The Sun.
London, England, 1847-06-11 00:00:00

LAW INTELLIGENCE.
1-1011 S OF LORDS, Jane 10.
Their Lordships sat to-day at ten o'clock in a Committee
for Privileges. The Peels in attendance were the Lord
Chancellor, the Earl of Shaftesbury, the Earl of Redesdale,
the Earl of Cardigan, the Earl of Fingall, Lord Catnoys,
Lord de Manley, and the Bishop of St. Asaph.

THE PERTII AND DRUMMOND PEERAGE.
Witnesses were examined on behalf' of the claimant to this
peerage.

Mr. FLEMING summed up the case of the claimant, after
hich the further consideration of the claim was adjourned
till to-morrow, in order to examine a clergyman from Corn-
wall, as a witness on behalf of the claimant.

COURT OF QUEEN'S BENCH, June 10.
(Sittings in Banco).
THOMAS V. FBEsznicKs.
Lord JARMAN gave judgment in this case. It was an ac-
tion brought by Mr. Thomas against the defendant, in order
to ascertain the right of sporting over a certain manor. The
verdict was for the plaintiff, and subsequently a rule was al-
lowed by the defendant for an arrest of judgment.
The COURT, this morning, ordered the rule to be dis-
charged.
The point turned upon certain specific covenants in the
lease of the defendant, which were wholly of a technical
nature.
No other case possessing a feature of interest occurred
during the course of t.h• day.

BAIL CiItIRT, June 10.
(Before Mr. Justice WIGHSMAX.)
MO,TYN V. HALFOID.
This was an application for a cerliorari to bring up an in-
dictment against a process served for perjury. It appeared
that the applicant was defendant in an action which had
been commenced in Yorkshire, for having falsely sworn that
he had served Mostyn, a farmer, with a process of one of the
superior Courts. The affidavits went on to state that appli-
cant, in consequence of bis office, was exposed to a great deal
of ill feeling, and therefore feared that he had not had a fair
trial.—Application granted.

COURT OF BA.v.KRUP I CY, June 9.
(Before Mr. Commissioner FONBLANQUE.)
9IIBPENSION OF A CERTIFICATE—IN RE ALLEN

The bankrupt, a brickmaker, living in Hatton-garden,
came before the court on the question of certificate.
Mr. Bs4ley and Mr. Sturgeon supported, and Mr. Cox
opposed. _ _

- The ground of opposition was that the bankrupt had
continued to trade after he was in hopelesAy insolvent
circtunstane,,s.

It is unnecessary to detail the facts of the case, as what
are worth kn.win4 will be found in the judgment of his
Honour.

Tne COMMISSIONER said—The main facts as stated by
the oppint.g creditor being admitted, I must say this is
not a case in which I can grant the certifivate at once.
There is one objection which, though not particularly
alluded to to day, is one which I think it right to notice.
On a former occasion the bankrupt's answers to questions
put to him were anything but what they ought to have
been. He prevaricated in a manner which, although
not perhaps calling upon me to use the extreme punish-
ment of committal, yet at the time induced me to make
a special note of it, and for that prevarication, and fur
that alone, I will suspend his certifiene for three
months. I wish to shoe( bankrupts that when they
come here they must at least make a full, free. and frank
avowal of what they know regarding their affairs, and
in that way at least do all they can to satisfy their cre
plums. The next objection I have to notice is his
having gone on in trade after his circumstances were
so insolvent that he actualty made an assignment o
his property for the benefit of his creditors. The
uxinnses amounted to within 50/. of the gross profits,
whilst the losses also were very nearly equal to his
profits. The losses and the trade and personal expenses
put together amounts to upwards of 1,200 L, whilst his
gross profits and receipts amount to only 6891. The
expenses were, in fact, wholly unwarrantable, and the
bankrupt had no excuse whatever for carrying on
business after the month of slay, when his circumstances
would leave him no reasonable hope of being able to fro
on as a trader ought. The bankrupt, in fact, by
throwing his property into the hands of Spilsliury, his
form• r partner, de eated his creditors, and, by a bill of
sale which he had made out, delud d those with whom
he dealt into a belief in his solvency. There had been
201. worth of property removed upon the very eve of a
fiat being issued, a circumstance surprising in itself,
arid which ought not to have occurred. The official
assignee reported that whilst the partnership bet& of
Allen and Spilsbury had been well kept. those it:
Allen since the diss,,lution of partnership had been badly
kept. Taking all these circumstances into account, he
felt himself bound to suspend the certificate for twelve
months.

Mr. BAGLEY—I hope your Honour will grant the
bankrupt your protection. as there is rut fraud.
CuMMISsIoNEFt—Yas, lot him have protection.
Pr, teetion was accordingly wanted.

SH:: RM. S. COURT, June 10.
(Before Mr. Under Sheriff BuRCHELL.)
ATKINSON V. OXLEY.

The plaintiff in this action is an attorney in Carey-street.
and the defendant a fanner in .itayfield, Sussex. The claim
was for 18i Bs., the balance of a bill of c•.sts.
Mr. BAYLEY, who appeared for the plaintiff, called a young
man, named Johnson, who had formerly been a clerk to the
plaintiff, and who proved that he knew of most of the work
having been done, and that the other portions were also ke-
cessary legal proceed►ngs. The costa had been taxed by the
Master at 18/. Bs. beyond a sum of 71. 10s. Id. paid to the
plaintiff. The witness, in cross-examination, said he did
not know who was the agent who had been employed in the
country.
Mr. BAYLEY then put in an office copy of an affidavit
sworn to by the defendant, in which he stated that he had
given itistruc!iors to Mr. Atkinson (the plaintiff), his atm!,
ney, and also submitted that, under the 6 and 7 Vic., c. 73,
in which it was enacted chat the allocates of the Master as to
the amount of costs on taxation should be final.

Mr. CHARSOCIL then addressed the jury, and said that he
should be able, no doubt, to show that the defendant in fact
had never etnploved the plaintiff, but that he was retained by
a person named beams, who would be called as s witness, and
who had bought the debt of 141. of defendant for 91., althou..,h
the action was brought in defendant's name.
Mr. Beams, formerly bailiff of the County Court at May-
field, and now clerk to an attorney, was called, and proved
that he was formerly a debt collector. Defetioant put some
debts into his hands to collect, and it being necessary to em-
ploy an attorney, he told defendant that if the latter would
take 91. for the debt, if recovered, he witness would pay the
costs. It was a" no cure no pay" affair. The writ and pro-
ceedings were sent to him to serve, and he was paid. Ile did
not tell ulaintiff the terms.

Mr. BAYLIY contended that no arrangement between de-
fendant and Beams could affect plaintiff unless be was made
acquainted with the terms.

The UNDER-SHERIFF was of the same opinion, and said
that in the affidavit the defendant admitted plaintiff was his
attothey.
The jury gave a verdict for the amount claimed.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
MilfatizißO,,.Gll-STRitET.
James Williams was placed before Mr. Bingham, charged
with being found in the shop of Mr. Tyas, draper, No. 7,
Charles-street, Soho, with the intention of committing a
felony.
It appeared that the prisoner was observed by complain-
ant's son, who was at the door of a neighbour's house oppo-
site, to be walking backwards and forwards, casting very sly
glances into the -hop. Thinking something was wrong, he
secreted himself behind a door, and watched the prisoner for
nearly ten minutes. The prisoner, finding there was not any
person visible in complainant's shop, stole in, and was in the
act of taking a bundle of nankins when complainant's soo
moved from his place of concealment, and caught him just
as he was depositing it in a capacious bag. The prisoner was
detained till the arrival of a constable, into whose charge he
was consigned.
The prisoner, who gave a very unsatisfactory account of
the transaction, was remanded till Monday next.
Henry Ca roil. the particulars of whose former examina•
lion appeared in this murnal on the Bth instant, was placed
at the bar for final examination, charged with stealing a
quantity of linen, the property of Madame Lie Homberg,
27, Audley street.
It will be recollected that the prisoner was remanded, in
order to procure the attendance of a female of the name of
IVebber, to whom the prisoner offered the linen for sale. This
witness stated that auout the middle of October last the pri-
soner, accompanied by a female, came to her house, 29, N w.
ton-road, Westbourne grove, and producing two large
bundles of linen, wished her to purchase them. She declined
doing so, but evaitually lent him 305., upon his consenting to
leave the linen as a security. The female (who is the prin-
cipal witness against the prisoner) •aid that she was a Jewes.,
and that the property was hers. The linen was taken away
by the prisoner ten days afterwards.
Toe prisoner, who declined making any defence, was fully
committed for trial.
WOUSH/P S
Thomas K ;Ivey was charged with creating a disturbance
in the waiting-room of the above court, and with violently
assaulting the police.
It appeared from the evidence of police-constable 120 N,
the wile of the prisoner was on Wednesday brought to this
office on the charge of feloniously stealing a watch and a pair
of boots. The prosecutor however not appearing ~he was dis-
charged. About four o'clock the prisoner returned to the
office waiting-room, where he created a grew disturbance,
and addressing the constables, exclaimed to them " I did
the aodge, and succeeded, so well that my wife
and her companion was discharged, notwithstand-
ing you did all you could against them ; they and
I hocusset: the fellow." 'rue constable afterwards fonnd out
that the prisoner had managed to get the prosecutor in a gin-
shop, and made him drunk. He was seen pouring the gin
down the prosecutor's throat. Thus it was that prosecutor
became unable to attend. The prisoner was taken from the
office waiting-room to the station-house, but it took four
pelice.constables to carry him thither, and on his way he
managed to inflict upon some of them severe bruises.
Mr. BROUGHTON said that it might possibly be very well
for him to endeavour to get his wife out of a scrape, but his
own bad conduct he could not look over. He wad tined 10s.,
or ten days' imprisonment.
The prisoner was lucked up in default.
GLEHKAN W ELL
A charge of a trifling character was preferred by police-
constable 113 S, and while the oath was being administered
to him his manner displayed much levity.
Mr. COMER, the presiding tnaibistrate, having observed it,
commented strongly upon the manner in which oaths some-
times were taken in the Police-court. It was the duty of
constables to attend more than they did to the solemn obli-
gation under which they were placing themselves when being
sworn. The worthy 3lagistrate then said, addressing the
inspector on duty, that he thought one of the most im-
portant features in the instruction of constables when enter.
big the force should be to impress upon their minds the ne-
cessity of a due and decorous attention and respect when
taking an oath.
%%, idle Mr. Combe was making these observations, the
constable remained in the witness-box, pale as death, ad in
a state of the greatest agitation, and at length, after a suboort,
convulsive straggle, fell backwards out of the witness x
apparently quite lifeless, his fiend striking violently the
wainscoting of the wall behind the box. He was twine-
diately carried out of court by the attendants, wh len medical
assistance was procured, and he in some
again brought
recovered
his con-ciousness, but upon being
into court
was quite unable to give his evidence, and he was therefore
removed to his residence under medical treatment.
I NAMES.
Margaret Mahony was charged on suspicion of having
robbed Mr. James Inwood, proprietor of the City of Carlisle
Tavern, Rosemary-lane, ut thirty-four sovereigus and I.los.
in silver.
Mr. Inwood stated, that in addition to the City of Carlisle
he has another house over the water, at Lambeth, which is