The Sun.
London, England, 1826-07-29 00:00:00

CITY.

The accounts from the manufacturing districts show
as yet no mitigation of distress. We are gratified at
learning, however, from an individual likely to be well
informed, that the attention of Ministershas of late been
very seriously occupied with this subject, and that they
have determined on appropriating a considerable sum
from the Treasury for the relief of the unhappy per-
sons who are rendered wholly destitute by/the present
calamity. Neither the made nor the extent of the re.
Itlef have yet, we believe, been decided on ; but that
this case is an exception to the common rule that a
Government cannot usefully interfere in relieving the
wants of the people, is,. we hear, fully admitted. In-
fonnation has been received by Government, founded
on pretty accurate data, that
in Lancashire alone there
are at this moment near 800,000 human creatures who
are absolutely without employment.
In the Colonial Market, appearances continue to be
somewhat more favourable, but demand is not very
extensive in any one article, The holders seem gene-
rally to abstain from selling under the impression that
prices have nearly reached their lowest point, and that
the present abundance of money will invite speculation,
by which a portion at least of their recent losses may
be retrieved.
fromA a
All those capitalists who hope to derive advantage
rise of Prices, whether of goods or of funded
pr?perty, urge with all their influence, both on the
Directors of the Bank and on ters,such measures
as are likely to make mossyy
still
rxulchmo more abundant. They
look to the formation of
B ks as one of the
most important of these measures, with
pecuhar inte-
rest, and, as those come into operation,. will
seek to get others introduced, whose tendency will equally be to increase the circulation. If, however, We may be-
lieve the accounts from Gloucester, the system works
very slowly, the Ilranch Bank there having scarcely
had a single application fox discount since it was an-
flounced that business had commenced.-- Times.

The Gazette of last night does not contain any
army promotions ; nor indeed any matter worth copy-
ing, except a short list of Members returned to Par-
liament, and a very limited number of bankrupts.
We understand that Mr. Murray has . disposed of
the property or the Pepresentative to the Proprietors
with which paper it will be united
tlthe New Times,
after the present week.
A remarkable fine male Ostrich, producing both
the
the black and white feathers, was last week added to
Menagerie, Exeter Change. It is many
years since one was exhibited there before. It is a
bird that almost every body knows by name, but we
will venture to say thousands of persons have no real
idea of the bird itself ; suffice it to say it is the largest
in the creation, being upwards of nine feet high, and
Weighs more than two hundred weight, and Ards a
noble treat to'-the numerous visitors t
a this truly grand
establishment. We sincerely hope, in the new improve-
n.)ente of the metropolis, some more appropriate situa-
en will be allotted to the indefatigable proprietor
two_ enable
. him to display them to more advantage,
inch the British public have long been desirous of
seeing carried into effect.

LAW INTELLIGENCE.

COURT OF CHANCERY..—(Tat: MT.)
FRACTICI IN THE ACCOUNTANT-GENERAL'S OFFICE.

It will be recollected that a few days ago we reported
a statement made by Mr. Horne to this effect :—An or-
der was made by the Court below on a petition, directing
the Accountant-General to transfer a sum of money; a
petition of appeal was immediately presented to this branch
of the Court, which his Lordship answered for the next
day of petitions. The appellant left a copy of that ap-
peal in the Accountant-General's Office, and without any
order restraining the transfer, the Accountant-General re-
fused to pay over the money. Upon this statement being
made by Mr. Horne, on the behalf of the party entitled
to have the transfer by the decree, the Lord Chancellor
said, that the Accountant-General was not authorised to
refuse making the transfer.
This was communicated to the Accountant-General, who
attended at a quarter before ten o'ciock in the hall to-
day, stating that it was necessary he should see the Chan-
cellor. Mr. Horne arrived in Court before the little King
found admittance to the Lord Chancellor, to whom the
Accountant-General communicated his object. He said,
that he had made strict enquiry into this point of practice,
and found that for the last twenty-five years the transfer
of money in his office had always been stayed by the pre-
senting of a petition of appeal, and if that practice were
now to be altered, he certainly should require the direct
order of the Lord Chancellor to that effect.

Mr. Horne, sans ceremonie told him he certainly was
much surprised to hear such a statement. It was a perfect
matter of course when a petition of appeal was presented
to the Lord Chancellor, for his 'Lordship to answer it, and
if the practice the Accountant-General contended for was
to be obtained, the result would be, that in every case where
money was ordered to he paid out of Court just before
the recess, by any branch of the Court, the unsuccessful
party would only have to present a petition of appeal, and
by that means the fund would unavoidably be locked up
the whole of the long vacation. If the Accountant-General
could under such circumstances stay the transfer of money,
he certainly would be a much greater man than the Lord
Chancellor; but if he did so in a case in which he (Mr.
Horne) was a party, in whose favour the transfer had been
ordered, and if any thing were lost by the falling of the
funds between the staying of the transfer and the order
for payment, upon the hearing of the appeal, he should
unquestionably bring an action against him for the loss.
Mr. Harvey said, when that happened, he should give
Mr. Horne his bond for the amount of the loss.
The Accountant-General then had an interview with
the Chancellor, in his private room, and upon
His Lordship's ei.ing the Court he addressed himself
to Mr. Horne thusWThe Accountant-General has been
with me, Mr. Horne, upon the matter of that order of
transfer, you did me the favour to speak about; and I find
from him, that the practice of the office, without interrup-
tion, has been, for about thirty years, that where an order
is made on a motion to transfer money, upon notice of an
appeal being given to stay the transfer of the money, the
order is stopped.
Mr. Horne—The order was made upon a petition.
Ilis Lordship--I mean, upon a petition; but it is the
same thing: for about thirty years together, where money
is ordered to be paid, or a fund transferred, where notice
of an appeal is given, the practice in the office has been to
stay the order on the petition or the motion. I put this
to the Accountant-General. The practice is very sin-
gular, if it be so, because, if there be a decree, and that de-
cree orders money to be paid or a fund transferred, this
Court does not stay proceedings under that decree upon
mere notice of an appeal from the decree, but upon a mo-
tion to stay the proceedings. The practice, however,
has been different for 30 years, in the Accountant-Gene-
ral's Office ; and it appears to me, that the Court must
give some orders to the Office, either to establish, Or to
alter that practice. But I cannot see any difference be-
tween staying proceedings in the Accountant-General's
Office, and proceedings under a decree in this Court. If
that be so, and this Court will refuse to stay the proceed-
ings under a decree, how can you reconcile that principle
with what is done in the Accountant-General's Office ?

Mr. Horne—Your Lordship will recollect too, that the
payment of money is almost always ordered upon a motion
or a petition.
His Lordship—l told-Mr. Harvey I should mention it
in Court this morning, and, that unless I heard something
stated to me in Court, which had not occurred to myself, I
should send him a rule to the office on Monday. Where
there is a decree ordering payment, or transfer, then the
Accountant-General himself admits, that they don't stay the
payment or transfer without a notice of motion to stay the
proceedings having been given ; and that they go farther
than that, for they take upon themselves to judge (and,
perhaps very properly so) whether that notice of motion
was or was not regularly followed up.
• Mr. Horne—My Lord, I felt peculiarly satisfied to have
occasion to mention this point of practice—a most im-
portant point to the public, when a gentleman was in the
office, so well calculated to fill it, and so anxious to act
correctly as Mr. Harvey was; and, therefore, I hope
that that officer will not imagine this was intended as a
complaint *against him.
His Lordship—No, no; he has no notion of that sort,
lam quite sure. But finding this to have been the prac-
tice in the office for thirty years, he did not like to alter
it without an application to me ; and if any thing occurs to
any gentleman at the bar, in the course of this day, upon
the dissimilarity of the practice, I shall feel greatly obliged
to hear it.

Nothing, how Over, was stated further upon it in the
course of the day that .we heard.

cArrs V. HUTTON.

His Lordship stated that he had considered this case,
and his opinion was, that the Vice Chancellor's opinion
ought to be confirmed, which he accordingly did. The
Vice Chancellor refused the granting. of the Injunction to
restrain the defendant from practising as an Attorney
within ten miles of Epworth, where his late principals
practised, agreeable to a stipulation in his articles, on the
ground that it was the duty of the principals to have ten-
dereil a proper bond to the defendant to that effect, for
his execution, upon his attaining the age of 21 years.
Mr. Bickersteth applied for the costs as against the
plaintiffs.
His Lordship ordered the costs of the appeal. By this
decision the defendant is relieved from the obligation in
his articles.
His Lordship desired just to observe further, that he
had perceived there had been a misunderstanding in what
had been sent forth to the world in this case' when it was
last before him. It had been reported, that he had inti-
mated, an attorney could not be limited to practice in any
place.ParticelareourtofN K
owiug
thisis hedid not presume to intimate,
after theßench had decided to the
contrary.