The Sun.
London, England, 1864-07-12 00:00:00

LAW INTELLIGENCE—(This Day.)

COURT OF BANKRUPTCY.
(Before Mr Commissioner Holroyd.)
JACOBSON.IN BE

This bankrupt was described as of Houndsditch, whole-
sale clothier. This was an adjourned meeting for last
examination and discharge. The debts are stated at £928;
assets £9. The bankrupt had been subjected to severe
examination by Mr Treherne for creditors. The bankrupt
admitted that he had started with £9O or CO, and he dis-
charged himself by debtors, from whom he could get no
returns—one having gone to the Old Bailey, another to
California, and others to unknown regions. In the course
of his examination ho prevaricated, and on some points he
was flatly contradicted by witnesses.

Mr sTreherne now further questioned the bankrupt,
and his Honour said that it would be quite out of the
question passing the bankrupt on such accounts, and the
case must be adjourned sine die, with liberty for the bank-
rupt to come when prepared.

Mr Treherne asked that it should be at the bankrupt's
expense, as there was not a farthing for the creditors.

His Honour assented.
The bankrupt applied for protection for two months.
A creditor, in person, thought it was such a case that the
Court ought not to grant protection.
His Honour granted protection for one month.
(Before Mr Registrar Murray.)
IN ItE GEORUE MIDDLETON.

This bankrupt was described as of Hanover-square, Fen-
church-street, wine merchant, and this was a meeting for
choice of assignees, a deed of assignment for the benefit of
creditors having been set aside by the Lord Chancellor.
The debts are stated at £1,200, the assets depending on the
realisation of property.

Mr Hart (Lemon Hart and Son) and Mr Barnard, bottle
merchant, Paula-wharf, Thames•street, ware chosen to.-
signees.

Mr. Commissioner Holroyd was the commissioner of the
day, but did not take his seat in Court until half-past 12,
delaying public business. The assistance of one commis-
sioner as commissioner of the day, would greatly facilitate
the business, and a paid messenger, as doorkeeper, would
keep the court in order.

CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT,--This Day,

OLD COURT.
(Before the Recorder.)

Walter Antrobus was indicted for forging and uttering
the names of certain witnesses to a deed and affidavit to be
used in the Bankruptcy Court.
The Solicitor •General and Mr Sleigh prosecuted, and Mr
Besley defended the prisoner.
It appeared that on the 2d of June last two persons of the
names of Becker and Sack, who had been trading together,
wished to enter into a composition with their creditors, and
the prisoner, who called himself an accountant, undertook
to act and pass them professionally through the Bankruptcy
Court. Under the Act of 1861. certain deeds and affidavits
have to be executed and attested by a commissioner appointed
for that purpose. On the 2d Juue the prisoner attended at
the office of aMr Cox, a commissioner under the act, having
offices in Rood•lane, with Mr Sack, and asked him to wit-
ness the signature of the usual deeds, which were signed
by Becker and Sack, the latter only being present. Mr.
Carr objected to attest the deed, only one being present,
and Mr Becker's name was struck out, and Mr Carr signed
the deed. The prisoner afterwards waited on Mr Keen,
the Registrar in Bankruptcy, with the document,
and at that time the name of Becker had been
inserted, and the initials A. C. placed against the attesta-
tion representing that Mr Carr had attested Becker's sig-
nature. The affidavit was informal, and Mr Keen refused
to receive it, and said it must be resworn, The prisoner
left with the deed and affidavit, and in a very few moments
returned, Mr Keen told him he had not had time to go
to Mr Carr's, and the prisoner replied that he had met
him close by, Ms Keen still doubted the genuineness of
the signature and the initials to the name of Becker,
which had been inserted. He kept the document and com-
municated with Mr. Carr, and it was then ascertained that
the initials and the signature showing the affidavits had
been resworn, were forgeries, and that the initials and sig-
nature was in the handwriting of the prisoner.
Mr. Carr and Mr. Keen proved the above facts.
The jury found the prisoner guilty.
The prisoner, who had been five weeks in prison, was
then sentenced to two months' Imprisonment, with hard
labour:

Thomas Parker, 46, solicitor, but uncertificated, was
indicted for forging a petition to be used in the Court of
Bankruptcy. The prisoner had used the name of another
solicitor to whom ha occasionally aeted as clerk.

The prisoner, by the advice of his counsel, pleaded
guilty.
The Solicitor-General thought justice would be satisfied
by the prisoner being called upon to enter into his own
recognisances to come up for judgment when called upon.
Henry Minchin and Montgomery Somerville were in-
dicted for forging and uttering a cheque for the payment of
£l5, with intent to defraud the Union Bank of London.
The prisoner Somerville some time ago had been in the
service of a gentleman named Wilson, and whilst so en-
gaged ho had means of obtaining access to his employer's
cheque book. The bank had paid on a former occasion a
forged cheque bearing the name of Wilson, and accordingly
means were taken to discover the persons who had committed
the fraud. On the 29th June the prisoner Minchin entered
the bank and produced a cheque for payment, signed by Mr
Wilson. The signature was a forgery, and Minchin was
given into custody. He said he received the document from
Somerville, and when he presented it at the bank he had not
the least idea it was a forgery.
The jury found Somerville guilty, and acquitted Minchin.
The Recorder sentenced him to five years' penal servitude.
Henry Knox was found guilty of robbing his employer
of a quantity of velvet and other goods.
The Recorder sentenced him to 18 months' imprisonment
and hard labour.

Herbert Thompson, a respectable looking lad, pleaded
guilty to an indictment charging him with stealing 192
silk handkerchiefs, the property of Mr Samuel Morley, of
Wood-street, Cheapside.

The Recorder sentenced him to 18 months' imprisonment.

NEW COURT.
(Before Commissioner Kerr.)

George Smith was indicted for unlawfully hating in his
possession a quantity of counterfeit coin.
The jury found him guilty, and he was sentenced to two
years' imprisonment, with hard labour.

NATIONAL LIFEBOAT INSTITUTION.-.Ono
hundred and fifty employis at the West India Docks have,
through Mr F. J. Bradfield, forwarded to the National
Lifeboat Institution £5 7s 10d., in sums varying from 3d.
to 52., as a token of their sympathy for its great and
national work.

CHURCH AND STATE IN ITALY.—A correspondent
°tithe Debate, writing from Turin on the 7tb, says :
—"Yesterday evening the Chamber discussed a measure
which has caused some emotion. The Minister
of War proposes to suppress absolutely the exemp-
tion from military service established in favour
of young men. intended for the ecclesiastical pro-
fession. This rigorous measure is one of the
espisodes of the war which is taking place between the
Church and the State. It is impossible to regard it other-
wise. The war is unfortunate in itself ; and can lead to no
good. But its causes are so well known and so serious that
we cannot hope to see it end quickly. The law was opposed
by an eminent man, Cesare Cantu, who is almost the only
representative in the chamber of the religious party. It
will, notwithstanding, be voted almost unanimously."

BLACKBURN.—In the union of Blackburn 5,292
persons were relieved last week, at a cost of £2Bl 16s. 3d.
against 5,148 persons and £2BO N. 7d. in the preceding year.
Tho strike of colliers at Longton and Fenton, and
of the ironstone getters at the Sneyd Green Colliery, con-
tinues, but at Ford Green 360 turn-outs had returned to
work at a reduction of 6d per day.

Most of the Paris papers, in commenting on the
recent debatcs,regard the retirement of Lord Russell
from the ministry as highly probable. The Opinion, in
quoting a despatch from the Correspondance Havas, prints
in italics the following lines :—" The programme which
Lord Palmerston's ministry seems decided to follow after
their recent victory is not without importance. Measures
of reform at hone; abroad a renewal of the Anglo-French
alliance on terms of the closest intimacy, with the expressed
intention of seeking, in concert with France, to put an end
to the frightful carnage of which America is the theatre
and the victim. If Lord Russell does not frankly accept
this programme, ho will be succeeded by Lord Clarendon,"
ROCHDALE. -- The Conservative committee at
Rochdale issued a placard on Saturday, in which
they state that they " have great pleasure in inform-
ing the electors that the number of signatures to the
requisition to Mr. Brett has already exceeded their san-
guine expectations, and so far from it being the intention
of either Mr. Brett or his committee to retire from the
steps they have already taken, they are fully determined to
contest the borough the first opportunity,"