Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1860-01-23 00:00:00

BANKRUPTCY DEBT RETURNS.

Return of debts under £lO collected in the year
1859, by the official assignees of the Courts of Bank-
ruptcy in England.

Official
Average Assignees'
No. Debts Amount of average re-
Debts. Collected. Amount. each Debt. muneration.
E• s. d. s. d. s. d.
El ivid under 20903 8828 12 7 0 851 0 0 5
From £1 to £2los 8223 13363 5 9 112 6 0, 1 7a
£2 10s. to Eb., 5185 18914 16 3 312 Ila 0 3 7a
£5 to £lO

Totals 37891 66877 011 115 3i 0 1 9
Total number (if debts collected, 37,891; total amount
of debts collected, £66,877 ; average amount of all the
debts, £1 15s. 3ad.; average commission charged by
official assignees on each debt, Is. 9d.

EMIGRATION TO NEW ZEALAND.

On Saturday we gave insertion to remarks tending to
impeach the good faith of the Colonial Government in
dealing with emigrants. In justice to all patties, we
give equal currency to the following extract from a
letter, mitten by an. old resident in Auckland, who is
not a party man, but, if classed politically, would be
amongst the opponents of the present provincial govern-
ment authorities. It is dated Auckland, October 20th,
1859 :-

"Party political feeling here is about as high as it
used to be. I believe there is no small share of envy in
the bosoms of some towards Mr. Williamson. He (the
superintendent) has proved himself in my opinion as
able an administrator as any who have gone before
him; but he is miserably supported by a factious, self-
conceited Council. Experience has brought me to, the
conclusion that these Councils should be reduced in
power, and that a &Teeter' number of something like
municipalities should be treated. The 'Forty-acre' men
come pouring in. -To hear some men speak, or to read
some of our papers, you would think that these men are
poor dupes, and have nothing but misery before them.
Ido not think any such thing. No doubt,, as you ob-
served in a former note to me, some of the wrong kind
will come,' but I am fully satisfied that, taking them on
the whole, they will by-and-bye be fully satisfied that,
by emigrating, they have improved, or will improve,
their condition. Lazy, apathetic drunken men, have no
aright to cry out, but these are those who will shout the
loudest—the fault lies within themselves. Industrious,
self-reliant men, with health and a suitable trade, are
sure to do well eventually. Clerks, shopkeepers, machine
makers, &c., have not much chance of employment in
their own way, and should not come here. These are
the men who see the sons of Anak, and report unfavour-
ably of the land; but, nevertheless, to the right sort, it
is a land that will yield milk and honey."

LAW INTELLI 3ENCE.

COURT OF CHANCERY.-JANUARY 20.

(Before the Lorms JUSTICES of APPEAL.)
°MON V. TRASK..

This case, part heard on Wednesday, was concluded
to-day. - The plaintiffs obtained an cx parte injunction
restraining one of the defendants from receiving the
freight of the ship Saratoga, lately arrived from Ame-
rica, and from removing the vessel out of St mley Deck,
at Liverpool, until she should have discharged her-
cargo. The injunction was granted on the 28th of
Dec., 1859, The defendant, Captain Trask, moved
before his honour to dissolve the injunction, but his
honour (Vice-Chancellor considered' that he bad
not made out a case sufficient Stuartfor that purpose, and re-
refused the motion with costs. The facts, so far as they
Were not contested, ran as follows :—The captain is owner
of one-eighth of the ship, and the other part owners'
are the ship's husbands, and they are in the United
States. The captain, as such part owner, claims to be
entitled to receive the freight. and apply it in defraying
the expenses of the ship, and in purchasing a fresh cargo
to carry back to America. The other part owners have
directed their- consignees to pay their shares of the
freight to the plaintiffs, who are English merchants re-
siding in Liverpool, and stand as equitable assignees of
the seven-eighths of 'the freight, and on the captain pro-
ceeding to take the ship out of dock, on the 28th of
December, 1559, they, having filed the bill, obtained the
ex parte injunction before referred to. The ease has
now been heard by way of appeal from his Honour's re-
fusing to dissolve the injunction.
Mr. Walker, Mr. Milward (of the common law bar),
and Mr. Robinson appeared for the appellants.
Mr. Bacon and Mr. Kay supported the order of the
Vice-chancellor, contending that, as the plaintiffs were
Englishmen, the matter ought to be decided here.
Mr. Walker was heard in reply.
Their Lordships signified their intention of disposing
of the case on 'Wednesday morning.

ROLLS COURT.—JAN. 20.
(Before the MASTER of the ROLLS.)
BIRD v. DINGLE.—JUDGMENT.-11iS 110tIOUT gave
judgment in this suit, which was one of not unfrequenti
occurrence, and one which cannot be too often reported,
as a warning to persons against mixing themselves up in
trusts, which they either do not understand the nature of,
or have not time to attend to, or are too negligent to look
after. The defendants are the executors of a person
named Dingle, of Bury St. Edmund's, and the object of
the suit, as far as material to• the present report; was
to hold them liable to make good a loss of £6OO
timing to their testator's estate, • owing to certain
shares in a public company being sold five years after
the time when the executors were directed to!sell and
could have sold them. There was no imputation of
fraud or wilful misconduct against the defendants, the
allegations in effect not descending lower than sheer
negligence and inattention. The only answer the de-
fendants made to the case was that they acted perfectly
bond fide, and with the full knowledge of the residuary
legatee and other parties beneficially interested under
the will of the testator. The court held such defence to
:be an insufficient one for the non-performance 'of the
trusts •which the defendants had undertaken as the
executors of their testator, and made an order to the
effect that the defendants must be held chargeable with
the loss occasioned by their want of vigilance.
Mr. R. Palmer, Mr. Lloyd, Mr. Selwyn. Mr. Elderton,
Mr. Malder, Mr. Babington, and Mr. F.",T. Turner ap-
peared in the case.
' '

ELECTRO-MAGNETISM, APPLIED TO WEAVING.—We
had occasion 'a few years agO to mention the extra-
ordinary improvement introduced into 'weaving by M.
Bonelli, director of the electric telegraphs of Sardinia,
by the application of electro-magnetism. The following
more minute description of his system may prove accept-
able to our readers. By peculiar mechanical arrange-
ments a certain number of 'threads of the warp are
raised, and all the others 'depressed, and another
cast of the shuttle leaves its weft between them.
The pattern ' depends entirely upon the order in
whiCh the respective 'threads of the warp are raised
and depressed. The' peculiarity of ' the Jacquard
loom Consists in the nse of perforated pieces of card-
board, through the holes in which some of the wires or
small rods, one of which is attached to each thread in
the warp, are allowed to slip, and thus raise these
threads, while the others are opposed to solid portions
of the card. In the new invention the design, tracedin
black varnish on the tinfoil paper, is placed in the band,
as an endless band over a roller. A row of thin brass
plates, terminating in points, touch with theie points the
patterns in a horizontal line right across it. These touch-
ing plates correspond in number with the threads of the
warp ; the pole of a magnetic battery is in contact with
the tinfoil of the pattern. The electric current passes
through the tinfoil, and enters every brass plate in con-
tact with it which stands on the bare surface of the tin.
The black' varnish of the pattern is a non-conductor, and
prevents the electricity from passing into any of the
brass plates touching the varnished portion of the tinfoil.
The electric current passing through any one of those
brass plates is made to magnetise a little iron rod. The
magnetised rod attracts another rod, and, by the aid of
mechanism, the corresponding thread of the warp is
elevated.—Galignani.