The Sun.
London, England, 1827-10-30 00:00:00

LAW INTELLTGENCE.

VICE-CHANCELLOR'S COURT, OCT. 29.

His Honour the VICE-CHANCELLOR sat this day
for the purpose of giving judgment in four or five
causes which had stood over from the last term.
There was a very thin attendance of the Bar, and of
the King's Counsel. Mr. Sugden was the only one
present. His Honour gave judgment in several
causes, which contained nothing of public interest,
and he promised to put his judgments into writing,
and transmit them at a future period to the parties
concerned.

The Court rose at one o'clock. On taking leave
of the Bar, his Honour observed, that he was under
the necessity of leaving town early on the following
morning.

COURT OF KING'S BENCH, OCT. 29.
wiwcatzs- v. JONES.
This was an action for words. The ATTORNEY-
GENERAL was' for the plaintiff; the defendant had
no counsel.

William Cheethans said, the plaintiff was a coal-
merchant, at Islington. Witness was in company
with him on the Bth of .November last, near Somer-
set-house. The defendant passed by them, and
said to the plaintiff, " You are almost done up, old
boy." The defendant went to one of the offices in
Somerset-house, and came back in ten minutes. The
plaintiff said to him, " Did you address yourself to
me, Sir ?" The defendant answered, " Yes, I did."
The plaintiff desired him to explain what he meant,
on which the defendant said, " You are a old
villain, you have screwed and swindled all the parish
of Islington, but now they have pretty nearly screw-
ed you up: you are a —old villain." There
were about twenty persons present, who collected
during the altercation.
Lord TENTERDEN looked at the record, and said
that calling a man a villain was not in itself action-
able.—Verdict for the defendant.

COURT OF COMMON PLEAS, OCT, 29,
MOUNT U. HARRISON.

Mr. PLATT opened the pleadings. This was an
action on a policy of insurance for 1,00/., effected
on the freight of a ship called the Olive Branch, to
and from the Cape of Good Hope to London, which
the declaration alleged was lost by perils of the sea.
The defendants pleaded the general issue.
Mr. Sergeant WILDS stated the case. The po-
licy was effected in August, 622; and in July,
1823, while the ship was taking in her cargo at Table
Bay, she was driven ashore in a violent gale of wind,
and so much damaged, that the Captain deemed it
would be most advisable to sell her, which he ac-
cordingly did. It would be proved that every exer-
tion had been made to save the ship and her
freight, and that, when she was ashore every atten-
tion was paid that was thought likely to contribute
to her safety.

Mr. Sergeant TARDY, (with whom was Mr. Ser-
geant SPANKIE) for the defendant, contended that
the evidence for the plaintiff was not sufficient to
show that tilsavessel was in such: extreme danger as
to warrant di* sale, and unless it was evident that
the ship was incapable of ever going to sea again,
the Captain had no authority to sell her.
The Jury hesitated fOr a short, time, and finally
returned a verdict for the plaintiff.

GRAND SHIP CANAL.

(From the Atlas,)

We have hitherto abstained from any detailed
notice of this great national work, from an im-
pression that, however desirable its results, there
was but little prospect of the completion of the
undertaking. We now, however, observe a
strong feeling in its favour, originating in a great
movement amongst the mercantile class, and it
appears probable that it will also receive the sup-
port of Government.

which
w commence
ill sand
rnalAte,e may Mr. Cundy's esti-
thus
To the excavation of the canal, at 30,0001. £.
per mile ; seventy-eight miles, twenty-eight
feet deep, and one hundred and fifty feet wide
top water 2,340,000
To excavating the basins at the two extre-
mities of the canal, with dock-gate,, brick and
stone work . 100,000
To masons, bricklayers, carpenters, smiths,
foundry works to locks, bridges, tunnels, em-
bankments, punts, 'etc.
To purchase of land, timber, houses, good-
will, leases, &c 250,000
To extra cutting from Dorking to Ockley 600,000
Contingencies, and for extra cutting from
Epsom to Dorking, and from Arundel to Chi-
chester and Spithead, puddling, &c 215,420

£3,979,420

The canal, and the several works connected
with it, are intended to accommodate vessels of
the largest dimensions, when fully loaded, so as
to enable them to pass each other. For. this
purpose, twenty-eight feet depth of water will be
required, and about one hundred and fifty feei in
width, with about four locks, three hundred feet
in length and sixty-four in breadth,- up to the
summit level.

The canal will commence with two branches
at Rotherhithe, nearly opposite the London and
West India Docks, near the Victualling Office,'
and will proceed from thence in\ a south-west
direction, to Walworth Common, by the foot of
Brixton Hill, to Streatham Common ; then be-
tween the towns of Mitcham and Tooting, to
Malden, Ewel, Epsom, Leatherhead, and Dork-
ing, over Homewood Common, down the vale to
Ockley, and the Roman turnpike-gate, a little
below Slinford, Newbridge, Pulborough, by
Hardham, Greatham, Amberley, Burkham,
Arundel, and a small branch to Arundel Bay ;
and lastly, to Chichester, Emsworth, Langston
Harbour, South Sea Common, and Spithead.

There was no passage aeross the Frith on
Tuesday except at Burntisland, and there only one boat
crossed from each side.—Fife Herald.

ACCIDEk T.—Yesterday, about one o'clock,
as the workmen employed in repairing Christ Church, were
engaged in raising some planks on the scaffolding, the latter
gave way, and five men were precipitated from a height of
forty feet to the ground, and seine of them were dreadfully
injured 14, the spare and planks that fell on them.—Cork
Constitution.
KIRKALDY.—.-The tide on Tuesday morning
WAS the highest which has been known here for some years,
and the storm was so violent that it was with considerable
difficulty and great exertion that the ships in the harbour
could be prevented from breaking adrift. Several pule to
which they were made fast have been torn out of the piers,
and part of the parapet of the western pier has been thrown
down by the violence of the waves.—Fife Herald.

On Monday and Tuesday last, we had a storm
of wind and rain, which continued for 48 hours with great
and unabated violence, the rain, almost without intermis-
sion during that period, pouring down in torrents. The
rivers Dee and Don were swollen to a degree quite unpre-
cedented since the great flood of 1799, the water rising to
such a height as to overflow the banks to a great extent,
sweeping the haughs almost completely of every thing
which came within its reach. Of the loss and damage
sustained Some idea might be formed, from the appearance.
of our sea-beach on Wednesday morning. Between the
two rivers, and far northward beyond the latter, trees ge-
nerally of large dimensions, quantities of turnip, sheaves of
corn, some sheep, with several ship's boats, /cc. the latter
carried out of our harbour, were thickly strewed along and
lay iu promiscuous wreck. From the report, of some men
sent down to collect the timber, no less than 4900 trees bad
been carried off by the flood, from different places on the
which not
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Aberdeen Chronicle.