The Sun.
London, England, 1842-03-12 00:00:00

LAW IN

HOUSE OF LORDS, Mar r.l
h e House sat to-day to hear Appeals. The Peers present
were the Lord Chancellor, Lord Brougham, Lord Campbell,
and the Earl of Dartmouth.

HAMILTON• V. HAMILTON.
Mr. GORDON resumed and concluded his arguments in this
part-heard appeal on behalf of the appellant.
The SOLICITOR-GENERAL followed on the same side, and
had not concluded when our Evening Edition went to press.
Mr Pemberton and Mr. Kelly appear for the respondents.

ROLLS' COURT, March 11.
• PHILANTHROPIC SOCIETY V. KEMP.
The argument in this cause engaged the Court throughout
the early part of the day. The only question involved was the
right on the part of the plaintiffs, to whom a sum of money
had been bequeathed by the testator, to have the assets mar-
shalled. The case presented no feature of interest whatever.

VICE- CHANCELL ORS' COURT, March 11.
(liet;,re the 'VICE-CHANCELLOR OF ENGLAND.)
IloNora was occupied during the whole of the morning
with hearing unopposed petitions and short causes.
(Before Vice-Chancellor WIGRANL)
ARUNI)ALE V. BOWYER.

His HONOUR was occupied during part of the morning in
hearing this ease , his judgment in which he deferred till to-
morrow.

CONSISTORY COURT, March 11.
(Before Dr. LUSIIINGTON.)
SNOW V. SNOW.

This was a suit for sep;ratlon,Pleineted by the wife against
the husband, Robert Snow, on the ground of cruelty It.
appeared that the marriage was contracted in 1832, and that
even in the honeymoon a course of ill treatment and cruelty
commenced on the pert of the husband, which continued down
to the 21st of November, 16-11, when the parties being in
Paris, an attack was made by him on the wife, of so violent a
character as to place her life in peril, and obliged
her to apply to other parties for protection. It
was on these grounds that the suit was instituted. Sir
Herbert Jenner Fust and Dr. Haggart, were the advocates for
the wife, and Dr. Adams for Mr. Snow. Some doubt was
expressed whether the wife had not debarred herself of her
remedy, by returning to a partial cohabitation with the hus-
band after the acts of cruelty referred to in the libei.
The decision of the Court had not been given when we went
to press.

SHERIFFS' COURT, March 11.
Both the Learned Secondaries sat this day, Mr. Potter at
Basinghall-street, and Mr. James in one of the chambers of
the Guildhall ; but the proceedings in either Court were of a dull,
tedious, and unimportant character.

INSOLVENT DEBTORS' COURT, .March 11.

RE EDWARD HARRIS.

In this case the insolvent was doseribeel as a comedian, and
late Manager of the Victoria Theatre, residing at 46, Walcot-
square, Lambeth. Its debts were stated at 411/. Is. 6d., and
his a•,sets at 1201.

His petition had been already before the Court, and reported
in The Slin, when the final hearing of the ease was ordered to
stand for this day.
A young female, named Sarah Hooper, applied to the Court,
and stated that she had been in the insolvent's service for two
year, and:a balance of 5/. 9s. Bd. remained due for wages. Her
name had not been inserted in the schedule as a creditor. She
was aware that Mr. Harris had been labouring under great
pecuniary difficulty, and consequently did not wish to throw
the slightest obstruction in the way of his discharge ; but she
was anxious to know whether she would be entitled to claim in
case any assets be available.
The Learned CHIEF COMMMIONER ordered the schedule
to lie amended by inserting the name and debt of Sarah Hooper,
and said to the insolvent that he hoped, in case any future suc-
cess attended his professional career, he would not be unmind-
tul of the kind disposition shown by her, in not offering any
opposition ; as if ahe did so, his immediate discharge could not
have been obtained.

The insolvent acknowledged the justice of the Learned Com-
missioner's remarks, and said he should take care her debt
should be satisfied as soon as possible.
The COURT then ordered him to be discharged forthwith.
RE JAMES GILBERT.

The insolvent was a bookseller arid publisher, trading under
the name of Gilbert and Grattan. His debts and liabilities
were stated to be very large, while it was considered there was
a quantity of assets which had not as yet become available to
the body of the creditors.
Mr. Nrenot.i.s, who appeared on behalf of Mr. Steven
John Russell, printer, of Paternoster-row, and several other
creditors, said the object of his clients was not so much to pro-
cure the remand of the insolvent as to cause an inqu ry to be
instituted concerning certain mortgages and other documents
which it was alleged, had been executed so as to give an undue
preference to two or three creditors, to the almost total ex-
clusion of the rest.
It appeared that Mr.*. Smith, of the firm of Smith and
Chapman, 22, Paternoster-row, had supplied goods and ad-
vanced various sums of money to the insolvent, for which he
got a mortgage on the copyright of two atlases and certain
other plates, which he was about publishing, but which was
allowed to remain in his (the insolvent's) hands, and the copies
of which were worked or struck off in his name by Mr. Rus-
sell, the opposing creditor, who wa; also assignee to the estate,
and claimed debts for work done, to the amount of about 700/.

It was contended, on the part of the other creditors, that al-
though some of them were aware that Mr. Smi h had got security
to &certain amount, yet that they were not informed of the fact
of his having a mortgage on the property to the amount of
2,0001., and although no remand was sought against the insol-
vent, yet that the interests of all the creditors required a close
and searching inquiry.
Mr. Commissioner IlErNot.ns said that, under the circum-
stances, the insolvent would of course be entitled to his dis-
charge, but he (Mr. Commissioner Reynolds) should consider
himself entitled to order the opposing creditor to be paid
the coat of this application from the funds of the estate.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

GUILDIL4LL.

Edward Stokes was placed at the bar, charged with em-
bezzling certain sums of money, the property of his employers,
Messrs. Reeves and Co., stationers, of Cheapside.
The prisoner had been in the employ of Messrs. Reeves and
Co. for seven years as collecting clerk, and it was his duty each
day to account for the money received.
several witnesses were called, who had paid him different
sums in the course of last year, none of which he had accounted
for to his employers, amounting together to a very large sum.
The prisoner was fully committed for trial.
BOW-STREET.

A SCENE IN LITTLE. CATHERINE STREET.—Abraham
Levy, Sarah So!omans, and another man, were placed at the
bar, charged with creating a riot and disturbance under the
following circumstances :—Police constable F 4S, stated that
about half-past one yesterday morning, as he was going his rounds '
in Brydges-street, he beard a great noise and cries of
" Murder" and Police," proceeding from Little Catherine-
street. He at once hastened to the spot, when he saw forty
or fifty persons, principally prostitutes, with a small assembly
of men amongst them, who all appeared to be fighting. They
did not seem to have any specific object in view. The row
was a general one. Blows were indiscriminately given,
and as indiscriminately received, and each one seemed to be
tr ing who could inflict the greatest number of strokes in the
shortest possible time. Notwithstanding the confusion which
prevailed, however, and the general character of the strife,
witness singled out a diminutive woman (the female prisoner)
as being the most desperate, and, at the same time, the most
successful pugilist in the crowd ; wherever she went she spread
havoc and destruction around; the most powerful fled before
in.r single arm, and the stoutest heart quailed at her approach.
S.-eking a fitting object for her fury, she had seen the prisoner
Levy, who now stood by her side, him she attacked; and when
a reinforcement of police enabled her to be secured, she was,
in the words of the witness, " fighting at him like a tiger."
Maria Levy, the wife of one of the prisoners, whose face was
much bruised, and who mounted a large black eye, or, as it is
more expressively, and perhaps more correctly, termed in Scot-
land, " a blue r en," here stepped forward, to prefera complaint
against the female prisoner; she stated that, about one o'clock
this morning, as she was returning from the theatre, and pro-
ceeding up a certain court, not mentioned, but which the com-
plainant termed " our court," the prisoner followed her, and,
without saying a word, struck her on the eye and lip, which
knocked her down, and, in her own worth, " I lost my senses
ever since." She called out " Murder," and her husband, who
was in doors, sleeping by the fire, came out to rescue
her. This was the commencement of the disturbance. The
prisoner had struck complainant once before, some years ago,
when she was taken before a Magistrate, and in consequence of
this she had owed her a grudge ever since.
Policeman, F 102, corroborated the testimony of his brother
constable as to the violence of the female prisoner.
' The prisoner denied the allegations of Mrs. Levy in tote.
She was the most harmless creature in the world, and would not
hurt a worm. The fact was that. Mrs. Levy had struck her first;
and this was the way of it. Mrs. Levy and the prisoner, Solomons,
both took in lodgers, and a young lady who had previously lodged
with Mrs. L. being desirous of leaving what the fair speaker
called "dress lodgings" for private lodgings," quitted. Mrs.
L.'s apartments, and took up her abode wiih Mrs. S. ; Mrs.
L. feeling herself aggrieved by the young lady's preferring
Mrs. S.'s lodgings to hers, determined to snake Mrs. S. suffer
for it and to this end she with her husband, son, two dress-
lodgers, and servants, fell upon the prisoner this morning.
Finding herself attacked, and set upon by so many, she very
naturally did her best to defend herself ; how well she
succeeded, though opposed to such heavy odds, witness Mrs
Levy's black eye and cut lip. The fact was, said Mrs. Solomons,
" I am an English woman though I am married to a Jew, and
that is the reason them Jewesses are always agin me ; they
never lets me alone, and I never has no peace a single moment
of my life." She concluded by calling what she called a strange
witness, to prove that Mrs. Levy struck her first.
The strange witness (a woman), was called, and said every-
thine that could be desired of her.
Mr. JAaousE said these disturbances could not be allowed

to go on, he should however discharge the two men, and he
should hold the female prisoner to bail to keep the peace, her-
self in 10/, and two eurczztlzireitszoimn2ls,7./. each.
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property of his employer.
'the complainant stated that the Prisoner had been fie years
in his employ, and that within the last few daysr it was dis-
covered that he had received various sums of mones from the
customers, which he did not account for. Defalcations to the
amount of 801. had been already discovered, but it Was sus_
pected that money to a much larger amount would be found to
he mis,ing when the accounts were examined. When the dis.
covert' and the prisoner questioned on the subject,
hisaeola account mtwade,
as that he was robbed of 40/. in a Camberwell
omnibus, and that in order to keep it a secret from his em.
p!ovur he had kept money back to make up the deficiency.
The complainant asked the Magistrate to remand the prisoner
for further inquiry, and he was remanded accordingly.