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justified in sending her to se,

The Court asked if defen
tickets were signed for him ?
Defender said he had seen none of these tickets at all,
for Mr. Somervail's clerk had come down, and with the
assistance of his, had berthed the passengers.
Mr. Macfie said Captain Brownrigg had some colour
for making an inquiry after he saw the tickets, but he
should have been sure of his ground before he came into
court. They all knew Mr. hunter, both as a magistrate
and a public and private man, and knew that he would
not be the one willingly to do anything wrong. Pursuer
had failed to prove his case, and as for the excuse he
made for bringing it into court, he must say that if a
person came into his offices with witnesses in the same
way he would be inclined to give him a very short answer
also, particularly seeing that there had been some differ-
ence before. Pursuer had been entirely wrong in bringing
the case there at all. He had not shown that it was a
thing that the public would suffer by, but merely a point
cf form, and if he had taken the proper course the matter
would have been at once explained,
Pursuer said, if Mr. Hunter had
hint that Mr. Ferris was not his
have been troubled.
Mr. Macfie was bound to say that if pursuer had applied
to Mr. Hunter in the proper way, be would not have been

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left without a proper answer.
Pursuer said he did not know a single person here, and
must just take people as he found them ; and he found
defender shortly before offering to contravene the law

and override his authority.
Defender asked the court to allow him to contradict the
assertion that he wished to override the law, and to repeat
that the case had been got up from malicious and vindic-
tive motives. Pursuer did everything to hinder the busi-
ness of the port. He would come down to a ship and
s(;arcely give any one a single answer, not to speak of the
ridiculous and absurd rule of making them send every
communication to Glasgow. when, he was here every day.
But his conduct would not be allowed to rest here.
Pursuer said he laughed at all this.
Defender said he came down apparently ignorant of his
proper duties and rules, and attempted to ride roughshod
over both his authority and everything else.
P'ursuer said this was the first quarrel he had had, and
his character stood higher than to be affected by such
remarks.
After some further altercation, which was put a stop to,
The Bench pronounced judgment, finding the complaint
not proven, dismissing the case, and finding the defender
entitled to £2 expenses, which was paid in court.

THE RECENT ELOPEMENT' FROM

BRIGHTON.

The Nets York Herald, of the 7th inst., gives the fol-
lowing account of the singular elopement of Dr. Ploomer
from this country, and its result :
" Yesterday afternoon a very extraordinary affair took
place before Mayor Kingsland, respecting the-capture of an
English gentleman named Dr. Andrew Ploomer, of Brigh-
ton, England, on the complaint of Colonel T. A. Howard,
of the British army, who charges that the doctor has
defrauded him of £l,OOO sterling, amounting to about
$9,000, undbr the following circumstances, Ec. detailed by
the colonel before the mayor :—lt seems that the colonel
and the doctor were intimate friends, residing at Brighton,
England, and a few weeks ago the colonel concluded to
to take a tour, and left for Boulogne ; but previous to
leaving, the doctor, knowing that the colonel had the
above-named amount of money in the house, persuaded
him to let him (the doctor) place it in his bank• for safe
keeping during his absence. The colonel, haring implicit
confidence in his friend the doctor, agreed to the proposi-
tion, and accordingly let him have the money.. The doc-
tor then deposited the money in the bank to his own cre-
dit. The colonel left on his tour; but scarcely had he
been gone a week before the doctor conceived a plan
whereby to possess the funds himself; and,in order-to do so
he drew the money from the bank, abandoned his wife and
four children, and eloped with a Miss Emma Patterson, a
girl of very genteel appearance, 19 years of age, and rather
good-lookinge the daughter of a neighbour, a Siding-
master in the town of Brighton, They, together with the
£9,000, took passage for this country in the steam-ship
Niagara, arriving at Boston on Saturday last, and forth-
with proceeded to this city, as man and wife, putting up at
the Irving-house. As soon as the elopement was disco-
vered, the colonel was advised of the fact, and, ascertain-
ing that the guilty persons had taken passage in the
steam-ship for this country, he therefore took passage
himself in pursuit in the steam-ship Europa, which arrived
at this port on Thursday evening. The counsel of the
British consul was sought by Colonel Howard, and Mr.
Bowyer, ona of our expert police-officers, was sent for to
ferret out the whereabouts of the runaway doctor. Mr.
Bowyer started on the search, and the same night suc-
ceeded in detecting the doctor at the Irving-house. The
fact was communicated to Mr. Howard, the proprietor of
the hotel, who gave the officer some information respect-
ing them. He said that the doctor on Monday morning
informed him that a trunk containing a. good deal of his
wife's wardrobe had been lost, and therefore wished to be
recommended to a store, in order to replenish the cloth-
ing. Mr. Stewart's store was recommended for that-pur-
pose, and the doctor and his wife made purchases amount-
ing to $204, which was paid by Mr. Froward. As the whole
affair could not be construed into a criminal matter, a
civil suit was brought by the colonel against the doctor
for the recovery of the money. On this suit a writ was
issued, with an order to hold to bail. All now being in
readiness, Mr. Bowyer called upon the doctor about two
o'clock,, and requested him very-politely to accompany
him to the mayor's office, for the purpose of examining
some lady's wearing apparel, supposed to he the articles
alleged to be lost by his wife. The doctor consented to
go, and the officer ushered him into the private office of
the mayor, where he was requested to be seated. In a
few- minutes after, instead of being shown some wearing
apparel, who should be introduced to the room but Colonel
Howard, the claimant of the money. The colonel, who is
a man possibly over fifty years of age, became very much
excited, and exclaimed, ' Give me back my money, sir.'
The doctor replied, in a very cool and collected manner,
' / have no money of yours. 'You loaned me some money,
but I have no money belonging to you now.' The deputy
sheriff then served the process, and took him into custody.
The doctor, finding himself arrested, requested counsel.
Ex -Recorder Tallmadge was sent for, whom he engaged
to act in his behalf. Miss Emma Patterson was then
brought before the mayor by the proprietor of the hotel.
A letter from her parents was handed to her by the mayor,
brought by Colonel Howard, written in the most affec-
tionate manner, imploring her to return and receive their
forgiveness ; also a letter, exhibiting deep feeling, from
the wife of the doctor, was shown to the mayor, deploring
the terrible disgrace brought upon herself and children
by the conduct of her husband. Emma rdfuses to return,
and exhibits much love and attachment for the doctor.
They embraced each ether at parting in the mayor's office.
The doctor was taken off by the sheriff to gaol, and Emma
back to the Irving-house, under the escort and protection
of Mr. Howard, the proprietor of the hotel."

THE MeltDEEk OF LORD Nonnyny.—A soldier of the
67th dep6t, quartered at Dover Heights Barracks, while
confined at the guard-house a few nights ago, con-
fessed to the sergeant of the guard being the murderer of
the late Lord Norbury. in Ireland, some ten years since,
at noon-day. in his park. The man stated that he shot
the unfortunate nobleman, and gave a detailed account of
the murder, (which the sergeant very properly committed
to writing in the presense of two men of the guard,) and
as he comes from the locality in which the murder was
perpetrated, there seemed a probability of the truth of
his admissions. He added that he entered the army after
committing the decd. A communication has since been
received at Dover from Dublin Castle, to the effect that
the confession which Daugheney had made was devoid of
truth. The whole of what ho had stated had been sub-
jected to a careful inquiry, and the entire story was a
fabrication.

TRAFFIC RETURNS.—The traffic returns for the week
ending May 9th, on the undermentioned English lines of
railway, are as follow : 1851.
London and North Western...
Midland
Lancashire and Yorkshire...
London and South-Western
London and Brighton.
Great Western.

1852
£45,22

22,581
16,191
11,351

£48,041
20,862
16.443

li,znn
12,397

South Eastern .........•
York and North Midland

Manche

ster, Shell% and Line

Bristol and Exete

York, New

Shrewsbury and Chest
Shrewsbury and 13irmi

_
Eastern_Count ies and

6t Northern

Ur
Ch
North

and Holyl