The Sun.
London, England, 1841-04-23 00:00:00

IN THE MATTER OF WILLIAM JOHN HAMMOND.

In this case an application was made on the part of Mr.
Hammond, the comedian, and late of Drury-lace and the
Strand heatres, to reduce the amount of bail required to
enable hint to obtain his discharge More the bearing in
June next. It will be recollected that be was made a
bankrupt, but the fiat was superseded by the Court of
Review, with costs, on tha 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 tot forth that he had
filed his petition, and bad been informed that the Court
would wart bail to nearly 4,0001, doub!e the amount of
the ju,lgruent 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 housekeeper?. Mr. Hammond further stated
iu hi= affidavit that he iiad a wife and seven children de-
pending for their support on hie professional exertions,
and that they were now suffering from privations in con-
sequence of his incarceration. If the application was rc-
fused he should be deprived of an engagement for the
present season.

Mr. Coosa remarked that Mr. Fisher had taken the
Strand Theatre in execution, and a theatre at Liverpool,
which property together was worth 2,5001., and had been
sold for 5001.

The Learned Commissioner BOWEN, after examining
Nlr. Hammond's schedule, said bail in the sum uf 2,0001.
would be accepted.

The que;tion rais,dby Mr. Fisher, an attorney at Don-
caster, was, that the fiat was invalid on several grounds,
and, having succeeded in his application, his executi,na
-gainst the property of Mr. Hammond prevailed, and the
other debts still existed by virtue of the supersedes!, which
debts were now ins, rtcd in the schedule filed in this Court.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
MANSION- HO USE.

A lady of the name of Gully, was summoned before
Alderman Rrie, to answer the complaint of the Reverend
Lionel Buller, a senior fellow of King's College, Cam-
bridge, under the following raPht r curious circumstances :
Mr. Buller, who was accompanied by Mr. Humphreys,
the solicitor, stated that he was introduced in February to
Mrs. Gully, by a medical gentleman whom, he profession-
,:liy consulted, and in the course of a conversation which
he had held with her, she informed him that she had got a
mine in Cornwall, produced some of the ore from a box,
and proposed to him to become a shareholder in a Com-
pany. He, however, did not then know whether he
should have funds to engage in the concern, and he did
not consent. Subsequently he saw the lady at her house,
and she said to him. " Mr. Buller, if you will accommod.ite
me with your bill, I shall get it discounted by my wine-
merchant, and let you have 141. and sonic shares in the
mine." He consented to give her his bi l f 501 but she
informed him afterwards that she could not get cash for it,
and he thought he should hear no more about the matte,.
By accident, however, he discovered that the bill had been
actually negotiated. He then called at her house to expos.
tulate upon the subject, but she received and treated him
with very little ceremony indeA, and he intimated to her
through his attorney, that she should be put to some trouble
on the subject. The fair thought proper, ait,r ho bad de-
manded to be informed of the meaning of such conduct, to
make affidavit that he was going out of the country, and the
consequence was that he was arrested before the bill be-
came due.

Mr. Humphreys here stated that as the law at present
stood no party could be arrested for a civil debt under such
circumstances, unle.,s upon the oath of somebody that he
was going to leave the country.

Alderman PI/UR asked whether Mr. Buller had contem-
plated leaving the country ? Mr. Buller said that he had
no notion of it at all. After his arrest he remained four
days in confinement. Upon anplication to the Judge, how-
ever, the authority upon which he was detained wa can-
celled, and he recovered his liberty. He had to pay the
amount to a Mr. Wrench, Into whose hands the bill had
fallen. It was proper for him to state thnt he had the im-
i,rudence to sign his name in a book agreciag to take
4ares in the wining concern, but Mrs. Gully had assured
him that the cash was not to be paid up till the steam en-
gines were in readiness to commence operations with.
Alderman PIRIE—How did you find the mine? Mr.
Buller—l found that it was altogether a nonentity, and
that myself and two others constituted the entire body of
the shareh tiers. I crag thus put t.) 401. law expenses, so
that the loss I have sustained by the transaction amounts
to 901.

Alderman PIRIE—Were you supplied with any certifi-
cates for shares? Mr. Buller—None at all. There was
nothing done. The thing had no foundation at all.
Alderman PIRIE—Were no officers appointed ? Mr.
Buller—N,re whatever. There were no Directors, nor
S. cretary, nor Solicitor to the " Wheel Trevenon Mine,"
as the mine was called.

Mrs. Gully's solicitor asked several questions, to which
Mr. Buller replied that he supposed there was an action
pending against him in this matter ; that the amount for
which he had been arrested was, he beli Ned, 721. or 731.,
the balance of what he was to pay for the shares.

Alderman PIRIE—And were there no shares delivered to
you? Mr. Buller—Not one.
Mrs. Gully's solicitor said that Mr. Buller had omitted
some important facts in his statement. Mrs. Gully was
the owner of the soil in Cornwall, in which the mine was
to be worked, and had consented to dispose, of it for the
mining speculation, and Mr. Buller and his friends were
to raise the Company, by means of which it was to be
brought into operation. New, Mr. Buller well knew that
he had consented to sign the deed. Mrs. Gully had acted
throughout irreproachably, and would, on a future day,
produce the documents necessary to show that Mr, Boller
was prominently intere in the speculation of " Witt el
Trevenon," and that her conduct was legally and morally
correct.

Mr. Humphreys stated that there was no Company at
all; that no shares had heea issued, and that of course
there cluld be no justification of the course adopted to-
wards his client.
Aid, ratan PIRIE—Ii there any deed at all?

Mr. Buller—Not to my knowledge.
Mrs. Gully said that there certaialy was a deed, but it
was in Cornwall. She declared she had taken the mine of
the solicitor of the lord of the soil of the manor in which
it lay for so much does and she came to London to form
a Company, having been informed that there was great
probability that the working would turn out advan-
tsgeously. Mr. Boller ent .red into this speculation at
once, aid had consented to take twenty-five shares, and
she accordingly gave him the transfer fur that number, on
which it was agr,ed that 4/. per share should be paid to
work the mine See was herself to keep fifty shares, And
Mr. Buller's 501. was in part payment of those which had
been transferred to him.

Alderman PIRIE—H ,w many shares were taken al-
together? Mrs Guily—One 3undred and twenty-live.
Toe party of whom I took the mine is a man of great
affluence and high respectability. Here the lady eK-
il;bited a book which contained resolutions said to be those
of meetiogs of the Company, which aneeings were not
attended by more than four or ive persons, according to
her admission.

Alderman PIRIE said that the deed must be produced as
soon as possible, and other information must be supplied
to him on the subject, before the impression upon his mind
could be removed thlt the whole of the transaction was
discreditable.

The subject will be resumed uefure the Alderman on
Thursday next.
A boy, named Charles Theava, 14 years of age, who
has been frequently charged with, and punished for, rob-
berie', was brought up fur a very bold attempt to rob an
elderly lady.
The complainant stated that the had been purchasing
some toys for her grandchildrun, and carried them in a
hand-basket into an omnibus, upon the scat of which she
placed the basket. The prisoner, whom she mistook for
the conductor, got upon the box behind, and putting his
hand in at the window, over the door, whipped out the
basket, and jumped down and ran away. The streets were
crowded at the time, and the officers were about the
place; and flys moment the complainant saw the act, she
called out to stop the boy. A policeman and another per-
son immediately secured him, and took the basket in his
possession.
Alderman PlhlE. —Do you wish to say anything in this
business, prisoner ? Prisoner—Why, no, I don't sea that
it would be any use.
Committed to Bridewell for three months.