The Sun.
London, England, 1845-12-13 00:00:00

SILVER-PLATED DISH COVERS.

B. SAVORY and SONS, Manufacturing
A. Silversmiths, 14, Cornhill, London, opposite the Bank of
England, submit for choice in their Plate-rooms, many Patterns of
SILVER-PLATED DISH COVERS, of Sheffield Manufacture, from
Fifteen to Twenty Guineas the set, viz.

Double Doine Pattern. The Melon Pattern.
Size. £ s.d. Size. £ s.d.
I Plated Dish Cover, 20 in. 5 13 611 Plated Disk Corer, 20 in. 5 17 0
1 Dish Cover, IS in. 4 761 Dish Cover, 16 in. 4 14 0
2 Dish Covers, 16 in. 5 12 612 Dish Covers, 14 in. 6 6 6

Per 5et.......... £l5 13 61 Per set • • • • • • • .£l6 17 6
The above have silver handles and mounting and silver shields
for engraving the crest or coat of arms.
A Price Carrent, illustrated by Drawings, and omit...thing every
nformation relative to the purchase of Silver or Sheffield Plate, may
be had on application, or will be be sent into the country, tree of
postage, in answer to a paid letter.

LAW INTELLIGENCE.
COURT OF EXCHEQUER, Dec.l2.
(Sittings at Nisi Prius, in London, before the LORD
CHIEF BARON and Common Juries.)
CHANCELLOR V SAMBROOK.

This was an action on the case for injuries done to a
valuable horse, to which the defendant had pleaded not
guilty.
Mr. Knowles and Mr. James appeared for the plaintiff,
and Mr. Humfray and Mr. Woolrych for the de-
fendant.

The plaintiff was the well-known proprietor of
the omnibuses running between Brompton and the City,
and the defendant a coal merchant, carrying on business
at the Arundel Wharf, Arundel-street. The transaction
which gave rise to the present action occurred on the 24th
of April last. About two o'clock on that day one of the
plaintiff's omnibuses was travelling from the City towards
the West-end, and met with no interruption or accident
till it came to St. Clement's Church, in the Strand, when
the driver, observing that a waggon was coming up
Arundel-street, and intending to proceed in a contrary
direction, drew up close to the pavement immediately
opposite the Crown and Anchor in the Strand, to give
the waggon ample room to pass. The waggon, how-
ever, which was afterwards found to be the property of
the defendant, turned so sharply round the come; of
Arundel-street and the Strand, that the wheels grazed
the lamp-post, then ran against the pole of the omnibus,
and finally passed over the hoof of the off horse draw-
ing the omnibus, inflicting injuries that ultimately re-
sulted in the death of the animal. It was to recover
damages for the loss the plaintiff had sustained by this
accident that the present action was brought.
Evidence having been adduced to prove these facts,
Mr. HIIIIFRIT addressed the jury for the defendant,
and afterwards called a number of witnesses to prove
that the accident would not have happened bad the driver
of the omnibus exercised due and ordinary caution in the
conduct of his vehicle and horses.
The jury found a verdict for the defendant, on the
ground that the occurrence was an unavoidable accident.

ARCHES' COURT, Dec. 12.

%wag OFFICE OP THE JUDGE PROMOTED BY CLARKE

AGAINST HEATHCOTE.
This was a proceeding against a clergyman named
Heathcote, who had been convicted of an attempt to
commit a certain offence, and sentenced to six months'
imprisonment. He had given an affirmative issue to
the articles exhibited against him in this Court (that is,
he had pleaded guilty), and the sentence stood over, in
order to ascertain whether this Court had power to
degrade, the counsel for the promoter pressing for a
sentence to that extent.
Dr. PIIILLIMORE (with whom was Dr. R. Phillimore)
—who had argued that the Judge of this Court, as offi-
cial Principal or Dean of the Arches, could inflict de-
gradation—now admitted that he could find no prece-
dent, and suggested that it was a fit case for the Court,
under the 122 d canon, to invoke the presence of the
Archbishop of Canterbury, to pronounce the sentence.
The form of the sentence porrected in this case was
founded upon the only instance that could be found in
this Court or the Consistory Court—namely, Johnson's
case, in 1692, when three bishops had pronounced the
sentence, in the absence of the then Bishop of London,
who was under suspension at the time. In that case
the party was deprived of his orders, and reduced to a
layman.
Sir H. JENNER FUST—Under the ancient canon law,
six bishops were required to deprive a clerk of his offi-
cium. If this is to be a case of degradation from orders,
it is a very different thing from depriving of office.
I am not prepared to say that, if the Court should
be of opinion that it is a case for degradation,
there should not be a certain number of bishops
present. I am, however, of opinion that in this case
justice will be satisfied by deposing this gentleman from
the ministry, and the Court would be entitled to pro-
nounce that sentence of itself. If you correct a sentence
to that extent—namely, deposing him from the ministry
—that is depriving him of authority to officiate—l will
sign it.
THE OFFICE OF THE JUDGE PROMOTED BY KITSON

AGAINST LOFTUS.
Sir 11. JENNER FUST gave his sentence in this case,
in which the office of the judge had been promoted
by the registrar of the diocese of Norwich against
the Rev. Arthur Loftus, vicar of the united vicarage
of Fincham St. Marton, and rectory of Fincham St.
Michael, and also vicar of the vicarage and parish
church of Holehton, otherwise llelhoug,hton, with
the vicarage of Rainham St. Martin annexed, all in the
county of Norfolk. The case came before this Court by
letters of request from the Bishop of Norwich, and the
articles (which the Learned Judge read in detail) in
substance charged Mr. Loftus with frequenting houses
of ill-fame ; having intercourse with prostitutes ; hiring
women of that description as domestic servants, and,
whilst retaining them in his service, having carnal inter-
course with them. In his defensive allegation ho had
denied these charges altogether. It could not be doubted,
the Learned Judge observed, that the offences imputed
to Mr. Loftus were exceedingly grave, and, if proved by
credible testimony, it had been admitted on all hands,
that nothing short of deprivation would be a sufficient
censure to be inflicted upon him. It unfortunately hap-
pened in these cases, that the witnesses produced in sup-
port of the charges were mostly persons of
bad character, upon whom the Court could not
place implicit reliance, coming as they did
to confess their own infamy ; but they were
competent witnesses by law, and the Court was not at
liberty to reject their testimony, though it must look
carefully to see how far their testimony was credible
per se, and how far it was confirmed by the evidence
of other witnesses, or by the general circumstances of
the case. It had been argued, that in a case like this,
the unblemished character which Mr. Loftus had
enjoyed up to the spring of 1844, according to the testi-
mony of eleven or twelve gentlemen, including clergy-
men, magistrates, and Members of Parliament, ought to
have great weight; and undoubtedly tkose gentlemen
had deposed that they never had a suspicion or surmise
unfavourable to his moral character, and that he was a Nothing could be better devised than Nicoll's Re•
person least likely, in their estimation, to be guilty of the gistered Paletot to suit the ever-varied nature of our climate,
acts acts with which he was charged. Mr. Loftus, therefore, forming, as it now does, not only the sins qua
came before the Court with all this testimony in his railway traveller, but is equally d y g"nntleman
favour, in addition to the presumption of innocence which taking out-door exercise. It ip y
ha cebnetury,
psaitecil dfoirstlnnctlyeto mark
if that is rightly
every person was entitled to until his guilt was proved. the costume of the nineteenconspicuous for an unpretending
But it might appear that, notwithstanding the character called marked whichr itshoenly
wearer feeling so much at ease.
given of him by these respectable witnesses should be IgtEr
as an
-coat it is patronised highly, and is also
true, a change in his conduct had taken place, and that
such high character may have been forfeited by him. gener-al public favourite, being so peculiarly English, and
aavoiding all foreign extravagance of style. It must be ac-
clumsiness,
Before entering upon the evidence in support of the knowledged as a vast improvement
. over the old great *oat,
articles, the Learned Judge adverted to the statement associated in our remembrance itfhroamn uncomfortablet sense-
ihnegl'warmth of the plerssoverY
made by Mr. Arthey, a medical attendant of Mr. Loftus, tion ofdtiigtshto_bi.uetcttont
circulation of the blood Thne asrinicnlitpearf.lahritunegs
that in the year 1841 the health of Mr. Loftus was highly deiftehattehe
propetri
.eta mixture
clesiastical deranged; that in consequence of proceedings in the Ecd-
awre black, blue, brown, and olive • also the clerical
called Oxford, and can be had Of the patentees, clesiastical Court of Norwich, in which Mrs. Loftus had
sued her husband for a divorce on the ground of cruelty,
the most respectable clothiers out of' London. Ev'eoryr only
in which she had failed, he was in a highly excited
paletot is three guineas, and is stampted in the lining with
state; and that he had advised Mr. Loftus, on the ooc
a 7 the words, " Registered 6 and 7 Vie., sap. 65. H. J. elid D.
sion of his leaving home in September, 1843, on account Nicoll, 114,Regent-street, London.
of his health, to cohabit with some decent female, of-„ [ADVERTISIMENT.]—CASES OF DERANGED STO+
fering, though half in joke, if he " got into a scrape MUCKS, SICK-MILADACHES, WITW Loss OF STICENGTH AND
thereby, to give him a certificate that should extricate r
SI A4NRSIY, CURL]) IIY HOLLOWAY'S PILLS. In most of the
him. The articles charged Mr. Loftus with being in the above cases the hands and feet swell, the face puffs, and often-
habit of resorting, in October, November, and December, times a sense of fulness will be uotieed to exist about the waist,
1843, and in many of the mouths of 1844, accompanied attended generally with much nervousness and lowness of
by Henry or Harry Twiddy, his footman, or butler, to a spirits. These symptoms, if neglected, frequently end in dropsy,
house of ill-fame, kept by Mrs. Sconce, in Birdcage row, paralysis, or apoplexy. To regain full health and vigour
Lynn, and there committing adultery with one or more eat no vegetables, get plenty of exercise in the open air, and
prostitute or prostitutes; and that, on one occasion of take Holloway's Pills, according to the directions given with
his resorting to this house, he sent for a prostitute them, when any of the complaints named will: completelytretteset
named Chilvers. Mrs. Sconce, the keeper of this bro- eradicated from the systlem, even
ts when_ every_
aadat ProfeossorerHolloway's
thel, had been served with a compulsory summons; but had
Establishment, fal.—Sol2d44bysstlraduruggo
Strand, Linden.
she was confined to her bed at the time, and had not been . Piosore Fnvitieci.—On Thursday last four pigeons,
examined. Mary Anne Chilvers, however, had been the property of a gentleman residing in London, flew from
examined, and she proved that she had been sent for by a Folkstone elation to London in 1 hour and 18 minutes.—
IStra*

The argument in this case was resumed, but it is still
unfinished.

PALACE COURT, Dec.l2.
,Before Mr. W. CORRIE, Judge, and a Common Jury

COMMITTAL OF A GENTLEMAN-CHAMBERLAIN
V. NOKES.

In this case a judgment had been obtained against the
defendant for a debt of 161., and the present application
was for an order of committal against him.
Mr. G. CoLsoN, plaintiff's attorney, said that he had
made several applications to defendant for payment, but
although he had promised payment he had never done
so, and he (Mr. Colson) had no alternative but to press
for his committal.
The JUDGE—Can he pay ?
Mr. CoLsort—Oh yes. lie is a gentleman residing
at Bromley, in Kent, keeping six horses, and having re-
cently purchased an estate for 60,000 L
The JUDGE—Then I shall commit him for forty days
to the common gaol of the county.