The Sun.
London, England, 1845-06-24 00:00:00

HOUSII of LORDS.---(THIS DAY.)

The House sat again to-day to hear writs of error. The Peera
present were—The Lord Chancellor, Lord Brougham, and Lord
Campbell. The following Judges were also in attendance :—The
Lord Chief Justice of the Court of Common Pleas, Mr. Baron
Parke, Mr. Justice Williams, Mr. Justice Wightman, Mr. Justice
Cresswell, Mr. Justice Patteson, Mr. Justice Coleridge, Mr. Jus-
tice Coltman, Mr. Baron Alderson, and Mr. Baron Rolfe.

VISCOUNT DUN(ANNQN V. SMITH.

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The further arguments in this part.heard case occupied their
Lordships the whole morning.

ROLLS' COURT.-(THIS DAY.)

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His Lordship the Master of the Rolls heard petitions to.day, of
which there are nearly eighty on his paper. No case of any inte.
rest came before his Lordship.

VICE-CHANCERY.-(THIS DAY

(Before the VICE-CUANCELLOIL of ENGLAND.)
ASIITON V. PAIIKER.—JUDGMENT.

His HONOUR gave judgment to-day in this case, which was
argued before the Court during the last term The bill was filed
for the purpose of enforcing a lien on certain property on which
the defendant, a lady of the name of Parker, had lent 6,0001. His
Honour, after going through the facts of the case, which we have
already detailed, stated its opinion to be that the lien was not sus-
tainable as against the defendant Mary Parker, and that as against
her, if the bill was a hostile one, it must be dismissed with costs;
if not it must be dismissed; and as to the other parts of the prayer
of the bill, there must be the common decree.
The COURT then proceeded to hear demurrers and further di-
rections.

(Before the Vice-Chancellor KNIGHT Eatice.)
HILYARD V. LANGLEY.

The further arguments in this part-heard cause occupied the
Court the whole day.
(Before Vice-Chancellor WIG RANI )
FORSYTH V. ELLICR.—JUDGM EMT.

Ilis IloNova, after disposing of this case, heard causes, none of
which were of any public importance.

SHERIFFS' COURT.--(THIS DAY

•
(Before Mr. Under-Sheriff Burtcueu.)
LIOTTON V. FISH.

This was an action to recover the sum of 6/. 7s. 3d. for work
done at the new Conservative Club-house in St. James's-street,
and for nails, &c. supplied.
The plaintiff had been engaged as a foreman carpenter under
the defendant, who was the contractor for building the club-
house in question ; and he had the engagement of workmen
under him, and was paid the money on account of
the men, and was to be paid 6s. a-day. The plaintiff; however,
was very irregular in his attendance, and so frequently intoxicated,
that he was discharged at the end of three months. The balance
of the account in dispute was in reality for three days and three-
quarters work, made up of hours in different days in the last week,
and for some nails, &c., supplied. The defendant had paid for
the nails, although he denied that he had ever had them, and also
paid 12s. for two days' work, amounting :together to 1/, 155.,
which, it was alleged, was all that was due. Proof was adduced,
that after plaintiff left the job he said he had settled all up, but
0.1 a subsequent occasion he said he would have a " go in" at de.
fendant, as he could get law as cheap as any one.—Verdict for
defendant.

CRIMINAL COURT.-(THIS DAY

(Before Mr. Commissioner BULLOCK.)

SOUTH-WESTERN RAILWAY,
TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.

PARLIAMENTARY BUSINESS.
MONDAY, JUNE 23.
The following Bills were read a third time, and passed:—
Dublin and Belfast Junction Railway.
Ulster Extension Railway.
Manchester South Junction and Altrincham Railway.
Manchester, Bury, and Rossendale Railway,
Great Southern and Western Railway.
Chester and Birkenhead Railway.
Great Southern and Western Railway (Ireland).
Ashton, Stalyi,ridge, and Liverpool Junction (Ardwick
and Guide Bridge Branches) Railway.
Cornwall Railway.

The Lords' amendments to the following Bills were agreed
to :

Yarmouth and Norwich Railway.
Lowestoft Railway and Harbour.
Berks and Hants Railway.
Blackburn, Darwen, and Bolton Railway.
BecKrd and London and Birmingham Railway.
Shrewsbury, OsweAry, and Chester Junction Railway.

The Armagh, Coleraine, andPortrush Railway Bill was re-
ferred to the Select Committee on Standing Orders.
The Epping Railway (No. 2) Bill, was read a second time,
and committed, and referred to the Committee of Selection.

NOTICES GIVEN AT THE PRIVATE BILL OFFICE,

Coventry, ;Bedworth, and Nuneaton Railway,---Report,
Wednesday, June 25.
Bristol and Gloucester Railway (No. 2),—Report, Wechtes-
day, June 25.
Epping Railway (Group NN.),—Select Committee on pro-
ject, adjourned till Thursday, Jaly 3, at twelve.
Norwich and Brandon Deviation (Disc and Dereham
Branches) Railway,—Report, Wednesday, June '25.
London and South Western Railway (Metropolitan Ex-
tension) (No. I),—Report on re-committed Bill, Wednesday,
June '25.

BRITISH ASSOCIATION FOR THE
ADVANCEMENT OF SCIENCE.
• CAMBRIDGE, JUNE 23.—Professor Deiffenbach, :of Berlin, ad-
dressed the section for a brief space on the interesting paper read.
He said that the want of morality in New Zealanders was not to
be; considered, as morality was the product of civilization, and it
always followed in the train of Christian civilization. He thought
that they possessed, with ♦anity, self-esteem also. Their boastful.
' nest proved this position. With respect to moral courage, the
want of which had been attributed to them by Dr. Martine, who
saw, during a considerable residence amongst them, a great many
instances of it displayed. He was of opinion that they could lay
claim to something like a conscience, and knew pretty well the
distinctions of right and wrong, in some respects, as regarded pro.
perty. They had more virtues than people who were inimical to
them gave them credit for possessing. He travelled amongst them,
and in parts where the face of an Europea❑ was scarcely seen from
(we year's end to another, and was everywhere treated with hos..
pitality and general kindness.
Professor Garrett was of opinion that the New Zealanders had
much more idea of a conscience than many civilised beings who
had the reputation of possessing one, and yet had it not. There
never was a human being, howsoever savage he might
be, but had some notions of right and wrong if
he choosed to act up to them. There were parallel cases
innumerable to the New Zealanders, in this respect, in this
country. There were plenty of Englishmen to be found, whose
sense of morality was not a whit superior to the New
Zealanders. How many amongst us, who professed the
most strict notions of religion, and were remarkably sedulous in.
making a show of it, and yet these persons were found in their
dealings to be mean, cunning, selfish, whenever they act so they
safely evince the most decided dishonesty.
Doctor Deiffenbach, in answer to a question from a member,
stated his belief to be with regard to cannibalism, that amongst
most savage tribes it had its origin not in a love of human food, but
in superstition. The soul of the man eaten, it was believed by the
savage, entered the body of him who ate him.
In answer to a question from Dr. Hodgkin, as to the right of
tenure on land, bearing on. the New Zealanders' notions of property
in this respect.
Mr. HALLAM (the author of the work on the " Middle Ages")
said that he believed a right in land was claimed in early times,
in Europe, by individuals or bodies, without even cultivation or
occupancy, but how far wandering tribes could claim whole tracts
of country, without either, was a delicate question, although most
people were inclined to deny them such a right, as not being
founded on reason or justice.
In the chemical section, among other papers, was one read by
Mr. Solly, F.R. S., on a discovery of a new variety of caoutchouc,
applicable to many purposes of the arts.
Mr. WILSHAW, the Secretary of the Fine Arts, claimed the
paper as the property of that society, saying that Mr. Solly had
taken advantage of a communication made on the subject in 1843,
at a meeting of the Society of Arts, by Dr. Montgomery, Mr.
Solly being in the chair.
Mr. Sota.v rose to reply, but the President (Professor Graham)
stopped the discussion, saying the section were much obliged to Mr.
Solly for making up for the remissness of the society in not pub-
lishing the account of the discovery before.
This declaration was received by the audience with much ap-
plause.
In the medical section, the chief points of interest were lectures
by Dr. Leeson, on the influence of galvanism in promoting endros.
more and exasmore ; Dr. Fowler on the mental capacities of
animals in reference to man; Dr. Laycock on the communicating
fibres of the brain with reference to thought and action, and the
introduction, by Dr. Brooke, to the profession, of a new kind of
suture, adapted for hare lip, rupture of the vagina, the palate, &c.,
entirely superseding the old method.

AERONAUTICS.--Yesterday evening Mr. Charles
Green, the veteran aeronaut, made his 300th ascent from the
grounds of the Royal Standard and Albert Saloon, at Hoxton. The
balloon, a large and handsome machine, belonging to Mr. Green,
and well-known as the " Albion," was exhibited in the gardens
during the afternoon, partially inflated, to a very numerous com-
pany, for whose amusement, while awaiting the ascent, a great
variety of entertainments had been provided. The juveniles were
fully occupied in roundahouts, ups and downs, and other such en-
tertainments, in one portion of the grounds, while the mote re-
verend seniors were amused by the singing, dancing, &c., of a
theatrical company upon an open air stage. There was no time
fixed for the balloon ascent, and therefore no ground for complaint
of breach of faith on that head, but, about a quarter past seven,
Mr. Green took his place in the car, accompanied by a gentleman
whose name was stated to be Murray, a member of the medical
profession, and after a very few trials of its buoyancy, the machine
was released from its moorings, and launched into the atmosphere,
bearing away, in a majestic style, in a direction towards Kent. The
exhibition attracted immense crowds to the neic,bourhood.
HoSPITAL FOR CONSUMPTION, &C.—The corpora-
tion of the City of London yesterday intimated to the secretary of
this benevolent foundation that the Corn, Coal, and Finance Com-
mittee had awarded the sum of 100 guineas in aid of the general
funds of the institution. The western wing of the beautitully-
designed fabric at Brompton will be ready for the transmission of
the patients from the present establishment at Chelsea early next
spring. The Right Rev, the Bishop of Durham preaohe's on behalf
of the hospital On Sunday next.

STEALING COFFEE.—George Morton, aged 9.9., described in the
calendar as a gardener, was indicted for stealing 9Slbs. of coffee,
valued at 6/. 10s., from the shop of Mr. Ward Slater, a grocer,
carrying on business in Long street, City-road.
About half-past seven o'clock on the morning of Thursday, the
sth inst., the prisoner was observed by the person having the care of
the house, which is lEt out in lodgings, the prosecutor not resid-
ing on the premises, and by another person, to take up the coffee,
which was in a bag. On perceiving that he was noticed he dropped
it at the side of the door. He then ran away.
Six witnesses, four of whom were the prisoner's relations, were
called to prove an alibi. Their evidence went to show that he
was in bed at the time the robbery was stated to have taken place,
and that he did not leave the house until after nine in the morning.
Mr. PAYNE addressed the jury on behalf of the prisoner.
The Learned JUDGE then summed up, and the jury found the
prisoner guilty of larceny.
A former conviction having been proved, he was sentenced to be
transprorted for seven years.
THE I.A TR ROBBERY AT SIR WILLIAM MAGNAY'S.—John Ell,
who was remanded from last session on the charge of stealing a
quantity of paper, the property of Sir William Magnay, was dis-
charged, no evidence being offered on the part of the prosecution.
The sessions then terminated.

Sin,—You would render an essential service to the public
if you would call the attention of the Directors of the South-
Western Railway Company to the extraordinary want of
punctuality in the arrival of the morning trains, and conse-
quent serious inconvenience which is occasioned to men of
business, who may have made arrangements on the calcula-
tion that the trains would arrive at the hours stated in the lists.
The train which left Gosport this morning at half-past six, and
was stated to be due at ten minutes past ten, did not arrive
at Nine Elms till fbur minutes to eleven, being three-quar-
ters of an hour after time, in a distance of only seventy-
eight miles. This unpunctuality is of such frequent recur-
rence that it is highly necessary the Directors should adopt
more efficient measures.—l am, Sir, your obedient servant,
June 23. A RAILWAY TRAVELLER.