The National Register. — 1819-01-10 (London, England)

IRMA PAPER.  Application having been ni ale by a publican of the name of Coininins, ressiliiig in Soft ill-dreet, Dublin, against cer. taio Pinter. of the B ink of 11(.1411,1,10 enforce payment tier spirituous liquors, alledged I. have beets constubed in their b 00..., ihedroiand was to sled by 11r. Oldham, engraver to the Bank. on the part of the ;Biomes. The question being of considerable importance, 'IA 'evolving the ilittreit, nut only of publicans in general. hitt of the entire working idolises of the edin ~,,, oiry, the worthy A:derman (Warner) wi•heil to Lave the point argued by Counsel; and, occorlitigly, Flatly was heard on the part of the plaintiff, and Mr. Jonas Greene 00 the part °film detention's. It appeared that certain of the ropper-plate prime's employed Joy the 1/41111 of Ireland, had been in the habit of frelitenting the house of the plaintiff, awl bail incurred a dealt of 161. fir sdirituons livors, consume.' by Ihrtn in 18;,. house ; and that to recover the sante, he hail proceeded to arrest two of lite said copper-11sta Detours ; but that, finally, the matter had been sithinitteii to the derison of the above. wooed blagistrate- Oil the part of the eraspel-pl de primer.. Mr. ()Ammo stated, that he hall lo•t/IIIIi•Iltql a Savings Rank among them, tile neenotinlatimis of which he refuted to baud over in discharge of their debt ; the cant.. having berm iiirarreil (motility to the provision of an Art, passed in the ninth year of the reign of George 11. which prohibits the giving credit to workmen, servants, and oiliest', by publicans, above the value of one shilling. Mr. Oldham former stated, that the fond in question had been established with a view to its being appropriated to the purchase of clothes and other '1 necessaries, the payment of rent, occasional relief in eases of sickness, &c.; and that the handing any part of it over fur the discharge of the debt in gnestion, would he a divert. 1! big of it from its original destinatimi to a miselnevous and illegal purpose. That so beneficial had beets the opts atiou of the rood, that a slim of 2161. had been actually saved by a few prime's its the short space of eleven ‘llOlllll9, must of whom hail lived hitherto in poverty and dissipation. Althorn:lu Warner, atter bearing an ingenious argument on the pat t of the plaintiff, dismissed the application; complimenting Mr. Oldham ou the soirees§ of those exertions which had effectuated so salutary au object. by lints, as it were, reaewiag those obstacles, which the Legislature hail wisely interposed to that dissipation in publie.hoascs, which has proved the very bane of tire working classes iu this country. The above decision puts an end to the qiiestion ot wosictuen, 'creams, and others, obtaining credit in public•lionses, and it of the last importance to the morals and weibbeiiig of that ...dui class of the community, 'Om are, oinfortimately, too often led to waste those which *lmola he appropriated to the health, comfort, and convenience of theniselves sad their families.  It is related that an Eviler') Prince, on being informed alto one of his Jn.lges had been guilty of an iniquitous juilg. mein, ordered him to 1... flayed, and Ili,. skin to he stinted into the cushion of the seat of justice. His successor, it IS ton:irked, Was the Inuit npitlild Judge that ever existed ; bid, it is added, thin he %At Oil many occasions observed to sve;ggle very much tit lair seat. A very general notion is entertained, that timre suicides are committed in Col/laud than in other colititrie•. The Lit' pahlicat.on of Mr. Ka:apts. of Berlin, founded on (Aleut returns, in the InWils of Prussia, proves the contrary; in one town the suicides iss 1817 amounted to one in every of the inhabitants. But 1110110 the suicides in this cotton" be not more numerous than in other countries, ne miser it/ say, that crimes in Cultism' are out of, all proportion to the other parts of civilized Europe. In Fiance, during the *error yoar4 ut 181,6 mud ISt?, they only amounted in the fui user to 6 OIT, and in the Whir to 0,185, Now the commitment. for Lagland and Wales alone in 1818 .inintinted to 13,9:A. Tap implanting of Einti,ind and Wales is 10,194,039, dud that ot rinfiCi: is 28,9D0,3J0. In the Viee,Clunicellor's Coact the Master of the Rolls idraveved his final judgment in a suit between a lady, Hauled Tareifil, and the 'feasters tit a school at Eliot, neat Laura. ter.—tae ravine nf dispute was two perelles of land, mid to whom in right they belonged. it It,.s been iu Ilinkilion is years, and flout the esiitliciing testimony, the Judge con. leswd he never met n ills a more difficult case, the d, vision was against the lady. Tar costs of this long proeceilma uu account of ii piree of gronod nut worth 101. automat to bet *ern 3,0001. and 4,090. each party, Maurice Sw..licy. Esq..64lriater at Law, and one of the Buckingimnistaire Maaistratc., is appointed 1111 e Of (hr MAilatrAtes at the politic tiller in Worshiti street,