The Sun.
London, England, 1842-07-16 00:00:00

COMPROMISE COMMITTEE.

bOUTHAMPTON.—CLOSE OF THE INQUIRY.
• The Committee met yesterday at three o'clock, for the
urpose of considering their Report. When the door
was opened at four o'clock we understood that the Com-
Inittee had• agreed to their Report, but it was not pub-
licly req.

, substance of it, however, is, that the evidence was
not sufficient to justify the Committee in recommending
the disfranchisement of the borough of Southampton.
No recommendation is to be made as to the issuing or
stispension of the writ, that being left to the discretion
of the House; but the Committee think it might be de-
sirable-,-if any measure is to be introduced for the pre-
Tendon of bribery,-that the writ should be suspended
till than.

`The Report is not to be brought up till Monday.

LAW INTELLIGENCE.

LYSOL. VENT DEB7I)IIS' CO I.ll?7',July
IN RE JOHN CLARK.

The insolvent was a paper manufacturer, carrying on
business at Snudland Mills, near Maidstone, since the
year 1834. In 1840 he became a bankrupt, when the
'amount of debts and liabilities in his schedule was about
28.0001.. out of which there was no divithnd avaihible to
the creditors. In the commoncement of 1841 he suc-
ceeded in getting his certificate, and in three d.iys after
returned- to Snodlarul Mills, when he again tarried on
business until an extent under the Crown was put in force
for the sum of 8691. 17s. 2d. for duty arising on the ma-
nufacture of paper within the space of nine weeks. He
was soon afterwards arrested at the suit of ...Messrs.
Knight for 221, and a sum of 2,500/ appeared now on
Isis balance-sheet as debts due by him, white there was
due to him only 46/. 135., which could be accounted good
debts, and 4891 were stated as bad.

Mr. NICHOLLS appeared to oppose his petition to be
discharged, and examined him at great length, when it
was eventually determined to allow the case to stand over,
in order that a new balance-sheet might be prepared,
4:odanencing at an earlier date, and also to procure the
attendance of Messrs. Knight, as it was alleged that the
arrest was a friendly one.

• ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE,
HOME ClRCUlT—Maidstone, July 15.
The Commission for the County of Kent was opened on
Thursday, by Lord Abinger, and this morning both Courts
proceeded to business, Sir. Justice Coltman sitting in the
Crown Court, and Lord Abinger on the Civil Side. There
are very few prisoners for trial, and none of the cases are of
a serious character.

Mr. Justice CourmAw briefly addressed the Grand Jury,
and congratulated them upon the lightness of the calendrr,
after which they retired.
None of the criminal eases tried during the day contained
any features of public interest.
One case was tried in the Civil Side—Prentis v. Shepherd,
but it was also destitute of interest. The verdict was for the
plaintiff—damages, 1981. 15s.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
WORSHIP-STREET.

Me. Edwin Bates, of Park Villas, Regent's-park, who
staid charged with having used language of a violent and
threatening description, towards William Marshall, Esq., M.P.,
one of the Directors of the Northern and Eastern Counties
Railway, was placed in fr.int of the bar for final examination.
After a brief 'conversation between the Magistrate and Mr.
'Maynard, the so:iciter for the prosecution,
Mr. Davis, a surgeon residing in Worship-square, was ex-
amined, and he stated- that he had visited the defendant, in
company with Mr. Leeson, surgeon, of Finsbury-square, on
two occasigns since his remand, and the conversations that
took place between them had impressed him with a conviction
that the defendant entertained a strong feeling on the subjec
of his transactions with the Railway Company. more particu-
larly in reference to Mr. Marshall ; and he was decidedly of
opinion that whilst he remained under the influence of that
feeling it would be unsafe to allow him to go at large.
%Ir. BINGHAM asked the defendant, in a soothing manner,
whether he felt satisfied with the treatment he had received
since he was last before him ?—The defendant answered that
the Governor of the prison had behaved towards him with the
Utmost urbanity and kindness, for which he expressed his
warmest acknowledgments.
Mr. BINGHAM was proceeding to state that he now proposed
to send him to a place where he would be treated with equal
consideration, when the defendant interrupted the !Magistrate,
aid vehemnily protested against such a proceeding being car-
ried into execution. lie then bitterly inveighed against Mr.
Alar,tiall, and called a clergyman, an old friend of his, to prove
that the opinion of the medical man with respect to the state of
his mind was not to be trusted ie.

1 he Al AGISTRATE said that every word the defendant uttered
went more fully to confirm him in the opinion that it would be
unsafe to liberate him without good secur.ty for his behaviour,
and, instead of pursuing the course he at first intended, he
should require the defendant to fir,cl hail for three calendar
months, himself in 500/., and two sureties in 2501. each.
Tilt+ "Alagistrate having required the usual Lotiee of sail, the
defendant was conducted back to prison.

GRAVE OF SiR WALTER SCOTT. —A
correspondent
who, the ether day, paid a visit to the grave of the late
Sir Walter Scott, at Dryburgli Abbey, expresses regret
at not finding it marked out either by horizontal or head
stone, or wily marking on the wall, to indicate the resting
place of the mortal remains of the Great Magician of the
North. Not even a turf is :.spread on his grave, or that
of his lady.—Bath chronicle,
" The .Manoeuvring Mother," by the authoress of
"The History of a Flirt,
is jot now the great object of at-
traction at all the libraries. The following criticism from the
Examiner certainly affords a strong. testimony of its merits:—
" The History of a Flirt' was an excelent novel in an excel-
lent school. We think of Turner Ellis as:we think of the best
creations of Miss Austin. The present bank is not unworthy
of its predecessor. The quiet turexaggerated pictures, the
lively natural dialogues, the cirotra.ts. of folly and vice, the
darnels of false education and a half-in' rality, were chiefly no-
ticeable in the writer's first production, and present themselves
in this wlth unabated freshness. .The design is to exhibit the
manceuvring and match-making passion in its trains of misery
and disastrous consequence. Lady Wetheral is the central
figure round which are grouprd the fortunes of her five
daughters. And most admirable, the work of a sure and un-
faltering hand, is this elaborate and highly-wrought character.
It is even raisei here and there, by the writer's earliest spirit,
into mmetuth4 of tragic elevation and intensity—differing in
this resrect from the same subject in the ham's of other writers,
that the mere sordid. calculating, money-making spirit, is by no
means its chief feature. The vice in Lady Wetheral springs
from a deeper source, and works with more fatal poison. It is
the rffeet of unrestrained indulgence on a weak character and
a bad education—resulting in the utter misappreciation of all
worldly things as to their Power of contributing to happiness
We wish all success to this writer, and that she will win her
way to a sure and en.viable s ation in this class of literature is
I;tle to be doubted.'
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