The Sun.
London, England, 1844-11-08 00:00:00

chiefly as an example of exaggeration-1001. worth of
rotten eggs (we suppose no one would knowingly give
101. for all the rotten eggs in the world), purchased
to pelt a Lord Mayor Why, there is not one such
egg in preparation ; and we will venture to say that
there is not a being above the most degraded class in
London, who would use such a missile upon such
an occasion, how abundantly soever they might
be provided for him. This is all mere trash, ex-
aggerated trash, but not, as the Chronicle seems
to fear, brutalising trash. The English people
are in no danger of lapsing into brutality upon such
suggestions. Even thirteen years ago, when advised
to resort to the use of " brickbats and bludgeons" in
the political contest, the Londoners at least proved
themselves " wiser than their teachers," and the in-
tervening thirteen years have not been wasted with-
out improvement.

PRIVY COUNCIL.
Yesterday a special meeting of the Judicial Com-
mittee of the Privy Council took place at the Council
Chamber, Whitehall. The Lords of the Council pre-
sent were the Vice-Chancellor of England, the Vice-
Chancellor Wigram, Mr. Baron Parke, the Judge of
the Admiralty Court, and Sir B. Bosanquet. The
meeting of their Lordships, was special for the purpose
of considering the claims of the Earl of Dundonald to
the extension of his patent for rotatory engines.
On the case being called on,
The NOBLE EARL, who appeared at the bar, ad-
dressed their Lordships stating, the nature of his in-
vention according to his specification, the great ex-
pense he had been put to in its invention, between
14,000/. and 15,000/. Added to this, the Noble Earl
observed that he had not hitherto reimbursed himself
one shilling of that expense, although the machine
had been found fully to answer in many of the public
offices. Under these circumstances the Noble Earl
prayed their Lordships, under the New Patent Act,
would further extend the existence of his patent.
Mr. WADDINGTON, on the part of the Crown, would
leave the matter entirely in their Lordships' hands,
especially as there had been no caveat entered against
the renewal.
The VICE-Cnikfccism.on of ENGLAND observed,
that as Lord Dundonald had sworn that he had not
received the return of a single shilling for the great
outlay he had made, no person could be injured by
the renewal of the patent.
Their Lordships, after some consideration, came to
the determination to advise her Majesty to extend the
patent for 14 years. This determination will, we pre-
sume, be submitted to her Majesty to-morrow in
Council.
Their Lordships, immediately upon the conclusion
of the case, broke up.

LAW INTELLIGENCE.
COURT OF CHANCERY.—Nov. i .
LORD MOYSTON V. EARL SPENCER—JUDGMENT.
The Lox]) CHANCELLOR gave judgment to-day in
this case, which was an appeal motion from the judg-
ment of the Master of the Rolls, who had refused to
suppress depositions on the ground that one of the
Commissioners, Cyndrick Lloyd, Esq., was a near re-
lation of the plaintiff in the cause, and connected with
him in business. His Lordship refused the motion,
with costs, observing that it was unnecessary in the
due administration of justice that the rule of the
Court should be strictly adhered to, to insure impar-
tiality and secrecy in the Commissioners.
EX-PARTE VAN SANDAU.
The further arguments in this part-heard bankrupt
petition occupied the Court the remainder of the day.

VICE-CHANCELLOR'S COURT, Nov. 7.
The Vice-Chancellor of England did not sit to-day,
in consequence of having to attend the Privy Council.
(Before Vice-Chancellor KNIGHT BRUCE.)
PALIN V. GATHERCOLE.

This case, which was expected to come on to-day, on
a'Jnotion to commit the defendant, was not mentioned
till the rising of the Court. The petitioner, the Rev.
W. Palin, the Rector of Stafford, Essex, and the
defendant, the Rev. Michael Augustus Gathercole,
the editor of the Churchman newspaper, who had been
ordered in contempt for disobeying an injunction that
had been granted against him. At the rising of the
Court,
Mr. JAMES Russsnn said he had a motion to make
for a committal for contempt, but as the defendant had
given a counter notice of motion to dissolve the in-
junction, he would delay his motion till that was
brought on and disposed of. It is generally believed
that the reverend defendant will defend himself, and
that the whole matter is put off till the next motion
day.

COURT OF QUEEN'S BENCH, Nov. 7.
THE BARON DE BODE V. THE QUEEN.

This was a traverse to an inquisition ou a petition of
right, which was tried at bar. The verdict had been
given on the facts for the suppliant, but the statute
of limitations had bon pleaded, and also thitt the
debt had not occurred daring the reign of her present
Majesty. On these pleas a verdict had passed fur the
Crown. The Solicitor-General had also on the first issue
requested the Court to put it to the jury whether a certain
specific sum had been paid by the Government of France
to that of England, in satisfaction of this claim of the
Baron de Bode. O❑ this issue the jury found for the
Crown. _ .

Mr. M. D. Him, now moved for a rule nisi to have
the first issue found fer the suppliant, on the ground
teat the question submitted to the jury did not arise
'rum the traverse to the inquisition, but from an allega-
tion in the petition with which the Court had nothing
to do. Also, for a rule to enter up judgment
for the suppliant, notwithstanding the finding as to the
statute of limitations, and as to the fact of the debt hav-
ing accrued in a former reign, inasmuch as the statute
of limitations did not apply to cases of petitions of right,
and that the fact of the debt having accrued in a former
reign, hal nothing to do with the matter at issue.
The COURT granted the rule on all the points.

COURT OF BANKRUPTCY, Nov. 7.
(Before Mr. Commmission GotiLBuRN.)

IN THE MATTER OF ROBERT BANNISTER, DRAPER, OF

PORTSEA.

The bankrupt, whose examination by Mr. E. James
we gave at length in our yesterday's paper, was this
lay brought up for re-examination, and when asked
if he wished to add anything to his statement respect-
ing Williams, said that he had gone that morning up
to Oxford-street, and at the Boar and Castle recog-
nised the same waiter, who distinctly recollected
seeing him (the bankrupt) there with another person,
and that person afterwards taking away goods from
the room they occupied. The waiter was then in
Court, if his Honour would examine him.
Mr. E. JAMES submitted that on the face of that
case the answers of the bankrupt had not been satis-
factory, and that therefore his Honour, in the exercise
of his duty, should give him into the custody of a
messenger of that Court. He thought that on looking
at the whole of the examination the story bore inter-
nal evidence of having been fictitiously concocted,
and he (Mr. James) was as certain that the person
Williams was an ideal personage, as that the name
Williamson, in which parcels of goods were sold, was
a name adopted for the occasion. The Learned
Counsel then recapitulated the main features of the
case, and contended that the whole account was just
such a one as a man inventing a plausible story would
relate. It was laid down in Blackstone, that a
general answer by a bankrupt that he lost, by selling
goods under prime cost, was perfectly unsatisfactory.
In his first item he specified goods sold to Moses and
Son of the value of 1,0401., but when closely pressed
he is forced to admit that he did not sell more than
7501. worth, thus saddling himself with a sum of
about 300/. Looking at the whole circumstances
under which the bankrupt stood before the Court, he
thought that his Honour would be but doing simple
justice between the creditors and the bankrupt by
ordering his committal into custody.
Mr. Lucks, in replying for the bankrupt, contended
that some limit should be applied to the term unsatis-
factory. It was well known that in the trade there
were goods known as "job goods," which were fre-
quently sold at half their value ; and, according to the
bankrupt's own statement, he met this man Williams,
who assisted him to dispose of such. The bankrupt
had affirmed the truth of that transaction upon oath,
and his Learned Friend Mr. James could only assert
that it was fictitious.

Mr. Commissioner GouLnunzi reminded the Learned
Counsel that he was not there to argue the question
of fact, but whether the answer of the bankrupt to a
certain question, or the whole tenor of his examina-
tion, was satisfactory.
Mr. LUCAS thought the very best test of the satis-
factory nature of the bankrupt's answer was its truth.
All that they were to inquire was, was there any-
thing inconsistent on the face of his statement with
what might have happened ? He thought that his
answers had been entirely consistent, and he thought
also that the Court would feel convinced that they
might have had their origin in the truth, and that
therefore it could not exercise the extreme jurisdic-
tion sought for by Mr. James.
Mr. Commissioner GOULBURN said that the case
had not occupied more time than its importance de-
served or demanded. The case was somewhat out of
the ordinary course in all its parts, and it would
therefore, he thought, be the proper course for him
briefly to review the whole proceedings. The facts
were these, and they were very extraordinary. It
appeared that he had commenced business with a
capital of 7221., and incre.iible as it might seem, he
in four months—the period which elapsed from the
commencement of his business till the date of his flat—
hld obtained goods to the amount of 17,0331. Os. 11d.,
and this, too, at a time when he was leading a most
infamous and profligate life; to use his own words—in
saloons, and theatres, and similar places—at a time
when he had depots in different parts of the country,
in Southampton, in Derby, and other places, for the
purpose of disposing of these goods to any person and
at any price. The bankrupt, it appeared, had but one
object from the first,namely,to get rid of these goods,
in
and then to enjoy
fraudulentsom foreign clime the amount
received in thisbut by the
activity of his creditors--and manner ;
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