The Sun.
London, England, 1842-06-24 00:00:00

IN RE JOSEPH R. LOYD,

The intolyent's petition to be discharged was opposed by Mr.
Woodruffe, on behalf of a small creditor, who obtained an order
against him in the Tower Hamlets Court of Request. Mr.
Cooke supported the petition. The names of thirty-eight
creditors appeared in his schedule, the greater num e ref whom
werk. administration creditors.

It ap, eared, during a very te,dious investigation• that the in-
solvent had ca ried nta business.an Chapel-strcet, Cripplegate,
and having failed in 1837 he applied to his land!ord, Mr. Jack-
son, of Leader.hall-street, who agreed to become principal in
the business, and have the insolvent employed to superintend
it. In pursuance of this agreement it was carried on until
1841, when it was finally given.up, the insolvent beirg in his
debt to a large amount at the time, in security far which a bill
of sale was given upon other property. On the 15:h
of last March, the opposing- creditor being about to
put in the execution against the insolvent's gcods,
Mr. Jackson put his bill of sale in force, and thus deprived the
insolvent of any redress, because it was alleged that where no
goods or chattels were available in satisfaction of a decree from
the local Courts of the Tower Hamlets, the wording of the
enactment, entitled "An Act to amend and render more effec-
tual an Act passed in the.23d year of the reign of George the
Second, for the more speedy recovery of small debts in the
Tower Hamlets," was so loose, that there was no provision for
imprisoning the debtor.

A long discussion ensued between the Learned Counsel en
both !Lies, in which it was stated that there being no local gaol
in the district of the Tower Hamlets, and all the gaolers of the
metropolitan prisons refusing to detain a prisoner on the war-
rant of the Commissioners, there was no redress for suitors in
these Courts unle.s the creditor was possessed of chattels.
The in olvent was eventually declared entitled to his dis-
charge.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

BOW-STREET.-(THIS DAY.)
After the night charges had been disposed of, a respect-
able looking man applied to Mr. Jardine for advice
under the following circumstances':—He stated that on
the 4th of this month be left a bill for 401. with the West-
minster Investment Joint Stock Loan Company and Bill
Discounting Society, at No. 7, Adam-street Adelphi, and
it was to have been discounted for him, and the cash
handed over by the•9th. The house, however, was now
closed, the Society had failed, and the applicant could not
get his bill. Applicant called yesterday at the office, and
saw 11 man who was the only person on the premises, and
he told him that if he called this morning he should have
the bill. He called this morning but did not get it, and
was told instead that no doubt the Directors would write
to him about it. Applicant said too, that unfortunately
he was a shareholder in the concern.

Mr. JARDINE said he was afraid he could give him no
assistance, as the value was beyond that in which he was
authorised to interfere. He was not aware of any re
medy except by action at law.
Applicant—l suppose then, Sir, if I can't get my bill,
I shall have to pay it when it bezomes due.
Mr. JAnDiNE—I suppose so.
Applicant then left the Court. . •

MARLBOROUGH. STREET:
(THIS DAY.)
James .Ho!laud and Matthias tiforiarty, young hot-tem-
pered Irish tailors, were charged with the following robbery :
Mr. John Rae of No. 5, Stafford-street, New Bond-street,
tailor, stated that the prisoner Holland had for some time past
been in his employ, and slept in a room adjoining the workshop,
the prisoner Moriarty was also employed by him, but did not
lodge in the house. The prisoner Holland's conduct was so
unsteady as to induce him ',the prosecutor) to warn hint to quit
his lodgings, but on last Monday night it appears that at a
very late hour, Holland, by means of the key of the
street door, which he retained in his possession, gained access to
his (the prosecutor's) workshop, and carried off three coats he
had to make, one finished, and the remaining two only par-
tially completed. Neither of the prisoners came to their work
on the following day, and it was subsequently ascertained that
Moriarty sold the stolen property to a Jew in Petticoat-lane,
Whitechapel, for 155., and that both the prisoners, during the
after pelt of the day (Tuesday) indulged in a " spree" to
Greenwich. _

The prisoners , expressed their regret at having committed
the foolish act they had done, it was merely a " spirt," ai.d
they would work " night and. day to make it good."
The prosecutor said that it was most likely he should lose
altogether the future orders of his customers if such delays
from the faults of his servants, as in the present instance, were
allowed to occur. _

Mr. AIALTBY said there was a clear case of felony against
the prisoners, and upon conviction of which they no doubt
wonid be transported, and therefore he should remand them
bringunti l Tuesday
forwardthe
next,
to allow time for the prosecuting party to
necessary witnesses.

UNION HALL.-(THIS DAY.)
COMMITTAL BROKER.—George Allen, a broker, was
charged with the following gross act of oppression in levying a
distress for rent ;—_

Susan Sankey, of 72, Regent-street, Lambeth, stated that
she owed her landlord Bs. for rent, and the defendant came
with a warrant of distress, and ho seized the whole of her
goods, amounting in value to 51. 35. 6d., and he refused to
wait until the evening for the rent, and took away the
whole of her little property.
A witness was called, who confirmed the poor woman's ac-
count as to the worth of her goods, and said that she nou'd
have given 20s. for a mahogany table taken away, with other
things, by the defendant, for the Bs. rent due by the com-
plainant.
The defendant said that he had sold the goods, the valuo of
which was exaggerated by the owner of them.
The MAGISTRATE, in strong terms, denounced the conduct
of the defendant, and adjudged him to pay W. 35. 6d., the va-
lue of the goods, and in default of payment he xas committed
for one month to Kingston gaol

ELEGTION OF SHERIFFS.
(THIS DAY.)
A Common Hall was held this day at Guildhall, for the put'.
pose of electing the Sheriffs and other officers for the ensuing
year. Shortly after one o'clock, the Lord Mayor, Aldermen,
and other civic functi-maries, appeared on the hustings. The
Common sergeant then read the names of the several
gentlemen who were 'eligible to serve the office of Sheriff.
Upon the show of hands being taken, the Sheriffs declared
them to be in favour of Mr. Alderman Hooper and Jeremiah
Pilcher, Esq., citizen and haberdasher, and they were declared
elected to serve the office of Sheriffs for the ensuing year.
They then proceeded to the election of Chamberlain, Bridge-
master, and other officers, and there being no opposition, the
present officers were re-elected.

DEA rli PROM FOUL AIR.---Shortly after eleven
o'clock on the morning of Tuesday, a most deplOrakle occur-
rence, resultingin the loss of human life, took place on the
premises of MI.. Davis, corn-factor, Old-street, St. Luke's,
under the following eircum,tances : —lt appears that a young
man, twenty-one years of age, named John Ward, in the em-
ploy of Mr. Davis, bad occasion to descend %very deep well on
the premises, for the purpose of cleaning it out, as it was
found to be in a very dirty condition. Flo was let down in a
bucket for this purpose, and had been there about five minutes
when he was asked by those at the top, if all was right, to
which he replied in the affirmative. He was called to a second
time, and gave the same answer. Shortly after, on calling to
him again, they received no reply, and about a quarter of an
hour had elapsed from the time Ward first went down, when
1 boy was sent down in a bucket, arid on reaching the bottom,
.:aped out that he was, he thought, lying there dead. The boy
.vas instantly raised, and on reaching the surface, complained
of feeling a sense of stupefaction come over him as he ap-
yrionuancithemdatih,ewbaosttroemcovoefrd
the well.
speedilyell.
as possible, but life washe body of the unfortunate
quite extinct. . .

LIGHT SOVEREIGNS.—Spurious weights are being
sold, it is s.i 1, in London, as genuine Mint sovereign and half-
sovereign weights, but which are made and stamped at Bir-
mingham, and are most shamefully wrong in weight. One
oair, bought at a respectable shop in the City, has the sovereign
weight 1 grain and 8-lOths too heavy, equal to aid. ; so that a
3uvereign, as issued from the Mint, would appear one grain, or
twopence, too light, if weighed by this weight. The half-
iovereign is one-tenth and six hundredths of a grain too light,
ind mill,therefore, make a half-sovereign which is too light
appear of sufficient weight to pass current. The spurious
weights have on one side an exact copy of the real Mint
,veights—viz., the Queen's crest (a lion and crown), and the
,vords " Royal Mint, 1842;" and on the reverse, the words
"One sovereign—J. and C. Ratcliff." Put the tree Mint
weights have on the reverse the words " Curt., .5 dials.
grains—sovereign."—Letter in a Morning Journal.
HAtiovEß, JUNE 14.—The King, it is said, will
leave this city on the 24th of this month, and not return till
Arptember. His Majesty will go first to Ems, for the benefit
f the waters, and afterwards
go to be present at the grand
autumnal reviews on the Rhine. The Crown Prince will go
to Nosdernez, and the official announcement of his intended
narriage be made, as we understand, atter it has been laid be-
fore the British Parliament. 1