Star.
London, England, 1829-10-20 00:00:00

WAILDALZ V. MOM AND OTUZILS.

This was an action for a breach of contract. The plaintiff, by
the suggestion of gentlemen who knew that there was a great
scarcity of wheat in the market of Rio Janeiro in the year 1823,
shipped 200 quarters of wheat, in excellent condition, on board of
a ship owned by the defendants, and called the Three Brothers.
The ship was described as a very fast-sailing one ; and one of the
defendants informing the plaintiff that if a few more goods were
placed on board they would be enabled to sail immediately ; the
plaintiff shipped 500 quarters more of wheat by the 7th of
October. The vessel, however, from having sprung a leak, did
sot leave the London-docks till the 24th of October. When
near Ramsgate she laboured very much, in consequence of a
quantity of iron goods and lead having been placed upon the
wheat ; and having sprung a leak she was obliged to run
into Ramsgate harbour. After being repaired she set sail on the
6th of November, but on reaching the Downs she laboured and
strained se much that she put back again to Ramsgate, where, after
a conference between the captain of the vessel and the defendants,
great part of the iron was unloaded. On the 17th of Nov. she
again left Ramsgate, and did sot reach Rio Janeiro till some time
in January, 1824. It was alleged that in consequence of the un-
fitness of the vessel for the voyage, and its repeatedly putting
back, it had not arrived in due time at Rio Janeiro. If the vessel
had reached its destination, as it should have done, at any time in
December, the cargo of wheat would have produced 1,0001. ster-
ling : whereas, in consequence of the market having been supplied,
it was obliged to be sold for 5001. The action would have been
brought sooner had not the plaintiff become insolvent ; and the
defendants refused assenting to a commission being sent to Rio to
examine the witnesses there. On the part of the defence it was
proved that the vessel was an excellent one, and that it was not
overloaded with iron ; in fact, it only drew 13 feet 8 of water,
when it was capable of drawing 14 feet. No hind lading was pro-
duced by the plaintiff to show the contract between the parties,
and the puttings back to Ramsgate harbour were occasioned by
the bad weather and customary uncertainties of the sea.
The jury, after a few minutes deliberation, returned a verdict
for the defendant.
Mr. Sergeant faddy and Mr. Patterson appeared fur the plain-
tiff, and Mr. Sergeant Wilde and Mr. Sergeant Stevens conducted
the defendant's case.

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When the case, which occuplid the court from half-past nine in
the morning to four In the afternoon, had concluded, Lord Chief
Justice Tyndal made arrangements for the disposal of causes on
ensuing days, and then adjourned the Court, as he knew there must
be several consultations of counsel on that night.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

BOW-STREET.

Yesterday three Irish labourers, named Herring, Ryan. and•
ralsk, were charged with committing an assault upon Wm. Care-
less, a blind Chelsea pensioner ; and also with assaulting several
police constables, while is the execution of their duty.
It appeared that on Sunday afternoon the prisoners had violently
beaten the complainant, Careless, hi the yard of the house in which
he lodged, in Drury-lane. The police being called in, attempted to
take the prisoners into custody, when they were joined by a number
of their countrymen, and a tremendous uproar ensued. The police,
after using their truncheons with some effect, succeeded in taking
the prisoners.
They pleaded drunkenness, and were committed for trial on two
separate charges of assault.
MARLBOROUGH-STREET.
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Hannah Willianes---Twra placed at the bar before .1. E. Costar:,
Esq. charged with stealing 4a. 6d. the property of Mr. Frost, a
baker, in Tavistock-street, Tottenham-court-road, and fully com-
mitted for trial.
Mr. Frost. it appeared, had been plundered of TOL by a girl
named Anne Dash, who was convicted at the last Old Bailey
Sessions, and he liaisince employed the prisoner, who was alike
unworthy of trust.
MARY-LA-BONNE._ . .

Awe Hayes, a young woman of respectable connections, was
yesterday placed at the bar, charged with stealing a shawl, under
the following circumstances :
A respectable baker,named Freeman, stated that the defendant
came to him about three months since, at nine o'clock one night,
and represented that from a quarrel with a relation, she had no
where to sleep. The prosecutor's wife gave her permission to
stay the night, and subsequently the defendant represented that
she had SOOL in the Bank, and when she took it out she would
pay them. Under these pretences, she obtained credit to the
amount of upwards of ill. and finally absconded, taking with her
a shawl belonging to the prosecutrix. She was apprehended on
Sunday evening. at Liston Grove.
The defendant denied the charge ; they had induced her to board
with them, by which means the debt was contracted; the 5001.
was certainly all a joke; and as for the shawl, she bought it for
six shillings and paid ready money for it ; she concluded by re.
marking that when she was taken to the watch-house they charged
her with swindling them out of the twelve pounds, but when the
inspector of police refused to take that charge, they then turned
' round and said she had stolen the shawl. It appeared that she was
first charged with awing the money as she had stated, and the
Worthy Magistrate, after commenting upon the cue, ordered the
prisoner to be discharged.
James Arnold, a young man of respectable appearance, was
charged with angling in a private piece of water in the Regent's
Park, opposite Cornwall Terra Fe.
One of the keepers stated that he detected the prisoner at sis
o'clock in the morning, and he had three rods.
Mr. Rawunson enquired how many fish he had caught ?
The Keeper—Why, your Worship, he'd caught a perch not no
bluer than a sprat.
The Worthy Magistrate smiled at his ill success, and as the
Commissioners did not wish to prosecute, be ordered him to be
discharged.