The Sun.
London, England, 1851-09-13 00:00:00

DRIGFITON.

An application was made on the part of the prose-
cution in the alleged fraud and conspiracy case at
Brighton for the costs incurred in relation to the writ
of habeas corpus issued to bring the defendants to
London. The Learned Judge was attended by the
solicitors in the case, and the matter was discussed,
as part of the defendants.
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the application was for
costs, and on the part of the defendants his Lordship
was asked to quash the writ of habeas corpus.
Mr. Baron MARTIN, after hearing the parties,
granted a summons, returnable on Tuesday next, for
the defendants to show cause why they should not pay
to the prosecutor the costs incurred attendant on the
writ of habeas corpus. _ _

According to the present arrangement, Mr. Baron
Martin will attend chambers on Tuesday and Friday
until further notice.

COURT OF BANKRUPTCY, Sept. 12,
(Before Mr. Commiisioner FANE.)

IN RE SPARROW.

This was a certificate meeting.
The bankrupt was described as Owen Sparrow, of
Aldgate High-street, grocer and tea dealer. The
statement of accounts, extending from the Ist of Ja-
nuary, 1849, to the 27th of June, 1851, show the
following :—Creditors, 1,1881; ditto, holding security,
715/. ; liabilities, 2041. ; profits, 1,115/. ; estimated
value of furniture, 801.; profits on sale of lease, 65/. ;
debtors, good, 16/.; property, 1121.; ditto in hands
of creditors, 7141. ; trade, expenses, 1,049/. personal,
3451. ; interest and law costs, 112/. ; losses, 437/. ;
liabilities per contra, 2041.
Mr. LINKLATER, for an opposing creditor, said that
Mr. Lawrence, who supported the bankrupt, was ab-
sent, wished for an adjournment, and with his Ho-
nour's sanction he bad no objection on the part of his
client.
Some parties opposed the adjournment, but even-
tually his Honour decided that the meeting should be
adjourned until the Bth of November, and that all
the creditors admitted by the bankrupt on his ba-
lance-sheet, who bad given or should give notice of
opposition should be heard on the adjourned day.

IN RE MATTHEWS.

This was the last examination of the bankrupt, de-
scribed as a bookseller, of Paternoster-row. His
debts were 1,6771., extending over a period of three
years and a half, and
.his assets, in good debts and
property, amounted to 3141. His profits had been
3,386/. ; losses, 684/. ; and expenses of various kinds,
4,0871.
The bankrupt passed unopposed.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
MANSION-HOUSE.

A great number of seamen were brought before the
Lord Mayor, in consequence of their applications for
registered tickets at the office of the General Shipping
Registrar.
Mr. Coleman, from the Shipping Registration-
office, attended in the cases of two of the defendants,
against whom serious charges of desertion were made.
William Thomas Dawson, seaman, was put to the
bar.

Mr. Coleman—The defendant applied to me on the
6th of the present month for a registered ticket. He
stated that he bad signed articles on the Bth of May
with the Bride, and that he had deserted her at St.
John's, in July, 1851.
Mr. John Temperly, shipowner, of Leadenhall-
street, said—l am the owner of the Bride, I did not
sanction the defendant's leaving the ship, and I have
been put to great loss and inconvenience by the
desertion of this man and others of the crew. The
vessel was detained 15 days before a crew could be
got to work her home, and the expense was most
serious.

The LORD MAYOR—Defendant, what have you to
say to this accusation ? Defendant—The fact is, my
Lord, we all got di ukik and run away at St. John's.
Mr. Coleman—No doubt they were all largely paid
for their services elsewhere. In Quebec alone, during
the last season, there was as many as 1,362 desertions
from our vessels, and the owners were put to enor-
mous expense in procuring substitutes. The Bride is
expected daily, but if this impediment had not oc• ur-
red she would certainly have been here 15 or 16 days
ago.