The Sun.
London, England, 1844-12-09 00:00:00

THIS DAY'S NEWS.

PRIVY COUNCIL,(THIS DAY.)
The Judicial Committee of the Privy Council sat to-
day at the Council Chamber, Whitehall. The Lords
present were the Master of the Rolls, Mr. Baron Parke,
the Chancellor of the Duchy of Cornwall, and the Judge
of the Admiralty Court.
The further arguments in the psrt•heard case of Jones
v. Goldnett, which came before their Lordships upon
appeal from the Prerogative Court, occupied their Lord-
shipa-the whole day.-

CHANCERY.—(THIS DAY.)
The Lord Chancellor sat to-day in Lincoln's Inn Hall
shortly after eleven o'clock. His Lordship heard ap-
peals to-day, after disposing of some short petitions;
but no case of interest came before his Lordship during
the morning.

VICE-CHANCERY.—(THIS DAY.)
The Vice-Chancellor of England was occupied the
whole day with motions, continuing the second seal from
Saturday.

(Before Sir J. BRUCE.)
His Tionoun sat for a short timP in Bankruptcy, as
Chief Judge of the Court of Review, but the cases on
the paper were ordered to stand over. His Honour then
took motions in equity.
(Before Sir J. K. WIGRAM.)
LRE U. PAIN.

This case was before the Court in March last, the
question being one of the construction of the will of Mrs.
Waring, late -of - Stockwell, leaving property to the
amount of 10%000/. She died in November, 1326,
and after leaving legacies to several individuals, she
gave 100 L to each of the following Societies :
Ilighbury College, the London and Church Missionary
Societies, the Bible Society, and the Female Peniten-
tiary at Pentonville. By cbdicils she gave many other
legacies, some .of them repetitions of the former ones.
The question is, whether these bequests by codicil are
additional or not ? The executors allege that if they
are so held they will far more than exhaust the whole
estate; they therefore pray for the direction of the
Court. There are four exceptions in the case, and these
hive already occupied the Court two days.

QUEEN'S BENCH.--(THIS DAY.)
Lord DENMAN sat at nisi prius this morning, at the
Guildhall, with a London common jury. Several unde-
fended causes were disposed of during the early part,
after which the Court proceeded to try common jury
cases. No case of any public interest came on during
the morning.

COMMON PLEAS.-(THIS DAY.)
(Sittings at Nisi Prius, before Lord Chief Justice

TINDAL and a London common jury.)
The Court was occupied the greater part of this morn.
ing with an action of debt, which was in no way inte,
resting to the public.

BANKRUPTCY.-(THIS DAY.)
The cases put down for hearing this morning were a:
of the most uninteresting character.

MARLBOROUGH-STREET.
(THIS DAY )
John Williams, a very powerful young man, was
placed at the bar on the following charge :
..,,aolice-constable, No. 36 of the A division, stated that
between ten-and eleven o'clock on Saturday night he was
on duty in Pall-mall in plain clothes, and saw the pri-
-soner accost several gentlemen and solicit alms of them,
and to the last one he heard- the prisoner say in a
menacing manner, " D—n your eyes, give us some
money, for I must have some." Witness directly seized
him, but he broke from his grasp and commenced a most
furious attack upon him. He also struck a gentleman
who was standing by, and- he afterwards repeatedly as•
smutted another constable who was assisting in secur-
ing him.
Mr. HARDWICK said this was a new feature in
mendicant audacity, and closely approached to inducing
persons to give alms by threats of violence. If such
things were permitted the public would not be able to
walk the streets in safety. lie wished it to go forth that
all such offenders would be punished with the utmost
severity; and, as an instance of it in the present case,,
he should commit the prisoner -for three months to hard
labour. -

UNION-HALL,—(THIS DAY.)
Lucy George, a girl of 16, only acquitted at the Surrey
Sessions last week for felony, was charged with robbing
her aunt of several articles of dress and a half-sovereign.
The complainant took the prisoner home after her ac-
quittal at the above sessions, and the former being
obliged to leave home for a short time, when she re-
turned she found the prisoner had decamped with the
above property. She was taken shortly afterwards, and
it was found she had pledged the clothes at a pawn-
broker's shop.
The MAGISTRATE committed the prisoner for trial,
ob-
serving that the lenity extended to her at the sessions
appeared to have had no effect in correcting her pro-
pensity for theft.

CLERKENWELL.-(THIS DAY.)
Two bricklayer's labourers, named Boleyn and Bandey,
were charged with assaulting and threatening a publican
named lioecliffe.

The assault, which was of a very trifling nature, was
proved against Boleyn, and it appeared that the landlord
struck Boleyn,a very severe blow on the eye. As both
prisoners, however, threatened the complainant's life,
they were bound over to keep the peace.
The case drew from Mr. GREENWOOD, the sitting ma-
gistrate, the following important observations :—lt was
clear that the present case sprung from a system the most
pernicious'and destructive of the comfort of the families of
five pound
in this
note way—the aythe master
to
be divided
the poor. The payment of labourers by their masters at
gpauvbelicsx
-ihoour v mensesse. was
a managed
between them, and the publican refused to change it un-
less they drank a certain
quantity of liquor. The prac-
tice had been put down in the north of England, where
fi,
it was very prevalent, and it was quite as deserving of
suppression by Act of Parliament as the truck system."

FLANDERS MAIL.
(RECEIVED THIS DAY.)
BRUSSELS, Dsc. s.—Count Maurice Dietrichstein,
who is appointed Ambassador of Austria to the Court
cf St. James's, has already left Vienna, to repair to his
new post, passing through Brussels, to deliver to our
King his letters of recal.
The price of corn again fell in Wednesday's market at
Brussels. This tendency to decline, which has lately
taken place in the markets, of the country, is attributed
to the large importation of corn from abroad.
The steam-boat between Antwerp and Hull will cease
to run after the sth of December.

The French post-office received last year 114,200,000
letters, of which 3,200,000 remained as dead letters.
The 111 millions delivered produced a gross receipt of
41,569,200 francs.
The Post-office distributed also above sixty millions
of printed papers, &c., which yielded a receipt of
2,400,000 francs.
BRUSSELS, DEC. 6.—We learn from Waterloo that
the house of the keeper of the Monument has been de-
stroyed by fire; it was the property of the Government,
and was worth 6,000 francs. The furniture, Ste., de-
stroyed was worth 1,200 francs.
The debates on the budgets almost always produce,
from the chiefs of the several departrnentF, promises of
amelioration, which it is as well to notice, in order to
call to mind when opportunity offers. In the discussion
of the budget of the finance department, a great deal was
said .of the necessity of organising, in a definitive manner,
the services of the several ministerial departments.
The central section bad already expressed its wishes on
this point. The Minister of Finance said, that he
should shortly present to the King a plan for the general
organisation of his department. To a question of M.
Osy, M. Mercier replied that he was persuaded that
his colleagues intended likewise to submit similar plans
for their respective departments to the King.
BELGIAN FUND3.—Bitussaio, Dec. 8.
Aetna Debt, 234 per Cent.,
Rothschild'. Loan, Five per
Loan of Thirty Milions, Feur per Cent
Three per
...—.---Thirty.seven Mink's, ditto .... 77
..... 0.3
Loan of City, 1843, Four per Cent. lO2
la 2
Society of Commerce, Four aid a Half per Cent —
Bank of Belgium, Five per Cent. ...... .....

--Inducts Papers. Dee. 7.
AUSTRIAN tUNDt4.—VIIINNA. Nov 30.
Five per Cents. Metalhques • ......... I It
Four per Cents. ........«.«..........«...« l6O
Three per Cents
_75

Bank Aares
Loan,
183 s
Eaterhairs Loan

RAILWAYS.
The Northern, tor Ferdinand ........ ......... 1685(
Gloggnitz
Milan ..... 111►(
.4fUgerneise Zeitung, DEC. 3.

FIRES IN CAMBRIDGE AND ITS NEIGHBOURHOOD.-..--
OR Friday evening, at about seven o'clock, the town and
University of Cambridge were thrown into a state of
alarm by a cry of .‘ Fire" from the Pitt Press (the
University printing-office), from the summit of the
tower of which a considerable ♦olume of flame was seen
to issue. Prompt and efficacious means, however, having
been resorted to, the fire was got under before any but a
trifling damage had been done. The accident seems
to have occurred owing to, some boards having been
placed of the top of the chimney to prevent it from
smoking, and the collected soot thereon became ignited.
The greatest anxiety was evirced for the safety of the
splendid collection of paintings in the rooms immediately
underneath the conflagratien. The gownsmen, as has
ever been their wont on such occasions, afforded the most
merited and powerful assistance. On Thursday morning
last the premises of Mr. Peachy, of Beck-row, Milden-
hall, were discovered to be on fire, and, in spite of every
possible assistance which could be rendered, the home-
stall, barn, stables, outhouses, stacks of corn, &c., were
reduced to ashes. One hundred pounds' reward has
been offered for the discovery of the incendiary. Mr.
Peachy is fortunately insured in the Norwich Union.
Another fire of a similar character took place on Friday,
at Oakington, on the premises of Mr. Doggert, by which
a great quantity of barley, wheat, and straw were con-
sumed, and a large barn and an adjoining lodge burned
to the ground.

We—regret to hear that Mr. Bailey, :A.P. for
Worcester, met with a serious accident while hunting
with Lord Fitzhardiege's hounds last Tuesday. We are,
however, happy to find the Hon. Member ia going on fa.
vourably under medical attendants, at the Plough Hotel,
Cheltenham.

Lady Henniker, whose accouchement took place at
Thornham-hall, Suffolk, on the 4th inst., is, with her
infant daughter, going on very favourably,