The Sun.
London, England, 1851-11-21 00:00:00

CALIFORNIAN GOLD.

The New York Herald gives the following returns
of the total amount of gold received at the Philadel-
phian Mint from January to Nov. 1 :

Dols.
... 35,727,900
... 40,07,522
33,,026,978

Total receipts of Californian gold
Total coinage ..• •••
Total'specie exported

The New York Herald proceeds to say that " this
is a very curious table. The receipts of Californian
gold are made up from the returns of the Mint at
Philadelphia. The aggregate does not, therefore, in-
chide all the gold. received from California. The ar-
rivals at New Orleans and other ports may not be in-
cluded in these stmtements. Steamers from Chagres,
bound to New York, have put into Norfolk, Sa-
vannah, and Mobile, at which points many passengers,
with gold, left and proceeded homewards. We have
not, therefore, any account of the receipts at those
places. It would not be extravagant to estimate the
receipts of Californian gold at all the Atlantic ports,
up to the Ist of November this year, independent of
those at the Mint, Philadelphia, at ten millions of
dollars, which would swell the aggregate to forty-five
millions of dollars. The shipments of specie and bul-
lion from this port to foreign countries figure up more
than thirty-three millions of dollars, which, deducted
from the amount of Californian gold deposited at the
Mint, leaves a balance of little more than two and a
half millions in our favour. So far as this compara-
tive statement shows anything, it appears that we have
been the distributors of Californian gold to foreign
countries—that we have sent it abroad nearly as fast
as we have received it—that it has merely passed
through this city on its way from San Franciso to the
great money markets of Europe."

LAW INTELLIGENCE.
COURT OF EXCHEQUER, Nov. 20.
Sittings in Middlesex, at Nisi Prius, in Michaelmas
Term, before Mr. Baron MARTIN and Common
Juries.)

ROPER v. LEVY.
Mr. E. James. and Mr. Hawkins conducted the
case for the plaintiff; and Mr. MAChambers with Mr.
Temple, appeared for the defendant.
This was an action to recover the sum of 1001. for
work and labour done and performed by the plaintiff,
at the request of the defendant.
Mr. JAMES, :tin stating the case for the plaintiff,
said that the plaintiff carried on the business of a
builder at Grav esend, and the defendant, whose name
could not be but. familiar to the court and to the pub-
lic, had been a sheriff's officer, in the course of which
occupation he had been the terror of very many of
her Majesty's loving subjects, and had been in th.?
habit of harassing numbers of them by his "attentions"
for a long series of years. It chanced, however, that
of late the defendant had changed his avocation, and
that while the earlier portion of his life had been ap -
plied to the annoying, alarming, and even to " taking"
certain members of the great metropolitan family, h e
appeared now to have repented of his sins, and had
resolved upon endeavouring to make them amends by
providing them with amusement for the mind.—
(Laughter.) With that view, then, the defendant
had taken the lease, from the commissioners of the
town of Gravesend, of the Terrace-pier and Gardens
at that place, both of which he had fitted up for the
purpose of giving evening entertainments upon a plan
somewhat similar to Vauxhall and other places of the
like description. Now, he did not mean to a sent that
this undertaking had been embarked in by the defen-
dant out of pure philanthropy, for the truth was that
that gentleman had an eye to pecuniary getin in the
matter. Among other objects of attraction Ivhich the
defendant had provided for the public, had ,been one
which he had employed the present plaintiff to carry
out for him. The plaintiff was accordingly instructed
to erect a large tower, which was describe d as the
" Skeleton Tower," and.the defendant adveraised that
from this Skeleton Tower " The Atlas o f Mount
Etna" would descend every night in a blaz e of fire-
works, standing upon two large globes Now, it ap-
peared to him that the defendant must have a some-
what confused notion of the heathen mytholcgy, when
he put his " Atlas" upon the " globe," inste.ad of the
" globe" being put upon the shoulders of his, " Atlas."
—(Laughter.) But as to the work perform ed by the
plaintiff, he, in addition to this " Skeletons Tower,"
had also built an orchestra, a shooting gallery, pay-
boxes, and other things, all of which constituted items
in the:plaintiff's demand.
The plaintiff was examined, and proved tb e amount
of work done. He had given credit for payments
given evidence. in this
o amountingrossfe t x
a mo
ifin6e/d. Is
H. 2ei d.
had
matter before the arbitrator. In the descent from
the tower there were an iron cradle and two globes,
upon which Mr. Henrian rested as the Atlas of
Mount Etna." The arrangement was, that the
globes were to look as though Atlas stood upon them
as they went round, but in reality he did riot do so.
A. Mr. Lewis and an officer of the Rifles bad gone
down.—(Laughter.) He used to stand champagne,
and was a good fellow.--(Renewed laughter.)
Mr. CHAMBERS, on the part of the defendant, con-
tended that the plaintiff, in truth, bad been p aid, and
that the defendant had a good answer to the action,
for he had been summoned to the County Court at
Gravesend, where the matter had been referred by
the order of the Judge, and an award subsequently
made.
Evidence of these facts was then gone into.
Mr. JAMES urged, however, that the award of the
arbitrator had been set aside. With regard to the al-
leged payments, he challenged his Learned Friend to
produce the defendant's receipts.
Eventually a verdict was entered upon several of
he issues for the plaintiff, with damages for 271., and
[eave was given to move to enter a verdict for the ba-
ance proved.