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they shottld not be tried with. The prottcutor, too, I
might is the meantime send a Medical gentleman of
, respectability to visit the defendant, but this must be
done with notice, and not at an improper time.
His Lordship then said, the Court were to take
it for granted, that the Gentlemen who had signed
the affidavits submitted to their consideration were
persons proper to be trested ; but, at the sittne time,
It was better that the matter should remain without
tuvstion ; if the other party, therefore, wished to
send any medical person to visit the defendant, he
might do so.
The order for the defendant's attendance was ac-
cordingly ordered to stand over till Wednesday.

COURT OF COMMON PLEAS. FEBRUARY 1.
SHAW V. ISENDY.
This was an action on two bills of exchange for
£29. 9s. 2d.
The plaintiff and defendant, it appeared, had been
in the habit of accommodating each other with accep-
tances. Out of one of these transactions the present
suit arose. In the year 1804, plaintiff had accepted
a bill for defendant to the amount of 46.55, which
had been cashed by a person of the name of Roberts,
but was not honoured by defendant, who subsequently
became bankrupt. Plaintiff was in consequence oh-
Used, in discharge of the original bill, to give two
'hew acceptances to Mr. Roberts, for 429. 9s. 2d.
.Which he had ultimately paid. The difference between
the first bill and those subsequently given, amounting
to £125. 10s. 10d. arose froni a set-off which was al-
lowed by the plaintiff. The fact of the aceeptance
being given as a matter of accommodation, and the
subsequent payment by the plaintiff, were
_satisfac-
torily proved.
The defence set up was that the defendant having
becdme bankrupt, the plaintiff under the provisions
of the Act of the 42d Geo. HI. (commonly called
Sir Samuel Romilly's Act, which had a retrospective
as well as prospective operation), c. 141. s. 3. could
not recover. It was there enacted, that in all Com-
missions of Bankruptcy, already taken out, as well as
those which should be issued, under which no divi-
dend had been paid, or under which a dividend
having been paid, a surplus still remained, suffi-
cient to pay any qeditor, who chose to prove his debt,
a dividend equal to that allowed to the other credi-
tors, without disturbing the respective sums already
paid to them—in such case, every individual having
claims on the bankrupt, should be considered merely
on a par with the general body of creditors, and
should not be entitled to sue. Evidence was then
called, who proved the bankruptcy of the defendant
that a dividend of 3s. 10d. in the pound had bop
paid to the great body of creditors—and, finally, that
a surplusage of £1.56. 16s. 10d. remained, which
was fully- sufficient to pay the regular dividend on the
sum sought to be recovered by this action. Plaintiff
non-suited.

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AGRICULTMIL REPORT FOR JANUARr.

The very severe weather of last month has, in some
degree, injured the turnips and the brassica species ;
but, although short in its duration, it has rendered
the most Important advantages to agriculture, by
destroying the larvae in the nidus of the slug and
insect tribes, that commit great depredation upon the
tender plants in the spring.
The flag of the young wheats has, in exposed situa-
tions, changed its colour from a livid green to a russet
brown ; but the plant has received no injury, not even
the latest sown.

The young clovers and grasses have changed co-
lour from the same cause, but without their roots
being in the least injured.
The severe frost has had the best effect on tenacious
sails, by giving them a mechanical arrangement
(highly conducive to the fructification of the ensuing
spring crops), by enlarging the interstices to permit
the water to percolate freely, and facilitate the pro-
gress of the spreading roots.
The return of mild weather is also very acceptable,
on account of the scarcity of cattle food, as it will not
only prevent an increasing consumption, but will
bring forward the early spring crops for soiling, which
have become such valuable resources in modern agri-
culture.

A small island of the Danube, called Engel, near
Pichment, has exhibited the phenomenon of a floating
island. In the memory of the oldest persons, it had
remained stationary until May last, when the rapidity
and pressure of the stream are supposed to have de-
tached its bottom : its inclination is uniformly to the.
right bank of the river, but its motion is not percep-
tible. Since May it has made a progress of about eight
miles; and, what is not the least singular, has, from
the eager and utiabated curiosity of the Germans,
made the fortunes of three persons who obtained a
temporary. proprietorship of it.
A new plant, called tisidendron, has been imported
into 'this country from the Island of Java: it is un-
equalled for the' beauty of its flowers and the strength
of its perfume, and possesses the singular peculiarity
of deriving no nourishment from the earth or water.
Suspended upon a wall, or from the ceiling of a room,
it will vegetate freely and abundantly for many years.
The premises of Mr. Londersock, in Kennington-
lane, were a few nights since, plundered of a large
brewing and a washing copper, a quantity of lead,
&c. by some petty thieves, who have long infested
that neighbourhood.

A few evenings since the wife of a blacksmith,
lodg►ng at a butcher's, in Tower-street, St. George's
Fields, went to a public-house, in the neighbourhood,
to desire her husband to come home, and, on his com-
plying in a few minutes, he found her lying dead on
the floor, supposed to be suffocated with liquor.