The Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1860-09-08 00:00:00

BANKRUPTS.

James Fell, currier, New Compton-street.
Mary Ann Wood, straw hat manufacturer, Luton.
Thomas James Smith, tailor, Luton.
John Vokins and William Herd, horticultural builders,
Chelsea. •
James Osborne Kent, draper, Lirnehouse.
_ George Johnson, shoe manufactnrer, Durham-place,
Hackney-road. •
Charles Spikens, bottled beer merchant, Duke-street,
Portland-place.
Thomas Law Holdich,' ironmonger and seedsman,
Hinckley.
James Thomson, John Thomson, and Samuel Wood-
house, Manchester and Scotch warehousemen, Bir-
mingham.
Robert Freeland, Manchester, and John Freeland, Kir-
kintillock, merchants. Pfr
BANKRUPTCY ANNULLED.
,George Dixon and James Charles Adcock, London and
Coventry, coach lace manufacturers and carnet dealers.

BIRIF..ENHEAD STREET RAILWAY COMPANY (LrItTED)
--Sir Cursetjee Jamsetjee Jejeebhoy and suite travelled
over this line yesterday and were highly delighted with
the whole plan and system. Total number carried for
week ending yesterday 15,650.
STEALING A GOLD WATCH AND OTHER PROPERTY.
—At the Birkenhead Police-caurt yesterday, John Devitt
and his mother were brought before Mr. W. Jackson,
M.P., and Mr. Derbyshire, charged with having stolen
a gold watch, gold ring, and a coat, the property of
Mr. Leece, 33, Henry-street. The watch was found at
the prisoners' house, and the ring on the person of the
female prisoner. Both-were committed to the sessions
for trial.

THE HIGHLAND COMPANY OF, VOLUNTEERS. —This
company meet for drill in a school-room in Stafford-
street. Captain Hampton—the aide-de-camp of the
renowned Italian liberator, Garibaldi—was expected to
be present during drill-time last evening ; but in conse-
quence of most important engagements, the visit was
postponed until some evening next week. The corps is
steadily increasing in numbers and efficiency; and the
selection of officers.will take-place shortly.

CAUTION TO INNKEEPERS AND OTHERS.—WC have
been requested to .caution innkeepers and others against
a man, of Jewish appearance, who is how in Manchester
trying to dispose of something illicit, which may be sold

as spirits or be used to adulterate them. When he
succeeds, a confederate calls upon the purchaser on the
following day, and tries to extort money by threats, or
otherwise laying an excise information for the possession
of the stuff. It is said that the man conies from Liver-
pool , • and that there the trick has several times been
carried out successfully.—Manchester Guardian.

BANKRUPTCY COURT, YESTERDAY.--Re CARRUTHERS
AND SoN.—This case came up for the adjourned last
examination, Mr. Evans appearing for the assignees,
and Mr. Rymer for the bankrupt. The examination,
however, was still further adjourned till 'the 11th of
October, to admit of an investigation of the balance
'sheet.—Re' EDWARD HEATHCOTE. This bankrupt, late
a grocer at Rock Ferry, came up on his last examina-
tion and passed. Mr. Woodburn attended for the
-assignees. The certificate meeting was appointed for
the 2nd of October.
FORGERY BY A POST-OFFICE CLERK.--At the Bir-
kenhead Police-court, yesteiday, a clerk in the Post-
office named Henry Hinion, was brought before the
sitting magistrates on a charge of forgery. Mr. Keightley
appeared on behalf of the Post-office authorities. Mr.
Baring, the Birkenhead postmaster, was put in the wit-
nessgave evidence to the effect that the
prisoner
box, andmade h e
additions to a post-office order Issued at
Newton-le-Willows on the Ist of September. The order
Nvis .for the sum of 65., which was transformed into
A 165., the prisoner appropriating the difference. On
the application of the prosecuting attorney, the ease was
remanded for a week.

MURDER OF AN ENGLISH SAILOR AT ANTWERP.—
A murder was committed two days ago at Antwerp,
under the following circumstances :—A party of sailors
who had been drinking were proceeding along the street
towards the docks, singing and hallooing, when they
were met by the second mate of the English vessel the
Anne Eliza, named Morison, and another Englishman
belonging to some other vessel, who advised them to
make less noise' as they were just approaching a police-
station. Instead of thanking the Englishmen for their
friendly advice, the sailors began to quarrel with them,
and, in the scuffle which ensued, Morison received such
a desperate wound from a knife in the breast that he
died in a short time after. From the information given
by the person who accompanied the deceased, four
sailors have been arrested. They are one Dorea, a Vene-
tian belonging to a Sardinian brig; Patriolo, an Aus-
trian, belonging to the same vessel; Giorlemus, a native
of Senegal, serving on board an English schooner ; and
Pitriacen, of the Spanish brig Providenza.
We understand that a committee has been formed for
the purpoSe of raising a subscription for the relief of the
unfortunate Mrs. Newman, whom her husband attempted
to murder on the night of the 24th July, 1358, by
wounding her on the head with an axe, by which her
skull was nearly Smashed to pieces,_ and from the dread-
ful injuries she then received she has since been unable
to work for herself or her two children. The committee
sits every Tuesday night at. the Black Horse, Rathbone-
place, Oxford-street, -London, where subscriptions will
be thankfully receeived.
THE VATICAN IN. LEICESTER-SQT.TAR.E.--:-We under-
stand that negotiations are on foot for purchasing the
premises and building of the Great Globe in Leicester-
square, in order to the conversion of ,that celebrated
structure into a palace for the Pope, who is shortly
expected to emigrate from Italy, and, as we announced
some time ago, take up his residence in this capital, and
the above-named quarter thereof. The Great Globe
will be just the place for his Holiness, as he will be able
to get out in front of it over the door whenever he likes,
and impart a benediction " Urbi et Orbi."--Punch.
A VORACIOUS COD.—There was caught the other
day, by one of the boats belonging to Port Gordon, a
large cod, which, on being opened, was found to contain
eleven full-grown herrings, quite fresh, besides a great
many that were beginning to undergo decomposition ;
also seven half-grown crabs—a very fair take in for his
codship, and sufficient to have served him on a pretty
tong voyage.
EXTRAORDINARY BANKRUPTCY CASE.—MeSSTEL G

H. and A. I:Eckman, who have carried ou business in
Bilston for some time past as ironmasters, again peti-
tioned the Birmingham Bankruptcy Court, on Tuesday,
for protection under the private arrangement clauses.
Messr are
Bilstonth e
late
Mr.
George Brook
Works devolved upon the two. The views of the sons
wbhrootsheer deathsS sons
the of
began to expand rapidly. They added Stonefield Works
to the Bilston Brook Works, and also the Groveland and
other works at Dudley. They also added a third furnace
to the Bilston Brook Works, making with the one at
Stonefield four blast furnaces. Extending their com-
mercial arms, the young men next took the immense
works at LeabrOok, which had belonged to the Chit-
lington Company, and carried them on for about two
years. They further added to their Bilston posses-
sion the extensive Queen's Garden Colliery ; then, the
panic of 1855 came, and the Hickmans stopped. Their
liabilities were—if we remember rightly—about
£85,000. After several valuations had been made in
the Bankruptcy Court, under the same clauses as those
under which they are now petitioning, they agreed to
pay a dividend of •10s. in the pound. Great activity
was new displayed at the several works, and large quan-
tities of iron were brought into the market. At about
the middle of 1856, Mr. Williams, t e present chairman
of the Iron Masters' Association, made a passing remark
upon the extraordinary development of the firm, and said
he had heard they had failed. Messrs. Hickman imme-
diately commenced an action against Mr. Williams,
pursued it to the Stafford Assizes, and got a verdict.
Large quantities of iron continued to be made and sent
away from their several rolling mills, much of it finding
its way to Liverpool, to the warehouse of Barber Bro-
thers, with whom they carried on bill transactions of a
purely fictitious nature, and to a very large amount.
The Barbers failed; and the exix4i which the report of
the meeting of their creditors comprised occasioned
no little bewilderment, because of the extent to which
worthless paper had been palmed off upon the
banks of the district. Messrs. Hickman were con-
victed of these transactions by their own confes-
Sion at the meeting in question. The Dudley and West
Bromwich Bank had previously again pressed. Pigs
were sent to Bull's Bridge Wharf, and another month
was thereby gained; but, directly the next instalment
was due, payment was required. It was not forth-
coming, and we are told that the next day notice in
bankruptcy was served by the Town and District Bank
of Birmingham, and we hear that a well-known broker
in Wolverhampton followed suit, and, it is added, with
success. It cannot be expected that the banks:-will
again pull these gentlemen through the private arrange-
ment proceedings, 'she liabilities ale variously estimated.