The Sun.
London, England, 1841-03-25 00:00:00

LAW INTELLIGENCE.

INSOLVENT DEBTORS' COUR7',ALIncir 24.
( Before Mr. Commissioner Nicitou.s.)
IN RE JOHN DENTON.

The insolvent in this case was a licensed victualler carrying
on business in Northampton-street, Clerkenwell.
It appeared from the evidence the insolvent was about
disposing of his business, and in order to raise the
value of the house by exhibiting a large quantity of
stock, he borrowed the sum of 2201. from a friend, with
which a quantity of gin and other liquors were purchased.
This person finding that other creditors were about
coming upon the insolvent for the d'mands, caused an execu-
tion to be immediately issued against his property, which was
accordingly done with as littl delay as possible, although
through a wish not to cause the immense sacrifice which would
occur by a sheriff's sale, the attorney engaged to wait for three
weeks, in order that the goods might be disposed of by private
I contract.

Mr. COOKE, in supporting the issolvent's discharge, ob-
served, that in all eases like the present the brewers and dis-
t:llers invariably got " the'lion's share," and moved heaven and
earth to punish parties who interfere with their rights.
l'he Learned COMMISSIONER recapitulated the facts of the
ease, and then ordered the insolvent to be discharged.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

MANSION-HOUSE.

TIIR CITY POLICE COIIIIISAoNER AND THE CITY Po-
uctt Fouce.—air. Commissioner Harvey appeared yester-
day at the Mansion-house te call the attention of the Lord
Mayor to a report which appeared in the Standard news-
paiaer of Tuesday moroiag, under the head of ‘• Guildhall
Police." In that report there were observations stated to
have been made by the pre,iding Magistrate, Alderman
Thomas Wood, which reflected most unmerited reproach
upon the City police force as a body, were unjust towards
the City Police Commissioner, and calculated to impair
his authority es Commissioner, and to excite most injuri-
ous doubts as to the general efficiency of the body.
The LORD MAYOR, v.itli whom Alderman Wilson was
sitting a' the time, said, that a; the observations of which
the City Police Core.mi,sioner camplake i had bean re-
presented to have baca n a le in the public office, he could
beve no objection to hear the gentlemen who complained
of them, particularly as they referred to so important a
subject as the conduct of the force.
The Police Commissioner said that he should net
trouble his Lordship with the feet; cf the case, although
he undcri.tcod they we o abundantly capable of aia-
dicalien, nor should lie trouble his Lordship with any
remarks whatsver, if the language reported to have
bees used had fallen from Mr. Thomas Wood as a simple
iuciyidual or as an attorney ; but when it was con-
sidered that Mr. Wood was a member of the Court of
Aldermen, a cami.!ate for the Civic Clia'r, presiding at
the time as a Magistrate in a Court of Justice, and also
Cho:ratan of the Police Commilt‘e, it would at once lie
perecised that any ob.ervations coming under such cir-
cumstances would not fail to produce the effect be de-
scriieed. The remarks thenitelva:s were as unb.ceming in
language as they were unwarranted by the position of the
individual whe had uttered them. If the Corporation go
nerally, or the Court of Aldermer, had any just ground to
complain of the police a 3 a Municipal Irotitution, or with
the Commissioner intrusted with its direction, a course
was open at once honourable and effectual, and so far from
sh'inking from the minu,e,t inquiry into the general state
of the City Polite, nr ( f its maaageinent, he declared that
nothing would gr.t fy him so much as the institution cf
such an inquiry. But then, fir the purpose of render-
ing the inquiry satisfactory to the citizens at large,
whose servant he was 1 rand to c insider himself us being,
asd by whom the great expense of sustaining
t' e police was borne, it must not be conducted
in a close Court with closed doors. It was the busiees. of
the public, and the pullis: had a right to know what foun-
dation Mr. Thomas Wood bad fur his charge. It ap-
prated by the Report thit a person filling the dignified
Station of a Magistarre, in speaking of the Station-Clerk,
called thst Clerk an "ar i:nal," and described the station-
lia s venture
placee whichot o:
v earyyhel baditt(lteec neverrC..,
cbi trey: naPnv:illsi
thente d C 4::tmohcei: seAlalenddee
proceeded,
nwouldwithoutas
Canunissioiar). to give it as his opinion,
' "vial: male any c9mmunicatian whateer r to him (the
y managed by
reecho from the CommtihschsioCt°einrt• that the police
was badly
n somet s i o
explanationrer, anifhoor did
assur-
ance
force b fire the Court ofs Alderman." huing
of amendment, lie t; e irefficiency of the
proceeded to observe that be erman." The Commissioner
coil,
y ppcal to his Lordship,
as h ;mini lha: tov,, alisisbracpsppyeettoat
prell.,ague Alderman Wilson,
r..t,eas t, his readiness to
ltl all
elf rd at all times such returns of:
the conduct of the City Pt I,ce ~,tit,is state of crime and of
autho-
rised to require under the City Felice Act. pßwutasw
due deference to Alderman Thomas Wood, he did not and
should not comickr himself amenable to that gentleman to
er assurance of
wished further to remark
gib e wh it was tern c I "an explanation
amendrneet." liethat he did
ral working of the CityAldermenptooliii,n-
stitute inquil ieto the geac,
et nor did 1 for ----'''
not doubt the readinc,:s of . the Court of
e a moment
or his individual superintcnoon ,
suppose that t for lie fit happy in the comic-
partiality anti operieesr, .
he inquiry would not be conducted with im.
abody
iricii;idual cf th t
who would have been betray e I into .
tion that there was not (ex other
the use of observe.
Lions so ill adal.ted to the station
%%Lich he occupied.
He should nr t, however, w declaration
)Id the
such inquiry was not made, it woul i become -lor
Majesty's Covernn-,e,.t to move for a Committee to
.
he doubted not it would be the ready dispotrion o 1 her
Majesty's duty, as
, esi
qui, e iato tie City Police, with powers similar to tee,e
possessed by the Committee appointed to inquire on a
former occasion in relation to the state of the Metropolitan
Police. He had had many difficulties to encounter, and
those difficulties were not yet at al and, some cf them
perhaps inseparable from the very nature of mar icipal in-
stitutions directly under popular control; still he felt
conscicus that the i•esult of the inquiry he solicited would
reflect credit upon the City Police forte as a body, and no
discredit upon the management of that force.
The LORD MAYOR aid Alderman WILSON expressed
their conviction that the Court cf Aldermen woul'l act with
the most perfect imparti dity upon being referred to on the
subject; and the City Commissioner intimated his inten-
tion to memorialise the Court on next day of meeting.

The Marquis of Conyngham is expected at Win-
don House, near Southampton, this week, with the Mar-
chioness and family, the Noble Marquis having taken that
mansion for a term. We understand his Lordship has
purchased the Flower of Yarrow, cutter yacht, of the Duke
of Buccleuch.