The Sun.
London, England, 1845-07-02 00:00:00

CHANCERY.-(THIS DAY

The Lord Chancellor sat to-day in Lincoln's Inn Hall, and heard
lunatic petitions and appeals, none of which possessed any points
of public interest.

ROLLS' COURI'.-(THIS DAY.)

His Lordship the Master of the Rolls was occupied the whole
day in his private room with the further arguments in the cue of
Cardross v. Cardross.

VICE-CHANCERY.-(THIS DAY.,

(Before the VICE-CHANCELLOR of ENGLAND.)

. .
His Honour took causes today, but in consequence of the ab-
sence of Mr. Bethel], the Court was only enabled to dispose of a
few of the cases in the paper.
(Before the Vice. Chancellor KNIORT BRUCE.)
GUT V. W•LQFIIILD •ND n•Y.—INJUNCTION.

Mr. Ann's, at the sitting of the Court, applied exparte on
behalf of the plaintiff; for an injunction to restrain the defendant
Wakefield from receiving the sum of 4001. and upwards from the
defendant Hay, said also to restrain Hay from paying that amount
to Wakefield. It appeared from the statements of the Learned
Counsel, and the affidavit in support of the application, that the
defendant Wakefield, who is well known in the sporting
world, being desirous to take an inn called the White
Hatt, at Hampton Wick, applied to the plaintiff for the
loan of 300/. ; that amount was advanced by the plaintiff; and
Wakefield executed a mortgage deed to him upon the property.
A short time since the plaintiff discovered that Wakefield had sold
the whole concern to a person named Baker for 6201. ; that out of
that amount he paid his wine merchant about 2002, and deposited
the remainder in the hands of the defendant Hay, to take care of
for him. The object therefore of the application was to restrain
Hay from paying the money to Wakefield and also to restrain
Wakefield from receiving it.
Hi: HONOUR granted the injunction.

The Court then proceeded to hear bankrupt petitions and causes.
(Before the Vice-Chancellor Wtoaam.)

His Honour was occupied the whole day with the further argu.
talents in the part.heard case of Cafe v. Bent.

QUEEN'S BENCH-(THIS DAY.)
(Sittings in Banco, before the full Court.)
CLARKE V. ISHORRIDGE.

This was an action for ejectment, tried before Mr. Justice
Patteson at Exeter. The Learned Judge then gave judgment in
favour of the plaintiff, reserving to the defendant the power to
rule for a new trial in the higher court. The case was called on to-
day, when Mr. Crowder appeared for the defendant and Mr. Cock.
burn for the plaintiff. The circumstances of the ease were of the
most simpletharacter.

The plaintiff had rented certain property to the defendant for
three years, the agreement entered into between the two expiring
on Lidly.day, 1843. It was found necessary, however, to levy an
execution before that period. At the trial at Exeter a subsequent
agreement was entered, giving the occupant possession for another
year, and it was on this ground that the present action was brought.
The Court reserved its judgment.

EXCHEQUER.-(THIS DAY.)
(Sittings in Banco.)
The COURT, as usual, took the special paper, and only matters of
the most technical character came on for hearing,

Tun PENALTIES FOR ADVERTISING FOREIGN
LOTTERIEII.—In consequence of the actions lately commenced
against
various newspapers to recover penalties for the pub-
lication
of advertisements of foreign lotteries, the Solicitor.
General has just prepared a Bill of five clauses, and is " to
amend an Act of the seventh year of King William the
Fourth, for preventing the advertising of foreign and other
illegal lotteries, and to discontinue certain actions com-
menced under the provisions of the said Act." The preamble,
after reciting the Act referred to, and setting forth the fact of the
actions in question having been so commenced " by persons who
sue, inform, and prosecute, as well on their oAn behalf as on
behalf of her Majesty, to recover various penalties incurred or
alleged to have been incurred under the provisions of the said Act,"
further states that it is expedient that " all further proceedings in such
actions, suits, informations, and prosecutions should be prevented,
gm,. The several clauses of the Bill then proceed to enact that all
persons who may have been sued before the passing of this Act for
penalties incurred under the statute of 7 Will. IV., may apply to
the courts, or a judge of any of the superior courts, to stay proceed.
ings, upon payment of whatever costs may have been Incurred up
to the time of such application being made to the court or judge.
The Bill, however, is not to extend its operations to actions in
which judgment has been obtained, or conviction passed on ue
before the day of the passing of the measure. The third clause is
a very important one, as it enacts that all penalties incurred under
the recited Act shall go wholly to her Majesty, and it is further
declared by another section of the Bill, that no action for penalties
shall be commenced except in the name of the Attorney or Solici-
tor-General in England or Ireland, or her Majesty's Advocate for
Scotland. The last clause merely provides that the Act may be
altered &c., this session,

THE NEW HOUSES OF PARLIAMENT.—The Peers
nsist on having their house ready for occupation in February
next, and thegreatest efforts are consequently being made. All the
walls and the ceiling are to be covered with carved wood-work
of the moat elaborate character, and this is being forced
on by one hundred and fifty additional workmen much more
rapidly than is desirable. It will probably be ready for fixing
about October, and instead of remaining as it should do in the dry.
ing rooms during the winter ready for fixing in the summer, will
be taken Into the new building its the bad weather, and
probably be irreparably injured. Do what they will,
moreover, the House of Lords cannot be completed
by the time named, nor is it desirable that it should
be. Surely, if their Lordships would consider that this building
is not simply for some immediate or temporary purpose, but is
intended to last for ages, and that the great object should be not to
do it quickly but well, they would restrain their impatience, and
allow the architect to work out efficiently the whole design. If the
present accommodation is bad, let it be made better; reconstruct
the temporary House of Lords during the ensuing
vacation, and persuade them to put up with the indignity yet a
little longer, so that their order may be worthily lodged ever after.
The architects of the middle ages produced the noble works to which
we now appeal with pride, slowly, by degrees, and as works of love;
at least let us give the nineteenth century one chance, and not by
unnecessary and child-like haste risk adding another failure to
the crowd which already disgrace it.—The Builder.
There were present at her Majesty's Theatre last
evening, her Majesty and his Royal Highness Prince Albert, ac-
companied by their Majesties the King and Queen of the Belgians,
and attended by Lady Jocelyn, the Earl of Morton, Colonel Bou-
verie, the Baroness de Hooghvorst, and Major de Moerkerke ; her
Majesty the Queen Dowager, accompanied by the Duchess of Saxe
Weimar, and the two Princes and Princesses of Saxe Weimar, and
attended by the Marchioness of Ormoi.de, the Hon. Mr. Ashley,
and Mr. Hudson ; their Royal Highnesses the Duke and Ducheas
of Cambridge and Prince George of Cambridge, attended by Lady
Augusta Cad( gan, Baron Knesebeck, and Mr. Edmund Mi;drnay;
the Dukes of St. Alban's, Cleveland, and Beaufort; the Duchesses
of St. Alban's and Beaufort; the Marquises of Douro, Ailesbury,
Abercorn, Granby; the Marchionesses of Douro, Allesbury, Aber.
corn, and Conyngham ; the Earls of Harrington, Wilton, Dal_
housie, Jersey, Lansdale, and Liverpool; the Countesses of Her-
rington, Wilton, and Dalhousie; Count Kielmansegge ; Lords
Gifford, Sandys, Templetown, W. Beresford, Suffield, Ernest Bruce,
Torrington, A. Paget, and Alford; Ladles Fitzroy Somerset, Ernest MARKET NE W S.---(THIS DAY.)
Bruce, Lyndhurst, Ashburton, Quentin, M. Corbet, Rendlesham,
Alford, Jodrell, Meux, Easthope, E. Fielding, W. Martins, Lt„ CORN EXCHANGE.—WEDNESDAY
The supply
Graham, Voulis, Dillon, and Wynchester ; Honourable* General Produce was very limited
Upton,
Colonel A. Upton, Colonel G. Fitzroy, Captain Duneombe, however, of Wheat of home
we have to report a steady demand for that article,
Colonel Wrottesley, Booth Grey, Mr. Fitzgibbon, Mrs. Duncombes at prices fully equal to those obtained on Monday. Foreign
Mrs. St. John, Mrs. Fitzgibbon; Sirs H. Willoughl y, H Webb, Wheat was in fair request; but no advance was noticed in
H Meux, W. W. Wynn, R. Wilmot, Colonel Wigram, the quotations. Barley, Malt. and Oats met a slow inquiry ;
IyArIALS AND RAILWAYS.—At a tneern g held yes- but Beans and Peas were quite 13,‘• dear.
terdey at the City of London Tavern of the. London Proprietors of ARRIVALS.
the Kennel and Avon Canal, it was unanimously resolved to re.
•• • • Wheat. Baxley.
quest the Committee of Management to take measures to ascertain English • • 1,550 qrs. qrs.
Irish .. ••• •
if it will be practicable and desirable to convert that canal into a I Foreign .... • • GOO 1,450
railway, Malt, JO go.

JOINT STOCK BANKS.
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Oats.

COURT OF CHANCERY.
To THE EDI7'OR OF THE SON.
Slk,—lt must be gratifying to all true lo►ers of reform to watch
the growing determination in the public to discountenance the prac-
tice of offices of trust and confidence being performed by deputy.
I regret, however, to perceive that in the law the same jealcul,
watchfulness does not prevail. In the office of the Masters in Chan-
cery there is at this present time au officer in the receipt of a salary of
1,0001. a•year, who has never attempted to perform the important
duties attached to the office, to which the Lord Chancellor
pointed him trio years ago. As this person has neither the plea of
ill health nor old age to urge for this default, I should like to be
informed what pretext can be alleged in justification of a practice
which the Court professes to hold iu such abhorrence P—l am, ire
Chancery-lane. A SOLICITOR.

CAMBRIDGE AND LINCOLN
RAILWAY.
TO THE EDITOI? OF THE SUA.
Sle,--1 beg respectfully to call your attention to the very in-
accurate report in this evening's Sun of the Cambridge'and
Lincoln Railway proceedings before the Committee in the House
of Commons. Your reporter represents Mr. Hildyard, the counsel,
as saying, that trains by the Cambridge and Lincoln line: would
perform the distance between London and York nouns (in one
place it is many hours, and in another some hours) quicker than
trains by the London and York line could perform it. Now, you
are hereby informed that Mr. Hildyard, whose speech I heard from
beginning to end, never said anything of the kind, nor could an
attentive reporter suppose him to have said so. The statement if
totally unfounded, and I am sure your interest in the character of
The Sun, as a faithful and impartial reporter of railway proeeetlinger
will inuuce you to make some inquiry as to the cause of so extra-
ordinary and mischievous a mis-statement. Allow me, most
strongly to urge that no speculator in shares should be intrusted
with the duty of reporting railway proceedings—a duty peremp-
torily requiring faithfulness and impartiality is, him who dis-
charges it.—Your obedient servant, J. L.
3, Walbrook, July 1, 1845.

[lt is our desire and our endeavour to give not only the report,
of the proceedings before Railway Committees, but all reports
which appear in The Sun, with the greatest possible accurac7•
We readily insert this letter. The gentleman who furnished us
the report is not a speculator in shares, nor is he interested
directly or indirectly, to our knowledge, in the success of ail
railway project.—Eu. Sun.]

THE GREAT BRITAIN STEAMER•

TO THE EDITOR OF THE
SlR,—Your article upon the Great Britain and steam has had my
attention, and I hasten to inform you that you were quite correct in
your opinion that the figures setting forth her tonnage are reversed.
I gave the Custom-house officer, who called at the office in as
cordance with his instruction from the higher powers, 3,481 tone
as her displacement when loaded. A large allowance is always'
made for the space occupied by the motive power of steamers,
which really ought to include the coal stowage also, although it doe'
not, when they are registered, further than that which is stowed'
on each side of the engine-room, known by the name of the'
bunkers. I send you some rough extracts of the ship's passage'
to Dublin, seeing that you appreciate in a national point of vieW'
the vast strides made by ourselves and others in steam navigation.
—Your obedient servant,
N.B. The small amount of tonnage which appears in the return'
when compared with the power of steamers, is to be accounted for
by the omission of the whole space in the body of the ship occuple'l
by the machinery. Thus the Star, fur instance, is nearer three
than one hundred tons. In some cases the engine-room °couple°
half the ship ; in none, I should think, less Than one.third. Even
with this allowance, the Bristol steamers, generally speaking, are
nearer two tons to one horse power than those of many other
places. Our Irish steamers, for instance, are from 180 to 190
horse-power to a tonnage averaging 400 or thereabouts. The
smaller the vessel, the less should be the proportions of tonnage 0
power, and vice versa.
Bristol, July 1, 1845.

TO THE EDI I oic OF THE SUN.
Sta,-1 find in yesterday evening's Sum, " In answer to Sir
Hayes, Sir J. Graham said the Government did not require 01
additional powers to put down the disturbances in Iffekkgeo
Cavan, and Fermanagh." As in neither the question or reply swil
Wicklow mentioned, I request you will relieve it from the chart°
which appears in your paler to apply to that county, which affora
at all times a perfect example of tranquillity and obedience to ttlg
law.-1 have the honour to be, Sir, your obedient servant,
WILLIAM ACTON, M.P., Wicklow county.
Carlton Club, 2.cl July, 1845.

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