The Sun.
London, England, 1841-05-05 00:00:00

LAW INTELLIGENCE.
COURT OF COMMON PLEAS, MAY 4.

-- V. MARAVOOD.
This was an action for damages laid at 20,0(X:11. to try a
right to property in Cornish mines, claimed by inheritance
from Sir John Dc la Zouche, who died in the reign of Queen
Elizabeth. The particulars have appeared more than once in
Common Pleas' Reports of The Sun. The case was tried
here last year before the Lord Chief Justice, and a verdict was
taken for the defendant, subject to a new trial on points re-
served. The Solicitor-General since obtained a rule nisi for
a new trial, the argument on which will come on next term.
Mr. HILL having obtained this term a rule to show cause
why the plaintiff should not furnish copies of a certain docu-
ment, necessa•y to enable the defendant to oppose the rule for
a new trial.

The SOLICITOR-GENERAL now showed cause against the
rule, contending that as the document called for was acces-
sible to the defendant as well as to the other side, inasmuch
as it had been produced at the inquest on the death of Sir John
de la Zouche, and it was to be found in the record of that in-
quisition.

Mr. HILL replied, and after a warm discussion the rule was
discharged.

ADMIRALTY COURT-1114r 4.
THE 'WESTMORELAND-JUDGMENT.
The Couur—The question which I have to decide in this
case is, whether the mariners who have commenced this suit
are entitled to their wages. A summary petition and an alle-
gation have been given in, and witnesses have been examined.
Both parties agree as to the principal facts of the case, though
the inference they draw from them are very different. The
vessel left England in 1839, and the articles described the voy-
age as" a voyage from the port of departure to the Swan River,
thence to any part in the Indian or China Sea, and back to a
port of discharge in Great Britain, or at any rate on the Conti-
nent of Europe, and the voyage under any circumstances was not
to exceed three years." She-proceeded to Swan River, and dis-
charged the cargo. The mariners were hired in 1840, the vessel
then went to an island in the China Seas, and, having sailed in
June on her homeward voyage, reached Cowes on the 28th of
August. The master then hired a pilot to take the ship to
Holland, where her cargo was to be discharged. The sailors,
who now claim their wages, thought that under the 'articles
they were not bound to go, to Holland, and they accordingly
wrote to Mr. Day for his advice, to whom they went on the
following morning. While in, or near his office, they were
arrested and taken before the Magistrates, and on their refusal
to return to the ship they were sent to prison for thirty days,
with hard labour. This is a bare outline of the facts, but it
will be sufficient to enable me` to state the questions at issue.
The fist is, whether the mariners were bound by the articles
to proceed from Cowes to Holland? If they were not bound
to do so, there can be, of course, no forfeiture of wages ; but
assuming the owners to be right, and that the mariners were
bound to proceed to the Continent, the Gourt will then have
to consider and decide whether these facts amount to a desertion.
After commenting on the case at considerable length, the
Learned Judge concluded by observing, " On both points, I
pronounce in favour of the mariners—and of course with costs,
and I cannot but express my regret that, after these persons
had been innocently—on the part of the Magistrates and of the
owners—but still had actually been imprisoned for thirty days,
it should have been deemed necessary to carry the controversy
into this Court, and to have endeavoured to prevent them from
receiving their wages."

COURT OF BANKRUPTCY, MAY 4.

N THE BANKRUPTCY OF iYRIGHT AND CO., BANKERS,

IIENRIETTA-STREET, COVENT-GARDEN.
This being the day appointed for an audit and dividend on
thejoint estates of the adifferent partners in this concern the
Court was crowded.

Mr. France appeared to claim for a sum of 3,6001., which
remained over after an improper sale of stork by Mr. John
Wright to the amount of 61,0001., and also prayed that the
dividend upon that amount might be reserved. All and every
stock standing in the name of the bankrupts must be taken to
he in their " order and disposition," and all the entries in the
bankrupts' books would be found to be, "Messrs. Wright and
Co., in trust," for, &c.
_ _

Mr. Commissioner HoLaorn—The parties making claims
should not be prejudiced, but. the disposition in this case is not
right, for it says, " by one or all," without absolutely fixing the
debt upon any body.
Mr. France said that his client could not have made a safe
affidavit in any other terms, for it could not be said that John
Wright made all these sales of stock with the knowledge of the
other partners.
Mr. Hamilton would not object to the claim being entered,
bttt the great object of the assignees was to make a good and
hm nediatv dividend. The present claim, however, would be
liable to a very considerable reduction. The assignees were
satisfied that the stocks sold out were the property of the dif-
fers it parties in whose names they weie entered in the bankers'
boo :3$ and it was not at present. the intention to carry the
question into any other Court.
Mr. Bagshawe, barrister: appeared upon the part of Mr.
Thomas Wright, to claim a right to prove for the value of
annuities of 1,200/. a-year agreed to nave been given to him
by Messrs. Wright and Co., in consideration of his relinquish-
ing all right and title to certain shares in the bank, which
were settled upon him by his father.
Mr. Hamilton objected to the admission of the proofs, as
Mr. Thomas Wright had released the bank from every claim,
and the 4001. a year whieb was allowed him by Mr. John
Wright was gratuitously allowed.
After some conversation,

The claims were then ordered to be entered on the proceed-
ings, but without any reservation of the dividend for this day.
Mr. J. Ball, the Accountant, then handed in the balance-
sheet, to the truth of which the bankrupt was sworn, and was
then declared to have pac=ed his final examination.
The debts proved in the course of the day amounted tog con-
siderable sum, and the " claims " were very large, particularly
those upon the stock account presented by Mr. Withiam, of
Gray's Inn-square, for upwards of 23,000/.
The assets already collected are about 170,0001., and the
dividend to be now declared is stated at five shillings in the
pound.

COURSE OF EXCHAD
Amsterdam CF. 12 6
Ditto, at sight
Rotterdam ...•2 U. 12 6
Antwerp l2 6
Hamburg'' M.B. 13 12
Altona
Paris, 3 days' sight 25 50
Ditto, 3 months 25 70
Marseilles
Bourdeaux 25 75
Frankfort on Maine... 1501
Petersburg'', 3Us ... 37

NrGE—(YESTERDAY).
Gibraltar
Leghorn
Genoa
Milan
Venice 47
Naples ....... 39/
Palermo, per oz 119
Lisbon
Oporto
Rio Janeiro 27
Bahia
Buenos Ayres
New York, 21 days sight 461
Philadelphia 46
PRICES OF BULLION, PER oz.
Portugal Gold Coin £3 17 5
Foreign Gold, bars... 3 17 9
New Doubloons 0 0 0
New Dollars 0 4 10i
in Bars
!Silver
0 0 0

7 0
Vienna, effee. fl. 3 M 10 1
Trirste, ditto
.Madrid . 35i
Cadiz
Whoa ... 35 -
Barcelona
Seville

POPULARITY.—The natural drollery of Jcannot
not only rendered him the idol of the theatre at which he
performed, but gave him the entree into the best society.
lie soon received invitations to the most fashionable par-
ties in Paris. Nothing was talked of but Jeannot. Not
only was his portrait to be seer in every shop-window, but
busts and figures of him were to be found on every draw-
ing-room chimney-piece, to the exclusion, fur a time, of
china vases and nodding mandarins. The Queen, too
ready to fall into the error of following, instead of lead-
ing, the fashion, purchased a quantity of these busts todistri-
bute among the courtiers, which created a considerable sensa-
tion in the palace, They were regarded as ins'gnia of
knighthood. Those who received busts of plaster or
biscuit, ranking only as knights of the order, whilst those,
whose busts were of alabaster or Secret china, were con-
sidered grand cordons, or commanders. Luckily, Jeannot
gas nut cast in bronze.—• Theodore Hooles French Stage.