The Sun.
London, England, 1842-01-13 00:00:00

INSOLVENT COURT-(THIS DAY

IN RE ADOLPHUS JOHN FEW.
The insolvent in this case was opposed by Mr. CooKE,
on behalf of an attorney named Abbott.
It appeared that he got a person of the name of Ham-
mond to accept a bill of exchange, for which the insol-
vent received the money, and Hammond being sued upon
it, took the benefit of the Act. It then came into the
hands of the opposing creditor, and proceedings being
taken, he (the insolvent) defended the action, by which
law costs were accumulated, and the Learned Counsel
therefore sought that he should be remanded under the
discretionary clause of the Act for entering a vexatious
defence.
The insolvent supported his application in person.
Mr. Commissioner BOWEN said it was evident that
the insolvent fraudulently and vexatiously put the op-
posing creditor to unnecessary expense. He should,
therefore, order him to be remanded for five calendar
months from the date of his vesting order.
IN THE MATTER OF JOHN MILLINGS.
The insolvent was unopposed, and upon the Learned
Commissioner calling on his attorney, Mr. Morrell, an
attorney's clerk, named Mathews, said he appeared to
conduct the case in his name.
Mr. COmmissioner BOWEN said there were some attor-
neys practising .in that Court, who, without any regard
to their own characters, the interests of their clients, or
the respeet due to the Court, were in the habit of em-
ploying persons to conduct their business who were
quite unfit for it. •It appeared in the present case that
the unfortunate insolvent had paid, through his friends,
the sum of 4/. for carrying him through the' Court, and
yet he (Mr. Commissioner Bowen) would be compelled
to send him back fur a fortnight, without any fault of his
(the insolvent's). Such proceedings on the part of these
attorneys were improper, and he should take every pos,
Bible means to put an end to it. The order of the Court
was that the insolvent should be remanded for fresh ser-
vices, and also that Mr. Morrell attend in Court to-morrow.

ROYAL CHRISTENINGS.
(FROM A CORRESPONDENT.)
" What is this,
That rises like the issue of a king,
And wears upon his baby-brow the round
And top of sovereignty ?"—Macbeth.
The approaching ceremony of the Christening
of the Infant, Prince of Wales being the . all-
engrossing topic of conversation, and as such
auspicious events do not frequently occur, it may
not be uninteresting to many of your numerous
readers, if I give a brief detail of a Royal
Christening that took place in the northern part
of this Island ; and, in many respects, as inter-
esting and important, as the forthcoming one. I
mean the Christening of the infant Prince
James the Sixth, of the unfortunate Stuart race.
On the 19th June, 1566, in a small room on the
ground-floor, in the south-east corner of the
Castle of Edinburgh, the unhappy Mary, Queen
of Scots, was delivered of a Prince, in whose per-
son the crowns of both kingdoms were afterwards
happily united.
" Uniting into one, both Crowns he claims,
And then, conjunctively, Great Britain names."
The ceremony of christening the young Prince
was performed with all possible splendour. To
meet the extraordinary expenditure occasioned
by entertaining so many Ambassadors as were
assembled at the ceremony, the Queen levied an
assessment of twelve thousand pounds. It was
managed thus:—The Privy Council called a
meeting, both of the Lords Spiritual and Tempo-
ral, and of the representatives of the burghs, and
informed them that some of the greatest Princes
in Christendom, had requested permission to
witness, through their Ambassadors, the baptism
of the Prince. It was therefore moved, and
unanimously carried, that their Majesties should
be allowed to levy a tax for " the honourable
expenses requisite."
Still Mary was placed in great difficulty on
the occasion, with regard to her own feelings and
the innovations of the Reformers, now esta-
blished as the National Church of Scotland.
This wa, natural enough, but it may perhaps be
by some considered that she went a step beyond
the bounds of prudence, by inviting the Pope's
Nuncio to be present, as she must have been
aware that it would only excite the ire of a great
majority of her own subjects, and of the English
Ambassador, the Earl of Bedford, who had
been specially deputed by Elizabeth on the
occasion, how much soever it might have
pleased the Catholic Ambassador of France
and Savoy. Mary, however, perceived all
the evil consequences of the Nuncio's pre-
sence, in sufficient time to countermand the in-
vitation, and prevent his untoward arrival. The
baptismal ceremony was performed according to
the rites of the Romish Church, within her own
chapel, which neither the Earl of Bedford or any
Protestant Lords entered. Dc Brienne, the
French Ambassador Extraordinary, carried the
Prince between two rows of nobility and entry,
to the chapel, where, at the door, the Archbi-
shop of St. Andrew's, assisted by the Bishops
of Dunblane,lDunkeld, and Ross, received the
infant. The Countess of Argyle held the child
at the font, and the Archbishop baptised him
by the name of " Charles James, James
Charles, Prince and Steward of Scotland, Duke
of Rothsay, Earl of Carrick, Lord of the Isles,
and Baron of Renfrew," and these names and
titles were proclairnyi three times by heralds.
with sound ..of trumpet. It was the Queen's
pleasure that he should bear the name of
James (after his father), together with Charles,
after the King of France. Among the various
presents that were made on this occasion, the
Earl of Bedford brought from Elizabeth a pre.
sent of a magnificent font of pure gold, curiously
wrought, and valued at 3,000 crowns. In her in-
structions to Bedford, she desired him to say, jo-
cularly, that it had been made as soon as she
heard of the Prince's birth, and that it was large
enough then, but that, as he had now, she sup-
posed, outgrown it, it might be kept for the next
child. Along with the English Ambassador came
Robert Cary, (afterwards created by this very
Prince, Lord Falkland), and many of Elizabeth's
gallant cavaliers, on whom Mary made a most
favourable impression, as indeed she did on all
who were admitted to the honour of her society.
A succession of masques and banquets followed,
but in none did Darnley, her consort, take a part.
Subsequent events will inform the reader why lie
took no share in them.
Elizabeth was not wrong in supposing that
her font had grown too small for the infant
Prince. lie was a remarkably stout and healthy
child, and " made his gossips feel his weight in
their arms." Mary was very proud of her son,
and from his earliest infancy the establishment
of his household was on the most princely scale.
The Lady Mar was his governess; Margaret Little,
the spouse of Alexander Gray, burgess of Edin-
burgh, was his " head-dresser," and for her
good services there was granted to her and her
husband part of the lands of the King's-barns, in
Fife, during their lives: the chief nurse had
four or five women under her, " keeping of the