The Express.
London, England, 1865-03-10 00:00:00

LAW INTELLIGENCE.

(THIS DAY.)

COURT OF PROBATE AND DIVORCE.
(Before the Judge Ordiessy.)
wfirrucout e. WIUTKOMM AID 1111JITT111.4
lea. Caw*" Q.C., lir. Beduins Timid Atkinson, and
Dr. Wambey for the peeftiooer ; the Queen's Advocate and
hr. Pritchard for the remmedect ; Dr. Drinks sad 316
Yung far the coosegoadest
netitioaer, • PethPoote at Dudley, ia Worcester-
gum rged kis wde with edultery, both with the oo-
The
smpoetleat sad with smother man. The respondent,
pleaded • &Mal, amid alect.so recriminatory averments of
tery
adul, cruelt, mid negl
Thu pad. bayd cohabited before march" the wedding
Wine been in October. 1857, and the birth of the first
child in the moods followiag. There had likewise been •
wooed child, The reepoodent was alleged to have been •
person of violent habits and filthy eoeverestioe ; sad ft
was stated that her Lathers had been soak as materially to
interfere with the petitioaer's business. Is 1850 they vir-
tually .aratod, bat the rmpoadent did sot leave her hus-
band tillAsrlembu, 1861. The petitioaer thee took • cot-
tage for her called where she stayed till November
1862. She thee 'Mused to her hothead's house, and
lived them for a AT ; after which the final
loth pleas. While she was at lverley It was
t 3Va.llllat she had committed adultery with a gamekeeper
mend Whitaker, and evidence was gives to show that he
vas • visitor at her *Aar under toroVrigc:ronisteness.
Ss missesdeet with Brettell was to have token
elms at a neblisionne called the amen 0, at Dudley,
sem her Wises home hem Iverley. Of thievery direct
erasure we giver
Far the bloom several work were called,
who disrorlhad the petitioser as a sullen, Went,
ooatemptness fellow ; " and the, spoke to mime
acts of violence which they bad witnessed. The
evidence of the adultery
aytiesd at the Chem Dragon was Mit
se wholly unworthy of belief. de to the other
charge, Whitaker himself wet called, and he stated that he
bad kept company with Sarah Valiance, the servant at
irerieT, which acomoted for his Wog NM about the home.
One night be had welshed the plies, became somebody
had frightened the reepsedset. bet he &wind ia the most
positive methen be hod wow bees guilty of the smallest
laroilierhy M. hitmore.
The seas was not finished whoa we eat to prow.

COURT OF BANKRUPTCY.
(Before litr. Registrar Malow. as Oomminsioner.)
nr un JOAN IJIGH.--JCUICORT.
The bankrupt was recently the police magic ate at
Itankipetrest. The met has been frequently Wore the
seerX
His Hewer now gave judgment. He raid this wee one
if the moot painful °saes which he remembered to have oeme
Wore the cart The bae kan pt having presided from 1840
t 01246 over the Court of Comma Pleas in Jamie% re-
turned to this country and was appoiated and acted traft
1863 to 1803 as sti magistrate at Wol
hag • _misty of 1,0001. a year. It that time kin
ties had commenced by his having
ebua In a joint stack bank at W
toe, which aftermath tailed. sad • he lost
many Shamed, of pound'. In order to meet this ken the
)aakrupt had most unwisely entered into speoulaidens on
the Stock Exchange, which resalted—as m%h,thbeiliel%estad
is the case of • aura who bad no to
maculate, nor, es far as appeared, mi:meits.:7l knowledge
of
the subject—in a further loss of In 1803 be was
moved from Wolverhampton to sad appointed
to act se stipeedir7megletreNat Worsiripetrest, his eatery
being inanased to 1.9001. ; bat eau with this ineresee he
eoald late had little ezheatioa el mince( hie at
Mich thee erranted 26,000 i., ae4 In May, 1
W to '16,000/. His mesh were than 816 Aug.
end his lame, hieluding naiory of LION.. we°
15001. a or a little more. At that time,
lat , • debt of 8001., with Mr.
Right, a appellee creditor, he oust • pas
....Lhanote at
floes daft kir hammiest, but 246 L
d it as ea inseessee is theFra was
motaellich Mr.
Flight a the sale eniprietor ad one or two ether
therges—aserly the whole aohlitoting prodi width Mr.
Flight me fish oat of the trematima. The note for 8001.
became des in Angela, 1262, sod IBM having beea paid off
sad 301. paid for three mouth.' interval ; another note was
01111 fee 6501. The bankrupt's debts had inereeesd, is
Aiwa, liffst, to 29,7001., when be borrowed 1501. from the
Mated Lean Fund Asechatioo, for what he wee to pay
intend at the rate of 20 per coat. For annum. Before this
soh sad the as. in litr. Flight/. handwriting for
6501. beans due, the ouazopt, in November,
1862, executed • deed ado: the 192nd seethe
of the Bankrutoy Act of 1861, which was
whereby he missed all his estate to trustees, iliturdesdrl
took to pay theca 8001. a year out of his hay of 1,2001.,
for the gradual payment at his debts; and by the
amount lied with the deed it appeared that
be owed about 31,0008., of which 4,0001. was
secured. After executing this deed the bankrupt had 4001.
a year left for his support. Mr. Flight and Mar
creditors refused to be band by the deed ; .but indeed of
taking proeseethap at law se he might have does, lAr.
Flight t•d that unless some arrangement were made
with him *cod that provided by the deed be weld pre-
wet a memorial to the &meaty of SW*, settles forth the
catimsteaces ander which his debt had been 000thete,I.
After some negotiation the bankrupt being unable
to comply with Mr. Flight's demand, the memo-
rial was presented. The answer to it had sot hese
pat in evidence, but !the result was Ithat Mr. Flight
ha referred to the ordinary *ions of law ter
his howdy. After the execution of the deed the
harem unfortunately engaged is further apnea
WIN on the Stook &chap which were
tram
Hr. In November, 1863, a borrowed 2001. tram
lir. Coles, an opposing creditor. as • bill at two months, on
Minh he wie to pay interest of 20 per mat. per
MOIL 112 December he borrowed a avast am
it UM hoes Kr. Late, who deo opposed, fee which
hs was to pay lastest of rather over 46 per cat.
Lading that the deed mold not be serried oat, and getting
farther involved, Mr. Leigh WY made bankrupt oa the
adios of • trisodlft creditor mi the 23rd March. 1864,
thing eta that a t raisin MIMI" and set apartSM.
ir /,0001. • year for is creditor'. But be was obliged to
=nand thus all immediate enemas' arranging with his
wee taw away. Me now applied for his order
disabuse, and was opposed by 10112. mullion, Mr.
Right, the Kauai Loan Fund Assoeiatioe, and Mr. Lyre.
The wipe's, reprensatig the bulk of the meditate, °w-
edited that the bankrupt was matted to an immediate order
II disabuse. Theevertaaald not hol p coeliac to tact:aloha'
that all those tour debts had beam contracted without
say reasonable or probable ground of expectation of pay-
ant ; also that the bankruptcy was in pert atria-
table to nab end hamirdous speculation, so se to kilo
the bankrupt within the terms of the 1159th main.
Aftir farther remarks.
His Honour said the order of the court would be Shed
the order of discharge be granted, subject to the as.
ddaai that ell there property acquired by the
lashapt by way of inheritance Mould be appropriated to
the payment of his debts, and that his tutors earellies sad
he melon (if the Secretary of Mite easseeted) beyond
!IDOL a year should be liable to the payout* of hi debts
until 5 pie cat. in the pound of such debts had beep
His Hower allowed the costs of the opposing creditors.

THE FOLIOS COURTS.
cram DAY.)

CLEBJEWIWELI•
50011 SEW..
Miners*, prior to thw sight abuses bong roe ista.
Ir. Boast* solicitor, of Fredirkkwtreek Gray's-ins-
Red, together with Mr. Love, the chief constable of the
Bo* &any fur the Prevention of Cruelty to Allan's,
Weeded before Mr. D'Eyneourt, as the subject of tie recast
resecntios by the society for exposing shorn sheep for sale
is the Metropolitan Cattle Market, at Islington
Mr. Vann mid—l as instroated by Mr. Calera, the
Niathi7 of the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty
to Annals, to lay hifore rate worship a few particulars of
amass taken by that society regarthog the emelt, of ex-
Pad in cold weather • sheep deprived of their
wilder covering of wool. Ton will hi glad to learN
Net, is accordance with your sorgestiose, nearly AOOO
446 1141111* a oopy of which I new beg to hand to
Zr!. *Malang • fair repot of the airs resole* brought
70e, and your Ova observeiosi os thirty., acassises
when the prectice was nod& y sane, have bees Wood.
These plicarde have been posted op is the Metropolitan
Cattle Market ; distributed to the ealsmee, with • request
that copies ehonid be forwarded to their orastry soneepos-
lisote ; sad the remainder have been treonesistsd by pest
.1° wen chief constable of counties and boomer in the
Sad to the town criers of those tows' in which
lute a►ssp markers are held, in order that they Ray be er-
mned outside evoy polies-station and in awry stank
tenet is the Idngdoox.
VElneent—Do yes my the placards have ben meat
to 6,47 sheep market?
Mr. Ricketts replied in the affirmative aad Una pro-
raided to reed the foot-note oo the placartiiel" get fist
Out no society in calling the auntie* el an 'bon it ass-
cond to the recent proceeding. earnestly
m=4,1101 their
hilwitr to make it men ry for any t° b.
takm coder the statute, which provides heavy penalties for
the °lTme, addisg that it wee iscoacedvalsks that respect.
able roman sod graziers for the sake et • sitillt 91.°6i
abeeld ia the mouths of Dec., Jas., or Pak. molly
Use sand of that warru clothing which isaturs bad
POVided for it, to guard it frost the evil WOOS of the is•
dementinerbor, and toning that no Eaglish sideman
would. after the emphatic opinioas expreesed apes it both
ias egetietrate aid the missal 'Melnik ratlines who
ePOmd
at the prosecution, lay himself opal to • miens).
thulisLe *WM sod abettiog the offence. At the moos '
time, 1"647 expressed its deterrohnine, ehowid its
lisr_.ex disregarded, to proceed against offenders. Mud'
el the malts width might follow 01105 oonvictioa.
‘,2 DAroccurt having reed Mrs pod.
'•""ei,44ls mid that the essisty trusted that these
toesions would prove to sgisultrinsfs. makmes. 8.11
..%144 tbAt they were prepared to undertake say expasa
and *cable in the inculcation of humanity to sabres W
Irerstationry meesorm as wail as by 1 perseasdinge-
M D'Eyworixt hiving expensed Ids sproleoh
Ms agar them droppod.