The Sun.
London, England, 1841-12-15 00:00:00

COURT CIRCULAR.

WINDSOR, TUESDAY.—The Queen and Prince
Albert walked both this morning and in the
afternoon on the Terrace and in the New Grounds
of the Little Park to Adelaide Cottage.
Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent also
walked .to Adelaide Cottage, attended by her
Lady in Waiting, and rode back in a pony
phaeton to the Castle.
His Royal Highness the Prince enjoyed the
sport of pheasant shooting this morning in the
vicinity of Ascot Gate, attended by the Earl of
Warwick, Sir Edward Bowater, and the Hon. C.
A. Murray.
Their Royal Highnesses the Duke and Duchess
of Cambridge and the Princess Augusta of
Cambridge, arrived in town yesterday from their
residence at Kew. Their Royal Highnesses visited
the Duchess of Gloucester, at Gloucester House,
and in the afternoon returned to Kew.

A Cabinet Council was held at half-vast three
o'clock yesterday afternoon at the Foreign-office.
The following Ministers were present :—Sir Ro-
bert Peel, the Lord Chancellor, the Duke of
Wellington, the Duke of Buckingham, Lord
Wharncliffe, the Earl of Aberdeen, Lord Stan-
ley, Sir James Graham,the Chancellor of the
Exchequer, the Earl of laddington, the Earl of
Ripon, Sir Henry Hardinge, and Sir Edward
Knatchbull.
The Council broke up soon after five o'clock.
His Excellency Edward Everett, Envoy Ex-
traordinary
and Minister Plenipotentiary of the
evsee m rsntirs
United States to this Court, with Mrs. Everett
and 141114, arrived 1.11i7
Baron Upperthepuu
o
Grosvenor-street,
on Monday,de
3firoonmeoPr
la,
transacted business' yesterday, at the ,
Foreign-
office. _

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The Duke of Wellington has arrived in town
from Strathfieldsaye.
Lord Stanley arrived in town on Monday
night from Knowsley Hall, Lancashire.
Despatches from the Governors of St. Helena
and Gibraltar were received yesterday at the
Colonial-office.
The Lords of the Judicial Committee of her
Majesty's Most Honourable Privy Council sat
yesterday. There were present the Lord, Presi-
dent,ii Lord Brougham, Mr. Baron Parka,
the Judge of the Admiralty Court. The Hon._,_t_
nwo.
Bathurst was the Clerk ofthe Council in Waiting.
i ~
of their Lordships, on an app ea 1 ,
Ranee Zu loor-oon-
Mr. Baron Parke gave judgmenitiroomnntßheentaarit,
" Rajah Deedar Hossain r. . _
Lower
(after making some triflingn,er Canada, " Fraser and
Nissa," affirming the decreaeltoefrattliloenu),o,uvirtthbceolsotsw.
An appeal from
3Nrs:aQs it:ce s. u:
andne ci
and concluded.
appearing for the respective parties.
Burge, Q.C., appe sni. KFinrasdeerrs,l'e'
Lagueux v. Murray*i‘le Messrs.
t
ships, affirmedhe decree of the Court below.
C
I Mr. Bu Vie, Qi., was heard for the appellant,
•
Lord Brougham, on the part of their Lord-
in "John louze v. Philip Tilleul," from Jersey.

DEATH OF LADY ANNE FITZPAYRICK.--.
We have to record the demise of the above much-la.
mented lady, who died on Saturday last, at Farming
Woods,
Northamptonshire, after a short illness. Her
Ladyship was the eldest and only surviving daughter of
the
late Earl of Upper Ossory (title extinct), by Anne,
the divorced Duchess of Grafton, daughter of Lord Ra-
vensworth, whom his Lordship married in 1769, Her
Ladyship was a lineal descendant of the ancient Irish
family. of Fitzpatrick, descended from Donald.M`Donald
M‘Gill Patrick, Prince of the territory of Upper Ossory,
in the province of Leinster, who was slain in 1087.
B
livedwawas
f aitnh
et the reignsf of Henry VII.
and rnHayenr Gill
BurnabyVlll., and
Fitzpatrick,
who was created Baron of Upper Ossory, by _
ab
patent at
Dublin, June 11,1541. His eldest son, the second Peer,
i 1., Patrick
and
was deservedly a great favourite of Edward VI. The
second son (John) of this Irish Noble was ancestor of the
late Earl, father of the estimable subject of this brief
notice. The deceased Lady's charities,
_ on the family
estates, were most liberal, and her death will be long re-
gretted by the poor in the neighbourhood of Farming
Woods,:to whom her Ladyship Was a kind benefactress.
Last week the inhabitants of Worthing were
much surprised by the appearance of a pack of fox-
hounds, with the huntsmen in full chase. It appetirs
that Mr. Richardson's fox-hounds found a fox, and had
an excellent run of an hour and a half, when reynard,
being hard pressed, ran into Worthing, followed Ly hunt a-
men and hounds iu full cry. The fox was killed in the
ornamental shrubbery of the Crescent, which was sadly
destroyed by these unusual visitors.
Meetings have been held at Welshpool, and other
places in "Wales, to petition the Queen for a new order of
knighthood, to be called the order of St. David, and the
establishment of a professorship of the 'Welsh language
and literature in the Universities of Oxford and Cam-
bridge.

EVEN I.l\ SITN

REDUCTION OF TEE
FRENCH ARM Y.

We published the following in a Second Edi-
tion of The Sun of yesterday Afternoon:—
The Moniteur of Monday, received by Ex-
press, contains a long and most important
Report, addressed by Marshal SOULT to King
I,outs Pumper., recommending a reduction
in the Army to the extent of one company
in every battalion. Annexed to the Report
is a Royal Ordinance approving of the pro-
posed reduction of the troops, and ordering
15,000 horses to be disposed of. The number
of the reduced force is 80,000 men--being some-
thing more tlrur one-fifth of the present stand-
ing army of France. This will effect saving
to the country of thirty millions of francs, or
nearly a million and a quarter sterling. This
great saving is at present of the utmost import-
ance to France, whose pecuniary resources
have been exhausted by the foriifieations of the
capital. To Europe, too, this measure iy
of considerable moment, as it serves for
a guarantee that no attempt will be made on the
part-of France to disturb the repose of Europe.
Moreover, should M. Minns wriggle himself
into office it will he impo,isible for him again to
menace the peace of the world without making
snch a stir in the recruiting service as to put
Europe upon its guard.

The French Three per Cents., the 13th D
rember, at the Cafe (le Paris, 7Sf. 10c.

SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS

FROM TUE LA ENING PAPERS OF YESTRRDAY.

BAPTISM. OF THE PRINCE OF WALES.
STAN DARD.—The baptism of the Prince of
Wales is expected to take place at the end of
next month, and, according to the present ar-
rangement, the place will be St. .iieorge's
Chapel, Windsor. This solemn rite will be ce-
lebrated under circumstances of unusual in-
terest, and what we cannot but consider as the
most auspicious. The sponsors invited to answer
at the -font for the future Monarch of this
great empire are—The King of Prussia ;
the Duke of Cambridge; Ferdinand, Duke of
Saxe Coburg, uncle to Prince Albert; the Prin-
cess Sophia; and the Duchess of Saxe Coburg.
It is understood to be the intention of the King
of Prussia to visit this country, hi order that he
.may in person assist at the baptism ; and surely
no visitor can be more welcome to the Christian
people of England than a Prince who is not
morß by his position than by his own sincere
conviction, the representative and champion of
the Protestant cause upon the Continent of Eu-
rope—the protector of the exiles from Ziller-
thall, our associate in the foundation of the Pro-
testant Church of Jerusalem. England and
Prussia have never stood in union but for their
common glory, and fur the good of mankind—
never separated but for a common loss, and
to the injury of the civilized world. Their
union was, we trust, cemented for ever
on the field of Waterloo. Thanks to our
Gracious Queen, it is now to be recognised by
another bond of affection, so domestic, faint-
liar, and kindly, that we shall seem to have esta-
blished a relation of brotherhood, with the men
who so gallantly fought by our side in the fiercest
and most momentous contest the world has ever
witnessed. We trust that the Duke of Saxe Co-
burg will also be able to attend. Had he no other
claims to the love of this people than his relation-
ship to our Queen and to the amiable and excel-
lent Prince who holds the second place in this
empire—that would entitle him to a hearty wel-
come, such as Englishmen know how to give
when their hearts are engaged; but the Duke
also had a share in the deliverance of Europe,
and his personal qualities would command re-
spect everywhere. But we need say no more.
England will know how to receive the Royal and
Illustrious guests of their beloved Queen, invited
upon an occasion so joyful as the present, and so
full of hope.

GLOBE.—The Post treats as " City gossip"
the statement of our City Correspondent yester-
day, respecting the intentions of the Ministry to
propose a change in the Corn-laws; and adds,
that " the first leading article" of our paper was
" deVoted to commendation of the plan to which
the gossip of the City has given birth." Consi-
dering that our first leading article consisted of
three lines, the essence of eulogy must have been
condensed within wonderrully small space ; and
• we should not have much trouble in doing what
the Post has the malice to surmise, should Sir
Robert Peel really propose a similar scheme—
" eat," namely, " every word of applause we
Lave uttered upon the subject." The words of
applause which we uttered were " commutation
and mitiyation"—words which may excite feel-
ings of exultation at the Old Bailey, bnt•consti-
tute no very rapturous description of a change of '
commercial policy. Whether what has trans-
pired is nothing more than " the gossip of the
City," time will show ; we only say,• at present,
that there is nothing in the statement which
should suspend the earnest efforts of the friends
of free trade for a moment. Nothing but the
portents of the season, and the pressure of
public necessity, will induce the partisans of
monopoly to loosen their hold even thus far ; no-
thing but urgency for the whole debt will ex-
tort from them even the first instalment. Mr.
-.lNl`Culloch has given the following just descrip-
tion of the existing; "sliding scale"—that slippery
snake which Will be " scotched, but not killed,"
by the change stated as in contemplation ;
" To the necessary fluctuations in the price of
corn, caused by variations in the harvests, a gra-
duate,: scale of.duties superinduce an artificial
source of variation.

" The duty imposed by the Act 9 Gco. IV.,
cap. 60, and at present chargeable on corn im-
ported into this country, is of this description
Thus, when the price of wheat is between 61s.
ark Ws. the duty is Bd., increasing by ls. for
very Is. that the price is below 61s. ; but
above this amount the progression is different.
fit' hen, for example, the price of wheat
Is between 665. and 675. the duty is 20s. Bd.,
when between 675. and 68s. the duty is 18s.
Bd. ; when bttween 68s. and 60s. the duty is
16s. Bd. ; and when the price is between 695. and
70s. the dory is 133. 8(1., the disproportion be-
coming still greater as the price advances. Now,
to show the practical operation of this duty, let
it be suppescd that when prices here are between
695. and 70s. a quarter, a merchant orders'a cargo
of wheat from Dautzie or some other port ; and
that in the interval between the giving of the
order and the arrival of the grain the price has
sunk to 625. In this ease, the wheat will sell
for 7s. or Bs. a quarter less than time importer
expected; and the duty on it will be 21s. 8d ,
whereas,
w.ien the. order was (riven, and pride;
was only 13s.
were between 09s. and 705., the
Bd. ; so that the me rehz nt, besides having to sell
his wheat at Ss. below his estimate, will have to
pay on the article o reduced Price an s
addi-
tional ditty of 11s. ! No ouncr that the corn
;rade should have been so very ruinoes to those
who have embarked in it of late years. The risk
attending it is, under any circumstances, prover-
bially great; but our -.1-,egklatloli more than
double that risk ; and,
IS in this respect, as, cn-
tradlctoryto every sound principle as can easily
be Imagined."
COURIER—Mob-oratory is ever ex
are
aggera-
five and extravagant ; its staple material,
loosr statementA, ranom assertions, vehement
appenle, amid vapid its illogical deductions.
Fa after-dinner effusions its peculiar regrows
nre most prominently and strongly deve-
loped; it sometimes seeks to display
its beauties and compass-its end in the shape_
cif a statistical essay or carefully coneoctAl
address.; but, however, guised, the marks of its
origin are too fbreibly and deeply impressed
upon it not to he readily recngnised. It loves
9x4ggeratio3 rather than fiction; and delights
rather in the implied than in the open falsehood.
Is any portion or the population, any class of the
People ylAted with the pressure of unusual distress,
liwthwith the faculty we are speaking of seizes
0" the titer, and by the magic of amplification
derks it up into t 1 tearful and startling picture
of Nit, famine, and desolation. Has distress
041,
adored discontent, and discontent clamour,
iorthwiti I
• t•oratory s!louts aloud " Hear and
tremble
, at the- voice of a starving, people 1"
Does "isappuinted faction seek to console itself
`"r Present calamities by predictions of future
greatness, and to hide the Shame of recent de-
'feats i n tl .
the glory of comm.- conquests, it SUM.
MOUS Mob-oratory to its aid; and gratifies gaping
expeetants with the announcement that " it'
the people are united their voice will be heard
and their demands complied with." Now,
through all such exhibitions, for we can call them
nothing else, wiled •
ter, as in Derby, they consist of
post-prandial harangues, or as at Plymouth and
in rid north, in cool 'combinations of spite and
peevishness, the glaring fallacy runs ofconsidering;
and representing a fraCtion of the community as
ite whole body of the people—of seeakine- of a
restless and dissatisfied minority as of the nation
larg-e. This is the standing sophism with Anti-
Corn-law men of every grade_with Acland as
with Lord John with Cobden as With
Palmerston.

LAW INTELLIGENCE.
COURT OF CHANCERY, Dec. 14.

THE ATTORNEY-GENERAL r, THE EARL OF STAMFOUD
AND OTHERS.

This was a bill filed by her Majesty's Attorney-
General at the relation of several inhabitants of Man-
chester, fur the purpose of obtaining a better ad-
ministration of the funds of the Mane ester Free
Grammar School, of which the defendants were
trustees, The case had already been heard at length
before the kite Lord Chancellor, who delivered
his judgment in the matter ; but a caveat having been
entered against the decree, the case camebefore the Court
to-day for re-hearing.
It appears from the statement of Mr. BETHEL', who
opened the case for the Attorney-General, that the in-
come of the school, which had been founded for the
purpose of giving gratuitous instruction to the children
of the poor of the neighbourhood of Manchester,
amounted at present to more than 5,000 L The relator.;
complained—first, that the entire revenue was not
effectually devoted to the objects of the charity ;
secondly, that it was not confined to those who were
really the persons who should be benefited by it ; and,
thirdly, they complained of the mode of electing the
trustees of the fund. Not more than two hundred chil-
dren were educated in the school; and of these a portion
were the children of persons living in various parts of
England, and residing at the houses of different masters
of the school as borders, for the purpose of participat-
ing in the education, which the immense revenues of
the establishment enabled the masters to give Those
boys were generally the children of men of property,
and did net in any way come within the inten-
tions of the founder of the ch,rity. Again,
the trustees were elected almost exclusively from
a class of persons who, though men of rank, and no
doubt men of honourable intentions, were, from the very
station which they filled, incapable of attending to such
an institution, and unacquainted with the means of con-
verting the trust to the best use. In the year
1825 the Commissioners of Education laid before
ParliamCP t 11 Report, from which it appeared
that the revenues of the school amounted at that tune to
upwards of 4,0001., while the expenses of the school were
little more than 2.0001., with a balance, in addition, in
the hands of the trustees of 11,000/. The Commissioners
concluded their Report by recommending an extension of
the system of education then adopted in the school, and
that means should be taken to afford opportunity for
educating a greater number of children. No attempt
had been made to carry that recommendation into ef-
feet until the year 1833, when an application had been
• made to the Court of Chancery, on the part of
the trustees of the charity, fur further powers
to enable them to extend the system of edu-
cation contemplated by the original grant. The
relators, however, complained of the nature of the powers
thus granted, and stated that the charity was still diverted
from its original destination.
The address of Mr. BETIIELL occupied the Court from
an early hour in the morning nntil its rising, after three
o'clock ; and the further arguments on the case were
ordered to be resumed to-morrow.

COURT OF COMMON PLEAS, Dec. 14.
GRIFFITHS V. ROBERTS.

The plaintiff had engaged with Mr. Lewis (the pub-
lisher) to complete, on copperplate, within a certain
period, a series of views representing the Metropolis, as
seen from the dome of St. Paul's. He engaged- the de-
fendant to make the drawings for the purpose, but, in
consequence of the tardiness with which those were fur-
nished, the plaintiff was unable to fulfil his contract, and
accordingly brought this action to recover damages for
the loss which he had thereby sustained.
Mr. Justice ERSKINE, upon hearing the pleadings
read, suggested the propriety of referring the matters in
dispute to an arbitration.
Mr. Sergeant TALFOURD, on the part of the defendant,
expressed his concurrence with the opinion of the Court.
Mr. Sergeant MEREWETHER, for the plaintiff, sub-
mitted that the question at issue turned upon matters of
fact, which the Jury were competent to determine. The
defendant had pleaded first—that he had used all due
diligence ; and secondly, that his delay was occasioned by
the visitation of God—namely, by illness, and on these
pleas issue was joined.
However, after the case had occupied several hours,
the suggestion of the Learned Judge was at length acted
upon. The parties entered into an arrangement, and a
juror was withdrawn.

SHERIFFS' COURT, Dec. 14.
EVANS V. BENNETT.

This was an action brought by the plaintiff; who was
an artist, against the defendant, a literary gentleman, to
recover the sum of IGL for work and labour dome.

Mr. THOMAS, in stating the plaintiff's case, said the
defendant, Mr. T. L. Bennet, was a member of the Lin-
nman Society, and a gentleman who had gained some
celebrity by the publication of several works on Natural
History. After a long residence in the Island of Ceylon
he returned to England, and published a work descrip-
tive of several genera in the natural history of the
Island, in the illustration of which the plaintiff was em-
ployed and did work, as an engraver, to the amount
claimed, and also in composition. After twelve pages
had been set up and several lithographic engravings
made, the plaintiff received a letter from the defendant,
stating, that owing to his pecuniary resources failing
him, and a new edition of Baron Cuvier's Ichthyology
having appeared, in which the arrangement and classifi-
cation of the orders were much more modern than what
he could produce, the work should be discontinued.
Although the writ was marked for the sum of 161., yet
the plaintiff did not seek to recover more than 71. 55.,
under circumstances of the discontinuance of the work.

The Jury, ufter a short consultation, returned a ver•
diet for the plaintiff—Damages 71. ss.

COURT OF BANKRUPTCY, Dec. 14.

LN THE MATTER OF WM. HITCHCOCK, LINEN-DRAPER,
OF REGENT-STREET, A BANKRUPT.

(Continued from our Afternoon Edition of yesterday.)
Did not R. P. Pritchard hold other securities than your
brother's for the payment of his debt?—None, except in
the bills of exchange. I swear that I recollect.
Had he not at any time held any other securities for
his debt?—Yes.

What security had he held?—The lease of No. 116
house, being part of my premises in Regent-street.
Anything else?—Nothing that I recollect or believe.
Whin did that lease pass from him to your brother
George?—Early in July, I think. It was previous to a
bill becoming due.
State when.—l cannot give a better answer than early
in Jply. It was the same day on which the deeds are
dated.

Were these deeds prepared?—Yes.
By whom ?—Marsden and Pritchard.
State when you arranged with R. P. Pritchard and
your brother George to transfer those securities from
Pritchard to your brother George?—l do not recollect
the date, but I shou!d think the latter end of June or
the beginning of July.
Which of;them did you first see on the subject?—l
do not recollect.

Will you swear you do not remember ?—I will.
Did you see them both in reference to transferring the
lease fro:n one to another ?—Yes.

Where did you see your brother George on the sub-
ject ?—I should think in his country house.
What did you say to him, or he to you on this subject,
when you first saw him?—l told him that Mr. R. P.
PrAcherd had advanced to me the sum of 2,0001., and
for which I had accepted two bills of exchange ; that
one -of them was coming due shortly, and thlt
I had applied to Mr. R. I'. Pritchard for a re-
newal of them ; I had told Mr. R. I'. Pritchard that
I should be unable to pay it when it became due.
I also told him that the second bill I should not be able
to pay, and requested him to give me time to pay them.
He declined to renew the first bill, or to wait fur payment
of either, and threatened to make me a bankrupt unless
I paid the bills as they became due, or gave further
security. I think I told him also that I had told Mr.
R. P. Pritchard that I would ask my brother to be such
security.

IVhat did you say respecting the debt of Mr. Pritch-
ard ?—I told hint that Mr. Pritchard would not renew

the bill, and threatened to make me a bankrupt. My
brother refused to become my guarantee at first, but
he did agree afterwards to guarantee the payment of
the 2,000/. The lease was then given back to me, and I
assigned it to my brother inconsideration of his respon-
sibility to Cook and Pritchard.
Now, when was this first interview ?—I have no re-
collection of the date, except that it was perhaps a fort-
night before the first bill which became due, which was
July 22. The second was due Aug. 13.
then the first interview would be about the Bth of
July?—lt was about a fortnight before the 22d July.
Will you swear it was a fortnight before ?—No, I will
not. I think it was so. I will swear it was about a fort-
night before.
Was this all that
th;- • • ' passed between your brother and you
interview ?—That is the substance—all that I re-
colleta.

You will nut shear
ritt.cioslltechet.substanee of the whole ?
—1 eau ocareely .him a second time on this subject?
him the second time ?--I don't
micro did
you ; was a day Or two.
recollect.
Will you B'l/4-4'4 wa-s— net at Marsden and Pritchard's?
o e
will,
t pAu
rssceodl at that tt
.Loy
otherl; e
v
Du
tsar;iiiieniv I
nut wit h
?—I do not recollect.
toy o
bu
er
er
ve-
ther on this subject ?--No.
Will you swear that ?—Yc3
li
that I atu on my oath in all lam 3
Mr. ASIIIIRBT—Oh yes but you ,1K nu,
I believe all you are swearing.—(A laugh.)
suppose
You have said that at the twit interview
your
refused to become your guarantee, and that you cannot
brother
recollect what took place at any other interview
wh"
the lease was passed to him. Du you mean to adhere to
that statement ?
The bankrupt appealed to the Learned Commissioner.
He had said that at a subsequent interview his brother
had agreed to become security fur the 2,0001., but he did
not recollect what passed. The question was an impro-
per one, because it assumed facts opposed to the evi-
dence formerly given.
Mr. AsituasT amended the question. You have sail
you cannot recollect what had passed at any other inter-
view than the first, although the leases transferring your
property were signed by you both. Do you adhere to
that statement ?
The bankrupt appealed to the Commmissioner again ;
the question was a most intricate one.
The COMMISSIONER ruled that the question was a pro-
per one, and ought to be answered.
The question was repeated several times.—l do not
recollect anything that occurred at any of these inter-
views beyond what I have already stated.
Do you adhere to the answers already given ?—I do,
certainly.

When did you afterwards see Mr. Pritchard on the
subject of the transfer of the lease to your brother ?—I
don't recollect.

State as near as you can.L.--I should think ten days or
a fortnight previous to the first bill arriving at maturity'.
Will you swear it was as long as that ?—I will not ;
but I think it was.
Where did you see him ?—Either. in Mr. Pritchard's
room or Mr. Marsden's room ; I don't recollect which.
Was any one present besides you and him?—l do not
recollect, but, I think not.. - . •------ -- : -
Who proposed the intended arrangement between you?
—I did.
How came you two to meet there, when the room be-
longed to neither of you ?—I had met Mr. IL P. Prit-
chard there for a twelvemonth previously.
Do you mean that your meeting was accidental?—Oc-
casionally—sometimes on business. On similar business
—on renewing a bill.
Was the meeting between Mr. 8.. P. Pritchard and
your brother respecting the leases accidental, or the re-
sult of a previous appointment ?—I think of a previous
appointment. Whe❑ I found I could nut pay the bill
when it should become due, I believe I left word at Mars-
den and Pritchard's clerk's office that when Mr. It. P.
Pritchard came to town, I wanted to speak to him. 1
believe this would be the way in which the first inter-
view was brought about., and which led to the second ;
but I don't recollect distinctly.
What did you say in respect of the proposed arrange-
ment ?—I said I thought 1 could get my brother's gua-
rantee for the payment of the 2,000/., if he would give
me time. He consented, and gave Inc the time.
Was this all that passed at the first interview be-
tween you and Mr. li. P. Pritchard ?—That is the sub•_
stance of the conversation, and all that I recollect.
Will you swear that that is the substance of all that
passed?—Yes, or I weuld mit already have sworn it.
Did you meet Mr. IL P. Pritchard again on the sub-
ject ?—I cannot recollect ; I think I did.
Do you remember that there was a second interview ?
—Yes.
What passed then ?—I cannot be sure of what took
place at that particular interview, but I believe 1 told
him that my brother had agreed to guarantee the
2.0001. ; and I expected, if my brother did so guarantee,
the lease, which l►e then held, should be given back to
me. He consented to this arrangement.
Who gave the instructions for the preparation of the
deeds ?—I did.
When ?—I cannot say ; but I should think a few days
prior to the bill becoming due. It might have been a
fortnigh t.
To whom ?—To 'Marsden.
Seeing that you were dishonouring all your other
bills, what made you so anxious to save Mr. Pritchard,
you at the time receiving lawyer's letters from all your
other creditors ?—ln order to complete the arrange-
ments entered into with Cook and Gladstone.
Was that your only reason ?—No.
State any other reasons which influencedyou ?—lf I
did not pay the bills as they became due, or give security,
I would have been made a bankrupt.
Were these tho only reasons inducing- you to secure
his debt a fortnight before the first bill became due ?
—No.
State what further reasons you had?—Because I
thought if I got the lease before referred to out of Mr.
R. P. Pritchard's hands, that I should then be able to
assign that lease to my brother, as he had often asked
me, and which I had promised to do. I also thought
that by giving the guarantee of my brother for a suns
which I should be able to pay off, I might expect my
brother to be a security for me again.
It being now past four o'clock, the further examination
was adjourned till eleVen o'clock to-morrow.
IN RE CAVE.

MINING SPECULATIONS.—This day was fixed for the
final adjourned examination, and on which occasion the
Learned Commissioner, in pronouncing his adjudication,
entered into an elaborate review of the leading points of
the case. This was one of the most extraordinary cases
that had recently come before the Court. When holding
a situation in the Horse Guards, and certainly, as far as
there appeared, without any improper design or intention
of a fraud on his part, Mr. Cave propagated the plan of
entering upon this extensive pursuit, without possessing,
as he himself admitted, any knowledge of geology. He,
however, procured a certain number of mines, and then
obtained the assistance of au extraordinary class of
Shareholders, to the number of 54, to aid in their being
worked ; but (the Learned Commissioner) could not
concur with the statement of Mr. Cave, that the money
and assistance had been so obtained without either puf-
fing or exaggeration upon his part. He (Sir C. F. Wil-
liams) thought it had been obtained by seduction and
allurement, in proof of which he quoted the letters which
we gave in a late report of those proceedings. In this
unseemly race for lucre he was sorry from his heart to
find a number of clergymen. Fifteen clergymen had lost
121,0001., and the result has been that many families
have been deprived of their comforts, and not a few re-
duced to comparative ruin. The Learned Commissioner
next adverted to the hopes held out by Mr. Cave as likely
to result from the Rospeath and Weal Bolton
Mines, but a few simple figures would show
how fallacious were those hopes. The produce
of the Rospeath mine from 1833 to 1839 was
5,124/., while the expenses were 19,7221.; and the pro-
duce of the Weal Bolton, for the same period, was abont
18,000/. and the expense 34,0001., so that in whatever
seductive colours the value of the mines had been dressed
out, there was a loss upon one of them alone of 14,3981.
The Learned Commissioner next referred to the paper of
instructions (given by us before) as a proof that while Mr.
Cave denied having used entreaty, or held out any
flaming exaggerations of anticipated profits from his
mines, the paper to which ho (the Learned Commissioner)
now referred was a formal contradiction. The next
letter on which he felt it his duty to make some com-
ment, was one written by a clergyman to Mr. Cave, and
dated in September, 1838, in which he asked that gentle-
man to furnish him with an account of the value, profits,
and if assailable by the sea or not. To that letter Mr.
Cave gave a most flourishing answer, stating the outlay
to have been about 600,0001., but that in vonsequence of
the necessity of a further outlay the sum of 100,000e'
more would be required, as the supposed amount of pro-
duce would realise 100,0004 a year, and that taking all
the mines together they must then have been worth
2,500,0001. That in the event of his death he had left
his property in the hands of trustees, in order to pay
the dividends to the Shareholders, and secure to them
the value of their capital, as existing circumstances
might require, and to give them all a controlling power
over a property which Mr. Cave considered to be so va-
luable. The gentleman to whom this letter was address-
ed was a heavy sufferer, and no one could deny that it
was calculated to deceive or to decoy, and many there
were who embarked in
.these- " magnificent" investments
under similar representations ; whatever the honest opi-
nion of Mr. Cave might have been, that ultimately his
Quixotic notions upon these speculations might be carried
into effect, all the great benefits thus anticipated by
Mr. Cave were without any proof ; and he (the Learned
Commissioner) must deplore the credulity and fatal ac-
quiescence to which a clergyman, a man of high
education and knowledge of the world, had lent
himself in advancing nearly 30,000/. under the delu-
sive hope of making 10 per cent. by it. " I verily
believe," continued the Learned Commissioner, " that
at the outset Cave was a Quixote, and that he
thought great things might be done of these mining
speculations, and thought he was doing no wrong in hav-
ing shareholders to join him ; but when I find a clergy-
man sent to Algiers, when I find large advances made to
some, and bounties granted to others, I feel within my-
self that Mr. Cave must have begun to doubt the ultimate
realisation of his wonderful expectations. I think that in
1838, the bankrupt found he was engaged in an un-
righteous and an unholy pursuit, although, at the same
time, I ani willing to believe that his fanaticism and his
Quixotism induced him all through to think that in the
end he might realise a fortune ; that fortune now, how-
ever, turning out an empty bauble, leaving only about 61.
in the hands of the two bankers where the subscriptions
of the Shareholders had been deposited. In what .1 have
thus said, I have only been speaking from the evidence
before me, and I have been only induced to make these
observations with a view of saving many a family from
ruin, by preventing them from embarking in such mad
and seductive speculations. Upon the working
of the mines (enumerated by the Learned Commissioner,
and reported by us before), there was a loss of 194,0001.,
and if Mr. Cave views the case (Wert-tidy, even as he
appears to do now, I can do no more than pity the con-
tinuance of his delusion. No parson is entitled to
greater credit than Mr. Cave, ter the clear and unre-
served disclosures which he has made of the whole
course of his conduct throughout these affairs; but the sum
of 6,800/., expended in presents of pipes of wine to one and
to another, and in advances of money to outfit parties to
India, and bring others from thence home, might be
called generosity in some circumstances ; but in
those of Mr. Cave they are not justifiable. lam
astounded at the credulity, and mortified at the in-
jury which has been inflicted upon fifty-four respect-
able families, who cannot now get the fiftieth part
of a shilling for all the thousands which they have
.embarked in these speculations. Now a word as to the
'accounts of Mr. Cave ; and I must say that they do him
and the accountant (Mr. Hutton) for the creditors every
possible credit ; I believe that no fraud was intended,
but I do believe that there was seduction used, and that
serious injury has resulted to many deserving persons,
as well at to Mr. Cave and his family. I now report my
commendation of his accounts, which are to me highly
satisfactory, as they are quite fain, and fully intelligible ;
and by law I haie no power to withhold passing his final
examination ; and as to his certificate, that rests entirely
with his creditors."

The balance-sheet having been handed in, and the
truth of its contents having been sworn to, the bankrupt
answered the usual interrogatories, and was declared to
have passed his final examination.

CENTRAL CifIMINALCOURT.
OLD COURT.

Jose Jodquini Gan:aces Basto, aged 35, and described
R 3 a merchant, Was indicted for stealing eight Ivarrants,
or orders, or a Foreign State, the property of Antonio
de Silva, the Financial Agent to the Portugum Govern-
Mee t.

Mr: Phillips and Mr. Bodkin were instructed on behalf
or the prosecution, and Mr. Clarkson, with whom was
Mr. Payne, conducted the prisoner's defence.
Mr. PHILLIPS having briefly addressed the Jury, called
witnesses. (It is needless to give the evidence, as it has
already appeared in The Sim in the Mansion-house reports.)
When the ease for the prosecution was closed,
,
Mr. CLARKSON addressed the Jury upon the facts of
the case, and commented upon the absence of the indivi-
dual Campbell, who he said, could have explained all the
circumstances of the transaction. He said that he should
satisfy the Jury that the prioner had borne a most
honourable character, and he trusted that they would not
stamp him as a felon for ever fur such a transaction as
had that day been detailed in evidence.
The Portuguese Consul, Mr. Stone, of the firm of
Stone and Co., the bankers, and other highly respectable.
witnesses, were then examined, and they gaVe the pri-
soner an excellent character for respectability and ho-
nourable conduct.

The RECORDER having summed up,
the Jury, after
deliberating for a minute, returned a verdict of Not Guilty.

The prisoner was then indicted for stealing two orders
for the delivery of a quantity of wine, the property of
Messrs. Pinto and Co._

A lengthened examination of Witnesses followed, but
it was destitute, of public interest, and at last the Re-
corder stopped the case, and said he was of opinion that
the charge had not been made out.
The Jury expressed their opinion that the eircum •
stances of the case only amounted to debt.

Mr. PHILLIPS said that if the Jury entertained this
opinion it would be useless to proceed further.
The Jury then returned a verdict of Not Guilty.
Mr. CLARKSON said he felt it due to the prisoner to
state that he had a respectable auctioneer in attendance,
who would have proved that the prisoner had negotiated
a loan with him, and that he would have received money
on the Monday to an amount much more than sufficient
to have enabled him to pay the whole sum due to the pro-
secutor.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
MANSION-HOUSE.
Charles Higgins, a drover, in the employment of Mr.
James Lethbury, home lamb and Welsh mutton sales-
man of Whitechapel, was charged with having driven a
bullock into the shop of Arr. Isaacs, a broker.
The complainant stated that his shop was unfortunately
in the way from Smithfield to Whitechapel, and in such
a position that, on cattle-driving days, people found it
necessary often to run into it to avoid the contact with
bulls and bullocks. The defendant had upon the occa-
sion which gave rise to the complaint, three bullocks
under his care, and whether from negligent driving or
other cause, in walked one of them to the shop, to the
great terror of the females of the family, and, after
whisking about his tail, overturned a writing•table, a
wash-hand stand, and other pieces of furniture. The in-
jury done by the unexpected visit amounted to 41., a very
small damage considering the value of the articles on the
premises, and the bulk and careless character of the