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

THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY, APRIL 22, 1841.

a will, by which he leaves the whole of his immense for-
ture to his nephew, M. de Linage."—( Laughter. )
Judge—You read that in the newspaper, do you say?
Cretecorps—Oui, llionsieur, in a little paper which was
sent me by a person who also owes me money. I had no
sooner read the paragraph than I dressed myself and went
to M. de Linage. I said to him, " I yesterday refused to
lend you the 200 francs you wanted to borrow, but on re-
.flection I am now willing to accommodate you."—( Laur,h-
ter.) " Hold your tongue," said he, putting one hand on
my mouth and the other on the money.—( Much laughter.)
" Let us not trouble his last mornents—Adieu, non anti—
leave me. lam much affected."

Judge—Very naturally.
Cretecorps—Natural, indeed ; and I was fool enough
to go away without ever taking a receipt for the money.
In accompanying me to the door the servant said to me,
The poor Count cannot last out the day." " Good,"
said I; " we shall get reimbursed for all our arrears."—
( Much laughter). Well, I went down stairs, and in pass-
ing along the boulevard, whom should I meet-711071 Dieu 1
—why, the old Count himself, whom I supposed almost in
the agonies of death, but who was, on the contrary, com-
placently smoking his cigar, and cocking his glass at the
girls like a young fellow of 201"—(Tremendous laughter,
in which the voice of M. de Linage was heard above all
the rest.)
JUDGE—How is this?

Cretecrops—Why, Monsieur, it was a trick of the
nephew, M. de Linage, who had got the paragraph in-
serted in the paper for the express purpose of getting my
money.—( Renewed laughter.)
After questioning M. de Linage, who said it was only
a joke to outwit his money-lender, the Judge ordered the
repayment of the 200 francs by instalments of 50 francs
per month.
Cretecorps (on taking his departure)—l wil never
again believe the death of your uncle till I hear his mass
celebrated at the end of the year.—(Laughter.)

JOINT-STOCK COMPANIES.

£372,173,100

5,963,220

Among which will be found Anglo-Chilian, Anglo-
Mexican, Anglo• Peruvian, Brazilian, Imperial Brazi-
lian, Boianos, Bolivar, Chilian, Colombian, Chilian and
Peruvian, Castello, Famatina, Guanaxuato, General
South American, Gold Coast, Elaytian, Mexican, Paso
Peruvian, Potosi la Pas, Peruvian, Real del Monte,
Rio de la Plata, Royal Waldeck, Tlalpuxahua, United
Mexican, United Pacific, United Provinces, United
Chilian, Vigo Bay, Brazilian Jewel, Al lerney Dairy,
Tobacco and Snuff, Ale, Metropolitan Fish, Drug, Car-
pet, General Dying, Egyptian Trading, Anglo-Russian,
Bengal Sugar, Borneo Loo Loo, Isthmus of Darien,
African, Cornwall and Devon, Manganese, Royal Irish,
English Gwenappe, Tywarnhale, and others too nume-
rous to mention.

From the year 1824 up to the present time compa-
nies have been brought before the public requiring a no.
minal capital of nearly 800,000,0001., out of which not
more than 80,000,000/. have been bone fide laid out,
which may be roughly stated—viz., 60,000,000/. in rail-
roads, and the other 20,000,0001.. in docks, bridges, and
canals, leaving about 700,000,000/. for fictitious and
gambling speculations.
In the greater number of instances it will be found
that the projector was either an at! orney or Par-
liamentary agent, who by the concoction of a
scheme availed himself of the advantage which it
afforded by a bill of costs ; or some unprincipled
person actuated solely with a view to pecuniary pro-
fit, and to obtain which the measures adopted were
in such cases neither justifiable nor honourable ; the
deceptive practices resorted to to obtain a price far ex-
ceeding the real value of the property can only be ex-
plained by the guilty participation of the parties in the
spoil ; while in ether instances, by imposing on the pro-
prietors of the Company by nominating a false sum as
the purchase•money, and by withholding the greater
part of the shares, and disposing of them at consider-
able premiums, the parties secured to themselves a for-
tune at the public expense. These premiums were
obtained by an artificial value being created by mancea-
vres, and by the aid of individuals who, for the sake of
a commission, lent themselves to the fraud so committed.
To acts of a similar nature to those referred to, is
to be attached not only the loss of property, but the
sacrifice of character, which has, in too many instances
of late, been the result of the proceedings of joint-stock
companies, where, by the connexion of men of title with
designing projectors, the innocent have been implicated
with the guilty. It is, however, to be hoped that the
lesson thus tat :ght the public will be the means of pre-
venting a recurrence of these events, and that the
proprietor i,f a base scheme will be shunned and stigma-
tized, while the patron and promoter of objects condu-
cive to national wealth and the public good will be held
in that high estimation of the public which it is their
duty to bestow, and of the possession of which it is his
pride to boast.

It may be said, how is this"to be prevented ? Why,
very easily. Compel the Directors of Companies to
have a certificate from the Board of Trade certifying
as to the respectability of the pnrties, and the practi-
cability of the plan, and a list of their names and resi-
dences registered at the Stamp•otfice as responsible to
the public us well as the shareholders, before they are
allowed to bring the scheme forward for public support.
You will then hear very seldom of fraudulent Companies.
I am, &c., T. G.

POST-OFFICE DELINQUENCIES.—Under this
head the Dublin Monitor of Saturday evening contains
some most extraordinary detail of circumstances in respect
of robbery of newspapers by country postmasters, and the
extreme and culpable leniency ith which such " irregula-
reties "arc treated by the beads of the establishment. In ad-
dition to the case of Mr. Moore and the postmaster of Comber,
we arc ourselves aware of another in which a nobleman re-
cently appealed to the authorities in Dublin, and showed that
his newspapers had not only been opened,read, and detained,
but the stamp-date on the cover falsified to account for the
delay; and yet we have not heard of the dismissal of the
party so accused, nor even of his having been reprimanded
for " irregularity." It is no wonder that our table, in
common with those of our contemporaries, is daily loaded
with complaints from subscribers of the non-arrival of
their papers, if the Postmaster-General and his underlings
not only
connive at, but almost encourage, such monstrous
frauds upon
proprietors and the public.—Dublin Evening
Mail.

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ing rapidly.

DEATH OF THE EARL OF BELMoRE.--The
Earl of Bolmore died on Sunday at Leamington Spa. His
Lordship, who was in his 67th year, was an Irish Peer,
and one of the Representatives of the Irish Peerage in
the House of Lorda. He was also Custos Rotulorum of
the County Tyrone, for which place his second son, the
Hon. H. Corry, sits in Parliament. The late Earl mar-
ried in 1800 the Lady Juliana Butler, daughter of the
second Earl of Carrick, and is succeeded in his title and
estates by his eldest son, Lord Corry, now 'Earl of Bel-
more, who is in his 40th year, and married. The eldest
son of the present Earl was born in April, 1835.

SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS

FROM THE DAILY JOURNALS OF YESTERDAY.

STANDARD.—Mr. Hume, not very frequently
the protector of the interests of religion, complained of
a corporal punishment lately inflicted upon a soldier of
the 11th Hussars at Hounslow, immediately after Di-
vine Service on a Sunday. Mr. Macaulay defended the
conduct of the Noble Colonel of the 11th Hussars, Lord
Cardigan, as far as cruelty could form an ingredient in
the charge against him, by stating, as the result of mi-
nute inquiries, that the punishment referred to was the
first of the kind inflicted in the regiment for some years ;
and the charge of irreverence he tried to palliate, by
explaining that the punishment was not inflicted
immediately after Divine Service, but after the
interval of a long inspection succeeding the public
worship. He, however, gave a promise that
means shall be adopted to render impossible hereafter
a similar profanation of the Sabbath. To defend Lord
Cardigan from the accusation of cruelty was perhaps
unnecessary ; we believe that there is no officer in her
Majesty's service mure distinguished for kindness to
the private soldier under his command, or one more
ardently beloved in turn by the soldiers of that
rank. And even the charge of irreverence is
in same degree mitigated by what appears to
have been hitherto more generally than it ought to
be the practice of the army. The very fact that the
proper public duties of the Sabbath had been imme-
diately followed up by what, though without any exe-
cution, must seriously obstruct its private duties and
innocent relaxations, is a confession that some reform
of our military system is called for. Why should a
Sunday be chosen as the time for a long inspection ?
Why leave for the Sabbath a service which might surely
be as well executed upon any other day ? Under
particular circumstances it may be necessary for a
regiment to prosecute its march upon a Sunday ;
and war leaves no choice as to the time when an
enemy is to be encountered : but in all such cases the
necessity is manifest, and justifies the departure from
what otherwise is a duty binding upon all Christians.
If, however, we aro to have a Christian army—and
woe awaits us when we shall have any other—the same
rule of Christian conduct must be observed by soldiers
as by citizens. The case before us indeed seems to
point to the dangerous consequences of deviating from
this rule in even a slight degree ; the assembling of the
men for inspection was probably, according to military
usage, chosen as a fitting occasion to inflict a just pun-
ishment, without consideration of the offence that such
an exhibition must offer to the religious feelings of the
public, and the shock that it must give to the religious
sense of the soldiers.

COURIER.—One of our Morning Ministerial Con-
temporaries, some days ago, noticed a report, commu-
nicated by a correspondent from Edinburgh, that Lord
Belhaven was not again to be appointed her Majesty's
I High Commissioner to the General Assembly. This
report the Whig Evening Paper of the next day stated,
by authority, to be incorrect ; and here the matter
rests. We had heard the rumour some time before it
was noticed by the Morning Paper, and, though inclined
to believe it, we abstained from giving it to our readers,
contenting ourselves with expressing our belief' that
whoever may be Commissioner, instructions will be
given to him not to countenance the punishment
of any of her Majesty's subjects for the offence of
obeying the law of the land. In this belief we are
more and more confirmed from all we have heard from
Scotland, where, of course, the matter is attracting
great interest. No doubt appears to be entertained that,
in some way or other, her Majesty's representative will
commuuicate the Royal mind on the unfortunate colli-
sion that has taken place between the Civil and Eccle-
siastical Courts in Scotland ; and, looking to the pre-
cedents applicable to the case, we should think this
communication will be made in her Majesty's letter to
the Assembly, or in the Speech from the Throne by the
Commissioner, and that it will amount to an advice or
a command not to inflict further ecclesiastical censures
on the clergymen who have obeyed the decrees of the
Civil Courts, but to restore them to the exercise of all
the judicial and pastoral functions from which the last
Assembly suspended them. O❑ the answer given by
the Assombly to this communication will depend the
course to be pursued by the Crown. If the next
Assembly persist in the course pursued by the last, and
determine to proceed to the deposition of the Ministers of
Strathbogie, the withdrawal of the Royal countenance,
and the dissolving of the venerable body may be antici-
pated ; and the Constitutional party in the Assembly,
who have all along vindicated the Strathbogie Ministers.
will of course withdraw along with the Commissioner.
Whether the majority will after this continue their sit-
ting, as the Assembly of 1638 did, remains to be seen.
We are inclined to think, that with all the noise they
have made about their " spiritual independence" the
dominant factio❑ will not venture on so bold a step.
But it is hazardous to speculate, and we shall wait the
issue of events with no little curiosity.
GLOBE.—The Times gives a story of a highly re-
spectable, worthy, and well-principled man,7, who refused
to continue his subscription to the Conservative Associa-
tion, because its object was " to turn out the Ministry—to
get rid of one set of scoundrels and have another set in
their room." Our Contemporary does not justify this
feeling, but declares that it is " spreading among warm
and zealous Conservatives, with whom disgust and despair
are taking the place of ardent expectation." We shall
not dispute with these gentlemen on their know-
ledge
of their own party, though, much as we should
regret the accession of the Tories to office, it never oc-
curred to us that Sir Robert Peel would select a Cabi-
net of " scoundrels ;" nor do we think that the Conser-
vative leaders deserve the blame which is heaped upon
them for allowing the Whigs to remain in office. We
are not aware of their having thrown away a chance, or
that anything has kept them out except inability to get
in, and hopelessness of staying in. The Times says,
the Downing-street Journals may make the most
of this admission, but that they must `• take with it
a declaration which they cannot gainsay, that the mo-
ment a Conservative party in Parliament, whether con-
sisting of the present or any other, shall heartily and sin-
cerely throw itself upon the people, making the faith and
spirit of Christianity its I tile," there will be a change.
We certainly do not apprehend any immediate danger
to the present Government ; but its warmest friends
would not desire to subject it to the temptations of that
perpetuity of office which would result from their hold-
ing it till the conversio❑ of the " set of scoundrels" to
Christianity, or till the Tories throw themselves upon
the people. We did not guess the cause of this des-
pondency till we came to the end of the article, where
it appear s to spring from the Nottingham election.
A statement of progress there is made, in which the
Whigs are blamed for swearing in special constables
when " no outbreak of popular violence is expected,"
though " there are rumours which every body is men-
tioning in the town, and which may probably lead to
their own realization, of tarring and feathering and
throwing into the Trent." These are pleasantries to
which nobody should object.

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.
HOUSE OF COMMONS, APRIL 21.
There being only 34 Members present at Four
o'Clock, the House stood adjourned till to-morrow.

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.
LATEST BETTING AT MANCHESTER.
TUESDAY.—The attendance was highly respectable and nu-
merous this forenoon. The prices, as near as we could ob-
tain them, left off thus :
THE 2,000 GUINEAS' STAKES.-3 to 1 offered on the
field. Parties open to take 7 to 2 on Eringo, or 9to 2
on Ralph ; 5 to 4 was offered on three against the field.
THE CHESTER. Cur.—There is scarcely a chance left to
the most minute observer to glean the absolute odds, inasmuch
as they vary hourly, and no two houses have the same. We
subjoin those at noon, upon the breaking up of the room, at
the Post-office Hotel :-
101 to 1 agst Colonel Cradock's Gallipot-11 to 1 taken
12 to 1 agst Mr. Collet's Tubalcain—offered
12 to 1 agst Mr. Flintoff's The Plover
13 to 1 agst Mr. Orde's Queen Bee
15 to I agst Lord Miltown's Cruiskeen
15 to 1 agst Mr. Goodman's Bedford
18 to 1 agst Mr. Price's Tuly—take 20 to 1
18 to 1 agst Mr. Hornby's Champaigne—take 20 to 1
18 to 1 agst Mr. Painter's Ernest the First—take 22 to 1
20 to 1 agst Sir T. Stanley's Cowboy
22 to 1 agst Mr. St. Paul's Calypso—take 25 to 1
25 to 1 agst Major Hay's Retriever—taken
25 to 1 agst Mr. Whittle's Humming Bird
33 to 1 agst Lord Stanley's Rhodanthe—take 40 1
33 to 1 agst Rough Robin—take 40 to 1.
The field v. seven, was offered at the close.
THE DERBY.—There was nothing said about the crack at
noon. We imagine Bto 1 would have been willingly taken on
Coronation ;11 1 was taken on Van Amburgh, backed to a
considerable sum, last night, as well as the Knight of the Whis -
tle, and heavy sums were laid between the two at evens. No-
thing was done on the outsiders ; 20 to 1 was taken on Marshal
Soult.

LAW INTELLIGENCE.
COURT OF CHANCERY, APRIL 21.
The Lord Chancellor did not sit to-day.

ROLLS COURT, APRIL 21.
ELLIS V. MAXWELL.
The Court was occupied all day in hearing this cause,
which was part-heard yesterday, and arose out of the con-
struction of the will of the Rev. Win. Maxwell.

VICE-CHANCELLOR'S COURT, APRIL 21

SMITH V. CLEASBY.

This was an application to the Court to dissolve an in-
;unction against proceedings in the Court of Bankruptcy.
The application; was part-heard yesterday. It appeared
that the; plaintiff, Smith, on the lath September, 1840,
made an assignment of his property in trust to the defend-
ant, Cleasby, and others for the payment of his debts,
but the defendant afterwards discovering that the
plaintiff had a friend, who, it was supposed, would
advance money to relieve him from his difficulties, instead
of acting upon the assignment issued a fiat of bankruptcy
against him. An injunction had been obtained to stay pro-
ceedings under the fiat, and application was now made to
dissolve the injunction.
The VICE-CnANCELLOR said, the defendant having en-
tered into an agreement with the plaintiff, by the assign-
ment, could not be released from it, because he had sub-
sequently discovered some fact which had not been fraud-
ulently or improperly withheld from him. At the same
time the contradictions to the plaintiff's affidavit and alle-
gations were so strong, that he thought the injunction
could not be dissolved at present, but must be centinued.
The qucation of costs mast also be reserved.

COURT OF EXCHEQUER, APRIL 21.
ADDISON V. SIR HEDWORTH WILLIAMSON.

Mr. GRANGER, on the part of the plaintiff, appeared to
move for a rule nisi for a new trial in this case. It was
an action of trespass and seizing goods by the Sheriff,
which was tried before Mr. Baron Wolfe at the late
Durham Assizes. He now moved on affidavits, which dis.
closed that the bailiff whose conduct was impugned
was the officer who summoned the Jury in this case, and that
one of the Jurors who actually tried it was one of the
bail to the Sheriff for the Bailiff—they further showed that
the verdict was entirely contrary to the evidence, indeed
so much so as to be accounted fur only by some luterested
party being on the jury.
The COURT granted the rule upon payment of costs.

BAIL COURT, APRIL 21.
THE QUEEN V. THE MIDLAND COUNTIES RAILWAY.

Sir F. Pou,ocx moved for a writ of certiorari to bring
up the inquisitions held on the bodies of Thomas Taylor
and John Livesay, who were killed on the Midland Coun-
ties Railway, in order that they might be quashed. The
Learned Counsel said ho had several objections to the
finding of the Coroner's jury in both cases, but he would
first infirm his Lordship of the nature of the accident. It
occurred during the time of an intense frost, which pre-
vented one of the trains moving along in consequence of
the plugs being so frozen that they could not get a supply
of water. Whilst the train in which the deceased were was
standing still, another train came up, and a collision took
place, by which Taylor and Livesay, who were attending
the engine, were thrown off and killed. It was not denied
but that the cause of death was purely accidental; no
blame was attached to any individual ; but the Jury levied
a deodand of 3001. in each case on the engine of the second
train. He (Sir F.) had several objections to urge against
the validity of the inquisition. In the first place, it was
held at Derby before the Coroner for that borough, when
it was proved that the deceased met with their deaths
within the jurisdiction of the county Coroner ; therefore
the borough Coroner had no legal jurisdiction to bold an
inquest on the bodies. His next objection was to the
I informality in the wording of the inquisition ; it was posi-
tively nonsense, and many other words must be introduced
to motto it readable, or anything like sense. The
Jury in both cases found that the same carriage
or engine caused the death of both the parties, and
they valued the engine at 300/. and yet they
gave a deodand of 300/. in each case, and
proceedings ware now going forward to recover
the amount. His Lordship no doubt was aware that for-
merly there was great difficulty in knowing what to do
with deodards after they had been recovered ; but by a
recent statute they were ordered to be paid into the Court
of Exchequer, and no difficulty in their appropriation now
existed. The Learned Counsel then contended that as
both the men were killed by one and the same concussion,
only one deodand could be levied. If the accident had
beer. more extensive and appalling, and instead of two,
twenty or thirty individuals had lost their lives, could it
be supposed for an instant that a deodand of 3001. on every
case might be levied ? Consequently, it was clear one or
the other of these inquisitions could net stand.
Mr. Justice WIGHTMAN—The Jury find the value of
the engine to be 300/., and they gave that sum in both
cases, consequently a levy may be made against the Com-
pany for 600/.
Sir F. Poi-Locic— Exactly so, my Lord ; and if that
principle is once admitted, parties may be utterly ruined,
as accidents might take place in which 20 or 30 persons
may lose their lives. Suppose, for instance, a horse were
to cause the death of an individual, and the Jury levied a
deodand on the animal greater than its value, the owner
might give up the animal, and insist upon its being taken
in discharge of payment. No deodand could be levied to
a greater amount than the value of the machine causing
the death. Another objection to the inquisition was that
it was not signed by all the Jurymen.
Mr. Justice WIGHTMAN—It is signed by 14 out of 15,
and 12 is a sufficient number. Have you any other ob-
jection, Sir Frederick ?
Sir F. PoLLocx—Yes, my Lord. The inquisition does
not state, in a legal form, at what time it was held, or in
what year the death was occasioned. It says, "In the
fourth year of our Sovereign Lady the Queen," but does
not aid the name of her Majesty " Victoria." He (Sir
F. Pollock( trusted her Majesty might live when those
who now hoard him had done with earthly records; but
if, in some future ages, reference was made to the docu-
ment, it would not be possible to tell in what Queen's
reign it occurred, which was clearly an informality. The
Court of Exchequer held that a document dated the
6th of April, 1841, as it did not contain the words
" In the year of Our Lord," was not a legal iustru-
ment. No doubt but the document intended the year
1841 of the Christian era ; but, as there had been
several eras it was held necessary to insert the words "the
year of our Lord." Another objection was, that the in-
quisition did not allege that the bodies were found within
the jurisdiction of the borough Coroner, but, on the con-
trary, proved that the accident occurred out of his juris-
diction. His other objection was to the positive nonsense
of the wording of the inquisition itself, and the Railway
Company in whose behalf he made the present applica-
tion, were anxious to relieve themselves from the payment
of 300/. twice over.

Mr. Justice WIGHTMAN granted the certiorari, and said
the case could be fully argued when the inquisitions were
returned to the Court on a motion to quash them.
Certiorari granted.

SHERIFFS COURT.-w ~ EDNESDA ie.
GOMM} V. TRELAWNEY.

CRIM. CON.—This was an action brought by Harry
Dent Goring, Esq., against Edward Trelawney, Esq.,
sued as Edward Trelawney, to recover compensation, in
damages fur criminal conversation with the plaintiff's wife.
The plaintiff laid his damages in the declaration at
4,0001. ; and the defendant having suffered judgment to go
by default, the Jury, of whom Sir Henry Ellis was fore-
man, were now called upon to assess the damages under a
writ of inquiry.
Mr. Thesiger, Q. C., with Mr. Tyndal, appeared for the
plaintiff, and Mr. Austin and another Learned Counsel for
the defendant.

Mr. TIIESIGICII having made the usual introductory
speech about the heinousness of the offence, said that ho
t-,ok upon himself the responsibility of coming to an ar-
rangement with his learned friend Mr. Austin. With
this view they had consulted together, and he was happy
to inform the Jury that the result was that they would be
saved the difficulty of assessing the damages, and would be
prevented from hearing the particulars of the most dis-
tressing and painful circumstances connected with this
ett:e. He had agreed to accept a verdict for the plaintiff
for 1001.

The Learned UNDER- SIIRRIFF—Do you, Mr. Austin,
appear for the defendant and consent to a verdict being en-
tered for that sum ?

Mr. AUSTIN—Yes, Sir, I think that is the best course
that can be pursued.
The Jury, under the direction of the Learned Under-
Sheriff, then found a verdict for the plaintiff, damages
100/.

COURT OF BANKRUPTCY, APRIL 21.
IN TIIE MATTER OF PRTER HARRIS ABBOTT.
This day the adjourned argument as to whether a fiat
could be opened against Mr. Abbott, as a retired official
assignee of this Court was resumed, the question in issue
being, whether Mr. Abbott, although engaged ih a variety
of speculations and bill transactions, was, or was not, a
" trader" within the meaning of the Bankrupt Act.
A discussion which lasted until half-past two o'clock en-
sued, but, according to the usual practice, it was private.

INSOLVENT DEBTORS' COURT.—APRIL 21.
IN THE MATTER OF WILLIAM JOHN HAMMOND.
In this case an application was made on the part of Mr.
Hammond, the comediar, and late of Drury-lane and the

Strand Theatres, to reduce the amount of bail required to
enable him to obtain his discharge before the hearMg in
June next. It will be recollected that he was made a
bankrupt, but the fiat was superseded by the Court of
Review, with costs, on the ground of the absence of the
legal requisites, and hence the application to this Court by
Mr. Hammond to be discharged from debts incurred in his
theatrical speculations. His affidavit set forth that he had
filed his petition, and had been informed that the Cour,
would want bail to nearly 4,0001, double the amount of
the judgment debts, and that he could not obtain two per-
sons who would give bail in that sum. It would be. from
that circumstance, utterly impossible for him to obtain bail
unless the Court was pleased to reduce the amount, or to
accept four housekeepers. Mr. Hammond further stated
in his affidavit that he had a wife and seven children de-
pending for their support on his professional exertions,
and that they were now suffering from privations in con-
sequence of his incarceration. If the application was re-
fused he should be deprived of an engagement for the
present season.
Mr. COOKE remarked that Mr. Fisher had taken th,
Strand Theatre in execution, and a theatre at Liverpool,
which property together was worth 2,5001, and had been
sold for 500/.

The Learned Commissioner BOWEN, after examining
Mr. Hammond's schedule, said bail in the sum of 2,0001.
would be accepted.
The question raised by Mr. Fisher, an attorney at Don-
caster, was, that the fiat was invalid on several grounds,
and, having succeeded in his application, his executions
against the property of Mr. Hammond prevailed, and the
other debts still existed by virtue of the supersedeas, which
debts were now inserted in the schedule filed in this Court.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
MANSION-HO USE.

A waiter out of place, named Thomas Williams, was
brought before Alderman Wilson, charged with having
gone into the New England Coffee-House, for the pur-
pose of committing a robbery.
Mr. Davis, one of the proprietors, stated that great-
coats and other articles of dress having bean stolen at dif-
ferent times in the house, the plan of hanging clothes upon
hooks to which bells were attached was adopted, so that
the moment any person endeavoured to take a coat, the
bell which it covered gave notice to those below. A bell
in the upper part of the house having that morning given
alarm, the waiter of the subscription-room ran up stairs
and found the prisoner, who was wholly unknown there,
in a state of confusion, and who no doubt had rung the
bell, in the endeavour to commit a felony. The coat was
not removed.

The waiter said that the prisoner, upon being asked what
he wanted in the house, stated that he called to meet a tall
man, named Mr. Johnson.

Alderman WILSON—You could not expect that Mr.
Johnson was to be found at the top of the house ?
Prisoner—l thought he might be found in any part o
the house.

Alderman WILSON said that the mode of prevention was
an extremely good one, and he dared say it would be gene-
rally adopted.
The prisoner said that he was in the habit of going all
over houses, for he was a brokers' man, and was frequently
in possession. _ _ _

The police stated that they knew the fellow to be a
waiter out of place, and he was remanded till Saturday.
A diminutive Jew, named Henry Smidt, of particularly
unprepossessing features, was brought up. He had ap-
peared in the streets with a hat and large plume, and de-
corated in the most fantastic manner, on Monday night, at
12 o'clock, and attracted a crowd, amongst whom he did
a great many preposterous things, which at length in-
duced a gentleman to lodge him in the station-house.
A gentleman of the name of Brown stated, that as he
was walking down Aldgate he saw the prisoner, who ap-
peared to be dressed for the character of Romeo, flourish-
ing a pistol about in a crowd ; and beli,,ving that he might
do some mischief, seized him by the collar, and bore him
off to the station-house.

The prisoner said, that when he was done with his
day's work he went to sing at Mr. Abraham's public.
house, in the Whitechapel-road ; and, in order to give
greater effect to the music, be dressed himself like Prince
Orlando.

Alderman WILSON— How are you en- ployed in the
day-time ?
The prisoner said he went his rounds with his clothes-
bag, and was a tailor by day. The gentleman was quite
mistaken in supposing that he was doing any harm, for
the pistol was one that would not go off for anybody.
Alderman WILSON said that the prisoner had by his folly
got into confinement for two nights and a day, and that,
if be should again be found gathering together a crowd at
an unreasonable hour, he should have a little practice at
the tread-mi:l.
The little tailor was struck with consternation at this
notice, and most humbly begged to be forgiven. He de-
clared that he should never again appear in such habili-
ments, and called a female, who said that be was a most
industrious creature, and bad engaged to sing in order to
put a few shillings in his pocket.
The prisoner was then permitted to depart.