The Statesman. — London, England, 1823-06-05 00:00:00

Mem. not 'get _ _ ly. • year 1813, when a Bill wasintredered In that !Muse with a view' to give relief to the Court of Chineery frost the gent arcurnalation of •huliness, the Noble Margate'', who then held the place which the Right Hon • sllietleman now filled, said that the Citurt of Exeltegner was the only Court by Us 'nature end coottrue lon cepa . ble of agfosapg tilled' to Courts of Equity. He deslrell the House to observe.what relief that Court was, by its resent coustruction. capable of rendering.—ln autumn last, when the Gentlemen of the profession returned to town, the Chief Bowe of that Court was obliged-to be absent through indisposition. His dety but of terms and occasionally in term, was to sit apart from the other Barons of that Court. mita bear tapes ih erluity. When be eta interrupted in that duty, would tlie Hoose believe trio wbous the hdsiness devolved ? It devolved ou the, ' teertby Boon Graham, who was upwards of eighty years' efigv. And then Mr. Baron Darrow was also absent from ledtsposition. The other place was then tilled by a Judge whose practice was not of that sort to enable him to preside ,t is equity • but that place was afterwards tilled by a . hearted iriend of hie (Mr. Baron Hillock), whom it was' Impossible to employ without advantage to the suitors. hat the state of that Court in imam"' proved that there wore rather canes of the accumulation of equity business, and that the fault did not e ntirely ntirely lie in its constriction. There was another Court, with the exception of that of the Vice-Chancellor's, which was a handmaid to the Court of the Lord Chanreitur,—be meant the Court of the •Ilaster of the Bolls, in which there could be no collision nor confusion of business, because it sat ata time different • Irons the hours of the rath.r•Cmirts of Equity. fie 011 ler . stood that since Si' William Grant—than whom, without reception, t.,ere was not a better-ledge—wired from that . Court, there was a falli ng off of-goer-fifths of the business of that Court; end he was told that not one-fifth,—no, nor one-tenth of efficient business was done there as in the time of that excellent Judge towhona he alinded. Sir William. Grant, besides the &nines. and decision with which expedited hostnese, did not at out in the enjoy *tent of office till he was iricepacitated by age and In , firmiti.tc;bat retired with all his honours still blooming upon hsjun, even before any one could suspr;ct suldi an in • tuition s The 4r-emulation of arrears of business in those, luita did noParise solely from the construction of them.' It was know a that within a few years a !lilt was passed to allow the other Judges in the Exchequer to sit in the absence of the Chief Baron. There. was then an smear of one hundred End seventy rinses, and so tr Wit the proceeding with think that they Atli , dropped out of the paper, in et:A*94olmo fir the V i re ... ti Certainty tbdt they would Int heard. 'A fresh Legiagatire measure was required at prefent,;:•prac firal pereens should he called before a Committee .ggY the lidose, and seined opinione 'should be taken. It was thus the /louse should legislate, and not leigisipte *rat and collect information and opinions after, Those' delays, which afforded ao mach cause ofjnot coMplaiet, were not confined to one Court, bat were found to per vaded.a three he had- mentioned, and the House was • bmed to Umpire liscl.examine. The Scotch Appeals, which Were so frequent, and so much in Wear, were also to support of hie 'notion. From ISM to the year 1823, the onmberof those appeals from Scotland to the Home bf • herds 'here, were 2ls. of which fig were , affirased, fit, were reversed, and the remaining 60 were remired to the Court below for reconsideration. it appeared that the number of appeals from Scotland entered in the ;house of Lords, wen to the appeals in Enelautl, in the, yreptirti..n of five tootle. That, in his opinion, furnished etrosg grounds for i equirvinto the Courts of other coml. besides those of England. ;The evil may not net be Constitution of the Court only. mere was a - in their books for going into an inquiry for the other House of Parliament. In otetnents ••1 ere outdo for tberopriety of Lords, whin the lion. Member for Car . Taylor,) and the Right Hon. Oentternaa as well as a late lamented friend (Sir S. effect of the instltetidn of the Vie; Chan ,as stated by the Right Hon. Gentleman,. &tilde hearing of all conies. lilt late IS- I said, that its effect would be to give the Ilor leisure, by sending down the cause to • to see wheat would be there said on it: himself, then a member of that , ; all in vain, for the Honse did legislate lave to Ipgi-late egain. That Bill did Ale mischief. If the House were not again canght in the snare, by depending edge of the other House, niter such mischief, ;islate after cause shown, and after informs from their own Committee. • Let them pro-, ordinary rules, and by common Seine, to see disease, and what the nature of that dim ,n all that he had said, he. was 111WOUS to , allusion to any person interested ; and he con nosing, that a Select Committee he appointed the arrears of business in the Court of Chan- the appellant jurisdiction of the House of causes thereof. • 'sing been seconded, and. put from the 181-qENERAL said he should be able imputations thrown one egiiinst the by his Hue. and Learned I. rieo.l were lie laboured cinder a great error in jii.ncellor's Court. At the time when establishment of the' latter Court was in . that House, it was dearly stated that the :hancery had increased so mad), that it was the Lord Chancellor to get thrOugh it; . Iblishment of a separate .Court became let • y. A great diderence of opinion exit on the subject, and after many was carried by a considerable majority ills Hun. and 1.4 d Friend hail as. as a useless Court, and prov.is-d that ...uonestishould be perforated by owe t. uancellor, n . ileultirosrss the shrift! to go t`irougli it in a 4. 'thins manner than had hitherto been the 4 7bio, he contended, wad a most unfounded ofilturrst the Noble sod Leirtikt Lord tvho utythat Court ; and be (the At'ornry Gene. • eted the Ostler from which his Leaned. tiloisoCbad in:rived the infiumatioe on triwth be found. . id hist•hargcs, and he atioultrpres • it to be ettioplote:y a. Before his Hutt. and Learned Freud had , •~j forward such serious charges es these, it a ould n its wire than an agtUf fairness to the hob!, Leatred Lord to have given due notice-of the native AP4irta.mothrai t as welt as of the alterges. As to what 11114 . 04 1Lielehe great arrear of causes, he should prove 04114 11oenritt net one of them that had been set down lovitstiridg meta than two terse; sod the sime might .lesild of every other Court irt Wootfoiniter 11411, THE-3T ads: tleakiektreinie ite s us ' • and wash ilitiat theervenerable pews' osmium of the Isfireaitiei of Age be drclartroi public.? As to the supposed dilatoriness of ' Chascellat, he Gould State. that in the eo,urie of I yokes steel tbi setablishreeet, of the Vier Uoiwc ibis Loa Chancellor had beard 13 50 1 '75 PiYas end declaimers; /981, ; and 4,468 cense petitions which the bad alluded to, The average anautint of be done by the Lord Chancellor in eackyear, 150 hinkispt petitions, 250 1;4410 pitiii• ts,44socattie petitions. and 47 ispis. in the s had been heard bcfOre the Uri Oita' ;riot Itelitiona, and 966 by the ViceMints' the Lord Chancellor bad beard 103 led 'Aloe 449. Di-ing the s hist year the Lord , beard 164, and the Viswaincellor 463. And _ number of petitions Weird by both Conde since ISI3. was 5,00. His Hon. anti Learned Friend was quits mistaken in !raying that the effect °kite ViceeChancellor's Court was that of hearing the same ceases twice over; Mr missy causes after being heard by the Lord Chancel. hir were referred Co bite again. The cause of Howard and Gibbs, for installer, had undergone several beatings. And as to causes decided is the Viee-Chancellor's Court beingbeetled up for a second hea r in g b e f ore th e Lord Chancellor, his Learned Friend seemed to forget that the same thing had long before the establishment of toe Vice-Chancellor's Court, been done in regard to causes that had come before the Master of the Rolls, and the consequence of such appeals to the Lord Chancellor was highly beneficial to suitors. because by that means it happened that so very fewappeals cane before the House of Lords. The number of causes decided in the Vice- Chancellor's Court since its establishment; amounted to 2,832, and the appeals to the Lord Chancellor from that Court were not more in proportion than those which had goose from the Master of the Rolls. Now he would put kto any Centleman in the House, after the statemeuta he had just made, whether it was possible that all those causes could have been heard and decided by the Vice- Chancellor alone ; whether he could have gone through all the business that had come before the Vice-Chancel lor's Court, in addition to what had bees done in hie own Court? No such assertion could be maintained. No man therefore could say that the buainess of Chancery was not greatly relieved by the establishment of the Vice Chancellor's Court. The latter Court had greatly relieved the suitors ; and therefore it was not a Court for causing two hearings of the seine causes. The business of Chan cery was so much increased, that the number of bills bad doubled since the establishment of the Vice Chancellor's Court; and this great qaantity of business had been dis posed of. As to the case of Browne and Do 'Tenet, it I had been originally disposed of by the Master of the Rolls, when Mr. De Tenet was fixed with. 63,0801. The result being unfavourable to him, Mr. Do Tanta finally appteded to. the Lord Chancellor. The case was before that evened most strenuously before the Vice-Chancellor, andthe Lord Chancellor ultimately approved of the ori ginal decision given by the Master of the Rolls • and the case remained still to be finally decided. With regard to the case of Bellingham and Bromley. it was one of very great importance ' in Which the Lord Chancellor doubted the propriety of the decision of the Court of King's Bench and no imputation could lie against the Lord Chancellor for baring delayed his fiord judgment I in a case thvt involved so many important aatiatteicate questions. The great accumulation of expense; *at 116 t pernliar to the Court of Chancery: such charges were' made by solicitors for their attendances in other Courts t and as to what his .Learned Friend had said of 14001, being charged for attendances one bill, the chaege for attendances was in fact no more than 1001. ; but the ex. onset' sheath* the whole WI were delivered in by the I solicitor at 10001., and they were reduced by the Master to about 56W., eauf•the attendances farmed only a small part of the bill of ceps. He considered its most unfair thing to charge the Lord Chancellor with giving a decision in favour of one patty belated the back of another, without notice. This was the first time any Iss- Rotatiott was thrown out ntainst the uprightness of. that Noble Lord's decisions, sad he could assert that there was no foundatiOn for %tech a charge.— Such an imputation was sever befog* made ; _ and if any aotice had been given that this charge Would be made, he was confident it could be fully refuted. After making these charges against the Conrtof Chancery his Learned Friend next made an attack against the Coat of Bache quer, awl the only ground oo which he could sustain that attack was, a temporary absence of the Lord Chief Heron, from indisposition. There was not say arrears of business io that Court in consequence of the exertions of the ,Learned Lord. As to the remarks on the age of the Learned Judges, they were uncalled for and none.' cessary. Two of the Judges were withdrawn from the Court by a temporary illness for a short time, and it was very unfair to think for that reason they should retire altogether. The • absence of the Vice-Cliancellor was also spoken of, bat there was no public iaconvenience or arrear of business in his Court. The subject of Scotch Appeals was at present before the House of Lords withal view of expediting them, and giiing the Lord Cliancel for more time to attend to his Conrt It was well known that all cases in Scotland came is the 'shape of appeals. The eases now in course of betting before the Vice- Chancellor were set down within the last 'term and the term before. The Honourable and Learned Oentleman failed to slow that there was an arrear of business in the Court and consequently did not mak, out a case for the interference of. the House. Seeing that there was no imputation of an of eases lo the Court, and that the subject of Scotch Aspens was before the House of Lords, he would sit down with a determination to vale against the motion as unnecessary.. Mr. M. A. TAYLOR said, be was aware that the hour at which they debated the question was late, but still It was a question worthy the attention of Gentleseen. lie was not c however, to be deterred by the lateness of the hour from saying there never was a ease more deserving of the consi deration of the House than the motion of his' Hon, and Learned Friend. With respect to the eminent person who presided in the Court of Chancery, there could be but one opinion on the subject of his talents and amiable manners, but he was free to state his opinion 'whether that Learned Josege did exercise the functions of his Court with advantage to the public. lie moved this very question in 1811. Mr. Percival opposed it, and It was carried against him. Hewes told lie must no censure a great and illustrious Individual, sad he lost the motion by ninety vote!. lie was told that Lord Eldon hinted to the Govereasent that if his question was earried,the Noble and Learned Lord would hold the - Seals no longer.—(A laugh.) Ile thought, noteithatand'ng that fact, that the inquiry might be carried on without censuring the Lord Chancelior. In Lord Londonderry's time be lost a motion oar the subject by a small majority. Flo was told at the same time he must not be surprised; the Coal Chancellor was the Dead of the Goseroa•ent, and if he gave up the seats there would be an end of the Admiuistration. fte mentioned trig to she* the Colossus they had to contend with. No man could deny that delay a had oteurre4 in the Court of Chancery. The CRS@ of Brown r. De Thiel was pet In the paper of the Court of Chancery in 1811, and it Was not out motif 1821. Did hey titan get out of the Court of Chancery without delay and expense? It was the universal execration of every San who got into that Court that he was ruined. Was net that tt. , und for enquiry. There were c auses i n th at Court which 'hail stood for thirty years .which might hate been decidedin twenty dare. Where was no mode of jfkltiag ont of that court but by death or infancy. wilt - resort to the Viee-Chancellor's. Court, suitors ven t feuds Court to leers and incurred double expense, Thesfaele difficulty in the Committee of the Ilonse of Lords Was said to whether they could retain the I Weal Keeper of the Seals. in. that House and get rid of Scotch appeals. Those appeals laail,not inc eased own ATESMAN rhea in Isll. Tins 0e11.1601. Met ecu 4 a4. and it • clear the delays is tliercoare of Chancery revs amendment. In Lord. Herdwieke's time as maey•Bils wee, Med within a. hundred *sat the present in quiry was propoeed at that time, and why Should. it set take . place at the pr e sent d a y. Th e question enshimma the i nterest of one third of the property of the country. A person who had a property of 20001. at Islington, get into Chancery, and for his 20001. he got no more then 7001. The suitors in that Court were robbed. What eweld a man get by a law-suit of fourteen years That lekport was destructive and es-lea; every man in Ent• lead looked upow it with horror, as a nuisance. The other day he proposed reference in a ramie, the party leipplied to said "No, I will not agree toreference, and II sou do not consent to my term., I'll hang yen up for twenty yearn in the Conrt of Chatmery."—Here Mr. ?Wm called for a candle to rein! a case. The ciredm at occasioned some mirth. He exclaimed what is upert to goose is death to others. Mr. Taylor read the fireless of a Chancery suit, in which a person who re. silted extortion was kept in a state of suspense for maayl years. 'Fite Hon. Member concluded by voting for the motion. Mr. DENMAN said, that as this wai a most important question, and he observed that Hon. Gentlemen on the other aide bad been busily engaged in taking notes, be wished the House to have the benefit of them. He therefore, moved that the debate be adjourned to this day. The question was then put, a nd th e ga lle r y cl e a re d for a divis ion when them appeared— Fite the Adjournment, 59; Against it, 120; Majo rity, 61. Whilst strangers were excluded, we understood Mr. H. G. BENNET moved that the debate be adjourned to Friday; on which the House divided, when there ap peared— Ares, 49 ; Noes, 133; Majority, 84. Afterwards we understood Mr. JONES moved that the debate be adjourned for six months; and on oar return to the gallery we found Mr. M. A. TAYLOR on his legs deprecating inch a mode of proceeding as most unsatisfactory to the public, and injurious to the fame of the Noble and Learned Lord who presided in the Court of Chancery. Mr. W.COURTENAY said, it was nut the wish of any person on that side of the House to avoid the fullest discussion of the qeestion, and he would request his Hon. Friend behind hint to withdraw his motiun, in order that the ottportunity might be afforded. Mr. JONES expressed his reatkiness to withdraw his motion, in conformity to the wish of his Hon. and Learned Friend. The question was then again put for adjourning the defeat, to this day, which was agreed to. The other Orders of the Day were disposed of, and the House adjourned at Half-past One o'Clock. • COL . RT OF KING'S BENCH, JeNli 4. • LATHAM AND OTHERS V. RUTLET. This was an action against the defendant, as a isas.' mon carrier, to recover the value of a parcel of hank notes., amounting to 2000/,remitted by the plainti ff s, bankers {, at Dover, to Messrs. Hoare and Bartlett, their corre spondents in London, but lost in its passage. At the talel before the Lord thief Justice, at the London Sit. dugs after last Hilary Term, the plaintiff bad a verdict; with liberty to the defendant to move to enter a nom*, ' on the ground of a variance between the decltra.ion the evidence. The declaration Pet forth the contract, as a contract safely to deliver ; is evidence it appeared that the contract was to deliver, fire and robbery excepted.--t The ides took place, as was supposed, by robbery, ens I the question was, , whether the plaintiffs w e r e b ou nd t. set forth the prov iso in the contract. The Canal., after bearing the Soctcrroa-tieretteat., Mr. DENMAN, and Mr. KATE, against the role; an d stopping Mr.Sc %MATT, on the other side; were of opi• nion that the variance was fatal, and therefore made the hale absolute for a Nonsuit. TUE NINO V. DOLBY. This case was called on in the new trial paper; but the record, upon which the objections arose, not being in Court, the case was postponed until a future day. THE RING V. ALDRIDGE AND ANOTHER. The Souctrott•Gemettet. moved to make the role which he had obtained on a formenday absolute for re storing the nisi prins record and the postea, which the defendants, having been convicted of keeping a common gaming-house, colluded with toe prosecutor to withdraw. f lin Crown now wished to perfect the recard, and call up the defendants for judgment. No cause WAS shown against the rule; which was ac cordingly made absolute. OM 01.11111114154446111111111111111.11111."4"."11111111.1M. 'b" -' each about tai Merit 'oftline ittiewdeiceif be hoped to . which doesejwil be p erm itted to conclude that cape , by _saying, that the able t o attend; a * t ree for those attendances amelhnted to 1,0101. aid should onaccontt upwards,—(slurneurs.) He world not mar, anti own- before the public. • meet on the tit:cum:ileac.. of One solicitor altentllnti the the Lord Chaser: Lard Chaniellor so i•fted withotit + pressnce of any the last Ara ye* ' o ther person interested in the cauw. He left their nwe Chancellor's Cos concha's: o os to Hon. Members ott that point. Bet, what encepiens; 1471 po i be that powerful f.laeistrate's sense of his owe dip. 16,500 motions; aity, when be endured from a solicitor such a letter as floe. Oentleman I shat.which be bad read,' by which it appeared that his sinew which was 4 a Lordship was a suitor in his own Courr, , and an OtaPiti we, as follows: 1, (in its Latin signifitnihm)' of time. Whit., be would ons, 560 motions, ask, must be his Lordship's sense of his vent , dignity year 1820, there I s bell he could endure such a,letter ? It would nest be rellor 136 bankri ct" hli duty—his nwielcome and ungracious duty . , to advert -Mellor, 1 n 1821. to two other Courts in reference to the accumulation of the Vice ChanCel 'fleshless in equity. Its was aware that fur this , phrt of Chancellor be a rd his task he would not get credit. trim any bodi. the the total numbei • ymmartivn of live to on Mem% grounds, for int'q tries bmides those of E Is the Constitution of • standing order in thei ' 'without waiting for th 1813 the same statetnet 'Waiting for the Lord., isim (M r. - 0/1. A. Taylc (Mr. Canning), as wel gloutilly). The effect •tellor's Court, as atilt would be the double h ,niented friend said, tin • &ant Oraneellor leisur AVother Court, to set • Vice Chancellor ,'Mollie, opposed it ; all Ist in order to have tc ;produce incalculable miolved to be again c girths knowledge of el ')et them legislate aft' Awl derive I from their • 'aid bt the ordinary r ..Inhere be any disease, miss wu. In all that .afraid any allusion to a 'Aided by moving, tba Saiamdre into the acre; F, , and into the app' and the causes t 'Motion having r, Pm ATTORNEY.( *Ow that the imp eattitarf Chancery by tefoondeil, and that • hi -NSW to the l'ice-Ch. •ihs Sill lee the estahlit 'tnniseen into that Hot •indbects of Chancery ! eirsiide for the Lou that the establisbn ' ,rpensably cm • • 4 at the buts exist of ira the Sill was c t Soar. Ms HL 41 MIMitatthis mks a a 'III Ail ashlers should . • lid aliteld poserss thi !Wilt Wieeditious man • - _~r+r POLICE. Maststos-noose.—The Loan MAYOR was yesterday ap plied to by Byrne, the poor man who was persecuted in Dubttn by the infamous Bishop of Clogher, for his Lord ship's interference, to 'compel Mr. Parkins to render an ac count of the money Which the British public had subscribed for him. He stated Wittily he had been invited to this country by the Ex-Sheriff, who got up a dinner on the oc casion, and became treasurer. The,treasurer charged MU. for this dinner: and although he had acknowledged that be received MI. in subscriptions, of which he had given but SUL in the proper quarter, he refused to glee any account of the remainder. The Sul. came from the treasurer like drops of blood, and in such small quantities as to afford but little service to the complainant, who was now in deep distress. The Loan Mato, expressed some surprise at the state meytt, and asked Byrne upon what ground Mr. Parkins re fnEed to pay, over the stbserlption to him. Byrne said that he had made many efforts to see the trea surer, bet without success. lie had always been received and treated abusively by the Ex-Sheriff's amanuensis, who charged him with having acted ungratefully towards Mr. Parkins. He disclaimed any thing of the kind. The Loao Msvoit. upon looking at a bill or statement of expenses said to have been incurred by the Ex-Sheriff, per ceived a charge for wax candles and for a dinner, and asked why, if each person who dined paid for his ticket, the dinner was charged for? Byrne replied, that the Er-Sheriff only could answer that question. He added, that Sir Richard Birnie- bad advised this application. The Lois Marisa said, the cast was referred to him by Sir Richard abde, upon the presumption that he had some influence over Mr. Parkins ; but he had none whatever, and only knew the gentleman from his connexion with the city, which connexion was now at'an end. Ryroe expressed a wish, with a sigh, that his business with the treasurer was also at an end. The Loan Maxon could not help expressing his surprise at whet he beard, for he understood that Mr. Parkins was a gentlemen of f nanne. He advised Pyrne to make another appileation to Mr. Parkins, repeating at the same time, that ' he (the Lord Mayor) had no power Ph in the Case. Byrne asked whether he could not indict the Ex-Sheriff for not accounting fur the money fie heti recei red. • TOO LORD Msvoe*s chief clerk said, the charge was one of a nature auainst which no remedy was 'retitle', except by civil process. Byrne said lie did not know what to do, ae he wail now without money. end with, 41v destitute family. He then tnanked the Lord Mayor. and said he should make another effort with the Ex-Siterift. . [lt is stated that Joseph Ady, of Heandsditch, is rot a member of the Society of Friends.) Yesterday. a baker in Ilie.city, who preferred a com plaint some days ago against a dour factor, charging hit's with basin fr . :indolently mixed a quantity of barley rye or bean flour with wheaten dour. withdrew the informa tion, as the filler had satiafied him that he (the factor) mild not have been the author of the fraud, and that he had aoldit just as he bad received it from a miller in the Ise of Wight. theTactor, however; had 'aimed to take .7":Ainet ss hack +he objectionable article. The. trod.. he hope, ;rod& bops their guard against this sort of flour, ithleh might be ksowa by the e• sbortoess" of the bread mode from it. Gpstunatas---.Yeaterday, tfoite sittiog Alderman, IticiattO Caati Mile, CO: tor:relies .Irebbe was C: brotight Op on ,a warrant ibargiot with having oh- .4 1 tsined. goods from Messrs. Curling. Proctor, and Co. Linen-diapers, of Cheapside., under fraudulent pretences. Mr. Joseph Proctor; jun. stated, that upon the 15th of April the prisoner, who had formerly been in the em ploy of Mr. Barber, upholsterer. Lamb's Conduit-street, and whom he at that time believed to be then in Mr. Bar ber's service, came to their sato house, and asked if they had any of t t he satne pattern printed furni+nre, is that which Mr. Barber had had sonwshort time before, as a person who had seen that while bring made up, had taken a fancy to it. They, however, had. none of that pattern re tnaining, and another pattern of the same colours was se lected, which the prisoner thought mix ht do ; but of this they had only 63 yards, nhicb were given to the prison er with an invoice, in the name-of Mr. Btrber, aid one of their yonng m-n sent with him to their lift in Fleet street, where fie- obtained the renctioder oFfbe quantity ai s , he said be wanted. -These acre the facts of the east% and upon them the Alderman observed, that they did not in his Judgment es tablish the fraudulent pretence. He asked, •aas there any-proof that the prisoner said he came from Mr. Barber, or wanted the good's for him? :.• - Mr. Proctor would not vepture to sivear•that the pri soner had used Mr. parber:s name, otherwise then as already stated. The fact was, thitt knowing the prisoner as a servant of Mr. Barber's, find supposing, from the very nature of his application, and his reference to the ftirnitures previously had, lie_wss still with him. be con cluded he wanted the Roods on account of his mas'er,slr. .Barber, and it was in that belief alone that he les the psi- • soner have the furni:ore. The Alderman said the offence with which the prison er was charged, consisted in his having used a fraudulent pretence to obtain the goods: that fact must therefore he clearly made out. Now it slid not appear that the pri soner had stated himself to be still in Mr. Barber's ser vice, of that be had been sent or authorized by him to procure the goods. After some further conversation, the prisoner was re manded; in order to ascertain by the person from when the other part of the goads had been obtained in Fleet Street, whether any stronger and more direct proof of the prisoner's having made nee of a fraudulent pretence, coup be established. BOW•STRlERT.—Yesterday,Gottie had a final hearing. Mr. Isaacs offered some evidence, which W 36 OiiiCLl64 to by Alr. Adolphus, for the prisoner, and • Mr. MINSHUL observed that it would be easy for the former gentleman to call these witnesses upon the trial, and the Judges would decide whether their tesdowny could be received or nor. 'f homes Baker deposed, that he was a dealer in co-als In Whitecrosi-street, in 1811, and remembered the fire vet the eight of the 29,11 of September. lie ran out at the first alarm, but there was then no tire to be seen from the street. Going through Shrewsbury -court, i.e raw •h.- prisoner with a trunk in his hand, and asked him where the fire was ; he replied, "(lush, hush, dote' say any thing." • Witness soon afterwards saw Mr. and M. s. Gibbs escape from the window. The prisoner was fully committed to Newgate for trial. Towle-Hann, SJueerrana.—On Tuesday nizlit, be tween nine and ten o'clock, • desperate conflict took place inTouley-street, in the 13orough.between a party of Irish men and the police officers of the district. lienz'o, the officer belonging to the Town Hall, whose active exertions in suppressing di.. disgraceful outrages t .at nightly occur in the neighbourhood of the Maze, :poi, Miser places. inhabited by the labouring Irish, had eetejered him ao object of their resentment, weipassinit along Toolev-streer, in his rounds, acconspanied by his assistant Johnson, when they were met by a party of from 20 to 30 Irish labourers, who commenced an imme diate attack by knocking Johnson down. Two of the ringleaders were instantly seised by Kenzie, and dragged into the shop of Mr. Thompson, baker, where lie was followed by his associates, who beat him down, and alter forcing his great coat over his face, kicked and beat hint in the most savage and brutal manner. Johnson W 36 also again knocked down and his right arm broke. As sistance was sent for by Mr. Thompson, and on the ar- • :Mal of a posse of watchmen, a desperate conflict took • place for near half an hour; but note itbstandine the further aid of several of the patrol, who came up der log the fight, none of the offenders, with the exceptioa of the two first taken by Keezie, could be secured, the ‘ rest retired fighting desperately. The two men in custody, - both much bruised, were yesterday morning taken . before Mr. Ahlettnan J. .1. ,SMITH, and held to bail, tlsCsaselees in 401. each, aid four sureties in 201. eacb t to answer the assault at t a e :Sessions. • . TUE LONDON MARKETS. COTTON.-There was a fair demand In eV Cottini Market last week, and above 820 bales were sold, viz. bond, 200 Sends, bed. fair, to 65d. good ; 250 Bengats. 110. fair, to bed. fair to good fair; 60 Madras, bp. middling Oa bed. good fair; 89 Orleans, Std. good fair; 10 Smyrns, 'Md., and duty paid; 100 Dedsereras, 101 d. ; 161 Carriecoo, ; 25 Certhagena, (ied. and bed. There Is very little 'enquiry for export, and Indian Cotton offers rather more drawly. • COFFEE.-The public sales of Coffee brought forwnr 1 last week,•consistlng of 530 casks and 180 bags of British, Plantation, and 63 bags of Foreign, went off heavily, sod the quantity sold was at pribes rather ander the Corner earreney.: Jamaica floe cod good ordinary 100 s. to 1119. ; middling to good middling, 118 s. 6d. to 1275. 6d. ' • low riddling Dutch 115 s. to 1165.; Dominica ant 81, Lucia low to fair middling 110 s. to 121 s. 6d.; Brasil fair to tine ordi nary. 935. Cod. to 9Ss. NCO AR.-There was little business done in Raw Sneers after Tuesday last week, and prices a shade lower 'secs submitted to. On Tuesday the brown qualities were very depressed, but good qualities went off freely at steady prices. The public sale, 120hds. Barbedoes Sugar, went off with firmness, 61s. 6d. to 68s. Od. The. demand for Refined -Su gars his been on a very limited scale, and prices are 25. to 3s. per cwt. lower. IRISH PROVISIONS.-The holders of Pork are reloc tent to accept the present prices ; lut year's obtain 525. 61. per barrel ; new 575. 6d. to 605.-Beef steady.-Bacon has obtained a further advance.-Butters in fair demand fur rine fresh qualities ; and inquiries made. for Cork descriptions for shipments. RUM, :;RANDY, sad WIILLANDS.-The Spirit market last week coi.)inued in She lime depressed state ; I. •e -wards, le O.P. offering at Is. 6d.; Demerara, very ble guilty, 27e 0. P. sold at 2s. ld. Jamaica 33, 0. P. at 24. Id. and 2s. bd., good brown quality, end 26 0. P. clean Wl quality, at 2s. to 24:1(1.-In Brandy little business has beers done • the best marks bare been sold at 2s. Bd. on hoard to arr ive. Tile holders are still anxious to sell. but can meet with few purchasers. In Geneva there is no va riation. SALTPRTIIIt.-The prices of Saltpetre Mast be stated lower, and little beakless dole". • HUMP. FLAX, sal TALLOW.-The Tallow Merkel is • exceedingly doll, and Is. lowei.--to Gaup or Flaz there it nutaing doing. . • • Mayfield Fair. on Friday list, pretested a very °Oka" ikon of horned tattle. and but* thin attendance. In sltort twin e'2usidered a appall. dull -Fair, aadconseqyently ear be object of. bat iltUe . , • COAL Mk. .4 4f , Ohio, IA WI aiket. • • . ' • ••• ) 1 err'` t ~Y II qb&N a R I .~ A* 0 I . 1.,