The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1847-06-29 00:00:00

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heard o

Serjeant Manning,
techapel, irb Which
,ndant, on the plaint
New Broad-sttget,
__ from the statement of Mr. Rhodes,-
plaintiff, that thelatter, some time back,
rec.eivcci from Ady one of ham' circaars, promising; a,3
usual, some vaTuable information- n the receipt of a fee
of XI, which was afterwards paidsto him on his giving a
receipt' in writing, coupled with 'en undertaking to re--
turn the money in casethe promised information proved

eobcitbr, c$

In return for his- fee Joseph

asserted, proved his innocence or Lt.,
him, together with mine absurd cautions' aput.t.
certain public companies, all of which were utterly use-
less to the plaintiff, who, in consequenter demanded the
return of his money,. according to the condition upon
" h'he bad paid it. This being reftised by My, the
Ammons was taken out against him, grid the Judge, after
hearthg-Ady'S solicitor,. who made the';best of his bad
case, decided that' the money should be' repaid to the
Ilahltiff; with al/ expenses, within a week-from the hear-

joining

ing cf-the summons.
A COACH AWVENTURZ.—On Saturday' night • last,
whilst'Macquire, the driver of the coach which arrives in
Huntingdon about half-past ten, after setting down a
passenger about that' time at the house of Mrs_ Eady,
opposite St. Mary's church,. was again mo,uiting die-box,
the horses started on. before be had obtained. a secure
footing, and he was thrown down and sligFtly•infured, at
the same time losing hold of the reins. There was now
only one- passenger remaining, and he was-,inside; and

the horse._ .ilserves at liberty, set Off**at a gallop
through the town, passing the George, where, they ought
to have stopped, and: proceeding in full career up St.
Peter's-lane towards Ripton. The gentleman- inside,
who had not become -conscious that the honegwere with-
out a driver, and not knowing whether they were ap-
proaching.a river or a precipice, took the resolution. of
' jumping out of the coach, and we are glad to say that he
accomplished this dangerous feat with little or ticrinjury,
nithough a little stunned, at first with the fall: Several
',,,rnediately in pursuit, and all who': knew

fitidink ti

parties were in.
the road and its various turnings expectea
darkness of the might the whole would have been to.._
upset in a ditch ; but, strange to say, the horses pursued
their way through!King's,Ripton, by the narrow rap-''
Wistow mill, and thence• into- the village of
where they were''found standing quietly and -.minjured
near to the church. On examining the harness, it was

Wistu

s broken, the reins,
bout the horses heel_s> all the

found that only, one of the tracE
which had been. hanging

being unit

preccseloP.ii:the

ea he left them. Th

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now. mounted by. Gal.
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Georg

establish-

as-dri7en back

to Huntingdon, where it arrived about three o'clock on
Sunday morning. The distance run by the horses is little

alert Of seven miles

-6;ITAIN S INVENTIONS.—In the Hciuse of
Commons, on Fridays Sir H: Douglas said that "he ad-
hered to the opinion that tliere never was a greater impo—
sition practised on flee credulity of the people than this
long range : and the noble lord had given strengtleto the
imposition by applying, in- describing it, the scientific