The Express.
London, England, 1850-05-31 00:00:00

le...ent Int Incase arquaiated with the phimiff mad her
leanly. sad after the wpm of a sheet Ow be wee adielned
es nigher to the tiff. The datendist eves all made
preponis of manias, to the Seidl, Sebes& at that
Ogee he was not manly in • le andstahe the re-
speosithe whisk • saarried tdashivelve. The
was erupted by the lady, but the aid see, befereP7Z
his assoni, way payload, made Inquiries kW the 11111.
losimas's eberestee, whish peeved et such a hooneable m-
um that he at ow swim wl. Ind, with • utow to memo
the peise, he iodised th• ivissivat to
ties de/idr~vbilek lie WA had drew. up,to
miry kis desghter within - 12=5., ..,la
www4 w pip dr sew ef IN At the nos oft!
Esalbs the Erliedial did pet fulll hie penis. and maws
teem Awed to wank in estate of ensolefoly kw II months
Ewa, whoa he wee naked fee aa explemilisn el kis modest
mil his reply wee Set be did Shad to eneny. • sham
liebte
wee than inettnetel le app es ►Mos, hot the dehnilient del
net reply t• the Woe. le was vwy ow
essziag Sheen to the por^
shies le renew his mit ; t 11=ty be
withdrew is tete, and applied to the dike rabbi,
Dr. Adler, to effect an wswessint between Ms sod
the *lad!. The chief rabbi smaswil Mt. Soma le
kis messes, and after wend seethe the shied rabbi
direased the &headset to marry Mist Baines' within six
seethe, but gave his a NSA& time to .onside of it. The
defendant, however, wise to the thief rabbi, deeliaks to
comply with his order; and thesepon the preset ashes
wee brought.
The defendant appeared in pasts, end is his defense said
that he was a Pole, end could not speak English well menet
to .:plain the paints he wee *tied in at the time he was
induced to sign the contract. At that time he had just
arrived to England, and could not speak a word of llagliah.
He kuw no more the meaning of the outsets of the does-
smut than a child. It wee insinuated that he wee melli
bat he denied it, for be was mot la a petition to seary,tt
if be wee able to support a wife, the plaintiff wee the last
pine. he should think ot. He had no M. to give than,
and if (injury gave a virdiet for that moonlit, he would be
enable to pay it.
The Jury Rave a verdict for the plaintiff—Thmages 201.
CAZOIDI V. WATIII.—FAZAII 111PlUtOMMIXT.
In this am Mr. &Tisane Wilkie. sad Mr. Kay appeared
for the *Stiff, and Mr. Ballentine ia altigadea of de-
=The plaintiff sought to ✓mover ernipmeatioa by way
pm for false imprisonment under the following air-
easeteame. Oa the seining of the 10th of January lest,i
1 dieylWWllvte mu deleribed m a readasaa's savant
oat ef glom, east the dedendeat, M
ir,,D. Watts, ea szteseive
melee; at Greg Ealeigia, in at the Standard, is
Piccadilly. Defeedest, who bad been enjoying himself over-
sight, challenged a mimes se wrestle, hackies himself at
3to I. The mimeo wspMi the
_chilliest, and threw the
burly grimier, an Wm Amminded the wager. Before the
contest the defendant set limbs say silver, pissed •H. note
in the plaintiff's hand, essitabilag the cebenan's elsilliag
rolled up Sahi. The parties went to mother home to get
the note clanged, whin IMO altercation ensued, and the
defendant charged the plaintiff at Marlborough-street Polies
Court with stealing the M. note. The detendeat however
did not appear against 1 is, and he was diseharged.
Several witmeees were examined who proved the fasts,
and it was elicited in the eromozerninatioa of the polka-
san, who took the chest., that the polies looked upon the
plaintiff with sons suspicion, and that he knew him to be
wing about doing nothing be two yeas.
Mr. Ballaatine addressed the jury in an eloquent spank,
ocumentine with some severity epos the character of the
pi iintiff. He contended that SIN defendant had jut and
rummatile grounds for seepieks, end that the plaintiff was
sot entitled to sore than seminal dosages.
The learned Under-Sheriff tell the jury that it was not
their duty to punish the defiindsst. AU they had to do was
to award whatever amount of oespensatioa they thought
the plaintiff entitled to, which depeaded entirely oa the
view they tick of the meld ii of the plaintiff. There was
no banner alleged to be lost; bet in all then cases the
serial sufferings of the party wee token into consideration,
and it was for this to say whether, tress the plaintiff's posi-
tion, he suffered to that extent that ethers would under
similar eireutastances. It was no matter, so far as his cha
rester woe oosurned, for let that be what it might, it could
not jeatify the defendant is putting the law in motion
against him upon a groundless Serge.
verdict—Dassges, 21.

COURT OF BANBRUPTCY.—YESTEIDAT.
Baroas Na.Oosmaitosza Gortavas.
IN In SLAMIT.-11/PORTANT TO TUB PROT/1501011.

Them was an audit meetiag in Ude Nee to-day. The busi-
ness Wag gone through,
His Honour said-1 wish to say a far weeds In this cue,
in which we have a sitting to-day fee the audit. Thu is a
matter which somewhat imports the administration of the
law in bankruptcy; and as I see several solicitors here, and
as we have some sittings for audits, I wish to say a few
words on the character of that sitting. I have etheerved of
late, with great regret, that neither ereditors nor the solicitor
to the assignees, think :it worth their while to attend the
audit of the assignees' accounts. Last week I had no fewer
than thirteen cues of suitable the meanies' accounts; and
of the thirteen only one solicitor att. nded. Now this I
cannot but think a great neghet on the part of the solicitor
to the fist ; sod it is peculiarly his duty to attend because,
la the scale of fees marked cut by the
court, and sanctioned by the peat seal, I find
that he is allowed three fees expressly with re-
ference to this sitting. Fiat, he is allowed a fee of
Is. hd. for penning the official assignee's account, which is
seat to him ; then he is allowed 13e. 4d. for attending the
author'e soignee, cad going through the account along
with hiss; and, lastly, lie is allowed ii. for attending the
meet up** the audit. Yet we constantly find, in the great
majority of these eases, that neither the solicitor nor the
creditor's assignee thinks it worth while to attend, though, I
regret to say, in all these audit meetings these fees con-
tinue to be charged, This question, which is of some im-
portance, was lately disagreed before a committee of the
House of Commons. They had examined an official assignee,
and were anxious to ascertain what check there was upon
the accuracy o' the neonate as rendered by the official
soignee. I will endeavour shortly to give an se•
count bow the matter stands. I am old enough,
having been a commissioner of bankrupts under the
old system far many years, to recollect the time
when the audit of the official assignee's account'
was entirely a private matter, behind the back of the moil.
tors, who could exercise no control whatever. And it hap-
pened tom in consequence of belonging to a list where
question arose about those accounts, to hear Lord Eldon say
that the greatest 'improvement yeti& could be iatroduesd,'
and which he would n rest till he had Introduced (ea he
did), was to make the audit of the 'reigned accounts a
public sitting, so that every creditor might have an opportu-
nity, if he chose' of investigating the items one by one, and
objecting to iny pert of the expenditure, observing that it
was of the utmost importance to check a great part of th
expenditure, and particularly the solicitors' bills. He ac-
cordingly introduced, I think by the 49th of George 111., a
provision to that effect, making the audit a publte sitting.
When this court was instituted, no express provision was intro-
duced into the act of parliament constituting the court, directly
authorising the creditors, or their solicitor, or the soignee,
to Icok over the proceedings and to examine the accounts of
the official soignee. That was a defect in that stands.
Bat, so far from any impediment being offered to the are-
diton or to the solicitor inysetigatiog the accounts of the
official assignee, fres access was given in all each cases' sad
every officer of the court did his utmost to encourseestrelt ,
applications. Bat the matter was not allowed to rest leagl
nom the permission of the court ; for is the act of 5 & •
Victoria, cap. 122, me. 5.5, my brother Holroyd introdeeel
ea express provision declaring that before any dividend wee
made an account should be seat in by the official
to the creditor's assignee long enough before to enable
to object to any of the items, and inviting his attention
thereto. And the last act, the Bankruptcy Law Conselida,
Lion Act, has followed this up by including a provision
which gives to every creditor and to et cry assignee—not
as a matter of favour, but as a matter of right—
the power to go to the court and look over the
proceedings at all reasonable times, and to be furnished
with copies of the official assignee's accounts from time to
time, jut as be may require them, and to investigate and
exuaia• them. More, therefore, the legislature could
warmly do to invite the attention of creditors to the subject,
and to salt upon them to investigate the accounts of the
oasis! assignee. Strange as it may mere in spite of all
them pecnitions, the impossibility is to pt creditors to attend
at all ; for, as I said, out of 13 came last week, neither soli-
sitar ace creditor cum hem. In the present cue lam glad
to perceive that the waits is true; not only is the solicitor
hen, and be has gone through the accounts with attention,
but the creditor's assignee is also here, sad ha gone through
the aeeouat, and attests its accuracy and truth. All, there-
fore, that the court an do in eases of this description, if ere
&tore and solicitors will not attend, is to take cue
Mat, if the solicitor dote not do what the law
throws upon him, he shall not be paid toe it.
Therefore, I have directed the official assignee' in
all eases when the solicitor to the coeditors' assignee does
and takes no steps, that he shall net be paid
time Me for taking suck mope. Another thing I shell
is this, that I. se ems shall any audit be pared
sae without the solicitor signing end attesting at that
that be bee dies what the law requires him to do--
that. be has seat the account to
the creditors' as-
sigerre,bil bald Mr and gone through it with him, and
that he and the ereditors' assignee are satisfied of the
trek of the items coatained in it. I would wish
in conclusion to okerree, that them is no other real cheek
—there can be name aSkarr-•-erithout the creditors' assignee.

The creditors' assigns* is the party who Gene the property,
who receives the nosey, and pays it over ; but gale. he
tells as that the amount@ pat down. naiad by the official
saigant are true, or in ease way certifies to the truth of the
seemint, it is open to an official angina (end inch things
having bees, easy again be, though nothing can be more
respectable than the den of seen Übe; those offices at pe-
lmet) to pat down a emu lees *twits ha actually reorient;
and nobody sea test the truth or sorrestasa of the account
but the .editors wipers. Yet theme perms
the trouble of outing here, cir of bistructing the solicitors
As go through the recousts. AU that I sae do is to zetieire,
as a general rule of this court, that ate solicitor shall
Mead; that to every audit paper the solicitor sad the coed
tors' singna, If he be hese (and I should wish that to
be so ia all eases) dull put dour" Perused and asaselasit
by —, solicitor to the flat, ',he have goes through this
sosount with the creditor's anlgnes—ao objection sp
to of seer to the arrestanis sad troika the secoPtatfi
That at evens would be sons emotion sad the solicitor
would Mee dine his duty, which he doing.
have thought it right to arta then ninierin, se the maim
of the anaunts of the scosnals of the !Adel aralgine le a
MOM milky of mash carideratioa. Not that
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