The Sun.
London, England, 1850-06-25 00:00:00

EXCHEQUER-(THIS DAY.)

.At Westminster, before the LORD CHIEF BARON- and
a Special Jury.)
KNIGHT V. FOX AND ANOTHER..

This action was brought to recover compensation in
damages for injuries sustained by the plaintiff, in conse-
quence of the defendants having erected a scaffolding
across the Commercial-road, to enable them to build a
bridge on the Blackwell Railway, without putting up
lights to guard the public.
Mr. Knowles and Mr. Corry appeared for the plaintiff;
and Mr. Sergeant Whately and Mr. Bramwell for the
defendants.

From the opening statement of counsel, it appeared
that the scaffolding projected two feet on the pavement,
and as there were no lights to warn people of danger,
the plaintiff, who is a widow lady, ran against the wood-
work and sustained a fracture of the leg.
The pleas of the defendants were, not guilty, and that
they were not the contractors, they having sublet the
contract for erecting the bridge to their own clerk.
Mr. Cochrane, the defendants' clerk, was called and
he stated that he was in the employ of the defendants
as a superintendent, and received a salary of 2501. a
year, but he was iu the habit of taking contracts under
his employers, and carrying them out o❑ his own ac-
count, and he had done so in respect of the present
bridge.
Mr. WHATELY submitted on this evidence that the
plaintiff ought te be nonsuited.
After a short discussion it was agreed between the
parties that the plaintiff should be nonsuited, and the
point respecting the liability of the defendants be reserved
for the decision of the Court above, the jury assessing
the amount of damages to which the plaintiff was en-
titled.

COMMON PLEAS.-(THIS DAY.)
(Sittings at Nisi Prius' before the LORD CHIEF Jus,
TICE and a Common Jury.)

This was the first day of the sittings at Guildhall. i
The Court was occupied with the case of Zaraquay v.
Purcell, which was an action for damages sustained
through falling through a cellar flap. The case was
proceeding when we went to press.

BOW-STREET.—(THIS DAY.)
A respectably-attired young woman, with a tall, com-
manding, lady-like appearance, who gave the name
Williams, aed was said to be the daughter of a deceased
naval officer, was charged with attempting to commit
suicide.

Police constable F 77 stated that yesterday afternoon,
shortly after 4 o'clock, he was sent for by the keeper of
the landing station at Waterloo-bridge, and on repairing
thither he found the prisoner in custody of the keeper
and another person. They told him that she had at-
tempted to throw herself from the barge, which she did
not deny, and on questioning her as to the cause of her
rash conduct she told him that she had been robbed of
64, a half-sovereign, and 11 shillings, which she had in
her possession when she left London-bridge a short time
before. She did not discover her loss till she got to Mr.
Thomas's, the advertising agent, in Catherine-street,
where she had been to procure the insertion of an ad-
vertisement in a Russian newspaper for a
,governess's
situation.

A young man, named Abraham:lsaacs, stated that be
was on the landing-station about 10 minutes past four
o'clock, when he saw the prisoner disembark from one
of the Citizen steamboats; she passed up the steps and
almost immediately afterwards returned, and getting
under the guard-chains made an attempt to throw herself
into the river. Fortunately, however, he seized her dress,
and with the assistance of another person he pulled her
back, when she prayed them to let her terminate her
existence, as she was penniless and without a friend in
the world.,

Tee prisoner, who seemed dreadfully agitated and
-distressed by her painful situation, said she made the
rash attempt i❑ a moment of excitement.
Mr. ARNOLD, who sat upon the bench with Mr. Jar-
dine, expressed his regret that she should have been
guilty of such an offence after the interest he had taken
in her behalf, and the assistance the public had ren-
dered her through her appeal at the Worship-street
Police Court, on the part of her suffering mother. She
should have relied upon the same source for protection
to herself, and not have sought relief from her sufferings
in a desperate act like this.
Mr. JARDINE said he could not allow her to go after
the statement she had made to the police-constable, and
he should therefore remand her till Friday.