The Sun.
London, England, 1837-04-07 00:00:00

LAW IN'T'ELLIGENCE.

COURT OF CHANCERY, APR'', 6.
FLOWER 9.4.' MARTIN.
This was a bill filed by Sir James Flower, the son and
heir of the late Sir Charles Flower, to take the opinion of
the Curt on the question of whether the executors of the
deceased were at liberty to conceal a bond for 5,50 W.,
which Sir Charles had in 1824 taken from his sin as ni
security apparently for money advanced, but in reality as a
p!edge for good conduct in avoiding any future act of ex-
travagance. It appeared that Mr. James Flower had in
the year 1822 incurred debts to the extent of 4,8001., and.
serious diffezences having in consequence arisen between
him and his father, the matter was referred to Mr. Petty
Muspratt and Mr. Martin, and, by their advice, Sir
Charles agreed to pay the debts and take the bond in
question from his son as a security. The bond was not
to be enforced for six years -at least, but a power was re-
servi.d to Mr. Muspratt and Mr. Martin to cancel it at any
time within that period, if from their sense of the reformed
habits of Mr. James Flower they conceived it expe-
dient to do so. The bond, at the death of Sir Charles,
in 1834, had not been cancelled, hut it was sworn by Mr .
Musnatt and Mr. Martin that Sir Charles had been, from
the time it was given, perfectly satisfied with the con,luct
of his son, and that they had neglected to cancel it solely
because they were not called on by any of the parties tit) do
so. It was also proved that Sir Charles lied kept an an-
nual account of all his property and securities, and that no
mention of this bond, or of any interest due on it, had ever
appeared in that account, a farther proof that he never con-
sidered it a debt due from his son.
Mr. WIGRAM, on the part of Sir James Flower, non'
contended that it was in the power of a Court of Equity to
order the bond to be cancelled, although it be enforced in a
Court of law.
His LORDSHIP premised to look over the pleadings and
affidavits, and dispose of the matter to-morrow morning.

VICE-CHANCELLORS' COURT, Arra!, 7.
PATTERSON V. WELLESLEY.

Mr. KNIGHT appeared in support of .a demurrer by
Richard Wellesley, the eldest son of the Hon. Mr. Long
Wellesley. The bill was filed by Colonel Patterson and
his daughter Helena, the wife of Mr. Wellesley (formerly
Mrs. 1344), against Mr. Wellesley and his eldest son and
the Equitable Assurance Office, for relief under these cir-
cumstances. In 1834 a separation between Mr. and.
Mrs. Wellesley took place at Brussels, and a deed was ext.-
cuted by which Mr. Wellesley covenanted to pay Mr. Bick-
nell 1,0001. for Mrs. Wellesley's separate use, and, in conside-
ration of Mr. Patterson's covenant to indemnify him against
Mrs. Wellesley's expenses, Mr. Wellesley covenanted that he
would, before the Ist of February, 1835, secure to Mr.
Patterson, 1,000/. a-year for Mrs. Wellesley's separate
use, either by charge upon freehold estates in England or
Wales, or by investment of a competent sum in the funds,
or by the hest_means in his power. The bill alleged that
in February, 1835, Mr. Wellesley was seized of estates
of a competent annual value to secure the annuity, and had
other sufficient means of observing his covenant ; and that;
he had since exhausted all his means except by creating a.
charge on his estates. It then alleged that since February.
1835, Mr. Wellesley had entered ,into an agreement with
his eldest son, who was tenant in tail in remainder of his:
estates, for raising a sum of 400,000/. by mortgaging their
estates to the Equitable Assurance office, and that by this
arrangement Mr. R. Wellesley was a purchaser of an in-
terest in his father's estates. The money had not yet been
advanced, but the bill alleged that if the arrangement was
carried into effect it would wholly disable Mr. Wellesley
from performing his covenant, and that it was meant to
exhaust the 400,0001., partly in payment of debts which.
were not charged upon the estates, and partly in unneces-•
sary expenses. The bill prayed that the plaintiffs might
be declared entitled to a charge up: n the estates in
priority to Mr. Richard Wel'esley and the Equitable As-
surance office.

His HONOUR thought that Mrs. Wellesley was entitled'.
to-a charge on the estates, but the objection for want or
parties was valid, and the demurrer was allowed.

CRIMINAL CO URT.-THURSDAY.

OLD COURT.

Elizabeth Barris, aged 36, was indicted for feloniously
forging and uttering a certain ins,,trument, purporting to bat
an authority of one William Stockers, with intent to av 7.
fraud his Majesty's Navy Pay Office.
The Loan CHIEF JUSTICE. summed up, and the miry
found the prisoner Guilty.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

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HATTON-GARDEN.

Yesterday Ann Susannah Buiher, a well-lookin% -woman,
37 years of age, was brought before Mr. Laing, i a custody
or it. Bayliss, an ofic•er of this establishment, clrirged by
Mr..). B. Glenn, a master-builder, of No. 3, , Liverpool-
road, Islington, with having intermatlied with -Alm, her first
husband being still living.—Reman.aed.

Q UEEN. S Q UARE.
A young lady, of very I;a7adsome extririor, a vocalist at
the provincial theatres, Ann Newman,. her servant, and,
&Win GrillithS, an el':terly woman, matron at a lying-i:r,
institution, were cha-..ged as the defendants.
Mr. BODKIN, for, the prosecution, came forward to prefer
a charge against. the prisoners for having caused, on .the
sth of February last, a child to be christened and regisf,ered
in the parish of St. James, Westminster, by the ni sae of
Erlward Thomas Bainbridge, of Arlington-street.. This,
the Learned Barrister observed, was art offence order the
General Forgery Act. It was the making of ' fietitioll3
entry to accomplish a certain end, which he shorm hereafter
I fully detail in evidence. It was a painful duty on the part
of his client (the opulent banker and M.P.) , but. one which .
he felt imperatively due to himself, to be c'aliged to intrudes
himsclf,ou public notice. Mr. Bodkin t 1 nen stated that a.
child had been obtained by Miss Lindif:y and her servant:
from the Lying-in Institutie.), and had 'trim christened in the:
name which he had stated.

The prisoner Griffith:. was recommended to provide het....
self with legal assistance when the, case was next brought up
for hearing.

The prisoners were then remanded until the 17th inst.

Despatches were forwarded yesterday, from the; Co-•
lonia' Department, for Lord Gosford, the Governor of them
Canadas, and for Sir Francis Head, the Lieutenant-Governor
of Uiper Canada, and for the officers administering has
Majesty's Goveramen ''in .th British dependencies, ip North
America. "-

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MOORE'S IRELAND, Vol. 11.
On the Ist of May will be published, Vol. 11. of
THE HISTORY OF IRELAND.
By THOMAS MOOSE, Esq.
ming Vol. XC. of Dr. LARDNER'S CYCLOPEDIA.
London : Longman, Rees, Orme, and Co. ; and J. Taylor.
Of whom may be had.

THE HISTORY of SCOTLAND. By Sir Walter Scott.
2 vols. 12
THE HISTORY of ENGLAND. By Sir J. Mackintosh, &c
Vols. I. to VI.

EaRATA.—By a mistake in the composition in our remarks on
the Revenue yesterday, the words " Customs," " Ex-
cise," " Stamps." and " Taxes," were transposed ; and
a considerable part of our first impression was struck off
b-fore the ..error was discovered and corrected. The
Excise was put for the Customs, the Stamps for the Ex-
cise, and the Taxes for the Stamps.

i,e publication of THE SUN NEWSPAPER commenced this day
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LONDON,
FRIDAY EVENING, APRIL 7,1837.

In the House of Lords last night nothilg of public inte-
rest occurred. _ _ _

_
I.) the House of Commons the transaction of private busi-
ness took precedence. Some motions were then postponed
atud ethers were withdrawn. Amongst the latter class was
WALlAcy's resolution for extending the time of keeping
°pet: the General Post receiving offices.
Sir If. IlittotNcE aye notice of a motion relative to the af-
fairs of Spain. .

After some conversation as to the time when this and other
qne3tions were to come on for discussion, Mr. WARBURTON
o'itabied leave to bring hi a Bill to alter the property qualifica-
tions of Members to serve in Parliament.
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER WAS quite ready, for
cue, to give his most hearty concurrence to the motion, and
even if his opinions were what they were not, and he was dis-
posed to admit the repeal of all qualification whatever, he
would not on that account object to a Bill for the amendment
(of the existing law.
Mr. LEADER moved an amendment (which he subsequently
withdrew) that the property qualification be wholly abolUed.
The Army Estimates and the Imprisonment for Debt Bill
.engaged the attention of the House till the hour of adjourn-
ment, one o'clock.

We are at a loss to account for the conduct of some
Members of Parliament, who would obstruct useful
measures brought forward by the Government, and
even by men of their 'own party, merely because these
measures do not come up to their expectations. Mr.
ROEBUCK last niiht protested against a Bill intro-
4lueed by Mr. WARBURTON, because it did not go
far enough, and asserted that nothing would satisfy
him but a Bill which would do away altogether with
the present qualification of a Member of Parlia•
rent. It would be much better if that were
the law, and England were placed on the same
footing with Scotland in that respect ; and Mr. WAR-
BURTON would be as ready as the Hon. Member for
Bath to support a proposition to that effect, if he saw
any chance of carrying the principle; but at present
lie sees none, and like a prudent legislator, and a prac-
tical man of business, is willing to accept an instal-
ment. It would just be as absurd for a creditor to re-
fuse to accept a portion of the amount due to him, as
for a legislator to reject a modification of a principle,
because he could not establish it in its full extent.
Looking at the numbers and power of tlie Aristocra-
tical party in this country, and the difficulty of rousing
the people to act with energy on any but questions
of the most vital importance, and which immediately
affect their own interests, legislation would, indeed,
come to a stand-still, if the all-or-nothing principle were
to be obstinately adhered to. A despot may lay this
:down as a rule of conduct, and even a Consti-
tutional Government may be disposed to adopt
it, when they can count upon the hearty and de-
termined support of a vast majority of the
community ; but in ordinary times it is utterly im-
practicable. In periods of great excitement even it
;may be a doubtful policy. Looking at the varied in-
te,-ests, and feelings, and passions of a great nation,
it callitnot be denied that under such circumstances a
princVe may be carried too far ; and unless it is
established by a momentary impulse or a revolution,
ti►e fable may be verified in political, as it often is in
private life, and all be lost by the refusal to accept a part.
-We blamed the Government of Lord GREY as much
as Mr. ROEBUCK could, for consenting to some of the
modifications of the Reform Bill, and particularly to
the 501. clause ; and however much we should rejoice
to see the Ballot established, we would not have risked
the vast advantages which that Act has given to the
,Liberal party, for the sake of making it the law of the
h nd. Had a certain number of obstinate Members
,rm in the House of Commons at that period, and
aefil sed to support the Government unless that principle
were adopted, no one can tell what might have been
the fate of Reform. Most of the Whigs were against
it. The greater portion of the people had hardly
turned theiv attention to the subject ; and the Tory
party, takin'g advantage of the disunion, would have
stepped in, and carried a mock Reform Bill of their
own. It is it ropossible to impress this too much on
the representatives of Liberal constituents. The
Tories are only waiting for such disunion among their
opponents now, and when that takes place, they will
convince the constituents of certain boroughs that
:they have no reason to thank their Members for ob-
structing the Government in the attempt to obtain what
at present is impracticable.

'Tie Post-office authorities have wisely resolved that
Sett plan, for the future, is to anticipate trouble-
some -:nv estigations and imperious commands, by mak-
ing ,•41rly .concessions to public opinion. They have

tried their strength with the House of Commons, and
have learned, to their cost, that, supported by public
opinion, that assembly is too strong for them. When
they, therefore, found that the Hon. Member for
Greenock was not to be prevented from bringing for-
ward a motion in the House of Commons, for the re-
gulation of this and that branch of their public duty,
if they themselves neglected it, they began by instructing
Mr. LABOUCHERE, that they were willing to keep the
General Post Letter Receiving-boxes at all the branch
offices open on Sundays. This is a great boon, and
we accept it with thanks, because spontaneously ten-
dered. As Mr. WALLACE'S motion for " keeping
the Letter-boxes at the different Receiving Houses in
London open till twelve o'clock at night" was only
objected to by the CHANCELLOR of the EXCHE-
QUER, on the ground of its interference with the du-
ties of the Executive, we expect that the SECRETARY
will take care to prevent the necessity of its re-appear-
ance on the Order Book of the House of Commons.
It might not be expedient to keep the General Re-
ceiving-boxes open so late as twelve o'clock at night ;
but they might be kept open till ten o'clock without
trouble or risk of any kind. As for thieves extract-
ing letters, that might be very easily prevented by a
slight alteration in the construction of the boxes. Mr.
LABOUCHERE further admitted that it was desirable
that there should be a delivery in London on Sunday
of all letters from abroad, or from the country ; and that
all letters for the country ought not to be detained
on Sunday in London—inasmuch as the "nails left
London on that day as well as' every other day in the
week. These are important Reforms, and the sooner
they can be carried into effect the better. But
the announcement of their necessity, and of the wish
of the Government that they might be conce-
ded, awakened the indignation of that modern
soothsayer of Baal-Peor—Saint ANDREW AGNEW.
The Parliamentary Apostle of gloomy cant was on
his legs in an instant, to denounce the judgments of
Heaven against such Sabbath-breaking-boxes as
would receive a letter on Sundays, and such infidel
Members of Parliament as would suite them. Mr.
WASON :et the House in a roar of laughter, by stating
that he had travelled from Stranraer to Glasgow on
a Sunday by Saint ANDREW'S two-horse mail coach—
a conveyance set up by the pious Baronet for the
express purpose of teaching all other coaches and other
conveyances how the Sunday ought to be sanctified. We
have learned ourselves, from private but authentic sources,
that the timber out of which St. ANDREW built his
Sabbath-observing vehicle was reared on his own es-
tate, and that every care had been taken to prevent it
from growing on the Sabbath. The building of the
coach was altno3t as troublesome a job as the building
of Solomon's Temple. Mawworms from all quar-
ters were invited to sanctify the undertaking with
their prayers ; and it is said that for each spoke
in the wheels fifty pslams were chaunted in chorus.
Never was there such a pions vehicle since that which
the five Loris of the Philistines employed to carry the
Ark. The horses were a match for the coach ; they
would not even eat a mouthful of provender on Sun-
lay. But ST. ANDREW having the duties of a legis-
lator to discharge, could not be always at the tails of
his horses, or on the top of his coach. His Parlia-
mentary duties called him away, and no sooner was
his back turned than the archfiend took. the coach and
horses, and whisked them about at the rate described
by Mr. WAsoN. We sympathise with the pious
Baronet on the blacksliding of his coach. It is a
sore affliction to the godly. But why provoke the ri-
dicule of the scorner, friend AGNEW? Why constitute
that a crime in London which is none in the Pro-
vinces? The :nail-coaches leave London empty on
Sunday mornings, but at nine miles distant
they take up all parcels, and thenceforth proceed as on
week days. Does the jurisdiction of Heaven, or does
the command for observing the Sabbath, extend only
nine miles out of town ? And if not, is it not a
mockery of the worst kind to sav, that GOD will be
displeased with the performance of a necessary work in
London which may be innocently done at Barnet ?

In another part of our paper will be found copious
extracts from the admirable pamphlet, " Will you
have your Church repaired ?" which we mentioned a
few days ago, as having been published by the Messrs.
RIDGWAY. Our readers will, we are sure, agree
with us in thinking that it sets the Ministerial
plan for abolishing Church-rates, and improving the
revenues of the Church in a clear and striking light,
and very satisfactorily disposes of the objections which
have been made, and are still making, to that plan, by
the blind, the bigoted, and the factious.

We invite attention to the resolutions adopted on
Tuesday last at the General Association of Ireland.
They will be found in another column, and cannot fail
to excite some share of interest ; for they enunciate not
merely the opinion of Mr. O'CONNELL, the leader,
but may be regarded as speaking the universal senti-
ment of the Irish people at large. It will be seen that
the support of the present Administration is the para-
mount object proposed, and if these seasonable and
excellent resolutions be acted upon with the unanimous
spirit and energy of which Irish constituencies have re-
cently afforded so many brilliant examples, not less
than Ninety Patriots, in the event of a dissolution, will
probably be returned to Parliament to support Reform
and the MELBOURNE Administration.

The Paris Papers of Tuesday and Wednesday have
been received. No Cabinet has yet been formed.
MOLE failed thrice ; and GUIZOT is now try-
ing what he can do. The task is a difficult
one, for as the public men all know the KING
too well to trust him, each insists on pledges which
cannot be given.
The Chamber of Peers received the Report of
MEUNIER'S conspiracy on Wednesday. The trial
will proceed with as much rapidity as the forms of the
Court will allow.
Letters from San Sebastian to the 31st ult. speak
of General EVANS'S preparations to take the field.
His army is to receive a large reinforcement from
Bilboa.
From "iViadrid the accounts are to the 28th ult. The
capital was then perfectly tranquil.

FRENCH FUNDS.-PARIS, APRIL 4.
Five per Cents., 107 f. sc. 1001. B?.c. 90c. ti.Z.c.
Four per Cents., 99f. 10c. 99f.
Chree per Cents. 79f. 10c. 78f. 95c 79f.
Bank Actions, 2,41f.f.
Rente de Naples, 981. 90c. 85c. 80c.
Roman Five per Cents., 102%.
Spanish Actives, 241 %%%.
Spanish Differes, 914.
Spanish Passives 6%.
Belgian Loan, five per Cents, 103
Portuguese Three per Cents. 30%N.
EXCHANGE ON LONDON.
One month, paper, 25E 474 c. ; money, 25f. 45c.
Three months, paper, 25f. 25c. ; moneys 251. 25c
-Coors Authentigue.
FRENCH FUNDS -Pants, APPIL 5.
Five per Cents.. 1061. 85c. 75c. 70c.
Four per Cent., 99f. 90c.
Three per Cents., 78f. 911 c. 95e. 85c. 85c.
Bank Actions,. 2,4151. 2,420 f. 2,410 f.
Rente de Naples, 9sf. 10c 98f. 95c.
Roman Five per Cents., 1021,41 i 504.
Spanish Actives, 24% 25.
Spanish Differes, 9%.
Spanish Passives, 6!i%.
Bvlgian Loan, rive per Cents., 100 N,
Belgian Society, 1,555 f.
Portuguese Loan, Three per Cents, :lON mi.
excoANDeou LONDON.
01,e month, palter, 25c. 47%c. ; money, 25:. 45,.,
Three mouths, paper, 251. 23c. ; money, 25t. 25c
-Court Authentigue.
LAST' PRICES.
Five per Cents., 106 f. 90c.
Three per Cents. 791.
Bank Actions, 2,110 f
Bente de Naples, 991. 10c.
Roin.in Five per Cents., If;23¢.
Belgian Loan, 1001.
Brussels Bank, 1,135 E
Pcstuguese Three per Cents., 30%.
Spanish Actives, '25.
Spanish Passives. 6.!;.
New DifFeres, S.

On Wednesday Mr. Salter had the honour to sub-
mit, for the inspection of his Majesty at St. James's, a
painting of an interesting scene between George the Third
and a dying gipsy woman, in Windsor Forest. This
is founded on fact, and is one of the few historical paint-
ings of that venerable monarch. The picture is intended
for the approaching exhibition in the Royal Academy.