The Express.
London, England, 1849-08-27 00:00:00

Raiz Intenteence.

INSOLVENT DEBTORS' COURT.
OXFORD, SATURDAY.
BUOILE J. H. Nix; Esa., QC.
COLLEGE LIFE AND UNIVERSITY DEBTS.
The insolvent, Mr. Henry Douglas Munro, a graduate of
New Ina Hall, in this univers;ty, came up for his final
order. Hewes opposed by Mr. F. B. Thompson. en behalf of
tlessrs.W. and C. Wells, jewellers, for 501. ss. ; Mr. Hirton,
confectioner, 471. 13t. ; Mr. Robinson, tailor, 261 ; and Mr.
Bryant, tobacconist, 20!. 45. The debts incurred by the in-
solvont amounts el to upwards of 900/ , and consisted of the
following:—For hire of horses, dogs, and millers' bile,
1991. 16a. 4d.; tavern bills, 105!.115. 11d.; cistern end hil-
, Bards, 119/. sp. 104. ; confectionery, jewellery, ;natures, and
fancy articles, 1631.145.1 d. ; talon and hatters, 2261. 13.. W.;
money borrowed, 881. 175.; furniture. 51.10 e.; honks, 8/. The
debts contracted in Oxford amounted to about 6.501, and those
out of Oxford to about 2701.
The insolvent was supported by Mr. William and Mr.
Wiley& barristers, and Mr. Ta idy, solicitor, of Bristol,
near which city the insolvent's friends reside.
Mr. Thompson opp esd •Ite insolvent's discharge, on the
grounds that he be i been guilty of fraud in ohtainirg goods
from Mr. Wells under false prat, nets, and had contracted
debts without having at the time any reasonable er probable
expectation of paving the same. The insolvent was sub-
jected to a leag examination. in the course at which it sp
peered that he entered the University in 1812, from which
time uo to 1845, when he became of age, he was allowed
by his father VOL a-year ; but since then he had receiv, don
stated allowance His father, w! o has 12 childreo, had
paid his bfils in 1817. His only expectations were from his
father, and as he had paid his debts before, he expected he
would do the same again.
Mr. Wells wssexamined, end stated that he let the insol-
vent have three watches, which he represented were for
presents to his 'titer and 'writer lady. In 0:tolur, 1847
his lather paid him a bill of 101., and said his FOG was of
age, and if he trusted him again be must look to his nor,
who, be remarked, was a gentleman, a man of honour, and
would pay his &bro.
Mr.'fhompsonthva maintained that the ineolver t was not
mailed to his discharge, because he ha incurred debts with-
out betting at that time any reasonable or probable expecta-
tion of beina ahle to pay the same.
Mr. Williams eorstended that the insolvent Lad reason to
expect that his father would pay his debts, as he had done
before, or that be might be able by his efts, ts at the bar,
which he was about to follow, to liquidate them himself.
Hie Honour said he was satisfied the the p tioioning cre-
ditor (Mr. Wells) had no reason to complain, because he
must have known at the time that he parted with hie
watches, that there was little chase P of his tieing pain for them.
The Insolvent Act was to prevent fraud and punish those
who firadul,ntle obtained goods, rr without any rensonahle
or probable expectation of beingable t pay fur them. The
iasolvent had not been guilty of etthoe r. and therefore he
thought it would bo contrary to the policy of law and the
public weltsre to preclude him from providing fur hintstlt by
his own elation', or from setting esli!e any portion of Lis
earnings towards the liquidatim of his debts. He ah.uld,
therefore, order his climbers', but would remark that it wan
very peeper the insolvesa should pay his debts and he made
to pay if he should ever come into possession of means to
do mt.

CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT.
OLD COURT.—SATURDAY.
Amuse Me. icemen Dim
THE 8404111 AV STEAMER COE.
)!r. %Mullins app'if d to have the order that was made
for estreatine the reccgnisancca of Salvadore de Am'go and
hie bail, rescinded.
It will he re mentherrd that Signor de Amego was inrluded
in the indictment against Prince Ciranatelii and others, frr
fitting out the 13ornhsv steamer, as a war vessel, 7ith hostile
purposes to the Sicilian roverninent, but that he did not
surrender to take his trial with his cis-defendants.
Mr. Clarkson, who was for the prosecution, said he did
not believe there was any intention to defeat justice, end hay-
irg rAcrence to the decision that was come to by the jury,
he did not feel hinrwlr justified in c pirssir g the application.
Mr. .1 ustice Erie accordingly ordered the truest to be
taken off.

TIM SATIRIST NEWSPAI.F.R.
Martin IfanseU, who was stated to be in attorney and the
registered proprietor and publisher of the Satirist news-
paper, surrendered to take his trial upon en indictment
which alleged that one Sarah Mills had feloniously pent a
leVer addic•ped to Henry Bevan, Esq., demanding money
with menaces, and that the defsndan., knowing thot sh• had
committed that felony, unlawfu'ly aided the Slid Binh
Mills, and had thereby rendered him elf an acelesory after

the fed.
Mr. B illentine, in ownir se the rate, sail that the de-
fendant was charged with a crime of vt ry considerable meg-
nituile. and although formerly the offence only reeked a= a
mlslemsanour, yet the legislature had thought fie, by a re-
cent statute, to make it a felony. The prolocutor, Mr.
Bevan was a eentlemen of large fortune, whose town resi-
dence was at Hamilton-p'sce, Pimiko, and who els° had a
country house at Tweikenhem. Sarah Mills, it appeared,
had, 20 year' ego. been governess to a family at Twick-
enham, but Mr. B van, at the time of the c 3mmereement
of these transactions, was not aware that each a person
was in existence. Oa the 2nd of September, 1314, he re-
ceived a letter from this perion, on which, upon
the ground of bring an " old neiehbeer," she re
quested the prosecutor to give her 101. to enable her to leave
town. Mr. Bevan, not feeling desirous to port with his
money upon such a slight pretext, took nos notice of the com-
munication, and on the 11'h and 14th of November he re-
ceived two letter- rf a very different character. The learned
counsel read these letters, which were to the erect that
unless 101 were mint to the writer. on n certain day,
the visits of the persecutor totwo married I idles at Hanover-
gate, Regent'a-park, and W, stheurne Villa, should he made
known to his wife and family, and also to his part-
n' re, Mr. Ballantine explvini g that Sar ih Mills appeared
to be under the impression that the prose's'or belonged
to the banking firm of Berclay, Bever. and Co., Lembiird-
street, which', however, was not th ease. Mr. Ballantine
then went on to state that at this period of the trinseetiens
the prosecutor sent a commurication to S irah Mills, but he
refused to comply with her apelication for money, and he
then received a letter from her, in which she stated that the
husband of one of the halms to whom she had before referred
was anxious to get rid of his wife, and that she would give
evidence which would enable him to do set ; and the letter
concluded by inquiring how the, prosecutor would Ilse to
figure in an action for trim. con. Some fur'her communi-
cations parsed, awl at leneth Mills informed the prosecutor,
by another letter, that she had determined to expose
the whole of the tray motions to which she had referred,
in a Sunday wiriest journal, unless he complied
with her &rased. The defendant was the editor of the Sa-
tirise newspaper, an•t the jury would he enabled to form an
opinion of the character of that journal, if they were not al-
ready acquainted with it, by a resod of the copies that
would be produced. and ft woule be for the jury to say whe-
ther he bad net, by the concha he pursued, endeavoured to
assi.t the woman Mil's in the act of felony which she un-
doubtedly had committed, and was not therefore amenable
to the present charge ? After the last letter to which he had
alluded, nothing more was beard of Mrs. Mills; bat en the
31st of March an article appeared In the Satirist, under the
head of " Notices to Corresponlents." to the fallowing ef-
fect Sam Rogers is not the enly banker
who is beset by clamorous ladii 1, but he calls
in the aid of the police to free himself from
them impertunitioi, a• the polies reports of the past
week will show. A v ry wealthy bloater of Loot ard street,
on whom we have an eye, treats clamorous petticeats in a
different manner. He answers these epistle. in a style of re-
proof quite unique. We propose shortly to publish a statement
of some of his doings, and they will cause, doubtless,
some risibility at Twiokenham and the Regent's-park, and
if they are not exactly calculated to point a motel, they
will certea ' adorn a tale.' " No notice was taken of this,
and en the following Sunday another article appeared in
the same part of the paper, which wis headed " Old
Neighboure," and again referred to Mr. 8., the banker, and
tothe correspondence, which woe represented to be before the
editor, in reference to the promised revelations, and concluded
by stating that the corresponpence was "stronely illustrative
of the manner in which business wan done by great civic
folks out of civic circles." Upon the publication of this
notice, the prosecutor became evreeilinely annoyed, and
anxious for the sake of the feelings of his family to put a
stop t 3 the annoyance. He applied to his solioiton. Ac-
cordingly Mr. Fynroore, one of the partners in the firm of
Clarke, Fenmore, and C.1.,wh0 were the gestlemen consulted
by the proiecutor, waited up in the defenitant at his resi-
dence in Brunet street, Stamford-street, and asked him
what letters of the pr ;mentor w: re in his possession,
and what woe necee-ary to be done to out a atop
to the threatened annoyance. Upon this occasion the
defendant informed Lim that he had sufficient let
seta to fill twenty columns of the Satirist, and that the
intention was to ouhlish them weekly, and he els) showed
him an arid. headed " The Life aid Adventures of Capt.
Aaron Smith," aril !mu I that the article respecting the prose-
cutor weuld:be something in that style. Mr. Fynmore looked
at the article, which was shown is a specimen, and found
that it consisted of a most gems attack upon the character of
the person mentioned ; and, whether Weedy or truly, apt
peered to expose every trauma in of hie life, and he then
requested the defendant to refrain from publishine any letter
on the following Sunday, eo as to give him an opportunity of
communicatng with the prosecutor. This the defendant
consented to ; but although no letter, as was threatened,
was published, in the notices to correspondents,
the "usurious old banker" was again alluded to, and
the promise was repeated that his epistles should be pub-