The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-01-15 00:00:00

BEFORE MR. COMMISSIONER PERRY.

IN RE WILLIAM TYSON.—This was the certificate
meeting. Mr. Aspinall, instructed by Mr. Lowndes,
appeared to oppose on behalf of the assignees, and the
bankrupt was supported by Mr. John Yates, jun. Before
the opposition was opened, the bankrupt was examined
by Mr. Aspinall touching his dealings with Mr. Ellis, a
miller. He said that he ground wheat with Ellis, and that
at the time of the stoppage he owed him something more
than £BO. About a fortnight before his stoppage, he gave
Mr. Ellis £5O, and when the latter called for payment of
the balance of his debt, the day after the letters convening
the meeting of the creditors went out, the bankrupt told
him that there was enough of his (the bankrupt's) property
in the mill to cover his debt. He did not recollect that
he told Mr. Ellis to hold the property against his debt.
He did not pay Mr. Wright, of Crosby, any money after
his stoppage ; the last money he paid him was atout
He got no receipt, nor made an entry or it. The bankrupt
was strongly pressed as to whether he made payments
after his stoppage, but he had a positive recollection of
none save of one—e37o—which he paid to the co-trustee
of his wife's settlement (it being part of the trust), and
for which he had been long pressed. To Mr. Yates :
traded as all other men in the business trade. I began to
borrow money in 1850, from Mr. Pemberton. There was
great fluctuation in the corn trade at the time, and I con-
sidered I got bargains which would enable me not only to
pay Mr. Pemberton, but to make a profit for myself. IL
was under that impression that I continued to take up the
loans. During the five years I was borrowing money
from Mr. Pemberton I was doing a large business, and
was regularly meeting my engagements. From the time
I commenced to borrow there was not always something
due to Mr. Pemberton ; there was nothing due to him in
1853, when the last mortgage was paid off. During that
time Mr. Pemberton was my regular solicitor. The case
was then adjourned to eleven o'clock on Monday, when
Mr. Aspinall will state the ground of opposition.

LAW- INTELLIGENCE.

COURT OF COMMON PLEAS.-JAN. 13.

HODGKINSON V. FERNIE AND OTHERS.-THE EXPEDITION

TO THE CRIMEA.

This was an action to recover damages in consequence of a
collision which happened between two transports which formed
part of the expedition from Varna to Eupatoria. At the trial
before the Chief Justice, in London, the verdict was for the
plaintiff, the amount of damages to be settled out of court.
Mr. Edward James now moved for a rule for a new trial,
upon the ground that the verdict was against the evidence,
and also misdirection. The plaintiff's vessel was named
the Sultana, and the defendants' the Courier. About five
o'clock in the afternoon of the 9th September the fleet
came to anchor about twenty miles from land. In the
plaintiff's " tow" all the vessels cast anchor, but in the
defendants' " tow" only the leading ship anchored, and
the other two vessels held on to the leading ship by their
warps. It was stated at the trial that the defendant's captain
had been negligent in not anchoring as soon as the leading
ship was anchored ; but his lordship told the jury that the
defendant's captain was under the orders of the captain of the
leading ship, and whose orders the defendants' captain had in
fact obeyed. During the night the wind freshened, and that
caused the plaintiff's "tow" to swing, and the defendants' ship
came in collision with the plaintiff's vessel. It was now con-
tended that, at all events, the defendants' captain should have
anchored when the wind freshened, and that his not doing so
amounted to negligence. Mr. Justice Cresswell said that the
defendants' " tow" was headed by her Majesty's ship Fury,
and this case seemed to raise the important question—what
amount of emergency would, in an expedition of this kind,
free the captain of a transport from the command of an officer
of her Majesty, who commanded the leading ship of the " tow."
Rule granted.

STATIONERY EXPORTED. —ln eleven months, ended No-
vember, the value of stationery exported was £658,253.
COTTON YARN SENT ABROAD.—The value of cotton yarn
sent abroad from January to November, was £7,311,733.
NONCONFORMING MINISTERS.—Last year £48,137 was
paid out of the revenue to nonconforming seceding ministers
in Ireland.

PLATS GLASS EXPORTED.—From January to November,
the value of plate glass exported, as an article of British
manufacture, was £57,831.

MINVE3TITURE OF THE BATH IN PARIS.—An investiture of
the Order of the Bath will be held at the British Embassy,
Paris, this week. The French officers wbo have not,
hitherto received this intended honour, will do so on that
occasion. The members of the honourable order, uow in
Paris, will be invited to attend the ceremony
REPRESENTATION OF EAST SUSSEX —Mr. Frewen has
issued an address announcing his approaching retirement
from the representation of East Sussex. Mr. J. G. Dodson,
who unsuccessfully contested the county in 1852, has issued
an address, stating his intention of coming forward as a
candidate to supply the vacancy. Lord Pevensey is also
spoken of in connection with the seat.
"THE BURIAL OF SIR JOHN MOORE."— The question
about the authorship of this poem is again revived in the
American papers. Ur. P. R. James, the novel writer,
takes part in it. He says—" In some late numbers of the
Southern Literary Messenger, I have seen renewed a dis-
cussion which began and terminated in London many years
ago, in regard to the originality of the celebrated poem of
Mr. Wolfe on the burial of Sir John Moore. The poem is
undoubtedly his own, and was never denied but in jest.
THE SLATE TRADE IN NEW YORK.—It seems to be now
a matter of certainty that New York has been, for a number
of years, the centre of the trade in slaves between the coast
of Africa and Cuba, and one or two mercantile establishments
here its sinews and strength. The recent slave trials
abundantly prove that Mr. Crawford, the British Consul at
Havana, was correct in reporting on the 11th of October,
1855, that " almost all the slave expeditions for some time
past have been fitted out in the United States, chiefly at
New Yolz, where there must be some establishment—ship
or outfitting, carpenter's or builder's yard—specially under-
taking such bnsiness for the slavers." The number of
slavers despatched from this port within the last three
years, though not easy to state with precision, cannot fall
Out of twenty-five or thirty.—Tribune