The Sun.
London, England, 1830-04-10 00:00:00

COURT OF REQUESTS, GUILDHALL.

BELT V. I OBEN.- AGENCY.

This was a case brought before the Commisioners
f r the recovery of a sum of money from Messrs.
Cohen, merchants, of the city of London, by Mr.
Beit, the agent of a Hamburg merchant named
Hulbert, under the following circumstances :
About two years ago Messrs. Cohen were at
Hamburg, and became acquainted with Mr. Hil-
bert, who proposed to them a speculation in silk
hats of foreign manufacture, as likely to succeed in
England amongst persons going abroad. There being
a heavy duty upon the article in this country, it was
determined to dispose of them, if possible, to the
planters in the West Indiei, where no duty is im-
posed. A case of hats was sent over experimentally,
and they remained for a considerable time in the
docks, for the purposes of sale, but no purchasers
appeared, the article being manufactured at home
upon terms which rendered the application to the
Hamburg market quite unnecessary. In the mean
time Mr. Hulbert drew upon Messrs. Cohen for his
share of (we believe) the original costs of the hats,
and they accepted and paid the bill, after which they
shipped the hats for the Cape of Good Hope, in
the expectation of finding a market there. Mr. Beit
applied to Messrs. Cohen subsequently, as agent to
Mr. Hulbert, for a sum of money, amounting to
about 4/. 155., which lie considered to be due to his
principal upon the issue of the speculation. He
produced the accounts of the transaction, and com-
plained of rude treatment upon making his application.
Mr. nobler, jun., for the defendants, objected to
the demand as one not to be recognised, as far as re-
garded an agent.

The CO CRT dismissed the summons as far as rc-
garded the partnership responsibility.
Mr. Beit then made a demand against Messrs.
Cohen for the value of certain table-cloths, the pro-
perty of Mr. Hulbert.
. . .

Messrs. Cohen stated that the table-cloths were
damaged, and of no value whatever.
Mr. Hobler, jun., on this occasion repeated his
first objection as to the inutility of the appearance
of an agent in a court of conscience, and argued that
the Commissioners could not recognize the claim
made not in " person." Suppose he should answer
to the Court that Mr. Hulbert had, in consequence
of the dealings which took place between him and
Messrs. Cohen, said " You may make whatever use
you please of those table-cloths," Mr. Hulbert not
being before the Court himself, no decision could
he given in his favour. In a matter of conscience
the party demanding must himself undergo examina-
tion, or how could the Commissioners judge of the
merits of a private transaction ?
The whole case was then pronounced by the Com-
missioners to be untenable.

AUTHOR OF CALEB WILLIANIS.—The
new novel of Clondeeley by this celebrated writer is ad-
mitted to be worthy of his genius. The subject is one of
those romances of real ;ire which sometimes actually occur
in society, and surpass the invention of fiction. There is
no writer who knows so well how to deal with these as
Mr. GODWIN ; the denouement and catastrophe of the
present tale are perhaps without parallel in their impressive
character.

NEW PUBLICATioNs.- --The following Works
are just published by Messrs. COLBURN and BENTLEY,
New Burlington-street:-1. The Rev. G. CROLY'S Poetical
Works, 2 vols. ; and in a few days will appear-2. Walter
Colyton, a Tale of the Reign of JAMES 11., by the Author
of " Brambletye House," 3 vols.-3. Notes on Haiti, in-
cluding an Account of the Aetna! state of that Republic,
by CHARLES MACKENZIE, Esq., F.R.S., late his MA-
JESTY'S Consul-General at Haiti, 2 vole., post Svo., with
Illustrations.-4. Tales of the Colonies, by Joust HOWISON,
Esq., Author of " Sketches of Canada," 3 vols.-
5. Personal Narrative of an Officer in the English Army
of Occupation in France, 2 vols.-6. The King's Own, a
Tale of the Sea, by the Author of " The Naval Officer,"
3 vols.—And 7. The Third Volume of the Diary and
Correspondence of Dr. DonnernGs.
FUNERAL OF MARSHAL ST. CYR.—The
funeral of Marshal GouvioN ST. Om took place yester-
day, as had been announced. After the celebration of the
usual religious ceremonies in the Chapel of the Invalids,
the cortege proceeded to the cemetery of Pere la Chaise,
escorted by four battalions of infantry, commanded by Gen.
Count WALL. The arms and decorations of the defunct
were placed on the coffin. A long line of carriages, filled
with Marshals and Generals, the friends of the deceased,
followed. A detachment of gendarmerie closed the pro-
cession. On arriving at the cemetery of Pere la Chaise,
we found that the remains of this distinguished warrior
were to be placed in the same vault with, and close to
to those of his friend and companion in arms the late
Marshal SUCISET, Duc d'Albufera. An immense crowd
occupied every spot that commanded a view of the tomb,
around which the Marshals, Generals, and other friends
of the deceased, formed an imposing circle. The body
having been lowered into the vault, and the attending
clergy having offered up the customary prayers, Mar-
shal MORTiErt. (Due de Trevise), General LAMARQUF,
and Count de JARICOURT, pronounced long eulogiums on
the virtues and talents of the late Marshal ; tracing his
brilliant career from his first entrance into the army to its
termination. Among the distinguished individuals who
attended at this solemn and affecting ceremony, we re-
marked Marshal Sourz, (Due de Dalinatie), Mouroa,
Monzrza (Due de Trevise), OUDINOT (Due de Reggio),
and Ma csicaer (Due de Raguse) ; Generals MATTILIEU
DUMAS, LAMARQUE, Vice-Admiral MUG VET, &C.—
French Paper of Wednesday.
On Thursday night, the Ist inst., when the
York Highflyer coach, from London, was about half a
mile north of Newark, it met the Leeds waggon, the
driver of which hailed the coachman, and informed him
that a woman, who was riding in the tail of the waggon,
had lost a child, about 15 months old, on the road, some
short distance further on. WHITE, the coachman of the
Highflyer, suggested that under such a loss it was the
woman's duty to get out of the waggon, and go back and
look fir the child ; but she replied that she must go on to
Newark, and that she wished the coachman to " pick it
up, and send it after her !" Warm thought this a strange
commission ; but, as the Union coach came up shortly
afterward, he communicated it to his brother whip of that
concern ; and the two agreed to keep together, one on
each side of the road, and to make observation, and use
every caution, in driving for a mile or two. It was not
until they had humanely gone in this way for four miles,
that the poor child was found lying in the middle of the
road, and having bad one of its feet dreadfully crushed by
the wheel of some carriage passing over it ! Trics, the
gum d of the Union, picked up the poor little wounded and
forsaken thing ; it was a fine child ; and, if any balm to
its sufferings could have proceeded from the commiseration
of two coach-loads of passengers, never had good been ren-
dered with more hearty zeal, or a cure been performed
with more miraculous speed. Many were inclined to weep
over this "lacerated lamb of another's flock ;"—and in the
next minute all most fervently gave vent to their execra-
tions on the unnatural mother who could so abandon her
babe, and who, with so monstrous a self-possession under
such a bereavement, could speak of having the infant sent
after her! It was the unanimous judgment of all that she
had thrown the child from the waggon (in which she had
two others)—that its foot had been crushed by a cart
which was attached to the waggon ! It must have lain
on the road an hour and three quarters before it was dis-
covered. It was sent to Newark by the guard of the first
down coach that was met, and we understand was deli-
vered there to its cruel mother, a woman who was a pas-
senger by the waggon. Our inquiries have not made us
acquainted with her name or circumstances, nor can any
humane persons take an interest in knowing them, except
it be for the purpose of avoiding her.—Lincoln Mercury
A DANGEROUS JOKE.—On Saturday last,
while the Holderness for-hounds were on the alert for sly
reynard near Walkington Wood, a wag, probably with a
view of preventing total disappointment to the lovers of the
chase, threw down a trail, and, after dragging it several
miles, conceived the mischievous idea of carrying it into
I3everley Market-place, it being the market day, and leav-
ing it among the cabbage-stalks and pot-crates. But alit)!
how fugitive are furtive joys. The full cry of the hounds,
which at a distance charmed him much, lost, as it neared,
its dulcet sound, and when, within half a mile of Beverley,
he beheld himself in the same field with the whole pack,
his horror was ineffable, and it was with great difficulty,
his clothes being strongly tinctured with the scent of the
trail, that, by ascending a tree, he escaped the danger he
was in of supplying them with a naprning repas.. '.[ere',
he remained surrounded by the dogs for some time, till the
cracking of whips and hedges announced the arrival of the
sportsmen. The scene then changed, and he that had been
intending to make sport was made sport of, for a large
quantity of eggs being procured from a neighbouring
farmer, he was pelted with them till they were expended,
and then left to abeterge Rockingham.