The Sun.
London, England, 1828-12-03 00:00:00

LAW INTELLIGENCE.

COURT OF RING'S BENCH, Dac. 2.
DIVAS V. WORBOTS.
This was an action on a bill of exchange for 201.
the defendant being sued as the acceptor.
Under the direction of Lord Tenterden, the jury
found for the defendant.

wkllrE v. Luisx.
This was an action by a schoolmaster to recover
the sum of 201.25. Id., the amount of his bill for
the tuition and board and lodging of the defen-
dant's brother. Verdict for the plaintiff—Damages,
201.25. ld.

COURT OF COMMON PLEAS, DEC. 2.
DE LISLE C. KAY, BART. AND rEacen.
Mr. Serjeant 'WILDE stated, that the plaintiff in
this action sought to recover a sum of 525/.,. the
amount of certain sums which he had paid to the
Directors of the Cornwall and Devon Mining
Company, upon a consideration which he alleged
had failed. The plaintiff was a merchant in
this city, and the first defendant, Sir William
Kay, was the eminent banker of that name.—
The other defendant, Captain Teague, was a
person of some skill in the working of mines,
and had been employed by the directors of the com-
pany which he had mentioned, and iw the direction
of which Sir
_William Kay was involved. He need
not now mention that the company was one of those
which sprung up a few years since, during the great
rage for associations of any kind; nor that it owed
its brief existence to the fertile ingenuity of Mr.
John Wilks, jun. The object of the plaintiff in
bringing the present action was to recover the
amount of the deposits he had paid upon the pur-
chase of shares is this company; but as the, com-
pany had never gone on, and had hl fact turned out
to be a bubble and a fraud, he thought that he was
now entitled to recover from the directors those
sums which he had been induced to pay upon re-
presentations which had turned out to be false and
fraudulent. In making use of these expressions it
should be understood that he did not mean to impli-
cate the defendants, and more especially the first,
whom he believed to be a strictly honourable per-
son; but as he had unfortunately participated in the
direction of the Company, he rendered himself liable
to the demands that might be made against it, or at
least for such demands as this, where the plaintiff
had paid his money upon a consideration which had
failed, and which money the directors must there-
fore be supposed still to possess, and might conse-
quently be called on to restore. The Learned Ser-
jeant then described the manner in which the com-
pany had been formed, and detailed the frauds which
had all along accompanied it.
Mr. Wood, the Secretary to the Company, pro-
duced the books which had been kept at their office,
and in an examination of extreme length, substan-
tiated the statement which the Learned Sergeant
had made with respect to the various acts of fraud
committed by the persons in the direction of the
Company.
The examination of this witness by the plaintiff's
Counsel, having occupied the Court until nearly six
o'clock, the Jury declared themselves to be much
fatigued, and his Lordship consequently deemed it
proper to adjourn. The Counsel on both sides con-
sented, and the case accordingly stood over until
this (Tuesday) morning, when it was resumed.
Mr. Wood was again called into the box, and Sir
JAMES SCARLETT commenced his cross-examination.
He stated that he had himself been deceived by the
misrepresentations of John Wilks, jun., whose ac-
count of the mines he believed to have been true.
The gross account of shares on the 15th of April,
appropriated by the order of the directors, was fully
equal to the number of which it had been determined
the company should consist. He was himself to
have received 5001. a year for his services as Secre-
tary, but he regretted to say he had not been paid
for the whole time that he was employed. There
were debts still outstanding against the .company.
Sir Wm. Kay had paid one of those. debts, which
was the salary of Mr. Rowland Wilks, who was one
of the country directors. •He believed that several
of the directors knew that John Wilk% jun. was to
receive much more money for the mines than he
had himself given for them. It was not known to
all the directors until 1826. Sir John Perring was
one of the directors, and had taken his qualification
shares, but he never acted.
Re-examined—John Wilks, jun., had given rise to
other companies besides the Cornwall and Devon.
The following had been set on foot by him :—" The
Bfitish Annuity, the Medway Lime and Coal, the
Welsh Slate, the Kentish Rail-road, and the Norfolk
and Suffolk Rail-road Companies. Sir Wm. Kay
was the. private banker of Wilks, and of one of the
companies he had enumerated, but he (the witness)
did not know that lie, was the banker to any other
company.
It appeared by the evidence of this gentleman, that
Sir Wm. Kay had not attended an of the meetings
of the directors until the 29th of June, and that he
and Lord Palmerston, who was also one of the direc-
tors, had paid up all the calls upon their shares, and
had even advanced other money.
Witnesses were then called, who stated that the
mines which had been sold by Wilks to the company
for 121,000/. were in fact worth little more than the
value of the materials with which they were fur-
nished, having been in almost every instance totally
exhausted.
Sir JAMES SCAIILETT then addressed the Jury for
Sir.--Williara 14-ay at considerable length, after which
the Lord Chief Justice fully summed up the evi-
dence, and the Jury returned a verdict for the de-
fendants.

Measles are, at present, very prevalent in the
City of Limerick.—Livericle _Ryeliing Poo.

ORNITuoLocY,-,-Mrs, natmah Needham,
who resides near Adlington coal-pits, in eur vicinage, is
ruff in possession of a goose which has laid, during the
preseo month, sixteen ; a circumstance, we believe,
tinparalLded, at this season of the year. She has also
sundry ducks, which are laying eggs just as is customary
with them in the spring of the year.—Maccleqfied
Courier.

METIIOP OF ARRESTING THE BLEEDING
FROG( LEECH-BITES.-It is well known that sometimes)
especially in yery young children and persona of scorbutic
habit, all the means recommended to check the hriorrhage
from leech-bites, as cold waver, flour, alum, caustics, and
pressure, prove so entirely useless, that actual cautery and
ligature must at last he resorted to. of Lep.
horn, recommends a pew method, which he has found as
safe as it is simple. It consists in applying a cupping-glass
to the womid, when a coagulurn is almost immediately
formed, apd the bleeding aFrested, This effect is very
quickly produced, and has been found to take place even
in children, and in persons where the mass of the blood
appears to be in a state of dissolution, and without any
tendency to coagulation. The instrument may be safely
removed within a few minutes, but it is prudent to let the
coagtilum remain for some time.-4eper!oilodi AfediF.
and di Chiturg. dj Torino.

pp! w:rq A 13tsgor,—In the C4§tip pf
Brad, in the county of Caithness, resided, in the first
quarter of the thirteenth centuty, a nobleman of the name
of Earl John, concerning whose posterity it were we fear
useless to inquire at this time of day. This Paid nobleman,
not being of an nyer arniahle disposition, had procured for
Himself by hi& deeds of cruelty he distinetive though
enviable appellation of /-/te _Woody Earl. Some of the
country p 0 014 e in the neiglihoprkood complaiufd to him
in the yet;r 12:22, that the Bishop, a man of the name of
Adam, who resided eLki l4y the g4rro MI; In'.
mercifully severe in the exaction of tithes. The " Bloody
Earl" immediately enjoined them to boil the Bishop forth-
with. An immense number of the Earl's tenants accord-
ingly congregated together, besieged the Bishop's house,
and actually boiled him in one of his owu large brewing
utensils, rihe ipcirigted ponulaeo at the same time, and.
in the same utensil, boiled tire Bishops favourite monk, a
man of the name of Serlo. Alexander the Second, the
reigning monarch of Scotland, immediately repaired in
person to Caithness on being apprised of t:,e barbarous
deed, and forthwith ordered upwards of eighty persona con-
cerned in the affair to be executed. The Earl himself
lied, but ohtaining a pardon from the 1441,7, returned to,
his estates. In a short' time after, however, he was killed
in the town of Thurso, while attempting to murder anotlifr
person.—El4in courier.

NORWICH. Nov. 29.

The supply of Wheat at our market to-day was not
large; a few fine dry samples obtained last week's prices,
but the greater part was in poor condition, cud went off
slowly at Is. to 2s. per quarter lower than last week,
Vine Melting Barley is Is. per quarter cheaper, and infe-
rior descriptions dilll sale at a reduction of 2s. to Ss. per
quarter. We observe little alteration in the prices of fine
samples of Oats, Beans, and Pease ; inferior sorts go off
heayi:y at uncertain prices. The sale of Flour being very
heavy, the-millersitive way in price IA. to, se.. per cask.:
Wt 4t (perqr.) ~, cOF. SOs. Stis, Burns ((per qr.) ... 38s. 12s
Barley
Oats
.. 241. 30s, Ws. Flour, fine (per sack) 5Ss. 61s.

CANTERBURY, NO7. 29.

We had a short supply of Wheat upon our 'Change this
day—select samples were in good request, but those of in-
ferior quality were 2s. to 3s. per quarter cheaper. liar=
ley was again in large supply, and middling qualities 4s.
per quarter lowpr: BMA and Oats remain unaltered, but
Pease were 2s. per quarter cheaper,
Wheat, white . . 72e. to 80s. ~,.„ Old —s. to --s.
red . . (3s. to 795.
li.itiloy, Nalting.,,.., 4tls. to 445.
Oats ..., 22a. to 345.
• Beans 3os. to 345.
Pease 4os. to 484 Grey 36s. to 425.

CIIESTII IL—Wheat, per 751 b. I Is. Od. to 125.6 d.; Ilstwy„ssa, (awl
6s. Od. to 7s. Od. ; Oats, t4lb. 3s. Od. to 4s, Sd,
NA NTW ICH.—Wheat, per 741 b 4{l*. (0..; Barley, 39
4113:65. 94. !P, cii• 4 oAls, 4(1.1, 48. tck ss• (M.

-T.E-rEtt NIA 1
fleet (score) .his. Od. 94. Od.
..lutton ((lb.) 0 3 —0 5a
Yea alld I amb 0 o—o 0
P. ;lc • 0 s—o 6
Fowls ~,c.poti':::2 6-3 6 3 •—• 0

KE I S.—Nov. 29.

Wheat (bushe) 10s.0d. lls 3d.
Barley 4 6—5
Cats
.710#43 0 0 6
3:itter, (03)
:±:;gs (12)
Potatoes (po:k) 0 9—o 10

GLASGOW MARKETS.
(From the Glasgow Herald of Monday.)

In the early part of the weels 14,5 hhds. of good
441n*a Suci'mis vrefe taken by the grocers and for
Ireland, at 67. 6d.; and 44 hhds. of good middling
DeMeraras at 61s. a 625. being fully equal to
former rates. Yesterday
,cargo of 580 hhds. De-
meraras recently impotted; were brought forward
the holders .met the piwkpt freely, and submitted to
a reduction of 6,d. a is!, when 385 hhds. were taken
by the refiners and grocers,
Wm has been quite neglectedi not a sale made In