The Sun.
London, England, 1860-05-25 00:00:00

COURT OF QUEEN'S BENCH.

:Before the Lord Chief Justice and Justices Wightman
and Blackburn.)
HOOD V. SMITH.

This was an action brought by the plaintif, a clerk in
in the City, to recover damages against the defendant, a
solicitor, for negligence. The action was tried before Mr.
Justice Hill, and resulted in a verdict for the Plaintiff, with
£240 damages.

Mr. R. P. Collier moved for a rule to set aside the ver-
dict, on the ground that it was against the evidence, and
that the damages were excessive.

The plaintiff purchased a house, described as 12, South
Albion-road, Dalston, part of the property of Mr. Hughes,
the attorney, of which such frauds were perpetrated, and in
respect of which he was undergoing penal servitude. After
the purchase, which took place at a sale by action, the
plaintiff took the titles to defendant to have the
nooesssry conveyance made out, but L; turned out
that instead of the house the plaintiff Lad purchased
another house (No 17) which was conveyed to her, both
houses being equally valuable, and mortgaged by Hughes
to such an extent as to make them worthless. It was main-
dl to

fined that the plaintiff had not sustained any real loss by
;he substitution of one house fed another, but the plaintiff
availed himself of the mistake of the attorney to maks hire

The Lord Chief Justice said he would consult the other
ludges before he granted the rule.

COURT OF COMMON PLEAS.
(Before Lord Chief Justice Erle.)
GYE V. HUGHES.

This was an action brought by the plaintiff to recover the
sum of £5,000, with interest, paid as a depost for the lease
of her Majesty's Theatre, which the plaintiff never received.
The cause was originally tried at Guildhall, and a verdict
given for the plaintiff, but a rule was obtained by Mr.
Bovill for a new trial, and Mr. Lush this morning showed
cause against it. •
The case would last the whole day.

ALLEGED INTERCEPTION OF _ROYAL

CORRESPONDENCE.

The PrussiaL journals are now engaged in a dis-
cussion as to the means whereby the contents of a
despatch from the Prince Regent to the Prince
Consort of England have been brought to the know-
ledge of the French Government; and an interview
has taken place between the Prince de la Tour
d'Auvergne, the French Ambassador at Berlin,
and M. von Schleinitz, the Prussian Minister of
Foreign Affairs, on the subject. The journals
speak of thefts of despatches having been dis-
covered, and one states that the contents of the
despatch in question can only have become known
through an indiscreet communication in Minis-
terial circles on the English side of the Channel.
A Dusseldorf paper has the following account of
the interview between M. Schleinitz and the
French Ambassador, which it states it has received
from a good source :
" At the latter end of the preceding month the
French Ambassador at the Court of Berlin, the
Prince de la Tour d'Auvergne, called on the Mini-
ster of Foreign Affairs, Baron von Schleinitz, and
after some civilities, spoke of the value which
the Emperor placed upon the friendship of
Prussia. Exclusively to avoid any unpleasantness
on the subject, the prince requested M. Schleinitz
to give him any information he possessed as to
the authenticity of a document the copy of
which he presented. It purported to be a letter
sent from the Prince Regent to the Prince Con-
sort of England, in which family matters were
spoken of, and then some remarks on the politics of
the day were added, in which the Emperor Napo-
leon 111. happened to be mentioned. M. Schleinitz
replied that he could give no information respecting
the document, since he was not acquainted with the
private correspondence of that high personage. His
excellency, however, urged that he must receive
explanations upon the matter. His Imperinl
master had always entertained the best wishes
T) —31y1;1110 that his sen-
tirnpotg were reciprocated
tained in the letter he produced were opposed.
yet Prussian assurances and the expr'ekstitm mid
to that belief. Baron Schleinitz hereupon an-
swered that he was Minister in a constitutional State,
and that the Ministry of his country were respon-
sible for all official political negotiations and corre-
spondence with foreign countries; and that, if
any inquiry on the matter should take place, he
would not withhold the information sought, in case
reasons of State did not forbid such a communi-
cation to be made. Respecting the correspondence
which the Prince Regent personally had with
his august friends or relations, the Minister of a
constitutional country had not the right to con-
trol the private communications of the Prince
Regent, especially since they had no official
character. These reasons, and the respect which
must be most carefully preserved in a constitu-
tional country towards the highest personage, for-
bade the Minister to initiate an investigation, or to
hold an inquiry whether the document were genuine
or not. The French Ambassador, apparently pre.
pared for this objection, replied that his inquiry
was purely of a formal nature, and could in no
way interfere with the political importance of a
good understanding between France and Prussia;
but as the official assurances and the contents of

the letter were so Wiler—opposed, it would be
plainly seen and pointed out by M. Schleinitz that
the copy of the document was not genuine. M.
Schleinitz answered that it was no question for him
whether the copy were forged, as he naturally could
not decide that point, since he neither knew any-
thing of the private correspondence cf the Prince
Regent, nor could he be concerned in it.

TILLS DAY'S SHIPPING.

LONDON, May 25.-IVind this day at noon—South-
Westerly; strong breeze, and dull weather, inclining to
rain.

SWANSEA, May 24.--Wind N.—Arrived—Duke of
Beaufort, from Coquimbo. Sailed—Reform, for Gibraltar;
Duchess Annie, for Sierra Leone.

PORTSMOUTH, May 24.—Wind W.—Arrived—Her
Majesty's steamer, from the Cape of Good Hope, and left
for Gibraltar.

CLYDE, May 21.—Wind N.W.—Arrived—Dulee Nom•
bre de Judas, from Havannah.
Orr QuEENsTows, May 23.—Wind S.W.—Arrived—
Norval, from Parsiba for the Clyde.
_ _

PLYMOUTH, May 24.—Wind W.S.W.—Arrived---
Athens, screw steamer, from the Cape of Good Hope
Princess Royal, from Rio Grande.

CORK) May 23.—Wind E.—Sailed—Dom Pedro, screw
steamer, for Lisbon.
POOLE, May 24.—Wind W.—.Arrived—lsabel, from
.Newfoundland.
STROMNESS, May 23.—Wind S.—Arrived.—Swan,
from Greenland, with nine seals. Sailed—Ariel, for
Quebec.

(BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.)
SOUTHAMPTON, Friday Morning.

Wind W.

Arrived, May 24—Eclipse, from Madeira; Havre,
steamer, from H avre ; Wonder, steamer, from Jersey ;
Jessie, from Llanelly ; Duke of Cornwall, steamer, from
London; Clara, and Lucille, from Newport.
Sailed, May 24—Lamptlighter, for Seabam ; Mary Dun,
and Mary Hounsell, for Cardiff ; Eclipse, for London ;
Despatch, steamer, for Jersey ; Duke of Cornwall, steamer,
for Dublin ; Argyll, steamer, and leune Armand, for
Carentan.

(BY SUBMARINE AND BRITISH TELEGRAPH.)
GRAVESEND, Friday Morning.
Wind S.W., tide nearly low water, weather fine.
fromA Sann
rrived'esund May 24—Nancy Riley, from Taragona ; Falcon,
; Pathfinder, from Moulmein.
Arrived, May 25—Isabella, from Danzic ; Albarado,
from Trinidad le Cuba ; M. I. Antoni, from Buenos Ayres ;
Spirit of the North, from Foo-chow-Foo ; Sir George Sey-
mour, from St. Vincent; Ellen, from Emden'; Peacock,
from Stettin ; Ganges, from Jtunaica ; Hortensia, from
Lysekehl.
Sailed, May 25—Pilot, steamer, for Havre ; Panther,
steamer, for Boulogne.

DEAL, Friday Morning,

Wind W.N.W., moderate.
Passed —Eagle from St. Lucia; Victoria, steamer, from
Antigua; Devonshire, from Mauritius. Suttle from Tri-
nidad ; Electra, from Grenada Ulysses, from St. Kitt s ;
Scott, from Buenos Ayres ; William George, from Pem-
bray—all for London ; Bertha, from Shields, for Guernsey.
Anchored—Gem of the Ocean, for Kurrachee ; Macerzer,
from north, for west.
The Vivid, from Middleborough, for Trieste, in working
out of the Downs this morning, got on shore on the Main,
near Walmer Castle, and will probably get off with the
flowing tide.

A STURGEON IN THE CLYDE.—A party of fisher-
men in the employment of Mr. Matthew Wallace, Paisley,
last week caught a sturgeon in the Clyde, near Langbank.
It measured 51 feet in length. Wm. Cochrane, of Paisley,
who captured this fish, and who has fished the Clyde for
upwards of 60 years, affirms that it is the first time he has
ever known a sturgeon taken there.—Scotsman.