The Sun.
London, England, 1829-03-16 00:00:00

♦ICE-CHANCELLOR'S COURT.

The Court was occupied the principal part of the
morning on a bankrupt petition (Nicholls v. Bed-
bury); the question'was, whether a deed which the
bankrupt had executed for the benefit of his cre-
ditors, could be overturned by a subsequent com-
mission of bankruptcy taken out against him by some
of the parties who had received a composition under
that deed. The affidavits and evidence taken in
support of the petition, which is to supersede the
commission, are exceedingly voluminous, and of so
complicated a nature, that the Vice-Chancellor said,
he could not satisfactorily to himself pronounce a de-
cision on the case in its present state; he should,
therefore, direct two issues to be tried at Salisbury ;
the first, whether the united debts of the petition-
ing creditors to the commission amounted to 1501.;
and the second to ascertain whether the person pre-
senting this petition to supersede, had himself any
debt at all.
Mr. PEPYS trusted his Honour would direct the
issues to be tried in London. Such was the ex-
traordinary spirit of litigation in this case, that he
felt confident a country Jury would never give satis-
faction to the parties.
Mr. KNIGHT opposed this application. The ex-
penses had already been enormous, much more than
the original debts of the bankrupt, and he therefore
hoped the Court would order the issues to be tried
in the country, where the witnesses resided. The
whole of the proceedings arose in a squabble between
two cabinet-makers, and that never could be sup-
posed of so much interest as to prevent getting an
impartial Jury.
The VICE-CHANCELLOR-1 certainly shall order
them to be tried in the country.
Several other bankrupt petitions were postponed
on account of the absence of Mr. Sugden, and those
disposed of possessed no public interest.

ASSIZES.-(RECEIVED THIS DAY.)

STAFFORD, MARCH 14.
SILLITOE V. THE REV. .----. JENKINSOII.

Mr. C. PHILLIPS opened the pleadings. The plaintiff
is a grocer and ironmonger, in Stafford, and the defendant is
a clergyman, residing in the neighbourhood. This was an
action upon a breach of covenant, committed by the
plaintiff's apprentice, the son of the defendant.
Mr. TAUNTON' said the present action was a very serious
instance of the extraordiny refinement of the time in
which we live, and he doubted very much whether his
Lordship, in the whole course of his professional practice,
had ever met with an instance of such extreme fastidious-
ness as the present case would disclose. In May,
1827, the boy was apprenticed to the plaintiff, and
he and his master lived together on comfortable terms,
until August, 1828, when Mr. Sillitoe ordered the
boy to clean a grate, which he refused to do, and on
Mr. Sillitoe insisting that he should, the boy went home
to his father. His father sent him back again. Mr.
Sillitoe insisted he should clean the grate—the boy
again refused, and Mr. Sillitoe said he should have no
breakfast till he had done it. The boy then went to Mr.
Charles Flint. Mr. Flint and the boy came to Mr. Sillitoe,
and Mr. Flint said, " I demand a breakfast." Plaintiff
said he should not have it till he had done what he order-
ed him, and upon this Mr. Flint and the boy went away.
The plaintiff now brought his action for compensation for
the loss of the boy's services.
The learned Counsel called witnesses to prove that the
boy was well treated, that he dined with the plaintiff and
his family, and that it was usual for ironmongers' appren-
tices to rub grates, and keep them fit for sale.
Mr. CAMPBELL (with whom was Mr. RICHARDS), for
the defence, called the defendant's son, who stated, that the
plaintiff gave him bad meat, and a cheese called Skim Dick,
which he could not eat; that he kept particular joints for
himself, and altogether treated him in a very shameful
manner ; that he set him to pick rags, by which he was
covered with vermin.—But this evidence was contradicted
on his cross-examination, and that of the defendant's other
witnesses.

Mr. Justice P&esc-A great deal has been introduced
into this case which has no more to do with it than Pekin,
in China, because the facts are not upon the record, and so
I shall tell the Jury; however, let them take their course,
it will weigh nothing at all in the case, if I have strength
to say what I intend.

Mr. RICHARDS—I beg your Lordship's pardon, your
words escaped my hearing
Mr. Justice am only muttering to myself,
Mr. Richards, which I shall continue to do as long as I
like.—His Lordship summed up, and left the amount of
damages to the discretion of the Jury.
The Jury found a verdict for the plaintiff—Damages 251.

ARRIVALS OF GRAIN IN LONDON DURING LAST WEEK.
11
Pl. ft g.,
From Whence. P;r
j r r = % =
• V
14- ':1
----- ----. —_______
Qrs. Qrr. Qrs. Qrs. Qrs. Qrs. Scks.
Aldborongh l2l 850 93 56 100
•
Alemouth ' 510 --
Boston
Colchester 6O 140 310 130 246 169
ki Harwich
A Leigh 296 47 144 189 58
W Maldon
Hull
Ipswich — 117 2186 50 40 328
Kent 307 151 120 86 331 265 882
Lynn 930 701 118 191 250
Poole 4l 60
Southampton
Southwold
.
Spalding — 550
Stockton - SO -- -- 300
Wells 240
Wisbeach BO 1894 130
Woodbridge 94 351 ...- 15 15 24 155
Yarmouth lO 1446 2289 945
Aberdeen 5 1448
Arbroath IOS 74
Banff 278 4214
Berwick — 607 30
Dundee — 2094
Inverness 345 1221
Montrose
2212 5556 7853 16667 1870 702 4185
lams
Dublin — 1125
Galway — 1666 153
Limerick — 1109 - -
Londonderry -
Newry
Sligo
Waterford — 437 100
FOREIGN.
Antwerp
Flushing
Genoa
Havre
Leghorn 1127
Marseilles
New York
Ostend
Rotterdam 2730 _ _ _
Spain 4590 -- -- -- --
Total lBlO3 5556 7853 22461 1870 702 5138
AGGREGATE QUANTITY OF OTHER RINDS OF PULSE.
Rye, 99—Tares, 72—Linseed, 2811—Rapeseed, o—Brank, 23
Mustard, '26l—Seeds, 212.