The Sun.
London, England, 1835-11-26 00:00:00

BAIL COURT.-WEDNESDAY.

LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET, Nov. 24.
This has been a quiet day, the sales not exceeding 1,500
bags. Prices may be considered hilly Id. per lb. lower
than they were a week ago. The imports of the week
amount to 7,000 bags chiefly American and Brazil ;
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Pernam have been sold at 11 d., 80 Egyptian at 11 d. to
12d., and the remainder American.
TILE HON. MRS. NORTON'S NEW PROSE
Wor.K.—" The Wife and Woman's Reward" are sister
tales, between which there is a strong likeness, yet each has
also a strong individuality of character. Their bond of
similitude is their mutual beauty and interest, their indi-
viduality in the variety of their incidents and the total dif-
ference of their plots ; we have perused them with un-
mixed pleasure, and Mrs. Norton may be congratulated on
her complete success as a:prose writer, for in their peculiar
class these tales are unrivalled.
Three Independent chapels in Surrey—viz., that of
the Rev. Dr. Styles, of North Brixton, of the Rev. Robert
Taylor Hunt, of Kensin,gton, and of the Rev. Francis
Moore, at Vauxhall, have within the last few months ceased
to belong to the denomination, and now belong to the Es-
tablishment. •
The stage-coaches about to be introduced into Por-
tugal are to run from Lisbon to Belem ; they are to be
upon the model of the Greenwich stages.
ALARMING FIRE AT CROYDON.—Chi Tuesday
afternoon, about three o'clock, intelligence reached the
head station of the London Fire Establishment in Wat-
ling-street, that the mansion of Currie, Esq., Sandherst
Court, Croydon, was in flames. Mr. Braidwood, the su-
perintendont of the London Fire Establishment, directed
Anderson, the foreman, and five men, to prcceed with one
of the powerful engines, and render any assistance that
might be required ; but on arriving at the spot (a distance
of thirteen miles, in less than two hours after the informa-
tion had been given) they found that, through the quick
arrival of the Croydon parish engine, the damage occa-
sioned was not so great as was at first aniticipated. From
the heated state of the premises since last Friday, there is
no doubt but that the fire has been smoulderjnw since that
time. The building and stock are insured in the Guardian
Fire Office. The fire originated through the foul state of
one of the chimneys. Notwithstanding the excitement
created by the accident, none of the family or domestics
met with the slightest accident.

(Before Mr. Justice LITTLEDALE.)

IN THE MATTER OF ANN HOUSEMAN, AN INFANT.
Mr. Justice LITTLEDALE delivered his judgment in this
case. After stating the facts upon which a writ of habeas
corpus had been issued, he proceeded to observe that the
ground upon which a writ of habeas corpus was generally
issued was, when the personal liberty of the subject was vio-
lated by any illegal detention. There were several cases
also in which a single Judge, is well as the Courts, was em-
powered to exercise his jurisdiction in determining upon
the propriety of allowing those to become guardians of in-
fants or persons of tender age Who claimed to enjoy the
privilege. Those whose rights of milardianship over a child
the Courts of law were authorised' to defend and protect
must stand in some close relationship to it—such as that of
father, grandfather, &c. In this case, however, the pci--
sou who was desirous of having the child delivered up to
him as guardian could not set forth any such grounds for
having his application granted, because he was only a per-
son to whom the mother of this illegitimate child had left
certain property in trust for its benefit, she appointing him
also by will the guardian of her child. He could not then
be said to have any legal title to become the guardian of
this child. The direction in the will of Ann Houseman,
therefore, that Glover should be guardian to her child after
her death, must be looked upon only as the expression of
her wish that be should act in that capacity, and not as
giving him any legal title to do so. Under these circum-
stances, he did not consider this case one in which that
Court would comply with the application to have the wish
expressed in her will by the mother of the child, as to the
appointment of a guardian, carried into execution by an or-
der for the delivery of the child to Glover. It must be
borne in mind, too, that property had been left to Glover
for the maintenance of the child, and the case might on that
ground be brought before the Court of Chancery, where
the applicant Glover might perhaps be enabled to accom-
plish his object. He should direct the writ of habeas corpus
to be annulled.
PRESTON AND ANOTHER V. SIR J. KEY.
Mr. PLATT showed cause in this case against a rule nisi,
calling on the defendant to say why it was that he refused
to pay the plaintiffs a sum of 1,500/., a sum received into
Court in compliance with the terms of an arbitration, to
which both parties consented, and which sum had been
awarded to the plaintiffs. His client, the Learned Counsel
said, was perfectly willing that this sum should be paid over
to the plaintiffs ; and all he desired was, that all the papers
documents, letters, &c., touching the matter which had
been under arbitration, should be delivered to him by the
plaintiffs on oath.
The Coultas determined that the plaintiffs should give
defendants a schedule of the documents which they were
ready to deliver up, and that if the defendant was not sa-
tisfied with those there enumerated the plaintiff should make
a return on oath.