The Sun.
London, England, 1842-03-18 00:00:00

LAW INTELLIGENCE.
VICE-Cll ANCERY.-(THIS DAY.)

THE MARKETS.-(THISDAy.)
CORN EXCHANGE.
The supplies of this week have been mo-!crate, and no change
in the prices has occurred since Mond•ty, with a rather better
trade for good Oats. Flour unvaried.
SMITHFIELD.
The supply was short, anti for Beef and Mutton the demand
was limited, but Veal and Pork were in- good request. Beast,
563 ; Sheep, 2.990; Pigs, 435; Calves, 126. Beef 3s 4d to
4s 4d ; Mutton 4s to 4s 10d; Veal 4s 8d to 6s; Pork 4s to 5s 4d.
COLONIAL MARKET.
The demand was steady, and prices were fully sustained,
but the business done was small.

TEA MARKET.
The operations were few, but holders were firm, and obtained
full rates.

TALLOW MARKET.
Prices firm, and the demand good, at 43e. 3d., on the spo,
and 493.3 d. for delivery.

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LONDON AND BRIGHTON
RAILWAY.

A Special Meeting of the Shareholders in this Company was
held yesterday at the London Tavern, for the purpose of re-
ceiving the Report of a Committee of Proprietors, appointed
at the last meeting, to examit.e the accounts of the Company.
Joust HARMAN, Esq., took the Chair, and called on the
Secretary to read the resolution of the last meetisig, appointing
the Committee.
Mr. PARSONS, the Chairman of the Committee, said that
they had prepared the Report, and with the permission of the
meeting, he would call or, the Accountant to read it. The
Accountant then read the following
REPORT.
GENTLEsicx,—For the purpose of carrying out the intention of
the General Meeting of Proprietors, your Committee considered
themselves called upon to endeavour to ascerta;n the causes of the
excess of cost over the estimates, which, in the Directors' Report of
December, 1837, were stated to amount to I,l2o,oool.;—namely,
920,0001. for the works, including 30,000/. for management, and
200,000/. for land and liabilities, to various landowners.
The books, and other documents at the Company's office, not
enabling your Committee to execute this intention, they requested
to be furnished by the Directors with the estimate of the quantities
of earth-work, brick-work, masonry, &c., distinguishing the via.
ducts, length of tunnelling, and Cost of stations; and a return,
under the same heads, of what had been actua'ly executed : also,
in a like form, the sums estimated, and those paid and due to the
31st of December last; the object being to determine how far the
increase in the engineering expenses had arisen from augmenta.
tion of quantities of work performed, from advance in pricer, or
other causes. They also requested to be informed what quantity of
land, &c. had been included in the estimate of 200,0001., and the
total actually taken; distinguishing the separate purchases, and
the amounts paid respectively for land severance and compensation,
where such items had been ascertained.
In consequence of this application, your Committee had an in-
terview with the Chairman, and a Committee of Directors, on the
2d of February, at which the engineer, solicitors, and land.valuer
were present ; when the Committee were informed that no par-
ticulars of measurements had been supplied by the engineer, ex.
cept in the case of the Shoreham contract, which was finished, but
that he purposed making them out upon the completion of the
works; and that the total quantity of land, or the details thereof,
could not be then furnished, nor for some time to come, without
considerable expense. The Chairman assured the Committee that
it was the intention of the Directors to make out a complete and
detailed account of all the expenses of the Company, from the com-
mencement of the undertaking, and to lay the same before the
Proprietors.

that they had not anticipated
much
houdri
ffiCoctunlmtyititneeobtaining
i n
information,reply as they were aware that
the particulars sought for were supplied, in some Companies, as the
works proceeded; whereby parties raving the management of an
extensive work, might be enabled to form, from time to time, an
approximate calculation of its ultimate cost, and of the adequacy or
otherwise of the estimates.
It was the intention of your Committee, when entering upon
their investigation, to class ell the expenses of the Company under
appropriate heads ;—as, for instance, under those of Works ,dud
Lard, the charges appertaining to each respectively ; and so on with
regard to all the remaining expenses, distinguishins the various
items as much as possible.
After their interview with the Directors, your Committee ap-
plied themselves immediately to an investigation of the accounts
for the lait half_year; they examined the vouchers minutely, and
compared them with the books ; and these with each other, in
order to enable them to ascertain the manner in which the accounts
were kept, and to form a correct judgment thereupon; but the
length of time thus occupied precluded their extending a similar
inquiry beyond the month of July, and for the residue of the half.
year they made but partial examination, and abandoned an in.
tention originally formed, of taking a general view of the Corn.
patsy's affairs from the coremencement of the undertaking.
The books of the Company, relating to expenditure on Capital
account, are kept by single entry. The pass-books of the Bankers
constitute generally the groundwork of the accounts, whether in
respect of payments or receipts. The entries are copied from the
Bankers' Pass-books into the books of the Company, no original
entries being made of receipts or payments at the Office as the
transactions take place, so far as your Committee can discover.
Great difficulty has been found in connecting the vouchers with
the books, and in ascertaining that the right sums have gone to the
right accounts; and a few instances have been discovered where
such has not been the case. The sums paid on contracts, and those
for extra works thereon, are not separately stated, as the certificates
of tho Engineers include both in one sum.
The traffic accounts are kept at London-Bridge Station upon a
plan of doubly entry, but the Committee are not enabled to express
a decided opinion with respect to them, as they have been only in.
cidentally referred to, for the purpose of examining vouchers, and
clearing up balances included in the capital account.
Among the numerous bills that came under observation, your
Committee notice many which appeared to have been written by
the same hand, though payable to different par:ies ; and they were
informed that the bills in question bad been made out by two of
the sub engineers, or their assistants. The engineers were applied
to, and they have afforded explanations, and the Committee only
remark the circumstance, as the practice is irregular.
Occasionally receipts for payments were found wanting, and as
the Committee ascertained that none had been received from one
division of the line since the railway was commenced, they sug-
gested that the receipts should be sent up; and a great number, as
the Committee are informed,
have since arrived at the office, and
arc in course of distribution to their respective bills. It is proper
for the Committee to explain that the sub-engineer in question
states f
s thator, the late Secretary desired him
-to retain the receipts ti
asked

A few instances of obvious error in calculation, and omission of
prices, were deteettd in seine of the bills first noticed by your Com.
before certifying to the aceu.
mittee, and they consider that greater care should have been gene-
gurensciserfriorrmopedraytoday,
rally exercised by the sub.engineers,
racy of big,. The duty of examining the bills of the sub. engineers
davolved upon a Puller clerk in the office, whose remissness may
be extenuated on the ground of inexperience.
epluiltlie Committee, however,
The Clerks generally appear corn:Olt,
superin-
tendence, to keep the Company's accounts, and they have shown
being
tre,oarrel ireiensasbilnedthe o explicationmake
onl y oyfetrhyem.
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—iss BELLEW.--We are authorised to state that obliged to obtain frequent lengthened explanations to render
the accounts intelligible.
the Meeting, the amount of
the letter, purporting to proceed from Miss Bellew, and referred llre modgage account was examined by the Committeefrom its
to by Lord William Paget, is a firger . no such document commencement, and they remarked the great risk the Company
Committee call the attention of
incurred in the receipt of money, from the want of precautionary
being in existence. A-Correondent further informs tii, that
on application measures having been respect to it.
at Lord William Paget's solicit,r, for a view of In adopted with .
h '.l-n, he was in the first instance refused, on the pretext
ethxe
;Ibeitt.,r, which his Lordship announced as left there for public a paragraph in the last Report of the Directors, to which your
that the attorney had " gone to the counts and either lockeo. 2,639,000/. is stated in a way that led your Committee to the con_
up the letter, or taken it in his k 1. y,
repeating his . elusion that the cost of the Railway would amount to that n.
pee et ; and on repeating nis , suns •
visit, the Caine partyanu as perhaps a simikr impression may prevail among the Share..
refuted to pro.!tice the document, on an
excuse equ..lly frivolous. • holders, the meeting will be glad to learn that such 1s not the fact,
We have received a list of the militar r dnaval as the expenditure shculd have been stated at 2568;0004 The
y LI mis-statement
gentlemen:presented at the Levee on We arose from the turn of 71,0001. having appeared
dnesday, on the recent twice, namely, to 31st December
brevet promotion, but the nun, . once in the account . . . last, and a
, s are so numerous that we can-
not find nun for them. • second time In the particulars of liabilities.
It appears to your Corwin.e that a great raisfortutte has at. J

( Before the VICE-CHANCELLOR of ENGLAND.)
His HONOUR IVIS engag,•d this mor..ing in hearing and dis-
posing of unopposed petitions, none of which presented any
feature of gene•al interest.
(Before Vica..Chancellor BRUCE.)
LEWIS V. LEATHAM.
This cause was ordered to stand over until Tuesday next,
in order to allow time for an exhibit in the cause, alleged on
one side, and denied on the other, to be in the handwriting of
the defendant, to be examined by him at Liverpool.
His HONOUR said, that unless the statement upon that sub-
ject was far more satisfactory, he would probably feel it his
duty to direct an issue.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE

GUILDHALL._(THIS DAY.)
The Ccurt was occupied the whol•s of the morning with
trifling cases of no interest.

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BOW-STRE:T.—(TIitS DAY.)
A man named Sullivan, whose features could scarcely be
seen, in consequence of a thick mass of clotted blood with
Welch his face was bedaubed, and a large haw:kerchief, also
covered with congealed blood, bound round his head, was
charged with stealing, under the Is'lowing circumstances :
Young nrin, certainly not of the meat pre-
postasnsiienlglNieye' a
appearance,r stated that he resided at No. 32, White
Hart-street, Drury-laze. As he was proceeding boa e alonz
Drury-lane, between one and two o'clock this morning, cer-
tainly rather the wet-se for liquor, the prison, r and three other
men laid hold of him, and dragged him into a house in Charles-
street, Drury-lane, where they ill-used him, threw him on the
floor, and ultimately robbei him of his waistcoat, and 2s. in
money. As soon as he got away he gave the prisoner in charge.
Paiee Constable, F 84, stated that about three o'clock this
rr orning the last witness gave the pris-nor in cha-ge in Charles-
street for stealing a waistcoat ; the prisoner, immediately he
heard the charge, toltedioff and ran into a lodging-holt
.e in the
sane street, one of the worst of h vases, where thieves and their
associate; lodge, acid pay about Id. or 2d. a night for their
beds. Witness followed him, and up to the top of the house
where he seized him by the collar and dragged him
down the first flight of stirs. They were then en
the second storey and it was quite daik, whilst they were
scuffling there four or five men came to Cie scene of action,
took ho:d of es itnes,,. attempted to pinion his anus, and swore
he should not take their " pal" into custody. Witness said if
they came any nonsense of that sort he should be under the
necessity of using his staff, and he said to the prisoner, "Sul-
livan, recollect you are given in charge, and I am determined
to take you." ('he men, however, still resisted, struck him,
and tote his coat; witnet-s then drew his staff and struck about
him tight and left, in the course of the scuffle he hit the pri-
soner several blows about the head, which were -the cause of
the coagulated blood on the prisone, 'a face which we before alluded
to. He theriwith wie hand seized the prisozer by the col:ar, and with
the staff in his other hand, cleft his way the 'ugh his aggressors,
and at length succeeded inianding the prisoner at the station-
house.—The prisoner was remanded until Wednesday, to be
kept in the infirmary in the interim.
It was stated that Sullivan was well known at the office, and
had been convicted several times. The gallant and determined
conduct of the policeman is certainly deserving of praise.

UNION lIALL-(THIS PAY).
EXTENSIVE ROBBERY. —Mary Lee and Charlotte Sim-
monds, two women of the town, were brought up charged with
robbing Mr Daniel God of a pocket-book, containing bank-
notes and cheques to the amount of between WO/. and 7001.
Policeman; 233 111, stated that on the preceding night, about
twelve o'clock, as he was on duty in High- st.ect, healing the
cry of " Stop thiet " and " Police," he ran to the spot, and saw
the two prisoners in the act of running away from a gentleman,
who apFea-ed to be very much intoxicated. Witness seized
Lee, who made a vio!ent resistance, and attempted to get
away ; not succeeding, however, she drew a pocket-book from
under her -shawl, and threw it away from her as far as she
could. Witness kept the pocket-book in sight, arid dragged
her towards it, and it was picked up by a man, who gave it to
witness, and they all proceeded to the station-house, when, on
examining the pocket-book, it was found to contain bank-notes
and cheques to the above a.nount.
Mr. Good said that he had been dining cut, and hating
drank more wine than usual, he became intoxicated, and had
no recollection of the circumstance until he got to the station-
house, when he found that his inside coat-pocket was turned
inside out, and his pocket-book gore. lie hrre identified the
property.—The prisoners were fully committed.