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curred other expenses to a considerable amount.
They raised money on "notes" of the company, for
which a large interest was to be paid, and more than
:10,0(0/. of their acceptances remained =honoured,
liabilities on these notes and to other creditors of the
company hanging overtime bankrupt to a very consider-
able extent. According to the bankrupt's own ac-
count, he bad once been engaged in his father's bank
at Heading, but for many years had been out of bu
siness. I lis private pmperty, when he first became
connected with the marketschen me, amounted to some

4,000/., oft a reversionary interest
Ire be
the end of Isis, when he iien.tiitt ell to purchase it from Per-
kiess's fluidly for /.5,1110111. The venolsitss Nerved to let buritEL of
the 544,01514. remain lets 111011glige. Ills Olivet iii making the
purchase uati to form N ssonotsuoy, and complete the market. Ile
pail milepost of 3,4 os wit. on he purchase. it negotiated the sale
of the market to rrrtwiu directors sir the company he had organ-
iwnl. They were leo give Iso:.,100. fur the ntawket ; he Mel had two
prev. offers of 11515155.1., which he hail refused. This pur-
deist., if eonipleteol, %unlit have left I a clear profit of
lie sWf to 1 receive 5,111011. ill money and the mat in shams. When
be applied for the Lunn!. IL 848 itsrotscruirtsl hi the cuutrattly to
pay it, and they gave him a bill for 1ii11150., the exult 155101. being
05 co% er diseiontit, ac. Finding some difficulty in
the bill, at the request of the eltairmate, Mr. shim
he i.liteed it its the howls sit Mr. .‘ttree, of Chancery-lane. It WKS
111 tely slisr,uuited, and he got (nun it. The shares
agreed obi (Itt,imat in number) were allotted to Mtn; they were
11,1 W in the hands of the official assignee. Ile took WI otetheo parr
in the affairs of the market stouts 01 Nbirelt, 1852. During the
1.1. Mot period holy 8.11,4 Inaight by wholesale and sold by
toad, and this Was w profitable portion of the business, They
met .1,1.111104 A sin this as a main 1411111'1•,• of profit. 118,1 the market
'peen thoroughly estalolislied, the sale of hay would have been
vend I; it would have yieldesl an enon tttttt s profit from the
go eater her sof lwasts. Proceedings iii Chancery were
pending against the Perkins family to recover 30,55001., which had
been paid to them ionprotwrly. 'l'll,' purchase was sought to be
impeached sin the g lof a slefeet to the title. The muiits.s,
sif the market, Mr. Clark awl others, had tile,' the bill. Should
the snit stweeisl, there would be 2('s. in the pound fur all the
ereototors. Tile 15,5551 shares mere 4111 %skiable. The coompowly
w omipletely registere.l 'ming to their not selling
enough of the slistr,•s.
It was sought to annul the fiat on the plea that the
petitioner was no trader. I fit his side it was argued
that the dealing in hay and " lairage " to the drovers,
who used the market as a resting place for their
cattle, constituted an etlectual trading. After a pro-
longed hearing on this point, the ease was adjourned.
S ERA I. M iltA NTS sought damages at the White-
chapel County Court, on Saturday last, from Captain
Ridley, for the ill-treatment, insufficient pmvisions,
(tc., they had received on board a ship in which they
were passengers from Australia
Ntsrult last the !dahlias shipped as steerage passenger-,
in the itlsa,'/ e 40111111818114 by the sleti.tidaint, I bottle'
f• Mellsourne to 1.41105.11,0. r uhielo they tosi.l 9.l , Ilse ship's
agent showing theist a printed dietary seals us thot
a,'rnrdillg to
~Itieli they would be 1.1111111 1111 lionr.l the •Illlitell A lei-under. After
they left Port Phillip the ship lweame crank or topheavy, I
the defendant started the win's 1111 111'11 to lighten her at top.
Tlos. tonsmengens were now reduced to y_trent straits for water, and
were dependent neon rails Mr their skink. They found the bread
and thaw totally unfit for fod, being mom and full of maggots.
The latter Met they discovered before leaving l'ort Phillip, and
informed defendant sit' it. They 11181 neither bread, butter,
bull, suet, raisins. pepper, nor vinegar—articles so essential to
health at sea, and whirli they were entitled to. Six were put hi
lwrlli where there mita barely mom for two, and the beeth..,
psrtly under water. 'lite ship, aftcr is Very 10111; title', pill ill sit
revietnal. 100 niter they left that port their suffering%
Iss• • yet more frightful, owl they found that the captain had
not provided the ankles they su tttt ell needed. Fey days they
I‘ee 1,081 mg &sell the Western I h.eltio wills a deg of ilistresa out.
This got 1111111 11111111.111/%1 11'11111 the Shill Warr, %Well NHS 1411/11.141
11•.1111 1111. pigoi I'ooll, 111111 1.11111.11 the 1111eS4'111:1.1% 11/Alllll 11Sr ns dour,
stilton! anything on board to make it entithle. A female and her
children iligdore,l one 1111. ,'sew for n share of his rations,
µ,lllg. 11147 Were starving. Bold, %hid. 8104 plcntifnl, Wollltl
1101%e been bartered on ti..` Veysize for its N eight in %11,4e,,,,ine
%titer or bread. .is soon HS the crew reached England they took
steps *gaily.' the rnpwiu, lied lier passengers were advised to
enter aetionos ,tg st theowners its well its the captain.
For the defendant it was contended that captains
were no more liable for actions of this nature than
were eliflkM or carpenters : they were the mere ser-
vants of the owners. The judge, however, ruled that
the defendant rvas liable, and that he had broken his
contract. lie then gave judgment for the plaintiffs,
with full costs, and 10/. damages, in each action.
Tim Tift:Fr 01.* A I,AntiE St7m, stolen tram a gen-
tleman connected with the l'russian legation, was
investigate(' on Tuesday at the. 31ittision-house. The
sum abstracted, but which has fortunately been re-
covered, was stated to be '2,54)11/.,and the robbery was
committed at Berlin :
Sir. Mullins, of the fine of Ittisls and 'Mullins, solicitors, said
the case was ono of lill extraordinary kind. The irrisoitee NUM
lhe keeper of 1111 betel at Merlin, at %debit sotto of the tooctooto,n4
of the Prussian embassy had staid, I,lll' of %%11,411 had a consider-
able slim of itemey in his possession. The prix 'r. it appeared,
lead mot been able to resist the temptation to appropriate part of
111:11 111.11117. Villil4l 111111 111'111 1.1111,41 ill 111,1 1.111.1`. 111111 111111 l'ollll.
to
this s ,aotttry with it. lIiM !•1111111'11 departure from Bolin, how-
e% 111111 esciteil suspicien, and, the fast being rapidly commu-
nicated to I .ontlott. the 111811 'OHS npprrhend,4l.The psthice had
s•sisitss‘...l b. gm hold of the prisoner before the •y 1184184.11
rillil 11111111111isliftle 181,1 8111104 eelllplele reSlillllloll
11811 born inutile. The international 111T111laelllellls were not. it
was Ili rearette,l. 1111hle in sllelt it manner flint this'
corner
conti I.e reellgnisetl in England, and the 4111111 mast. deal with
the 1.11,1' nes...riling to its .10-erotism. It wll.sutitif,istery to know,
hou es els, that the prinottsllootl restored all the stolen protwrly
he load lwen possessed of.
The Lute, M %von said that Mr. Mullins WAR Very fortunate in
s.litothoilet 50 80011 of the property 01 his rlirut 0.11841 beet given
11111,Y tar 'Wheeler. Nlllllll the 188 A Of :fbi.e.llllll ry could not dr.mitt in prison, but who certainly deserved it very heavy punish-
mem.
The prisoner was discharged.
Asovtirtz 11‘111 was affected on Sunday morning
by the pollee upon a supposed gambling-horse in
*t. James's-street, No. (3(1, resulting in the capture of

SATURDAY,

eleven respectably•dressed individuals, who all ap-
peared, under fictitious names, at Marlliorimgh,tmet
Court, on the following Monday. Superintendent
O'Brien related the usual story, how he .had received
authority from the police commissioners to enter the
house ; how he passed four doors without opposition,
but had to break, with much difficulty and delay,
through two others, which were strongly !aimed mid
iron-framed ; and how he found the defendants in a
first-floor room, innocently engaged in playing bil-
liards or eating supper. The window-shutters to
these apartments were also suspiciously strong, and
padded, to stifle noise. As usual, however, there
were no giunbliug instruments found on the premises,
and the defendants were accordingly all discharged.

Tim SALE or• Swans in an unlicensed house, and
at an illegal hour, was charged against one wiles, a
barber, in Mint-st►eet, Southwark, and his wife.
Their offence seems to have been carried on upon an
extensive scale, the profestsion of bather being used
us a blind under which the prisoner prosecuted a lu
crative business in gin and brandy, supplied to his
customers chiefly during those hours of every Sunday
when the licensed houses are shut by legal enact-
ment. The policemen, at the Southwark Court, re-
lated how they had detected the culprit in flagrante
dclictu

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Job Turner, pulice.constacle 14 M, said, that on S ttttt lay morn-
ing, a tittle 141(41' tell aeloek, he went ill pri% ate clothes to the de.
fe'idant's shop, when he SOW the 111111 e 1,111.0114'r Coiling H bars
hair. There were 11 114111bel* .11. people in the shop, still he dis-
tinctly beard a friaidectill nut hotel an i ttttt br room, " I 0 mit let any
more in the room, it is 111 0111, 111111 I shall be suffocated." Wh-
ile:la lien 11411111 14 man say 141 (.11tH, " Could he out have a drop
of i r " Ile said. "Yes; go ' the back 1141111." The man
then entered the back mote, and witness followed him in, slid
saw Mrs. 611,s supply him with a glass if 111111, for which she
reevhed 21.1. Another man called for a 1.44 of bt tr, whhii ►bo
also Served I ' with, and others had glass's of spirits and beer
drinking ilt the same room. Witness went up to her and ask, d
f.ir a glass of nun, which she gale him, mail lie 111111111S1 het• ism.,
and received .11d. ha change. Ile then went 1111(1 the flout shop, said
hail just sat down ler the pretenve of being shaved, ,A 114'11 his
inspeettir came in, and he made himself known. Ihe back remit
was then entered, when the female prisoner took up a knife,
which she threatened to slab I • with, but Ow itislss•tilr knocked
it out of leer hand. She then threw it wet lowe'l HI bill,. HMI 4N.•
cliiiinetl that she would do for him. and had lad a number of
brother constables gained admission he believed he should have
been very roughly handled.
Another inspector said lie searelosl the house, and in the hack
room fo ttttt 1 two bottles containing two quarts of Olt catch, ti 1,4.
tie of 111111. 111141 some drinking glasses on the table end shelf,
near which a woman was drinking gin from a small ;;liiss. Under
the• table v. as 14 SiN-g11114.11 jar full of beer.
The hinahe pris ttttt .r dcebu•ed *ball ,lie only handed si glass of
spirits to 04 4'010,111 of her's, and what the eioistabh. had 1.1141411
wIIS sill false.
Mr. A li►:elErr asked whether the male prisoner 1411 h seen to
take 1114,11ey f.ir ally of the spirits or lwerr—l'lle imp.. ter replit il
in the 111",T11111'e. Ile 111441 iced in the lonise 1111111' )ears, 111111
wins known to 1111 t e' 41111144 011 1111 illbit trade for the het four
years, but they were unable to ileteet him before.
Mr. A Ityciirrr said the female had rendered herself liable to
three months imprits, tttttt ltt w it In hard lalM4lu• for ii r cotelto t In
Ike attain Ile was a*U'e'ii'ly soiry that lie 4410141 not 111111i1.il 1110
1111A10111111, OM he Iva% CollSideridily the war.,' offender In Awning
the illicit trade to be can•ies' on in his lionise by huts wlfe. lit,
should, therefore, achtence the latter to pay a penalty of WIC,
mid in delimit of paviiieut to be eollllllitt44 to tit' House of Cur.
ruction 1.,1• three months, with hard labour. As tin• the husband,
he intuit be discharged.