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officer, and though his share was not Improperly paid into Chelsea
llostii.al. it was nut het-011114 to the regular course. There was
roloorislon that unelainied rucilian prize-money should go to the
Hospital. By the Sicilian prize list sit It. Ball was marked as a
Sicilian Brigadier-General, and In this character a considerable
sum was attributed to him as his prize share. By the ordinary
rules of distribotion he was not entitled to claim in both characters,
but was allowed to take in his highest rank. The share belonging '
to the inferior station, the duties of which he eould'unt fulfil, was
divisible amongst the officers of that class, to whom the right was
conveyed by Sir B. Hall's acceptance of the higher station. By an
maw, in which all parties scented to sluice, Sir It. Hall applied
as a Bri;ish naval officer, and took the share of prize-(Honey
attributed to him in that character. He never applied as a Sicilian
officer, and by that means came off miens above 500.'. to which he
Was entitled in his Sicilian character. This mistake was an honest
error, for he accepted less than he had a right to take, but still the
feet threw great dilfieultin in the way of the Court. If Sir it.
Hall was alive, justice may be done by his receiving the sun. of
1,231 t. deposited in his name, and vying back 7110/. which he had
Improperig received as naval officer, to the officers of his class.
'Bit Sir It 11/1 was dead, as well as many of hit brother officers
to whom the :gam drawn by him in error properly belonged ; and
if the claim of Sir H. Hall was not -destroyed by his taking as a
moil officer, the Court was bound to direct the share to be paid
over to the Sicilian Bovernment. As to the claim of Sir R. Hall's
'British represetrtathrri, If the sum deposited was Sicilian property,
'the Conti must Order It lobe transmitted to Sicily, and he was igno.
rant what regulations prevailed in Sicily with respect to the distri-
bution &prise money not claimed during the life of the officer. If
be was folly irdbemed, however, such knowledge could not apply
to the patties Oct now came fors/aril ae personal representatives of
Sir It. Ilan. The obligation of the Injunction contained in the Order
of Council was Imperative upon the Court, and was as fresh at pre.
sent as if it had been applied for at the first opportunity. The Court
was now bound to carry that order into execution as strictly as
when it was firstlssaed. Time did not affect the present applies.
tinn ; but did Sir R. Hall's receiving as a naval officer affect his
claim ? As to this it appeared that he was acting in error. Ile
should not have enstaidered himaelf, nor should others have consi-
dered hint, as a British officer, but as a Sicilian militant officer.
Ilia description as a British naval officer was evidently incorrect ;
and the Court was not at liberty to forget what was right because
Sir R, Pall had pursued a wrong course. The Court was bound
to consider what the Arts of Parliament and the Order of Council
considered Sicilian peoperty. The jurisdiction of the Court
began and ended with the Order of Council, and by that order
it was imperative upon hint to consider the representative of
the Sicilian Government as the proper depository for Sicilian
prise-money. The Court may give advice, but its power was
confined to advice, anti could only he offered in the shape of
a suggestion, tlrit the Plenipotentiary of the Sicilian Go-
vernment should he applied to, to distribute the money with a li-
beral view to the erititv cif the claim of Sir 11. Hall's representa,
dm. In the commencement of the suit, sonic complaint was made
against the officers of Chelsea Hospital, het as that charge was not
afterwards alluded to by the Counsel, the Court was bound to con-
sider it as withdrawn, and that no imputation rested upon that no-'
ble establishment, or against the officers whi conducted the affairs
of' that institution. Those officers seemed to have acted in com-
pliance with the orders of their legitimate sovereign, and with a
proper respect to the foreign So.,ereign in alliance with England.
There were difficulties in this case which naturally created hesita-
tion, and it was not without much difficulty and many doubts that
the Court had rnme to the decision he now pronounced—that
12911. the whole sum marked to Sir It. Hall as Sicilian property,
should he paid over to the Plenipotentiary of the Sicilian Govern-
ment.

The Court was occupied during the remainder of the day in the
investigation of a chin for wages made by a mariner against the
master and owners of a vessel, and resisted by them on the ground
that the claimant was frequently intoxicated, anti was therefore in.
capable of discharging his dunes. Tile circumstances were in no
drgree interesting.

INSOLVENT DEBTORS' COURT, TUESDAY, J. 31.
Samuel Pixley was opposed' at great length by Mr. Pommels,
on behalf of several creditor,.
'Ch e, case, which had nothing interesting in its details, was con.
sidered by the Court to be one of fraudulent concealment. The
insolvent was therefore remanded for a period to be heccafter
Robert Dennis also, who was beard on his petition in December
last, and was finally detected in attempting to defraud his creditors
by a pretended bill of sale, received this day the judgment of the
Court. which was, that he be confined within the walls of the pri-
son 15 calendar months trom the date of his petition.

POLICE.

DI ANSION- HOVSE.

Yesterday a youngrnin,of respeetableappearance, begged to
take his Lordship's advice with respect to a Joint-Stock Company.
His name, he said, was William Batts. He had been clerk to Mr.
Cohen, of the Stock Exchange. His complaint was against the
Imperial Distillery Company. In the prospectus the intended ca-
pital was stated as 600,000/. in 1200 shares of fifty pounds
each. He purchased 100 shares, on which he paid 5/. per share,
and on fire of them he paid 10/. per sham, when he had
a hint that the concern was not in a proper condition to have more
money advanced. In fact he heard that only about 2300 shares
been paid up, and yet the Directors proceeded with the concern.
He refused to entrust them with any more of his money, and they
consequently declared his shares, on which he had paid 3251. to be
forfeited. Now himself and others had taken a legal opinion as to
the proceeding, and were of opinion that the Directors were bound
to dissolve the concern, and return the deposit. Application had
been made to them, but they refused to give any other satisfaction
than their words, that the thing would do, and they refused to call
a public meeting of the subscribers. Under these circumstances
he applied to his Lordship for a summons to bring the Directors,
or some of the parties, betore him, to account for the illegal deten.
don of the money.
The LORD 3lavon—Now, in truth, did you not purchase
these shares with a view of selling them ?—The applicant. That
would have depended on circumstances.
The LORD ill aTon---Yes ; on the circumstance of their getting
to a premium.
The rpplicant assured his Lordship that it had hears his inten-
tion to have kept a portion of those on which he paid the deposits.
The Loan MAYOR said he saw nothing in the ease which
gave him the power to interfere the applicant must proceed by
civil action, or by application to the Lord Chancellor.
The applicant said it was of no use to spend four or five hun-
dred pounds more in attempting to get relief at law, when even
with the best case it was so uncertain.

The Loup MAYOR asked the applicant whether he had ob•
Nerved the extraordinary list of bankrupts in the Gazette lost Sa-
turday

The applicant—Yes, I have; and I consider the ruin of a
large portinn has been occasioned by speculations like the present.
The LORD MAYOR—And $0 do I ; there are few things which
have occasioned so much misery as the spirit of gambling and ex-
cessive speculation introduced by some of these concerns.
The young man having been informed th-at no aid whatever
could be given to him, in this instance, from the Mansion House,
went away, declaring that he would, with some other sufferers, try
to call an efficient meeting, and see what could be done In their
desperate condition.
GUILDHALL.

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Mr. Moore, of the firm of IViloon, Moore, and Robinson: of
Milk-street, silk-manufacturers, appeared to answer the complaint
of Sarah Galloway, a weaver, for refusing to make the customary
advance of money upon work in the course of manufacture.
The complainant stated, that borne months since she had the
miatortnne to spoil sixteen yards of Pomona green silk by bringing
it from Spitallields to Mr. Aloore's warehouse through a shower
of rain, and the piece was thrown upon her hands, on an under-
standing that the value of it, about 31., should be paid by deduc-
tions of 7s. Gil. from the wages upon every piece she should snake
thereafter. After paying in this manner 11. 2s, CA, finding great
delay in obtaining Traumata from the warehouse, she for a time
neglected taking out fresh work. In consequence however, of
toine• threats used by Messy'. Wilson towards her husband,
he sold some furniture, and made a further payment of five
shillings, v•liile she went, and offered to liquidate the whole debt
by taking out more work, and allowing a deduction to be made
from the wages on every piece, at the former rate of 7.. lid. each.
Materials torlos yards of double winner, 20 inches wide, for weav-
ing which she was to mein__ VI. a yard, weep acatirdisg,ly ale-
/Weed to her, And an sifritifelif 15s. was made, when she had
completed the adequate nunrber of yards to have earned that sum;
but when she had finished 00 yarth, and applied for a further
advance of wages, it was denied, and it Was intimated that when
she brought in the whole piece, the U. lid. against her in the
books, for damage, would be stopped. Atter having consented to
stopping only seven shillings and sixpence at a time, she thought
the Magistrate would naafi:re to prevent Messrs. Nl'ileon from
driving her to the work-house, by the course they hail announced.
She had six children, four of them under seven years of age, who
had all been afflicted with the small-pox during the summer ; and
what with the badness of the trade, "the extent of their flintily, and
their ill fortune, both she and lien husband had long been struggling
with the deepest poverty. Last week they Ind been able to übtain
only a single 21b. lost amongst them all. Mr. Moore had a notice
posted in his warehouse that he advanced half the wages on goods
the course of manufacture, yet although it was four weeks since
he had advanced the 11.51. and she had now completed work to the
amount of 21. 21. he refused to let her have a shilling more when she
stated her extreme distress, and did every thing but beg for her
earnings upon her knees, It was usual when a piece ran to up.
wzrds of a hundred yards to divide it into two, that the operative.
might not be distressed by delaying for weeks the final payment of
wages ; but Messrs. Wilson insisted that the 105 yards in question
should not be so divided, and that the whole should be finished, the
wages thereon amounting ton Ma before they would advance any.
thing beyond the Iris. 'nit was die unfeeling and oppreasive con-
duct of which she complained.
Mr. Al none, in reply, said that if he had stopped more than
the 7s. be). that might have been deemed a breach of agreement of
which the Alagiatrate couLl take cognizance ; but until the whole
piece was tintalicti,•and the final settlement "cattle to be talked
of, the question what should he stopped did not arise. lie.
rider lie denied that there was any such agreement between
them •and the complainant, or that the taatiee in their warehouse
was to the effect She had stated. It was not that they would advance
Wardle Wages while the piece was in the loan, but that they would
not advance more than the halt She had broken her first agree:
ment as to paying for the atrbtled silk, and ft seethed necessary to
dal ciaticudy with her. •Notbtos was more comma Wag for the

weavers to represent they Lad finished a greater number of yards
than they really had. The complainer', obtained the l&s. on the
:Ds! of December, on a representation that she had completed 211
yards, but that could scarcely be credited, %then at the expiration
of a month she hod only ranched SO yards. itut without entering
farther into the merits of the case. he would protest against the
power of the Magistrate to call upon him to make loans to his
work people on the security of the wars they were earning. It
saes a matter which clearly must be left to his discretion.
Mr. Alderman Avers:A, atter consulting with his legal adviser,
said that when a brother Magistrate granted the summons, strong
doubts of his right to interfere were expressed, and he now ad-
mitted he had no such tight ; but on account of the largeness of
the complainant's family, their misfortunes, and their distress, he
earnestly recommended her to his conipasiou. Ile did this as a
man, not sea Magistrate.
After aiserting, and drawing. the Alderman to admit, over and
over again, that he lied no jurisdiction ip the matter, Mr. Moore
said his recommendation should not be lost upon him, but he
would do rather more for the complainant titan their usual rules
allowed.
Mr. Alderman A T INs asked the complainant why she did not
apply to the parish in her distress ?to which she replied the over-
seers never listened to the complaints of those who had work in
their looms. ' _ _