The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1856-04-26 00:00:00

010 SATURDAY, APRIL 26, 1866

consider that upon his vigilence alone may depend the future
welfare of the society. Your committee having now redeemed
the pledge which they gave at the commencement, namely,
never to desist until they procured enquiry into the manage.,
menu of the Society's affairs, would gladly resign into your
hands the powers delegated to them ; but taking into consi,
deration the incomple:e state of the arrangements, and the
necessary reforms proposed to be made, they believe it to be
their duty, under your approbation, to continue to watch over
the re-organisation of the society, until such time as
it may he placed upon a safe and permanent basis
Your committee cannot allow this occasion to rass without
acknowledging the vast and important services rendered
to the society by Mr. Michael Murphy—services of
such a character as entitle hint to the lasting gratitude, if not
to a more substantial mark of esteem, on the part of the
members of this society. •

Subjoined is an account of receipts and e:tpenditnre.

Signed, on behalf of the committee of investigation.
F. M THUMPS, Honorary Secretary.
The following account of receipt and expenditure of the
committee of investigation was then read :

DEBTOR.

X s. d

To amount of subscripfon9 received
To balance owing to the Trea.itirer

24 15 7
7 0 5

X3l 16 0

CREDITOR.
By cash paid for Stationery, Printing, and £ s. d.
expenses attending four public meetings 11. 15 0
Paid to Messrs. Fletcher and Hull

£3l 16 0

Mr. Browne moved, and Mr. Price seconded the adop-
tion of the report, which was unanimously carried amidst
much applause.
Mr. Smith moved a resolution, to the effect that the
members had full confidence in the investigation com-
mittee, and would pledge themselves to support them in
carrying out their laudable design, in putting that impor-
tant society on a firm .p.l enr, fnundation_ Tip pynlained
that he was of opinion that the fraudulent collectors
should have been punished in a criminal court, but their
solicitor did not approve of such a step, and he, therefore,
succumbed to that, not being a lawyer, and preferred
saving the funds of the society, which he had no doubt
would be paid now, rather than sacrifice the amounts due
by the collectors, some of whom owed £BO, and one as
much as £5OO. He next alluded to the bonds to be given
by Mr. Curry for his defalcations, which he believed
would be all right in the end, and then expressed a hope,
that in the new organisation of the society, that it would
be taken from a public-house, and that they would have a
respectable place to meet in, which in the long run would
be much cheaper, and he of great advantage to the society.
He concluded by hoping that when the time arrived, the
members would all assemble, and elect right and proper
men to fill the offices of the society.
Mr. Henry Taylor seconded the resolution, which was
unanimously adopted.

The Chairman stated, that £4OO had been placed in
the bank by the sub treasurer on Saturday last, which
was a step in the right direction, and he hoped that many
more hundreds would be paid in before long. He next
eulogised the conduct of Mr. Murphy, an officer of the
society, who had resisted all temptations and bribes, and
assisted in the enquiry, notwithstanding the opposition
he had met with from the officers of the society.

A vote of thanks was accorded to Mr. Murphy, with
three times three hearty cheers.

Three cheers were also given for Mr. Shepherd.
Mr. Murphy replied to the compliment accorded him,
and stated that although he was no speaker, he could
dttect a fraud in an account, and what he had done, he
had only done that which he conceived to be his duty to
his fellow-men, and to the society.

A vote of thanks was then passed to the proprietor of
the room, who had granted its use free of expense.
A vote of thanks was also passed to the Chairman, and
to the Investigation Committee, for their past services.
The Chairman having responded, the meeting sepa:
rated.

SUSPENSION OF A BANKRUPT'S CERTI-

FICATE FOR TWO YEARS

RE THOMAS KIRTEHAM.-At the Manchester Court of
Bankruptcy, on Wednesday, Mr. F. Robinson applied to
Mr. Commissioner Jemmett for a certificate for Thomas
Kirkham, late of Livesey, near Blackburn, cotton spinner
and manufacturer. Mr. Jos. Fernly, instructed by Messrs.
Rowley and Son, for the assigness, opposed the applica-
tion on several grounds. First of all, the bankrupt, on
the 19th of March, when he passed his examination, had
not accounted in his balance sheet for --€7OO which he
received from an -insurance company. He commenced
business in 1854, and the bankruptcy took place on the
30th of November, 1855, and a fire having taken place
in his mill in the course of that time, he received the
money from an insurance company. Messsrs. Blantern
and Co., of Manchester, supplied him with cotton,
for which he was to supply them with manufactured
goods in return as payment ; but he had neglected to
do so to a great extent, and the consequence was that
those gentlemen were large creditors. Messrs. Battam &
Co., of Liverpool, had also supplied him with a large
quantity of cotton, and he had dispcsed of a large quan-
tity of this without its having even been taken from the
railway trucks. Another charge against him was. that
he had given bills of sale upon his property to four of
his relations in one week, thus giving them a fradulent
preference over the other creditors ; but this circumstance
having come to the knowledge of some of the creditors, a
fiat in bankruptcy was issued, and a gross fraud was
thus prevented. Mr. Robinson, for the bankrupt, admitted
that he had given some cotton to Messrs. Parkinson, of
Liverpool, in payment of an account which he owed
them, but excused the conduct of the bankrupt. for selling
the cot ton at the railway station, by stating that it only
arrived there the day before the fire, and he had no place
in which to put it. It was true he made a post-nuptial
settlement upon his wife, but the value of the property
was so small that it would not defray the cost of a sale,
and the assignees were quite welcome to it. The bank-
rupt owed about £3,500, and there would be £2OOO of
assets; and as for the alleged fraudulent preference to
his relations, he certainly had given them bills from time
to time, and in the month of November last they sold him
cotton to the amount of £ll6. It also happenedithat, in
September, the bankrupt got a quantity of cotton from
Messrs. Battam and Co., of Liverpool, which he sold at
a lower price than he was to give for it, and he did not
pay for it at the expiration of ten days. according to the
practice of the trade. The learned Commissioner said
At that time, the bankrupt must have known he
was in a state of insolvency, and for the purpose
of defeating certain claims against him he gave'
bills of sale. His conduct' towards Messrs. Blantern was
grossly fraudulent, and it was perfectly clear that he
ought at once to have stopped when he found that he
could not pay Messrs. Battam and Co. Under all these
circumstances the bankrupt was:not entitled to an imme-
diate certificate, for there was nothing in his conduct
which entitled him to any commisseration. His books
were unsatisfactory, his accounts were unsatisfactory,
and no sufficient reason had been given for the bills of
sale to his own relations, and he should therefore suspend
his certificate for two years, and then it, would be of the
third class, and, in the meantime, the bankrupt would he
without protection. Mr. Robinson intimated his intention
to appeal against the judgment of the learned com-
missioner.

LONDON GAZETTE

BANKRUPTS.—FosTsa REYNOLDS, Old Broad-stree,
City, silk merchant. CHARLES KING, King-street,
Portman-square, house decorator, and painter and glazier.
WILLIAM STUDI3S, Birmingham, brass founder. RICHARD
BROWN, St. Helens, Lancashire, tailor and draper. JAMES
SANDIFORD, Hinckley, Leicestershire, draper and mercer.
GEORGE CHAMBERLAIN the younger, Crawford-street,
Mary-le-bone, lead merchant, glass cutter, plumber, painter
and glazier. THOMAS WILLIAM WINFIELD and FREDERICK
CHARLES CLARKE, Birmingham, factors. JOHN BAXTER
FOLKARD, Jermyn-street, St. James's, Westminster. JOHN
HALuANE, Leeds, corn factor. JOHN STYLES, Putney,
waterman, lighterman, and coal merchant. WILLIAM
HENRY WOOLLETT and JOHN FREDERICK SANDFORD
WOOLLETT, Lime-street square, city, ship and insurance
agents and commission merchants.

The official Gazette of Milan announces that the Pope
will leave about the 15th ofJune for Paris.

GERMAN LIBERATLTQ!-11;;SCaie; ofthe Duchy of
Meiningen have just declared that Jews can neither be
electors, jurymen, public functionaries, advocates, nor
avoues. The right of being elected is also refused to
them.

B"WERS AND PUBLICANS.—It appears, from a return
issued, that between October 10, 1854, and October 10,
1855, there were in England and Wales 2,290 licensed
brewers, and 62,128 licensed victuallers, of whom 25,317
brewed their own beer, besides 40,179 persons licensed to
sell beer to be drunk on the premises, of whom 12,751
brewed their own beer, and 2,837 persons licensed to sell
beer not to be drunk on the premises, of whom 733 were
their own brewers. During ,the same period there were
in Scotland, 120 and 12,977 victuallers, of whom only 137
brewed their own beer; while in Ireland there were 104
brewers, and 15,781 victuallers. The malt consumed in
this interval by the brewers of England and Wales
arriountvd to. 10,70,600 bushels; by the victuallers, tcr
6,636,816Thu5he1s ; by persons licensed to sell beer to be
drunk on the premises, to 2,753 948 ; and by persons
licensed to sell beer not to be drunk on the premises, to
284,219. In Scotland the consumption by the brewers
was 797,689 bushels ; and by the victuallers, 121,027
bushels; and in Ireland by the brewers, 1,376,148 bushels.