The Statesman.
London, England, 1815-08-29 00:00:00

INSOLVENT DE87764i nt, 11Uc. 28:

PRICE AGAINST GREEN.

Mr. PRINCE SMITH applied to the Court to be RI
liberty to oppose. the Defendant by calling a witness
to prove a fraud aoinst him as to 91. and also as to
committed on nr. °Price, hit landlord. Green
Itadoformerly applied before Mr. Serjeant Palmer,
. when Price appeared and • oppoied him, and Ms.

Serjraut Palmer in his notes Wrote that he WAS of

opinion that Price's debt ought to be excepted. The
• : Defendant did not take his discharge, and his Peti-
tion on another day nes dismisred,• no order being
made as td Price's debt, except •the opinion so ex-
pressed. On Thursday last Mr. Smith stated these
. facts and required time to produce the witness, the
•• attorney having neglected to summon him, rel)ing
on the note in Mr. Serjeant Palmer's book as a
.;„ complete order. The Court then•said that it should
stand over to examine the orders, but did not give
- . leave to cell wititesses. The Counsel now said that
• he 114 d a witness ready to prove the fraud again.
. .
Mr. Por.LocA, for•the Defendant, objected to go-
ing into evidence non, and
• Mr. Serjeant RUNNINGTON Paid that the Plaintiff
• basing had 21 da.ssmotice should have been ready
to prove his case on the first day. The Petitiorrbe.
ing entirely on- a new matter the Court could
' pot now look to Mr. Serjeant Palmer's notes, and
the Plaintiff should hart been prepared on the earliest
• day.
- At the lidos of the Court,
Mr. Serjeant ltortstrxGron said, that it was ne.
• cessary for the convenience of all parties attending
. there to make some regulations for the future sittings
• of the Court. The much-lamented death of Mr.
•. -Serjearrtf Palmer happened on the 19th of April ;- on
•• the 27th of May he himself received liis appointment
en Saturday morning; nn Monday the 29th lie first
'sat in ('port, and commenced:- the hearings, which
;.;had lasted, with only
.a little necessary intermission,
the.presvnt time. ' Whert he undestook the oilier
there urre 132 Petitions that had been appointed for
hearing.by Mr. Serjeant l'almer, 283 waiting for
or-
ders of hearing to be made by the Court, and in the
country 178 wailing for orders, and 63 ready to he
discharged in ihealiftf rent gaols, making in all 656
inses. Of this arrear every case has been heard and
adjudgrd, and-not in auy one day have the cases been
sulr,red to stand erier without hearing. On the 14th
of 'June all- the cases that had stood over before Mr.
Serjeant Palmer had been decided either by the Court
of Westminster, or the Justices at Sessions. In set.
Ling down the Petitions the Court never interferer!,
1! was left to the management 'of a most honourable,
diligent, and impartial officer, Mr. Clarke, And the
list was never seen by the Court till the morning on
eetering oron the business. In this way 51, 46, and
41 Petitions were beard in a siogle day. Thus the
business proceeded from the 21st of JUIIP till Satur-
day the 8•11 a July, harlot; disposed of every Poi.
lieu befrretbe. Court, It was then the regular time
for the Qiartor Sessions BA the Circuits, a•,,1 out of
conserrieric,y to the Gentlemen of the Bar, vvlrose •.
toortsnee was neces.yro for (Ire assistance AS well of
the prisodrers as of the plainlifis, a short rece,s was
a'lnased to give those (;,-•:11 [omen at, m;n un:ty of
• sr ;ending st the Sessions, w Lere indeed thoir
ante bright be wanted for the couritry casz•s. On this
taarati-on.hoing over the Court sit and I)r:weeded to
business, diirus,ing every case as it was entered iir
the list, and leasing none undecided.„lt is right now
to state for the information of those who practice
here and of parties residing in the metropolis, at least
what has been done. Since the 27th of May, the r/av
of my appointment, 1102 Petitions have been
of which 800 have been heard and derided by the
Chief Court or the Quarter Sessions. The remaining
31)2 will come on to he heard in the course of the
mouth of September, either by this Court or the se-
veral country Sessions. This dispatch has been ow.
lug, in my own opinion, to the exertion of the dif-
ferent officers of the Court, without even excepting
to 'mace the diligence and dispatch of the agents and
parties employed iu the individual cases before nie.
But in the midst of all this celerity of proceeding in
Court there are other subjects to be considered which
are necessary to the dispatch of business. Its vain
may the Court sit from day to day and decide cases
with dispatch, if the judgments and orders upon those
' cases are not drawn up afterwards with accuracy and

caution. If the officer who attends the Court and

takes the minutes has not time allowed to arrange the
papers and settle the orders, all this haste will pro.
duce only confusion. In consequence of this dis-
patch it becomes necessary to allot a greater
proportion of time for the business which is
necessary to be done out of Court.—lf that
is not done the progress of the Coutt will short.
Iy be stopped, and the ends of justice disap-
pointed. In consequence of the mass of papers in
the office, now increasing beyond all calculation, it
lies been proposed, open consultation as well with
the officers of the Court. as the Gentlemen of the
Bar, who require some occasional recess, that, as
the present arrear is tiot very material, some time
should now be given fur the business which must-be
managed out of Court. It has been proposed. Oat
two days a week will he sufficient fur the public
sittings of the Court, and upon dot consideration it
appears more for the convenience of .all parties,
counsel, officers, and agents, to bit four days in one
week and to have a recess in the'succeeding week.—
Thus every alternate week will he a week of public
sittiegs, although the office will be open at all times
for business. This arrangement ~will give the officers,
nut forgetting the primaers' agents also, more time
to arrange their business oat of Court, and if proper
attention is had to it prospectively, no delay will be
occasinaed to the discharge of any one prisoner,
especially as the Court has been always ready to dis.
patch the business of each day as iLoccurred. For
the present, therefore, it is thought fit by the Court
to adopt the regulation of sitting four days succes-
sitrly in each alternate week, but that regulation
shall only continue so long as it shall be really found
comlocire to the public interest.
The Court then adjourned till the Bth of September.

Ten yen Unicorns were tatelylilled on the coast
of sPitzbergen, by the crew of the Lively, of Her-
eitlit of which had 'horns, thee of them fe-
males. Capt. KIitGSTON conceives that these animals
csigr their 'horns ilke. deer, as, he sate alloy of them
‘‘ith*duien-y.'•:

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