The Sun.
London, England, 1849-11-17 00:00:00

CERTIFICATES GRANTED.

W. Wilson, Tavistock-place, Tavistock-square, apothe-
cary, certificate of the second class—TV. Welton, Sun-
derland-wharf, Rotherhithe, timber merchant, certificate
of the third class—W. B. Williams, Burr-street, East
Smithfield, wine merchant, certificate of the first class—
E. Munn, Beckenham and Deptford-bridge, lisnt, far-
mer and corn dealer, certificate of the third class—R.
Webster, Cornhill, chronometer maker—B. C. Stenlake,
Tavistock, watch and clock maker, certifiate of the first
class—D. Baseley, Bolingbroke-row, Walworth, cheese-
mong( r, certificate of the third class—J. Stott, Bolladon,
Lancashire, cotton spinner and manufacturer, certificate
of the third class—T. Harris, Liverpool, auctioneer, cer-
tificate of the third class after 21 days from Nov. 12—
J. Yates, jun., Ceiwich, Staffordshire, corn factor, after
21 days.

PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED.
J. Yonge and C. Hancock, Tokenhouso yard, City,
attorneys—R. Tait and E. Sheppard, Enfield, surgeons
—W. Roberts, E. Chadwick, and A. P. Wood (as far w.
regards E. Chadwick), Chancery-line, auctioneers—E.
Easel( and A. B. Springweiler, Cousin-lane, Upper
Thames-street, dealers in glass bot!les—J. Woodhouse
and J. C. Willoughby, Ripon, Yorkshire, silk mercers-
-11. N. Pink, and D, Lloyd, Greenwich, surgeons—W.
flare, J. Hare, and J. E. Clarke, East Stonehouse,
Devonshire, brewers and mal:sters—J. Morgan and E.
H. Sexton, Chesham, Buckinghamshire, stationers—J.
Crook and J. Angliss, Cambervrell•plac Upper
Grange-road, Old Kent road, parchment manufacturers
—W, Harrison, J. Scars, and G. Taylor, Hadlow, Kent,
rualtsters—D. Boobbyer and J. 11. Boobbyer, Stanhope-
street, Claremarket, ironmongers—M. L. Parnell, J. H.
Railton, and H. Burton (as far as regards J. H. Banton),
Little Queen-street, Holborn, ironmongers—N. Jowett
and J. Jowett, Thornton, Bradford, Yorkshire, worsted
manufacturers—J. G. Heard and W. Griffin, Upper
Whitecross-street, fancy stationers—J. Batten and B. P.
Batten, Penzance—G. Gaskell and G. T. Gaskell,
Kendal, grocers—T. Rvlands and J. Clegg, Liverpool,
trunk and portmanteau manufacturers—T. Marston and
J. Williams, Runcorn, Cheshire, grocers—N. Varlay
and J. Taylor, Opera-arcade, Pall-mall, music sellers—
W. C. Barrett and W. Roue, Bristol, hatters.
INSOLVENT PETITIONERS.
William Lees, Birmingham.
Thomas Willetts, Birmingham, assistant to a butcher.
Thomas Lynam, Birmingham, huckster.
Edward Jones, Aston, Warwickshire.
Joseph Green, Harborne, Staffordshire, corclwainer.
Joseph 11,-,well, Watts, Aston, Warwickshire, painter.
Thomas Whittington, Birmingham, omnibus proprietor.
Miles Scott, Birmingham, assistant to a bootmaker.
Ana Puckett, Milton, near Gravesend, Ktnt.
William Farrant, Kingsdown, Kent, wood dealer.
Culy Harpham, Wnaplode, Lincolnshire, farmer.
James Tobutt, Uandcross Slaugham, Sussex, carrier.
Thomas Robinson, Long Buckby, Northamptonshire,
grocer.
James Holland, Bury, Lancashire, overlooker,
William Lewis, Cheltenham, news' agent.
Thomas Haigh, Huddersfield, sbopman.
John Rymer, Stockton•upon-Tees, Durham, boot and

shoemaker.
James Chatfield, Newport, Isle of Wight, cordwainer.
James Ide, Portfield, Sussex, I) aybinder.
John Holder, Worthing, Sussex, dyer.
John Row•bothsm, Hyde, Cheshire, tea-dealer.
EI ward Jallands, Nottingham, baker.
SCOTCH SEQUESTRATIONS. .

W. Calder Greenock, coal merchant, to meet within
the George Inn, Greenock, Nov. :20 and Dec. 12, at
twelve.

J. Harvey, Glasgow, warehouseman, to meet within
:he Glob,: Hotel, Nov. 22 and Dee. 12, at tw,Plvo.

PRICE OF SUGAR.
The average price of Brown or Muscovado Sugar, com-
puted from the returns made in the week ending November
13, 1849, is 245. I Id, per cwt.

GRATITUDE.—About three years since Mr. George
Smith, of Bredfield, a filmier, who had retired from
business, took up his residence at Ipswich, for the
benefit of his health. In the course of the summer of
1848 he was in the habit cf bathing at the Ipswich
bathing place, on the River Orwell. Upon one occa-
sion he had the misfortune to get out of his depth, end
having sunk once, his life was saved by the attendant
at the bathing-place, John Actin' Dardy Simpson.
Mr. Smith died on Monday last. In his will, as a mark
of gratitude to Simpson for his " act of heroism," ho
has left to Simpson a life interest in five tenements
of the value of 501. per annum.—Bury and Su/folk
Herald.

LA.W INTELLIGENCE.
COURT OF EXCHEQUER, Nov. 16.
(Sittings in Banco.)
COBBETT V. SIR GEORGE GREY AND ANOTHER.

This was an argument on demurrer in an action of
trespass. The plaintiff pleaded his case in person.
Mr. CODBETT, in support of the demurrer, complained
that Mr. John Hudson, the keeper of the Queen's Pri-
son, acting under the authority of the Secretary of State
for the Home Department, had wrongfully treated him
(Mr. Cobbett) as a first-class prisoner, in confining him
in a part of the Queen's Prison set apart only for pri-
soners of the first class, incarcerated for offences not
bailable. He contended that the Secretary of State had
no power by law to give a command, or the said John
Hudson to obey it, for placing him (Mr. Cobbett) in that
part of the prison, inasmuch as there was no such thing
as a contempt for not paying costs, with which he was
charged, and that there was no power in the Court f
Relief of Insolvent Debtors to make an order upon him
(Mr. Cobbett) to file a schedule ; that in fact no single
Commissioner had power so to act under the Act of
Parliament. He submitted that the pleas put upon the
record by the defendants furnished no answer to his de-
claration, inasmuch as they had not traversed the
declaration at all, but merely went on to justify them-
selves in putting him in a first class department.
Mr. Baron ALDERSON said the only pant was whether
what the defendants bad stated was an excuse for what
they raid they had done.
Mr. Copse-rr said the defendants did not admit in their-
plea that prisoners of the first class were not bailable, and
he contended therefore that their plea was bad. Ile sub-
mitt. d, secondly, that there was no warrant of commit-
ment shows, and thigahe was confined in the part of the
prison in qu stiou without any sufficient warrant of corn-
eattnent. There was no warrant of commitment either
from the Bankruptcy or the Insolvent Debtore' Court,
for not filing his schedule, and the Secretary of State
bad no power to supply the want of a warrant from a
competent cent t.
Mr. Baron ItoeFe said there was an Act of Parlia-
ment whic'a said that persons who refused to file a
schedule in the Insolvent Debtors' Court should he con-
need as firs'-class prisoners. Mr. Hudson had alleged
that he (Mr. Cobbett) had refused to file such a schedule;
and the cnly question was, whether Mr. Hudson wits
tight in treating him as a fire-class prisoner.
Mr. Baron PARKE said either Mr. HudsoTl26 act was
jtaltifiable by the Act of Parliament, or not. If it was
justifiable, he did it under the sanction of an Act of the
Legislature, and not by the authority of the Home
S cretery.
Mr. COBBETT, regardless of these adverse intimations
from the Court; went on for several hours urging that
he had been wrongfully treated as a first-class misde-
meanant.

At tho conclusion of his address, Mr. WELSBY Ins
about to sprak ou behalf of th;l cl,feudalts, when

The LORD CHIEF BARON intimated that the only
point on which the Court had any doubt was whether
the attachment, which was the foundation of the who'e
proceeding, was set out with sufficient fulness; and M.
Welsby would please to cot,fine himself to that point.
Mr.VVELsnr. said the plea did not set out the writ et
length, but it said that the plaintiff was under and by
virtue of a writ of attachment issued out of the High
Court of Chancery committed to the prison of the Fleet.
The Fleet was the proper prison for imprisoning parties
charger! with contempt of the Court of Chancery. He
therefore cJiitendcd that the attachment was act out with
sufficient amplitude.

Mr. Comma. briefly replied, and
The LORD CHIEF BARON said the Court would Wu
ime w cLusider, and deliver ita judgment .on Wed
letday.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
BOW-STREP,7:

Mr Bodkin attended on behalf of the Trustees of
the British Museum to prefer a charge against Mr.
John Williams, artist and publisher, 141, Strand, for
having wilrully neglected to furnish the Museum with
copies of certain publications issued by him, and
thereby infringed the Copyright Act.
As the defendant did not obey the summons nor
send any explanation as to the cause of his non-ap-
pearance, the case was proceeded with in his absence.
Mr. Bodkin, after referring to the sth and 6th of
Victoria, chap. 6, under which the present proceed-
ings were taken, to show the authority of the trustees
to demand a copy of every book or other publicatioo
to be deposited in the British Museum, called Mr.
Harding, one of the solicitors to the institution, to
prove that repeated intimations had been given to the
defendant in December, February, and June last,
that copies of his publications had not been delivered,
and that proceedings would be commenced against him
if he continued to disregard the requirements of the
Copyright Act.
_ _

Air. Harding stated that promises had been repeat.
edly given by the defendant that they should be sent,
but they were never obeyed; although when he re-
ceived the summons, in which two or three of the
least important publications were named, such as the
Artisan, &c., copies of the particular works specified
were sent.

Mr. J. C. Knight having proved that certain pub-
lications purchased in the defendant's shop had never
been sent to the Museum,
Mr. JARDINE convicted the defendant, and fixed the
penalty at 31. in each of three Cati€S, and the cost of
the periodicals, and the summons ; leaving the advi-
sors of the trustees to exercise their discretion as to
enforcing the penalties, in the event of a continued
resistance to their demands upon him.
It was stated that one or two of the books required
by the trustees were published at two guineas and a
half and three guineas, having expensive illustrations.