The Sun.
London, England, 1846-12-22 00:00:00

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ism
............... 28 *Booke
.................... 18 1
Th CRIPPLEGATE WITHOUT.
104 e poll closed at one o'clock, the numbers being—
ixos_ i•• • ............... 83 Meadway
c4iic .................... 83 Johnson 6B
Ski""
....... .. ....... 76 Read
thireitir .................... 735 *King
BILLINGSGATE.
12110 poll-books were opened this morning in the Fel-
hohip p rters' Hall, St. Mary-at-Hill, at a quarter to
Carling
the numbers were as follows
28 Old
olvter
btlill
'bei is 3l *Gibbs
Trilliums
hillips
29
use marked thus * are
It -

new candidates.

4filblC-RUPTCY.—(THIS DAY)
‘4"efor m
e Commissioner SHEPHERD).
Thisii 4 JOHN.BADMAN (JOHNNY WALKER).
Order. is
came up this day to apply for his_ final.u.
Ported bl!e. was opposed by Mr. Buchannan, and s p
,3 Mr. Duncan.
the•
.-utIertANNAN argued on the objections taken at
Proper; examination namely, that the insolvent had not
estier'Y described limselt in the schedule, as he had
walzeted debts under the name of John Badman
v,911 last hearing it was shown that the insol-
v',c had carried on business in Scotland as a licensed
and had taken out licenses in that name,
refore that he was bound to insert it in his schedule.
Duncan, on the contrary, urged that the Insolvent
t did not apply to Scotland, and that the creditors
tio right of opposition.
otuir. BUCUANNAN now contended, that under the Act
14. Parliament, and under the rders of the Coin-
11.188ioner o
, which were tantamount to an Act, that every "41e under which he had traded or contracted debts
kr_ to be inserted, and it had been so held by the Corn.
Vioners of the Insolvent Court.
in'lo Learned COMMISSIONER, after some further ar-
ta Zeat, said he would not trouble Mr. Duncan to reply,
Ripe was of opinion that the insolvent had complied
"tali the Act, by describing his name, address, and
ly, for the last twelve months, he was within the
teu4',letion. Scotlaml not being, within, there was no
it 1, i
T 4 to do t. Besides, no one hikl been deceived, as
his—'s Publicly known that " Johnny Walker" was not
kr 41 name.
~
1111(1 ~ 15UCHANNAN—Then if a man is christened A B,
nia .oes all his life as C D, till he gets in debt, then he
ih.rso by his real name.
kty ; CouluissioNEß—l cannot help that._ _ If there be
or hardship it is in the Act itself.
" Da l order was granted.
13licArt said, that although all the objections,
free Were
from his creditors,
technical, had
failed, and he was now
mind .18 creditors, he was willing to pay 55. in the
It uni,,a_ticl he would use his earnest endeavours to make
/hevs. 88 soon as possible.
court was crowded by friends of the insolvent..

NIDDLESEX SESSIONS.
The
2? TICS DAY.
this riecelnber second adjourned) sessions commenced
l'eneh --tiling before the Assistant-Judge and a ful!
treett°f Magistrates, at the Court-house, Clerkenwe r 1
The
Or vo, ealelldar contained the names of 68 prisoners, all
of rll were charged
Thee.
Le, . with felony, with the exception
bitnd jur 113.? a AsstsTANT-JUDGE, in charging:, the
tefere
IL nee to it pacetwoifaihtsed to make
on
ni% last county
gutso a few remarks
. in
consider
leveraihaving been determined
appoint a committee to
Of it,„ presentmade by grand juries of the county
opizironcitesex, which stated that these institutions, in the
htirona. Of their members, were of comp
eases trutilitY, considering the nature of the
*Xiati rought before this court. Under the
4rst ng State of things, when grand juries were
atiktiestablished, they were a mostimportant in-
t ties„ °li, both as serving to counteract any tendency o
kr rtisni by the coroner, or to lessen the evils of popu-
NrVeiteraent, and at the present moment the same re-
their u:ttaypplinable only as the appropriate sphere of
seemed to be in the higher criminal courts.
b), trhg:panbeiefoere,being sent to this court were i,:vestigated
tattle,' 1 magistrates, who had the fullest opportu.-
esse or no whether there existed a prima facie
Itt this not ; while the opportunities of the grand jury
to kls court, considering the nature of the cases
a3,"e tried, are much inferior, and, he might
n,a; the at
one of the least evils of the systems
qver„" inutility in a great measure of bringing 24 time
than" Year sometimes as many as 72, but never less
3R 9
.r..ter •"9 gentlemen from different parts of the country.
adoj Person was familiar with the various means
before to pervert justice by making statements when
e tho
~„ grand jury quite at variance with those made
tioi,.,--AY, and within the last three months he sr a
for `"ent stipulating the payment of three sovereigns
PhAlvin
e facirg. such
false
evidence.
He need not allude to
lodic, 'ties afforded to that infamous class who live
~h by
h
moue `l)5 brothels, for the purpose of getting us of hi but he would state that a gentleman, an officer
llex;gh rank in the army, and of the highest family c0n-
p0r.,;,1:139 Was indicted by one of those individuals for the
roe-lcise of extorting money from him through his fears,
The rY because he resided three weeks with a female.
atte- &learned Assistant. Judge concluded by calling the
perZ_lon of the gentlemen of the grand jury to the im-
testittle,_necesstty fur taking some decided steps with
v l'° tile kefortuation of juvenile offenders, 500 of
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