The Sun.
London, England, 1831-06-14 00:00:00

NEWMARKET JULY STAKES.

Even between Zora and Beirain (the Miss Cantley colt), who
are the favourites ; 10 to 1 agst Castrella (taken)
sOMERsETSITIRE STAKES, FIRST CLASS, AT EATII.
3 to 1 agst 'l'aglioni, and 5 to 1 agst Luther (taken)
SECOND CLASS.
5 to 2 agst Agreeable, and 4 to 1 agst Flora.
DONCASTER ST. LEGER.
7 to 1 agst Lord Jersey's ltiddlesworth (taken)
15 to 2 agst 1.0r.1 Cleveland's Marcus (taken)
13 to 1 agst Mr. Skipsey's The Saddler (taken)
13 to I agst Mr. Robinson's Liverpool (taken)
14 to 1 agst Mr. Stonehewer's Zany
18 to 1 agst Mr. Houldsworth's Circassian
25 to 1 agst Mr. Beardsworth's Colwick
30 to 1 agst Mr. Hou!dsworth's Frederica
30 to 1 agst Lord Sligo's Bras de Fer
30 to I agst Mr. Walker's Victoire
33 to 1 agst Mr. Cooke's Incubus (taken)
35 to 1 agst Mr. Vansittart's Slight colt (taken)

NEWMARKET FIRST OCTOBER MEETING, 1831.
In the course of the afternoon a Match for '2OO, h. ft. w,
made between Lord Mountcharles's Carwell, '3 yrs, Bst. 71b. and
Sir M. Wood's Cetus, 4 yrs, Sst. 111 b. A.F. Wednesday.

BETTING IN THE COUNTRY.
LIVERPOOL TRADE cur, P.P.
7 to '2 agst Guide 6 to 1 agst Bolivar
4 to 1 agst I'ylde 9 to 1 agst Lady Eineline
5 to 1 agst Birmingham 9 to 1 agst Lord Kilburn's
6 to 1 agst Halston 10 to 1 agst Felt
LIVERPOOL ST. LEGER, P.P.
to 1 agst Sir John l 5 to 2 agst The Saddler
5 to 1 agst Sarah

THOMAS MICHAEL CORMACK, Esq. wa
on Saturday List called to the Bar, by the Honourably
Society of the Middle Temple.
It is said that Don MiGuEL has issued letters
of marve against France. We hope this report is true,
but we doubt it.

The Bulls, nominating Doctor FORA N,
Parish Priest of Dungarvon, to the Bishopric of Galway,
have arrived. The Rev. Gentleman, it is said, has de
clined to accept the office.—Limerick Evening Post.
Several ladies of rank are actively and bene-
volently engaged in aiding the subscription for the suffer-
ing Irish, by collecting contributions of shillings and six-
pences among their friends.
Rumours are afloat that the Terceira Regency
people, who did not hesitate to pledge funds which they
knew to be the property of others, are now squabbling
among themselves. It is said that bills of Chancery are
about to be filed. We shall be curious to learn the par-
ticulars of the reception given to the Marquis of ST.
AMA RO, on his arrival at Rio de Janeiro. Some people
say that he ought to be marched off with his colleagues
to work the Imperial and Brazilian Mines, as a punish-
ment for the pretty pranks they have been playing at the
expense of their master and nation's credit,
ELECTIONEERING ANECDOTE.—During the
recent election at Lostwithiel, a freeholder, a thorough
out-and-out reform r, showed off in the following manner,
and which excited a deal of amusement at the time. He
came into the town mounted on an ass, gaily decorated
with the colours of PENDARVES and LEMON, and his ass's
ears adorned with the colours of V )(V VA N and VALLETORT.
This strange appearance caused inquiry, to which the Cor-
nishman replied, "My ass and myself have had a dispute
relative to the merits of the different candidates, and as we
have been a long time acquainted, we were unwilling to
come to blows, therefore we agreed that each should wear
the colours agreeable to the vote he intended to give, and
this is the reason why I am dressed in favour of PEN..
DA RVES, and my ass's ears of that of VYvvAN.”—Ply-
mouth Journal.

WIGAN.—We are exceedingly glad to find
the municipal authorities of Wigan have at length acted
with some degree of vigour in the apptehension of thy
parties concerned in the late atrocious outrages committed
in that town. About thirty of the rioters have been com-
mitted to Lancaster for trial ; six or eight on the charge
of stealing property from Mr. KrAitst.Ey's house, and the
remainder on that of riotously assembling and destroying
the furniture. We understand that the magistrates have
obtained the assistance of two officers from Bow-street,
and that very minute inquiries are making as to the origin
of the riots.—Manchester Guardian.
The accounts from Riga, received yesterday
afternoon, are most distressing as regards the ravages of
the cholera mot bus. The letters are to the 30th nit ,
and state that up to that date, 390 persons had been at-
tacked by the disorder, of whom 189 had died. Many of
the ships proceeding from the ports where the disorder
raged, had lost a portion of their crews ; and vessels from
all the lower ports of the Baltic were not allowed to enter
Lubeck. The utmost alarm prevailed at Riga. The
communication with surrounding places had been cut off,
and the cholera was spreading in all directions.
The College of Physicians met at their Hall
in pim.mall East, on Saturday evening, by the express
order of Government, to take into consideration the best
means of preventing the introduction of cholera into this
country. What the result of their deliberations may have
been has not yet transpired. As one of the steps which it
is the duty of Government to take upon the occasion, this,
doubtless, is a very proper one ; though it will probably
striie
many
that the College of Physicians have more to
do with the cure than with the non-introduction of the

disease.
The following is a summary of the number of
prisoners tried during the Clare Special Commission, with
their sentences :—Sentenced to death, 2 ; death recorded,
; transported for life, 3 ; transported for seven years,
1 ; imprisoned for 12 months, 20 ; imprisoned for one
week, 2 ; fined and discharged, 1-68 ; acquitted, 5
Total number tried, 73.
NATHANIEL PEA RCE.—The Journal of this
enterprising traveller, so often alluded to in the public
papers, has at length fortunately come to light. This
Journal, together with the rest of his Manuscripts, PEARCE,
who did in Egypt, on his return to England, bequeathed
'o his patron, Mr. SALT, by whom they were leit to the
present Earl of MouNTlsoatars ; his Lordship transferred
them to I. I. lIALLs, Esq. who has prepared them for
publication. The work, which will appear almost inime-
liately, is to he called " The Life and Adventures of NA-
DIANIEL PEARCE,"

LAW INTELLIGENCE-(THIS DAV),

COURT OF CHANCERY.
GREENWOOD V. FORD.

The defendant was brought up by virtue of a writ ol
Habeas Corpus, and appeared in person to support his
petition, which
prayed that the Court would order him tc,
he discharge 1, aryl declare all the proceedings that hml
been adopted against him, subsequent to his commitment
to prison, to be illegal. He was committed to the Fleet for
A contempt of this Court in not appearing and putting it,
his answer to a bill. Afterwards he was prosecuted upoi,
to indictmfmt in the Court of King's Bench, and a verdict
pronounced against him. In the course of following tot
this proceeding, he was transferred from the Fleet to th
custody of the Mau shal of the King's Bench Prison, from
ivhence he had this morning been brought.
A Gentleman behind the Bar appeared for the plaintitl
in the case, and stated that the prisoner had now put it.
his answer, and was entitled to his discharge from tlo
contempt. The plaintiff consented to his discharge.
Mr. Ford said he would rather remain in prison all his
lifetime than be discharged without having his petitioh
heard.
The plaintiff's Counsel observed, that it was one of ti
Moat extraordinary petitions he had ever seen. It seetnec
to have been drawn up by the prisoner himself; it assumed
no particular character ; it contained all sorts of state
inents ; it bad no specific prayer, and it occupied thirty-
three brief sheets, though, under any circumstances, a
coupe of sheets might have ccntained all the necessar%
•taternent.
The Loan CHANCELLOR enquired why the prisoner was
so anxious to have his petition heat d at length ?
Mr. Ford said, because it disclosed and detailed the
tnerits of his case.

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The LORD CIIANCM.LOR had nothing to do with the
merits at present, all he had to do with or could do, was
to discharge him from the contempt, which he should
forthwith order, laying him to settle his common law suit
or to get rid of the effect of it in another way and as he best
could. Having said thus much, he thought it right further
to add that he had been informed the solicitors for the
plaintiff, (Messrs. Le lll,nc, Oliver, and Cook,) had
agreed by letter to the prisoner's discharge three months
ago, and that the prisoner at first expressed great grati-
tude for such kind conduct, but afterwards determined not
to go out of prison. He chose to remain in confinement
rather than accept of his discharge.
Sir E. SUDDEN wished he had known of that before,
because he had taken a great deal of trouble about obtain-
ing the petith,ner's discharge, which he should certainly
not have done had he been aware of the fact now disclosed
by his Lordship.

SITTINGS.

The LORD CHANCELLOR'S paper was filled with appeals
to-day, but Counsel were not prepared to proceed.
Sir E. SUGDEN complained of the surprise. It was not
at all usual for this Court to sit the week immediately after
Term. He never knew the Court was going to sit till he
got home last night at half-past eleven o'clock, when he
found his bag full of appeal briefs.
The Loan CHANCELLOR did not know why this
Court was to be shut up during the week, any more than
the Master of the Robs and Vice-Chancellor's Courts, in
hoth of which, as well as in the Courts of Common Law,
the business was going on.

Sir E. SUGDE; ob'erved that it had not been the prac-
tice nor was it known that his Lordship would sit this week.
The LORD CHANCELLOR had directed the officers to
give notice of the sitting, and the Registrar had just in-
formed him the notice had been posted in the Registrar's
office since Saturday.
Sir E. SUDDEN knew nothing about what appeared
in the Registrar's-office, because thither neither he nor
his clerk ever went, nor was it their duty so to do. He
wished at the same time not to he understood as object-
il to the new practice of sitting, but he thought the con-
venience of the Bar might be a bttte consulted in such an
arrangement. Many of the junior Counsel were out of
toWIT to-day (under the notion that his Lordship did not
intend to sit) whose assistance the King's Counsel there-
fore could not have, and he himself was under an engage-
ment to go off at twelve o'clock.
The LORD CHANCELLOR. had every disposition to con-
, suit the convenience of the Bar, consistently with the dis-
charge of his duty to the public. The fact was, he had
intended to have sat in the House of Lords during the
whole of this week, and heard appeals there ; but Mr.
Courtenay had informed him it was not usual fur business
of such a nature to he transacted there before the deli-
very of the King's Speech ; and he had no wish to break
through such an understanding. Under such circum-
stances, be was very unwilling to lose the• whole of this
week in doing nothing. 'Why was he to sit at house doing
nothing all this week, while the other Equity Judges were
in their Courts getting through their business, and which
would enable them to get out of town in Sept, but which, as
to himself '(his doing nothing at present), would detain him
all Sept. ? He hoped he would be as well attended as possible
by Counsel during the days he should certainly sit before
the first seal, and which would be to-morrow, Thursday,
and Friday ; at twelve o'clock on Monday to give some
judgments ; and then, on Tuesday, to resume the usual
business. His Lordship rose at a few minutes before twelve.