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THE SUN, -LONDON, VirEDNE SD A.Y EVENING, S E PTE MB E R 18, 1861.

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LAW INTELLIGENCE—r This Day .1

COURT OF BANKRUPTCY.
(Before Mr. Commissioner Goulburn.)

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SUN OFFICE, Seven o'clock.

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His Honour was the "sitting Commissioner," and the
cases heard during the morning were audit meetings,
except

DONCASTER RA CEB.—(This Day.)

IN RE J. lIEARN.

(BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.)

This bankrupt was described as of Margate-street, Dover,
draper, and now applied for his certificate, The accounts,
by Messrs. Robinson, Nicholls, and Co., Old Jewry Cham-
bers, shows a capital, on the 3d May, 1859, of £2OO ; debts
to the bankrupt, £793 ; property given up, £lB2 ; profits,
£316 ; losses, £337 ; trade expenses, £314 ; house expenses,
£450.

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His Honour granted a second-class certificate.
WHAT IS A REASONABLE PROPOSITION UNDER THE
PRIVATE ARRANGEMENT ACT ?

In a case under the Private Arrangement Act a proposi-
tion was made to set aside £lOO out of the salary which the
petitimer would receive from a Government office. The
offer had been accepted by the creditors, subject to the ap-
proval of the Court.

His Honour said that the proposition was not such a
reasonable offer that the Court could sanction it. There
was a mere promise to pay—a kind of I 0 U—and the
schedule showed a number of broken promises to pay, to
the butcher, baker, and so on. He could not sanction the
arrangement, but if the petitioner could obtain satisfactory
guarantees the case might be mentioned again.

SECONDARIES' COURT.
(Before Mr. Potter and a Corpmon Jury.)

NOBLE V. VINCE.-THE LAW AS TO STAMPED RECEIPTS.

This was an action to recover £8 for a machine for cut-
ting splints for lucifer matches, Mr. Day, instructed by Mr.
De Medina, appearing for the plaintiff, and Mr. Joyce for
the defendant.

According to the plaintiff's case, Noble, who is a working
engineer, of Bethnal-green, was called upon by one
Gardiner (servant to the defendant), to make a machine
for cutting wood for matches. The machine was
put in hand, and upon plaintiff's refusal to go on
without money, Vince, the defendant, called and paid 10s.,
and upon its delivery promised 30s. more. Subsequently
the machine was delivered, and the defendant repudiated
the transaction, and said, "It had been made for Gardiner."
Plaintiff, however, had not trusted Gardiner, and indeed,
in giving defendant a receipt for £2, signed one " Received
from Mr. Vince, for steel cutting machine £2. Upon the
question of a stamp on the receipt, which was not produced
the learned counsel were at issue. Mr. Joyce contended
that it was the duty of the person receiving the money to
give the stamp, and Mr. Day urging that the taker of the
receipt ought to provide the stamp. The learned Secondary
said that it was the duty of the receiver of the money to
spoil the stamp, but he would not decide who ought to pro-
vide it.

For the defence it was urged that Gardiner alone was re-
sponsible, and in the absence of the stamp receipt, there
was no proof that the receipt was given in Vince's name.
It was also stated that Gardiner was the inventor of the
machine, and at the time it was ordered was not in de-
fendant's service at all. This case seemed likely to
occupy the jury for some time, as nearly every question was
objected to and argued upon.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.—( This Day.)

BOW-STREET.

Ann Norris was charged with being drunk and dis-
orderly.

Police-constable, 27 F, said, last evening he was on duty
in Drury-lane when he saw the prisoner creating a distur-
bance in front of a public-house. As she would not leave
the place he was compelled to take her into custody. He
knew her to have been frequently in prison.
Norris—Well, if I can't go any where else, what of it ?
The bad living there has brought me down very much.
But I was not making a disturbance as you say I was. I
went into the public-house to ask for a glass of water, and
they took a penny for it. I was not going to pay a penny
for a glass of water, so I said I would either have my money
back or the value of it.

Police-constable—She has only just come out of prison,
your worship, where she has been for the last 14 days.
Inspector Witham—She was here, your worship, four
times last month.

night for doing no-
thing.PHs
Mr. Henry—Why don't you go to the workhouse ; they
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haver l' ve
been been t
treated
ated very
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are bound to relieve you there if you are destitute.

Prisoner—l had been there last night, but they would
not take me in.

Mr. Henry—Perhaps you were drunk when you applied ?
Prisoner—No, I was not. How could I get drunk on a
penny and a glass of water ?
Constable—l saw her about half-past three in the after •
nooa, and then she was getting drunk.

Prisoner—Ab, you may think so ; but I sometimes look
stupid through want.

Mr. Henry—l must hear what they say about you at the
workhouse.

The porter of St. Martin's Workhouse said the prisoner
had been in and out the house more than 40 times. When
she was in she was always treated kindly. She was set
to do trifling things, by which she gets extras, and she
might be very comfortable if she choose. When she ap-
plied last night she was very drunk, and was told it was
against the regulations: to admit drunken people. She is
well known in the parish, and the moment she takes her
discharge from the workhouse she goes round begging of
the charitable inhabitants. When she is in the house and
engaged in doing any kind of work she gets a meat dinner
and a pint of porter every day, besides her tea and break-
fast. Frequently quantities of postage stamps are sent her,
and she might live very well if she would but give up the
drink.

Mr. Henry--I think sympathy seems thrown on her. I
shall send her back to the workhouse, and if she asks for
her discharge within the next three months she shall be
brought here, and then I shall send her to prison for the
offence she has now committed.

Prisoner—Well, if I must go to the workhouse, I must.
She was then taken to the workhouse by the constable.

MARLBOROUGH-STREET,

WHIT IS GLANDERS ?—An old man named Richard
Rockley, in the employ of Wm. Try, a carrier, of Rick-
mansworth, Herts, was charged by Mr. Wm. Love, supe-
rintending officer of the Royal Society for the Prevention
of Cruelty to Animals, under the following circumstances :
Guest, one of the officers of the Royal Society, said he
was passing through Waterloo-place, when he saw the
prisoner driving a wretched .looking horse in a cart laden
with articles. Observing that the horse was very restless
ho lifted up the saddle, and found a wound the size of the
palm of his hand, and the saddle was sticking to it. The
horse appeared to be in great pain. He (Guest) also be-
lieved the horse was affected with glanders.
Mr. Beadon said if the horse had the glanders it ought to
be destroyed at once.

Mr. Love said there were symptoms of glanders, but he
would not hazard an opinion as to whether the horse was
really glandered, as it was a disease in which the most
eminent veterinary surgeons were often mislead by outward
appearances. He (Mr. Love) had instructed the officer to
bring the horse in front of the court for his worship to
examine it.

Mr. Beadon, having examined the horse, said it was
suffering from a severe cold, and from the appearance of it,
unless great care was taken, it would in all probability re-
solve itself into glanders. In other respects the horse was
certainly unfit to work.

Mr. Love said the owner of the horse was in court, and
it was not the first time he had been at the police-court
under similar circumstances, as he and his family had been
under the notice of the society's officers owing to the bad
horses they kept.
Mr. Beadon said as the driver of the horse was before
him, he must deal with the case against him, and ordered
him to pay 55., or seven days. As to the owner, he would
recommend him to be careful with this horse and all others
in his possession, as if he was found working a glandered
horse it would go hard with him.
Try paid the fine and left the court hastily.

THE WE AMER.

'ECTED TILL TO-MORROW OR
NEXT DAY.

Fine,

moderate,

variable,

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Westerly, moderate, variable.
Light, variable, fine.
Similar ; northerly breezes.

,OLOGICAL REPORTS.

ST. LEGER.

Caller Ou
Kettledrum
Kildonan
Janus ~,

Eighteen. ran. Won by a head; bad third.
SWEEPSTAKES OF 10 SOVS.
Virgilius
North Pole
spark
Four ran.
STAND PLATE.
Black Lilly 1
Maid oj the Mist.. 2
Bernice
Twelve ran.
MUNICIPAL STAKES.
Brown Bess colt _

SERIOUS INCREASE OF INFANTILE
MORTALITY IN LONDON,

At a meeting of the representative vestry of the
parish of Paddington, which was held yesterday
morning in the Vestry-Hall, Paddington-green,
under the presidency of Lieut.-Col. Worthy, special
attention was called by Dr. J. 13. Sanderson, the
medical officer of health, in a report to be printed
and circulated by the board, to the enormous
contingent which this parish had contributed an-
nually during the 'past five years to the general
infancy.
To of deaths by the mortality of early
To prove this he exhibited a table which illustrated
it in a striking manner. It showed that out of no
less than 733 infants under three months of age
that had died in Paddington an equal number had
lost their lives from violence as from small-pox,
measles, diphtheria, whooping cough, erysipel as, and
fever, put together, making 5.6 per cent. of the
total mortality under that age (exclusive of 40 other
deaths from doubtful causes), which constituted
12.1 per cent. of the total mortality of the parish.
Only a small number of these fell victims to the so-
called diseases of infancy, comparatively few even
of diarrfilpa, but another large proportion of com-
plaints which, he asserted, might be best grouped
together, as being all of them dependent on impaired
or disordered nutrition, determined mainly, even in
this somewhat aristocratic parish, by overcrowding.
The learned doctor then proceeded to illustrate, by
facts already published, the pernicious influence
exercised by overcrowded dwellings in the first
few months of infantile life, and he thought the
most striking was cne set forth by Mr. Simon, who
stated that in 17,650 children born in the Dublin
Lying-in-Hospital, when the hospital was unven-
tilated, 2,944 (17.0 per cent.) died within the first
fortnight of their life ; by far the greater number
of these deaths being preceded by convulsions ;
among 16,654 infants born after the wards had been
ventilated only 286 died (1.7 per cent.), so that the
general mortality had been reduced to one-tenth of
what it was, and the mortality under one special
head, that of convulsions, to 1.68. He (Dr. Sander-
son) said in London the air of the dwellings of the
poor was subject to contamination of this kind, not
only by overcrowding,strictly so called, but by the ex
halations frefromthr lungs and skin of animals. Thou-
sands of familieslived in rooms over stables,a practice
which he contended to be a very fruitful source of
infantile disease. Dr. Gairdner, of Edinburgh, had
concluded, from a large statistical inquiry, that the
variations of infantile mortality could not be
accounted for, either by destitution or by the preva-
lence of local conditions unfavourable to health; and
that in the metropolis it was not only the over-
crowded districts of the east which were fatal to
children, but that in St. George's, Hanover-square,
which until recently enjoyed the lowest general
death rate in London, the infantile death rate was
enormous—higher than that of the Strand district
or Stepney, and about equal to those of Shoreditch,
Bermondsey, and Lambeth. In explanation of so
surprising a result, he (Dr. Sanderson) suggested
that a large proportion of the ; oor of the western dis-
tricts inhabited stable dwellings, and were therefore
subject to the diseases arising therefrom; but
on the other hand, he considered the inhabitants of
the west-end houses were more:favourably circum-
stanced than those of the courts and alleys of the
older districts, not only as regarded general drainage
and airiness, but in the absence of those evils which
resulted from destitution. In addition to those
evils he thought the infantile population was sub-
ject to other causes of unhealthiness, rather moral
than physical, and the large number of instances
that stood in the register as the causes of death, and
besides these the numerous cases of infanticide for
which no motive could be ascertainel, and probably
none existed except recklessness—all strengthened
the suspicion suggested by Mr. Gairdner's statis-
tical inquiry, or, at all events, they pointed to the
existence of evils much deeper than those of over-
crowding and bad drainage.

TITHES LEVIED ON THIEVES.—The arrest of a
numerous band of thieves in Paris has led to the discovery
of a new category of malefactors, who contrive to lead a free
and easy life by levying a kind of black mail on thieves and
swindlers. These men, who are called fleurs, and always
go well dressed, are perfectly familiar with the habits and
slang of the various categories of malefactors. Their mode
of proceeding is to watch any thief or swindler whom they
see about to exercise his craft, and as soon as he has suc-
ceeded in his attempt, to demand a share to the amount of
15 per cent., under threat of delivering him up to the police.
The thieves for some time strove hard to get rid of these
parasites, who lived in clover at their expense, and without
incurring any great risk. Several of .them have, however,
just been arrested, in consequence of disclosures made by
the band of thieves recently captured.

UNITED STATES GENERALS.—Major-Generals
M' Clellan, Fremont, and Hallock, who have been appointed
to that rank in the regular army, were all formerly officers
of the army—two of them, Generals M' Clellan and Hallock,
are West Point graduates, and were foremost in their class.
Gen. Fremont achieved a reputation for himself as.a cavalry
officer upon the plains and in frequent engagements with
Indians. The four Major-Generals for volunteers are
Hunter, Dix, Banks, and Butler. Gen. Hunter is a gra-
duate of West Point, and was appointed from the regular
army. Gen. Dix has served in our army under Gen. Scott ;
while Generals Banks and Butler were appointed from civil
life, and have been universally approved. These Generals
have already made evident not only administrative but
military talent that has attracted to them the attention
of the nation. The brilliant administrative ability mani-
fested by General Banks, as Speaker of the House of Re-
presentatives and \ Governor of the State of Massachusetts,
was but an earnest of what is promised in his military
career. Brigadier-Generals Mansfield, M'Douall, Megs,
Anderson, Ripley, Rosencranz, and Thomas, are all gra-
duates of TA est Point, and were all distinguishel in their
classes. Thirty-six of the 51 Brigadier-Generals appointed
are West Point graduates; two others were officers of the
regular army, and still four others served with distinction
as volunteers in the Mexican war. There are only 12 of
the Brigadiers who have not had the advantage of either
military education or actual experience in the art of war.—
New York _Herald.

FUNERAL OF THE LATE BEN CAUNT.—The remains
of the late Ben Caunt, of St. Martin's-lane, London, were
conveyed through Nottingham on Saturday last, on their
way to Hucknall Torkard churchyard, the birth-place and
burial place of Ben Caunt and his wife, who was a Miss
Butler. The funeral cortege on its arrival in Nottingham
proceeded up Wheeler-gate and across the Market-place,
on its way to Hucknall Torkard. The mourners consisted
of Mr. Caunt (deceased's only surviving son), Robt. Caunt
(Ben's brother), Miss Caunt (his daughter), and• Miss But-
ler. Bendigo, ex-champion of England, with whom Caunt
had fought two battles, joined them at the station, ani ap-
peared much affected. Very large concourses of people
assembled to see the funeral (roughly estimated at 2,000).
The grave in which Ben's last remains were deposited is
next to that in which Mrs. Caunt, his late wife, was buried.
On Sunday, a sermon touching on the burial was preached
in the morning by the Rev. Mr. Jackson, and by the Rev.
Mr. Jackson, jun., in the afternoon. Mr. Caunt and his
uncle attended both services. Caunt's death was by no
means a sudden one. On the contrary, he had been con-
fined to his bed for five days previous to his death. Nearly
six months ago, in a row in which he was compelled to in-
terfere, one of his knuckles was put out or splintered, and
from that time he gradually sank until the time of his
death.

A SAD CONCLUSION TO A LOVE STORY.—Charles
Ross, a young man who has been for some time keeper of a
salt store in Perth, was to have been married yesterday. He
had been bred a gardener, and was above a year ago em-
ployed as such in a gentleman's place in the north of Eng-
land, where he contracted an intimacy with the laundress,
who is daughter to a gamekeeper near Wooler. After a
lengthened and seemingly affectionate correspondence, they
mutually agreed upon being married forthwith, and ac-
cordingly were proclaimed with that view in Perth on the
Ist instant. They met by arrangement in Edinburgh
on
Friday last, when Charles's father, who usually resides in
Prestonpans, and his sister, who is at service in Fife, and
was to act as bridesmaid, were requested to be present.
It would appear that the bride-elect being dissatisfied with
the proposal that she and Charles should content them-
selves with temporary quarters until they could find, or
justifiably rent, a house for themselves, upbraided her be-
trothed with bringing her away from her friends to a land
of strangers, and somewhat passionately refused to take
him for better for worse—tearing at the same time the pro-
clamation lines from his hands, that he might have no far-
ther claim, as she said, upon her. They, however, afterwards
appear to have so far made up matters, and left for Perth
in the course of the evening, with a view, as was thought,
to be married there, if the lodgings that had been pro-
vided, and other circumstances connected with the young
man's employment, met with his betrothed's satisfaction.
Such would seem not to have been the case, as Charles
wrote to his father, who is presently employed as a joiner
in town, that he was in a very miserable state of mind, and
all because of his own dear Anne, who would not listen to
reason. He added that he did not know what to do. or what
was to become of him ; but that wherever his body was found
there would be a note in his pocket containing his address
in Perth. On Wednesday be appears to have so far changed
his (Lind ; and, taking the train from Perth to Edinburgh,
wrote another brief note, while crossing from Burntisland,
to his father, saying that his body would likely be found
near Prestonpans, as he still was in a moat miserable state
of mind, all because of his dearest Anne, whom he still very
heartily forgave, and hoped that all his family would do so
too. Both notes were posted together to his father's tem-
porary address in Edinburgh. Meanwhile the young man
took the afternoon train to Prestonpans ; and on arriving
at his father's residence there, threw himself on the bed,
making some incoherent observations expressive of his 3x •
treme grief at what had befallen him. Although a medical
man was sent for, who administered something in the hope of
securing relief, poor Charles died within less thanyulun
under strong suspicions of having taken opium eelaw"—
1 utterance
to excess, begging with almost his last intelli
that his sister should wear the !jag
Anne.—Rd Courant. that wasgirabeant for his