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London, England, 1808-08-17 00:00:00

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In the case ii a .1..........,c, in which is Member of
. Parliament, whose narneWaS not mentioned; was pro-
' pos4d•as the CnmmitLee, the Loan Cita NCE1.1.911 asked
-. ~Lis,citiestiOnn—" What•am I to do with him, if a
rO6tym should lie made that he should stand corn-
rnir.e4/ . ‘,l cannot help recollecting, that, within the
kst three months, no less than eight instances !revel
oceNrred, in whiCh motions have been made to have 1
receiverc Commitied.: now; suppose these had been:
Tofembers of Parliament, what,. Could I have done
' with them ? Nothing, Unless their corwluct had been an .
aiii,, 5... e c,.ntempt of this Court, however injurious ,
it might have been to. the interests of the parties. I
. am deverrohied, if rossible, never to sanction any me-'•
: tints for makingrteMember of Parliament Committee j
.91 a lunatic.- suggestion. front the Bar, that a 1
motion. should. be • made for a general order .of '
. -Court against it, deserves much consideration.. ' t I
.tlie
seems to me to be a 01.mm' order very fit to be made. 1
... • CIIRTIFICATIIB OF BANKRUPTS.
A very siegulareuee weaned upon the subject oft
the signature of the Cenunissinefrs of Bankrupts to
the witittiip's certificate. •• All the • names of the,
parties inculpated were studiously concealed, and, in
the present state of the case, rightly:o°i, It was a case
. in which one of _the 'Commissioners had signed the
Certificate of the -Bankrupt with his own name, and
also had signed the names of his colleagues, imitating
their hand-writing. •
The Loan CfrIANCILLLOR, on learning this, was
highly displeased=said, he did not know that the
Commissioner who bad' done this most irregular act
should ever s;irn another certificate. He desired Mr.
Cullen to hink at the certificate., That Learned Gen-
tleman did so--.then observed, there was a laxity
which could not be defendectiti this part of the prat.
tice ; sometimes one. Commissioner signed for another
—but it was not to be supposed that this. was dente
.n2lll application. s. :.. . • . , . .. .

The LORD CHANCELLOR desired Mr. Cullen to
look at the sigwatures_again' which • that Learned
Gentleman did, and then .theLorilatancellor took
back the ..paiser, • and delivered it into -dye- hands of
eat proper.- Officer of she -Court,:observing!thit he ,
was at present undetermined whether he thould Ce-
der an indictment to be preferred against the person
who bad.thus signed these 'Commissioners names or
not. But Ins Lordship directed, that- nothing should
be done in this -business, until he shall.tgree further
directions in it.; 'declaring, at the same , that he
should not.give validity 'to this certificate, until 'an
affidavit was produced, deposing distinctly to the ge-
nuine signatures of the three Commissioners.
DX-PARTE DANFORD IN THE MATTER DF: DANFORD.
„Sir Sawa. ROMILLY and Mr. WINGFIELD sta:ad,
thott,this was wyetition for superceding the -commis-
sion taken out against the Bankrupt, who, they con-
tended,..eras.noe subject to such apexes', not having*
committed an act of Bankruptcy. if a commission
were to stand simply on account of Om-number of all.
fidavits filed in support of it, the. Learned Counsel
admitted that this cortunission must itand.firm;for the
a Pdavits were env:mous, but they contained nothing.
The servant of the Bankrupt had been examined to
proveahathe had been denied to his. Creditors, bet
this had no; been made our. A Sheriff's Officer had
made oath that he had arrested the Bankrupt thirty
or forty times at least; but, while this did not amount
to an act of Bankruptcy, , the latitude in which the
witneis chose to indulge, could not be calculated to
insp're his Lordship with extreme cOnfidvce in the
accuracy of his statement. The only opterTact, at all
resembling an act of Bankruptcy, and the one,:it
was presumed, on which the petitioning creditor
chose principally to rely, was also sworn to by this
Sheriff's Officer' who stated, that be having gone to
Mr. Bamtord'shouse, at the' hour of seven ,in the
montiqr,, to erbium a writ against him, -while his
partner knocked at the door, he posted himself on
the opposite side of the way, up a few steps, where,
through means of a .fan-light in the doors Ir
bad a view of Mr. B.'s.house, and saw . him come
down stairs vsith-a 'candle .in, his hand, and some
clothes over hi; arm, he not being then thoroughly
dressed. Soon afterwards the door was opened. by the
servant, add the officers went In: - They walked up
stairs, and found the bankrupt's bed -not yet colck
but he himself was gone. They went through the
rest of the. house, but without .finding bim.. They
then came down stairs, when it appeared tethem that
he must have escaped.by the back doer, there -bein
the prints of a foot discernible on some snow whic
had fallen. ' This, ' the Learned Counsel remarke
was an. exceeding good story, but it had two faults;
it was not trues and it was impossible that it could be
isle. The bankrupt had sworn positirely,- that; in
point of fact; he was 'not then in the-house, and as to
!the possibility of the officer bavingmen what he sta.-
.ted,' it was no doubt true, :that • nt mere cprosperous ,
times there had been a fan-lightarberehe represented,
but it was equally a fact. that it had, for some consi. i
demble time previous.toihe pertod in question,- giren
place to a deal-board of on inch thick, throughwhiCh
it was impossible that the eyes of the officer,lowever
vigilant they mightbe, could at all penetrate. Be-
sides, the back door in question had•no othereommur
nication than with on area .of .four or five feet, sur-
rounded en all sides by high walls and—buildings,
through which it was impossible that the bludtrupt er
city person else could have escaped. , -
The I.oanCnanesu.on, without:hearing the Coun-
sel on the other aide, said it was impossible Tor 'hir# 1
to.supetsede the imithscseien on the affidavit of the'
bankrupt alonerwitheut•a trial. He ordered that an
Usu should be joined for the purpose of determining.
the questi:n, and.that•if the petitioning cre&torchose,
to insist on any other act of fiankrup.cy, notice of it•
should be given to the bankrupt.

During the hurricane at Brighton, on Saturday,
a very genteel man walked into the sea, with his
elf then cn, opposite the Marine Parade, and .was
carried off by the snai—had not been for some
tilors who went in after him and dragged him out
ty the hair of tle head, lie would have been dashed-
to pieces against the Cliff.
The waste lands in England amount to 6,259,470
, acr,s; in Wales to 1,629,307 ; and in 4cotland. to the
enormoni quantity of 14,2/8,224 acres ftlst wastes in
some counties, as 'n Inverness, Perth, and Sutherland,
lseini equal to five-sixths of the whole superficits.