The Sun.
London, England, 1829-01-16 00:00:00

INSOLVENT DEBTORS' COURT, JAN. lb.

On Wednesday Samuel Carridge eame up to be
heard on his petition, but was opposed by a creditor
named. Holman ; when, from . the circumstances
which were deduced during the examination, it ap-.
peered to the Court that be had made away with
considerable. property; and *.thereby. defrauded :his
creditors. Upon this ground. the Court adjudged
him to be .confined . for a period of eight calendar,
months.within the walls of the .prison.
When the above-named insolvent, Carridge (who,
it is surmised, had been. favoured with a friendly
arrest for the purpose of enabling him the more rea-
dily to take the benefit of the Act), arrived at his
old quarters, .he found that his friend who had ar-
rested him had left his discharge at the prison gate.
It was to late to obtain a detainer against him that
evening, and as the warrant for his bping kept in
prison was not expected,till the morning, ,there was
:10 authoiity to detain him; he therefore paid his
gate fees, and as : a discharged prisoner walked, eff,
probably laughing at the eight months' sentence of
the CommiSsioners.. •

This day Mr. HEATH, on behalf of Mr. Holman,
the insolvent'a opposing creditor, applied, on an
affidavit, detailing the above facts, to have the adju-
dication on the insolvent's ease stayed, he being at
present out of custody. _

The COURT had no power to grant the application.

ADMIRALTY SESSIONS, JAN. 15.

At the Admiralty Sessions, which commenced on
Monday, the calendar contained the natne of William
Fidlei, who was indicted for having. stolen some
sugar from the store of a vessel, on board of which
he was employed in an official' capacity. •
Sir C.-KontNsoN, in his charge to the grand
jury, made particular allusion to this case, and obcerved
upon it as follows.:—" Gentlemen,—l am happy to
inform you, that such has been the conduct of the
maritime population of this country since the last
sessions, that the calendar contains only one case of
felony. I have not seen the depositions in that
case, but from what I have heard, I have reason to
believe that no indictment will he preferred. The
charge is, that the accused, took 251 b. of sugar from
on board a West Indiaman, but the master and
owners are of opinion that, supposing he did take it,
there wasno felonious intention, and it appears that
the, charge was preferred by some of the crew, and
the Magistrate was bound to act upon their evi-
dence. If the 'fact be that the party is innocent, it
is much to be lamented that he should hare been so
long a time in custody, because those who were con.;.
vinced of his innocence should have put in bail fer his
appearance.
In the course of the day, the Grand Jury made a
return of " ignoranzus," and the unfortunate gentle-
man' was discharged.
Upon minute inquiry, we have ascertained that
Mr. Fidler acted as commander of the vessel during
the illness of his, brother, and in consequence of his
enforcing discipline, some foreign sailors took um-
brage, and upon arriving in port they preferred the
charge alluded to, for which it has been sworn that
there was not the least possible pretension.

The unfortunate Man has been in confinement for
nearly five months. In the early part of November
he went up to the Judges' Chambers in order to put
in bail, and lie did so upon an affidavit that he had
made a purchase of the sugar for his private use.
The Lord Chief Justice of the King's Bench said
that the prisoner might go at large upon his finding
security in the sum of 801. The accused proposed
his brother as one of his sureties, who lives not far
from Brandenburgh-house. The brother, who is a
divine, observed, that although
.fully convinced of his
brother's innocence, he shnttld decline entering into
the required recognizances : the consequence was,
that the prisoner was remanded.

Colonel and Mrs. Beaumont, of Bretton-hall,
have generously made a grant of an acre and a half of land
to the inhabitants of Cleckheaton, in the parish of Birstal,
in a very eligible situation, as a site and cemetery for the
new church intended to be built in that village by his Ma-
jesty's commissioners for building churches in populous
d istri cts. —Hull Packet.

By the Pensacola Gazelle of October 28, we
have received the Message of the President of Florida to
the Legislative Assembly of that State.. The only an-
nouncements in it not purely of local interest are, that
next year the census of the population of Florida will war-
rant its admission as a state into the national Union, and
that the culture of the sugar was extending so much, and
thriving so well, as to afford a hope that in a few years
sugar would be the staple of Florida.