The Sun.
London, England, 1852-06-21 00:00:00

LAW INTELLIGENCE.

INSOLVENT DEBTORS' COURT, June 19,
(Before Mr. Couirnis&ioner PHILLIPS.)

IMPORTANT NEW REGULATION.-IN THE MATTER OF

WILLIAM UDELL,

This insolvent, a prisol.er, cpplied to be admitted to
bail until his hearing. Mr. Commissioner Phillipsin-
spected the schedule, and finding debts " without consi-
deration," at once refused the application.
His HONOUR said ho found the insolvent had become
surety for another person, when he could not pay his own
debts, and as he was determined to put a stop to the sys-
tem, he should adopt, in this case, a rule he had made in
his own mind, and refuse the application. He had been
very facile in granting bail where solvent sureties ap-
peared—more facile than the other Commissioners; but
it was now high time that something should be done to
check the evil to which ho had alluded, and as this
was the first case he should take upon himself to refuse
bail. On the part of the insolvent an attempt was made
to induce the L3arned Commissioner to allow the insol-
vent to go out on bail, and the case was again called on.
In answer to the Commissioner, the insolvent admitted
in reference to a debt in the schedule that he had become
security for it.
Mr. Commissioner PHILLIPS declared that he would
not accept bail in such a case. It was the first principle
of justice that a man should pay his own debts before ho
became security for other persons. He had been trying
everything to check the system, but ho found it was still
going on in accommodation bills and suretyships, parti-
cularly among clerks in public departments. The appli-
cation was accordingly refused, and the insolvent re-
turned to prison.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
MANSION-HOUSE.

Eliza -, the late companion of Mahomet Abraham,
the black beggarman, was brought before Alderman
Wire, for the purpose of being formally di charged from
custody. She was respectably dressed, and she con-
ducted herself with great propriety before the alderman.
The young woman's father said the girl had, upon
being applied to, executed the necessary deed, by which
he was enabled to raise a sum of money for her benefit,
and had secured her a passage in a vessel about to sail
for America. lie expressed himself deeply sensible of
the extraordinary kindness and attention with which
the Lord Mayor had acted upon the occasion upon
which the unfortunate case was introduced to his notice.
She was, he had no doubt, rescued, by the humane iu-
terposi Lion which had taken place, from a life of misery
and vice.

Alderman WIRE (to the young female)—Am I to
understand that you are willing to go abroad? The
defendant—Certainly, my Lord; l am most desirous to
make my immediate departure, and I beg to be allowed
to return thanks for the humanity with which I have
been treated, and the opportunity which has been given
me of retrieving my character.
Alderman WIRE—I am very glad to hear your deter-
mination. The life which you had been for some time
leading has been such as to bring disgrace upon your-
self and your family, and now that you have the com-
plete opportunity of making ameeds for your past fol-
lies, I trust you will not disappoint those who have, in
consequence of the manner in which you have acted
while under our care, begun to form a very favourable
opinion of you. I now deliver you up to your father,
and I impress upon you the necessity of reflecting upon
the dreadful evils you have just been delivered from.
The defendant bowed respectfully to the Alderman,
and assured him she would never forget either the misery
from which she had been rescued, or the benevolence
she had met with from the magistrates of London.
In the course of last week the Lord Mayor received
several letters from tradesmen and others, making pro-
posals of marriage to the girl, and assuring his Lordship
that they would treat her with the greatest kindness in
the distant countries to which they were anxious to in-
troduce her. All the proposals were made by persons
about to go abroad, some to Australia, others to Cali-
fornia. The following form part of tee correspondence:—
" My Lord,—lf, in my ignorance, I violate any rule of
etiquette or decency by addressing the following to
your Lordship, I humbly seek your pardon for ever
troubling you with this paper. But it your Lordship
should kindly see fit to grant my prayer, I would con-
tinue as follows:—My Lord, I have just seen, in the
public papers, that it is proposed to send Miss Eliza
—, who appeared at the Mansion-house, in company
with a black beggerman (Mahamet Abraham) abroad.
Having a mother, and four younger brothers and sisters,
aged respectively nineteen, sixteen, fourteen, and thir-
teen, who, with myself, wish to go to Australia (not the
gold diggings), but being unable to satisfy that wish
for want of means, is the reason of my taking the liberty
of proposing to the young lady's father,
with per-
mission of your Lordship, my marriage with her, if her
parent would provide a free passage for the whole of
us to the colony. My Lord, permit me to remark that,
from a humble position, by industry and integrity, risen
to my present situation, that of a clerk in a public office,
which, for more than three years, I have filled, and now
continue to hold, at an increasing salary of SO/. per
year, which is not sufficient to keep my almost elderly
mother and two orphan sisters. This is mentioned, my
Lord, in order that an idea may be formed of the
honesty and sincerity of my intentions, which arise, not
only out of interested motives, but are also due to some
sympathy felt for the young woman herself."
Another says:—
"My dear Lord Mayor,—l hope you will pardon me
for writing these few lines; it is to make a family happy,
to restore an unfortunate girl to her home again, and
should be happy to offer my hand and heart to Miss
Eliza, if she and her parents should think proper. I
am a native of Germany, born near Coblentz. I under-
stand she was going abroad, but I should be most happy
to get married and take her to my native country, and
endeavour to live happy together. My dear Lord Mayor,
I wish you would intercede with EtiZa'd father on behalf
of my future happiness, and I would for ever thank you
for your kindness. H., 439, Oxford-street."
Eliza, has already taken her departure from England.
Mehemet, the black man, still remains in custody. In
a day or so, however, he will be set at large.