The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1856-01-02 00:00:00

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name appeared as a trustee, an action was brought against
him, and he was held to be responsible as well as the others,
and, the consequence was, that his bankruptcy ensued. The
first application which he (Hr. Bardswell) had from Mr.
Lee, the registrar, requiring the production of the dam-
meats, represented that he had been instructed by a creditor,
to make the application. Ile (Mr. Bardswell), however,
well knew that it could have been no creditor
and that there was some improper object in
making the application, because he knew, as a fact,
that there was not a single creditor of Mr. Magee's who, at
the time of his-bankruptcy, was a bona
.fiele creditor of his
that had not been paid subsequently by Mr. Magee to the
full extent of 20s in the pound, and that not a single shilling
was now due to anyperson al creditor. It had been intimated to
him that the present application emanated from the court
itself, and that it was with the view of carrying out the act
of parliament which required that all proceedings in exis-
tence prior to the month of November, 1842, should be
brought into court ; and it had also been intimated to him,
that although the papers might be brought into court, that
circumstance would not warrant an inspection of them by
any third party without a proper notice. His Honour :
Certainly not. Mr. Bardswell continued to say that in that
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case his whole object was
the inspection of the papers for an iinpiu
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order in doing so, but he would ask the
court to give a special direction that the papers
should not be inspected without the authority
of the court being given on proper application by the party
seeking the inspection. His Honor said that general
instructions of the kind were always given to the officers of
the court ; but that after what had taken place in this case,
those orders would be again given, and the officers directed
that any request for the inspection of the papers should be
in writing, and that it should also be laid before the court
to consider whether it was a legitimate rerest or not. At
the same time the court could not tie itself down to any
restriction, but would see that every proper caution was
used. Mr. Brougham observed that in all cases that

caution was used, and the solicitor of the assignee'notified
of the request. Mr. Bardswell said that was all that could
be asked. There was not a single thing now to be done
under the fat, and an improper attempt having been made
to inspect the proceedings, he was naturally led to be un-
usually circumspect and careful in the matter, The matter
then dropped, and the papers were delivered immediately
afterwards to the messenger of the court.

POLICE COI

RT.—YEsr EMMY

(BEFORE MR. ROM ILY.)

BASE COIN.—A young female, named Georgiana Wil-
son, was sent for trial, for having passed several base
crown pieces at different shops in town. •

THRFT 1W A MILLINER.—A nice-looking young female
named Matilda Smith, was charged by Mrs. Lightfoot,
of No. 3, London-road, in whose empl.oyment she was,
with having stolen a quantity of property in the millinery
line. The girl admitted the fact, and alleged she was
in distress. She cried bitterly, and said the only rela-
tive she had in the world was a brother, who was at sea,
and if he heard of it, his heart would break. She did
not care about herself, but about her brother. The com-
plainant said, she did not wish to be hard on the girl,

who was committed for one month

ILLEGALLY PLEDGING.—A woman named Margaret
Kelly, who keeps a sailor's boarding house, at No. 15,
Crooked-lane, was charged with having pledged
the clothes of a young man named Abraham
Young. The complainant said he had been absent for
some time, and on his return the day before
Christmas, he found his trunk had been emptied of Pa
contents (clothes), and the defendant gave him the
tickets, as she had pledged them. The prisoner admitted
that she took the things, but said the man was away for
two years, and that he owed her an account, and she
took the things to pay herself. The complainant denied
the vatement, but admitted that he said he would forgive
her if sho released the goods: She was ordered to pay
the amount, or to be imprisoned for one month.

(BEF3RE MR.' T. »qcroN.)

• A DROP o' SPIRITS !—Two persons, named., James
Madrell, and J. Hooley, were charged by officer 198 under
the following circums'ances. The officer said he was
on duty at the Coiling wood dock on Monday, where there
we.e gaugers measuring whiskey that had arrived by the
Cork steam packet. He saw seine persons in the hqt
drinking, and the prisoners asked him to have a drink. oe
the whiskey out of a bottle which they produced.
He refused, and asked had they any more> They said
they had, and produced two bottles. He then inquired,
of them if these were samples ? and they said " no." He
then took the whiskey to the central police-office, where
he received instructions to arrest the prisoners for steel-
ing the whiskey. Subsequently, Madrell said the bottles
were samples. He then went to Mr. Wilson, the agent,
who informed him he did not allow the men to take any
samples at all. Mr. Bluck, who appeared for the
prisoners, stopped the witness hero, and said this was
not evidence. He proceeded to cross-examine the officer,
who in reply, said he did not take any of the whiskey
with the prisoners. One of the prisoners was the delivery,
and the other, the forwarding clerk, at the office of the
company at the dock; they were in the place—they
ought to be at their duty. The steam-boat was dig,
charging cargo, and there were seven casks of whiskey
on the quay opened by the excise officers, who were
taking samples. The excise-officer was called, and
he said the officers took samples, but after trying them,
the samples were returned to the casks. The policeman,
in reply to Mr. Bluck, said the prisoners had not removed,
nor did they attempt to remove, the whiskey from he,
huts. There was not the least secrecy or concealment
made about it. Mr. Robert Richmond, spirit merchant,
Cable-street, said he had had two puncheons of whiskey
from Cork, by the steamer Nimrod, One was sent off to
Manchester direct from the docks, the other was,hrought
to his store. Mr. Blue':: Wi l you swear this whiskey
now produced is yours ? Wi'ness : I cannot tell that.
Mr. Bluck : Was the cask foil ? Witness: Yes, one was
as full as usual, but that which °vale to me was from
quart to three pin's shore. The excise-officer said when
he measured the cask at the dock, it corresponded exacta y
with the contents of the permit. It was usual when the
ownerspresent, to have men there. It
,vas
hi tyto spiritsb waTvgre
up the casks,
but in this case he
left it to be done by others. Mr. Black : And there were
other casks of whiskey there also? Witness: Ther e were
several other casks open. Mr. Bluck contendcA that no
matter how irregular his clients might have acted, they
had not committed a felony. It was quite usual for
men, when gauging whiskey in this way, to take a glass.
Mr. Richmond : They had no authority to do so. Mr.
Bluck : It being Christmas time, ?rhaps, there ought to
be a little latitude allowed,'His, clients bore an
excellent character, and no one could say, who heard
the case, that they contemplated a felony. The whiskey
would have been drunk in the shed, had not -the police_
man interfered. Mr. Bolton remarked, that he was far
from saying that the conduct of the prisoners was free
from impropri&y, but he thought the whole thing arose
from the neglect of the excise officer in not bunging up
the casks. He cautioned the prisoners as to their
future conduct, and discharged them.

NOT THE REAL TIN. luaguire, was charged
with stealing 251bs of block tin, value 355, from a
cask the Coburg-dock. -From the evidence, it
appeared that there was a cask of the metal left in the
dock, and in the adsence of a person Who was left to
watch it, the prisoner Plundered it. He admitted the
theft, and said it was distress that caused him to do it.
Committed for two months.

—James

HARLEQUINADE ACCIDENT.—On Friday night, towards
the doze of the pantomime at Cov(nt-garden theatre, the
harlequin, Mr. C, Brown, struck his bead against a pro-
jecting piece of wood and fell heavily on his shoulder,
whichb was dislocated, He received prompt surgical at-
tendance, but was removed to his residence in a state of
great suffering,