The Sun.
London, England, 1858-11-04 00:00:00

itHE SISI.7I6NDON, THURSDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 4, 1858.

FOREIGN.

Share Railways. 1 Paid. Closing I Business
Price. DOne.
10 Antwerp & Rotterdam all 54 54
20 Ardennes all P
20 Bah.&S.Fran.,Lim.7p.c 3 d par
5 Belgian East. Junction all 1 1
20 Beziers to Graissessas all 94 1
5 Carmeaux Mine & Rail all 1 2
20 Dutch Rhenish
6 Eastern of France
20 Euphrates Valley 25. P
20 Great Central of France all
20 Gt. Luxem., Con. she all 74 8
10 Italian Junction 8
20 Lake Constance & sale all
20 Lierre and Turnhout
20 Lombardo Venetian 8 44 44 • 124
20 Lucca & Pistoj a, 5 p.c.pf all
20 Lyons and Geneva
335 Maria Antonia all
20 Do. do. New
20 Namur and Liege all 91 91
20 Do. do. 6p. c. I'ref
16 Northern of France
20 Do. New Shares
10 Norwegian Trunk Pref all 84 94
20 Ottoman, gua. 6 per cent 7 3 1 d
20 Paris,Lyons, and Medit all 344 341
20 Paris and Orleans
20 j Recife& S. Fran. (Peru )i 9 id par si
gua. 7 p. ct. (Lim.)
20 Riga and Dunaburg 4 --
10 Rome and Frascati
20 Royal Danish all
5 Royal Swedish
4 Do. 7 per cent. Pref.
20 Sambre and Meuse all 7 8
10 Do. 54 per cent. Pref.
20 Southern of France
84 West Flanders all 5 5
10 Do. 54 p. c. Preference
20 W. & N.W. of France all 23 24
20 Western of Austria 6
20 Western of Switzerland all
6 Wiesbaden
6 Do 8 per cent. Pref all
20 Zealand all

LAW INTELLIGENCE.-(THIS DAY.)

COURT OF CHANCERY.
(Before the Lord Chancellor.)
APPEAL.-WARE V. THE REGENT CANAL COMPANY.

This was an appeal from an order of the Master of the
Rolls, refusing the plaintiff, Mr. Ware, an injunction
against the Regent Canal Company, restraining them from
raising the embankments on the reservoir of the canal and
river Trent three feet higher than its natural level, and
thereby raising the water in the river, and running it on
the plaintiff's lands, and thus saturating and submerging
the plaintiff's lands adjoining the river, to the loss, injury,
and damage of the plaintiff, without making reasonable
compensation therefor, contrary to the provisions of the 4th
section of the company's Act, 4th June, 1851—an Act
granted to the company to enable them to make certain
alterations in the drains and embankments of the river, in
contemplation of the company forming a junction with the
Grand Junction Canal.
Sir Richard Bethel is now being heard for the appellant,
Mr. Ware ; and it is probable the arguments of counsel
will occupy the whole of this day.

' quence of information received from j Mr. Tyler,
she asked the prisoner what she had done with the money
she gave her to pay to Mr. Tyler, to which she replied, " I
have spent it." She asked the prisoner howl long she had
been carrying on her system of fraud, and she said very
coolly, " Oh, for a long time past." She had been in the
habit of giving money to the prisoner to pay l for the beer
for three years. Mr. Tyler's bill against her! amounted to
XS 15s. 6d.

Mr. Tyler said the prisoner had not paid him for the beer,
and that she had brought her mistress in debt £8 15s. 6d.
The prisoner pleaded guilty, and the magistrate, after
expressing his regret that a young woman should have for-
feited her character and the respect of society at large, sen-
tenced her to be imprisoned and kept to hard labour for
four calendar months.

THIRD EDITION.

SUN OFFICE, Saven o' Clock.

SINGULAR AFFAIR-BEATING TO
QUARTERS AT QUEENBTO

CORK, MONDAY EVENING.
Last night, between 10 and 11, the whole neigh-
bourhood, including Monkston, Passage, and Cork,
were aroused from their slumbers by a heavy
cannonade, coming from, as it turned out, her
Majesty's ship Hawke, GO, Coast-guard ship, Capt.
Crispin, which lies at anchor above the guard ship,
her Majesty's ship Nile, about midway between
Haulbowline Island and Whitepoint. This firing
continued for nearly three-quarters of an hour,
some imagining that the French had tried to force
their way up the harbour, others that the Channel
fleet had arrived, and others again that the Eury-
alus, 51, Captain Tarleton, C. 8., with his Royal
Highness Prince Alfred on board, had come in; but
none guessed the right reason. Many of the inha-
bitants of Queenstown thought the Hawke was on
fire, and, from fear of the magazine blowing up,
left the town. At Cork the firing was distinctly
heard by many, and amongst others by Major
Stewart, staff officer of pensioners, who reported the
circumstsnces to Major-General Eden, C. 8., the
Assistant Adjutant-General, Lieut.• Col. Smith, and
some other of the military authorities ; but, owing
to the firing shortly ceasing, the general ordered no
further steps to be taken. At Queenstown the
first lieutenant of the flag-ship Nile, Lieutenant Fox
sent off a boat with Lieutenant Boger (third lieu-
tenant) on board, to the Hawke, to inquire the
cause of the firing, but on arrival he was warned
off. On returning to the Nile, Lieutenant Fox,
sent off the same officer to the Admiral, Sir Henry
Chads, K.C.8., and to Captain Chads. In the
mean time the firing ceased, orders having come
through the first lieutenant of the Hawke, Lieu-
tenant Pickard, who was on shore at th.e time, to
stop it. On inquiry it appears that Captain Crispin
is absent on duty round the coast. The first and
second lieutenants were on shore, and a junior
officer, who, rumour says, had been dining out, on
finding himself in command, was so impressed with
the idea that for a naval port of such importance
the ships were never sufficienl on the alert, or
prepared for an emergency, t at he thought it
would be a good opportunity to beat to night
quarters, and to see for himself if the crew of the
Hawke, about four hundred strong, were on the
alert. Of course a strict inquiry will bo made.
No officer has a right to fire in harbour without the
permission of the senior officers. Many of the
sailor's ashore thought the firine, was in Conse-
quence of the Hawke having received its orders that
morning to winter at Bantry ; and several of the
Roman Catholics thought it was to commemorate
" All Hallow Eve," Captain Crispin being a Roman
Catholic. It may be well to mention that some say
the second lieutenant was on board, and not ashore
at the time. If so, this would exonerate the junior
officer.

THE HIGHWAY ROBBERY AND SUS-
PICIOUS DEATH NEAR HALIFAX.

On Tuesday, an official inquiry into the cause of
the death of Dan Beverley was opened by Mr.
Dyson, the district coroner, at the New Delight Inn,
Warley, near Halifax. From the evidence of the
witnesses it appeared that the prisoners Farrer and
Drake were seen in the neighbourhood of the
White Bear Inn, Halifax, a few minutes before the
deceased left the house on Satuaday night. On
leaving, between seven and eight o'clock, the de-
ceased was much the worse for liquor. Some time
afterwards a witness, named Thomas Greenwood,
saw the deceased in Pellon-lane, with the prisoner
Farrer and another man. Farrer was driving the
cart, but the other man (whom Greenwood could
not identify) was in the cart, and the deceased was
there also, kneeling upon the potatoes, with his
head between the legs of his companion. The
man in the cart with the deceased then said
he would give Farrer ls. to drive to Moor-
end. [The deceased is supposed to have been
robbed at this time, while in the cart.] Farrer
drove the cart on till he passed the new church
at Pellon, making two or three stoppages on the
road. With the assistance of the man riding
with him the deceased then got off the cart,
and, taking hold of the shaft, went to the horse's
head for the purpose of driving home. The wit-
ness Greenwood, who followed the cart, remon-
strated with the two men for leaving the deceased,
when the one he could not identify observed, " He
has scratched my eyes out nearly, in coming with him
as far as I have done." The prisoner Farrar and
his companion then walked towards Halifax by the
same road they had come. In about a quarter of
an hour afterwards Greenwood found the de-
ceased lying upon the seats in the middle of
the road, near Sand Beds Lane End, the horse
having gone forward without a driver. The deceased
said nothing, except that he had not fallen off
the cart, and had not been run over. He was then
quite helpless, and could neither walk nor stand.
The clothes of the deceased were in a disordered
state. As early as possible he was conveyed home,
where he expired at two o'clock next morning.
Mr. Crowther, surgeon, said he had made a post
mortent examination of the body of the deceased,
assisted by Mr. Peacock, of lialifax. A wound
had been inflicted upon the back of the deceased's
head, but it was a superficial one. There was great
congestion of the brain, and the heart was much
diseased. Witness attributed deceased's death to a
chronic affection of the heart, inducing congestion
of the brain. Rough treatment, a fall, or drinking
intoxicating liquors, might have accelerated the
death of the deceased. The jury returned a verdict
in accordance with the medical testimony.
The prisoners were taken back to the lock-up at
Halifax on the charge of highway robbery.