The Sun.
London, England, 1845-07-03 00:00:00

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.

Admiral Sir George Cockburn, Vice-Admiral Sir William
Hall Gage, Lords of the Admiralty; and Captain W. A. B.
Hamilton, one of the Secretaries to the Admiralty, left town
yesterday for Portsmouth, to attend on the Queen and Prince
Albert, and their Majesties the King and Queen of the Bel-
gians, on their visit to Osborne and the experimental squadron.
The Chevalier Bunsen and other foreigners of distinction ac-
companied them to Portsmouth.
The Black Eagle yacht, Master Commander B. Cook,
waits the pleasure of their Lordships.
The Hon. H. T. L. Corry, Secretary to the Admiralty, and
Rear Admiral Bowles, one of the lords, paid an official visit to
Woolwich Dockyard yesterday, and inspected the school for the
apprentices there.
PROMOTION ON THE ROYAL VISIT TO THE FLEET.—We
are enabled to announce that the three officers whose names we
mentioned as likely to be promoted on the occasion of the
visit of her Majesty and Prince Albert to their respective
ships at Spithead, were elevated to the rank of commander,
on Monday last, by the Admiralty. They are Hector Tause,
First Lieutenant of the .Albion, 90i Captain Lockyer, C. 8.,
appointed to that ship in November, 1843, an old officer of
nearly twenty-one years' standing as a lieutenant, having been
made in August, 1824 ; John Cheere, of the St. Vincent, 120,
Captain Rowley, appointed to that ship in December, 1841,
made a lieutenant in 1836, passed mate in 1826 ; and William
Frederick Fead, second lieutenant of the Trafalgar, 120,
Captain T. F. Martin, appointed to that ship from the Queen,
in July, 1844, made a lieutenant in 1838, passed mate in 1830.
It was hoped that the first lieutenant of the Trafalgar, Hector
Loring, notwithstanding his absence, which was imperatively
unavoidable, would have obtained his promotion. Mr. Loring
was first lieutenant of the Thunlerer, 84, in the Mediterranean;
afterwards of the Camperdown, 104 ; then of the Queen, 110 ;
and now of the Trafalgar.
The experimental squadron of Spithead were exercising
sails on Monday, and the Trafalgar, 120, Captain T. F. Mar-
tin, was exercising her crew at quarters, firing her lower deck
guns with blank cartridge.
The Nautilus, 10, Lieutenant Commander Robson, arrived
on Monday at Portsmouth from Bristol.

The Modesto,T Thomas Baillie, was
nlze jcwocrvuxe,sTCALmona—ndTerAiriTr.
lying at Otabeite on the 6th of January, with the Salamander
steam-sloop, Commander Andrew Snape Hammond. On the
morning of that day the Modeste ran down along the reef, and
saluted the French Admiral with thirteen guns, which was re-
turned in due form by the French ship, after which she went
into port. She has called there from the Sandwich Islands for
dispatches.
The Collingwood, 80, Captain Smart, with the flag of Rear-
Admiral Sir G. Seymour, had not arrived.
The French ships lying in the harbour at that time were tho
Admiral's ship ; a frigate of 52 guns ; Urane, 64 guns ;
Arinna, 28 guns ; Phaeton, steamer, 4 guns ; ani schooner
Sultana, tender to the French ship.
The Phaeton (French steamer) got on the reef in the en-
tra,nce of the harbour on the 2nd of January when returning
from Riatea, but was got off without further injury than a good
shaking.

pjspatelies for the Governor of New Zealand, and
aiao for the Governor of South Australia, were Emit off
lost evening from the Colonial-office,

CONSTITUTION OF JERSEY.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.
LETTER IV.

SIR,—A friend once remarked to me that he
thought he should like to purchase a pretty cottage
in Jersey for his summer residence, but I doubt
much whether he or any other person would do so,
after perusing the following exposure of the laws
here :

Although you are now aware that you would be
coming to an island where the law allows a _man to
run extensively in debt, and having plenty of means
to pay his liabilities, yet can swindle his creditors out
of every farthing of their claims, by passing his
effects over to his wife ; and moreover are cognisant
of as much as I have mentioned relating to the law
of decret. Yet, you may possibly imagine, that if
you see a nice little cottage, &c., for sale, which will
suit you in every particular, and pay the whole of
the purchase-money for it, that you, at least, are
therefore beyond the reach of being swindled out of
your property ; but foolish indeed must you be if you
can imagine that any one is safe when such gross acts
of fraud as I have stated in former letters are rendered
legal. It will perhaps seem to you to savour of ro-
mance upon being told—but nevertheless it is fact--
that you could be turned out by the operation of the
law, although you may have been in possession •
for many years, and purchased it of the legal
owner, without committing fraud or wronging
any one; aye, and under certain circumstances,
no time, however long it may have been your pro-
perty, would avail you. I described in my second
letter the method of drawing up the list of a bank-
rupt's liabilities—these extend not only to all the real
and personal property he owned at the time, but to
all which he possessed for the fifteen years previous,
and, in some cases, to that which had ever been in
his possession. The more you examine the law of
decret the more you will be at a loss to discover the
purpose for which it was framed, unless it was to
give the colour and protection of law to the grossest
acts of fraud; in its 22d Article it is stated, that con-
tracts passed with the insolvent for fifteen years at
least before the renunciation of the property in de-
cret, shall be exempt from insertion, excepting in
the case provided for in Art. 44. This exemption is,
that should a decret be void in consequence of no one
declaring himself tenant, those who possessed con-
tracts with him for fifteen to thirty years previous,
shall be summoned, in order that one may be found
therefrom—and if that be not sufficient, all those
with whom he he has ever passed any contract. Is it
not a monstrous state of the law, that should a person
sell his estate, and become insolvent after the lapse of
twenty years, the purchaser of it can be legally de"
prived of it ? _

I will now show how you can be dispossessed of a
house, taken upon a lease, as I mentioned in my
first letter, but must premise, that no lease is valid
againt a tenant under a decret, and should a tenant
die without lineal heirs, the Lord of the Manor re-
ceives the rent of the estates for a year and a day, of
takes possession of it for that time. Let us now as'
sume I have taken my house upon lease for three
years, have paid the money in advance for the whole
of the time (for which I have a receipt), and that my
landlord at the end of the first year dies, leaving ne
direct issue, in such a case the Lord of the Manor
can claim possession for the second year of mY
tenancy ; suppose I pay him for it sooner than be ,
turned out, well, at the expiration of the time I ,
be surprised by a visit of the Deputy Viscount, who
comes to take bona fide possession for the tenant
under a decret, as my landlord died insolvent, and
his property had been adjudicated subsequent to his
decease ; if lam allowed to remain upon payment
for the remainder of my term, I shall have paid five
years rent for three years possession, and, if not, shall'
be turned out at the expiration of two years ! having,
taken my house for three ! ! and paid rent for four I I I
Were I to tell you all the various methods whereby
swindling can be legally perpetrated by the aid of
even the few laws I have mentioned, my task would
be almost endless,—and as it is necessary, for the
perfect understanding of our anomalous position, thet
you should be acquainted with our constitution, 1
purpose in my next to begin a short sketch of I.t;
leaving any further account of our laws till you Noll,
thus be better qualified to understand the causes of
their present state; and when you find how the
Royal prerogative is not only usurped, but Orders is
Council, and Acts of Parliament, &c., set at defiance,
you will be able to form some idea of the importane!
of Wilson's case, which is but little understood 01_
England, owing to the want of information in the
public press—aye, but little understood, notwith'
standing their fierce denunciations. B. L.

COMMERCIAL NEWS.
HAvRE, JUNE 26%.
COTTON.—After the receipt of the advices from
United States by the Britannia steamer, our market
sumed a very animated aspect. The favourable i 1
pression they produced was immediately followed by 011
increased attendance of dealers, and a brisk demon°
sprung up, which has since daily been large, and in se'
veral instances to a consider.dole amount. The enlivening
tenor of the intelligence from Liverpool he
been in some measure instrumental in the prop'',
tious change that has taken plane in the situation
business, to which the continued fine state of the wee-
ther has in a great degree contributt d, and prices baire
also felt the influence, a further advance of If. having
been realised on all American cottons generally speak'
ing; but during the last few days, owing to the gloomy
character of the accounts from the manufacturing depart
ments, there was less spirit displayed in the transactions,
the want of activity in trade which has for a length 0'
time been loudly complained of, as well as an improirfq
ment in prices,which are yet far from remunerating, is stl`
severely felt, and tends greatly to allay the tide of opera.
tions. There is undoubtedly no overplus of the ratio
material in the manufacturing districts, which of late
have been very sparingly supplied; but it is nevertheless
equally evident that, owing to the long protracted •10'
activity that has predominated, there is now on hand gi
stock of twists and yarns much more than sufficient to
meet the consumption at present, and this, tlerefore,
will account for the falling off in the sales for the if'st
two days. The sales amounted to 10,893, the import
to 4,774 bales, leaving our stock at 82,500 bales.
COFFEE.—There has been some inquiry for expolli
tion, but the advices from the north, being of a ow
complexion, the transactions have been much less e%
tensive than was hoped for. Holders, however, are
and prices remain unaltered. The sales consist of 2,2°
bags St. Domingo, at 34c. to 37c.: and 1,387 bags, 05;
vannah, La G ua.yra, and Porto Cabello, at 45c. to 70c. Per
half kilogramme in bond. A sale of 219 hogshes"'
and 85 barrels Porto Cabello also took place, but tb°
prices have not transpired. Imports-8,878 bags frn°l
Batavia, 500 bags from New Orleans, 50 bags g°l:
tinique, and 22 bags coastwise. Stock-29,000 bags ,
Domingo, 120 barrels 3,500 bags Brazil, 700 casks an
1,200 gs Havannah, La Guayra, &c., 14,000 bags East
India, 100 bales Bourbon, 2,000 bales Mocha, and 30
casks from our West India plantations.
SUGAR.—A further advance has taken place in the
prices of West India produce ; the transactions 110
been to a fair amount, and, but for the limited quanta
brought forward, would no doubt have been to °
great extent. The sales effected were 1,200 casi‘ '
Martinique and Guadaloupe at 51f. to 57f.
and a small lot at 58E per 50 kil. duty paid, ""e.
32f. 25c. to 33f. for the standard. In foreign sugar '
have to notice 100 casks Porto;Rico at 28f. in bond. Ica;
ports, 2,238 casks from our West India Colonies ; 4,06
; bales Bourbon and 10 barrels, 273 chests, an 4,544
bags Brazil, Stock, 13,000 casks Martinique and Gill:
daloupe ; 200 casks Porto Rico ; 273 chests 100 barrew
Brazil, and 5,500 bales Bourbon.
INDIGO.—By letters from Calcutta of the 3d 201 j
we learn that the season was drawing to a close,
the prospects for the coming crop were, gene;
rally speaking, favourable. The total exports wf'f
h
stated at 38,265 chests (138,640 tnaunds), of vill'eo
25,326 had been shipped for England, and 10,3°
chests for France. In our market nothing clue;
serving particular notice has occurred this week--t 7
sales consisting in all of 43 chests Bengal, at the e"11,
mates per halt' kel. duty paid stock, 8,150 chests Bengt'
11 chests Madras, 2 chests Manilla, 32 chests Java, an
a
400 Secoons South America.

,
Mr Lock, M.P., and lfr. G. Traill, M.P., transacted
business yesterday at the office of the Board of Trade.
Sir J. Hope had an interview yesterday with the Ear/
of Dalhousie at the Board of Trade.

BIRTHS.
On the 14th ult„ at Polmet Bank, Stirlingshire,
Walker, late of St. Petersburgh, of a son.

On the 27th tilt., at Antwerp, the lady of John AL Frllse
Esq., of a son.
On the 27th ult., the lady of Alfred Griffin, Esq., of a s°ll'
still-born.
On the 30th ult., at Lambeth Palace, the lady of lirlititi°
Kingsmill, Esq., of a daughter.
On the Ist inst., at Hampstead, the lady of J. Cosmo
vill, jun., Esq., of a son.

MARRIED.
On the 3d ult., at New York, at the Church of Ascension?
Alexander Brown Cleland, Esq., M.D., Royal Canadian Rifle
Regiment, to Fanny K., youngest daughter of John Boberts,
Esq., Bristol.
Oa the Dlth ult., at Bacup, Lancashire, Henry Bral
Esq., of Windsor, surgeon to the Queen, to Laura, el"1,e114
daughter of the late W. Ormerod, Esq., of Bankside, in
same county.
On the 26th ult., at Hodnet, Salop, James Timmins, eldest
,y,
son of William Cance, Esq., of Spring-grove, Birminghit'j
to Eliza, second daughter of the late G. Ferguson, Esq''
Houghton Hall, near Carlisle.

On the 15th ult., Anne, the wife of the Rev. R. Jackson'
Vicar of Abei:ge/P.,, North Wales.
On the 2Rt,, ult., at Baker-street, Mrs. Margaret FerguV
son, wi'.low of the late J. Fergussom, E, q., aged 84. rae, .?
On the 29th ult., Mary, the wife of Isaac Lawrence,
Mitcham-green, Surrey.
On the Ist inst., at Islington, Mr. Henry Snee.
On the Ist inst., in Portman-street, Mary Sophy, the 01311
daughter of R. Gwyn, Esq.
On the Ist inst., Caroline, the wife of Lieutenant-Colonel
Pereira, Bengal Artillery.

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