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MESSRS. MARSH, STR4CEY, AND CO.

The Creditors of this well-known t:ompany met last night at the
Freemasons' Tavern, for the purpose of appointing assignees,
A fter some desultory crinvirsation, ::r. ma was unanimously
called to the Chair. This gentleman returned thanks for Ow
honour bestowed upon hint a second time. Ile begged to remind
the Meeting that expenses were incurred by advertisements, /cc.
and therefore thought that every individual who tame to the Meet-
ing should contribute the sum of two shillings.
This being mooted to-
A C51E1)17011 Rixi:Cl to be informed of the precise object of the
sleeting ; if there was any ii.formation to be communicated. The -SECRETARY replied that the intended proctedings on the
part of the committee of creditors were checked by the act of the
Lord Chancellor, who had ordered the two coomaissions to operate
as one, and the other commission granted against the four parties
to be impounded. Essential service had been done to the creditors
by 3lr Daniel Robison, who, though not one of the committee,
was indefatigable in his Isbottris. Through hint sums of money,
improperly drawn front the house, had b: en refunded, and 9,30 W.
were recovered foe the bent-lit of the creditors.

The same Creditor asked if it sticreascertained what sum was in
the house at the time of tile failure.
The Sec E T Y said, the actual sum in the house at the time
was 130,000/., and upon that ruin it was intended to make a dirt-
dend in .lanuary, were it not tOr the act of the lord Chancellor.
Mr. KNIGHT was aware the object of the meeting was to ap.
' point assignees under the commission granted against the bank-
rupts, but this step could not be taken at present. in consequence of
' what took place in the Court of Chancery en last Friday. Why
Mr. S.iymour, a CfeUlter, applied for the superseding of the cont.
mission lie could not conceive ;he must be influent-ell by ■ secret
motive, fur which he could not account ; but he did not succeed,
as the onnntission was impounded, net superseded ; and thus the
creditors might resort to a good Ctllll,llission, it the present should
be at any time used as an engine against them. It was in this
point of view the Lord Chancellor slit the question. and lie would
nut therefore suspend the commission, lie had it merely impounded;
as to the payment made into the house of Stone, it was made
under peculiar circumstances. The house knew how they were
situated. The unfortunate party himself was apprehensive they
should atop; the payment of 2U,01101. upon smh a day was ex-
traordinary. If it was done in conteniplation of bankruptcy,
though no such act was committed. the money should come bark
to the creditors. There was another matter worthy of considers.
tion, as there were contradictory statements upon the subject—lie
meant a claim of 41.00(11. made by the European Society. This
sum could nit be considered as a debt until proved on oath before
die commission, and then it would be a question a:tether it were
the individual debt of Mr. Stracey, or a general debt of the house.
Ile thought the business of the :fleeting he to keep alive
the committee, fur the purpose of watching every thing that may
occur.

Mr. RILY said. there were two sums recovered by the COM-
mit:ee one of 5,0001. drawn by Miss litirsh on the 11th, and
4,6lXte drawn by 31r. Stracey. Thi, gentleman, it should tmt be
forgotten, was making the tour of the Continent, whilst the house
was in the worst possible situation. There was an article in-
serted in the BritiA Press of the 16th, stating some important
facts. This was shown to the patties, and it was admitted to be
eubstant;ally correct. This showed that deceit was procustsl by
Mr. Marsh and information withheld by Mr. Stracey. lie trusted
they would act as men and as Englishmen, and insist upon get.
ting the best dividend the house rould afford.
lilr. I's* x ins addressed the lileetiog at considerable length.
[This gentleman, Irmo Lis long residence in India, has, it is evi-
dent, contracted the tumid digressive style of the East, and we
cannot be expected to do I Justice.] Ile stated his connexion
with the house in question: he had at one period lodged there
42,0110/., 23,ffing. of which were in Exchequer Bills. Some yearn
since lie IrJb inforinzd of their distress. and it was with the greatest
difficulty he succeeded in obtaining his money. Ile did nut act
against them at the time; if he had he would hate lost his
money, and they would hare said he was in the secret of their for-
geries. This he was not ; but he was in the secret of their dis.
tress. To this hour he could not procure his balance-sheet.
Ilere a CREDITOR Mc slid Said, lie Was acquainted with the
amount of the sheet; it was precisely 2s. ifd.
Mr. PARISI wa—You are an auctioneer, and reliance is not to be
placed on a:I you please to assert.
The elllMlTOß—Coming from any other person I would not
bear this; but from you I

Tit; lowest man in England is on an equality
wilt an auctioneer. lle supposed thi. person had gotten all his
tnoary from the house, and as he had been so fortunate with his
kneek.down hammer, he came here to prate, and to be the trum-
peter of the bankrupts, lie had left a cheque foe lim a/. in the
house, and when he wrote for it to Mr. Faunderoy. 31r.Stracey
answered his letter, and said, there was no such cheque. Ile was
afterwards oblige' to proceed criminally againtit certain individuals,
who acknowledged their ;milt, and entreated him to fishes:. Ile
took them into Court. And yet why go there, where there were
always four or live fellows in harneri, with wigs and gowns,
to insult the characters and understandings u the public?
Amongst these fellows in harness, was a Mr. Gurney, whom
he looked on with hotter. lle had employed him and paid
hint ; but this person deceived him. pretended sickness, and
did not appear. On account of his connection with the house
in Bernersoureet. he had fallen out with all his friends. Ile re.
quested a letter of introduction for Colonel Graham from the frivol
of hit infancy, the late Duke of Norfolk, which was refused; and
though the Duke doted upon Jim, breakfasted with him, weasel-
dom apart front hint, he (.11r. i'arkina) split with this nobleman,
ar.d the pour gentleman died in sis months after. AU this was
owing to his connection with the house in Demers-meet. The
speaker then gave an account of some litigation he had with Ur.
Seymour, but with the assistance of a 3laster in Chancery be bo-
:hard this gentleman. Ile complained bitterly of the interruption
he received from the worthy Ocittlentan of the Ihnuner. English-
men were complaining of their sanguinary laws; they were bleating
about the punishment of death. This punishment they dwell
near give up until they found ono more severe; if they did, they
would be plundered by wholesale. Ile was certain die person who
interrupted him had not paid his two shillings.
A Carnitoa Mid, One thing appeared to him remarkable, that
Mr. Marsh should be employed to e 4tect the dividends at the
Bank. Now could he receive them as they acre nut there ?
The &t • • • - said it was strange that Mr. 3lar.h, who was
slot worth a nudging, was a short time ago buying a house at
Whitehall, worth .suool.

111 r. Pang' tis s.b.l, 31e. Marsh was not ut for business; he bad
L, 40.0d11/. in a speculation at the Cape of Geed !lupe. Ile seat
Ws sun, who erns both a boohy and a dandy, upon this sperm.
Winn, contrary to his &trice. and consequently the money was
lost. The piople of England had three great enemies, the
lawyers, the parsons, and the pr:ss. They would never do well
until Mete were kept in their proper places.
It ass then moved, anti carried unanimou4y, that since the
joint COMMISIig.O was impoundrJ by the fowl Cluctecllor, no pro.
ccedings could be had widtr it for the benefit of the creditors, that
the gentlemen composing the hitt Conimittoe be continued. and
autboriaed to cad a meeting of creditors when they shall deco it

The (hanks of the Meeting were then given to the Chairman,
and the Meeting ',rake up.

1111511 CATHO! IC AIROCIATIoN.—Wc understand that
a Proclamation will be isoolell to-inorrow to prohibit the
future inertiiii7s of the Cath•elic rnics

THE BRITISH PRESS.

LAW INTEL ►./AhXCR.
COURT OF CHANCERY, MoxoaT, Nov. 29.

HABEAS CORPUS.
IN THE MIATTL.IIIOr DAVIF.I. STURDY, JITN,

His Colt next. r sat ri-day at a quartet past nine o'clock, for the
par arse of hearing this case.
Mr. Routs appeared axenunsel for Mr. Sturdy, to submit that
the o)(lmile:donee% had exceeded the power vestalin them by the
Act of the 6th t'lro. 11. 'fins gentleman is a creditnr of John
Gilbert'', agaihst elver a commission of bankrupt issuer) in the
month of June last ; and at a meeting of the creditors tinder the
commission, he attended to prove a debt. It was alleged that h:
had receited the bankrupt's property improperly, and was coin-
muted to Newgate on the 24th into. for not satisfactorily answerieg
the questions put to hint by the Commissioner,. He was asked by
them how mooch money he heel received of the bankrupt, in The
1 years IMO and Gal ? During these years lie had had mock-jobbing
1 irensartions of such a nature as he thought might subject Win to
penalties under the Stock lobbing Act ; and therefore lie declined
saying any thing further than that he considered an answer would
expose him to hazard.
Mr. ROOTS submitted that the Commissioners aught not to
have committed Ins client yet, or, at ar.y rate, that he ought now
to have another oppportunity of appearirg before them.
Mr. Roar was on behalf of the assignees. He thought if
what appeared on the face of the conimitirent did not support it.
no argument his ingenuity could suggest could avail. lie con-
ceived it quite 'mposeible to suppose that the Commiseioners
could have acted in any oilier way than they hail done.
The Loan CHANCELLOR oNierved, that the Men question
here was, whether this examination was satisfactory to him? and
he was most clearly of opinion that it was not. His Lordship
thought the Commissioners would tin well to give this gentleman
another opportunity of appearing before them ; or he might take
the opinion of the twelve Judges upon the point whether the exa-
nthttioe was satisiactory.
Mr. ROOTS was quite satisfied that his client would not go to any
higher tribunal after the judgment his Lordship had former!.
Mr. ROSE felt perfectly authorised to say, that his clients were
mint anxious to afrOfd this gentleman every opportunity of expla-
Ination—they wished nothing but justice.
IILACIMONE V. GLAMOROASIftfIRE CANAL COMPANY.
In this case, which has of late occupied a great deal of the Court's
time, his Lordship proceeded to give judgment. The case has
heen considered par: iculerly important, tram the high tespectebi-
lity of all the parties. The plaintiff is. gentleman intrusted with
the duties of a Magistrate for the agey of Glamorgan, and the
defendaras (with the exception of Mr. Rea) area body of gen-
tlemen incorpurateil into the above Company. only four of wheel
(and Mr. R.) were brought before the Court on the present oc.
casket ; namely, Mr. Routh, Mr. Crewels!, leetiriffithiaaed Mr.
Guest. The plaintiff is the owner of most extensive iron-works
(upon the erectiou of which he cepct.icel not less than 150,000/.)
situated near the town of ta!t!qi, and by un Act af the 31th
of the late King, the Glamorganshire Canal Company were
empowered to make the canal, and a provision in that Act pro-
tected Mr. Illakemore's works, to the extent of providing that he
should have the surplus water tint used in the canal for the purposes
of his works. The a iverJaff supplies the whole of the water; and
Nut there might be the surplus water, the Legislature pointed out
the width, length. and depth that the canal should be. Another
Act passed in the ?tilt Geo. I l 1., authorising the company to make
certain inipmvenients in the canal, ell of which, however, were to
he done within two years. The company, during last Session of
l'arliament, brought in another Bill, for the purpose of capacitating
them to alter and inn prove the canal, go as to adniit vessels of a meth
larger tonnage that it then did. That Bill was brought into the
Howie of Cointitons, and read either once or twice, before the plain.
tiff' and others had had notice of it.. It was then opposed by the
plaintiff and the Marquis of Itute, on the ground that it would be
ruinous to their respective properties. inasmuch as by the corn.
pony being allowed to make the canal 'Omissible fur larger yes.
eels more water would be required, and theretere it would not be
practicable to have the surplus supplied. 'l'lle bill was at last
thrown out. A very few weeks before the long vacation, the corn.
pany took upon themselves to employ gunge of between two and
three hundred men to do the very art they had failed to obtain per-
mission !nem Parliament to perform ; upon which the plaintifffiled
his bill in that Court, for an injunction to restrain them front doing
any art to widen or drepeu (Fe basis at Cardiff: The use was
heard in 'tin Lordship's private room inutile plibiic for that purpose)
after the Court had risen, and the plaintiff making good his case,
Mr. Routh emceed into an undertaking for the Company, that no
further act should be done which would have the effect com-
plained of, till the further order of the Court. Notice of that
undertaking was instantly sect to Wales to suspend the work-
ing of the gave. The undertaking, however, was not duly
obeyed, and his Lordship at once issued his injunction. Af-
ter the injunction reached Wales, the company removed their
gangs from widening and deepening the canal, and set them
to cleat, out Mr mud from the bottom of the basin, by do.
ing which, the plaintiff now contended, they had consie
derably deepened it; and that he might be sure of its having been
so deepened since the issuing of the injunction, lie had employed
three of the most eminent surveyors lie could find in the kingdom,
whom he sent to Cardiff to gauge the canal, which they did at
thirty-eight different places, and upon their report he now moved
to commit the five gentlemen already nsnitel to the Fleet prison, for
a violation of his Lordship's order. The motion was met by the
affidavits of the leaders of the gangs, who swore that it in not even
now at its original depth, and that therefore no deepenirg could
have taken place by the late cleaning of it out _upon which issue
was joined, and upon exantining of which, and the evidence in the
case, his Lordship said, lie woillel have to decide whether or not
there had been a breach °Lehr irejnactionaeand if there had been
one, what would have to be done upon that would depend on the
sound (and it could not he sound unkas temperate) discretion of
the Court. If there had been a breach of the undertaking of Mr.
Routh. the Court would have to lona as favourably at but case es
possible, because he had done all in his power to prevent any
act being done, against which be had undertaken. Nothing
had heen breathed, in the curse of the argitmente, to convey
an idea that all the gentlemen were not of the highest respec-
tability ; but, however high, his Lordship felt it necessary to say
that some parts of Wales should be taught. that not evens Ola-
morganshire Company were to take into their hands the power of
injuring another', property, and that in the teeth of the Legisla-
ture, and of an order of that Court. Ills Lordship could remem.
ber having had something of a similar case before him from %Vales
once before, in which also gangs of men were represented to have
been doing that which they ought not to have dune, with (he la-
mented to add) a alagietrate at the bead of each of them ; hut it
would tie well fur such gentlemen to recollect what were the duties
of a Magistrate, and who they were who ought to be entrusted
with those duties. His Lordship went 11: considerable length
HMI the circumstances of the case, and upon the beet consi-
deration lie could give the subject, from all the affidavits, he
was of opinion that there lied been a breach both of the in.
jnnction (the order for which was dated on the 25th of August), and
the undertaking, which was given on the 21st of the same month.
There were, however, many circumstances relative to this breach
that the Court was hound to take notice of; upon noticing the
whole of which, his judgment respecting Mr. Routh was, as far as
des motion affected him, that he should pay the costs of it; that
Mr. Crawellay, ma hating been served with the injunction at all,
should have his costs; that Mr. Guest and Mr. Griffiths. appear-
ing to have bete ef those with whnse concurrence the works in vio-
lation of the undertaking and injunction had been carried on, should
have no costs; aril that with respect to Mr. fleece, upon the ques-
tion of costs, lie would decide on 'Thursday morning. The case
did not go to the length of warranting the Court to commit any of
these respectable gentlemen. At the same time, his Lordship
hoped that he would not be giving offence in assuring those gentle-
men that they must not do that which the law would nut pernift
them to do.

OPERA-MOUSE.
Mr. Manx moved for the Court to appoint a manager to the
Opera-house. After having been heard shortly, and without the
Court intimating any opinion. the motion was ordered to stand
over till rext Thursday, that the Solicitortlieneral might be pre-
pared to meet it.
Mr. 11.11 T moved in another cause respecting the Opera
in which Mr. Chambers is the plaintiff; and Mr. NVaters and
others the defendants, that Mr. Waters, being in contempt, might
be discharged upon paying the costs of the codteinpt, and that Mt
might be at libcry to takel out a commission to put in Mean-
ewer, and have six weeks time for that purpose.
Mr. Svu DE X opposed the motion.
His Lou:ramp considered,
:that there must be some rule of a
practice with respect to the question, which Me really did nut know
t present. The question w whether a person who had a bill
tiled against hint in this Court; coo!" take a trip to Calais. re-
main there as long as he pleased, and at some future tints claim
to take out a conunissios to put in his answer.
The case was orderer' to stand over till the next seal, that
this point of practice may be looked into.
Hui Lordship intends sitting in his private room hereon Thurs_
day and friths?, to give judgments, and to hear any applications
parties may think proper to make.