The Express.
London, England, 1867-04-05 00:00:00

LAW INTELLIGENCE.
(THIS DAY.)

COURT OF BANKRUPTCY.
(Before Mr. Commiseioner Hohop].)
IN RZ JOHN DAVIR.-APPLICATION FOR RZLRASZ.

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This wan an application for release from custody by a
debtor who had executed a deed of inspectorship. but who
had been arrested before the registration of the deed. He
&scribed as of Lancaster-villas, lancaster.road, Lower
Norwood,gentleman. The debta, as disclosed by the hat
acoompanymg the deed, are of the extraordinary amount
of 11,F44/. There is one large debt, upwards of 15,00111.,
stated to be due to a firm of solicitors in the City. There
were four detainers against the debtor, on behalf of Mr. G.
S. Stredder, Mr. Gooch, the official liquidator of the Eng-
lish Joint Stock Bank, and the official liquidator of the
Hampstead Brewery Company.
Mr. Rooks opposed for Mr. Dalton, the assignee of a
debt due to Mr. G. S. Stredder, one of the detaining
creditors.

Mr. Manna took the objection that an assignee of a
debt could not be heard in opposition to the release, and
the creditor himself could not be heard as he was bank-
rupt.
His Honour overruled the objection.
Mr. Rooks objected that sufficient notice of the applica-
tion had not been given. The deed was very long, and the
creditor had not had time to examine the papers.
Mr. Manna said that the usual notice of two days had
been given.
Mr. H. F. Wood, representing the official liquidator of
the Hampstead Brewery Company, made the same ap-
plication.
Hi. Honour said it was only reasonable in a large case
like this that the creditor. should have time to examine
the deed and the other documents, and adjourned the ap-
plication until Tuesday next.
Mr. Munns asked that the release might be taken from
the two other detainers—those of the official liquidator of
the English Joint Stock Bank and Mr. Gooch—hi which
there was no appearance.
His Honour signified his assent.

The debtor was then removed in custody.
IN RE HANNAH NEWINGTON.

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This was a renewed application for release. The case I
will be remembered from the number of addresees of
the lady—upwards of twenty—and from the fact
that she had gone by different names—Han-
nab Newington, Flora Newington, Flora Can-
ning, De Morne, and Frances S. Canning. She is de-
scribed as last of No. 2, Montagu-street, Russell-square,
and a married woman following no trade or occupation. I
She attributed her failure to "insufficiency of presents
from friends and illness." The debts are stated at 2,3421.
This was a renewed application for release from custody
after the sitting for choice of assignees had been held.
Mr. Goatley, in applying for the release, stated that the
lady was too ill to be brought up. She had been required
to find two sureties of 500 f. each, but was wholly unable
to do so. She had been in custody upwards of three
months, and was as closely watched in the room where she
MN detained as though she was in Whitecrosastreet.
Mr. Lucas opposed for Mr. Dooley, a judgment creditor,
for 35. W., who charged the bankrupt with obtaining goods
by misrepresentation and with living on the public for
some time past. Recently she and her maid had been
living at the Charing-cross Hotel at an extravagant rate.
Five other gentlemen appeared on behalf of as many
detaining creditors. By one it was stated that she hail
been in the habit of pleading coverture to the actions
brought against her.
His Honour said that from the wandering life the bank-
rupt had led, sometimes calling herself a married woman,
and sometimes not, and looking upon the large amount of
debt, the court would not interfere to alter the order
which had already been made.