The Sun.
London, England, 1850-08-15 00:00:00

HIGH WATER Al LONDON BRIDGE.
TRIa DAY —Morning 10 min. after 7 I Evening 36 111/11. after 7
To-Moscow— Morning 4 min. after 8 I Evening 41 min. cuter 8

THE WEATHER.—Strx OFFICE, AUGUST 15.
THERMOMETER, IN THE SHADE.
69—highest since noon yesterday.
55—lowest this morning and during the night.
66—this day, at noon.
BenomETER, 30.08.
WIND N.E.—light breeze and cloudy weather.

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LONDON, THURSDAY, AUGUST 15, 1850.

Unmitigated satisfaction will be experienced
throughout the United Kingdom in consequence of
Vie return to the Sunday delivery in the Post-office
department which we had the gratification of an-
nouncing in our impression of yesterday. The re-
storation of this system of arrangement will be
welcomed by all classes of the community not merely
as a means of securing an inestimable convenience,
but also, and in a particular, manner, as a guarantee
against numerous and most oppressive grievances .

The County Courts Extension Bill, having passed
through both Houses of Parliament, and the " diffe-
rences" having been arranged by the submission of the
Commons, may now be considered to be the law of
the land. It will at least become so on the Ist of
October next, on which day it will come into opera-
tion ; and as the long vacation, so far as the superior
courts are concerned, has already commenced, so that
no progress can be made in any suit until the 24th of
October, there can be no reason why any creditor,
or creditor's attorney, should resort to the more ex-
pensive and more dilatory tribunals to enforce
the liquidation of demands not exceeding 501. We
greatly fear, however, that the effect of the enact-
ments conferring a concurrent jurisdiction for all
sums between 201. and 501. will be to neutralize the
benefits anticipated from this just and salutary mea-
sure. The respectable, members of the profession, and
we are happy to acknowledge that there are very
many such, will undoubtedly regard the true in-
terests of their clients, and will not, unless for
sufficient cause, resort to the superior courts, when
the matter can be as fully adjudicated upon
before the inferior courts. But the sharp practi-
tioners, those who by their disgraceful proceedings
have fomented strife and brought an honourable body
into discredit and disrepute, will consider nothing
beyond the amount of emolument they can obtain for
themselves, and will only desire to swell the bills of
costs to the greatest possible amount. Although
such persons are numerically inferior to their more
worthy brethren, they more than compensate for the
paucity of their numbers by a mischievous activity.
The higher class, although they do not reject such
business, when requested by friends or connexions to
undertake it, are by no means anxious for such prac-
tice. They strongly recommend their adjustment
out of court, and will rather advise their clients to
show indulgence to debtors, or even to sacrifice a
portion of their demands, rather than proceed to im •
mediate extremities. It is only when all prospect of
an amicable arrangement is out of the question that
they at length institute proceedings, and the de-
fendants will only have themselves to blame if they
are put to costs by unfairly resisting just demands.
This laudable conduct, reflecting the highest
honour on these gentlemen, is but too often not duly
appreciated by clients. The latter frequently sacri•
flee their own interests by placing matters in impro-
per hands, to which they would be sorry to confide
any subject of real importance. There is, unfortu-
nately, a passion for litigation abroad, a desire to
have debtors against whom there may be some feeling
of irritation in their power, and thus it is that the
parties who show no mercy, who disregard the ordi-
hfeesfsoiroen a I
institutingetiq uette of
p
,to
who,the dein-
nreanrdyaupeetrov'c'ereidtiinnggs
fact, let slip no opportunity to worry and
annoy the debtor, although the creditor
may thereby lose his entire debt, are resorted to, and
obtain a large proportion of the transactions for the
recovery of small demands. We are convinced,
therefore, that a new Bill must be brought forward
neer, ye* for the amendment of the recent Act ; and,
as there ire many defects in the law formerly and
still in operation, it is most desirable that the entir.
code should be fully and maturely considered during
the recess, when our Lagislators are free from the tur-
moil of Parliamentary bustoess, and can apply their
minds without disturbance, and concentrate their

thoughts upon the subject, so as to render it as per-
fect as it can possibly be made.
A case reported in The Sun of Monday evening
affords a strong illustration of a serious evil now in
operation, which requires an immediate remedy.
Shortly before the rising of the Insolvent Court on
Saturday evening, an application was made to the
presiding Judge (Mr. Commissioner Law) to order
the discharge of a person named JOHN BROWN, who
had been committed to Whitecross-street Prison, on
the preceding Thursday, by the Judge of
the Whitechapel County Court, fur non-
payment of a debt which he had been
ordered to liquidate by instalments, although after
the judgment had been pronounced, and before any
order for committal, he had received final protection
from the Insolvent Court against all his debts, in-
cluding the one in question, of which he had ap-
prised the County Court Judge when summoned for
not continuing to pay the instalments; after some
discussion, the Learned Commissioner intimated that
" the warrant of discharge should issue when he had
a copy of the warrant of commitment and a copy of
his order in the former case."

A second collision has thus taken place between
the authorities of the Insolvent Court and the County
Courts. Such cases are ever to be deprecated, and
although we entertain no doubt whatsoever that
Commissioner LAW is fully justified in the decision
at which he has arrived, and that he could have come
to no other conclusion without sacrificing the dignity
of the Court of which he is so efficient a member,
much confusion may arise and serious annoyance be
fore the matter is finally settled. Our facetious
contemporary Punch some time since depicted the
miseries of a " Shuttlecock Pauper ;" of an unhappy
Casual,"
was
whosebandied place of settlement was disputed,
:nd who died about from workhouse to work-
house, and parish to parish, until the point should be
finally decided—
" nut right boys, or wrong,
Young or old, weak or strong,
I'm may a Casual, pass me along."
Poor JOHN BROWN'S may be even a more wretched
fate ; he may be a "Shuttlecock Debtor," spending his
time in pleasing alternations between his home and
the debtors' prison, and prevented from obtaining
employment to support his family. One day corn-
.mitted from the County Courts for non-payment of
a debt against which he is nominally "protected"
by the order of the Insolvent Court; again discharged
after a few days' imprisonment; again arrested and
again discharged; and, so on, until the question has
been finally set at rest. We cannot suppose that any
such monstrous power should be conferred upon the
Judges of the County Courts as to supersede the
decision of competent tribunals, and to disre-
gard the adjudication of the Insolvent or Bankrupt
Courts in a manner that the superior courts
of common law would not venture to emulate. Why,
we ask, should there be one law for the rich and
another for poor persons owing less than 20/. ? The
judgment of the Insolvent Court relieves the insolvent
from every denear.d, and th,:;i:cfurtli his person and
personal property is freed from aggression, at least
until a re-hearing be obtained before the same tribu-
nal by which he was discharged. In order to obtain
this boon, he is obliged to surrender all his
property, real end personal, is possession
or expectancy, a few excepted articles only being
saved which the humanity .of the law allowed
to prevent his total destitution, his being cast liter-
ally mked on the world. Why should the County
Courts be permitted to interfere with this first and
salutary law? Why subject the parties to new in-
carceration, after they had been declared by compe-
tent authority entitled to their freedom ? By the
rules of practice approved of by the Lord Chief
Baron, and four of his judicial brethren, the dis-
charge of a defendant " under any statute relating to
bankrupts, or any Act for the relief of insolvent debtors,"
is set forth as a valid defence to any new demand in
the County Courts. Why should it not also stay
proceedings on any judgments that had been previ-
ously obtained, and the amounts and particulars
whereof were duly inserted in the defendant's schedule ?

But it will not be sufficient to stop here, especially
since the jurisdiction has been so greatly extended.
The mode of recovery of County Court judgments
should be assimilated as far as practicable to those in

the Queen's Bench, Chancery, or Exchequer. An
interim protection in bankruptcy or insolvency
should as fully guard the party obtaining it from

annoyance by the officers of the minor as of the su-
perior tribunals. It has heretofore unfortunately
been considered that if an order for committal had
been issued before the " protection order," the latter
was not available against it, the former being by a
species of fiction considered as in the nature of a
"contempt of court" that was not as a matter of
course purged by payment of the demand. This ab-
surd distinction should, however, be abolished with all
convenient speed, and the judgments and orders of
the superior and County Courts placed on the same
footing, so far as the bankruptcy or insolvency of de-
fendants be concerned.

THE FRENCH REPUBLIC.

The French Government has published the follow-
ing telegraphic dispatch announcing the arrival of the
PRE9IDENT of the Republic at Dijon—

"THE PREFECT OF THE COTE D'OR TO THE MINISTER
OF THE INTERIOR.

"Dijon, Aug. 13, 8 A.M.
Republic has been admirably
Ile has made his entry into
immense crowd, who uttered
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The Legitimatists are in a state of profound conster-
nation. It appears that a communication has been
received from St. Petersburgh, announcing that the
Emperor of Russia has pronounced against any
attempt at restoring either branch of the Bourbon
fAmily, it being his determination to aid by every
method in his power in securing the Imperial Crown
for Prince Louis NAPOLEON, whose cousin, the Due
DE LE:LICHTENBERG, is the husband of 2 Russian
Archduchess.

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communication, and an agent was dispatched at once
to the Due DE BOURDEAUX at Wiesbaden.
Differences of a most serious nature have arisen
between the PRESIDENT of the Republic and General
CrIANGARtiER ; the latter is accused by. General
BARAGUAY D'HILLIERi of aspiring to the Presidency
and intriguing against the PRESIDENT of the Repub-
lic with the Assembly. General BARAGUAY D'HIL-
LIERS announces publicly that on the return of the
PRESIDENT, General CRANGARNIER will be removed
from the command of the garrison of Paris.
The fact that the PRESIDENT is accompanied in his
tour by the Count DE MONTALEINIRERT is much com-
mented on. The opinions of the PRESIDENT must
have undergone a strange alteration since
the day on which he wrote his cele-
brated letter to M. EDGAR NET,' or he
surely would not have chosen as his companion the
patron of the Inquisition, the apologist of St. Bar-
tholomew's, and the miracle-monger of the Univers.
The PRESIDENT of the Republic, by decree of the
fromaoocoorudnintrgiestoinoirVic'hoimch.
4th, declares that arrivals
the yellow fever rages may,
stances, be subjected to quarantine of from three to
ten days in the Mediterranean ports. If, during the
quarantine, no case of yellow fever should occur, the
arrivals will be admitted to free pratique ; but, if
mloanyg,edbyfoorrdteenr
sanitary onfectehsesarsyan,
days, from the termination of the last case of such
kind of sickness.
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The Council of State has decided that the Standish
Gallery and the Spanish Aluseum, in the Louvre,
are the personal propery of the ex-King Louis
PHILIPPE.

BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE
Lo!%11)0‘ snif7x,-EKCHANc,E, Au°. 14.
Anglo-Italian (late Italian and Austrian), 1— Boulogne
and 'Amiens, 714—Central of France ~Orleans andVierzon),
14/4—East Indian,7,,,—Rouen and Havre, 9%.

SPAIN.
Accounts from Madrid state that General SE/tRANO
has been appointed Captain General of Grenada.
General PAVIA has had his residence assigned to
him at Cadiz for the present.
Count Mutesol. is every day expected in Madrid
from Cuba.

GERMANY.
It is said that Itinowyrz, the President of the Col-
lege of Princes, has completely converted the Prince
of PRUSSIA to his views on the German question.
The following appears in the Reforrne of Berlin,
the semi-official journal of the Prtn,sian Ministry :
" The concurrent and nnar.imous report given in the
various journals in this city. and especially the daily-re-
p,ated t!tatt-rnei-its of the Litlibgrophie Corresp,ondencr,
have 1111,:31(2,1 Oublie opinion on the pasitiim the Mini,-
try, as tncuil one 11,i'atpc only, Mant,?utfel, was pre--
ming% fa,
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these wishes he encounters the mast unconquerable ob-
patens from his colleagues, who agree with Radowitz,

that the time for taking this step is not come. 'We will
nut to-day go again into an explanation of these
points of difference, but we are able, on the best
information, to state that"the public rumours on the
views of the Government, and particularly those re-
Irving to the union, are erroneou9. In particular, the
intentions ascribed to M. Manteuffel in opposition to his
colleagues on the subject of the union are misconceived.
el greater mistake could not be made than to suppose
that the prev riling tendency of the Government is to
temporising measures, or that its councils are wanting
in decision; the Ministerial crisis derired from such an
assumed cause has no existence. The most perfect
unanimity reigns on every sut-tj ct relating to the steps
nece:isary, and already prepared, for maintaining the
honour of Prussia, and we must add, that all which
has been said impugning the Prussian feeling
of M. Iladowi!a and his political friends is
in direct opposition to facts. We need hardly add
that the reports connected with the above relat-
ing to the views of certain high personages are utterly
untrue. The more conscientiously M. Manteuffel de-
plores the differences which on one single point exist
between him and his colleagues, the more must he un-
doubtedly regret that interweddling and frivolous
writers are flattering him as the sole guardian of Prus-
sian honour, and thereby endeavouring to bring the
royal Government into discredit. He must ask the
public to be on its guard against these injurious state-
reent, and to believe that in the breast of every member
of the Cabinet a deep and earnest concern fur the
honour and strength of Prussia is felt, and that what-
ever differences may exist in the bosom of the Govern-
ment, it will never lag behind the expectations of the
national spirit."

The Ne. ue Breslauer Zeitung contains the follow-
ing, under date Berlin, August 10 :
" Baron Haynau is surprising us by the extreme can-
dour with which he expresses Lis opinions on Austrian
affairs. After dinner, the other day, he roundly de-
clared, in the pressuce of the Austrian ambassador,
Prokiieb, that the threats of war with Prussia, ema-
nating from the Cabinet of Vienna, were not serious.
The sinews of war were wanting. The army was never
less inclined to fight against Prussians. and the attempt
to carry on such a conflict would lay Prince Schwarzen-
berg by his heels. To these and similar expressions
Baron l'rokesch was compelled to listen, but thought
well to make nu reply, doubtless finding that the com-
pany would credit the frankness of the old soldier more
than the eloquence of the diplomatist."
The Augsburg Gazette publishes the following
letter from Carlsrhue of the Bth inst. :
" 'rite court of Baden is at this moment distracted by
the divisions of the partisans of Auattia and Prussia.
Although the resolutions of the Government are taken
in favour of the latter, the former has the numerical au-
perio, ity. The departure of the troops destined for
Prussia has been suspended since the unexpected note
from Vienna, not that the Austrian Government can
tied any fault with the motives which induced the Baden
Cabinet to conclude its late military arrangements with
Prussia, but it is natural for every powerful state to hate
the sword in its oan hand rather than see itin that of a
rival. Should the Hereditary Grand Duke consent to
transfer his right of succession to his brother, Prince
Frederick, the arrangement will probably come before
the Legislature f its sanction. The King of Wurtem-
berg visited Carlsruhss on the 6th."

The Count DE CUAMDOED arrived at Wiesbaden on
the 10th.

DENMARK AND THE DUCHIES.
The following is Gsneral WILLISEN'S official re-
port of his recent affair with the Danes :
" After forcing a detachment of our troops on the 7th
install', in the afternoon, which had been sent on the ad-
vanc, near Friedrichstadt, the enemy attacked yester-
day the whole line of our posts on the Sorgbruck near
Sorgbruck, and the pa:sigo over the river, between
Stenclier-Miinle and the Bisselllake, and showed himself
in faro:; in columns of all arms. Whilst ho continued
himaclf principally in skirmishing with his light troops
itnd cannon, with our weak patrols cf cavalry and Jagers
near Sorghrucic, be *undertook a more serious attack on
the t. aiterly part of our position. The 2d Jagers per-
t:Atte:l the enemy to aivauce dose upon them, and as
soon as he commenced a more earnest [.flair the 2d Jr.-
gers, having been reinforced by the 31 Jager corps,
wade a combined charge upon this advancing f,rcn with
the bayonet, when it hastily retired by way cf the
heights of 'rangenberg, in a northerly direction upon
Alin:told, and our troops halted.
" The enemy appeared to have had a force of from
nine to twelve battalions with him, some artillery and
cavalry also, in this reconnaisance. Of this force, be-
tween five and six battalions appeared in action.
" Near Sorgbruck the enemy lost only a few wounded
men; near Stendler-Mil'ale he had ten killed and eight
wounded, of whom some fell into our hands prisoners.
One officer of high rank was said to have been seen fall-
ing by our men. The total loss of the enemy, on the
whole, in the affair, has been considerable. According
to some eye-witnesses, they were seen carrying about
90 wounded men away, so that the less must have been
about 100 men. On our part we have to regret two men
killed, and about eighteen wounded, and among the lat-
ter one officer, Lieutenant Grund, of the 10th battalion,
but slightly.
" I was an eye-witness myself of this action, and was
rejoiced to remark that the occurrence (Unfall) of
Idstedt had rather fired tko soldiers with increased
energy than otherwise. The combined attack of the 2d
and 31 Jager corps is worthy of imitation, as it was
equally crowned with success.

hilismuch, tht4cfore, ai the enemy may have had
the intention of forcing the passage of the Sorgbruck
and possessing the same, such intention has thus been
frustrated entirely.

"The General Commanding,
" VON WmusEN.
"Ilearl-quarrs, Rendsburg, Aug. 9, 1850."

CA BIS ET Coui C IL.—•-(TUIS DAY.)—The Ministers
ass-mbed in Council, this morning, at eleven o'clock,
at the Foreign-office. There were present, the Noble
Premier, the Marquis of Lansdowne, the Lord Chan-
cellor, the Earl of Carlisle, Earl Grey, the Earl of
Minto, the Marquis of Clanricarde, Sir George
Grey, Viscount Palmerston, the Chancellor of the
Exchequer, Sir Francis T. Baring, Sir John Hob-
house, and the Right Hon. Fox Maule. The
Council, after breaking up, proceeded to the Houses
of Parliament.

This morning his Royal Highness Prince Albert,
attended by Colonel Anson, visited the Duchy of
Lancaster-office, Somerset, house, for the transaction
of the usual quarterly business of the Duchy.

SHERIFF'S COURT —(THIS DAY.)
(Before Mr. Under-Sheriff BURCHELL )
PETRE V. DUNCONBE, M.P.
This was an inquiry i❑ an action brought by the Hon.
Mrs. Petre, as executrix of the Hon. Edward Petre,
against Thomas Slingsby Duncombe, M.P., to recover
the sum of 10,0001. on a guarantee give❑ by the de-
fendant in consideration of his becoming a surety in a
dee.l of annuity for the sum of 10,0001.
It appeared that the defendant raised a saw of 10,0001.
on an annuity deed granted in 1823 to Arthur Downes
of 6161. 13s. 4d. per annum. In 1832 a statement of
accounts was made out, and it then appeared that there
was a large sum due, which had been augmented from
time to time, until, with interest, it exceeded 10,0001, but
to which sum the claim was limited under the deed.
There was a clause in the deed in which defendant un-
dertoek to indemnify the Hon. E. Petro against all
damage, &c., and the only question in the case was,
whether that clause would carry interest by way of
damages.
Proof of payment was then put in.
The Learned UNDER-SHERIFF said that the clause
was only one for general damage, but he thought the
words were wide enough to carry interest.
The Learned Counsel for the defendant said that
other parties were entitled to interest, and
.Mr. Dun-
combs was quite anxious that interest should be paid if
it could be legally, and he was happy to say there were
ample funds to meet the demand.
The Learned UNDER-SHERIFF considered that it was
a question for the jury to assess the damages taking the
interest into consideration.

The jury, after hearing evidence, gave a verdict for
6,008/. 165. principal, and 3,444/. Bs. 4d. fur interest at
5 per cent.

BOW-STREET.-(THIS DAY.)
John Newman, a carver and gilder, was charged before
Mr. Hall with committing a savage assault upon John
Leader, police-constable 158 F, while in the execution of
his duty, and with rescuing a prisoner from custody.
The constable said, about half-past twelve o'clock this
morning his attention was attracted to a mob of persons
in Seven-dials, and they were creating a great disturbance.
Witness quietly desired them to disperse, when a young
man suddenly came behind him and kicked him upon the
legs. Witness took him ieto custody, and in the
struggle they both fell. While down the prisoner en-
deavoured to release the young man from witness's hold,
and feeling he could not, he deliberately kicked witness
under the left ear. The prisoner with an oath then said,
" I'll lame you for life," and kicked witness violently
upon the lower part of the abdomen. It made witness
release his prisoner. The prisoner and his companion
then made off, but witness having called loudly fur as-
sistance, the prisoner was pursued and captured.
The prisoner denied the charge.
Mr. HALL said he should mark the offence with great
severity, and he ordered him to be imprisoned for one
calendar in. litb, without the alternative of paying a fine.
The prisoner was then locked up, imploring the Ma-
gistrate to fine him to any amount, but Mr. Hall re-
fused to alter his decision.

Mr. Justice Talfourd and family, R. Bethel], Egq.,
Q.C., and family, the Rev. Mr. Ward and family, the Rev.
IL Curwen and family, embarked at the St. Kathrine's
Wharf yesterday morning on board the General Steam
Navigation Company's steam ship Triton for Ostend.
DARTMOOR Paisoris.—About 100 men are at this
time employed in preparing these prisons for occupation by
convicts; and it is expected the barracks for the military
guard will be the first completed and taken possession of.
The tradespeople resident in and near Prince Town have
found their business much augmented since the conversion
of the prisons into a convict establishment was first mooted.
We are informed by a corr.( spondent, that the wife
of a man named John P---, residing near Little Falls, was
on Monday, July 22, safely delivered of five children at one
birth, all boys, and that they, with the mother, are all doing
well. Beat this who can.—Albany Express.
W/DOW:4 AND WlDnlVEßS•—Schoolmaster—" Bill
Tompkins, what is a widow ?" Iii 11—" A widder, Sir, is a
got 00 bust:and, cattAe he.'s dead."
married woman that nsini
S.,lioolinasieru Very Weil ; haL is a widower ?"
" A li.tidercr is a in.th that runs attc the
Schoolmaster—" Well, Bill, that is not according to Johnson,
but you'll pass."

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