The Sun.
London, England, 1859-03-09 00:00:00

TILE NAVE

Announcements were yesterday posted at the
gates of Woolwich dockyard that ablebodied seamen
are required for the following ships now in commis-
sion—namely, the Mersey, Hero, Doris, and James
Watt.

The Lords of the Admiralty have signified that
Marines who, on the termination of their first period
of service (12 years), shall re-engage for the further
term of years required to complete a total service of
21 years, shall have issued to them each the present
rate ofbounty, granted to a recruit—viz., £3, with
a further sum of £4 in lieu of free kit, deducting for
the latter sum the cost of any article or articles of
regimental necessaries the man may at the time
require to complete or replace his full kit. The
above order, which was yesterday issued at Wool-
wich, directs Colonels Commandant to cause a
schedule to be attached to each man's attestation
noting the date of re engagement on the fly sheet, so
that the same may be satisfactorily registered and
recorded.

The Mersey,4o, screw steam-frigate, Captain H.
Caldwell, C. 8., being fitted in the steam-basin at
Portsmouth, will, if she can be possibiy got ready,
make trial of her machinery and speed in Stokes
Bay this day. In the event of her not being ready
she will not be able to make her trial until next
" springs." Steam-power was applied yesterday in
hoisting from the gun-hoy, lying alongside the
north wall of the dockyard, the heavy 10 inch,
maindeck guns for this ship. The guns weigh each
85 cwt., and the height of hoist was 30 feet. The
engine used was one of Taylor's portable engines of
6.horse power, and the time occupied in hoisting
the gun with a common threefold purchase was five
minutes. The consumption of fuel in 12 hours is
about Ocwt.

The Hardy and Havoc, gunboats, at Portsmouth,
are masted and rigged, shipwrights and riggers
are employed on board bringing them forward for
immediate service.

The Mary Ann troopship, which disembarked the
58th Regiment at Portsmouth on Monday, sailed
from Spithead from Spithead for Londom yesterday.
The screw steamship Doris, 32, Captain Heath-
cott, was commissioned at Plymouth on Monday by
Lieutenant Little, and towed to the moorings off
tho Devonport dockyard.

The screw steam frigate Topaze, 51, was hauled
alongside the sheer-hulk in Hamoaze on Monday,
to be fitted and rigged for the steam reserve, in
place of the Doris.
The gunboat Hind, tender to the Russell, 60, at
Falmouth, arrived at Plymouth on Monday, with
stores saved from the wreck of the hired steam
transport Czar, lost near, the Lizard.

The paddlewheel steam frigate Virago, 6, Com-
mander Dunn, steamed from Hamoaze into Ply-
mouth Sound on Monday.
The small French Government steamer Galilee,
Lieut.-Commander Lemosy, which left Dartmouth
on Monday morning, arrived at Plymouth in the
afternoon, to watch the French fishing boats now
in harbour there.

The following appointments were made yester-
day at the Admiralty :—James Lewis, paymaster,
to the Impregnable; William T. Rogers, surgeon,
to the James Watt ; Augustus N. Preston, surgeon,
additional, to the James Watt ; Thomas H. Keown,
surgeon, to the Hero; Julian W. Bradshaw, sur-
geon,
additional, to the Hero ; Patrick Kee tan,
assistant-surgeon, to the Hero ; John E. Palmer,
assistant-surgeon, to the James Watt ; Cuthbert R.
Radham, clerk, to the St. Jean d'Acre ; Alfred P.
Cox, clerk to the Exmouth ; and John J. Covey,
master's assistant, to the Rhadamanthus.

LAW INTELLIGENCE.-( THIS DAY)

ROLLS COURT.

(Before the Master of the Rolls, Sir John Romilly.)

JUDGMENT.-THE MAYOR. OF' BRECON V. SEYMOUR.

His Honour, the Master of the Rolls, said—ln this case
I think the plaintif is entitled to decree. I think in de-
ciding this case I ought to follow the decision which I gave
in the decided case of De Winton and the Mayor of Brecon.
The plaintiffs bill was filed for a reconveyance of the lands
mortgaged on payment of the advances. Ha contends that he
is entitled to have his fees applied in payment of the incum-
brance, and then to have a reconveyance of the land to him.
The mortgage was made in 1835 on the market place for £750
and the security was taken in the name of the mayor and
corporation. The market buildings were erected under the
Municipal Corporation Act. Two mortgages were. after-
wards granted or assigned to Mrs. Payne over this same
property, one for £2,250 and the other for £1,500, and a
question was raised whether the second mortgagee was
entitled to take anythingunder these mortgages. His Honour
held that the second mortgages under the act were in-
valid. And the question now raised was whether the plaintiff
was entitled to a reconveyance on redemption. His Honour
on, referring to the 35th, 83d, and 94th sections of the act,
said that he must consider this case the same as the ordinary
case of mortgagee and mortgager, in the case of a private
contract, where the mortgagee offers to resell the property
mortgaged to the mortgager, who insists on his right of
pre-emption. His Honour, therefore, made the usual order
for reconveyance on payment of the mortgage, the proceeds
to be applied in the usual way, and the title-deeds to be
delivered up to the plaintiff with costs.
His Honour made a similar decree in De Winton's case
with directions and costs.

Counsel in the cause—Mr. R. Palmer, Q.C., and Mr.
Follett, Q.C. '

SHERIFFS' COURT.
(Before Mr. Prendergast, Q.C.
FISII SALESMEN AND BILLINGSGATE •MARKET..--SNUGGS.

V. ALEXANDER.

This was a judgment summons, and the defendant applied
for a new trial, on the grounds that he was deterred from
attending the first summons by mistaking the day of hear-
ing, and that he was not the principal in the transaction,
but servant to a person named Marian Benjamin.
Plaintiff said he was a fish-hawker, and upon a certain
day he purchased two pods of fish ; he sold two of the fish,
but they were so bad that they made the person ill, and he
returned the lot. When he bought the fish he handed the
money to one Lawrence, who at once gave it to defendant,
who, upon being complained to of the badness of the fish,
offered plaintiff 6d.

Defendant said that when plaintiff first called upon him
be asked him for two or three shillings, which he (de-
fendant) refused upon principle, as he had nothing to do
with the transaction. He was a servant to Mrs. Benjamin,
and as such certainly not liable. He would, however, give
plaintiff 58. and his costs.

His Honour said the application was too late, and he
regretted to see business so badly conducted in Billings-
gate-market. A great number of these cases were brought
there, and a great deal had been said upon the subject. If
defendant had made his application before the judgment
summons, it might have been entertained ; as the matter
now stood, the application must be refused, and defendant
would be committed for four days, the warrant to be in the
office a week.

BROWN V. RAMSAY.--TIIE LORD'S DAY OBSERVANCE ACT.
This was a judgment summons for 3s. 7d., and the de-
fendant's wife pleaded great poverty, and stated that the
plaintiff kept a chandler's shop, and that she (Mrs. Ram-
say) had dealt with him for a number of years. One Sun-
day morning, before nine o'clock, she went to him for some
goods, and tendered 10s. 6d. Plaintiff refused either to
take the money or to let witness have any goods, and said
that people ought to go to church on Sunday. Now, her
husband could not get any money on Saturday night, and
so she could not got to plaintiff's before Sunday.
Plaintiff said he made it a rule never to serve anybody on
Sunday. He went to church.

His Honour did not think it would have hurt plaintiff to
let these poor people have a little food.
A witness was called, who said that Mr. Ramsay was
much afflicted, and unable to work.
His Honour—Well, Mrs. Ramsay can pay something.
Witness—Ah I but she can't.

His Honour—Oh, she must.
Witness—But she won't.

Plaintiff pressed for a commitment, but
His Honour bade him carry his religious feeling beyond
the L-ord's-day observance, and ordered the defendant to
pay a small sum weekly.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.-(THIS DAY.)

MARLBOROUGH-STREET.
"NOT Two PRICES AT MARYLEBONE."—john Harris,
a cab-driver, badge 1,087, cab 706, was charged with being
drunk and incapable of taking care of his cab.
The case having been proved by Smith, 34 C, who saw
the defendant going slowly along, and ultimately get the
wheel of his cab locked with a post in Silver-street. He
then, to prevent further mischief, seeing he was drunk,
took him into custody.

The defendant having admitted he was drunk, was asked
by Mr. Beadon whether his license was endorsed P
Cabman—Oh yes, once ; for the same offence. I was
then fined 20s.

Mr. Beadon—Then it must have been a bad case.
Cabman—Oh no. I was before Mr. Long, at Al aryle-
bone, and if he over gets any one before him its always 20s.
On that occasion I had been doing a little haymaking and
fell asleep on my box.

Mr. Beadon—As to being always fined 205., it is all non-
sense.

Cabman—l can assure your Worship there are not two
prices at Marylebone. (Laughter.) That worthy magi-
strate fines all alike as long as they are cabmen.
Mr. Beadon—l shall fine you the same-20s. or 14 days.
Cabman (leaving the dock)—Then its all one price here
too I suppose.

THAMES.
MURDEROUS ASSAULT.--Jeremiah Hurley, an Irish
labourer, was brought before the Hon. G. C. Norton,
charged with committing a violent assault upon MarY
M'Carthy, at No. 59, Pinnington. street, Ratcliff-highwah
last night, during a quarrel.
Mr. John Courley, a surgeon, High-street, Whitechapel,
said he was called upon to attend a woman named M'Carthy,
in the Leman-street station-house, and found her
bleeding copiously from a wound on the top of the head.
It was two inches in length and penetrated to the scalp.
An artery was divided, and he had some difficulty in sup-
pressing the hemorrhage. The woman lost a large
quantity of blood. In answer to Mr. Norton, the
witness said ho believed the wound was inflicted
with a sharp instrument, certainly with an in-
strument of a sharp character. A policeman produced
a publican's half-gallon tin can, and Mr. Cowley said the
edge of it might have inflicted the wound which was one of
a very serious character. He sent the woman to the Lon-
don Hospital, and it would be a week before she would be
able to leave her bed.

A woman named Driscoll said that the prisoner was the
son-in-law of the woman in the hospital, and that they
were drinking together last night, and quarrelled, and after
some offensive words had passed between them, the prisoner
struck his wife's mother on the top of the head with the
can produced and knocked her down. The woman called
her son-in-law many bad names.
Mr. Norton remanded the prisoner for a week.