The Sun.
London, England, 1846-01-31 00:00:00

FREE TRADE INVESTMENT
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ASSOCIATION.
\, -' • - ; e-- e Apublic meeting of the Association, for the purpose of having
• le . ..,'Tr the principles and the advantages of the society explained,
__ s -A 'bias held, at seven o'clock on Thursday evening, at the London
Mechanics' Institution, Southampton-buildings, Holborn.
se et resent—Colonel Thompson, George Thompson, Dee.;
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. 1 ,Richard Potter. Esq.; Sidney Smith, Esq., and several other
gentlemen.
...e4_ _ ,- On the motion of Mr. S. Satins,
7ets:' See e ''-' R. POTTER, Esq.. was called to the chair, who, having
e, eeee
_- ;taken it, said that the best way of introducing the object for
a,e_est,' se
,which they had met would be by calling on Mr. Sidney
.rte smith to read the prospectus, and to explain the principles
and nature of the Association.
Mr. Selena on coming forward, said, as it was a meet-
ing necessarily for business, he thought it best to
enter upon business at once. There were one or two
great social objects which in a state of society highly ad-
vanced in civilisation, it became most impotent to
introduce and cultivate, as far as it was possible. The first
was, that in a dense population habits of frugality ought to
be formed, and the means and the opportunity given of
turning their savings to some important account. The
second arose out of the condition of modern society, very
• • different as that was from what had existed in ancient times.
Civilis ition was not now what it had been in great states.
Tn. greatest of these consisted of only one or two cities, with
a comparatively small population ; and a single town, in
some instances, constituted an empire. But they had a
large surrounding territory at the saute time that the popu-
lation to occupy and cultivate it was but small. Hence
t hey head of the distribution uflands which was made to the
Itoman se'diers, and of the parcels of territory which were
pesssssed by the citizens of Athens. That circumstance
aifectee them beneficially. Their having a part of the real
property of the country in their possession created in them
an interest in the well-being and the prosperity, of the state,
and in the protection of the peace and the institutions oft he
country. Since those days things were greatly altered--in-
stead of four or five millions, the subjects of as empire were
now become 40 or 50 millions, and instead of possessions
land, the vast maj • of the subjects were found
those things wh• Idesirable
for necessary and most
for them. hay . eow the land was monopolisedbyn
ansmall
minoritverand the mass of the people had no interest, pro-
perty, in the soil of the country.—(Great cheering.) It was
the necessary consequence of this, that they had proportionably
a less interest in the country's well-being and prosperity, in
protecting her institutions, or in advancing the civilisation
411111/P and the social happiness of the community, than they would
have had under a system more just and equitable, which
gave the. subject part in the property to be protected and
improved. Lat them take, for instance, France. They
fund there, eirevious to the first revolution, the land mo-
nopolised' by a very few—the nobles in uncontrolled posses-
sion of the whole—the people without any interest in the
institutions of the country, and with nothing to protect—
and they found that the revolution which followed was one
of the bloodiest which ever desolated any country. The
cause of the-clignicteeof that revolution was discovernst to
be that the, people had no property at stake. The
first thine they did was to abolish the laws of primogeniture
and entail.—(Cheers.) What had been the effect of that?
In the course of forty years the land in France, from being
possessed by three hundred thousand, passed into
the hands of from five to six millions; there was hardly
a father of a family there without a property in
acres. The second revolution showed the effect of those
e altered circumstances on the popular mind. Property
was then respected, human life was sacred, not a drop of
blood was spilt, the judges never stopped from giving their
awards, no effect was produced on the country except the
change in the dynasty, by which the whole was conducted.—
(Cheers.) This exhibits to demonstration the advantages
issuing from the people having a property in the
soil. England is beheld France.—(Cries of " Hear,
hear.") John Bull had a very bad custom of
despising " Johnnie Macraw"—(Laughter)—as he called
the Frenchman, but he had to learn from him a sound lesson.
Out of thirty-four millions of inhabitants, there were six
millions of proprietors, who tilled the land with their own
hands, and ate the bread of industry; and who, while they
were concerned in providing for the comfort of their fami-
lies, felt themsetves bound up with the best inte-
rests of society at large. The contrast which
Britain presented to what was broad and striking. There
were 216,000 inhabitants to the square mile, and in souse
cases one proprietor owned the whole county.—(Hear, hear.)
Indeed forty-nine fiftieths of the people were without pro-
perty in the soil, and therefore without interest in the pro-
tection of the country. Yet, this being the case, such was
the law, as that had been elected by the Reform
Bill even, that there could be influence possessed over
the representation, or the education, or the legislation of
the country, but by the possession of so many bricks.—
(Shaine.) By the means which the Association proposed to
tine, they hoped to make a great increase in the electoral
votes, such an increase in the borough and county votes
as would sweep altogether the aristocracy from the
tece of the country.—(flear, hear.) They could not
promise to the public the abolition of the laws of promo-
geniture or entail, but the Association offers results perhaps
equally good, and by means which he would proceed to ex-
peel,. Ile said, seine might be astonished, when first they
meellle.l with property, to hear that a house might
be gut at a fifteen years' purchase ; and others
might say that that would be no great advan-
tage, unle,s a tenant could be insured; eor if the.
putchaee were of laud they could turn up the soil and make
aometlid gofit in the atise .ce of a tenant. The way to in-
sure a tenancy was fur every one to become his own tenant,
besides the gins tilvantage escaped of paying an exurbitaiit
rent to another landlord. Why, a man went un paying at
the rate of 201. a year, which would amount to
2 )01. a year, and af er that time he must go
on still pa} ing the same amount of rent a- ellear,
hear)—whereas he meant to propose a scheme by which
the man might pay the 2001. down at once, and the !
house would become his own, leaving him to pay back the '
sum borrowed in any way which would be as easy as paying
the rent he was wont to give to the landlord. He
cntl•ssed he was sceptical of the trustworthiness of
the system which proposed this, when it was first
mentioned to him, bas., after subjecting the whale
to the most vigorous test of arithmetic, and having had the
teetimony of others in favour of it, who with experience
jeiried acumen, he was satisfied that it was a Workable
scheme, which might be safely commended to the public.
After some further remarks, Mr. Smith said there had been
delivered that day in the Common Pleas a very re-
markable judgment intimately affecting the course of the
League,—(Loud cries of " Hear hear.") It bore upon
the Splitting Act, an Act under which it was contended that
the splitting of property into 4es. freeholds, in order to give a
vote, was il.egal. There was some fear that the League might
after all be out-generalled. In delivering his judgment, Chief
Justice Tindal declared that the course pursued by the
League was perfectly legal—(Great cheering)—that he con-
ceived that course in accordance with the Reform Bill, which
intended that the franchise should be extended as fares possible
to the people, and that he could not conceive anything more
commendable than the purchase of property in order to have
a voice in the affairs of the country.—(Cheers.) Mr. Smith
said that the calculation on which the Association was
foanded was, that by the end of ten, or say at the out-ide
twelve years, every person paying 10s. per month would realise
1e01.—( Hear, hear.) Many aught be able to do so out of
the odd sixpences which they spent no one knew how. The
inducement offered by the Association to lenders, as those
might be called, was beyond that held out by savings'
banks, which only gave 3 1-3 per cent., they gave
five per cent. As to borrowers, he said one ad-
vantage offered was, that the sum might be
paid back by small icstalments. If a man
wished to borrow 60!., he might take a share for 60/. ; lie
would, in that case, pay ten shillings a mouth towards liqui-
dating the principal, and four shillings additional fur interest.
After mentioning these particulars, Mr. Smite proceeded to
speak on the advantages which were thus offered, and espe-
cially to those who wished to benefit their country by the
riddance of great evils. He then resumed his seat amid great
sheeting.
'The Citemereet begged just to say, before calling
tin Mr. Thompson, that in societies analogous to
the Free-trade Investment Association, such as friendly
societies, Odd Fellows' clubs, &c., there was great
uncertainty whether their affairs were in trustworthy WHITEHALL, DEC. 24,
The Right lion. Sir Nicolas Convngham Tindal, Knt. Lord
hands—a difficulty which was very unlikely to
impede any from joining that Association, where ) Chief Justice of her Majesty's Collie of Common Pleas, has
leading men were so well known to the country. theH appointed John Joseph Wise, of Ashbourne, in the couuty of
Derby, Gent., to be one of the Perpetual Commissionere for
quotee also from a book recently given to the world
by Mr. Neeeon, bearing on such societies, in which hew ohrad. taking the acknowledgments of deed to be executed by mar•
rigid women, under the Act passed for the abolition of fines
proved, trans statistics 3 collected by the Statistical
England, nom the l.riendly societies in Scotland, Societythat these and recoveries, and for the substitution of more simple modes
of assurance, in and for the county of Derby.
societies were unlikely to last twenty e ears, for by that timee
these who had formed them would have become old, and the WHITEHALL, JAN. 21.
The Lord. Chancellor has appointed William Philips, of
money paid in would not be sufficient to meet the expeedi- Helineley, in the county of York, Gent., to be a Master
tune which would then be necessary.
Extraordinary in the High Court of Chancery
eanBANKRUPTSd bottle t
n.
Ellis, win
The CHAIRMAN then called upon
erchant, Great Saint
, Thomas Elli
Mr. GEORqE Titosu'soN, who said he was thankful that
in that meeting, and in future meetings connected with the Helens, to surrender. Feb. 10, at half-past twelve, and March
affaire of that Society, he would not be exclude t, or rather 13, at twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Belcher, official
pree-eulae from addressing many vireo would i,ave a seare assignee; Starling, Sackvilliestreet, Piccadilly.
in :hi, „leer, ~f the t.- wary uy !he exteosion or the fr iiichise, Alfred Oakley, ssedsman, Southampton, Feb. 10, at
nu ili a - ,e,e.l- e. v.-, , my mmim,:orruaity al A ir. eoeg twelve, and March 17, at half-past eleven, at the Court of
teem ee r.•r.•, ~; ,;,f.-tea,.. w,,,,:15 ;old ;,-,i them 11l
to C,f?..l't teem- Hatikruptcse Graham, offieial assignee,, Coleman-street;
selves .- ;t:, . at S. i ty. Elm -re ere of -,r !.esi,es poi:- ilili and Matthews, Bury-court, St. Mary-axe.
ticet ineueeeients fel. ei .:lug in A ..I.,o4!;iitiO. .Se man ceule William Curtis, builder, Croydon, Feb. 10, at twelve, and
coonec . oitti,e.li wiz it :, trim mut b .ilia abe ter man for so M irch 17, at eleven, at tee Court of Bankruptcy. Graham,
doiug, tor ,ie eeeli - to .1 pe-i ete aeoet itaisits to temper- official assignee, Coleman-street; Phillips sine Son, Laurence
mice volt e. lie ,_ it - . .e. ,e v seoue : di .cmycer b 1 association es iuntney-lane.
What they had te en 1011,T; in disco-:ering—t tie might of Frederick John Ablett (otherwise Frederick Ablett) and
social pewe -. lc -. es that winch had cons' ructed their rail- William Henry Ablett (otherwise William Ablett), drapers,
ways-which tied raised their clubs—which, in eminexion High Holborn, Feb. 10, at eleven, and March 6, at twelve,
with moral and pecummi,iry power, seemed almost omnipotent. at the Court of Bankruptcy. Johnson, official assignee, Be-
e-(blear, hear.) For himself, he was induced to 'inn that singhall-street ; flensman, Basing-lane.
Association by ether ceneiderations. He had longg wished Joseph Nail, builder, John-street, Tottenham-court-road,
the exteileion of the feanchi e—he had pun s sympathised with Feb. 11, at half-past two, and March 11, at two, at the Court
hie unenfrauchisee bra: hren—but ha never y
with of Bankruptcy. Bell, official assignee, Coleman•street-huild-
those who feared that power when it should be put into the inks; Thrupp, Winchester-buildings, Broad-street.
}Janda of the peopletl at large. They had discovered the Benjamin Thompson, innkeeper, Aldeburg, Suffolk, Feb.
means be whii
position in society I.ey 11,11ight lift their friends to their true 7 and March 13, at two, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Fol-
themselves tied in pea n the way to do so was by putting lett, official assignee, Sambrook-court, Besinehall-street ;
be made better iiienession of the right. Thereby they would Wright, Smith, and Co., Golden Square, Palmer, Norwich.
have no one to thank abnudt for the advantage they would Sydney Pilling and Robert Green Watson, wine and spirit
the right, and the pousitelo:ash2-
ct.ehemselves—the attainment of merchants, Gateshead, Feb. 13, and March 17, at one, at the
rue of their own ace would gain would be in vir- Newcastle-upon-Tyne District Court. Wakley, official
free-trader;nee they wets a free-
trade Association ; there was noassignee, Newcastle-upon-Tyne; Harle, Newcastle-upon-
be published through all *he world.toitguise it—it might Tyne; Chisholme, Hall, and Gibson, Lincoln's Inn- fields.
sociation of thirty, or forty, or fifty tho (eivished for an as- William Fordyce, bookseller, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Feb.
rity of whom, by having availed themselvesrnens the mejo- 5 and March 24, at twelve, at the Newcastle-upon-Tyne
ciety, would become part and parcel of the
of that so- District Court. Wakley, official assignee, Newcastle-upon-
have a share in sending a representative to thoeunCt:
Ye and Tyne; Plumptre, Temple,; Cram, Newcastle-upon-Tyne.
House of Parliament. Heap dte as a free-trader. ler:mons George Watson, bookseller, Gateshead, Durham, Feb. 5, been dreaming, or were ty dreamin? Was it what. they and March 24, at one, at the Newcastle District Court.
had been hearing merely, within the last few at the •
3 Baker, official •
of . days, or was it assignee, Newcastle-upon-Tyne; Plumptre, matter history, that Sir Robert Peel had come down Temple; Cram, Newcastle-upon-Tyne.
the House of Commons, and, in a epeech of three hours and Aaron Shipton, clothier, Pitchconsbe, Gloucestershire,
twenty minutes' length, had proposed a measure in re; .t i Feb. 9, at twelve, and March 16.. at eleven, at the Bristol
to free trade? He did not know whether his Honourial District Court. Hutton, official assignee, Bristol; Paris,
Friend (Colonel Thompson) believed it to be true. He (Mr. Stroud, Gloucestershire.
G. Thompson) believed i', and he believed what he had heard F Robert Penhey, jun. grocer, Stonehouse, Devonshire,
that day, that the Tories had laid their heads together to I eb. 10 and March 11', at eleven, at the Exeter Dig-
' the immediate and total repeal of the corn-lases, rather i trrt Court. Hirtzel, official assignee, Exeter; L •
elm, avers, jun.,
P emouth • Drake, than that the Anti-Corn-law Legge should go on crest- i thews_ , Exeter; Pontifex and Co., St. An-
' tes dispossessing a Noble Lord here and an Earl ' ' Holborn.
theta court,
mg vo ~
e hn Peter James, draper, Truro, Cornwall, Feb.
there, hereditary representatives .
—rather than that
March 11,10, and
tem of dispossession and poesession should at eleven, at the Exeter Distric C
t , ourt. Herne- '
system
eve u also what the
go or, man, official ignee, Exet S
er ; oles and rurner, Alder-
aed they should be asked to ge p y manbury ; Stogdon, Exeter.
valued above all—their political power.—(Cheers and John Brown, joiner, Liverpool Feb 13 and M h
was
told that day that a Gallant Duke— eleven, at the Liverpool D. te• 'Co • arc
.e, at
laughter.) lie
..
.is .ict urt. Turner, official as
Li adhesion to the repeal
Co, Liver ol • N
(Hear, hear)—who had gir en
_in t s . ~ , po , ethersole, New Inn, London; Owen and
rs like a soldier, to do Co , Liverpool.
of the corn-laws, but WHO 1, olun te !
' ereiem found himself reduced to this DIVIDENDS DECLARED.
single duty to his eov e, ,
repeal of the corn-laws when I J. H. Limes, butcher, Richmond, et- • single argument in favour of a
he Marquis, to ' Bd. in the pound, any Saturday, at the office • • -
he laid hold of this Nimble Duke and t Noble
~ .
of Mr,
solicit their votes.—(Hear, hear, anti laughter.) •It is Green, Aldermenbury.
have •d ' W. B 1• a min , ur.eigh. scrivener, Haverhill, Suffolk—first div. of
better, said the Duke, to be wise in time, if you.
h another i 2,e in the pound, Jan. 27, at the office of Mr. Belcher,
to keep Marlborough, or if you wish to retain such another .
en' de- King's r.ns yar ,Coleman-street. ,
A , - d
county;
for the people wi I grow in power and in t
J. Tinson, innkeeper, Farrindon, Berkshire—first div of
mends, and they wi 1 not be satisfied with the repeal of the I
Jan. 27, at the office of Mr. Belcher, • •
corn-laws."—(Great lauhter and cheers.) Hence they had ' 3 e in the pound, r, King's
the phenomeron of Hobert Peel becoming 1 -trader• Arms-yard, Moorgate street.
lie (Hr.
Thompson
n Sir a ree •
Aldgate—first and final div. of 88. in the
venerable book, laneable. not ashamed
I draper,
to say he read a E. 3an
Saturday, at the office of Mr. Green, Alder-
day the history
o_ _ He was reading in it the other : pound, any
of Moab,wh _t_lsrael while they were on the borders ' maubury.
Cardiff—final div. of 18. 7ed. in the
the people. 1.1.15c,,atti,, the King. sent fir Balsam to curse l J. Y. Betts, grocer,
already declared), any Monday, at
the agricultural atosibitneot help
thinking of Sir R. Peel and pound (in addition to 6s. ,
artisans, like the Israelile.T,tr glq The manufacturers and the office of Mr. Miller, Bristol.
—second dive of a ld. in the
mcre was ,therefore, a
meetingof the elders
mighty in the lands Lewis,mercer, Bristol
see elders and eh • the f 31;. ACralllete Prietol?
:et laell peund, any MonUay, at office ,

among the Moabites--(Laughter)—and they sent to a man,
a prophet, they sent money by the hands ef their servants,
and brought him to come and curse the people. The pro-
phet consented, and came up on the agricultural ass—
( Laughter)—but the genius of free trade, the guardian of,
the people, met him in his course. He stood up to curse the
people in 184-2, but le! he turned and blessed them with the
tariff.—(Laughter.) The elders were wroth with him, but
bade him try again; he tried again, but. when he looked on
the people in their camp, on their Cobdens and their Brights,
lot he blessed them a second time. The Moabites were very
wroth with him, but hired him vet to curse the people, and
lo ! he stood up and he blessed them altogether, and prophesied
of their glory, how the Moabites should be destroyed, while
the people should grow and become great in the whole earth.
—(Cheers and laughter.) But for associated exertions, he
said, they would not have been there that night congratu-
lating themselves on the issue to which things had been
brought, nor would they have seen Sir Robert Peel come
down and capitulate as in the gate ; he had, like Lot
at the gate of Sodom, prayed unfortunately that
one small city might be spared him. But he (Mr.
Thompson) hoped for the sudden sweeping away of this
last vestige of these laws, if only they were so true to them-
selves as seek this object by association. m
Gultr
The ting was then addressed by Col. Tfforsox and
Mr. BS, from Aylesbury.
Mr. SYDNEY S3ISH then read the following estimate to
the meeting, in order to give them an idea of the working
of that system which had been contrived :
Suppose a mechanic occupy a house of four rooms, the
rent being 7s. 6d. per week. He can purchase the lease for
65 veers for 1051. Ground rent, 40a a year. Insurance.
43..6(1. Parochial taxes, 21. 12s.

DIVIDENDS.
At the Court of Bankruptcy, Basinghall-street.
B. Baldwin, warehouseman, Liverpool, Feb. 21, at el van
—R. Stockley, upholsterer, Ramsgate, Feb. 20, at one—A.
Lett, timber merchant, Lett's- wharf, Commercial-road, Lam
beth, Feb. 20, at eleven—W. Cheesman, J. Dodson, and
W. 0. Cheesman, chinamen, Brighton, Feb. 20, at ha
past one.

In the Country.
W. I. Newman, horse dealer, Norton, Gloucestershire,
Feb. 23, at eleven, at the Bristol District Court—C. Rayner,
grocer, Blackburn, Feb. 20, at twelve, at the Manchester
District Court.
CERTIFICATES to be granted, unless cause be shown to
the contrary, on the day herein mentioned.
T. Miller, oilman, Mansell-street, Goodman's-fields, Feb.
21—G. H. Bush, upholsterer, Edgware-road, Feb. 20—T.
Ratnett, tailor, Cambridge, Feb. 21--W. Gill, poulterer,
Leadenhall-market, Feb 24—W. Brooke, ale-housekeeper,
Snow-hill, Feb. 24—H. Malpas, victualler, Bath, Feb. 27
J. Rothschild, watch maker, Bristol, Feb. 26—J. Reynolds,
cowkeeper, Fazakerley, Lancashire, Feb. 24—J. Herdman and
E. Herdman, jun., millers, Congleton, Cheshire, Feb. 24
Lenden, sen., and W. Lenden, jun., curriers, Exeter, Feb.
24—C. Hyde, apothecary, Loughborough, Feb. 2I—W. El-
lary, ironibunder, Kidderminster, Feb. 24—G. Smith, bill-
broker, Manchester Feb. 23—H. J. Owen, surgeon, Made-
ley, Shropshire, Feb 23—W. M. Hansard, florist, Park-rind,
Holloway, Feb. 20—G. Chennell, carpenter, Capel, Surrey,
Feb. 20—T. Arnold, veterinary surgeon, Shropshire, Feb. 20
—T. Biggs, woollendraper, Bath, Feb. 20—S. Manning, stone
mason, Newman-street, Oxford street, Feb. 20—D. Free
schlen and S. Price, tailors, Dover-street, Piccadilly, F. b.
20—E. Meredith, linendr -per, Liverpool, Feb. 20—E. W.
Wyon, bronze manufacturer, Gower street, Bedford-square,
Feb. Z:—J. Lilly, farmer, Brinepitts, Worce,tershire, Feb.2o.
PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED.
E. Cooper and J. Edwards, grocer:, Clifton—F. Allen and
T. B. Brown, commission agents, Handsworth, Staffcrdshite
—J. Seabrook and R. S. Williams, licensed victuallers,
Commercial-road, St. George's—H. F. Todd and J. C. .101-al-
ston, Barge-yard, Bucklersbury—J. Wainwright, J. Garth -
waite, and W. Bradley, engravers to calico printers, Church,
Lancashire (so far as regards J. Garthwaite)—J. Prance ;:nd
I'. Hicks, jun., cabinet makers, Braintree, Essex—J. Owens
and N. NV. Greene, attorneys, Newtown, Montgomeryshire
—N. Smallpage and W. W. Botterill, stockl,rokers, Burnlry,
Lancashire—T. G. and J. Phillpotts, solicitors, Newport,
Monmouthshire—J. A. Watson and J. Hincks, wine mer-
chants, Loughborough, Leicestershire—J. and R. Dranstield,
cloth manufacturers, Kirkbeaton, Yorkshire—E. Knight, E.
Hawker, and C. Knight—G. Wilkins and W. Honey-
combe, masons, Bristol—J. Conner and T. H. Cohen, book-
sellers' Liverpool—l. and N. Helsdon, zinc workers, Lisson-
grove North, Marylebone—R. Taylor and W. Collier, makers
of cotton rovings, Ashton-under-Lyne, Lancashire—:l. West-
field and S. P. Ball, auctioneers, High Wycombe—G. W.
Cotton, D. H. Fry, and H. 0. C. De Crespigny (so far as
regards H. 0. C. De Crespigny)—lV. Tattersall, H. Tat-
tersall, and D. Tattersall, woollen manufactuacturers, New-
curch, Lancashire (so far as regards W. Tattersall)—lt.
Lambert and J. W. Newton, dresalters, Liverpool—J.
Wright and J. Duffield, tailors, Little Hampton, Sussex—
A. J. Da Costa and J. C. Da Costa, rice cleaners, Liverpool
—T. Whitehead and W. W. Martin, saddlers, Liverpool—
J. Douglas and T. Worsey, confectioners, Burton-upon Trent
—J. Downing and W. Palser, drapers, Bilston, Staffordshire
—D. H. Haigh and T. Cane, woollen merchants, Leeds.
SCOTCH SEQUESTRATIONS.
John Morrison, painter, Perth, Feb. 2 and Feb. 24, at one,
at the house of Mr. Constable, Perth.
J. Badenoch, junior, merchant, Aberdeen, Feb. 4 and
March 4 at ten, at the chambers of G. Allen, Esq., Aberdeen.
F. and H. Bass, merchants, Glasgow, Feb. 3 and Feb. 24,
at twelve, at the chambers of Messrs. Baird and Muirhead,
Glasgow.

Purchase 1% shares at 53 premium, proceeds £ll7 5 0
He pays entrance fees 0 5 0
Surveyor's ditto 1 1 0
' -

Lease.

6 0 0

Mortgage deed - 6 0 0
Purchase of lease - 105 0 0

£llB 6 0 being a deficiency of 21s.
Payments to the Society monthly :
Subscription lOs 14s ner share.
Redemption 4s. ' -
For 114 shares, monthly payrncnt .£1 4 6
That is, for one year -
Ground rent
Insurance
Taxes •


PRICE OF SUGAR.
Th• average price of Brown or Muscovado Sugar, the
produce of the British possessions in America, computed
from the returns made in the week ending Jan. 27, 1846,
345. lOid. per cwt.

LAW INTELLIGENCE.
COURT OF CHAINCERY, Jan. 30.

The Lord Chancellor took lunatic petitions to day.
IN THE CASE OF THE COUNTESS OF STAIR, A LUNATIC.
In this case the LORD CHANCELLOR, On the applies•
Lion of counsel, appointed Thursday next, at two o'clock,
at his house in George-street, Hanover-square, to see
the physicians, and hear their opinion of the state of
mind at the present moment of the Countess of Stair.
Our readers will recollect that a short time since the
case came before the Court upon the petition of Lady
Stair for the superseding of the commission, and the
matter was ordered to stand over in order that his
Lordship might see the physicians and the lady herself.
IN THE MATTER OF DYCE SOMBRE, A LUNATIC.
Mr. SHADWELL stated that he was instructed in the
case on behalf of Mr. Dyce Sombre, who had presented
a petition praying that the commission that had been
issued against him might be superseded, to ii!lf of his
Lordship to appoint an early dsy to hear the petition.
The LORD CHANCELLOR inquired whether Mr.
Dyce Sombre had come within the jurisdiction of the
Court?

MR. SIADWELL •aid that he had not.
The LORD CHANCELLOR—Then I shall not advanoe
the petition. From the nature of the case, you should
have given notice to the other side of your application.
The committee ought to have had notice.
Thus the matter rests at present, and the petition will
come on before the Court in the usual course.
The remainder of the morning wus occupied wi.h
hearing lunatic petitions of no gent-ral interest.

ROLES C(11 IR l, Jan. 30.
His Lord-hip sat at ten o'cl•,ck, and resumed the hear.
ing of short causes.

VICE-CHAIN CELLOR'S COURT, Jan. 30.
The Vice-Chancellor of England was occupied the
whole morning with unopposed petiti4.ns and short causes.
(Before Vice-Chancellor WIGRADI.)
His Honour heard several unopposed petitions and
short causes to-day, but there was nothing of public in-
ter'•st.
His Honour Vice-Chancellor Knight Bruce did not sit
to-day.

COUI?7' OF QUEEN'S BENCH, Jan. 29.
(Sittings in Banco.)
THE QUEEN V. GREGORY.
This was an indictment against the defendant, for a libel
on the Duke of Brunswick, importing, among other thing-,
that he had murdered Eliza Grimwood. The jury tad con-
victed the defendant.
Mr. COCKBURN now moved for a new trial, first on the
ground of the improper reception of evidence, and secondly,
on that of misdirection. The evidence improperly admitted
was the inquisition on Eliza Grimwood. As to the objec-
tion on that point, there was a case in East's Pleas of the
Crown, which showed that an inquisition ought to be taken
on parchment, and not on paper, and the inquisition on
Eliza Grimwood having been taken on paper, was rot a valid
inquisition, and ought not, therefore, to have been received
in evidence in this case. This objection was confirmed
by the 6th and 7th of Victoria, which was passed to ob-
viate objections of a formal nature to inquisitions ; andamong the instances there mentioned as those in which the
defect would vitiate the inquisition, was that of its being taken
on paper. If this objection was valid, then the paper inquisition,
being an invalid instrument, ought not to have been admitted
in evidence. It was not admissible on another ground,
' vilely, that it was a proceeding between other persons than
those concerned in this indictment, and therefore could not be
evidence for or against either of them. The other point was,
that the prosecutor was described as Charles Frederick
Augustus William Duke of Brunswick and Luneburg.
This was a wrong description; the prosecutor was
no longer Duke of Brunswick. lie was not, there-
fore, entitled to be so called. But even if that was
his proper description abroad, he ought here to be described
as an esquire. In Lord Coke's "Institute" it was stated that
the description of rank and title of a party to an indictment
should be truly stated, and if the parties were noblemen of
foreign countries, they were to be described as arnsigeri, un-
less they were knights. The prosecutor was not a reigning
sovereign, and theref,,re ought, in our courts, to have been
described as an esquire. He quoted several authorities in
support of this proposition, and contended that this descrip-
tion of the, prosecutor being bad, the indictment could nut be
sustained.

Lord DENMAN—I think that in this case there ought not
to be any rule. The indictment states what is certainly
quite unnecessary ; it states as a distinct fact that there was
a murder committed on the body of Eliza Grimwood, and
then it goes on to allege that an inquisition was held upon
the body, and a verdict of murder by some person unknown
was pronounced It is quite immaterial whether this was so
or not. The real question is, whether the libel spoke of her
as a person who had been murdered. Notwithstanding.this
unnecessary allegation, and the proof unnecessarily offered
upon this point, I think it was quite sufficient to show that
there was an inquisition held on the body of a murdered
person, called by the name of Eliza Grimwood. Mr. Carter,
the coroner, proved that he held the inquisition. He pro-
duced a paper, which would not be admissible as an in-
quisition taken by him in order to found other pro-
ceedings upon it, but which was perfectly admissible to
show that at the inquisition held under him he had noted
down what had occurred; so that supposing it had been
necessary to prove the allegation on the indictment, that there
had been such an inquisition, the evidence of Mr. Carter
would have been sufficient to establish that fact. The paper
thus produced was not made the foundation of any other
proceeding, but was a mere mode of identifying the persons
and the names mentioned at the inquest; so that the ob-
jection raised to the admissibility of the paper does not apply
here. With respect to the other part of the objection, I was
much struck by the objection when made at the trial. Lord
Coke's authority goes a great way to show that the descrip-
tion here given was an improper description ; for, from his
Institute it appears that foreign titles cannot be noticed in
English courts, and the safer way would have been to call
the prosecutor by his name, and to add the title or desig-
nation Esquire or Armiger. I own I was at first disposed
to think, that though this was merely a technical objec-
tion, it ought to be further discussed; and I should there-
fore have thought we ought to grant a rule, had it not
been for the case of the King v. Sully, which occurred
in 1799. The prisoner there was indicted for stealing cer-
tain articles, the property of Selina Victoire Baroness
Turkheim ; and the prosecutrix said that that was her
title, and not part of her proper name, and that she was re-
puted to possess, and did possess that title, in right of an
estate she had received from her father. The Court said,
that all that the law required was certainty.' to a common in-
tent, and, therefore, held her description in the indictment
sufficient. There the mere title of the party appeared, and
yet the Court held that that was sufficient, for she was con-
stantly known by the title given her in the indictment. The
same circumstances exist here. The prosecutor is not a
reigning prince, and there is another person who is the reign-
ing prince, still he is constantly known by this description,
and the case I have referred to seems to me a direct autho-
rity for saying that he has properly described himself in this
indictment. I am, therefore, of opinion that there ought to
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Mr. COCKBURN then applied for the postponement of the
case on the ground that the whole of the last term had been
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The COURT did think it reasonable, and the case was,
therefore, Ordered to stand over to next 'term.

BAIL COUR7, Jan. 30.
(Sittings in Banco before Mr. Justice Wzr.mams.)
The Souclrou-GE3TErtm, moved for a rule to show cause
why a mandamus should not issue, directed to the Lord
Bishop of Chester, commanding him to restore to a Mr.
Travis two pews, or sittings, in the parish church of Black-
j& y. He stated that the present application arose put of

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some peculiar citcumstances which had lately occurred in
the parish of Blackley. The ancestors of Mr. Travis had re-
sided in Blackley for several centuries, and as long back as
the memory could reach with regard to that parish, or as
far as documents could go, his ancestors had been in posses-
sion of two pews, and also a family vault situated under
these pews. About four or Eve years since it xas found
necessary, in consequence of the extensive decay which age
had produced in the church, to pull it down ani build a new
one In its place. The new church was built by subscription,
and also with the aid of the Church Commissioners, The
Church being completed, the Lord i3ishop of Chester ap-
pointed a commission of three clergymen to take into con.
sideration. the claims of various persons to pews and sittings,
and to allot them to such as established a good claim. Mr.
Travis appeared before these gentlemen and made his claim
in the proper form ; but nothing occurred at that time
which could induce him to suppose that his ap-
plication would be refused. The gentlemen appointed
having made their report to the bishop, Mr. Travis found,
to his great surprise, that the bishop had declined to admit
his claim. Under these circumstances he was compelled to
make the present appli: ation in order to obtain the restitu-
tion of his right. There was only one authority which he
could at present cite, and that was the Act 59th Geo. 111.,
cap. 134, sec. 40, which provided that all persons who were
possessed of sittings or pews in an old church, should, in
case of a new church being built, have their pews or sittings
in positions as nearly similar as possible to those of the
former pews. The title of the present applicant was clearly
made out, and therefore applied tbr a mandamus.
Mr. Justice WiLuasts—Has he no other remedy?
The SoLicrrox-GENEttak—No, my Lore ; if he proceeded
in an Ecclesiastical Court it would be objected that the right
was a right at common law, and should therefore be decided
in another court. A rule to show cause why a mandamus
should not issue is his only course.—Rule granted.

Thames-street, was fined in the full penalty of 1501., for not
renewing his

S. B. Simmons, of the Rising Stm,Castle-street, Long-acre,
was also fined for a similar offence in the penalty of 100/.
Henry Gander (place of residence not stated), fined 1001
for a like offence.
A considerable number of licensed victuallers were fined in
small penalties for similar offences.

COURT OF EXCHEQUEB, Jan. 30.
(Sittings in Banco.)
EX-PARTS THE PA NISH oF BRIDGEWATER.
The plaintiff in this suit, who was the rector of the
parish of Bridgewater, claimed certain tithes on lands in
his parish, which the landowners disputed, and the
question was referred to the Tithe Commissioners, who
made an award in favour of the plaintiff, with which
the defendants were.dissatisfied, and the rector brought
an action at law against them under the Tithe Commu-
tation Act. He succeeded in his action, and the ord)
question now in dispute was, as to who should pay the
costs of the action at law.

Mr. CROWDER now moved this Court for an order
calling on the defendants to pay the costs, as taxed by
the proper officer, on the general ground that the losing
party in all suits at law ought, and invariably did, pay
the costs of the successful party.
Mr. M. SMITH opposed the motion, and said that, in
oases of this nature, the Court of Exchequer had the
discretionary power of ordering or refusing the costs
action brought under the Tithe Commutation Act.
The CounT ruled that the costs abided the remit of
the action, and therefore the defendants ought to pay
them.

BANKRUPTCY COU to'T, Jan. 29.
(Before Mr. Commissioner FANE.)
IMPORTANT JUDGMENT.—IN RE THOMPSON,
The Learned COMMISSIONER said, this is a case ie which
i have a painful duty to perform, that of refusing a certiff
sate to an attorney. I did not give my decision at the hear-
mg, because I wished to examine the proceedings, to see
whether there was anything in the general complexion of
i-te case which could justify me in taking a more lenient
course. I le.ye found nothing. Mr. Thompson took the
benefit of the Insolvent Debtors' Act in 1838, and though
pressed, he could not venture to state that his estate paid
anything in the pound. lie now owes 8541. to unsecured cre-
di:ors, and 462/. to creditors having some security; his estate
on this occasion will just pay one farthing in the pound.
During his examination before me, he showed himself utterly
regardless of the sacred obligation of an oath. It is not,
however, on these general reasons that I found my decision.
I found it principally on his conduct to Mr. Pell, of North-
ampton. Mr. Pell was employed by three clients to sue
Thompson for sums which, eith the costs, amounted to
82/. 10s. ; upon which Thompson requested Mr. Pell to
enable him to get rid of these demands by advancing him the
821. 10s. on the security of some cottages and property which
he alleged he had bought of one Loke. The deeds of con-
veyance from Loke to him, dated the 21st of August, 1844.
were produced, and no other title-deeds, the excuse fer their
non-production being that they had been lost or stolen from
laike many years before. Mr. Pell required evidence of this;
upon which Thompson produced salamis affirmations from
Loke and two other persons, stating that the deeds had been
stolen, and stating such other facts as were necessary to make
out Loke's title. These affirmations were dated the 18th and
21st of September, 1844, arid producing their natural effect,
induced Pell to advance the 821. 10s. on the security of a
mortgage deed, dated the 17th of October following. Now,
on the 7th of October, only ten days before the mortgage
was executed, Luke had a tended before the magistrates at
iVellingborough to procure their assistance, under a late Act
of Parliament, in ejecting one Wyman from part of the
Trendies comprised in the mortgage deed Wyman had
attended with his solicitor, a Mr. Sharman, of Bed-
ford, and had shown to the satisfaction of the magis-
trates that he claimed a right to the property, and
the magistrates, of course, had declined to inter-
fere. Thompson was present, apparently as a specta-
tor, though, if the deed of the 21st of August were riot a
laitious deed, got up for some fraudulent purpose, he, ac-
ordiug to his own aecount, ought to have been, not a
mere spectator, but the principal actor. Mr. Sharman con-
versed with Thompson after the business was over, arid told
him that Luke appeared to be acting under a delusion, for
that he had executed a deed to Wyman's grandfather,
which he (Sharman) held with the title deeds for a client
of his, who claimed as mortgagee under Wyman, and he
offered to show Thompson the deeds. Thompson, however,
never call d upon Sharman, but ten days after obtained
Pell's 82/. 10s. on the security of the property in ques-
thi, without saying one word to Pell about the claim by
Wyman. Thompson, after much fencing with my ques-
tions, was obliged to admit, not only that he was present
and had heard what passed, but that he bad insisted on
Luke, an old man almost in his dotage, taking the proceed-
ings he had before the magistrates for his (Thompson's)
benefit, so that his afterwards obtaining Mr. Pell's money
was a plain cheat. It was suggested by his solicitor (Mr.
Lawrence) that he had been deceived by Luke. My own
belief is that he had never bought the property of Loke at
all ; he could produce no evidence of any payment to Luke,
and his story and Loke's were utterly inconsistent with each
other. I believe that the deed of the 21st of August was
fabricated originally to deceive a client of Mr. Pell's; but
be that as it may, even if Thompson was originally de-
ceived, his obtaining the money of Pell on the 17th of
October, without disclosing that his title was disputed, was
a gross fraud. Under these circumstances, lam compelled
to refuse Thompson his certificate altogether. The office of
attorney is an offic, unavoidably of great trust and confi-
dence; and if a solicitor is a dishonest man lie can effect
incalculable mischief, and the public have, as I conceive,
a right to require that no man once proved in a court of
justice to have been guilty of an act of plain dishonesty
should be enabled by public authority again to exercise such
an office.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
(THURSDAY.)
GUILDHALL.

Messrs. Charles Stuart and Co., milliners, in Herbert-
street, were summoned before Sir C. Marshall, for using a
cart within the City of London on which the christian name
and surname, and place of abode of the owner, were not. con-
spicuously painted on the off side, on the 16th of January inst.
Elijah West, a City toll-collector, said the defendants were
a firm out of about twenty persons who were evading the
City toll, by neglecting to paint their names on the off side
of their nondescript vehicles, and thus preventing the col -
lectors from ascertaining whether they were persons engaged
in trade, and whether their names were to be found on the
book of freemen of London.
Mr. Stuart said he had no view of the sort. He consi-
dered be was not driving a vehicle within the description of
the Act, but that his chaise was as much exempt from the
obligation to have his name and address painted on it as any
gentleman's gig or carriage. He paid duty for it as a chaise,
and produced his receipt.
Sir C. MARSHALL asked, if he used it only for pleasure ?
Mr. Stuart replied, he no doubt used it for pleasure some-
times, and for business at others. It was a neat chaise-cart
or chaise, with an extended box behind the seat for holding
goods, such as were used by commercial travellers.
West said, if a person would offer Government duty for
a carriage, calling a waggon a carriage, the money would,
no doubt be taken, but that would not make the waggon
a carriage. The Act said, that for preventing the misbe-
haviour of drivers, and for the better discovery of offenders,
the owner of every waggon, wain, cart, car, or dray, or other
such carriage," that is, carriage used to convey goods,
shall, if used within five miles of the Post-office, have painted
thereon, &c.
Sir C. MARSHALL asked if lie meant to say a gentleman
dare not carry goods in his gig or carriage? West said
he certainly did not mean to say that. He only meant
that the distinction between carriages and carts was whe-
ther they were used by tradesmen for purposes of business
and the carriage of goods, or by other persons for purposes of
pleasure.
Sir C. MARSHALL said the defendant must feel obliged to
the toll-man for the information that he was paying duty
for a vehicle not liable to it. He agreed with the complainant,
that if it were used to carry goods about the town, and its
form indicated that it was used for that purpose, it was a
chaise-cart.

The complainant said he did not press for a penalty. He
only wished the law to be obeyed for the future.
The defendant said his chaise was at the door. He would
drive it before the window that the alderman might see it.
The defendant did so. It appeared to be a traveller's chaise•
cart on two wheels, having a box fur the millinery goods be-
hind the seat, four feet long and equally wide, and above two
feet in height.
The defendant, promising to have his name painted on it
forthwith, was discharged on paying the costs.
leLB01?()UGH-STREET.
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IN RE EVIL]; AND DOUGLAS.
The bankrupts in this case carried on business as wholesale
woc.llen merchants in Vigo street, Regent-street, and this
day was appointed for the choice of assignees.
The debts and liabilities during four years' trading amount
to between 70,0001, and 80,0004 and the assets were stated
to amount to about 30,0001.

The debts proved in the course of the day amounted to
about 40,0001 _

John Williams, a young man fashionably dressed, de-
scribed on the police charge-sheet as residine. at No. 17.
Grafton-street East, Fitzroy-sqaare, was charged with
assaulting Maria Thompson, a young woman of very
respectable appearance.
Between seven and 4 ight o'clock last evening the de
Pendant and two other young men were walking arm-in-
Arm along Tottenham-court•road, occupying nearly the
whole breadth of the foot-pavement as they passed the
complainant, who was with her mother, standing talkiml
to a female acquaintance they hal just met. One of the
defendant's party struck the complainant over the bonnet
with his hand. She instantly turned round, and seeing
the defendant walking hastily away, followed him a step
or two, and, giving him a push in the back, asked him
why he insulted her. The defendant turned round and
struck her with his walking-cane across the forehead.
She directly called the police and gave him into custody
Be was intoxicated at the time.
Mr. IlAttuvrtcx asked if the blow was a severe one?
The complainant put back her bonnet-, and exhibited
a bruised mark across her forehead. She added that
she then felt great pain from the blow, and had done sc
all night. She had never spoken to the defendant; he
was a perfect stranger to her.
The defendant said he might have given the com-
plainant a blow with his cane; he believed he bad done
so, but she struck him first.
Mr. 11.4aowicK—Nonsensel complaining of a young
female like that striking you. Pray in what station o:
life are you? Defendant—l am a medical student, at
University College Hospital, and I wish to ask you, Sir
if' I am struck while walking the public street I'm not
to strike again?
_ _

The assignees chosen were Mes•rs. Leukin, Griffiths, and
Overvuary, all iu the woollen trade, and they accepted the
trust.

A proof was tendered, upon the part of the North-West
Bank, to the amount of 7,000'. on bills of exchange, which
was objected to by Mr. Dickens, as solicitor to the assignee,
upon the ground that cloth had been deposited with the
drawers of the bills.

Mr. Commissioner FANE, after reference to several cases.
admitted t:.e proof, allowing the assignees to take such steps
as they might consider expedient to realise the securities and
apply them in discharge of the bills.
Mr. Lawrance, of Bucklersbury, appeared as solicitor to
the bankrupts, and Mr. Wryghte as accountant.

Mr. taiiDwicx—l desire you will not ask me any
such silly questions. I should have expected your edu-
cation, or, without that, your own better feelings as a
man, would teach you that you are not to put your
strength in competition with or strike a female under
any circumstances. You have been guilty of extremely-
unmanly conduct, and I shall impose a fine of 50s. of
you, or 21 days' imprisonment in the House of Correc-
tion.—The fine was immediately paid.
Mr. Charles Cahill, described as a gentleman, appeared to
answer a charge made against him by Mrs. M'Donall, for
robbing his ready-furnished lodgings of a sheet, a blanket,
and some other articles, valued at 255.
From Mrs. M•Donall's original statement, it appeared that
at the latter end of the year 1844, Mr. Ruthven, M.P., a
friend of the accused, took the lodgings for the family of the
accused at a stipulated rent. The accused remained with
her about ten weeks, during which period so much unplea-
santness arose between them, that she was obliged to give
him notice to quit. The accused left without her cognizance,
ar.d on gaining entrance into the apartments, she discovered
that, independently of considerable damage to the carpets
and furniture, a blanket, sheet, two tumblers, and a German,
silver knife and fork were not to be found She made in-
quiry after the accused, but was unable to meet with him
until Tuesday last, when, seeing him in the street, she gave
him into custody.
Mr. Cahill attempted to show that the charge originated
in a refusal on his part to pay 71.105. for allege 4 damage to
Mrs. M'Danall's carpet and hearth rug. He said he was re-
spectably connected, and when in Ireland hell the rank of
magistrate, and therefore it was very unlikely he would be
guilty of the petty offence laid to his charge.
A man named Bingley, who had been left by the accused
in the apartments to deliver them up to Mrs. M'Donall,
said he did deliver the rooms up, and when Mrs. M'Donall
looked over them she made no complaint then of lost pro-
perty.
Mrs. M'Donall said the statement of the accused WAS an
invention. If time were allowed, she would produce t n re-
quisite evidence in support of the charge.
Yesterday was the day appointed for further inquiry. Mrs.
M'Donall, however, did not make her appearance, and Mr.
Cahill, through his solicitor. applied for a remand for a few
days, in order to enable him to get certain papers from Ire-
land, which would completely exculpate him, and show the
true character of the charge.
Mr. HAttnwicK, however, said, as there was no one in
court to press the charge, the accused must be liberated.
LAMBETH.

COURT OF BANKRUPTCY, Jan. 30.
(Before Mr. Commissioner EvAris.)
IN RE WITEIN.
This insolvent, who carried on business as a plumber.
painter, &c , at Ingatestone, came up on his petition for
an interim order, and was opposed on the ground that
he had not set forth in the schedule the amount of pro-
perty which could be administered by the Court, a blank
being left in in the schedule.
The Learned COMMISSIONER said that the omission
was fatal to the application.
Mr. BUCHANAN, the insolvent's attorney, said that
there was nob a farthing.
The Learned CostsussioNEß—Then it should be so
state•l. I will, when persons come up to get rid of their
creditors, have all the circumstances sworn to so dis-
tinctly that perjury can be assigned.
Mr. BUCHANAN—I submit that the present mode of
making out the schedule is the only proper one.
The COMMISSIONER—You may submit what yen like;
that is my decision and I will not hear your argument.
The insolvent said he could not help it; he had de-
pended entirely on his attorney, and had been put to four
guineas useless expense —The petition was dismissed.

Edward Watkins, Frederick, his son, Ann, his wife, and John
Hancock, whose previous examinations on a charge of being
concerned in the manufacture and sale of a number of bill and
receipt stamps have already appeared, were brought before
Mr. Norton for final examination.
Mr. Huddleston, the barrister, and Mr. Tilsley, the assistant
solicitor to the Board of Stamps, appeared for the prosecu-
tion, and Mr. Ballantine, the barrister, and Mr. Games for
the defence.

When the case was called on, Mr. Ballantine applied to
the magistrate to request that the appearance of Mr. Edward
Watkins at the bar, during the investigation of the case,
might be dispensed with, as the excitement attendant upon
his being so placed might, in his present state of mental as
well as bodily affliction, be attended with serious danger
to his life. The Learned Gentleman here directed the atten-

Lion of the magistrate to the following certificate from Dr.
Sutherland and another medical gentleman :
" We the undersigned hereby certify that we have visited
and personally examined Mr. Edward Watkins, of 122,
Vauxhall-walk, and that he is a person of unsound mind.
We also certify that imprisonment will have a prejudicial
effect upon him in his present state.
" A. J. SUTHERLAND, M.D.
" MICHAEL L. MASON, M.R.C.S.

" January 28."

SECONDARIES' COURT, Jan. 30.
(Before Mr. Secondary JAMES.)
HUDSON v. GARRARD.
The plaintiff in this action is an attorney, and the de.
fondant a surgeon. The claim was for 21. 11s. 10d., the
amount of a bill of costs.
The facts of the case were these :—ln 1844 defendant
spoke to a friend named Purnell as to getting in some
outstanding debts, and Mr. Purnell recommended him to
go to plaintiff. Defendant said he did not mind trying
one case, that of Mr. Hibbert. Mr. Purnell, who was
in the habit of employing the plaintiff, went to him.
and at the time requested plaintiff to write
to Mr. Hibbert. This was done, and plaintiff
communicated the result of his application to de-
fendant, who, however, did not make any reply to
plaintiff directly, but Mr. Purnell told him writing tG
Hibbert wa. no use something else must be done. Mr.
Purnell could not tell what the reply was, but on going
,
again to plaintiff, told him to issue a writ, which was
done, and defendant and Hibbert afterwards met and
came to some arrangement. The plaintiff had never
seen defendant, or had any retainer from him, and the
question now arose as to whether Mr. Purnell was acting
by the express authority of defendant.—Verdict for the
plaiLtiff.

SM
COURT OF EXCISE, Jan. 29.A,
(Before U. P. STEPHENSON, Esq., CHARLES ROSS, Esq., and
C. J. HARRIES, Esq.)
Maria Shephard, of the King and Queen, High-street,
Newington, wa, charged with the adulteration of beer by
the use of a liquid material and preparation, as a substitute
for malt and hops. The information contained six counts,
each of which involved a penalty of 200/. After hearing
the evidence, Mr. Commissioner Stephenson said it was the
opinion of the Court that there was nothing injurious in the
articles that had been put into the beer, but as it was con-
trary to law they had no alternative but to give judgment
against her. In consequence Of the excellent character
given to the defendant by the officers, the Court would miti-
gate the fine to 51.
CAUTION TO EATING-HOUSE KEEPERS.—Job Ford, of 87,
Lower Th
with retailing beer and spiritous liquors without license.
ames-street, eath,g-house keeper, was charged
There was a second information, to which the defendant
pleaded guilty.
The COURT gave judgment, and said that as the defendant
had been carrying on this illegal trade for nine years, they
should tine the defendant in the penalty of 251. on the two cases.
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Mr. Ballantine also called Mr. Mason, who was present,
and that gentleman being sworn, expressed it as his
opinion that the slightest excitement might produce the
most serious effects upon the elder Watkins in his present
state; and the learned counsel, under these circumstances,
hoped Mr. Norton would not require the personal appear.
ance of the accused.
Mr. Huddleston observed, that on the part of the prose-
cution he had no wish to press for the appearance of the ac-
cused ; nor did he object to his being liberated on such bail
as his orship should deem necessary, to appear at the Old
Bailey. With respect to the prisoner, Frederick Watkins, it
was not his wish to offer any evidence against him ; and as
regarded Hancock, he was not prepared with any further
evidence against that prisoner at present, and should be sa-
tisfied with his giving bail to appear at the Old Bailey, and
answer any charge the Solicitor of Stamps might think
proper to prefer against him ; and finally, he should call for
the commitment of Mrs. Watkins and her husband to take
their trial at the ensuing Old Bailey sessions, on the evidence
already adduced.
The evidence of the different witnesses was taken in its
regular form by the chief clerk against Watkins and his
wife, and the latter was fully committed to Newgate. Wat-
kins was subsequently led into the Court to have his recog-
nizances in 2,0001., and two sureties in 1,0001. each taken,
and his appearance was such that it is very doubtful whe-
ther he will survive his trial. Application was made by Mr.
Games, and any amount offered to bail out Mrs. Watkins,
but Mr. Norton declined to accept it.