INSOLVENT DEBTORS Who have filed their Petitions in the Court of Bankruptcy, and have obtained an Interim Order for Protection from

Process.

Joseph Rumsey, Croes-y-Ceilog, Llanvrechva Lower, Monmouthshire, agent to a maltster, Jan. 11 at 10, County Court of Monmouthshire, at Pontypool.-Roger Dunphy, Gamesley, Glossop, Derbyshire, machine printer, Jan. 10 at 12, County Court of Derbyshire, at Glossop.-Thos. Simpson, Thurnby, Leicestershire, out of business, Jan. 10 at 10, County Court of Leicestershire, at Leicester.-William Wells the younger, Leicester, grocer, Jan. 10 at 10, County Court of Leicestershire, at Leicester.-Thomas Cooke, Frokfield, Hampshire, out of business, Jan. 3 at 11, County Court of Hampshire, at Petersfield.

The following Person, who, on his Petition filed in the Court, has obtained an Interim Order for Protection from Process, is required to appear in Court as hereinafter mentioned, at the Court-house, in Portugal-street, Lincoln's Inn, as follows, to be examined and dealt with according to the Statute:

Adjourned Hearing.

Jan. 4 at 11, before Mr. Commissioner PHILLIPS. Wm. A. Surth, Lewisham, Kent, tailor.

Saturday, Dec. 16.

Assignees have been appointed in the following Cases. Further particulars may be learned at the Office, in Portugalstreet, Lincoln's-inn-fields, on giving the Number of the

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Middlesex.-Henry J. Tarling, St. John-street, Clerkenwell, Middlesex, hay and straw salesman: in the Debtors Prison for London and Middlesex.-Henry Shelitoe, Barking, Essex, smack owner: in the Debtors Prison for London and Middle. sex.-Wm. Pearce, Old-street-road, Middlesex, retailer of beer: in the Debtors Prison for London and Middlesex.Edgar May, Cowley-place, Commercial-road, Peckham, Surrey, cheesemonger: in the Debtors Prison for London and Middlesex.-John Hearle, Titchborne-street, Regent-street, Middlesex, dentist: in the Debtors Prison for London and Middlesex.-Thomas Hedges, Dorset-mews, Dorset-square, Marylebone, Middlesex, tailor: in the Debtors Prison for London and Middlesex.-J. Holmes, Brompton-crescent, Brompton, Middlesex, commission agent: in the Queen's Prison.— Nicholas Carter, London-wall, London, vellum binder: in the Debtors Prison for London and Middlesex.-Alfred Parr, Streatley, Berkshire, out of business: in the Queen's Prison. -Alexander White, St. Martin's-lane, Middlesex, baker: in the Debtors Prison for London and Middlesex.-W. Hancock, Quadrant-road, Highbury New-park, Green-lanes, Stoke Newington, Middlesex, builder: in the Debtors Prison for London and Middlesex.-Alexander Gibbs, Allsop-terrace, New-road, St. Marylebone, Middlesex, artist in stained glass: in the Debtors Prison for London and Middlesex.-S. A. Allen, Manor-place, Walworth, Surrey, coffee-house keeper: in the Gaol of Surrey.-George Washington Bristow, Arboursquare, Commercial-road, East Stepney, Middlesex, gentleman: in the Queen's Prison.-Wm. Malam, Blackfriars-road, Surrey, engineer: in the Queen's Prison.-Hugh M'Anuity, Town-end, Kingston, Surrey, linendraper: in the Gaol of Surrey.-Samuel Varley, Harp-lane, Tower-street, London, shoemaker: in the Debtors Prison for London and Middleses.

Michael T. Slater, Henley, Oxfordshire, out of business, No. 78,742 C.; Joseph Delves, assignee.-Thomas Green-J. Neal, New-road, St. George's-in-the-East, Middlesex, wood, Sowerby, near Halifax, Yorkshire, woollen cloth manufacturer, No. 78,820 C.; Robert Stansfeld, assignee.-Abra. ham Whitehead, Lee Bank-bottom, Ovenden, Yorkshire, grocer, No. 78,976 C.; John Feather, assignee.-William Porritt, Gomersall, Yorkshire, agent for the sale of flocks, No. 78,892 C.; William Lister, assignee.-Thomas Besley, West Exe, Tiverton, Devonshire, baker, No. 78,985 C.; J. Wood, assignee.-John_Spooner, Worcester, schoolmaster, No. 79,010 C.; George Pollard, assignee.-Joseph Hepworth, Huddersfield, Yorkshire, dyer, No. 79,031 C.; J. Sunderland, assignee.-Abraham Holt, Bradford, Yorkshire, brick manufacturer, No. 79,036 C.; Samuel Webster, assignee. Wm. Ripley, Halifax, Yorkshire, shoemaker, No. 79,019 C.; Thomas Clark and John Boddy, assignees.-Henry Sommers, Long Stratton, near Norwich, Norfolk, hotel keeper, No. 64,736 T.; Charles Lowe, assignee.-Wm. Josling, Bradford, Yorkshire, shoemaker, No. 78,966 C.; Henry Slee, assignee. -Lewis Levy, Portland-place, Circus-road, St. John's-wood, Middlesex, picture dealer, No. 64,614 T.; Alexander Honey. man, assignee.-Edwin Eaton, Salford, Lancashire, baker, No. 78,913 C.; Joshua Swallow and Wm. Harding, assignees. -Robert Rodwell, Marsworth, Buckinghamshire, shoemaker, No. 79,087 C.; William Sharp, assignee.-Benjamin Wells, Bradford, Yorkshire, out of business, No. 79,021 C.; Jacob Holdsworth, assignee.-T. Pennington, Castleford, Yorkshire, out of business, No. 79,002 C.; Mark Wright, assignee.-J. Yates the elder, Colton, near Rugelby, Staffordshire, farmer, No. 78,948 C.; Frederick Crabb, assignee.-B. Springall, Norwich, Norfolk, out of business, No. 78,949 C.; A. Goose, assignee.

Saturday, Dec. 16.

Orders have been made, vesting in the Provisional Assignee
the Estates and Effects of the following Persons:—
(On their own Petitions).

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JUSTICE IN TURKEY.

TO THE EDITOR OF "THE JURIST." SIR,-I beg to send you an extract from a work lately published on the Turkish Museum, and which appears to have been compiled by one well acquainted with Turkish institutions:

In the case before the Court of Common Pleas the claimant had purchased freehold ground, adapted for building purposes, at the price of 1507. Whilst in his possession the ground had not been built upon, but had remained unoccupied, uncultivated, and unprofitable. If occupied for any purpose except building, it would not have produced 40s. a year; but if let upon a ninetynine years' lease for building purposes, it was worth a ground-rent of 157. per annum; and a bonâ fide offer of that rent had been made to the claimant, but refused by him as insufficient. The revising barrister disallowed the claim, upon the grounds that he must look to the actual annual value of the freehold for occupation, as it was at the time of the claim, and not to its prospective or speculative value, nor to the additional annual value which might be created in case the owner should build or (being tenant in fee) should grant a long lease for building thereon. It was contended in support of this view, that improvable property was not to be considered as already improved, and that the present state of the land could alone be taken into account. On the other hand, it was urged, that as the claimant could obtain 40s. a year for the land, he could, if he pleased, “expend" that sum within the meaning of the statute; and Serjeant Heywood's Treatise on County Elections, 1024, was quoted, where he says, " If lands are let to a person for life, reserving no rent, or less than 40s. by the year, the grantor cannot vote during that term; but if such lands are let only for a term of years, without any rent at all, or reserving rent under 40s. per annum, the grantor may vote in respect of the freehold in him, provided it is of sufficient value." The Court held that the vote was a good vote, inasmuch as the land at the time of the claim was capable of fetching 40s. per "Notwithstanding their pretended adherence to the annum, and that it was immaterial whether it was of precepts of their religion, which are held up as barriers to all reform, they are so corrupted, that their consuch value as agricultural or as building land, or that sciences are immediately lulled whenever the requisite the landlord would have to do something, namely, to bribe is slily slipped under the cushions on which they grant a lease, before it would be worth that sum. sit. The only qualification requisite for a witness to apThere are obvious reasons for arriving at this judg-pear before these Turkish courts of justice is to be omniment, independently of those put forward by the Court. A contrary decision would have had the effect of rendering the franchise uncertain and fluctuating; dependent on such questions as whether the property remained unlet for a year, or was let to a solvent tenant; and also of construing strictly, instead of liberally, a statute which was passed in derogation of the unrestrained exercise of the franchise.

We may observe, that the "net annual value," which is defined by the Parochial Assessment Act, 6 & 7 Will. 4, c. 96, as "the rent at which the hereditaments rated to the poor might reasonably be expected to be let from year to year," does not afford a satisfactory criterion of the annual value required for the purposes of voting. The statutes were passed entirely diverso intuitu. (Colvill v. Wood, supra). The poor rate is assessed upon the principle of an annual income; the franchise is intended to be exercised by those who are

*Astbury, App., Henderson, Resp., Nov. 24, 1854, Just. Peace, 793).

The passage is cited by Heywood from Dalton's

riff, 333.

The reason is, because the freehold is out of him.

“All Turkish jurisprudence is based upon two principles, viz. in every case of litigation the testimony of two witnesses is required, or, in case of their non-appearance, an oath is administered to the defendant; but even this mode of justice is never used with impartiality. The judges, being men of low birth and grovelling principles, only hold their offices as sources of by the Koran, they are in the constant habit of receivpersonal emolument, and although strictly prohibited ing bribes to any amount, and the testimony of hired witnesses is winked at by them, and even supported, as their own interest may demand.

scient, and never to utter the words, I don't know;' and when conflicting interests occur, which induce the judges to take side against the witnesses, then they adopt a singular method to disqualify their testimony, by putting such questions to them as are entirely irre levant to the subject, but to which they will be forced at last to answer, I don't know.' For they are asked, 'Who was the grandfather of the defendant? The answer is, 'Abraham.' 'His great-grandfather?'-'Adam;' beyond whom he is not supposed to have any ancestor. On a certain occasion, the judge, being very anxious to defeat the testimony of a clever witness, made the quaint inquiry, 'Who married Adam and Eve? To which the witness replied, 'I was not invited to the wedding.'

"The costs of law suits are always defrayed by the gainer of the cause, as he is supposed to be better able to afford such expenses; but the evident design is to induce people to go to law, since justice is set aside, and every facility afforded, by the suborning of witnesses. Even the Ilams, or sentences, are so carefully worded, that at any time flaws may be discovered, and (18 a new trial demanded. The equity of making the gainer of the cause pay the costs was ludicrously illus She-trated in the case of an arnavout, who was accused of stealing a gimlet. When in the presence of the cadi. he pleaded not guilty; the plaintiff was required, a