Star.
London, England, 1831-05-23 00:00:00

LAW OF ARREST.
The Common Law Comm are now engaged upon
this important branch of our laws. We have been furnished
with a copy of the questions which they have submitted to
some of the leading members of the profession :
I. In cases where you are employed to recover debts for which the
debtor may be held to hail, do you usually proceed by bailable or ser-
viceable process, and what is the proportion of the one to the other ?
2. What are the dreumstances that Induce you to lases bailable in
preference to serviceable pprr ?
3. In particular, is process usually resorted to from itprre.
bonito at the debtor will abscond, or from what other motive ?
4. Whet bailable process is resorted to, in what stage of the pro-
ceedings is payment most frequently obtained ?
8. Where the debt is paid or settled after arrest, in what proportion
of cases is it paid or perfected before settling bail above ?
IL Where bail above is perfected, and the defendant pleads to the
declaration, is the suit productive to the creditor in general or otherwis.?
7. In what stages of the cause where the debt is recovered at all, la it
moat usually recovered where the process is merely serviceable?
8. Are you aware of any instances, and are they frequent or other-
wise, where the power of arrest on mane process has been abused for
vexatious purposes, either by arresting where no sum was due, or wiltre
less was due than the sum for which the debtor was arrested; or
where, the debt being due, the process was resorted to without sue-
dent cause ?

9. Are you aware of any instances of inconvenience endless of credit
sustained by debtors who have been arrested, and who are solvent but
unable to procure ball ? If you are, state them ?
lA. Do you know, or have you reason to believe, that debtors are
frequently put to great expense to obtain indulgence from Sheriffs
officers, and persons sployed to execute process, and that extortion Is
sometimes practised by officers on debtors in their custody ?
11. Is the system of bail productive of perjury, and in what manner,
according to your experience ?
12. Does it, according to your experience, °prove to encourage Uti.
Ration and multiply twits, and In what manner P
13. Is it frequently attended with the inconvenience of subjectind
rdatives or hinds who have become bail to the payment of the debt of
the principal?
14. Do you in there ere its say other respects consider the rights of
arrest on mine process as productive of hardship or oppression to the
debtor ?

15. Do you know any instances, and to what extent, where debtors
on arrest have bad recourse to the insolvent Aet, for the fraudulent
purpose of withholding their property ?
16. Are such frauds easily practised
17. In your judgment, is the Insolvent Coon effective for enforcing
a fair distribution of the Insolvent's property, or in what respect do you
consider the proceedings to be defective ?
18. Are arrests in some instances procured by debtors themselves,
for the purpose of obtaining the benefit of the Insolvent Act ?
19. Do you consider the power of holding a debtor to bail on means
process advantageous, and if so, in what respect ? Or do you consider
it to be otherwise, and if so, for what reasons P
20. Do you think it might be altered or modified with advantage,
as to the amount of the debt in respect of which the debtor may be
beld to bail ? Or by any limitadon as to the nature of the debt ? tif
by any limitatioo as to the elan of persons subject to arrest ? Or the
drcumstatiess under which it ought to be allowed—such as the apple-
heusion of a fraudulent removal by the debtor, of his person us pro-
perty, and by requiring some such special cause to be sworn to as
ground for agraWng ?
21. Can you suggest any other means of improving the present sys-
tem of arrest on mane process?
22. In your judgment, might process of attachment against the
goods or other property of the debtor b: conveniently substituted for
rouse against the person either absolutely, or at the option of the
elleihor ?
Is. Do you think it desirable in cues where the plaintiff has not
thought proper to arrest a defendant in the tint instance to allow him a
discretion of bolding him to bail in a subsequent stage of the pro-
ceedings ?
24. In your opinion, should a ftaudulent removal of goods after
judgment be punishable as a aims ?
These questions look very like an inclination to put the
public in the wrong. Nothing in truth can be more absurd
than to refer to lawyers reforms of the law. We know that
the law of arrest is the harvest of the professien ; and who
but law commissioners would have sought front the pro-
fession any information on a point which is likely to de-
prive it of a full third of its emoluments ? Perhaps, how-
ever, this was all Mr. Hume could effect in a Parliament
constituted like the last.

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Some of our conti-mporaries in their avidity for news,
hare Levu propagating scandalous repona about a Fiat commoner,
and his right bouourable wife, for which we consider it out duty to
state them is it* foundation. Stich abases of the press are meet in.
jurious .0 its useful liberty. his our, rule newer to obtrude prime
affairs, which do not affect .he intercom or the public.
The Lame Duck at the Stock Exchange the other day to
the trite of nearly amillion, at one time wax a leader in the house, and
a Weida in he same for some considerable loans.

The Totiett in the small part of the public preen, of which
they lure the command, are woods-Kay smsderially ming.
Inant, and wonderfully amusing; but we think they bed batter hus-
band their resources, for ti•ey must soon take a lung farewell of all
their usual means of replenishment.
During the time the British squadron lay off the Tagus,
awaiting the answer of Don Mead to the demands of the English
government, a British resident, a merchant at Lisbon, received a request
from Dun Miguel to wadi on biol., and was questioned as to his Aare
opinion of what would be the result if the demands in question were
net fully complied with, especially if he thought reprisals would be
made, or the forme from Terceira be assisted by the British squadron
in 'heir descent upon Porttopil ? To the farmer he answered In the
affirmative • to the latter he replied that, what% they might not
assist, but that probably they would not prevent.
THE NOST DILIOENt BISHOP IN ALL ENGLAND !
Who is the most diligent biskiip and prelate in all England, and passel
all the rest in dein his eillett ? I ma tell, for I know who he is ; I
knew him well but sow methinks I see you listanag and hearkening
that I should name him. There is one that passeth all the other. and
is the most diligent prelate and preacher in all England. And will you
know who It is ? I will tell you : it is the Devil. He is the most dili-
gent of all other ; he is new oat of his diocese; he is never
now tat .; ye shall never find him unoccupied; he is ever is his
parish; be keep& residences' all times; ytt shall never find him out
of the way, call for him when ye will; be is ever at home ; the noel
diligent preacher in all the realm. He is ever at the plough ; no lording
nor Mitering _may his& him ; he la ever applying to his business ; ye
shall never tind him idle, I warrant you. And has office is to binder
religion, to maintain superstition, to set up idolatry, to teach all kind of
' Popery.—Biehep Latimer.
GOD SAVE THE KINO.—On en Indictment on the
statute 1 Geo. I, cap. 6. sec. 1. (the Riot Act,) foe a capital felony, in
remaining together for one boar after the making of the proclamation
under that imitate, it appeased that sheet 260 perms. had assembled
together in a riotous manner, and had threatened to break thrashing
machines, when Dr. Josef, a magistrate, read the proclamation from
the Riot Act; but in reading it, he omitted to read the words "Goo
save the King," at the conclusion. Mr. Baron Vaughan and Mr. Jus.
dm Alderson held that, as those wads at the end of the proclamation
were omitted to be read, the charge amid not be supported. Their
lordships directed an sequittaL Res. v. Child, c. and p. 244.
SIR THOMAS LAWRENCE'S DESCRIPTION OF LORD
Bvitox.-.-His vivid (mod dash dark) grad emm et thought swab •
ern the imightations and sable as bad to the before we ecru.
tin's. the man ; but who Is lam us Mir the Utter, the former be-
comes an object of aggemiteasies mid disgust and, accordingly, Les-
ter's system never moirted its truth more foodbly than in Lord Byron's
countenance, in width you see all the charepter. its keen and rapid
genius, ha psis hipt:llissace, Its peolipty sod ks likettness.—its original
symmetry dietorted the peesismOde high etemiegled merriment
and seorn—ths dear adage% *law
the
.still
eyes bright sod rikehaitar, the mese lady ewe, the aestill anste4
fonned--the swath well formed, bet Id* ad -wawa earn ID
dainful e
itS smile,x
fp=iZNalt the warners, and its and dia-
by the amnia doses if the chin
which springs as eyes km the opue if the tarn adallp—the hai;
dark and curling, bet boobs In its growth s all this pstmes to you
the poet and the mss, mid. the gesersi yea is sided by a thin spare
form, and, as yea may have bassi, by ejlefermity of limb.
THE DEAD ALIVE.—On Snootily night,
,114 r. Gallaher,
the celebrated ventriloquist, observed • two iSide osuntry-looking
fellows canyon &cola out to Borali.ftwo. Wha Agri Rem the
bridge at Harold's-aces, they um* to teat thesegta, ilia Gal.
later pretended to be walking -jib* by thee, when be threw his
mime into the Gomm and oleaketwia at way was beard
to issue, followed by cries of " Ohl author 1 is it into the. anal
you're goin' to throw me ? Let It bad imMilk to Burke me, but you
must be after drownin' me too f" " What hi the meld U that t" said
a person who was passing. "Is that. the question you're maim' ?"
said the voice from the coffin: " let me mat o' the noun, you man-
drels, and though I ea half choked, I'll boa the eweofyes.. wsiuen
and the other conte on." " Oh ! good Chriaiiima," • poor woman
elle wok sew lititareed by the Miles " 'ter es a dead men Is the coin
who mews to light hie two tourdorwea . A wellwil was kinmedistely
eellestei—the two peer eantrynat an sawed se neaseetisoists,
wed him set until the edits as speed and naustool; that they
was pematell so with their..bwedew Jesse she wad wee
dlepeedog, voise Bibs coffin was hosed to &claim, " Now, boys,
die sit die tremble I gave you, I hope you wOO% forget to bury me
fir,