The Sun.
London, England, 1859-03-03 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, MARCH 3, 1859.

THIRD EDITION.

SUN OFFICE, Seven o' Clock.

LAW INTELLIGENCE-(THIS DAY.)

HOUSE OF LORDS.

(Peers present—The .Lord ehatteolior, Lord Brougham
Lord Cranworth, Lord Wensleydale, Lord Kingsdown,
and other peers.)

APPEAL.-THE SCOTTISH NORTH EASTERN RAILWAY COM-

PANT V. SIR W. D. STEWART, BART.

The further hearing of this important appeal was re-
sumed this morning. This is an appeal from a decision of
the second division of the Court of Session in
favour of the respondent. The respondent sued the
company for specific performance of an agreement
to take about eighty acres of his land for the formation of
their brimch line of railway from Perth-to Dunkeld, by the
respondent's lands at Murthly and Birnam Wood, to Dun-
keld. This branch line was abandoned, and the respondent
claimed and obtained a decree for £14,500, consequential
damage. The company appealed. Counsel for the appel-
lants and respondent were fully heard on Monday and
Tuesday last, and the further hearing was then adjourned
to this day. At the conclusion of the arguments of counsel
in this case their lordships consulted together, and the Lord
Chancellor adjourned the further consideration of the cause
sine rile.
Judgment reserved.

ROLLS COURT.
(Before the Master of the Rolls, Sir John Romilly.)
HOUGHTON T. BANKARTS.-JUDGMENT.

His Honour the Master of the Rolls said—ln this ease
the first question is, whether in the circumstances which
have occurred in the events of time, and in particular what
has occurred since the month of July, 1858, when the
plaintiff gave notice to the defendant that the operations
in their works, and in particular the additional erection
of their works, was a nuisance, entitled him to
an injunction ? His Honour considered that the erection
of three additional furnaces in the Britten Ferry Copper-
works, after notice that the operations in the original works
were a nuisance, entitled the plaintiff to an injunction, and
his Honour granted an injunction accordingly. His
Honour directed three issues to be tried at law, before a
special jury, in such a manner as the Court shall direct, to
ascertain the injury and damage done to the plaintiff's three
farms by the defendants' copper-works. His Honour did
not think that there was any acquiescence by the plaintiff in
the nuisance, either original or increased, and did not think
there was any objection in point of time, and he hoped the
issues would be tried as soon as possible.

COURT OF BANKRUPTCY.
(Before Mr. Commissioner Evans.)
IN RE COW ELL AND BROCE.

These bankrupts were described as of the Castle Brewery,
St. George's-road, brewers, and to-day was appointed for
their last examination. The balance• sheet is in course of
preparation by Messrs. Butler and Cannings, and by their
preliminary statement it appears the debts due to unsecured
creditors amounts to £13,577 ; and to creditors fully secured,
£4,589. Creditors by good debts, £1,597.; doubtful esti-
mated to realise £27; bad, £235 Bs. Property, £3,033;
surplus property in hands of secured creditors, £4,589.
An adjournment was taken by consent.
IN RE OLENNIE.

This bankrnpt was described as of Harley-street, Caven-
dish-square, boarding-house keeper, and this was a meeting
for proof of debts and choice of assignee. Mr. Murrough,
New-inn, attended for the petitioning creditor, and a trade
assignee was chosen. Messrs. Hart Brothers were ap-
pointed accountants to the estate.

WHITECTIA.PEL COUNTY COURT.
(Before Mr. Sergeant Manning.)

A CIVIL WAR IN WRITECHAPEL—FRUCHE V. SPIER.
Mr. Buchanan appeared for the plaintiff, and Mr. Beard
for the defendant.
Mr. Buchanan stated that the action was brought to re-
cover £44 95., for money lent and board and lodging supplied
from January, 1857, to April, 1858. Defendant had been
in great distress, and, being a fellow-countryman of plain-
tiff, had been assisted by him, and defendant refused to re-
pay him for the same.
Plaintiff was called, and swore to the above facts.
In his cross-examination by Mr. Beard he admitted that
at the time he was assisting defendant he was in no employ-
ment, but was receiving assistance from his club.
Mr. Beard, for defendant, said he should satisfactorily
prove that the present was a malicious summons, and that
defendant was not indebted to the plaintiff one farthing.
The parties were German Jews, and the matter arose out of
a quarrel between the women. To prove this he called
defendant, who said that so far frombeing assisted by plain-
tiff he had done a great deal for that person, who was in
much distress at the time mentioned. Last January
plaintiff's wife was aummoned to a police court for some
'assault committed upon Mrs. Spier, and hence the present

summons.

His Honour thought the matter was not clear as regarded
plaintiff's claim, and it was strange the matter had stood
over till this time. Re should give defendant a verdict
with costs.

At this result, the court, which was densely crowded
with partisans of each suitor, was speedily emptied, and the
din of war burst upon the ears of the quiet inhabitants of
Osborn-street. In the melee, the plaintiff's wife was so
seriously injured, that she was brought back into the court
in a state of insensibility. The fight raged uninterruptedly
for a short time, but at the cry of police the crowd dis-
persed, and the plaintiff's wife, having recovered, left the
court.

CRIMINAL COURT.---(THIS DAY.)

OLD COURT.
THE SHAM LOAN SOCIETY.

John Morris Reid, alias John Campbell, Samuel Thomp-
son, Ann Thompson, were indicted with having unlawfully
amongst themselves and with diveni other persons con-
spired, combined, confederated, and agreed by certain un-
lawful devices, feloniously and fraudulently to cheat and
defraud certain persons of their moneys, and with having
in pursuance of and according to the said conspiracy and
ag-reernent amongst themselves obtained by such devices of
and from divers of her Majesty's subjects their moneys,
against the peace, &c.
It will be recollected from the numerous examinations
the prisoners underwent at the Clerkenwell Police-court that
the prisoners advertised in all.the country papers under the
title of the " Mercantile Loan Fund Association ; Office,
2, Weymouth-terrace, New North-road, London, N.,"
and they professed to make immediate cash advances. The
advertisement ran as follows :—" This association, pos-
sessing the advantage of a large paid .up capital, offers im-
mediate cash advances, in sums from £2O to £5OO, with
the least possible delay, for long or short periods, at 5
per cent. per annum, repayable by such monthly or
quarterly instalments as may suit the borrower's con-
venience. The sum applied for granted in full." The
advertisement was signed " John Campbell, resident
manager." When persons answered the advertise-
ment it was the plan of the prisoners to write back
and say that if a post-office order was sent for the amount
of the travelling expenses, their agent should at once call,
and having inquired into the reference, would at once pay
the money.
The prisoners were all indicted for felony.
On being arraigned the male prisoners pleaded guilty to
' the charge of conspiring.
Mr. Bodkin, who conducted the prosecution, being satis-
fied with this, Reed and Thompson were sentenced to 18
months' imprisonment, and the woman was discharged.
This concluded the business of the session.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.-(THIS DAY.)

MARLBOROUGH-STREET,

REFUSAL OF A PARENT TO ALLOW lIIS CHILD TO GO
TO A REFORMATORY.—Sarah Jane Percy, a girly 12 years
of age, who has been in custody charged with stealing a
half-sovereign, the money of Mrs. Mary Ann Brown, a
teacher of music, in Newman-street, Oxford-street, and
which robbery was effected with great adroitness while the
prosecutrix was making some purchases in the shop of
Messrs. Winter, linendrapers, of the Tottenham-court-
road, was again brought up.
Mr. Edward Lewis, of Marlborough-street, appeared for
the prisoner, and said it was a lamentable case, and thought
there might have been some mistake in it, and that
the purse might have been dropped by the prosecutrix
herself, and the girl seeing the half-sovereign might have
been allured by the sight of it.
Mr. Bingham said he had been very anxious about the
case and had made very careful inquiries, and without going
into the particulars of the case he would state he had come
to the conclusion that the best thing he could do for the
girl was to send her to an industrial school for a long period,
but that he objected to do without her father's consent.
He might choose either between that or her being sent to
prison for six weeks.
The father refused to allow her to be sent to the school,
preferring she should be sent to prison for six weeks.

THE GOVERNMENT REFORM BILL.

Yesterday a meeting, convened at the instance of
the Parliamentary Reform Association, was held at
Caldwell's RooMs, Dean-street, Soho, for the pur-
pose of adopting such measures as might be deemed
requisite on the subject of Parliamentary reform.
Mr. T. PROUT, having been called to the chair,
said at length they had the Ministerial Reform
Bill before them, and he acknowledged that he was
more than surprised that Mr. Disraeli and the
Derby Ministry had been so unwise as to produce
so small a measure of reform. It was so mise-
rably small that it was rather a backward move-
ment, and such as no reformer could for a moment
accept. If the account were true that
at the meeting at ,Lord Derby's it was
decided if the bill were not accepted he would dis-
solve Parliament, he (Mr. Prout) thought they were
very near their end, for the dissolution of Parlia-
ment would be the dissolution of the Ministry.
(Hear.) As electors of Westminster the meeting
must stand forward for reform of very considerable
magnitude, and show that they knew what reform
was. He, therefore, thought it was necessary to call
a general public meeting as soon as possible, to have
an expression of public opinion on the question of
reform. (Hear, hear )
Mr. H. G. ROBINSON said such an atrocious
attempt at legislation he had never noticed since he
had been an elector, and so small a bill in so large
a space he had never seen. The whole of the persons
that were to be enfranchised by that bill had votes
already. The provisions of this bill were all on the
side of the Government party. They said nothing
about the poor man who did not possess a lodging
of Bs. a week. He was entirely excluded from all
benefit from the measure unless he occupied a part
of a house to the amount of £2O a-year. He thought
the bill ought to be strenuously opposed, and that
Westminster should lead the way. He therefore
moved—" That what is termed the Ministerial Re-
form Bill is so highly defective that it is not
entitled to our support, and we have no doubt that
the people in every part of the country will repu-
diate such pretensions to correct the acknowledged
defects in the representation of the people in the
Commons' House of Parliament.

Major LYON seconded the motion, and said the
Government bill was not an enfranchising but a
disfranchising measure. It did not much alter the
votes of -Westminster, but where it did it was to
take away those of some of the constituency. There
was no principle in this bill that would be accept-
able, and the only course left to them was for West •
muster to take the lead and call an aggregate
meeting of the electors —(hear, hear)—and he hoped
they would be found to be the first to speak and to
speak the loudest on this occasion. (Hear, hear.) •
Mr. CLARKE said that this bill was so great an
abortion that no person could take anything out of
it. If it had been a half-and-half measure they
might have been split up, but no person with any
pretensions to reform could take any portion of it..
(Hear, hear.) The Government had taken one
member from some boroughs that had two, but they
were only half-and•half pocket boroughs, and if
one-half in their representation were taken away,
then they would be wholly pocket boroughs. He
was of opinion that, whatever reform they accepted
in 'Westminster, they must accept nothing that did
not contain the ballot. (Hear, hear.)
Mr. GEORGE thought the country would be very
wrong if it accepted any, portion of this bill for the
sake of the good that was in it. If they accepted
that bill they would shut the door to reform, but if
they rejected it they opened the door to that reform
which they would have whether they got it from a
Tory or Whig Government. (Hear, hear.)
The resolution was then carried unanimously.
Mr. BEALE moved, " That rather than be deluded
by such pretensions to reform it would be far better
to remain in our present position ; but fortunately
for the country the scheme promulgated by Mr.
Bright offers for . our acceptance a plan of reform
which we believe• is in accordance with the national
requirements, and exhibits a straightforward ho-
nesty of purpose." He thought the machinery was
cumbrous, and never could be carried out, as it was
a perfect sham. He was surprised the Govern-
ment was mad enough to put forward such a bill
as this in the hope that it would pass. The great dan-
ger to the Liberal cause was from the d ingerous
position in which Lord Palmerston was placed. If
he should give his support to the Government he
would in that manner cheat the people of their bill.
Dr. BAINBRIDGE seconded the motion, and said
there was no doubt that that bill would occasion a
change of Ministry, for no such bill could pass;
and if it did not, they must resign.
The motion was then carried nem. con.

Mr. BIDGOOD then moved a resolution, that a
committee should be appointed for the purpose of
calling a general meeting of the electors and non-
electors of Westminster, which was seconded by
Mr. PouNcEY, and carried unanimously.
The committee was then nominated for carrying
out the objects of the meeting, and a vote of thanks
to the chairman terminated the proceedings.