The Sun.
London, England, 1853-11-18 00:00:00

LA W INTELLIGENCE—(Tirrs DA 7).

COURT OF BANKRUPTCY.
(Before Mr. Commissioner Goulburn.)
FOREIGN PATENTS. -IN RE ROSENBERG.

This bankrupt was described as of the Albany and
elsewhere, distiller, &c., and was the inventor of a novel
scheme for the improved manufacture of casks. The
project was taken up by several fpreign companies, but
failed in consequence of a disunion between the English
shareholders.

From the preliminary statement of Messrs. Robinson
and Knowles, it appears that the debts amount to about
8,0001., and the assets, if realised according to the
bankrupt's estimate, to 38,0001.

Mr. Lawrence applied for an extension of protection
in consequence of the complicated nature of the ac-
counts, which had prevented the accountant from filing
the accounts.

The application was granted.

SECONDARIES' COURT.
(Before Mr. Secondary Potter.)
TABERNACLE V. STRAUSBORG.

The plaintiff in this action is a livery-stable keeper at
Deptford, and defendant is a gentleman residing in
Bridge-street, Blackfriars. The action was brought to
recover for the hire of a horse and chaise, and for
damage done. The hiring was charged at 1/. 18.. injury
to the horse 21. 25., and damage done to the gig 51. ss.
From the evidence for the plaintiff it was shown that
the animal had been cruelly over-driven, and could not
lie down for a fortnight, being so dreadfully cut about,
and would probably never recover so as to make it
saleable for street uses. The gig was knocked about in
such a manner as to be rendered useless until it had
undergone extensive repairs.
Mr. Duncan, as counsel for defendant, called wit-
nesses, who, however, did not shake the evidence given
on the other side, and a verdict was given for the
amount claimed.

CITY OF LONDON COMMISSION.
(THIS DAY.)

The Commissioners resumed their inquiry this morn-
ing, in the chamber of the Judicial Committee of the
Privy Council.
Mr. William Cotton, the late Governor of the Bank
of England, and a manufacturer and shipowner at Lime-
house, was examined this morning. He said that,
within his memory, the Corporation of the City of Lon-
don had undergone an entire change. Formerly,
when the principal merchants and bankers resided
within its jurisdiction, it represented the wealth
and commerce of the city, but now it was corn
posed of the shopkeeping and retail-dealer class. He
approved of the separation which exists between the
Court of Alderman and the Court of Common Council,
but he thought the magisterial functions of the aldermen
should be taken out of their hands and entrusted to
stidendiary magistrates, as the time which the
proper discharge of such duties demanded, de-
terred men of eminence and wealth from accepting
the office of Alderman. The Common Council he
thought was too numerous for an executive body ; it
was more fitted for the exercise of legislative functions
than the superintendence of municipal proceedings, and
he would therefore reduce its numbers, placing the right
of elections entirely in the hands of the ratepayers with-
out reference to their being freemenor members of one of the
trade companies ; for in I oint of fact the freedom serves no
useful purpose, while the companies had almost ceased
to have any special reference to the trades whose names
they bore, and the liverymen, as such, ought no longer
to enjoy the municipal franchise, He had no personal
knowledge of the privileges which the corporation claimed
with regard to the trade of the City, but it was his de-
cided opinion that there was great room for improvement
in the mode of administering and expending the large
funds which came under the control of the corporation.
The City authorities had never been very prominent in
promoting objects of public utility, though they had
always manifested much anxiety in behalf of the
comfort and welfare to themselves and of their fellow-
citizens, who resided within the limits of the City, and
had repeatedly made strenuous efforts to improve the
streets and thoroughfares of the City. On the
whole, he should be sorry to see the ancient con-
stitution of the City entirely abolished ; but at the
same time, while he entertained that opinion he
felt that such changes and improvements might be
introduced into its system as to make it, as of old, a
reflex of the interest of every class in the City, from the
highest to the lowest. It would, then, once more he
the representative of the wealth, the commerce, and the
industry of the City of London.
Mr. Daniel Whittle Harvey, the City Commissioner
of Police, and Mr. A. Pulling, the barrister, were in
attendance to be examined. There were only two com-
missioners present this morning. viz., Sir John Patter-
son and Mr. Cornewall Lewis, the chairman, Mr.
Labouchere being absent.