The Sun.
London, England, 1844-02-01 00:00:00

COOKE V. CREW...

Mr. Whateley and Mr. Miller appeared for the plaintiff;
Mr. Humphrey conducted the case for the defendant.
This was an action to recover compensation in damages for
false imprisonment. It appeared that the plaintiff, who was
a commercial traveller for a mercantile house in the City,.en-
gaged from the defendant a phaeton, for . which he
-was to pay 21. 10s. a month. Subsequently the
plaintiff became involved in difficulties, and having left his,
employment returned. the phaeton to the defendant, at the
same time stating his inability at that time to pay for the
hire of the phaeton. The defendant detained the servant of
the plaintiff who brought it back, and having traced the
plaintiff to a coffee-house; there arrested him on a charge Of
felony, and caused him to be conveyed to the Moor-lane
station-house, where he was confined during the night. The
next morning he was taken before Sir Peter Laurie, at Guild-
hall, who stated - his belief that the case was not one of
felony, and remanded him to the next day, when the money
was raised and the debt paid.—Verdict for the plaintiff 5/.
HUNTER V. BRAITHWAITE.
This was an action to recover compensation in damages,
under the following circumstances, which have been detailed
at length in The Sun.
41'he plaintiff, who is a licensed victualler, carrying on
business at the Earl Cathcart's, in Munster-street,. Regent's-
park, embarked with four friends on board the Prince
Albert steam-boat, with the intention of proceeding
to Sheerness, on a pleasure excursion. On reaching
Gravesend the captain denounced. them to the crew
as pickpockets and members of the " swell mob,"
at the same time informing them in language which could
not be misconstrued, that they must land at Gravesend, and
which they were compelled to do, and where, from the pre-
judice created against them, they were annoyed by a mob,
and refused refreshments or admission into any tavern in the
town. After several ineffectual attempts to get a passage by
the steam-boats plying to London, they were compelled, at
considerable expense, to take a carriage to town. The de-
fendant is the proprietor of the steam-boat. An action was
brought last term by Mr. Coppin, one of the party, against
Mr. Braithwaite, when the preceding facts were addneed, and
a verdict found for 501. in his favour.
Verdict for the plaintiff, 201.

- THE LATE FIRE AT DEPTFORD.—The following
address has been presented to the Royal Marines, to whose
prompt assistance upon this occasion so much credit is due :
To Captain Buchanan, the officer in command of the de-
tachment of her Majesty's Royal Marines on duty at Dept-
ford, on Thursday, the 11th of January, 1844. Sir—We,
the undersigned vicar, rector, churchwardens, and inhabi-
tants of the parishes of St. Nicholas and St. Paul, Deptford,
Kent, desire to . express our sincere thanks for the prompt
and, effective assistance rendered by you and the officers and
men under your command, at the alarming fire which oc-
curred in nigh-street, Deptford, on the 11th instant, and our
admiration of the intrepidity and orderly and soldierlike
conduct displayed on that occasion, by which the threatened
serious conflagration was arrested, and but for which we feel
convinced a very great loss of property, if not of life, must
have occurred. We request you will accept for yourself,
and be good enough to communicate to those of your corps
to whose very zealous exertions we and our fellow-townsmen
areso much indebted, this earnest of our feelings of gratitude
towards you and them. We remain, &c." The following is
the reply Royal Marine Barracks, Deptford. Gentle-
men,-1 have the honour to acknowledge the receipt of a
document bearing your signatures, together with many others
of the respectable inhabitants of Deptford, expressing their
gratitude to the officers, non-commissioned officers, and pri-
vates, under my orders, in reducing and stopping the fire
which broke out on the morning of the 11th iust., ni High-
street, Deptford. I have to request that you will be pleaded
to convey to them the high gratification 1 feel that the de-
tachment of the Royal Marines under my command should
have proved of so much service at a time when much vain- -
able property was threatened with destruction. I trust that
they will always meet their approbaaptcitoahniunrunec ohidimel,marrsadiineindiiislnarogfadsieltd..
any other circumstances. I have the honour to be your
11{eeNtANor: ande
obedient
t.serAT'oantth,
the Vicar,
BtrelA
Paul's and St. Nicholas'."

PRICE OF WOoL—Since the beginning of Novem-
ber wool has risen" above 40 pefeent., and still looks upwards,
and as the manufacturers have 110 stocks on hand, the
farmers may confidently look forward for Several years to
good prices, in spite of all the exertions of the League.--KelsoMail.

BRIGHTON.— THEDUKE' OP CAMBRIDGE.-011
Saturday Morning his Royal Highness took his gun and went
into Col, Wyndham's preserves,,but before he had any sport
he kicked against the stump of a tree, and had rather a se-
vere fall. His Royal Highniss returned to Petworth House
immediately, but we are happy to state that he was able to
dine with the company, the only inconvenience he felt from
the accident being a stiffness in the shoulder. On Sunday
his Royal Highness attended Divine service in the parish
church, both in the morning and afternoon, and on the fol-
lowing day took his departure for Good Wood, oni a visit to the
Duke and Duchess of Richmond.
SOUTH EASTERN RAILWAY, DOVER, JAN. 31.
It is now definitively arranged that the South Eastern Rail-
way should be opened to Dover on Tuesday next, the 6th of
February ; and the event will be celebrated by a dinner, on
a sumptuous scale, at the theatre, to. which the Directors,
engineers, and officers, of the Company. The civic authori-
ties of Calais, Boulogne, Ostend, Canterbury, Deal; Hythe,
Folkettone, &c., are to be invited ; an excellent Committee, of
which the Mayor is chairman, has been appointed to conduct
the banquet, and -a liberal subscription entered into to defray
the expellee of it,--(From a correspondent.)

. .
ANTI-CORN-LAW MEETING AT
STOCK...P.OAT.
On Tuesday evening one of the largeit, most, respectable,
and most enthusiastic meetings ever -held in took
place last evening, in aid of the great League Fund of 100,00 a
the meeting was held in Batty's Royal Circus, Middle Hill-
gate, a spacious pavilion,. capable of seating 2,500 persons ;
and the whole available space in the boxes, pit, and galleries,
was crowded to excess. At ten minutes before seven o'clock,
the chair was taken by Cephas Howard,-Eiq., Mayor of -the
Borough ; and, on the platform were the following
gentlemen :—Richard Cobden, Esq., M.P.,' Mr,-; Alderman
Armitage, and Mr. R. Moore (a deputation froM the League).;
Henry Marsland, Esq., M.P. ; -Messrs. Alderman Orrell,
Alderman Hollins, Samuel Carrington, John Dyson Fernley;
Rev. Charles Baker, Rev. S. Healey ; the' Town-clerk ;
i Messrs. Thomas Eskrigge, Jamei Ashton, Benjamin Ashton,
John Lees, Henry Pearson, W. R. Potts, Hamer, Sefton,
Wilde, M'Culloch, Carrington, Potter, &c.
. In opening the proceedings, the Chairman said, they were
met for the purpose of receiving the deputation from the
Anti-Corn-law League, advocates of the .repial 'of. the
corn-laws and free trade in every department of commerce-
-(Loud applause.)—Henry Marsland, Esq., MX., then ea-11_1e
forward to move the first resolution, and was received with
cheers.. He adverted to the origin of the Anti-Corn-law
League, the opposition they had met with, and the triumph
they had achieved over their opponents. They had gone
among the agricultural districts for the purpose of enlighten-
ing the minds of those for whose benefit the corn-laws were
said to be enacted. Great had been the labours of his Hon.
Colleague—(Loud cheers)—and his coadjutors in the' cause;
and the farmers had now become convinced that they wer
not benefited by these laws, and had much rather that we
should be the consumers of their produce than the victims
of their policy. The Anti-Corn-law League had done very
much to liberate us from the political trammels in which
we were tied, and men of all shades of politics were now
found uniting in this great movement in favour of free and
unshackled commerce. The. Whigs were equally guilty with
the Tories in not caring for the country, and therefore the
country ceased to care for them. He rejoiced that this was
no party, movement ; and, As a proof that it was no parr,
movement,' he was glad to be able to point to the gentleman
who now occupied the chair.—(Hear, hear.) After advert-
ing to the deep distress which had lately-been -felt in Stock-
port,—distress which might soon return unless the polidy
which it had been caused was altered,—he'concluded bytnev-
ing the following resolution :--
"That this meeting, being firmly ofopinion that this cowl.
try suffers severely from the baneful effects pf monopoly,
especially the corn-law, and that all laws which interfere
with the freedom of industry and with the bounties •of Pro-
vidence are impolitic and 'unjust, resolves' to tender its best
assistance, oh all necessary occasions, to. the National Anti-
Corn-laW.teague, in its persevering endeavours for the coin+
plete abolition of alt commercial monopolieB."--,(Appiause.)
The Rev. Charles 'Baker, Baptist minister, briefly se-
conded the resolution ; and it passed without a single dis-
sentient voice. -
A great number of addrestes were presented by working
in-en to Mr. Cobden from different manufactories, thanking
him for his exertions, and calling upon him to persevere-in
his great object-.-the destruction of monopolies: Mr. Cobden
returned thanks to the deputation, and then addressed the
meeting. Mr. Moore announced the subscriptions, for the
night, whieh amounted to 944/., in addition to 320/...sub-.
scribed by Messrs. Orrell and boffins at Manchester. Before.
the meeting broke. up the total contribution, for Stockport
was announced to be 1,333 t. 9s. 4d.

FREE TRADE DEMONSTRATION'
AT WAKEFIELD.- '
WAKEPIELD, WEDNESDAY
.EVENING.—The promised "
monstration of the friends of free trade, and the abolition of
the corn-laws, in the Vest Riding of Yorkshire" was made
this evening. The theatre selected for this diiplay was the
hall of the Corn Exchange, which was judiciously and taste'
fully fitted up for the occasion. Seats were provided 60623
in all, and large as was the number, every ticket WiS
posed of several days ago, and many person* applied. in-Sig
as 'early:eve:l'as Monday.
The following localities were represented by their dele-
gates :—Ossett, Halifax, Farsley, Uothersall, Cleckheaton,
Heckmondwike, Doncaster, Dewsbury, Yeadon; Hoisforth,
Guiseley, Rawden, Pudsey, Batley, Barnsley,. Wakefield,
Huddersfield„Lindley, Lockwood, south Crosland, Honlef,
Kirkburton,Oolcar, Dalton, Kirkeaton, Murfield;
.SkehnOlv
thorpe, Clayton West, Hornefurth, 'Mole-green, —Birkbeft
Bradford, Otley, Morton, Clayton, and LeedS,
Five o'clock was the hour appointed for the dinner, but Ole
guests did not enter the room until a quarter to six. Jades
Garth Marshall, Esq., presided as chairman, the vice-chair-
men being H. IL Stansfield, George Craven, F. Schwann, and
Carbutt, Esqrs. The whole of the excellent arrangements
were under the immediate superintendence Or— Kends%
Esq., assisted by G. ill. Bingley,' Esq., „the -secretary of tbi
Wakefield Anti-Corn-law Association; -
On the right of the Chairman sat Lord Morpeth, D. Gas°
kell, Esq., Col. Thompson, George WiLson, GrimstOneo
Wm. Hand, George Oxley, T. Bazeley; E. Baines; T. 'Punt,
R. Milligan, R. 1~ orbes, J. Scholefield,..— Gully; Jos. Kaye,
E. Ackroyd,-Wm. Morris, and Willoughby Wood, Esqrs., and
the Rev. J. G. Morris. - -
On the left were Richard Cobden, -Esq.; the Mayor of
Leeds, John Bright, Wilkinson, R. R. Moore,- D. Lupton,
T. Mallison, George Crosland, H. Ashivortb, G.Wise,
Clay, Jas. Thompson, Welsh, D. Peckover, Dawson,
H. Clayton, Taylor Crooke, W. Harvey, and Ched"
wick, Lsqrs. • - - -
The Hon. C. P. Villiers, who had accepted, an invitation,
was unable, from sudden indisposition, to attend:
The approach of Lord Morpeth to the Hall waif announce",
to the dense company by the applause of the populace 0"
thronged the avenues leading to the banquetting room. fin;
mediutely his Lordship entered the building those assemble"
there responded to the enthusiastic plaudits-of the people.
Messrs. Cobden, Bright, Gaskell, and COlonel Thompson
were alio loudlS, cheered as they entered the room, and were
severally recognised. -
At five minutes before seven, the cloth-having been Ir"
moved, the ladies entered the gallery,- and were loudly ap-
plauded.
As soon as order was restored, grace havingbeee said,
The Chairman rose and gave " The health or her Most
Gracious Majesty the Queen," which was drunk with nine
tinier nine. - , -
The first toast was not given till seven- o'clock, and the
last mail train left Wakefield at a quarter-past seven, whets
the express left. _