The Sun. — London, England, 1833-11-08 00:00:00

PIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS The politics of the Court of Madrid, which have often been difficult to be understood, would lately have constituted an enigma too abstruse for any diplomatic sphynx to unriddle, did we not make due allowances for the effect of preju dice and for the state of parties. The Queen Regent was of course disposed, by casting an chors on the right and left, and throwing out nets on all sides, to secure herself as much as possible. in the possession of power, and to catch as many supporters as she could reach from all parties, without declaring herself for any. Sh e had, therefore, pronounced against " political innoratians" to please the Carlists, and again s t clerical abuses to gain over the Liberals. She had retained at the head of affairs M. Zea Ber mudez, who is reckoned, though we believe most unjustly, an enemy to constitutional improve ments, while she bad given places in the Cabinet and in the provincial administration to the friends of the Constitutional cause. She had recalled under her standard many of the persecuted victims of her husband's despotism, and still had not published a general amnesty. She had, perhaps too precipitately, confiscated the property of Don Carlos ; but had not restored that of the Con stitutional exiles, who are the most zealous antagonists of his Royal Highness. She wished to please the Royalist Volunteers, who were her greatest enemies ; while she discouraged the Constitutional militia, on whose fidelity and activity she could alone rely. Yet these nu merous inconsistencies seemed, and, in fact, were forced upon her at the moment by the em• broiled state of her affairs. The Minister Zea, however inflexible he had been represented in his political principles, has had the good sense to yield to the force of circumstances. The very circumstance of such a man turning (if we must call it turning) to support the liberal cause, when, according to common opinion, it is weak, affords at least such a guarantee for the strength of his party as even the most suspicious minds recognize when a sagacious person adopts a new course of proceeding. An extract from the supplement to the Boletin do Cornmercio of the 16th ult., which will he found in an other column, sufficiently shows the embarrass ment which was felt by the Government, in pursuing its new liberal career. This article seems directed against the Constitutionalists as the great enemies of Ferdinand VII., while at present the chief support of his daughter is to be found among that proscribed class. It was with no little surprise that we read its unwise allusions to the transactions of 1814, when the late King displayed his odious character under the double aspect ofan ungrateful master and a cruel despot. If these course of politics had been pursued much longer, the cause of the Queen Regent must have beeu lost for ever. People who %%ere zealous for arbitrary doctrines would have wished to hear them from other lips than those of her Majesty, while the friends of freedom must have been disgusted or alarmed at language which pointed them out as objects of abhorrence or per secution. Since the date of the article to which we have alluded, however, we have seen the decree of the confiscation of Don Carlos's pro perty, and the politic measure of the recognition of the young Queen of Portugal. The dis arming of the Royalist Volunteers in the capital on the 27th ult., even at the expense of blood shed—the nomination of some more liberal public functionaries the attempt at a new territorial distribution of the country for a better internal administration—the proclamation of an amnesty, with a few exceptions (but which ought to have had no exceptions)—the appoint ment of a Commission to inquire into the impolitic laws for regulating agriculture and the corn trade—are all indications of liberality and vigour, which inspire us with the best hopes of the Regent's Government. We may soon, likewise, expect the announcement of other measures, which seem the necessary consequences of the former, ;rid which the present situation of affairs imperiously dictates. We do not, of course, allude to the promulgation of a charter, which would probably at the present moment be only another element of confusion thrown into the chaos of peninsular politics, but to the recall of all the Constitutional exiles, and to a better distribution of employments among the an cient candidates for office. We formerly pressed upon the attention of the new Govern ment another important measure, calculated to improve the foreign relations of Spain, and to confer stability on its existing dynasty, with out calling for any sacrifice except and of preju dice, and without incurring any loss except that of an empty title—we mean the recognition of the independence of the South American Re publics. We bring forward this point on purely Spanish grounds, as we are sensible that no ether claims than those of Spain would be listened to. Gratitude can seldom or never be expected from one nation by another—and we are quite sure that the Spaniards of the present day would never think of repaying the English victories of Salamanca and Vittoria by surren dering a single acre of their colonies, if they really possessed such an acre, on which to plant their foot among all the conquests of Cortes and Pizarro. But it is precisely because the Spanish Government has lost all power in its former colonies, because, by no possibility can its trans-Atlantic authority be recovered— because it inflicts an injury without the chance of a benefit—because it needlessly irritates states, really independent, by. foolishly calling them rebels, while it might attach them to its interests by acknowledging them as allies, — because, in short, it foregoes all the advantages of an extended commerce with its former sub jects, and incurs the charge of obstinate illibe rality with foreign powers fig nothing,—it is on these grounds, we say, and not for any English object, that we invite it to an immediate treaty of recognition with the South American re publics. England would, no doubt, benefit by the recognition, in proportion to her. intercourse with the new states, and to the improvement which that recognition would effect in their pro sperity and internal order; but the Spanish Government is requested to consult the interests of the Spanish peopl e alone, and not those of the London Stock 'Exchange. These interests would all be collaterally promoted by an act of justice and generosity to the inhabitants of its former possessions in the new world. Speaking the satne language, professing the same religion, and partly being natives of the same country, their predilections would soon return for an inter course with their mother country ; and a benefi cial trade, under the most friendly auspices, would be the consequence. At any rate, the measure would be bailed as a symptom of grow ing liberality, and while it tended to raise the character of the Queen's Government in the eyes of. European nations, would remove that re proach of blind obstinacy which was contracted by the refusal of Spain to recognise the common wealth of Holland till the peace of Westphalia, nearly seventy years after its real independence had been established, and its formidable con quests made over its ancient masters.—Times. Those idiots in knaves' clothing, the St. Si monians, have been repeating what they call their " explanations" of the doctrines which they were sent to this country to propagate. We ought, perhaps, to apologize for noticing, even as ob jects of the most utter disgust, these would-be pests of a civilized community ; but some of our contemporaries having, doubtless with the most innocent intentions, dragged the foul drivellers into light, no alternative is left for us but to assist in setting upon their foreheads the brand of ignominy, loathing, and contempt. Fontana, accredited Nuncio of the respectable Pere En fantin, armed cap a pie in whiskers and other scaramouclieries, had brought with him Dr. Prati, who wrote to us some weeks ago a false account of a certain M. Buonarroti, to expound, on behalf of the said Tom Fool of a delegate, the new " principle" by which society was to he redeemed from all its existing virtues and advantages. We have announced, in a former paper, that the two grand mysteries of this anti-social redemption are, community of wo men and community of goods—that is, uni versal profligacy and universal plunder. The illustrious Prati undertook to elucidate what his fraternity designed by both, and in doing so, after much preliminary skirmishing with the terms—" competition," " association," " Chris tian religion," and so forth, all which he seemed capable of turning to equally good account, the learned Theban plunged in medias res, and de clared "matrimony to be one of the great banes of society." He pronounced " men to be the cause of general and legal prostitution." He said that women had " no free education," —that they were " taught to assume a false appearance of modesty,"—that they were "bound by law to consider men as their protectors" (a grievous hardship),—that " marriage ought to be only a moral ! union" (moral and promis cuous being one and the same) ; but that men and women should not be compelled to live together " longer than they sympa thized with each other,"—i. e., longer than the caprice lasted " that women ought to have the same education as men ;" and that when they arrived at their full state of per fectibility, they would be found performing the same functions that man now performed ! ! ! Yes, reader, such things were said—said before a mingled assembly of English men and women, none of whom were known to have recently escaped from Bedlam ; and the blackguards who thus insulted common sense and common de cency were neither spat upon ncr pumped, nor rolled in the next kennel, nor kicked home to their garrets, nor had they cannisters tied to their tails, nor a cry of " mad dog" raised after them —groans only, and questions innumerable, and shouts of laughter, and occasional exclamations of hatred and disgust, interrupted the lecturer in his unhallowed and obscene ravings. One honest old gentleman, on hearing that men and women living together ought to separate when ever they liked, cried out, " With your system you will bastardize the whole world ;" and this is truly one master key to the atrocity of the entire proposition of unobstructed di vorbe. The institution of marriage, i. e., of close, fixed, and, except under extraordinary circum stances, of inseparable union, is at the founda tion of all society, nor can the purpose of those who would seriously impair or undermine it be liable to any misconstruction. We know there are such speculators going ; the continent is full of them ; but they will make little progress here, while the people of England retain their right senses. As for the wretched creatures who have just been exposing themselves to ridi cule under the name of St. Simonians, we take for granted, from all accounts of their proceed ings, that they are by this time defunct. The apostle Prati left the question of " common property" unmolested, his audience seeming to have enough of him already. We suppose that the next time these animals make their appear ance, English manhood will resent in a proper manner the obtrusion of obscene talk on female ears.— Times. If we recollect right, the present Lord Mayor, on coming into that important and honourable office from which he is about to retire, declared that political considerations should never have any influence on his conduct in the discharge of his public duties as Chief Civic Magistrate— that ho would at all times give every facility to his fellow citizens in meeting constitutionally to express their sentiments upon public questions. The pledge so given has been redeemed—no Chief Magistrate of London has, within our recollection, been more free from political bias in discharging the functions of the mayoralty than Sir Peter Laurie, and on this account alone, if on no other, is he well entitled to the compliment paid him by a respectable body of his fellow citizens on quitting the dignity and duties of the civic chair. He has also been a Magistrate most sedulous and unremitting in his attentions to the administration of justice. In this point of view he set an example which it would be well if some of his brother Magistrates of the Corporation would condescend to imitate. The public would not then so often hear as it does of complaints made touching the absence of furred gowns and gold chains from places less convivial than banquetting-halls, and duties less pleasant than those which are connected with the animated operations of City feasts. Again, the retiring Lord Mayor deserves great credit for his laudable anxiety to rdut out the habitual and hardened swindlers of the metro polis. We regret he was not in office during the great bubble year, when he might have had the opportunity of catching in shoals, for the. tread-wheel and the hulks, a larger and more dashing race of swindlers than any even of that school to which Coster has given the immortality of his name. It would have been well to have seen the ingenious secretaries, the plausible prospectus-mongers, the "honourable" and gentle directors of many of those schemes, through which the public were plundered, and the sub stance of thousands of families exchanged for moonshine—it would have been well, we say, to have seen such wholesale traders in profitable deception taught the advantages of honesty, by suffering the penal labours and degradation of convicted fraud. But while we give this praise to Sir Peter Laurie as an honest and inde fatigable Magistrate, we should be flatterers 11 we were to say he has shown himself an exception to the Roman poet's maxim—nem° nascitur sine vitiis. He has his faults, which, as a public man, somewhat blemish his magisterial portrait, if it be painted with the pencil of truth. O ne of those faults is a too familiar mode of expression on the judg ment seat, which sometimes degenerates into levity—gives hardened culprits an opportunity of bandying sorry jests with the bench, and detracts from the solemnity of a court of justice. This has sometimes pained us in reading the Mansion-House reports; for, even in this age of sweeping innovations, we cannot get rid of the old fashioned notion that the administration of justice is, and ought to be, a grave and solemn thing. In this respect we believe the superior courts in England excel all others in the world. Whatever we may think of a great portion of our criminal laws, we are bound to say that in the administration of criminal justice, the superior judges of England, generally speak ing, for calm, dispassionate, and patient in vestigation—for the dignified impartiality with which they hold the scales of justice, even between the prosecutor and the prisoner, and for the severe decorum which they maintain in their proceedings, conic as near the pure model of judicial excellence as can be well conceived. A petulant and intemperate ex ception now and then appears, clothed with the folds of the judicial mantle, though not with its dignity, but exceptio probat regulant. In the French Courts the prectice of interrogating the prisoner, which our laws do not allow, leads, as every body who has ever read or witnessed the proceedings in those Courts, to the most unseemly scenes. Sometimes the Judge and the prisoner —sometimes the latter and the witness—sometimes all three engaged in dramatic and noisy dialogue together. We re gretted to observe the Lord Mayor attempting to introduce this method of interrogation into our Courts of Justice. We gave our reasons for objecting to it at a former time. If any one wants to understand how the interrogation 01 prisoners assists the development of justice, let him read the proceedings before the revolu tionary tribunals at Paris at the era of Murat and Robespierre. He will there see that the prisoner was never believed, except when he ad mitted an accusation against himself ; his de nial brought nothing but bitter vituperation, and criminatory remarks upon him, from his prosecutors and Judges. If he confessed the charge, he was, of course, sent to the guillotine ; if he denied it, his denial was taken as a contu macious proof of guilt ; ,and if he remained silent, as the most just of men did before Pilate, of course he was obstinately impenitent in crime, and in all cases the transition was very quick from the dock to the place of execution. This is a sort of practice which we never wish to see introduced into the Courts of England, although it has the sanction of such high pre cedent as we have cited, We were therefore pleased when, on Mr. Savory's trial, Mr. Baron Vaughan and Mr. Justice Parke severely repro bated the practice of interrogating a prisoner, and, if he declined to answer, imputing to him guilt. Those Learned Judges said it was not the law of England, and they hoped the time would never come when it would be the law of England. The case to which we have alluded, and that of Mr. Laird, who was tried for selling counterfeit stamps, were sent to trial under the disadvantage of strong expressions of prejudice by the pre siding Magistrate, yet in both cases the Jury honourably acquitted the accused. At a recent hearing of some criminal charge, the Lord Mayor, adverting, we presume, to what fell from Baron Vaughan and Mr. Justice Parke on the occasion above mentioned, said, although his mode of examining prisoners was disapproved of by some high legal authorities, yet he was glad to say it met with the approbation of the Home Office. We are sorry that any magistrate, especially one in other respects so useful and worthy as Sir Peter Laurie, should, in the discharge of func tions connected with the administration of justice, prefer the authority of a Secretary of State or any Minister of the Crown, to that of the con stitutional Judges of the land. If all our ma gistrates were to take their law from the Home Secretary of the day, and set the judicial autho rities at defiance, we had better dispense with the common law and statutes of Parliament altogether, and let Ministers, of their own will and pleasure, frame the laws for the peo ple. We have made these observations upon what is, in our opinion, the great defect in Sir Peter Laurie's mode of adminis tering justice on account of the public prin ciple which it involves. The high estimation to which he has entitled himself in other respects in his capacity of Chief Magistrate of Lorton, as an active, and protector of the property and interests of his fellow-citizens, makes us the more regret being compelled to say any thing in the way of dispraise. He had been thought to be rather favourable to capital punishments, but the emphatic disclaimer which he made at the Sheriffs' dinner, when he said that " he who would rather repress crime by the sanguinary penalty of the law than by a more rational mode of punishment was a monster, and not a man," deserves to be written in letters of gold over the doors of Parliament, for the instruc tion of the legislators of England.— Morning Herald. One of the most remarkable signs of the times is the attempt which we observe is making to propagate the St. Simonian doctrines in this country. In France they have followed upon the heels of the liberal and democratic principle at the present day with the same natural affinity as on the occasion of the former Revolution. It is not, therefore, very unreasonable in the apos tles of St. Simonianism to hope that, as the li beral and democratic principle has also been ac knowledged as the rule of government in Eng land, a similar progression may be calculated upon among us. The English people are, how ever, not yet ripe for the inculcation of these doctrines, whatever they may become hereafter, should the cant of liberality, freedom, and equality continue to influence our Councils. For the- present St. Simon is received with jeers and ridicule; and the odious and profligate character or the system bearing his name is justly considered to be equalled only by its wretched absurdity.—Morning Post. The Sun of last evening, in adverting to what we expressed the other day upon the subject of a more liberal commercial intercourse betwee❑ tnis country and France, observes that it " has reason to believe that the points alluded to by the Advertiser, have not been overlooked." W e ca❑ confirm this observation of our con temporary now, in its fullest extent, and upon the best authority ; for not only has the attention of the Vice-President of the Board of Trade been specially directed to the admission into France of the articles to whose introduction we adverted the other day, without being in possession of any positive information upon the subject, but we have the gratification to announce that, to a certain extent, his labours have not been in vain. There are many of the Members of the French Cabinet who are strongly opposed to the esta blishment of any thing approaching to a system of reciprocal, commercial intercourse, between this country and France —not from a conviction of its being likely to prove injurious to the latter, but because they are, by them . selves or their immediate relatives and connec > tions, monopolists in the very articles in which the establishment of a free exchange would be f most beneficial to this country. Such is the case with regard to iron, cotton, coal, and the I various manufactures growing out of them ; and it is not, therefore, to be expected that 1 more than a commencement of the good work can be accomplished at present. A commence ment, however, will, we have the best reason to believe, he accomplished, and the wedge once in, there appears to be no ground for despairing that the force—the growing force— , of public opinion will not drive it home. Our evening contemporary The Sun is perfectly right in stating that " many of the large towns in France have already expressed their desire to have a more liberal system of commerce established 1 between Great Britain and France ;" and we may add the equally gratifying fact, that the French journals, daily, weekly, monthly, and quarterly, provincial as well as Parisian, are pervaded by the same desires, and are zealous ' advocates of the same doctrines. Although, therefore, the interested feelings of different IVlembers of the French Cabinet may be suc cessful for a time, in preventing such a free exchange of commodities between the two countries as would be beneficial to both, it is evident that the spirit of reformfrom without will ultimately gain the ascendancy, and cause the triumph within the Cabinet of those very principles which only a feW of its members will at present advocate. That the negotiations on this subject, carried on by the Vice-President of the Board of Trade during his recent resi dence on the Continent, have not been so suc ee,sful as could be desired, we have already in timated. For the labour and pains, however, which he has bestowed upon the subject, as well as the zeal and skill manifested by him in the negotiations, he is entitled to the highest credit ; and, for our part, we are satisfied that he has even succeeded, in the face of such a host of prejudices and difficulties he had to encounter, in effecting a beginning. The first step is al ways the most difficult—the remainder are always certain to follow.—Morning Advertiser. COURT OF KING'S BENCH, Nov. 7. The LORD CHIEF JUSTICE gave the following judgments on motions which had been made during the present term, and which had stood over for con sideration : REX V. LANGHORN. The SOLICITOR -GENERAL showed cause against a rule obtained by Mr. Follett for a quo warranto, calling on a gentleman named Langhorn to show by what authority he held the office of mayor of Ber wick-upon-Tweed. The rule was moved for on the ground that Mr. Langhorn was elected on the 23d of Match without due notice basing been given to the freemen of the borough to attend on that day. Mr. FOLLETT in support of his rule submitted to the Court that the election was bad. The denial made by the Solicitor-General upon the affidavit of Mr. Tomkins did r►ot prove a regular notice to the freemen.—Rule absolute. THE KING V. THE HUNGERFORD MARKET COMPANY. This was an application crparte Mrs. Yates, the occupier of No. 23, Strand, for a mandamus com manding the Hugerford Market Company to sum mon a Jury to award compensation for an injury done by taking down the party-wall of her house, in consequence of which she was obliged to suspend her business until the wall was rebuilt. The Court had granted a rule to show cause. Sir J. SCARLETT showed cause against the rule. Having complimented the Market Company for the erection of a public ornament, he contended that t e case did not come under the 66th clause of the Market Act, under which Mrs. Yates required com pensation. It was expressly within the meaning of the Building Act. The Company had been subject to several lawsuits, and they certainly did hope this would be the last. They were empowered by the Act to improve Hungerford-srreet, and in pursuit of that object it was necessary to pull down the house adjoining that occupied by Mrs. Yates. The party-wall being bad it was necessary to pull it down. The son of the occupier gave consent to call in surveyors, and the result was, that the wall was condemned to come down. It was accordingly taken down, and rebuilt according to the provisions of the Building Act. Mr. KELLY, in support of his motion for a man damtv:, submitted that it was a cleat- case for com pensation under the 66th eluse of the Company's Act. ingenrm.W as they were liabrelo make good au °image occasioned by pulling down premises which they might purchase under the Act. Sir J. SCARLETT said the property was purchased by the Company, and the Act gave them certain powers, one of which was to pull down buildings. They had a right to pull down the house adjoining that occupied by Mrs. Yates. Mr. KELLY stated that the compensation required was for pulling down this party-wall. The LORD CHIEF JUSTICE said the Court must be satisfied there was power to put a jury in mo tion. It did not appear to them that they had that power. The Company had done no more than pull down a house they had purchased. In pulling it down they had not done it in a way to make them selves amenable for the consequences. They had only exercised the authority given under the Act. The rule for a mandamus was consequently dis charged. BUSINESS OF THE COURT. The SOLICITOR-GENERAL expressed a drsire to know when the Court would hear motions for writs of mandamus and criminal informations. The LORD CHIEF JUSTICE intimated that they were disposed to hear motions at three o'clock on Monday. He alluded to su c h as were select. Sir JAMES SCARLETT suggested that it would be a matter of accommodavon to suitors if cer tain motions were made in this Court instead of the Nisi Prius Court. If the Learned Judge in this Court could take long motions from three to four o'clock, which was once the practice, it would greatly assist the business. The LORD CHIEF JUSTICE observed that the new Act requ , red the Judges to sit from ten o'clock to four to get rid of causes on the special paper. The SOLICITOR-GENERAL said that there WBB inconvenience in not taking motions for criminal informations and writs of mandamus in that Court. Mr. Justice PARKE—Mandamuses may be taken in the other Court. The SOLICITOR• GENERAL—When are we to make them ? _ The LORD CHIEF JUSTICE—There is a measure in contemplation which may lead to the allowance of longer time for motions in the other Court. Nlotions for mandamus may be made in the other COW-. The Judges then rose. COURT OF COMMON PLEAS, Nov. 7. CORPE V. OVERTON. This was an action brought by the plaintiff to recover from the defendant a sum of 10(4 The plaintiff, a young man entitled to some property on his coming of age, in October, 1831, entered into an agreement with the defendant, a tailor, to enter into partnership with him on the Ist of the subse quent January, he comi ng o f age in the previous December. On the plaintiff' s atta i n i ng h i s ma jority he changed his mind, and re f use d to f u lfil hi s e ngagement of entering into partnership with the defendant, at the same time demanding his money, which the defendant refused to return. Plaintiff brought an action for th e recovery of it, and ob tained a verdict. On a former day a rule 21ri‘i was granted to set aside the verdict, and this day Mr. Sergeant GOULBURN was heard in support of the rule; but the COURT were of opinion that the verdict ought to stand, and the rule be discharged, upon the ground that a minor, or a person under the age of twenty-one years, not having the power to enter into trade or articles of partnership, was entitled to recover back his money, he having re ceived no consideration for it. TIBBINS V. THE MARQUIS OF ANGLESEA. This was one of four actions brought by separate plaintiffs to decide certain disputed rights of com monage. Upon the proposition of the noble de fendant the question as to rights of three of the parties was submitted to arbitration; the fourth party, an individual named Hardiman, decli:iing to have his rights decided by such a tribunal or in any wise to interfere in it. After an inquiry which lasted several days an award was drawn up, in which the arbitrators, after deciding upon the general question at issue, proceeded to state their opinions as to the separate rights of the individual parties engaged in the inquiry. Upon the separate rights of Hardi man, who declined being bound by the arbitration, they pronounced no opinion. Mr. BARSTOWE, on behalf of the defendant, now moved to have the award set aside, on the ground that the omission of the arbitrators in their award as co the claims of Hardiman rendered the whole void. —Rule Nisi granted. EXCHEQUER CHAMBER, Nov. 7. (Sittings in Equity before the LORD CHIEF BARON.) CORBETT V. CRADDOCK. His LORDSHIP, on coming into Court this morn ing, gave judgment in this case, which way an ap plication to stay proceedings until the taxed costs in a former suit, said to be of a similar nature, and which had been heard and decided by the Lord Chancellor, had been paid. He should order the case to stand over till the costs in the former suit in the Court of Chancery had been paid. CHICHESTER V. PRYSE. His Lordship also gave judgment in this case, which was a suit instituted for the recovery of tithe of cows which had produced calves within the year. The defendants set off a modus, and produced evi dence to show that a certain sum had been paid for those tithes from time immemorial. His Lordship would defer the final judgment, in order to give counsel an opportunity to search for cases where a modus had been established in every particular ex cept the exact day of payment, and had, notwith standing this, been allowed to be a good modus. PREROGATIVE COURT, Nov. 7. SHARP V. IIigKINNON. The deceased in this case was Mrs. Elizabeth Palmer, of Ham Common, who it will be recollected was burnt to death in May, 1832, being of the age of seventy-five years. She possessed real and copy bold property to the value of about 17,0001., and a personalty of about 200,0001., independently of about 38,0001. in property in Ireland. The deceased left behind her a great number of testamentary papers, and by a will, dated in November, 1821, she left the greater part of her property to Mr. Sharp, a nephew of the husband of the deceased, for his life. The deceased left two children, Mrs. non, a party in the cause, who disputed the validity of the will, and Mr. W. B. Palmer, who is of un sound mind. The Court directed probate to pass to the executors, Mr. Sharp and Mr. and Mrs. M'Kinnon, and ordered the costs to be paid out of the estate. COURT OF BANKRUt'TCY, Nov. 7. (Before Mr. Commissioner WILLIAMS. JOHN CRAWLEY'S BANKRUPTCY. A meeting of the creditors tinder the fiat of bank ruptcy awarded against the bankrupt, who teas a linen-draper in Oxford-street, was held to day, for the examination of the bankrupt and to declare a dividend. A long discussion took place upon the legality of a proof tendered on the behalf of the mother of the bankrupt for 7001., alleged to have been lent to him under the following circumstances, and the opinion of the Court is an important one. The proof way opposed by Mr. JONES, the solicitor to the estate The bankrupt commenced business in 1823, and, his father and mother living apart, Mrs. Crawley re sided with her son, the bankrupt. She was en titled, to 2,0001. in the Three per Cent. Consols, and was in the receipt of the dividends; she lived with the bankrupt up to the periol the fiat issued, and during her residence made advances to the bankrupt without the knowledge of the husband, amounting to 1,2001. The claim now in question was for 7001., forming part of that amount. In 1832 the father and mother, after fourteen years' separation, again cohabited together, and a settle ment is alleged to baTe taken placr, the bankrupt giving an I. 0. U. to his mother for 7001. The further of 500/.. was made by Mrs. Crawley out of funds to which she actea as L,-.:?.tee under a marriage settlement. Mr.' Commissioner WILLIAMS said it did not ap pear when these advances were made. The claim might be barred by the Statute of Limitations. Mr. Clark, the official assignee, said there was no entries in the books relative to such advances. Mr. Commissioner WILLIAMS, having consulted with his brother Commissioner, said, if the bank rupt's books showed that such were made by way of loan, the case would be different. The payment of the 201. to the mother for her services as house keeper wasa circumstan ce aga i nst t h e c l a i m, and i t was impossible to conceive, if the advances were made by way of loan, that an account would not have been kept. If further facts could be obtained, he would allow time for the purpose, bnt his present feeling was decidedly against the proof. The attention of the Court was then drawn to a subject of some interest to the commercial and trading classes. Mr. Aberdeen sought to prove for an amount due as wages, he having been employed at a salary, and a a l n so ag t w r e e e l m v e e ag reement rw cent. n e t . n t o e r p ed i on n t t h o e t n h e a he sho uld have earlyof the bankrupt's trade. The claim for salary was re sisted. The COMMISSIONER said it was impossible that a party who r was to be paid as the claimant had been could he considered in the light of a clerk or servant, to relieve the immediate wants of whom the legislature had provided that they should be first paid in cases of bankruptcy. . - The Solicitor for Mr. - Aberdeen contended that his client could not be considered as a partner. He cited many cases in support of his views. The COMMISSIONER would look into the cases referred to, and state his opinion at the next dividendmeeting. (the first) of fi ve s hilli ngs i n the me A eti pound was then declared. The further proceedings were adjourned. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. GUILDHALL. Yesterday Edward Kearney was brought up for final examination before Sir C. MARSHALL, upon suspicion of being concerned in uttering a forged check in th e name o f M r . D av i s, a news-agent in Bloomsbury, for the payment of 3001., with intent to defraud Messrs. Pined and Co. _ The prisoner was committed. Q UEEIST• S Q UARE. EMBEZZLEMENT BY A CONFIDENTIAL CLERK.— Yesterday David Evans Jones, a respectable-looking young man, was brought for final examination before Mr. WHITE, charged with embezzling various sums of money, the property of his employer s , Messrs. Parlour, Davis, and Co., haberdashers in the Water loo-road, Lambeth. The prisoner had been in the employ of the pro secutors as a collecting-clerk for the last six or seven years, and the greatest confidence was placed in him by the firm. By accident last week Mr. Davis, ope of the partners, discovered that he had hewn embezzling (some money paid to him. Nothing was said to him at the moment, but a strict examination of the books was entered into, when it was disco' vered that he had been pursuing the same Vntl for a length of ti me t o an ex t en t t h ey cou ld 00 exactly ascertain. The prisoner was fully committed for trial. UNION-HALL. __ _ Yesterday John Smith alias Richard Naylor, II brought up for exami na ti on , an d comm i tte d on t 1 charge of robbing the houses of several media men, by pretending that he was sent as the bear of a note for their immediate attendance on a patiet For some considerable time the prisoner had be; carrying on an extensive system of plunder, and ti manner by which he contrived to effect it was I writing notes addressed to different medical oil residing within the district of this office, requestio their immediate attendance on a dying patient. 11 was uniformly the bearer of ,the notes himself, no he made a point of always calling at the reside r of each individual at a time when he was eitln engaged in attendance on his out-patients or othel wise absent from the lower part of the premise l The prisoner then handed in his note to the servos' at the same time intimating its purport, and a ddin that he should remain until he received an ansWg to his important communication. In most instant' he was either invited into the surgery or some otht apartment below while the servant went in que l of the doctor. The prisoner generally availed bin: . self of the opp or t un i t y t h us g i ven, an d i n the I°' sence of the servant laid hands upon any portehl description of property that happened to fall in hi way. It is strongly suspected that the prisoner 0 1 engaged in other offences, for when the officer searched his lodgings a great variety of skeleton keys, jemmies, cro w bars, and other housebreaki o l tools were di scovere d. y O e F st F er / d C ay E. 2fary DARING ROBBERlES.—Yesterday Browa young woma n , was b roug h t b e f ore Mr. BnopEtell for final exami nat i on , c h arge d w i th committing et veral daring robb er i es un d er c i rcumstances of a vet , extraordinary chara c t er . The prisoner h a d b een a s h ort t i me an i nmate 0 the Maritime P en it ent F ema l e R e f uge at n ec ktie,' where, instead o f ava ili ng h erse lf o f t h e opportun ity of retrieving h er l ost c h aracter, s h e b ehaved so bar that it was found necessary to expe l h er, and on t hi very day that she left the Institution some proper) was missing, which Mr. Massingham, the secretary' had no doubt was stolen by the prisoner, but th i , charge could not b e brought home to her. She so' sequently called on the relatives and employers ' females who were, or had been, in the Asylum, so l , by her plausibl e manner o b ta i ned money and victu n' from them. All these visits were followed by ti 3 disappearance of various articles, particularly plat e and the prisoner must, on the whole, have stolen pro perty to a large amount. Two of the strongest con' were selected against the prisoner. In one it proved that she had, a few weeks since, called on, young woman nam e d F u lf or d, servant to M te Fore a linen-draper in High Holborn, whose sister 10 been an inmate of the Asylum, and told her fb her brother was v er y ill, an d on t h e po i nt of deat h . and that her sister was in custody on a charge felony. Fulford thanked her for her kindness to calling, and went out to obtain some refreshme n t " During her a b sence , t h e pr i soner sto l e two of Ivir7 Ford's spoons, which were not missed until tha next day. The young woman hastened to her 01°# . ther's house, and ascerta i ne d t h at the pr i sone r , story was a fabrication, but it had such an effect 011 her that it had near caused her death, and produc a serious illness, from which she bas not yet re d covered. On another occasion the prisoner cell% upon the servant o f M r . Ki ng , a pawn b ro k e r a" Edmonton, who had been in the Refuge, and dor, ing her temporary absence stole a large silver table, spoon. Mr. BRODERIP c omm itt e d t h e pr i soner f o r trial on the two charges. THE MARKETS. C JUNTRY CORN AIARKEI'S DURING IHE WEEg. Per Quarter. B!andford Brigg Chard Huntingdon-. Long Sutton Louth WOWOOINOW Lynn..... Newark Nottingham Peterborough Plymouth Pontefract Sleaforil Uppinghain ....,«. Wi5bech.....,,.....,«... 1 Wheat. S. tO S. 40 58 - 51 48 54 58 63 56 64 48 54 50 60 57 60 51 56 48 60 50 64 Barley. S. S. - 29 36 40 24 28 21 23 28 32 22 25 29 40 32 38 30 36 30 34 Oats. S. to s. 21 15 22 Beane. B. tO 33 55 31 _ 65 70 50 60 48 62 18 22 14 20 17 22 18 22 18 20 16 22 20 23 31 34 32 35 , 40 "'" 32 • 11 37 35 42) 30 M 36 38 28 36 20 33 22 96 18 26 14 22 45 1 41 NI no 0,7.1 LEEDS CORN MARKET.—Nov. S. Wheat, Nlrfolk and Stith,lk, 601 b........ .. • 4os. to 5 8 ‘. / , York. and Lincoln. 601 b. 3 s s. t o 55.• Barley, Norfolk and Sufflilk Yorkshire and Lincolnshire 273. to 355. , Grinding •••• 22s. to 245. • , Beans Oats, Potatoe —Mvalmg, Yor. 124tu1 d. Eng. 9cL to 10)0. pel_k Shelling Rapeseed, English. 25i to 2'7. Foreign, — 1 L to —l, per , _, WiasT, LE IEngIish , VRPO W O h L O it C e,p ß e N CHA NG E r 70 If ib X —Nov. 1 / P - RPri 12‘ - Scotch, - Welch, and Manx 7 0 • n 6 . • Irish, White 7 :, -- Red . 6 7 a Foreign OATS, English, Welsh, and Scot c h, per 451 b....... (i 2 S 3 6 , .-..—. Irish ---, Foreign 2 6 2 1 0 BARLEY, English, Malting, per Imp. quarter 34 0 3 6 a —. Scotch Feedin and Irish, per 601bs. 3 7 3 0 BEANS, English, g per Imperial quarter 36 0 4,4) Irish, &c. Foreign ['EASE, English, per Imperial quarter u 44 „g Foregn FLOUR, English, per 2801 b. 0 . 41 0 43 n Irish -. .40 0 42 I.` OATMEAL, English and Irish, per 2401b5.... 2l it 93 --- 5 , INDIAN CORN, per 4401 b. RYE, per Imperial quarter . NIALT, per Imperial quarter IMPORT OF GRAIN fur the Week en,' ing Nov. 4. II U Wheat. Oats. Barley Flour. lOatorr ,-- Qrs. Qrs. Qrs. !Foreign, Brls.lrish, Pcc. Scks. , Lerid'' 14,5'29 10,673 8 I '27 - , , o9: 4 8 IMO LEWES MARKET.—Nov. 35.2 d. to 44.2 d. I Veal 4s A.: Nliitton -- 310 410 I Pork 4 0 4 Supply moderately good throughout ; trade with prime P' and Mutton somewhat brisk, but otherwise dull. HU Al F 0111.) MARKET.—Nov. ti....._ ----- ii , s. d. to s. d. e. d. '; J O Heel 3 0 4 0 Veal 'I 6 " 6 Mutton. 3 6 4 6 Pork ,--, " Suckling Calves ,-9 , I4s. to 345. ; Quarter old Store Pigs, 12 s . to . A moderate supply, and a sluggish trade. A joint-stock company is about to be al blimhed, under the name o f th e C en t ra l B ar k o f S co tlav in Perth, for conducting banking business in that quart er ; The capital stock is fixed at 250,0001. in shares of 1 0° each. BIRTHS. t v ,l ef On the 6th inst., in G rea t O rmend.street, Mrs. N Merry, of a daughter. MARRIED. job ° On the 7th inst., at St. Anne's, )Yestminor, Mr. , Z Pearson, of Liverpool-street and Gray's Innaffe", to Mat la te r, eldest daughter of Mr. Edmund W a r n e, Li s l e - s t ree t, Leice' square. fr , On the 7th inst., Richard Robertson, E s q., to Josephs ' iga e to eldest daughter of the Rev. William St. And re w Vinc e Prebend of Chichester, and Vicar of B o l ne y, granddaughter the late Dean of Westminster. DIED. On the 6th inst., in Holywell.. , :treet, Oxford, Mr. I. " nly Joy, aged 48. and lateOn the 7th inst., George, the inf an t son o f Mr. a" Ca On the 2d inst., Sheridan Graham, Esq., third son of t h e fo rd, John Graham, Esq., at the reside nce o f his mother, Cra n Middlesex, aged 27 years and one day. „A D O* On the 4th inst., at her residence in Hart.street, bury, much regretted by her family and friends, Mary, ea the late Mr. Thomas Stringld, aged 71. On the 6th inst., at Ros fie e-cottage, Hertford.heath, 1 " to th , Patrick Campbell, Esq., L pwards of 27 years purveYer j. Hon. East India Company's College at Haileybury, aged -wont, On the 7th inst., after a few days' illness, Mr. Jel",,, Or' ner, Keeper of his Majesty's Gaol of Newgate, in his ells On the 7th inst., at Northwick Terrace, Maida.hill, wife of Lewes J. de la Chaumette, Esq., in her 34th Ye,, oo llcf. On the :,th inst., at Clapham, the R ev . Chas. Birch late Rector of Thrussington, Leicestershire. ,f On the 7th inst., Catherine Anne, the wire , Snell, Esq., of Glouccster.place, Ncw.road, and Mount, Bucks, in her 63d year. rn;NTED AND PuaLTFICID BY MURDO YO UN ``r' SUP Orrzeic, 112, STII/NP. ,