The Sun. — London, England, 1827-04-09 00:00:00

SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. There is now not a shadow of reason to doubt that certain high personages were, within these three days, secure in their confidence of Mr. Caaning's accepting the offer which they had brought themselves to make him ; and there, is alinost equal cause for congratulating the Right Hon. Gentleman himself, and the people of Eng land, on his prompt and peremptory refusal of a proposition by which he would have been at once enfeebled and disgraced. Why should Mr. Can ning submit to any, even the slightest attempt to humble him ? Why should . he, whom his coun trymen appreciate highly; be considered by any knot or faction capable of disparaging himself . ? Mr. Canning has judged wisely in acting proudly.— Had he condescended to terms which none but a northern pedlar could have thought of imposing on an English Statesman, or pledged himself to be guided by rules of policy congenial only to the petti fogging conceptions of an attorney's clerk, would there, we ask, :have existed on earth a man so wretched, so lost, as Mr. Canning ? We repeat our cordial congratulations to the Right Hon. Gen tleman and to the country, on his display of the manly spirit which becomes them both. Let him but persevere—let him assure himself that there is nothing but weakness and rottenness to oppose him. W e publish another letttr on the subject of St. James's Park, and. the odious mixture there exhibited of whatev,ier is most barbarous in taste, most regardles s of utility, most offensive to the public feeling, and most susceptible of all the varieties and dexterities of vulgar, mercenary jobbing. Was there ever such a display of vile aar!L miserable selfishness, as in the preservation of an extensive grove of magnificent timber at the back of Pall-mall, just so long as it could be made subservient to the convenience or decora tion of a certain princely palace--combined with its instantaneous demolition, just at the moment when that palace ceased to be inhabited by the Prince, and when the trees could only serve to gratify the people ? Was there ever, again, a more Hottentot proceeding than the destruction of the aventi. d - of trees which hitherto formed the ornament of the Bird-cage Walk? A Royal residence of huge dimensions has indeed grown up in the inunediate neighbourhood of that walk; but if it be not intended that the contiguity of the So vereign shall be always marked by the devastation of natural beauty, and the sacrifice of private corn foet—always dreaded as a thing possessed with blighting and desolating attributes, with manifesta tions of contempt for the enjoyments of British sub jects, and of an indifference more than Oriental towards their dispositions and habits—we would' entreat the conspirators against good taste, whoever they are, to reflect for a short time on what they are contemplating, before they strip the Park of its trees and e'nolee it with brick and mortar.—lbid. The tharacters of public men are the property of tht country, and though it is the fashion of these who dread (and therefore shrink from) the ordeal of public opinion, to allege that the Press is the constant assailant of character, we do not hesitate to say, that it is by the fair, the open, and manly discrimination of the Press, that the characters of public men are rescued from the obloquy and injustice which private whispers throw upon them, and are ultimately placed upon that pedestal of honour which history pre pares for them. Few men probably have had more to upbraid and to applaud the Press for than Lord Eldon. That Noble and Learned Lord has now been fifty years before the public, and nearly forty rears in ostensible puislie. tions ; for we belleire his Lordship held the office of Solicitor-General as long ago as the period of Paine's trial in 1792. His Lordship, there fore, has lived and acted no unimportant a part in the most eventiiii period the world has ever witnessed; and having acted a prominent part during the age of Pitt, of Fox, of Burke, of Grattan, of Nelson, of Wellington, of Buona parte, and the various other Statesmen and War riors who have illustrated the last half century, he now remains, in the vigour of a green old age, almost the only survivor of what may be called the classical age in which he has lived. Of his eminence in his own profession no one has ever ventured so much as to whisper a doubt ; but had his talents been less, and his powers of de cision greater, the world, perhaps, would have owed more to the former tin a they now do. In his political character he may lay claim to one feature which none of his rivals or opponents can, for a moment, attempt to gainsay—we mean a rigid and undeviating consistency. Whether Lord El don's opinions upon public affairs have been right or wrong, is for history to decide. They have, at all events, remained the same ; and while others have changed with circumstances or with conve nience, no man can say, that in any point ofhis poli tical creed, the Lord Chancellor has ever varied one iota. Lord Eldon's weakness seems to be the love of money. Endeavouring to emulate and boasting himself as the undeviating follower of Mr. Pitt, his eves appear to be closed to a difference which, though it implies no difference in opinion, places the character of the pupil far, very far indeed, below that of his master. Ambition is the charac ter of great minds, as avarice is their reproach. Mr. Pitt possessed the one in the highest degree, but w as utterly a stranger to the other; while Lord Eldon seems to have so far varied from his prototype as to have possessed all his ambition, but with a de gree of worldly-mindedness to which his master was a stranger. It is upon this rock that the Chancel lor is saffering the well earned reputation of half a century to be wrecked. He might well exclaim with many oth ers , " Save me from my friends," were it not pretty well understood that the friends of whom he would otherwise have but too much reason to complain, are only the forced and unwil ling organs of his own sentiments. That the Chan cellor more upon his hands, and upon his mind, even the vigour o f than youth could undergo, must be apparent to every one, and that he clings to the w h o l e o f this with an evident physical inability to fulfil his own wishes and intentions, is no less cer tain. W e would not quote the " Solve senescentem" of Horace offensively upon Lord Eldon, because we feel con vinced that the " ridendus" can never apply to him ; but valuing as we do, his high reputatio n , and anxious that it should descend with him to the grave, we do regret to see the pertinacity, and the evident clinging to profit, which House Commons for ever to op prompts his organs in the character pose the mere personal feelings. and of Lord Eldon ation which is sought for, and to every inquiry and inform to perform • which may tend to show his inability mpomi_ it be to bilities. How much more honourable would d th e Lord Chancellor to l en d himself anxiously an willingly to • •-' those reforms in th e practic e and division of labour in hi s 1 Court, whi c h a r e so e vid e ntly c alled for, and which must so certainly tak e pl ace w h en h e himself no lonFer presents an obsta c l e . Wh a t i s th ere th a t cou ld furnish a more use ful and honourable conclusion to an honourable profes sional an d po li t i cal li fe, than to b e the rea d y and active i nstrument of that reform, w hi c h a ll th e wor ld knows and feels is indisputably necessary. We trust that the tenor of these remarks (though urged with the freedom which, we trust, will always characterize the sentiments of this pa- IV are any thing but hostile to the Lord Chancellor.— aliOstlney rate, We know that they are offered in any but a spirit-3i • orntn g Herald. t(), 'nall wi t h parts o f t h e country, the accounts resp peopl e, ect to trade and the employment of the aa'e more and more `Tow Chronicle • gloomy. Th e Glas 6selling theirstea_tes that, by great exerti o ns, from friends, ectg, and receiving assistance - v neazlq_ 300 • • • adunduals are now safely on board two vellSelB in the Clyde, waiting the first fair wind for New York The heads of families, it is said, have in general a re spectable exterior, most of them are what would be c onsidered as belonging to the better-informed class of Scottish mechanics, those who were industrious, had good moral and religious characters, and fulfilled all the duties connected with their respective spheres of life with honour and credit till the long-continued depression threatened to sink them to the level of paupers, if they did not make one last bold effort to escape from it. The emigrants are from Lanarkshire, Ayrabil-e, Dumbartonshire, Renfrew shire, Perthshire, Coupar Angus, &c. About thirty are froth the parish of Hamilton alone. There are a few small farmers and labourers, but the great majority consist of trades men, such as masons, bricklayers, blacksmiths, honse-wrights, joiners, and cabinet-makers, founders, cotton-spinners, tailors, bakers, grocers, &c. With the exception of a few who have friends in the United States, and have the pros pect of work on their arrival, they go away on speculation. It caused a sensation of regret to behold such a number of useful mechanics and their families departing to a foreign State, and the universal answer given as to their motives in quitting their native country was, that it was distress alone that compelled them—that they were pleased with the Go vernment and the adminiatcation of the laws, but they were without the means of subsistence. Many of them had had no work for a number of months. Others had only been partially employed, and their children were in want of bread, while the distress was still accumulating. A few of the emigrants are advanced in years, but most of them are middle-aged." Painful as it must be to men in middle life, and still more to those of a more advanced age, to be torn from their friends and associates, and forced to begin life and form connections anew in a strange land, still the condition of the for tunate few who have been enabled to raise funds for their conveyance to America will no doubt be considered enviable by hundreds of thousands in these kingdoms at the present moment. They 7.sk only to have leave to toil for a wretched sub sistence, but they ask in vain. The emigrants, says the article, " were well pleased with the Government and the administration of the laws, but they were without the means of subsistence." This shows what an enduring animal man may become. These poor wre t c h es are per f ect ly sat i s fi e d' with a Government substantially in the hands of a set of men who care far less for human beings than for hares and partridges, and with whom political wisdom means merely the devising of contrivances for dividing the people, and arraying them against each other, and of specious pretexts for living at the public expence. They are amused with stories of Coronation Oaths and Protestant Constitutions, and divided allegiance, while the fruits of their in dustry are consumed by the receivers of tithes and taxes, for the interests of whom alone our system of Government is contrived. One of the great divisions of the Empire is retained in a state of which every other Government in Europe would be ashamed, merely to gratify a few, who, to add to the insult to common sense, derive their warrant for misgovernment from religion. Yet, in a country in which such things are done, these wretches are satisfied. They are, perhaps, even persuaded that no ether country has anything to compare with the glory which we derive from a particular class, who constitute what forms the grand dis tinction of this Ration in Europe. They would wil lingly toil sixteen hours a day on meal and water, proud of contributing their share of the burden entailed by the war undertaken to put down Jacobinistn, and support ing our Holy Religion, satisfied with belon g ing to a coun try which has acquired so muc h glory. Yet, moderate as their expectations are, they cannot he gratified. They cannot even have the satisfaction of toiling almost beyond human endurance, certainly far beyond what any other nation in Europe would endure. But it appears to us, that this state of things ought to fill the breasts of our rulers with some apprehension. The business of Government has hitherto in this country been an extremely easy one ; it has been merely to look on while the people are toiling, and dipping ever and anon into their pockets. This was all very well as long as the people could be employed. But we have now been for nearly two years in a continually retrograding state; the revenue is half a million less this mercial shock ; and every branch of our industry is be coming more and more paralysed.—Morning Chronicle. Mr. D. W. Harvey's motion on the Court of Chancery was singular in itself, and produced a very singular exhibition from that side of the House which is graced by his presence. - We should have thought that the table of the House of Commons was already so loaded with returns concerning the business of the Court of Chan cery, of every species which could be suggested, that a man, who knew what lie wanted, might have found in them every detail which numbers could express. But it is easier to make a new motion than to explore the mass of papers which have been already printed on the subject ; and, therefore, forsooth, Mr. D. W. Harvey thinks proper to move " for returns of the num ber of Causes set down before the Lord Chancel lor, from the year 1820 to the present time, specifying when they were set down, how dis posed of, how many referred to the Master, and how many pending—similar returns relative to the causes set down before the Master of the Rolls, the Vice-Chancellor, and the Chief Baron in Equity—the number of Appeals to the Lord Chancellor from the Master of the Rolls and the Vice-Chancellor—the number of Appeals from the Lord Chancellor to the House of Lords—and the number of Lunatic Petitions before the Lord Chancellor." And this infor mation he affected to call for, because the infor mation which would be contained in these re turns was necessary to enable the House to form a correct judgment of the Bill which had been introduced by the Master of the Rolls. If Mr, D. W. Harvey he right, then, not only the Mas ter of the Rolls, but all the Members of the Chancery Commission,must have been sadly in the dark; since they have framed a series of proposed alterations, without that knowledge which was essential to enable them to understand what they were about. In truth, however, neither Mr. D. W. Harvey, nor any other person, pretended to show, in what respect any of the proposed re turns could illustrate any of the proposed enact ments of the Bill which is now pending. That Bill consists of a great number of specific regula tions ; and the arithmetical knowledge which the Member for Colchester cr aves , cou ld no t assist us in judging, whethe r any o f t h ese regula tions are advisable or not. Such numerical de tails are too easily gotten, to be of much use ; and well would it be for us, if the reformers of our laws could he made, by means so cheap and vulgar, to understand the subject with which they mean to intermeddle. What Mr. D. W. Har vey meant by calling for returns of how the causes set down since 1820 were disposed of, and how many were referred to the Master, we do not pretend to understand any more than he him self did : still less can we divine, what possible inferences could have been safely deduced, from any possible results, which the required returns might h ave exhibited, unless he w a s prepared to examine the circumstances of each particular cause ; to inquire into the diligence and prudence of the parties in conducting it; and to revise, as a Judge of Appeal, the propri ety of the different' orders which had been made in it, ire rather suspect, that the intention was to obtain a kind of tabular picture of all the work done by our Courts of Equity. If so, he was grossly in error; for h e f orgot that motions and cause petitions make a great part of the business Ys one-half of of all :he Courts; and that, probabi the Chancellor's time is o ccu p ied with that s p ec i es of business to which the returns b e applied f or did not extend. Could this omission be wilful, in the hope that a pretext might, hereafter, be furnish e d for unjustly disparaging the work done by Lord Eldon ? We will not entertain such a notion; we will regard the omission as the blunder of ignorance, rather than as the device of malice. We might have leaned towards a different notion, had it been the Judges of the Courts of Law, whose conduct was in question; for, under their sentence, Mr. D. W. Harvey has suffered in a way we need not specify. But the Lord Chancel lor never did him any harm, and should, therefore, escape his enmity. Mr. D. W. Harvey does not rank high in our estimation, but how respectable did even he become when compared with Mr. Michael Angelo Taylor, and Mr. John Cam llobhouse, who made two of the boldest experiments on the patience of the House that imputi,At ignorance has for some time dared to attempt. Poor Mr. 'Taylor is very apt to be quizzed by his good-natured friends; and we must respectfully suggest to him, that he lends too credulous au ear to what they tell him. "A few days back he remembered, the Lord Chancellor gave judgment in a case. All the counsel stared at each other, not knowing what side they were on ; but agreed, that his Lordship's judgment must he correct. Some three days after, however, his Lordship came down to the Court, and said, that his judgment in that case bad been wrong. All the Counsel then said, that it certainly was wrong._ All this proved to the public that the Court wanted re forming." But, unluckily, all this is a pure invention, with which some admirer of Mr. Taylor's dinners has mystified his host; and if he will prove that what he so gravely states did happen, we shall believe, that vox et prreterea nihil is not so descriptive of Mr. Michael Angelo Taylor as it has been hitherto supposed to be.—New Times. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. QUEEN- SQUARE ,--Saturday, Mr. John Rutledge, of No. 29, Henrietta-street, Covent-garden, who was stated to have been a contractor for Government, at Woolwich, was brought up for final examination before D. W. Gex- COALE, Esq. charged with tendering a spurious note, of the amount of 201., purporting to be issued by Messrs. Morton, Roclick, Merton, and Redick, of Wellingborough hank, which had failed during the late panic. It appeared from the evidence of Mr. James Hawkins, of No. 6, Middlesex-street, Somers' -town, that on last Wednesday-week, he was in confinement at a lock-up house, at No. 4, Cursitor-street, Chancery-lane : the pri soner, who was a stranger to him, was also there, and expecting to get bail every hour, ; he took out of his poc ket two country notes, one far 5/. and the other for 20/. The 51. he gave to Mr. Pearson, and requested him to take it down stairs and see if it would satisfy the fees for his bail ; but it was refused. The prisoner then said he did not like to give the 20/. note for some particular reason, and begged hard for witness to lend him hi., until his ne phew returned from the city, when it should be returned. Witness at last consented, and lent him the money until the return of the nephew, who came in in about half an hour. The prisoner went down stairs to settle his business, and, on his return, expressed his sorrow that he had been obli ged to pay away all the money he had received, but, as a security, he would leave the 20/. note, which he would redeem the next day. Witness was displeased, and said he expected his money immediately. The prisoner declared it was as good a note as any in England. Witness, finding that the only security he could get was the note, desired him to write his name on the back, when lie wrote ano ther name, which he said was the name of the person he had taken it from. The prisoner came next morning at eleven o'clock, and requested to see the number of the note and take a copy, when he could procure the money. This conduct excited suspicion, and a porter was sent with the note to the banking-house of Messrs. Barclay, Tritton, and Co., where it was payable, and it was discovered to be a forgery. . Several witnssea corroborated this statement. Mr. John Mitchell, cashier to Messrs. Barclay, Tritton, and Co., deposed that their house had cashed the notes of the Wellingborough bank, previous to its failure last De cember twelvemonth. Here witness examined the note, and declared it to be a forgery. Mr. William Morton, of No. 64, Friday-street, Cheap side, silk-manufacturer, deposed that the signature "Thos. Morton" on the note was not his father's writing, nor was there the name of Thomas in their family. The bank was not in existence in September, 1826, the date of the note. Mr. Joshua Bacon, foreman to Messrs. Perkins and Heath, engravers, of No. 69, Fleet-street, deposed that they had engraved the plates for the Wellingborough bank ; the note produced was from one of the plates, which they had given up to the assignees of the firm. The paper was of a different description to that used by the bank, and was dated about six months after tla. failure- Mr. Wm. Line, of No. 23, St. Paul's-teri-ace;ainaen. town, builder, deposed that he met Mr. Rutledge on the Saturday after the transaction, at the bottom of Fleet street, and insisted on his going back with him to 31r. Hawkins, or he would expose him in the street. The pri soner reluctantly consented, and said he had taken the 201. note from a Mr. Elkin, of Market Harborough ; the 5/. note he had taken from a person im London. When we got to Cursitor-street, he said he had some suspicions that the notes were bad, and he had given orders for the parties to be arrested who had given him the notes. The prisoner sent for some friends, and the nephew, George Barnet Eagle came, when he inquired if the parties were arrested, and Mr. Eagle said, " Oh, yes, we have got them safe enough." An officer was sent far, and the prisoner taken into custody. Mrs. Susan Hogg, an elegantly dressed female, was about to give evidence respecting some other notes, when Mr. Wooler, who attended for the prisoner, objected to her being examined. After some coniersation, she was, how ever sworn and deposed that she had known the prisoner about three months ; George Eagle was not the nephew of the prisoner. About three weeks ago she was at the prisoner's house, in Henrietta -street, when the nephew took out a 10/. note, and got it changed ; when he came back the prisoner said, " George take those notes (3 , t of the drawer and burn them," which he did ; they were ap parently country notes ; one of them was offered to me. Mr. Woor.Ea contended this was no evidence at all. John Neale, an officer of this establishment, deposed to taking the prisoner into custody. As he was conducting him to jail, the prisoner voluntarily told him that he was aware when he gave Mr. Hawkins the note that it was not worth two-pence. The solicitor for the prosecution said that he wished to put some questions to Mr. Eagle. Mr. WooLza. said there was no charge against him, and recommended him not to answer any questions. Mr. Eagle said he should take the advice of his Solicitor. Mr. GILEGMLIE asked Mr. %o'er if he had any ob servations to make, who replied that he would leave the case in the hands of the Magistrate. After some consultation, Mr. GRECORIE said that they must commit the prisoner for trial, but they would accept bail, the prisoner in 1001. and two sureties in .501. each with 48 hours' notice.—The prisoner was then removed from the bar. MEETINGS OF CREDITORS. LONDON DIARY.—TursDAY, APRIL 10.—(At the Court of Commissioners, Basinghall-street.) Gates, P~ Stangrould George, J., London-wall lO Docks J., Cl L ern eigh an-st. Gillmorc, C., Union street 9 Moody, W., Aldersgate-at ll Hurst and Co., Waterloo- Osborn N e,. , lo 10 Pepper, .1., Barnet placell Hutchinson, 8., Wapping 10 Picard, J., Russell-street lO Johnson, W., Bedfordhury 9 Prudence, J., Miles-lane ll Jones, S., Wood-street lO Kirkman, C., Henley l i l i I R 'i u ll t ) t y ' , W,, Blackman-5t.... 1(1 Kendall, T., Paternoster- Tipple, L., Mitcham......... 11 row Lamb, J., Jerusalem-build- Whinfield, J J. Poplar ings lO COUNTRY DIA RY.—TuEsvalr, Ap R , la Beatson, A., Huddersfield—Mr. Allison, Huddersfield 2 Beaumont, W., Stephill—Nag's Head, Warrington 5 Worcester Booth, 8., Runcorn—Globe, Cockermouth Bragg, N. Whitehaven—Hop-pole, Worcester Manchester Bunn and ' Co., Worcester—Hop-pole reford Chrisp, S., Peterborough—George and Angel, Sta nifore Colemanland Co., Ludlow--Crown, Lud10w........,, Fleming,Green, D Cooke, W. Rockfield—Shirehall, Crane, J., ' Bristol—Commercial rooms, Bristol . vitUaprtdo'sn-honot-eSle'vern . .I , ., u P p e to n n d — let m oß r. — B H ir a d y , 2 Hill, S., Kidderminster—White Hart, Hartlebury ll Hodgson, W., Pickering—Black Swan, Pickering Holland, J., outh—Crown Louth ....................... .. 11 Hoyle and Co.,Bacup—Royal ' Hotel, Manchester. .. .......... g Hudson, T., amsgate—Guildhall, Canterbury.. ...... • 1I Lee, C., Leeds--Court-house, Leeds ............ .. Lucas, T., Brampt on —A nge l, Chesterfield ...................... : 11 Okey, J., Grantchester—Eagle, Cambridge ....................... 6 Pearson, Z., Ki ngston— D og an d Du c k, King s t on ... ....... • 6 Shepherd and C - n C 0.,. owes— rim , Southampton .... 12 Smith, H., Bristol—Mr. Callender, Bristol 10 Stroud, G., Gloucester—George, Gloucester ................ ..• g Suffolk, T., Cheadle—Wheatsheaf, Cheadle ........................ 2 Taylor, T., Ludworth—White's, Manchester : ............ i Wilkinson, 8., Kirkheaton—Black Bull, Gomersall ......... ••••• - webb, T., Ledbury—Hen, Birmingham ....................... 11 ............. 2 INSOLVENTS APPLYING TO BE DI SC- 1-I ARGED, Petitions to be heard at Portugal-street, Lincoln's.ikn_Fi.tdo, G., Newport-market Phillips, T. Turnham., APRIL 12, AT NINE. Box, green r street Port, the Rev. G. Monmouth -at. Oxford Dover, J., Monm Bayson, P., Highga te Draper, —, Fenchurch-st. Say, T., City-road Knox, F. Clapham Cadby, J., Crome . Towner, J., Brighton Loudonsack, A., Richmond Wayland, C. Bristol Lyne, T., Fanswortli White, S., Armingham Pearson, D., Scott's Green COUNTRY.—At the Court-house, at Aylesbury, April 12, at Ten o'clock. Diekins, J., Daventry (Webber, R., W a dd es d o n Negus, Olney Webber) W., Newport Pagnell OLD BAILEY, SATURDAY, APRIL 7. Robert Smith, a fashionably dressed young man, stood indicted for stealing a silver watch, three gold seals, &c., the property of Charles Britcher. The prosecutor is a waiter at Oliver's Hotel, near West minster Bridge. On the 13th of February, the prisoner came into his master's house and hired a bed for several nights; the next morning witness saw him in the coffee room, where he ordered breakfast, but soon after left the house, and never returned. On witness going to his own bed-room, he missed his property. Tarrance, a pawnbroker, deposed, that on the 14th of February, the prisoner pledged a silver watch and seals at his house for U. 15s. A few days after he came again to pawn another watch, when, being informed of the rob hen•, he caused his apprehension. The prisoner, in his defence. said he was innocent of the robbery, and had bought the articles the morning he pledged them, for 41., near the Elephant and Castle.— Guilty—Death. _ _ The. prisoner was again indicted for stealing, a silver watch, silver snuff-box, 'a suit of clothes, &c. from Holmes's Hotel, in Parliament .street, on the 21st of February last, where, under a similar pretence, he engaged a bed for nine nights. The facts of the case being clearly made out, and the person of the prisoner identified, the Jury without hesi tation pronounced him Guilty—Death. IMPERIAL RELICS. (From the Pandorc.) The son of Napoleon has just attained his six teenth year; he is of age. The Captive of Saint Helena left him as a legacy, with the remembrance of a name which he will not bear, some effects of which perhaps he will not be denied the use and possession. These effects were deposited with M. Marchand, the Emperor's valet, who is going to Vienna to de liver them to the Duke de Reichstadt. Before taking away these precious gifts, which the young Plince will doubtless receive with grief and respect, and which declare the state of destitution in which the man who had possessed half the world found himself at the moment of his death, M. Marchand has permitted some of his friends to see these re mains, true relics, consecrated by glory and mis fortune. Let us sce of what is composed this inheritance of the child of him who bestowed thrones and king doms. It consists of a few tattered garments. Three uniform'oats : one of the National Guard, the second of the Foot Grenadiers of the Imperial Guard, and the third of the Chasseurs a Cheval de la Garde. Upon each of these is is the plaque of the Grand Eagle of the Legion of Honour. A black coat much worn, made out of a frock coat, which the Emperor wore sometimes when he wished to leave the Tuilleries incognito. Napoleon, not wishing to be indebted to the English for his wardrobe, had his old clothes mended, and wore them till they were in rags. A great coat of green cloth, with two rows of but tons. This was the last dress which the Emperor wore. He took it off when he took to his bed, never to rise again. An old round hat, low crowned, and rather narrower at top than at bottom. A blue cloak, embroidered with gold at the collar. This cloak, which had been worn by Napoleon on more than one field of battle, covered the state-bed on which his body lay after his death, and the coffin when it was borne to the foot of the willow whose melancholy shade he loved. • Speaking of the bed where the Emperor lay, sur rounded by the courtiers of his fallen fortunes, re minds us of a fact little known. The English garri son defiled through the chamber of the dead, and every soldier made, as he passed the body, the mili tary salute; the officers took the cold hand of Na poleon and pressed it respectfully. A sergeant, ac companied by his son, a child of seven years of age, knelt down at the foot of the corpse, and said, weep ing, "My son, there lies what was Napoleon the Great." A three-cornered hat, lined with green taffety, This hat is in a very bad condition, but its appear- ance is really imposing, one cannot look at it with out fancying beneath it the commanding countenance of the hero before whom every standard in Europe was bowed. A grey great-coat, of which the stuff is so worn that it will hardly bear a touch. This article is very curious, for the Emperor appeared to attach a cer tain importance to it; and in fact it recalled to him many extraordinary circumstances. He had worn it in setting out from the Island of Elba, and in tra versing Francs ; he had it on at Lutzen at Wa terloo.—Two silver spurs. Two silver bottles, in which water was put when Napoleon took the diversion of the chase. A silver telescope, a washhand-stand, and a camp necessaire of the same metal. Two cases of snuff-boxes, with the portraits of the Princes of the Family of Napoleon, and of the House of Bourbon. Upon one of these boxes is the portrait of the Countess of Provence ; upon another, portraits of Louis the Sixteenth, of the Queen, and of the Dauphiness. Many of the boxes are orna mented with antique medals; a head of Alexander the Great decorates that which the hero used most frequently. A bonbonnierre of tortoise-shell filled with bits of jus de reglisse. An alarum watch which had belonged to Frede rick the Great. Napoleon had taken it at Berlin. and during his campaigns had it always in his tent, A gilt bronze square clock, the only one at Long wood. A curious circumstance gives value to this article, it stopped an hour before the bath of the Emperor, and has never gone since; it had been wound up only a few moments before, and till then had never been out of order. It still points to the hour when it stopped. This fact is certain, and though in itself natural enough, is remarkable from the circumstances in which it took place. Articles of the toilette, brushes, &c. A tattered pair of boots. Napoleon would not allow any to be bought for him in England. The companions of his exile had resolved to try to make some to supply their Sovereign's wants. A piece of Napoleon's shirt, stained with his blood. A locket filled with dark chesnut hair, turning grey. The beard and mustachios of the Emperor, which had grown during his illness almost an inch long, and which M. Marchand had preserved. Such are the imperial relics. The Eloile in borrowing these details from us, will not fail to endeavour to throw a ridicule oa those who regard with veneration these remains to which are attached so many recollections. If there be some enthusiasm in our admiration, let it pardon us. We, for our parts, should think it vei y natural that the Etude should behold with emotion the harquebuss of Charles IX., the pen which signed the revocation of the edict of Nantes, and the club with which a Holy Bishop crushed the heretics. Every one to his liking. We should be happy to possess the sword of Napoleon, and the Etoile would give its weight in gold for the Duke of Wel lington's French baton. MELANCHOLY EVENT.—Among the recent dispatches from Portugal, we observe a letter from a British Officer, dated Coimbra, March 16, of which the following is an extract This very day, an Ensign, of the 4th Regiment, Mr. Massey, whilst riding out, wished to j o in some brother officers, on the opposite side of a pool of water, but in attempting to ride through it, sunk into a quick sand, and i nstantly di sa ppeared. The body i s not yet found.' —lt is with th e most painful emotions of grief, that we recognise in the youth stated to be lost, the eldest son of Captain Massey, and grandson of Robert An drews, Esq., of Springfield, Lyons--a young man, posses ed of that courage which adorns the possessor, and of abili ties, which, had he been spared, would have rendered him an ornament to his profession, Subsequent arrivals frcrn Port u gal give a more c l ear detail of the deplorable event. It is a scertarned that the body of Mr. Massey was not dis— covered until about three quarters of an hour from the time he was swallowed up in the quick sand, when every exertion was used that medical experience could suggest, in order to.restore animation, but life had become extinct.-- Th e l a st mark of respect was paid to the deceased by the officers of his regiment t .who attended the body to the grave, and by whom this promising youth was held in much esteem.-- Chelmsford Chronicle. LAW INTELLIGENCE. VICE-CHANCELLORS' COURT, MARcit 7. MESSRS. CHAMBERS' BANKRUPTCY. EX-PARTE CHAMBERS IN THE MATTER OF CHAMBERS. This was the petition of Abraham Henry Chambers, the elder, and Abraham Henry Chambers, the younger, who formerly carried on the business of bankers, in New Bond-street, praying that the Commission of Bankruptcy sued out against them might be superseded, end that, the costs of this application be paid by Wm. A'Beckett, the petitioning creditor, by the Committee of Management under a deed executed in November, 18'24, by the assignees under the Commission, and by Messrs. Mayhew and Ha zlewood, Solicitors. The bankrupts prayed for the issuing of the writ of supersedeas, and all the consequential di rections, on the following grounds ;—That Wm. A'Beckett had no debt at law ; that if there existed such a debt, it was concluded by the deed of arrangement which he had signed, and was fraudulently and vexatiously used by him, in such a manner as could not, in a Court of Equity, be made a ground for a commission of bankruptcy; that the Messrs. Chambers had never, in fact, committed any act of bankruptcy; and finally, that they had not been traders within the true intent and meaning of the 6th Geo. IV. cap. 16, since that Act came into operation in September, 1825. They admitted having been traders previously to that time, and before the deed of arrangement ; but that trading, they contended, was a trading under the expired Bank ruptcy Laws, which had been repealed by the present Act. The ATTORNEY-GENERAL opened the petition, which set forth that the affairs of the Messrs. Chambers having become embarrassed in November, 1824, they were urged by their solicitors, Messrs. Mayhew and Hazlewood, to tall a meeting of their creditors. These latter gentlemen had, as trustees for certain other persons, a mortgage affecting the estate of the petitioners ; and it was now alleged against them, that they having, from their confidential connexion with the banking concern, an intimate acquaintance with its pecuniary embarrassments, recommended the arrange ment with the creditors, lest a Commission of Bankruptcy should issue, and perhaps interfere with their own claims on the estate. Mayhew, it was said, exerted himself for this purpose to prevent a docket from being struck. A meeting of creditors accordingly took place, when a state ment was laid before them of the debts and claims against the estate of the firm, and of the available assets which they had to meet these demands. It appeared, that the total debts amounted to 269,363/. 15s. I ld. ; and that the available assets were estimated at 270,7721. 15s. 4d. The creditors, at the same time, came to certain resolutions, which were afterwards embodied in a deed of arrangement executed on the 10th December, 1824. The deed, after reciting that, in the opinion of the Creditors present at the Meeting, the estate of the firm, if judiciously admi nistered, was sufficient to liquidate all the debts, vested all the property, of every description, belonging to the Messrs. Chambers, in the hands of a Committee of Ma nagement, who were to have full power to sell or otherwise dispose of the same, for the general benefit of the cre ditors. The Messrs. Chambers were to give the Commit tee every assistance in carrying the provisions of the deed into effect, and were in return to have a letter of license. The deed also contained a provision to the effect, that if any of those creditors, parties to it, should, whilst the letter of licence was in force, sue, arrest, or otherwise molest either of the Messrs. Chambers, on account of the particular debt provided for by the deed, such a proceeding on the part of that creditor should amount to an absolute release of his debt, and might he pleaded in bar of any action brought for the recovery of it. There was also a provi sion of this nature, that the Committee of Management, which consisted of Messrs. Calcraft, Stowe, and several other gentlemen, might be at liberty to revoke the letter of license, and annul the deed, if a number of creditors suf ficient for carrying the arrangement into effect should not have signed the deed within two months after its execution. Matters went on in this manner for eleven months. The Committee proceeded to sell several of the estates of the Messrs. Chambers, and do all the other things which seem ed to them likely to forward the objects of the trust. Three or four days before the bankruptcy, and only one before the revocation of this letter of licence, on the part of the Com mittee, the Messrs. Chambers, who had no notice of the intention to revoke, executed, at the instance, and by the advice of the Committee, a lease of the Opera-house to Mr. Ebers. This establishment formed a large item in the property of the petitioners, and in the schedule of assets an nexed to the management was estimated at 100,0001. The ATTORNEY-GENERAL argued, at considerable length, that A'Beckett, the petitioning creditor, a solicitor, residing in Broad-street, Golden-square, was excluded by the 'deed of management from striking a docket ; that within the practice of the Court in Bankruptcy, he could not he justified in setting up that debt in order to procure the issuing of a commission; that he was bound by the acts of the committee who had allowed the deed to remain in force for eleven months, and could not therefore annul it at their discretion, being limited to the two months next after its execution. And even suppose the committee could annul the deed after the expiration of the two months, it was contended on the part of the petitioners, that such a power belonged only to the particular members who form ed the committee within the term limited by the deed, and not to the members subsequently introduced. It now also argued on the part of the petitioners, that their trading had ceased upon the execution of the deed, and that any busi ness done by them since that period was performed in their capacity of agents to the Committee.—lt appeared that the deed of arrangement was signed by creditors, to the amount of 160,0001. The remaining creditors, among whom was the Bank of England, were either mortgagers of the bank rupt's estate, or were so circumstanced, that though they did not sign the deed, their refusal ought not to be consi dered as a dissent from the arrangement. The Attorney- General went on to state, that every exertion had been made by the Committee and their Solicitor, Mr. Joshua Mayhew, to force the Messrs. Chambers to commit acts of bankruptcy ; and it was diatinetly chat ged against May hew, that he went to several of the creditors of the Messrs. Chambers, and urged them to issue writs for their respec tive demands, promising at the same time that the Com mittee would indemnify them front any loss incurred iu consequence of such proceeding. Mayhew succeeded, and the younger Mr. Chambers was arrested at the suit of a Mr. Barehill, whilst attending a meeting of the Committee at the Opera-house. The Attorney-General, under these circumstances, contended that A'Becket was hut the mere instrument of the Committee and of Mayhew, and that the commission thus concerted between them, ought to be superseded. Mr. MONTAGUE followed on the same side, and read the evidence as it bore on each particular point—first, with re spect to the trading since September, 1825, there was an affidavit on the part of the assignees, that the Messrs. Chambers were engaged in a co partnership with a Mr. Whit e , in the manufacture of a particular description of cement, used in building, and that this co-partnership existed up to the present day; the Committee of Manage ment also put in affidavits, s tating that the petitioners were still traders, although their business of Bankers, so far as regarded the recovery of deposits, was not conducted since the deed had been executed. The Bankrupts, in reply to this part of the case, said that they had given up their in terest in the cement manufactory to the Committee, and Then,in a a s r respect e t c h t e act o tradedf Bankruptcy,ols thei their o- this e their share in that concern was estimated and scheduled among their other available assets ; and they denied dis tinctly a creditor; and, there fore, tie', submitted, an incompetent wc witness a ac count proved rg ot thevhn; e a c n t ebld l syr e b2n y t ,hadao an Irish Gentleman t servant to the Messrs. Chambers, who gave his evidence under the impression that he was serving his masters, and who now most anxiously sought to explain what he had then s worn. The Messrs. Chambers denied their haying com mitted any act of bankruptcy, and declared that their constant care was to avoid doing any thing which could' be construed into one ; and when absent from town, it was not with the view of escaping from their creditors. They were al most constantly to be seen publicly in town ; and when the elder Mr. Chambers left London, it was for the purpose of visiting his friend, Mr. Denhew, who was one of the Committee, but dissented from its proceedings against the petitioners. [The evidence of several of the creditors was produced, for the purpose of proving the concert between Mayhew and the Committee.] The Learned Gentleman stated, that the Committee withdrew the letter of licence, because, as they alleged, - the Messrs. Chambers had mis -thhnerreow in n private use, Bond -street, w conducted themselves , in t h reatening to confess judgm en t to some of their creditor s ; i n abstracting certain p a p ers relative to their affairs , and i n having attempted to r emove a o f f r bankingoz ny tl e i r e tingitto o in contrave n tion of the deed of arr angement. The Messrs. Ch am b e rs, on their oaths, positively denied any such mean ing, and stated, that as the Banking -h ouse was cons id e red by them to he an insecure pl ace f or k eep i ng the w i ne , they ith applied to a Mr. Brown, a w i ne -merchant, to va l ue it, and quantity i t y intention of wine remove it to some safe place. Whilst Brown uses in the act of so taking it off, he was prevented by Mr. John Cal- craft, one of the Committee, who hai.aways distinguished himself by his hostile opposition to the petitioners. The Learned Gentleman, after going through., the greater part of the ev id ence , su bMi tte d that ther e were no grounds f or 'sustaining the nomaiiisioliSY s c e, The further hearing of the toe lititlldB OYU until 11.10Aday. COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. Livraroot., Aran. 7.—The business done in British Plantation Sugar this week is limited ; prices, however , remain steady. The total quantity sold is only 350 hhds.i besides which, 500 bags fine white Bengal Sugar have' been taken by the Grocers at 765. per cwt. Our market is again bare of Foreign Sugar, the stock consisting of 150 boxes Havannah only, which are to be sold by auction on Thursday next. Thirty chests middling white soft Per' nambuco were sold this week at34s. 6d. per cwt. Arolasseg are in a little mere request; the sales consist of 10 0 punchs. Demerara, of good quality, at 275. from off the quay, and 150 punchs. Trinidad at 265. 6d. per cwt. About 230 casks Jamaica Coffee, just arrived, were brought forward by auction, and were nearly all sold, the holders submitting to a redaction of 2s. to 3s. per cwt. 0 0 the ordinary and unclean q ua liti es . Fift y b ags fi ne ordi nary Havannah Coffee were also sold at 525. per cwt. A small lot of Pimento was taken at 9d. per lb.; and of Ben gal Ginger at 17s. 6d. per cwt. Cocoa still neglected , Rums steady, but no business done worthy of notice. We have again had a very steady demand for Cotton, got the late arrivals being pressed upon the market, the prices have continued to recede, and now rate id. per lb. in Aule' rican, and ; id. per lb. in Brazil descriptions, lower. The sales amount to 13,250 bags-6,800 Bowed, 6d, a 7d• for ordinary to very good, but chiefly at bid. a 64d. for fair to good fair ; 3,430 Orleans, 61-d. a 7sd. for inferior to very good, chiefly at 6i -d. a 7d. for fair to good ; 36 0 Alabama, 6d. a ; 570 Sea Island, 11d. a I ld. prin cipally I Id. a 12-d. ; 90 Stained ditto, sid. a 9d. ; 250 Pernambuco, 9 : f d. a Sid. ; 600 Illaranham, Sd. a 8441. ; 460 Bahia, Sd. a 9d. ; 630 Egyptian, 6d. a 840 chiefly 76. ; 10 Demerara, Sd. ; 50 Surat, 5-.3d. a 50' The arrivals art! 24,659 bags. 1,500 Sea Island, 40 0 Demerara, and 1,100 Surat, are declared for auction on the 12th inst. Imported into Liverpool, from the 31st of March to the 6th of April, 1827, inclusive, by 1 vessel from Bombay , 2 Jamaica, 1 Barbadoes, 8 New York, 1 Baltimore' 6 Charleston, 4 Savannah, 1 New Orleans, 1 Mobile, I Virginia, 1 Pernaninico, 1 Vera Cruz, and 1 Callao- Jamaica Sugar 145 hhds., 5 tees, 26 bris ; Barbadoe s ditto 438 hhds., 6 tees., 2 brls. ; ditto 26 cases; Coffee 559 tees, 70 bags ; Ruin 114 puns. 51 hhds. ; East Indic' Cotton 1,928 bales; West India ditto 493 hales; Orleans and Mobile ditto 2,104 bales; Rest United State% ditto 17,084 bales ; Egyptian ditto 2,020 bales ; Brazil ditto 1,030 bales; Rice 895 casks, 17,160 rough brls., 49 casks ; States Ashes 25 brls. ; T ar 176 brls. ; Turpentine 613 brls. ; Ginger 11 brls., 13 bags Pimento 42 casks, 283 bags; Flaxseed 340 tees • E aS ,, t _ India Pepper 755 bags; I n di go 14 serons ; Logwood ' 2 7 d tons ; Nicaragua Wood SS tons ; Cow and Ox Hides, 324 1 ' The only transactions in Rough Turpentine this week i 5 a parcel of 420 barrels of good quality from the quay a t 14s. per cwt., being a decline of 6d. per cwt., the holderg of the stock in warehouse are not willing to offer it for sale at present. In Tar a few small sales of American hsre been effected at 14s. 6d. to lbs. per brl. ; of other deseriP" tions none remain in the market. In Rosin less doing' the price steady:. Notwithstanding the decline in the price of Ashes, the demand still continues very limited, the sales of Montreal Pot are 50 barrels old at 235., and 110 barrels new 24a. ; the advertisement for 430 barrels Pot and 300 barrel? Pearl to be offered by auction on Wednesday next, ba° suspended further sales, buyers feeling inclined to wait is the expectation of a further decline. Of States' Ashe s 150 barrels Pot have been t a k en f or export at 265., an", 50 barrels old States' Pearl have also been taken at the same price. In byewoods there has been little business done; S° tons ordinary solid Nicaragua Wood, at 18!. per ton ; I ° , tons Red Sanders W oo d, a t 9/. 1 0s. per ton in bond, and some trifling sales of Campeachy Logwood, at 8/. '7s. 6d• a Si. 10s. are the entire transactions of the week. Fin° Philadelphia Quereitron Bark is in fair request, and about vO hhds. disposed of at 14s. a 14s. 3d. per cwt. Eougb Brimstone continues to be neglected, a small p arc el hag been taken at Si. 15s. per ton. In Indigo nothing 1 185 been done, and parcels may be bought rather lower.- 111zdder Roots dull of sale. About 20 tons illunjeet have, sold at 22/. a 22/. 10 s . p er t on , d uty pa id . The sa l es 0_ Shumac are only 170 b ags V erona , at 7 s. G d . a B s . 3d ,1 and 100 Sicily, at lls. a I Is. Gd. Sixteen hundred bag' good Saltpetre were offered by auction yesterday, 350 bag s since seld at 245. 6d. a 265. ; small sales of fine were pre" viously effected at 275. 6d. per cwt. In Valonia nothing done. Fine E. I. Safflower is more inquired for at 61. ° 71. per cwt. Some small sales of Silver Cochineal hail been effected at 14s. per lb. American Bees' Wax is ry fair demand at 10/. 15s. a 11/, per cwt. The only par cel of American new Sowin g Flax now here meets a stead)" sale at 70s. per hogshead ; Seed for Feeding is much wanted, and sales are now made at 565. to 58s. per qr . New American Clover Seed is wanted, but old parcels al° dull of sale at 50s. to 60s. per cwt. In Olive and Seed Oils nothing doing. -Fi s h Oils are also in very limited request.-The sales of Palm Oil are about 50 tons at 271. per ton.-But little is doing in Ca' rolina Rice, 70 casks very fine have brought 225. 1,10 0 bags E. I. have been sold at 173. to 17s. 6d. and 42 0 , bags African at I2s. principally for expo r t.-Th e sa l e s el Hides hai-e not been extensive, 750 dry West India at 6d' for those partially wormed, and sid. to 44d. for much wormed ; 290 d r y Li ma , at 7id . 740 salted New Y or* at 41d. to 40. per lb. and 100 dry B. A. Horse at 6 9. 6d. each.-letup is still in limited request ; 40 bale# East India sold at 24/. and 22 bales Manilla 341. ss. to 461. 53. per ton by Public Auction.-Tallow is offering rather lower, about 400 casks new Odessa from the (par have been sold at 395. 200 new Petersburgh Y. C. a t 409. 3d. to 40s. 6d. and a few old Y. C. at 395. Gd. per cwt. COUNTRY CORN MARKETS DURING LAST WEEK. I Wheat. Barley. S. tO S. S. to S. 30 38 48 I i 0 51 55 51 60 48 56 56 60 35 42 3.1 38 37 41 :37 39 s. d. s. d. 74 88 74 90 96 99 70 83 00 81 86 89 76 80 72 79 s. d. s. d. 63 70 56 K 9 6s 76 50 56 00 54 7 0 72 56 s fl 52 63 19 0 16 0 13 0 15 6 120 146 13 0 13 9 139 119 [l3 6 15 6 00 110 10 6 II 0 10 0 10 6 00 100 00 00 11 0 11 COTCH ;TON COF g supply of er, Oats, Pi Barley. 46s Od 42s Od 38s Gd pi Wheat in 57 ...at J I 40 11 23 Unsoh MARKET RN MARK all kinds of 'eas, and Be Oats, 44s -61 39s Od 35s Od !market, wl 595. Od. 59 0 57 0 1-3 Grey. E' 111 COR 'Ain wag n MARK_ Aidling, an, ;T.—April td sold ro Barley. Oats. Pease. I 33s Od 31s 6d 30, 30s Od 29s Od 28; 0d 26s lOd 24s Od 258 al 1 'ay at la st BC3I I S. 305 Od 9s Oct 25S Oct Per Quarter. Andover • _ ..... Carlisle Hexham— Morpeth Newcastle . Romney Sunderland Winchester Per Bushel. Binningharn--- Coventry Newcastle (St. 111:) Northallerton Penrith Stafford Warwick „ Worcester Per Moll. Barnardeastle Darlington Durham..... Stanhope Stockton Wolsingham HADDIN~ We had a middling and Barley are flight Wheat. First 62s Od Second 5BB Uil Third There were 267 qrs. of 10 ...... 625. Od. 61 0 41 DALKEf The supply of Gri week's prises. Wheat. First 3ls Od Second Third MINING INTELLIGENCE. Average Produce .................................... t. ............. 208 0 Quantity of Copper Ore sold at Redruth last Thursday 1,301 . ,, C Amount of Sale, 14,932/. IPs. (A.—Average Quantity of fine Copper ................................ Standard, _ 4s. 0,1 , tart BIRTHS. On the 4th i ns t an t, M rs . Hicks, of Conduit-street, Hanover -square, of a son. On the sth i ns t an t, i n Portland -place, Lady Mary Ross, of a son. On th e 29th ultimo, at Versailles, the lady o f William Blundell, Esq., of Crosby-ba ll, Lancashire, of a son. a C t 17 Covent-garden, ---- MARRIED. by the of the Colony of Surinam, to Martbs Wiltens Andres, E6q• d aug hter of George Emery, E sq. o f t h e G ra nge/ Maria, only g \ a v rd el e l n s: M. p‘ Banwell, Somerset. On the 7th instant, at Mitcham, by the Rev. John Steel' man, Edward George Barnard, E sc .. i of Deptford Grue n ' in the county of Kent, to Eliza, daughter of Thomas g iV , a Esq. of Ravensbur - 1-1 RightOn t ß be ev ! ththionsLtaonrtd, at ß i S si t io . Paul ' s, wa , ) ()use, Mitcham. _____---" On the 2d inst ant , at Hampton-wick, Elizabeth, Ode° daughter of John Goodsman, Esq. aged 31. On the 4th instant, George Austen, of F a irfield-cnt" e St. Peter's, Thanet Esq. in the 72d year of his ag e l, o o , At Cheltenham on the 4th instant, after a long 14 Henry Osborne, Esq. of the Temple, Barrister at LaW, one of the Police Magistrates of Worship-street. Paia;rn and Pusuanan by m. Young , si Sux-Onacx, No. 112, Strand. Oats. s. to s. 28 30 32 - 46 23 34 32 40 35 40 s.d. s.d. 50 60 50 60 56 66 3 6 sii 4J 00 76 S 0 50 60 48 56 13cans , S. tV 1 10 0 12 0 70 11 0 86 90 70 00 70 8 0 80 106 ...., .... 48 • 54 54. 62 d. s. "A' 8 ‘, , 0 6 10 0 , 6 1 ' 0 f „ 10 0 " 70 8 ° 83 9 0 _0 1 40 12 0 0 0 , 10 o 1.2 00 0 ° 00 0 ,1 00 ov (ET. —April 6. ' Grain to-day. Bans, lower. Pease. Beans. 60s (k 1 56s 0.1 56s 0(1 als t 1 52s Od 50s Ocl I4ereof 244 sold thus ;," 1 52 s6s. 0(1 55 ° 5