The Express.
London, England, 1853-04-01 00:00:00

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The baskropt, GeoVga---illenne Cube WAS an extensive
railway euestraetor in the West of England end other places,
was g-se'hil on Friday last, being iles7ribt d as " George
Muted, or No. 21, Uuk,. , eiestininver, in the county
of MiUdli et s, raiiwey contractor and alit' owner, s'ealer
and Asuman " Tac petition nn which this adjudication
WWI In Id , was M.d in the court on the 19. h March. On
Ott 23rei another petition ie-is fiii d in :he Exeter court, in
wlocL, the bankrupt was ilescr.!.ed as " Qeorge limy,. of
lei-At/Huth ;
Tat etiun'y of Mend, fzi.!1!1.7 Z..intriattor,
‘ligins,r, &sake, and chapeau." A third petition was
fl'ed is the Bristol court, on the 21th, describing the hack-
rupt as '• Oeorge Ileunet, of the city of Bristol, ingincer,
centimeter, snip-owner, and timber•sserchant, also
carrying on the s,mr trailis or businesses at
Bridgwater, in the county of Somerset, at Teignor.uth,
in the gooney of llevea, and baring an 10gi.:4 or place of
business, at Na, 21, Duke-stre-t, AVistrainster, in the
tenuity of Middlesex." She p. titianiug creditors in the last
ease wens Meters. John Symmoue and Richard Frederick
Gillett, of Bristol, eat nail manut•cturt US. Au application
was now made to hie lloaour, a; senior commissioner, for
an order, dinctiorr that the petiti Sr filed in the London
Court might he diseda-ed and Cu: ai!juilication annulled, or
that the petition and the further prosecution Bierruf might
bs trarederred to the court at lingo'. The Lindon peti-
tioning creditors ve,re Messrs. Butler and l'rior, bankers' of
Li-h•lene, whose den arose upset a bd. of ex lunge for
1.0‘W., which hail been warted by the bankrupt as of
But.estreet, Westeranstcr.
Mr. Llnklater, en behalf of the petitioning creditors, at
Bristol, supported the application for the removal of the
patiitin—ciiii di on the ground that the bankrupt's prin-
cipal place of business having been at Bristol, where he bad
carried on business for many years, and had a residence,
and tonsiderahle proxrty, the description in the London
petition was bad, and was calculated to mislead the erc-
stir on.

Mr. Bagley, in support of the London pit:atm, iteted
that of 274,0001. or Ted,llool. of debts owing to the bank-
Twit, upwards of 200,000 f. was due and payable in London.
Sir. Lawrence, for the bankrupt, urged the expediency,
as regarried the advantage of the creditors, of the petition
being worked in London.
His Honour WAS at first disposed to reserve his judgment,
but after looking at the case. of " Ex parte Magee " (2 Dea-
con, .5.15), said that the public inconvenience resulting from
such an orrlm- as was sought would be enormous ; he must
therefore retwe to make it. No ground had ben shown
for annulling the petition ; and looking at the complicated
nature of the tran,.letions to be settled with the railway
companies, it was clearly for tl:e convenience of the credi-
tors that the proceedings should be worked in London.
There was a simil.or application for the transfer of the
Exeter petition to the Britt I court, on which no order was
made.

'the bankrupt, who was present, and Wig eaamined at
great length, had hi 4 coat• allowed out of the estate. Ills
Pozan,. declined t J make any order u to the costs of the
other parties.