The Sun.
London, England, 1850-07-17 00:00:00

OVERLAND MAIL

(BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH FROM TRIESTE.

We have received the following telegraphic dis:
patch from Alexandria, via Trieste, in anticipation of
our ordinary express from Marseilles :

"ALEXANDRIA, JULY 8.
The Oriental arrived from Calcutta at Suez on
the 4th of July, having been delayed by the mon-
soon. She had sixty-six passengers. The mails will
be forwarded to Malta at ten A.M. this day.
" The Bombly mail had not reached Aden ; it was
expected to arrive on the 17th instant.
" The advices from Calcutta are of the Ist of June.

"We have accounts from Singapore of the same
date, and from Java and Hong-Kong of the 25th and
23d of May.

"The political news is altogether without interest.
The heat of the season prevented all activity. The
Governor-General was still suffering in his health.
The military complain of Sir C. Napier, on account
of his unnecessarily moving the troops during the hot
season. From Hyderabad we learn that the Seikhs
had assumed a threatening position.

" The President of the Chinese Cabinet died very
soon after the Emperor's decease.
" The commercial treaty between America and
China had not been concluded. There was no pro-
gress making in the British negotiations with China.
Obstacles had of late been laid in the way of the
opium trade.
" Disturbances continued at Bantam, on the island
of Java.

" Some pirates had been seen in the waters of
Klei, and a junk had been plundered.
" The cholera was raging at Karnbociis, as much as
formerly at Siam and Cochin China."—Chronicle.

CHANCERY.-(THIS DAY.)
THE NEW LORD CHANCELLOR.

This being the day appointed for the new Lord
Chancellor ( Baron Truro) taking his seat for the first
time in the Court of Chancery, the Old Hall, Lincoln's
Inn, was crowded to excess long before twelve o'clock,
by persons anxious to witness the ceremony of his
Lordship taking the oath as Lord Chancellor.
Shortly atter ten o'clock his Lordship, accompanied
by the Master of the Rolls, the Vice-Chancellor Knight
Bruce, and the .two Senior Masters Dowdsw•ell and
Farrar, entered the court. His Lordship, after bowing
re3peetrully to the bar, and before occupying
the Chancellor's chair, took the oath as Lord
Chancellor. The oath, which was administered
to his Lordship by the Master of the Rolls, was
read by Viscount Crowhurst, the eldest son of the
Earl of Cottenham, by virtue of his office as Clerk of
the Crown. At the conclusion of the ceremony, the
oath which his Lordship had taken was ordered to be re-
corded on the motion of Mr. Svvansten, the senior
Queen's Counsel of the Equity Bar.
His Lordship then proceeded to hear appesi motions.
The Court will take unopposed lunatic petitions on
Friday next.

ROLLS' COURT.-(THIS DAY.)
Tho Master of the Rolls, after attending the swearing
in of the new Lord Chancellor in the Old 8011, Lincoln's
Inn, sat in his court in the Rolls-yard, Chancery-lane,
and heard causes, none of which were of the lest public
importance.

VICE-CHANCERY.—(THIS DAY.)
(Before the Vice• Chancellor KNIGHT BRUCE.)
His Honour, after attending the swearing in of the
new Lord Chancellor, ant in his court at Lincoln's Inn,
and heard bankrupt petitions, none of which possessed
any feature of interest.

SECONDARIES'-(THIS DAY.)
(Before Mr. Secondary POTTER.)
BODKIN V. LINWOOD.
LITERARY LABOUR.—The plaintiff is a gentleman well
known in the literary world, and the defendant is the
proprietor of the Eclectic Review. The action was
brought to recover the sum of 5/. for work and labour
done.
Defendant suffered judgment to go by default.
On the part of the plaintiff, Mr. J. C. Crisp, the pub-
lisher of the publication, produced the number in which
the article: appeared, intitled " The Irish Church and
Irish Methodism."
A letter from defendant, acknowledging the plaintiff as
the author, and a promise to pay, was put in.
The plaintiff's attorney said that the dispute arose
on a question, the article only amounting to 15 pages,
instead of 16, which formed a sheet, but defendant
not pleading, and no one appearing to attempt to reduce
the amount, plaintiff was entitled to a• verdict.
The jury gave a verdict for the full amount.
The other cases were on bills of exchange, and the de-
fendants admitted their liability under judges' orders.

BANKRUPTC Y.-(THIS DAY.)
(Before Mr. Commissioner GOULDURN.)
IN RE COLLINGWOCD.—A FARMING FAILURE.

This bankrupt was described as of Nuneham Court-
ney, Oxfordshire, inkeeper, farmer, &c., and to-day came
up for his certificate.
The report of Mr. Pennell, the official assignee,
showed that the bankrupt Wes indebted in the sum of
1,391/. 6s. His profits amount, from January, 1846, to
April, liso, to 2,4981. The property was estimated to
realise 9601. Ss. The profits were on the tavern, and the
losses—on corn, 114/. 35.; on malt and hops, 351.; on
farming, 1,150/. Bankrupt was deficient iu January,
1846, 1821. 18s. 3d,, since which time he had paid
3501. 15s. 6d. for interest and discount. The bankrupt
filed his own petition, under which by the late Act he is
bound to swear that his estate will pay a dividend of ss.
in the pound.
Ills HONOUR asked if such were the case?
Mr. PENNELL said he thought it would, and would
have been considerably more, except for the depreciation
of the property, and bankrupt had come to the court as
soon as he discovered how he stood.
His HONOUR said that there was only one obstacle to
his granting a certificate of the first class—it was that
the bankrupt had continued business so long after a ea-
ficiency, and his books were not accurately kept.
The bankrupt said he had a family of 17 children, se-
veral of whom were still dependent upon him, and he
had struggled on as long as he could, and then came to
this court and gave up every shilling, and he had not had
money enough even to empley a solicitor.
His HONOUR said ho believed that, but he could not,
fur the circumstances he had stated, grant a certificate
of the first class, or he would have done so with pleasure,
but he could only grant a certificate of the second class.
Certificate granted accordinjly.

MARLBRO'-STREET.—(THIS DAY.)
ROBBERY BY A SKITTLE SHARP.—James Peacock, a
well-known skittle sharp, was placed at the bar before
Mr. Ils,rdwick charged with assaulting George Brock-
well, and robbing him of a silver watch, value 51.
The prosecutor stated that last night, about twelve
o'clock, he was proceeding towards his residence
in Tichbourne-street, when ho met the prisoner, who
stopped him, and asked him to toss for a pot of porter.
Witness consented, and the prisoner lost. They then
adjourned to a public-house in Cleveland-street, for the
purpose of having the porter, but the waitetfirefused to
serve the prisoner, alleging as his reason for not doing
so, that he was a bad character, and the sooner he was out
of the house the better. Witness seeing that he had got
into bad company ran out of the house. The prisoner
followed him, and laying hold of his collar, asked him
for a shilling; and on witness refusing to comply with
his request, he (prisoner) knocked him down with his
fist. A struggle then 'ensued, end after a sharp tussle
witness managed to get on his feet. The prisoner then
Ma away; and on witness feeling for his watch, he missed
it from his pccket. He wus positive his watch was safe
in his pocket, previous to the prisoner knocking him
down. Witness having prccured the assistance of a
police-constable, went to the prisoner's lodgings, where
they found him in bed. Witness then gave him in charge.
The watch has not been found.

The prisoner, who denied the charge, was remanded
till Saturday.

CREMORNE GARDENS.—Lieutenant Gale and his
wife, who ascended on Monday night in the Royal Normandy
Balloon, from Cremorne Gardens, descended in safety on the
estate of Stephen Lewis Matthews, E.sq., Castle•bar, near
Ealing. The gallant aeronaut and his lady were received
with every attention tmd hospitality by Mr. Matthews and
the members of his family.

THE LATE STEAM-110AT EXPLOSION AT DEVON-
rosT —Mr. Mitchell, engineer, and part owner of the Queen,
river steamer, is still living; he cannot be removed from
the place to which he was first taken. He lies on lint and
oil, but suffering severely from scalds and bruises, and is
frequently delirious. Small hopes are entertained of his re-
covery. The other man is a little better. -.1.N0 news of the
missing man.