The Express.
London, England, 1851-01-09 00:00:00

COURT OP BANKRUPTCY.-YETIERDAY.
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The bankrupts. Frederick end George La Merck, ship.
beckon, of Water, lane. Tower street, applied ter their anti
Beat... The joint balsoce sheet, tautening over two rear
and a half p,. it to October feet, showed a rem of 3,1711. doe
to unecured ereditoar; to creditors emend. 3161. ; liabilities,
3761. The wean were—in good debts. 3801.; la doubt's'
ditto, 1991. Their ten fits had been 3,3171. • loves, 2,8201.;
trade espalier, 1,9231. ; Weston and law coin, 2171. ; drawn
em: by the ;intent, 1S061; by Mir. W.H. Leads, a former
portlier in the bone", 2141.
There wane opposition.
Mr. Lit kilter, is support of the application of the bult-
yew, sated that the failure wee eatirely attrthetable to
laws by bad debts, chiefly dee from parties in Frame and
Norway
The Commissinaer said be had always thought the
It erne/leas were van steady people.
Mr. &mislead, the official amignee,.2.ia the books had
not b en kept quite so well se they might ban bees ; ell
the items were cot vouched.
Mr. L'okleier said he was certainly not prepare,: for this
'totem...et. Ills iostructions were that the books had been
per'ecvl lurpt up to the last moment. If the deb', in Fraser
avid Nome, had ben 'veined there would have been • very
go ieltlend-101. is the pound.
Atte r relation to the books,
Hi, Honour said be woulo grant a a, coed class ornifieate
in each ewe; he could not make out a first class certificate
whoa the eapenditure ran Ivo elms upon the proem that
these is.. no reserve foe manger cies.
IN an LAIIIII.—AS OLD BANTIMPTCY.
Tke bankrupt, a gnaw, at Southamptoe, failed three
years and • half ago, owing 4101. to unsecured creditors, and
gins, up 3.1. .1 assets. Owing to his giving ao unsatis-
factory account about a chest of tea his esnaination had been
ethernet sine die. He now applied for his certificate.
Mr. Linklater supported. There SAS no oppnition.
lin Honour granted a certificate without any distinction
o: class, the ease being entice the old law.
IN as HARIS —V EXATIODO Heretics.
J. Hawke, hatter, of King William•atreet, applied for his
emanate.
Mr. Duane supported the bankrupt.
Mr. Horner opp avid, for the assignees, chiefly on the
ground that the tenkrupt had resorted to em roper means to
delay • creditor named Bin, had not kept proper books, had
gins up little or so assets, and had incurred debts when he
was reeolveut. His ussecured debts were 1 3711 ; bin erns
tad b en oat its Do tat 3301., but had producvd only 711. His
petits had bees 6791., monist 4171. of losses, and 1,6201. si-
gn en of Tenon kinds.
Me. Dance urged that there was no pretence for charging
the bankrupt with fraud, and that the failure had Greened
14 menthe ago, daring which time he had been debarred
doma anythieg for his owe support.
Hu 11-wour said the bankrupt ought to have looked bate
the Wale of his 'Hein when he wee brat sued, sad not Inn
defended ...vacua fee the *eke cf gnaws :ion. He had made
an 4.nel:went to hie brother—the wont theog he could do;
for lensly aniline:eats were always pregnant with su•picion.
11%, oil Ben's scion was loading, the bar keapt had incurred
11,, of ars debts, ar.d lied accepted an aecoromod ,pion bill
for of. Then be hut made a falai. Otatemen: to his credi-
tor The die plead would only be 711. in the pound. The
a-nude:ate most be sticpsoded for IS months from the date of
the net I seminaiion ; when greeted to be of the third clam.
l'rotectio• nfoeed.
hi as Its 11131IONT.
Just befcn tae riling of the mart an application was
wed, to hie Honour to further enlarge the t.me foe the
seder of this bankrupt, whose one has beennfrtgswtly
before the court,
Um Honour declined to interfere, cm the proved that be
had no iiirtadee icn until the bankrupt inmielf was be-
fore hem.