The Sun.
London, England, 1846-09-19 00:00:00

BANKRUPTS.

James Joseph Fryer, stockbroker, Birchin-lane, Cornh ill, to
surrender Sept. 30, at one, and Nov. 5, at eleven, at the Court
of Bankruptcy. Groom, official assignee, Abchurch-lane,
Lombard-street ; Lindsay and Mason, Cateaton-street.
James Blunden, grocer, Basingstoke, Sept. 30, and Oct.
29, at twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Bell, official
assignee, Coleman-street-buildings ; Johnson, Son, and
Weatherall, King's Bench-walk, Temple.
John Hatcher, butcher, Poole, Oct. 7 and Nov. 5, at
twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Edwards, official as-
signee, Frederick's-place, Old Jewry; Holme, Loftte, and
Young, New Inn, Strand; Parr, Poole.
John Edward Campbell Koch, East India merchant, Win-
chester-street, City, Sept. 29, at twelve, awl Oct. 30, at
eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Graham, official assig-
nee, Coleman-street, City ; Belleary's, Fenchurch-street.
Leopold Anton Victor Rudolphi, merchant, Sunderland,
Oct. 2, at eleven, and Oct. 30, at one, at the Ne ca,tle- upon!
Tyne District Court. Wakley, official assignee. Newcastle-
upon-Tyn e ; Cooper, Sunderland; Loveland and Beckitt,
Lincoln's Inn-fields.

Thomas Barr )w, shirt-maker, Manchester, Oct. 1 and 23,
at twelve, at the Manchester District Court. Hobson, official
assignee, Manchester ; Milne, Parry, Milne, and Morris,
Temple; Goulden, Manchester.

PRICE OF SUGAR.
The average price of Brown or Muscovado Sugar, the pro-
duce of the British possessions in America, computed trom
the returns made in the week ending September 15, 1846, is
325. sd. per cwt.
[Dividends, Erc In onr Next.]

CUSTOMS' SALES: DELIVERY OF TORACCO.—The
Board of Customs having had ender their consideration
a communication from the Commissioners of Excise,
suggesting, with a view to the greater security of the
revenue, that in cases where leaf tobacco is purchased
at customs sales, the goods should be delivered to licensed
manufacturers only, due notice to this effect being in-
serted in the conditions contained in the catalogue of
sale, orders have been issued to the principals of the
several departments in London, and the collectors and
controllers of the Customs at the various outports
throughout the United Kingdom, to take care that in
future the suggestions of the Excise Board be duly car-
ried into effect. This regulation is of very considerable
importance, and should be generally known by the
numerous parties who will be affected thereby. It will
be seen that this exclusion of delivery except to certain
parties does not extend to cigars and manufactured to-
bacco, but is confined to leaf tobacco, or tobacco in an
uninanufaciured state, imported for the purpose •of
manufacture in this country, the delivery of which, it
appears, is to be in future confined to parties duly
licensed by the Excise authorities for the express pur-
pose. _ _ _

THE LATE MR. JUSTICE WILLI/dn.—A post
mortem examination of the remains-vf the above distin-
guished judge has left the cause of his lamented death
a subject for medical conjecture. The heart and large
blood vessels near that organ were fbund in a perfectly
healthy state, as was also the brain, showing that the
death of the Learned Judge was attributable neither to
apoplexy or disease of the heart. The most probably
conjecture is, that the deceased died of gout in the
stomach, though that organ exhibited no appearance
beyond what might have been caused by dyspepsia, from
which he had been suffering more or less for some days.
On the morning when he was visited by Dr. Probart,
he complain.d of pains, radiating as he described them,
from the pit of the stomach. Dr. Probart appears to
have had some apprehensions of gout, for he asked bis
patient whether he had ever suffered from any attack of
that affection. The reply was that he never had, nor,
as far as he knew, had any of his family. The circum-
stances of the deceased's death were awfully sudden.
Leidy Williams left him on the sofa in the drawing-
room, as she supposed, better than he had been in the
morning, to join the party of triends assembled at dinner.

On returning after it short bbsenci-, she found him, as
she thought, asleep on the s.to, but the 61eep was soon
discovered to be that of death

DEATHS OF CONVICTS AT WOOLWIC ll.—Th ursd ay
Mr. C. J. Carttar, Coroner for West Kent, held inquests
at Woolwich, at the Salutation Tavern, opposite the
Arsenal gates, on the bodies of two convicts, who met
their deaths under the following circumstances:—The
names of the deceased are William Gibbs and Thomas
Trison, who were convicted at the Surrey Assizes, held
at Kingston in March last, and sentenced to transporta-
tion for life, on a charge of robbery. From the evidence
of Messrs. Bossey and Bligh, surgeons to the hospital
convict-ship, it was proved that the deceased received
during their illness, wine, custards, fish, flesh, and fowl,
in order to rally their constitution, which had no effect,
and they died of consumption. The jury expressed
their entire approbation with the hind and humane treat-
ment they had received under the distressing circum-
stances, and returned a verdict, " Died from natural
causes." An erroneous impression having gone abroad
that such unhappy creatures are nearly starved and
worked to death, the following official return of food and
clothing, issued from the Secretary of State's office, will
tend to remove such doubts. Weekly regimen—oat-
meal, 31b. loz ; soft bread, 71b.; biscuit, 11b. 120 z.;
beef, 3ilb.; cheese, 120 z.; salt, 40z.; and a pint and a
half of small beer on cheese days. Annual clothing-
-2 jackets, 3 pair of trousers, 3 shirts, 4 pair of stockings,
3 pair of shoes, 2 bats, 2 handkerc..iefs, 1 waistcoat, 1
blanket, and 1 Guernsey frock. Dr. Bossey said he had
the power to order, without the least restriction, any
luxury or indulgence during sickness to the councts.

COURT OF COMMON COUNCIL
Yesterday a Court was held.

MARBLE BUST
After some preliminary
Mr.D.W.WzaErdse to subnnt, ,onowiorg moulen.;—
" That permission be granted to the Jones !e-Aii-n4i4' .t
committee, under the dir,ction of the City 'l..t.ndi .1,174-711 i;
mittee, to place it marble bust of Richard .1.4014.1.e.J;;riCa,
Esq., upon a suitable' pedestal in the'COuncil Qhfonher
(which bust has been purchased by subscription), to re_
cord and perpetuate the grateful sense entertained 'by
the public and his fellow-citizens of his disinterested
and laborious devotion in the discharge of his duties as
Chairman of the Committee for re-bnildinz Lc
bridge, and making suitable • t
re-building the Royal Excharg!
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which was to do honour to the corporainon itself, as well
as to the able and excellent member of it whose talents
and industry had been so long engaged in the service of
his fellow-either s and of the ceminunity.—(Hear,) Ile
Admitted that the four busts already in the Connell
Chamber represented individuals of the most distin-
guished character, two most illustrioua heroes and two
of our most remarkable philanthropists. He rejoiced to
see honour done to men whose ereigies had Even called.
forth by other excitements than those whit
effusion, of islood, and aruceleet that most
class the name of Mr: Jensen ranlesii‘legh as
to the commercial and trading cemieunitY c.. ees
kingdon.—(iiear.) He thought it unnecessary to say
more of the clue-stone., of a person whose ants were writ-
ten in the hearts and memories of all present.—(Hear.)
Mr. JOHN DIXON seconded the motion with the
highest degree of gratification, for he had long wit-
nessed the indefatigable exertions of the gentleman to
whom the honour was intended.
Mr. remeneecesr unwillingly opposed the motion,
for he was aware of the many great claims which Mr.
Jones had upon the citizens of London. He believed Mr.
Jones to be one of the ablest men with whom it hail been
his good fortune to meet. and he was of opinion that the
merit of such a man ought to be noticed, but not exactly
in the manner propesed.—(Hear, Twee.) It appeared
that the bust was to costlhe corporation seeking. `.Chat
was one of the arguments for placing it in the Ceuncil
Chamber. Now certainlyif it were not worth the while
of the corporation to purchase a bust, the chamber was
not the place in which to erect it.—(hear, hear.) He
would ask the court whether they seriously thought that
the bust of one of their own body should he placed in
such company as that of the bust of the hero of Tra-
falgar, and that of that great advocate of the slave trade
_abolition ?—(Hear, hear, and " Oh, oh!") He thought
that nothing could be more absurd. The individuals to
whom such distinctions had been awarded were public
men celebrated for their public conduct, which inne•lved
the national honour in a high degree. Now, Mr. Ames,
when he meddled with public matters, was ma consi-
dered by the very persons who were now advocating his
cause just the sort of public man whose deed, were
likely to attract their sympathy. Poste=rity had to do
with the names of the great men whose busts filled the
niches. The battle of Trafalgar and the abolition of
the slave trade were, after all, greater deeds than
the building of London-bridge, -or Greahtorestrett,
or any other of those excellent improaermeas
for which the public certainly had to tick Mr.
Jones in an eminent degree. lit it generetien or two
people, who would know term history the ac-ti enements
by reason of whieh the warriors atid philanthropic a e ere
allotted their places in that room, welds' ask with sur-
prise, upon seeing the bust of Mr. Jones, " But who is
that?—what brings him into such society?" The an-
swer would be, •• He was a man of high reputation in
the corporation, who greatly improved the City of
London, and preserved an nisfeemiahed urine to (hat ace r
all the while.":--(Cheers.) What had that to do era]
the history of England, in whets the names of all :h-,-
divideals with whom he was proposed to be tree welled
would unquestionably appear? Why should the Court
place amongst such men one of whom postern) c old'
never know anything?--(Hear, hear, and murmurs.)
Finally, he disapproved altogether of the idea of erect-
ing any memorial for which the corporation did not pay
themselves, and with every respect for Mr. Jones, and
every wish that all honour should be rendered to him in
the various ways in which his claims wcre not to be for
a moment questioned, he proposed as an amendment the
previous question.
Mr. SELSON seconded the amendment, because', ne
bust would be ill-placed by being placed in that Court,
and the Court had already decided upon the question.
Mr. LAWRENCE ridiculed the notion of keeping the.
Court as a place of exhibition for the busts of heroes and
men of high rank and connexions, and excludieg their
own fellow-citizen from an honour to which he wan
most indisputably entitled. If there were not the busts
there *ere the portraits of men around them whose great
actions were not chronicled. W hat had Mr. Deputy
Pinder done, to be remembered by posterity ? (1 augh-
ter.) What had the Chamberlain (Mr. Clarke) dune,
that he should appear at full-length in such company ?
(Laughter.) What was the case of Mr. Jones? Here
was a committee, consisting of merchants and bankers
of the metropolis, determined to carry out the principle
of extending the vast benefits of the arts of peace, and
manifesting their sincerity by subscribing fOr a testi-
monial to a member of the Corporation who had de-
voted his time and talents to the service of
the community. That committee asked the Court
for permission to erect the bust of that men, and the
answer they were to get was, " What! admit a person
who was ifot victorious at Trafalgar or Waterhio!
Dreadful 1" Would the Gene be carried aunt by such
nonsense?—(Hear, hear, and laughter.) What! when
they wanted to fill up a niche must they look about for
a stray warrior, instead of fixing upon the ablest, one of
the most honourable men amongst themselves ?
(Cheers.) He would seriously ask the Court whether
the City of London had not derived as much advantage
from the labours of Mr. Jones as from the
labours of any of the men whose busts or per-
traiteadorned their place of meeting?--(Cheers.) In
fifty or sixty years the likenesses of warriors would cut
but a sorry figure by the side of the groat promoters of
national and commercial improvements.—(Cheers.) A
member of their body was chosen in pretererce to all
others to direct and superintend the great imrrovenienti
in the City of London. It was asked what windier was
worthy to be in such company as that of the great. person
to whom so much allusion had beet, made. It happened
to be a weakness of our nature that we should think the
only way to greatness was to aim at pulling "teen the
reputation of others.—(Hear.) Almost every nein eas
given to depreciate the tnerite of others. Noe be hoped
to see the Court aa a body throw that feeling aside.—
(Cheers.) The refusal to accede to the original mieion
would cast indelible dingrace upon the Corpus-whin, who
were bound to show to the public that they e ere de-
sirous to encourage the members of their he to adopt
a line of conduct similar to that by which Mr. Jones had
been so long distinguished.—(Cheers.)
Mr. BENNOCH, in supporting the oriOial motion,
said the fit place in which to erect the tete of Mr.
Jones was certainly that which constituted the theatre
of his exertions.
Mr. L. TAYLOR objected to the tee sect a
bust to a person while he-was a r of ;he C. urt.
The case would be different if Mr. Jooes e.id nut happen
then to be a member.
Deputy STEvENS said that more public money pissed
through the hands of Mr. Jones than through the bands
of any other man in the City uP London, and slander
was never breathed against him in the apnlication e t it.
—(Cheers.) It was by his integrity, as w, ii as hy his
zeal and activity, sad skill, that he a witted hetet Is te the
gratitude of his fell, w-citizens. liis wird* were some-
times as rough as the SL.IIeS with winch the magnificent
buildings he directed were raised.' Ile made no friends
by his mode of treating the language in whieb he com-
municated his sentiments, but the -streightforwarnlncaz,
the fair-dealing, the integrity of the man, were impos-
sible to be mistaken.—(Cheers.)
Mr. PEWTRESS was surprised at any hesitation in the
Court, upon the very first occasion on which the honour
had been done to them of an offer to put up a bust of one
of themselves.
Mr. R. TAYLOR never heard a speech in which inge-
nuity and subtlety had so completely failed as that of
Mr. Prendergast.
Mr. LoTT objected to the original motion, because he
could not admit that the Royal Exchange an Gresham-
street were so decidedly superior. lie thought, too,
that Mr. Jones's influence would increase it his bust
were placed in the Court, and everybody knew that there
was quite enough of him there when he presented him-
self.—(Laughter.)
Mr. ASHURST said the Government of the country
had for 20 years maintained such an orrnion o( the Cor-
poration as to pass into their hands two millions of
money to accomplish certain public improvements. Mr.
Jones was the person who devoted his time and talent
to the judicious expenditure of that enormous sum, and
through him the trade and commerce of the great port
of London was be 'refitted to an immense extent:.
Mr. KING had the greatest respect for the integrity of
Mr. Jones, but it did not follow that he was, tt et &ore,
to do all he could, by placing Mr. Jones's bus; in the
Court, to make the gentleman uncomfortable as well as
useless.
Mr. ANDERTON said the Court would disgrace itself
by agreeing to the amendment.
Mr. DE JERSEY deprecated the haste with which the
business was got up, and said that Mr. Jones's character
could not suffer by delay.
Dr. LYNCH accused the panegyrists; of Mr. James of
the grossest sycophancy. Praise undeserved was cen-
sure in disguise, and the sycophancy of that day ope-
rated as the most severe censure.--(Cries of " Hear,
hear," and " No, no.") Who were the parties to whom
Mr. Jones was indebted for so much compliment ? Just
the aspirants for municipal fame, who, while they were
advocating their friend's bust, were carving out niches
in the Court for themselves.—(Laughter and cheers.)
They supposed that. if they could only get in so large
an object as Mr. Richard Lambert Jones, they would be
able to squeeze in themselves by and by.—(Great
laughter.) Their praise was one for Mr. Jones and two
for themselves; and, as cheapness seemed to be a recom-
mendation, it was possible that a pawnbroker's shop
might supply them with the materials for the exhibition.
Indeed, he had been given to understand tbat Mr. Wire
had a bust quite ready for use after Mr. Jones's should
be safely deposited.—(Great laughter.) Of all the gen-
tlemen in the court, Mr. R. L. Jones was in the most in-
describable position. Some called him a colossus, others
asserted that his feet were of clay. He was certainly an
most antithetical character, made up of the most contra-
dictory and unintelligible materials. Some said that he
had made his own greatness, and others declared that he
was merely great under the shadow of the corporation.
But how barbarously did they treat him by raising
him to a parallel with those men whose high names hail
been so profaeely mentioned in -the course of that discus-
sion. Dr. Lynch concluded a . most humorous -speech,
which we are obliged to curtail -very much, by ceiling
upon the Court to pass the amendment.
Mr. WIRE replied, and drew au admirable cuaraoter
of Mr, shwa.

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lings in lee, for which he received :45L as the purchase-
money. The rent had been paid ever since the 28th of
July last; the rent was payable half-yearly, on the 28th
July and the 26Th January.
Cross-examined by Mr. Grover—Paid the half-year's
rent to Mr. Glass by a pest-office order, which was ad-
dressed according to his address in the deed of rent-
nhFge.

ESPDTABSE decided that the claim was good.
Mr. Fitch said he bad been called there at consider-
able expense to defend these votes, and therefore hoped
that costs would be awarded.

Mr. ESPINASSE said as it appeared the grantor lived
in the town he might have been asked whether the
rent-charge was correctly granted or not, and as no
inquiries seemed to have been made, he should award
20s. costs.

When our reporter left at eight o'clock the Court was
still sitting.
The result of the revision for the Hemel Hempstead
list is as follows :
New claims—
By Liberals
By Conservatives
Objections—
Liberals struck off
Conservatives struck off

. 132

Total
Making on the three days' revision a majority in
favour of the Liberals of 141.

LAW INTELLIGENCE.
SECONDARIES' COURT, September 18.
This Court did not sit to-day, no causes having bee:
set down for trial.

COURT OF BANKRUPTCY, September 18.
(Before Mr. Commissioner SHEPHERD.)
IN RE HARE.
The bankrupt in this case had carried on business as
a linen-draper, in New-street, Dorset-square, and came
up for his certificate.

Mr. Cooke appeared on behalf of the assignees, to urge
that the case should be adjourned, under the following
circumstances :—lt appears that he was indebted to
sundry creditors in the sum of 2,2081., but the while of
his property had been swept away under an assignment
to his brother. The bankrupt left London in March
last, on a plea of extreme ill-health, and said he was
going to Paris, which, however, he did not, but left a
power of attorney with a person named Snellgarde, to
carry on the business, and the latter had applied some
of the assets,• and the brother had sold off everything.
An action was brought to try the validity of the assign-
ment, and is still pending.
Mr. Lucks, for the bankrupt, submitted that he ought
not to be held responsible for the conduct of Snellgarde.
The Learned COMMISSIONER said the person holding
the power of attorney could only legally do what his
principal could do.
Mr. LUCAS continued—That the bankrupt had been
in a very precarious state, and his friends, thinking, he
would die, insisted on his seeing them secured ; but at
that time he thought himself solvent.
The Learned COMMISSIONER said that, unless it could
be shown there was a very great degree of ignorance,
the bankrupt was the person in the wrong; he had given
the assignment, intending it to be acted on. He did not
see that a creditor who held the assignment acted wrong,
nor would he say now that there was fraud on the part
of the bankrupt, but there were good grounds for 'tic-
ceeding to Mr. Cooke's application.
The certificate was then adjourned till the sittings
after next term.

PALACE COURT, September 18.
(Before Mr. CORRIE.)
GLEN V. ROGERS.

NOTING Bum or EXCHANGE.—This was an action
to recover the sum of 411. 3s. 3d. on a bill of exchange
and I. 0. U., and ss. for noting, and 3s. for interest.
Mr. LOCKE, for the plaintiff, said it would only be
necessary to put in the bill and note to entitle the plain-
tiff to a verdict.

The Learned JUDGE said the charge for noting could
not be made.

Mr. LocKE said that he should be able to prove that
the defeniant had promised to pay that amount in con-
sideration that time was given, and therefore it could be
recovered under the account stated.

The Learned JUDGE said it was a special contract, and
it would be much better not to take it.

Mr. LOCKE said he must press his right to it. It was
allowed in all the superior courts.
The Learned JUDGE said that this was new in prac-
tice to him, and he did not see the justice of allowing it.
It was an expense incurred fur the plaintiff's own ad-
vantage.

Mr.LocgE said the bankers had noted it for greater
security.
A witness was then called, and proved the promise
to pay.
The Learned JUDGE said he would leave the case to
the jury, but mth.t tell them that. in his opinion, there
was a special contract. The jury would, however, say
whether they considered he was entitled.
The jury, after about five minutes, gave a verdict for
the full amount.