The Sun.
London, England, 1841-07-27 00:00:00

LAW INTELLIGENCE.
COURT OF CHANCERY, July 26.
HARMAN AND OTHERS V. JONES AND OTHERS.

This case came before the Court upon motion, for
the discharge of an order made by the Vice-Chancellor,
granting an injunction restraining the defendants, who
are the Commissioners of Sewers for the metropolitan
districts, from issuing a precept for summoning a Jury
to assess the value of certain land between Bartholomew-
lane and Threadneedle-street, on part of which it is in-
tended to build the new premises for the Sun Fire-office.
The arguments were not concluded when the Court
rose.

ROLLS' COURT, July 26.
The Court was again occupied the whole day in hearing the
arguments in the case of the Corporation of Arundel r.
Holmes.

VICE-CHANCELLOR'S COURT, July 25.

ELDERTON V. PETERS.

The arguments in this part-heard case were resumed,
and concluded to-day. The only question in the case
was, whether a gentleman named Bebb should pay the
costs of a suit instituted by him in the name of a person
called Julian Peters, that individual having no existence
in fact.

His Honour the VICE-CHANCELLOR, at the close of
the arguments, gave judgment, directing that Mr. Bebb
should not pay the costs of the suit, the Court acquitting
him of all blame, believing that the suit •vas instituted by
him in consequence of misrepresentations.

INSOLVENT DEBTORS' COURT, July 26.

BAIL CASES.

Three town and seven country bail cases were on the
list, in the trial of which no feat Ires of public interest
appeared.

IN RE GEORGE CONWAY MONTAGUE, ESQ.
Mr. Woodroffe opposed the discharge of the insolvent
on the part of Mrs. Mary Elizabeth Budd. It appeared
that his liabilities amounted to upwards of 23,000/., and,
although possessed of large property, the assets available
to his creditors were unequal to pay even a penny in the
pound. In the year 1827 he was first arrested, and re-
mained in prison until the present time, this being his
first application to be discharged. He was subjected to
a long examination, in which he stated that he had lost
considerable sums of money " at play" with various per-
sons--to one person named Russell, who was a fellow-
prisoner with him in the Queen's Bench, he lost upwards
of 1,0001. He also stated that he had received consider-
able sums of money from a person named Flight, and
had by means of wine warrants, taken in consideration of
acceptances, raised upwards of 6,0001. The insolvent
supported his application in person.
Mr. WOODROFFE, in aggravation of the duration of re-
mand, suggested to the Court that this was one of those
cases calling most strongly for its reprobation. The in-
solvent had property, but chose to remain in prison, and
thus defraud his creditors, to the injury not only of their
interest but likewise of his own. 'When he first went to
prison his. property was such that he could have easily
met his liabilities with more than 40s. in the pound ; and,
under all the circumstances of the case, he trusted that
the Court, by its decision, would mark its reprobation of
the insolvent's conduct.

The Learned COMMISSIONER said he was sorry to
be compelled to remand a person of the insolvent's ex-
treme age—[he seemed upwards of 70 years of age]—
for a period so much longer than what was usual with
the ordinary run of cases occurring in the Court, but he
felt that a sense of public justice demanded it. Since the
first time he occupied the Commissioner's seat, so flagrant
a case as that now before him had never come under h.s
cognizance ; and, notwithstanding the length of time
which the insolvent had been previously confined, he felt
himself bound to order a further term of imprisonment
for two years.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
MA NSIO N- HOUSE.
TIIE ALLEGED ORIGINAL PROJECTOR OF THE RAIL-
ROAD SYSTEM IN ENGLAND.—Mr. Hobler, junior, who
was accompanied by Mr Rangeley, the engineer, Mr.
James, and several other gentlemen, stated to the
Lord Mayor that he appeared before his Lordship
on the part of the family of the late Mr. James, of
Bodmin, land agent and civil engineer, to whose ex=
ertions as the original projector and surveyor of
the Manchester and Liverpool, Central Union, Lon-
don and Brighton, and many other railroads, the
public were principally indebted for the establishment of
the present system a railroad conveyance b this and
other countries. The late Mr. James (several years
having intervened before the Bills passed both Houses of
Parliament, for the three first‘mentioned railroads), pro-
ceeded with the surveys of many of the principal lines
now in existence, on some of which he published. hie re-
ports. He was enthusiastic in the cause of this grand
scheme of national communication by locomotive engines,
and in its early stages was the mainstay and agitator of
the system, under the painful opposition and prejudices
then existing in the public mind; and his ample fortune;
together with the settlements made on his mitts. and
daughters, were severally given up, and expended in
public improvements, in patents, experiments, and sur-
veys for the promotion or the great work, whereby his
family had been left without patrimony. his claims had
long since been acknowledged, but he did not think of
remuneration, as the importance of the railway System
was but imperfectly understood, Now, however, that it
was universally adopted and appreciated, it was sub-
mitted that these thiims should be acknowledged by a
liberal testimonial to his family. In consequence of the
report that the friends of Mr. James's family were deter-
mined to exert themselves on the occasion, some indi-
viduals were going round the country with applications
for contributions for a national testimonial, and had
already obtained a considerable sum of money witheut
the sanction of the family, who considered that on such
an occasion the best course they could pursue was to
represent the circumstances to the Lord Mayor, and to
request his aid in preventing the continuance of such a
scheme of raising money.
The LORD MAYott said he Witt Convinced the most
effectual mode of prevention would be by publication of
the circumstance as extensively as possible.
Mr. Hobler, jun., said that the conduct of those who
were receiving the money under false pretences, might
be considered a sort of nominal Imposition,
Mr. Rangeley said the high merits and claims of the
late Mr. James were well known to the scientific men of
this country ; and that it would be desirable if those
who had subAnribed would publish the names of the
parties to whom they had handed their contributions, or
--and them in to the Committee about to be organized for
carrying the views of the friends of the family of the late
railroad projector into effect.
The gentlemen then thanked the Lord Mayor and re-
tired.
Cittkitirt TO ANIMALs.—The Lord Mayor stated that
he had received a letter on the subject of the treatment
of animals in Smithfield, deserving, in his opinion, the
immediate consideration of those who had the manage-
ment of business in that market. He thought as the
new regulations of Smithfield were under the considera-
tion of the Common Council at the present time, the
subject could not be more appropriately introduced. The
letter was as follows
" My Lord,—Myself, in conjunction with a very nu-
merous circle of female acquaintances, do most earnestly
implore you to use the very great interest and power
you possess in behalf of the poor suffering beasts taken
to Smithfield Market, and where I am creditably in-
formed they are kept from twelve to eighteen hours
without one drop of water to moisten their parched
throats ; nor even in going to and fro do their merciless
drovers allow them to drink a few drops of kennel
water, but goad them on their way, their tri-
fling wants unheeded. Surely, my Lord, yon have,
on some occasions, felt that most dreadful torture aris-
ing from intense thirst. Consider, then, what must be
the agony those poor innocent and helpless beasts en-
dure ; and not only the cruelty, but the exceeding mis-
chief that result from it, the poor bullock frequently be-
coming infuriated, and the sheep falling down, as if
dead, from utter exhaustion ' • both of which, in most in-
stances, might be avoided by a supply of water in the
market. It seems the superintendant of the market says
it is quite unnecessary. Probably this gentleman has
never felt the effect of scorching fever, and certainly not
from too much humanity to the brute creation, other-
wise this crying evil would have been remedied jears
since. He may, perhaps, object on the score of expense,
but this might easily be rectified by the very simple
method of buyer and seller each paying one halfpenny
or, at the most, one penny per head, on all cattle taken
to the market. Allow me, my Lord, to hope that yon
have as much inclination as power, and that ydtt
exert both in advancing this most essential object; and
by the doing of which your name rust foe O'er stand
high on the records of mercy and humanity. In the
fervent prayer that you will patiently consider the im-
portant subject of our petition, we beg to subscribe our-
selves your Lordship's most obedient SerViintsk'
" The remark as to the payment by the buyer and seller
was judiciously mentioned in a most humane paragraph,
addressed to the editor of the Morning Ilercild it few
days back, and which I have very great reftson to sus
pect was written by one of the most able statesmen and
years
its
ophilanthropists of the present day,"
This letter, which was in a female's hand-writing,
expresses feelingly what- has ben written to every
ensout suggestion
s the
of
rrat
Lord Mayor IN ho has sat in th .t chair for the last ten
thte.
bes hoped subject
his Lordship's correspondent will be attended to in the
least,ftr isdha that a bteethn noticed
next Court of Common Council, when the hew roles art:
to be brought forward,

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newels .lioofc) t Ant U 74 tth . ontaso.rs
f,elpers in the employ of Messrs. Horne,
colch proprietors, Golden Cross, Charing Cross, were
brought before Mr. Hall, charged with being' found on
their master's premises for the purpose of committing a
felm. r. .
I i t . . . . ,
. Mi.. It6R4 iht.tt foil ibi,eral *eekt past he had 13eefi
nii*Wi.kit nrii to the amount ,Of seLebil.cjitatterS from His
stores, in consequence of 'li,iirdh h` gave inforinatiO:ti, 4;
the police'; 041, he, Sil.S,Ppei'ed iio obis pi' iii, 1ii..,.n fit'.t.S
prol,,fcf ;iAli. OW l'et‘,..s tg 't.V,ai. egt:ll. !hi tile granary,
tt. 11:111Z.1 none nut the foreman and under-foreman had
access.

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at 12 o'cloCk to the prosecutor's premises in plain
ctivisloh, stated that he went yesterday
Constable IQ 4;
clothes, when he saw the two first-named prisoners enter
the granary, and after a short delay he entered, and ob-
served Moore putting a sack of corn on his shoulder,
with the assistance of his companion ; as he was going
up the step ladder, the third prisoner gave them a signal
and attempted to obstruct him, when he took the others
into custody,
the sack produced with the prosecuto
The Inspector said, that on searching Moore's lodging,
was found. .
Mr, }Tom
Lie e said the elder Moore had been in his ser-
vice for 1 1
AU 18 years, bit he never wag employed in
r's name upon it
portioning out the O%Th .'‘. - •
tea door, Oa false one, and itot belongtpg
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.
The under-founder-foreman icicotified the key'produced, which
was found in
to his ernploprs. „ . . -- -- '
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