The Sun.
London, England, 1826-03-17 00:00:00

ASSIZE INiTI,I4IGENCE.

LANCAS 1 Eit, Mallen 14.
ems. SIDE-,-MUNSTER V. NE:Milli/IC
This was an action to recover a compensation in damages for
the loss of services sustained by the plaintiff' in consequence of
the seduction of his servant by the defendant.
Mr. BootioitAst appeared for the plaintiff'.
Mr. SCARLETT for the defendant.
The facts were shortly these :—The plaintiff is a tradesnum residing at Burton, and keeping the no:it-office there. Three or • four years ago he married the daughter of a respectable farther;
and shortly after her sister, Hannah Dunn, came to reside
with. them. At that time, she was about fourteen years of
age. The defendant, an excite:non, lodged in the plaintiff's!
house : and about ten or eleven months ago she was discovered
to be pregnant by him. As might be supposed, he was obliged
immediately to quit the house, and the girl renewed him to a'
place called Silver-dale; after an absence of a short time, she
returned with him to Burton, and was there delivered of a
child on the Ilth of January last.
Mr. ScantallT, for the defendant, contended that this was
the most extraordinary case of the kind that had ever appeared .
in court, It was not an action brought by the father or mother
of the girl, or with the consent of any of her relations, but was a suit commence by her brother-m-law, not to benefit her,'
but to put whatever damages it might
.produce into his own
pocket. Where the father sued, the form of action demanded;
a proof of service, and of the loss sustained by the seduction:
Hero there was no such thing: there was no evidence to main.
Cain that there had ever been any servitude or breech of contraft-..
The plaintiff had not paid the eipencett of the girrsiying-in,
and there was nothing to show that she might not have left his
house, or alleged service, at any time previous to the injury
complained ef. —Verdict for the plaintiff—Pau:ages 40s.

The firm of Messrs. BUYANT and Sas, ba►►kers,
of Newmarket, have submitted a statement
of their affairs to six respectable inhabitants
of that town, who have issued a declaration,
that the means of the firm, both in real and per-
sonal property, are must ample, and that a reu-
semme time only will be required to enable
Mvssrs. Bryant to resume payment.---(Cambritko
Chronicle,.)

Yesterday a very alarming fire was discovered
in one of the Corporation silk-mills, in this town.
—These buildings were erected about the yeas
1718, by Mr. John Lombe, who having with
great perseverance, and at much personal hazard,
succeeded in possessing himself of the Italian
processes for 'throwing silk, established these
works on a piece of laud, surrounded by the
River Derwent, which was leased to him by the
Corporation. They are now in the occupation of
Mr. Win. Taylor, and it was that building which
was used for tramming, and in which were also
a few looms recently introduced, in which the,
fire broke out. From the difficulty of approach,
the fire•engittes were worked to great disadva!or
tage ; there being, however, au unlimited ottpil
of water, the building was not entirely destroyed,
though it has sustained considerable (104:171getwo
A large portion of the roof fell Inoue:at they
floors were so extensively injureil,,,
will require to be completely Z;;;;;;;I'b"h
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new materials. Much of the
ing but an the looms
weretho
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quarterkroi . woraFatrrehtem,,
that, was
suossf:
unuin sually
—""("Perah`,yldAtihaerccuir'ye!..) part,

THE LONDON JOURNALS.
DAILY
Extradsfrem the Morning Papers,Marchl7,lB26.
rum TIMESd
Our account from the city is any thing but
sciiisfactory. It is now, we believe, clear, that
under whatever veil the financial transactions of
the year may be shrouded, they are essentially a
1044; and to this state of things we are arrived
later upwards of eleven years of peace. In truth,
t/1 Circumstance that this loan is to be effected
by manamvre and chicane will but give the con-
tractors a greater advantage in the negociation of
it ; as those who borrow money surreptitiously
are always obliged to submit to usurious interest.
The ordinary proceeding of the monied interest
Mt the approaching crisis of a loan are detailed in
oar city article. Alas ! poor England !

The French Papers of Tuesday arrived last-
nigbt : The only important passage of their con-
tents is the description of the perturbed state of,
Spain. However ignorant and degraded the
mass of the Spanish population may be, and how-
ever fitted to the yoke of a cruel and perfidious
trout, no rational person could ever doubt but
that the repeated acts of mismanagement and se-
verity, which have spread desolation over a fine
country, have ruined, its manufactures and corn.
flume, and made almost every other house a.
lumen of mourning, must tend to produce dis•
content, and a consequent desire of change. The
day of retribution is, we think, beginning to
dawn: and though we believe the account of the
arrival of Mina is premature, it is pleasing to
observe the terror which the bare name of the
gallant and energetic chief strikes into the heart
of the guilty Court and Ministry of Madrid.—
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[BRITISH PR ES3.]
Upon the motion of the Chancellor of the Ex-
chequer in the House of Commons het night a
Select Co►nrnittee
,was appointed, after a slight
discussion, to inquire into the state of the circu-
lation in small t►otes in Ireland and Scotland.
In the course of the evening Mr. Wynn obtained
leave to bring in a Bill to amend 53d Geo. 111.,
respecting the appointment of writers in the ser-
vice of the East India Company, and to remove
doubts us to the payment of the allowances of
officers dying while absent from India. The oc-
casion for this measure has arisen from the neces-
thy of sending out a supply of young men as
writers in the Company's service. By the old
law it was c►►mpulsory tl►nt three-fourths of these
officers of the Company should be sent from the
East India College. The object of the new Bill
is to ►educe that number, and to allow a larger
portion of young men who have received only a
general education to till the vacant writerships,
which amount now to ninety.

[MORNING 11E0 ALOI
Yew people are inclined to give themselves
much trouble for nothing. On the contrary, most
men's actions are the result either of Selfish mo-
tives, of anibitious ones (which is only a higher
degree of selfishness), or are undertaken with
the more ctiounentlable view of serving their fa-
Milies•or connections. It was stated in our paper
fete days ago that as active a canvass was going
on to till the vacancies in some parish vestry as
if the object were equal to a seat in Parlia-
ment. And this we believe is the case, more
or less, not only in most of the parishes of
the Metropolis, but in , whatever part of the
kingdom those- fruitful sources of power, of
jobbing„ and a buse-.---tielect Vestries (unfor-
tAinately for the parishioners) exist. The very
eagerness which people show to get upon them,'
is sufficient to excite not only surprise but sus-
picion ; and Ihe wore so when we perceive how
utterly destitute of utility, and what grievous
sources of oppressive taxation, most of these Dog.
berry Legislatures are become. Formerly the
duties of a parish officer were what people dhi
every thing in their power to avoid. Exemptions
were claimed, excuses made, and, in some cases,
even heavy fines -paid, to avoid sit odious and
troublesome an employment. Awl we are,
therefore,. the. more curious to know what
change has taken place which can, in the fair
ntitur of things account for Ova becoming
an object of desire, of canvass, and solicitation,
which was heretofore one of aversion and avoid.

ance. The love of power, we well know, has an
all..pervading influence; ,but we suspect there
roust be something beyond this, which renders a
seat At these Boards an object of such very gene.
ral attainment. This motive, we strongly SUN.
pact, is to 1w found in the revenues over which
those people preside. That large'imms of money.
can'be raised and expended without check or con-
trool, and not be the source of divers good things
to those who have the tnana gement of them, would
be to suppose a degree of virtue among these
people which experience tells us has too often not
been found among their betters. If we err in
thi4.,coojeitere, let Parliament interfere, and
elicit the truth. While men are auditors of their
own .accounts, and render no account to any but
to a-select'Jnota of • themselves, suspicions will
arise, which nothing but an opposite degree of
openness, candour, find fait dealing, can possibly
. Let them show the rate-payers, if they
carte that all right—that there are do jobs, no
Vontracts, no snug clerkships, surveyor Ships, or
feasting, of which these worthy gentlemen par.
take. When this is shown intelligibly, in black.
and white, we shell believe it ; and shall then
too he convinced thal it iil only the hmiour of
the beadle's bow, the mania for talki6g, and the.
satisfaction of strutting 'over pavement of their
dijApiduting, and of going tinkle deep in mud of
their own creating, Unit induce so many people
to quit the comfort of 'their own fire.sides, to be-
come—Parish Vestry Ten.

istortNtso cititoNict.E.l
Scarcely a day passes without utrorditig some
evidence ,of the ignorance of our Legislators, and
that, too as to their own Acts. On Wednesday
flight a discussion took place on Sir It. WilSoll's
'notion for ::a; return of dinner expettces incurred
'Htittr Country Commissioners of Bankruptcy,