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pay.

Mr IV. R. Buchanan for the assignee did not oppose,
and said that the bankrupt attributed his failure to the bad-
ness of the season and other causes, one of which was the
new railway. The bankrupt was born in the house ho now
_ _ _

lived, and for 14 scars had paid £3OO a year to the OpPosing
creditors.

His Honour asked how the railroad interfered with the
bankrupt?

The bankrupt said it took all the traffic away from the
house.

His Honour thought the bankrupt had acted impru-
dently, but the distillers, who generally looked out for
themselves, ought to have made inquiries.
Order suspended for six months, with protection,
THE DANISH WAR.—IN RE EYRE.
This bankrupt waa-&-ooris merchant in Maik-lane, and
this was a meeting for choice of as•:r...
Mr J. B. Sorrall, Mark-lane, appeared to support the
petition,

The debts amount to £2,B33—assets small. Bankrup'
attributes his losses to the Danish war.

M. Julius E. Baerholm, Catherine-court, Seething-lane,
merchant, was chosen assignee, and Mr Sorrell executor to
the estate.

SHERIFFS' COURT.
(Before Mr Commissioner Kerr.)
THE GREAT HALF BROTHER MARRIAQE QUESTION-

BUDDEN V. ENGLISH.
This was a can reported some time since, in which the
defendant pleaded her coverture to an action for rent. It
transpired that she had married her deceased husband's half
brother, and his Honour held that the marriage was invalid
—but he allowed the case to stand over, in order that de-
fendant might make a settlement with the plaintiff. To-
dayi the parties appeared again before his Honour, and t
was stated no money had been paid.
Defendant's son-in-law said his mother was a married
woman, and had been sued in her maiden name. Plaintiff
well knew of this marriage.
Plaintiff—l heard of it, but it is no marriage.
Son-in-Law--That is what ycu eay.
His Honour—l have decided that already.
Son-in-Law—And does your Honour still say that this
is not a legal marriage ?
His llonour—lt is worth nothing.
Son-in-Law—Then, I beg to say that there are very
great differences of opinion upon the subj.ct.
His Honour—Sa there may be, but you must remember
that in this court my opinion must prevail.
The Son-in-Law said that the plaintiff sued for .£3 16s,
and only 10s was duo,
Plaintiff produced his rent book, and said that money
was all owing,
It was then stated that the quasi husband was 70 years
of age, and would have paid the money if the defendant had
allowed him,

late at night or ear!), in the morning in a very indecent
English had removed her goods
mallnaeinr,tiaffndsatihdattheahte
took the old man with her to spend
the honeymoon. (Laughter.)
His Honour then made an order for defendant to pay the
money, and recommended the plaintiff to grant time.
The son-in-law, upon this, departed—evidently still
strong in his opinion that the marriage was a good ono.

RAILWAY PRISONS.—The Lord Advocate,
e. M P"
discoursed at
delivered a lecture at Portobello (the opening f the
winter course), on Friday evening, bud
con-
siderable length, and in an agreeable and attractive style, •
on the evidences of social progress.
Speaking of the
impos-
sibility of assigning a limit to discovery and invention, he
remarked—Posterity will, no doubt, praise your ingenuity ;
but posterity will also, as it is wont to do, speak of you also
with contemptuous disparagement. Posterity will say—
" What times those were when travellers were stopped at
Begshot, or Hounslow, or Shooter's-hill. Railways no doubt
put an end to these adventures, but only to give rise to
greater danger. Would you believe it ?"
/Sly successor
in this hall may say in 1964—" Would you believe it, 100
throat cut
simple
ar.
years ago they treated a traveller like a convict ? They
7 until he had gone 40
miles. It is a fact. He might be shut
athpooupglehxtys;f
he
n o
could looked s
ehime
him, in a
andboxh,
he could
lill
seeor
nowell,m
a n
1113 with a murderer,
a madman, with a drunkard, or a villain; ho might die of
all this was
rangements which we now make were often proposed, but
resisted with frantic wrath as being utterly impracticable.
They had built their carriages for people to be imprisoned
in them, and therefore imprisoned they must be. The easy
might have
imte ut
.
ce a hist thatha
expedient of a gangway outside the carriage and a ball inside
was assailed with a hundred goud and conclusive objec-
tions. People would use it recklessly ; and it was a
pity to
disturb the guard when asleep when he ought to be awake,
It would enable anybody to stop the train, although, as you
all know, it does not enable any one to stop the train ; it
would enable thieves to reach the carriages and to
escapto your house., e—which is about as good a reason for not making a
road, And thus would the lecturer in 1964
keep his audience amused by the preposterous and stolid
follies of these times. It is pretended that there is no satis-
factory proposal for remedying the evil. •I answer there
are a hundred ways of remedying the evil, and the worst of
them is not so bad as the state of things which exists. It is
high time that progress travelled by rail.