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London, England, 1840-02-07 00:00:00

INSOLVENT DEBTORS' COURT, Fin. 6•

fY TAE MATTER OF WILLIAM CHIFNEY.
An application was made on the part of William Chif-
ney, the Newmarket Jockey, to be admitted to bail until
hia hearing.
It appeared that he was confined in Cambridge gaol,
and was anxious to procure his liberation, having some
horses in training for the next Derby. A special applica-
tion was made on a former day to reduce the bail, by
leaving out of the sum required a debt of 3001. on a war-
rant of attorney, given for a debt incurred before his bank-
ruptcy, and after he had obtained his certificate. It was
urgel that, if the Court insisted on the usual rule for bail
in double the amount of the judgment debts, it would be
impossible to obtain bail on distrainable property, to the
amount generally required.
The COURT said, under the cumstances, bail for 10001.
would be sufficient. Bail was given, and the discharge
was ordered until the 14th March, when the insolvent is
required to appear at Cambridge to be heard on the Circuit.

CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT.

THE GOLD-DUST ROBBERY.

In the course of the day the Court directed that Lewin
Caspar, the person who, by the decision of the Judges
became entitled to his discharge, unless cause were shown
against it, should be placed at the bar.
Mr. CLARKSON then addressed the Court, and said, that
on the part of Mr. James Hartley, the prosecutor in this
case, he was instructed to inform the Court, that that
gentleman had already expended a sum amounting to nearly
LOCO/. in carrying on this prosecution, and he therefore
felt, subject to the opinion of the Learned Judges, that he
had already discharged the duty he owed the public, and
he had, therefore, no desire, so far as he was concerned, to
proceed any further in the matter, but at the same time,
if their Lordships were of opinion that the matter ought
to be carried further, he was quite prepared and ready to
undergo the anxiety, expense, and fatigue of another pro-
secution. _

.Mr. Justice WILLIAMS-_I do not sec what discretion the
Judges have in the matter. Is not the prosecutor bound
iu recognizanccs to proceed with the other indictments?
Those indictments are upon the files of the Court, and
they must be disposed of.
Mr. CLARKSON—The prosecutor certainly is bound over
to prosecute.
After some further conversation between the Judges and
Counsel, the trial was ordered to stand over till next ses-
sion, and the prisoner was remanded.
No case of any interest came on for trial in the course of
the day.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

MAN SION-lIOUSE.

A son of Mr. Stoekdale, who is now a prisoner
the cells of the House of Commons, and who
.IJresses his Lordship from thence, brought a kt-
er father, stating tlrit, iii as he con-
-sidored the High Sheriff of Middlesex had acted in
the case of Stoekdale v. Ilanw:rd, he would suggest the
' .prourie.ty of the City affiressMg the Throne to liberate
,ha i High Sheriff, and to dismiss Ministers who dared
to risk the tranquillity and safety of the empire at
„such a moment by advising desperate measures, calculated
to endanger the stability of the Crown itself.
The Loan MAYOR having asked how Mr, Stockciale
,3e as, and having been informed that he was very well, pu
alit letter in his pocket, without making any cowmen
oon

A man named Crawley, who deals in rabbits and dried
iiih, vias charged with having possessed himself of a sove-
reign improperly.
Henry Harris, an orange dealer, stated that, on return-
ing from a fruit sale in Pudding-lane, a sovereign dropped
in the street through a hole in his pocket. He distinctly
i sawit fall from ois pocket, and he as plainly saw the
prisoner pick it up, but when he asked for it he found that
he should be obliged to request the aid of the police to use
the strong argument with the thief.
The prisoner—Not a word of truth in it, my Lord. I
never saw money, but I had a sovereign of my own along,
with some half-pence, which I pulled out of my pocket to
ace if I had enough of coppers for a pint of heavy, !Ind
I I'm sure he must have got. a glimpse of the gold as made
ilirn claim it as lii'n.
The Prosecutor—Why he denied that he had a sovc-
reiwn at all about him when the officer asked him.
''he policeman who apprehended the prisoner said that
the prisoner three or four times declared that he had no
such money as a sovereign about him, but afterwards pro-
-1 duced it, and said it was his cwn.
1 The prisoner—Never said I had'nt ;by the same token,
1 .I got it for rabbits I sold that very same morning to a
decent woman as ever was.
The Lotto MA vox—How many rabbits did you sell for
, that sovereign ?
' The prisoner—How many ? Why, you see, my Lord,
II sold two shillings' worth, and I gave the woman change
1 of the sovereign.
The LORD MAYOR—Now you don't suppose that you will
make me believe a word you say ? Prisoner—l do assure
you, my Lord, upon my honour, this man and the police-
i men are false men. The sovereign is my money.
1 The LORD M &TOR— If you don't give it up to the '
prose-
cutor, I shall commit you for the robbery.
The prisoner—Oh ! well, my Lord, if you think I ought
. to give the sovereign to him why I wouldn't like to offend
your Lordship; but it's on your account, and not on his, I
'give it up.—(Laughter.)
The LORD MAYOR—Very well ; you are discharged ;
but take care how you pick up people's property again, if
you are desirous to keep out of Newgate.

CHURCH-RATES.

( Abridged from the Essex Herald.)
BARLEY AND CIIILDERDITCII CHURCH-RATES.

At the Brentwood Petty Session on Thursday last, be-
fore H. Walmsley, Esq., Rev. Messrs. T. Ludley, J.
Pearson, and - Chapman,
Mr. Butler, who farms very extensively in the parish of
Childerditch, appeared on a summons issued against him
for non-payment of 11. 195., the proportion of a church-
rate granted In June, assessed to him and Mr. Pig-
got. Mr. John Copland appeared as his solicitor.
The case involved several points of law. Mr. Cross,
the churchwarden, produced the rate book, and in
answer to the interrog.tories of the Bench, said,
that on the Ist of April a meeting was convened for
the election of a Churchwardei.; that Mr. Hurst the Rec-
tor presided at this meeting ; that he proposed, and a Mr.
Sparrow seconded his appointment; that the proposal was
not put to the meeting ; that Mr. Jenkins, one of the pa-
rishioners, thought the parish would be better without any
Churchwarden at all ; that he did not recollect that Mr.
Hurst claimed the right of nomination ; that there had
never been more than one warden; that no minutes were
made of the proceedings of the Vestry, and that he was
afterwards sworn into office by the Archdeacon. That
in the early part of June a meeting was called to grant
a rate; that the notice was properly affixed to the
church door ; that estimates were produced at the
meeting; that a rate was proposed, and an amendment
moved ; that a poll took place, and that 5 voted for the
rate, and nine against it; but that 4 out of the 9 having
been excused the preceding poor-rate by the Magis-
trates, their votes were rejected, which made a majority of
1 for the rate ; that these 4 had paid the rate before, but
having complained, 40 applications had been made to
them for the last ; but a vestry was called who recom-
mended the Magistrates to strike them out - thate'
were excused though not struck out ; that all p these ery
sons were assessed to the church-rate; that this
church--
rate had not been collected.

Mr. BUTLER said that he had been willing to contribute
(the Churchwarden admitted he had paid voluntarily much
more than his rated proportion) to the expenses of the
Churchwardens, but that he thought no person should be
compelled to do so.
Mr. WaestsLeY said that objections to Church-rates
were more matters of the pocket than of principle. Every
country ought to have some religion established by law,
and whatever that was, it ought to be supported.
Mr. Butler, being asked by Mr. Walmsley why ho re-
fused to pay this rate after having paid so many before,
replied that he had not paid the preceding ones, but had
succeeded in upsetting the last five attempts which had
been made to get one.
The Rev. Mr. LUDBET thought that the mere swearing
in of the Churchwarden by the Archdeacon made his ap-
pointment valid.
Mr. Copland, Mr. Butler's legal adviser, addressed the
Bench in a very able speech, in which he pointed out, with
much force and clearness, the various legal objections
which lay against the rate. After which the bench de-
cided that the rate was invalidated by the rejection of the
votes of tho four persons who had been excused from pay-
ment, but not struck out of the rate-book. None of the
other objections were decided upon by the Magistrates.
The gammons for the Little Varley Church-rate was
then proceeded with, the result of which, as the Church-
warden was not provided with the necessary evidence, was
that the summons was dismissed, and the costs paid by the
Churchwarden.

SPRING CIRCUIT.—The Judges appointed to
go upon the Home Circuit, Lord Monger and Mr. Justice Lit-
tledale, have fixed Wednesday, February 26, for opening the
commission at Hertford, and business will commence on the
27th. The Judges will go to Chelmsford on the 2d of March,
to Maidstone on the 9th, Lewes on the 16th, and Kingston on
the 234:1. The business likely to occupy the attention of the
Judges upon this circuit is of a serious character. There are
three murders, one in which a young woman is charged with
poisoning her husband under very peculiar and aggravated cir-
cumstances, and several other very serious cases.
The Liverpool Courier says—" It is currently
vporteki that the day on which the Queen's ntarriage is to be
celebrated will be kept by the merchants and bankers here a
close holiday.

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.

ROUSE OF COMMONS FEL 6.

The SPEAKER took the Chair shortly before four
o'clock.
Mr. GREEN brought up the Reports of the Stand-
ing Order Committee on the Roxburgh and Selkirk
Roads Bill, the Edinburgh Gas Bill, the LivFrpool
Docks Bill, and the Level of the Wash Inclosure Bill. In
all of which the Committee reported that the Standing
Orders had been complied with, and leave was given to
bring in the Bills.
The Edinburgh and Leith Gas Bill was read a first,
and ordered to be read a second time to-morrow.
Mr. GIBSON CRAIG brought in the Arbroath
and Forfar Railway Bill, which was read a first, and
ordered to be read a second time to-morrow.
Mr. GEORGE EVANS presented a petition from
Portraine praying for an Extension of the Suffrage, and
for Municipal Corporations in Ireland ; also a petition
from the Millers and Flour-merchants of the County
of Dublin, praying the House not to remove the pro-
tection afforded by the Corn-laws.
Mr. COMPTON presented petitions from East
Dean and several other places in the county of Hants
against the principles entertained by the Socialists.
Lord SEYMOUR brought up the Report of the
Committee on Railways.
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Radnor, similar petitions from the counties of Brecon
and Radnor.

Mr. O'CONNELL presented a number of petitions
pfaying for the extension of the Elective Franchise and
for Corporate Reform in Ireland, and imploring the
House not to place confidence in any Ministry that
would encourage Orange domination in Ireland, from
the counties of Antrim, Cavan, Tyrone, Roscommon,
Downe, Monaghan, Mayo, Longford, Waterford, and
Londonderry.

Mr. PAKINGTON presented two petitions, from
parishes in the county of Worcester, praying for Church
Extension. The Hon. Gentleman also brought up a
Bill for regulating the Sale of Beer, which was read a
first time, and ordered to be read a second time on
Wednesday, 19th February.