The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1856-12-03 00:00:00

Robert MacNare was unopposed, and received his
final order.—Thomas Mackeridge. also unopposed,
received a final order.—Peter Hawley was sup-
ported by Mr. Husband, and received a final order.
Mathew Davison, supported by Mr. Hime, received a
final order unopposed.—George Trowbridge received a
final order unopposed.—John Quine, boarding house
keeper, was supported by Mr. Aspinall, and opposed by
Mr. Woodward and Mr. Anderson on behalf of separate
creditors. It appeared that the insolvent had been
engaged in a kind of speculative trade, in the cashing of
seamen's notes, in which he had incurred no less than
about three hundred bad debts. The opposi,ion was
chiefly on the ground that, in April, 1854, insolvent
made an assignment to his creditors, under which,
however, he di-1 not appear to have paid anything, and
that in June, 1854, he took the benefit of the insolvent
cow, since when, he had incurred the number of bad
debts mentioned. Mr. Aspinall, in his defence, urged
the precarious nature of the trade in which the
insolvent had been engaged, and strong'y condemned
the act of parliament which allowed the cashing of
seamen's advance notes, which, at the best, he urged,
could only be a temptation to the seaman to pledge a
portion of his wages for something which must neces-
sarily be below the value. His Honor said, although
this case was not within the distinct provisions of the
section, by which the heaviest power of imprisonment
was given to him, yet he could not but think it his duty
to mark very plain'y his sense of the misconduct of a
man who, having been utterly insolvent some two years
ago, and having obtained protection at that court, went
on with his business, so as to incur 300 had
debts, and then came there again without one
shilling in the world. It was said, on his
behalf, that he had been engaged in a perilous'
business. The more important, then, that he should
exercise due care and cautioe. He had no hesitation in
saying, when he found 300 sailors' debts in the sche-
dule, and between 60 and 70 of them for advanced notes,
that he was strongly inclined to believe the insolvent
had himself assisted in making some of the bad debts,
and assisted the sailors to ocher ships afterwards. He
was sufficiently well acquainted with the nature of these
dealings to know that there must be something very
peculiar when a boarding house keeper incurred 300
bad debts of this kind in the course of' a year
or two. He confessed he could not believe that
this occurred without some connivance upon the part of
the boarding-house keeper. They all knew perfectly
well how that business was carried on, and that a
boarding-house keeper generally took very good care
not to let the sailor go at all until be had got his own
bill paid out of the advanced note. The system was a
very bad one. Almost every body connected with it was,
he regretted to say, more or less dishonest. All were
very keen, and Mr. Quine, who was an experienced
person, was not likely to allow such debts, unless he
was utterly careless and improvident, or unless, which
his Honour rather believed, he had himself by his own
conduct connived at the notes becoming bad by remain_
ing silent and taking no part, while the seamen left one
ship and went to another. His Honour therefore
directed that, as it was manifest the debts were either
contracted by utter recklessness, or, as he rather inclined
to believe, by the insolvent's own carelessness, the
insolvent be not discharged from custody until five
calender months had elapsed from the date of his vesting
order.—Mrs. Mary Anne Cronin, insolvent, was dis-
charged, upon an arrangement that £4O a year be set
apart for the creditors. The 6th of January was
appointed for the final order.—Anna Dickson was
unopposed, and the final order was appointed for
the 6th of January.—David Evans was supported
by Mr. Aspinall, and unopposed. The insolvent
is a draper's assistant, residing in Pitt street. The cause
of his insolvency was a solicitor's bill of costs, incurred
in bringing an action against the insolvent for breach of
promise of marriage, The insolvent's schedule alleged
that the solicitor brought the action on behalf of Miss
Powney, knowing that the lady had no means of paring
any costs. The action was tried at Devizes, and a
verdict for £BO damages was given. The insolvent,
however, disposed of the damages by the very satisfac-
tory arrangement of marrying the fair plaintiff. The
bill of costs incurred by the lady, as between attorney
and client, was then transferred over as a charge upon
insolvent. His Honour remarked upon the peculiar
character of the insolvency, ari'ing out of costs incurred
at the suit of a lady, whose claim for breach of promise
the insolvent had subsequently appeased by marrying
her. (Laughter.) The final order was appointed for
the 6th of January.—Edward O'Neill was opposed by
Mr. Henry, and supported by Mr. Chilton. His Honour
ordered the case to stand over, with protection, until the
6th of January, in order that a fuller statement might be
produced of the accounts between him and the detaining
creditor, Mr. Harrison.—The petition of Thomas John-
son was dismissed, the petitioner not being in atten-
dance.