The Sun.
London, England, 1832-03-06 00:00:00

IN RE CHRISTIE, A BANKRUPT.

Mr. MONTAGU stated that, the bankrupt had been the in-
ventor of a portable steam-engine ; that he had been in partner-
ship with two other persons named Saunders and Poole; that a
commission of bankruptcy having been taken out against him,
he had presented a petition to have the commission superseded ;
and that upon its coming on in August last, in order to save the
expense of trying an issue, the parties agreed to refer the ques-
tion of bankruptcy or no bankruptcy to Mr. Swanston, but that
subsequently they had considered that bringing up the
witnesses who would have to come to London, would
be almost as expenslke as the trial of an issue in the country,
and, consequently, they had consented to the Court's now di-
recting an issue. Mr. Montagu's clients were now, however,
desirous, not only that there should be an issue to try the vali-
dity of the petitioning creditor's debt, but also an issue to try
whether the commission had not been issued by the bankrupt's
partners, for the purpose of coercing him into a dissolution of
the partnership.
Mr. JACOB, contra, opposed the direction of the latter
issue.

The LORD CHANCELLOR could not add an issue to the
one originally proposed, without hearing the whole of the case
gone into again ; and as it was not convenient to hear the details
this morning, three o'clock in the afternoon was appointed for
the matter to be brought on again.
ATTORNEY-GENERAL v. WARD.

This was a matter which his Lordship disposed of in judgment
on Saturday; and on the application of the Solicitor-General
this morning, all parties were directed to have their costs
paid out of the estate.

EX-PARTE RANDELSON IN THE MATTER OF

HOBSON,

Mr. KNIGHT stated that this was a bankruptcy, in which
the petition had been presented previously to the pausing •f the
new Bankrupt Act of Parliament, and which the parties were
desirous of having heard before his Lordship, he having
already decided that the jurisdiction of this Court had not been
taken away by this Act.
The LORD CHANCELLOR directed that it should be put
into the list of petitions to come •n before him in the regular
course.

LAMBERT v. FISHER.
The Court proceeded with the resumed arguments in this
appeal tithe cause.

ROLLS' COURT.-(THIS DAY.)

Petitions of no public importance occupied his Honour the
MASTER of the ROLLS the whole morning.

VICE-CHANCERY COURT.-(THIS DAY.)

His Honour the VICE-CHANCELLOR took causes to-day,
but nothing of interest occurred previous to our Reporter's
leaving. The case of Gibson v. Wellesley, which was a motion
for a receiver, was put off till Thursday.

BANKRUPTCY COURT.-(THIS DAY.)

Nothing worth reporting took place in this Court today.

The circumstance of Lord Howe's being in-
vited to the Royal table has excited as much enthusiasm among
the Tories as his great predecessor's victory on the Ist of June
did among the nation at large.

A Northern Divine, dependent on the pa-
tronage of the house of Gordon, was one day startled by a
question from the celebrated Duchess, whether there was any
sin in reading novels and going to plays ?—" That, Madam,"
said the canny Scot, evading the snare, " I ought rather to in-
quire of your Grace."—Court Journal.

At the Garrick Club some one asked James
Smith who the lady was that George Robins, the Prince of
auctioneers, had just married. " Why Lot's wife, to be sure,"
was the prompt reply.—Court Journal.

Two boys, one of them blind of an eye, were
discoursing on the merits of their respective masters. " How
many hours do you get for sleep ?" said one. " Eight," replied
the other. " Eight ! why I only gets four !" "Ah !" said the
first, "but recollect you have only one eye to close, and I have
two."—Scotsman.

On Tuesday night a range of outbuildings of
wood, on the premises of Mr. David Morrison, rope-manufac-
turer, at the Shore, Inverness, was completely burned to the
ground. There is reason for suspecting that the fire was the
act of an unfortunate maniac named Maxwell Morrison, who
roams about the streets occasionally in a state of furious insa.
nity.—lnverness Paper.

A meeting of the Society for Promoting
Christianity among the Jews was lately announced at Bath, in
the usual way, viz., by large bills being stuck against the walls,
A wag who had got the word Bishops printed upon slips of
paper in two inch letters went round and pasted it over the
word Jews.—Bath Paper.

It appears by the last accounts from Brussels
that great alarm exists there lest the cholera should make its
appearance. All the streets have been cleaned, and several of
the houses have been whitewashed. The Sanatory Commis-
sioners have recommended to the Government to send two
physicians to London to ascertain the best mode of treatment.
Similar alarm prevails at Ostend.

DUEL.—A hostile meeting took place on
Wednesday morning last, near Kilcronaghan, in this county,
between Dominick M`Causland, Esq., and John Stokes, Esq.,
attached to the survey of Ireland, each attended by his friend.
After exchanging three shots a reconciliation was effected by
Mr. M`Causland firing his third shot into the air, and the par-
ties are now friends. The difference originated in an attempt
of Mr. M`Causland to irritate a horse on which Mr. Stokes was
mounted. —D (Try Sentinel.

A subscription pack of fox hounds is about
to be established in the central part of Somerset. Kennels are
to be stationed at Somerton, Burton, and Orchard Portman,
by which arrangement, founded on a liberal contribution,
amounting to 1,000!. per annum, a wide and eligible field for
the sport will be accessible to the subscribers.

\Ve mentioned yesterday a threat, if it may be
so called, of a certain Noble Duke, that in case an addition
were made to the Peers in order to carry the Reform Bill, him-
self with about a score others would secede from the House.
We caution these persons against such a step. It will not turn
to their advantage personally, and it will likewise be mischie-
vous to Parliament and the country ; we shall not, through
Pique, pretend to say the contrary. If they retire from the
House, let them not fancy the nation will mourn over their
absence—they will very soon be forgotten. They had better
remain and make themselves heard, and be ready to take ad-
vantage, in the way of fair political warfare, of any turn in af-
fairs that may occur. The menaced measure, however, is not
without precedent. Charles Fox and the whole of the Whig
Opposition once retired from Parliament during the Pitt Ad-
ministration, indicating thereby that the two Houses were so
enslaved to the Minister's will that there was no use in their
presence. Parliament went on, still obeying Pitt, and the
seceders hardly knew how to sneak into their places again. But
sneak in they did, ex necessitate rei, or they would soon have
lost their followers, and been forgotten. This is a precedent
rather to deter than to invite imitation.—Timcs.

LORD BYRON.—The Conversations of the
Noble Poet with Captain Medwin, from the fourteenth volume
of " The National Library," just published.—" How I became
acquainted," says the author, " with so many particulars of
his history, so many incidents of his life, so many of his
opinions, is easily explained. They were communicated during
a period of many months' familiar intercourse, without any in-
junctions to secresy, and committed to paper for the sake of
reference only. They are, however, in many cases, the sub-
stance without the form. The brilliancy of his wit, the flow of
his eloquence, the sallies of his imagination, who could do
justice to? His voice, his manner, which gave a charm to
the whole, who could forget ?" A fine bust of his Lordship,
together with the fac-simile of a letter in his hand-writing, ac-
company this cheap and attractive little work.

MR. MARTIN'S ACT.—The officers of the
Society against Cruelty last week caused Joseph Cook to be
fined 105. and costs, for cruelty to an ass, and William Smith
in costs, for ill-treating a horse. They also charged the hack-
ney-coachman, 753, with a similar offence. He was dismissed
by Alderman Winchester with a reprimand, and with thanks
to the officers for the service they were performing to thepublic.
The Cholera may be said to be now extinct
in Haddington, Prestonpans, and Tranent, and fast verging to
extinction in Musselburgh. In this city the cases are still very
few, and in the West,though it is spreading over a larger surface,
it is always very mild. In Glasgow there have been thirty-six
cases and fifteen deaths in the three days since our last report.
—Scotsman.
A RAW RECRUIT.—On Tuesday evening,
while two policemen were standing in Prince's-street, their at-
tention was attracted by a crowd of females, and some few boys,
in boisterous glee following, as it seemed, two military officers.
They immediately interfered, in order to prevent the gallant
gentlemen from being annoyed. By a slight glance, however,
at the frontispiece of the lesser gentleman, as the gas-light
accidentally fell upon it, one of the policemen thought he re-
cognised " a softer vision" than is generally found under"
the
bonnet sae blue," but he instantly clenched the state of affairs,
when he saw the dark curling tresses streaming down h
shoulders of the incognito, and heard the well-known voice.
Reader—tell it not in the vicinity of the Castle !—this was a
young Cyprian from Rose-street. The young aspirant for
military honours with whom she was in company was taken
along with her to the police-office, but both were dismissed
with a reproof —Scotsman.