The Sun.
London, England, 1851-05-08 00:00:00

WILLIAMS V. PURNWELL.
This was an sction brought against, the defeniqnt as
one of the acceptors of a prowisLy note for 10i. 104.
Defendant pleaded that it 114c1 been obtained by traud
and cavil; but did not appfar to support his plea.
The Court was then occupied for a considerable time
In hearing a case on a surveyor's bill. The facts were
Wholly devoid of interest, and the case had not con-
cluded when our reporter left.

MARLBRO'-ST KEE 1-o.' HIS DAY.)
°UTRUCTING THE POLICE AT THE EXHIBITION.—
zander Cremond, a coachman, in the service of a
of title, residing at No. 9, Arlington-street; Picea-
Y, Was brought before Mr. Bingham, charged with
Obstructing and assaulting police-constable Clarke, 268
while in the execution of his duty.
The officer stated, that about a quarter past six o'clock
Ott the previous evening he was on duty at the south
aide of the Exhibition, when he saw the prisoner with a
carriage
pair of horses, which he was driving back-
witrds and forwards before the entrance, so as to prevent
other carriages from taking up their parties. AS the
obstruction caused great confusion, witness went
41) and asked him if he was waiting fur any
~,.
r`rl°ll? The prisoner said, that was hie bust-
. nesa. Witness then told him, if he was
going to take up at the Exhibition, he must
Put on the rank with the other carriages. The prisoner
Cl once drove off to the opposite side, and, flourishing his
Whip over his bead, said he'd be d— if we would not
do as he liked. Complainant told him that the rules
and regulations required that he should put on the rank.
Huhprisoner replied that he did not care a d— about
her the rules or the regulations; and at this juncture
er Usk sty's carriage drove up, and on witness laying
'old of the horses' heads, in order to remove the pri-
"liars the latter, with his whip, struck him several times
;141083 the head and shoulders. Seeing that the prisoner
thel been drinking, he acquainted a lady who was in
carriage, of the prisoner's conduct. The lady then
got out of the carriage, and witness took the prisoner
into custody.
The prisoner, in reply to the charge, expressed his
Sorrow for what had occurred. He did not intend to
strike the officer—it was his horses that he was striking.
/le
Was ignorant of the ways of London, and being a
Zl:llnger, was unacquainted with the rules and reguta-
hoAe spoken of by the constable.
Biartmaat said it was the prisoner's duty to have
°baYed the orders of the police-constable. At such a
:lap as this, if the rules and regulations were not strictly
enforced, many accidents would, no doubt, take place;
;u as the defendant bad expressed his sorrow he (Mr.
I:lll3ghatu) would not deal so severely with the case as he
11. ()old have dune; but as a warning to other coachmen
`14.11 felt bound to commit the defendant for seven days
for the assault on the constable.

CLBRYING WATER LONG DISTANCES BY SYPHON.—
e°rreePondent, Mr. B. Sargent, of Doctor-street, Wal worth-
i;010100. who expresses a needless fear of being overlooked
Y us because he is a working bricklayer, suggests that water
nlaY be transferred, say to a distance of 800 feet,
.from a
riltecl to a tank, by means of a syphon pipe, which might be
Led with water, in the first place, through an opening or
branchextremities
Pipe at its highest level while stop-cocks at the. two
a..tremities were turned so as to prevent its egress. until the
;331.4" by which it entered was closed : the air might then
e allowed. to pass off at each extremity, and the pipe be
.filled up, when water from the pond would pass
through the syphon in a stream, once let on, into the tank—
sunk,
of course, to a lower level than that of the water in
the Pond; and would only cease to do so when the water in
both
receptacles reached the same level, after which its
action would be resumed whenever water was withdrawn
(An the tank by means of a common suction pump, as this
the
destroy the equilibrium ; thus, in effeci, c ,nstituting
,e tank a full well so long as the pond would supply it.—
Builder.

Th. LATE VISCOUNT NEWRY.ThiS Nobleman,
'Whose, demise was recorded in our paper of yesterday, was
Zlosst son of the Earl of Kilmorey, by Jane, daughter of
tirge Gun Cunninghame Esq., and was born in 1815.
_ Lordship married, in 1839,9 Anne Amelia, eldest daughter
F the late Hon. Sir Charles Colville, G.C.B. and by her
1 h 55 had issue several children, including a son born in 1842,
attd an infant born a few months since. The Noble Lord's
illness was of a protracted and severe nature. fie was re-
t‘urned to Parliament for the borough of Newry in 1841, and
as since continued to represent it, generally supporting
Conservative principles.
LIGHT AND PORTABLE COUCHES. A sort of we
Plus ultra of handiness in bedsteads for behoof of military
men, emigrants, tourists, hotel and lodging-house keepers,
and occupants of small houses short of bedrooms, has, by the
.• powerful aid of angle iron, been invented by and registered
for Mr. John Blair, of Irvine, Ayrshire. By an adaptation
of light angle iron in the construction of the framing of
portable beds and couches, not only is extreme portability
ere secured, but also peculiar facilities for erection and re-
?nova], whilst the constructive details possess great strength
'with little material. A bed frame on this principle, 6 feet
2 inches in length by 3 feet in breadth, when packed away
measures only a little more than 3 feet in length and 21,‘
be square. The weight of those already made is said to
ue only about 45 lbs. in all; and a still lighter sort, with a
slightly different construction, is spoken of as only to weigh
about 35 lbs. For camping out, a waterproof curtain is
added, which converts it into a kind of tent itself. Excur-
sionists may just need this sort of thing at the Great Exhi-
bition ; and, at all events, it will suit the lodging-house
keepers to a T angle- The inventor, Mr. Blair, however, is
one of those most useful and important public officers so
much needed in England—a procurator fiscal, or public pro-
secutor—a highly respectable class of men in Scotland, but
is not a manufacturer or tradesman : his invention, therefore,
is not yet in mercantile bands, but might speedily be made
available, we should think, if the metropolis become so over-
crowded as many anticipate. —Builder.