The Sun.
London, England, 1850-02-22 00:00:00

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FEARFUL ACCIDENT IN FAERINGDON-STELEET.,--
YGsterday afternoon, as Mrs. Cotterell, of the Qui:teals
Arms Tavern, Cambridge.road, and another isdy, were
proceeding alorg Farringdon-street, is a one-horse
etaisP. the axletree on the offside of the vehicle broke,
when both parties were pitched head foremost out. The
moment afterwards the !Arse took fright, and dashed
along at a furious rate over Holborn-bridge into the
new street, with the remainder of the vehicle striking
against his legP. Fortunately, although so many par-
ties were crossing the road at the time, they escaped any
injury. Mrs. Cotterell, however, besides the injury the
Itahlelinmgoomnet thetum o
f ground,the was
Ilse
elstrucktnd over the
hurt that when picked up blood was streaming from the
foreheadrece e in
by
wound. She was immediately taken to Dr. Bullin's
v
rurgery, where her wound was drevel, and after acme
tiw stie was removed to her residence in a cab. The
animal was not supped until it rescued the end of the
new street.

WarCKS ON THE WELSH COAST.—The late rdea
have been must disastrous to tl e shipping along the.
coasts; and, in addition to the re.!ercled disasters, it
feared, 'from the porfous of wreck which have come
ashore in various localities, that other shipwrecks have
occurred. We regret to state that there is every reason
to believe that a large vessel has been wrecked on the
Laugharne Sands, as the bow of a fine ship, apparently
•)t about 500 tons burden, with a fonsle figurehead, has
been washed ashore. The stern of a beat, with the name
Mary M`Queeney, of Pool, La tc Seaman, master, has
also come aeon, and it is supposed to belong to the
above wreck. The Thr!is, fiom Netcpart to Limerick,
has been wrecked in Cardigan-bay, and only two persons
have been saved out Of a crew, of 13 men. The smack
Catherine, of Port Alt.doC, 1).11 id Evans, master, from
Newport. fir Illochrv, has been lost on the Patches,
near Aberystwith, and all hands have perished. Some
of the Bristol and Welsh steamers' had -npwardi of three
feet of water is their cabins during the gale of last ircek

LAW INTELLIGENCE.
COURT OF QUEEN'S BENCH, Feb. 21.
(Sittings at Nisi Prins, before Mr. Justice COLE-
RIDGE and Special Juries.)
Tar GOVERNOR AND COMPANY OF THE COPPER MI-
C- ERRS OF ENGLAND V. FOX AND OTHERS.
'lr. Crowder, Q.C., and Mr. M. Smith appeared
for.the plaintiffs; and Sir F. Thesiger and Mr. Pren-
tiudt for the defedants.
Zie nominal plaintiffs in this action were the Go-
versior and Company of the Copper Miners of Eng-
land, incorporated under a charter from the Crown ;
an .the defendants were Messrs. Fox, Henderson, and
Cdt,-.. iron merchants, in Spring-gardens. The corn-
pail had become insolvent, and the present action was
brdught by the trustees, in the name of the company,
to ticover the sum of 700/., as damages for the breach
of =it. contract into which the defendants had entered
withe company. The original contract was made
e 19th of October, 1846, for the supply of
tveit7 thousand tons of good merchantable iron-rails
to Ale defendants, at 91. 15s. per ton, to be deli-
ved free on board at Port Talbot, in Wales.
Tile defendants were to hand sections of the
rails required to the plaintiffs by the Ist of
April, 1847, and a portion of the rails were to be
delivered on the Ist of June following, and the residue
at the rate of 300 tons per month. When the Ist of
April came the defendants had not forwarded the
sections according to the terms of the contract, and in
the. month of May a negotiation was entered into
with the company to postpone the day for sending in
the sections till the Ist of September. The company
cemented to that proposal, on the condition that the
defendants would deposit with them bills to the
amount of 2,0001., such deposits to be deducted from
the 4 invoices at the rate of 11. per ton. This was
finally agreed to, and the bills, accepted by the de-
fendants, were deposited with the company. On the
10th of July the defendants sent sections of 1,100
tens of rails, and they afterwards took by agreement,
and without prejudice, 200 tons of bars, but they did
not send sections for the remaining 700 tons of rails.
The plaintiffs, therefore, contended that they were
entitled to damages for this breach of the substituted
contract, by which the defendants were bound to fur-
nish sections for 2,000 tons of rail on the Ist of Sep-
tember ; and the measure of the damage sustained
was the difference between the contract price of
9/. 15s. per ton and the price to which the rails had
fallen when the contract was broken, viz., on the Ist
of September, 1847.
A witness was called who stated this difference to
be about 1/. per ton.
The defendants contended that the company
could not recover upon the contract, inasmuch as
it was not under their corporate seal, and because
they had not supplied the rails within the time spe-
cified in the order, viz., by the 25th of September.
Mr. Justice COLERIDGE, in summing up the evi-
dence, told the jury that the objection that the con-
tract was not under the seal of the company could
not prevail ; but the defendants should have an op-
portunity of taking the opinion of the Court upon
that point.
The jury then gave a verdict for the plaintiffs,
with 521/. ss. damages.

BARKER V. GIBSON.

Mr. Humfrey, Q.C.. and Mr. Willes appeared for
the plaintiff, and Sir F. Thesiger and Mr. Bramwell
for the defendant. _ .

The plaintiff, Charles Barker, is an advertising
agent, in the city of London, and the defendant, Wyatt
George Gibson, is a banker, at Saffron Walden, in the
county of Essex. The defendant was a member of
the provisional committee and also of the managing
committee, of the Eastern and Northern Counties
Junction Railway Company, one of the companies
started in the year 1845, but which the witnesses said
was never landed. The action MS brought to recover
the sum of 797/. for advertisements, and also two
several sums of 661. 3s. 10d. and 211. 135., which the
plaintiff had been compelled to pay for costs in two
actions which he had allowed to be brought by the
company in his name. These actions had been brought
against two refractory members of the provisional
committee of the company, who refused to pay their
quota of 251. each towards liquidating the liabilities
of the company; and as the actions had failed in these
two instances, though others had been successful, the
plaintiff sought to recover the amount which he had
been called upon to pay from the defendant, at whose
instance the actions had been brought. The defendant
denied his liability altogether, and as to the last two
demands, he alleged that he did not manage the ac-
tions, and that .the agreement to bring them was cor-
rupt and unlawful and therefore void.
At the conclusion of the first witness's examination,
the further hearing of the cause was adjourned until
this day.