The Sun.
London, England, 1845-04-01 00:00:00

from Augra de Centra to Cork, was seen in lat. 44 N., long.
24 W., with loss of mainmast, having a jurymast riggAi. by
the Banca, in the Downs.

TORBAY. MARCH 31.—Wind N.W.—Sld. Persian, Sydney,
New South Wales; Mountaineer, Port Republicain.

PLYMOUTH, MARCH 31.—Arrd. Her Majesty's ship, Dub-
in, Eastward.

BRISTOL, MARCH 31.—Wind W.—AiTd. Eleanor, Reis,
Demerara.

SWANSEA, MAncit 30.—Arrd. Cuba, Yculden, and Mary
Brack, Ace, Cuba.

MARYI..ouT, MARCIa 31.—1 t blew a heavy gale last night
at W.N.W.: The Atlas; Gorley, in proceeding to sea yester-
day, got in contact with the Liberty, Martin ; the former
proceeded, the latter lost foretopmast and grounded outside
the South Pier, but was hove off next tide and into port
without apparent damage.
LivEnroot., MARCH 31.—Wind N.W. fresh.—Arrd. Lady
Sale, Armstrong, Ichaboe •, Rival, Burnett, Maranham ;
Sisters, Williams, Laguna; Java, Samuel, Sarah Ann, and
Superior, Mobile; Olive and Eliza, Apalachicola; Envoy and
Ottawa, • Savannah. Sld. Great Western steamer, New
York. Put back, Isabel, Africa; Josephine, Tampico, leaky,
in tow, cargo supposed not damaged. The Margaret John-
son, Groom, from Ichaboe to Liverpool, was abandoned, 15th
inst., lat. 47 lon. 22 ; crew saved and arrived at Margate.
BRIDLINGT3N, MAR6ii 31.1 t blew a gale last night at
S.W., but has since moderated, and is now N.W.
CoRK, MARcu 29.—Arrd. John Brooks, Lockhart, Porto
Rico. Sld. Pallas, St. John's New Brunswick; Perthshire,
Pictou.
Hur.i,, MARCH 31.—Arrd. Plato, Chuney, New York.
Sld. Janet, Tatmagouche ; Llankumney, Quebec.
REDCAR, MARCH 30—The Ovid, 'Watt, of and from Sun-
derland to Margate, ran on the rocks off here last night, but
got off with assistance, and has gone to Whitby.

LOSS OF THE THOMAS LOWRY-SUICIDE OF

THE PILOT.

The ship Thomas Lowry, from Sydney to London, arrived
off' Dartmouth on the 27th ult., and landed her letters and
received a supply of provisions, and shipped at the same time
one of the most experienced pilots out of that port. By some
unforeseen circumstances the ship struck on some sunken
rocks, became water-logged, and was run ashore near the
harbour, where she filled. The pilot the day after put an end
to his existence by hanging himself in his own house.

MARKET 14E S.-(THIS DAY.)
SAT Al &RIME rS.
SMITHFIELD.—Coarse Meadow Hay, 31 lOs to 4/ lOs ; use-
ful ditto, 4/ 12s to 514 s ; fine Upland do., 515 s to 5/103; Clover
Hay, 4/ 103 to 61; Oat Straw, 1/ 183 to 21; Wheat Straw,
2/ to 2/ 2s per load. Both Hay and Straw sold steadily, at
last week's quotations.
CUMBERLAND.—Coarse Meadow Hay, 3/ 12s to 4/ 12s ;
useful ditto, 41 14s to 515 s ; fine Upland ditto, 516 s to 5112 s ;
Clover Hay, 41 8s to 51 16s ; Oat Straw, 1/ 18s to 2/ ls ;
Wheat Straw, 2/ 2s to 213 s per load. Supply but moderate,
and trade rather active.
Witrrzotarat..—Coarse Meadow Hay, 3/ 12s to 4/ 12s ;
useful ditto, 4/ 14s to 5/ 3s ; fine Upland ditto, 5/ 4s to
5/10s ; Clover Hay, 4/ lOs to 6/; Oat Straw, 11 18s to 2/ ;
Wheat Straw, 21 to 212 s per load. A fair average supply,
and a sluggish demand.

COLONIAL/1..
SUGAR.—There has been rather more doing in British
Plantation ; about 500 hhds having been sold at rather lower
prices for the inferior and brown descriptions, but the coloury
sorts have bro-ught fully previous rates. The public sales
have consisted chiefly of 1,906 fags Bengal, and 1,610 bags
Penang Only part of the Bengal found buyers at
518 to 59s 6d for good to very fine bright crystalised yellow,
being comparatively high prices ; the remainder was chiefly
taken in at 33s to 35s for low soft to good brown Khaur ;
the washed sold at 295, which is a very low price.
The Penang was mostly sold (for export the duty of
18s 8d being allowed) at 30s to 40s for very low
dark to fine brown, and low yellow to middling greyish
white at 41s to 51s. The quantity of British Plantation
landed last week at the East and West India Docks was 285
hhds, 35 tierces, 18 barrels, and there were taken for home
consumption 769 hhds, 83 tierces, 174 barrels. The stock in
the same places is 7,640 hhds, 578 tierces, 1,059 barrels.
COFFEE.-1,038 bales Mocha at auction were all with-
drawn, there being no purchasers at firmer prices.
RU 31.—The quantity landed last week, at the East and
West India Docks, was 38 puns; there were taken for home
consumption, 204 puns 41 hhds; and exported, 150 puns
47 hhds. The stock in the same places is 8,858 puns 1,919 hhds.
SALTPETRE.-2,000 bags Bengal and 461 bags Madras
offered by auction only partly found buyers at 26s to 26s 6d
for 64 to 34 per cent refraction ; Bengal, 14 per cent refrac-
tion ; Madras was taken in at 255, which are about previous
rates.
SPICES.-462 bags Malabar Pepper, and 150 chests Cassia
Lignia sold, the former at 3d to aid for ord light to fair half
heavy Malabar, and the latter at 52s to 62s 6d for ord coarse
to good quality.
TALLOW.—P.Y.C. is dull, at 38s 9d per cwt on the spot,
and town at 41s per cwt.
TEA.—There has been a steady consumption going on and
the deliveries last week increased. To-day public sales are
in progress.

SHERIFFS' COURT.—('I HIS DAY.)
(Before Mr. Under-Sfieriff KENNEDY and a Common
Jury.)

STRANGHAN V. HALL.-EXTRAORDINARY CHARGE OF

ASSAULT AND ACTION FOR DAMAGES.

" This was an action instituted by John Wilson Strang,-
ban, a captain in the merchant service, to recover
damages for an assault commi,ted by John Hall, a Lieu•
tenant in the Royal Navy. The damages were laid at 2001.
The defendant had entered no plea to the, action,

thereby alioA ing judgment to go by default, and the
question the jury had to decide was, the amount of da •
mages to which the plaintiff was entitled. The parties
to the action were joint owners of the ship Emerald,
belonging to the port of London, and brothers-
in-law. The ship in question traded between
the ports of Cadiz and London. Tho plaintiff
was the commander, and the circumstances that led
to the present proceedings took lace as follows :
On the 15th of July the ship arrived in the London
Docks with a cargo from Cadiz, and the same day
Lieut. Hall, being down at the docks, went on board.
While there he reconnoitered the ship. In overhauling
the cabin, and seeing the paint scratched, and several of
the sky -lights broken, he remarked that she was " in a
sad plight," that in fact " she was a perfect wreck."
Capt. Stranghan observed, in reply, that having a large
cargo on board they had been obliged to stow a portion
of it away in the cabin, which had occasioned the
damage. A few more words passed between them, when
Lieut. Hall in a furious manner lifted his fist and struck
the plaintiff a violent blow on the face, which felled him
to the ground like an ox. Not satisfied with this, he
repeated the blows several times while the plaintiff lay
on the ground, also pulled his nose severely, and other-
wise treated him with the greatest indignity. Captain
Stranghan, though• a younger and a stronger man, did
not return the blows, but preferred meeting the gross
outrage by another course. On the defendant subse-
quently refusing to apologise, the present action was
brought.

William Rogers, mate of the Emerald, deposed to the
facts, in regard to the assault, as hereset forth. Though
subjected to a long cross-examination, nothing was done
to shake the evidence as to the assault being not only
unprovoked, but also very violent.
The surgeon, who attended on the plaintiff, also gave
evidence as to the face and one of the eyes being much
injured.

Mr. WORDSWORTH having spoken in mitigation of
damages,

The Learned UNDER-SHERIFF briefly summed up,
and the jury consulted for a short time, and returned a
verdict for 50/.

CLERKENWELL.—(THIS DAY.)
Edmund Saunders, was charged with furious driving.
The prisoner, who was drunk, got into a publican's
cart on the previous night, and drove away at the top of
the animal's speed through Gray's Inn-lane, and some of
the most crowded thoroughfares in the northern part of
the metropolis. When, at length, stopped by Martin 144
G, he assaulted him, and conducted hinistif with great
violence.

Mr. CONDE find him 10s., or ten drys' imprisonment.
There was no case of any interebt among the morning
charges.

RAILWA Y COMMITTEES.
(TIIIS DAY'.)
The &.b• Committee No. 4, consisting of Sir William
Heathcote, Chairman, Mr. Macke, Mr. Shirley, Mr. C.
Legh, and Mr. Ackland, assembled this morning.
LONDON, CHATHAM. AND NORTH KENT

RAILWAY. --
This case was adjourned from before Easter.
At the sitting of the Committee this morning judg-
ment was given in two cases that had been postponed.
The allegation in these cases was, that in respect of the
alleged places of abode of two shareholders who had
subscribed the Parliamentary deed were wkilly fictitiuus
and fraudulent.
The Committee decided this to be so, and declared that
the standing order had not been complied with accord-
ingly,

FLANDERS MAIL.
(RECEIVED THIS DAY.)
BRUSSELS, MARCH 30.—The Illoniteur Beige of this
date publishes the convention for the construction of the
railway d'Entre Sambre and Meu,e, between the Bel-
gian Government, represented by the Minister of Public
Works, on the one part, and Messrs. William Parry
Richards, of London, merchant, William Goedeuough
Hay ter, of London, Member of Parliament, Thomas
flankey, jun., of London, merchant, John Peter Fearon,
or, London, landowner, and Terielin Sigart, of Mins,
banker, on the other part.
The , Chamber of Commerce of Liege in its :sitting
of the 26th instant decided against the three pro-
positions relative to the corn, which are now under
the consideration of the Chamber of Representatives.—
Brussels Papers, March 30.

'AUSTRIAN FUNDS.—timmt, MAZc 22.
5 per Cent. Metalliques.
• • 1124
4 per Cent. ditto.. • • •••••••••• • • • • • • • • 102
3 per Cent. ditto
••• 77
' 14
Loan 1834
• • 155
Ditto, 1839
.... 132
Bank Shares
• • • • • 1849
Esterhazy's Loan . ..• •58
ItAILWAYS.
The Northern, or Ferdinand .......... 192
Gloggnitz
31
Leghorn • • .••• • • • • ........ .• • • 126%
—Aligemeine Zeitung, Ma oh 26.

LICENSING DAY IN THE CITY.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.
Sin,—l shall feel obliged by your correcting, in your
next number, an error in last evening's paper ; a license
was not refused, but GRANTED to me.
I am, Sir, your obedient servant,
JAMES C
Wellington Tavern, Finch-lane, April 1845. ARELESS,
T-

lIE PATRICK HENRY.—A rumour prevailed in
town yesterday that the fine packet-ship Patrick Henry,
Captain Delano, which sailed from this port on Sunday last,
for Sew York, with upwards of 300 emigrants on hoard,
was lost in the Channel. The rumour was destitute of foun •
dation.. In pa•sing the Tuskar, the Patrick Henry and
Shakspeare (one of Mr. Kendall's vessels) came in collision,
but little or no damage was done, and both vessels proceeded
on their way—the Patrick Henry for NOW York, and the
Shakspeare for Liverpool. where she arrived yesterciay.—
Liverpoo/ Journal of Saturday.

IMPRISONMENT FOR POOR
RATES.
We have reason to believe that the following gross
'cases of oppression will be brought under the notices of
both Houses of Parliament in a !ew drys :
TILE CASE OF_ ANN W A RD.—A rin Ward is a widow,
now in her 58th
.year, residing at W hitwick, in the county
of Leicester. Her husband was a collier, w Ito wit, killed at
the pits some yeara ago by an accident, leaving her with
four children. She is very poor, and lives with one ot her
daughters, as a lodger. In January last a demand was
made upon her for 3s. for par rates. She was unable
to ray. and stated so. She was not a It. ustAi,bler,,:nd had
never had a!evy made upon her, and had no property what-
, ever chargeable to the poor rates. Henson, the collector,
summoned her to appear before the Ashby Bench. She
went there with Mrs. Lakin (the wife of Thomas Lakin,
now in gaol for the same cause a-; herelf) Ashby is
five miles from Whitwiek. When she arrived there,
John Bales, a policeman, a-led her if she had brought
the money, and he. ring that she had not, refused to let
her see the magistrates, and she went home again.
Shortly after this, the same policeman came- with a
distress warrant, and asked if she had any gocds ? She
replied that he knew she had none, that she was only a
lodger, having nothing to do with the house. About a
fortnight after having been summoned to Ashby, as
mentioned before, the same policeman brought a commit-
ment from the Ashby Bench, and stated that she must
go to gaol ; in consequence of which, she next day
went to the constable, who brought her to Leicester
gaol. An unknown gentleman at Leicester paid the
rate (35.), she was discharged, and went home to Whit-
wick. A fortnight after this she was told that she must
go to prison again for the costs. She had had no de
mend made upon her for costs ; she had not been sum-
moned again ; no further distress warrant was issued,
nor was she taken before any bench of magistrates
whatever ; she had heard nothing more of the matter
until she was told that she must go to prison for a
month to hard labour. She was accordingly taken to
Leicester gaol on the sth March, and has continued there

ever since.
The Magistrates who committed her are R. G. Cress,
well, Esq., and W. W. Abney, Esq., .of Ashby-de la-
Zouclte.
THE CASE OF THOMAS LAKlN.—Thomas Lakin is 44
years of age ; he is a loader at a colliery in Whitwick,
in Leicestershire ; has a wife and four children, the
youngest six months old, and entirely dependent upon
his daily labour for subsistence. He is paid as a
leader 2id. per ton. His wages are sometimes as high
as 13s. per week, but this is very seldom, and at times
as low as 4s. 6d. And as he is obliged from slackness
of work it} the summer season to incur debts which
must be paid out of wages in the more busy season,
he is always in extreme indigence. He pays Is. 6d.
per week for a furnished tenement of two rooms, and
was assessed to the poor-rates in the amount of ss. 4d.
Henson, the collector, having Made the demand, and
being informed that Lakin was utterly unatle to pay,
he was summoned to appear before the Ashby 8.--.nch.
His wife went to Ashby, a distance of five mile:, but
having no money to meet the demand, was refused ad-
mission to the magistrates. A distress warrant was issued,
and it was found that Lakin had no goods to seize. In
consequence of this, Lakin was committed to Leicester
gaol, until the rate should be paid. He went on the
11th of February, and on his arrival there, an unknown
gentlemen, hasieg heard of the case, paid the ss. 43.
He was discharged, and went home again. After
this a summons was served upon him for the costs! He
had no money to pay them, and a distress warrant was
issued ; and it was found, as before, that he had no
goods ; he was then sentenced by the same magistrates
to a month's hard labour in the House of Correction ; he
was t &en there on the sth of March last, al.(' is now
undergoing his sentence. He h s never heard from his
wife and children since he has la en in ga. I, nor does he
know how they sjre supported, or where they are. Has
worked at. Wbitwick for fourteen yt,ttr: ; has of vcr been
to gaol heforc., in his hfe, nor e'er been before a magis-
trate. He confidently app. ala to his master, Samuel
Rade, of Whitwielt, for a testimonial as to his honesty,
sobriety, and industry during the whose of that term.
The Magistrates who committed him are R. G. Cres-
well, Esq., and W. W. Abney, Esq., of Ashby-de-la-
buche.
The committal to prison for the rate is under the 43d
Elizabeth, cap. 2, ate 4 ; the committal for costs is
under the 18th Grto. 111., cap. 19. It is btlicved that
this statute does not apply to such cates as these, but
only to misdemeanours ; this, however, is a question of
mere law_; but it must not be overlooked that the ma-
gistrates have the power to commit for a term nit exceed-
ing one month ; and in this case, as well as in that of the
poor old woman, these Magistrate. (Cress% elland Abney)
have sent the parties to hard labour for the longest period
that the laws would allow.

FRENCH PLAYS-ST. Y

THEATRE.

Mademoiselle Plessy, who is engaged for only six re-
presentations, made her first et pearance for the ,season
last eveni-e. as Hortense, in Casimir Delavigne's co-
medy L'Ecole des Vieidai ds. This comedy is doubt-
less well-known to the majority of our readers,
and the heroine, the young wife of an old
husband, a cognate character to Lady Teazle, was
admirably sustained by Mademoiselle Plessy. In la haute
comedie she is unrivalled. Nothing could be more
admirable, for instance, than the last scene of the second
act, in which she urges her husband to permit her to go
to the ball given by the Duo de Delmar. She tries
coaxing and tears, and the transition from the one to the
other was exquisitely managed. She is, indeed, an
admirable artiste. Our old friend Cartigny was Bonnard,
the particular friend of the old husband (the Sir Oliver
Surface of the piece), and he acted with vast quaintness
and humour. The speech in the first act in praise of a
bachelor's life was given with great gusto, and was much
and deservedly applauded. The comedy was preceded by
a new vaudeville, entitled Les Surprises. This vaudeville is
from the pen of Scribe, and is such as Scribe alone could
write. It is full of point and bustle. Mademoiselle
Ozy, from the Theatre des Varie•64, made her dzbi'a in
this piece, in the character of Mathilde. She is a very
pretty girl, and a charming actress, and will prove an
acquisition to Mr. Mitchell's corps drumatique. The
house was well and fashionably attended.