The Sun.
London, England, 1853-03-07 00:00:00

HVDDERSFIELD.

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This committee sat this morning at half-past eleven
o'clock, when the examination of witnesses in support of
the petition was proceeded with.

RYE.

This committee resumed ;hr;morning at 12 o'clock.
In consequence of the sitting member having aban-
doned further opposition to the petition, the room was
cleared for the committee to agree to the necessary reso-
lutions. The parties were not re-admitted at the time
when our report left.

HULL.

'At the meeting of the committee this morning,
Mr. Edwin James, Q.C., stated, that after the
deuce which had been adduced, it was impossible to
deny that indiscretion had been committed by certain
parties, he should, therefore, abandon his opposition to
the petition.
The room was then cleared, and the parties were not
re-admitted when our report left.
The decision will appear in our late edition.

GUILDFORD.
At the meeting of the committee this morning, the
learned counsel for the petitioners stated that it had been
determined to abandon the petition, and, therefore, he
should adduce no further evidence. The room was then
cleared, and when the parties were re-admitted it was
announced that the committee had come to the resolu-
tion that James Bell, Esq., and IL Mangles, Esq., were
duly elected to serve in the present Parliament as bur-
gesses for the borough of Guildford. That all the costs
of the inquiry must be defrayed by the petitioners.

SOUTHAMPTON.
The committee assembled again this morning at 11
o'clock—Mr. H. Herbert in the chair.
The first witness called on the part of the petitioners
was a David Witcher, a master painter, who deposed that
he had promised to vote for Mr. Cochrane at the last
election, but that Mr. Scrace, a brewer, called upon him
on the morning of the election, took him off to the pier,
gave him Bs., and sent him in a boat over to the Isle of
Wight, in order to prevent him voting. He had never
voted at an election before. He was a Tory, but had
only been so since the last election. He did not know
the difference between a Tory and Liberal. (Laughter.)
This witness's examination had not concluded when
our reporter left.

SEIZURE OF AN EMIGRANT SHIP, DETENTION
OF ITS LIVING CARGO, AND RECOVERY OF
ABOVE 2,500/. WORTH OF PROPERTY.

This day, at noon, Mr. Hamber, the senior messenger
of the Court of Bankruptcy, came up to town by express,
and reported that he had succeeded in seizing the emi-
grant ship Salsette at Portsmouth, under the following
circumstances :

On the 23d of February last, a petition in bankruptcy
was presented to Mr. Commissioner Goulburn by Mr.
Philp, solicitor, of Bucklesbury, against Joseph Henry
Dunne and John Venables, of 9, Craven-street, Strand,
shipowners and merchants. It appears that the parties
had purposed going out to Port Philip, the former as
passenger and part owner of the Salsette, and the latter
as the master and part owner. They had been pre-
viously arrested for debt, but had obtained their liberty.
At the latter end of last month the Salsette left the Lon-
don docks in charge of WM. Hay, the chief officer, with
a valuable cargo on board, and about 30 emigrants, but
on going down the channel he lost an anchor, and was
obliged to put in at Portsmouth to get fresh anchors. In
the meantime Venables and Dunne joined the vessel, and a
warrant was granted, and put in the hands of Mr. Hamber,
who proceeded to Portsmouth, and found that Venables
had been arrested and lodged in Winchester gaol by a
sheriff's officer, who met him in company with a
lady in Portsmouth. His whiskers had been closely
shaven off, and he wore a cap drawn over his
face to conceal his features, and he was otherwise
disguised. Mr. Hamber immediately proceeded to
Winchester gaol, and searched Venables, from whom he
took a valuable gold watch and chain, and a number of
letters, disclosing the intention of the parties to elude
their creditors. The messenger then returned to Ports-
mouth, seized the vessel, and left one of his assistants
named Howarth on board, who still remains in
possession, under Commissioner Goulburn's war-
rant. The Salsette is estimated to pq worth above
1,5001., and in addition to that, Ms. d "caber seized
a valuable freightage consisting 4ahieffy of akricul-
i tural implements obtained from the celebrated machinists,.
Messrs. Deane, Dray, and Co., of Swan-lane, and which
have not been paid for. The whole of thecargb is valued'
at above 1,0001., making upwards of 2,5001. recovered
for the benefit of the creditors. Dunne was promised
protection if he would surrender to the court, but up to
half-past one this day he had not done so. The emi.
grants still remain on board.

SHERIFFS COURT.-(THIS DAY.)

(Before R. Gurney, Esq.)

IMPORTANT DECISION UNDER THE INSOLVENT LAW.-

GEORGE V. COOPER.

This was a judgment summons calling on defendant to
show cause why he did not pay a sum of 151., for which
a judgment had been obtained in this Court, and why, in
default of doing so, he should not be committed.
Mr. Hicks, Clifford's-inn, appeared for the defendant,
and put in the discharge by the Insolvent Court, and
contended that the defendant was thereby exonerated
from the present claim.
His Honour, after referring to the act, said that the
Courts 'tad a concurrent jurisdiction, and therefore he
must inquire into the circumstances of the defendant.
Defendant, on being sworn, admitted that he was
still on the same premises as before his insolvency, and
the rent for the apartments is 1001. a-yeaf, but he had
not been able to pay the rent, through his profession as
an artist having fallen off during the winter, and he had
also other judgments against him, and two more sum-
monses for this day.
His Honour said that made the case worse, and
defendant ought not to incur so much for rent ; but, as
it did not appear he had means to pay at present, no
commitment would be made.

LADY PEEL.—The Morning Herald and Morning Ad-
vertiser of Saturday last announce, in somewhat positive
terms, that Lady Peel has joined the Ro mis h com-
munion. There is no truth whatever in the statement,
nor in another put forth by the same journals, to the
effect that Miss Peel has also joined the Roman Catholic
Church, preparatory to her marriage with the Hon. T.
Stonor, son of Lord Camoys, a Roman
Both ladies attended divine service Catholicee
peer.
Both yesterday, ar.
t
the Spring-gardens Episcopal Chapel of Ease.—Morning
Post.
ROBBERY AT THE MESSRS. ROTHSCHILD's IN a
ER-
IdANY. Intelligence) has been received in London of a
robbery at the establishment of Messrs. R othschild's, at
Offenburg, in Germany, of a ,quantity of valuable mer-
chandise, consisting principally of the new description of
purses called port mownaies in every variety of orna-
mental manufacture. It is suspected that the stolen
property will be brought to this country ' and as the
marks and numbers of the packages, and other parti-
culars of the property, are known, arrangements have
been made to intercept them on arrival here.
CAPTAIN JOHNSON'S BAIL.—At the Central Criminal
Court, on Friday, an application was made by one of
the persons who had become bail for Captain Johnson
that the enforcement of the bail might be stayed till next
session, on the ground that the prosecutrix had refused
to prosecute, and was at that moment harbouring Cap-
tain Johnson at her residence. He had done his best to
cause the apprehension of the accused, but at present it
had been found to be impossible, and unless this appli-
cation were granted, the bail would be forfeited. The
Recorder said if tradesmen were so foolish as to become
bail for persons of whom they knew so little, they must
take the consequences. The bail had become forfeited
by the non-appearance of the accused, but if the appli-
cant should be instrumental in effecting the capture of
Captain Johnson, the court might 'be induced 0 take a
different view of the ease. , ,