The Sun.
London, England, 1826-04-25 00:00:00

LAW INTELLIGENCE,

VICE-CHANCERY.--(Tuts DAY:
mucwawlTT C. STOYELD.

In this case, argued yesterday, his HoNons, declared his opinion
to be, that the defendant was not entitled to relief on his petition
of rehearing. The plaintiff was entitled, to a specific performance
of agreement with regard to all the timber cut in the course of
1821, hilt not beyond that time ; and the defendant bad no right
to, complain that he had not been allowed to remove all the timber
cut before he was called upon to pay for it, because it was
his own fault that that was so, inasmuch as by the original agree-
ment he was bound to have executed a mortgage to the plaintiff,
which he subsequently refused to do.—The deposit was ordered to
be returned to the plaintiff, Mr. Arkwright.

COURT OF CHANCERY-(THIS DAY.)
• NEW COURTS.

After hi; LOILDSMP took his seat, he observed that he felt a
great draft. which led to an inquiry whether any alterations had
been attempted since the Court last sat, and it turned out that cur-
•tains running across one of the doors had been removed. His
Lin-4,414) then directed a message to be sent off to the person, who,
ever he wag, that had taken them away, to „bring them back
forthwith.

Mr. HORNS said, every body in Court .was exposed to the .most
dangerous drafts ; he had got a violent ileurnatistn in his cheek
in consequence of it. - ' •

His Loansme said, there were some persons about the Court
who were continually taking upon themselves authority to give
orders of different kinds, and out of Court it was represented those
orders were made by the Judge, though he never once heard of
them until they were put into execution. It had been stated
that he. had given an order to exclude a certain class of persons
(reporters) from attending this Court, but a more unfounded
statement had never been made. Who took upon themselves
to circulate that it had even..entered into 116 head to make such
an order, he did not know, but nothing could possibly have been
more false.

Mr. Atian had certainly given some orders, thinking no one
better calculated to do so than himself would step forward to do
it, but it would be very desirable if his Lordship would devote
half an hour to point out improvements.
His LORDSHIP had no objection whatever to take an early op-
portunity in assisting to suggest anything calculated to improve
a place standing so much in need of it ; but he certainly wished
the pnblic should not understand that the orders made, adding to
the want of comfort, flowed from him. When he was first con-
sulted respecting the Court he understood there was to be a large
table and round space in the middle of the Court for general ac-
commodation, and to continue a library for the use of the bar, and
he took it was to have been so until the very moment he saw, it
was otherwise.

Mr. Holm?. said, it was altogether a mast inconvenient place
—there was no eonsultation-room attached to it. The Gentlemen
in the Court of King's Bench had taken precious good care of
themselves, for they had provided themselves with a spacious and
most commodious room, as a consultation-room, over the Court,
as well as a robing-room.
. His LORDSIIIP quite agreed with Mr. Horne as to the inconve-
nience to the Gentlemen at the Bar; but he could recollect that
when he had the happiness and comfort of being at the bar, which
he sincerely wished he had never left, it was always thought,
there was a consultation-room attached to the Court, it was best
for suitors to have consultations at Chambers at some of the Inns;
Court consultations were never good thinks.
Mr. Ania said the wide passages on both aides of the Court,
unnecessarily took up a great space, which would have to be
altered.

His LORDSHIP intimated dist between the Terms exertions
would have to be made to remedy the inconveniences as much as

This being an Appeal Day the Court went on the Appeal

Paper. , •
COITItT OF KING'S Day.)

When the LORD CM& Junto: toOk,his seat, Mr. Ricbard
stamp Sutton Cook addre6sed the Court, praying for judgment ;
lie 'vas proceeding to say that he had been imprisoned for three
months in consequence of being 'convicted of a•conspiracy against
,Sir George Jerningham (now, Lord.. Stafford), when he was in-
terrupted by the Lord Chief Justice, who said the Court could not
attend to him to-day.
This'being the last Special Paper Day, the Court has been oc-
cupied in bearing arguments in causes sent down from the Court
tf Chancery for their opinion.

This morning a most - calamitous ' fire broke out at
the house of Mr. Cross, a furniture-broker; in Vere-street, Clare-
market, which, though trivial in appearance,. and confined to the
Wilding in which it originated, has proved fatal in its conse-
quences to some-of the inmates. A. few Jninutes after one o'clock
a dense' bOdy of smoke- was discovered issuing from the windows
of each story, and immediate alarm being given, the inmates of the
first and' third floor front rooms were, with much difficulty,
.aroused from their shunbsr, and, at the most perilous risk of their
lives, succeeded in escaping by the windows—those of the first
floor by preciliitating themselves into the street, fortunately with-
out material injury ; and thbae of the third floor by being hauled
over the parapet to the roof of the edjoining 'house by persons
above. We are sorry to add, that three of: the unfortunate per-
sons inhabiting the back rooms fell victims to the suffocating.
vapour which filled the house, before any assistance could be
rendered theM. TwO children, a man anti a woman, were brought
out by means of ladders, from the back of the premises ; the
woman has been restored, and surgeons were endeavouring, but
without hopes, to restore animation in the man, when our infor-
mant left. Thu children were quite dead. The fire originated in
the cellar. Great credit is due to the watchmen and officers of,
the parish, for their promptitude in giving alarm, and procuring
the parish engines, four of which were almOst instantly on the
spot, and had nearly succeeded in reducing the fire, when several
of the larger engines also arrived.
The duties on segars will be reduced 9s. out of 18s.
in July. Some Papers, by mistake, said svars.
A countryman named ADA.III§, with only one leg,
was robbed of five sovereigns on Saturday maht. The
poor fellow went into a carpenter'si shop, n .nent-street,
to purchase a new wooden leg,
,the old. one being
nearly worn out iu the service. While strapping on
the-.new one, he was observed by some persons outside
to transfer some sovereigns from the socket of the old
Jeg into that of the new, and on his leaving the shop
he was knocked down at a little di;;tance from it. The
robbers experiencing some difficulty at getting the
money from its place of concealment, pulled away the
new wooden leg from the stump, leaving the poor
countryman on the ground,' unableto follow them
after depriving, him of his money and. his leg.

Extract from a letter dated Batavia, December 18 :
The affairs of this Government wear a gloomy aspect, their
finances are in a distressed state owing to large debts, the amount
of paper money in circulation being great, and little silver to be
had, as you may suppose, when silver guilders range in the eeve•
ral divisions of the Island at front 5.5 to 20 ; they are bought by
this Government at 20 to 22 to pay their troops. The policy
pursued dtiring the last five years by Government has brought
this Colony to the verge of ruin (should rather say impolicy);
the natives have discovered the weakness of the Dutch, and are
taking advantage of it in many of their possessions.
. . .

In Java, the natives interior of JamarruThg have taken the field
since the month of July, and this Government acknowledge that they
have not power to put down this serious rebellion. Many soldiers
have been sacrificed, and with no other effect than teaching the
insurgents how to tight, to retreat, and value the Dutch power.

—Their leaders are getting bolder every day. The Dutch forces
are now compelled to remain inactive in their several fortresses.
I shall not be in the least surprised to learn that the rebels have
carried them all by storm, when the rains are passed. The ob-
ject the leaders of the insurrection have in view is to establish the
native power—say the Sultan's dominions, independent of Euro-
pean controul. They have no disposition to make conquest of t!)e
seacoast west of Cherilon. All is quiet ; and no fears are enter-
tained that it will not continue so.

The following is an extract of a letter from the
Agent to Lloyd's at Mexico, dated 22d February By his
Majesty's corvette Eclair, Captain Bouchier, which Arrived at San
Bias on the Bth instant, having sailisi from Callao on the lst ult.,
we learn that Rodil still held out in the Castle, but was very short
of provisions. Two days previous to the sailing of the Eclair,
the,English flag, with the Union down, was hoisted on the prin-
cipal fort, and the Commander of the Biritiih squadron had ap-
plied to the Peruvian Government in Lima, for permission to
inquire the cause of such signal ; but no answer had been re-
ceived when this vessel was ordered to sea. I3olivar was in Po-
tosi, and all was quiet in the interior. An expedition had left
Valparaiso to attack Chnoe; it was to call at Conception for
more troops, which would, on the whole, amount to about 3,000
men. An English sloop of war arrived at Acapulco early this
month, but we have not learnt her name, nor where she comes
from."