Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-10-06 00:00:00

BEFORE MR. COMEISMNER PERRY.

In re ITENRY TRISTRA3I.—The bankityt, formerly
.a
broker, of this town, came up this day, or application for
his certificate; bat, at the request of Mr. Tyrer, his solici-
tor, the consideration thereof was adjourned to the 14th
inst. Mr. Lowndes appeared for the assignees.
In re JAM us Putums the bankrupt came up on his
last examination, and rseed, and the 2nd November was
fixed for the certificate meeting.
In re Owan ELLIS —The bankrupt came up on his
adjourned last examination, but it was further adjourned
to the 14. h inst. Mr. Evans appeared for the bankrupt,
and Mr. Martin for the assignees.

LONDON COURT OF BANKRUPTCY.—OcroBER 3,

TUE AUDIT CP COLONEL WILLIAM PETRIE WAUGH'S ESTATE.
This was a meeting to audit the assignee's accounts
under the bankruptcy of William Petrie Waugh, proprie-
tor of Branksea Island and Castle, and also described as
of little Abingdon-street, Westminster, and No. 10, Upper
Grosvenor-street, brick and tile maker. The bankrupt
has rendered his name familiar to the public, in conse-
quence of his transactions with mining companies, the
tiarwich and Continental Steam Packet Company, and
the London and Eastern Banking Corporation, from his
co dire tors of which latter company he obtained advances
to the extent of 1:237,0J0. The Colonel was declared a
bankrupt so far back as the 3oth of April last, and the
examination meeting for passing his accounts was fixed
for the 13th of June f &owing, bat up to this time
he has filed no balance-sheet, and adjournments have been
from time to time granted, at the expense cf the creditors,
and protection from arrest awarded the bankrupt, on the
ground that he was suffering from disease of the heart, and
that the least excitement by his removal from Marseilles,
to undergo an examination in London, might endanger
his life. Nothing appears upon the proceeding 4, atd
probably never will, of the number of creditors who are
labouring under the diseases cf mind and body through
the reckless conduct of the bankrupt. Tbe following is
a copy of a letter from the bankrupt's wife, who contracted
a debt of £l,BOO odd wi,h her milliner, Miss Lila Clarke,
of Regent street (and of Bold-street, Liverpool), f.tr court
dresses, and various articles of dress tS the nac.st sumptuous
and extravagant charac'er. The letter in question is
dated from D'lncur Evans, and is addressed to Mr.
Lawrance (Messrs. Lawrance and Plows), the bankrupt's
advocate, and is as follows:
" Dear Sir,—lt gives me great dis'ress to be obliged to
inform you, that my. husband, Colonel Waugh's health, is sill
in a very preratiou3 state. lie Entre. s great pain in the region
of the heart, au, is altogether so weak as to render ic impos-
sible for him to undergo the anx:ety of an examination in
London, and this is the opinion of alts medical men who have
even him.-1 beg to remain, very fdi !Ally yonrs,
" MARY 'MURRAY WAUGH.
" Moms. Lawrance and C Old Jewry Chambers,
London."

It appears that the bankrupt deposited a bill of sale
with the London and Eastern Bank, upon obtaining loans
from them, by which instrument he made ever the Island
of Branksea, comprising ab ut three acres of a productive
clay soil ; his plate furniture, horses, and carriages, and
all his available property, including his " castle." Tne bill of
sale, which was executed to secure £BO 000, has s'nce beea
transferred to the Oriental Brnk, fur advance. ma 'e to the
former corporation, at d the proceeds will be the subject of
litigation, altor the p operty has b2en realised, between the
assignees of the bankrupt c:Ann..l and ,he two banks. The
aggregate amount of de')ts hitherto proved against the
bankrupt's estate is between £20,000 and £3O 000, and
the balance sheet of the receipts and payments of Mr.
Bell, the official assignee, Showed that the as-ets in hand
were less than £l,OOO. His Honour examined and Faseed
the assignee's accounts, but no day was named for the
dividend meeting. The bankrupt's examination now
stands adjytumed until the 19th of November next, at
twelve o'clock.

BOYS' CLOTHING HA-E WI 'H. MIS TV.TE AT LEWIS and
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Fa:flown.— On Friday, an act of suicide was committed
by M. Kimlnd TA?lor, a gentleman, s'x y year of age, at
Poolu'a Lot•chn Bridge Ilot4l. The deceased gentleman,
who was eett known in the city, had for some years past
been in the employment of M-ssrs. Lennox and C i., !tier-
ch ,r.ts, of B oid-stieet. Ahmt half-past eleven o'clock on
FrirLy morning ha went, to the abOve hotel, wh,re he was
well known, aril proceeded to the collar-tot-am, there being
no per,son besides himself there at the time. lie sat down and
commenced wri and was left alone. A, about.a qaarter
to ene o'clock the waiter went Eto the ro m for the pur-
pose ef cleaning the glass in the 'o r, when he saw the
deceased apparently resting his heal between two tables,
and there was an unusual smell in the room. He went up
to inn, and then sew a wound under his left ear, from
which the blood had awed copiously. A penknife, marked
with WO, was 'yin:, near him upon a tab'e. The w iter
gave an slatm, and Mr. Croft, surgeon, was rent for, and
promptly attended. On his wrival he said the deceased
was dead, and had been so for some time. A letter written
by the deceas-d was found upon the tab'e, directed to Mr.
Middleton, surgeon, of B aw-lane, referring to the fact that
he intended to comm t suicide and wishing that his body
mi2lit be sent to a hospi'ei r dissection, for the purpose
of ascertaining what was the matter with him, as he had
suffered from acme i'itcrn'il cempl,•int.
TRADE OF TIIE WEST —The Chicago Press thus wriots
on this subject : —" A' every step of our progress down
the S. Lawrence, we re sliced more deeply the truth of
the remark of o ir old frierd Captain Robert /Ingunin, that
the g,-eat Gel when he made the great fertile Wtst, made
also the lakes and the mighty S. Lawrence to carry
i,s commerce to the ocean, and though, for a time,
tural boundaries and natural barriers, essential to the
existence of three lakes, have turned aside that commerce
from the rnagnin tent &Ismael which the God of nature has
provided fur it, nearly all these obstacles are now le at ved,
an] the itte:itable laws of trade will, ere long, fully appro-
priate the most mageificent highway for the commerce of
the ADP- rican c ,ntinent that can be found upon the face of
the earth. At the risk r f wha'ever little rerntatioe we
may have attaine I for commercial sagacity, we hazard tie
pre
lbelieve careful study and con -
pat
*ion oftictiml' fn
atrlgewfhaaett wsie ban i the case, that, ere we have
attained the age of our for-fathers, should a kind Provi-
de: ce grant us such a lease of life, we shall tee a stream of
commerce from that east region west of Lake Michigan
voilinv up and down the St. Lawrence, and finding its
foci at Mtn'rell an] Chicago, deeper, broader, and im.
T
mecsely richer than that which now poet's i countless
treasures into the coffers of INew Ye k, our own proud
commerc'al metropolis. Let Ito Areal find Chicago—the
citize-.s of Canada and the west—be true to their own
highest interests,, and this prediction, now regarded perhaps
by many as the idle. dream of a vagrant imagin‘tion, will,
ere the next score of years shall have passed away, be more
than IN alised."

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