The Sun.
London, England, 1828-11-13 00:00:00

LAW INTELLIGENCE.

VICE-CHANCELLOR'S COURT, Nov. 12.
TAYLOR V. BARCLAY.-TAYLOR, V. FOWLES.

The facts of the case were these :—Messrs. Bar-
clay had been the agents of the Guatemala Govern-
ment in raising a loan in this country, and Powles
had been concerned in negociating that loan. The
plaintiff having advanced several sums upon shares
in the loan, had brought an action against the de-
fendants for the recovery of the same, and hai filed
a bill of discovery, in order to procure evidence in
support of the suit which he had commenced at law.
This bill had been demurred to, and the demurrer
was now argued before his
Messrs. Sugden, Simpkinson, and Purvis appeared
for Barclays, and Messrs. Pepys and Jacob for Powles,
in support of the demurrer.
After both parties had been heard at some length,
The VICE-CHANCELLOR said that before he de-
cided this case, he would look into the pleadings in
the case of " Thomson and Barclay," and ascertain
from authority whether the state of Guatemala had
been recognised by this country.

COURT OF KING'S BENCH, Nov. 12.
SMITH AND ANOTHER. V. JONES, ESQ.

Mr. BROUGHAM moved for a rule to show cause
why the verdict obtained by the defendant should
not he set aside, and a new trial had. The action
was brought against the Marshal of the King's Bench
prison, for the escape of a prisoner of the name of
Abraham Simmonds, who had been committed to
the defendant's custody in execution, under judg-
ments obtained against him by the plaintiffs, for a
debt of upwards of .2,000/. The defendant had
granted the privilege of the rules to Simmonds, who
carried on the business of a broker in the London-
road, and the question on the trial was, whether he
had been out of the rules on the night of the 3d of
October, 1826; that question depended on another,
which was, whether Abraham Simmonds, or his
brother Elias, was at the house of a person of the
name of Angel Hart, in Mount•row, Lambeth, on
the night in question. For the plaintiffs, evidence
was given to establish the fact of Abraham Sim-
monds being at that house ; but
.for the defendant a
great number of witnesses were called, to prove that
Elias Simmonds, and not Abraham, was there; and
Chat Abraham was at the house of a Mr. Lewis, in
Melina-place, Westruinster-road. The Jury, after
deliberating about twenty-two hours, found a ver-
dict for the defendant. The Learned Counsel now
moved to set that verdict aside, and for a new trial
upon affidavits, which disclosed additional facts to
show that Abraham Simmonds was at the house of
Angel Hart on the night in question.
Lord TENTERDEN said,-that the cause had been
already twice tried, and it would be establishing a
most dangerous precedent to grant another trial
upon the grounds stated by the Learned Counsel.—
Rule refused.

Sir EDWARD OWEN'S flag ship for the India
station will be the Southampton.

.RKETS.—Nov. 4.

DUMFRIES MA_
s. el. s. d., s.d. s.d.
Wheat, Imp. Bush... 8 oto S 6 Butter, I6oz 0 0 to 0 9
Barley 4 2 4 6 Eggs, dozen 0 0 o'7
Oats 26 28 Beef, per lb.
_ _

Flour, ldlb.
Oatmeal - 9 4 0 0
Potatoes, cwt.
POULTRY Ma RIZ F.T. —We had a large supply of Turkeys,
Geese, Ducks, Hens, and Chickens. Prices on tke whole
moderate. Turkeys, Bs. a piece; Geese, 2s. 3d. ; Ducks,
Is. Bd.- per pair; Hens, is. each; and Chickens, Is. per
couple. Brisk sale, and all sold. Eggs were bought at
9d. and 10d. per dozen; and Butter, in the morning, at
10d., and in the evening at Bd. per lb.
CATTLE MARKET.—'This day there' was a falling off in
the numbers, which always happens during the winter
quarter. Still the show, which amounted to 1,759 head,
was rather a large one for the month of 'November. The
classification was as follows :—viz. 516 Three-years-olds ;
653 Two-years-olds ; 441 Stills ; 101 Queys and
Ileifers ; and 18 Cows. Dealing in Drove Cattle was
rather slow, and evening, we believe, was creeping on before
much business was done. But if the sellers had to com-
plain of a " hanging market," the buyers thought the
cattle as dear as ever, and in point of fact no reduction
was submitted to in prices. Few of the Three-years-olds
were particularly heavy, and the best lot we heard of sold
for 101 , the second for about 91. 10s., and the worst for
81., with a luck-penny out of it. FOr Winterings there
is still a brisk demand, and much business was done in
Sticks and Two-years-olds at a very early period of the day.
Prices, too, advanced a trifle, though we cannot concur in
the opinion expressed by some, that Stirks advanced 10a.
per head. One lot of Two-years-olds brought within a
trifle of 91., a second 81. 10s., a third Si. Ss., and so on,
according to breeding, size, and condition. Stirks, as
usual, varied prodigiously, end were sold at all prices from
Si. 10s. to 61. 10x., or perhaps in some cases 71. There
was only one Ist of Highland Stirks in the market, and
these, we understand, sold for exactly 50s. per head.

A DELPHI THEATHE.—Tht 'rnelodram of the
Pilot was revived here last night, and bids fair to renew
its popularity. MArnaws was Captain Borovhcliffe
(the Yankee Iligfar), and went through his part with in-
finite humour. SINCLAR and Miss GRADDON were also
in excellent voice.

The regular monthly pay of the Portuguese
emigrants at Plymouth exceeds 5,000/., in addition to
which the expenditure of the monied individuals, not now
Connected with the army, is upwards of 2,0001. per mouth.
Western Luminary.

From the darkness of the night an unfortunate
off the Point of Gourock,
packet and the Maid
collisionbetwixt .ttioteo kiintpalcaeoernea,trolynu
ecTnalc:steli rloesfdswat yehilinz
of More en, the former had to put
back into Greenock. We are happy, however, to be able
to state that no lives were lust, the concussion having only
damaged the side of the vessel, and by its force thrown some
of the hands of the Morven a-board' of the Inverary.—
Caledonian Mercury.

The following pathetic soliloquy we found
written on the back of a 1001. note of the national bunk,
which ptts:Jed through our hands lately, and we are sorry
we can now add our sympathies to those of our poet on the
transitory nature or those sublunary enjoyments :
" A little while ye ha'e been mine,
Nae Langer can I keep ye;
I fear ye'J ne'er be mine again,
Nor way ither like ye.-. Edinburgh Paper.

WOMEN:OF HINDELOPEN, &c.

HINDELOPEN, OCT. 20.—Assuredly this is
oiie of the most extraordinary spots in Europe.
If Friesland he'unlike the neighbouring coun-
tries, Hindelopen seems to have nothing in com-
mon with Friesland. These are a people of
whom traditioirsar they have not changed lan-
guage, dress, or manners, from immemorial time.
The women are distinguished by their dresses
into unmarried; married, and widows. Their
head-dress is a kerchief of a dark colour, so dis-
posed that it flaps behind the head, as if it had
two stiff descending wings (beneath it is a cap
which confines the hair closely.) When a mai-
den is espoused, she immediately assumes a
richer head-dress. They never cut their hair I
before marriage,- but weave it into tresses. Their
gowns (kouraiijf) reach their throat, so that
the bosom is completely flat, while the quantity
of clothes therwear, and the manner of fasten-
ing them, women of all ages an appear-
ance which irclie; becoming for married &ones ;
over their gowns they have a sort of waistcoat
tied with coloured ribands, from which hangs an
apron. of black cloth, and over all is a loose gar-
ment of printed calico, very like the robe worn
by the Japanese. When in mourning, they fling
a black mantle over their heads. All their dress
is composed of dark colours, which suit the ge
neral character of all their domestic machinery.
Hindelopen has been a prosperous place, but
it is declining, and, while it is possible to study
the remote past in the existing present, it will be
worth while to record its peculiarities before they
pass away. A town near it, Molkwerum, was,
some tune ago, quite as remarkable. It
had its own separate dialect,—its inhabitants
their peculiar dress,—but little is now left of'
either—the race is departed, or swiftly depart-
ing ; only a few houses are left of a place
which cut some figure in Frisian history, and
Hindelopen is menaced, at no distant period,
with the same fate.

There are not many such examples. The
island of Markt= is said to contain the repre-
sentatives of the old Batavians, whose descend-
ants cannot elsewhere be traced among the con-
fusion of races which occupy Holland. The
colony of Amak, near Copenhagen, in Denmark,
is another extraordinary instance, and some
tracts of isolated country may be found in many
parts of the world, which have not been in-
fluenced by neighbouring manners ; but here is
a spot placed between two considerable towns—
one (Staveren), the oldest of the province, and
in the neighbourhood of many villages, which,
without any line of demarcation or separation,
has continued for ages, uninfluenced by the vi-
cissitudes of form and fashion—which has pre-
served, even without modification, the. manners,
apparel, and language of a period which cannot
be estimated. The barrier exists, as it has long
existed, between the Hindelopers and the sur-
rounding society ; but how it was raised, how it
is preserved, it is difficult to divine.
The town is an irregular assemblage of build-
ings ; and its streets are, for the most part, so
narrow, that they only conveniently admit of foot
passengers, and are scarcely to be explored in a
carriage. The number of inhabitants does not
exceed 1,500. The houses are of strange
shapes, and have a singularly lugubrious appear-
ance, as the window-shutters are commonly
painted black, or of some very deep hue, which
is a remarkable contrast to the light and cheerful
green generally used in the province, and which
is known to painters by the name of Friesland
Green. These shutters are sometimes streaked
with lighter colours, to give them an appearance
of marble. Within the dwellings, the drawers,
wardrobes, cabinets, &c., are mostly made of oak,
of a cumbrous form, overloaded with heavy or-
naments ; such, too, are the picture-frames, the
chimney-pieces, and much of the household.fur-
niture. The shelves are usually covered with
Japanese porcelain, of shining black, which, in
former times, was highly valued. The houses
are generally. narrow, but deep and gloomy. In
the centre is the Hinlopen kamer (Hindelopen
chamber), which is the abode of the whole
family during the winter months ;—there they
sleep, there they eat, there both day and night are
passed. On one side is the gri'elt chimney ;on the
other a large tunnel, or recess, in the wall. On
planks considerably elevated from the ground,
called the bedstede (bedstead), is the immense
bed, of which many strange stories are told. The
bed is so elevated, that I have often been com-
pelled to use a chair in order to mount it ; though
from another chamber, the floor of which is
much higher, there is no difficulty of entering on
the opposite side—the bed being (at Hindelopen)
frequently commit to two apartments. I inn
told that the whole family sometimes occupy this
bed, whose extraordinary width affords abundant
acconni odation ; so that father, and mother, and
children—a long and varied train—turn out one
after another from the same place of repose ;
the mother, with all the daughters, possess one
half of it ; the father, with his sons, the other.
Strangers, even, are allowed to share the same
couch ; if a male, lie sleeps next to the husband;
if a female, next to the wife. Nor is this the
only extraordinary scene which takes place here
—the visit of a lover is often made to the couch
of his fair-one, with no other separation than a
a blanket. A violation of chastity scarcely
ever occurs. The mode of courtship is to
send a present of eatables, or of money to
purchase them : if it is not returned, the lover is
admitted, and he is allowed to pass a night—l
hearrr iisiailliwioaly)esnalaiimincorciesnitefotuwe
the winter is
over, and the family goes to inhabit a smaller
habitation, called hitshus, which is on the oppo-
site side of the court, which is found behind all
the better houses. These habitations are painted
to resemble gardens, though they have neither
tree nor shrub near them, and add only to the gene-
ral grotesque effect of the place. The inhabitants
very rarely go abroad in the day—the streets of
the town seem untenanted. In the evening they
come out to enjoy the fresh air. It is very sel-
dom that a Hindelopen marries out of his native
toian ; and it,ls not an unusual:death-bed charge
for a parent to require her offspring not to
abandon the manners of their forefathers. Their
profession is usually the coasting trade ; but their
wealth has
been greatly diminished by the vicise
situdes of the times. Of their language, speci-
mens have been printed by Wassenberg. It is
the Frisian, with some words whose affinity with
the Anglo-Saxons I have not been able to trace.

FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.

FRENCH PAPERS.
(From the Gazette de France, dated Nov. 11 .

PARIS, Nov. Io.—The Augsburgh Gazette an-
nounces &under the head of Constantinople, that the
diplomatists of Pere do not participate in the exag-
gerated hopes of the Turks, and that they neglect
nothing to lead the Porte to paciSe sentiments; but
the Sultan remains immovable, and requires that
the Russians shall repass the DL.ube and the Prun,
before he will listen to any proposal for peace.
There is no more notion of sending a deputy to the
Russian camp than to the. conferences at Corfu.
The Porte still requires that • the. Ambassadors shall
return to Constantinople to negotiate on the Greek
question, and affects to be ignorant of the landing of
the French expedition iii the Morea.
The llfoniteur of this day contains the foliowiug
official article

DEPARTMENT OF ECCLESIASTICAL AFFAIRI.

" By an ordinance of the 9th 9f November, 1828,
his Majesty has determined the number of secondary
ecclesiastical schools in the dioceses of Bourges,
Tours, Carcassone, Cabors, Grenoble, Luzon, Metz,
Moulins, Nevets, Nisiwes, Pamiers, Valence, Tulles,
and Viviers.

By a second ordinance of the same date his Ma-
jesty approves the nominations made by the Arch-
bishops and Bishops of these dioceses of the superior
or directors of the 22 secondary ecclesiastical schools
which are established in them.

" The whole, conformably to the ordinance of the
16th of June, the regulations of which will continue
to be successively executed."

PARIS, Nov. 10.—Colonel Fabvier is gone to
Nancy, where he will stop some days. It is said he
will soon return to Greece with a commission of
Count Capo d'lstria's, and some persons add, of the
French Government.

A report was spread yesterday evening, as coming
from an official source, that the necessity of sepa-
rating the two armed bodies, which have been op-
posed to each other, having become evident, the
second regiment of Horse Grenadiers of the Royal
Guard has received orders to leave Versailles.
(None of the minor papers received.)

FRENCH FUNDS.—PARIS, Nov. 10.—Five per Cents.
106 f. 1061. sc. 1061. ; Three per Cc 'As., 74f. 30c. 40c.
45c. 50e. ; Bank Stock, 1,840 f. ; Naples Stock, '79f.
55e. ; Royal Spanish Loan, '79a ; Llaytian Loin, 635 f. ;
Exchange on London, one month, paper, 25f. 25c. ;
money, 251. 20c. ; three months, paper, 251. 15c. ;
money, 25f. 10c.—fours Authentique.