The Sun.
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THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 2, 1842.

And he trusted the time would come when they would
prove they (the united Shareholders) were right.—
(Hear, hear)—and when, despite of paltry insinuations
they would compel those rights to be yielded to them.—
(Hear, hear.)
The CUArRISLAN, on putting the resolution, said he
hoped no person who had not paid up their calls would
raise their hand.
The first resolution was then put, and negatived by a
large majority on the show of hands.
On moving the second resolution,

Mr. JACKSON after commenting on some of the obser-
vations which had fallen from the Chairman, ' recom-
mended a dissolution to the Shareholders as the wisest
plan they could adopt. He preferred suicide to slow
poison. The foulest motives had been attributed to the
United Shareholders, and imputations of the most vile
and slanderous description had been cast upon them by
some person who supplied the Mining Journal with false-
hoods and vituperation. He said that the United Share-
holders would soon be dead. But they were not dead
yet. They had a duty to perform, and that duty they
would pertbrm faithfully and honestly. The Company
was in debt to an enormous amount, and yet they would
not adopt the wise course of withdrawing from it. He
called upon the Shareholders to look calmly at their
position, and to beware. The reason he asked for the
report mentioned in the second resolution was, that he
considered they should be the greatest fools if they did
not weigh the accounts, and look to the result. What
had been done in the case of Ruabon ? Had it been dis-
_

posed of ? It was a cheap purchase, and why not get
get rid of it ? He wished to look at the Report, and if
the gentlemen on the other side deserved support they
would get it. Let them come to them, and show them
that they were mistaken, and they would then receive
their support. But until it was shown them that they
were mistaken they would not consent to be dragged at
the heels of Mr. 11. Palmer and Sir G. De H. Larpent.
Mr. JONES seconded the resolution.

Mr. GREEN was about replying to Major Richardson,
when the CHAIRMAN suggested to him that it was better
not to open agy angry discussion again.
Mr. H. PAmER said the Directors would be very glad
to find a purchaser for Ruabon, and if a good one was
brought them they would be glod to dispose of it.
The resolution was then put from the Chair and
negatived.
On putting the third resolution we understood that
Major Richardson consented not to press it to a vote.
Major RICHARDSON said that the resolution which he

now Meant to propose was one out of which he had
been jockeyed at three different meetings. Indeed there
had been one occasion on which the Chairman—as it
was probably a sort of holiday—had given the Pro-
prietors leave to vote as they chose, and then he had
been able to bring it forward. The resolution had for
_

its object the imniediatedissolution of the Company. The
necessity of such aproceeding was obvious. The Company
had been long since virtually dissolved by theillegal altera-
tions made in the deed of settlement. Every step now
taken was fraught with danger. The Directors ought
to have proposed the dissolution of the Company in May
1838. If such a proposition had been made and carried
at that time the Proprietors would have been at least
500,000/. richer than at the present time. The price of
bar iron, According to their Report, was then 9/. per ton,
at Newport, while now it was about 61., making a differ-
ence of 120,000/. on the 40,000 tons produced annually
by the Company. Thus, according the Chairman's
system of valuation—that the property was worth ten years'
purchase—the difference of value amounted to 1,200,0001.
Had the Company even been dissolved in 1840, when
he (Major Richardson) first proposed it, they would
have been saved at least 200,000/. Iron had fallen twelve
per cent. Day by day, year by year, ruin became more
certain, and there was but one remedy, a dissolution of
the Company. Let them sell the property and pay just
debts. lie begged them to get out of their difficulties
with spirit and with honour—(Hear, hear)—yes,
with honour ; and he told them that if they would
go on with the Company for six years longer, not
one of them would be able to protect himself from
the consequences. They had lost 1,700,0001. during the
last six years, and if they went on the next six years,
which of them he would ask would undertake to pay the
losses?

Mr. RICARDO would have the Company first get rid
of the liabilities that pressed on them at present. Let
all the Shareholders be put on the same footing—let
each contribute a fair share to pay off the liabilities, and
then let them talk of dissolving the'Company. Who
was to indemnify the gentlemen who made advances for
the purpose of relieving the Company from its difficulties?
With respect to the legal proceedings now pending be-
tween one class of Shareholders and another, he pro.
tested against any information being given to these
opponents, as they would only use it against them ; and
he thought they were entitled to know from their legal
adviser what was the real cause of delay in those
proceedings.

Mr. FRESIIFIELD, the solicitor to the Company, said
that the pleas in the action were delivered by the Share-
holders in November, and amounted to 120 in number.
As those were subject to the opinion of a Judge, they
went before one, and he reduced them to thirty-eight,
pronouncing the .remainder unnecessary. The Share-
holders appealed, in January, to the full Court, to have
that decision reversed ; to have it allowed them to esta-
blish a certain number of the pleas which they had pre-
viously pleaded, and that application was, from clay to
clay, during the term just ended, sought to be brought
forward. On Monday, the last day of Term, the Court
being still unable to get it decided, referred it back to
the Judge who had previously entertained the question,
to decide it himself. That was the present state of the
matter. In a word, the question was not in a state to
enable then► to go on with the trial at present.
In answer to a Proprietor,
Mr. FRESUFIELD stated that he would go on with the
trial at the earliest possible period. At present he did'
clot know the points which he was to meet.
After some discussion, in which Mr. Freshfield, the'
Chairman, and several Proprietors took part,
Major RICHARDSON proposed the following resolution,
which was seconded by Mr. JONES—" That the British
Iron Company be and is hereby dissolved, and that a
Committee of ten Proprietors be chosen at this meeting
to carry into effect the dissolution of the Company in'the
manner most advantageous to the interests of the Pro-
prietors in general. '
The CHAIRMAN having put the resolution, which was
negatived, the meeting separated.

SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS.
FROM THE EVENING PAPERS OF YESTERDAY.
GLOBE.—The Duke of Buckingham has re-
signed. The Tory snake appears casting its
scales. The great champion of the sliding scale
is the first to be cast off. "It was only yester-
day," says the Post, " that this termination took
place of a discussion which, we believe, had en-
dured for eight or ten days, between the Noble
Duke and the First Lord of the Treasury, in whose
proposed measure upon the subject of the Corn-law
every member of the Cabinet is understood to
concur, with the single exception of his Grace."
It was "only yesterday" that the matronly organ
of Political Bucks-onomy in the Press was boast-
ing of " the consolidation of the strength of the
Conservative Ministry," and declaring, as the
ultimatum of Corn-law policy, that " a regular
trade in foreign corn is what must be defeated." It
was only a week or so back that the Post was in-
dignantly contradicting the rumour thathis Grace
was going, to Paris,_ and the inference deduced from
that rumour that there was any sort, or shadow, of
disagreement between him and his colleagues.
There is a timid animal which, when pursued,
bites off the part which provokes the chase. In
like manner the Premier, in nibbling at the Corn-
law, has bitten the " Farmer's Friend" off--
" The deep-revolving witty Buckingham
No longer shall be neighbour to my counsels."
We compared his Grace, some tune back, to
a top-heavy " joggling" pilot-engine—and pro-
phesied lie would upset first, whatever became
of the train behind him. The prediction has
been verified; and it now only remains to be
seen whether the Peel cotton bags will avail
to deaden the effects of this overthrow. It is
clear that the apprehension of those effects must
have been tremendous; and the efforts to obviate
his Grace's final -secession immense—from the pe-
riod of the Stanley and Graham mission to Wotton
—to the "eigh tor ten days" discussion between the
Noble Duke and the First Lord of the Treasury.
No wonder Sir Robert Peel has been looking
latterly very Chandos-worn. "This occurrence,"
says the Post, " will be hailed by the opponents
of the present Administration, both in public
life and in the humbler sphere of general society,
as eminently propitious to their views."
We may certainly be permitted to re-
gard it as somewhat confirmatory of our
views of the precarious tenure of Minis-
terial union, and a pretty strong pendant to the
alleged divisions between the several sections of
Liberals. Here are a set of Ministers who can't
keep together on their first " Speech." Will
they ever arrive at a second; or how many
scales will they cast at each process? How much
" interest-begotten prejudice" can their political
strength afford to part with ? It is amusing to
observe how comfortable our opponents affect to
make themselves under the circumstances that
have just taken place, in which the writers
of the party really see no particular
ground for uneasiness. The Post is sorry
for the split to be sure, but consoles it-
self by reflecting that the Duke of Buck-
ingham, though "no longer a member of the
Cabinet, will be still its friend," which is
comparatively, if not positively, the fact, for lie
will probably do less harm to his late colleagues
by leaving them than by staying among them.
But we think we remember that when the
Duke of Buckingham joined the Administration
he was said to give it considerable weight;
and we should he glad to know how, if
his accession was SO beneficial to the Cabinet,
his secession can be regarded as insignificant?
Do his old colleagues insinuate that his Grace
was a millstone round their necks--a weight it
was desirable to throw off ; and can they pos-
sibly be secretly pleased at having got rid of
him ? This cannot be the case, for the Tories
know that the Duke and his followers are pon-
derous, anti consequently powerful; it may be
difficult to move with them, but it will be an
texuagllh his
y arduous task to get on against them, and
Grace may lave been a dead-weight
in the Cabinet, he is still something in the scale,
and will be fouild no less inconvenient as an ob-

struction than he has hitherto been as an incubus.
STANDARD.—The Morning Chronicle has
to-day a long article upon the Dublin City elec-
tion, in which the letter M is again made to play
a great part. Our Contemporary persists in as-
serting that 600 voters whose initial is this ill-
used member of the alphabet have been precluded
from exercising the franchise, and of course
ascribes the defeat of Lord Morpeth to their
exclusion. Now, admitting the premises
for a moment, and for a jest, we contend
that this is going something too fast. The
other twenty-five letters have, we may suppose,
returned Mr. Gregory by a majority of 403, and
letter M must, therefore, divide in the propor-
tion of something more than three to two, to
neutralise the effect of that majority. But why
should this unlucky letter be so much worse dis-
posed to the Conservative candidate than its Cad-
mean brothers? Are there, however, really so
many as 2,000 M electors in Dublin, according
to the statement of the Morning Chronicle?
We have before us the Dublin Post-office
Directory of "gentry, merchants, traders,
Sze." This Directory extends to two hundred
and fifty pages, containing about 13,000 names,
and of these names we find- the letter NI to com-
prise about 1,400, contained in less than 30 pages.
Are there more M electors than there are M gen-
try, merchants, traders, &c. in Dublin; and if there
are, how does it happen that the gentry, mer-
chants, and traders of other letters are not so
fairly represented in the franchise ? If M ought
to have two thousand, it is plain that the other
letters ought to have about sixteen thousand. We
request the Morning Chronicle to explain this.
There is something. curious in the exact number
said to be excludecT; there are, as we see by the
Directory, 1,400 M's in Dublin, of the classes
probably qualified to vote. The Morning Chro-
nicle, however, says, that there are 2,000 elec-
tors, but that 600 were excluded. Does not this
appear as if the bona fide M's had all, in fact,
voted, and that the 600 victims were creations of
the same lively imagination to. which the world
is indebted for the imagination
and Phillipstown
murder% and the awful Orange outrage upon Mr.
Murphy's wig? But leaving the six hundred in
the clouds—their native home—we can direct
the Morniug Chronicle to other solutions of the
defeat of its party in Dublin:. The influence of
seditious agitation had spent its force, and the re-
sources of corruption had been exhausted.
COURIER.—At length, and for the first
time since the accession of the present Ministry,
the Chronicle is in extatics—the Duke of Buck-
ingham, so long the mark of its matutinal vitupera-
tions, so often the subject of its daily lie, has in
reality abdicated the functions of office at length ;
hence shouts of triumph from the Radical
press. There is no. longer any doubt that his
Grace retires from office, but in divesting
himself of his official insignia it does not
follow that he separates himself from the Admi-
nistration, the members of which are the friends
and the associates of all his political life and po-
litical sentiments. It may serve, perhaps, to
chasten the exultation which his secession in-
spires among his enemies and calumniators to
know that, excepting on one question, that of the
Corn-laws, the most perfect accordance still hap-
pily subsists, as will be duly verified by the evi-
dence of words and deeds hereafter, betwixt the
Noble Duke ex Minister and his late colleagues.
This event, however we may lament the cause and
the effect, has neither taken us by surprise, nor,
we should conceive, any portion of the observ-
ing public. Whilst we honour the scrupulous
fidelity of this eminent individual to convictions
conscientiously entertained and ever acted on
with unfaltering uprightness of purpose, we could
not shut our eyes to the fact, that any alteration '
in the Corri-lawS which should materially depart
from the principle, or the system, on which at
present they are constructed, must necessarily
meet with the dissent of one who stood so deeply
and earnestly pledged against innovation, how
ever disposed to concede to a certain limited ex-
tent theirnecessary modifies tion.For our own part,
we do not hesitate to express our conviction that a
large alteration and improvement in those laws is
no less expedient than inevitable in the interests of
all classes of the community. But if we could be
persuaded that by such alteration, large arid
liberal in the best sense as it may be, and as we
believe it will be found to be, any injury or in-
justice could possibly be inflicted upon or result
to the agricultural, the greatest of all national
interests, we should he among the foremost to
Offer it our strenuous, however humble, opposi-
tion, and to contribute to .its defeat.

MONEY MARKET I.nd CITY NEWS

FROM THE MORNING PAPERS OF YESTERDAY.

POST.—We have more than once suggested; the
holders of the American State securities the policy of
calling a meeting and appointing a Committee to watch
over their interests. No such step has yet been. taken,
-but we are informed that Mr. R. C. Wyllie, of the Spa-
nish and Spanish American Committees, is about at
once to take his departure for the United States for the
purpose of enforcing their claims on the Governments of
the non-paying States. A gentleman better qualified
than Mr. Wyllie for the undertaking could not have been
selected, as his general talent and aptitude for business,
which must by this time be well known to all parties
interested in Foreign Loans, are equalled only by his
perseverance.

CHRONICLE.—The Message of Governor Porter,
of Pennsylvania, gives a full and candid exposition of
the public debt and resources of that State, while it
calls upon all classes of citizens to maintain the sacred-
ness of public faith. The total debt of the State is
36,331,005 dol. 69c.

The income appropriated especially to its payment is
derived from tolls on canals and railways, auction duties,
tax on collateral inheritance, dividends on turnpikes, &c.,
and the tax levied on real and personal property is
924,059 dol. 15c. The sum in the treasury applicable
to its payment was 1,020,936 dol., making together a
surplus of 125,942 dol. 62c. above what is necessary to
pay the interest due on the Ist of February.
The internal improvements, for which the principal
amount of the State debtlhas been incurred, consists of
7681 miles of canals and railways completed, and 1651
miles of canal in progress of construction, and nearly
completed. The Governor urges the sale of the Colum-
bia railroad, and the Delaware division of the Pennsyl-
vania canal, and hints that the price might be taken in
State Stocks. He alludes, in most appropriate terms, to
the insolvent state of the banks, and the depreciation of
the currency, and recommends the repeal of the law of
last Session, under which the State borrowed 3,100,000
dollars from the banks, and to redeem the loan suggests
the creation of a Six per Cent. Stock, to be sold at what
it would bring. Along with the repeal of this law, he
recommends the enforcement of specie payments by the
banks, and that some day in June should be fixed as the
period for resumption.
We have always maintained that, this was the first
step towards the restoration of American credit, and
augur favourably from the decided tone in which Go-
vernor Porter expresses himself. " Those banks," he
justly observes, " which are in a sound condition will
conform to the requisitions of the Legislature without
much embarrassment, and those which are not will be
brought to the touchstone of their merits." If Pennsyl-
vania takes the lead in resumption, as she did in sus-
pension, the imitation of her example in this case by
the other States will go far to compensate for the evil of
her former course of policy. The paper of the insol-
'vent banks will lose all currency, and will be driven
from circulation by paper of intrinsic convertible value
founded on a specie basis. To compel the banks to re-
sume, the Message discountenances the renewal of any
bank charters or the granting of new ones until they re-
turn to specie payments, and caution 3 the Legislature
against the grant of corporate privileges.

LENT ASSIZES.
MIDLAND CIRCUIT.

Before Lord Chief Baron ABINGEI and Mr. Justice

WILLIAMS.
Days and places appointed for holding the ensuing
Lent Assizes :
Northampton—Monday, Feb. 28.
Oakham—Friday, March 4.
Lincoln and City—Saturday, March 5.
Nottingham and Town—Thursday, March 10.
Derby—Saturday, March 12.
Leicester and Birmingham—Thursday, March 17.
Coventry and Warwick—Monday, March 21.
NORTHERN CIRCUIT.
Westmoreland—Appleby, Saturday, Feb. 12.
Cumberlaud—Carlisle, Tuesday, Feb. 15.
Newcastle and Northumberland—Newcastle, Friday,
Feb. 18.
Durham—Durham, Wednesday, Feb. 23.
York and Yorkshire—York, Tuesday, March 1.
Lancaster—Lancaster, Friday, March 18.
Liverpool—Wednesday, March 23.

Twenty-seven pupils of the Royal Academy,
Gospoit, have been appointed Volunteers of the First
Class to ships in the Royal Navy, within the last few
weeks. _ _

Why 'do fathers and mothers, in speaking to
their children, imitate their infantine manner instead of
addressing them in proper language ? A bachelor bag-
man in driving one day came up to a woman carryino•
child, who asked in a polite manner, a ride. The bag-
man agreed to do so, on the condition that no nonsense
should be talked by her to her child. The woman,
comfortably seated, in her happiness forgot the contract,
and thus addressed her little one :—" Georgie porgie,‘
ye are gettin' a fine ridie pidie." The bagman pulled up
his horse and said, " Good woman, you will be so good
as step out of my gig and give Georgie porgie, a walkio
palkie., '

NOVEL MODE OF COLLECTING DEBTS.—
" SUBSCRIBERS."-Of some two dozen Mail subscribers
transferred to our list by the defunct Advocate, not a
single man has paid us except Henry Hagner, Esq.,. of
Jamaica. Many of these honest gentlemen after having
received the paper for upwards of a year, intimate now
they never subscribed for it and will not pay. Now,
therefore, take notice, that we will, after the sth of
January next take such measures as will compel all
those who have received our paper to pay for it ; with a
considerable addition of both expense and exposure.
That's the law ; men will not get leave to cheat the
printers as easily as they may think.---American Paper.

LAW INTELLIGENCE.
COURT OF QUEEN'S, BENCH,

THE QUEEN V. THE CORPORATION OF SANDWICH.

MANDA3II79-JUDG3IENT.

Lord DENMAN, in delivering the judgment of the
Court in this case, said it was an application for a man•
damns to be directed to the Town Council of Sandwich,
directing them to set the seal of the Council to a deed
awarding to John Murillon, the sum of 779/. as com-
pensation, due to him under the provisions of the Muni-
cipal Corporation Act, for the loss of certain offices held
by him under the old Corporation. It was.not disputed
that Mr. John Murillon had held the office of town
clerk, and various other offices under the old Corporation ;
that he had been deprived of those offices : nor that he
had made his claim to compensation in due time. That
claim was sent into the Town Council in the month of
September, 1836, and a copy of the same was imme-
diately sent to each member of the Town Council, and a
meeting of the Council was held in the mouth of October
following, for the purpose of determining on the claim,
Mr. Murillon, it appeharaedd,
he
even haediiio been summonedtbeencalledup to at-
tendonforanyetxhPaltamttii nor
meeting. After some debate, the Town Coun-
cil had come to a resolution that the claim was inadmissi-
ble, at the same time also distinctly stating that that de-
cision was not to be considered a.; depriving of them of
their right to go into the particulars of the claim in the
event of their decision being appealed against by Mr.
Murillon. Mr. Murillon, acting under an impression
which had very generally prevailed shortly after the
passing of the Municipal Corporation Act, had appealed
to the Lords of the Treasury, but that appeal had not
been made until the month of March, 1837, when both
parties went before the Lords of the Treasury, who en-
tered into the investigation of the claim. Now it had
been contended by the Solicitor-General, on behalf of
Mr. Murillon, as one of the grounds on which the man-
damus must go, that the Town Council, by omitting to
award any sum for six months, must be held under the
provisions of the Act to have admitted the claim to its
full amount, by not having proceeded to investigate and
award a compensation within six months of the time of
the claim being made; but the Court was of opinion that
was not a valid ground for issuing the mandamus, be-
cause the Town Council having within six months of
the time of the application determined that the claim
was inadmissible, must be held to have so far complied
with the provisions of the Act as to take them out of
the operation of the proviso, on which the Solicitor-Ge-
neral had relied. If, indeed, they had determined that
Mr. Murillon was entitled to some compensation, and had
for six months omitted to award him any, then it
might be contended that they had admitted the claim
to its full extent, and he would be entitled to his manda-
mus in the manner prayed for. The Lords of the
Treasury had investigated the claim, and had awarded
Mr. Murillon the sum of 6001., and this sum the Court
understood that the Town Council had always been ready
to pay. It was, however, contended by the Soilcitor-
General on the authority of the Warwick case,
that the Lords of the Treasury had, under the
circumstances, exceeded their jurisdiction in taking
the case into their consideration, and in that
opinion the Court concurred. The mandamus therefore
must go ordering the Town Council to award compensa-
tion generally, and if they should award the sum which
the Lords of the Treasury had already awarded, then Mr.
Murillon might appeal from that award to the Lords of
the Treasury, and endeavour to induce their Lordships
to increase the amount awarded. The rule must be
made absolute for a mandamus to the Town Council to
award compensation.

The Jury, after having been charged by Lord Abinger, in-
stantly returned a verdict for the defendant.

COURT OF COMMON PLEAS, Feb. 1.

JAY V. PILL RIM.

The plaintiff, Mr. C. Jay, is an attorney, and brings
this action to recover the amount of his bill of costs for
conducting the affairs of a person named Clarke (de-
ceased), through a bankruptcy, the defendant having, as
alleged, guaranteed the payment of the same. The de-
fendant is Coroner of the county of Norfolk. and was
clerk to Mr.-'George Jay, solicitor and banker at Nor-
wich. for whom the plaintiff appears to have been the
London agent. Out of this connexion the action, which
presented nothing of public interest, has arisen.
A verdict was taken for the plaintiff, with the under-
standing that the damages, which were laid at 751.,
should be assessed by the Master.

COURT OF RE VIEW, Westminster, Jan. 3

EX PARTE FOSTER IN RE BATSON AND OTHERS,

BANKRUPTS.

An application was made on behalf of the assignees of
Messrs. Batson and Co., who carried on business as
bankers at Berwick-on-Tweed, asking that a renewed
fiat should be directed to Newcastle-on-Tyne. The fiat
issued on the Bth of December, and after it had been
opened, assignees appointed, and debts to the number of
300, and to the amount of 10,8001 proved, it was dis-
covered that out of four Commissioners three were cre-
ditors, and the fourth a debtor to the estate. Newcastle-
on-Tyne, the nearest place where there was a list of
Commissioners, was distant sixty miles, and, as most of
the creditors lived in the immediate neighbourhood of
Berwick, an application was made to the Lord Chan-
cellor to facilitate the matter by allowing additional Com-
missioners to be nominated. This application had been
unsuccessful, and the petitioners now presented a peti-
tion, but were anxious to obtain leave for the present
Commissioners to act, rather than occasion a removal of
the commission to another place.
The COURT having intimated its disinclination to
comply with the latter request, the petitioners applied
for leave to withdraw their petition, which was permitted.

ADMIRALTY COURT, Jun. 31.
THE PERSIAN.-SALVAGE.

This was a claim on the part of the owners, masters,
and crews of two fishing smacks (the DitPhburn, of 53
tons, and the Ann and Francis, of 54 tons, each having
a crew of nine men), for services rendered to the Per-
sian, a collier brig of 257 tons, belonging to Sunderland,
heavily laden with coals, off the coast of Norfolk, near
Cromer, on the 14th and 15th of September last. The
vessel had touched the ground, and in consequence made
considerable water, which increased, though the weather
was fine. The salvors worked at the pumps all night,
notwithstanding which, the water had increased to six
jeet when they got the vessel to Yarmouth. The value
e fthe ship and cargo was 2,0001. A tender of 1504 had
been made and refused.

The QUEEN'S ADVOCATE and Dr. WHITE, on behalf
of the salvors, claimed a higher reward, since it had
been admitted by the owners that, but for their exertions,
the vessel must have foundered or been run on shore.

Dr. PHILLIMORE and Dr. JENNER, for the owners, did
not deny that assistance had been rendered, or that the
vessel had stood in need of it ; but submitted that, look-
ing at the risk of the property, its value, the nature of
the service (pumping), and its duration, 1501. was a suffi-
cient reward. They, moreover, contended that the sal-
vors had needlessly taken out a commission of appraise-
nient.

Dr. LusHlNGTowsaid, that in this case the owners had
stated the value of the ship at 1,8001., and the salvors,
dissenting from that statement, had taken out a commis-
sion of appraisement, the result of which was, that the
vessel was worth 1,707/. Now, he was determined,
wherever a commission of appraisement was taken out,
and it ultimately appeared that the parties taking it out
had erred, it should be a rule (subject, of course, to just
exceptions) that the parties taking it out should pay the
costs of thetbommission. In this case the appraisement
had returned the value at less than the owners' state-
ment. He should, therefore, direct the costs of the com-
mission to be borne by the salvors. With respect to
the merits of the case, he was of opinion, on the admitted
facts, that, considering the risk and value of the pro-
perty, the tender was not sufficient, and instead of 1501.
he should give 2701., condemning the salvors in the costs
of the commission of appraisement, all the other costs
to be paid by the owners.

COURT OF BANKRUPTCY, Jan. 31.
IN RE DAVID HANNAY.

This day was fixed for the final adjourned examination
of the bankrupt, who was the Managing Director of the
Marylebone Bank, at Cavendish-square. It appeared at
the previous meeting that the bankrupt was possessed of
considerable personal and inheritable property in Scot-
land, and that with the avoidance of law proceedings
upon the part of the creditors his estate would most
probably realise a dividend of 15s. in the pound.
A lengthened conversation took place to day, as to the
proof of certain debts, and it having been stated that the
bankrupt required further time to prepare his accounts,
and no objection having been made to the application,
the further hearing was adjourned for three months.-

SHERIFFS' COURT, Feb. 1.
KING V. STACEY--GRIM. CON.
Mr. STAMMERS, who appeared as Counsel for the
plaintiff, said that this was an action brought to re-
cover compensation, in damages, of the defendant, for
criminal conversation with the plaintiff's wife. lie be-
lieved neither the plaintiff nor the defendant occupied a
high position in life. The-former had been for 26 or 27
years clerk to a stock-broker in the City, and he had
conducted himself with such propriety and strict inte-
grity, as to gain the entire confidence of his em-
ployer, and up to the time of the defendant inflicting this
injury upon him, he had lived upon terms of peace and
happiness with his family at Ponder's-end. In the year
1826, the plaintiff became acquainted with a bliss Tyler,
and in 1831, he was married to her, the union taking
place under the sanction of the friends of both parties.
It was not until within the last twelve months that the
plaintiff had reason to' suspect his wife of infidelity.
About that time, in consequence of the severe indisposi-
tion of the plaintiff, it was necessary that he should re-
side nearer his physician in town; and during his absence,
it appeared the defendant was in the habit of taking his
meals and sleeping at the house of the plaintiff. But if
there was one circumstance that ought to in-
crease the damages more than another, it was this,—
the plaintiff's wife was a woman of an exceed-
ingly eccentric, and, he might say, weak mind, so that
if it should be attempted to be shown that she had not
conducted herself with that prudence and modesty which
other females do, it was easily accounted for by the im-
becility of her intellect. And when he told the Jury
that since she had been restored to her friends she had
been placed in a lunatic asylum, and had been under
the care of Dr. Sutherland, they would not be surprised
at her eccentricity, but would visit the defendant with
proper punishment for the course which he had pursued
towards her.

Several witnesses were called in support of the Learned
Counsel's statement, when the Under •Sheriff summed
up, and the Jury, after a • brief consultation, returned a
verdict for the plaintiff—Damages, 1001.
The damages laid in the declaration were 1,0001.