The Sun.
London, England, 1846-07-03 00:00:00

SNR.EVZSBURIr AND DINLIVIINGNADI.

The clauses of this Bill (as amended) were gone through
and passed, and the report agreed to.
BIRMINGHAM, WOLVERHAMPTON, AND

DUDLEY.

The Committee then went through the clauses of this
Bill (as amended), all of which were agreed to, as well as the
report.

BANKRUPTCY.-(THIS DAY.)
(Before Mr. Commissioner FAxx.)
The clerk of the Sheriffs' Court for the City of London
handed in a document issued from that Court on a judgment,
and applied under the Small Debts Act for an order of the
Commissioner to enforce that judgment.
The Learned COMMISSIONER said that the document did not
set forth the jurisdiction of the Court.
The Clerk said that there could be no doubt of the juris-
diction of the Judge of the Sheriffs' Court to extend all over
the City of London.
The Learned ComasslONEß—No doubt he knows his own
jurisdiction, but lam not bound or expected to know it. If
I stirred in the matter, and the Court below bad no jurisdic-
tion, I should be laying myself open to an action.
The Clerk said that it was shown in the record that the de-
fendant resided within the jurisdiction of the Sheriffs' Court.
The CommissiorrEn—That is a mere suggestion on the re-
cord, which may, or may not, be true—suggestions on re-
cords are generally false. In the Exchequer, it was formerly
set out that the debtor was indebted to our Sovereign Lord
the King, which was not a fact; suggestions, therefore,
went for nothing.
The Clerk said that if his Honour would suggest what
would be satisfactory evidence of the jurisdiction it should
be adduced.

The Learned COMMISSIONER would not, trouble himselt to
suggest what was required. When paperi -we're put betkire
him he would say whether he would act on them or not.
He would not in this case.

SECONDARIES'.—(THIS DAY.). 1
(Before Mr. Secondary JAntEs.)
ERWOOD V. YOUNG.
This was an action to recover the sum of 7/. 108., for a
quarter's rent of apartments in Brownlow-street, Holborn.
The defendant pleaded that he was not indebted. On the
part of the plaintiff evidence was adduced that the defendant
had occupied the apartments for eighteen months up to
Lady-day last, and the rent was claimed for the last quarter.
For the defendant, however, six receipts were put in, cover-
ing the whole of the period, but the latter had been altered,
and it was contended was not in the writing of the plaintiff,
but the evidence slightly went in the affirmative. Another
paper was put in, being an unstamped receipt for 51., which
was rejected as evidence.
The Learned SECONDARY said it appeared to him that the
question was a very simple one, and that was—whether the
receipt was in the hand-writing of the plaintiff ? As all the
receipts had been produced, it could only allude to the quar-
ter in dispute ; the paper for the 51. might probably have been
for a sum paid on account, and that on the payment of the
balance, the receipt, which was a stamped duplicate of the
other, might have been altered.
The jury almost immediately gave a verdict for defendant.
The SECONDARY said that there could be very little doubt
in the matter.
This was the only case.

REPEAL OF THE CORN-LAWS
TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.

Sirs,--A correspondent of the Morning Advertiser signed
"Alfred," calls on the people to erect by penny subscriptions,
a statue of Sir Robert Peel, in the Royal Exchange, to com-
memorate the above glorious event, and complains that no
other Liberal paper have advocated the same course. Now I
like his penny subscription plan, on the principle that ss.
from GO persons would look better than from one;_ yet I do
not agree with him that it should be to Sir Robert Peel, for I
beg to state, that while I highly appreciate and feel grateful
for the unexampled boldness of that great man, in bringing
forward and carrying this grand measure, I cannot see that he
is entitled to the preference in the hearts of our countrymen.
Then who is ? Why, not one man alone, but a body of men,
and I think I am right in saying, aye, and the great mass of
the people will also say, that it belongs to that wonderful
society, the Anti-Corn-law League, who broke down the
barriers of prejudice, and opened the people's eyes to the ad-
vantages of such a repeal ; but if there are honours to be given
to one man more than another, I think the people of England
have too much good sense to do other than bestow them to
the man to whom the honours are due, and I quote from the
Westminster Review of some months since (and Sir Robert
himself has confirmed it), which points out that man.
" And one at least of that body has won a larger measure
of confidence and respect than perhaps was ever before
awarded, both by friends and enemies, to the leader of a
great enterprise. Calm, indefatigable, inflexible, with sin-
gleness of purpose, never diverted to the right hand or the
left, shrinking from no fatigue, shunning no opponent, and
never yielding to an antagonist an advantage in temper or
argument, reasoning not for effect, but to produce conviction,
and carrying conviction by communicating to the minds of
others, with the evidence of plain facts in plain words, a belief
in his own sincerity, the right champion appeared at the right
time, the hour came and the man, the man without whom
public opinion would even yet have been so unformed upon
the fallacies of protection, that no Whig or Tory Ministry
could have dared to propose more than a slight or temporary
modification of the existing system. The man who has
given to this generation, by the blessing which, without him,
would not' have been realised till the next—and the honest
thanks of all good men be given now, and hereafter the
world's gratitude to Richard Cobden."
When I call upon my countrymen, I call upon the people
of the United Kingdom to come forward with their penny,
and commemorate the event by erecting in the centre of the
Royal Exchange a suitable monument, with a suitable tablet,
to be deeply engraved with the names of those actors who
have figured most in that great crusade, putting Cobden first,
but allotting a conspicuous place on the same, for Sir Robert
Peel, the then Prime Minister, who nobly sacrificed so much
to bring their labours to a successful issue, thus showing the
whole civilised world, from generation to generation, the
men who were their great benefactors.
I have the honour to be, Sir,
Your obedient servant,
MATTHEW.

Southwark, July 2, 1846.

MORTALITY OF THE METROPOLIS.—The total num-
ber of deaths registered in the metropolis during the week
ending Saturday, June 27, was 890. Of this number, 834
were from disease, showing an increase in the number of
deaths from disease, as compared with the preceding week,
of 55.

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ROYAL THAMES YACHT CLUB.—Last evening the
monthly meeting of the above club was held at the Piazza
Hotel, Covent-garden, Lord A. Paget (the commodore) pre-
siding. The treasurer read the financial report from April to
30th June, which showed a balance in the hands of the
treasurer of 574/. 13s. 4d. A motion was unanimously car-
ried that 8001. of the balance should be invested in the Three
per Cent. Consols. A letter was read from the British Con-
sul at Cadiz, intimating that from a communication received
from the director of customs at Madrid, that the Spanish
Government had consented to grant the same privileges in
respect to all Spanish ports to the Royal Thames Yacht
Club as were already enjoyed by the Royal Yacht Squadron.
The several gentlemen proposed at the last meeting were
balloted for and elected, and the Marquis of Stafford, as well
as many gentlemen, were proposed for the ensuing meeting.
The Sea Nymph was withdrawn from the list for the match
of to-morrow. _ _ _

THE DESTRUCTION OF ST. JOHN'S.—LIVERPOOL,
WEDNESDAY.—This melancholy disaster has excited much
commiseration amongst the mercantile community of Liver-
pool. A meeting of the principal merchants engaged in the
Newfoundland trade was held to-day, and it was resolved
immediately to open a subscription for the relief of the suf-
ferers, many of whom were represented to be on the verge of
starvation. We trust this appeal will meet a fit response.
A very curious meteor was observed about half-past
eight in the evening of the 20th ult., at Marieux, near
Autun (Swine-et-Loire). The air was calm, and the at-
mosphere still illuminated by the expiring reflection of the
sun, when a luminous globe, of a violet tint, and appearing
to the eye to be about a yard in circumference, was soen for
the space of a minute, and a few seconds more, falling per-
pendicularly to the horizon, preserving all the time its sphe-
rical form. Although five globules, each of nearly one-fourth
of the size of the principal ball, were successively detached
from it, it did not lose anything of its apparent volume, At
last, when only a short distance from the horizon, it burst
into a thousand particles, spreading to a wide distance.