The National Register. — 1819-01-11 (London, England)

FROM AN HUM PAPER.  Application having been made by a plitolicrn of the name of Cummins. residing in Self olk-street, laublon, against rel. tain Pointers of the Bank of Ireland, to enforce payment for spiritions liquors, salledged to have been consumed in ;heir house, the detoured was resisted by Mr. Oldham, engrever to the Bank, on the part of the printers. Y•lhe question being of coliseltdable impoi lance, and involving the birdies', not only iieblicans in general, hilt of the entire working classes of rile clonintinity, the worthy A.derman (Warner) ai•hcd to have the point argued by Counsel; and, accordingly, Mi. Finlay was haat d on the part of the plaintiff, and Mr. Jonas Greene on the part of the defendants. It eppeare.l that cettaiu of the copper•phate printers, employe., by the Bank of Ireland, had been in the habit of fiequenting the house of the plaintiff, and had incurred a debt of 161. for spirituous liquors, consumed by them in his house ; mud that to recover the same, lie hail proceeded to arrest two of the said capper-slate printers ; but that, finally, the matter had been sabmitted In the deristria of the abovena odd On the part of the capper-plots printer., Mr. Oidluton stated, that he had estahliMed a Savings Bank among them, the accumulations of which lie refused to hand over In discharge of their debt ; the same having been Incurred contra' y to the neovision of au Al'l, It3SSell in the 11111111 year of the reign of George 11. which prohibits the giviog credit to workimeti, servings, and others, by politic:ills, shore the value of nue shilling. Mr. Oelliatsi further sliced, that the hind in gaes•ion had been established with a view to its being appropriated to the purchase of clothes and other necessaries, the payment of rent, occasional relief in cases of sickness, ia; e. ; and that the handing any part of it over for the dischat ge of the debt in question, would be a divert_ leg of it from its original destination to a mischievous and illegal 'impose. 'feat so beneficial had been the operation of the fund, that a sum of 2161. had been actually saved by a few printers in the short space of eleven months; mast of whom had lived hitherto in poverty and dissipation. Alderman Warner, after heariiig an inAenions argument on the part of the plaintiff, dismissed the application; complimenting Mr. Oldham on the success of those exertions which had effectuated so salutary an object, by dies, as it Were, vaewing those obstacles, which the Legislature had wisely interposed to that dissipation in piddle-houses, which has proved the very bane of the working classes in this country. The above decision pats an end to the question of workmee, is, and others, obtaitting credit in plinlic.honses, and is of the last importance to the morals and a ell-being of that useful class of the community, nho are, nolnrtimately, too often led to waste those earning. which shotill be appro• prtated to the health, comfort, and convenience of themselves and their families.  It is related that an Hysteria Prince, on being informed that one of his had been guilty 01 an iniynitou. judgment, 'as tiered him to he flayed, and his skin to be stuffed late the cushion of the seat of justice. His sticeessor, it is remarked, wa• the molt upright Judge that ever existed ; lint, it is added, 041 lu was on many OCCOSOMIS observed to wiggle very snuck in Ins seat. A very general n.ttion is entertained, that more suicides are committed in England than in other countrie.s. The late publicat:on of Mr. K imptz, of Berlin, founded on official returns, hi the towns of Prussia, proves the moult cry; in one town the suicides in 1817 amounted to one hi eves y 02 of the itilsakitaiit, Ant though the suicides in this cousotcy be not mom numerous than in other countries, we regret to say, that crimes in England are out of all proportion to the ether paint of civilized Europe. 111 Fiance, during the severe year,: of 18141 and 1817, they only unwonted in the former so 6.587, and in the latter to 9,185, Now the commitments for England and Wales alone in 1818 amounted to 13,93.4„ population of England and Wales is 10,19t,,001.1, and that of Fiance is 28,996,3014  In the Vice.Chaticellor's Court the 'Master of the Bolls &lire; ed his filial judgment in a suit between a lady, named Tarelfal, and slue 'Erwin:es of a school at DWI, near Lancester.—TllC can,• flt dispute was two perches of land, and to whom in right they belonged. It has been in litigation te,. years, and front the conflicting testimony, the Judge confessed lie never met aith a more difficult case. 'the decisioa was against the lady. The costs of this lung proceeding en account of a piece of ground not worth 401. amount to between 9,0001. and 4,0001. each party. Maarice Serabey, jun. Esq. Barrister at Low, and one of the Buckinghamshire Nlagistrates, is appointed one of the Magistrates at the public office in Illorship Street.