The Sun.
London, England, 1848-03-27 00:00:00

COURT CIRCULAR.

SATURDAY.
The following most gratifying bulletin of her Majesty's
health was issued yesterday morning:—
" Buckingham Palace, March 24, 1848, 9 ♦.ar.
" The Queen and the infant Princess continue well.
" JAMES CLARK,
" CHARLES LOCOCK,
" ROBERT FERGUSON."
Her Majesty's recovery is so far advanced that no
more bulletins will be issued.
Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent visited the
Queen yesterday morning.
His Royal Highness Prince Albert rode out on horse-
back yesterday forenoon, attended by Colonel Bouverie,
Equerry in Waiting.
Their Royal Highnesses the Prince of Wales, Prince
Alfred, the Princess Royal, and the Princess Alice, took
their usual walking and riding exercise yesterday, and
her Royal Highness the Princess Helena was taken an
airing.
Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent visited her
Majesty yesterday evening.

His Royal Highness Prince Albert presided yesterday
afternoon at a meeting of the Commissioners for Pro-
meting and Encouraging the Fine Arts in the Rebuilding
the Palace of Westminster. His Royal Highness ar-
rived at three o'clock at the new Palace, attended by
Colonel Bouverie, Equerry in Waiting.
The Commissioners present were the Earl of Aberdeen,
the Earl of Lincoln, Viscount Mahon, Viscount Mor-
peth, Lord Colborne, the Speaker of the House of Com-
mons, the Right Hon. Sir Robert Peel, the Right Hon.
Sir James Graham, Sir R. H. Inglis, Mr. Hallam, and
Mr. Wyse. The Secretary, Mr. Eastlake, was in at-
tendance. The meeting broke up soon after five o'clock.
Her Royal Highness the Princess Sophia is indisposed
at her residence at Kensington.
A deputation, including the Rev. John S. Winter, Mr.
John Hodgkins, and Mr. Edwin Hill, had an interview
with Viscount Morpeth yesterday, at the office of Woods
and Forests, in Whitehall-place, respecting the Health
of Towns.
The Rev. Dr. Alder had an interview with Earl Grey
yesterday, at the Colonial-office.
Viscount de Moncorvo, the Portuguese Minister,
transacted business yesterday at the Foreign-office.
A deputation, including Lieutenant-Colonel Lindsay,
Mr. Thickness°, and Mr. Lord (from Wigan), had an
interview with Sir George Grey yesterday, at the Home-
office.

Mr. Higham, Secretary and Comptroller-General to
the Co►r,nzissi,mers for the reduction of Fee National
Debt. had au int,trview -with the Chancellor of the Ex-
chequer yesterday.
Mr. Spielman and Mr. Russell had an interview with
the Right lion. Thomas Milner Gibson, at the Board of

Trade yesterday, on matters connected with the Joint-
Stock Companies Bill.
A deputation, consisting of Lord Ashley, Lord Robert
Grosvenor, Mr. Raikes Currie, M.P., and Sir Thomas
Acland hasl an interview yesterday, with Earl Grey.
Sir William Clay, Bart, Mr. Edward Coleman, Mr.
John Fuller, Mr. William Jeves, and Mr. William Tay-
lor, a deputation, with reference to including the parish
of Bromley, Middlesex, in the Bill for Promoting Pub-
lic Health, had an interview yesterday with Viscount
Morpeth.

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.
BETTING AT MANCHESTER.—FmnAT.

Very little done since our last ; the following quota-
tions are confined to bets actually laid :
NORTHAMPTONSHIRE STARES.-5 to 1 agat Ballinafad;
9 to 1 agst Joc o' Sot ; 12 to 1 agst Enchanter.
CHESTER Cur.-22 to 1 agst Cracow (t); 30 to 1
Hetman Platoff colt ; 35 to 1 agst tnchanter ; 500 to
10 agst Magnet (twice).
HUNTING APPOINTMENTS.

Dorington hds., Mon., Clifton Village-110f ; Wed.,
Hathern Turn-11f ; Sat., Moira Baths-10f.
Rufford hds., Mon., Rufford Abbey-11.
Mr. Lumley's hds., Tues., Bariborough Hall; Thurs.,
Stainton Village-10f.
Sir R. Sutton's hds., Mon., Allexton-10f; Tues.,
Bardon Hall; Wed., Widmerpool Inn; Thurs., Oadby
Tollbar; Sat , Thrussington-11.
Lord H. Bentinck's hds., Mon., Branston Wood; Wed.,
Linwood•by-Rasen; Thurs., Eagle Wood; Sat., Somer-
by Hall.
Mr. Brearey's beagles, Tues. and Thurs., noon Hay
Mount; Sat., Sponcion-12.
Duke of Rutlind's hds., Mon., Langan; Tues.,
Weaver's Lodge; Wed., Easton Hall; Fri., Lenton
Village-14
Crawley and Horsham hds., Mon., the Crab Tree;
Wed., the Fox, Three Bridges ; Fri., the Beeches,
Handcross-104.
East Essex hds., Tues., Crouch Fair Green; Sat.,
Black water-street-1 .
Herefordshire hds., Tues., Westhide ; Fri., Burley
Gate. _ _ _ _

Mr. Horndon's hds „Mon., Grestone Bridge-10i.

Devon Hi., Mon., Canonteign-11
Ledbury hds., Mon., Eastwood Oak; Thurs., Hall
Court, Bishop's Froome-14.
Monmouthshire hds., Mon., Graig Finger-post; Fri.,
Ragland-10i.
Tiverton hds., Mon., Hawkeridge; Wed., Winsford
Village; Sat., Anstey Kennels-10f.
Mr. Trelawney's hds., Tues., Buller's Arms, Dean;
Fri., Holne Cot-10i.
Wheatland hds., Buildwas Bridge ; Fri., Burwarton-9,
B. V.-14 Tues., Milton Park Wood (roe deer)-11i.

LONDON ASSOCIATION FOR THE

-PROTECTION OF TRADE.

This association, which holds its meetings at No.
170, Regent-street, has prepared several petitions for
presentatioa to the House of Commons, on subjects of
considerable importance to the trading interests of this
country. One for an alteration of the law relating to
the County Courts, is as follows:
" The humble petition of the chairman and com-
mittee of management of The London Association for
the Protection of Trade,' by and on behalf of them-
selves and all other the members of the said association,
assembling at No. 170, Regent-street, in the county of
Middlesex:

" Sheweth,—That the above•named association con-
sists of between 2,000 and 3,000 merchants, tradesmen,
and others, who are associated for the protection of trade
and commerce.

" Your petitioners beg to represent to your Honour-
able House, that admitting great advantages are granted
to tradesmen and others by the Act of Parliament passed
in the 9th and 10th years of the reign of her present
Majesty intituled, An Act for the more easy Recovery
of Small Debts,' yet, that the present practice of the
County Courts is, in many respects, attended with great
inconvenience, as well as unnecessary expense ; and
your petitioners hunkly submit, that alterations and
amendments may be made in such practice, not only
with benefit and advantage to the suitors, but also 'for
the more convenient conduct of such proceedings.
" That your petitioners humbly submit that great
delay and expense would be saved, if every defend-
ant, on being served with a plaint in one of the
said courts, were bound, within eight days, or some
other short period, to give the clerk of the said
court written notice of his intention to appear and
defend the action ; and if, in default of such notice
being given, the plaintiff was allowed to sign judgment
and have execution forthwith. Your petitioners believe
that in a great majority of the cases in the said courts
no defence is ever intended by the defendants; but at
present, for want of some mode of the plaintiff being
able to have judgment by default, the delay, trouble
and expense of a formal trial are made, in all cases,
necessary.

" Thai your petitioners have in many instances expe-
rienced great disappointment, amounting to a total de-
privation of the benefits contemplated by the Legislature
when the Act was passed, by reason of the present prac-
tice of the courts, requiring summonses to be taken out
in the districts where defendants reside, and not wherein
the plaintiffs and their witnesses reside, thereby creating
great additional expense to plaintiffs; and, consequently,
in many instances, adding to their losses, by reason of
non-payment of the claims sued for.
" That the fees demanded by the present rules of the
court are in many instances excessive, and ought not to
be demanded, particularly a portion of the fees now
claimed for issuing a second summons against a defend-
ant who may have removed into another district before
service on him of the first summons taken out; also of
the fees demanded on searching whether money is paid
into court in accordance with judgments obtained, more
especially if no such payments have been made.
" Your petitioners, therefore, moat humbly suggest
that a reduction in such excessive fees ought to be
made, and that those which are attended with no bene-
ficial result to the plaintiffs by reason of the default of
defendants, ought to be abolished.
" That, in accordance with the present practice of the
county courts, creditors who require the aid of the courts,
in the recovery of their debts, frequently experience great
inconvenience, and loss of both money and time, by
reason of such practice, requiring service of a summons
on defendant to be made by an officer of the court, to
whom, in most cases, defendants are personally un-
known. And, therefore, your petitioners humbly sub-
mit, that all summonses or notices requiring service only,
should, if desired by suitors, be entrusted to them or
their agents for that purpose.
" Your petitioners further submit, that a rule of court
should be established, authorising judgments to be
entered up by the consent in writing of defendants, for
securing payment of debts, without compelling the
attendance of parties at the courts where summonses are
to be heard, on the day appointed for that purpose, and
thereby occasioning a great loss of time to both parties,
as well as unnecessary expense; the present practice of
the courts only permitting judgment to be entered up
and the same fees demanded, as in the case of an actual
trial.
"Your petitioners, therefore, most humbly pray your
Honourable House, that the present rules and practice
of the county courts may be inquired into and revised.
That the present table of fees may be reviewed and
where found oppressive abandoned. And that such
further amendments of the law applicable to county
courts may be made as on such inquiry shall be found
necessary and expedient, so as to extend more fully the
benefits thereof.
" And your petititioners will ever pray, &c."
Another petition of the association prays for an alter-
ation in the practice of the Central Criminal Court. It
states That the crowding together for many days of
many hundred persons, of all ranks and ages, and of
both sexes, at the Old Bailey Courts, while waiting to
be summoned as witnesses before the grand and
petty juries, is most vexatious, and in the case of
young people and females, highly pernicious.
That the remuneration allowed to prosecutors
and witnesses is also most inadequate ; and your
petitioners, many of them, know that a great number of
persons who have once been prosecutors, have after-
wards suffered criminals to go unpunished rather than
submit again to the loss, vexation, and waste of time,
occasioned by the present system of prosecuting at the
Central Criminal Court.

" That many of those evils might be mitigated or re-
medied by trying the prisoners from each metropolitan
district, in a separate court, at a separate time ; by
abolishing grand juries, except in political offences ; and
by a more just and liberal scale of remuneration for
expenses and loss of time being allowed to prosecutors
and witnesses."

A third petition calls for an alteration in the law re-
lating to the liability of married women living separate
from their husbands; and a fourth, on the subject of
outlawry laws and writs of execution, prays for such
an amendment of " the laws at present in force, as
to give creditors a more speedy and effectual pro-
cess for recovering payments from those debtors,
who, after the contracting of their debts, go into fo-
reign countries, and remain beyond the jurisdiction of
our courts, leaving property here; aad also so to amend
the laws now in force respecting writs of execution, as to
enable creditors, under proper securities for the preser-
vation of the public peace, to levy on a debtor's goods
and chattels, notwithstanding that the same may be in a
house whereof the outer door is kept locked."

ANOINTMENT AND INDURATION OF PLASTER,
STONE, CEMENT, AND PASTEBOARD.—A patent has
been granted to Mr. William Hutchison, of Barnsbury-
park, Middlesex, marble merchant, for a foreign method
of rendering plaster, pasteboard, porous stone, and other
substances, impervious to wet, frost, vermin, or other
destructive agencies, and for mashing paper, rags, hemp,
ropes, and even hay and straw, and preparing them into
substances useful for sheet roofing, pipes, tiles, &c. The
plaster, porous stone, mashed hay, &c. are first shaped
as may be desired, then perfectly dried, so as to be
highly absorbent; then boiled in a mixture of rosin and
oil, grease, &0., or pitch and coal tar, for a time, varying
according to their thickness or bulk, and then dried
again and finished of by polishing, &c., according to the
nature and purpose of the article. The absorbent mix-
ture may be tinged with various mineral or vegetable
colours, or the substance be prepared of a black or other
dark colour, as with the pitch, &c. Chalk, alabaster,
busts, and even soft and porous wood, may be also
treated in the same way, but all must be first dried, so
as to ring like metal, arid be afterwards boiled in the
unguent till it is thoroughly absorbed.—Budder.
POLITICAL OFFENDERS.—The notice of motion
which has been entered on the books of the House of
Commons, by Mr. PearTus O'Connor, is to the effect,
that or) Thur.cldy, the 6th of April, he will move the
prv:,:entation of an witireis to her Majesty. praying that
she wilt begtaoir,usly 1,1e44:4d to extetal ;,,rtiort
to John Frost, Zephania Williams, and William Jones,
and " all other political offenders."

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LAW INTELLIGENCE.

JUDGES' CHAMBERS, Sergeant's Inn, March 25.
(Before Mr. Baron PARKE.)
GOUGE( V. ROSS.

The defendant, connected with the Heir at Law
Society, obtained a summons calling on the plaintiff; his
detaining creditor, to show cause why he should not be
discharged out of the custody of the Sheriffs of Middle-
sex, having been taken in execution when he was pri-
vileged from arrest.
It appeared that the defendant was heard in the Insol-
vent Debtors' Court on Wednesday, and his petition was
dismissed. After he had left the court he was arrested
by one of the opposing creditors, and he now applied for
his discharge, on the plea that ho was returning home
from attending the court, and was privileged from being
arrested.

On the part of the defendant, a clerk from the office
of his attorney (Mr. Buchanan) asked his Lordship to
make an order for the discharge of the defendant. An
affidavit wus put in evidence, made by the defendant, in
which he merely set forth his application to the Insol-
vent Debtors' Court, and that he was arrested outside
the court.

For the plaintiff, his solicitor (Mr. Ashley) urged that
the defendant had applied under the Protection Act, and
was therefore a voluntary appFoo.nt. When his petition
was dismissed there was an end to his case, and the pro-
tection, which was only granted to the bearing, was
thereby reversed.
His LORDSBIP was of opinion that it was an important
point. It had been raised for the first time under the
Protection Act, and he should consider the matter befot e
he gave his decision.

The summons was adjourned.

COURT OF BANKRUPTCY, March2s.
(Before Mr. Commissioner FANE.)
IN RE COOTES AND HILLARD.

These bankrupts came up for last examination. The
following is their official description 1—" Egra Jenks
Cootes and John Hillard, of Bread-street, Cheapside, of
Manchester, of Liverpool, of Leicester, of Nottingham,
and of New York, America, merchants."
Mr. Reed, who appeared as solicitor to the assignees,
prayed an adjournment, in order that he might examine
more minutely the extremely voluminous Recounts which
had; been prepared—the balance-sheet alone extended
over 120 folios.

The COMMISSIONER adjourned the case to the 7th of
April, fixed the audit for the Ist of May, and the divi-
dend for the 3d.

The following are the main figures of the balance-
sheet prepared by Mr. G. Butler, accountant, Pancras-
lane. It commences cm the Ist of September, 1844, and
terminates at the date of the fiat, on the 27th of De-
cember, 1847: _ _ _

lir.-Creditors unsecured, 45,2641. 3s. sd. ; holding
security, 27,9931. I Is. 2d. Total, 73,2571. 14s. 7d.
Cr.-Assets in England-cash and bills, 7,3431. 2s.
4d.; good debts, 1,3131. 103. I Id.; doubtful, 2,5021. 10s.
Id.; property in the hands of English creditors, 23,082/.
6s. 10d. Total, 34,141/. 10s. 2d.
American Claims.-Debtor- Creditors unsecured,
16,689/. 4s. 3d.; holding security, 42,993 L 55.; profits,
25,406/ 12s. 7.; capital 14,7171. 12s. 9d. Grand total
of English and American claims, 134,6601. 7s. 7d.
Cr.-Assets in American cash and bills, 6,204/. 14s.
7d.; good debts, 3,852!. 9s. I Id.; doubtful, 831. 4s. 7d.•
property in the hands of American creditori, 14,9611
16s. 7d.; business expenses, 15,7961. 12s. 7d.; losses
164,7781. 11s. id.; amount drawn out by firm, 4,981/.
17s. 2d. Grand total of English and American assets,
134,660!. 7s. 7d.
In addition to the above, when the bankrupts sus-
pended payments, their liabilities were 64,3311., which
have since nearly all run out.

ADJOURNMENT SINE DIE-IN THE MATTER OF H.
SHELDON.

The ComnassioNEß observed that in this case the ac-
counts had been evidently manufactured for the purpose
of deceiving the creditors and the Court, a practice
which be regretted to say was of but too common an
occurrence in these courts. There were no proper books
kept, no assets for the creditors, and he would adjourn
the last examination sine die.

(Before Mr. Commissioner GoULBURN.)
RE A. C. U. ORDISBY.

This bankrupt had been a lady of fashion, keeping
several extensive establishments at the west end of the
town, but latterly had embarked in the business of a
butcher at Hackney.
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Her debts did not exceed 7501., and it may be remem-
bered a subdivision court was held, in order to ascertain
if she had concealed a quantity of plate, jewels, &c., and
whether a roll of papers ostentatiously displayed by her
at the Haymarket Theatre to a friend, was Bank of
England notes, as declared by her at the time, or flash
notes, as she had subsequertly asserted.
The Subdivision Court was of opinion that there was
not sufficient evidence to commit the bankrupt to New-
gate, and she now came up from the Queen's Bench
prison to pass her last. examination. She denied that
she was in the receipt of an annuity from a gentle.
man, which was paid at Coutts's Bank, and as it ap-
peared that the accounts she had produced were the
beat she could render, the. Court passed her examina-
tion, reserving the question of her conduct as a trader
till she applied for her certificate.