The Sun.
London, England, 1845-06-21 00:00:00

QUEEN'S BENCH-(THIS DAY.

BROOKES V. DOCKET.
In this case, which was argued very fully on Saturday last, Mr.
Watson, Q.C., appeared to show cause why the rule prayed for by
the defendant should be made absolute. The great question in
the case was a construction under the new Attorneys' Act. The
declaration alleged work and labour done as an attorney, and
the plea stated that no bat had been delivered before the
commencement of the suit, as by the statute required The replica-
tion set forth that a bill had been delivered without alleging
" according to the statute." Mr. Watson wholly relied upon the
fact that the bill had not been delivered according to the statute.
Mr. Brookes, the attorney and plaintiff in the case, performed con.
veyancing business for Mr. Rocket, a bill for which before the
passing of the 6th and 7th Vic, was not taxable. He sent in his
bill, but ❑ot signed, and the Act referred to, which the Learned
Counsel contended was retrospective, declared it should be so. As
the delivery of the bill, which took place a month before the Act
was passed, was not good, it could not now be taxed. The Learned
Counsel went on to argue for his view of the c.se, but the argu.
meats were technical and of no public intere,t.
the COURT postponed judgment.

ATTEMPT AT SUICIDE BY A FRENCH LADY.-
Yesterday a French lady was brought in a cab to Guy's Hospital,
who, it was stated, had attempted to commit suicide, by throwing
herself from the window of the third flour of a boarding-house at St.
Mary-at-hill. Mr. Brown, of the Blue Anchor Tavern, St. Mary.
at-hill, who accompanied the female to the hospital, stated that
about ten o'clock on the previous night she arrived at his hotel in
a cab, and, producing a card of his, said she had received it from
a friend of his at Dublin, from which city she had just arrived by a
steamer, and that she had no money, but was on her way to Buu.
logne to her mo.her. She had ftiends in London, from whom
she was to receive some money on the next day.
Mr. Brown consented, upon such a representation, to
accommodate her, and she was furnished with tea and
a bed. Soon after she had retired to rest, Mr. Brown's
attention was sttracted by hearing a most unaccountable
noise proceeding from her bed-room. On going thither, to ascer-
tain the cause, he saw her sitting on the sill of the window. As
soon as she was aware of his presence she instantaneously leaped
into the yard beneath, from a height of about forty feet. In her
descent she alighted upon the skylight of a kitchen, which, being
covered with a wire-guard, she rebounded into the area. Being
stunned with the fall, means were promptly taken to ascertain
the injuries she had received, and she was ultimately taken to the
above hospital, where Mr. Coulton, the house.surgcon, rendered
her every assistance, and, most astonishing as it may appear, from
a fall of such a height, the only injury she has snstained is a con-
tusion of the right knee. Notwithstanding her assertion that she
had got no money about her, upon examining a reticule which
she had in her hand when picked up, it was found that there was
8/. in gold and 225. in silver. The infatuated woman maintains a
most profound silence as to the motive which has induced her to
commit such a rash act.

!sLE or WIGHT RAILWAY.—A large and respecta-
ble meeting of parties opposed to the carrying out of this line took
place at the Green Dragon Inn, Newport, on Wednesday. Sir R.
Simeon was called to the chair. On opening the business of the
meeting a letter was put into his hands by Mr. Tootall, one of the
promoters of the measure, which he read to the meeting. The
meeting was then addressed by gentlemen from all parts of the
island, particularly from Ryde, Yirmouth, Cowes, Newport, and
Ventnor ; they all described the feelings of the inhabitants of those
parts to be decidedly against the undertaking, and expressed their
determination to oppose it. They considered it uncalled for and
worse than useless, as they had no produce but lambs and lace to
export, and little but coals to import; there was no thoroughfare;
it was like a street without one end to it, people could ride up one
side, and to get out must ride down the other ; for six months in
the year there were not six persons in a clay passing between Cowes
and Ventnor, and for three months hot three. A requisition was
signed to the Sheriff of the Isle of Wight to call a public meeting
of the landowners and ratepayers of the island at Newport on
Thursday next.

ODD PIIENOMENON.—A most curious phenomenon
has for some months past been observed on the surface of the Wear,
near to Framwellgate-bridge, in this city; we allude to the con-
stant rising from the bed of the river, both above and below the
bridge, of a quantity of gas. Whence it conies seems to puzzle
the roost scientific men, and in the absence of information which
might be relied on, rumour attributes it to openings from the
workings of some old collieries, or from a subterranean passage
which formerly connected Finehale Abbey with Durham Cathedral.
Whatever may be the cause, it is quite certain that the gas which
rises in bubbles through the water, notwithstanding the length of
time it has continued to escape, rather increases than diminishes in
quantity.—Durharn Advertiser.
EXORCISM EXTRAoRIONARY.—A Spanish journal
states that the cure of Ministrol de Caldes, in Catalonia, in ex-
orcising a that,
possessed by a legion of devils, succeeded lately
in forcing out of her the trifling number of 7,9991 Unfortunately,
the last devil of all, more cunning than his comrades, was able to
resist all the attacks of the cure, who always recommenced his
operations every file day. The civil and ecclesiastical authorities
at last put an end to his proceedings.
LEGAL GARDEN IN e ut.derstand that the
benchers of Lincon's Inn will publish a gardening book in accord-
ance with the complete revolution they have lately effected in the
art of horticulture. They have been laying out new squares with
trees, removed after forty years' growth, into a soil of stone, brick,
and rubbish, thinly overlaid with mould to the depth of ten inches.
The trees are said to be in full bearing ; and if they will bear
such treatment as this, they will undoubtedly bear anything The
operation of inuring trees of forty years' standing has seldom been
tried with success, but we understand that the benchers of Lill.
coin's Inn have caused writs of certiorari to be duginall over the
square, because a certiorari will removed a case— anwh y not a
tref.t—!A neirl7 ali it! branches,—Punch.