The Sun.
London, England, 1831-11-28 00:00:00

VICE•CHANCERY COURT.-(THIS DAY.)

His Honour the Vice• Chancellor proceeded with the
hearing of bankrupts' petitions at the sitting of the
Court this morning, but up to the time of our going to
press nothing worth reporting came before his Honour.

COURT OF KING'S BENCH.-(THIS DAY.)

This morning Mr. Justice J. PARKE sat in London, to
hear Common Jury causes.

HART V. LEECH.

This was an action brought by the plaintiff, as ad-
ministratrix of a testator, to recover 1301. from the de-
fendant. The defence was, that the defendant had been
employed by the testator to collect in the debts due to
him, and to effect a compromise with his creditors. In
pursuance of that object he had collected 130/., and had
paid various creditors a composition on their debts, and
the balance he had paid into Court.

Mr. Justice J. PARKE said the subject was a very fit
one for a reference to an arbitrator, for it was but
fair that if it were true that the defendant had paid some
of the testator's creditors, he should be allowed to set off
those sums against the present demand.

♦Mr. PLATT for the plaintir, and Mr. TIIESSIGFR for
the defendant, agreed to his Lordship's suggestion, and the
Jury found a verdict for the plaintiff, with the damages
laid in the declaration, subject to a reference.

SPARKS V. CLARIDGE.
This was an action to recover a sum of about 22/. is. 7d.
by the plaintiff, a carpenter, for work and labour done
for the defendant, a surveyor of eminence at the west end
of the town. The defence was that the work in question
was done for a person named Johns, who had contracted
with the defendant.
Verdict for the plaintiff—Damages 221. is,7d.

COURT OF EXCHEQUER.-(THIS DAY.)

The LORD CHIEF BARON sat in the city this morning,
where he was obliged to use candles all day in consequence
of the dense fog.

CRANAGE V. PRICE

Was an action for slander. Mr. HOLT stated the case
to the jury. He said the plaintiff in the present action
was an attorney, at Wellington, in Shropshire, and
the defendant a farmer and publican in the village
of Roddington, near that place. The cause of the
action which they were now to try was slanderous
words used by the defendant to the plaintiff, in
a public room, and at a public sale. A Mr.
Dickson Wai a trustee of certain lands in the parish of
Roddington, which he held for the use of the poor. In
March last he had a part of that land to let, which he did
by public auction ; and as the village of Roddington was
a small place, he advertised the auction for Wellington,
where he would have a better chance of bidders at it. He
employed the plaintiff as his legal adviser at such auction,
at which was the defendant, who, he would prove, had
gone there not for the purpose of bidding but to hinder
the sale if he could, in consequence of being disappointed
of having it held at his house. The words he used to the
plaintiff were these, " You! what do you do here?
You are no certificated attorney. I have searched the of-
fice with Mr. Anderton, and know you are acting
without a certificate." These words he used several times,
which the plaintiff alleged had hurt his business. After
it had been clearly proved by the clerks from the Masters'-
office and the S'amp-office, that the plaintiff had taken out
his certificate, the Learned Counsel called
Mr. Poole, who was the auctioneer at the sale. He
fully proved the words, and that the defendant was very
violent in his conduct. The quarrel originally was be-
tween the defendant and Mr. Dickson, the former having
denied the title of the latter, as there was another trustee
joined in the trust with him. Mr. Cranage then, as the
legal adviser of Mr. Dickson, interfered, when the words
arose.

He was corroborated by a Mr. Suintners, who also
was present at the sale.

Mr, Anderton, late Secretary to the Metropolitan Law
Society, deposed that he did not know the defendant, and
had never examined in the Master's Office with him, to
see if Mr. Cranage was on the Rolls or nut.
Mr. J. WILLIAms, for the defendant, said that in this
case there was not the slightest particle of special damage
proved, and that the action ought to have been tried by
the Shrewsbury clock in place of being meted by that of
Guildhall, but the trick was merely to increase the expense
to his client. He considered that the fact of the words
having been spoken in a great rage, as proved by the wit-
nesses, and the fact that at no other time had
the defendant ever used any words of insult, or any
words at all derogatory to the character of the
plaintiff was enough to show that he was not ac-
tuated by malice. He hoped the Jury would disappoin'
this trick of the plaintiff's, and would not punish his
client twice.

Lord LYNDHURYT said that it was already proved that
the words had been used, and the question for the Jury
was as to the amount of damages.
The Jury, after being a short time in consultation
returned a verdict for the plaintiff. Damages,-20s.

ARCHES COURT.-(THIS DAY.)

KELPIN V. I:ELFIN.

This was a suit promoted by the wife against the hus-
band, for a divorce on the ground of adultery. The hus-
band set up a plea of a recriminatory character. The
question before the Court was the admissibility of an obliga-
tion on behalf of the husband, pleading the facts.
Counsel having been heard on both sides, Sir J. Nlcitoi,
said, that if the facts stated in the libel were true, and the
recriminatory charges also, the sooner the parties got out of
Court the better. The wife charged the husband with
promiscuous connexion with a vast variety of women, and
with incest, while the husband avowed that his wife had been
guilty also. The case exhibited much profligacy. The parties
were married when under age, in 1824, and one child was
the issue. The wife had lived with the husband after she
must have known of his habits, as he had communicated a
foul disease to her. He should, however, give the wife the
opportunity of rebutting the charges against her, and ad-
mit the libel to proof, after some slight reformation.

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moneyWe beg to call attention to an important de-
cision of the Loan CHANCELLOR on Saturday, respecting
the application)ifnthe
e e
the trustees of savings banks of the bur-
in their hands, derived from Govern-
ment;u the shape of interest, alter paying all the claims
o by the
tors. it is well known that the rate of inte-
rest paid by the Government to the trustees of savings
banks exceeded the rate of interest paid by the trustees to
the depositors. The consequence was, that a surplus had
accumulated to the credit of almost every bank. The
application of this surplus was regulated by the 22d
section of the Act of 1828, for consolidating and amend-
ing the Acts relative to those beneficial institutions. The
section alluded to left it at the discretion of the majority
of the trustees how to dispose of this surplus, and in this
particular case these gentlemen chose to build a bridge
with a fund which they had entirely diverted from its
primitive end. As his Lordship well remarked, the large
construction which they had put on their discretion might
have enabled them to give the fund to a Bible Society, or em-
ploy it in defraying the expenses of a contested election, as
in building a bridge. He therefore ordered the money to
be refunded, in older that it might be employed for objects
connected with the savings banks themselves, and in doing
so has given a necessary lesson to the numerous benevolent
individuals who lend their names as trustees to those most
useful and thriving establishments.— Times.
COTTON TRADE.—With the exception of a
small advance of a penny per pound to hand-loom weavers
a general gloom seems at present to prevail in all branches
of the trade at Ashton-under-Line, Oldham, Rochdale, and
Middleton, an 1 the late brisk demand for power-loom cloth
is decreasing. The price paid for spinning has been reduced
from 3s. 9d. to 3s. per thousand hanks : batting is very
dull, and a great number of the silk weavers are out of
work. The condition of the Rochdale flannel weavers,
though they have obtained a small advance for some articles,
is still miserable, the best workmen are not earning more
than is. per week.—Leeds Mercury.
STATE OF TRADE.—The woollen trade of
Yorkshire, which had been rather flat during the summer,
became still more depressed on the rejection of the Reform
Bill, and is at present extremely dull. The prevailing
opinion is, that had that Bill passed into a law, the tran-
quillity and confidence inspired by it would have operated
very beneficially upon trade, and would have made all the
difference beto.en what is called a good and a bad winter.
We observe a considerable increase within the bast few
weeks in the number of the unenapioyed in the streets ;
and almost every man acqualet::d with trade feels the most
lively enx:sty as to the fate of the Bill in the ensuing
Session, sensible that its sucess or failure will very much
influence the state of trade during the next year. :Nobody
is so foolish as to suppose that any political measure of this
nature can instantly increase the consumptio of our ma-
nufactures, but every body is aware that a eettled and
tranquil state of the country, with confidelice in the stabi-
lity of the wilt. very much brisker, ;.ii the
operations ottrod: ' and that a good a:d economic Govern-
°cut, arising out
will of a tend very 'essentially to seeure its peritoneal; P4' rep?esentation of the peolde,
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