The Sun.
London, England, 1860-02-22 00:00:00

LAW INTELLIGENCE.—(This Day.)

COURT OF CHANCERY.
(Before the Lords Justices.)
♦PPEAL MOTION -- ELDERTON V. CAMROVS COALBROOKE
STEAM AND SWANSEA RAILWAY COMPANY.
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This was an appeal motion from a decision of Vice-
Chancellor Sir John Stuart, declining to adjudicate in
this cause pending arbitration. Objections were taken to
surcharges of two sums of £1,200 and £l,BOO in accounts
taken before the Master, and the proof tendered before
the arbiter.

Their lordships were of opinion that it was not compe-
tent to dispose of these preliminary objections at present, and
refused this appeal motion, with costs, without prejudice to
any question that may be raised on the merits.

COURT OF BANKRUPTCY.
(Before Mr. Commissioner Goulburn.)
IN RE EVANS.

This was a certificate meeting, I;nd the bankrupt was
described as a solicitor of Farnham. Tho official assignee
informed the court that the bankrupt was absent, and the
solicitor to the assignees expressed an opinion that the bank-
rupt would not make his appearance to-day; in fact, he
had written a letter setting forth that, in consequence of
his property not having been converted, ho should not at
this time apply for his certificate.

Mr. Lawrance, for the creditors, urged upon the court to
proceed with and determine the case. An attempt to serve
the bankrupt with a summons to attend had been unsuc-
cessful.

The Commissioner doubted it he could go on, the bank-
rupt not being present.

Mr. Lawrance quoted the 198th section of the act, and a
case in which Commissioner Fano heard a cause in the
absence of the bankrupt, and refused the certificate. This
was a case in which the bankrupt (Evans) disputed the
adjudication, but in March, 1858, he had absconded.

The Commissioner asked if, under all the circumstances,
a criminal prosecution ought not to be ordered ?

Mr. Lawranco—What is the use of doing so in the ab-
sence of the bankrupt ! The bird has flown, and the bank-
rupt was too astute a lawyer to remain within the jurisdic-
tion of the Court. This was a case in which, although
uncertificated as a bankrupt, the bankrupt had obtained
his certificate, enabling him to practise as an attorney, and
it was a matter that ought to be well ventilated for the
protection of the public.

Mr. Commissioner Holyroyd here arrived, and advised
that a special jury should be appointed, and that some
exertion should be made to notify the same to the ab-
sentee.

Mr. Lawrence agreed to this, and an adjournment was
ordered for one month.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE-(THIS DAY.)

MARLBOROUGH- STREET.

A PICKPOCKET AT THE HAYMARKET THEATRE.--Thos.
Welsh, 22, was charged with attempting to pick pockets at
the Haymarket Theatre.
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Charles Brown, 304 A, said that about 12 the previous
night, as the audience were leaving the theatre, he saw the
prisoner, who was inside the theatre, place himself beside
two ladies as they were passing out, and while they were
waiting at the door for their carriage, he saw the prisoner
put his left hand into one of the ladies' pockets. The lady
looked him full in the face, and he did not succeed in
getting anything. The prisoner then walked back to the
dress-circle, and followed two other ladies from that
place to the door, and again put his left hand into one of
their pockets, but was again unsuccessful. He (Brown)
then followed him into the theatre again, when he followed
two ladies and a gentleman outside up to their carriage
door, and he there saw him put his hand down by the left
side of one of the ladies, and he then took him into custody.
Prisoner put some questions to the constable, but they
only had the effect of strengthening the case against him.
Sergeant Cole, 23 C, said that in 1855 he had the prisoner
in custody, when he was discharged; on May 25, 1857,
prisoner had three months for picking pockets ; and on
April 21, 1858, he was tried at the Westminster Sessions
for felony and discharged.

Mr. Beadon committed the prisoner for three months
with hard labour.

ATTEMPTED SUICIDE —STRONG E CASE.—Phoebe Taylor,
of 9, West-street, Golden-square, was charged with attempt-
ing to commit suicide by taking laudanum, appearing in a
very dejected state.

Weal, 204 C, said that on the previous night about a
quarter past 11 while passing along Grosvenor-street, Gros-
venor-square, he heard a sound as of a cork being pulled out
of a bottle, and on looking round saw the defendant with a
bottle at her mouth. He took the bottle out of her hand
and at the time she exclaimed, " I've done it again." He
asked her where she got the laudanum, some:of which was in
the bottle, and she said she had bought one pennyworth at
the chemist's in Davies-street, and a second pennyworth
at another chemist's. On going to the chemist in Davies-
street, he ■aid he had sold her a pennyworth, and offered
the defendant an emetic, but she refused it. Upon this he
took her to the St. George's Hospital, where an emetic was
administered, but the doctor said he could trace no lauda-
num.

Mr. Beadon asked the defendant what induced her to act
as she had done.

Defendant said she did nor know.
Weals said she told him that she had taken two penny-
worth before, and that she meant to make away with her-
self.

The defendant again said she had nothing to say, and
she was remanded for a week.

THIS 'Mrs SHIPPING.

Lownorr, Feb. 22.—Wind this day at noon, N.W.;
moderato breeze and cloudy.
PORTSM9UTII, Feb. 25.—Wind, W.N.W.—Sailed—Her
Majesty's steamer Alecto, for Coast of Africa—H.M.'s str.
Falcon, for the eastward.
PLYMOUTH, Feb. 21.—Wind, N.E.—Sailod—Mariner,
for the Cape f Good Hope.
HULL, Feb. 21.—Arrived—Alster (as.), from Antwerp.
Sailed—liVarjakka, for Moulmain.
BRIDLINGTON, Feb. 21.—Wind, N.E.—Arrived—The
Holyrood (as), from Rotterdam for Leith—Jane Hughes,
from Port Nadoc for Newburgh, With damage to bows, loss
of bowsprit, slipped both anchors, &c. having been in con-
tact with the Holyrood
fromYarmouth to
Newcastle, with serious damage to broadside, having boon
in collision with the Margaret, from Southampton to Sun-
derland.

PILL, Feb. 21.—Wind N.N.E.—A.rrived—Hedwig,
from Bremen for St. Thomas; Parga, from Cork for Gre-
nada.

DOVER, Fob. 21.—Wind N.N.W., strong.—Arri ved
British Oak, from Charleston, with damage in midships,
having been in collision.

➢Y ELIICTUIC TELEGRAM)

SOUTHAMPTON, Wednesday Morning.

Wind N.

Arrived, Feb. 20.—Tiber and British Lady, from New •
port ; Alceete and Ceylon, from Cardiff; Dispatch, steamer,
from Jersey; Meridian, from Rouen; Satelle, from Neath.
Sailed, Feb. 20.—Ceylon, steamer, for Alexandria ; Cou-
rier and Atalanta, steamers, for Jersey ; Georges and La
Poule, for Cherbourg ; Alliance, steamer, for Havre.
Arrived, Feb. 21.—New York, steamer, from Bremen ;
Havre, steamer, from Havre; Foyle, steamer, from Lon-
don; Empress Eugenie' steamer, from Liverpool; Violet,
from Waterford ; Abbotsford, from Sunderland ; 'Welling-
ton, from London ; Pursuit, from Hartlepool; Virtue, from
Cork ; Martha, from Cardiff; Elizabeth and Richard, from
Port Madoc ; Bird, from Cowes.
Sailed, Feb. 21.—St. Nicholas, for New York ; Dispatch,
steamer, for Jersey ; Foyle, steamer, for Dublin ; Empress
Eugenie, steamer, for London ; Theodore, for ilanelly.

Wind S.SW. LivEamioL, Wodnosday Morning.
Arrivod—lndofatigable, from De Greav©.

SUBMA.RINP. AND BRITISH TELEGRAPH.)
GRAVESEND, Wednesday Morning.
Wind N.W. tide second hours flood ; weather cloudy.
Arrived, Feb. 2l—Raphael, from Algoa Bay.
Arrived, Feb. 22.—Leo, steamer, and Batavia, staemer,
from Rotterdam ; Sinai, from Havre; Orontes, from Ja.
maica : Triton, steamer, from Calais.
Sailed.—Belgium, for Ostend.

DEAL, Wednesday Morning.
Wind N., light.
Passed.—ller Majesty's ship Doe, from Woolwich, for
Portsmouth ; Empress Eugenie, screw steamer, from the
West; Queen of Clyde, from Calcutta—both for London;
Zodiac, from London, for Brest; Balgowrie, barque, from
the North for the West.
Sailed, in tow.—All the homeward bound, for London.

THE SNO TV AND ITS EFFECT

The Falkirk Herald says :—" For some days
back, from earliest dawn till latest dusk, a most in-
cessant firing has been heard on all sides of the
town. A lengthened storm had driven the feathered
denizens of the woods from their sylvian seclusion,
near to man's habitation, and that in the enfeebled
condition caused by extreme cold and lack of food,
they presented a temptation and fell an easy prey
even to an inexperienced marksman. Our hedge-
rows and garden shrubberies have literally been
infested with lurking fellows armed with every
variety of rusty muskets, some of whi,:n, to appear-
ance, it would have been a debateable point wherein
consisted the greater danger of firing or being fired
at. In the midst of half-a-dozen onlookers, a sports-
man, seemingly from some of the mining villages,
blew a wood pigeon into pieces as it was resting ca
the snow a few yards from the muzzle of his gun.
Numerous poaching cases have been detected, but
many have occurred which will doubtless escape de-
tection. We should gladly hail a thaw for no other
reason than than that it will put an end to the idle-
ness and disreputable practice in which so many of our
labouring population, especially the mining portion
of it, have been at this season tempted to indulge."
The Perthshire Advertiser remarks—" With the
grounds so covered with snow, and subjected to the
intensity of such a severe frost, sheep on hill farms
must have suffered greatly ; indeed we hear that
large numbers are dying among the °dills, and
that those which live are kept in existence at a
ruinous expense for hay. In the Highlands
matters are much the same; and in addition, it
is said that want of food has made serious havoc
in deer forests. "Wildfowl have suffered dread-
fully ; and on farms in the neighbourhood of
preserves, a ceaseless warfare has been kept
up between the farmers and their servants and
clouds of hungry moorfowls and blackcocks for the
possession of the stackyards. Rabbits are also
named among the unfortunates, large numbers daily
dying off everywhere. To wood pigeons the storm
has been particularly severe. They were seen falling
dead from the trees through sheer want, and the
wildest became so tame that boys found little diffi-
culty in shooting them down by dozens. Small
birds were thinned off rapidly, and the less
timid betook themselves to houses quite freely. On
Monday, we know of a robin going into a kitchen,
and at once perching itself familiarly upon the
guidwife's shoulders ; and on Tuesday a pe.ir of
hedge-sparrows became and still continue members
of the same household, and are already so domesti-
cated. that they deport themselves like old friends."

7111 S DAY'S MARKATS.