The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1856-07-15 00:00:00

BANKRUPTCY COURT -YESTERDAY

(BEFORE MR. COMMISSONER FERRY.)
In re WILLIAM TYSON —The bankrupt carried on the
business of a miller and Aour dealer in Liverpool. This
was a meeting for proof of debts and choice of assignees.
Mr. Dodd appeared for the petitioning creditor, John
Jones, wheelwright and blacksmith, of Liverpool, and
Mr. Lowndes fur a number of other creditors. Debts to
the amount of £3,000 were proved, and Mr. James H.
Hayes and Mr. David Morton, were chosen assignees.
The liabilities by the bankrupt are estimated at
£21,000.

In re THOMAS DAvlEs.—The bankrupt was a com-
mission agent and broker, of Liverpool. This day was
fixed for the argument on the certificate. Mr, Evans
appeared in his support, and after an examination by
Mr. John Yates, jun., the case was further adjourned
for a week.

In re WILLIAM 3 AND ROBERTS.—This day was fixed
for the judgment on the certificate in this case, but it
was also adjourned.

THE NENAGH MILITIA RIOT

Another of the Tipperary militia died on Thursday from
the effects of his wounds, being the fourth man of that
corps who lost his life by the recent affray at Nenagh.

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About 1,500 regular troops were marched into Nenagh,
most of them billeted about the town, and the police were
on the alert night and day about the gaol and in the
neighbourhood of the town, lest any attempt should be
made to rescue the prisoners. The Rev. .Mr. Scanlan, the
parish priest of Nenagh, who exerted himself strenuously
to appease the mutinee7s, writes as follows to the Tipperary
Vindicator. After alluding to the withholding of the
stipulated howl Item the men, he says :
"I would have it plainly understood, though there was
no difference of opinion es to the injustice to the soldiers,
yet only a fifth of the regiment had any participation
in the business which has now gone before the world
as a mutiny ; and of this fifth I am satisfied, from
going among them, that mord than half were influenced
by the idea that to desert the few reckless companions
who seemed bent on extremes would be like cowardice ;
so that, in fact, the matter, in its most foolish features,
was confined to a few, and these more or less under the
influence of drink ; and from the beginning not one of
any note among the soldiers favoured the proceeding=,
wt.ile by all the greatest personal respect was evinced
towards the Colonel arid the officers, the clamour fur the
bounty making the entire cause, and all the exception.
Whether influenced by tho bishop; who spoke to the men
at some length, or by the chaplain, or Whether in respect
towards their officers, I have heard.even those who seemed
most determined say that they had no intention of proceed-
ing to extremes ; and it has happened that tho soldiers
of the line did not meet the least opposition on their way
to the barrack-gate, not at the gate. Three fourths of the
militia had gone away from the barrack long before; and
the childish ethibition of firing shots into the air for half an
hour looked like the pranks of a few drunken boys, and
was treated as such by the officers and soldiers of the line.
It is greatly to be deplored, however, that the firing of a
few shots by some straggling militia-men amongst the sol-
diers, on their way to Pound Street Barracks, made occa-
sion—if, indeed, any there were—to call forth that terrible

I discharge of musketry which ended so fatally, even to
inoffensive persons in their own houees. In fact, neither
barrack made any serious resistance to the troops ;
which proves that this melancholy transaction, which has
made us all so unhappy here, means this and no more—
was it right in the militia to complain of being dismissed,
not first having received the promised bounty ? and was
it just in government to refuse to pay it, and to send their
soldiers half naked upon the country—a source of jest to
all unthinking boys—in their rags ?
One of the officers of the Tipperary Militia says that
the men wanted their colonel to lead them against the
troops of the line ) and adds, that it was only when all
their efforts to restore subordination had failed that the
officers sought refuge in the gaol. He says the militia
had no ammunition, being obliged to use buttons or
pebbles instead of bullets, or they would not have laid
down their arms so easily.