The Sun.
London, England, 1842-03-08 00:00:00

PAULI/324E1 .r.ILE.Y.

The Lord Chancellor gave notice last night that he
would move on Friday for the appointment of a Com-
mittee to consider the Marriage law of Ireland, and that
he meant to introduce a measure on the subject of the
bankrupt laws ; while one referring to the Ecclesiastical
Courts would be brought into the other House of
Parliament.

Lord Aberdeen gave, in the House of Lords, the same
expFurition of his speech to Count St. Aulaire which.
has already been given in the public papers. He did not
say that he had no objection to make to the French oc-
cupying Algiers, but he had no observation to make.
The Earl of' Minto vindicated himself from some
charges, as he brad gathered them from the newspapers,
which he supposed Sir C. Napier had made against him in
the House of Commons. His Lordship was properly taken
to task for violating their Lordships' orders, by irregularly
noticing what had occurred elsewhere. His Lordship
read a letter from.. Admiral Stopford, contradicting an
assertion which Sir C. Napier was supposed to have made
in the House of Commons.

Sir Hugh Campbell, in the House of Commons, gave
notice of his intention to move for a Select Committee to
inquire into the unhappy circumstances of the Scotch
Church.
Sir R. Peel laid on the table the Earl of Aberdeen's
.despatch to our Minister at Paris, and at the same
time declared that Count St. Aulaire's • misap-
prehension of what the Earl of Aberdeen had said was
quite unintentional:
In answer to 'Mr. Wood, Sir Robert Peel said be
thought the subject of Banks of Issue had been enough.
•inVestigated, and that. the Government would propose a•
measure . regulation, if it thought that necessary,
on its own authority. .
• •
Mr. Ferrand renewed and repeated his, attacks on
the manufacturers!,. but though -the Hononrable Mem-
ber was extremely vehement in his declamation
and gestures, slapping his thig:. ;vith great force,
he was comparatively little attended to. IIN"ell
the squires are ashamed of his assistance, and
he will soon sink to the level of obscurity. Some
persons had compared him to Mr. D'lsraeli ; but though
the latter prodigiously overrated himself, he is a scholar
and a man of letters. -Mr. Ferrand is merely a gentle-
man, endowed With a wonderfully good opinion of him-
self, with capacious lungs and a loud voice.
Mr. Villiers stated that the declaration of the Man-
cheSter manufacturers had' received about thirty addi-
tional signatures:

Mr. gelden could not exonerate the manufacturers,
but he showed that the landlords were as bad as the
manufacturers.

Mr; O'Connell,- in moving for. a return of
4.11,et arms—;.,registered in the county of Down,
described to the. House a brutal murder which a
party of Orangemen had committed, and for which, as
ford Eliot admitted, the Jury had not very properly ac•
quitted the per Sims who had been brought to trial for
the_ offence. Lord Eliot deplored the continuance of
party spirit in' Ireland, and declared that the Lord-
Lieutenant would do all in his power to discourage it.
In•a ComMittee of Supply, after Mr. Williams had ob-
jected to keeping so many troops at home, after divid-
ing the Committee against the sum to be voted for the
household troops; when he was supported by only twelve
votes, and after a number of observations had been
made, the.prineipal Army Estimates were voted.
Some more of the Navy Estimates were subsequently
voted, and an additional discussion raised about Mr.
Elton, who is a very unfortunate, if not a misguided,
young man.
The Forged Exchequer Bills Bill was read a second
time, and the House adjourned at One o'Clock.

PUBLIC OPUS sox.
The Morning Advertiser is of opinion that if the peop!e
are uninterested in the progress of Sir R. Peel's 'Corn-law
Bill, " It is because of their unspeakable contempt for it ; ,and
because they are determined to meet their enemies on ground
where the political foi ms in which they are now entrenched,
will have no existence. It appears that Lord John Russell
has decided upon dividing the House against the Peel propo-
sition to-morrow night ; but we may not hesitate to tell him,
that the country is as sick to its very soul, of the inane pro-
ceedings of the one party, as of the more daring attempts of
the other."

The Chronicle says .—" It is upon the Corn-laws that all
the odium and mischief of the truck system (and we admit all
that Mr, Ferrand himself may say of its evils) are justly
chargeable. Let Mr. Ferrand move for his Committee on
the truck system if he please—and the more extensively he can
prove this harsh and grinding practice to prevail, the more
overwhelming a case will he make out against the Corn-laws
he thinks he ►s defending, by accusing manufacturers of truck."
The Post states that there are many manufacturers very
good kind of men, but that they have no monopoly of good-
ness or intelligence among them ; and adds They are not
altogether perfect. They have glass houses among them. Let
them not be quite so ready to begin throwing stones. They
have beer, too long suffered to have their own way in praising
themselves and abusing others. ' Let. them be thankful for the
past, and more careful for the future. Let them think of the
rapid fortunes so many of them have made, and the means by
which they have made them."

The Herald has in article on the subject of Lord Ashbur-
ton's mission to England, wherein our Contemporary remarks:
—" If immediate war is to follow Lord Ashburton's return to
England, without having accomplished the objects for which
he left, we will not do the American Executive the injustice
to suppose that it is not prepared to make some concessions to
avert so disastrous a calamity. The dreadful alternative thus
put forth by the• Madisonian is, most probably, only an at-
tempt to pave the way for such concessions' if so, the tone re-
cently assumed by the more influential public prints begets the
hope that the reasonable and moderate among the American
people are not unwilling to support the Supreme Government,
should it be now inclined to diverge into the paths of peace."
The Times says, in an article suggested. by Lord Mont-
eagle's speech on the Exchequer-bill fraud.—" Lord Mont-
eagle will not take much by his self-adulatory speech, the
whole gist of which was to show that he is entitled to be
held clear of all blame whatever, because his predecessors in
the controlling power over the Exchequer were almost a,4'neg-
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MONEY—TRADE—COMATERCE.
A Brick and Tile Company have contracted with the South-
Eastern Railway Company for 14,000,000 of bricks, to be corn.
pleted within three }ears. This enormous quantity is to be
made in the vicinity of Maidstone.
We learn from a Nottingham paper that the hosiery and lace
trades still continue in a most depressed state, and that things,
instead of improving, get worse as the spring approaches. •
It is rumoured that the duty en Colonial sugar will be re-
duced to 18s., and that on Foreign to 365.
LAW 11:77.11 I?O:PFCE.

On the sth instant at York, Charles Rhodes' and Thomas
Leatham were indicted for a burglary in the house of Thomas
Bramall and cutting and wounding the said Thomas Bramall,
an offence which is still capital. From the evidence it ap-
peared that the prisoners had attacked an old man who kept a
public-house at Mor.kbretton, and nearly killed him. The Jury
returned a verdict of guilty, and Mr. Baron Rolfe expressed
his intention of looking carefully into the depositions before
passing sentence, lo see if any facts in the case would justify a
mitigation of the punishment which the law imposed for such
offence=.

COURT-- PASTIZONASZE.
The Prince and Princess Nicholas Esterhazy arrived at.
Chandos House last evening from Osterley Park.
The Duke and Duchess of Bedford will kive Oakley House
at the end of the week, for Woburn Abbey.,
The Dowager Countess of Essex is expected to leave Paris
to-morrow for Belgrave-square.
The Earl of Jersey arrived in Berkeley-square las: evening
from Melton -Mowbray. •
The Earl and CountesS of Eglinton have, during the last
week, been staying at Croxteth Park, Lancashire.
Lord W. Russell arrived at Bedford House on Saturday last.
rixxscxx.x..esivEors s.
The Semaphore of Marseilles states that at the end of 1841
the number of horses in France was 2,453,712, of which
1,241,769 were mares, and that the number of horses born an-

nually is 185,303. The number of entire horses the property
of the State is 4,577, and the number of mares annually put to
breed by these horses is 40,408,
Two little shops in the Market-place, Louth, Lincolnshire,
lately occupied by Miss Wakelin and Mr. Kew, gunsmith, con-
taining together fifty-six square yards, have been sold for 7051.
or nearly 13/. per square yard !

ARRIVAL OF HER MAJESTY AT
BUCKINGHAM PALACE.

This afternoon, at a quarter before two o'clock, her Majesty,
accompanied by his Royal Highness Prince Albert, and at-
tended by a numerous suite, arrived at Buckingham Palace
from the Pavilion at Brighton. Her Majesty was escorted by
a party of the Scotch Greys. Immediately on the arrival of
the Royal cortege the Royal Standard was displayed on the
summit of the Marble Arch.

LLOYD'S SHIPPING—(THIS DAY).
Lox Dow, MARC!' B.—Wind this day at noon S.W.
DEAL, MARCH 7.—Wind S. S.W.—Arrd. from the River,
Fort William, from Bombay •, Abel, Gower, Jamaica.
LIVERPOOL, MARCH 7.—Wind S. fresh.—Arrd. Glenarm,
White, Valparaiso. Sld. Dec. 3, Russell, Glover, New Or-
leans. Arrd. off, Isabel and Liverpool, New Orleans ; Chalco,
Buenos Ayres. Sid. Amwell, Sydney, New South. Wales ;
Orion, Cape Rosalie ; Rio Achievia, Monte Video; Juliana,
Havannah ; Alice, Rory O'More, and Margaret, Barbadoes ;
Mersey, Jamaica; Rappahannock, New Orleans ; Isaac, Alter-
ton, ditto ; Avalanche, Virginia; Monument, New York,
Hesperus, Africa.
RAMSGATE, MARCH 7.—Sld. Clugas, Havannah.
OFF DOVER, MARCH 7.—Alwina, New Orleans, for
Hamburgh.
PORTSMOUTH' MARCH 7. —Wind S. S. E. to S. S. W. , fresh
breezes.—Arrd. City of Poonah, London for Calcutta; Alad-
din, do. for South Seas, leaky. Sld. Montreal, New York.
WEYMOUTH, Matteis 7.-.-A hhd. of brandy, marked J. G.
26, has been picked up off the Ness.
PLYMOUTH, MARCH 7.—Wind E.S.E. to S.—Sid. West
Indian, St. Helena and Jamaica.
FALMOUTH, MARCH 6.—Wind S.E.—Arrd. Liverpool
steamer, Southampton for Vigo. Arrd. off, Dauntless, Ba-
tavia, sailed Ist Nov.

• MILFORD, MARCH 6.—Acrd. Archduke steamer, Bristol
for Trieste. Std. Julie, Valparaiso. The Elizabeth Reed,
from Demerara to. London, has been taken into Solva Creek,
not being able to beat out at St. Bride's Bay.
WATERFORD, MARCH 4.---Arrd. Hindley, Mauritius.
CORK, MARCH s.—Arrd. Arethusa, Marseilles, with loss of
bulwarks, &c. Sid. Cambridge, New York ; Surprise, New-
foundland.

Haawicx, :MARCH s.—The Despatch, Hutchings, from
Middlesborough to Torquay, was wrecked on the Kentish
Knock, 2d inst., crew and part of stores and materials saved.
HULL, MARCH s.—Sld. Tam O'Shanter, Teneriffe.

THE MARKETS.-(THIS DAY.)
COLONIAL MARKET.

Prices remain depressed and the transactions limited. B. P.
Sugar is not lower, but the tendency is downward. Refined
Sugar sold slowly at 795. to 80s. per cwt. Coffee of good
quality being scarce, and full prices paid. Pimento dull. Pep-
per rather lower. Rice about 6d. per cwt. below last week's
rates. Saltpetre in demand at firm prices.
TEA MARKET.

The accounts from China have had little effect upon the mar-
ket, except that holders have:become firmer, with less inclina.
tion to sell. Company's Con'ou ls. llid. per pound cash.
TALLOW MARKET.
Prices on the decline, with very little demand. P. Y. C. on
the spot, 48s per cwt.
WHITECHAPeL.

The supply of Hay and Clover was plentiful, fine qualities
in request, and ordinary sorts heavy on hand. Of Straw the
supply was rather short, and the trade brisk. Clover, 2/. 1 Os.
to 5/. Bs. ; Hay, 21. to 4/. 6s. ; Straw, U. 16s. to 21.

COAL M
Ships arrived since la
d.
Carr's Hartley lB 0
Hebburn Main l7 0
1-lolywe 1 Main l9 U
Nelson's West Hartley l7 0
Old Tanfield
Tan&ld Moor lli 0
Tanfield Moor Bute's l5 0
Weat Hartley ........ •
Was End Bell and Brown 1 0
Walls End Hotspur
Walis End Ramsey
Walls End S. Killingworth 14 6
W. E. bradityll'sßettou
Walls End Harwell. t.o
Walls End Helton '0 0
Wall; End Larnbton

AIKET.
Lat market .day, 212.

B. d
Walls End Russell's Helton i 0 6
Walls End Stewart's
Walls End Whitwell l9 6
Walls End Cassop • 0 9
Walls Et' Id Hartlepool. 2O 9
Walls Endßrown's Deanery :9 IS
Walls End Coundon 'lB 6
Walls Et tl Evenwood -17 6
Walls End RichardsotesTeQSlB 0
Wal:s End South Willington 15 0
Walls. End South Durham 19 :i

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Blythe l5 3
Cowpcn .... .7 6
Hartley'.... l7 0
!Howard t I,lc9hertgal Main 17 0

PARLIAMENTARY DIVISIONS.
(From the Votes and Proceedings of the House of Commons.)
MONDAY, MARCH 7.
SUPPLY—( In the Committee) :
MINORITY of Fourteen (Tellers included) who voted for re-
ducing the sum for defraying the charge of her Majesty's
Land Forces hom £3,1:81,575 to 43,517,657 :
Blewitt. Reginald Heiden, J. , Wawn, John T.
lo„ I Brotheito l. Morris, David Wood, Benjamin
culler, C. O'Connell, D. TELLERS
Vadem, Rie!,ard O'Connell, J. Bowing, Dr.
Curteis, !I r, Villiers, Charles ?. I Willi_ms, Wm.

MINORITY of Nineteen (Tellers included) who voted agains.
ill" Grant of £82,458 for the Volunteer Corps :
Berkeley, C. - Fielden,.J. Villiers, Charles P.
Blewitt, lteginaid Haiford, Summers Wawn, J. 'l'.
Brotherton, J. tloward, C. W. G. Wood, B.
Boller, C. • Martin, John
Ittuffeild, W. Mortis, David 'TELLERS.
Cobden, Richard • Napier, Sir Charles Powring, Dr.
ur‘eis, B. Powell, Caleb Willian.s, W.
• r.

CHARGE OF PARTIALITY,
TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.

S'itt,—An occurrence has taken place at the Lent Assizes
for tie county of - Wil s; which are now being hasten in this
city, that I have no doubt will occasion astonishment both to
you and every other person connected with the Press. It ap-
pears that on the commencement of the trial of the prisoners
who committed the desperate burglary and robbery of the
dwelling-house et Mr. Awdrey, at South Wraxall, in this
county, which case came on for hearing this morning, and in
which the public throughout the county took the greatest in-
terest, no person was admitted into the Court but a few of
the personal friends of the High Sheriff, Captain Rook, R.N.,
not a single inhabitant of this city being able to gain admit-
tance. Now, Sir, it has never been usual at our Assizes
hitherto to require any interest to obtain admittance into either
Court,except upon the bench. If, therefore, you will have the
goodness to draw the attention of your readers to the subject itt
your spirited journal, ycu will be doing a great service to the
public, and likewise very much oblige
AN INHABITANT OF SALISBURY.
Salisbury, March 7, 1842.

HORRIBLE PROOFS of I:ISTRESS.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.
SIRS I received the letter marked No. 1, from Master
Brown, of Burnly, March 4, containing a statement that such
was the distress of the poor in Pendle Forest, near Burnly,
that a dead cow had been disinterred and eaten for food. The
statement was so revolting to my feelings, though requested to
publish it, I could not help suspecting that it was either a fabri.
cation or much exaggerated. I therefore wrote to say that if
Mr. Brown would get me a certificate of the fact signed by six
respectable persons, I would take care that it was inserted in
some of the London papers, that the country might see the
wretched condition to which Englishmen are reduced by mo-
noroly and misrule. I received the answer, No. 2, in reply,
inclosing the certificate of the horrible fact, No. 3, all of which
I entreat you will give to the public.—l am yours,
JOS. LIVESEY, 28, Church-street, Preston.
It is necessary only to give No. 3, certifying the fact in these
words :

HIGHAM, MARCH 3, 1842.
" This is to certify that Thomas Horne, of this place, had a
Cow died on Viredresday the 23d day of February last, which
he buried, and that it was afterwards taken up to use for food.
As witness our hands,
THOMAS LORD,
"THOMAS HORNE, owner of the cow,
THOMAS AUTY, weaver,
"JOSEPH WOOD, grocer,
JOHN ASPDEN. farmer,
"JOHN LORD, weaver.

THE FRENCH PLAYS..
Yesterday evening Moliere's Malade Imaginaire was per-
formed, the principal character being admirably sustained by
Perlet. The incidents of this play are somewhat more far-
steal, and the humour more broad, that is consistent with re-
gular comedy : but the piece is full of the peculiar via cornier:
of its admiiable author; and the Malade Imaginaire himself
is a capital picture, to which Perlet does the greatest justice.
The characters of the two sisters were very cleverly sustained
by Mademoiselle Anthaume and Mademoiselle Henriette
Gimp. The latter, who is very young, played the school-girl
with much archness and naivete. It is to be regtetted, we
think, that Perlet has brought his engagement to a close with-
out having performed the Tartuffe.
The theatre was again visited last evening by a most 4lis-
tinguished audience, among whom we noticed his Grace the
Duke of Argyle and party, Marquis of Douro, Marquis of
Aylesbury, Earl of Lichfield, Earl and Countess of Ches-
terfield, and the Hon. Mrs. Anson, Countess and Ladies
Cadogan, Earl of Pembroke, Earl of Dartmouth, Countess of
Glengall ; Lurds Chelsea, R. Grosvenor, Ossulston, Maynard,
and Temp'etown ; the Ladies- Colborne, C. Dennison, Bun.
bury, Quentin, A. Foster, Willoughby, Mahon, and Broug-
ham ; Count Creptowitch, Baron and Baroness Rehatisen,
Baroness de Rothschild, Sir C. Napier, Mrs. Montefiore, Mr.
G Wombwell, Hon. James Macdonald, &c.

DR. ItErn's LECTURES.—A course of lectures on
the " Chemistry of Daily Life" will be commenced to-morrow
evening, at Exeter Hall, and continued every consecutive
Wednesday, by Dr. D. B. Reid, whose labours in the scientific
of the House of Commons, axe well-known. They are to be
world, and excellent improvements in the plan of ventilation
delivered under the sanction of the Committee of' Council on
Education, and, when their interesting and instructive nature
is considered, they cannot but form the most popular
set of lectures that could be devised, The laws of
Chemistry may be almost said to identify themselves
with. . those of Life ; they mix themselves up in
such a multitude of shapes, with the routines and forms of our
everyday existence, that they are in a certain degree inse-
parable, and a no more delightful companion could be admitted
and in the disclosures
on before us, and Dr. Reid
may be described as such a person,
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which his familiar lectures will make, there will doubtless be
muck to surprise and gratify.
IRISH HUMOUR AND PATROS.--Mr. Maxwell, the
pop ularity of whose " Stories of Waterloo," " Bivouac,"
-".Wad- Sports of the West," and other productions, is too
well known to need comment, is about to publish a periodical.
work under the title of " HECTOR O'HA LLO RA N." No
modern novelist has been so successful in pourtrayine life
in the old mansions of the Irish gentry, or in the cabins
'rf the peasantry, as this most entertaining writer ; nor
has any novelist given us such graphic pictures 'of mili•
tary life at home and abroad. His scenes and sketches
are, in fact, drawn from actual lift', and lie has mixed
i din willg meetat
Lewisham. t,l i e
t the
many of the scenes which he so admirably describes.
In his peculiarly rich humour, combined with deep pathos,
unquestionably Mr. lilaxwell stands unrivalled. His new
story is to be published in monthly one-shilling numbers,
Ike "Pickwick' anti " Harry Lorrequcr," 11. e first of which
will appear at the end ,f the present month.
It is rumoured that on the Opening of the South
Eastern Railway in May next, the stock market
con-
venience of the Sussex graziers and the London bnyers, as well
EH many others to a very great extent.—Kentish Observer
MEL,: NCUOLY Suiclim.---LOn Wednesday evening
win be /Rid „.e, y alternate Tuesday, whriecsh
Mr. H. F. Walker, aged 22, a medical student, committed '
suicide by; blowing his brains out wlth a horse
at h
cottage of his tinit, a lady:named Elliot,
Ile had the preceding night failed to pa s his examinatio
which preyed upon his mind. . '
y-, ,
DEATH OF LORD TEY$llAM.—Died on Sunday of
apoplexy, in Curzon-street, in the 74th year of his age, freer
Francis Roper Curzon, fourteenth Lord Tevnhi.m. His Lord-
shipY is succeeded by his eldest son, the Hon Henry Roper
Curzon. .
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LAW INTELLIGENCE.

HOUSE OF LORDS.-(THIS DAY.)
The house sat to-day to hear appeals. The Lords present
were, Lord Brougham, Lord Cottenham, Lord Campbell, the
Earl of Sheffield, and the Earl of Roseberry.

CLARA v. SMITH.
This was an appeal from the decision of the Court of Chan-
cery in Ireland. The only question in the case was, whether
a lease that had been granted was warranted by the leasing
power contained in the settlement made on the marriage of
Thomas and Mary Palmer. Upon the case first coming
on before the Court of Chancery in Ireland, a case was directed
by that Court for the opinion of the Court of Common Pleas,
and that Court, after argument, decided in favour of the lease,
the Lord Chancellor of Ireland, acting upon that judgment,
confirmed the validity of the lease, and from that decision the
present appeal was brought.
The arguments were not concluded when our Evening Edi-
tion went to press.

CHANCERY CO URT.-(THIS DAY.)
THE CLARENCE RAILWAY V. THE HARTLEPOOL RAILWAY

COMPANY.

The arguments in this part-heard case were resumed to-day.
The matter came before the Court upon motion to dissolve an in-
junction granted by the Vice-Chancellor of England, restraining
the defendants from carrying their line across that of the
plaintiffs.
The arguments had not concluded when our Evening Edition
went to press.

VICE-C H tiNCERY.-(THIS DAY.)

(Before the VICE-CHANCELLOR. of ENGLAND.)

BRIDGES V. BRANFIL.

The arguments in this part-heardC;s; were resumed this
morning, and occupied the Court during the whole of the day.
(Before VICE-CHANCELLOR KNIGIIT BRUCE.)

PARKER v. MARCISANT.

His Honour delivered judgment in this cause, which came
before the Court on further directions. His honour said that
the questions in the case were upon the will and codicil, dated,
respectively, in 1829 and 1830, of Mr. Parker, who died
in the year 1837. With respect to the codicil he was
of opinion that the legacies given by it were general pecuniary
legacies, payable in the ordinary way out of the general personal
estate, and not otherwise, and that the legacy claimed by Ann
Relf, under the bequest to " the other servants" of 5001. each,
was due. She was admitted to have been under that descrip-
tion when the codicil was made, and the words of the bequest
did not import that the service was to continue until the tes-
tator's death. The first point upon the will was, whether the
testator had dispesed of the beneficial interest in the general
residue of his personal estate, or whether he had so far died
intestate. That turned upon the meaning to be attributed to
the words " goods, chattels, and effects," having regard to the
po ition in which they were found in the will, and having re-
gard also to the whole contents of the will. The words,
goods, chattels, and effects contained in the bequest were suf-
ficiently large to include and pass the absolute interest in the
whole personal estate; and it was incumbent on those who
contended for a limited construction to show that a rational
interpretation of the will required a departure from that which
ordinarily and prima facie was the sense and meaning of the
words. The testator, after dire':ting the payment of his debts
and disposing of his landed property, in which his wife takes
a life interest, concluded his will thus:—" And I do further
give and bequeath to my said wife, all my jewels, plate, linen,
china, carriage, wines, and other goods, chattels, and effects,
as her own goods, chattels, and effecs, for ever, and
I do hereby constitute her, my said wife, sole executrix
of this my will." This was the whole of the clause now in
question ; and it was to be observed, first, that it did not con-
tain any limitation, in point of locality ; secondly, that the larger
and generic terms, " goods, chattels, and effects" followed the
specific terms, " jewels, plate, linen," &c., and were the last
enumerated subjects of gift ; thirdly, that there was net in any
subsequent part of the will, or in the codicil, any disposition or
expression denoting a belief in the testator's mind that there was
any thing not expressly given to some other person, which the
clause in question would not carry to the wife ; fourthly, that
the gift to her was followed by his being appointed solo execu-
tor in that part a the mill where the disposition of the re-
venue, if any, would be expected to be found. These considera-
tions were only snot by a rule, certainly of frequent, but not of
universal application, confirming such a general term as "goods,
chattels, and effects," following and specifying a parCcular enu-
meration of articles ejusdunt generis. His Honour, after
citing several cases, said he conceived that he was justified in
the present case in deviating ft orn the general rule, arid there-
fore he could not accede to the argument against the wife's
right to the residue. The next question was, whether the
plaintiff was right in contending that the testator's debts and
pecuniary debts were payable, not in the ordinary course, but
out of the ready money, securities for money, and monies in
the funds. The generel rule, which was in this in-
stance against the plaintiff's claim, must apply, unless upon
the will and codicil, or either of them, a contrary
intention was manifest. The first passage in the will made
the estate eable as equitable assets to the payment of all debts
which otherwise would not have been primarily or part passe,
if it had been personally not specifically bequeathed. Looking
at the whole will, at the pat ticular part of it in which these
legacies were found, and, at the language of the final bequest to
the testator's wife, he was of opinion that there was to be found
in the instrument an intention that the ready money, securities
for money, and monies in the fund should be primarily—if not
solely—charged with these legacies, and he must
declard accordingly. The next question was, as to
the meaning of the .term "ready money." The con•
tention had been whether certain sums mentioned in
the Master's report were or were not included in that term.
There was a sum described in the report as 6,0241. Os. 10d.,
balance due to the.testator at his death, in the hands of Messrs.
Hobhouse and Co., bankers, at Bath, and another of 16,6151.
los. Id., described in the report to be at that period in the
hands of Messrs. Child and Co., bankers, in London. His
Honour, after examining what was the meaning of the words
" ready money " in their ordinary sense, said that in case it
included the money at the banker's, which wls to be made
available for any emergencies which might arise, as to the
chattel leasehold property, his Honour was of opinion that a
case should be tried for the purpose of settling that question.
The question in the case would be, whether the leasehold proper-
ties passed under the will to Sir Timothy, and Sir John Shelley.
The case was then ordered to stand in the paper, to be men-
tioned upon the minutes on this day week.

SECONDARIES.-(THIS DAY.)
The Court sat this day in the Court of Queen's Bench,
Guildhall, and disposed of a few uninteresting cases.

INSOLVENT CO URT-(T HIS DAY)

RE BARNETT JOSEPH.

The insolvent in this case, who was a. member of the Jewish
persuasion, and who described himself as a metal stripper and
dealer in metal, carrying on business in Horsham, and at No.
50, Middlesex-street, Aldgate. His petition was supported
by Mr. Nicholls, and opposed in person by two creditors
named Reid and Rayhold.
William Raybold statted that the insolvent had been in the
habit of purchasing pods from him for ready money, and some
time ago called and looked out goods to the amount of 471., for
which it was agreed to pay upon delivery, but the insolvent re-
ceived them during his ( Itaybold's) absence.
The insolvent, in his examination by the Court, said that
upon the day after receiving the goods from Raybold he sold
them to another Jew, named Lazarus, for the same price at
wh ch they were purchased, and paid over the amount to Aaron
njamin, his father-in .law, on account of a bill of exchange
he held for 491. Mr. Raybold caused him to be given into
custody on the charge of obtaining the goods fraudulently, when
he was committed for trial at the sessions at the Old
Bailey, and acquitted last Wednesday. Before getting the
goods from Raybold, he executed a bill of sale in favour of a
person named Bolton, on account of money lent, but never
told either of the opposing creditors of the fact.
The opposition on th part of Reid arose from circum-
stances of a nearly similar nature.
Mr. NICHOLLS having addressed the Court on behalf of the
insolvent,
Mr. Commissioner REYNOLDS said, in the case of Reid the
grounds of opposition were not very strong, owing to the date
at which the debt was contracted; however, with respect to
the transaction with Raybold, he thought it as clear a case of
fraud and dishonesty as ever came under the consideration of
the Court. His fathe”-in-law was possessed of a bill for 491. ;
the insolvent went to the opposing creditor, got his goods, and
with the proceeds pays the amount of the bill. It was a clear case
of defrauding Mr. Raybold, for the purpose of making good
the claim of a relative, and when the Court came to pronounce
judgment, it would order such a remand as might mark a
strong sense of such dishonest and fraudulent conduct on the
part of the insolvent.
Mr. NicnoLns said he was not aware that any circum-
stances had transpired during the case to induce an adverse
judgment. Had he the least apprehension of such he should
have cross-examined the opposing creditor.
The Learned CHIEF COMMISSIONER said, although such
a course after the announcement by the Court of the course in-
tended to be adopted was irregular, yet he would allow the
opposing creditor to be recalled to the witness box.
Raybold was then cross-examined by Mr. Nrcuou.s, and
said he had been himself tried at the Old Bailey on criminal
charges. Could not say how often, or what were the subjects
of the indictments. He might have been tried two or tht ee
times ; and once it was for being possessed of some Govern-
ment stores, which mere marked with the broad arrow.
Mr. Commissioner REYNOLDS said that the insolvent
had been tried on criminal charges, so had the opposing cre-
ditor, and he would put one fact as indicative of character
against the other. Still that did not in the slightest degree
alter the opinion he originally formed, that it was a transaction
by which goods were fraudulently obtained from one party for
the purpose of paying the debt contracted with another more I
favoured.

The insolvent was then ordered to be remanded to prison
until such time as the Learned Chief Commissioner returned
from circuit, when he would give judgment.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE

BOW-STREET.—(THIS DAY.)
A stout youngman, with an interesting squint, and altogether
of a most fascinating exterior, was charged with stealing what
is technically called a" knot," from one of the porters at Co-
vent-garden Market.

For-the benefit of our readers, who may not happen know what a
knot is, we should, perhaps, explain that it is a something com-
posed of straw, or hair, tightly stuffed into a canvass covering,
which men who are in the habit of carrying heavy weights on
their heads and backs put over the r heads t® prevent
their necks from being hurt by what they may be carrying
—knots have been facetiously termed " Porters' wigs."
The prosecutor commenced in the first place by informing
the Court that he was a rig'lar porter at Common-garden
market, vich he vos a standin in the market atween seven and
eight o'clock last night, with his precious knot a layin by his
side ; the prisoner was also a standin by, and seemed to gaze
with a longing eye upon the knot, vich vo3 a beauty, k-rite a
new un, so thick and so soft, and vich had cost him only 'tother
day 3s. 10d, and a pint o' beer. Vell, as he had said,
the prisoner vos a standin by vich he (the prosecu-
tor) vent away, for about five minutes, to the best
o' his knowledge ; wen he comes back the knot vos
"non est wENTus" (inventus)—the knot yes gone. He says
to his mate, ses he, "Jim, I've lost my knot." 44 Ah," says
Jem, " and you von't never see it no more."
Another porter was then called, who expressed himself with
great dignity in the following terms:—" I see this wery man,
yer Vertship, go avay visit a knot from the market, vich, he
ar'n't no porter o' the market, he ar'n't not a 1 it on it ; I
hiclentifies him, how somdever, as a comise worry hoften to the
market a cadgin' about, arid a seein' wet he can catch. I cor'nely
see him vith a knot, but vether it vos his'n or nether it vos my
mates vet stands here I v.,n't unde'rtake to say, cos I can-not.
'1 he prisoner, in defence, stated that the facts was, as these
here porters had entered into a conspiracy most foul agin him,
cos he went to Common-garden sometimes to try and yarn a
few pence, they got jealous on bins and yes alvays a finding
fault vith him ; as for the knot he knowed nothink whatever
about it

Mr. JARDINE—There is not sufficient evidence here to
commit upon ; the prisoner is discharged.
SEDUCTION AN IEsERTION.—A respectably attired, and
very good-looking young girl, probably about twenty years of
age, who stated her name to be Emma Dufour, was brought up
by a 'pike serjeant of the A division, under the following cir-
cumstances ;—The policeman btated that about half-past two

o'clock this morning, as he was going his rounds in St. James's
Park, he saw the prisoner sleeping on a seat. He asked 1
her what she was doing there, and after a good deal
of hesitation she stated, that she belonged to Hull, where she
lately lived with her aunt, Mrs. Smith, at No. 17, Parliament-
street ; about six months ago she became acquainted with a
gentleman a' gull, a master brewer ( whose name we abstain
from giving at present), by whom she became pregnant ; the
gentleman persuaded her to come to London with him, promising
if she would do so, that he would protect and support
her. On the faith of his promise the poor gill
consented to accompany him to the "mighty 131bylon,"
where they arrived last Monday week. They took up their
abode at a house which the girl said she believed to be at the
corner of York-street, Whitechapel-road. Her seducer re-
mained with her four days (until Friday morning), when the
unfortunate girl was informed by the landlord of the house
that he had left the place. Upon this the poor girl who had
no money nor one article of property with her, save the clothes
upon her back, also left the house, and from that time till the
policeman found her she had been wandering about the streets.
In answer to an inquiry from Mr. Jardine the girl stated
that her case, as related by the policeman, was strictly true.
Mr. JARDINE said he did not think that at present any thing
better could be done with her than to remove her to St. Mar-
garet's workhouse, until the matter could be inquired into,
and it could be ascertained whether her story were true. Of
the result of this inquiry he should be happy to hear; and if
any difficulty were made as to receiving the girl into the work-
house, he should wish the overseer to call upon him, and he
would explain the case to him.
The girl was then removed in charge of the policeman.

MARLBORO U GH-STREET.
(THIS I)AY.)
AN IMPOSTER.—EIiza Lovelock, a good-looking young
woman, but very poorly clad, and without bonnet or shoes and
stockings, was charged under the following circumstances :
Police-constable No. 56 C, stated that about eight o'clock
last evening information was received at the police station-
house in Vine-street, that a female in a deplorable state of
destitution, was sitting at the step of a door in Piccaditly, ap-
parently in snch a state if extreme exhaustion as to be unable
to walk. Witness proceeded thither, and found the girl, who
pretended to be very ill, and stated that she was starving and
utterly destitute. He therefore conveyed her. to the station-
house.

flr. MALTaY, on looking at the prisoner, immediately re-
cognized her as having made application to him at this Court a
few days since, stating that she was then in great distress, and
wished to get to St. Alban's, where she had a sister living,
whom, she had no doubt, would receive her into her family,
when half-a-crown:was ordered to be given her out of the poor-
box to assist her on the road.

The prisoner said she certainly was the party, and had, as
she promised, proceeded to St. Alban's the same afternoon, and
arrived there late at night, but on applying to her sister she
refused to assist her in any way, and !-hut the door in her face.
She therefore had no resource but to wander back to town, and
after walking about the :treets all day was at last so overcome
by weariness and hunger, that she sat down on the steps where
the police-constable found her.
Mr. MALI BY—I have reason to believe that you are a very
gross imposter. I have received a communication from Mr.
Rawlinson, of Marylebone Police Court, of the fact that you
were apprehended on the same afternoon that I gave the half-
crown to you, for being drunk and disorderly in the public
streets, and that when brought before him on the
following morning he was induced, by your telling
a pitiful tale, and alleginl that you had lost the money 1 gave
you, to give you another half-crown, you then stating that you
should immediately proceed to St. Alban's, which it has been
ascertained you have not done.
The prisoner persisted that she had been there, and ulti-
mately *he was ordered to be locked up, Mr. Maltby observing
that he was determinAl to make an example of her.

WORS H 1 P-STREET-(T HIS DAY.)
Robert Ramsdale, a young man of very stylish appearance,
was charged with having annoyed the inhabitants of Durham-
place, Hackney-road, by knocking at their doors, and also with
having assaulted a policeman.
From the evidence of a policeman of the K division, it ap-
peared that at a late hour on the preceding night, his attention
was attracted by a loud knocking at the door of one of the
houses, and, on going to the srot, he perceived the prisoner,
who, on being asked what he wanted, said that " he was a
gentleman, sind would knock at any door he pleased."
The prisoner then saluted the door with another
volley of knocks that resounded through the neigh-
bourhood; and the owner of the house looked out of the
window, and desired the policeman to remove him,
which he attempted to do; upon which the prisoner began to
abuse and threaten him, and finally knocked him down. The
policeman called for assistance, and two other constables
having arrived, the prisoner was conveyed, with much
difficulty, to the station-hous-.
_ _ _

In answer to the charge, the prisoner admitted having taken
more wine than prudence dictated ; and said that having Ir:ft
his umbrella at one of the houses, he went to recover it, and
aceieentally nocked at the wrong door.
Mr. BINGHAM said that had the prisoner been a poor man
he should have fined him '203. for disturbing the neighbour-
hood, and an additional 206. for assaulting the policeman ; but
as he was a " gentleman," he should make a distinction in favour
of his rank, and require him to pay the sum of 40s. for each
offence.

The prisoner immediately paid the 41., and w•as liberated.

POST OFFICFi.

WEEKLY STATEMENT OF LONDON LETTERS

THROUGH TILE GENERAL. POST.
Four Weeks, ending March 5, 1842 5,539,115
Corresponding period of 1841 5,042,193
Ditto, as nearly as can be given, of 1839 1,557,880
Increase since 1841, on the Four Weeks' Letters 496,922
Ditto, 1839, ditto
THROUGH THE DISTRICT POST.

Enn'Weeks,ending March 5, 1842 1,947,705
Corresponding period of 1841 1,869,003
Ditto, as nearly as can be given, of 1839
Increase since 1841, on the FourWeeks' Letters 78,702
Ditto, 1839, _ ditto 841,284

PRINTERS' PENSION SOCIETY.
Yesterday the annual meeting of this useful Institution was
he'd at the London Tavern, prior to which five pensioners were
c!ected. The chair was taken by Mr. R. Taylor, when the
Report was read by Mr. Hodgson, the secretary; from which
it appeared that the funds were greatly increasing, and that
the funded property now amounts to 2,600/. The last anni-
versary dinner brought the Society 80/., the steam excursion
80/, and other resources 15/. The annual subscriptions now
amount to 5621. 3s. 6d., and the life subscriptions to 731. an-
nually ; and the pensions paid to 436/. At present there are 19
males and 24 females on the funds, who receive 12 guineas and
8 guineas per annum respectively. Allusion was made in the Re-
port to statements going about that the elections were unduly in-
fluenced by members of the trade union, which the Committee
declared to be totally false. During the past year one female
pensioner died, and two others had sought the refuge of the
workhouse. The Committee alluded with gratitude to the
following circumstance :—During the course of business,
Messrs. Harrild and Sons became possessed of a printing-
press, which turned out to be that of the philosopher Benjamin
Franklin, and at which he worked as a journeyman in 1725-6.
Mr. Murray, of New York, applied for it to be sent to Ame.
rica, which was agreed to by Mr. Harrild on the under-
standing that a sum of money should be presented to this
Society to establish a Franklin pension. Two hundred pounds
had hitherto been received from the exhibition of the press
in London and Liverpool, and in the latter place 150/. 9s. 4d.
of it was gathered at a lecture on the Life of Franklin, delivered
by the Hee. Hugh M'Neile. The total receipts for the year
were 1,774/. 93. 2d., and the expenditure 1,278/. 12s. 3d.,
leaving e balance of 4951. 16s. 4d. Mr. Palmer moved the
adoption of the Report, which was carried unanimously. A
long discussion then took place in consequence of the motion of
a subscriber for altering the third rule of the society, by insert-
ing the words " blindness only excepted" after the words limit-
ing the eligibility for pensions to fifty years of age. As the
show of hands was so dubious, the question was adjourned till
the next election. Mr. R. Taylor was then elected treasurer
for the year ensuing and the other officers were chosen. It
was nearly six o'clock before the names were announced, when
they were Hannah Hookhain, aged 68, 2,668 votes; George
Sears, aged 60, 2,090 ; Elizabeth Grapes, aged 53, 2,051';
Mary Cherry, aged 70, 1,759 votes ; and John Coppock, aged
69, 1,506 votes, who was chosen for the Whittingham pension
of 71. 3s. Gil. annually. A vote of thanks having been passed
to the chairman and scrutineers, the unsuccessful candidates
were presented with I/. and upwards, according to the number
of yearly applications made, when the meeting separated.

ERRATUM.—In the advertisement entitled the
,‘ Second R-formation," &c., which appeared in The Sun
of Friday last, there was a misprint. it should have been John
Green, 12.1, Nercgate-street instead of Ludgate-street.
Advices from St. Petersburgh of the 20th ult.,
state that the weather had been exceedingly mild, and that the
ice had broken up. This early and unexpected change was
very unfavourable to trade, as goods could only be forwarded to
or from the interior by canal at heavy rates of freight, compared
to the cost of transporting them by the ice roads. It was hoped
that there would be another fall of snow. Business was dull in
the Russian capital, except in the article of tallow, which was
brisk and firm in price. The, fine weather of the last day or
two has already exercised a beneficial effect on the
home trade in town, but although the change has been simul-
taneous in various parts of Europe, it is very generally appre-
hended that the season sets in too early to be in favour of
continuance, and that, consequently, we may have a bad summer
as was the case last year. One thing, however, is certain, viz.
that the agriculturists have been benefiting by the alteration
in the weather, to commence field operations earlier than
usual.

RECOVERY OF A PERSON APPARENTLY DROWNED.
—On Saturday morning, shortly before ten o'clock, a man
named Campan, a cork-binder, while passing from a ship on
to the north quay of the London Dock, fell overboard into the
water between the vessel and the wall quay, and disappeared
under the bottom of the ship, which it was found necessary
to haul off from the berth she was in, before the drags
cauld be made available. This occupied some time, and
after the third drag with the grapnels, the body of the
man was recovered. He was apparently dead, and was con-
veyed in the most careful manner, with the head elevated,
to the guard-house near the western entrance, where the
admirable and complete apparatus, kept always in readi-
ness by the London Dock Company, was put in requisition,
and Mr. Bloomfield, a surgeon, of High-street, Wapping, was
immediately fetched. On his arrival, he found the body in a
warm bath, and friction being applied by the dock officers and
police. There were no signs of life ; but Mr. Bloomfield de-
termined to persevere. He inflated the lungs, and used a
variety of other means to restore animation ; and it was not
until three hours had elapsed that the least animation took
place. The surgeon and his assistants continued their humane
attentions, and they had the gratification of saving the man.
Mr. Bloomfield was in attendance upon him all day, and it
was not until late on Saturday night that he pronounced his
patient out of danger. This is not the first case which has
been successrully treated in this dock by Mr. Broomfield, which
may in some measure be attributed to the excellent arrange-
ments made by the London Dock Company to restore persons
apparently drowned, while the warm bath and warm beds are
always kept in readiness.

THE CHARTIST CONVICT WILLIAMS.—A letter has
been received by the wife of this unfortunate man, stating that
he is working in chains in the penal settlement, Port Arthur.
Upon his first reaching his destination he was appointed over-
seer amongst the men engaged working coal pits, but, having
sulheqently attempted to make his escape, ho was detected in
the act, and, as a punishment, sent to join the gangs working
in chains.
Lim:L.—Mr. George Wyse, brother of the ex-
Member for Waterford, 'has obtained a verdict, with 750/.
damages, against the proprietor of the Watedbrd Mail, for
having inserted in his Journal an anonymous communication,
charging Mr. Wyse with pet jot y, by alleging that that. gentle-
man had falsely sworn, (luring the late election for Waterford,
that lie was six months residing in that city, he having been
all that time, according to the libel complained of, a visitor on
the Continent.

A night or two back some thieves got into the
church at Vitry, and completely stripped it of all the sacred
ves.els, the money in the poor-box, and every other article of
the least value.

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