The Sun.
London, England, 1851-11-04 00:00:00

TU4ESDAY EVENING,

NOVEMBER 4, 1851.

BAIL COURT.—(THIS DAY.)
Mr. Justice Edo eat in Banco for an hour this morn•
ing, and heard a few motions, which presented no fea.
ture of public interest. His Lordship afterwards sat al
nisi prius, and disposed of several undefended causes.

COMMON PLEAS-(T.I-11S DAY.)

HOWARD V. BARNARD.

This action was tried before the Lord Chief Justice
of this court at the last Surrey Assizes, when a verdict
was found for the plaintiff—damages ls.
Mr. Sergeant CHANNELL for the plaintiff now moved
for a new trial on the ground that if the verdict was not
a perverse verdict, it must be considered as clearly con-
trary to the evidence in reference to the amount of da-
mages, the liability of the defendant being clearly eats-
blistxd, and the jury having awarded only Is. damages as
compensation for a very serious injury. The action was
brought to recover damages for injury sustained in con-
sequence of the negligent construction of a stand on
Epsom race course, the plaintiff having purchased a
ticket from the defendant which gave him a right to a
seat on the stand. The erection broke down, and the
plaintiff received the injuries complained of. The owner-
ship, liability, and negligent construction, having been
admitted, the question at last resolved itself into the as-
sessment of damages. The defendant called no witnesses,
but his counsel, Mr. James, adroitly dwelt upon every
topic in his address which could call the attention of the
jury away from the real merits of the case
The COURT considered there ought to be no rule. It
was the special province of the jury the amount of da-
mages, and as it did not appear that the jury were in-
fluenced by any improper motives, the Court saw no
reason to disturb their verdict.—Application refased.

CLERKENWELL.—(THIS DAY.)
From the large body of persons yesterday assembled
at the Copenbagen•fields to present the address to Kos-
suth, it might have been supposed that the ordinary
number of night charges at this court would have been
greatly increased, but it is a gratifying fact that such
anticipations, if any had been made, were entirely dis-
appointed, there not having been one person charged
this morning with any offence or misconduct arising
from yesterday's proceedings. Mr. Corrie, the new me-
tropolitan magistrate, took his seat for the first time here
this morning.

HOP DUTY.

An Account of the Duty on Hops of the grtwth of the year
1851, distinguishing the districts, and the Old from the NOY
Duty.

Districts. Duty.
Barnstaple ... ... .. £25 031
Canterbury ... ... .. 40,846 17 2}
Cornwall ... ... ... 119 4;
Derby
••• ••• •.• 75 15 111
•••• • •• •••
Dorset 5 7 Si
Essex ... .. ... .. 974 5 62Gloucester ... ... ... 109 18 6
Hants .. ... ••• .. 11,711 16 2-1
Hereford ... ••• ... 26,141 14 0
Isle of Wight
—• ••• 8,629 5 7,-;
Leicester ... ... ...
9 10 11
Lincoln ... .. •.. 140 10 1i
Middlesex ... ... ...
37 10 22
Northampton ••• ••• 218 1
Reading ... ... ...
52 5 9
Rochester ... ... •. 90,282 3 1
Shrewsbury ... ... ... 218 34
Shahid ... ••• 506 184
Stourbridge ... ... ... 2,402 12 1 i
Suthalk •••
.. ... 1,043 0 11
Surrey ...
~,
... 299 5 511
Sussex ... ... ... 47,083 14 6
Taunton ... ... ... 22 24i
Wales Middle ••• ••• 78 12 10;
Ware ... ... ... ..• 37 16 10}
Worcester ... ... ... 6,967 13 34

£237,490 16 11i

Old duty at 1 12-20 d. per lb. 130,055 14 10 16-20
New duty at 8-20 d. per lb. 96,128 3
Additional duty of 5 per cent.,
per Act 3 Vic., c. 17 11,306 18 111

£237,490 16 11;1-
L. S. LYNE, A. and C. G.
Inland Revenue Office, Broad-street, Nov 3,1651.

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.
TATTERSALL'S—YESTERDAY.
Owing to the number of accounts to be settled for
Newmarket, the Epsom Autumn Handicap attracted
little notice until late in the evening, when a few trans-
actions were booked, Ischia and Stafford being most in
favour. Don Pedro was backed in the early part of the
afternoon at 5 to 1, but receded near the finish to 6 to 1,
layers. The following were the quotations at the close
of the room:—