The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1853-12-20 00:00:00

PORTUGAL,

Ris (IN, Dec. 9.—The ceremony of breaking
" took place on the 3rd. This is an an-
-4 tit
y ..,,elistom- which shoUld have taken place the
a4.ter the monarch's funeral, but it was forgot-
Platform being erected in each of three 10-4
4 to
tcl "'--Commercial (black-horse) square, Don
oce Square, and the square of St. Anthony—a
canal ,lion took place in due order from the muni-
pl,,,,,'lamber, and at each of the places the follow-
\t(ltt4'lls being audibly spoken, namely, " Weep,
it‘'hrißusse; because your. Queen, the Lady Donna
ththe second, is &ad," a shield- was broken,
,stetri,relwn on the floor; after which a religious
tiillr4"437.took place in St. Anthony's church. •
Lord Talbot and Colonel Wylde arrived,
641 free pratique given them. The American
ttiBl4,r, although on board the same packet, was
%kr, 11,;`ed to quarantine,. but on writing a tolerably
prate- '1 to the minister of foreign affairs, it is
xe6 gee was given him'also. •
• ', 54 ; discount of notes, 2; per cent.

BRITISH AMERICA:

tptllt I‘.l
Jeet olltreal Herald contains an article on the
t • ef the trade of that port, and the amount
3'14 414
to learnelec .the prdsent year. It is grafi-
that both-have been increased, in a

Most extraordinary manner. We clip the follow-
ing extract from the article alluded to
The whole collection of duties last yeiir in this
port amounted to £333;2985 so that with the im
portations after the 10th of October still unac
counted for; we are already more than £48,000 in
advance of the whole customs collected last year
at the port of Montreal alone. From these figures
we may therefOre begin to forni some proximate
estimate of the prObable increase of the revenue
of the country, for the current twelve months. In
1.852 of £739,203 gross collections for customs
£333,298, or not quite one half were received in the
port of Montreal. If then, we take it for granted,
that the importation in other ports has kept pace
with the importation to Montreal, we cannot put
down the increase of revenue at much less than
£200,000, that is to say about one third of what the
whole revenue of the country was only some four
or five years ago."
The Mirimichi, (New Brunswick) Gleaner says:
We do not remember ever having experienced at
this early period of the season such intensely cold
weather as we have had during the past week.
Our river from Saturday morning until last night,
was fast bound in ice, on Friday the channel was
open, but so intense was the eold on the following
night, that early next morning persons crossed
over to the opposite shore. A large body of men
have been buSily employed since Monday, cutting
out Messrs. HaWes and Mitchell's new ship, the
Golden Light, which vessel was built at their yard
In Newcastle. This morning she was opposite to
Douglastown. This is an arduous task; and we
hope their labors will be crowned with success.
Last night it was extremely mild with a high wind
from southwest, this Morning is soft with every
appearance of rain. The ice is rapidly breaking
up, and if the same weather continues until even-
ing, we may expect to see a clear river. As we go
to press at one o'clock, the ice is broken nip, and
the Golden Light is passing doWn; aniidst the
cheers and firing of guns-. the Indians in Canada
predict a very told winter. They predicate their
opinion from the Manner in which the Muskrats
are fortifying their habitations.
The St. John N.B. Courier announces the arrival
of the packet ship Middleton, from Liverpool, in
53 days with. 291 passengers, all in good health.
Two children died on the passage, and there were
two births. The Middleton experienced very severe
weather, with a succession of gales from west to
north-west, which continued from the 23rd of
October to the 7th of November, without scarcely
any intermission, during which time the vessel
lost a full suit of sails, and several spars, besides
having suffered severely in her rigging.

ORDINATION BY THE LORD BISHOP OF MAN-

CHESTER.
The Lord Bishop of Manchester held an ordination in the
parish church of Prestwich, near Manchester, on Sunday
last, when the following gentlemen were ordained, and
afterwards licensed to stipendary curacies :
DEAcoxs,—Benjamin Batty, M.A., St. John's, Oxford,
to Walton-le-Dale; James Chell to St. Barnabas's Man-
chester; Edmund Creek Hore to St. Philip's, Bradford,
Manchester-road ; Joseph Lowe, 8.A., Trinity, Cambridge,
to Chipping ; Arthur Townley Parker, 8.A., Trinity, Can-
bridge, to Deane ; Francis Deacle Rabbitts, B.A„ St. John's,
Cambridge, to Habergham Eaves ; William Sheldon Reece,
8.A., Emmanuel College, Cambridge, to Ardenshaw; John
Reynolds, 8.A., Trinity College, Dublin, to St. Matthias's,
Salford ; Frederick Sleep, 8,A,, Trinity College, Cambridge,
to St. Clements, Rochdale.

Hedgson Blamire, St. Bee; Cumber-
land ; James Davenport Kelly, 8.A., Wadham College, Ox-
ford ; Philip Henry Lee, B. A., Worcester, College, Oxford ;
John Marshall, St. Bees' College, Cumberland; Arthur
Packer, 8.A., St. Edmund Hall Oxford ; George Frederick
Prescott, M.A., Trinity College, Cambridge ; Frederick
William Ripley,B.A., Magdalen College, Cambridge ; John
Edmund Sedgwick, 8.A., Trinity College, Dublin ; Thomas
Wade, M.A., Exeter College, Oxford ; Thomas Ba dwell,
8.A., St. John's College, Cambridge.

SAINT SIMON'S SUNDAY AND DAY SCHOOLS.

The annual tea-party in connection with the St. Simon's
Sunday and day schools, took place at the Concert-hall last
night. There was a very large attendance, the galleries,
body of the hall, and platform, being densely crowded. The
hall was decorated tastefully with evergreens and banners,
bearing appropriate inscriptions. At half-past six o'clock
tea was served in the hall. The chair was taken by the Rev.
John Conor. M.A. Among the clergymen upon the platform
were— Rev. James McAllister, Rev. T. C. Cowan, Rev. John
J. Butler, Rev. David Barry, Rev. Henry Marler, Rev. Ste-
phen B. Sutton, Rev. Dr. Hume, Rev. Ormsby Powell, Rev.
Mr. Sheldon, &c., &c.

Prayers having been offered by Rev. Mr. M'Allister, the
children of the schools executed with feeling and taste, the
anthem " How beautiful upon the mountains."
THE CHAIRMAN then addressed the meeting. In the
course of his observations he expressed his approval of the
exertions which had been made by the congregation and by
the children of the schools since their last congregational
tea-party in January. The children had contributed up-
wards of in farthings, and the congregation £316, for
the purpose of building the new schools. With the promise
of assistance which they had received they should probably
have between £2OOO and £3OOO. On the Ist of October
the balance due to the secretary of the schools was £2l 4s
6d. Since then they had received £22 7s 71d, which, after
paying the secretary, would only leave a balance in hands of
£1 3s led to meet the expenses of the quarter. The Chair-
man then delivered an earnest and eloquent appeal to the
congregation to come forward with their assistance in order
to enable the institution to meet the difficulties in which it
was placed.

The meeting was then addressed by Rev. Messrs. Cowan,
Hume, Butler, Barry, Marlen, Sutton, and Powell, and col-
lections was made and the proceedings closed with an an-
them sung by the children of the schools.

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.

TATTERSALLS. —YESTERDAY.
CHESTER CUP.
50 to 1 against Tom, late Mountain Hawk.
66 to 1 against Newminster (taken).
OFFERS TO TAKE.
40 to 1 about Virago.
9 to 1 against Tom King (taken).
33 to I against Andover (taken).
40 to 1 against Meteora (taken).

Capt de Laporte was tried and acquitted on Friday, for
the murder of General de Neuilly.
The Marquis of Anglesea has left town for Beaudesert,
where his lordship will receive a family circle at the close
of the week, for the holidays.
The prelimin irks of a marriage are said to be arranged
between Lord Bateman and Miss Kerrison, daughter of the
late general Sir Edward Kerrison, and sister to Lady
Mahon.
FIRES IN LONDON.—On Saturday night, and up to 5 a.m.
on Tuesday morning, seven fires occurred in London. None
of them were serious.
A person named Thomas Ambley, was committed to take
his trial at the sessions, on a charge of having, on Saturday
afternoon, stolen a quantity of liad and a brass tap from an
empty house in Copeland-street, Greenhays.
ROBBERIES FROM BUTCHERS' SHOPS.—Yesterday, at the
Manchester city police-court, a person named Michael
Reddock, was committed to take his trial at the sessions, on
two charges of having, a few days previously, broken into
two butchers' shops in Oldham-road, and stolen therefrom a
quantity of meat.
M ORE MEAT STEALlNG.—Yesterday, at the city police-
courts Manchester, a middle-aged Irishman was committed
to prison for twenty-one days with hard labour, for having,
on Saturday night, stolen a piece of mutton from a butcher's
shop in Ancoats-street.
Two men, named Martin Burke and Thomas Brady, were
charged with having, on Sunday morning early, taken part
in an affray in Pickford-street, Oldham road, in which ser-
geant Walton was severely injured. The sergeant was un-
able, from illness, to attend, and the prisoners were remanded
to Saturday next.
BREAKING SQUARES OF GLASS.—At the Manchester city
police-court, yesterday, two females, named Jane Rhode and
Mary Jackson, were charged with having, on Saturday
night, been diSorderly and breaking several squares of glass
in the public-house kept by Mrs. Poole, Deansgate. To be
imprisoned for eight days with hard labour.
DEATH OF THE COUNTESS OF MAR AND KELLIE.
The death of the Countess of Mar and Kellie, took place
at Alloa House, Clackmannanshire on Thursday afternoon.
Her ladyship was a daughter of the late Sir Charles G. S.
Monteath, Bart., and was married to the Earl of Mar and
Kellie in 1827.

PRESTON STRIKE.—The number of persons assisted at
Preston on Saturday last, the 16th week of the strike, was
15,502, and the amount distributed £2,908 7s. 9d. The
previous week the number relieved was 14,972, and the cost
£2;820 Bs. From this it will be seen that the increase this
week in the number of hands receiving relief has been 530,
and the amount paid £B7 19s. 3d. The sum disbursed by
the respective committees since the commencement of the
strike now amounts7to close up.on £30,000.
FATAL ACCIDENT BY MACRINERY.—Mr. Herford, coroner,
for the city of Manchester, held an inquest at the Royal
Infirmary, touching the death of Thomas Statham, of 22,
Sheffield-street, Hulme, aged 38 years, leaving a widow and
four children. The deceased was in the employment of
Messrs. Sharp and Stewart, of the Atlas works, and about
three weeks ago was engaged in oiling a shaft. when he was
caught by the machinery, by which his right arm was torn
off. The arm was amputated at the infirmary, but hemorr-
hage followed, and he died in consequence. Verdict,
s' Accidental Death."

1n ELAND.
rißOioi OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.]

DOBLIN, Mortrykr.
New whiskey has been reduced 3d. per gallon in
price in the Dublin market.
The question of " request notes," as they are
called in Ireland, that is receipts for whiskey in
bond, which may have been banded over from a
holder to a purchaser, has been decided in favour
of the holder. Those notes, in other words, are
declared transferable.
The Customs duties of Dublin were V-9,400 last
week, against £15,100 in the corresponding week
of 1852.

The Galway Packet states that it has from private
authority, that a deptitatiOri of the Great Southern
and Western Railway directors waited on Lord
Palmerston a few days back,' asking his support
for the project of a rail Way. from Tullainore to
Athlone, and that his Lordship refused to comply
with the request.
It is rumoured that Sir Thomas Burke, the whig,
member for Galway County, is about to resign his
seat. If he does, it will most probably be for a
peerage, for Which he has long beeii

Dr. Allnian; Of Trinity College, Dublin, has
been appointed to the professorship of mathe-
matics in the Queen's College, Galway, vacant
by the death of Mr. Mulcahy.
IRISH BEET SUGAR. __..The correspondent of a
Dublin journal, states that the samples of the
present seaSpn'S Makufacluië Of the triSh Beet
Root Sugar Cothpany have been kindly sent to him
by Mr. Hirsch, their general manager in Ireland
The quality is very superior, both in grain and
colour, and perfectly free from any peculiar flavour.
COLLISION IN KINGSTON HARBOUIL—There was a
fearful sea in Dublin bayyesterday, iri COliselptence
of a severe easterly breeke. tven Kingston har-
bour hardly afforded sufficient protection to the
shipping, and a sloop laden with Indian corn, got
in collision with a brig, and immediately went down.
Fortunately none 'of the crew were lost, but the
wreck which now lies near the entrance-of the har-
bour, Will be very inconvenient.

BELGIAN TREATMENT. OF GIRLS—Your readers
will recollect that some time since it was canvassed
in Belfast, with considerable warmth, how the Bel-
gians had treated certain yoling women of that
town, who had gone thither to instruct the opera-
tives of Belgiuni in the peculiar products of Bel-
fast—the sewed muslin trade among the principal.
These young women were said to have been badly.
treated, and meeting was held in Belfast to pro-
test against the hardships dealt to them. In Bel-
gium it was denied, but the following article; which
we find in the Northern Irhig, founded on an offi-
cial inquiry, makes known the facts :—" Belfast
houses do not fear, they rather invite competition ;
and they think that rivalry is good. But Belfast
merchants are not deaf to the claims of humanity,
and they cannot sanction, or cannot regard as fair
or honest, such proceedings as have lately been re-
sorted to by a Belgian house, with a view of enter-
ing upon a course of competition with them in the
production of that commodity for which they have
won a world-wide reputation, and in which they are
unequalled. It may be in the recollection of our
readers, that some months ago, a most influential
meeting was held in Belfast, at which the cases of
some poor young women, who had been induced
to leave Belfast for a flax spinning mill in Belgium,
were considered, and resolutions, which certainly
were of a very calm character, circumstances consi-
dered, were adopted. The Belgian firm became
intensely irate in consequence, and fulminated insi
nuations that were almost threats, against the gen-
tleman who had officially communicated the dis-
tresses of the poor girls, who had been induced to
leave their homes, as also against their " calum
niators" in the press, whose only offence, it appears.
was telling the truth. A. judicial hearing of the
case, as taken from the Brussels Herald, will satisfy
every reader that the strictures on the task-masters
of the poor girls, who appear as complainants, were
in no degree undeserved.—The wages of the girls
appear to have been stopped on very flimsy pre-
tences ; and, by way of defence, the representatives
of the defendants, and the son of one of them, al-
leged that the poor girls—who were stricken with
illness, apparently from over-labour, and who were
then turned out of doors—were drunkards and
thieves, the only reason that could be alleged for
the latter calumny being, that one of the complain-
ants, while wearing an apron, value for about 3d.
of our money, in the mill, when turned out of doors,
forgot to divest herself of the paltry piece of cloth,
and brought it to her lodging, where it now remains
afterher. Broken engagements, seductive promises,
and bad faith characterise the proceedings of the
Belgian firm in this case, which is of su(l a char-
acter that it is not likely the same persons can ever
again hope to bring Irish workers to their premises
to teach their employes our improved system of
manufacture."

Mr. H. M'Calmont Cairns, M.P. for Belfast, and
a deputation, had an interview with the Earl of
Aberdeen on Wednesday, at 4is official residence
in Downing•street.

MEXICAN-VICE-CONSULATE. - Her Majesty has
been phased to sanction the appointment of Mr.
Roderick Kamcke, as vice consul of the republic
of Mexico at the port of Belfast, in the place of
Mr. Joseph Magill.
We learn from Saunders's News Letter, Dublin
Journal, that the Earl of Londesborough has deter-
mined upon founding and endowing a church on
the banks of Lough Erne.

The Londonderry and Enniskillen railway is
completed the length of Dromore, twelve miles
from Enniskillen, and will commence to run.
They are fitting up the electric telegraph along the
line.

CHANCERY REGULATION ACT.—For the first time
since the passing of this act, which came into
operation in Ireland, iu November, 1850, a viva
voce examination of witnesses took place in the
Court of Chancery, iu the cause of S'herl)ck v.
Bennett. The Lord Chancellor took notes of the
evidence, as a judge at nisi Arius. This mode,
which was not adopted too hastily, is said to have
given satisfaction, and there was an immediate
decree.

THREATENING A PARISH PRIEST.—The Zing/0 Celt
announces a novelty in whiteboyism, namely, the
serving a threatening notice on a parish priest.
There are 1,500 men employed on the Portrush
extension of the Belfast and Ballymena railway
Mr. Dargan is contractor.

SHUTTING THE GATES OF DERRY.--The anniver-
sary of " shutting the gates" was celebrated by the
" orange 'prentices" of Derry on this day.
All the passengers belonging to the Guiding
Star, in charge of the Belfast union, have left the
workhouse for their respective places of destina-
nation, the Belfast government officer of emigra-
tion having procured for them the amount of their
passage-money.
KING V. KlNG.—This case, in which the rather
serious question of the existence or non-existence
of a marriage, and the possession of ten thousand
pounds, are concerned, still proceeds. The allega
tions on the side of the plaintiff, as I before stated,
were, that she was married to the late Captain
King, in 1837, by the Rev. Mr. Schutz, a German
clergyman, who was in the habit of celebrating,
clandestine alliances. Captain King, it was de-
posed, was passing under the name of Callen, which
he signed in the registry kept by the clergyman,
and the plaintiff swore that she wrote the name of
King, instead of Smith, her maiden name. The
defence is two-fold; first, that such a marriage
never took place, and secondly, that if it did, Cap-
tain King was insane at the time. The Attorney-
General took a whole day in addressing the jury
on both branches ; and amongst other things he
stated that persons would he brought forward to
prove that the names of Callen and King appear-
ing in Schultz's registry belonged to different
people altogether, who had been discovered through
the medium of an advertisement. Those parties
were brought forward to-day, and, it is no exagge-
ration to say that their evidence totally broke down.
In the testimony of the husband and wife there
were the most glaring discrepancies, and the matter
was clenched by a third person, who was subpcened
to swear that he had known the parties as man and
wife. This he did rather too well, for he declared
they were so for thirty years at least, which, if true,
would put their marriage much farther back than
1837. The remaining parts of the case, which are
very complicated, still go on.
The archbishop of Dublin has addressed a letter
to the protestant inhabitants of Dublin, complain-
ing of their generally irregular attendance at,
and irreverent behaviour in, church. 'Considering
that his Grace is twenty years and upwards in the
exalted position he now holds, he could hardly
have pronounced a graver or more deliberate
censure upon his own administration of his dioce-
san functions.

LIVERPOOL BAYKRUPTCY COURT.
(BEFORE 3iR. COMMISSIONER PERRY).
Ine ioseplt PerePeile.
The bankrupt in this case Came up on his last examination,
an amended balance sheet having been tiled. It appeared
that the bankrupt estimated the value of the goods on the
premises at the time of the fire at £2500. fie received
from the insurance office £1475, and he realised from the
stock saved £3OO, and his loss by fire was put down at
£872 15s. 10d, He was examined at some length relative
to the balance put down for loss by fire, which, however,
seemed to have originated in mistake. The bankrupt had no
account of his receipts or payments for three months before.
his bankruptcy. He could give no better account than what
he had done of the papers which were produced before the
arbitrators with reference to his claim against the insurance
company ; nor could he give any better account of hip
trading, or of his estate and effects, than was contained in
his amended balance sheet,

Mr. 'VAT-Es said he had asked all such questions a.,
he was justified in asking; and he had no other
question to put to the bankrupt before his Honor
decided the question whether the bankrupt should
or should not pass. In the first instance he woulo
direct attention to the bankrupt's papers. It was admittek.
by his solicitor that a large hamper of papers, being all tht
documents and Vouchers precio,ecti d& i cLiA,
with reference to the insurance company, was returned .
Mr. Pemberton's office, and from his office they were sei
down to the bankrupt's premises in Paradise-street. II
(Mr. Yates) had no reason to suppose but that every paps,
produced before the arbitrators, and there was a Brea. mu
titude of them, Was returned into the bankrupt's ow
nossessiori immediately after they came from the arbitrators.
Subsequently the messenger asked for the papers, and the
bankrupt said he would get them out for him, and in a dad
or two afterwards, a bundle of papers, comparatively small,
and partially burned, was handed to the messenger, as all
the papers and evidence which had been produced before
the arbitrators, Nothing in fact had been given up to the
tssigneeS but some bunted papers; the retnse of the fire.
His Honor would consider, therefore, whether the bankrupt
had made such a disclosure, and had given up his books and
papers so as to satisfy the requirements of the statute. Then
as regarded the property it appeared on all hand,
that it had been . represented by Mr: Pemberton,
who had a list, to the creditors, that the propert's
saved from the fire was not damaged at all, (there
were two descriptions, some damaged, and the other un-
touched altogether), amounted to the value of from £5OO to.
£6OO. The bankrupt took o.session of this property, which
had been since sold, and in his balance-sheet he merel3
accounted for lan. Those were the two propositions which
he thought it proper to bring before the court, as resulting
from the balance-sheet. Whether the court thought the
present was the proper time to deal with the bankrupt for
the other offence he did not know, or whether it would be
left for some future period. He did not need to go into the
question, and, therefore, he directed his honor's attention to
the two points which he had indicated. Then there were no
books; and lastly the whole account, 'Whatever it was, was
of a very unsatisfactory character, and a mere manufacture
from beginning to end. He (Mr. Yates) was not aware
there were any vouchers to check the balance-sheet. With
those observations he should leave it with the court to de-
cide whether the bankrupt should pass.
Mr. PEMBERTON said the question was whether the bank-
rupt had made such a disclosure of his estate and effects as he
could, It was alleged first that he had not delivered up his
papers; secondly, that he had not accounted for the property;
and thirdly, that he had given an account which was not
satisfactory. Now, with regard to the papers which were
before the arbitrators, he had satisfactory evidence to adduce
before the court what had become of those papers. It m ould
appear that the bankrupt's wife, who had had, not only in
this, but in the whole of the previous trading of the bank-
rupt, the entire management; immediately after the papers,
which consist( d chiefly of invoices, were returned.
The COMMISSIONER : In this case the invoices were very
important documents.
Mr. PEMBERTON :.No doubt they were; but they were
documents readily obtained again by application.
The COMMISSIONER : In fact, they were not very honestly
given.

Mr. PEMBERTON : They were not. Immediately after
the papers were returned, they were destroyed by the bank-
rupt's wife ; and she was ready, with a youth, who was at
that time in their service, to testify to their destruction.
The bankrupt had nothing to do with it, and the papers
delivered by her to the messenger, were papers she after-
wards found.

The COMMISSIONER thought the bankrupt had stated that
he and his wife had looked over the papers delivered to the
messenger.
Mr. PEMBERTON believed it was the wife who said so, and
it was she who gave the papers that were given. With
regard to the property it was described in three clauses : the
property consumed ; salvage, which was taken possession of
by the Insurance company; and the property consumed, for
which they claimed £2.000, and for which the insurance
company gave them £1,475. The salvage, he believed,
although no account was rendered, realized £3OO. Then as
regarded the property saved and not damaged, amounting to
something between £4OO and £6OO, as represented to the
creditors in February of the present year. It was correct
that this representation had been made, believing it was
true, that the property was of that amount. But when it
consisted of trays, brushes, &e., and when it came to be un-
packed they were found not to be destroyed, but so damaged
that when taken out of the papers, the papier mache trays
were so blistered, and the property which, if not damaged at
all, would have realised £6OO, only realised £3OO. The
bankrupt had accounted for that money, and shown how he
had applied it : if he hadgiven the best information he could,
and if it only realised that amont, surely he had given the
best information he could concerning his estate and effects.
The COMMISSIONER : Does Mr. Yates admit that ?

Mr. PEMBERTON would show it by the testimony of Mrs.
Peverelle. As regarded the acceptances not being satisfac-
torily made up, it should be recollected that, with the excep-
tion of two books, which were produced before the arbitra-
tors, and which the official assignee had, all the books were
destroyed by fire Therefore, the hankrupt had no other
means of making out his accounts, other than he had done,
namely, by getting a Ist of his creditors, and putting this
on the face of his balance sheet, and stating what he did
with the money. He (Mr. Pemberton) trusted this would
satisfy.
Louis BIANCA was then examined by Mr. Yates, and stated
that he was twelve months in the service of Mr. Peverelle,
and he remembered a parcel of papers being brought to the
bankrupt's house, in Paradise-street, from Mr. Pemberton's
office, about the month of August. Saw the b ,sket in three
or four hours after it came. It was a clothes basket, and
he had seen it before at Ar. Banner's office. In a few days
after the papers came, witness took them up into a top room,
by Mr. Peverelie's order. They were left there for a long
hile, until Mr. Peverelle shifted into another house, and
witness then removed the papers into the new house in the
same basket. Mrs Peverelle told him to carry them up stairs,
and whilst carrying them up stairs he slipped and fell down
with them, and they fell about the kitchen, upon which Mrs.
Peverelle said, "Never mind them • bring them here and let
us look at them, for I do not think they are of any use."
She looked at them and handed them to witness, and as she
did so he burned them. He put them all in the fire in her
presence. Mr Peverelle was out when this was done. Wit-
ness was present when the papers were given to the messen-
ger. Before the fire. Mr. Peverelle may have kept five or six
books ; witness saw five or six books lying about on the coun-
ter. The books were left on the counter at night, and in-
voices were kept on files hung up in the shop. Witness re-
membered the fire. He was in the shop the morning after
it, and he saw one file partly burned. The counters were
burned; one was burned right through. All the books were
burned but two. The books produced were not the books
which were saved from the fire ; they were larger books.
The last time witness saw those books was three or four
days after the fire.

To Mr. PEMBERTON : The books I saw after the fire, 'I
saw before the arbitrators. I cannot say those books were
in the basket when it came back. I saw no books destroyed
or burnt, only papers.

Mr. PEmiERTON said those books were before the arbi-
trators. If the papers were destroyed those books rai&ht be
with Mr. Banner. He was not aware they were not m the
hands of the official assignee.
Mr. YATES asked how the bankrupt could pass his last
examination when those books were not brought before the
official assignee ?
Mr. PEMBERTON: Were you, Mr. Peverelle, aware that
those books had not been delivered up to the official
assignee ?
Mr. PEVERELLE : I was aware that all that was found
at the time that was required, was given up.
Mr. YATES : There were two large books before the ar-
bitrators, but they have never been seen by the assignees.
Mr. PEMBERTON : Still they were before the arbitra-
tors ?

Mr. PEVERELLE : Yes.
Mr. PEMBERTON : They ought to have been delivered
to the official assignee.
The COMMISSIONER: That no doubt would affect the
question of last examination to day.
Mr. PEMBERTON said when the books were produced they
were found useless—one was a day book, in which an item
was entered one day, and there was not another entry foi
thr aor four mouths. He rather thought the second was a
bill book.

Mr. YATES remarked that they had been going on en-
tirely in the dark in the absence of these two important
books, which were important in consequence of the small-
ness of those they had got.
The COMMISSIONER : This only confirms me in the view
which ought to be taken of the application for costs on the
last examination. I consider it ought, at all events, to be ad-
journed ; and with reference to another mater to which
Mr. Yates has just adverted, I think this is the proper
time to state that, in my mind, a prosecution ought to be
instituted by theassignees against Perevelle, thebankrupt, for
having been privy to the alteration of an account relating
to his dealings and transactions—of course I allude to that
alteration which was made, at his request, it appears, in the
books of Louis Perevellc. I think also the bankrupt should
cbelprosecuted for a false statement which appears
on the proceedings with reference to the debt. And
being of that opinion, and as the Act of Parliament
authorises this court to direct a prosecution to be instituted,

I direct that the assignees or assignee-4 think there is
only one—shall commence a prosecution ; of course, the
costs, according to the *Visions of the act, will be paid out
of the bankrupt's estate. Then 'With rtferenCe to the last
examination, and having regard to the fact that the prose-
cution would be instituted, and I am quite satisfied the
assignee will feel it his duty to act according to the direc-
tions of the court, I think it will be as well to adjourn the
:3xamination for four months from this day—of course, I
shall refuse the bankrupt, under the eircimistanees, any pro
tection. This does not preclude the assignees from taking
such steps as they may think proper with reference to Louis
Peverelle ; but the court was not enabled to direct the costs
for prosecution against any other party than the bankrupt to
be paid out of the estate]
Mr. PEMBBRTON said there cotild be but one opinion on
this subject; but he wished to direct his Honor's attention
to the Act of Parliament, and to the section to
which he was referring. It said :—" If any bank-
rupt shall, after an act of bankruptcy, com-
mitted, or in contemplation of bankruptcy, or with tht
intent to defeat any of the laws relating:, to bankruptcy, de-
droy, alter, mutilate, or falsify any of books, papers,
writings, or securities" under that the bankrupt did not
;tend there charged with any such offence, because, first of
ill, he has made no entry in his books, neither has he altered
or destroyed, or falsified any of his books or papers.
The CommissioNtu. : Read the whole section. before you
comment on it.

Mr. PEMBERTON continued to read : "Or shall make, or
be privy to making,false or fraudulent entries in any book of
account, or other cument, with the intent to defraud his
creditors." He (Mr. Pemberton) by no means justified tin.
conduct of the bankrupt; he never had ; but surely it never
was the contemplation of the act of parliament, by this, to
make a bankrupt answerable for the acts of btheys. It was
for altering, or falsifying, or making, or being privy to mak-
ing a false or fraudulent entry in his (the bankrupt's)
own books.

The CommissiowEn : That is a matter which wil.
be decided elsewherel Of course I have formed
a decided opinion on the subject, and that is formed in con-
sequence of the alteration of the wording in the section to
which you are referring. Firsts it is in his own books,
then it is put in any books, &c., and that is the 9.. e with the
section relating to the certificate:
Mr. PEMBERTON contena.d that a penal Act of Parliament
should not be .0 construed,
The COMMISSIONER : It must be construed strictly, and
where it is to be construed strictly, the question arises, has
the bankrupt been privy to making a false ( ntry ?
Mr. PEMBERTON : Although the bankrupt stands charged
with this offence; he is the party sinned against more
than sinning ; and Mi. Yates knows it as well as I do,
that that letter was not the first introduction of that question
to Louis Peverelle by the bankrupt, but it was introduced
to the bankrupt by another person some months before.
The examination was accordingly adjourned.

INQUESTS.-YESTERDAY,

THE ACCIDENT ON BOARD THE LONDONDERRY STEAMER,

Yesterday an inquest was held on the body of the unfor-
tunate deceased; Michael M'Loughlin, who was a coal-
trimmer on board the Maiden City steamer, trading between
Liverpool and Londonderry. She left Londonderry on
Friday morning last, and whilst on her passage, the plug of
the tap belonging to the boiler came out, and he deceased,
who was in the engine-room at the time, was badly scalded
with the steam, and died, Another man, named Kennedy,
was also severely scalded, and as soon as the steamer arrived
in Liverpool he was removed to the Northern Hospital,
where he now lies in a dangerous state. Captain Johnstone
stated that the hull; engines; boiler, and all the machinery,
underwent government inspection in October last; and he
was not aware of the least imperfection. The coroner said
if the jury wished he would adjourn the case to have the
cause thoroughly surveyed by an engineer. The jury said
they were perfectly satisfied it Was acceidental.
An inquest was also held en the body of Henry Bolton,
a joiner, in the employ of Mr. Major, shipbuilder, Bruns-
wick dock. The dectased; who had. been in a very delicate
state from disease of the heart, rupthred a blood-vessel,
whilst carrying a plank with some of his fellow Worktrien,
on Saturday last, and died before he could be removed from
the yard. Verdict, died by the Visitation of God.
Au inquest was also held on the body of Ann Hutchins,
residing with her husband in Bailey-court, Bailey-street,
who died suddenly on Sunday evening last. Her husband
said that he returned about seven o'clock from doing up his
horses, he being employed as a carter. His wife was lying
on the bed in the parlour, and she asked him for a drink.
He gave her some gin in some warm tea, and she died di-
rectly. Dr. Gildersleete made a post-mortem examination,
by order of the coroner, a- d found the cause of death to
have been bronchitis.—Verdict, died from natural causes.
FATAL ACCIDENT AT THE WAPPING DOCK.—An inquest
was held on the body of Martin Dimond, who was working
last Sunday afternoon taking down a wall at the new Wap-
ping dock, The wall had been partly taken down, and the
rest being in a dangerous state, when the deceased was
cautioned by the ganger, but he replied " There is no fear
of me," and in a moment the wall fell, and the deceased was
knocked down into the dock from a height of 30 feet. He
was then taken to the South Hospital, where he died the
same evening, One of the jury asked why these men were
working on the Sabbath day, and whether the corporation
allowed them to do so, which he could not think they did,
as they fined the publicans for selling half-a-pint of ale
Surely it ought to be inquired into. A man present, and
who gave his name as Brighbuse, stated that he had charge
of the work, and he received a message from Mr. Hartley to
remove this wall last Saturday night,and as it was work not fit
to be done in the night it was done on the Sunday, and had
it not been done then there would have been 200 horses and
300 men standing idle on Monday. The coroner said this
was not a satisfactory answer, and adjourned the case until
this day, at half-past 12, to have Mr. Hartley present.