The Sun.
London, England, 1842-11-25 00:00:00

DISMORE V. COX AND OTHERS.

This was an action brought by the publisher of
the Tablet newspaper against Mr. Cox, one of the
proprietors of the Tablet, and several other persons.
rho case originated in the disputes which had arisen
between Mr. Lucas and Mr. Cox, the proprie-
tors of the Tablet, and which had ended in
the starting of the True Tablet by Mr. Lucas.
The defendant Cox, in order to get at the list of sub-
scribers to the Tablet, had got into the office, with
Mr. Innes, his attorney, and other defendants, had
broken open Dismore's desk, and taken from it the
book containing the names of the single subscribers
to the Tablet, and also the book containing the names
of the Indian subscribers, which amounted to two only,
together with a box of cigars and some other matters. The
Jury had returned a verdict for the defendant, and
Mr. Thesiger had obtained a rule nisi for a new trial,
on the ground that the verdict was a perverse one,
and against evidence.
The Covwr having heard Mr. Platt show cause
against the rule on the part of the defendants, ordered
the rule for a new trial to be made absolute.

COMMON PLEAS.-(THIS DAY.

THE CASE OF LORD HUNTINGTOWER.

A considerable crowd was attracted to the Court by
this noble person being brought up in custody of a
Sheriff's officer, to apply for his discharge under pro-
tection of his bankruptcy.

Mr. Sergeant BOMP AfT said that he was instructed
to apply to their. Lordships to order the discharge of
Lord Huntingtower from the custody of the Sheriff
of Middlesex, by whom he had been taken in execu-
tion, notwithstanding that he was a bankrupt, and
under the protection of the Court of Bankruptcy, not
being arrested at the suit of any of the creditors who
proved under the Commission.
The COURT—Was the debt incurred before the
bankruptcy ?
Mr. Sergeant BOMPAS—The execution issued from
this Court upon judgment in an action upon a bill of
exchange, which was tried at the last assizes; whereas
the bankruptcy took place in September, 59 that the
debt must have been incurred previously to the com-
mission.

The Solicitor who appeared for the plaintiffs was
given an hour by the Court to consider is reply on
the part of his client.

CURIOUS CASE. -- V. NIBBEL.
This was an action upon a bill of exchange, to
which the defence was that the bill was a forgery.
It was sworn for the plaintiff by a publican living in
Cla ma
re et, and another person, "his customer,"
that
onthrke 22d of August, 1841, the defendant and
his son, being in the house of the publican, requested
thehe
bodies of two drafts
ha
and
drawnt by
the latter to write for
for the sum of 121. 35.,?;-(ll.ti
,:n2t,o theedeyfoeunndganert
written byat the defendant
upon the
one billadecr
accept-
ance was accordingly:pt.-
in their presence. On the other
younger Nibbel swore there was only hand,. the
and accepted at. the time, and that he had never 'ln
be-
fore seen a
_bill of exchange, and had had never drawn
any but that one. The Jury found for the defendit
and a rule having been obtained to upset the verdict'
the argument came on to-day. The Court on read-
ing over the evidence, and comparing the hills, ob-
served that the latter was not written at the same
time, in the same house, as was alleged for the plain-
tiff, and other circumstances connected with the
stamp caused the Jury to find rightly for the de-
fendant.

lEL A NCHOLY AC CIDENT.-1) uring the night of
Friday last one of the Hastings boats, which was
out trawling in the roads, and unfortunately
showed no lights„ was run down by a steamer.
The boat, with all the tackle, was lost; and one
man named Apps was drowned. The other two
men, named Coleman and Cloy, were picked up by
the steamer and carr;ed into Portsmouth, whence they
have +•ritten to their friends here, detailing the above
circumstances. The boat belonged to Messrs Thwaites
and Winter.—Brighton Gazette.
AWFUL INSTANCE OF SUDDEN DEATlL—Yester-
day morning, about nine o'clock, a young girl,
thirteen years of age, named Eliza Agatha Plum-
mer, residing with her brother at No. 33, Clipstone-
street, Marylebone, died under the following
awfully sudden circumstances :—She had cleaned
one half of the step in front of the street door, and was
still kneeling, about to commence the remainder, when
The was observed suddenly to fall on one side with
great violence. She was instantly picked up, but she
was dead.

INcomE Tex.—The Court in Basinghall-street
was occupied during the entire of yesterday in dis-
posing of cases which had been allowed to remain
over from Monday last. Upwards of one
hundred were disposed o; but there still remains a
considerable balance. Many persons who had been as-
sessed, although having returned themselves under the
amount mentioned in the Act, were, on giving satis-
factory proof of their statement, discharged without
the trouble of further appeal. The Commissioners
expect to have the district with which they are at
Present engaged disposed of in about ten days, and to
be in collection generally
throughout the City in
about three weeks.