The Sun.
London, England, 1851-08-13 00:00:00

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THE SUN,

thirds had been taken up, that arrangement of course
had fallen to the ground.
After some further discussion tFe meeting sepa-
rated, a vote of thanks having previously been given
to the chairman.

SECONDARIES'.--(THIS DAY.)
(Before Mr. Secondary POTTER.)
COHEN V. VALLEY.
This was an action to recover tho sum of 10/. 10s. on
a bill of exchange.
Defendant, who appeared in person, pleaded that he
did not accept the bill, but now admitted that he had
done so, but that the real amount due was only 7/. 165.,
the bill having been made for the larger sum in order to
get it discounted.
The Learned SECONDARY said that did not avail the
defendant here.
The defendant then submitted that the action was bad
in law, as the whole transaction took place in Middlesex.
The Learned SECONDARY said the plaintiff had brought
his action at the peril of his costs.
Defendant asked the Learned Secondary to certify to
deprive plaintiff of costs, and submitted he had power
under the amended Small Debts Act.
The Learned SECONDARY declined, and left defendant
to go before one of the Judges.

GREENWICH.—(THIS DAY.)
LORD RANELAGII'S CASE.—lmmediately after the
disposal of the night charges the case of Lord Ranelagh
and his friend Mr. Rowand against the policeman and
porter in the service of the Greenwich Railway Com-
pany, and also against Sergeant Carpenter, of the Me-
tropolitan Police force, was called, Mr. Seeker being the
magistrate presiding.
Mr. Clarkson, the barrister, appeared for Sergeant
Carpenter, Mr. Ballantine for Lord Ranelagh, and Mr.
Bodkin for the Greenwich Railway Company. The
court was densely crowded.
Thomas Heron Jones Viscount Ranelagh deposed,
that on Sunday evening, the 3d inst., he had been dining
with some friends at the Trafalgar Hotel, Greenwich,
and left there at ten, or a little before, and arrived at the
station shortly after that hour. Was perfectly sober.
The railway station was densely crowded. The barrier
was about being closed, and the lady who was with him,
Mrs. Captain Jennings, had partly got through the gate,
and he (witness) put his hand forward to prevent the
gate closing upon the arm of the lady. Had a cane in
his right hand. The man Widows seized witness by
the collar, and Price also collared him and dragged
him within the barrier. They dragged him
about, and his Lordship repeatedly requested them to
take their hands off, or he would strike them, but he did
not strike. When Sergeant Carpenter arrived witness
was pinned against the wall by the two defendants,
Widows and Price. When his Lordship was being re-
moved, two or three persons in the crowd said, " You
have struck the constables," and witness replied, " I
have not, and shall not strike any one intentionally."
Was so dragged about that his gold pin was lost, and his
stock was all but torn off his neck. His Lordship was
not cross.examined.

Septimus Edmund Carlisle, of 4, Park•place, St.
James's, and of the firm of Carlisle and Co., of Mincing-
lane, tea brokers, was at Greenwich on the evening of
the 3d inst., and, accompanied by a friend, he arrived
at the railway station shortly before 10 o'clock. There
was a great crowd, so great that he was almost suffocated.
Saw a man get over the barrier and strike at the railway
officer, and the crowd cried out to the man " Give it
him." Witness was not of Lord Ranelagh's party and
did not see his Lordship on that day. Indeed the crowd
was so great, that witness was forced forward into a
carriage and he lost his friend. There were two men
keeping the gate, but witness did not see their faces and
could not identify them.
Evidence taken on a former day corroborative of the
statement of Lord Ranelagh was then read over, and
Lord Ranelagh was bound over to prosecute the com-
pany's servants, Price and Widows, at the Maidstone
sessions.

The case against Sergeant Carpenter was then gone
into and disposed of in the same way.

THE ARMY.
INFANTRY OF THE LINE.

The following statement exhibits the distribution of
the infantry of the line, showing the order in which the
regiments embarked for and returned from foreign ser-
vice. Corrected to the 25th July, 1851:—
REGIMENTS AT HOME. (Those in italics are in Ire-
land).-40th, 2d battalion Ist Royals, 43d Light Infantry,
85th Light Infantry, 57th and 31st Regiments (re-
turned in 1846). Ist battalion, 71st, 48th Regiment,
89th, 39th, 14th, 9111, 62d, 17th, 52d Light Infantry, 63d,
81st (1847). Ist battalion, 12th, 35th, 27th, 90th Light
Infantry, Ist battalion, 91st, 33d, 82d, 46th, 21st Fusi-
liers, 28th Regiment, 50th Queen's Own, 77th, 93d
Highlanders, 4th King's Own, Ist battalion 23d (1848).
7th Fusiliers, 95th Regiment, Ist battalion Rifle Brigade
(1850). 88th, 19th Regiment, Ist battalion Ist Royals
(1851). 79th Highlanders, 38 (on the voyage home).
REGIMENTS IN INDIA.-18th, Royal Irish, Bengal;
80th Bengal; head-quarters embarked in 1837. 51st
Light Infantry, Madras; 94th Regiment, Madras (1838).
25th Regiment, Madras (1839). 22d Bombay, 96th
and 98th, Bengal (1841). 29th, Bengal; 78th High-
landers, Bombay; 80th Bengal ( ). 84th Madras;
86th Bombay (1842). 53d, Bengal (1844). 61st, Bengal;
Ist Battalion, 60th, Bombay (1845). Bth King's, Bom-
bay; 24th Bengal; 32d, Bengal (1846). 64th Bombay;
83d, Bombay; 70th, Bengal ; 87th, Fusileers, Bengal ;
75th, Bengal (1849). Number of officers and men in
India, 27,124.

REGIMENTS IN OTHER EASTERN POSSESSIONS.—
New South Wales-99th Regiment (landed in 1842),
58th Regiment (1844), 11th Regiment (1845), 65th Re-
giment (1846) ; these four regiments comprise 3,945
officers and men. Hong Kong-59th Regiment, 609
officers and men (1849). Ceylon-15th Regiment (1845)
and 37th Regiment (1846); these two regiments com-
prise 1,760 officers and men. Mauritius-12th R. B.
(1842) and sth Fusiliers (1847); these two regiments
comprise 1,727 officers and men. Cape of Good Hope-
91st R. B. (1842), 45th Regiment (1843), 73d Regiment
(1845), 6th Regiment (1846), 74th Highlanders, 2d
Queen's, and 2d Battalion 60th Rifles (1851).
PERFORMING THE MEDITERRANEAN AND AMERICAN
ROTATION SYSTEM.—British North America-42d
Highlanders, 97th, Rifle Brigade (2d battalion), 20th
Regiment (1841), 23d R. 8., 71st R.B. (1842), 72d High-
landers (1844), 66th and 54th (1845). The foregoing
comprise 7,517 officers and mon. West Indies and Ber-
muda-34th (1845), 16th, 56th (1846), 36th, 69th
(1847), 67th (1848); these comprise 4,1E3 officers and
men. Mediterranean-76th, 44th (1848), 26th Regi-
ment (1850), 30th, 49th, 41st, 47th, 92d Highlanders,
55th, 68th Light Infantry, 3d Buffs, 13th Light In-
fantry (1851); comprehending a force of 8,328 officers
and men.

Hence it appears that there aro now at home, or on
the voyage homeward, 40 regiments ; in India, 24 ; in
other eastern possessions, 14, and two reserve batallions;
in the Mediterranean, 12; in the West Indies and Ber-
muda, 6; and in British North America, 7, and two re-
serve battalions. The total strength of the British In-
fantry regiments abroad is 60,332 officers and men.
The period of reckoning the foreign service of a corps
has been reckoned from the date of the embarkation of
the head-quarters thereof. In the case of the 96th Re-
giment this makes a material difference, as that corps
embarked its first convict-guard one year and nine
months before the head-quarters sailed for England.
The numerical statement of the troops at the several
stations has been taken carefully from the army esti-
mates of the present year, and supposes each corps to
be up to its establishment—the depot is of course de-
ducted.

TEMPERANCE RUSTIC TEA PARTY.--On Monday
a grand teetotal gathering took place in the Vale of Health.
Hampstead Heath. At an early hour in the afternoon several
hundreds of the friends and admirers of the temperance cause
had assembled at the appointed locality, where tea was pro-
vided for between three and four hundred persons. The
occasion of this novel assembly was the celebration of the
opening of the Camden-town Temperance Society in con-
nexion with that of Kentish-town. At the conclusion of
the tea a temporary platform was erected on the heath, and
Mr. King having been elected to the chair, the public meet-
ing was formally opened. The numerous assemblage was
successively addressed by Mr. Joseph Livesey, of Preston;
Messrs. S. Shirley, J. Adams, Davis, and other warm tem-
perance advocates. Many of the speakers entered into inte-
resting details of their experience as teetotallers. The meet-
ing did not break up until dusk.
DIVISIONS IN THE HOUSE OF COMMONS.—A curious
paper has been published with the votes of the House of
Commons, enumerating the several divisions that took place
during the session of 1851, just closed. By this return it
appears that the Ecclesiastical Titles Assumption Bill was
not only the most important, but by far the most troublesome
measure of the session. The number of divisions altogether
amount to no less than 48 on the several readings and clauses.
The second greater number
to 28 divisionsberofdivisionswas in Committee of
Supply,altogether, isfar
which amount
from an unusual number, and which is not to be wondered at
when the great number of items included in the miscellaneous
estimates are considered, and when it is well known that in
no other part of the business of the House are the Commons
more naturally, and properly, jealous, than in the voting of
the public money. It is worthy of remark, however, that
notwithstanding these 28 divisions on the money votes, not
a single item was altered, or cut down from the very econo-
mical and careful propositions that were submitted to the
House from the several departments of the Government.
The third class of measures that gave rise to the greatest
number of divisions was the question of admitting the Jews
to Parliament. Besides the divisions on the Bill itself, there
were no less than eight divisions on the personal case of Mr.
David Salomons, and one respecting Baron Rothschild...-
Times.

E' FFECTS OF THE LATE FLOOD.—EIGHT BRIDGES
DESTROYED.-The floods which occurred in the earl), part
of last week have proved destructive to property andlife. In
addition to the fatal accident to the two men which we
printed, we are informed that eight bridges were swept away
The stacks of turf being cafried by the streams to the bridges
and choked up the arches, they were forced to yield to the
pressure. In several places new beds have been formed by
the streams, seriously damaging the growing crops.—Ar-
magh Guardian.
CRIME IN FRANCE. —A labourer at a wharf was,
on Wednesday, caught in the act of robbery in the Faubourg
St. Antoine. He was taken before the commissary of police,
who, in the evening, ordered him to be conveyed by threo
soldiers to the Prefecture of Police. He balked on quietly
until he arrived near the Hospice des Enfans Trouvds, when,
all at once, he pushed violently against two of the soldiers,
and, being of great strength, knocked them down. He then
took to flight. The third soldier pursued. Finding that he
was in danger of being caught the man placed his back to
the wall and attempted to disarm the soldier. A working
man, who came up, assisted the latter, whereupon the thief
turned on him, and by a sudden movement gave him a vio-
lent kick in the breast. The poor man fell to the ground
vomiting blood, and died in a few hours after being conveyed
to the hospital. It has not been ascertained who he was.
The assailant was secured and sent to the Prefecture of
Police.

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