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of by any chance in the academic groves of Cam.
Grateful as the fact may be, we must still consider
it as in some degree unfortunate that a competition,
in all other respects so honourable to the University
as well as to the candidates, may we add also so conclu-
sive and creditable to the character and feelings of the
educated part of the community at large as measured
by such a standard, should he raised so as to create a
division, as far as personul sentiments and predilections,
have reason to believe that, except on the Cathedral
wquheesrteionn,onneo exists as to
ce of
greatopini publicn
principles. We
prevails on any ques-
tion of particular moment between Lord Lyndhurst and
Lord Lyttelton. That is a question, doubtless, of peculiar
interest, an interest characteristically enough enhanced
in the present instance by local sympathies or prejudices,
as the case may be. That in the public acceptation dis-
sidence of opinion on this head implies no dereliction of
may be assumed from the fact that Mr. Gout-
ruinrneip,ole,
one of the representatives of the University, hot!s
the same course and takes the same views with
Lord Lyndhurst, from which it is not irrational to
, with other leading
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members
st
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the
party, entertains si-
milar convictions,
although we cannot at the moment
recal any special declaration of that Right Hon. Gen-
tleman to that effect. We are far, therefore, from under-
standing any disqualification of Lord Lyndhurst on that
ground, whilst on all others his claims are manifestly
eminent and indisputable, whether as one of the bright-
est ornaments of the University in his earlier days, or in
his after public career nobly personifying, perpetuating,
and reflecting its well earned renown. As a distinguished
son of the University, although a ycunger son, Lord
may
thu; gelsobesqi
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a dv a
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completely identified with the feelings understood to he
there prevalent on the Cathedral question, a contro-
versial question, however, of difference mueh more of
detail than of principle. If any other man than Lord
Lyndhurst were ,n the field there could be no dispute
of the undeniable qualifications and superior eligibility
of Lord Lyttelton for the High Stewardship.

COURT OF BANKRUPTCY, 0cT.23

IN THE MATTER OF ROBERT STOCKDALE.

The bankrupt was a merchant in Crosby-square,
and his liabilities were estimated at upwards of 32,0001.
The assets on account of the creditors were proved to
be 2,0001., besides a sum of 4001. which Mr. Jones,
the bankrupt's father-in-law, held as a security, but
agreed to resign at this examination for the benefit of
the other creditors. The examination had been ad-
journed ses eral times in consequence of the unsatisfac-
tory state of his accounts. In the present statement
there was the sum of 1,4901. set down for household
expenses for each year, from January, 1836, to Janu-
ary, 1839. In this there appeared the item of 1301.
for wine and spirits alone.
Mr. Lockhart, a wine-merchant, who was a creditor
to a large amount, observed, that with reference to the
alleged expenditure for spirits, he considered the
closest scrutiny was necessary, for when the bankrupt
was called upon to put in vouchers for the several pay-
ments under this head, he produced one professing to
be a payment to him (Mr. Lockhart) for 601., whereas
the payment made to him at the date of that voucher
was only 361 ; now, if the same misrepresentations
were in the other items, there would be a sum of
nearly 2,0001. represented in the balance-sheet more
than his actual expenditure. He considered the sum
of 1,400/. to be an enormous annual expenditure, and,
under all the circumstances of the case, he should op-
pose the bankrupt passing his final examination.
Mr. Commissioner FoNBLANQuE said if he con-
sidered that any benefits were likely to arise from an
adjournment, he should at once accede to it ; but he
thought, attar so many—this being the sixth--ad-
journed examination, it would be useless to go any
farther. _ .

The several creditors present having agreed in the
suggestions of the Learned Commissioner, the bankrupt
passed his final examination.

SURREY QUARTER SESSIONS

KINGSTON, FRIDAY.
(Before B. BARNARD, Esq., Chairman, Sir H. FLET•
CHER, Bart., H. GORSE, Esq-, R. SHARPE, and T.
PUCKLE, Esq.)
GAMING " PROSECUTIONS."
_ _

John Darden surrendered to answer an indictment
charging him with keeping a gaming booth upon Epsom
Downs during the races.
No evidence was offered, and the Jury returned a
verdict of not guilty.
James Gray, George Rutter, and Timothy Barnett,
then surrendered to answers similar indictment.

The defendants pleaded not guilty.
Mr. Wallinger and Mr. Jemmett appeared for the
defendants. Mr. Chambers conducted the prosecution,
and addressed the Jury. The; 4earned Counsel ob-
served that the present prosecution was one of great
importance to the public, because it was instituted with
a view to protect them from being plundered by per-
sons like the defendants. They were charged with
keeping a gaming-booth upon Epsom Downs ;
and with regard to the defendant Burnett, as
all he appeared to have done was to let the ground upon
which the booth was erected, he should abandon the
prosecution so far as he was concerned. The Jury
were aware that the law did not tolerate the proceed-
ings of gambling under any circumstances, and it was
especially necessary that dishonest persons should be
prevented from setting up a gambling booth for the
purpose of plundering their dupes, and walking off with
the booty. He showed that the defendants Gray and
Rutter were engaged in a booth where_ the game of
roulette was being played. The Learned Counsel
havini-, explained the way in which the game was played,
said that it was a game which offered great apparent
advantages, but by a mechanical contrivance the crou-
pier, or manager of the table, had the power of making
the ball fall just where he pleased, and these fraudu-
lent tables were made use of; so that a per-
son who played with them had no more
chance of winning a single sixpence, unless the owner
of the table chose to allow him to do so, than he had
of jumping over the moon. This was the sort of pro-
ceeding carried on by the defendants, and he was quite
sure the Jury would agreed with him, that it was high
time that such proceedings should be done away with.
Mr. Lawrence Langlands was then called, and he
stated that he lived at Epsom, and he had a share of
the letting of the land on the Downs with Mr. Barnett.
He knew the defendants, Gray and Rutter, to attend
the races, but he did not remember seeing them in any
booth at the last races.

Mr. Chambers then applied to the Court to take a
an acquittal as to Barnett, in order that he might
examine him as a witness. He said this course would be
necessary, in order that the ends of justice might not
be defeated.

Mr. Waflinger opposed this proceeding., and said
that the prosecutors had no right to call one of the
defendants to patch up their case.

Robert Pitcher deposed that he was a picture-dealer.
He said he was in No. 4 marquee all the races, but he
did not see Grey or Rutter there.
Mr. Chambers—Very well. Then I shall call Mr.
Thomas Stowell.

" Mr." Thomas Stowell (the common informer), who
had been sitting behind the defendant's Counsel, got up
and said, " I know nothing about it."
Mr. Chambers—We will see that. Let him be
sworn, and sec that he kisses the book.

. —..-- .
Stowell was accordingly sworn. He then said he had
been subpoenaed to give evidence, but he knew nothing
of the case,
and he wished to know, before he answered
any queitions, who was to pay his expenses.
Mr. Chambers—Now, Mr. Stowell, arc you a solici-
tor? Stowell—No, lam not.
Mr. Chambers—Do you mean to swear you did not
bring down the briefs for these defendants ? Stowell—
I know nothing of the case. 1 have been subpoenaed.
Examination continued.—Was at Epsom races every
day. He knows the defendants, but never heard them
say that they kept a booth ; but he had heard them
say that they did not. He was at the races upon " pri-
vate business."
Mr. Jemmett—ls that our case?
Mr. Chambers— I No, have not half done yet.—
(A laugh.
Sergeant
Langley
of the A division of Police, de-
posed that
he was en duty at the Grand Stand during
the races. Ile knew the defendants Gray and Rutter,
but he did not see them in any booth.
Another witness was called, but did not answer.
John Bruce deposed that be
was in No. 4 marquee,
during the races, but he did not sea the defendants there.
Mr. Chambers— t Wha was done in the booth ?
Witness—l saw on and different kinds of
amusement. games going __ _

A laugh.)
werAelr:heerier.ll'l)(ors—The amusement you speak of I sup-
posed consisted of picking the pockets of people who
The Learned Counsel then said he found he could
not carry the case any
farther, and he submitted that
the Court ought to call Barnett as a witness.
Mr. Jemmett hoped the Court would do no such
H
thing. ,
0 thought the proceeding altogether was
against .tle defendants.
most unfair Fourteen other
the
persons were indicted with the defendants, and only
two were brought forward,
Mr. Chambers—The others could not be found.
Mr. Jemmett—You have no right to say that ; it is
just as likely that these were the
only two who " held
out."

The Court having
witness, declined to call Baraett a 3 a

dr. Chambers admitted there was no case to go
to the Jury, and
the dufendants were accordingly
acquitted.

HERTS REGISTRATION
the Reform interest on the recent
.__The total gain of
registration is 101; to
which 113, gained on the last, will make 214 in the tno
years' registration. We heartily wish that very county,
city, and borough, may make a ropog sobrate ifying to cur
readers, and to the cause to wbielt we hare always given
our best aid.

WHITEHALL, OCT. 12.

FROM LAST NIGHT'S GAZETTE.

CAMBRIDGE HOUSE, OCT. 19, 1840.

His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge has been pleased
to appoint Richard Anthony Stafford, Esq., of Old Burlington-
street, to be Surgeon Extraordinary.

The Lord Chancellor has appointed William Simons, of the
County of the Borough of Carmarthen. Gent., to be a Master
Extraordinary in the High Court of Chancery.

The following places have been duly registered for solemniz-
ing marriages therein, pursuant t. the Act of the fith aad 7th
William IV., chap. 85 ;
Zion's-hill, Spittal, Pembrokeshire.
Penbout, Ford, Pembrokeshire.
The Baptist Chapel, St. Michael's, Gloucester.
The Baptist 'Meeting, Harston, Cambridgeshire.
The Independent Chapel, St. Helen's, Berkshire.
The New Independent Chapel, Chelmsford.
The Congregational Home Missionary Chapel, Morecom
lake, Dorsctshire.
The Independent Meeting-house, Therfield, Hertfordshire.

BANKRUPTCIES SUPERSEDED.
CHARLES COLSTON, wine merchant, Pancras-lane,
City.
JAMES WELLINGTON. butcher, Ross, Herefordshire.
BANKRUPTS.

business could be done, and the rabble would have the
best placer.
The Applicant—The Court ought to be open, and
must be opon. I came to the Lord Mayor to complain
of being refused admission.
Sir PETER LAURIE—Who arc you, Sir ? The Ap,
plicßnt—Who am I?—my name is Muddle. I can
show you who I am. But it don't signiiy who I am.
A public Court is a Court for the admission of the
public. My name is Mr. Muddle.
Sir PETER LAURIE—WeII, Mr. Muddle, the Lord
Mayor and the SeritTs have the power of admitting
you, and I dare ray, if you apply, that they won't re-
fuse you ; but it is not in my power to give you an
order. In my opinion, the attendance of people at
trials is not at all productive of moral good, and the
fewer that go the better.
Mr. Muddle—Oa! you think so, do you ?

WILLIAM CLARK GOLLAND, linen-draper, Cam-
bridge, to surrender Oct. 30, and Dec. 4, at twelve, at the
Court of Bankruptcy. Pennell, official assignee ; Wood and
Blake, Falcon-street, Falcon-square.
JOHN SHAW, woollen-manufacturer, Doheros, Yorkshire,
N.:rv. 6, and Dec. 4, at three, at the Commisioners'-rooms,
Manchester. Rickards and 'Walker, Lincoln's Inn-fields, Lon-
don ; Ilirminbottom, Buckley, and Lord, Ashton-under-Lyne.
WILLIAM WOLFF, general merchant, Huddersfield,
Oct. .29, at three, and Dec. 4, at ten, at the George Hotel,
Huddersfield. Jaques and Edwards, Holborn, London; Hest)
and Battye, Huddersfield.
CHARLES FORD, grocer, Hanley, Staffordshire, Nov. 4
and Dec. 4, at twelve, at the Albion Inn, Hanley. Price and
Bolton, Lincoln's-inn, London ; Bishop, Shelton Hall, Staf-
fordshire.

GEORGE BROWNE, horse-dealer, Liverpool, Nov. 3
and Dec.' 4, at one, at the Clarendon Rooms, Liverpool.
Vinc,..nt and Sherwood, King's Bench-walk, Temple, London ;
Jones, Liverpool.
RICHARD MILLER, the younger, late of Blue Anchor-
road, Bermondsey, in the county of Surrey, glue manufacturer,
dealer, and chapman, as a trader indebted together with late
co-partners John Dover and John Birket, carrying on business
under the firm of Miller and Birket. Nov. 3, at one, and
Dec. 4, at ']even, at the Court of Bankruptcy.
THOMAS GARRATT and JOSEPH GARRATT, car-
riers, Hulme, Lancashire, Nov. 9, and Dec. 4, at eleven, at
the Commissioners'-rooms, Manchester. Hall, Manchester;
Heald, Austin-friars, Throgmorton-street, London.
GEORGE BURNETT, merchant, Newcastle—upon-Tyne,
Nov. 16, at eleven, and Dec. 4, at two, at the Bankrupt Com-
mission-room, Newcastle-upon-Tyne ; Swain, Stevens, and
Co., Frederick's-place, Old Jewry, London ; Gibson, New-
castle-upon-Tyne.
WILLIAM MASON, hotel-keeper, St. James's-street,
Westminster, Oct. 28, at two, and Dec. 4, at eleven, at the
Court of Bankruptcy ; Lackington, official assignee, Col.man-
street-buildings •' Robinson, Half-Moon. sireet, Piccadilly.
ISAAC MILLER, share broker, Liverpool, Nov. 3, and
Dec. 4, at one, at the Clarendon-rooms, Liverpool. Payne,
Liverpool; Adlington and Co., London.
GEORGE BON NOR, rag-merchant, Bermondsey-wall,
_ _

Oct. 31, at eleven, and Dec: 4, at twelve, at the Court of

Sr PETER LAURIE-1 do indeed, Mr. Muddle. I
would not have you go to bear the trials. They only
teach people to get into ugly scrapes, by showing how
many ingenious ways there arc of getting out of them.
—('Laughter.)
Mr. Muddie—Oh! you think so, do you ? Well, I
will go, however. lam resolved to assert the right of
the public. The public, mind you! The poor as well
as the rich should be allowed to go everywhere. It was
but the other day a fellow thought to prevent me from
going into a public Court ; but I soon showed him I
was not to be trifled with, for I collared him, shook
him, walked in, and was victorious.
Mr. Muddle then went to the Sheriffs to apply to
them for admission.

. . .
Bankruptcy. Johnson, Basinghall-street, official assignee ;
Vinc,mt and Sherwood, King's Bench-walk, Temple.
MORRITT MATTHEWS, dyer, Little Town, Yorkshire,
Nov. 6, at nine, and Dec. 4, at two, at the Commissioners'-

rooms, Leeds. Willis, Bower, and Willis, Tokenhouse-yard,
London; Carr, Gomersal, Leech..

DIVIDENDS.
At the Court of Bankruptcy, Basinghall-street.
D. Evans, stove-grate manufacturer, John-street, Minories,
Nov. 16, at half-past twelve—E. Glass, wine merchant, Ox-
ford-street, Nov. 16, at half-past one—R. Heyward, linen
draper, Lamb's Conduit-street, Nov. 16, at half-past eleven.

In the Country.
H. Baron, cotton manufacturer, Balderston, Lancashire,
Nov. 19, at twelve, at the Town-hall, Preston—J. Farrington,
plumber, Blackpool, Lancashire, Nov. 19, at twelve, at the
Town-hall, Preston—T. Milner, draper, Stockton-upon-Tees,
Durham, Nov. 13, at twelve, at the Vane Arms Hotel, Stock-
ton—E. Drams, ironmonger, Stowmarket, Suffolk, Nov. 17,
at one, at the Suffolk Hotel, Ipswich—J. G. and J. G. Court,
cattle dealers, Glastonbury, Somersetshire, Nov. 16, at twelve,
at the Swan Hotel, Wells—T. Fisher, J. Fisher, and M. Sim-
monds, bankers, Ashby-de-la-Zouch, Nov. 17, at two, at the
Royal Hotel, Ashby-de-la-Zouch—B. Jacques, J. Cotton, and
T. B. Olivier, hosiers, Nottingham, Nov. 25, at one, at the
George the Fourth Inn, Nottingham—B. Waterhouse, cotton
spinner, Glossop, Derbyshire, Nov. 17, at two, at the Commis •
sioners'-rooms, Manchester—G. Fittock, tea dealer, Devonport,
Dec. 16, at &even, at the Royal Hotel, Plymouth—J. and S.
Loke, fancy cloth manufacturers, Salford, Yorkshire, Nov. 14,
at eleven, at the White Swan lan, Huddersfield—J. Taylor,
coal fitter, Middlesbrough, Yorkshire, Nov. 13, at three, at
the Black Lion Hotel, Stockton—R. Lamb, iron merchant,
Stockton, Durham, Nov. 18, at eleven, at the Black Lion
Hotel, Stockton.
CERTIFICATES—Nov. 13.

W. Appleton, tailor, Newton, Lancashire—H. Froom,
grocer, West Teignmouth, Devonshire—R. Lowe, working
jeweller, Blackpool, Lancashire—G. Stanley, bituminous pave-
ment manufacturer, Southampton—T. Johnson, jun., horse
dealer, Lewes, Sussex—W. S. Denton, builder, Carlisle—B.
Wright, paint dealer, Liverpool—F. Mulling!, pearl ornament
manufacturer, Birmingham—J. Baker, scrivener, Woodlands,
Somersetshire.
PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED.

T. hey and H. Weston, Whitechapel—H. .Sezton And J.
Collies, cotton manufacturers, Fore-street, Cripplegate—S.
and S. J. W. Scorey, bakers, Weymouth, Dorsetshire—C.
Wright and C. Chambers, shipping agents, Norwich—J. All-
wood and J. Platt, drapers, Nantwich, Cheshire—NV. Law-
rence and H. Sudell, linen drapers, New Church-street, Pad-
dington—G. Meakin and G. Farmiloe, brewers, London—J.
Wilce and D. Spooner, cheesemougers, Manchester-square—
J. Naylor and G. Barrett, machine makers, Goole, Yorkshire
—J. Tanner and T. Wollatson, saddlers, Dorrington, Shrop-
shire—J. N. Hanson and J. Laycock, iron founders, Bacup,
Lancashire—E. Weeks and C. Hodge, iron founders, Cadogan
Foundry, King's-road, Chelsea—W. Butcher, H. Barnard, and
E. Butcher, general merchants, Bungay, Suffolk—J. Lumley
and C. Pybus, spirit merchants, Kirkby Fletcher, Yorkshire—
W. Ackroyd, J. Rawson, and T. Duncan, worsted spinners,
Otlev, Yorkshire (so far as regards J. Rawson)—W. Cooke,
F. Cooke, and W. Mills, hat dyers, Manchester.
SCOTCH SEQUESTRATIONS.

BARR and LAING, engineers, Johnston, Oct. 27 slid
Nov. 17. at twelve, at the Saracen's Head Inn, Paisley.
JOHN CRAIG, boot maker, Glasgow, Oct. 29 and Nov.
20, at two, at the Writing Chambers of J. Drew, Glasgow.
A. 1111YRISON and CO., painters, Glasgow, Oct. 30 and
Nov. 20, at twelve, at the Royal Exchange Sale-rooms,
Glasgow.
JAMES KING, writer, Glasgow, Oct. 29 and Nov. 20, at
one, at the Writing Chambers of W. Russell, Glasgow.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

MANSION-HO USE.

On Thursday Mr. Yates, a solicitor, applied for a
summons, calling upon the Captain of the John Bull
steam-vessel, trading to Hamburgh, to appear to an-
swer for having committed an outrage of an extraordi-
nary description, according to the statement of the ap-
plicant, upon a Jew, who came over with others of the
same persuasion, to this country in that vessel.
Mr. Yates stated that the injured party could not
appear, inasmuch as the Captain of the John Bull had
taken the most decisive means of preventing him from
attending before his Lordship, by compulsorily shipping
him on board another steamer which had just set off
for Hamburgh. The facts were these, as far as the
solicitor could learn :—Some foreign Jews being desi-
rous of coating to England from Hamburgh, resolved
to take their passage in the John Bull. Amongst them
was the person, who afterwards had such cause to com-
plain. Some of them had settled for their passage in
Hamburgh, and others settled with the Captain.
Amongst those who paid at Hamburgh, was the mm
alluded to, who was a Polish Jew. The moment, how-
ever, the vessel arrived, the Captain demanded his pls.
sage-money, to which the Jew answered that he had
paid at Hamburg's, and persisted in refusing to pay
again. The Captain not being able -to prevail upon his
passenger to answer the demand, slipped a rope round
the Jew's body, lowered him into the hold of the vessel,
and detained him there until some arrangement was
made with the commander of another vessel, which
was setting off for Hamburg's, to take him back to the
place Irons whence he came.
The LORD MAYOR asked whether the man was ac-
tually taken back after having been confined in the
hold ?
Mr. Yates said that he was instructed to that effect.
Whatever might have been the passenger's conduct with
respect to the payment of the money, the course pur-
sued by the Captain could not be easily justified ; and
if such a mode of treating passengers were to be allowed
to pass without observation, there would be no limit to
the oppressive conduct of persona who had so much in
their power.
The Loan MAYOR immediately ordered the sum-
mons to be made out for Friday.
Yesterday before Mr. Yates' arrival a gentleman
attended from the office of the Company to which the
John Bull belongs, and stated to Sir P. Laurie, who sat
for the Lord Mayor, that as the Captain would be obliged
to set sail as soon as possible for Hamburgh, it would
greatly convenience him to postpone the case till next
Monday week, when be should attend, :tad satisfactorily
account for the course he had pursued. The fact was,
the applicant stated, that
.the Captain had much diffi-
culty in guarding against imposition such as had been
practised upon him on the occasion alluded to. The
Jew had not paid for his passage at Hamburgh, and
the only way of checking such gross practices of impo-
sition was to spoil the trick by a re-shipment, which
was accordingly effected in this case, no more violence
having been used on the occasion than was necessary to
prevent the awkward customer from running away.
Sir PETER LAURIE said, that for his part he consi-
dered such a plan of settling with a customer that
wanted to evade payment a most excellent one. He
consented to the postponement, and especially £3 the
Captain could learn for certain at Hamburgh that there
were no grounds for asserting that the Jew had paid be.
fore embarkation.

A well-dressed man applied to Sir PETER LAURIE
for an order of admission into the Central Criminal
Court. He had, he said, a desire to witness what was
going forward, but when he tried to get into the Court
a shilling was demanded of i im, and not being disposed
to pay for what the whole of the public oi,ght to be at
liberty to see without payment or inconvenience of any
kind, he was peremptorily refused admis.rion.
Sir PETER LAURIE—YOU ought to have applied to
the Sheriffs, who arc in attendance at the Court.
The Applicant—Oh, the Court ought to be open to
the poor as well as the rich. I don't care a farthing
about a shilling, nor about five shillings, but I wish to
establish the principle. The Central Criminal Court
ought to be open to all.
Sir PETER LAURIE—Why, if the doors were thrown
open, and people allowed to enter indiscriminately, no