The Sun.
London, England, 1845-04-17 00:00:00

RAILWAY COMMITTEES

(THIS DAY.)
Committee No. 3, consisting of Mr. Aglionby, Mr. Thornel3.4
Mr. Buller, Captain Jones, ard Mr. Standish, assembled
morning in room N 0.13.
EAST DEREHAM AND NORWICH RAILWAY.
The Committee proceeded with this case.
An objection had been raised tlat the plans ill the privr.te
Bill-office were not correct. An error of forty feet APP3I"'
in one point of the plans.
For the promoters evidence was produced to shOW that
when the plans were deposited they were correct.
The room was cleared : on our return, no
The Committee decided that the standing order has
been complied with.

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QUEEN'S BENCH.-(THIS DA
(Sittings in Banco.)
WILSON V. ROBINSON. holt
Mr. Sergeant MURPHY moved for a rule to As to
cause why the verdict in this case, which pound of
the defendant, should not be set aside on the ground
Justice
misdirection on the part of the Learned Judge (Mr. justt
ightman), before whom the case was tried at the lasl
assizes for Durham. The defendant and a person nairie
Trnmouth were part owners of a vessel called the Robins
On the 27th of April, 1843, the partnership was dissolve.da
the defendant having puichased Tinmouth's share it.
the usual way. The letter which was the subjeacth
matter of the present case, was written on the Job,
of August, 1243, was by the defendant to Tininciuths
and in that letter the defendant stated that the
plaintiff had destroyed property to the amount of 226!.,
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embezzled part of the cargo at Holyhead and Falmoutu
The Learned Judge left it to the jury to sal
whether this letter was not a confidential COgan%
cation from the plaintiff to his partner, in Willi
the matter complained of was introduced accidenta!l
without a view of imputing anything malicious to the purr
or
tiff. The Learned Sergeant contended that his Ldsla
was wrong in leaving the question to the jury in this 1111,
ner, as the partnership baween Robinson and
ri
was dissolved four months before the letter was wtten:—
Rule refused.

TUE QUEEN V. .
Mr. KELLY was about to moveCOOPER
for a rule in this clt!et.
which was an indictment for libel, preferred against the ea
fendant at the instance of the Rev. Joshua sing, and
published in the Liverpool Chronicle, when it was stigges,_`.4
by Lord Denman that it was better to wait till the defence
was brought up for judgment.

.Y.)

BAIL COURT.—(THIS DA
(Before Mr. Justice COLERIDGE.) at'
Mr. PETERSDORFI, moved for a rule calling upon an, „0
torney, whose name lie would not for obvious reasons Os'iir
give, to answer for certain malpractices, and also to
cause why his name should not be struck off the roll. Lord
made this application on an affidavit of the present
Wellesley, who stated that he had employed the attorrln,
question as far back as the year 1832. In 1841, b„.,e'l
then abroad, he was desirous of returning to D''Sf
land, but, as Mr. Crockford retained a wad 4
his for the sum of 2,000/., he was anxious that this It,
should be discharged before he arrived in London. ne,4og
torney in question communicated with his Lordship,
to make an arrangement that would remove every' iniPcov
ment to his Lordship's return, if he granted notes tons be
tain amount, and at certain dates. On these contAtions
undertook that the bond should be discharged. The Pd of
missory notes were transmitted by his Lordship, but 5n s' eaded,
applying them to the purpose for which thoy were bite° of
namely, the releasing of Lord Wellesley from the liabilityr
this bond, he took them into the market, got them ribr
counted, and applied them to his own uses. He aaliejs44
the rule on other grounds also—one of them, that 1
sited
the said attorney suggested to his Lordship that if he I.,`re_
certain bills, he (the attorney) should be able to raise costsbe
doable sums upon them. He took these bills also into co.
market, and applied their proceeds to his own rirVibe
There were other charges of a similar character agan'bol
said attorney, but he (Mr. Petersdorff) thought bier bo
stated enough to induce the Court to grant the
rule
sought for. be
Mr. Justice COLERIDGE thought 'the matter shod
sifted in a criminal court. to
Mr. PETERSDORFF was of opinion, with all dethrone), 00
his Lordship's judgment, that there was hardly esloetb
the face of the facts to warrant them in adopting e"; 014
course. If, therefore, it pleased his Lordship, he woad
rather that his application were granted.—The rule ^
granted.

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CLERKENWELL.—(THIS ,
A man named Chapman was charged with violent')
saulting and wounding prisoner'sne Jonson. nd the
the the previous night thson attacked 4- the
the child of the prosecutrix. She interfered betfiee°,s,
boys and endeavoured to separate them, but the prisoo4oo
sisted on their fighting it out, and when the mother, her
interfered on behalf of her son, the prisoner struct „lite
blow with his clenched fist on the upper lip cutting
open, and loosening two of her teeth. The woman 'peter
great deal, and was conveyed from her residence .e tho
street, Smithfield, to St. Bartholomew's Hospital, ,s gle.
wound was dressed.
He was fined 21., or a month's imprisonment in the
of Correction.