The Sun.
London, England, 1830-01-07 00:00:00

Tat es for the common good of all in the district ?
Another thing which operates

against the sale of the produce of prison manu-
factories amongst the Nobility and Gentry, who
are the least likely to be biassed by prejudice, and
therefore the most likely to encourage such ma-
nufactories, is the almost universal, and yet, I
must say, unjudicious, and at all events, greatly
abused practice of allowing servants to receive a
regular per centage, or large presents, from the
tradesmen of whom they purchase goods on
their employers' account. In all these eases
it is very obvious that it is the master
ultimately who pays the per centage, or
makes the present. And so much does the
tradesman find it to be to his advantage to
secure the custom of these go-betweens, that
it is no uncommon thing for a shopkeeper to
support a servant when out of place, from a
gratefill remembrance of past favours, and an
understood pledge of their continuance when
another situation is obtained. Human nature is
hwnan nature still, and a gift perverted' the
heart. And as prison establishments have no
bribes to offer, it is nut likely that a gentleman's
servant will give the preference to prison manu-
factures, or even purchase them, unless his master
or mistress gives explicit orders on the subject,
and sees that they are faithfully executed.—
cannot, however, but express it as my
conviction, that the chief cause why these
prison manufactures do not find a ready
sale is, the general ignorance which prevails
respecting the way in which our prison esta-
blishments are supported. Many respectable
individuals, residing in the immediate vicinity,
have never thought it worth their while to in-
quire whence the money was obtained to meet
the expellee of the adjoining risen ; and are
evidently surprised at the iofinmation that a por-
tion of it is drawn front their own pockets. The
faet is, that all these establishments throughout
the country are supported out of the Poor Mates,
and necessarily tend greatly to increase the
amount. of these rates ; so that every individual
who pays Poor Rates is subscribing to the sup-
port Of our prisons. And hence it follows, that
every measure for diminishing crime and. en-
couragieg the productive labour of our prisons
is. a measure for diminishing the annual expence
of every individual who pays Poor Rates." As
every country has its customs, and in this country
it is the custom to cheat every man where it is
possible to cheat--that is, every man who is ob-
liged to repose trust, consequently Noblemen and
Gentlemen must be preyed on by their servants
—why cannot the persons who dispose of prison
manufactures ask two prices like other tradesmen ?
—one price from those who purchase for them.
selves, and another from those who, like servants,
purchase fir their masters. Mr. Mance must have
a sufficiency of gentlemen's servants through his
hands to know the extent of their allowances from
tradesmen. But, moreover, it is essential to the
object of effective discipline, that as much labour
as possible should be got out of the prisoner.
If we were writing for foreigners it might be
necessary to explain to them, that the home
which has the greatest attraction to the lower
orders of this country is the prison ; but as we
are writing to Engliehmen, we need hardly ob-
serve, that to a poor man who has once sur-
mounted the prejudices derived from education
end tradition against prisons, the greatest punish-
ment that can be inflicted on him is to turn him
out. Let us hear Mr. Mance on this subject :
" In the reformation of criminal delinquents, I
am a decided advocate for hard labour, con-
joined with hard though wholesome fare, as
among the best external means that can be
adopted for counteracting habits of idleness,
dissipation, and vice, and promoting a disposi-
tioo to industry, temperance, and virtue. I
think that all prison labour should be produc-
tive, and turned to the advantage of the corn-
, monite. If every prisoner was compelled not
only to earn his own support, but to contribute
as far as possible to the support of the prison
offiaces, it would increase the irksomeness of his
aittradon ; it would make him more highly value
his liberty when releassd ; it would operate as a
pnwercel cheek, when again tempted to step
aside from die paths of honesty and virtue ;
and it is obvious that, under such regulations,
no one would regard prisons in the light in
which it is to befeared they are now too generally
reoeirded by eioiders not subject to hard labour,
as a castle of indolence,to which they may, by com-
mitting various petty depredations, retreat for
the minter season from labour, anxiety, danger,
and want ; and where they are sure of regular
provisions and a comfortable bed, without fore-
thought or expence." As we are somewhat
optimists, ised never despair of the cause of im-
provement, we are sometimes tempted to indulge
in a new view of this subject. It is obvious,
that at present prisons are rapidly rising in favour
with the people ; and the question as to the
inecticabirity of keeping men out of them must
depend on this—whether the condition of those
in prison can be made as uncomfortable as the
condition of those out : because, if the misery
without more than equals in its increase the
rigour within, the attraction of the prisons must
continue. It has occasionally struck us, when
reflecting on this subject, that the growing at-
traction of prisons may naturally, and without
violettee, lead to the establishment of the
eyete in of Mr. Owen, or an approximation to
" Regular provisions (as Mr. Mance says)
god eomfortable bed, without forethought or
esneenee,'' are, in a climate like ours, no. such
bad things in winter. When the majority of
the labouring population have chosen a prison
life in preference, our prisons must become great
co-opetative institutions, in which the aristo-
cracy of the country may still retain their ascen-
daney,e by directing their operations. The re-
volution will accomplish itself gradually. We
know not whether Mr. Owen has looked to
prisons as thus paving the way for his parallelo-
grams. Mr. Mance is of opinion that " such
a quantum of productive labour could be legally
and justly exacted from prisoners as to cover the
principal part, or the whole, of the expellees of
these establishments," which is a most material
point. We regret that our limits will not allow
U 8 to enter at much greater length into the views
of Mr. Mance. One crying evil in our system
is- the inequality of the hard labour exacted.
" There are scarcely (he says) two prisons in
the kingdom that inflict the same degree of hard
labour; nor do I know-one in .England, except
the one at Petworth, where the same degree of
labour is inflicted in winter as in summer. As
thesCase now stands, the hardened offender, who
takes the advantage of winter's darkness to rob
and plunder the property of the public, gets off
with one-fourth, one-third, and in some prisons
oneshalf less daily labour than the young and
less artful practitioner, who commits some petty
crime in the summer." The discretionary power
given to gaolers, in publicly or privately whip-
ping prisoners, is stated by Mr. Mance to be
productive of great evil :—" Finding no hu-

man standard (says Mr. Mance) to assist my
judgment, I had recourse to the Scriptures,
and found that the law of Moses limits the
number of stripes to be iVicted to forty.
Dem. c. xxv. v. 2 and 3. This determined me
to inflict three dozen lashes upon each offender
ordered to be privately whipped." Perhaps Mr.
Mance abated the four out of the forty in
consideration of the superior force of a blow
from an Englishman compared with an inhabi-
tant of Palestine. The picture which Mr.
Mance draws of the evils of a piece of inhu-
manity, peculiar, we believe, to England—
namely, the committing to prison the reputed
fathers, in cases of bastardy, before birth—is
truly appalling. We are afraid we should be
overhauled by Sir James Scarlett, for endea-
vouring to bring the Legislature into contempt.
were we to say the tenth part of what we feel
with respect to a body which, in spite of nume-

rous remonstrances, have allowed This evil to re-
main from the ISth of Elizabeth to this day.
" In cases of bastardy (says Mr. Mance) the
Overseers of parishes frequently avail themselves
of thin clause of the Act of Parliament, as a rod
to drive the young reputed father to the altar or
to prison. Providing for the child is not so
much the object as an entire riddance of the
mother, by causing her to become a parishioner
of some other parish by the marriage ; as, in
nine commitments out of ten, the man belongs
to one parish and the woman to another. By
committing men to prison before birth, women
become careless of their chastity, knowing
that a man mint marry them or go to pri-
son, which is too often the case ; and forced.
marriages seldom turn out well. After birth,
if the _ man does not obey the order of affilia-
tion, but leaves the child to be supported by the
parish, he may be sent to prison, and kept to
hard labour, as often as he may offend in the
non-payment of the order. But before birth it
is uncertain whether the child will ever become
chargeable. Notwithstanding the reputed father
may be confined in prison from one to nine
months, to the possible expellee of twenty pounds
to the county ; and some instances have been
known, in which the female, though sworn to
the fact, was not even pregnant, although the
imprisonment has been endured. Immediately
the order of affiliation is served upon the pri-
soner, he must be liberated on the payment of
the order, which is generally from one to four
pounds. This is a great oppression to the sub-
ject, and an injury to the whole community. If
such young men (as fathers of illegitimate chil-
dren generally are) were honest before, prison
association prepares them for criminal pursuits ;
for man drinketh in iniquity like water.'
But we must now dismiss Mr. Mance without
entering further into the parts discussed in his
valuable pamphlet.—Morning Chronicle.
if Parliament, when it meets, only enters upon
one half of the topics which call for its attention,
the next, we should imagine, will be one of the
busiest Sessions that will ever have been remem-
bered. Like an arrear of causes in Courts of
Law, most of the public concerns have been
made remands. Even in the Session before
the last the novelty of their situation was a rea-
son or an excuse with Ministers for postponing
a great proportion of the public business till last
year ; and when the Session of the last year ar-
rived, the Catholic Question was the only ques-
tion of any moment which was deliberately
entered upon, all other subjects (if we except
the appointment of the New Police) were again
postponed, under the usual pledge that they
shall be taken up " early in the next." Under
these circumstances alone, bad it been only to
bring up this double—we might say treble—list
of arrears, Ministers were bound, we think, to
have called Parliament together early in Novem-
ber ; and the blame of not having done so be-
comes incalculably greater, when, in addition to
all which stood over for consideration, they have
seen the new and pressing difficulties with which
the country has become environed. In private
life, if a man's house were on fire, or a confla-
gration only approaching, would he take no steps
to subdue or meet the danger, but quietly retire
to his country seat, in expectation that the en-
gines would arrive some day or two hence, or
that water might be obtained after the frost had
broken up ? This, or something not unlike
this, has been the apparent apathy which the
Government has displayed in not earlier re-
sorting to that source of advice which the
Constitution of this country furnishes as
the proper remedy in every political difficulty or
disease. If the doctors can cure the patient
without further assistance, of course it is their
duty : and they are well justified in doing so:
but if under their management the disease in-
creases, surely they incur a fearful responsibility
indeed if' they neglect or postpone a recourse to
that additional number of counsellors in whose
advice there is, or ought to be, wisdom. We
know that there are persons who are quite incre-
dulous as to any good being expected from the
Legislature ; and who are ready enough to ex-
claim, " But what can Parliament do !" Such
people have only to go one step farther, and ask,
"Of what use is any Parliament at all ?"—a
question which, we trust, we shall never seriously
hear asked. We venerate the Constitution too
much to believe that any of its functions, and
above all, its most important ones, can ever be-
come useless, except by their own vice, corrup-
tion, or neglect. We trust that we are not
wrong in entertaining some hope that Parliament,
when it meets, will be capable of convincing Mi-
nisters that there is a remedy, if not for the cure,
at least for the alleviation of the grievances of
the country. It is true that Parliament has too
readily lent itself to the weak and mischievous
theories which of late years have been advanced
by shallow and experimental legislators. With-
out the sanction of the " Great Council of the
Nation," those wild and absurd doctrines which
have tended to break down the prosperity, and
loosen, as it were, the foundations of the empire,
would have perished in their birth, or only have
survived in the harmless memorials of recorded
folly. But, after all, it is to Parliament that the
country must look for help in its distress, and for
hope in its calamity. It has saved the nation
before, and now, instructed by a bitter, but im-
proving experience, we trust it will yet display
wisdom and energy enough to save it again.—
Morning Herald.
The affair of the Whitehall preachers appears
to excite a considerable interest ; more, in all
probability, on account of the novel principle it
involves than from any intrinsic consequences
attached to the thing itself. The alleged cause
of the measure we understand to be this, that
the Chapel has, from the increase of large
houses in the neighbourhood, become the resort
of more great and fashionable people than here-
tofore, some or all of whom took a degree of
umbrage at the constant change of preachers
which the present plan' subjected them to, all of
whom were not equally remarkable for eloquence,
or rather, perhaps, for that peculiar kind of doc-

trine which a well-bred Londcin preacher knows
how to instil into " ears polite." The conse-
quence was a representation to the Bishop upon
the subject, who, of course, after due considera-
tion, came to the determination of abolishingthe
preachers in the mass, reserving only two, among
whom the income of the whole (301. a year
each) should be divided. Whether there was
any real ground of complaint against any of the
preachers, on the score of delivery, or on account
of the dull and abstruse nature of their doc-
trines, we know not, nor whether a frequent
change of preachers he any serious disadvantage
to a congregation, will we inquire ; but we con-
fess that the precedent of apparent innovation
thus set, and coming from the heads of the
Church themselves (for we do not believe that
'the Bishop of London would determine on such
a step alone), is a matter of serious import, and
may both justify and lead to consequences which
in apparently so small a matter may not have
been contemplated. There seems, among all
who have alluded to the matter, some doubt as
to the source from whence the revenues are de-
rived ; some alleging them to come from an ex-
press and private arrangement of Bishop Gib-
son ; others contending that it is a Royal ap-
pointment, defrayed out of the Civil List. IH
either case, we apprehend, the existing parties
had a vested interest, which it would have been
both just and prudent not to have deprived
them of, and that in so summary a way. We
know it is said that they held their offices dur-
ing pleasure ; but during pleasure does not
mean during caprice, but implies that there
shall be some good and substantive reason,
arising out of a man's own conduct, to justify
his dismissal from an office held upon such
tenure. We cannot help thinking, too, that
this measure implies a slight both upon the
Universities and upon the judgment of those
who have made these appointments. We can-
not persuade ourselves that the two Universities
of Oxford and Cambridge are not rich enough
in good Preachers and sound Divines to enable
them to furnish rather more than 24 persons fit
to inculcate the plain truths of Christianity, even
to the refined ears of the theological critics of
Privy-gardens and Richmond-terrace. We con-
fess that we take our dislike of the measure, in
no small degree, from the evident satisfaction
which it appears to give to the enemies of the
Church. We are no enemies to reform, but we
are to spoliation ; and we have lived long
enough to see very trifling, and apparently harm-
less, precedents quoted to justify great and
striking wrongs. We hope this will not prove
to be an experiment of that description.—/bid.
The quarterly accounts of the produce of the
revenue for the term which expired on the sth
instant have been published, and that the result
is far from being satisfactory is universally ad-
mitted, and too obvious to be denied. - They
exhibit a decrease on the gross revenue of the
year to the amount of 1,165,449/. This is, by
those writers in the interest of the Treasury, re-
presented to be but a trifling sum. They tell us
that the malt duties, owing to certain restric-
tions, have been unproductive ; but they have
not the candour to admit that, if beer and porter
be denied to the labourer, whisky and gin have
been given him under every mode of bounty and
encouragement. In addition to this the sharp
and arbitrary manner in which the revenue has
been collected for the last twelve months evinces
not only the needy, but the desperate situation
of the Exchequer. The harassing prosecu-
tions of the officers of the Excise and the
Stamps have ()illy had one object—the
screwing as much as possible from the wants
of a destitute and nearly insolvent people.—
At no period in the history of this country,
for the last hundred years, were the creditors
of the King so pushed, or the channels of
revenue so excessively drained. Informers are
in every street—an exciseman at every door—a
Custom house officer dipping his hands into
every box and portmanteau—and, whether as
regards the brewer, the baker, the distiller, or the
vender of patent medicines; the same vexatious
and cruel and indecent practices arc resorted to.
All this is to protect, as the slaves say, the pub-
lic revenue ; all this is to bolster up a sinking.
system ; all this is to provide for the necessities
of the State, and keep the lumbering machine a
few months longer in motion. But the most
melancholy part of this statement, which is pub-
lished officially, and made up of materials which
we are not allowed to examine, and of which, of
course, we are ❑ot permitted to form any esti-
mate, the most melancholy part is, that the pro-
duce of the Excise has declined in a most
lamentable degree. The common people seem
to be in a condition far more abject and degrad-
ing than the black peasantry of the West Indies.
They are now deprived .of almost every luxury,
They neither taste beer nor spirits, nor consume
any one exciseable commodity, in the ratio of
one-sixth part of their former consumption.
The population is increasing, yet the quantity of
taxed articles is considerably .decreased. For the
last two years the produce of the Excise has
been as follows :
Year ending January, 1829 X 18,700,373

Year ending January, 1830 17,749,721

Deerease on the present year t 950,652

This shows no less a sum than nearly a mil-
lion in the decrease of the Excise during the
memorable and disastrous year 1829. Whence
does this arise ? It is true there is less beer
dank, but spirits are a more profitable source
of revenue, and these we are daily told by certain
Magistrates arc drunk to excess. Every senile
twaddler of the day will tell us that to the exces-
sive consumption of ardent spirits is to be
ascribed the rapid ineicase of crime, the demo-
ralization of the lower orders, and the mental
and physical degeneracy of the people. But do
these persons, who dole out such homilies, ever
pry into facts ? Do they ever examine public
documents ? Do they ever ponder over the
dull columns of official returns? If they did
so they would not, we are sure, nauseate their
readers with so much nonsense. If they would
do so we are certain they would deem it a reli-
gious duty to eat their words, and call upon Dog-
berry to immortalize them in his own emphatic
and magisterial language. Here is the plain and
incontrovertible fact. Here is the secret history
' of this extraordinary inci ease in the consump-
tion of vitriol, gin, and other ardent spirits.
The quantity consumed appears to be but
trifling. There is much less drank
than ought to be drank. We appeal to
Mr. Goulburn if there be half so much con-
sumed as he expected, and as his necessities re-
quire. The Excise returns exhibit a fulling off
—a palpable and ruinous diminution of nearly a
million sterling. Bad as 1829 was, it appears
that 1830 is worse. Every seventeenth man in
tie realm has been rendered sober from neces-
sity. Nay, as only adults consume spirituous
liquors, and these generally of the male sex,
we must take for granted that every fifth man has
been placed on a very stinted allowance, if not

deprived altogether of this indulgence. We may
preach about morality till our lungs are wasted,
but to this conclusion we must come at last, that
the labourer is the best judge of his own wants,
and these are now stinted in England to the
mere allowance of the pauper. The country is
exhausted, and we defy the Duke of Wellington
to persevere in his present policy for six months
longer without rendering himself unable to pay
the current expenses of the Government, or pre-
venting a general commotion. But what are
the remedies ? This is demanded on all
sides. Remedies ! Good God ! who expects
remedies from the present Administration ? They
do not admit that the country is in a dis-
tressed state. They do not admit that their
policy is a bad one. They do not admit that
their measures require any modification or
amendment. They even have the assurance to
tell us, by the mouths of their organs, that the
nation is in a progressive state of improvement,
and that time and Providence, without any exer-
tions on their part, will bring relief. It would
therefore be folly, it would be madness, to pro
pound any remedies to these men. They re-
ceive their military pay and their civil salaries
punctually. Their garner is full, their cup over-
flows. They scout the very idea of distress
having any existence in his Majesty's wide do-
minions. They are satisfied with office, its
cares, its emoluments, its patronage, its jobs, its
honours, and they are moreover satisfied with
the present state of things. What is Manchester
to them or they to Manchester ? What boots
it though the spinning-jenny rusts ? Who are
the imported weavers of Spitalfields that their
remonstrances should be listened to ? What
has Downing-street to do with Huddersfield,
or Apsley-house with the throwiug-mills of
Macclesfield ? What is Glasgow or Paisley com-
pared with Walmer Castle, or the complaints
of agricultural labourers with the noble pur-
suits of the game ? Stuff all. True, the
Minister cannot conveniently meet the expen-
' diture. What of that ? Let it stand over to the
next Session. If the clerks in office grumble
for their pay, can be not discharge the poorer
ones ? If the fundholders evince any alarm, can
he not silence them with a threat of reduction ?
If his Majesty should sympathise, can he not
stop the supplies for the new palace ? If the land-
owners should seek the repeal of the malt and
beer duties, cannot he intimidate them with a
Property Tax ? Should they complain of un-
paid rents, can he not threaten to open the ports
to foreign corn ? If the clergy should wince, has
he not their church at his mercy ? If the
brewers grumble, can he not frighten them with
the Scotch and Irish distillers ? In short the
power is in his hands, and as a people we must
bow before him in the dust, and trust to his
well-known virtues and benevolent feelings. We
must he silent under the terrors of a gaol. We
must be quiet if we stand in awe of the pil-
lory, the ear-cropping, and the nose-slitting
prescribed for us by our humane contem-
porary of the Gazette de France.—Be it
so—we are silent. We wait the troubling
of the waters. All is going to ruin ; but, like
his Majesty's Ministers, we put our trust in
Providence. lluxtering hat done its worst—
the caterers of the public revenue have bled us
to the last drop—the vampire, like the school-
master, is abroad, and we have yielded—the
times look stormy and we are still—the avenger
is behind the veil, and we wait his appearance ;
but, when the proper time comes, woe be to
those who have inflicted the calamities ! Those
who have fortunes to lose are, we trust, making
good their defences. Those who have land are,
we trust, ready to meet the spoliator. Those who
are silent are, we trust, preparing to speak out.
Those who have been duped are, we hope,
nursing their wrath, and keeping it warm, like
O'Shanter's wife. Those who have believed
and have been deceived are, we trust, shaking
off their apathy, and preparing for the convul-
sion—the convulsion that must come—the
settling day that is at hand. Look at the reve-
nue, reader—look at tile country—look at the
Gazette—and think !—Morning Journal.

ELOPEMENT IN HUMBLE LIFE-HUS-
BAND KILLED BY 'THE PARAMOUR.

For the last two or three days the deepest sensa-
tion has been produced in the little village of Nor-
wood, arising from the following calamitous event.
About three years .since, a young man named
Thomas Cuts, who had just attained his 22d year,
married a young woman residing in the village, who
bore an excellent character, and their wedding was
celebrated with much festivity in the village. Cuss
arid his wife took a small cottage next to the King's
Head public-house, where they continued to live in
the greatest happiness and comfort. About five
months since, having a spare room, they determined
upon letting it, and a young man, a letter-carrier
belonging to the post-office, whose station is in Nor-
wood, became the tenant. In about two months
after the postman took up his abode, Cuss went into
I the country upon a visit to his friends, leaving his
I wife at home ; he was absent about a week, when,
upon his return to his cottage, to his dismay and
astonishment, he discovered that his wife had ab-
sconded a day or two before with the postman,
taking with them nearly every portable article of
furniture in the house. he feelings of the poor
fellow upon the discovery can be better imagined
than described. On inquiry he learned that his
wife had been carrying on an illicit intercourse
almost from the moment her paramour. came to
lodge at the cottage, and in order to prevent Cuss
having any knowledge of the place of their retreat,
the postman had, by some means, procured his re-
moval to town, but the immediate part could not be
ascertained, and the unfortunate husband wandered
about the village almost bordering upon distraction.
• On Monday forenoon last, Cuss happened to be in
town, and in pawing along Blackman-street, in the
Borough, to his surprise he met the fellow who had
carried away his wife. The moment he saw him
his feelings were aroused to the highest degree of
indignation, and he struck him a blow, which was
returned by the other party, who on doing so took
to his heels, pursued by the husband; the postman
endeavoured to take refuge in a neighbouring public-
house, but finding his pursuer was close at his heels,
lie turned round, and raising his umbrella, thrust the
point of it into his right eye : the point com-
pletely removed the eye from its socket, and
the poor fellow was almost deprived of his senses.
In the confusion the villain effected his escape,
and the unfortunate man was taken to Guy's
Hospital, where his case was immediately at-
tended to by Mr. Key, one of the principal sur-
geons. Upon examination it was found that the
point of the umbrella had entered the orbit of the
eye, which, as above stated, was completely re-
moved. The poor mart endured the most excru-
ciating agony, and notwithstanding every possible
means were adopted that skill could devise, the
unhappy man expired about nine o'clock the same
night. Yesterday a post mortem examination of
the injured part took place by Mr. Key, in the pre•
sence of a vast number of other professional gentle-
men, when it was ascertained that the point had
penetrated the brain to the depth of two inches and
a half, and had ruptured several of the blood-ves-
sels, which was the immediate cause of his dissolu-
tion. C ommunication was sent to Sir Francis
Preen:lg, and immediate steps are to be taken to
bring the fellow to justice.

INSOLVENT DEBTORS' COURT, JAN. 6

John King was opposed by a creditor named
John Shearcroft, a tailor.
In his examination by his opposing creditor, he
stated that he had described himself as a clerk and
assistant; but he declined to state by whom he
was employed. He acted as clerk aad assistant to
a club-house, No. 10, King-street, St. James's.
CHIEF COMMISSIONER—DO we understand that
you refuse to say by whom you are employed ?
Insolvent—lt tnight subject my employer to an-
dictment.

Commissioner BOWEN—We cannot help that :
if you do not answer the question you must go back.
The insolvent then stated that a Mr. Eppingham
and Mr. Disbrowe were the proprietors of the club-
house. Mr. Disbrowe was since dead, and he did
not know where Mr. Eppingham now lived. lie,
the insolvent, was not a proprietor.
Mr. Shearcroft—Were not you up before the
Magistrates with Disbrowe and ?
Mr. DUNN, the insolvent's Counsel, told him nat
to answer that question.

Mr. Shearcroit—Was it not a gambling-house ?
Mr. DUNN again interposed, and said that ques-
tion need not be answered.

The insolvent, to further interrogatories, said that
he had lived in Clarendon-square, but the house
and furniture belonged to Maria Du Puis, whom he
had represented as his wife. He swore that he
never said that he had plate and jewellery in that
house worth 8001, nor did he ever t,ay that he had
property to the amount of 3001. a year which no-
body else could touch. He had had a gold watch,
which he sold to a friend in the same business as
himself for 211., and he had had a diamond ring,
which he pledged. After he left Clarendon-square,
which was in 1827, he went to reside at Walcot-
place, and from thence to Bidborough-street, where
Miss Du Puis now lived, and the same furniture
was there as had been in Clarendon-square. His
salary was 3001. a year, and he had at times pur-
chased jewellery for that lady. While in BidborOugh-
street he was arrested.

Mr. DUNN, the insolvent's Counsel, called Miss
Du Puis to prove that all the furniture was her's.
She stated that the houses in which she lived were
all taken in her name, and she paid the rents and
taxes. The furniture had been given her by a gen-
tleman nine or ten years ago, and the insolvent
owned,no part of it.

The COURT thought no. case of opposition had
been made out by the opposing creditor, but it was
necessary that the insolvent should be remanded to
amend his schedule on two grounds : first, he had
falsely accounted for his insolvency, by stating that
it arose from the expence of supporting his mother
and sister, which was impossible from the nature of
the evidence; and next, that he had merely de-
scribed himself in the: advertisements as " clerk and
assistant," without stating to whom or us what
employ. It was necessary, therefore, that he should
, re-advertise, with a full description of himself.
The insolvent was then remanded.
John Dickenson Drew was opposed by Mr.
HALCOMB on behalf of George Oshaldiston, Esq.
The insolvent came up to be heard on the 17th
of last month, when it appeared his debts were only
644/., and his assets (good, bad, and doubtful) con-
siderably exceeded that amount. In 1827 he went
into the service of Mr. Osbaldiston as his laud-
steward, and in 1828 he quitted that gentleman's
employment. There being an unsettled account
between him and his late employer, the latter
arrested him on two different actions for 400/,
and 500/. ; on his first arrest he deposited 400/.
in the sheriff's hands, and afterwards all mat-
ters of dispute between the parties were referred to
the arbitration of a barrister, who eventually found
279/. to be due to Mr. Osbaldiston. The 400/. the
insolvent withdrew afterwards from the Sheriff's
!lauds, and gave bail; and that sum, with other
money which he received, amounting to upwards of
700/, he disposed of, part to pay particular debts,
and the rest he spent, no portion of it going towards
the discharge of Mr. Osbaldiston's debt. The case
was then adjourned for the insolvent to file sonic books
The insolvent came up again to-day, when Mr.
Commissioner LAW delivered the judgment of the
Court. 11e observed that the Court did not intend,
by giving a judgment, to impute to the insolvent
the commission of any fraud upon his employer; the
complaint was, that there being an unsettled account
between them, which was referred to arbitration,
and the insolvent having lodged ‘koo/. in the Sheriff's
hands, professedly to abide the result, had afterwards
withdrawn that money, anti appropriated that and
other money, altogether to the amount of 7001., to
other purposes, not one farthing of it having been
allowed to abide the result of the award. It was
probable that there was some degree of vexation in
the plaintiff's arresting the insolvent twice, but that
did not alter the ground upon which this Court was
about to give judgment. The insolvent knew that
something would be found to be due to the plaintiff,
and yet he chose to part with every. shilling of the
money he then had. The judgment of the Court
was, that the insolvent be remanded for five months
from the date of filing his petition.
Stephen Taylor, whose case wa4 heard on a former.
day, came up this day for judgment.
Mr. Commissioner LAW said the case was origi-
nally heard before him, when it appeared that the
insolvent, having had the means of paying all his
debts out of a legacy left his wife, determined on
paying no one, and put his creditor to considerable
expense by vexatiously defending an action. Great
stress had been laid on the insolvent's offering his
creditor, after "the action was decided, 35/. to dis-
charge the debt anti costs, amounting to 721.; but
thatdid not alter the case here; as it appeared, that
after his arrest, he delayed filing his petition in this
Court until his wife had received the last 50/., and
having then got all he could, none of which went
to his creditors, he petitioned this Court. The
judgment of the Court for fraudulently making away
with his property was, that the insolvent be remanded
for a period of nine calendar months from the date of
filing his petiton.