The Sun.
London, England, 1849-12-13 00:00:00

BAT IVIAILIEZTB.

SMITHFIELD.—Meadow 11;iy, 2/ 83 to 31 9s; Clover
into, 31 0; to 41 8,;; and Straw, 11 Ss to 11 Ss pW
loaf!. A fair average supply, and a dull trade.
t ;umnEntAND.—Meadow Hay, 2e 84 n 31 10i; Clover
law, 3/ 04 to 41 6s ; and Straw, 11 3s to 11 Ss per
oad: Supply moderate, and trade dull.

Meadow !lay, 2/ 5s to 3/ IN;
lover, ditto, 31 Os to 4/ 1114; and Straw, 112 s to 1/ 8s per
load. A sluggish irAuiry, at the above quotations.

CORN AVERAGES.
GENERAL AVERAGE PRICES OF BRITISII CORY
For the Week ended Dec. 6, 1849, made up from th-. Returns et MO
Inspectors in the different Cities and Towns in England and Was.
per Imperial Quarter.
WHEAT. BARLEY. OATS. ILTE. BEANS. I MAC,
PRICE .. I 39s 4d 27e sld
1 168 Gd 23, 31, 283 4d 180 s 11

DUTIES ON FOREIGN CORN.
%HEAT. BAALET. I OATS. 1 ETC I I
BEANS. pus.
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LAW INTELLIGENCE.

COMMON LAW COURTS.
(THIS DAY.)
This being the day appointed for the interment of
Her late Majesty the Que. n Dowager, neither the Court
of Queen's Bench, the Court of CominonTleas, nor the
Court of Exchequer held their sittings. They stand
adjourned until to•n,orrow.

SHERIFFS' COURT.-(THIS DAY.)
(Before Mr. Under• Sheriff BURCHELL.)
LEWIS V. KNIGHT.
This was an action to recover the sun] of 61. Os. 63.,
on a bill (t exchange, of. which defendant waa the
drawer arid indoner.

The defendant pleaded that he did not draw or indorie
the bill, and, secondly, that he had taken the benefit of
the Insolvent Act.

A witness was called who most distinctly proved the
defendant's handwriting.
For the defence, two extracts of the schedule filed is
the Insolvent Court was tendered, as also the .adjudics•
den. The extracts alluded to a bill of exchange, but
plaintiff's name did not appear on the face of the _pia'
ceedings. It was, however, contended that there was
sufficient identity of the bill to prove that it was the one
mentioned in the schedule, Ind that, consequently, de*
fendant was released from all liability.
Mr. HAWKINS, for -the plaintiff, objected to the ad'
mission of the document. although certified as office
copies, under the seal of the Court, contending, that si
the plaintiff's name was not mentioned, and he had ni
notice of defendant's intention to take the benefit of the
Insolvent Act, the plaintiff was not protected.
Mr. MARRIOTT, .he defendant's counsel, said that the
bill was sufficiently -described, for after it once went cdo
of the hands of the drawer t r indorser it was next t•
impossible to ascertain through. whose hands it passell
nor was an insolvent botind to do so. From the state'
went on the schedule there was good reason to sup Pct.
the bill had got into the hands of plaintiff without I
giving any consideration, and after the insolvency. ,1
Mr. HAWKINS complained that such assertions shoo'
net be made, as they did not admit of proof under 06
pleas.
Mr. Mennerr submitted that the whok.of the stage:
ment sworn to by the detendaet on passing the Insolvent
Court was admissable.
The Learned UNDER SHERIFF— Am I to understetid
your proposition to be that whatever an insolvent sva6ll,
to in his schedule is to be received as evidence in b 1;
own favour, or against any third parties whose none'
do not appear?
Defendant's COUNSEL considered so, where there
could be no doubt that it referred to the subject-matter
in dispute.
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The Learned UNDER SHERIFF said he would aalt
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the evidence for what it was eorth, and leave it to the
jury to say whether they believed the entry referred tv
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the bill in question, but he would take a note of
objections. In summieg up, the Learned Uuder-Sherm
said that he was of opinion that. the plaintiff was ell;
titled to a verdict, for the onus was on the .defendee.
cl arly to matte out that he:bad been legally discharged
from his liabilities.
The jury considered for some time and then gave 6
verdict for the defendant. A
The Learned UNDER-SHERIFF said that he wool,-
retain the writ, and give Mr. Hawkini liberty to inso
the Court ahoy.- on the point rtservbd.
Mr. HAWKINS applied to have the deem:ciente pro'
duced retained.

Th.' UNDER-SHERIFF said he had no power to do ea
Mr. Hawkips coul.; ~brain other office copies.

MARLBRO -STREET—(THIS DAY.)
Dote STEALING —James Brown, a notorious dor
stealer, was charged before Mr. Bingham, with Wing
stub n a valuable spaniel deg, belonging to Mr. Georg.
Goedwin Ewant, 75, Maddox-street.
Abeut six o'cl, ck last evening; the prosecutor wtb
psssing ut of Oxford street into Hanover-square, with
a valuable spaniel do?, following him. On arriving .1"
Ilarewood-place, he suddenly missed the dog, and ahtla
he was looking for it a young snan cane up to him, 513
informed him that he hed seen a man' pick the snit°
up, and run up Oxford-street towards the Circus. r'c'.
secutor went in pursuit, and the prisoner was stopped
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by a constable in Swallow-passage, who had seen ,
drop the deg, and taken to the station. The preeen,l3.
tor added, that he would not have lost the dog for 201,..
John Anderson said he was in Oxford-street on
previous evening, near Ilarewaod-place, when he saw t't;
prisoner pick up a spaniel dug, and putting it under To
arm, ran off as fast as he could. Witness informed lilt
prosecutor of what be had seen, and they both 1579134
after the prisoner, whom they caught in the custody' v
a constable in Swallow-passage.
Police-constable 396 A proved seeing the prisonq
running along Oxford street with the dog produce'.
under his arm. On seeing witness he dropped the dog
and and ran down Swallow-passage. Witness followed nw-
and took him into custody.
Sergeant Hardwick, of the D division,proved tw
former convictions against the prisoner fur a ein)Pfl
offence.
Mr. BINGHAM committed the prisoner under tee
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second clase of an Act of Parliament passed in 184' ;
known as " Bishop's" Act, for six months to the Ilotis
of Correction, with hard laboue. el
It is not generally known that the adoption of the ,
above-named, which interposeseby its penal provisi4l
so material a check on the growing evil of dog-stealine
owes its existence to the unceasing efforts of Mr. Bieti4
the well-known gun-smith, of New Bond-street.
gentleman's intercouse with persons of the highest (II
unction, who had been the victims of professed (Pig:
stealers, enabled him to obtain their aid in the Legitne
ture to carry a measure, the absolute necessity of w.. -a
had become apparent to all who valued a useful 11%
faithful companion. Since .the above Act has been :4
force the crime of dog-stealing has been much on ih
decrease in the metropolis.

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