The Sun.
London, England, 1828-03-13 00:00:00

VICE-CHANCELLOR'S COURT.

His HONOUR. entered upon the cause paper today, and
was occupied with hearing arguments in " Lawson v.
Brocksopp" during the greater part of the day. The case
is quite devoid of interest.

MARCH 12.

IMPORTANT TO BANKERS AND THEIR CI.7S-

TOIIIERS.

EX-TARTE ROBINSON AND ANOTHER, IN TIIE MATTER OF

SYKES AND CO. BANKERS.

Mr. PE3IRFRTON stated this to be a petition, praying that
Exchequer Bills of the ♦alue of 2,0001., found in the iron
chest of the bankrupts, might he ordered to be delivered up
by the assignees to his clients. Several years ago a distil-
lery house at Vauxhall assigned over their effects to the
petitioners, who in their character as trustees deposited
two Exchequer BRIJ of 1,0001. each with the bankrupts,
who were bankers in the city, and some years since one of
their partners in that house sold the bills. The partner-
ship about six weeks previous to the stoppage of payment,
without the knowledge of the trustees, purchased two other
Exchequer Bills, and entered them in their ledger bill book
in columns, containing the number, date, and amount, and
name of the owners—" Sir G. Robinson and Mr. Win.
Sykes's trustee account,"—and deposited them in their iron
chest ; after their stoppage and payment, and tefore the
bankruptcy, they inclosed there bills in a sealed envelope,
and indorsed that in the names of the trustees. The ques-
tion for his Honour to decide was whether the bills were
the property of the trustees, or of the bankrupt's estate.
Mr. KNIGHT, on the part of the assignees, contended on
the authority of the case of Dwaynes. v. Noble, in Camp-
bell's Reports, afterwards confirmed by the Court of King's
Bench, that there had been no appropriation of the new
Exchequer Bills, because the trustees were ignorant of the
sale of the first bills, and the purchase of the second.
VICE-CHANCELLOR—Let me see that case.

Mr. KwxGni. read it, whereby it appeared that Dwaynes
and Co. the bankrupts, being bankers, told 15,0001. stock
behinging to Mr. Noble, one of their customers, several
years before their failure, and at the time of such sale, en-
closed several valuable bonds in a sealed envelope with this
memorandum, " Borrowed of - Noble, Esq. 15,0001.
of Navy Fives, which w. hereby promis. replace, and as
a security we also undertake to assign the enclosed bonds
to him upon request, signed by one of the bankers." The
day before Dwaynes and Co.'s bankruptcy, they sent this
envelope to Mr. Noble, who retained the bonds. Their
assignees brought an action of trover to recover them, and
Lord Ellenborough held that as the sale of the stock, and
the other circumstances, were without the knowledge of
Mr. Noble, there was no legal appropriation of the
bonds, and therefore they formed part of the bankrupt's
estate, and Mr. Noble must give them up and prove his
debt as a creditor.
Mr. KNIGHT therefore contended, that as the trustees
were ignorant of the sale of the first, and the purchase of
the second Exchequer Bills, that they could claim no title

therein.
Mr. PEMBERTON in reply said, that very fortunately
Mr. W. Sykes, one of the partners in the banking-house,
was also one of the trustees, and therefore as Mr. Sykes
knew of the transaction the case cited did not apply.
Mr. Kmosiir—lle knew it as a banker, not as a trustee.
The VICE-CHANCELLOR ordered the Exchequer Bills to
be delivered up to the trustees, as it appeared to him, Mr.
Sykes one of them, was acquainted with the entire transac-
tion, but if he had not been so, then the Bills would have
been the property of the bankrupts.

THE MARKETS.-(THIS DAY.)
HAY MARKETS.—(At per Load of 36 Trusses.)
ST. JAMES'S.
X. s. X. s X. s. X. s.
1 Jawland Mead. Hay 3 sto 4 5 Clover May • 4 oto 5 15
Upland Ditto 4 0 5 0 Oat Straw
Rye-grass Hay 4 0 5 0 Wheat Ditto ll6 2 0
New Meadow Hay 315 410
A full average supply, and a
THFI Esteady trade at Tuesday's prices.
SMILD.
X. s. X. s. £. s. X. s.
Lowland Mead. Hay 3 sto 4 0 Cloy. Haygenerally 4 10 to .5 15
Upland Ditto 4 0 5 0 Do. extra line 0 0 6 0
Rye-grass Hay 4 0 5 0 Oat Straw llO 112
New Meadow Hay 315 4 5 Wheat Ditto.... 112 116
Supply short, trade dull, and prices as last quoted.

LIVERPOOL CORN EXCHANGE—March 11.
The supplies to this day's market have been increased by
considerable arrivals of Wheat and Oats front Ireland,
and of Malt from Suffolk, and notwithstanding a large
display of samples on the stands, they were almost cleared
of fine mealing Oats at an advance of ia. to Id. per 451 b.
very extensive sales having been made of this article to
speculators and to the trade generally ; for Wheat there was
also a better demand. but at no decided increase in prices,
although in some. instances, both on Wheat and Oats of
the. finest qualities, the highest quotations were a little ex-
ceeded. In other articles sales were nude to a moderate
extent at the prices last noted.
Wil 1,, AT, per 701 b. e. d. s. d.
Fine Sweet Old English & Welsh, white and red 8 6 to 9 0
...---- New (crop 1827)
Fine Old Scotch and Manx 7 6 8 2
Irish, Old
- New red...6e. 6d. to 7s. 2d sup. white 7 6 7 9
Canadian, fine qualities
Foreign (duty paid) superior white
...—--------- fine high.mixed
.-------- red
.------------- Russian and midd. qualities 610 7 3
Foreign (in bond), imported since July 1, 1827 4 3 5 0
OATS, per 451 b.
'idP)e,rditto
Fine sweet English, Scotch, &c
------ Irish, 184 0 0 0 0
Middling and ordinary ditto and Welsh . 5 2 9
Irish, (crop 1821)
Foreign yrce), French, &c.
32 0 35 8
-- Grinding, per 601bs.
Imperial quarter.
3 10 4 2
40 4 4
PEASE, white boiling, per Imperial quarter
---, grey
I,,Oreign, nominal 4O 0 42 0
Beaus, Fine English, per Imperial quarter 4,2 0 48 0
___,.....-- Scotch, Irish, Dutch, &c.
F o Finei. c i
gMaX(dt Ai
unßtgLy Epl
40 0 41 0
—............. Egyptian and inferior Foreign 3B 0 44 0
Mat-r, Fine Norfolk and Suffolk, per Imp. qr 5B 0 62 0
----. Middling and inferior qualities
----- Irish ................. ..
nous, English, ine and superfine, per 2801 b 4l 0 42 0
--- Irish ditto ditto 35 n 40 0
- Amer., supf. sweet (its bond) per bane 22 0 25 0
---- Dantzic ditto ditto ... 16 0 21 0
----- Canadian (ditty paid) ........................... 33 0 32 0
-
Foreign, sour 3O 0 33 0
OATMEAL, English (2401b5.) 245. to 255....... Old 21 0 22 0
yellowrial and red
____,.......... Scotch ....... ...... ots. to ?ss. Old 21 0 22 0
____....... Irish
IMPORTC white,oP
G quarter,tApiemrq for
____________RReA en,
sPasigrpimperE.onp4Boishiband..F...o.r.c..i
.....
2032 00 3304 fol
23 0 30 0
Irish, per last l9l. 0 201. 0
the \WM ending March 10.
Wheat. Oats. Barley. Malt. IBeans. !Pease. Rye. 10atml.
Qrs. Qrs. Or:. Qrs. Qrs. Qrs. Qrs. Loads.
Immo(
10,689 11,278 621 2,934 77f) 129 212 3,128
Flour, 4,776 sacks, 0 barrels.
ezeOßTs.
Plh Ws 500....4341th 0...130115, 20 qrs.—Flour, 099 brio.

ASSIZES,(RECEIVED THIS DAY.)

MIDLAND CIRCUIT-LINCOLN, MAktii 11.

John Mil/gate, cordwainer, aged 24, was put to the
bar, charged with committing a rape upon the body of
Mary Brown, an infant of the age of nine years, on the
26th of July, 1825. The prisoner pleaded not guilty.
Mary Brotbn, tin interesting !ankh* girl, 11'101 put into
the witness-box.—She said she was turned 12 years of age,
that she was the daughter of William Brown, of Hogs-
thorpe, and was living with him in 1825. She knew the
prisoner, be was also living at her father's house in July
1825—he served her father in the capacity of a journey-
man shoe-maker—there was a feast in the village:in July,
1825, and on one Tuesday she was left alone iu the house •
—the house adjoined the shop, in whichthe prisoner
worked—she had occasion to go into his rlpattriiefit where
the prisoner sat at work, for the purpose of blacking her
shoes, and whilst in the act of reaching towards a shelf
the prisoner took hold of her by the waist, and effected his
I purpose—she did not cry out, but struggled to obtain her
liberty. When the prisoner had finished, he said the wit-
ness " was not to tell any body," she therefore complied
with his request until about a yo.i: afterwards, when she
made the horrible disclosure to her mothei.,
Cross-examined by Mr. Bat,GuY—The prisoner had
been in her father's employ sonic years before July, 1825,
as an apprentice, and after his apprenticeship had expired
he lived with her father as journeyman, and worked as
such during the space of a year after the above occurrence
took place. She remembered the fact of the prisoner
leaving her father to work for a Mr. Ostler, a shoemaker
in the same village. No complaint was male to a magis-
trate by her friends until the prisoner left her father's ser-
vice, and- he was working. with Mr. Ostler at the time the
charge was first made against him. Ostler was a rival
shoemaker. There was another house near her father's,
Which was two or three yards from the shop, where the
act was committed. The door of the shop opened into the
garden, which lay immediately to the street. The window
of the shop also looked into the street. It was about
three o'clock in the afternoon when the crime was com-
mitted, but whether or not the window was open she did
not recollect. There were many people in the village
walking about at the time.
The Jury, after consulting together a few minutes, re-
turned a verdict of " Not Guilty."