The Sun.
London, England, 1828-11-17 00:00:00

LAW INTELLIGENCE.

So strong are the easterly winds in the .Irish
Channel, that die Post-office steam-packet from Dublin,
which should have reached Liverpool early on Saturday
morning did not arrive until six o'clock at night.
The mails and other coaches that left town on
Wednesday evening, owing to the extraordinary dense fog,
were two or three hours proceeding the first stage, parti-
cularly along the Western Road; and to those who were
at all near them, they presented the most remarkable ap-
pearance At each horse's head, particularly with the
mails, there was a ►iaan holding the rein in one hand, and
a lighted torch in the other. Each guard had also a
lighted flambeau, and continued to sound his bone. The
Bristol mail—one of the extra-fast mails--was more than
half a day behind time, owing to the delays experienced near
London.

SADDLEWORTII.—TIIe disputes which un-
fortunately have subsisted between the master menthe-
' turers and their workmen are, we regret to say, still un-
settled. There are, however, no fresh acts of violence to
record ; and, from the temperate and judicious exertions of
many respectable manufacturers, and individuals uncon-
nected with trade, the restoration of harmony may be
shortly anticipated. We have been favoured with a sight
of an address to the weavers' union, on the part of those
gentlemen, which is admirably adapted to the work of con-
ciliation. The document was communicated confidentially,
or we should have felt pleasure in placing it in our co-
lumns ; but tie respectable individuals from whom it
emanates, deserve, as we hope they will soon receive, the
grateful thanks of a reconciled community. The griev-
ances of the weavers, we are bound to state, ap-
pear to be any thing but fictitious. Independently of
the illegal practice of many, masters paying wages
by checks upon the shopkeepers, whith of itself
is a gross fraud upon the workman, many of them,
certain of the American merchants, as they are
termed, resort to the most dishonest practices in measur-
ing the work of the weaver. To such an extent has this
been carried, that tve have been assured on the most re-
spectable authority, so much as two or three woughs in a
piece of th;rty woughs have been thus fraudulently ab-
stracted frOm the weaver's earnings. A wough is about
two yards and a half. Another grievance is that many of
the masters do not and will not ticket the work when
taken out, with the price to be given for it, as is usual
with respectable houses. We shall no longer dwell on
this unfortunate business, than by expressing our sincere
hope that the grievances complained of may be abated, and
that the operative weavers will bear in mind that the
strength of a cause, and the durability of an union, entirely
depend on a peaceable demeanour and the absence of any 1,
illegal attempts at dictation.

owever complete the failure of the Leeds
Brunswick Club .Meeting, held on Monday last, may be
considered, and however pitiful and pusinanimotts the ex-
pedient °Leaning a meeting of the inhabitants on one side,
without daring to hear what could be advanced on the
other may be thought, an idea is meant to be inculcated
that the town of Leeds is opposed to the Catholic Claims,
and it is highly expedient that this false conclusion should
be removed. Till the public agitators set themselves to
work to disturb the peace of the town, and to convey a
false impression of its sentiments, the friends of civil and
religious liberty were quite disposed to leave the decision
of the Catholic Question to the wisdom Of Parliament
and the progress of events, without any public inter-
ference on their part. But now when a declaration
has gone forth as from the town of Leeds, the object
of which is to overawe the Government and to menace
even the KING with exclusion from his Throne, if he dares
to act in opposition to the opinion of these Clubbists, the
time has arrived when the real voice of the inhabitants
should be heard, and we hope and believe that our fellow-
townsmen will see it to be their duty, without delay, to
present a requisition to the Mayor, requesting him to call
a meeting of the inhabitants at large, not of any particu-
lar party or cabal, to take into consideration the propriety
of voting a loyal and dutiful address to his MAJESTY, as.
curing hint of their inalienable attachment to his person
and family, as well as to the principles which placed
that family on the Throne of these realms ; and, also
assuring him that so far from that attachment being
abated, or those principles shaken by granting an
equality of civil. rights to all classes of his Ma•-
jesty's subjects, without any regard to their religious
opinions, that measure would produce union among
the people, and if carried into effect in favour of his MA-

JEsry's Roman Catholic subjects, would greatly tend to
secure harmony and peace in Ireland, and to give strength•
and stability to the Qovernmont. Of the result of a Leeds
Meeting convened for this object we have no doubt, and
its effect would be to arrest the progress of these pestife-
rous combinations in every part of England, the tendency
of which is to introduce into this country those violent
agitations which hostile and conflicting Clubs have 'otro-
dueed into Ireland. In the latter country there has been
some difference of opinion to which side the, original
aggression is to be attributed, but in England it must be
universally acknowledged that all the mischief' Which may
arise out of these Associations is entirely imputable to the
Brunswick faction.—Zeeds Mercury.

COURT OF CHANCERY, Nov. 15.
GOODACRE V. WILKINSON.
This was an appeal from the decision of the Vice-
Chat.cellor, upon a bill filed by Goodacre against
Wilkinson, to compel the specific performance of a
contract : that contract related to the sale of the
next presentation to the living of Presteign, Wilkin-
son agreeing to give 7,0001. for it on receiving from
Goodacre the same title which Goodacre derived
from Lord Oxford, Lord Harley, and Mr. Moore, a
trustee for the payment of the debts of Lord Oxford.
`lt was alleged in the bill that That title had been of-
fered and refused; and in the answer it was asserted
that the title was incomplete and .insufficient—that
Lord Oxford had no right to sell the next presenta-
tion to the living, and that the contract was in viola-
tion of the Act of 32 Henry VIII., passed to pre-
vent maintenance and champerty. The Vice-Chan-
cellor dismissed the bill with costs.
Messrs. PEPYs.and KNIGHT were heard in support
of the appeal, and contended that the judgment of
the Vice-Chancellor was not warranted, either by the
facts or by the law of the case. The contract was
clear and specific---that Wilkinson should give 7,0001.
for the advowson, on having transferred to him the
title Goodacre received from Lord ,Oxford, Lord
Harley, and Mr. Moore.
Messrs. SUGDEN and TINNEY, .on the other side,
submitted that the Vice Chancellor had arrived at a
correct conclusion.
The LORD CHANCELLOR observed that the judg-
ment of the Vice-Chadellor proceeded very much
on the relation of Mr. Moore to the parties. He
would look into it with more attention, and give his
judgment on a future day.

COURT OF KING'S BENCH, Nov. 15.
LI BEL..-.REX V. THWA ITES.
The SOLICITOR-GENERAL was called upon to
support his rule for a criminal information against
the defendant, for a libel on M. Rocaftierte, the
Mexican Minister. A great many of the topics
urged by Sir James Scarlett had nothing to do with
the case. The question was, whether the defendant
had not published a personal libel on the character of
of M. Rocafuerie, so as to entitle him to have a cri-
minal information filed. If this publication had been
an argument for the purpose of recommending pru-
dence and caution with respect to the dealings in the
South American Securities, the defendant would
have been blamed by nobody—certainly not by him.
Sir J. Scarlett talked of these loans having been
made to the South Americans in order to foster the
rising spirit of liberty in those States; but he
thought that such topics would have been better
addressed to another set of auditors. Here' was a
Mr. Lewis, who stated in his affidavit that he was
employed in collecting all possible information, whe-
ther from reports or otherwise, about the 'South
American Loans, for the purpose of publication ;
and there were Mr. Layton, Mr. Jackson, and two
others, stockholders, and Mr. Andrans, an insurance
broker, all of them, very likely, respectable then;
but, without at all meaning sto question their re-
spectability, he might say that the profits to be de-
rived from speculation in these securities were pro-
bably their main consideration, without caring much
whether those profits were derived from fostering
the spirit of liberty, or from a contrary source.
The SOLICITOR-GENERAL was interrupted here
with a notice that he would be further heard of
Monday.
The Judges, at twelve o'clock, went to the Ex
chequer Chamber.