The Sun.
London, England, 1842-11-11 00:00:00

707 10 0

Salaries • • • ••• ..

Interest on bills on
hand . . 1,149 17 2
Current bi 115.......... 747,607 4 10
1,810,462 18 11
Reserved surplus..
Branch fund .

Profit for year... 14,236 19 7
Capital.... . 741,030 0 0

ASSETS.

£2,595,102 7 8

Current accounts

Building societies
Lodgment account
Assignees and trustees
Suspense accounts
Insolvent ditto ..

Bank premises and properties 31,267 18 10
Albion Bank shares.... 99,580 0 0
Bank of Manchester ditto
__ _ _

Stamps _
___

626 9 8

Over-due bills . • 176,780 17 1
Bills on hand and current 1,063,512 16 6
Cash on hand
Funds in transitu, with branches .. 2,133 0 9

£2,595,102 7 8

Total estimated loss £800,887 15 9
Total estimated net assets 1,794,214 11 11

LIABILITIES.

Current accounts.. £746,158 11 4

Building Societies ..........

1,078 17 3

Lodgment accounts
Assignees and trustees
Suspense accounts
Manchester ...... ..£690,060 11 0
Bolton
Newtown ...... •• • 2,772 3 9
Macclesfield ....... 1,172 17 3
Total liabilities......... 713,082 9 10
By order of the Board.
G. R. CHAPPELL, Chairman.
From the foregoing it will appear
that the direct liabilities of the
bank amount to ...£1,810,462 18 11
While the estimated net assets
amounted to

Showing a deficiency of. ......... .••• 16,248 9
Exclusive of the entire capital
And the reserved surplus fund, and.
profit for the year, amounting m
the aggregate to ... .. •• • 43,600 8 9

And making in the whole a total
loss of

Mr. J. S. STUBBS then rose, and said that it was
perfectly evident a large sum of money had been lost
by the Proprietors, and he thought they.had a right
to know how and where it had gone. There were
41,186 shares held by Manchester and Salford people,
and the loss upon them would amount to 410,0001:
His own opinion was, that every Director who had
had anything to do with the bank was bound to sell
every stick and stone of his property to pay the rest
of the Shareholders, as far as possible ; for it was
clear that the Shareholders had been robbed; and
swindled out of their property.—(Applause.) As he
said before, it was necessary that they should know
where the money was gone ; and, in the first place, he
should like to know how much had been lost by the
firm of J. 11. Heron and Co. ?
The CHAIRMAN said the propertiy
Heron and Ca.
which would
come to the bank from the estate o
was at present in such a state that it was impossible to
answer the question. .

Mr. STUI;DS—That is what I expected. Perhaps
you will tell me what is the loss by Raleigh and t
Co.?o.
The CHAIRMAN—In the present state of affairs
would be quite impossible to answer that question.
Mr. STuuns—Perhaps you will tell me what loss
will be incurred by Burdek in's absconding? I see,
by a paper published on Saturday, that he is the owner
of upwards of 1,400 shares.
The CHAIRMAN—The defalcations of Mr. Burdekin
will be more than made up by the securities.
Mr. STUBBS—You will,
perhaps, answer me the
question whether he has gone away with the cogni-
sance of the Board

Th
cognisance. not gone away with my
Mr.e r. Cnlasi
sTuannsiN—Perhaps
has
you will tell me whether any
arrangement has been made between the bank and the
celebrated Richard Roberts
The CHAIRMAN—There has not.
Mr. GREIG observed that there was no motion
before the meeting, but he thought the steps he was
riAitak 11)0;41114 -bring a mntion before them -eeting...t
He endeavoured at'the
last
charges which he broughtmeeting to prone 'certain
the Managing"
Directors, but he had not been able to elicit the in-
formation needed in consequence of one individual not
being present. The individual to whom he alluded was
now present, and he trusted that the Chairman would see
the necessity of allowing the resolution for dissolving
the meeting to remain in abeyance until that gentle-
man came forward and gave the explanations which,
as Shareholders,
receive were entitled to receive, and
which they must
before they entertained such
dissolution of the Company. He had
charges against Mr. Roberts,
brought
question
soma
s et
the
i s
t distinct
theyne t
which he would repeat in his presence, and to which
he expected that individual would return due and
faithful answers.—(Applause.) He was aware that
an attempt might be made to throw all the blame upon
the unfortunate man (Burdekin) who had absconded,
but, utterly worthless as he thought him, still he
thought he was unable to have carried on successfully
so complicated a system of villany as had been carried
on. He should now charge Mr. Roberts with having,
first of all, abused the trust and confidence reposed in
him having abused the
trust
a reposed
reichtorhi;msecasonodolye,ovvfitthhe
Managing
Com-
mittee ; thirdly, with having deceived the Sharehold-
ers and the public ; and fourthly, he should charge
him with fraudulently abstracting money from'the Ban k
for his own private uses. He charged him with these
acts, and asked him to stand uP before the meeting
and disprove them:—(Applause.)
Mr. MILLINGTON impressed upon the Shareholders
the necessity of thoroughly investigating the accounts
before they gave their sanction to the dissolution of
the Company. Before they passed such a resolution
he hoped they would take care to well understand
whether or not they should be placed in a worse situ-
ation by so doing.—(Hear, hear.)
Mr. GBEIG proposed that Richard Roberts should
be heard, observing that if he did not come for-
ward and answer the charges he had brought against
him, he (Mr. Greig) should submit a resolution against
the dissolution of the Company.
The CHAIRMAN said the object in calling the meet- I
ing together was to inquire whether it was the wish of
any one Shareholder to propose the dissolution of the
Company.
Mr. CURTIS (of the firm of Parr, Curtis, and Co.)
rose to propose the dissolution of the Company, and
argued that there were three parties to blame for
bringing the bank into its present state. He consi-
dered that the Shareholders themselves bad not ac-
quitted themselves as they ought to have-done, in
having received theostatements of the Directors at
each succeeding half-yearly meeting without inquir-
ing into the particulars upon which those, statements
were founded, and therefore the Shareholders them-
selves ought to come forward and bear a portion of the
blame which jointly attached to them. - • - -
After some further retuarka front •Mr. Curtis,
Mr. GazzG'referred to the 74th clause of the deed
of settlement, and said, so far as he could understand
the words, it was not necessary in order to the disso-
lution of the Company that there should be either a
mover or seconder. If it required a resolution at all,
he should move an amendment
that it by not enter-
tained at all till thebusineSs of the bank yvesexpiained.
Mr. BUNKO gifterW4l.4l re 444. 14iv, deence of

' his conduct whilst a Director on the General Board,
and also whilst a Managing Director. lie first alluded
to the fact of his accuser, Mr. Greig, having only re-
cently become a shareholder, and therefore must have
purchased his shares at a very reduced rate.
Mr. GREIG said he paid 51.11 s 3d. for the 112 shares
which he now held:
Mr. ROBERTS then entered into a review of the cir-
cumstances connected with the management of the
bank since he became a Shareholder, in 1831, when
he was appointed upon the General Board. Fora con-
siderable period after he became connected with the
management he had no account with the bank, and did
not open one until the bank with which he had previ-
ously transacted business (Messrs. Jones, Loyd, and
Co.), intimated to him, that as he was a director of an-
other bank, they did not think it right that he should
be a borrower of them. He said that when he became
connected with the bank as a Managing Director, lie
was in easy circumstances, and attributed his subse-
quent losses to the badness of trade, and to the fact of
his having paid npwards of 8,0001. to the bank as in-
terest. He also alleged that at the period of his re-
tiring from the bank in May last he was not aware
that anything like the losses had been sustained which
were now represented. He concluded by calling upon
the Directors present to state whether they had any-
thing to allege to his charge which called in question
his honesty and integrity.
At the request of a Shareholder,
Mr. Smith, the manager, read the statement of
Messrs. Hilton, of Darwen, and of Messrs. Raleigh
and Co., from the period of their opening an account
with the bank to the time of their respective failures.
It appeared that on the 31st of December, 1840, the
debt of Raleigh and Co. was 169,1191. 6s. 7d.; on the
30th of June, 1841, it was 183,8761. 15s. 2d.; and in
December, 1841, it was above 235,000/. ; and on the
Ist of March last it was 225,8071. 195. 10d. Mr.
Smith said that in the present state of the affairs of
Raleigh and Co., it would not be prudent to go fur-
ther into the particulars of the debt.

Mr. ItonnsCrs entered into a lengthened explanation
of the state of the law accounts, the particulars of
which had been read to the Shareholders, and said,
as regarded that of Hilton's, he had yet to be informed
as to whether or not the. bank was in possession of
security to a very large amount, and which he be-
lieved would nearly cover the whole of their liabilities.
It was not his business as Director to investigate those
securities, hut the duty of the then solicitor of the
bank. That account was taken up in 1836, and
there appeared to be a good working account, and, as
far as the Directors knew, up to the time of his (Mr.
Robert's) leaving the bank, the securities were good
and adequate to the debt; and when the Report was
made in October, 1841, it was his honest opinion that
the account of Joseph Raleigh and Co. could have
been paid to the bank. Mr. Robert's explanation oc-
cupied a considerable time, but afforded no satisfac-
tory explanation to the Shareholders, a part of it being
a justification of himself; on some charges brought
against him by some of the newspapers.
After some further discussion,
Mr. STUBBS moved that the meeting be adjourned
till 'Wednesday, at eleven o'clock.
Mr. WALKER moved an adjournment for three
months, as an amendment.'

The CHAIRMAN then put the amendment, which
was carried by a considerable majority.—After a
vote of thanks to the Chairman, the meeting
separated.

OPENING OF THE BELGIAN
CHAMBBRS.

SPEECH OF THE KING OF THE BELGIANS
IN THE ROYAL SITTING OF NOVEMBER 8.
SESSION OF 1842-43.
The following is the speech delivered by the King
of the Belgians on the afternoon of the Bth :
" Gentlemen,—l congratulate you, in the name of
the country, upon your long and labourious session,
ended a few weeks since, and during which you hare
resolved so many important questions.
" The short interval which separates us from it has
been employed by my Government in the execution
of some of the laws to which you have given your as-
sent, and to the preparation of others which we are
coming to.
" The loan that you have authorised, and the con-
clusion of which was urgent, has been contracted at
an advantageous rate that attests our credit.
" The law on elementary instruction has been re-
ceived everywhere in a manner which gives me a
plain confidence in the facility of its execution, and
presages the favourable solution of questions of the
same nature.

" You have been eager to answer to the appeal that
I made to the national sympathies in authorising my
Government to concur with the provinces and the
commonalties to perpetuate the memory of men who
have illustrated the Belgian name. The exhibition of
pictures and sculpture has given a new proof that our
country has maintained the rank that it has acquired
during three centuries.

" The direct negotiations opened during the year
with the Cabinet of the Hague, have been brought to
a conclusion satisfactory for every interest; all the
difficulties relative to the separation of both countries
have been simultaneously resolved : this treaty, a com-
plement of the treaty of London, will be undoubtedly
the first object of your deliberations.

" It is without intermediate party, and inspired by
a mutual sense of conciliation, that the two Powers
are come to place themselves definitively in a normal
situation ; the first consequence of this accord has
been the signature of a convention of internal navi-
gation.
" This result, in regulating our relations with the
Low Countries, will have a favourable influence on
our connexions with the other Powers which have con-
stantly given to us proofs of confidence and amity.
"The negotiations with Spain have brought up, as
a first result, a convention which will be submitted to
you, and which opens anew this ancient market to one
of our principal industries.
" In prosecuting other negotiations, it is impossible
not to consider certain measures of internal legislation
as necessary.
" Several products, which are the basis of our ex-
portations, are submitted by law to export duties which
nothing can longer justify.
" Other articles of foreign importation may be sub-
jected, without any grievance for our commercial con-
cerns, to an increase of import duties, for the sake of
national industry and of the public treasury.
" You will have to decide also upon the conclusions
of the Commission of Inquiry * which you have in-
stituted, these two years, and the operations of which
I have contemplated with great interest.
" Perhaps in order to encourage our exports for re-
mote countries, we shall be led to recur to an institu-
tion to which the present laws of nations oppose no
more the obstacles which existed in other times.t
"'lnternatiOnal questions relating- t:o#cuatoins, po-
lice, and post-oftces will be brought up on account o,
our railway havingipassed over the frontiers of France;
and being on the point of reaching those of Germany
the Government will probably have occasion to de-
mand special powers for their solution.
" The province which has been laid out of this
great system of communication has received with
gratitude the compensation that you have allowed to
it ; another province,§ a victim of the precedent of di-
plomatic necessities, is in expectation of the law,
which will realise one of the boons of your last session.
" Independent of the projects of law which are yet
lying before :you, you will examine several proposi-
tions, some of which are designed to maintain tem-
porary laws that are coming to their end, and others
have for their object the improvement of legislation
and the protection of children in manufactories.
" If the preceding session has been signalised by
the importance of the questions which have been de-
bated, and by several acts of national equity, these
resolutions, though they do not compromise our
financial situation, require, however, the creation of
new ways and means, for the purpose of bringing the
public revenues to a level with the charges.
" Several financial laws have been presented to
you, others will be presented at the same time with
the budget of ways and means. Provisional resources
for 1843 have been regarded as indispensable until
these laws, designed to increase our income and to do
justice to the claims against several imperfections of
actual legislation, be adopted and enacted.
" The new legislative dispositions have given the
opportunity to modify .advantageously the situation
of our army, and have forwarded promotions lawfully
attained.
" These measures have stimulated a noble emula-
tion, which, added to the discipline, instruction, and
devotedness of which the army gives proofs, continue
to render it worthy of my confidence and of your in-
terest.
" Gentlemen, you will now resume the course of
your deliberations momentarily interrupted ; I have
but one wish to offer, it is that, in all respects, the
new session may be, for the country and for myself,
the continuation of the preceding one."

Parliamentary Commission of Inquiry into the com-
mercial and industrial Concerns of Belgium.
f Tho speech alludes to the ancient Commercial Com-
pany of Ostend.
I The province of Luxemburg.
The province of Limburg.

DOTTEREL.—SeveraI flocks of these highly-prized
birds have been noticed lately' on the downs and
slopes near Amesbury, where very seldom, except in
rigorous and severe winters, is the dotterel observed
in that locality. When dotterels are seen upon
the downs, the old shepherds say they are
sure of a sharp winter. The golden plover, a bird
of the same family, abounds this year in the sheep-
walks along the downs, and both these birds occasion-
ally flock together, their feeding, haunts, and habits
being similar. A gentleman at Andover, last week,
at one discharge of his fowling piece, at a flock of
golden plovers, passing him on the wing, succeeded in
bringing down ten of these choice birds, and one
dotterel.—Salutbury Herald.

. SERVIA.
A notice of this province, as regards its population,
position, and means of defence, will not be considered
inopportune, at a moment when its peace is threatened
to be disturbed by rival interests.
Servia, one of the leading provinces of European
Turkey, extends about 190 miles in length, by about
100 in breadth, its superficial area being computed
at 19,000 square miles. The Danube and Saave wash
its borders on the north, separating it from the Aus-
trian dominions; the Turkish territory of Nyssa, the
Sangiak of Sophia, and Albania on the south; the east
finds it bounded by Bulgaria, and the west by Bosnia.
The aspect of the country is highly mountainous.
On the west it is covered by ramifications of the
Dinaric Alps; an extension of the range of the Balkan
skirts it on the east and south ; the chain known by
the name of the Haiduka mountains being the eastern-
most. Plains of a large and ample expanse incline
towards its northernmost borders, while the river
Morava, which traverses the country from south to
north, runs through a wide and open valley. The
variety of its mountains, hills, and valleys, and the
wild nature of its forest scenery and desert heaths ren-
der it a highly picturesque country. Cotton thrives in
its warmer valleys, and its soil produces abundantly all
the grains, with flax, hemp, and tobacco. The chief
resources of Servia, for export, are wool, skins, a
spirit made of prunes (of which a great deal is sent
to Hungary), and swine,which are bred in the forests
with very little care, and left to feed on acorns. They
are of a diminutive species, covered with hair rather
than bristles, but amazingly numerous, and so easy to
rear that they constitute a main portion of the Servian's
wealth. The manufactures of the country are con-
fined to inferior cottons, woollens, and coarse hard-
ware. British goods areas yet little known there, having
been limited to small supplies from Trieste, through
the Austrian territories ; the opening of the steam-
navigation, on the Danube, will, however, greatly for-
ward this, without doubt.

With regard to the character of the Servian race,
they are pronounced to be brave and hardy. Inferior,
at present, to the European Turks in intelligence,
manners, and general humanity, they are nevertheless
far superior to them in activity and V industry ; while
they offer, in the very independence of their character,
the finest material for the silent operation of peace and
civilisation. They profess the Greek faith.
The population of Servia is stated to . be about half
a million—a comparatively thin population, arising
out of the devastating wars which have from time to
time visited it. With regard to the appearance of the
Servians, travellers have observed a great resemblance
between them and the natives of the Swiss Highlands.
Of the country generally, it may be said, that it is in
a state of progress. In addition to the great improve-
ment of steam-navigation, Prince Milosch lately
opened a wide road across Servia, from Nyssa on the
frontiers of Roumili to Belgrade. Among other signs
of progress, elementary schools have been established
in the various districts. In Servia also, every able-
bodied man is a soldier, and has his own arms. Servia,
by its settlement of affairs since 1830, pays a fixed
amount of tribute to the Porte, which is yearly de-
livered by the Prince into the hands of the Pacha. The
natives of Servia are allowed to trade all over the
Ottoman empire, when furnished with Servian
passports.

The principal towns of Servia are-1. Semendria,
or Sant Andriga, situated at the confluence of the
Jessava with the Danube, a fortified town with about
12,000 inhabitants, and the residence of the Arch-
bishop-primate of Servia, and the place of assembly
of the Senate. 2. Belgrade. 3. Zabatz, or Scha-
bacz, near the Saave, a fortified town. 4. Usicza,
near the borders of Bosnia, a town of 6,000 inhabi-
tants, carrying on a considerable trade. 5. Vallievo,
a place much frequented for its markets. 6. Kragoje-
watz, a small town in the centre of Servia, where a
diet of the representatives of Servia proclaimed, in
1830, 11ilosch and his heirs Princes of Servia. The
Superior Court of Justice of the Principality sits at
Kragojewatz, which is also the common residence of
the Prince.

As Belgrade may be considered the Rey of the
country, and the first place at which military opera-
tions would commence in case of the outbreak of
those hostilities which appear to be threatened, this
fortress requires to be particularised :
Belgrade is by the Servians called Abba Grmca, by
the Turks Darol Dshishad, or the House of the Holy
War. It stands about two miles south-east of Semlin,
at the junction of the Saave with the Danube, and on
the right bank of both these rivers. " These two
majestic streams, blending their waters at this point,"
says Fricke', " expand into what might be mistaken
for the ocean itself, and the spot where the Saave pours
itself into the Queen of European rivers is clearly
perceptible from the diversity of the tints.
Belgrade was founded by Dushan, King of Serria,
in the year 1372, and is divided into four quarters, the
most conspicuous of which is the Citadel, which forms
the centre of the town, and is constructed on an ac-
clivity, about a hundred feet high, jutting out into the
Danube. The first objects that meet the eye on enter-
ing the fortress are the arsenal and magazines erected
by the Austrians during the last century,
when Belgrade vas in their possession. The
garrison, at present, is said to be of the
most miserable description, it being the Pacha's
interest to maintain as few troops as possible, and at
as low a cost as practicable. In all there are three
ditches to it, the one within the other, besides mines
and bomb-proof casemates. Belgrade contains the
palace of the Greek Bishop, fourteen mosques, the
fish and other markets, an arsenal, spacious barracks,
and the custom-house. The northern and eastern
sides of it are protected by a ruinous wall of earth,
eight feet in height, the two outlets through which
are protected by wooden towers. It is much more
strongly fortified to the south, in which direction is a
stout wall of masonry and brickwork : this wall is or-
namented by a very solid gate, opening upon the
road that leads to Constantinople. More immediately
to the south-west of the citadel runs a long range of
suburbs, beyond which is the Rascian, or Servian
town, and the Palanka, a further line of suburbs.
Independently of the Turkish garrison, which sel-
dom exceeds five or six thousand men, the inhabitants
of Belgrade do not at present amount to more than
twenty thousand.

THE SHIP CARPENTERS OF
LIVERPOOL.

The scarcity of employment in the ship-building
yards of this town has for some time past been very
great, and we believe that it has recently increased, so
that in some instances the hands who have been for
years umployed in one establishment, and who were
looked upon as the most steady and efficient workmen,
have at length been discharged. This deplorable state
of things seems to have driven the journeymen be-
longing to this town into the adoption of a foolish de-
termination to endeavour by all means in their power
to drive away from Liverpool all the ship-carpenters
who have -served their time here. Yesterday, three
came
ship-carpenters applied to Mr. Rushton under the fol-
lowing circumstances :—They stated that whilst en-
gagedseTera at
individualsl
their work
on
belonging
Saturday,
to
tleintra
de
the graving
.l L t o dtohcekm s
and, stating that they (the men of Liverpool) had
come to the determination that no strangers should
hereafter be employed in the town, ordered them to
ft knock off work,l' adding,
If you don't do it by
air means, we'll make you do it by foul." The first
person thus served with this imperative order said that
he belonged to Chester, and that he remonstrated
with the men, and refused to leave work, whereupon
they threw stones and bricks at him. The second
was served in a similar way. In the third instance,
when the man was ordered to desist at once from
working, and the resolution of the trade made known
to him, he replied, " How can you call me a stranger,
when I have been twenty-seven years in the town ?"
The reply was, " Well, you have been here twenty-
seven years too long." He refused to comply with the
order, and was not then molested ; but subsequently,
a crowd of carpenters came, and threw a shower of
stones and bricks aboutl4i head. Mr. Rushton said
to one of the carpenters; " And do these men really
announce their determination to drive away every
stranger from the port ?" The answer was in the
affirmative. Mr. Rushton—What madness! because
if they were to drive away all the people who are not
natives of the town, there would be very few left."
As none of the parties throwing stones could be
identified, Mr. Rushton granted warrants for threat-
ening against the men who had ordered the appli-
cants to " knock of? work," and said to the three
proscribed strangers, " Tell the ship-carpenters of
Liverpool that the end of this will be to involve
them in trouble, and to get many of them into gaol
for the Magistrates, they may depend upon it, will no
permit such proceedings as these."—Liverpool Times

ADMIRAL NUGENT.—We are happy in being able
to state, from inquiries made at Charing-
cross hos-
pital yesterday-, that Sir Charles Nugent is going
on very favourably, and little doubt now remains but
that the Gallant Admiral, notwithstanding his ad_
vanced age, will fully recover from the effects of his
late severe accident. -
THE COLONIAL.' BISHOPS.—The Bishops of yen
Diemen's Land and Antigua are expected to leave
England for their distant dioceses in the course of
a very few days. The three others, who were conse-
crated last August, have already taken their departure.
The Lord Bishop of Barbadoes, Dr. Parry, left on the
16th of September.
The Right Rev. Prelate has
appointed the Rev. Charles Laws'on, M.A., morning
preacher at the Foundling Hospital, to the Archdea-
conry, and has nominated the Rev. W. Chamberlain,
M.A., to the incumbency of the principal church in
the island of Trinidad. Dr. Tomlinson, Bishop of
Gibraltar, sailed on the ?oth of last month, accompa-
nied by his two chaplains, the Rev. Philip Mules'
M.A., fellow of Exeter College, Oxford ; and the Rev.
James Lonsdale, ILA, fellow of Balliol College. Dr.
W. Piercy:Austin, Bishop of Guiana, set sail from
Falmouth on Thursday

LAW INTELLIGENCE.
CO&RT OF CHANCERY, Nor. 10.
TAYLOR V. RITNDELL AND OTHERS.
This case was partly argued before the long vaca..
tion. It came before the Court upon appeal from the
decision of the Vice-Chancellor Knight Bruce, allow.
ing ( xceptions taken to the sufficiency of the answers
made by the defendants to certain interrogations.
The defendants are three of the Directors of the Ge.
neral llining Company, and also trustees of a lease
granted by his late Royal Highness the Duke of York
of certain mines in Cape Breton to the Com-
pany. That lease contained special covenants,
by which they were bound to give every
information that might be required of them
with respect to the working of the mines. A bill of
discovery was filed by the executors of the Duke of
York against the defendants, and to that bill they-pot,
in an answer, which was considered insufficient Cer-
tain interrogations were then put to them, and the
answers to those interrogations were also considered
insufficient. The defendants stated that they could
give no other answer as the other Directors of the
Company refused to allow them to have access to
those
.documents of the Company which were neces-
sary to enable them to give more distinct answers.
The Master had reported the answers sufficient, but
exceptions were taken to that report, and those ex-
ceptions were allowed by the Vice-Chancellor Knight
Bruce, and from that decision the present appeal was
brought.

LORD CHANCELLOR, at the conclusion of the
arguments, gave the defendants liberty to put in a fur-
ther examination, and allowed them a month to do so.

SMITII r. THE DUKE OF BEAUFORT. --
This case came before the Court upon an appeal
motion from an order pronounced by -Vice. Chan-
cellor Wigram, by which he .directed that the Duke
of Beaufort should produce for the inspection of the
plaintiff certain documents in his possession. The
Duke of Beaufort, as Lord of the Manor of Kik,
in Glamorganshire, claimed the toll of 4d. for every
weigh of coals, containing 48 bags, each bag con-
taining 3 bushels, carried across Swansea bar. The
Duke sought to enforce the claim by an action at law,
upon which the plaintiff filed his bill of discovery,
alleging that the Duke was not entitled to the tolls,
and that he (the Duke) had documents in his pos-
session which would show that he was not. the
plaintiff sought the production of the documents,
which the Vice-Chancellor Wigram ordered, and from
that decision the present appeal was brought.
Mr. LOWNDES was heard to-day up to the rising
of the Court on behalf of the noble defendant, and
the further consideration of the case was adjourned
till Thursday next.

VICE-CHANCELLORS' COURT, Nov. 10.
(Before the VICE-CHANCELLOR of ENGLAND.)
The Court w•as occupied in hearing motions.
ELOGGAT BRYANT.

Mr. BETIIELL moved, in this case, for security for
costs from the defendants, against whom a verdict
had been given. The plaintiff was a resident at
Bodmin, in Cornwall,. but on application he was not
to be found at his residence, but he was afterwards
traced to, and discovered, in a solicitor's chambers in
London. The application for security for costs was
made, on the ground of the inability to discover him
at his residence.

Mr. STEWART opposed the application. The de-
fendant resided at Bodmin, and his residence and pro-
perty were still there ; and he contended that the
mere fact of his coming to London, and—not himself
but only his hat being found in an attorney's cham-
bers, was not sufficient to warrant a security
for costs. lie: had actually brought himself
more within the jurisdiction of the Court, for
the purpose of filing a cross bill. He had certainly
removed his hat and head from Bodmin to London,
but he was still a householder of the former place,
paying scot and lot ; and the mere fact of his being
absent from his home was not to be taken as abscond-
ing, or sufficient to warrant the application.'
Mr. BETIIELL said, when he first opened the case he
was not aware of half its enormity. The defendant
had brought into Court fourteen or fifteen un-
fortunate individuals, who, before they could pro-
ceed a step, were, by the order- of this Court, com-
pelled to pay no less than a thousand pounds for
the office copy of the bill, which amoupted to the
enormous number of 1,618 folios. (The office copy
was produced, and excited some laughter from its
enormous size). In addition to the fact that he had
left his residence, he had admitted that his house
had been stripped of all the property in it.
The pretence that he was putting in a cross bill was a
perfect abuse of terms. He was avowedly an insol-
vent, lurkin,, from the pursuit of legal proceedings,
and attempted to evade the consequences of his acts
by putting in three bills, one of 1,618 folios, and the
others of 700 and 800 each respectively.
His HONOUR allowed the application in the usual
way. Ile could not arrive per saltem at the conclu-
sion, that the enormous bill before the Court was al-
together a fraud, whatever it might appear, should it
ever be his misfortune to read it.

(Before Sir J. K. BRUCE.)
MOORE V. DEARDON.

In this cause, the hearing of which occupied two or
three days, his HoNona gave judgment this morning.
His HONOI:li said there had been great delay in the
prosecution of this suit, the bill having been filed more
than 20 years ago. He had not heard any satisfac-
tory reason why the cause had not been heard, or the
bill dismissed, in the lifetime of Mr. Deardon, the
only one of the original parties not now living. Hav-
ing:regard to all the circumstances of the cause, and
the state of the pleadings, he could not all?%v the plea
which the defendants had set up in opposition to the
plaintiff's title. Ile thought the case was (me for
further inquiry. It was incumbent on him, whatever
regret he might feel, occasioned by the long period
which had already been passed in litigation, and the
inconsiderable amount of the property, to desist from
further investigation. His mind had fluctuated be-
tween a Jury and the Master's office. In proposing
the former, he had been influenced by the con-
sideration that the evidence to be laid before a Jury
would he as extensive as that which could usefully
be laid before the Master, and must ultimately come
under the review of the Court. On the whole he
thought it better that there should be an issue tried in
Lancashire at the ensuing assizes between Mr. Per-
rand and the present Deardon as plaintiffs at law, and
Miss Moore as the defendant. Ills Honour then di-
rected five issues to be tried at the next Lancaster
assizes.