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London, England, 1826-07-31 00:00:00

EMPEROR OF RUSSIA•

GU EIO V. SOMERVILLE.
Mr. SuGDEW hoped the Court would have the goodness to thitk
of this rase, and dispose of it speedily. His poor client had just
come of age, and was much in want of the money, every shilling of
which was tied up in Court by order of the Vice• Chancellor. lle
believed his Lordship had all the papers, and he hoped the Emperor
of Russia would have withdrawn his claim.
Mr. HART, contra—Well, but my Lord Chancellor happens not
to be the present or past Emperor of Russia, and we ate here upon
a question of debtor and creditor.
l‘lr. SE G FIEN-YOU don't say so!

Mr. HART-4 do, indeed.
LORDSITIP—WeII, I shall attend to it, but I don't know
that the Emperor of Russia has tot a much more comfortable
situation than the Chanceller of England.

VICE-CHANCELLOR'S COURT, JOIN 29.
The Seal, which commenced on Monday last, did not terminate
until to-day. It was the longest that ha• ever occurred in this
Court—a fact which is chiefly illustrative of the extraordinary in-
crease of business in Chancery.

GWYNNE T.Y NE.
Mr. Kwmire moved the Court to restrain the defendant,
money-lender. from proceeding on a bond given to him by the
plaintiff, for the sum of 700 f., whieh he had swelled by the various
devices practised by money.lenders, into a sum of 2,300!.. fur
which he now held a post obit bond. The plaintiff had offered him
a compensation of 1,6001., which was more than equivalent to his
just demands. lle hoped that under these circumstances his Ho-
nour would extend to his client the protection of the Court.
The VICEXIIANCELLOH—Yon must pay the 1,6001. into
Court, Mr. Kright. •
Mr. KNIGHT consented, and the motiiin was accordingly
granted.

INSOLVENT DEBTORS' COURT, Tu 7.Y 29.
This morning an unusual number of discharges issued to libe-
rate prisoners heard on the previous day. Never was there, since
the organization of the Court, a greater number of insolvents' peti-
tions heard and adjudicated upon in the same space of time than
during the present week. The list of petitioners contained, on the
average, upwards of thirty persons a day. and serral of the cases
were of sufficient importance to warrant a prolix inquiry. In one
case the Chief Commissioner sat (with the exception of an hour's
relaxation) from nine in the morning to nearly eleven at night.
The case of Thomas Watson, the younger, late of Duke's-court,
Bow-street, came on for hearing; in the course of which it appeared
that the insolvent had already committed an act of bankruptcy;
and the question was, whether a person, against whom a commis-
sion had been issued, the validity of which he disputed, and which
was still under discussion, could claim the benefit of the Act.
The terser CoMMISSIOXER observed, that ss the insolvent
disputed whether he was a bankrupt or not, and as that issue was
still pending, he (the Chief Commissioner) could not see what
posits he had vested in him to remand the petitioner, whatever ex-
penses lie might have subjected the other parties to. As assignees,
the opposing creditors had a great right to have the question agi-
tated, and they had only done what they conceived to be their duty.
But after all, the impression on the mind of the Court was, that
the insolvent be discharged.