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

THURSDAY EVENING, MAY 2, 1850.

between 35 years of age and 80. Seven boys and
8 girls died after premature birth. Three childrro
were suffocated accidentally in bed. Two cases
of, intoxication are thus recorded:—" A chimney
sweep, of 45 y( ars, 1% as killed by fracture of
the vertebrae of the neck from a fall while intoxicated
(post. mort.), having lived eight hours after the accidtmt."
The widow of a tailor, aged 66, was found in a ditch in
a state of derangement and intoxication, was removed to
the police-station, and afterwards to the workhouse,
where she died from congestion and effusion on the brain."
Inquests were held on both cases. The classification of
deaths in public institutions shows that 86 occurred in
workhouses and 64 in hospitals; and of the latter, that
39 took place in general hospitals, 5 in lunatic asylums,
7 at the Royal Hospital, Greenwich, and 4 in other mili-
tary and naval establishments.
At the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, the daily mean
reading of the barometer was above 30 in. on Saturday;
the mean of the week was 20.863. The mean tempera-
ture of the week was 46.8 deg., which is less by 2.4 deg.,
than the average of the same week in 7 years. Toe
mean temperature was, on Sunday, 3 deg. above the
average of the same day, and on each of the other six
days was below it. On every day but Thursday the
wind generally blew from the north or north-east.

MORTALITY in the METROPOLIS.

NUMBER OF DEATHS FROM ALL CAUSES REGISTERED IN
THE WEEK ENDING SATURDAY, APRIL 27, 1850.
Epidemic, Endemic, and Contagious Diseases *l5O
Diseases of Uncertain Seat ... 39
Tubercular Diseases ... ... 147
Diseases of the Brain, Nerves, and Senses... ... 100
Diseases of the Heart and Blood-vessels ... 31
Diseases of the Lungs, and other Organs of
Respiration ... 112
Diseases of the Stomach, Liver, and other Organs
of Digestion... 55
Diseases of the Kidneys, &c. •• ••• ••• 13
Childbirth, Diseases of the Uterus, &c. 14
Diseases of the Joints, Bones, and Muscles ... 12
Diseases of the Skin, &c. ... 2
Malformations... 4
Premature Birth
•• ••• •••
••• ••• 22
Atrophy ••• 16
Old Age ••• ••• ••• ••• ••• ••• 28
Sudden ... 23
Violence. Privation, Cold, and Intemperance ... 28
Causes not specified ••• ••• ••• ••• ••• 7

DEATHS FROM ALL CAUSES

Population
Enumerated,
1041.
West Districts..: 301,189
North Districts.. 376,568
Central Districts 374,199
East Districts ... 393,067
South Districts.. 503,346

Deaths in cone- Death?,
sponding week in the
of 1849. Week.
. 179 ... 141
. 198 ... 185
. 195 ... 120
. 201 ... 157
285 199

Totals... .... . 1,948,369 ... 1,058

Males
Females

803
391
412

d tvit, negatived all the statements made in this libel,
aid he added that he wrote to the Morning Herald on
the 26th of April inviting an explanation, but. none was
given, and that he had before been treated in this man-
ner by the Morning Herald, and had been °bilged ti
bring an action against them, and they had then sub-
mitted, and paid the costs.
Rule granted.

GADSBY V. ESTALL.

This was an act!ou for trim cvn. The jury found a
verdict for the defendant. A motion was made for a
new trial, and the rule was made absolute, and the cause
was tried again, and a verdict was again returned for
the dkfen,lant. A rule was then made absolute for a
third trial upon payment of costs. The plaintiff bad not
paid the costs.

Mr. Sergeant SHEE then moved to discharge the rule.
Rule granted unless the plaintiff shall pay the costs
within a week.

COURT OF EXCHLQUER, May 1.
(Sittitgs at Middlesex at Ni,i Prius, in Easter Term,
before Mr. Baron ALDERSON and Common Juries.)
DUMFORD V. FORD AND ANOTHER.

(Continued tromour Afternoon Edition of yesterday.)

Hi; LORDSHIP having sunamid up,
The jury tuund a verdict fur the plaintiff for 71. over
and above the amount paid into Court_

LEWIS v. KNoX.

This was an action to reccver the amount of an at •
torney's bill fur professional services rendered, and
money expended on account of the defendant. The de-
fendant ph ailed thut be did not promise.
Mr. Humfrey (with Mr. Temple) conducted the case
for the plaintiff; and Mr. M. Chambers (with iilr. H. A.
Simon) api,esred for the defendant.
It appeared that the defendant, who resided at Cam-
berwell, in the spring of the past year intending to
bring an action against the sheriff of Middl,s,st for the
alleged improper conduct of one ut his officers, named
Shannon, had consulad one John Lewis upon the sub-
ject, by whom he was eventually introduced to his
brother Charles, the present plaint:ff. Having heard
the nature t f the cause of the dere, complaint
against Shannon, he gave it as bis opinion that the de-
leadant had a good cause of action, and that opinion
vas subsequently confirmed by the counsel to whom the
case had been submitted. The action was "accordingly
brought, and the venue having been laid in Surrey, the
matter was to come on for trial at the last summer as-
sizes fur that county, at Croydon. The commission
day at that place was the 6th of August. On the 31st
of July preceding the plaintiff wrote to the defendant
requesting that he would furnish him with a further sum
of money to take the ease down to Croydon, and also
expressing his disappointment that he should have sent
hire only 101. The further sum required was 501. at
least, which amount he begged might be sent to
him by the following Saturday. On the Ist cf
August it appeared that the deteudant had written in
reply to this letter that it was out of his power to sup-
ply- any mote funds, and therefore he desired that the
noace of trial should be countermanded, A consulta-
tion thereupon ensued between the parties, and the re-
cord was withdrawn. The question therefore arose as
to what course should be taken, when it was arranged
that the venue should be changed from Surrey to Mid
dlesex, in order that the matter might be tried at West-
minster atter the next Michaelmas Term, as that would
be a far cheaper mode of trying the cause than by
taking it down to Kingston at the spring assizes. The
record wit!' consequently withdrawn, and an application
was then made in due course in November, before a
judge at chambers, for leave to change the venue. That
learned person, however, refused the application. The
defendant was accordingly informed that the case must
therefore be taken down to Kingston fur trial at the
spring assizes. In the cross-examination of one of the
witnesses he stated that the expense of taking this cause
for trial at the assizes would be from 301. to 501., whilst
the expenses would not have been more than about 251.
had it been tried in London, and that that had been one
reason wby the plaintiff had recommended that the venue
should be changed to Middlesex, rather than incur the
additional expense of taking the cause a second time
into Surrey. There were higher fees given to counsel at
the assizes than in London, and it was also much more
expsnsive in respect of witnesses.

Mr. CHAMBERS, on the part of the defendant, con-
tended that the plaintiff was bound, having undertaken
the trial of the cause, to show by evidence that he ha I
carried out the spirit and intention of that undertaking.
Here, however, it had been proved that he had nct
carried out the undertaking, nor had there been any prod
offered that the notice which the plaintiff hod given to
the defendant, that he must have the large sum be had
demanded ready by the following c'tafurday, was a reason-
able notice in respect of time tor a,_nrata in the circum-
stances of the defendant. He should'submit that, having
undertaken the trial of the cause, the'plaintiff was bound
to carry it to trial, and that not doing so, the defendant
could not be called upon, or be held liable for expenses,
unless the plaintiff were to show that the notice he had
given fjr the advance of money towards the expenses,
and also that if the money required were not sent in due
time, then that he should decline to proceed with the
cause—unless the defendant showed that that notice had
been given a reasonable time beforehand. In support of
his argument, the Learned Counsel cited the cases of
" Holey v. Built," 3 Barn. and Ald., p. 350; and of
" Nicholls v. Wilson," 11 Mee and Wel., p. 106. Now
his case on behalf of the defendant was that the matter
might have been tried at Croy don if due notice had been
given by the plaintiff to the def-•ndsnt that a certain
ismount of funds would be required by a given day, and
that, at all events, it was the duty of the plaintiff to have
taken the cause down for trial.

Mr. Baron ALDERSON wai of opinion that, at all
events, the preliminary expenses prior to the not taking
the cause down for trial ought to be taken out of the
account. Thetis what should be done by the Master on
taxa' ion.

Mr. CHAMBEBS—And then, if the jury were to find
that there had not been reasonable notice given in point
cf time, that he should move the Court upon that point.
Mr. Baron ALDERSON—Certainly ; and the only
question now for the jury to deal with was whether,
looking at the circumstances of the defendant, the plain-
tiff had given him a reasonable and timely notice to
raise the required amount of money for the expe uses.
Lis own opinion was, that if he did nut give a reason-
able length of notice, then that the plaintiff must bear
all the consequences, and a verdict ought to be found
for the defendant in respect of that part of the bill
which was rendered unnecessary by the not going to triul
at Croydon.
The jury consulted for a few minutes, and then gave a
verdict for the defendant, upon the ground that the
notice had not been sufficient to enable a man in his cir
cumstances to get so large a sum together.
Mr. Baron ALDERSON—That would then be a verditt
for the plaintiff, subject to the taxation of the Master,
who must strike out all the items in the bill which ;were
not necessary in consequence of the want of sufficient
notice to the defendant.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
MANSION-HOUSE.
Matthias Martinez Delrio, a Spaniard, was brought
before the Lord Mayor, in the custody of Inspector
Brannon, of the G division of the metropolitan police,
charged with having stolen two Bank of England notes,
the one for 501. the other for 301., ri,nd between four and
five ounces of gold dust, value 100/, the property of Mr.
Strutt, purser in the Royal Mail Steam-packet Com-
pany's service.
The prisoner refused to give his address.
Mr. M. H. Strutt, of GunnersburY-place, Brentford,
said—The prisoner embarked on board the Avon, mail
steamer, of which I was purser, at Vera Cruz on the
19th of March, for the purpose of coming to England.
On the 21st of April we arrived at Southampton, and the
"day after our arrival there I missed a Bank of England
note for 501., another for 301., and a quantity of gold-
dust. About five days before we arrived at South-
ampton, I left my keys in the door of my cabin while
I went to wash my hands, and on my return 1 missed
the keys, one of which opened my desk. I saw the pri-
soner near the door, and I asked him whether he saw
my keys, to which he replied in the negative; but the
circumstance did not particularly excite my suspicion,
as my servant had a duplicate key, and I
attributed the disappearance of the key to a joke that
had been played upon me. In the evening of that dry
one of the passengers and the surgeon invited me to their
cabin to take a glass of wine with them and the pri-
soner, and while we were . sitting together, engaged in
that way, the prisoner complained of a pain in his
stomach, and was obliged to leave us. When he was
absent about, as I think, half an hour, I went to my
cabin in order to retire to bed, and I then found my
keys I)ing on the desk, although I had in vain looked
for them all about the place, and searched it thoroughly
Lelbre. I therefore, on missing my property at South-
ampton, the day after our arrival there, came to London
and applied to the inspeotor, and stopped the notes at
the Bank.
Inspector Brannon, it appeared, apprehended the pri-
soner in Finsbury-square, and found upon his person a
new gold watch and chain and ring, which be bad re-
cently purchased at the shop of a jeweller, in Cornhill.
The stolen 501. note had been changed at the Bank.
The prisoner was remanded. He persisted in refusing
to give his address.
DERBY HUMBUDEL—Sir PETER LAURIE stated that he
had received communications on the subject. of an Anglo-
American system of swindling, against which he felt
bound to endetivour to protect the public by means of the
press. Two American papers had been transmitted t.)
him, and his attention had been called to advertisements,
by which it appeared that " a splendid fortune might be
gained by an outlay of 101. or 51." In the Montreal Pilot
the promise of wealth presented itself under the bead of
"Metropolitan Portrait Club," and seemed to issue from
the Albany-road, London. The advertisement announced
that the directors, who have no names, would draw for a
grand series of portraits of all the horses entered for the
forthcoming Derby race; that the drawing would be
conducted upon those honourable principles which had
hitherto given so much satisfaction, and secured to the
abuse association such extensive patronage. Then fol-
lowed the list of prix Js upon the drawing of the horse
portraits, and the information that all letters were to
contain a remittance, dra!ts, hank-uotes, &c., and to be
directed to the manag,ing director in London. The other
American parer (the Sunday Courier of New York)
contained an advertisement referring to a similar este-
blishm eut in Plymouth.
'The LORD MAYOR approved of the notice taken by Sir
Peter Laurie of a plan the great promises in which were
likely to fascinate credulous parties on the other side of
the Atlantic.
Sir PETER LAURIE said the attempt to reinvigorate
the Dec by se eeps, which were so completely put down
in London by the City magistrates, was nothing less
than could be expected; but the system he came forward
to expose was one for which there could not be the
slightest pretence in the chance of gaining anything. No
doubt credulity was doing a great deal for the specula-
tors, for the postman who traversed the district in which.
the " managing director" resided stated that 'he had de-

livered a good many letters directed from America to the
party named in the advertisement.

The LORD MAYOR said he had received several letters
from tradesmen in different parts of the country, en-
closing printed circulars directed to them from the
Albany-road, London. Those circulars stated that the
writers had always in hand immense amounts at the
service of their correspondents, and that they were ready
to turn good bills into ready money immediately after
transmission, as well as to get the best prices for parcels
of goods. Men of experience would, acourse, detect at
once the swindle in the precious composition he alluded
to; but there was no disguising the tact, that in many
instance* goods and bills had been obtained through their
tnstrusnentality; and not only great distress, but ruin,
had Ls en the cons« quence.
One of the circulars alluded to by the Lord Mayor
was as follows: it was addressed to a tradesman at
Ludlow, who &Oared that he bad carried on business
for fifty years in that place, and never had borrowed,
or attempted to borrow, of any person during that

•' Sir,—We beg leave to inform you that your letter
has begin handed to us in confidence by the gentleman
you wrote to a short time ago, who had a considerable
sum of money to lend, but who has for the present dis-
posed of the whole in Exchequer bills, Bank-stock, and
India-bonds; from the very respectable manner in which
your name was hinted to us by him we should have no
objection to semi you the amount you request in bills
of exchange, it they will answer your puipuse. If you
decide upon this method, in making a remittance for our
commission at any time, please to send only half Bank
of Eogiand notes, or ceu❑try ore-s payable in London in
the first instance, and the other halves when you receive
the bills of exchange, as also a copy of the undertaking.
%en/ n you will be remitted such bills us will not fail of
meeting your approval."
Ills LORDSHIP expressed an earnest hope that Sir
Peter Laurie's and hts own object in making these mat-
ters public would have the desired effect throughout the
country.