The National Register.
London, England, 1822-08-25 00:00:00

LAU' INTELLIGENCE.

COURT OF CHANCERY.
sio%osr, AUGUST 19.
PR V;TICK OF THE COURT.
Mr. Hart, as soon as the laird Chant:e nor took his seat
this moi g, requested his Lordiiiii. to heat a motion,
shoat dri lie was aware that his Lordship, alma a roe.-
nifdlit ago, had announced his iiiteutitna i 0 hear nothing
bit baukrupt petitions until the Couit lose fin the holy-
The Lnrd Chancellor said, lie had no objection to hear
11.1 s or any other mono's, but his minium& had been so
stint 11 harassed during the last ten mouths, that lie reined
he should not he able to do justice to those cases it lie
should hear them. He had continued to sit farther intu
the tong varauuu than any ut his predecessors out it was
a ditty he owed to suitors not to apply 1115 at tentiou to the
-divan. 11 of business, if he kite," Wilt lie could out July
perform it, and really at present he 114 d 1101
strength to enable him to du so. Besides, lie had an af-
fectionate regard los the lives and comforts of the gen-
tlemen at the Isar, and lie remembered that when he was
at the bar 1 • self,he had nu inchuation lit be put to death
for the want old liolyday.
DEN6HAM V. STREET.
Oor readers will lecolleet that a sum t time back two
young men. 114111 Pd Horatio and Reeves, were coai-
uuucd the Fleet Prison, for a contempt of Court, in the
case of Miss Di sisilfa Street: tile reillicr car-
ried off a ward of the Conn, and the hiller by hating lent
111411 assistance in the eutei prise. One day last week, Mr.
Hari asked his Lordship to appoint a day fur hearing awe
petitions in this case—the first from M rs. Stu eet, the mo-
ther of the ward, praying that she might have access to
her daughter, which had been prohibited by an order of
the Court ; the second trout tile hiothei ut Houdin', pay-
to be released from contras-mem, oil the ground that
11 had produced and was producing the most fatal cons°.
queues.* out has coustitutiou: this petition was backed by
au affidavit from a medical gentleman. The Lord Cildll4
cellos named to-day for the nearing ui the petitions, and,
by the desire of the cuminl on both sides, the case was
argued in his Lordship's private room. The stank we
understood to be this—that the petition of Mrs. Street was
rejected, and tile prayer of that of the brother of Horatio
granted, 'spoil condition that the petitioner was to have nu
Communication whis;ever with Miss Drnsilla Street.
IN THE MATTER OF BOYLE, ♦ BANKRUPT.
Mr. Montague, in moving that the sou tttttt lbsloll of bank-
ruptcy which had been issued against Mr. Boyle might be
supei seded, stated the following rather start.' i-ing facts
'rite bankrupt had, virally by ills own exertious, paid off
debit against the estate to the amoral!. of? I 9,00J1. There
were now only two unclaimed darts M 11141111144 amount-
ing to only 1 t,OUtfl., to satisfy which the assignees had
mule than sufficient affects ha their hand*.
The Lord Cimneellue said, that if the commission were
to be superseded, h west be %lumen prejudice to line two
outstanitiog claims or to the acts which had been dune by
the a-signers under the commission.
Mr. sliadaehh, on the part of the assignees, said, he was
Instructed not only nut to oppose ;he mution, but to stale
plibLely trait fits elicits coasidered themselves ler the
pettiest obligation to Mi. lloy le, to a huse exertions it
was owing, that after saiisfyitig all claims against the
estate, there now remained a surplus of titni,oom.
Tile Lord Chancellor, oil :panting flue inotiois,observed,
that t i. WAS worth all the bankruptcies lie ever beard ut
lit his life.
IN THE MATTER OF THE EARL OF PORTSMOUTH.
The Attorney-Geneial said, that certain :Minimss had
been tiled ea the part of his clients winch he was desirous
that his Lot dsliip Mould peruse.
The Lord Chancellor.—Saul them to me, and then 1
shall he able to judge what time will be necessary to ena-
ble the other side to reply to them.
The Attorney-General thought that if his Lordship read
the affidavits, particiffaily those of four medical men, he
would be oft/pinion that this wilt a most important case.
The Lord thancellor.-1 wish to God that any other
person had jurisdiction to try this case than myself; 1
cannot Intact what occurred frame, ly, %lieu affidavits
sufficient to convince any man of a fact were all dis-
proved.
Mr. Haul complained that lie had been furnished with
copies of only a part of the affidavits to which the Attor-
ney-General had alluded. Thum what lie had seen of
hose which hail come raider his notice, however, he
thought it might be his duty to refer theirs to tile Master,
in under to ascei tom ts twiner teleell,iva it dections which
they contained upon !raid parties in no way connectud
with the suit, should not be expunged.
Me. Wetherell was of opinion that the conduct of third
patties would be found very mate' idi to the case.
The Lord Chancellor said that it might he a question
whether the IS lamer to *high the Ell of Poriatioeth