The Sun.
London, England, 1842-11-15 00:00:00

LAW INTELLIGENCE.

COURT OF CHANCERY. Nov. 14.

THE ATTORNEY-GENERAL V. THE CORPORATION OF
LUDLOW.-JUDGMENT.
At thP conclusion of the arguments the Lord
Chancellor postponed his judgment.

BAIL COURT, Nov. 14.

IN THE MATTER OF THE REY. DR. DILLON.--IPPLI-

CATION FOR A HABEAS CORPUS.

Mr. MILLAR in this case applied, on behalf of Mrs.
Dillon, wife of the defendant, for a habeas corpus to
bring up the body of her child, to ascertain why she
should not he given into the custody of the mother.
The application was made on the affidavit of Mrs.
Dillon, which stated that the child, the subject of the
present application, was born before the marriage
took place, and that she was now in the possession of
the Rev. Dr. Dillon, who was about to take her out
of the kingdom.—The Court granted the application.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
(YESTERDAY.)
GUILDHALL.

Yesterday Sir P. Laurie called at the Justice-room
and said, he attended Mr. Alderman J. Johnson for
the purpose of submitting to him two letters which he
had received from the Envoy of the Irnaum of Muscat
and Sir C. Forbes, whose philanthropy was prover-
bial, relative to their refusal to facilitate a marriage
between one of the Imaum's subjects, the Captain of
the Sultana, and Jane Lockhart. He read the let-
ters, as follows :

"Fitzroy-square, Nov. 11.

"My dear Sir Peter,—l mil- sure you will have
pleasure in making known the contents of the accom-
panying letter from the Envoy of the Imaum of
Muscat, in reference to what the newspapers have
lately put forth. •
"Much is said about slavery in the East ; but were
the choice placed before me of being an unfortunate
pauper in this free country, or a slave under the Go-
vernment of the Imaum, I would prefer the latter.
" You will perhaps be surprised when I tell you the
Governors of his highness's two towns of Muscat and
Zanzibar were originally slaves, to whom the highest
offices in the state are open in the east.
"I remain, my dear Sir Peter, yours very truly,
"CHARLES FORBES."
" Portland Hotel, Nov. 10.

" Sir—My attention having been drawn to your
magisterial proceedings, as reported in the Times of
the 4th instant, and to your remarks on that occasion,
in a case relating to a person belonging to his High-
ness the Imaum of Muscat's sloop of war Sultana, I
deem it right to inform you that 1 have issued posi-
tive instructions to the commander of the Sultana that
no European female whatever shall be permitted to
depart from England in that vessel.
" I forbear to offer anv observations on the state-
ments that have been published, reflecting on the crew
of the Sultana, whose first visit to England, and
consequent ignorance of its usages, might have pleaded
as an apology for them with the enlightened people
of this country, had any irregularities really occurred
on their part ; but I am happy to think that nothing
of the kind has taken place during a period of four
months and upwards that they have been in England,
no complaint whatever having been made of their con-
duct in any quarter.
" With reference to the insinuations regarding the
sale of English females at Zanzibar, they could only
have been put forth in ignorance of the attachment of
the Sovereign of that country to the British Govern-
ment, and his hospitality to British subjects.—l have
the honour to be, with the highest consideration, Sir,
your obedient servant,
" ALI BEN NASSIR,

" Envoy from his Highness the Imaum of Muscat.
" To Sir P. Laurie."
Sir P. PAunm said he was sure his esteemed col-
league would learn with deep gratification that their
refusal 'had led to this prohibition of exporting females,
and, while giving full credit to the Envoy's assurance
of the Imaum's excellent intentions, as expressed in
his letter, it was, unhappily, out of the power of any
authority, howiever well disposed, to prevent outrages
upon humanity in a settlement where slavery, in its
worst form, was allowed to exist, and a slave-market
tolerated.

Mr. Alderman JOHNSON was &ad the Envoy had
settled the matter so discreetly.

LAMBETH-STREET.

On Saturday ,evening, before leaving the Bench,
Mr. NORTON announced that the subscriptions ad-
dressed to 'him and left by many persons who had
called at the Court, for Miss Reynolds and her sis-
ters, am-minted to 1201., and expressed his great satis-
faction at the fact. He was of opinion, however, that
the -sympathy which had been awakened was owing
to the exposure of the disgraceful 'conduct, for he
could call it no less, of a class Of persons calling them-
selves " respectable tradesmen," in only paying the
paltry pittance of threehalfpence for making a shirt,
and he sincerely hoped that this unequivocal mark of
public reprobation of such a practice would shame
the wholesale slop-dealers into something like common
fairnesS and humanity, and induce them to give the
poor and industrious persons who worked for them
a proper remuneration for their labour. He should
not only, wish to be furnished with a list of the names
of those slop-sellers who exhibited such a want of
humanity, but to see such list published to the world.
It weuld then be known whether the public would
apprOve of such a system by dealing with them. Pre-
vious to the emancipation of slaves in the West Indies,
many kind-hearted and benevolent per Sons in this
country dispensed with the use of sugar. in their tea
and coffee, from a feeling that their use of the article
led, if not directly; at least remotely, to an encourage-
ment of slavery ; and he 'had very little doubt that
from a similar feeling of philanthropy many persons
would rather go without a shirt than encourage a sys-
tem which was, if possible, worse than slavery, viz.,
one entailing misery and starvation.

Davis, one' of the ushers of the Court, said the
miseries endured by the poor people at the east end 'of
the metropolis, who were obliged to work for the slop-
dealers, were infinitely greater than they had been
represented, or the public could form any conception
of. The fact was that a number of persons, princi-
pally Jews, had within the last few years got into the
wholesale slop-trade, and the competition in the
business was so great, particularly in supplying ship-
ping and foreign orders, that the persons who made
up the article were ground down to the last half-.
farthing, and the poorer the persons the less was the
remuneration they got. The present system in
wholesale houses was to exact a security from a class
of persons, who might be called " middle-men," to
cover the amount of material given out to be manu-
factured, and those persons made a living by getting
persons who were too poor and friendless themselves
to obtain security to make the articles 'up, at a still
lower rate. A few days before a female, whom he
had formerly known in comfortable circumstances,
called on him, and after apologising for troubling him,
requested the loan of a penny to buy thread with.
She then told him that she had 8.4 a dozen of shirts
to make (from one of the middle-men he had before
represented) at five farthings a piece, and to find
thread, and that she and her husband must go without
food until she had them made up and taken home
Mr. NORTON observed, that such a state of things
was lamentable, and reflected anything but credit upon
the parties with whom it originated, and he felt satis-
fied it only required to be known to,be discountenanced
by the British public.