared ane I
voted unanimously a further report recommendina
the line via the Cape, and its continuation to Point di
Galle, Madras, and Calcutta. The proposal with re-.
Bard to the Aden line, it was however explained, hack
been brought l'orward with the view of acceleratinkc
the establishment of steam communication, but, as a.
difference of opinion existed relative to the choice of
the two routes, it had been thought best to leave theta
final selection to the Secretary of State, " only re .
questing his Lordship to adopt that which will be mo' st
advantageous, with reference chiefly to the most speedy
and most regular monthly connexion of the colony.
with Europe." The revenue for the half-year win
153,776/., and the expenditure 105,6951., showing a
surplus of 48,0811. The wreck of the Randolph ha d
caused attention to be directed to the necessity of
erecting a lighthouse on some point to th e
northward of the island. The position elf
commerce and agriculture was generally
considered favourable. The augur crop had
commenced on several estates, and promised to be
fair one, estimates in some quarters ranging as 'nigh
as 66,000 tons. During the last two months the
weather had heen dry, the nights unusually cold, and
the plantations had profited little, but the seasam was
nevertheless healthy.
The following information is extracted from the
latest Price Current :
" With respect to exchange, parties drawing for this
mail have shown a tendency to realize, and from par and
1 per cent. discount for credit draughts, rates have
risen to 3 per cent., at which transactions have been
made. Bank of England post bills have been ne-
gotiated as low as par, and Treasury bills do not find
takers at 2 per cent. premium. Sovereigns are only
worth from Ito 1 premium.
" A few parcels of the old crop of sugar have been
disposed of at firmer rates. There is scarcely any on
hand. The shipments to the 22d of July have been
114,813,6401 b. against 116,332,5871 b. in 1850 ;
103,545,4131 b. in 1849, and 113,937,7031 b. in 1848.
The quotations of sugar range from 4 dolls. 10c. to 6
dolls., according to quality.
" The rate of discount on local bills is 9 per cent. So-
vereigns 13,1 per cent. premium; British silver, par.
" With respect to domestic provisions it may be stated
that oxen are scarce, and those lately imported from
Madagascar being out of condition beef has been raised
to 20 cents. per lb. Since the late arrivals of wheat and
flour there has been a dulness in the market, the dealers
showing no inclination to get into stocks. The supplies
of rice have been extremely limited, but an arrival from
the coast of more than 7,000 bags will temporarily
meet wants. A sale has not yet been effected, but it is
said 3 dolls. 50e. have bet n retuted.
" Mules have been in demand, and there is still a good
ovr.ing for them in tho market.
" Freightage to the United Kingdom is quoted 2/. los.
to 21. 155."

IRELAND.
A VOICE FROM sT. JARLATBS.

DUBLIN, SATURDAY.—After a silence of unusual
duration Dr. 111‘11ale makes his re-appearanee in print
this evening, and in a short letter, richire,,sed to the
Freeman, announcing the receipt of some benefactions
towards the projected university, " his Grace" dilates
as follows :

" It will afford the friends of the Catholic Univer-
sity much pleasure to find the growing interest for its
success on the other side of the Atlantic. It is only a
few days ago that I received from the Very Rev. J.
11. Bl'llonough, Canada, a sum of above 20/. toward
that great object, together with a most interesting
letter, which 1 regret to have mislaid, as it is well
worthy of publication. Besides the money now re.
nutted, the writer adds that his parishioners will be
always disposed to contribute towards an object on
which so much depends on elevating the character of
Ireland, as well as the prostrate condition of its
pek ple.
" While foreign countries are thus bestirring them.
selves in our cause, it is gratifying to find that the
children of Ireland at home are alive to the advan-
tages of which the University must be productive.
Nor is this conviction of its beneficial influence on the
destinies of Ireland confined to Catholics. It is shared
by Proto.stants, who are liberal in the true sense cf
the word, and who, without compromising their own
religious opinions, are anxious to forward a great li-
terary institution from which everything bigotted and
uncharitable will be banished, and over which justice
and the most perfect regard to the rights of conscience
will preside. The following letter from Dr. Gray, the
consistent and enlightened advocate cf the rights of
his countrymen, will be read with pleasure by every
friend of sound education :

" Freenzan's Journal Office, Aug. 1, 1851.
" My dear Lord Archbishop—Will you do me the
favour of handing to the committee of the Irish Ca-
tholic University the inclosed 501. on behalf of the
proprietors of the Freeman's Journal, as their sub-
scription to the first great institution that has pro-
mised to enable the youth of Ireland to become great
and learned without either compromising their con-
science or being taught to disrespect their country ?
, I am, my dear Lord Archbishop, faithfully your
Grace's obliged friend, " JOHN GRAY.
6‘ Grace the Archbishop of Tuam.'
.6ln the name of the University Committee I beg
to express the gratitude which they must feel to the
spirited proprietors of the Freeman, who, not content
with the powerful advocacy of free education, afford
by their generous contribution the most unequivocal
proof of their ardent wishes for its success. With
such aid and such sympathy growing with the rising
prospects of the country, and filling a nation with
hope that its education will, as it should, be free, the
subsidizing system of education conscripts must cease
to disgrace those who administer and enslave Ore
who receive it. " Jour, Archbishop of Tuam.
There is "no mistake" here as to " his Grace's"
defiance of the Titles Assumption Act. The " lion"
shows no symptom of backing out.

REPRESENTATION OF GALWAY' COUNTY.

It is pretty well understood that at the next general
election Mr. W. H. Gregory, for a short time the
intelligent representative for the city of Dublin, will
offer his services to the constituency of his native
county (Galway). Mr. Gregory's politics are of the
Liberal or advanced Conservative school. He is in
favour of a fair trial for free trade, and for his advo-
cacy of that measure, aided by an unusual amount of
electioneering blunders and divisions among his sup.
porters, he was thrust out of the representation of the
" second city in the empire" to make room for Mr.
John Reynoldp, the present Member. The west of
Ireland can produce no more indulgent landlord than
Mr. Gregory, and from his extreme popularity among
all classes and creeds the chances of success are alto.
gether in his favour.

LIABILITY OF RAILWAYS.—SBOREDITCH COUNTY
COURT.—HOMES V. TUE EAST.: AND WEST INDIA Doc
JUNCTION COMPANY.- Ou Saturday an action was brought
by the plaintiff against the defendants to recover the sum of
11. Is., as compensation for the partial destruction of a
Malacca walking-cane. The plaintiff said he was travelling
to Blackwall by the defendants' railway. The door was ap-
parently shut When the trai❑ started, but it soon afterwards
flew open, and his stick fell out, and was run over by the
wheel of the carriage. The stick was worth.
inisoaruenilmh
IL is., and it was a favourite companion in b
er
rambles. Mr. Iluddlestone, who appearellifeorretbweadsenieonndsegniiia
contended that they were not liable.
if the plaintiff had used or-
gence proved against them,
dinary care the accident
Judge said it was eviden twhaoenulddo not
h have
o not ahp sued.p o T
rhl
d shortly after the train had started;
fastened, as it bad op
consequently the duteneef the railwa7 servants had been
negligently performed, the plaintiff was entitled to the
dgment of the court. As, however, the stick had only
"been partially injured, he would award the ;um of half.a.