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

BAIL COURT.-(THIS DAY.)
Mr. Justice Erie sat 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 at
nisi prius, and disposed of several undefended causes.

COMMON PLEAS.-(THIS DAY

UOWARD 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 Is.
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 esta-
blished, 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 refused.

CLERKEN `YELL.-(THIS DAY.)
From the large body of persons yesterday assembled
at the Copenhagen-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.

NOVEMBER 41

Districts.
Barnstaple ...
Canterbury ...
Cornwall ...
Derby•••
Dorset
Essex
Gloucester

Hants ..
Hereford ~
Isle of Wight
Leicester
•••
Lincoln
Middlesex •••
Northampton
Reading
•••
Rochester ..,
Shrewsbury •••
Sheffield ...
Stourbridge ...
Suffolk ...

Surrey
Sussex

Taunton .
Wales Middle
Ware
Worcester

18b 1.

_HOP DUTY.

Duty.
£2 0 3
40,846 17
1 19 4i
75 15 11i
5 7 8i
974 5 Ci
109 18 6

... 11,711 16 21
... 26,141 14 0
•.• 8,629 5
9 10 11
140 10 1}
•• 37 10 2i
•• 2 18 1
•• 52 5 93-
90,282 3 1
.• 2 18 3k
506 1
•• 2,402 12
• 1,043 011
299 5 5i
. 47,083 14 6
• 22 2 44
78 12 10*
• 37 16 10i
• 6,967 13 3i

237,490 16 11i

Old duty at 1 1240 d. per lb. 130,055 14 10 16-20
New duty at 8-20 J. per lb. 96,128 3 1 4-20
Additional duty of 5 per cent.,
per Act 3 Vic., c. 17

... 11,306 18 113

£237,490 16 11
L. S. LYNE, A. and C. G,
Inland Revenue Office, Broad -street, Nov 3, 1851.

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.
. TA rrEasALL's—YESTERDAY. _

Owing to the numberof 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:—

EPSOM AUTUMN HANDICAP.
9 to 2 agst Mr. R. E. Oliver's Ischia—take 5 to 1
6 to 1 agat Mr. Douglas's Don Pedro
7 to 1 agst Mr. Palmer's Stafford
10 to 1 agst Mr. J. Shepherd's Alp—taken
10 to 1 agat Captain Hay's Little George—taken
10 to 1 agst Mr. Stevens's Britannia—taken
DERBY.
20 to 1 agat Lord Zetlaud's Augur—taken
1,000 to 45 agst Lord Ribblesdala s Kingston—ditto
25 to 1 agst Mr. S. Hawke's Womersley
1,000 to 20 agat Lord Caledon's Barbarian—taken
1,000 to 20 agst Mr. J. Arnold's Little Harry—taken
1,000 to 15 agat Sir J. Hawley's Blackstone—taken
Womersley was backed for three or four hundred
pounds, at 1,000 to 30, 1,000 to 35, and 25 to 1.
Sir Joseph Hawley has announced his intention to
retire from the turf, and to send all his horses to Tat-
tersall's to be sold without reserve on Monday week;
the brood mares will not be put up until the spring.
EPSOM AUTUMN MEETING.
EPSON, MONDAY NIGHT, SEVEN O'CLOCK..—The
following are the arrivals upon to the present time :
For Tuesday's Engagements—Handsome Doe—De-
ceitful—Prestige—Bloomer—Fallow Deer—Florence—
Odessa colt—Merry Bird—colt by Touchstone, out of
Fugleman's dam—filly by Laneroost, ont of Cytherea—
The Monk—Lady Blanche—Dorothea—colt by Faugh-
a-ballagh, out of Delia—c by Cotherstone, out of Layla
—Kate—f by Epirus, out of Joanna—f by Ithuriel, dam
by The Saddler—Sauter-la-Coupe—Alp—Achyranthes
—Clarissa Miss Flyaway Stafford Britannia
Ischia—Don Pedro Ingratitude—Simplicity—Reple-
tion—Quadroon—Madame Wharton—Wee Mickey— I
Teeswater—c by Charles the Twelfth, dam by Touch-
stone—Laundrymaid—Snaffers Arlette Shropshire
Witch—Manifold—Nauteh Girl—Narcissus—Petticoats
—Gipsy Boy—Miss Woolgar—Hampton—Herschel—
Sabra—and Brawn.

For the Steeplechases and Hurdle-race—British Yeo-
man Melford Maria Day —Spring Buck Maria
Monk—Victress The Briar —Seavenger—Gulnare—
Jack Able—Link-boy—Whitley—Sir Charles—Forest
Lad—Auctioneer Loddington —Docility—Belmon t
Michael Brunton—Gimcrack—and Torpor. Some others
are expected.

IRELAND.
(BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.)
DUBLIN, MONDAY EVENING}.--In the Court of
Queen's Bench this day the case of the proprietor of
the World newspaper versus Sir William Somerville
was brought before their Lordships. Mr. John Per-
rin was counsel for the defendant.

Sir William Somerville, the Chief Secretary of
Ireland, moved that the bill of particulars furnished
in this case by the plaintiff, Mr. James Birch, the
proprietor of the World newspaper, be amended, by
setting out a full and accurate statement, which
would enable the defendant to know for what the
action was brought. Sir W. Somerville bad made
an affidavit, in which he stated that the bill of parti-
culars furnished with the declaration did not afford
him the necessary information to prepare his defence,
and that it was ,necessary that he should have it for
that purpose.

M'essis. Whiteside, Q.C., and M'Donagb, Q,C..
opposed the motion, on grounds of irregularity and
upon the merits. The plaintiff Lad made affidavit,
in which he stated that the action was one for work
and labour, and was brought to recuver the sum of
6,300/. from the defendant for services rendered to
him as chief secretary, 6,0001. for writing and pub-
lishing articles in support of the Government for two
years and a half, and 3001. for newspapers forwarded
to various parties by the defendant's direction during
that period. The affidavit of Mr. Birch further stated
that Sir W. Somerville well knew what the nature of
the action was, and counsel contended that, under the
new rules, it was incumbent on the defendant to
have sworn that be did not know the nature of the
demands to entitle him to an amended bill of particu-
lars. It was also relied on that the copy of the affi-
davit of the defendant furnished to the plaintiff was
not in compliance with the Act of Parliament, as it
did not appear by the jurat to have been sworn.
Mr. Perrin baying shortly replied, the Chief
Justice said the motion should be refused upon the
technical points raised against it, but they would not
give costs, as it was evident that the bill of particu-
lars furnished was an illusory document calculated to
mislead—it was, in fact, a misnomer to call it a bill
of particulars.

A second edition of the Leinster Express of this
morning contains the following particulars of another
murder in the Queen's County. Between six and
seven o'clock on Saturday evening Edward Horan, a
stonemason and farmer, accompanied by a number of
men, entered the bawn of John Flynn, of Brittas, near
Mountmellick, and commenced levelling an outhouse
to which he bad set up an imaginary claim, though
it is two years since he bad been dispossessed of it.
Flynn came out to resist the work of demolition,
when the party tuned on him in a ferocious manner,
and beat him with sticks and pitchforks to such a
degree as to leave him unable to stand. Flynn's wife
was also beaten severely, and received two stabs of
a pitchfork. The party having levelled the out-house
left the scene of outrage. Flynn lingered in great
agony until twelve o'clock yesterday, when he died.
—Times.

MILITARY FORCE IN TUE METROPOLIS.—The
following is the official return of the present military force
in London and vicinity, which comprises the different
changes of quarters that have taken place since the close of
the caeat Exhibition :—Cavalry-Ist Regiment of Life
Guards, Albany-barracks, Regent's Park; 2d ditto, Knights-
bridge-barracks, Hyde Park; Royal Horse Guards (Blue),
Windsor (Cuirassiers formiug the cavalry of the Household
Brigade) ; Ist Regiment of Royal Dragoons, from Barnet
to Brighton ; 4th ditto Light Dragoons, from Hampton
Court to Vt oolwich ; Bth ditto Royal Irish Hussars, Houns-
low; and 17th ditto Lancers, from Woolwich to Canterbury.
Infantry—let Battalion of the Grenadier Foot Guards, from
Windsor to the Wellington-barracks, Birdcage-walk, St.
James's Park; 2d Battalion ditto, from Knightsbridge-bar-
racks to Windsor; 3d Battalion ditto, from St. George's
barracks, Trafalgar-square, to St. John's Wood-barracks,
Regent's Park. Coldstream Guards Ist Battalion, from the
Tower of London to Chichester; 2d ditto, from the Welling-
ton-barracks to Portsman-street-barracks. Scotch Fusileer
Guards-Ist Battalion, from Portman-street-barracks toi the
Tower; 2d Battalion ditto, from
the
itetrys-woofotte ilaks
iaficeksßrigade—lst Battalion, Dover; 2d
At Woolwich, the Royal Horse and
House-
holdto
ditto, S t
Brigade).
Canterbury.ig Georgead e '
.- b a
Rifle
Foot Artillery, ditto Engineers and Sappers and Miners,
and besides the enr ed
an
battalionlnotEßChemlseranoDuEta-peAnNsiD SUICIDE.oners. ours,
and one division of Royal •
Saturday
eveningANO considerable excitement was created PnliSoho by the
discovery that Mrs. Mary Ann Blakeman, aged 26, the wife
of a very respectable music printer, residing at 45, Greek-
street, Soho, bad destroyed the life of her only child, three
months old, by cutting its throat with a carving-knife, and
g
committed suicide subsequently by cutting her own throat
with the same instrument. The unfortunate young woman
has not been well since her confinement, having suffered
very much from nervous debility, and has not from that time
been without a nurse and medical attendant. About eight
o'clock on Saturday evening her nurse left her for about ten
minutes, and on her return found the door locked. From
the desponding state deceased has lately been in, she sus-
pected something was wrong. and had the door immediately
forced open, when an awful sight presented itself. The poor
child and its mother were both lying on the bed weltering in
gore, and a large carving-knife was by
the side of the latter,
covered with blood. Mr. Marshall, surgeon, 53, Greek-
street, was immediately sent for, and his assistant, Mr. Jack-
son, promptly arrived, but in both cases pronounced life to
bbeemexe,tirencet.y
beThmeerfeeeelienegilay
iomfatghienehdutsbbeann hisdd,e.seornibed.A
comingn
in-
quest is to be held on the bodies, before Mr. Bedford, coroner
for
Westminster.
LADY AND MISS PEEL.—Lady Peel and her
daughter, Miss Peel, have arrived at Whitehall-gardens from
Brighton, where, after making a short stay, they purpose
leaving again for the country. We may here' add, that there
is no truth in the many reports which have been lately set
afloat, announcing marriages in this family.

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