The Sun.
London, England, 1836-01-26 00:00:00

COMMON PLEAS.-MONDAY.

RANSOM AND OTHERS V. DUNDAS AND KELLY.
This case arose out of the late Ipswich election petition. A
rule nisi had been obtained by the plaintiffs, the petitioners in
that case calling upon the defendants, Robert Adam Dundas
and Fitzroy Kelly, Esqrs., the late sitting Members for the
borough of Ipswich, to show cause why judgment should not
be entered up against them on the warrant and certificate of
the Speaker of the House of Commons, pursuant to the 9th
Geo. IV., cap. 22, sec. 63, for the sum of 4,6941. 15s. 7d.,
the amount of the costs and expenses incurred by the plain-
tiffs in the furtherance and prosecution of the petition.
The ATTORNEY-GENERAL showed cause at great length
against the rule. Sir WILLIAM FOLLRTT and Mr. Sergeant
WILDE followed at the same side.

The further hearing of the oaso' was adjourned till tomor-
row, when we shall report the case at length, together with
the judgment of the Court.

CONSISTORY COURT.-MONDAY.

SCRIVENER V. SCRIVENER.

This was a suit for divorce on the grounds of adultery, pro.
moted by the husband against the wife, the circumstances of
which have already appeared. An allegation was now offered
exceptive to the testimony of Mr. Robert Skynner, who was
alleged to be the particeps criminis, and it was exceptive to
that part of his evidence in which, by way of setting up an alibi,
he swore that on the 10th of February, 1835, he was in at-
tendance at the Court of Common Pleas until about two o'clock,
when he went home, and there remained transacting business
until after five o'clock. In contradiction of that statement the
allegation pleaded that the tenant of a house in Oxford-street,
who owed some arrears of rent to Mrs. Scrivener, had called
at the house of Mr. Skynner about four o'clock, on the afore-
said 10th of February, 1835, with a letter containing the money,
and that he was then informed or given to understand that Mr.
Skynner was not at home.
Dr. HAGGARD opposed, and Dr. ADDAMS supported, the ad-
missibility of the allegation.

Dr. LiISHINGTON said that he came to two conclusions--the
first, that it was not necessary that he should admit the allega-
tion ; the second, that, if it were necessary, the allegation it-
self was perfectly admissible. He should therefore allow it to
stand over until the hearing of the cause ; and if then Dr.
Addams should. think it necessary to press the point he would
admit the allegation.

TITHES.--The Constitution endeavours, at consi-
derable length, to show that it is impossible for the sheriff
to execute the innumerable processes which are now being
sued out by the clergy from the superior courts. Were
Viscount Ennismore the sheriff, a contrary line of observa-
tion would, we suppose, be taken. The. Tory Viscount.
Berehaven may not be to blame. It is not our desire to
inculpate him, What is the inference of the Constitu-
tion ? That the -clergy are in every instance to provide
pistols for process servers, to charge them with bullets and
swan drops—a bullet may bring down one man—a charge
of swan drops two or three—and that the service of every
process is to be followed by the loss of two lives at least.
If the service of those writs by the sheriffs be impossible,
our inference is that the clergy will find it impossible to go.
'to law with the whole population. And yet this is the
course which we have reason to think will be persevered
in. We repeat, we have reason to know that those legal
members of the House of Commons to whom the clergy
look for advice, have suggested to them to persevere vigo-
rously in giving Stanley's Act extensive, and, if possible,
universal operation, and to bring the landlords, in every
case where the tenants are defaulters, by the filing of bills,
into the Court of Exchequer. The clergy have been ad-
vised neither to look for, nor assent to, any change in the
existing law, and to rely on the House of Lords rejecting.
any remedial measure which may be introduced by Minis-
ters. The necessity for the landlords looking to their own
interests and those of their tenants has become, then, press-
ing—urgent. The adoption of a fitting course is, we know,
under consideration. In a few posts we shall have some-
thing material to communicate.—Southern Reporter.
A Cow FISHER.--,A few clays ago, a cow, while
drinking at the river Shochie, caught a fish in her mouth,
weighing about five pounds, brought it ashore, and carried
it about twelve yards from the bank, where it was depo-
sited,—Seote Times.

It is now exactly thirteen years since the farmers of
Jersey made their first attempt to cretttii a monopoly by the
I
prohibition of rench cattle, meat, &c., and we perfectly
well remember the confident tone in which they and their
partisans spoke of their anticipated triumph on that occa-
sion: A Metting;i llwieverj of the British residents was
conVonod . saloon, to talc® into consideration an
appeal to the States against the absurd and suicidal attempt
of the farmers. The appeal was carried by acclamation—
it was presented to the States by Mr. Le Couteur, the
then first law officer, of the Crown, and the incipient pre jet
has' N6llllO-01 hniti*lottfily Our slow) amongst the (lusty and
moth-eaten archives of the Greje.—Jersey
INTERESTING FACT.—The most extraordinary
fact connected with the late awful visitation at New York,
is, that but one life has been lost ; one of the papers de-
scribes the rescue of a child in very affecting terms. A
young midshipman, the son of a merchant, passing near one
of the houses on fire, heard the shrieks of a female—lie
ran into the house—her distress was not for herself, but for
her child, which was in a higher room, then on fire. He
was warned not to go, as his life would be in danger, but he
heeded not ; and having got to the room, he found the little
innocent playing on the bed, and (unconscious of its danger)
delio.ht,,!d with the blaze. around it. He snatched it up,
threw her arms about the neck of the
escapeb d in safety, and delivered it to the agonized mother.;
'exclaimed.--." My
.God, my God, Thou
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