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LAW INTELLIGENCE—This Day.

COURT OF BANKRUPTCY.
(Before Mr. Commissioner Goulburn.)

IN BE BILES—JUDGMENT.
His Honour to-day gave judgment in the case of this
bankrupt, who applied a few days since to pass his exami •
nation, and to apply for the order of dis barge. His honour
said that the bankrupt was described as a farrier and cab
proprietor, and this was one of the many cases so frequently
before the court in which persons against whom a judgment
either on contract or fact came before the court to be re-
leased. In this case the bankrupt had an action brought
against him for a large sum of money, and consented to a
verdict for £lOO, and the debts and costs amounted to £l7B,
and the very day the judgment was given the bankrupt pe
titioned the court, he at the time only owing other debts to
the amount of £l9, so that substantially this court was re-
sorted to simply to render the judgment useless. It was said
by some persons that the creditors before they brought
actions ought to satisfy themselves that if they obtained a
verdict the debtor was in a position to pay the money, but
a his getting rid of every thing, and leave the assignee to try
them agnuemstiigohnt b
at ehsioslovwenntetxhpeen ; but there were facilities for
expense.
(his Honour) hoped
that if there be any alteration in the law something might
be done to prevent these very great frauds, for he was fully
persuaded that this was a very great fraud, and that a et i-
minal offence bad been committed under the 6th and 7th
clauses of the 221 section of the act of Parliament, for there
could be no doubt that the accounts were concocted and
manufactured. His Honour commented with great severity
on the conduct of amen named Sttrridge, himself a bankrupt,
and although he had not cleared his first bankruptcy was
again before the Court, and he and another person had made
up a book fiber the bankruptcy. He (his Honour) would
not order a prosecution, as he feared that the evidence of
Surridge (and another) might be set up, but if the matter
was taken before a magistrate, and there Was a committal.
he would order a prosecution. As the case stood, he would
never pass the bankrupt on the false and fabricated az-
counts, but adjourn the examination sine die, with protec-
tion for six weeks to enable the bankrupt to appeal or apply
again to this court. He also asked Mr. Tucker (the solici-
tor to the assivne« s) to lorl at all the proceedings and see
what probability there wa• of a conviction, looking at the
proceedings in the case of Surridge.

IN RE SIR C. SULLIVAN.
In this case his Honour said that it would not have fol-
lowed as a matter of course that the bankrupt would have
been discharged by the Registrar, who would have exer-
cised hi. discretionary power.

CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT—This Day.

OLD COURT.

The May session of the Central Criminal Court com-
menced this morning.
The calendar contains the names of 139 prisoners await-
ing trial. There are five charg« s of wilful murder, man-
slaught-T, 3 ; forgery, 17 ; housebreaking and larceny, 6 ;
burglary, 7 ; misdemeanour, 6; larceny by servants, 10;
uttering base zoin, 26 ; ,nd perjury, 1; the remainder con-
sisting of the usual description of cases.
The Recorder, in charging the jury remarked that there
were no less than five individuals for wilful murder, but as
the defence set up in two of them, viz., Harriet
Goodliffe and Samuel Robinson, was insanity, he would not
trouble them by, referring to them. One of the iodictinenis
was rather singular and arose out of the mutiny
which
broke nut some time ago on board a Peruvian ve.sel ot war
lying in the port of London. The deceased Manuel Rodri-
guez Silva, w.s in the cabin of the ship when the p-ironer
Mango, a soldier, entered, and in order to avoid an en-
counter with him, Silva jumped overboard and was
drowned. The jury must satisfy themselves that the life of
the deceased was in danger from the violence of prisoner
before they could return a true bill against him. With re-
spect t t the trim., of child murder, it Was lamentable to
observe that it appeared, from the nututers of persons
charged with it, to be on the increase; yet legally that did
not appear to be the case, as the convictions for the crime
were comparatively few. Having made a few observati, ns
relative to the number of persons charged with uttering
counterfeit coin, the learned gentleman concluded and the
grand jury retired.