The Sun.
London, England, 1844-03-30 00:00:00

NG, MARCH 30, 1844.,

the parties, with the view to the discovery :of the
truth relating to the matter in issue. The brief
outline we have given of the leading features of the
propsoed measure will' serve to show that, if passed,
it will be a great boon to the poorer classes of arti-
zans, small tradesmen, and shopkeepers, who will be
enabled to prosecute their claims for debts or injuries
under 151., without the apprehension of being ruined
by the expense, or worn down by the law's delay—tha
dread of which has often induced them to submit to
the loss of the debt, or to sit down under the injury,
rather than encounter the greater loss in the shape
of costs, and the uncertainty with which the issue,
caused by the protraction of the proceedings, has been
involved. The measure will also place the whole
kingdom on the same footing with respect to these
advantages. The principal cities and towns have
already availed themselves of the Act of 1839.
About forty of them have applied for, and obtained
Acts for the erection of local courts, in which debts
under 151. are recoverable by a cheap and easy process.
Mr. Hawes made an observation of great practical im-
portance, and which will well deserve the careful con-
sideration of the House when in committee on the
clause to which it relates. The Bill gives power to
issue execution against the pers.m of the debtor. The
operation of this power, invested in the Courts of Re-
quest, has given rise to serious oppression, and in-
flicted heavy burdens on the county rates. The Acts
under which these Courts were created apportion im-
prisonment in the county prison, for default of pay-
ment, at the rate of ls. per day for the amount of the
debt and costs. The persons who are subjected
to this imprisonment are, we need hardly say, the
poorest of the poor. They are maintained while
in prison at the cost of the county, and thus
inflict upon the county-rate payers an amount of
costs for their maintenance and safe custody, more
than double the amount of debt for which they are
confined. Mr. Hawes remarked—" It had been re-
commended by a Committee which sat some years
ago, that all persons proceeded against for debts
below a certain amount should be liable to an
execution against their goods. He always thought
that some general provision should be made on
that point. He should call attention to this point
when the Bill came regularly under the con- I
sideration of the House. He hoped that those
local Acts, which enacted so many days to liqui-
date a debt, would be taken into consideration,
as he was quite sure it would not only effect a
saving in the county-rates, but also put an end
to the enormous misery so frequently suffered by
families being broken up in consequence of the im-
prisonment of the head." The great objection to
limiting by law the remedy of the creditor to the
goods of his debtor, consists in the difficulty of ascer-
taining whether the poor person who applies for
credit has furniture, or any other description of goods,
properly his own property, so as to be available to meet
the process of the Court. Sir J. Graham remarked :
If to have credit was advantageous to the poor (of which
he was not quite convinced) he was very much afraid
that unless there was a remedy against the person, credit
would be stopped." If imprisonment could be ren-
dered of any advantage to the creditor, in such cases,
by obtaining for him the payment of his claim, there
would be some reason for depriving the debtor of his
liberty. But this is impossible. The trader has the
remedy in his own hands. Where there are not
visible means of payment, he can refuse credit.
If he thinks there are, and is deceived by ap-
pearances, he had better regard it as a bad debt, and
forego his claim, than pursue his debt for the mere
purpose of incarcerating his person, and thus break
up his family, compel them to seek refuge in the
workhouse at the expense of the parish, while the
m: in himself is maintained out of the county-rate.
3t false pretence, for the purpose of obtaining credit,
lv punished as a fraud; but where a trifling amount
txf Idebt has been incurred, as a simple contract be-
tween the parties, and there is no property upon
vihich to levy execution, the practice of imprisonment
is, to say the least of it, extremely impolitic, if it be
not unnecessarily severe.
STANDARD.—For forty years the Whig party
has been essentially a persecuting party—we use the
phrase in a strict sense, as describing a party
mean and malignant enough to hunt out indi-
viduals frequently very humble and obscure
individuals against whom to direct the whole
power of the party, be it much or little, for the
;purpose of injuring or destroying the selected victim.
The only opportunity of indulging the persecuting
disposition, however, arises when the person to be in-
jured happens to be promoted or otherwise favoured
lay the advisers of the Crown, for happily, in social
I life, party has no power, and this opportunity has
the recommendation, that persecutors may invest
%emselves with pretences of care for the public
3Nood, and indulge their spite under the cloak
u.f. :patriotism. The memory of most readers will
supply numerous instances in which the Whigs
have resorted to the expedient, but we challenge
% single example of a recourse to it on the part
of Tories or Conservatives. And let us remark
Dy the way, that this contrast alone decides the
question which party is composed of gentle-
men—generous men, and men of honour—and
ii hich is not. The Whigs attack the individual,
n o matter how humble his rank—no matter how
stal the attack may be to the interests of
an innocent and meritorious man and to the
living of his family ; and in this way they
have directly ruined many better men than
themselves, and indirectly ruined more by
rendering it intolerably embarrassing, if not
impossible, for the opposite party to pay their
debts to their most zealous and useful, who are
always their least discreet and most uncom-
promising, friends.MA Tory or Conservative Go-
'vernment might safely confer patronage upon a
-worthless lukewarm hanger-on, but woe be to it
of it should dare to aid a bold and efficient friend—
a motion in Parliament would be the inevitable
consequence; and to men overworked, as Ministers
are overworked, such a casual addition to their toil is
no light matter. This has, however, one good effect,
that a Conservative Government will find its more
prominent supporters only in men of independent minds.
:The Conservative party, on the other hand, scorns
`to strike at individuals. Its adversaries, when in
-power, are free to promote whom it shall please them,
except they insult the public by offering to notice
some one marked with a stigma as scandalous as the
executioner's brand. We again challenge an instance
in which a Tory or Conservative has ever complained
iKif the appointment to office of any man of generally
lair character, solely on the ground of his political
popinions.

RAILWAY BUSINESS IN PARLIA
MENT.
FRIDAY, MARCH 29. _

Guildford Junction Rails;-ay Bill, read a third time and
passed.
Norwich and Brandon Railway Bill, read a third time and
passed.
Midland Railways Consolidation Bill, report considered,
amendments agreed to, and Bill to be engrossed.
York and Scarborough Railway Bill, read a third time
(Queen's consent signified), and Bill passed.
Delabole and Rock Railway Bill, order for reading the Bill
a second time read and discharged, and Bill withdrawn.
Delabole and Rock Railway, No. 2, reports from Select
Committees on petitions for private Bills and on Standing
Orders read, and another Bill ordered to be brought in by
Sir John Yarde Buller, Mr. Pendarves, and Mr. Trelawny.
Newquay Harbour and Railway Bill reported, and re-com-
mitted to the former Committee.

Taff Vale Railway Bill, read a second time, and committed
o and referred to the Committee of Selection.

South-Eastern, Canterbury, Ramsgate, and Margate Rail-
• lay Bill, reported, and report to lie on the table ana to be
p rinted.

STATE OF TRADE.

FOREIGN WOOL TRADE.-LEEDS, MARCH 29.-

The Foreign Wool Market has not this week been
. quite so animated as we have noticed during the last
iew weeks, although some tolerably extensive sales
1 lave been effected. In respect to prices, the im-
mession seems now pretty general that dere is no
mobability of their being lower, for some months to
:ome at least, than at present.
ENGLISH WOOL MARKET, LEEDS, MARCH 29.
k. tales of combing wools during the present week have
b een limited. Prices are quoted about the same in
is ist week. We have not any alteration to notice as
Q lothing wools.
WAKEFIELD WOOL MARKET, MARCH 29.—We
lv ve this week to report a few transactions in comb-
is kg wools, principally in the best class of hogs, and
hi If and wether skins at former quotations; other de-
Sc rip does are firm, but nothing doing in them of im-
p( )rtit ace. The demand for blanket and low clothing
•oot ; is steady, and prices firm.
LY &EDS, MARCH 29.—There has been rather more
hwsi ness done at our cloth halls this week than last,
zr id there have also been considerable deliveries of
:goo ds to order during the week, particularly to houses
wv h o are in the shipping trade. The market is very
t din of goods of low qualities, and prices are still
1. ooking up, whilst fine goods continue dull of sale,
s vithout any alteration in prices. There has also been
a little improvement in business, in the warehouses,
with the houses connected with the home trade, and
the shipping houses are busier than for some years, at
the same period of the year.
.E ;RADFORD MARKET, THURSDAY.—In the Piece
may icet there is not quite so much doing by the Ger-
i nal i houses, who appear to be getting in their orders
ft. q• the Leipzic spring fair, commencing at Easter.
Bo: •ers for other markets are tolerably active, and on
the whole a satisfactory business is doing. Yarns are
not so brisk as a few weeks past, nor can old rates be
ma intained. Wool continues in slow request, and at
no urinal prices.
MANCHESTER, THURSDAY EVENING.--We have
hi 4 d a week of great depression in our cloth market.
n. d prices are lower even since Tuesday, with a cer-
tai my of things going still lower. The demand for
sh eetings on China account is still good, and prices
rather higher. Till the Liverpool market has gained
W hat is fancied the lowest point, we shall have, it is

thought, very little doing. Twist is operated upon
exact;37 like cloth. Prices are lower, with sales of
the must limited description.

THE FACTORIES BILL DIVISIONS
ANALYSED.
Government. Lord Ashley.
No. 1. Monday, March 18 172 181
2. Ditto
3. Friday, March 22 ......
4. Ditto
(Tellers included.)
In each of the four divisions
141 voted uniformly with Government 110401 CT.,oil)i:reraTsatives
139 voted uniformly with Lord Ashley { 7645 Conservatives
No. 1. No. 2.
Govt. Ashley.
141 139

Govt. Ashley.
Throughout
Not again 5 5
Absent, No. 2 only
Ditto 3 and 4
Govt. 1,2, 4, Ashley 3 1
Govt. 2, Ashley 1,3, 4 — 1

No. 3.

12 23
1 -
1 -

155 163
No. 4.
Govt. Ashley,
141 139
1
30 30
13 13
1I 1

Throughout
Not again ..
Absent, 1 and 2
Ditto 2
Govi. 1,2, 4, Ashley 3 ...
Govt. 2, Ashley 1,3, 4
Absent 1,2, Govt. 4,Ashley 3

Govt. Ashley.
. 141 139
. 1
. 30 30
. 13 13

185 188

190 183

The peculiar votes were— -
(Those to whom 1- is prefixed are Conservatives.)
Government—Nos. 1,2, and 4. Lord Ashley-3.
W. Aldam (Leeds)
Government—No. 2. Lord Ashley-1, 2, and 4.
J. Collett (Athlone)
Absent-1 and 2. Ashley-3. Government-4.
t M. Archdall (Fermanagh)
W. Ewart (;Dumfries)
J. Martin ( Tewkesbury)
t G. Palmer (South Essex)
On the first division, and not again—
With Government. Lord Ashley,
Bellew, R. M. Barclay, D.
t Dick, Q. Bulkeley, Sir R. B. W.
1- Master, T. W. C. t Chapman, A.
Paget, Lord W. t Round, C. G.
Scrope, G. P. Sturt, H. C.
On the second division, and not again—
Hastie, A.
On the third division, and not again—
'!" Jolliffe, Sir W.
On the fourth division, and not again—
'!" Shirley, E. J. (Warwickshire)
Absent on the second division only, otherwise uniformly
voting with—
Government (13)
t Fielden, W.
Hastie, A.
Langston, J. H.
Leader, J. T.
t Mackenzie, T.
t Mildmay, H. St. John
t Neeld, Joseph
t Pollock, Sir F.
t Reid, Sir J. R.
Tancred, H. W.
t Trench, Sir F.
t Vivian, J. E.
Wall, C. B.
Present on the first night, a
voted with—
Government (12)
Bowring, Dr.
Dawson, Hon. T. V.
Dennistoun, J.
-1- Duffield, T.
Elphinstone, It
Hobhouse, Hon. Sir J. C.
Hume, Joseph
j- Manners, Lord J. C.
Norreys, Sir D. J.
t Owen, Sir J.
Pattison, J.
Shelburne, Lord

Lord Ashley (13)
Bannerman, A.
Browne, Hon. W.
Dalrymple, Captain
t Douglas, Sir Howard
t Eaton, R. J.
Hall, Sir 'B.
Hatton, Captain V.
t Marton, G.
t Miles, P. W. S.
t Smith, Abel
Standish, C.
Staunton, Sir G. T.
Stewart, John
tbsent on the second, but had

Lord Ashley (23)
t Astell, W.
Byng, Hon. G. S.
Cresswell, B.
t Duncombe, Hon. H.
Emlyn, Viscount
t Gladstone, Captain J. N.
t Goring, C.
Grimston, Viscount
t Hayes, Sir E.
t Hope, Alexander
t Legh, G. C.
t Lowther, J. H.
t Maxwell, Hon. J. P.
Murray, Alexander
t Newport, Viscount
Paget, Lord Alfred
t Pennant, Hon. Colonel
Russell, Lord John
Smith, Right Hon. R. V.
t Smollett, A.
t Trotter, J.
Vivian, J. H.
t Wortley, Hon. John
mesent on the second.
Voted with Lord Ashley (30).
t Adare, Viscount
t Adderley, C. B.
Aglionby, H. A.
t Baskerville, T. B. M.
Berkeley, Hon. (Glouces.)

Absent on the first night;
Voted with Government (30).
t Affix, J. P.,
t Arbuthnot, Hon. H.
t Bailey, J.
t Bell, M.
t Blackburne, J. I.
t Buller, Sir J. Y.
t Cartwright, W. N.
Charteris, Hon. F.
Currie, R.
t Follett, Sir W.
t Hamilton, W. J.
Hayter, W. G.
t Heatheote, Sir W.
t Irving, W.
t Lascelles, Hon. W. S.
Marjoribanks, T.
t Maunsell, T. P.
Morrison, James
Ord, W.
t Powell, Colonel
Rous,Hon. Captain

Russell, C. -
t Seymour, Sir H.
t Sheppard, T.
t Stuart, H.
Villiers, Hon. C.

Butler, -Hon. CO-1.
Carew, Hon. R. S.
f Colvile, C. R.

Denison, W. J.
t D'lsraeli, B.
Douglas, J. D.
t Egerton, Sir P.
Fello west E.
t Ferrand, W. B.
Fitzroy, Lord C.
Grosvenor, Lord R.
Halford, Sir H.
Heathcote, G. J.
Hervey, Lord A.
Howard, Hon. E. (Mor-
peth)
t Knight, F. W.
Macaulay, Rt. Hon. T.B.
Macnamara, Major
t Mordaunt, Sir J.
Newdigate, C. N.
t Newry, Viscount
O'Connell, D.
O'Connell, M. J.
Scholefield, J.
Stanton, W. H.

t Waddington, H. S.
Ward, H. G.
Wrightson, W. B.
t Yorke, Hon. T. E.

FRIDAY NIGHT'S GAZETTE.
NOTICES OF INSOLVENCY.
W. Mayler, publican, Chester.
F. Crook, wine and porter agent, Great Marylebone-street.
G. Wallis, saddler, Oxford.
H. Tovey, coach lamp manufacturer, Bristol.
J. Ingram, author, Greenwich.
H. Mahomed, bath proprietor, Little Ryder-st., Westminster.
W. Godwin, lmendraper High-street, Stoke Newington.
T. Thompson, farmer, Birmingham.
F. Rumble, artist, Battersea.
A. Jenkins, fishmonger, Ryde, Isle of Wight.
H. Newman, bricklayer, Clapham-road, Surrey.
D. Offord, cutler, Great Yarmouth, Norfolk.
E. Snell, chemist, Caistor, Lincolnshire.
R. D. M'Manus, surgeon Wilson-street, Gray's Inn-rood.
E. Boothroyd, innkeeper, Huddersfield.
T. Hasler, japanner, East-street, Finsbury-market.
T. Finley, sen , High-street, Newington-butts.
W. Denniff, fruiterer, Sheffield.
T. C. Varley, mattress-manufacturer, Sheffield.
W. Crowther, cloth manufacturer. Calverley, Yorkshire.
D. Long, clothier, Guiseley, Yorkshire.
T. Newell, beerseller, Calverley, Yorkshire.
M. Snow, boarding-housekeeper, Liverpool.
F. C. Gruneisen,,lie.ensed victualler, Thanet-st., St. Pancras.
E. Cooke, licensed victualler, Masborough, Yorkshire.
J. Shinton, beer seller, Fish-hill, Worcestershire.
R. Wells, carpenter, Brewer's-green, Westminster.
J. Crawford, omnibus proprietor, Princes-street, Maids-hill.
T. Pagden, St. Thomas-street, East, Southwark.
S. Drew, cabinet maker, Wakefield.
J. Kibble, proctor's clerk, Peckham-grove, Camberwell.
W. Bethwick, furniture broker, Tottenham-court-road.
T. Standen, biscuit baker, Hastings.
SECOND NOTICES.
G. Doust, Tonbridge, April 4, at one, at the Court of Bank-
ruptcy. Belcher, official assignee.
J. Jones, shoe-maker, Devonshire-street, Queen-square,
April 4, at half-past one, at the Court of Bankruptcy.
Belcher, official assignee.
R. Smith, clerk, Seckford-street, Clerkenwell, April 4, at
one, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Belcher, official assignee.
C. Nurse, plane-maker, Maidstone, April 6, at half-past
eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Groom, official assignee.
W. Cooper, baker, Ryde, Isle of Wight, April 6, at eleven,
at the Court of Bankruptcy. Edwards, official assignee.
F. Farrar, attorney, Trafalgar-square, New Peckham, April
13, at eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Edwards, official
assignee.
E. Brown, surgeon, Paradise-street, Lambeth, April 4, at
one, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Pennell, official assignee.
11. Bremridge, boot-maker, Hampton Middlesex, April 6, at
eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy. drown, official assignee.
C. Johnson, fancy warehouseman, Gloucester-terrace, Alile-
end, April 6, at eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Groom
official assignee.
M. Westphal, Woodstock-street, Hanover-square, April 6, at
eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Edwards, official assignee.
W. Kington, High-street, Newington, April 2, at one, at
the Court of Bankruptcy. Follett, official assignee.
J. Newman, coachman, Thornhill, Bridge-place, Battle-
bridge, April 4, at one, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Belcher
official assignee.
G. Riekwor d, surgeon, Bedford, April 3, at half-past twelve,
at the Court of Bankruptcy. Johnson, official assignee.
J. Davies, carpenter, April 3, at one, at the Liverpool Div
trict Court. Bird, official assignee.
W. Audley, cart-owner, Liverpool, April 3, at eleven, at the
Liverpool District Court. Cazenove, official assignee.
G. Parish, butcher, Kingswinford, Staffordshire, April 3, at
the Birmingham District Court. Valpy, official assignee.
T. Barton, licensed victualler, Burslem, Staffordshire, April
4, at twelve, at the Birmingham District Court. Whitmore,
official assignee.
T. Leach labourer, Rochdale, April 3, at twelve, at the
Manchester 'District Court. Pott, official assignee.
W. Clogg, Duloe, Cornwall, April 11, at eleven, at the Ex-
eter District Court. Hirtiel, official assignee.
R. W. Mapowder, Dawlisk, Devonshire, April 10, at eleven,
at the Exeter, District Court. Hemmen, official assignee.
C. Manning. tailor, South Molton, April 10, at half-past
eleven, at the Exeter District Court. Hernaman, official as-
signee.
Z. G. Baker, tailor, Topsham, Devonshire, April 17, at
twelve, at the Exeter District Court. Hirtzell, official assignee.
J. Stammers, Totnea, Devonshire, April 4, at eleven, at the
Exeter Di4trict Oourt. Hernarnan, official assignee.
T. Chatwin, brasier, Birmingham, April 3, at half-past ten,
at the Birmingham District Court. Bittleston, official assignee.

DIVIDENDS.
At the Court of Bankruptcy, Basinghall-street.
J. Oliver and J. York, bankeis, Stony Stratford, Bucking..
hamshire, April 19, at half-past one—T. E. Rowley, draper,
Oxford-street, April 19, at eleven—H. Woad, bookseller,
Fleet-street, April 19, at twelve—S. Martin, grocer, Shore-
ditch, April 19, at half-past eleven—G. Whitehead,
.printer,
Fleet-street, April 30, at half-past eleven.
In the Country.
T. Berridge, tobacconist, Manchester, April 19, at twelve,
at the Manchester District Court—J. Murray and W. Brown,
millwrights, Liverpool, April 23, at" twelve, at the Liverpool
District Court—D. Rowlands, watch-maker, Pwllheli, Carnar-
vonshire, April 19, at half-past twelve, at the Liverpool Dis-
trict Court—T. Rodham, grocer, Newcastle-neon-Tyne April
23,at eleven, at the Newcastle-upon-Tyne District Court—
G. Walton, wine-merchant, Stockton-on-Tees, Durham, Apri I
23, at one, at the Newcastle-upon-Tyne District Court—J.
Bowman, hatter, Carlisle, April 23, at twelve, at the Newcas-
tle-upon-Tyne District Court—T. Hobson, draper. Carlisle,
April 22, at half-put one, at the Newcastle-upon-Tyne Dis-
riot Court.

CERTIFICATES to be granted, unless cause be shown to the
contrary, on the day herein-mentioned.
J. Oliver, J. York, and R. Harrison, iron-masters, Tipton,
Staffordshire, April 19, at two—J. Oliver and J. York, bank-
ers, Stoney Stratford, Buckinghamshire, April 19, at two—T.
H. Giles, omnibus proprietor, Bow, April 23, at twelve—J.
Bohn, bookseller, King William-street, April 23, at eleven--
J. Sherwood, stationer, Wood-street, Cheapside, April 30, at
eleven—G. Walton, wine-merchant, Stockton-upon-Tee.,
April 22, at half-past eleven—T. Rodham, grocer, Newcastle-
upon-Tyne, April 22, at half-past twelve—J. H. Bury, ship.
owner, Liverpool, April 23, at twelve—T. Norman, farmer,
Penketh, near Warrington, April 23, at twelve—T. Nut tall,
pork-butcher, Rochdale, April 22, at twelve—T. W. vine,
carpenter, Peerless-row, City-road, April 19—F. B. Court..-
nay, bookseller, Great Marlborough-street, April 19—.1. Bell,
ship-owner, Greenfield, Northumberland, April 19—T. Kim-
ber, farmer, North Cerney, Gloucestershire, April 19—J: A.
Holmes, merchant, New Broad-street, April 19.
PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED.

E. Croser and R. Poole, coal-merchants, Southampton—J.
Binns and J. Hoyle, washing-liquor manufacturers, Halifax—
J. Cottam and C. R. Kelbam, colonial brokers, Mincing-lane
—R. Ellice, G. Kinnaer, G. Forsyth, W. Ellice, and R. El-
lice, merchants, Leadenhall-street (so far as regards R. Ellice)
—T. Read and W. Read, tobacco manufacturers, Manchester
—N. Godfrey and N. S. Godfrey, vinegar merchants, Bank-
side, Southwark—C. Irving and W. Willett, publishers, Hel-
met-court, Strand—J. Kaye and J. Teesdale, brewers, Leeds
V. Bohain, Vouillon, F. Pinault, C. Hubert, T. V. Raby, Le
Batard, C. Armand, J. B. Desplaces, publishers, Wellington-
street, Strand—C. Jacobson and J. Huntingdon, brush-manu-
facturers, Liverpool—J. James and F. James, ironfounder.,
Walsall—E. Downes, E. Downes, and M. Leake, innkeepers,
Shrewsbary—G. Hedley and J. Hope, coach-builders, Halifax
—J. Tidd and W. Mei cer, merchants, Kingston-upon-Hull—
J. M'Call, T. M'Gill, C. M'Call, T. M'Call, J. 0. M'Call,
merchants, Glasgow (so far as regards C. M'Call—J. Osborn
and H. Elliott, cutlery manufacturers, Sheffield--J. W.
Hentig and J. Pensam, wine-merchants, Portugal-street,
Lincoln's Inn-fields—B. Best and C. Best, coal-merchants,
St. John-street, Clerkenwell—W. Lock and J. Lock, farmers,
Taunton.

SCOTCH SEQUESTRATIONS.
DUNCAN M'INTYRE, merchant,. Easdale, Argyleshire,
April 3 and 24, at two, at the Caledonian Hotel, Oban.
WILLIAM FORREST, wine-merchant, Edinburgh, April
6, at twelve, and April 30, at two, at Stevenson's Sale-rooms,
Edinburgh.
HEMSWORTH and Co., distillers, Kirkcaldy, April 4
and 25, at one, at Smith's Barbour-head Inn, Kirkcaldy.
PETER DAWSON, merchant, Dundee, April 3 and 24,
at two, at the Royal Hotel, Dundee.
JOHN GORDON GULLAN, teacher, Glasgow, April 5
and 26, at two, at the chambers of Alexander Fleek, Glasgow.
PRICE OF SUGAR.

The Average Price of Brown or Muscovado Sugar, for the
week ending March 26, 1844, is 365. Id. per cwt., exclusive
of the Duties of Customs paid or payable thereon on the im-
portation thereof into Great Britain.

ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE.
NORFOLK ClRCUlT.—Norwich, March 28.
(Before Mr. ANDREWS, Q.C.)
Mr. Andrews took his seat in Court at ten o'clock this
morning, and assisted the Learned Judges in trying prisoners.
The following case, which excited very great interest in the
city, was tried before him :
A DRAMATIC CIRCLE. —James Henry Mungard, comedian,
aged 26, was indicted for feloniously intermarrying Rosina
Salmi., his former wife, Kathleen, being alive at the time.
Mr. Worlledge conducted the prosecution ; Mr. Prender-
gast and Mr. W. Cooper the defence.
The prisoner is an actor, and has figured with more credit
to himself than he did to-day on the stage of mimic life in
this city, where he has for some time past been a member of
the corps dramatigue. He is a good-looking young man, and
in the year 1836 he won the affections of a Miss Kathleen
Fry, the daughter of a clergyman in London, to whom lie
was married in the month of March in that year. For
some reason, not explained by the evidence, he and his wife
separated five or six months after their marriage, and the
lady and her mother went to Paris, where she formed a con-
nexion with a M. Ammon, a Frenchman, with whom she
lived for two years, and until his death, after which she and
her mother went to reside in Belgium. In 1839, a Mr.
Saker, also a comedian, was in Norwich with his daughter,
Miss Rosina, and an attachment sprang up betwixt her and
the prisoner. which ended in their marriage in that city in
the month of February, 1840. A very short time after this
Second union of the prisoner, a rumour of his first marriage
and of his first wife being still alive got abroad, and came to
the ears of Mr. Saker and his daughter, and rendered them
very unhappy. The prisoner was taxed with the fact, and
at length admitted that he had been married, but asserted
that his wife was not living, that she died abroad, and via::
buried in Italy. Remembering, however, that the prisoner
had married his daughter as a " bachelor," and not as a
widower, this assertion by no means satisfied or convinced
Mr. Saker, and he forthwith set inquiries on foot for the pur-
pose of ascertaining the true state of the case. Whilst these
inquiries were going on, the prisoner went to Belgium, and
saw Mrs. Fry, the mother of his first wife, and shortly after-
wards Mrs. Fry wrote three or four letters to the second
" Mrs. Mungard," or Miss Saker, informing her that she
might make herself quite easy about the matter, as her
daughter, the first wife, died in Italy, " and was buried
at Naples in unconsecrated ground." The letter it
which that alleged fact was announced stated that
in Italy the Roman Catholic was the only religion that
was tolerated, and that nobody whose religious faith was not
that of the tolerated religion was permitted to be buried in
consecrated ground, which was the reason why Mrs. Mun-
gard was buried in ground unconsecrated." This circum-
stantial untruth satisfied the:fears of the Sakers for a while.
Mrs. Fry also wrote to inform Miss Saker that she had
heard that her daughter was married at the time of her
union with the prisoner, to a Mr. Livian, a person who had
the misfortune to be transported for forgery, but it appeared
that she never was married to him. Mrs. Fry admitted
that she wrote the letters informing the prisoner's second
wife that his first was dead before his second marriage,
and buried at Naples " in unconsecrated ground," and that
that was false, she being still alive ; but she said she wrote:
them at the dictation of the prisoner, who went down on
his knees to her and implored her, in that attitude, to
write them. Afterwards, however, some disputes arose
betwixt the prisoner and Mrs Fry, in reference to an allow
ance for the maintenance of her daughter, and then the mat-,
ter was cleared up, and the existence of the first wife very
satisfactorily shown.
The Learned JUDGE summed up the evidence, and told
the jury that if they believed Mrs. Fry upon her oath, he
could not suggest a doubt of the prisoner's guilt. It was not
necessary for the prosecutor to show that the prisoner knew
at the time he was married to Miss Saker, and when
he represented himself as a bachelor, that his former wife was
living; it was sufficient to prove the fact of her being alive.
The jury found the prisoner Guilty, and he was sentenced'
to be imprisoned for four calendar months.