The Sun.
London, England, 1844-03-04 00:00:00

PARLIAMENTARY DIVISIONS.

(Prom the Votes and Proceedings of the House of Commons.)
FRIDAY, MARCH 1.
SUPPLY.
MR. T. DUNCOMBE'S MOTION.
MAJORITY, AGAINST-144.
A eland, T. D. Follett, Sir W. W. Maclean Dl
A•Court, Captain Fox, S. Lane M`Neill, Duncan
Antrobus, Edward Fuller. A. E. Mahon, Lord
Arbuthnot, Hon. H. Haskell, James M. Mainwaring, T
Arkwright, Geot ge Gladstone, W. E. Masterman, John
Aetell, William Glynne, Sir S. R. Milne', Richard
raillie, Colonel H. ' ' Gordon Captain , Mundy, E. M.
133illie, H. J. Goring, Charles Neville, Ralph
Bankes, George Goulburn, Henry Nicholl Right Hon
naring, H. B. Graham, Sir J. O'Brien, A.'S.
Carrington, Viscount Greenall, Peter Oswald, Alexander
I •eckett, William Greene. T. Packe, C. W.
Bentinck, Lord G. Gregory, W. H. Patten, J. W
!solder°, H. G. Grogan, Edward Peel, Sir Robert
orthwick, Peter Hamilton, Geo. Alex Peel, Jonathan
'iotheld, Beriah Hamilton, Wm. J. Rumptre, John P.
Bradshaw, James Hanmer, Sir John Pollock, Sir Fred.
1 ramston T. W. Harcourt, G. G. Freed, William T.
.Bruce. Loird E. Hardlnge, Sir H. Pringle, Alexander
:luck, Lewis W. Hardy, John Reid, Sir John R.
!Sunbury, Thomas Hayes, Sir E. Rendlesham, Lord
Burrell. Sir C. M. Henley, J. W. Repton, George J.
Cardwell, Edward Herbert, Sidney Richards, Richard
chapman. A. Hinde, J. H. Rous, Hon. Captain
Charteris, Francis Hodgson, R. Rushbrooke, Colonel
Chetwode, Sir John Hope, Charles Sanderson, R.
ilea, Sir George Hope, G. W. Sandon, Viscount
Cochrane, Alex. Hornby, John Scarlat R C.
Cockburn, Sir G. Houldsworth, I'. Scott, F.
Collett, Nor . Rickford Hughes. W. B. Seymour, Sir R.
Copeland, Alderman Hussey, Thomas Shieey, E. P.
t orry. Right Hon. 11 Irton, Samuel Sibthorp, Colonel
CrIPIA. W. Irving, John Smith, T. B. C.
Darner, Hon. G. Jerre yn, Earl Smollett, Alexander
Denison, E B. Jocelyn, Viscount Somerset, Lord G.
Dick, Quintin Johnstone, Hope Stanley, Lord
Dickinson. F. H. Kemble, Henry Stewart, John
Douglas, Sir H. Knatchbull, Sir E. Sutton, Hon. H. M.
Douglas, Sir C. E. Knight, H. G. Tennent, J. E.
Duncombe, A. Lascelles, W. S. Towline, G.
Eaton, Richard J. Law, c harles E. Trotter, J.
Egerton, W.F. Lincoln, Earl of Wall, C. Baring
Eliot, Lord Lockhart, William Wellesley, Lord C.
Emlyn, Viscount Lowther, J. H. Wortley. Hon. Johns
Escott, Bichkam Lygon, Hon. Gm. Wyndham Colonel i
Estcourt, T. G. B. M'Geachy, F. A. Yorke, E. T.
Farnham, E. B. Mackenzie, Thomas TELLERS.
Fitzmaurice, W. MacKenzie, W. F. Fremantle. Sir T.
Flower, Sir James Mackinnon, W. A. Basing, Henry

MINORITY, FOR-73.
Aglionby, H. A.' Dalrymple Captain Puisford, R Bert
Baring. F. T. Dawson, lion. T. V. Ramsbottom, J.
Barnard, E. G. Dennistoun, J. Rawdon:J. D.
Barron, H. W Duff; James Ricardo, J. L.
Berkeley, C. Duncan, George Roche, E. B.
Berkeley, Hon. SI. F Duncannon, Lord Scholefield, J.
Bernal, Ralph Dundas, Admiral Stanley,-_,W. 0.
Bernal, Captain Ellice, E. Stanstield, W. B.
Blake, M. J. Elphinstone, Howard Strickland, Sir G.
Blewitt, Reginald Heiden, J. Strutt, Edward
lAsdkin, John James Gore, Robert Tancred, H. W
Bowes, J. Hastie, Archibald Thornely, Thomas
Bewring, Dr. Hay, Sir A. L. Troubridge, Sir I'.
Bright, John Hill, Lord Marcus Villiers, Charles f.
Brotherton, J. Horsman, Edward Wakley, Thomas
Browne, Hon. W. Layard, Captain Wallace, IL
Buller, C. Marjoribanks, S. Ward, H. 0.
Busfeild, W. Martin, John Wawn, John
Butler, Colonel Mitchell, T. A. Williams, W.
Byng, Hon. G. S. Morris, ,llavid Wyse, 1.
Carew, Hon. R. S. Murphy, F. S. Yorke, R. H
Cave, R. 0. O'Connell, Maurice
Cobden, Richard O'Ferrall, !More
Colborne, W. Ridley Patttson, James
Collett, John Pechell, Captain
Crawford, W. S. Plumridge, Captain

TELLERS.
Duncombe, T. 3 .

Bellew, R.'M.

MR. S. CRAWFORD'S MOTION.
MINORITY-AYES, 15._

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Aglionby H. A, Duncan, George Wakley. Thomas
Blcwitt, R. Duncombe, T. S. Wawn, J. T.
Bodkin, J. J. O'Connell, M. Williams, W.
Bowling, Dr. Plumridge, Captain TELLERS.
Bright, John Scholetield, J Crawford W. S.
J
Cobden, ltichard Villiers, Charles P. Feilden, J.

MAJORITY-NOES, 91.

RAILWAY BUSINESS IN PARMA,

)LENT.

RAILWAY RETURNS.
We extract from the Railway Magazine the sums
received on the principal Railways of Great Britain for
the week ending on the day of the month prefixed to
each. The return includes the money received for
passengers, parcels, carriages, horses, mails, and mer-
chandise:—
Week Total.
ended Name of Railway. X. s. d.
Feb. 24 Arbroath and Forfar • B3 0 5i
24 Birmingham and Derby Junction 1,195 7 9
23 Birmingham and Gloucester 1,652 8 9
23 Brandling Junction 750 12 3
23 Chester and Birkenhead 320 10 7
27 Dublin and Kingstown 560 11 9
25 Dundee and Arbroath l7l 13 oi
24 Durham and Sunderland 636 8 8
24 Edinburgh and Glasgow 1,759 8 11
25 Eastern Counties and North Eastern 3,077 8 1
24 Glasgow, Kilmarnock, and Ayr 1,191 3 11
24 Glasgow and Greenock 689 13 5
259 9 9
24 Grand Junction 6,
24 Great North of England 1,249 1 8
25 Great Western
23 Liverpool and Manchester
24 London and Birmingham
29 London and Blackwall 582 2 0
2,260 7 1
24 London and Brighton
27 London and Croydon
29 London and Greenwich 638 0 9
25 London and South Western .......
23 Manchester, Bolton and Bury 740 18 li
24 Manchester and Birmingham 2,763 3 11
24 Manchester, Leeds, and Hull Assoc 9
5,34 10 3
24 Midland Counties
24 Newcastle and Carlisle 1,400 5 8
25 Newcastle and North Shields 279 10 1
24 North Midland
23 North Union
20 Paris and Orleans 3,536 2 9
26 Paris and Rouen 2,978 0 0
24 Preston and Wyre 221 16 0
24 Sheffield and Manchester 484 5 1
29 South Eastern
24 Taff Vale
25 Ulster 502 2 5
24 York and North Midland

The following is the progress the undermentioned Bills
have made through the House
North British Railway—Petition for Bill reported, and Bill
ordered to be brought in by Mr. Macaulay and Mr. Gibson.
Craig.
Slamannan Junction Railway—Petition for Bill reported,
and Bill ordered to be brought in by Mr. Dennistoun and Mr.
Gibson Craig.
Newbury, Basingstoke, London, and Southamptonßailway
"for making a Railway from the London and South-
Western Railway to the town of Newbury Read a first
time.
Salisbury Branch Railway Bill—Read a second time, com-
mitted, and referred to the Committee of Selection.
York and Scarborough Railway Bill—Read a second time,
committed, and referred to the Committee of Selection.
Furness Railway Bill, "for making a Railway from Ramp-
side and Barrow to Dalton Lindale and Kirkby Ireleth, in
the county palatine of Lancaster, to be called The Furness
Railway' —Reads first time.
Sheffield, Ashton-under-Lyne, and Manchester Railway—
Report from Select Committee on Standing Orders read, Bill
ordered to brought in by Lord Francis Egerton, Mr. Bootle
Wilbraham, and Mr. Wilson Patten.
Guildford Junction Railway Bill, " for making a Railway
from the London and South-Western Railway to Guildford,
in the county of Surrey"—Read a first time.
Yarmouth and Norwich Railway Bill, " to amend and en-
large some of the provisions of the Act authorising the con-
struction of the Yarmouth and Norwich Railway, and to
authorise the construction of certain new works in,connexion
therewith"—Read a first time.

SECOND REPORT FROM THE SELECT COMMIT-

SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS,
FROM THE EVENING PAPERS OF SATURDAT.
GLOBE.—The character of the public press, like
that of public men, is public property. In propor-
tion as the reputation of the public journals is pre-
served free from suspicion—we speak now without
reference to mere party distinctions—will be the de-
pendence placed on their statements of facts, and the
regard with which their discussions of public ques
tions will be received. In this view, the debate of
last night in the House of Commons acquires an im-
portance which is perfectly independent of the motion
on which it took place. The motion for returns of
expenses incurred by the Crown in prosecuting
Mr. O'Connell and his co-defendants would have
possessed little interest. It was the application
" for the amounts paid to Mr. Bond Hughes, Mr.
Charles Ross, and Mr. John Jackson, and to
the proprietors of the Standard and Morning
Herald newspapers," whieh constituted the gist of
the motion, and the interest of the debate. And for
this special reason ; the character of the public press,
and the position of those employed in conducting it,
were supposed to have been compromised by the part
which the individuals named in the motion had taken
at the instance of the Government. This opinion,
well or ill founded—and the discussion of last night
has afforded material assistance to the inquiry—con-
ferred upon the notice of motion a considerable de-
gree of public interest; created, as was natural, out of
the imputations which seemed to rest upon a portion
of the public press, the character of which, as a whole,
had been impeached by the alleged conduct of certain
of its members. This produced an anxiety to ascer-
tain the justice or injustice of the accusations, and
the circumstance which increased or diminislimA
the turpitude of the acts charged upon the parties J)
Of Mr. Bond Hughes—the gentleman whose
name stands first in the motion for returns—little
need be said, but that little is to the credit, and not
to the disparagement of his fair fame. Engaged in
Mr. Gurney's office as a shorthand writer, it
was only in the course of his professional duty
that he attended the meetings of the Repeal As-
sociation, to report the proceedings, at which
he was employed by the Government. His re-
ports were accurate—mere records of the pro-
ceedings. His evidence on the trial, and his gen-
tlemanly deportment throughout, obtained for him
the respect of all parties. The error respecting
the presence of Mr. Barrett at one of the meet-
ings, was explained to general satisfaction ; and
Mr. Hughes acquitted
.himself, throughout the
performance of a difficult and invidious duty, with-
out losing an iota of private or public respect. Nor
did his employment subject the Government to
any unjust reproach. If the " monster meetings'
were regarded by Ministers with apprehension, it was
right that they should know what was said and what
was done at them. And no better course could
be taken than to - depute an efficient shorthand-
writer, and a respectable person, like Mr. B.
Hughes, to observe and record the events of
each meeting. It would have been well for
those for whose conduct the Government is respon-
sible, and whom Sir James Graham last night un-
dertook to defend, had they been always equally dis-
creet in their choice of agents. They did not pre-
serve the same delicacy in selecting reporters for
their purpose. Sir James Graham, as was shown by
his explanations and admissions of last night, is
deeply and disreputably implicated in these trans-
actions. By those inducements which a Minister
of State has at his command when he chooses
to employ them, and thinks he can do so with suc-
cess, Sir James Graham first seduces Mr. C. Ross,
a salaried reporter on the establishment of the Morn-
ing Chronicle, and employs him to do the dirty work
of the Government at the Donnybrook meeting.
The Chronicle has stated the faCts and commented
upon this interferences with its emPaye in terms not
more severe than well deseivedl—and. which we ex-
tract in another column. •
STANDARD.,--The Member for -Finsbury last
night brought forward his motion for an account of
the money paid-'for information, respecting the late
Iproceeding in Ireland, to certain reporters and short-
hand writers, and to the proprietors, conductors,
managers, and agents of the Morning _Herald and
Standard newspapers. The first part of the motion
was granted without difficulty, but Sir James
Graham resisted that part which concerned the
proprietors, conductors, managers, &c., of the two
newspapers named, on the gun
rod that it offered
a gratuitous insult to gentlemen, to whom he
solemnly pledged his honour not one farthing of
money had ever passed. We have that confi-
dence in the known character of this journal,
and of all connected with it, to be satisfied with
a much slighter testimony to our honour and-
integrity than that of the Right Hon. the Home
Secretary, were the accuser a much more respect-
able one than Mr. Thomas S. Duncombe. The
exculpation is, however, much more complete than
it would be had Sir James Graham complied
with Mr. Duncombe's motion ; and this, we have
no doubt, was the consideration which determined
the honourable mind of Sir James Graham to
adopt the course taken by him. A return might
easily and safely state a falsehood, but a solemn
declaration like that of the Right Honourable Se-
cretary precludes every possible suspicion of un-
truth. No, Mr. Thomas Duncombe, we had no
money for information ; and, to say truth, we
had' no claim for money on this account, for
we furnished no information. Mr. Ross was our
special correspondent ; his instructions from us
were to report faithfully the proceedings at
the repeal meetings held in the country
parts of Ireland, which our regular correspondent,
permanently resident in Dublin, could not attend;
and at the intervals of the county meetings to give
such assistance as he could to our Dublin corre-
spondent. For this special service we employed
him, and we paid him, and have every reason to
be grateful for the integrity, zeal, and ability
with which he executed the special service in
which we 'employed him. We say special service,
because Mr: Duncombe stated what is not the fact,
in saying that Mr. Ross remains attached to the
Standard. When the " monster meetings " ceased,
sve had no further occasion for Mr. Ross's
services, and we regret that we had no
vacancy- for him upon our establishment—
we regret 'it the more, because the genuine
spirit of persecution inheerent in all Jaco-
bins, has
pressed
f'ro asm
uahis Morning Chronicle
the necessity of (reluctantly
we firmly believe)
dismissing this gentleman
gagement with that journal. And thus
tausln' and of
thise upermanennitu cekny:
his
genotnleomuran l
thrownt up on
iosfwedithuctiiso n
familyan
unspotted
mna—
a h
the world, for having merely discharged,
with, fidelity,
the duty owing by every good subject.
be I

TEE ON RAILWAYS.

The Select Committee on Railways have agreed to report
the following resolutions :-
1. That, in each case where Bills are now pending to autho-
rise the construction of new lines of railway, competing with
one another, such Bills be respectively referred to one Com-
mittee.
2. That the Committees for the consideration of such Bills
be specially constituted.
3. That Bills now pending to authorise the construction of
new lines of railway, which will compete with existing rail-
ways, be in like manner referred to Committees specially con-
stituted.
4. That such Committees be composed of five members, to
be nominated by the Committee of Selection, who shall sign
a declaration that their constituents have no local interest,
and that they themselves have no personal interest in the i
Bill or Bills referred to them, and that they will not vote on
any question which may arise without having duly heard and
attended to the evidence relating thereto, and that three
shall be a quorum.
5. • That a Select Committee be appointed, to consider which
of-the pending Railway Bills shall be deemed competing Bills,
according to the foregoing resolutions.
6. That. such Select Committee be composed of five mem-
bers, of whom three shall be a quorum, and that the Com-
mittee have power to send for persons, papers, and records.
7. That such of the Standing Orders as. relate to the Om.",
positiim of the Committees on private 'and the orders
Consequent lie suspended, siirilurEtS- regards cbui-
peting Railway- BillYlOn4ing in thecOltirse of the' present
session. • - c,,,5 5.1

SERIOITS AFFRAVIWAIXILLINii tlf RENT, FEB. 27.
—About' ft +MOOR" Ahtahtly;Jatelnasu,saftefson named Fie-
derick Theritelillresiding akithis'plitteAtissArne fariovslyinsane,
and prasewisd.ire -acme at amral Romps olgeqf 44g windovis:
A woman.wlio,lesi* iw*eisaine house ca,lled out. fllurder,"
when police-coast-able 78 R,.and two other persOf*attemPted
to get him out of the window, but did not suceeed. Infor-
mation was then give u at the Bexley-:heath police-station,
when Sergeant Proetei immediately rode to the spot, fol-
lowed by police-constables Smith and Waterman, 75 R and
44 R. On their arrival they found the house surrounded by
a mob, and Hunter in his chamber, with the door barricaded.
On Sergeant Procter going to the lower room, he came to the
window, and presented a double-barrelled gun close to his
head. On the arrival of police-constables 44 and 75, they all
proceeded to break into the chamber to secure the maniac,
and while they were in the act of bursting open the door, he
snapped a pistol at them three times, and brandished a carv-
ing knife in his other hand. They obtained an entrance at
great risk, as he fought desperately with a knife and pistol.
Police-constable 44 ultimately knocked down and overpowered
him, when it was discovered that he had stabbed himself in
two places in the abdomen. Mr. Grantham (the divisional
surgeon), who happened to be in the village, and attended
the unfortunate man, expressed it as his opinion that the in-
juries will not prove fatal, unless the intestines should prove
to be cut through. He was removed to the Rose and Crown
Inn, and remains in custody of the police. He bad in his
possession a double-barrelled gun and seven pistols, all loaded
heavily, a sword-stick, and carving-knife. In the struggle
to secure him, police-constable Waterman, 44 R, had his head
-cut in two or three places with the knife, as well as his
clothes; and Sergeant Procter's fingers were cut.
THE ROYAL STAG-HOUNDS.—His Serene Highness
Prince Edward of Saxe-Weimar, the Earl of Rosslyn, several
of the officers of the Grenadier Guards, and a field of between
forty and fifty, were at the meet on Wednesday, at the
Royal kennel, at Ascot. An untried deer, upon being un-
carted, near Mr. Taylor's, after going away to Swinley-corner,
and for half a mile along the Bracknell-road, doubled to the
right to Sir John Walsh's park, back to Miss Ferrand's feria
and crossed to the kennel, in front of Mr. Davis's, and thence
over the course to the fir plantations in the forest, round by
Fern-hill, down to Sandpit-gate, by Hardiman's-gate to
Cranbourne, and then making for Mr. Riley's, at Forest-hill,
and doubling back again into the forest, it was taken, after a
good run, at Hatchet-lane-end. The Earl of Rosslyn, Mr.
4.Davis, and a good sprinkling, were up at the finish.
THE SOVEREIGNS OF Bußeez.—On a general
glance at the ages of Monarchs and ruling Princes, - of the
52 Sovereigns of Europe four are upwards of 70 years old—
the King of Sweden, 81 ; the King of Hanover, 72 the
King of the French, 70; the Pope, 70. Above 60 The
King of Wirtemberg, the Elector of Hesse Cassel, the
Grand Dukes of Ilesse Darmstadt, Mecklenberg Strelitz,
Aldenburg, and Saxe Weimar. Above 50.—The Emperor of
Austria, the Kings of Bavaria, Denmark, Belgium, and
Holland. Above 40.—The Emperor of Russia, the Kings of
Prussia, Saxony, and Sardinia, and the Grand Duke of Tus-
cany. Above 30.—The King of Naples. Above 20.—Queen.
Victoria, the Sultan, the King of Greece, the Queen of Por-
tugal, the Grand Duke of Mecklenburg Schwerin, and the
Duke of Nassau. Under 20, but one—the Queen of Spain,
who is but 13i. The western world is the region of republics.
The only sovereign is the Emperor of Brazil, still a boy, 18
his last birth-day.
CHANGE.IN THE IRISH MAILS.—The Dublin 3ler-
rantile Advertiser states that the Post-office authorities are
about adopting new regulations in reference to the commu-
nication between England and Ireland. The Holyhead mail
packet, which leaves Kingstown at nine o'clock A.m., is to '
discontinued. Indeed, it had become almost wholly useless,
'
as the London correspondence was sent via Liverpool. There HER MAJESTY S THEATRE.—This establishment is
are to be still two mails daily from Kingstown to Liverpool not likely to open before the 9th inst. Agents from the ma-
, —one at six o'clock A.m., the other at half-past six o'clock nagement have departed for Paris on account of the action at
P.m. The night mail at half-past nine o'clock is to be discon- law pending between the directeur of Les Italiens and For-
tinued. The early mail from Kingstown at six o'clock is to nasari, who, unless the matter is amicably arranged, will
take the Irish provincial mails for England, which are to ar- not be able to leave Paris as soon as his services will be re-
rive in the Dublin Post-office at four o'clock A.M., to afford quired here. The rehearsals for the new ballet Esmeralda
time for sorting and dispatch. The inland mails are to leave take place daily under the surveillance of Perrot, assisted by
the Post-office at eight o'clock, P. M., an hour earlier than at the indefatigable Nadaud.
present. The evening mail from Kingstown to Liverpool is BRISTOL AND EXETER RAILWAY.-011 Thursday
to convey the Irish provincial correspondence to all parts of the general meeting of the proprietors of the Bristol and
England, and such letters and papers as may be posted after- Exeter Railway Company was held at the White Hart, Bris-
the departure of the evening mail The bulk of the Dublin j tot, Mr. Ricketts, the Chairman of the Directors, presiding,
correspondence, however, will go by the latter mail, which, supported by Mr. Divett, M.P., Mr. Brunel, C.F.., and a large
leaving Kingstown at half-past, six o'clock, P.m., could
take number of proprietors from the west of England. Mr. Bad-
the mails brought up by the Cork mid-day mail, which is ham, the secretary, read the Directors' Report, which au-
now due at the Post-office at half-past three o'clock, P.m., nounced that the amount of fixed rent and share of toll which
and probably the Belfast day mail. Any change must be I the Great Western Railway Company had stated to be due
an improvement on the present system, which is defective in , to the Bristol and Exeterßailway Company for the past half-
all respects, but more especially as regards the transit of year was 25,555/., the share of toll on 197,030 passengers, con-
' letters to England. The new regulations, if adopted at all, veyed 5,023,370 miles, being 5,2321., and 462/. on 14,060
' will come into operation on the sth of April next. tons of goods, conveyed 443,714 miles, making a total of
GOING TO THE GREATEST LENGTHS.—There was 31,249/. The gross earnings on the line
for the half-year, as
an account in the newspapers, a short time back, about " the far as Beambridge, had been
5,6,543/. The tUrther claims of
longest rope in the world." We know of one worth two of the Company. on the Great 1% estern Company had been ro-
that ; for it has been exceeded over and over again by the ferred to arbitration. The state of the works was exceed-
- " tremendous long yarn " on the state of Ireland, which ' ingly satisfactory, and the whole line to Exeter might be
the House of Commons was a whole fortnight spinning..-- confidently expected to be ready for public traffic in the month
Punch, of May next.

LAW INTELLIGENCE.
COURT OF CHANCERY, March 2.
FOLEY V. HILL.
The further arguments in this part-heard appeal occupied
the Court the whole morning. The question in the case re-
lated to the conducting of a colliery in Staffordshire.

BANKRUPTCY COURT, Marok 2.
(Before Sir C. WILLIAMS.)
IN RE CHARLES MATHEWS.

Mr. Charles Mathews, the celebrated comedian, came up
this morning to undergo his second examination.
Mr. JAMES appeared op behalf of Mr. Anderson, and in-
formed the Court that after the intimation thrown out by
his Honour on a previous occasion, relative to the distribution
of the bankrupt's,salary, he should not feel called upon to offer
any further opposition to the passing of the bankrupt, it
being, however, understood that his client was to be appointed
one of the assignees.
His HONOUR thought that was the most prudent course
the Learned Gentleman could adopt, under existing circum-
stances. The facts, when they first came out, certainly were
startling, but the explanation of the bankrupt had cleared
them up. With the powers and talents which Mr. Mathews
possessed, he might, if he pursued a virtuous and proper
path, ultimately attain an independence, and recover
his lost reputation. It must, however, be censtantly borne
in mind by him, that, in the event of his again coming
before that Court, it would no doubt be considered that it
was through his own recklesness and impropriety of con-
duct ; and the Court would, in consequence, not be in-
clined to treat him with so much lenity as it did then.
Mr. Mathews warmly thanked the Court and Mr. Ander-
son for the kindness they had evinced towards him, and then
retired, his third and last examination having been pre-
viously fixed for the 4th of April next.

INSOLVENT DEBTORS' COURT, March 2.
IN THE MATTER OF LOUIS AUGUSTE DIEUDONNE ALIAS

LEON D'ARNAY.
The insolvent had been an extensive corn-factor and
Government contractor at Nevas, in France, which place
he suddenly left in June, 1842, and came to this country,
bringing with him, as he admitted, 3,6001. in money.
He owed in France upwards of 13,000/, which now
appeared on the schedule, and his debts in the aggregate
were set forth at 19,5861. He had 2,0321. owing to him,
and alleged that he had left property in France which
had been seized by the syndic under his bankruptcy, and
would pay the creditors 25 per cent. on their claims.
Soon after his departure he was declared a bankrupt par
contumace, and had been condemned to the galleys for
twenty years as a fraudulent bankrupt. He had been
in this country in partnership in the business of an
Italian warehouseman, and had latterly resided in New-
man-street, Oxford-street, assuming, during his sojourn
in England, the name of Leon D'Arnay. Some negotia-
tions at an arrangement had been made with his cre-
ditors without success, and in October last he was
arrested on a judge's order as a person about to abscond
from the country. He had been in the Queen's
Prison, and on the present occasion, having appeared
before the Court last February, came up for adjudication.
He had been a bill discounter in Newman-street.
Mr. Cresswell opposed for M. Jacquinot, a banker at
Nevas, and three other creditors resident in France.
Mr. Cooke, with whom was Mr. Woodruffe, were for the
insolvent.
The principal ground of opposition was the disposition
of nearly 4,0001 of money in less than two years; and
it was alleged that he had either concealed or made
away with the same. He set forth that he had made
certain payments, on his way to England, to some of his
creditors, and had remitted other sums, respecting which
some certificates were produced, and evidence was given
respecting his proposed terms of arrangement with his
creditors. There were several sums detailed in the
schedule as advances to persons in "discounts," and the.
question involved was, whether this Court could take
cognizance of the disposition of property which belonged
to the bankruptcy in France, and had been brought away
from the creditors residing in that country.
Mr . Commissioner PoLLocx, in pronouncing judgment,
said, in this case, which was certainly one of no inconsider-
able importance, he had to administer the law respecting
insolvent debtors on a person who was opposed by
creditors whose debts were contracted in France. He
laid down the principle that he had nothing to do with
the insolvent s conduct in France, but he had a right to

investigate the circumstances connected with thedispo-
sition of a large sum in this country, and respecting
which his creditors now complained. The Learned
Commissioner commented on the manner in which the

insolvent had disposed of his money, which was a frau-
dulent disposition with regard to his creditors, and for
which disposition he remanded him from his vesting
order for a period of twelve calendar months.