The Sun.
London, England, 1842-11-14 00:00:00

ACKERMAN V. COOPER AND OTHERS.

This was an action for the recovery of two receipts,
for the sum of 10,0001.

To the plaintiff's declaration the defendants, for
the purpose of narrowing the issue, pleaded a special
plea, to the effect that they had been lawfully pos-
sessed of theltwo:receipts in question ; that the
plaintiff had lost the said receipts odd his possession ;
and the defendants refused to give up the receipts.
To this plea of the defendants there was a special de-
murrer on the part of the plaintiff, showing that the
defendants neither traversed the action, nor confessed
the matter contained in the declaration ; and also that
the plea neither confessed nor showed any title on the
part of the defendants.
The COURT, after hearing the arguments of counsel,
decided that the plea of the defendants was a bad one.

BAIL COURT.-(THIS DAY.)

COUSINS AND OTIIERS, V. THE EARL OF UXBRIDGE.

Sir J. BAYLEY applied in this case on behalf of the
Sheriff of Hertfordshire' for a rule to show cause why
further time should rot be allowed him to return the
writs until the plaintiffs directed in what priority they
wished them to be execut3d. On the 4th of October
five writs for execut'ol were issued against the de-
fendant by the same attorney, Mr. Columbine, and
1.51/. was levied un:•7clem, which satisfied the plain-
tiffs. On the Bth 01 o.:tober Mr. Columbine's clerk
delivered seven other writs to the Sheriff's'-officer, at
the suit of different plaintiffs. The clerk having left
the writs with the Sheriff, immediately departed.
A few days after the Sheriff applied to Mr.
Columbine to know in what priority he should
return the Writs. To this Mr. Columbine re-
turned no answer, but on a subsequent application
having been made, he wrote a letter, stating that he
would not give any instructions on the subject. The
amount of the seven writs was 9651., but the
goods taken amounted to only 4001., which was
merely sufficient to satisfy five of the seven writs.
All the writs having come to the Sheriff at the same
time he did not know in what priority he should re-
turn them, and was afraid if he made a return of five
that actions would be commenced against him by the
other two, whose writs were not satisfied, if the Court
did not interfere.—Application granted.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

BOW-STREET:-(THIS DAY.)

A young man named John Byers was charged with
felony, by a person whose name did not transpire.
The prosecutor, an old man of nearly eighty years
of age, was put into the box, but objected to be sworn.
Mr. HALL asked why he objected.
The prosecutor—l am of the same persuasion as
the Quakers, but I do not belong to them.
Mr. HALL—Are you a Moravian ? Prosecutor—
No, I am not.
Mr. HALL--Well, I cannot hear your evidence,
unless you will be sworn.
Prosecutor—l cannot be sworn, it would go against
my conscience.
The prisoner was accordingly discharged.

THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, isTaVEIVIBIIR 14, 1842.

NEWS FROM ALGIERS, SYRIA, &c.
(From the Second Edition of the Morning Post.)
We have just received the following from our Malta
Correspondent :

VALLETTA (MALTA), OCT. 31.
Her Majesty's war-steamer Devastation, which
arrived on the night of the 29th inst.. and the Snake
brig-of-war, which has arrived this morning, both
from Tunis, report that intelligence had arrived there,
previouz, to their departure on the 2Gth, by 'a French
steamer from B-olui and the Turkish brig from
Algiers (hut which, from motives of policy, the au-
thorities kept very secret), that the Arabs from the
interior had risen against the French, had cut off all
communication between the outposts and the garrison,
and were, in fact, blockading; the city from the land
side. These very Arabs har', d
been supplied with arms
by the French to act against Abd-el-Kader, who has
succeeded in getting up this rising of the people of
the Desert.

Something of a similar nature has, according to the
intelligence from Beyrout, per Great Liverpool, taken
place in Syria. The Alaronites and the Drusos
(armed by the British), have been joined by another
powerful sect, the Mutuali, and entered into a solemn-
league and compact to extirpate the Ottomans. In
their first rencontre, the Albanians (in the Turkish
service) lost 100 men, and had 400 wounded. A:Ma-
ronite convent has ven attacked, and the whole of
Mount Lebanon is under arms.
This intelligence necessarily creates a move here.
The Howe, bearirg the flag of Sir F. Mason (second
in command), is ordered to be ready for sea this even-
ing, it is reported for Vourla. The Indus ship-of-
the-line, Inconstant frigate, and Snake brig of war,
are also under sailing orders for the coast of Syria;
and the Devastation will probably he despatched to
Constantinople, with dispatches which have arrived
from England.
The French steamer which passed this port without
communicating on the 29th, is, by our advices from
Alexandria, known to be the Caineleon. She left
on the 24th inst. with despatches from Marseilles, an-
nouncing the Syrian outbreak.