The Express.
London, England, 1850-05-15 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, WEDNESDAY EVENING, MAY 15, 1850,

Lain fittentgente•
HOUSE OF LORDS.—Yzenimir.
CNIPPX/IDALL'iII DIVORCI DILL.
Alter ths business of ut• arising was oirebtded, Lord
Leardale and two other peen rigerined to nerve further
'videos' is support of the sisal reading of this lull.
It may be remembered the reader of the .Doill News
that the sum ors Iloilo, WI was Wan the hare, mad evi-
dease was Miss ea the Bth of if hoary and Mil el Joly,l
1848. To. sallthme of the MN an/ geldeage ea these
rosier wean Ong h tis year HIS liner okbyugialls
tho petitioner, ilea as articled doh to ma ethemer's riga,
was married to Mary Arm Arthur. *mem% theas smar she
age of 21 ; that time were two el tie nurture ;
that etre dm afterwards Mr. Chippeadell mat to Brus-
sels, sad was in erne employmet then ; that ea his ro-
ma is 1836 he head his wife sad thildren residiag with
bar nabs: at Highgate, sad he rayed there with
them some days. After whisk he left sad took lodg-
ius for himusH in Coventry-street; that he went to
Brasier main, sad remained away a considerable time, sad
as his return ia 1841 or 1842 Mrs. Chippendall wag living
with a Mr. Haat, in Elmmo-road, St. John's-wed. Bhtt
lived with Ma r his wife, sad passed by this arse of Mrs.
Haat ; that Mr. Chippendall barer an arks or Clink.
eon. mart Heat, whose attorasy proposed a compromise to
the attorney for Chippendsli, who agreed to rout 601. da-
mages and costs ; that a judge's order at chambers was
swordtail, taken and jadgment entered thereon, for the
damages and eons% that, after that, a salt was Instituted in
Doctors' Commons, sod a definitive seaters of divorce was
therein pronounced. Thew proseedings at law sad is Dor-
ton' Commons were laid before the house la 1848, sad it
was then stated that Mr. Cldyrsadall's delay in coming for
a parliamentary divorce was arm' by his poverty, and he
was the allowed to sue Is tenth pupils. Tare was also
a suggestion from the hour ca that occasion that a divans
could net be granted is • are when the jadirent is the
action against the adulterer was taken by compromise.
Mr. Palling, who appeared am the peasant occasion as
soused for the petitioner, was 'boat to suig ow allegations
of the bill. _ _ _ . _

-I,oidLaagdale told him that the house, 'renting to Chip-
pendan's petition to have the evidence taken in 1848 ad-
mitted, had the points of that evidence on the table' and
the bill also. All that was to be done at present wee to re
mire what further evidence the petitioner had to offer
Mr. Pulling said he believed that Shore were two points
only requiring further explanation—one was Mr. Clippie
dolls deny in coming for this divorce, which he would
show was caused by hia difficulty in finding Mrs. Chip
dell to serve her with notice of the promedings, and his
Wing la redwood eircumetaame ; the other wee the 'natter of
the judgment taken by agreement. As to the first he called
Martin Blake, who said he 'serried a girl who bad been
in the minim of Mr. Bunt (with whom Mrs. Chippendell
lived), and Chippendall came to witness frequently in the
months of October and November, 1846, inquiring for Mrs.
Chippendall, of whom witness was not able to give any
accouot.

Mr. Gauntlets, an attorney is Gray's lan, was examined,
and said he had brought the action on beled of Chippen-
doll against Rant, and after the writ was served the attorney
of Runt proposed to witnees to compromise the matter, to
which witless, agreed, and a pulp's order was taken scsord-
laxly for jadgaseat for 601. sad costs. The costs were only
321., and mimeos received 621. by cheque from the opposite
attorney. Chippendell was in witness's debt, and, in die-
chirp of the debt, witness kept all the money. At that time
and afterwards witasse believed Chippendall was in went of
money.
Two **sr wit esem wen called, and they pus evidence
to the like effect as to the petitioner's poverty.
Lord Langdale said the matter should stand over for =-
mastodon, the evidence now taken to be printed.
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THE EARL or LiHcoEm's liivoacz.

The following proceeding was taken in this matter after
6 o'clock :—A petition had been presented, on Friday last,
by Mr. Parkinson, solicitor for Lord Lincoln, and by Mr.
Poynter, his lordship's proctor, in a divorce trait in Doctors'
Commons, praying that his lordship's signature to a peti-
tion for a divorce bill might be dispensed with, and that
the signatures of these petitioner", as his lordship's agents,
might be accepted in lieu thereof; and also that service of
copies of the divorce bill, and of the orders of the house
thereon, upon Messrs. C. Rank., and Graham Stokes re-
spectively, as the agents—one the solicitor, the other the
proctor—of Lady Lincoln, might be considered good service
on her ladyship. The matter of the petition having come
before the hones open motion, Mr. Parkinson and Mr.
Poynter were severally examined at the bar ce to the ab-
sence of the Earl of Lincoln abroad, and they stated that he
was in a distracted state of mind, and advised to go abroad,
and that he had given them respectively full authority to
proceed for a divorce in the Ecclesiastical Court and in this
hove. Formal proofs of the authority to each were given
in, and the proceedings in Doctors' Commons, with the
definitive sentence of divorce pronounced there between the
Earl and Countess, were delivered in.
Mr. Earthen, the solicitor for the countess, was then:M-
islaid, and he stated that she was absent abroad, and that
she had seat him instructions to act for her in all proceed-
ings connected with the divorce, and to accept envies of all
proceedings on her behalf.
Mr. Graham Stokes, her ladyship's proctor, was examined
to the like effect, whereupon the house agreed, that the sig.
natures of the said petitioners be accepted to the divorce bill
instead of the Earl of Lincoln's.

The divorce bill was then presented and read a first time,
and it was ordered that a copy thereof, and of the order Mr
the second reading thereof, be served on Mr. Rattan, and
that the same be deemed good service thereof on the
Counter of Lincoln.

The second reading of the bill was fixed for the
28th inst.

COURT OF BANKRUPTCY—YesTnewAy.

Bums Ma. Ocounastagui Mixon%
Ix RI SCILTIBI.

This was the certificate meeting is the OW of John Oliver
Suttees, demmbed es a printsellar of Wort-street, Caven-
dish-square, bat who was in reality a rtister-at law, and
had been possessed of large property in the north of England.
The steps taken to dispute the trading have readmit' the
facts of the cam familiar.

The bankrupt's balance-sheet extends from May, 1848, to
the 30th of January last. Amongst the items are the fol-
lowing:—To creditors holding security, 27.3601 ; ditto un-
secured, 1731. ; liabilities, 4971 ; capital, 6161. By property,
consisting of a leaseho4l estate in Durham, purchased in
1846 for 26,4001 ; by a revenionary interest estimated at
3,0001. (both mortgaged to sundry creditors); losses, 1931. ;
interest, 1,4611.; expenses, 4221.
Mr. Linklater, for the bankrupt, stated that there was no
opposition, either by the assignees or any creditor. His
liabilities were large, about 27,0001. When very young, he
had been induced by his brother-in-law to become the
nominal purchaser of an estate in Durham, represented to
be of great value (23,4001 ) from the minerals it contained.
Mr. Gibson, the solicitor to the Newcastle Banking Com-
pany, had joined in inducing the bankrupt to purchase this
property, with a view to reduce some liabilities of the bank.
The bankrupt had mortgaged the property so bought
for 10,0001., in 1846, when he was only twenty-
two years of age, and had then lodged acceptances with a
busk at Leeds. This trading had been of a short duration •
his liabilities continued to hang over him and a creditor had
filed a petition against him. Mr. Gibeoe's aid the other cre-
ditors in the north had no reason to complain, Is they
knew
that he was hut a nominal purchaser of the property.
Trusting to those who should have protected his interests
better, be hrd been induced to become a trustee, and was
thus made liable to the parties who had securities on the
pronely. As the losses could not be said to have arisen
wholly from unavoidable misfortune, he did not ask for a
first elms certificaa ; but in so far as he had been deceived
his misfortunes were not attributable to his own fault.
His Honour thought the bankrupt ought to make some
arrasgemen; for the payment of his trade creditoma thpugh
I the Mann; of their claims was not keg..
Mr. Linklater said it was only 1701., exclusive of the peti-
tioning creditor's debt of 611. Any condition his Honour
thought fit to impose the bankrupt would cheerfully comply
with.

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Hu Honour observed that a gentleman of the bar ought
certainly to do this.

After-a
conversation,
His Honour directed the cave to stand over for a while, in
order that the sanction of Mr. Gibson, one of the mortgage
crediton, might be obtained to the bankrupt making s..,me
arrangement with his trade crediton.
Mr. Linklater suggested th►t the basis ef the arrange-
ment should be a purulent of 10s. in the pound to the trade
crrditon.

His Honour raid that whatever madded the creditors world
satisfy him.
The coo was adjourned for a week.

THE POLICE COURTS.
_ BOW-STREET.

A Wicoutaoun ExitoaCtaa;:Ticiney R. Sparkes, the pro-
prietor of a sham a, spicy office, was charged with obtaining,
by false representations, sums of money from several young
men by means of newspaper advertisemen s. The court
was crowded by young men, principaby tram the country,
who had deposited cash securities with the prisoner aid his
accomplices.
Sergeant Thompson, F, produced three files of agree.. ants,
letters, and receipts, which he found at the prisoner's place
of business, in his bendwriting, from which it appeared ttsit
he assumed different MIMI s, as the nature of his transactions
required, together with a quantity of documents found at
the house of Mr. Perratt, in Great Queen•street, Lincoln's
inn-tiado, where the prisoners rented an office, and in
Brownlow-street, Drury lane, among which were twelve
different agreements between him, and persons to be en-
gaged pp meats, mereniten, and clerks, upon payment of
deposits varying from 101. sad upward., all bearing date
within a month.
Mr Chas. George handed in the copy of an agreement
signed by himself and Stanley, the prisoner's partner, the
duplicate of which was on the film, from which it appeared
he paid a depomit 01101., in the enpectatiun of being ap-
pointed to *situation of 30s. a week or the prisoner's err
vice, but in a week after the wee was closed, and he we.
unable to mover either the deposit or hissalsry.
Edwd. Badger, of flatloa-garden, a carpenter, said that
shout a misith kick he was employed by a man named
Campbell to make drawers and fittings for au office at Nu 7
Browslow-street, sad, having ailedt, there, ►he maw Campbell
and the placert, who appeased to be partners. The articles