The Sun.
London, England, 1842-03-25 00:00:00

FROM THE EVENING PAPERS OF YESTERDAY.

STAN DARD.—The Howe of Commons has ad-
journed to the 4th of next month, leaving the im-
portant business of the country precisely where it
stood on the first day of the session, as far as the
House itself is concerned. This is the work of the
very same men who were so patriotically impatient for
an adjustment of the Corn-laws, and for an arrange-
ment of our disordered financial affairs, five months
ago. Reversing the maxim of the philosopher
historian—" Priusquam incipias consulto, et übi
consulueris mature facto opus est." They
clamoured to begin without inquiry, and now
retard, by every honest and dishonest means, the
time of seasonable action. The Ministers have, how-
ever, done their part ; they have calmly and industri-
ously inquired and deliberated, and now they urge
with unexampled energy, and with an ability rarely
equalled, the measures which they consider necessary
for the safety of the State. They have cast from them-
selves the responsibity -for what evils may result
from delay. A reflecting man will not regard these
evils as light, if he fairly looks the emergency
in the face. Every revolution of modern times, ex-
cept the last revolution, in France, which, however,
may be treated as but.
_the necessary sequel of its
predecessor, may be regarded as wholly or in part
the result of long accumulating financial difficul-
ties. Each of these revolutions might have been
obviated by taking things in time. This is a
consideration which we would press upon all who
have anything to feai.,from revolution. Suppose
Sir Robert. Peel defeated, or. his measures so
long and so vexatiously delayed as to be worth-
less in regard to the actual emergency; in either
case he will retire from office. This he has pro-
mised ; and without his promise, we must know
that, as a man of sense., and honour, he must retire
from office in the case supposed. What is to follow ?
The return of the Whig7ltadicals to-power. There may
be those who amuse themselves with the prospect of
another Conservative Cabinet ; but let such reflect,
that another Conservative Cabinet. must take office
with all the difficulties by which Sir R. Peel is con-
fronted, and, by their own act, disarmed of those
just and efficient financial measures by which, if
fairly supported, he will triumph over all difficulties.
We are very far from saying that there are not in
the Conservative party materials for many good
Cabinets, and—although all will readily concede to
Sir Robert Peel the first place among the statesmen of
our day—for many Cabinets, on the whole as good as
the present—but this is not the question. The Con-
K‘rvative Cabinet which shall succeed to Sir R. Peers
must, in order to carry on the Government with a broken
party and impaired resources, be a much better
Cabinet—an equally honest and a much more able
Cabinet than the present; and this is a Cabinet which
any one will find it extremely difficult to construct.
We, therefore, surely do not assume too much in
assuming that Sir Robert Peel's retirement must be
followed immediately, or at a very short inter-
val, by the return .of the Whig-Radicals to
power their return in extreme weakness, it
is true ; but, while their ill dispositions re-
main the weaker, they would be so much the
worse. This is what must follow a change in the
administration as certainly as such a change must
follow the defeat of Sir Robert Peel's financial plan.

And why is that plan to be defeated '.l3ecause
touches the breeches pockets of the rich—a point in.
which we blush to be obliged to say it, some Conser-1
vatives seem to be almost as sensitive as their political
opponents.
. .
GLOBE.—By the- proceedings in the house of .
Commons last night, it will be seen that Sir Robert
Peel will be compelled to wait until after the
reel ss for the vote which he hoped to have obta'ned pre-
viously to the adjournment of the House. This a(-
ford time for the country to become awake to the elan-
mous amount of injustice sought to be inflicted upon it
by the monstrous proposition, and to the hatefully inqui
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sitorial nature of the instrumentality by which the pro- .
posed tax must necessarily be collected. When to these
powerful objections to the project is added the fact,
fully supported by irrefragible evidence, that no ne- .
cessity existed for so extreme a measure, as the wants
of the Exchequer might have been easily and effect-
ually supplied from other legitimate sources of reve-
nue, we discover sufficient reason for the impatience
of Sir Robert Peel to bring the discussion to a close.
The leading Tories maintain a sullen silence. The
Premier is evidently afraid of his own colleagues, and
undertakes, in his own person, the laborious task of
encountering the Opposition. The debate of last
night produced some unmistakable indications of the
effects which protracted discussion of the measure will
produce on his own party within the House of
'COmmons, and which will encourage opposition out
of doors. The Herald, one of the organs of the Right
Hon. Baronet's Government, thus speaks of ominous
symptoms of dislike to the measure, the precursors of
disaffection and desertion, in the ranks of his sup-
port( rs
"lhere was from behind the treasury benches a very
general denunciation of the injustice and odiousness of
a tax on income ; and though the Right Hon. Baronet
is not threatened by secession from the ranis which
enable him to bear down. political and factious oppo,i-
don, he must by this time clearly sec that much zif the sup-
,lort which he receives is from hands and not
.from hearts
—is given on compulsion and not with free will—is ac-
corded from consideration of party necessity, and not
from mental conviction. Such support, no one knows
better than the Premier, is most dangerous to place re-
liance on."
Sir Robert Peel himself has conceded the point,
and has thus made out a case against himself, that this
obnoxious impost ought to be regarded as a last re-
source—an expedient held in reserve for some desperate
national extremity, 'to be employed only when every
other means had failed. It is absurd to pretend that
the nation is in any such extremity at the present time.
We have had an outbreak in Canada, and a necessity
for forcible intervention on the coast of Syria. We
have a war with China, and a contest with the bar-
barous tribes of Affghanistan. But the example of
the ransom of Canton shows that the former may well
be made to pay its own expenses; and all the charges
of the latter, on which Sir Robert Peal laid so much
st:ess, h:.ve hitherto been defrayed by the local go-
vmr:nent of India.

DR. REID'S LECTURES ON
CHEMISTRY.
Dr. Reid, aware of the technicalities which, in
chemistry more than any other science, perplex in
lint,ne, announced at his third lecture at Exeter
Hall, that he should fix a time and place in the fol-
lowing week, where and when those students who
we:e willing, might hear explained from him in
private the initiatory cabbala of the science, so
as to comprehend without lack of lucidity, the
superstructural portion of his lectures. Some general
observations relative to various good study-books and
manuals proper for the young chemist, preceded the
learned lecturer's continuation of his remarks upon
gases. His former exemplification of their pressure
upon substances, and the delicate adjustment of their
particles, was followed up by remarks upon the mo •
tions of those invisible atoms, and an experi-
ment, in which a tier of candles, placed within a glass
receiver, had their lights consecutively extinguished,
demonstrated the circular motion going on among
the-particles of gas, when put into movement by a
disturbing cause; a similar effect to which, he ob-.
served, was proceeding in the atmosphere around us,
in which ten thousand different currents of air were
perpetually in rotation. Another quality of gaseous
substances was their power of diffusion, or of gene-
, trating each other, and so amalgamating ; but in the
same manner that gases possessed this diffusive property,
solids and fluids, on the other hand, condensed gases,
which was exemplified by the illustration of a ball of
platinum, capable of .condensing two hundred times
its own power of oxygen. Prom this cause arose
cases of spontaneous combustion, in which porous
bodies, condensing in themselves vast quantities of
gas, were afterwards acted on by the air, whereby
sudden ignition ensued. Dr. Reid next proceeded to the
subject of atmospheric air ; he explained, for the sake of
simplicity and clearness its component parts, and
then presented to view four simple and compounded
gases, two of which were the primitive oxygen and
hydrogen, and the third the " intoxicating gas," dis
covered by Sir Humphrey .Davy, containing one part
of oxygen and one of nitrogen.- This gas, on being
placed in a glass receiver, and brought into contact
with atmospheric air, assumed the appearance of a
ruddy compound, completely colouring the sides of the
glass. Dr. Reid explained the nature of .its action
upon the human frame to be that of producing excqs-
sive muscular strength in some, while on others jt
acted with a stunning shock, causing thcm.
ently to drop dead. A fourth gas was exhibited,
which had for its component parts one of oxygen and
two of nitrogen. To show the various operations of
the air upon inflammable substance, the duration of
different flames in the same atmosphere furnished a
curious test. In a box containing twenty cubic feet
of air, a common candle, after 'Arming two minutes,
was completely quenched ; oil in three minutes ; gas,
from five to nine • while the lecturer himself was
forced to quit it after an expiration of seventeen
minutes. This circumstance, as connected with the
theory of respiration. Dr. Reid promised to enter
into at his succeeding lecture.

KOOlll KALI,
ONE OF THE CASTLES ON THE ASIATIC
SIDE OF THE HELLESPONT.
We had some difficulty in prevailing on the old chief
to let us see the interior of the castle; he, however, at
last acceded to our importunities, and deputed the com-
mandant of artillery, our drunken friend of the preceding
evening, to conduct us thither. The garrison consists of
about a hundred men, having little to boast of in point of
military appearance— being mere boys, small in size, of
a slouching gait, and apparently extremely ill at ease in
the Frankish dress and accoutrements: the former con-
sists of the fez, drawn in a most unsoldierlike fashion
over the ears, a dark blue shell jacket with red facings,
white linen trowscrs, and half boots ; their arms and
appointments are in a wretched state, and the sentry at
the portcullis was carelessly lounging up and down with
a rusty firelock, which could not even boast of either flint
or bayonet.
The fort of Boom Kali is an oblong, walled in to
about two hundred and ninety yards in length, by
one hundred and ninety yards in breadth. It con-
tains a dense mass of closely-wedged wooden buildings,
separated by streets, whose breadth does. not exceed four or
five feet, a couple of mosques, and the barracks imme-
diately in rear of the principal battery facing the Darda-
nelles, and raised about four feet above the level of the
water. This is mounted with eighteen large brass guns,
about twenty 'feet in length, and carrying enormous stone-
shot. They were embedded in the masonry of the
building, but preparations were even then making to
put them into a more efficient state, a vessel !laving ar-
rived from Constantinople with a cargo of timber car-
riages, on which they were being mounted. Besides
the principal battery, a flank face with four guns com-
mands the entrance of the Straits, and wall-pieces are
placed on the projecting turrets towards the land side.
"By the time we had inspected the interior of the fort,
as the day was advancing, we took a friendly leave- of
its worthy commandant, and, with the promise of paving
him shortly another visit, mounted our steeds and took
our departure, highly pleased with the first specimen we
had of Turkish manners.—Northern Excursions.

THE ARMY IN IRELAND.
The following Regiments intended for early embarkation for
India are to be completed to their new establishment respec-
tively, as at foot. The► volunteers are to receive a bounty of
thirty shillings on j ining their new corps, which is to pay
for alterations in their equipments., One married man will be
allowed to volunteer for every twelve. The age restricted to
thirty-two.
10th Regiment.—From the 58th Regiment, 60 volunteers.
25th Regiment.—From the Ist Depot (Ist Bat.), 50 volun-
teers; 35th, 50; 46th, 50 ; 70th, 50; sth, 50.
29th Regiment.—From the 14th Depot, 50 volunteers;
43d, 50 ; 56th, 30 ; 76th, 50 ; 89th, 50.
84th Regiment.—From the 64th Depot, 50 volunteers
67th, 50 ; 69th, 50 ; 74th, 50.
86th Regiment.—From the lst Depot (2/21 Bat), 40 volun-
teers ; Bth, 50 ; 27111 Depot., 50 ; 3.3 d, 20 ; 36th, 50.
The 29th Regiment, now recruiting in Belfast, had to hire.
on St. Patrick's Day, a party of showmen to " beat up" for
recruas, as there is no supply of Arnais and fifes allowed. The
clown and his motley crest marctied in front of the military t•
the tune of St. Patrick's Day.

The late Dr. Wilson, senior Fellow of Trinity Col-
lege, Dublin, though a very grave man himself, was very
fond of quizzing and puzzling the country people who
came to inquire after their friends or rriations in the
college. One clay seeing a man standing in the court with
a letter in his hand, gaping and staring about, and not
knowing where to go, he walked gravely up to him, and
inquired what he wanted ? The moan an.,wered, " Sir,
can you tell me where I may find Mr. l)clahunte ?
"Yes," said the Doctor, " do you see that building be-
fore you ? "Yes." "Then crucify_this quadrangle and
take the diameter of the plot beyond it ; enter the open-
ing before you, and ascend the tigrcousgrades; then turn
to your left, and you will find him either peripatoonting
in his cubicle, dormitating in his lectuary,
or peiresco-
pounting through his fenestra." The poor man who un-
derstood nothing of all this, and remernbcred not one
word but the last, said, "And pray,
Sir, what is the
fenestra ?" To which the Doctor rep
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THEATRICAL LAW IN ITALY.
[We take the following from a late number of a
French print. Some of our English actors, who are,
food of indulging themselves in fulminations against
"managerial tyranny," will perceive that, if this nar-
rative be authentic, " we order things better " in Eng-
land, even in matters connected with theatrical law,
than one, at least, of our continental neihbours.]
Mademoiselle Hallez, a distinguished French canta-
trice, at present attached to the Opera in Naples, was
announced one evening lately to sing at a benefit.
Being seized With a sudden hoarseness on the morn-
ing of her expected performance; she hastened to ap-
prise the manager of her inability to appear that even-
ing. The physician in attendance at the theatre was
immediately despatched to the fair invalid to ascertain
and report upon the nature of her illness. On returning
from his official visit, the medical functionary reported
that though free from actual tbver, Mademoiselle was
suffering under a severe soreness in the throat. Now
the regulations of the Neapolitan theatres declare
that, the case of fever alone excepted, an actor can be
excused from performance on no plea or pretence
whatsoever. Accordingly, Mademoiselle Hallez re-
ceived a peremptory mandate to be ready for her
part in the representation of the evening. At eight
o clock she repaired to her post, and the performance
commenced. But the result was as might have been
anticipated—the lady was scarcely able to get through
her first air, and in a style quite inferior to her usual
sweetness and power.
The audience-room showed signs of discontent,
ominous siffiets were heard from different parts of the
theatre, and the storm was threatening to become
more grave, when the cantatrice advanced to the front
of the stage, and signified by gestures a wish to ex-
plain. Silence being restored, Mademoiselle, all
blushes and agitation, related, with the ingenuous
earnestness of truth, the story of her correspondence
with the management, and the order she had received
to appear, though the severity of her indisposition was
perfectly well known.
Unanimous plaudits followed _this explanation.
Discontent was succeeeded by enthusiasm, angry
voices by a shower of bouquets, and the entire
audience loudly demanded that the performance
should be postponed.
Managerial spite or obstinacy was obliged to
succumb to the voice of the public, and Mademoiselle
returned home in triumph. But she had hardly
reached her domicile when she was disagreeably inter-
rupted by the arrival of a police commissary, with all
the formulable paraphanalia of his office. This pa-
ragon of a magistrate, who would appear, from his
conduct, to have thought that it formed no part of
his duty to soften the rigorous forms of justice, cried
out to the four gendarmes by whom he was attended,
" Lay hands on the damsel immediately." The
satellites, far from reluctant, seized the trembling
prima donna by the wrists, and lost no time in sub-
stituting handcuffs for her bracelets; and thum-ties
for her rings. In this state, and still clothed in her
thin theatrical dress, the young lady was dragged to
the police-office, and locked up in a narrow and un-
wholesome cell.

Let it not be supposed that, while thus circum-
stanced, the fair prisoner was permitted to communi-
cate with her friends, or even to snatch a little re-
pose after the fatigue and' agitation of the even-
ing. The poor girl was fastened, standing, to a cold
damp wall, tied by the neck, her arms and feet,
being• also chained. In this deplorable condition the
poor Parisian nightingale was left to wait for the ap-
proach of day. At length, at the joyful hour when
macaroni begins to smoke in the streets of Naples,
one of the great Court grandees, having learned the
circumstance from public rumour, hastened to wait
upon the Minister of the Interior, obtained an order
for the liberation of the prisoner, and she was ac-
cordingly released from durance. It was almost too
late. A cold fever and icy shivering had seized upon
the suffering artiste, who was carried to her bed in an
all but dying state.
The French Journal then proceeds to relate that
M. Montebello, the Ambassador from the Tuileries,
to the Court of Naples, succeeded in having punish-
ment inflicted on some of the parties concerned in
this atrocity. We question whether, if Naples were
more powerful, or ranee less so, any notice would
be taken of the matter. It is clear, however, that
our. Neapolitan friends have rather curious notions
concerning the liberty of persons, at least of cantatrices.

MECKLENB URG SCH WERIN.
The Schweriner, weekly paper, contains the follow-
ing proclamation from the young Grand Duke
Frederick Franz who has just succeeded to the titles
and honours of his deceased father :

" We, Frederick Franz, by the grace of God, Grand
Duke of Mecklenburgh, Prince of Wenden, Schwerin,
and Ratzeburgh, Count of Schwerin, and Lord of the
lands of Rostock and Steurgard : To all our faithful
nobles, citizens, municipal authorities, servants of
the State, both spiritual and temporal, as well as to all
our faithful subjects, greeting. 'We graciously make
it known to them that it has pleased Almighty God,
bd his inscrutable decree, to call away from this
earth, to a life of everlasting bliss and peace,
our dearly beloved and unforgotten Lord 'and
Father, his Most Serene Highness the Prince
ftne. Lord Paul Frederick, Grand Duke of Meek-
lenburgh, Prince of Wenden, Schwerin, and Ratze-
burgh, Count of Schwerin, and Lord of the lands
of Rostock and Steugard, this morning, at a
quarter past five, in the 42d year of his age,' and
the sixth of his reign. Sorely and heavily hath this
blow come upon us. Irreparable will be the loss,
both to us and to the whole father land, that he should
he thus cut off in the prime of life, before. he had ac,
complished many of the great benefits which he
had contemplated for his faithful subjects. Ae-
cording to the laws and regulations. of our house,
the lands, power, and authority have descended to us
in direct succession, and- we therefore graciously
make known to all, our subjects, servants, and vassals,
especially to those immediately in the Grand Duchy,
of whatsoever . rank and condition they may enjoy,
that it behoves them to. pay unto-us all honour and
Obedience, as becomes loyal subjects and servants to
their liege lord. By these letters we hereby con-.
firm all the Grand-Ducal servants of the Crown and
State in their present respective offices and vocations,
nor do we demand any renewing of their oath, being
convinced of their fidelity to us, their preSent liege
Lord, and Sovereign. By these same letters we also
confirm in their present offices all the special com-
missioners of affairs, and all the collegiate, and other
offices. We are deeply impressed with the import-
ance of the truth that is committed to our charge,
and will ever continue to do our utmost to ensure the
-welfare and prosperity of our beloved subjects: May
it please the Divine Providence to assist and stand by
M -us, that we ay enjoy the :sande.love: 'and affection
which was ever shown to our excellent father,
.who on
his death-bed. .fcfrebly impressed upon, us .;be value
and necessity of obtaining; this. affection, an.d making
the preservation thereof our chief. care , Audfduty.
Given in this present. year of our reign,' at Schwerin,
March 7, 1842. " FREDERICK FRANZ.
" L. V. LUTZOW."
A Government order has also been issued pro-
claiming a general mourning for the spaces of three
months. Another proclamation sets forth that during
certain hours, the bells shall be tolled, and that no
organs shall be permitted to be played at this period.
No ballet-music is to be allowed to be played in any
dramatic representation for six weeks, to be dated
from the 7th inst.

The Court of Assizes rtheSarthe was occupied,
on the 11th, 12th. and 13t4i inst., with the trial of five
men, for the robbery and murder of a farmer in easy
circumstances, named Gaine, living in the village of La
Motte, in the commune of Berus. The man was of a
feeble intellect, and easily excited. On the 3d June, he
went, as usual, to Alencon to market, and, on his return
in the evening, found that a robbery had been effected in
his house, by means of. an entry made in the roof. A
gun, some books, and clothes, a quantity of thread, and
a pocket-book containing notes, had bocci stolen. Every
inquiry was instituted to discover the perpetrators, hut
to no effect. On September 16, Gaine again went to
market and returned in the evening about ten o'clock.
He was at that hour seen by several persons just as he
went in to bar his door.. In the middle of . the night his
neighbours heard loud cries for help, but paid little at-
tention to the circumstances, as he had been frequently
known to utter such cries without cause. Some short
time after, however, a vivid light was seen to burst from
• his windows, and on the house being buraf into, the un-
happy owner was found on the bed enveloped in flames,
and with evident marks of violence on his person. The
flames were put out without much difficulty, and it was
then discovered that combustible matterhadbeen heaped
round the bed, to procure a more rapid destruction.
Several suspicious characters were taken up, and it carne
tor light by the voluntary, though unwilling confession of
one of them, named Louvard, a liberated convict, that
he, and four others, had agreed to rob Gaine, con-
ceiving him to be a richer man than they discovered of
terwards he really was. Of these men, two, Drans and.
Chanibrier, proposod to murder him, to prevent the rob-
bery being known, to which two others, Gamier and
Belland, offered opposition. They entered the house
the second time as they had done the first, through the
nuf, and Gaine, having struggled violently, they stunned
him by striking him On the head, and afterwards
rrangled hint. They then escaped, after taking away
what money they could find ; but, before doing ,so, set
fire to the bed on which they had placed their victim.
All this was denied by the other prisoners, but circum-
stantial evidence clearly proved the case against some of
them. Gartner was acquitted; Bellard -and Louvard
erc found guilty, but with extenuating circumstances,
and sentenced to 20 years hard labour at the hulks; and
brans and Chambrier were sentenced to death.
As a waggon heavily laden was on Saturday morn-
ing, about eight o'clock,
coming down the rue ales Fosses-
Mensieur-le-Prince, a man attempted to cross from the rue de
l'Observance, but slipped and 'dl with his head under the
wheel, which crushed him to atoms.
The Austrian Lloyd's gives the following state-
ment of the trade carried on hetsreen Austria
and the United
States during the years 1839 and 1840. In the former year
•028 exports from Austria to the- United States amounted to
-477.:535 dollars, and the imports from that Wintry to 522,2-15
- dollars. In 1640, the exports amounted to 373,363' dollars,
..aa the imports to 1,766,621 dollars.

LAW INTELLIGENCE.
COURT OF CIANCERY, Mardi 23.
His LORDSHIP disposed of several lunatic petitions of triv:al
interest.

THURSDAY.
His LORDSHIP disposed of several petitions by order, which con.
tained no feature of general Interest.

VICE-CHANCELLORS' COURT, March 23.
(Before the'VICE-CHANCELLOR OF ENGLAND.)
No case presenting any feature of public interest was heard
in this Court.
(Before Vice-Chancellor WIGRAM.)
LEE!,III_,IG V. SHERRATT.

His HONOUR gave judgment in this cause, which came be-
fore the Court on further directions. There were two points
raised at the bar. In his will, the testator gave 1,0001. to
each of his children. With respect to the daughters they
were to have 5001. paid to them, and an additional 5001. was
to be settled upon them -in a particular mode. The direction
in the will was that the interest of the second 500!. should be
paid to the daughters, and the principal be disposed of in such
manner as they themselves should direct to their issue, " but
in ca e they die without issue, I give such principal amongst
the survivors of my children in equal proportions." The first
question was, whether the words " in case they die without
issue " meant an indefinite failure, in which case the limitation
over would be void. He was of opinion that the words meant
an indefinite failure. The second question was, whether he
should construe the word "survivors " as meaning others.
The authorities on that point were very contradictory. In This
case the provisions which the testator had made in his will were
sufficient to satisfy him, that he used the word " survivors " in
its proper sense, and that the testator intended to give to the
survivors of a deeeased child the same benefit as would have
been received by the parent.

THURSDAY.
(Before Vice-Chancellor Wioaam.)

His HoNowt was engaged during a great part of the day in hear.
ing the further arguments in a part-neard cause of "Harvey v.
Bousfield," which possessed very little public interest.

INSOLVENT DEBTORS' COURT, March 23.

RE JOSE?I1 CORBYN.

The insolvent in this case, who was described as a Com-
mander in the Royal Navy, and at present of the Royal Hos-
pital, Greenwich, applied to be liberated on bail until the day
of hearing.
The Learned COMMISSIONER proceeded to examine Em
with regard to the statements in his schedule, where the names
of several creditors to a large amount appeared, but he seemed
to be quite incapable of understanding the nature of the legal
technicalities upon which he was questioned, when
Mr. Cooxe informed the Court that although a very small
sum appeared by the schedule to be available to the creditors,
yet the insolvent bad lately got an appointment in Greenwich
Hospital, and received 3001. a year compensation, 150/. of
which he gave up to his creditors, and all of them considered
him to have acted in the most honourable manner, and consented
at once to accept of it, save a person named Walker, who was
his detaining creditor. Captain Corbyn had been indebted to
this individual in the sum of 80/., out of which 72/. was paid,
and yet he refused to accede to the same_ composition as other
and incomparably larger creditors. He (Mr. Cooke) consi-
dered the insolvency under such circumstances as these could
scarcely be considered a discredit.
Mr. Commissioner HARRIS said he agreed in tho opinion
expressed by the Learned Counsel. So far as Walker's oppo-
sition was concerned, that he thought would be disposed of very
soon at the:general hearing of the case.
Mr. COOKE further stated, that there were some small
excepted articles belonging to Mrs. Corbyn, from whom t:•.e
insolvent had been living some time separate, and allowed
her 401.; a year for maintenance, se that he thought it
would be useless to occupy the time of the Court, by dwelling
further on that subject.
The bail having justified, Mr. Corbyn was ordered to be
discharged.