The Sun.
London, England, 1851-09-16 00:00:00

LAW INTELLIGENCE.

INSOLVENT DEBTORS' COURT, Sept 15.
The Chief Commissioner sat this morning for the
first time since the vacation, and heard a considerable
number of cases, none of which were of any very
great public interest.

IN RE HENRY LASCELLES PATTERSON.
This insolvent, a tailor, was opposed by Mr.
Nichols for Messrs. Davis, woollendrapers, and by a
creditor in person; Mr. Cooke, supported.
The complaint on the part of Messrs. Davis was
that their debt had been contracted by means of false
representations; but the Court, after hearing the
evidence, thought it insufficient to warrant an adverse
judgment.
Mr. Deakins, a gunner of the Royal Artillery,
holding an office in the Tower, complained that the
insolvent owed him 811. 10s. for money lent. He had
lent the insolvent 501. in March, 1849, the interest of
which was regularly paid until June, 1850, when in-
solvent requested and obtained a further loan of 501.,
to be repaid by quarterly instalments of 61. 105.
Three of these instalments had been paid, leaving a
balance of 811. 10s., which it had taken Deakins (as
he said) sixteen years to save.
The CHIEF COMMISSIONER said it was a very pain-
ful case, and he felt much for the unfortunate loss of
the poor soldier, but there was nothing in the tran-
saction which the Court could punish under the Act
of Parliament, End the insolvent must, therefore, be
discharged. At the same time, the insolvent ought
to feel that, although legally exonerated from the
debt, yet it was his duty, in honour, to use every
effort to repair the evil he had inflicted upon the
creditor.

The insolvent was then ordered to be discharged.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
MANSION-HOUSE.

Four well•dressed young men, named AfKay,
_Horton, 111ackey, and Jones, were brought before the
Lord Mayor by George Scott, one of the officers of
the City Detective Police, charged with having
picked a lady's pocket of a purse containing a sum of
money, and with having tried to pick the pockets of
several other ladies.

The LORD MAYOE—Is the person to whom the
purse belongs here ?
Scott—The lady went off to Margate, and I have
reason to believe without any money at all. The
prisoners do not know what money is in the purse,
but I dare say all the lady's property is safe. Whan
I took the prisoners to the station-house, I found mo-
ney in the pockets of each of them.
At this moment the Lord Mayor received an inti-
mation that the lady who had been robbed missed her
purse on the passage to Margate, and had been landed
at Herne Bay in consequence of the loss.—The pri-
soners were then remanded.

A boy named Emanuel Jacobs was charged with
having picked the pocket of a lady of a purse in
Whitechapel.
The prisoner was seen by two persons to snatch the
purse out of the pocket of the lady, and upon being
seized by her, drop it at her feet. She picked up her
property, and telling the boy that she had a mind to
box his ears, went away.

The prisoner was recognized as an old offender,
who had gone the round of the London prisons.
The LORD MAYOR—He shall not take another
purse for another month, at any rate.—Committed for
a month to Bridewell.

Richard Martin was charged with having driven
between 500 and 600 sheep in the city, o❑ Sunday,
at 5 o'clock, without a drover's badge.
The defendant said the sheep were his father's pro-
perty, and he thought he was authorised to drive them
to Smithfield under the circumstances, particularly
as they had been for some hours at the station of the
Southampton Railroad.
The LORD MAYOR said it was in his power to fine
the defendant in the penalty of 101., for five distinct
offences committed by him under the Act. His
Lordship, however, thought that justice would be
done by the infliction of the fine of 105.—The penalty
was paid.