The Sun.
London, England, 1857-11-26 00:00:00

Int bition

SUN OFFICE, Six o' Clock.

AUSTRALIA.

By the arrival of the mail steamer Emeu, we
have received letters and papers dated Sept. 10.
(From the Sydney Empire.)
..

Our gold fields are progressing steadily, except
in localities where the floods have interfered with
the operations of the digger. No new discoveries
have been made, but the yield has been main-
tained.

A gentleman from Adelong called upon us
yesterday with specimens of the quartz from
that place. He describes the quartz reef
as being more than two miles long, and
richly impregnated with gold throughout. He
says that Belman's party had excavated at
the time he left upwards of 100 tons of quartz of
an average richness with the specimens he pro-
duced, every piece of which was interfused with
the precious metal. The loose washing stuff ob-
tained alongside of the reef yielded about 16 oz. to
the cart-load.

The population at our diggings still remains r.i-
markably orderly, though a deep conviction is ge-
nerally felt that the mining interest has been little
cared for by the Government.
About the middle of Julyy a mob of some 50 or
60 minors' at the Buckland diggings, within the
colony of Victoria, but close to our own border,
after meeting to consider the matter, forcibly ex-
pelledthe Chinese, numbering many hundreds, from
the ground. It was estimated that property be-
longing to the Chinese of the value of 8,0001. to
10,0001. was destroyed. The tents were all burned,
and considerable violence used in the expulsion.

Pursuant to a despatch from the Secretary of
State, the coinage of the Sydney Miut was pro-
claimed by Sir Henry Barkly a legal tender in Vic-
toria on the 20th July.
Public meetings have been held at Bathurst and
other towns in the Western interior to petition for
a better means of communication across the Blue
Mountains. The road has been nearly destroyed
by the long-continued heavy rains.

LAW INTELLIGENCE.--(This Day.)

COURT OF COMMON PLEAS.

:Sittings at Nisi Prins, at Westminster, before Lord
Chief Justice Cockburn and a Common Jury.)

NOTD AND WIFE V. STRANGWATES—NURIOUS DRIVING.
This was an action brought by the plaintiffs, poor
persons, residing in the neighbourhood of Whitechapel,
to recover damages in compensation for a serious injury
inflicted on the wife, through the reckless driving of the
defendant, a carman, carrying on business with his
mother, at 2, Hunt-street, Mile-end New Town. It ap-
peared from the evidence for the plaintiff, that about
half-past 10 o'clock on the night of the 2d of April last,
that hie wife, who is a shoebinder, was crossing High-
street, Whitechapel, when she was knocked down by the
defendant, driving a horse and cart at a furious rate
along the street. He did not stop to ascertain the mis-
chief he had done, but accelerated his speed. A police-
man, who witnessed the accident, followed the defendant
in a cab, but he lost sight of him at Mile-end-gate The
poor woman, when taken up, was conveyed to the Lon-
don Hospital, where she was examined, and it was found
she had four ribs fractured on the left tide, and five on
the right side. Her shoulder was dislocated, and she
received other injuries. She suffered very much, and
remained in the hospital between three and four weeks.
About two o'clock in the morning the policeman
above-mentioned saw the defendant in his cart re-
turning to the City, but so drunk that he was
unable to take proper care of it, and he took
him into custody and locked him up. The medical gen-
tleman who attended the plaintiff's wife at the hospital
gave it as his opinion that her lungs were prematurely
injured. _ _

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kr. Sergeant Thomas, who cross-examined the witness
for the defendant, as to his identity, declined to call him
or any evidence for the defence, and suggested to Mr.
Sergeant SLee, who appeared for the plaintiff, that the
case should go to the jury without their addressing the
jury, which was acceded to.
The Lord Chief Justice, in summing up the case, said
that a great deal of time had been wasted in cross-exa-
mining the plaintiff's witness, to persuade the jury
that he was not the man who did the
mischief. It was no extenuation of con-
duct, the defendant instructing his counsel to deprive
this poor woman of oompeusatton, by endeavouring to
cast doubts on his identity, when be did not dare to put
himself int) the witness-box and fees the jury. If there
was any foundation for believing he was not the man
who committed the injuries, he should come forward
and pledge his oath to that fact. It bad beep proved
that he was driving a restive horse without any regard
to the lives and limbs of the public.
The jury returned a verdict for the plaintiff,
damages 251.