The Sun.
London, England, 1850-02-05 00:00:00

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.

PORTSMOUTH, FEU. 4.—The Hermes steam-sloop,
Commander Fishbourne, arrived this morning from
Sheerness, towing the Dart brigantine, second master
M.Clure, which is to be navigated by a portion of the
crew of the Hermes to the Cape of Good Hope,
where she will become a tender to the Commodore's
ship Castor.
The Raleigh, 50, Captain the Hon. Charles Hope,
has been taken under the sheers to-day, and had her
masts taken out. She will be paid off alongside the
dockyard.

APPOINTMENTS.

WOOLWICR, FBB. 4.—Commander Thomas G.
Forbes (1842), to command the Philomel, 8, sloop,
commissioned this day at Devonport.
Lieutenant A. P. H. Helby, to the Philomel.
Acting-Master Francis T. Jameson (Second
Master, 1845), to the Philomel.
Acting Paymaster and Purser John Tweedie
(Clerk 1842), to the Philomel.
Midshipmen—R. P. Cator, E. C. Miller, and
Charles E. Burlton, to the Philomel.
Master's Assistant Frederick Townsend, to the
Philomel.

Clerk Sydney E. Wright (1848), to the Philomel.
Naval Cadet Arthur H. M. Cunningham, to the
Fisgard flag-ship, at Woolwich.
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Boatswain John Lee to the Philomel.

Carpenter IVilliarn IVhitburn, to the Philomel.
Several of the members of the Board of Admiralty
contemplate visiting Woolwich Dockyard to •morrow,
Feb. 5.

Captain Alexander Mile, one of the Lords of the
Admiralty ; Captain Sir Baldwin Walker,
Surveyor of the Navy ; and Lieutenant-Colonel
Greene, Director of Engineering and Architectural
Works, left the Admiralty this morning on an official
visit to Devonport.

MARKET NEWS.-(THIS DAY.)

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SMITHFIELD.—MeadowIia7,2IB; to 31 10s; Clover
litto, 31 Oa to 4/ lOs ; and Straw, 11 2s to 11 8s per
oad. A full average supply, and a dull trade.
CumnEnrAND.—Meadow Hay, 21 86 to 3110 s; Clover
ditto, 3/ Os to 41 7s ; and Straw, 11 2s to 1/ 9s per
load. Trade very dull, at last week's quotations.
WHITECHAPEL. Meadow Hay, 21 6s to 3/ 104 ;
Clover ditto, 3/ Os to 4/ 10s; and Straw,ll 2s to 118 s per
load. Supply good, and trade dull.

CO LOATIAL.
SE:GAIL—The market for British Plantation is ex-
ceedingly dull at 6d decline. Mauritius, 821 bags
offered by auction only partly sold at previous rates;
Bengal, 2,900 ba
of fully 6d per cwt. About 5,000 bags Madras were
chiefly sold at 6d decline. Privately, 400 .boxes low
V' were Only partly sold at a reduction
yellow llavannah have been sold at 20s 6d. The quan-
tity of British Plantation landed last week at the East
and West India Docks wus 1,645 hhds, 146 tierces, 673
barrels. There ware taken for home consumption 1,270
hhds, 91 tierces, 138 barrels. The stock in the same
places is 9,349 hhds, 1,568 tierces, 2,361 barrels.
COFFEE.—There has been an improved demand for
this article; upwards of 6.000 bags good ord native
Ceylon have changed hands, at 60s to 62e, and there are
but few sellers at the latter price. 2,200 bags and 87
casks Plantation Ceylon were partly sold at a rise of 2s
to 35 per cwt, the remainder being held above that ad-
vance. 150 bales Mocha were sold at comparatively
cheap rates, viz., 74s to 75s for good long Lerry.
RUDI.—The quantity landed last week at the East
and %Vest India Docks was 222 puns 1 hhd. There
were taken for home consumption 354 puns 17 hhds, and
exported 33 puns 50 hbds The stock in the same
places is 19,065 puns 2,168 hhds.
RlCE.—Bengal realised lOs 3d for mid white, and
Madras 8s 6d to 9s for pinky.
PEPPER.—BIack sold at a decline of fully hd, viz.,
to 43d, for good light Eastern to good halt heavy
Malabar.

TALLow.—P.Y.C. is 3Ss per cwt on the spot, and
Town 393 6d. .

TEA.—The market is rather quieter, but with fair
deliveries.

TOlLtcco.—The market has continued to assume a
firmer tone during the whole of last month, and consi-
derable sale:', have been effected, amounting in all sorts
to 3,150 hhds. Parcels of western strips have been
sold at an advance of full ;',ld per lb., nevertheless there
has been an evident indisposition on the part of a large
portien of the trade to purchase. Importers have
shown no inclination to effect sales excepting at ex-
treme. rates, and buyers in many instances have con-
fined their purchases to their immediate wants, on the
supposition that present prices cannot be sup-
ported. There has been a more active demand for
exportation, but present rater, and the peculiar posi-
tion of the market, prevent the possibility of orders
being executed. In Virginia sales have been 600
hhds, about half fur exportation and half for home trade;
t.here has been an improved demand for strips, and for
qualities extreme rates have been paid. For expor-
tation purchases have been chiefly confined to mid and
ord sorts. In Kentucky Leaf and Strips sales may be
estimated at 2,190 hhds, cf which 2,000 were strips; as
before stated, parcels have been taken at an advance of
id per lb. Maryland—Sales are limited at previous
rates. In Havannah Leaf very few sales have
effected in consequence of stock being quite
bare of good and fine qualities. Advices
continue favourable as to the quality and quan-
tity of the last crop. Eavannah Cigars have
been in fair demand at firm prices. Manilla Cheroots
and Leaf have been in moderate request at steady prices.
Of the latter none remains in the hands of importers.
Yara and Cuba in fair demand at firm rates. Brazil,
nothing done. Stock entirely hero cf suitable dosciip-
Cons. Havanna!' seed leaf, Florida, and Porto Rico—
Sales confined to the immediate wants of buyers. In Co-
lumbian. Andalusian, and Giron, fine descriptions have
been in fair demand at firm rates; there has been a good
inquiry for exportation, but the positioncf the market
has prevented the possibility cf ffcctinF, saler.
Iu
Amersfuort nothing done. Good quality for snuff pur-
poses would meet a ready sale. In Negro Beal and
Cavendish sales have been made to a fair extent, chiefly
on speculation. Stalks were in moderate demand.

BRIGHTON, LEWES, AND TUNBRIDGE WELLS RA.II.-
'l'l'l.-OEI Saturday the Master in Chancery Sir William
Horne proceeded with the list of shareholders in this
undertaking, and placed thereon as con ributories,
lisble
to a pro rule payment in discharge t.f the habilities,
amounting to 5,0001., 1,160 shareholders, who had ap-
plied tor shares and had them allotted, but who had
neither paid the deposit nor signed the deed of contract.

MONEY nil COMMERCIAL NEWS.
CITY, QUARTER TO THREE. '
The sales of Cotton at Liserpool yesterday were esti- 1
mate) at about 9,000 bales, of which 2,500 were taken on
speculation; the sales comprised 5,000 A naorican at 60 .to
9d , 1,800 Pernaea and Marauhana at eid. to 71d., 500
Bahia at 70, 200 Egyptian at 61d. to 81(f., 1,200 Surat at
411 to 5-11, and 80 Sea Island at 111 d. to ls. 4d. per lb.
Tee market was brisk, and prices of American were
itl.'to id, Brazil id. and other sorts *d. per lb. dearer. ,
—Railway Shares were dull.
The letters and papers from the United Stat .s and
Canada were delivered yesterday afternoon, asd we find
in them several items of interest. We adverted yeste:.-
day to the easier condition of the Money Marktt, and
the point that now presents itsel most prominently is
the intelligeree frsm California. More gold had been
received at New York, and further amounts were advised
as coming. At the Georgetown diggings the average per
day for labourers were not less than three ounces, and
instances of bagging eight and ten ounces are said not to
be rare. The gold bearing quartz of California also pro-
mises great results; and our readers may judge, if all the
anticipations are realised, what will be the effect upon
the American money market, and, should the pro,iuction
continue, upon the European market likewise. One must
not be led away, however, by everything that is loosely
stated, but watch the arrival of the dollars.
It is pleasing still to observe that the State Legisla-
tures are receiving from their respective Governors very
satisfactory financial reports. That of Ohio is encou-
raging.
An inter citing account is before us from Canada con-
cerning the timber trade. It is dated from Ottawa, and
runs as follows:—" We have taken some pains, for the
interests of our subscribers, to ascertain what is doing
in the timber business. We find that the probable
quantity of white pine on the Ottawa and its tributaries
will be about 12,000,000 feet, and in the St. Lawrence
and its tributaries about 6,000,000, to which we add
the st ick at Quebec, 6,554,290, making an aggregate of
24,554,290. The average annual exportation being
about 12,000,000, leaves the balance as stock for the
following year, with the exception of the home consump-
tion, and whatever may be shipped to the States, which
has been so far limited, and must continue se, until the
duty of 20s. is taken off. The extra quantity toing
manufactured this season, by farmers and others now
regularly in the trade, is estimated at about 4,000,000
feet, leaving in the hands of regular traders on the Ot-
tawa 8,000,000. For the last ten years there has not
been less timber cut off unsurveyed lands of the Crown
than the present season. The timber is generally being
made in old settled townships, and on private property,
we should say to the extent of 7,000,000 feet, a large
portion of which is being manufactured on the Ottawa
and its tributaries, below Bytown."
The report from the Amsterdam Bourse, dated the 2d
instant, states that the Dutch Funds were firm, but
not active. The Two-and-a-Half per Cents. were 54;
Peruvian were up to 731. At Frankfort, on the 31st
ultimo, the Austrian Meetallics were at 85.
Within the last few days a requisition has been drawn
up by some of the members, and presented to the Com-
mittee for conducting the affairs of Lloyd's, suggesting
the expediency of closing business in the Underwriters'
Room at two o'clock on Saturdays. As the idea did not
appear to find favour with the Committee, the requisi-
tionists came to the conclusion that it would be expedi- •
ent and graceful to abandon it, and have done so ac-
cordingly.
The English Stock Market has been very fluctuating,
and prices have declined considerably. Consols realised
951 ir in the morning, but have declined since to 951 -?,-.
Bank Stock has been firm at 206 to ', and India Stock
quiet at 266. The New Three -arad-a Quarter per
Cents. have brought 97i 0 981. Exchequer-bills have
dropped to 565. to 59e. premium. The present value of
Consols is 951-i to 1 for Money, and 951 1 for Account.
In the Foreign market a further great aivance has
occurred in Peruvian Bonds, which have touched 784
to 79 fsr the Active, and 32 to 33& for the Deferred.
Venezuela Stock has been done at 33 and 334; Grenada
Bonds are 18k; Equador, 4; and Mexitae, 29 to 1
Spanish Three per Cents. were quoted 36,1, and Portu-
guese Four per Cent=. 341 to 35 ex dividend. Russian
Old Stock has been at 109, and the Scrip is not higher
than 24- i- premium. Dutch Four per Cents. are 8671.
In Railway Stares there is very little business doing,
and prices rule heavy.
ONE
PRICES OF ,• it iTIBEI FUNDS O'CLOCK. 7RP- ES.
Bank Stock
3 sai- Gent. Reduced Arms
per Celt Console Annuities 953/4 % Yel/4 4 95%
3 per Cent. Annuities,l726 947/s 94%
N ,Vir 314 per Cent. Ann 5......
,sent; Anna. to expire J an. 1860
Ditto, 30 years, Oct. 10, 1859 -16 8 7-16
Ditto 30 years, Jan. 5, 1860. 8 5-16 8 5-16
India Stock
India Bonds, 1,0001... 9l p 91 p
Ditto under 1,000/.. ....... ....- BB p 88 p
South Sea Stock -
Ditto New Annuities ......
Consols for Account 95% % VA lA 951/2
Exchequer Bills. 11,40. & 2d
1,0001. June 56 59 p 55 p
500/. June
Small. June 56 59 p 55 p
PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS. ONE (1LOSIN:
O'CLOCK. ?RTC E 8
Brazilian Bonds — 88%
Buenos Ayres Bonds, 6 per Cent — 55
Danish Bonds, 1825,3 per Cent
Ditto 5 Der Cent.
Equador Bonds ..
Grenada Bonds, 11/2 per Cent lBl,O 18%
Ditto Deferred
Greek Bonds
Ditto ex Over-due Coupons 7 6% 7% 71/s
Slexican, 5 per Cent. 1846, with Coupons—
Ditto, Ex Jan. Coupons ...
Ditto, Account ...... 29 291/8 291. E
Peruvian Bonds, 4 per Cent ........
Ditto, Account ............ ......... 76% 7814 79 79
Ditto Deferred
Portuguese 5 per Cents.
Ditto, 4 per Cent.
Ditto, Account
Russian Bonds ... 109 110=
Ditto Scrip
Spanish 5 per Cent. 1840 lB% 183/4
Ditto, Passive 3% 3%
Ditto, 3 per Cent
Venezuela Bonds, 214 per Cent
Ditto, Account
Ditto, Deferred
Dividends on the above payable in London.
Dutch 214 per Cent., 12 Guild. .. 55
Ditto. 4 per Cent. Certificates,— 86% 861%
PRICES OF PAD' ,BUSINESS DONE CLOSING
‘; A ILWAY SHARES.AT ONE O'CLOCK. PRICES
3irmingham and Ox-
ford Junct., calls duly
paid, or with a guaran. 20
Caledonian
Ditto, New 10/. Pref... 10
Dublin and Belfast June. 40 ...... 634 ... 614
t.aatern Counties........ 20 ...... ...... .... ... 7%
Do. New,Gua.6 per ct. 10 ...... 11% ...... .. 11%
Eastern Union, Class A
(late E. U. Shares) 25
Great Northern
Do., 5 per Cent. Pref 124 10%
Great Western 100
Ditto, 1,4 Shares 5O - •••
Ditto, 14 Shares
Ditto. New 17/ l5 . 814 ...... 314
Lancashire& Yorkshire 100
Do. Fifths
Do. Thirds .............. l 8 ..... 8
Do. (W. Riding Union) 10 ..... 3% 3%
Leeds and Bradford 5O _ _ 97% 9714

London &Blackwall...ll/. 68. 3d... 33i 3ii
London, Brighton, and
South Coast... ..... 100 ...... —x. d. ........ 82 x. d.
Do. Guarant. 5 per rt.. 9 ...... 10% x.d 10% x. d.
London and N Western 100 115% 115 115% 1151/4
Ditto, New Quarters.. 12
9itto,Fift i
London & S.Westarn . 100 ...
Nl.Anenester, Sheffield,
and Lincolnshire ...100 ......
D 0.% Shares (No. 3) 1214 —
Do. New 101. Pre.E.... 10 .....
Midland ...... ........... 100 ..
Do., do., 50/. Shares 30 ..... 6% .... . 6%
Do.Consol.Bristol and
Birming., 6 per ct. —.IOO
Norfolk .. • . 100
Do. Extension ...
South Staffordshire ... 17% 7 1... 7
Oxford, Worcester, and
Wolverhampton ...... 50
Reading, Guildford, and
Reigate
3outh Devon
South Eastern
York, Newcastle, and
Berwick..... ... ..... ... 25
Do. Newcastle Eiden. 20
Do. G.N.E.Preference 8 ... 2';‘) 2
York and North Midland 50
FOREIGN RAILWA Yrs.
Boulogne and Amiens... 20
Dutch Rhenish ......... 8 ... .. ... ••• 2
Northern of France...... 16
Paris and Strasbourg ... 12
Rouen and Havre
MINES.
BrazilianCocaes&Cuiaba 30 ...... 43/4 4%
Cobre Copper
JOINT STOCK BANKS.
Australasia
London Joint 5t0ck...... 10

LLOYD'S SHIPPING—(THIS DAY.)
LONDON, FEB. s.—Wind at noon W.S.W., light
breez,,, and cloudy.
SOUTHAMPTON, FEB. 4.—Arrived Jupiter steamer,
Gibraltar, &c.
LIVERPOOL, FEB. 4. —Wind S. to S.W.--Arrived
William West, Sampson, Mobile; Charles Croaker,
Duncan, Charleston; James Gray, Carter, ditto; Jane
Softly, Wilmington ; Rossetta, Chambers, Windsor,
Nova Scotia; Sarepta, Williams, Valparaiso; John
liancock, Burgess, New Orleans; Silas Leonard, Thomp-
son, Charleston; Waterloo, Allen, New York. Sailed,
Seraphina, Pernambuco; Franconia and Republic, New
Orleans; Kate, Hunter, Montezuma;
,Gertrude, New
York. The Sultan, hence to St. John's, New Bruns-
wick, was wrecked on Beale's Island, Machias, 7th ult.;
crew and passengers saved. The Elizabeth, hence to
Charleston, was on shore near the bar of the latter place
22d ult., with nine feet water in her hold, and expected
to be a wreck; crew saved.

liertwicH, FEB. 4.—A boat marked " Santipetre," in
white letters on a black ground, has been picked up off
the Long Sand, supposed from some vessel lost there.
The broadside of a vessel of about 200 tons has been
picked up and brought in to•day.
YARMOUTH, FEB. 4.—The Ann and Jane, of and for
Wisbesch, from Seal-am, whilst at anchor off the
Humber sprang a leak, and went down; crew saved.:
SCARBOROUGH, FEn44.—The Swift, of Seaham, foun-
dered on the 2d inst., the Castle bearing S.W. six miles
distant; the master saved; the crew took to the boat,
and have not been heard of.
WHITEHATEN, FEB. 4.—The Arrow, of and for this
port from Dublin, has been wrecked on St. Bee's Head;
crew saved.

EIVELHELT, FEB, 4.—The Good Intent, of Tenby,
was run on ihore in Stuiwill Romis, 2uth Jon.; crew
aved.

QUEENSTOWN, FEB, 2.—Wind S.W. strong.—Arrd.
Ilarriot, Toss ell, S. John's, Newfoundland, for Lisbon.

JUDICIAL COMMITTEE OF THE

PRIVY COUNCIL.-(THIS DAY.)
There being some rea,ion to believe that the Judicial
Committee of the Privy Council ilould have given judg-
ment this day iu the case of Gorham v. the Bishop of
Exit9r, a gentleman from our office attended at tho of
flee of the Privy Council this morning to inquire wht.thi r
the judgment would be given to-day, and, it so, to report
it; but he ascertained that the Judicial G:nnittee a tie
Privy Council would not bit to-day, nor could he learn
in that quarter on what day thy judgin,:q t in Gorham v.
the Bishop of Exeter would be pronuuriced.

CIIANCERY.-(THIS DAY.)
The Lord Chancellor sat in the Old Hall, Lincoln's
Inn, to-day, to hear apvells.

AGSLIAWE, bLP. V. THE EASTERN UNION RAILWAY.

The further arguments in this part heard case were
resumed to-day, and occupied his Lordship the whole
morning. The case came before his Lordship upon
appeal from the judgment of the ViceoChancellor
Wigram, overruling a demurrer put in by the defendants
to the plaintiff's bill fur want of equity and want of
parties. The plaintiff is the Member tor the borough of
Harwich, High Steward and a magistrate of the borough,
also the owner of the dockyard there, and greatly inte-
rested in promoting the prosperity of the borough. Ile
is proprietor of two scrip certificates issued under two
Acts of Parliament, entitled "Tt e Eastern Union and
Harwich Railway and Pier Act," and "The Eastern
Union and Hadleigh Junction Railway Act," such scrip
having been converted into 25 shares, and the plaintiff's
name being registered as owner of their. The d 4 fen-
dents are the directors of the Eastern Union Railway
Company. The demurrers are by the company as a com-
pany, and by the directors in that character. The bill
prays an account of the sums received by the defendants
under the Eastern Union and Harwich Railway and
Pier Act, and the Eastern Union and Hudleigh Junc
tion Railway Act, of 1847, or either; and of the appli-
cation cf such sums; and, if it shall appear that the
dit ectors have applied any portion of such sums to any
other purposes than those authorised by these Acts, the
bill prays a declaration by the Court that such appli-
cation is a breach of trust, and that the defendants
may be decreed personally to replace such sums; and
that the Court would declare that it would be a breach
of trust to apply any portion of such moneys to any
other purppsc. The bill also prays an injunction
restraining the defendants from applying any portion
of the moneys already received, or hereafter to be
received, under the powers of the Acts, to any other
purpose than those of the two Acts. The plaintiff
sued as the proprietor of scrip certificates of " Per-
etaal Six per Cent. Stack, 1849," on behalf of himself
and all other proprietors of the like certificates who
should come in and se, k relief, contributing to the ex-
penses of the suit, r ther than the directors. The original
Act of the company (7 and 8 Victoria, e. 85) incorpo-
rated a company for the purpose of making a railway
from Colchester to Ipswich. By a subsequent Act (8 and
9 Victoria, c. 97) another company was empowered to
form a line from Bury S'. Edmund's to Ipswich. The
10 and 11 Victoria, c. 174, amalgamated the above
companies, under the name of the East rn Union Rail.
way Company. By a fourth Act (10 and 11 Victoria,
c. 225) the Eastern Union Railway Company was em-
powered to carry a line from Manningtree to Harwich.
A fifth Act, passed in the same session, authorised the
sale of the Eastern Union and Hadleigh Junction Rail-
way to the Eastern Union Railway Company. Under
the fourth Act tae company was empowered to raise
200,000/., and under the fifth, 100,000 e for the purposes
of those Act- in addition to their capital. It was pro-
vided by the Manningtree Act that the 200,000/.
should be considered as part of the general capital
of the company, and should be subject to the same
provisions, in all roepects, as if it had f new d
part of the original emits!, except as to the amount
of shares, the times, and the amount of calls.
The bill stated that at a meeting held on the 21st of
August, 1847, at which Mr. Coobbold presided, the di-
rectors submitted to a meeting of the shareholders a re-
port relative to the powers given by the two Last Acts,
and the following resolution was propos.. d and carried
unanimously :—" That fur the purpose ofconstructing the
branch line from Manningtree to Harwich, and for pur-
chasing the Hadleigh Railway, under two Acts passed
in the last session of Parliament, the directors be autho-
rised to raise, between the date hereof and the Ist of
January, 1849, the sums of 200,0001. and 100,0001, and
to grant scrip receipts for such amount es may from
time to time be paid up in respect of such sums until each
subscriber of 201. and upwards shall have paid the
amount he may subscribe in full; and such scrip receipts
shall entitle the holder thereof, on the Ist of January,
1849, to become a registered shareholder in a new Eastern
Union Stock for the amount he has subscribed and
paid up, upon which he shall receive a guaranteed divi-
dend of 6 per coat. per annum in perpetuity, and have
the option at the end of any six months within five years
of converting his guaranteed stock into the general stock
of the company; that to comply with the 4th artiele of
the terms of amalgamation between the Eastern Union
and Ipswich and Bury companies, the directors shall,
by means of a circular to be addressed to the original
shareholders of the guaranteed 5 per cent, and general
extension scrip f the Ipswich and Bury Company, offer,
until the 31st of October next, to receive such sums ex-
clusively from the present holders (as they can be ascer-
tained) of the above extension scrip shares, and that
each holder of an extension share of 51, on which 21. 10s.
has been already laid, shall be entitled to 20/.
of such guaranteed stock, on making application
to that effect, with an understanding to pre-ray
the remaining 17/. 10s. before the Ist of January,
1849, at such stated periods as shall be satis•
factory to the directors, and that on all pre-payments
discount be allowed to the Ist of January, 1849, at the
same rate of interest as allowed in perpetuity on the
new stock; that in case any holder or proprietor of such
Ipswich and Bury extension scrip shall refuse or neglect
More the 31st of October, 1847, to accept stock in ac-
cordance with the terms of the offer, or having accepted
the same shall fail to pay the sum of 171. 10s. in respect
of every 20/. thereof, on or before the Ist day of January
1849, the same be allotted by the directors to such per-
sons and in such manner as they may think fit, and
with or without the like advantages as to interest,
by way of discount and dividend, as above provided."
The bill then alleged that the plaintiff believed that the
defendants were misapplying the funds under the two
last Acts, in the construction of an extension line to
Norwich, and to other purposes.
Mr. Wood and Mr. Daniel were counsel for the ap-
peal, and the Solicitor-General and Mr. Grove supported
the judgment of the Court below.

QUEEN'S BENCH.—(THIS DAY.)
(Sittings at Nisi Prius at Westminster before Mr. Jus
tice Eau: and a Common Jury.)
LINTOTT V. FARRELLEY.

This was an action to recovt r a compensation in da-
mages for the false imprisonment of the plair.tiff by the
defendant. _

Mr. Elwin James was counsel for the plaintiff, and
Mr. Miller represented the defendant.
It appeared that the plaintiff, Mr. Bernard Lintott, of
9, Herbert's-passage, Beauf)) t-buildings, was, in 1849,
acting as an agent fur the sale of the beer of Messrs.
Brennan and Price, of Dublin. In April, 1849,
some differences arose between the plaintiff and
Messrs. Brennan and Price, and the result
was that Mr. Simon Plunkett Farrelley, the defendant,
was sent over from Dublin to London by Messrs. Bren-
nan and Price to are as their agent in the sale of their
beers in the place cif the plaintiff. Notwithstanding this
arrangement the plaintiff continued for some time after-
wards selling off the old stock in his possession belong-
ing to his principals, Messrs. Brennan and Price, and
while doing so the plaintiff, in May, 1849, sold to a Mr.
Bowyer, of Eaten-square, a dozen of stout, the price of
which was half-a-crown, which was paid to the plaintiff.
This transaction coming to the knowledge of Mr. Far-
relley, the defendant, he caused the plaintiff to be given
into the custody e f two Police-constables. who conducted
him through the public streets, in the mid .le of the dav,
to the Bow-strs et Police-office, where the defendant
charged him with the commission of a misdemeanour in
having received the half-crown from Mr. Bowyer for the
dozen of stout. Alter hearing the charge, Mr. Jardine,
the magistrate at Bow-street, immediately discharged'
the plaintiff, and it was for the false imprisonment
arising out of this transaction that the present action
was brought. The magistrate expressed great dis-
pleasure at the plaintiff having been taken into custody
a all by Farrelley upon such a charge, and said that if
the defendant Farrelley had felt himself' aggrieved he
should have taken out a summons against him. The
plaintiff eat kept in custody for about two hours.
The circumstances related above were given in evi-
dence by witnesses called for the plaintiff, and
Mr. MILLER addressed the jury for the defence, con-
tending that the circumstances were such as to warrant
the defendant in bringing the plaintiff's conduct before
a magistrate, though the defendant in giving him in
charge had acted from a mistaken apprehension of the
law; and that there was no evidence to show the de-
fendant in this transaction had been influenced by malig-
nant feelings.
Mr. Justice ERLE, in summing up the case to the jury,
told them in dealing with it they ought to take into
consideration the outrage which had
into custody on a
been inflicted upon
the plaintiff's feelings iu taking him
charge of this kind, and conducting him through the
streets in mid-day by two police-constables to a police-
office, and the injury to the platntiff's character which
such a proceeding was likely to occasion.,
The jury, after a few minutes consultation, gave a
verdict for the plaintiff—Damages 1001.

CRIMINAL COURT.--(THIS DAY.)
OLD COURT.

(Before the RECORDER and Mr. Alderman CARDEN.)
CUTTING AND WOUNDING.—Two sp( c,al4-at ired
young men, named Dennis and
,John M'Kenna,
the first described as a tailor, and tne second as a
labourer, were indicted for feloniously cutting and
wounding Lewis Nutley, with intent to do him some
grievous bodily harm. The prisoners pleaded Not
Guilty.
Mr. Ryland appeare 1 for the prosecution, and Mr.
Parry for the defence.
The party upon whom the assault had been committed
was a member of the City police force, and on the 6th
of January last, between two and three o'clock in the
morning, he was on duty in Bishopegate, when
he observed the two prisoners and another quarrel-
ling with a woman. He attempted to disperse
them, when the woman ran away, and the prisoners,
with others, made a cicspert_te attack upon the tolict.-
man, throwing him forcibly to the grounO, and inflictirz
very severe wounds on the back of his head. NVbile on
the ground he was stabbed several times with some

a

sharp instrument, and when taken up he wa3 (111i4
exham-Od from lois of blood. He was removed to the
London Hospita', whe:e he had since been to
from coneussi ,n [of the brain. It would be shewn be-
yond all doubt thct the teo prisoners formed 1,
and ' f the
individuals who were creating the disturbance, he
arrested Ryan was in the very act of decampl4.being
e
was, however, pursued and overtaken,, ani on
brougct b.:c's to the scei.e of if o; lissatilt, the we6Pee
with which the injuri,s were ii II cte,i was found lying
on the groom'. The following witnesi,es were called to
prove the
Nhoi crge :
Lewis a
!ey deposed t1.a,,, on Saturday, the 6th of
January, he was on duty in Catherine Wheel alley es
two o'chck in the morning, where he taw the two Prl•
sorers, accompanied by a woman and anothtr
r ty Mal,
making a wise in the site ,t. e desired the pa t°
H
walk quietly, when stid, lily the woman spran ll
g on hil°'
her, wb'
He had no soonerdisengeged himself from
the prisoner Ryan seized him round the waist and
three
him down; the back of his head receiving a violent con;
cussion in the fall. While on the ground I.e receive:
several severe blows about the head. The prisoner BY
fell on him, the others were in the rear. The 11110 %
' I
very narrow. ot
Cross-examined by Mr. PARRY—Was certainli 11,0-$
the worse for liquor, had had NU-a-pint cf pater e
no spirits, The prisoner Ryan, at the Mansion
withfrous
charged him (the witi.es) with being drunk and ,
assaulting a woman, but neither of these accusati°°,,
was true. Had never charged anybody with an ease"
before, or been charged with an assault. i dist
John Neil, a boy, fourteen years of age, dePclsau' 7.1
on the morning of the 6th of January he was relurnV
:with his mother from carrying supper to his father, w.,,i,„
is a night-watchman in Bishepsgate-street, and:1181;a1
by the end of Catherine 'Wheel-alley, he heard 5 g the
noisel going on. On going down the alley be saw a
o iceman Notley talking peaceably to three teen o°oo
woman, one of whom was Ryan. Suddenli gYthe
struck the policeman, who fell down, and h.in
others then crowded round him and kiek,e3h.'l-s;
Ryan took the staff out of Notley's hands, whin' ",-; 110 d
endeavouring to draw. Witness shouted
the prisoners then ran off, and witness followed RP"
who dropped his hat as be ran awe•
A at
Daniel Murray, one of the Cit Pl. d Vse- th
y poles, e , Bysa
on the morning of the 6th of January be we', gel
hurrying from the direction of Catherine-whew° ei
stonPri,
without a hat and very much excited.' Wirrieee
him and asked him where he had been• tr
b° Phio
shoener could scarcely speak for some time, but
pith Whoa
recovered he said that he had been out lat,
some friends, and returning home alone he saw 6!‘„eliee.
goingthen struck toofahr,imanidn witness "Police, 0 _
manm disputing with two men and a woman. Tbe l''' tie
policeman an wasfacie andinte r flieer) :bd. 6;1
7:
away.
Frederick Russell, a sergeant in the
posed that on the morning of the 6th ofJanuerY 11,eio 0
seen the prisonet'Ryan in company with two menn'eneda
woreae, about twenty minutes before this affair haPro 00
On hearing that something had happened he w!11,11,, pri'
station-house, and some time afterapprehendeu eg-oiler
soner M'Kenna, in company with a wougo•„1",-a Vol
ewes perfectly sober at the time. He was one 0, ""-
onducted men in the force. alarm
John Stapler,city posteelbsd
. a policeman, deposed that, belo,F "boor
by the cries of the boy Neil, he had gone into tia' rood,
hwihreel-alley, where he found Notley on tbe g' tiorr
-eding profusely. He. sicis
house, whence he was transferred to St. Tbern,9l-eter°l
pital. He also found in the alley a policernani- PS
aw
ehTsa
htn,iwsa
nnwedadsaht byhoeintcnyaeastne,
law.
otrh
theieh assisted
AhpierannUsito him
lOondu. Usteel. d•
the
Thetf
Ea c ion?.
Es theER of 'f
sawi-ay . 10
. Mr. PARRY suggested that there WO lio eii
imyrlhiceate
LearnedMl nßndee°
to (1°11;000
et the
no reason
evidence of Notley, who score t'-'at he
R .and saw the 11 4006
sau Maenna together, and though e'it lei
might not positively take pastr' in the n's-,stieepr
beir.g pretest at the time he would become Pa'"
did nct seem to ~,, It
criminis.
to identify M
Mr. PARRY d I. defen'' ce
hdirmesstchdat ththeerjeurywafeorettigiest obideenie 6
witnesspl who would swear to his presence eC °sail'
.the livesp,rwotaectpoerrsroefctityhenec
'Kenna, and he should call before 1
stbee
firseiet. He acknowledged that this was a serlol9o ore
,rfylbAbe%gthire
jeesty s subjects, should themselves be protecteu 1. 001
clears
en
d that r
ntphe ernespo l i c e(
inxelt•chiisee of their duties. The jury would oho% et
case the prisoner Ryan was entire /Tot
the mercy f
0- the policeman IsTetleP pa
there was a row, and that the policeinelnied,
gotet
the
worst of it could not he "1;010
1 There
great point wad who provoked the 69 don;
, provo 'ate'
1 was no preteneof '
-e malice or deliberate 1 0 Ise
it was a sudden affair, and he must impress 1t:99 set
minds of the jury that the story of Byan, which ,I - stoll'
against that of Notley, was a perfectly onsisten. 03est
in which he bad all alon r
pe siste , and
an
wiao
eri
made on a sudden when he met Murray,yh7s ookelf, ri
could have had no time
much fir the truth of his tale. frame'hoped that tilejilhe
tale. Ile
~ _r o,ol_,
would take this into
manner in which the policemen consideration,
he d
vteongtehE ve
;sled
to i 4 ell];
anddiet that they would find their wayg to s
10itigateed rye
or to an acquittal altogether in Bla,rl'9 •as I On°.
should entire Jo
call a witness to prove M'Keene'6'
cence of the charge. The Learned col then et'
Counsel
the following witnesses• he 4
a
Anne Lana saidthat.— le,psent, aigst
the prisoner
been in h
until er
company from six o'clock, !IC 001
twelve at night on the 6:h 01, ;seibet:
last. Theyand ownereat a public-house in the Cather'll.l. to O
being tusned out., they had Pee °
Busse"
next alley,door, and remained there till had Pee
ti
the policex6 eb
took )))'Kenna a into eustory. mjc ,„5 ree-,, at
worse fcr liquor, and witness did • enna —tP' - ¢
rtness did not wish hill' -e skir'e
by himself, as she
did not think him capable of tv not
care of himself. On leavin' the hl.• house their °
s pu lc- esti° t, e
policeman Notley, who appeared tee worse for Pi wbjcP
he staggered in b•
Is e alk andmuttered tbil3g 1)14 some _hi t ,
she could not understand. Was quite cern' ,igh4
M'Kenna
did not take part in quarrel Ilnit Oil
Ryan never was in . any i All
company with WlCenna ''
night. e
501
Frederick -
,t Russell, on being recalled, identified
0
wwlitnheAss Lane as the woman whom be saw in c,i) bee el
lelienna and R - tifie"
Ryan, and Notley rden
the woman who •R Ord"
Mr.
ily pulled off his bat-
LAND replied, and the Learned --e
summed up. f 00 95‘
The jury then returned a verdict of Guilty °-
gravated assaultd against both the prisoners. , Gate
Sentence to twelvemonths' ' •
imprisonment in
street Prison with • 01
he WO
The
hard labour.
Learned RECORDER then directed that 1--
Anne Lane should be prosecuted for perjury.
The rest of the cases were of no interest.

NEW COURT. ia
(Before the CommoN SxnaEANT) • pi
The Court was employed the whole (14 I,: t•
Mint cases, which presented no feature of inte6
Ay,)
SURREY SESSIONS.—(TATS 1)
°-
t
(13, fore THOMAS BUCKLE, Esq., and 5 13C11
John Henry Pus 018
on., lately Maxis r • es.)
yell r.eiiiest tilfo;
coanext employ ed by the High 13, 61 iete d ~,,p
Posey, 31, a- yLangcean of
County Court, Kingston-Jn-Thames, w*9
soliincleigb``-1‘
stealing a ten pound Bank of England note. f 0111
pounds in gold and silver, tLe prop erti c gr,
Rowland.
friend
Charnock was retained by the prisoner .
prisoneie '' $
Mr. Locke appeared for the rosecutinnt °icirti °
6 bor
defend. 4. _ °_.l
The prisoner pleaded Not Guilt • but, ofil-pies,l.
consultation with his counsel, he reyt; acted li 9 - 001
laid himself on the mercy of the Court. d Coo we
The facts if the case stated by the Lesrne oroe owe
are as follows :—The prisoner had been fore Some
employed to assist the High Bailiff of tPo So ." pi
County Court, the upper part of which, as we I pert,
portion of the lower, was inhabited by solo r"-(0
who had access to the house at any time, g• „, il° b 0
which was locked by the count court 0"Z oil ije
a e ground floor, and usually kept locked, -tto eijilbrc'
evening of the robbery it was left unlocked ib° 11' of
the women to clean it. The prisoner 53,70 0°,,13.6,
secutor deposit his cash-box cobtaining ' 100'0
andin a cupboard of the room, which b°oooohoo4
carried the key away ; but as.be cOPZ 10
he was gone the prisoner broke ()Pell ' oble"ntre
with i to ree-col
door and abstracted the money,
decamped. Ile (Mr. Locke) was instruct,eurnier g
mend him to mercy on account of his I°.- IS'
01°
conduct.
mi di°
The prosecutor having personally J- ne bc to 5
commendation,
The CHAIRMAN told the prisoner that 111 Optl°
extremely thankful for his leniency; h4ti 1,06
nstir,ohielelyhbiremeicmowmptrmtiisteonnsdenedmitshwiemsne,tvyteh.roeintyCe.oduarlsvigsi:sues'oo
jiierri 000.
that h
finement.

It
by
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fief,
v -Sl.: RE E T.— i THIS PIS. .°
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o againstp
p os
it jahnt. ho;ghaenSgSterPaginiiirda;,a fnao'PrPleaanrdelvolrdb obstructinget)ftb rtiebb ee
14:1.reo:cltietigi:rbbcif: eb44l:re:
He said
notwithstanding
t woi
did
tuhs
setn, a aonntddi
naagpl
appear
hecausing
had
au
tdshi nebsgeee an depxi
rscit
iteri
tt:,i cn, ,
jilt
ihri, 0.00
4:
tonynsi::hgesecirorctigreca(notomtel:dp.tahney. prisoner,it t'll tv
1
aasusdailed byatthedthisegustpi For scmo long titre r sbits,
to
language
mitt::
titsbe°o ill:1:0:0i
tihne ears of himself and fan; bY ties
premises throughoutwe
rt,h
ce 0
mw
phloeltee
le; ebnlioncgk.edl;
jtii: ibuyittlen,t.io,o:Ltido.„l
they were remonstrated with a volley Cf 'busuen-do beht °I
all the redress he would get. Upon these gr.° _ ors -0
toad to
determinedth,ffi upon making an example of the $ tic
pit
gumbers varying from tbeourser
sharp race. full , and the prisoner being the most folPil°l3of(et. 11
posina,l6;
'\'r JARDINE remarked that be was funks' ;,t0 c"„ti
with • the abomitiable nuisance, but the Pnbl in 147,
on, she was taken into custerli A
taioly to Game for purchasing the froi Ir°ol3ell
cr,,,,tur , ,
43- I in( d 10,., or fourteen days' iroPris°

MATHS.
p
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maOyil
1,91 e 29th ult., at Fish- hall, Kent, the la:11 °srlCP
lb.
.0u the 29th ult., at Westbourne.place,
wife of J. Welch, E.g., of a daughter.

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