The Express.
London, England, 1851-12-18 00:00:00

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Mr. Linklater—That wee the reams d th• &bourn
by six
d. mouths; but immediately alter the assignees
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The Cmasiraner—But I should no to be astisfitd also.
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hamitrupVa asmiest, and dors not say that I oat to be Will-
id If slip misigants are satisfied. What has beams of Um
stock

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The Onandsraer—AS ! Let me see the pseseedign
Yoe haw not mid a word slier the railway sperhlisas.
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his own solicitor, with the amount due to the Belfast and
County Down railway for calls, and 1061. due as costs to
Mr. White, Prioet Albeit'. solicitor.
The Conimiaaiener—Whi a was the sale to the son ?
Mr. Linklater—ln February, 1819.
The Commissioner—Fur how much?
Mr. Linklater —7151.
His Honour, in giving judgment, said this was the case
of a bankrupt who bad tailed previously, and who ought,
therefore, to have been very cautions in his mode of carry-
ing on business. He had, however, carried on rather a
hazardous description of business, one that involved him in
large law costs, and was likely so to involve him. Not
merely in one casually had he incurred such costs, hut in
several instances he had had action, brought against him.
For an alleged piracy from the London News, he had in-
curred 1504. in costs; in an action for libel brought against
him by Sewell and Cross, he had incurred a loss of 161 i.
for costs; and the solicitor of Sewell and Cross had also a
claim against him fur libel, the amount of which did not
appear. It was not, therefore, by nitre accident that he
had been involved in the particular litigation which had
been made the main subject of argument ; for it appeared
that he very generally dealt in that manner. He was
known as a publisher of thine works which served to feed
the morbid appetite of persons to investigate that
which they bad no business to pry into. It
was consistent with his established character, esta-
blished by the publication of other works, for which he
had been convicted of li-el—that he should be selected as
the party to publish the catalogue of stolen goods in this
case. 'the court entered nut in the slightest degree into
the position of those who had a right to complain. The
judgment would have been precisely the same had he pub•
fished a catalogue, surreptitiously obtained, of the gallery
or library of any party, nobleman, or trader in these realms.
Ile must have seen on the face of it that he was about to
[ do that the propriety of which WAS very douhtful ; and
this he had admitted by declaring that he would not pug•
lisle the catalogue till he had received the sanction of the
parties concerned. He bad not received that sanction.
Lid he immediately retract ? Certainly not. There was
no esidenc'• of anything like retractation till a long sub-
sequent period. He alleged that he had been deceived by
the opinion of learned advisers. Those opinions as to mat-
ters of law might have been perfectly correct ; but no
trader had any right to peril a very large sum of his credi-
tors' money in maintaining an abstract proposi-
tion of right. He had only to consider whether
he was engaged in a legitimate business, whether it was
likely to produce a return in the ordinary way, and to jus-
tify the risk he ran. This was not the course that had been
pursued ; he hied continued to defend, instead of at once
declining to publish, and giving up the collies. Ile might
very readily have supposed that such a proposition would
have been liberally met, that the ezpense of the copies would
have been paid hiss, and there would have been nothing
more about it. The consequence of his pursuing an oppo-
site course had been to incur a very large amount of law
costs, not the whole of the 880/., for a portion of that had
been for railway litigation. Here, again, the bankrupt had
gone out of his regular business as a bookseller, and had
speculated in the purchase of railway shares to a very large
amount—so large that the deficiency on that account was
about I.ooo'. *then, instead of meeting his difficulties as
he ought to have done, he had transferred the stock to his
son, and gone away to France: and his mode of answering
the questions as to that fact had been anything but satisfac-
tory. 'the greater portion of his accounts were unvouched,
or stated from memory; his books hail been loosely kept;
the balances not ascertained, and the cash book not sum-
med up. Upon the whole, considering that he had incurred
very heavy responsibilities, which might become charges
on the estate—tnat he had incurred debts fur law costs must
unjustifiably, and had kept very insufficient accounts, his
certificate would be of the third class, to be granted at the
end of twelve menthe from the time originally appointed
fur thee last rumination.
Mr. Linklater naked if his Honour would be pleased to
grant protection for the short interval which had to elapse ?
His honour granted protection.