The Sun.
London, England, 1858-07-06 00:00:00

MOWATT V. BLAKE.

This was an appeal from an order of the Mater of
the Rolls, relieving the plaintiff, Mr. Blake, from the
purchase of 3,000 shares in the Portsmouth Railway
Company, on the ground of fraud.
The Lord Chancellor said that the plaintiff had entirely
failed to make out a case of misrepresentation and fraud
on the part of the appellant, in the sale of these shares
to him. They wore not sold to him as unappropriated
or scrip shares. They were sold as allotted shares, and
be either knew that or might have known it.
Lord Brougham, Lord Cranworth, and Lord Wens-
leydale entirely concurred.
_ _ _

The Lord Chancellor reversed the order of the Master
of the Rolls, and dismissed the appeal with costs.

HI'MAHON V. SIR T. 13. LENNARD, BART.

Mr. Justice Wightman delivered in writing the opl-
nions of the consulted judges in this case, which was
ordered to be printed and laid before their lordships of
the House of 14.)rda before delivering judgment on this
appeal.

CRIMINAL COURT.—(This Day.)

OLD COURT.
(Bef,re the Recorder.

POLICE INTEILL/GENCE.—(This Day.)

MARLBOROUGH-STREET.
EXTRAORDINARY CASE.—John Lloyd Lanson, a re-
F pecable king man, was charged under the following
singular circumstances :

Ann Brightman, servant to Mrs. King, widow, of 32,
Half-Moon-strect, said the prisoner came to the house
about seven o'clock on the previous evening, and asked
what apartments were to let. She showed him there
And told him the price was two guineas a week. He
said he could not give more than 1/. 15s. She said the
could not take that as her mistress was out. Ho then
asked for water to wash his hands, and afterwards asked
for some mutton chops and tea, and she supplied him
with some tea and eggs and haw. He said he wanted
to sty at once as he had just come from Scotland.
When her mistress came home she asked her to go tip to
the prisoner, and soon after she heard a loud noise, and
the prisoner say, "You'll murder me for 6d."
The prisoner asked the witness if she knew the obli•
gation of an oath, and as the witness said she did, but
could not clearly explain, the prisoner said he should not
ask her any more questions, but put at least fifty to her,
most of them being totally irrelevant, and many of an
impertinent nature.

Mrs. King was then called and, said that on entering
the room by request of her servant, the prisoner said his
name was Lanclett, and gave as a reference the name of
Sir Thos. Forbes, Clapham Common. A gentleman
who had been out with her for a walk hearing an alter-
cation, owing to her being dissatisfied with prisoner,
came up, and the prisoner then began abusing him, -
and using the moat insulting language. Ho went to the
wind )w, opened it and began addressing the people,
and created a mob round the door. Witness went for '
the assistance of a neighbour, and there heard he was
turned out of No. 3, Cottage-street. She sent for a
policeman and gave him into custody.
The prisoner here subjected this witness to a similar
cross examination, he having taken notes while she was
giving her evidence, till at last he was nearly exhausted,
and then desisted, the witness having borne with much
patience the innumerable and. rediculous questions put
to her.

The gentleman was called and corroborated the last
witness. .

The prisoner then entered into a long rambling de•
fence, at the conclusion of which Mr. Beadon said no
one would be surprised that had heard the case when
they knew the prisoner bad had six monthafor swindling
and that he had also been charged with insu!ting females •
in the streets. He should order him to find 2 respecta-
ble bon-nholders to become bail for him in 501. each, '
and himself in 1001.

The case lasted nearly two hours and excited great
interest.

THAMES.

INGENIOUS SMUG GLIN G. —Steph en Stoughton, a young
gentleman, living at Buda Lodge, Roupell-park, Brixton
Hill, Surrey, was brought before Mr. Yardley, charged
with smuggling three pounds and two ounces of foreign
manufactured tobacco, the duty on which bad not been
first paid, and with intent to defraud her Majesty the
Queen.

It appeared from the evidence of Mr. Joseph Hicks, A
tide surveyor, that on the arrival of the Dolphin
steamer from Antwerp, at the St. Katherine's Wharf,
the prisoner who was a passenger on board was asked if
he bad anything about him liable to duty, and replied
by taking from his chest 25 cigars which he handed to
the officer, and said that was all he bad. The officer
searched his Chest, and finding the interior not so deep
as the exterior, succeeded in removing a false bottom,
under which he discovered upwards of 300 cigars, weigh-
ing 3 lbs. 2 ounces. The false bottom was ingeniously
constructed, and if the officer had not measured the in-
side and outside of the chest, the cigars would not have
been discovered.

Mr. Yardley—What is the duty upon the cigars ?
Hicks—The duty is a prohibitory one, 9s. 6d. per
pound. That is the duty on all foreign manufactured
tobacco.

The defendant said what the officer had stated was
quite true. He intended the cigars for his own use.
Mr. Yardley—No doubt of it, Mr. Haughton, but you
ought not to have concealed them. You should have
paid the duty upon them. I fine you 4/.
The penalty was immediately paid.
AMERICAN REVENGE.—Thomas Clark, &seaman be-
longing to the American ship, Southampton, lying in
the East India Dock, was brought before Mr. Yardley,
charged with stabbing James Trainer.
It appeared that the prosecutor, who came to London
in the ship American Congress, bad been staying with
a prostitute in an infamous house, 4, Elbow-lane, Shad-
well, and be quarrelled with the prisoner a week ago
and beat him. The prisoner determined to be revenged
and armed himself with a knife, with which he attacked
the prosecutor as he was standing outside the
Crooked Billet public-house, in King David•lane,
Shadwell, and made three stabs at him, but only
one took effect. The complainant was stabbed in
the thigh, and he lost a good deal of blood.
There was also a scar on the man's cheek. He had a
narrow escape of being killed. The prisoner made a
blow at the prosecutor, which struck the clasp of a belt
he was wearing, and broke it.

The prisoner, a rough-looking fellow who wore nothing
but his trousers and shirt, said the prosecutor bad been
in the practice of staying on shore for six months or
more when he came from New York, and lived with
prostitutes. Trainer was also in the practice of beating
seamen who would not give him money.-
Mr. Yarcll:y had no doubt that Trainer was a profli-
gate blackguard, but be could not permit such atrocities
in the streets of London. The prisoner bad no right to
wreak bis vengeance on Clark as he had done. He
fined the prisoner 31, and in default of payment, one
month's imprisonment.

The young King of Oude has arrived in Paris with
the object of building a tomb to the late Queen. He
has been several times to the Mahomedan burial ground
with his architect. The Prince has a professor of
French with him.
WEST OF FIFE RAILWAY.—Tho West of Fife Railway
was formally opened for traffic on Friday.
The man who did not think it respectable t 4 bring up
his children to work has just heard from his three sone.
One of them was a driver on the canal ; another bad •
been taken up as a vagrant ; and the third bad gone to
a public institution to learn the shoe business under a
keeper.
A fop is like a cinnamon tree— the bark is worth more
than the body.
MOTHER.—What comfort there is in the name which
gives assurance of a love that can never fail,
It is better to have a clear conscience and be
threatened, than to have a bad one and be flattered.
The Catholic Peerage has received two accessions ,
during the past week in the persons of Mr. Constable
Maxwell, of Everringhain, in the county of York, who
has subatantieted his claim to the ancient barony of
ferries, and Sir Henry Bedingfield, who also proved hie
title to the Viscounty of Grandison. —Dublin Freeman.
Mr. Dargeti has purchased the quickest steam vessel
on the Clyde, with the olij-c'; of plying between FoyneS
and Kilrush, at a speed of twenty miles an hour.
THE ECCLESIASTICAL COMMISSIONERS.—An Order in
Council is published in the Gazette giving her Majesty's
approval to a proposition de by the Ecclesiastical
Cemtni,sioners fur assienint; a district chapelry to the
' church of St. Philip, Arlington-square, Islington.
KEW GARDENS —That splendid flower, the water-lily
of the Ganges or sacred beau of India, will shortly blos-
srun in the centre tank of the tropical aquarium. Models
of this very beautiful plant and the Victoria Regia also
are in the museum.
THE ACCIDENT ON THE MIDLAND RAILWAY.-011 ,Sa.
turday morning, about half past four o'clock, James
Bennett, engine driver of the empty mineral train from
Derby to Kiln burst, who fell down an embankment near
Chesterfield, died in the Chesterfield Hospital, from the
injuries which he received in the accident on the 23i1
June. Yesterday the inquest was returned at the Mid-
land Hotel, Chesterfield, before Mr. C. S. B. Busby,
coroner, on the body of William Hickling, the stoker,
and the same jury were also sworn to inquire into the
cause of the death of James Bennett, the driver. The
jury returned a verdict of manslaughteragainst Ambrose
B'ackburn, the signal-man, who was committed for trial
at the assizes.

THE NEWEST TRICK. —A few days ago a little boy
entered the chop of a respectable baker in North Leith,
and bought a penny loaf, which he requested the baker
woul.f. conceal under the back of his jacket, as he was
afraid that a bigger boy, who was waiting outside, would
take the loaf from him. This request the baker good-
naturedly complied with, and on going to the door ha
witnessed a lad in full cry after the purchaser of the loaf,
till both were out of sight. On returning to his counter,
however, the baker found his watch-guard dangling at
his breast, minus the watcb.—Caledonian Merelfry.
TOUR OF THE LORD LIEUTENANT OF IRELAND.—Hie
Excellency the Earl of Egliuton is about to take advan-
tage of this beautiful wea, her, and make a tour of some
length through our unequalled island. He is to visit
Killarney and make acquaintance—we hope a familiar
one—with its glories. He leaves Dublin on Wednesday
next ; proceeds by the Great Midland Railway, and be.
comes the guest on that evening of Fres. Spaight, Esq.,
at Derry Castle, the splendid hospitalities and the scenic
attractions of the vicinage of which he will remain some
days to enjoy. Thence his Excellency will proceed
through Pallas to Killarney, and there it may be hoped
he will adopt for his sojourn the Lake Hotel, whence the
finest and most fascinating views are beheld over the
broad and bright lake along the enchanting peninsula
of Mucross,—Munster Nem.
ANTI•SUICIDAL EFFECT OF TUE THAMES,—The
state cf the Thames has bad one excellent effect upon
the crime of attempted suicide. Previously to the
hot weather, scarcely a week passed without
thebri j
somege
wt etched cr.s away attempting, or pretending to attempt,
felo de cc, by deliberately walking down
steps, or flinging him or herself from some accessible
point on shore into the river, to be rescued at immi-
nent personal risk by some brave and respect-
able mem( er cf society, having, perhaps, a family
p,ndeut up m his life and health and receiving nothing
in return hue: the applause of the public, a Humane
Society's medal, and the silent r grets of the rescued
ore's friends. , Since it has become known that an im-
mersion of a second in the filthy liver is equivalent to a
dose of arsenic, and that the stomach pump is a mole
necessary means of reetoration than brandy and water
esteratives tie case; of this kind have diminished in
number.
THE NEw CARDINAL.--A letter from Rome, of th
26th ult., in the Uniters, says :—" The Pope, yesterday;
beld a secret cousistory at the Vatican, when Mgr. Rod
rigusse I airiarch of Lisbon, wn raised to the dignity of
Cardinal. His holiness also anecunced the nomination
of Mgr. Paul Dodinassei to be Bishop of Alenio, in Al-
bania ; R. P. Pascal Yredeiu to be Bishop of Pulati, in
the same State ; and Francis Merrill Amherst to be
Bishop of Northampton, and also nominated twelve
other bi'thopt ire partibus."