The Sun.
London, England, 1812-08-21 00:00:00

NIARKET, At 76. 21.

This day's Market had a short suppiv of tine dif-
ferent- kinds Of . cattle ; beef and- 'Mutton were
cheaper; Pork is.dearer ; Lamb and Veal support
last prices, and the trade in general was sow-
what The sales in the Hay-market were
trifling.; Clover has dropped in price ; Hay rind
Straw obtained last prices. The following prices
and numbers are an accurate statement :
To sink the Offal, per Stone of Sib.
Ve.ef, 4s. 6d to ss. Bd. Mutton, is. Bd. to ss. 10d. Veal,
55., Od. to7s.Od.' Lauri), IlsOd. to 7s. ad. Pork, os.'to 7s. Od.
teasts, 589. Sheep and Lambs, 7,900. ••Calves; 145. Pigs,
29J. ' •

SMITHFIELD HAYMARKET.
Hay, 41.05. to 51. lOs. Straw, 21. ss. to 31. los. Clover, 51.
10s. to 71.05.

CORN-EXCHANGE, AUG., 21.—This day the
Market 'has few arrivals of Wheat, arld but short
remaining supplies ; sales fully sustain the list
quoted prices; the same may -be .noted in Malt
and White Pease ; Barley rather_ higher, as like,
wise Beans of each sort; we still have a continu,
ancc of extreme short supplies of OatS, and the
trade agaiii named at a further advance ; Flour at
late prices.
Wheat. - -90 s. 1255. 148 s. J Tick Beans '-
Fine. ditto - -150 s. 1555. Oats - -.-
Rye - - - - - 7os. Poland ditto
Barley '- 60s. 6,5, p,,totne ditto
Malt - - - 2159.- Nis: rape ;;ced
White Peases(boil.) 735. 755. Fine Flour -
Grey ditto - - 725. 755. Seconds -
Beans 7135.

765. 81s.

- GGs.7os. 745,

765. 775.
73-.

11:. I'(r,.
110 s. -11

LAW REPORT.

counT OF CI-L Ave. IS.

FRIENDLY 131:1;h1,IT SOCIETIES.

Mr.TrsoixoPE moved for an attachment against
the late Trustee cif the Friendly Benefit Society
of Carpenters and Joiners, fOr not paying over to
tile Solicit( t --t) the Society,- the sum ascertained
by the hooks to be in his hands at- the time of
his quittipg his offiiee Trtistee.: The appliea:;
tiOnWaS built on a ResOintiOri of the Society in-
tructing- their 'SolicitOFfa apply for payment of
tLe sum due, and VY imipate, that in the event of
the demand not bein;.; complied with, an applica-
cation would immediately be made to the Court of
Cfianeery,,nnder the Act-of Parliament.
The' I.OIID CHANCELLOR" having looked at the
wolding of the authority given by the Society to
their Solicitor, to apply to the Trustee, and com-
pared it- with the words in the' Act of Parliament,
asked whether the Learned Counsel thought, that
by the Resolution in question, authority was given
by the Society to their Solicitor, himself to receive
the money in which 'case alone, his Lordship
Could be warranted in complying-with the pre-
sent Motion. The appointing a Solicitor to sue
for money due, did not necessarily carry with it
an authority to him to receive the money. His
Lordship was sorry to remark, that, in no two
cases that he had ever met with, concerning Be-
nefit Societies, were the words of the Net of Par-
liarnent by which they were to be regulated, at-
tended to: The "effect of the order Which his
Lords)iip.was now called on to make, must be to.
send the person, against whom the application was
treacle to prison, probably for two months, with
the posSibility of its being made appear, 'at the
eNpiry of that period, that the application was not
warranted by the Act of Parliament. With every
desire to protect Benefit Societies, his Lordship
could not do for them what they seemed re-
'Solved not to do for themselves: It would be
good- thing for them to be taught, that the:easiest,
as well as the only proper mode, forthem to.p.ur-
sue,s:wonld be, to conform strictly to-the Actof
Parliament., His Lordship should .look into the
matter, but did not see that he coqld interfere.
•

EX-PARTE—WRIGHT, IN THE MATTER OFWEBB:,_
•,.11113 was an application on the part of the Rev.
, Mr. Wright, and his p'.6l.lse, to haVe an Annuity.
of 2101. a year; seatired to them for their 'joint
lives on, certain 'property belonging to the Bank
rupt,*regarded\as in the nature of a mortgage on
the property on which it was secured.
'w
...
The LORD CaANGELLOReni-thr6no the state,'
ineut of the p'aitioner's case,: fron(which'it,an,
relied that Mr..-Wright.having ISON,.Which he
wished to lay out in the purchase of an anduify,
for his own and his wife's lif6 applied to' the
bankrupt, whb :vas his -Attorney and eoltideiitial,
agent, to procure for them; such an 'annnity
well
secured: The bankrupt offered himself to become.
the granter of: the annuity, and: to secure
it on freehold property, 'which he specified,
and -which' be 'represented as being o a, greater
yearly Valuee.tan the amount of the annuity
to be secured upon it. This offer was. 'aceepf-
ed of ; the purenese Money was paid, and the
title deedS were put into Mr. Writ,-ht's.hands.—
Mr. Webb, however, had since become Bankrupt,
when it was discovered that -17,: luaus Were not
by any means, of the anniue they wee re
presented to be, and that the Ic.Fitpt had failed:
within the proper, time to, r.2.7,0rd a memOria/ of
the transaction in question) as regoited'by the
statute of the 17th of his .Majesty,`commonly
Called.the Annuity Act ; in consequence of which,
the bond of annuity granted to the petitioners, was
null and void, being struck at by the piovisiops
of that statztte. His Lordship agreed that. this
was an exceeding hard case, and one inwhich the
Court must feel every inclination to afford relief.
It was difficult, however', to 'find out in what man-
ner this was to be done, at least by a petition in
bankruptcy. ales Lordshiw..hoped, that the
omission to record the memOrial,idthis, case, pro
heeded from ignorance outhepartcr thebankrupt;
but still if a man cruise to take upon himself Lao
contradictory and inconsistent characters, in which
skill and industry were undertaken . to be em-
ployed for each, and by, any neglect of .his to per-
form a duty for the discharge of which he was to
be paid, one of the parties was injured, sucli'party
mist have remedy in equity.. This remedy,
howeyer, was not by petition in bankruptcy, but
by a bar in equity. There cias ,no doubt such a
claim in equity might Ire maintained against the
party himself.; and his Lordship conceived that
the 'question, whether it 'might not also be main-
, tained against hi 4 creditors,. was one of consider-
able difficulty, As it was, he -could' not, enteiTain
the question in its present Shape. .All he could
now do would be to allow the petitioners to claim
- to 'the extent of the sum• paid by them to 'the
a.bankrupt : -reserving to
,them tt.) file their bill in
equity,, if they should be so advised. 'Ms' Lord-
ship would not order the petitioners to deliverup
any of the title, deeds. Which might be in their
• bads ; bnt rather ordered that they should retain
possesSion of thb same, hoping that-the ciretun-
Stance Of their "laving such title deeds in their
custody would operate _with the assignees. as an
- inducement to enter into a compromise -with
them.

—The only of • any•interelt that 'Occupied
action
the Civil Court at ,this As,,,izes, was O'Reilly,
Attorney, v O'Counel, :Attorney. It _ was ah,
action-for assault' ana battery, aril it :appeared in
evidence, "that defendant hart given the plaintiff a,
severe lorsewhippingairn th.e pti lit street in this
town, theSununexi ASSIZtiS, 1811,, The trial
oecupiedeveraillioup2 and after a Most minute
and fktient, inv_estign.tion, and • ew,amination. of
many %-iiitesses',onboth sides, the- Jury, after a,
‘hort deliberation, in ,coni;equenCe of ate very
gross provo(:..ation glren to the defendant to. the
entire satisfy' Lion of a very crowded Court, assess-
ed the dfnUages to only ss. a stun Mere-
.ly suff)7cient'to entitle him to the costs of the ac-
tion.—Kerry. Western Heralg.
Lord 13fRos, we understand, has Sold his es-
tate of Newstead Abbey in Nottinghamshire, for
J'40,000/. The principal estates of the- Noble
Laid Luc in Lancashire,

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