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the non-production of • balance sheet. hut only
that being the most convenient mode of simmering,
he swat committed for not &metering to the satisfac-
tMo of the Commissioners. By the first clause of
the Act of S Geo.- 11. he Is compelled to discover
the whole of his estate and effects, and the balance
sheet was merely a mode of snaking the disclosure.
which, by the Act, he was bound to make.
Mr. MONTAGU* followed on the same aide, He
contended that the bankrupt had not fully and sa-
tisfectorily auswered the questions proposed to
him. and he submitted that the commitment was
good upon the other points without the balance
sheet. which. at all events, it could mot be con-
tended that it was illegal for the Commissioners
to ask for. He argued, from the Immune of
the other clauses of the Act of Sth Geo. H. that
it was the inteution of the Legislature that ac-
counts should be rendered by the bankrupt in
writings If it were not so. the law would be in-
operative in exact proportion to the magnitude and
importance of the bankrupt's concerns. The
Learned Counsel then minutely analyzed the differ-
ent examinations which the bankrupt had under.
gone. and contended that so far from having an-
swered fully and iritisfactorily, he had disclosed
nothing as to his property, but. on the. contr.ry. had
displayed a disposition to evade and set the law at
defiance. The Cornmisnooers were therefore, jus-
tified its committing him under shel authority of
the 16.1 t section, for not having satisfactorily an-
swered as required by the first clause of the Act
before alluded to.
The hour fur the Court to rise being arrived, die
conclusion of the- argument was pompous(' to a
future day.

POLICE.

Yesterday a bricklayer, named Plisse., was charged by
Mr. Chaffer% a respectable pawnbroker, is Watting-street,
with kayo's obtained money from him wade, false pre-
tenees in offering • quantity u( metal for sale, saying
that be had boaSht the ruins of a house that had
bees burnt down in cutter-lane, sad that amongst the
nebbish be had found the metal, of the value of which he
magrarist *sadly aware. The metal being tried by the shop-
mast •lib sq•a•forti■ was pronounced to be silver with an
.Sdhoy, said purchased as such, but was afterward* discovered
to be mere pewter, slightly coveted with silver.
The further coasideratiou of the case was •djoadied, in
order to give an opportunity for several witnesses to come
forward.
TOWN watt., govirtiattle.
Yesterday three young women, of bad character, were
charged wills a robbery us a girl of lb yaws saf age, by
penning her clothes. The Complaisant h•d ism kadweed
by the seductive arts of the Primmer. la quit her seswice,
sad accompany them, bat they is vain endoevoured to pre.
wail on her to embrace their vicious course Si life.
They were committed to the Borough Compter for a Nis.
demeanor, the legal proof of the robbery not Luria' ample'
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DARING lIIGHWAY ROBBERY.
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On Thursday afternoon about four o'clock, as Me. Mat.
dewiest., of Marshall-street, St. hems's, was travelling in
his gig from Cobham on the forest to Chertsey, on his way
to Leeds's, he was stopped In a lane sheet these miles
Sr.. the latter piece, by that. felfues 'indigestion!, two of
Armhole presested pistols and demanded hie gooney, whilst
the shied Mend et the limos'* bend. He mice awes styes
pereeds is *Meg and ems alleek all he- bed almost him,
gib* sfitz 4..81_61 Ids emit* aed limemb. • The triliehm next
pylled Me. M. he se te the bother cadet a lupe Seld, epos
,flogrodllodtlir sik if, he did est comply, and the three
geggpgd readmit ire heiglAttosta which way they west.
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