The Sun.
London, England, 1817-08-14 00:00:00

MURRAY V. BROWN.

The plaintiff and. William H ()liens had agreed
in 1814 to-build a ship in Calcutta, where both of
them were. The plaintiff was to have one-this'd,
and %V ilium Liollens two-thirds, with power to
sell one third to any third person ; he sold it to
defendant. 1-lollens died next year, acid his exe-
cutors were disposing of the ship as if the plaintiff
had' had no share in it. The plaintiff, then in Eng-
land,: filed a bill •to restrain the ship from sailing,
and :to .obtain security for his share. After full
pleadings, security was ordered to be given to the
extent of 8.0001. as one-third share.of the ship and
freight.. This security was given by Paxton' and
Co. on the part of the defendant ; but the defen-
dant was not now in this country, or within the
jurisdiction of the Court. Sir S. RomiLLy there,
fore moved that S,OOOl. be Ordered to be paid into
Court. There was no appearance for the defendant,
and the money was ordered to be paid into Court
before the 10th November.

The Conti then entered npan the consideration
of Lunatic Petitions.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

MANSION-not:E.

WATERLOO CRACK ElZS.—Yestmlay several per-
Sons were brought- before tlie Lnttr., MAyoe to
anskver complaints ,(laieiy
,become very general)
that the safety of rite passengetsthrough the most
public streets is endangered by the practice of eX7.
ploding Waterloo crackers. The vagabond boys
,;bout Moot fields pay oti: old grudges. !gai.rist the
old and infirm, by means of this weapon, fpoln
which'a very Literesting girl stifferd violently the
.other day.—Wiltiam Davis was charged:by Amelia
Daniels with the offence of having discharged one
of the Waterloo crackers in her Lace. As she
went •along Cheapside the defendant suddenly
crossed the street to her, and discharged some-
thing which made a great noise and gave great
pain. Upon recovering from her terror, she
found that her face was dreadfully burnt. When
.she entered the Office theblood was flowing from
ber checks, and her right eye was nearly closed.
Medical assistance. was necessary.—Tbe defendant
was convicted in. the saw of 20s. and ordered to
find bail for the assault. He was committed.

A Swede was apprehended for having exposed
Waterloo-crackers to sate. Iu order to, convict
upot► such a charge, it was necessary that the
sale should be witnessed by two pet sons. ;Stocks,
the officer, was deputed to make the purchase;
hut upon being called upon by the Lord Mayor
to produce the crackers, the case was found to
he at an end, the officer himself having been
unable to resist the inclination to have a shot.—
The defendant did not, however, go unpunished.
The Waterloo-crackers, of which he had a great
quantity, were handed over to Stocks, who seeth-
ed to be very uneasy in the possession, ljpon
requesting to kno•,v what Ice should do with the
fire-works, Mr. nobler desired theta to be thrown
into the Thames.
FoßGEßY.—George Pearson, who stands charg
ed with forging and uttering a check upon the
banking-house of Williams and Co. Birchin-lane,
was again brought before the Lotto Mavoa, when
the letter he sent for a passport the day he offered
the check was produced, and seemed to corre-
spond exactly it) writing._ The prisoner still per-
sisting in having toad this check from the person
who called at his Master's printing-office to pay
a bill of 50/ he was again remanded, in hopes
that he might find him out.