The Sun.
London, England, 1845-02-22 00:00:00

REVOLUTION AT ICHABOE

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Strange as such a fact may be, it is not more strange
than true. By letters which have arrived in town this
week, it is stated that a complete, and happily, a blood-
less revolution had taken place at Ichaboe, at the date of
the last dispatches. It seems that in the operations of
the first six months after the island was visited, a host of
agents or supercargses established themselves on the
island, erecting tents and temporary residences. In a
short time they marked off the ground, and laid claim to
all the principal parts as their own bona fide property, on
behalf of themselves and their employers at home, erect-
ing loading stages, and selling pits at extravagant prices.
Till the revolution no opposition was made to this mule
of procedure, and the consequence was, that ultimately
no ship, unless the captain submitted to these land sharks,
could get a shovel's breadth of ground to land upon.
When an agent had a ship loading at his stage, he pur-
posely kept dallying with the work, until another ship
from his house at home would arrive to take up the
berth, although there might be three hundred other ships
surrounding the little island, and waiting for access to
the beach. Squabbles and small fights were of continued
occurrence, and increased until a sloop of war arrived to
preserve order. Her commander remained till be be.
lieved his presence was no longer necessary. On the
following day the demurring shipmasters held a meeting,
and it was very soon resolved that a general reform
should be made instanter. There were about 300 ships
at moorings, and each ship agreed to send her proportion
of men ashore with guns and bayonets, mustering
altogether about 1,400 men. Supercargo tewn was
attacked, and its entire population put to the rout at
the point of the bayonet, and driven directly into the
sea up to their chins, and the discomfited landlords there
and then made to swear, that from that time henceforth
they had relinquished all right and title to the soil of
Ichaboe, after which declaration they were permitted to
return to their respective places of abode. This sum-
mary proceeding produced an entire change in the civil
affairs of the island, and ships are now loading at the
rate of 50 tons a day after lying idle for months.—
Greenock Observer.

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COURT OF SESSION (SCOTLAND). —A return of the
number of causes instituted and decided in the Court of
Session, from the Ist day of January, 1844, to the Ist of
January, 1845, has just been presented to Parliament,
and printed by order of the Rouse of Commons, pur-
suant to the Act I William IV., cap. 69. There appear
to be five Lords Ordinary—Lord Cunninghame, Lord
Murray, Lord Ivory, Lord Wood, and Lord Robertson.
In the " outer house," as it is called, the number of
causes enrolled for the first time before all the Lords
Ordinary amounted to 1,457, the number of decrees in
absence to 476 ; the number of final judgments pro-
nounced in litigated causes to 800, of which 267 were
pronounced by Lord Cunninghame, 25 by Lord Murray,
73 by Lord Ivory, 229 by Lord Wood, and 206 by Lord
Robertson. The total number of causes ready for de-
bate but not heard amounts to 94, and the total
of causes ad avizandunt to 18. In the "inner house"
the number of reclaiming notes presented against
judgments of Lords Ordinary in the course of the
same year amounted to 289, viz., 207 in the fiut, and
82 in the second division. The number of incidental
and summary applications presented during the same
period amounted, in the first division, to 580, of
which 558 passed as matters of form ; and in the second
division to 362, of which 330 passed as matters of form.
The number of final judgments pronounced in litigated
causes, without the intervention of a jury, amounted to
122 and 96 in each division respectively. The number
of causes tried by jury to 25 and 23 respectively. The
number of causes ready for judgment on hearin • coati! sel or otherwise amount, in the first division, tog 59 of
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PREVENTION OF SMOKE. S.
;beantrdieidnthe second' 'di-
by jury.
SMOKE.—Sir William Maguey,
Alderman John Johnson, aid several scientific men
visited Mr. Godson's premises in Alde '
rsgate-street, on
Wednesday, for the purpose of witnessing the operation
of his apparatus for the prevention of the very offensive
nuisance of smoke. Mr. Godson's patent furnace for
the consumption of smoke has been under trial in the
factory at the Dockyard at Woolwich, and at Ports-
mouth Dockyard, by the Government, and several re-
ports have been made most strongly representing its
efficacy. The numerous gentlemen who tested the power
of the apparatus expressed surprise at the extraordinary
disappearance of smoke during the whole time the fur-
nace was blazing, and also at the simplicity of the plan.
They remained during an hour on the premises, and
expressed their admiration of the ingenuity by which
one of the greatest nuisances the metropolis is infested
with can be completely removed. Many Members of
Parliament have been to examine the patent furnace
within the last few weeks, in consequence of the inten-
tion to legislate upon the subject of the prevention of
smoke early in the present session.
VENBZUELA SUGAR.—A return has just been pre-
sented to the House of Oommons, stating the quantity of
sugar which has been admitted for borne consumption under
the 7th and Bth Victoria, c. 28, at the rate of 345. per cwt.,
and 5 per cent., between the sth July, 1844, and the latest
period to which it could be made up. It appears that the
total amount is II cwt. 2 qrs. 131bs. of sugar, all of Which is
the produce of Venezuela.