Star.
London, England, 1824-08-26 00:00:00

INSOLVENT DEBTORS' COURT.

Yesterday G. Solonions, late of Berkeley-street, and
Smith-street, Clerkenwell, fancy-paper-maker, came up
to be heard on his Petition to be discharged. The in.
solvent's application was resisted on loehia of the ma-
jority of his creditors.
It was alleged against the insolvent that he had (after
contracting debts to a considerable amount) given his
father-in-law, a Mr. Levy, a warrant of attorney, r here-
upon he entered up judgment, and took poises-ion of
all the property, thus depriving the other creditors of
a dividend. _ _ _

The insolvent said, his detaining creditor was a Mr.
Davis, a person he did not know ; he arrested him on
a bill bearing his (insolvent's) name, taken from ano-
ther person.
M. Phillips, of Surrey-street, Strand, remembered an
examination at Hatton-Garden, relative to his appren-
tices; at that period his property had been eize,l by vir-
tue of the warrant.

t Mr. Levy, the father-in-law, was Here ordered to re-
tire until called for).
Examination continued.—The warrant of alorney
was given three months before judgment was entered,
in consideration of Levy having accepted a series of
bills, ten in number, at from three to thirty months after
date; Levy insisted on the warrant, and it was given ;
when insolvent went to prison his name was over the
shop door ; the last time he saw it his name was there;
ever since he had left it he had been in the King's
Bench ; of his own knowledge he did not know whose
name was substituted in his stead. Being pressed on
the subject, he Admitted that his wife had told him thAt
the name of Williams was up : did not know Williams;
might have seen him ; did nut know that he was the re-
puted son of Mr. Levy; had seen him at Levy's hotcse
in the same manner as he had seen several there on bu-
siness; did not know he was an inmate in the house, or
an apprentice; Levy took the whole of his property
while he was in prison ; had received no account of the
particulars so as to ascertain the amount of valuation.
Mr. HEATH...—It was £149 14s.

The insolvent went en to state that the property so
seized was worth £BOO, which none of his creditors
could doubt—denied ever having told Mr. Phillips, bis
opposing creditor, that he was worth £7OO. or £BOO,
and owed nothing. He could not have said so. Ile
(Phillips) knew better—never said that he had been dis-
appointed in not receiving a marriage portion, and had
risen by his own industry. The insolvent was then in-
terrogated as to some machinery sent to Mr. Pea ke% for
repair, which, he said, had been subject to an interdict
from the Sheriff. He repeatedly denied any knov, ledge
of the extraction, frauds, or connexions of Williams, his
successor, who was put in by his father-in-law. lie did
not know who, among his friends, beyond his wife, at-
tended at Hatton-garden—he saw the report of the
transaction in the papers, and replied to it.
Mr. Giles Phillips deposed, that he engraved a plate
for insolvent, the price of Which was fourteen guineas
—the demand of witness was from £l7 to £lB ; insol-
vent told witness that he had cleared £7OO last year,
exclusive of all expenses; was quite positive of this;
never heard or knew of a warrant of attorney being ex-
tant, or he would not have trusted him.

Mr. HEATH cross-examined this witness, but nothing
was elicited to contradict his examination in chief.
Mr. HEATH then examined the insolvent.—The bills
were given to Wicks, his late partner, at the time of the
dissolution of partnership; Wicks had held his father-
in-law to bail on one of the bills overdue, but had sub-
sequently taken a renewal; beyond these bills Levy was
responsible to a Mr. Duke for £250, for goods delivered
to the firm of " Solomons and Wicks."

The examination having terminated,
Mr. POLLOCK addressed the Court—They had heard
the contradictory testimony of the insolvent and Mr.
Phillips, and it would be for the Court to consider on
which side truth preponderated.
Mr. HEATH, for the insolvent, submitted that he was
entitled to his discharge.
The COURT observed, that they had no alternative, in
the absence of stronger evidence, however they might
view the transaction as pregnant with suspicion ; but
the insolvent must recollect, that if it should hereafter
turn out that his testimony was false, he might be
brought before the Court and have his discharge re-
voked, and furthermore be liable to all the pains and
penalties due to perjury. The judgment of the Court
was, that he be discharged forthwith.
From some cause or other this case excited intense in-
tetest among the inhabitants of Clerkenwell, many of
whom were present at the investigation as spectators.

W. Tordit-of Newtown, Whitehaven, died last week
by drinking rum on board of a West Indiaman, alongside
Whitehaven Quay.
At the Guildford Assizes, Mr. Hicks recovered 1251.
damages from Mr. Cotsworth, a bricklayer, employed
by the Commissioners of Sewers, for leaving an open
sewer unprotected near the Obelisk, by which himself
and horse fell in, and Mr. Hicks received very consider.
able injury.
The famous rocking-stone at Roxbury, in the United
States, computed to weigh forty tons, so balanced that
it might be moved by a single person, was lately
rolled from its pivot. It appears that the owner of the
land on which it stood, frightened by the number of
those who came to view it, procured a dozen or two of
persons to overthrow it.
A SCOTCH GLUTTON.—The Glasgow Chronicle thus
records the feat of a fellow, whom it would be much better
to keep a week than a fortnight :—" Tuesday evening a
dinner was proposed for an individual in a public-house,
along with some others taking a dram. When the din-
ner arrived from his lodgings it consisted of one gallon
of broth, containing 1 lb. barley, and Id. cabbage, Id.
worth of turnips; 1 lb. oat-bread, a leg of lamb 3 lbs.
in weight, two lambs' heads, one pluck, and the contents 1
of the two heads, all which he finished by eating in a
furious manner. A person in company proposed a
wager that the same individual alluded to would eat
another leg of lamb of 3lbs. weight as soon as it could
be got ready; an opposite person took up the wager,
bets doubled. The leg was sent for without loss of
time—it weighed albs. stewed, and made ready for eat-
ing in less than an hour ; when set before him, he be-
gan with his usual voracity, finished the half of it, and
said, " had it been older killed, I could have eaten it
ith pleasure."
An Orkney man has lately defaced two of the old 1
moss-covered columns in the interior of St. Magnus's
Cathedral, at Kirkwall. He has cut off a slice from the
curve of each, to the extent of several feet, and has in-
ducted a flat :and smart marble slab in the sides of the
columns, on which he has chosen to record the virtuesof
:-.eme defunct relatives.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

MANSION-HOUSE.

The Solicitor to the Assignees of a bankrupt who had contracted
to excavate at the new Post office, applied to the LORD MAYOR to
authorize the removal of a quantity of scaffolding, of considerable
value, from the premises. The presence of the police, he believed,
would be absolutely necessary to enforce the order, as there were no
less than 200 Irishmen concerned in detaining the property, and
tho 4 persons were disposed to fight for it with pick-axes and any
other desperate weapons they could lay hold of.
The LORD Nlovos. asked whether the Irishmen had any claim
upon the scaffolding?
Solicitor declared they had not the slightest colour of a de-
mand upon the assignees. The contractor for the new building bad
employed the bankrupt to supply certain materials to assist in the
excavation. On Friday last the act of bankruptcy was committed.
The excavator, who was in the habit of paying the men weekly, was
supplied with the money to pay them as usual; but they complained
row that their week's labour was not paid for, and therefore in-
sisted upon detaining the scaffolding, which they swore they would
not permit to be taken from the premises without the order of the
Lord Mayor, who, they thought, would do them justice.
The Loan Mavon observed, that the case was very bard upon
the poor hard-working Irishmen, most of whom probably had
families to suprort, and not one of whom could afford to lose the
value of a day's labour.
The Solicitor said the bankrupt's property was not responsible,
as the money had been appropriated sauce he had failed. The pro-
perty of which the If ishmen had possession, was now the property
of the creditors, who were recognized under the statute. If the
Lord Mayor would not order the removal, a most serious breach
of the peace, was likely to ensue, as the Assignees were determined
to take away whatever the creditors had a claim to.
The LORD MAYOR said, that the Assignees nitric look to the con-
sequences of any breach of the peace they might sanction. Ills
Lordship then refused to authorize the removal of the property, but
sent offizers to prevent ally breach of the peace on either side.
MAR LIiOROUG 11-STREET.

Mary Carroll, a good-looking woman, was proceeded against,
beb.re Messrs. DYER and CONANT, Magistrates, by the officers of
St. George's parish, Hanover-square, under an Act of Parliament
seldom Ft.. into operation of late years, namely, that" for the punish-
ment of lewd women."

One of the Overseers of the parilh stated, that in March, 1823,
this woman was delivered of an illegitimate child in their ',lrish,
the father of which she did not, she said, know, and consequently
the parish was bound to maintain her and her child, which they
continued to do until she came one morning to the workhouse, and
received Zs. and on that very night she left her child, two months
old, on the steps of Lord Sidney's hall-door, where it was found by
a watchman, and taken to the workhouse, where it died in the
course of a few days: the unnatural mother had absconded, and
had not since been heard of, until she now came forward, and
brought another child to be supported by the parish; and she swore
that she could not even guess as to who was the father.
The Magistrates said, that they were happy to say they s►ldom
had occasion to put this Act in force ; but they never knew a case
more deserving of punishment under it than the present, and com-
mitted the prisoner to the House of Correction for six weeks.