Star.
London, England, 1827-04-27 00:00:00

COURT OF COMMON COUNCIL

Yesterday a Court was held for the dispatch of pub'
lic business, Sir JANIS SHAW, Darts sat, in the absence
of the Limo MATO&
The New Loodou }Midge Committee preseVed a re-
, stating, that, alter 'coustderation, they had deter-
mined upou allowing therishmongereCompany 20.30 W.
fee a plot of round between Upper Thames-street and
ywhaangers.h:4ll.
LAW CHARGES of Tog CITY.
The City Solicitor, on the Report being brought up
„wive to an Inquiry into Law Charges, defended
himself from an attack which had been made in some
or the public prints for having charged enormously,
and enumerated the several costs which had been set
down in his bill.
Mr. Frown said that the City bad been put to great
npense for law charges, and thought thit, as the
npenditure of the City had last year been • .500 i.
more than the intome, a strict regard to economy
should be observed.
Mr. Smogs was of a similar opinion; and, in order
to thew what enormous sums of money had been ea-
pearled in law, he should give notice of a motion for
the nest Court-day, that a return of the law expenditure
for the Corporation for the last ten years, be prepared
and presented to the Court.
Mr. Fevirct., after a few obseavatiens on the law re-
lative to those citizens who were likely to be Galled
upon to serve as Sheriffs, and the dread of the summons
consequent thereon, gave notice, that at the nest Court-
day he should move that such persons as were liable'
should, upon paying the usual fine, be at once exempt for
life, unless he took upon himself the office of Alderman.

ABIENDISINT 01 THZ BANKRUPT LAWS.
Mr. HARTLEY then moved the approval of the Re.
port of the C•namittee on thia most important subject,
appointed to examine into the present defective state of
the Bankrupt Laws. After enumerating the several
witnesses who had been examined by the Committe,
the above subject, he said he had the highest authority
for stating, that the highest legal authorities in the
kingdom would co-operate with the City in amending
the Bankrnpt Laws. Commetcial men were loud in
their complaints of the expenses which always attendrd
bankrupt cases: in many instances they exceeded the
whole debts. He moved that the Report be adopted :
it was to the following effect:
" Your Committee, to whom ht was referred to take into consi-
deration the present state of the Bankrupt Laws, as now adminis-
tered in this country, and also to take into consideration the pro-
priety of petitions to both Houses of Parliament for constituting a
molar tribunal for the administratiou of the Bankrupt Laws, and
to report our opinion thereon, do certify, that having taken the
matters of the said reference into oar num serious comideration,we
proceeded to procure copies of the several Reports of the Com-
mattes of the House of Commons upon the operation of those
Lws, and of the Report made to his /dajtsty by the Coniniirdonsn
appointed to inquire into the practice of the Court or Chancery in
the year 1526 ; we deemed it necessary, fee our further information,
to procure the evidence, as well of some of the moat respectable
eurcbants, hankers, and traders, as of eminent barr;aters .and soli-
citors, both in town anti country, and also of some of the Commis-
sioners of Bankrupt thenlielves upon the subject, requesting to ire
besered with their answers thereto, with any other remarks or
mations which might occur to them, and requesting the favour
or their attendance upon us.

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" We directed circular letters, enclosing questions, to be sent to,
some of the most respectable merchants and traders in the panel-
al manufacturing cities and town in England, and to aurae of the
assteminent barristers, commissioners, and solicitors, in Brirol.
Glecester, Hereford, Liverpool,4anchester. Leeds, Plymouth, and
SAM; and answers received are annexed to this' Report.
4 We certify, that baying duly considered the evidence which has.
km bid before us, we are fully of opinion, that the present state
of the bankrupt laws as now administered in this country, is totally
faccesigent and at variance with the intention and meaning of the
original constitution of those laws; that the present system at the
administration of the bankrupt Laws ialls short of the necessities
forked by the couoriercial interests of the country ; and having
witnessed the mode in whkh the affairs of bankrupts are eons
ducted at the Court of Commissioners in Basinghall-,tract. we an
further of opinion, that the bankrupt laws require material and
Nerdy alteration, and that, instead of the mode in which those laws
an at present administered by seventy Commissioners in London,
a regular tribunal should be established for that putpose, hewing at
ki head a Judge or Judges, of peat ezperieeee awl sound legal
krtawkolge, and having also proper Akers duly jusMed, with such
jurisdiction as In the wisdom of Parliament may be ,deemed neces-
sary and cempetent, Co sake cognizance of all matters relajing to,
the bankrupt law& We do, therefore, recommend to this Hess.
Cott, that petitions should be presented by this Court to both
Hann of Parti.uneat, roc constituting such a kilannal foe the ad-
Leibtratien et these laws. (Signed)`
M J. PrAntalt, ItaTallie
Itemes nem,- June Heaney
a linnets Tatum, M JOlll Mantilla,
Wu. Row, Joe. 0 R. Scans."
Mr. FAVZLL seconded the motion.

Mr. DIXON was aware of the great room for improve-
ment, but he thought that if the Court proceeded in the
business, and applied to the House of Cowman, an
enormous expense would ine►i: ably be incurred. He
never knew of any occasion on which the Court of Com-
mon Council had to do with Parliament, upon a ques-
tion ot benefit to the City of London, without leading
to expense. Under such circumstances, it would be ad-
visable to consider the report further, before they O-
wn:tined upon adopting it. He ►hen moved an atm ed.
te..t to that effect.
Mr. PeAcoct said, that it was certainly dangerous
to go to Parliament, reflecting upon the probable coo..
sequences. He thought that the public were those who
ought to bear the expense that might be incurred in the
endeavour to procure an improvement in the Conti, and
not the Corporation.
Mr. JON/LS vide for adjeterninA,the consideration of
the report. ' •
Hr. Jure said, that tea petition to Parliament would
be attended with no expense.
• Alderman LUCAS was of the same opinion. He be-
leaved that the petition would, in common with other
petitions from the public, have a beneficial effect upon
the Legislature.
After a reply from Mr. HARTLIT, the amendment
was carried without a division.—Adjourned.

The letter carriers were not dispatched from Lom-
bard-street yesterday morning till much beyond their
usual time, in consequence of the late arrival of -die
!aril coach from Edinburgh, which was delayed by a
Leery fall of snow on the morning of the 24th intent
ar Dunbar. The York mail did not reach the Post
Wks, yesterday, until balf•past nine, on account of
e great tall of snow. The mail was conveyed by a
pstchaise and four horses.
SIItiLING A CAI/SNOUT ON COUNT IN INILAND.—A
Nit,involving some (*lady transections,having come on
for heating before Lord MAXNERII, it-Pray, Mr.
.141 his Lordshp, addressing himself to the counsel.
'441 cot this case be settled out of court?" N That's
Just 0y oen opinion, my Lord," exclaimed the defen-
dant, st.rting up. is and is'nt it the 'way always
wiliseJ to settle it ? Was'nt it this morning I sent my
114 W to lay Cousin the plaintiff, to tell him I was ready
to give him satisfaction, if be thought I had'at propetly
adn'iaisteled my father's will? and did'at he seine to
meet me?"

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!v• K; •ItHE ARlit •
IlenteChiend wic. estaik Cendionliotlierd Wow
la Yeirtsautirtk, is appshated ti eratmy to the hbrials sf
Ulm% liblies-General .1 t &Apiece. •
• Tlis, Mays al Plynksieth ..w practise ball Irina t.. the
IrlortY,. Blamed Wadi: ieytrua are stationed eneach
aide of the road, aad ea the precipice, to give Mantles to pu-
mmels, and celiac" off idle spectators, whom curiosity ea each
meatiom fre kada them into danger.
*Way, • ,claatist at the decit Ittilment, emeletiog ef thirty
men embarked at 'Pipers& on board Me Soothwerth transpeet•
tee euchre.
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Saituday, Lint... Colonel Bougie of the .110th Rile Corr,
arrived at Plymouth' co have of absence. He left his Ithilateat
at Coimbra particularly healthy, and to high spirits. The Begi;,
went has only lost Seamen dace they embarked: one was drowned.
essewas killed in an afray, and three' died in heepital. The Re-
giment Is muck admired to Pertopl.
• .The 44th Regiment, la Limerick Garrison, are a methadone!
ith order for &reign service.
• Lamm. Mau 14..—The Gtheratin-Chief, after his military
tour, has arrived with a portion of his statist Lithos, where be will
remain only fur a few days, so NSW arraagesients gat the Baadeiro
Palace, Buenos Ayres),
• At Coimbra, which was at &it Heod-meareers, there sdU remains
a brigade of Infamy, wassiwing of four Regiments. tkrr 4tk, the 10th,
the Risley, and the 11214. A troop eleiveirfa the loth Bowan is
attached to this brigade, along with mime Porn/gum artillery. At
Mono" and in the neighbourhlnd, is soother Infaatry brigade,
consisting of three Regiments, and a Regina* et Cavalry. This
portion of the troops is very much scattered among the villages in
the neighbourhood of the above-nsentioned town, and towards the
town of Ahmanson the Tagus. A brigade of Guards occupies
Certain. Three batteries of artilliary. consisting of legume, occupy
Vain Franca, and-the villages menthe Rio klayorrin the interior.
and those intasediandy mg the Tarsi. Two no** the 10th
Hussars, consisting each Of •35 men the Staff corps. and the head
of the Comminariat occupy Leyria. A 'Map of the 10th Hussars
occupies Datalha. bur small Army of not more than 7,000 nteu is
thus scattered over a line of more than SO miles between the Tagus
and the blondes°. The reason etby so large a portion of It was
pared at the to o,estremities taint& the oath, and down towards
Abrams.% is that General CLINTOS-was desirous of at once support.
ing the Constitutional Army which expelled the r belt, and sbew-
lug force against the Spanish troops assembling lately near Rivas. •
Sir Join May, aims he has assumed the command of the Royal
Artillery, has Isere occupied in making new arrangements respecting
that corps. The Gnarls at Cartago have added to their amine-
mato donkey rates. The George the Fourth Kam-boat arrived
at four on Friday margin. bringing SO passengers. Including mili-
tary families. She trill proceed wow:ow evening for .Cadis and
Gibraltar.

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The Mad merchant schooner arrived also, with 10 Spanish Of-
ficers, upon a similar errand to thalami wisidt so many unfortunate
Gentlemen have come bob"; mid which, in commas chanty,
aught to be intimated to the London Committee as in vain, unless
to immerge them in more misery, (or they will be sent back, or
elsewhere, all quickly m possible. Such is the new regime.
In tact, w completely is the predatory warfare of Coarse (who
is understood '.lO have wired in France) at as end, that COMIC
Villa nor trod, his Staff are reposing oo their laurels ia
They were entertained by the iirni.h Ambassador oo Thursday,'
and the Count sees a dinner himself today (Saturday). He. is a
brave and intelligent young man—std, indeed aside is the character
of his Staff (Rho, by the way, chiefly speak Roglids)--but vritbout
much skill ass General. Some ails, troops of Caravels now infest
the roads, and C01211131t robberies with great audacity.