The Sun.
London, England, 1841-04-22 00:00:00

ALDERMAN PERRIN.

SUPERIOR COURT, AmEnicA.--Mr. Arthur Perrin, late
Mayor of Dublin, arrived here a few days back with his two
sons, and a day or two after his arrival he was arrested under
the Stilwell Act for abolishing imprisonment for debt and
punishing fraudulent debtors. The case was yesterday brought
Wore Judge Jones, who occupied the greater part of the day
in c-xamining it. It appeared that Mr. Perrin was arrested on
the affidavit of Mr. James Lee, a merchant of this city, acting
as attorney and agent of Robert Hunter, a merchant of Dub-
lin, who holds Perrin's endorsement to the amount of 600/.
Annexed to the affidavit of Lee was the affidavit of Hunt,
taken before a Master in Chancery in Liverpool, and certified
by the American Consul at Liverpool. This affidavit stated
that Perrin was indebted to Hunt in the above amount, and
the affidavit of Lee stated that from information and belief,
Arthur Perrin had contracted the above mentioned debt frau-
dulently, and that he had disposed of his property with intent
to defraud his creditors, and that he intended to remove his
property out of the jurisdiction of the Superior Court, with in-
tent to defraud his creditors.

Counsel for Mr. Perrin moved to quash the proceedings, first
on the ground that the affidavit (f Hunt was not taken in a
proper manner, or before a proper officer ; and secondly that
Alr. Lee's affidavit was merely an information and belief, with-
out stating when or by whom he was informed, which in a quasi
criminal proceeding like the present was not sufficient, and that
it was the practice of the Court of Common Pleas not to con-
sider mere information or belief sufficient in such cases. It
was also objected that it did not appear in the affidavits that
any suit had been commenced against the defendant in the Su-
perior Court.
Mr. M'Keon, Counsel for the defendant, also remarked, that
if Mr. Varian, or any other present or ex-Mayor of this city,
went to Europe, how very easily could some person there be
induced, either innocently or corruptly, to swear that from
" information or belief" he knew the person had left New
York for the purpose of defrauding his creditors, and in such
a case, if the laws of England were similar to those of this
State, the American citizen might be imprisoned in England
for an indefini a period, or until he delivered up his property
or made an assignment of it.
Judge JONES overruled the objections, and decided that the
affidavits were sufficient.

Mr. Perrin then made an affidavit, denying the material
facts alleged against him, and submitted to an examination, in
the course of which he testified that he had in Ireland pro-
perty worth 2001. per annum, and that he brought no more
mosey with him than would pay his expenses here and back.
Mr. Perrin's son was also examined, and from his testimony
it appeared that Mr. Perrin came here for the purpose of
settling one or two of his sons, who accompanied him, as far-
mers in the United States, and that his returning to Dublin,
or making this country his permanent residence, was to be de-
termined by circumstances, such as how he liked the country, Sze.
It is expected that the Judge will give a decision in this case
this day.—New York Paper, March 30.

EDINBURGH AND GLASGOW RAILWAY.—
Mr. Miller, the engineer of that line, intends to open it
throughout, from end to end, on Ist August next without
fail. In order to exped.te the works along the line, the
Edinburgh Railway Company sometime ago bought a
locomotive engine, and gave the use of it to John Gibb
and Son, for their extensive contract at the Almond
Valley, near Edinburgh. They also last week bought
another locomotive engine from Thos. Edington and Sons,
of the Phoenix Iron Works, Glasgow, to be used by Mr.
M'Naugton, contractor, Redding, near Falkirk. These
engines will be of immense advantage to the contractors,
as they will get the work done faster and much cheaper
than by horses, as formerly. The repairing and other
stations are also progressing rapidly towards completion,
and the whole line of railway is a very animated scene,
from the great exertions which are now made to finiih it
without delay.—Constitutional.

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of the first year rendered the bank but an unprofitable con-
cern ; abundance in the market brought with it an abun-
dance cf specie, so that the paper money would have been
superfluous. Produce, however, became scarce, and dollars
became scarce also, so the bank was brought into play, and
increased in prosperity; its paper was in circulation to a
large amount, the dividend to the shareholders was
enormous, and the shares became worth 340 per cent.
Things went on in this way till about a year and
a half ago, when the bank found that its coffers were
empty. Instead of being embarrassed at this cir-
cumstance the managers at once coolly declared,
that they did not intend to pay their notes, and the
Creditors were obliged to submit to this determina-
tion ; it is said, however, they were in fear the Go-
vernment might exercise their privilege of banishing
the unruly. The managers of the bank, however,
began to feel the consequences, and were obliged to
draw in their credit, and this, it seems, was effected
by throwing out insinuations, which ruined the credit of
those to whom they applied. A general want of confidence
has been the result of the system, and the bank shares,
which were worth 1,700 f. in 1838, were lately offered at
475/ It is not to be supposed that there are many persons
in England immediately interested in the fate of this re-
mote bank ; but its short history gcves an instructive picture
of a paper system rising into a spurious prosperity, at a time
when the country was least prosperous, and then at once
exploding and spreading panic around it. The affair is not,
however, so singular as some of the writers on the subject
imagine. They say the emptiness of the coffers would
have reduced a bank is any other part of the world to a
sad cilemma, but this expedient of declaring boldly that
they would no longer pay their own notes, when the Go-
vernment was their principal shareholder, seems only a
shorter method than that pursued by the American banks,
who have friends in the State Legislatures, to authorise
suspension, the principle in both cases being precisely the
same. Thus the paper system, whateve: changes of form
it may undergo, is always an evil wherever it may be ee-
-1 tablished.— Times.

THE CONVICT CLUBBE.—The Judge left an
order at Ruthin for his execution on Tuesday the 13th instant,
but a respite for one month has since arrived. He is reduced
to a mere skeleton, and is very ill. Medical men doubt his
surviving to the awful day of his punishment. He has ac-
knowledged that he alone did the deed, and that no one was
present at the time except his victim and himself.— Carnarvon
Herald.

NVGOD PAVENIENT.—Workmen are now em.
ployed laying down wood pavement in the Poultry.
PATRONAGE OF BRITISH MANUFACTURES
BY HER. MAJESTY.—For the occasion of the ball, which is un-
der the patronage of her Majesty and some of the principal No-
bility, and which will take place in May next, for the encou-
ragement of British manufactured silk, a garment isnow in course
of manufacture in Bethnal-green for the Queen, of the most
chaste and elegant description. The weavers intend to manu-
facture the portraits of the Queen Dowager and the Duke of
Wellington. with black and white silk, the white forming the
ground ; and when finished, the effect, it is stated, will be,
that the portraits will be scarcely distinguished from a paint-
ing, nothing of a similar description ever having been designed
before.

WEEPING WLLLOW.—_There seems to be a
difference between the growth of the weeping willow
in England and in most parts of the Continent. In Eng-
land the summer does not seem regularly hot enough
to develop the full length of its gracefully pendent
twigs, which, though they weep always more or less,
do not generally hang with that perfect looseness
and perpendicularity that distinguish the tree when in
pc:fcction. In an English autumn, too, the leaves turn
yellow More the natural time of decay; the extremities
of the twigs, not being ripened, wither, and the leaves
are blown, or it may to said, whipped off them, by our
storms, long before they would otherwise drop off. But
even in Germany the weeping willow attains its perfectly
drooping character, and the leaves remain on till the frost
comes, long after those of the native deciduous trees, are
withered;
THE CONVICT MURRAY:--The-order for the
execution of this unfortunate man was received by the Con-
stable of Chester Castle. Mr. Dunstan, on Sunday morn-
ing last. Saturd,ly next fixed for the exctu-
t;on ; and the unricagant dui': connee el with it are
again made to devolve on the Sheriff of the city.--Chester
Courant.