The Sun.
London, England, 1837-08-11 00:00:00

CHAMPNEYS V. ELLWANDS.

Mr. WAKEFIELD movod for the plaintiff, Sir Thomas
Champneys, to continue the common injunction upon the
admissions of the defendant's attorney. Some years ago
Sir Thomas Champneys, being very much in debt, entered
into a ncgociation, through one Yewens, a conveyancer, who
was his agent, with the defendant Ellwands, for the pur-
chase of an equity of redemption at a sum exceeding four
thousand pounds. No formal written agreement was entered
into, but Sir Thomas gave to Yewens his bills for the pur-
chase money, which were to be delivered to Ellwands when
the deeds ware completed. Sir Thomas afterwards took
the benefit of the Insolvent Act, but, as nothing further was
done about the proposed purchase, no notice of it was
taken on that occasion, and the business apparently dropped.
However, in 1835, Yewens, the holder of the bills, deli-
vered them somehow to Ellwands, who had lately com-
menced actions upon them against Sir Thomas. The bill
was filed to restrain these actions.
His HONOUR continued the injunction.

BANKRUPTCY COURT, AUG,. 10.
MEDLEY AND SON'S BANKRUPTCY.

A meeting of the creditors under the fiat issued against
Messrs. Medley and Son, bankers, of Uxbridge, Windsor,
and other places, was held to-day, for the further proof
of debts and the declaration of a dividend. Mr. Attwood,
the Secretary of the British North American Banking
Company, applied on behalf of the Directors of the estab-
lishment to enter a claim as against the firm of Medley and
Co., for 2,0001., on account of some shares in the under-
taking held by one of the parties.
The COMMISSIONER said the claim could not be allowed
in its present form, and it was withdrawn.
The proof of the debts was then continued, chiefly on
notes in circulation at the period when the bankruptcy took
place.

A dividend was ordered to be declared, but owing to the
multiplicity of proofs, and the extensive transactions of the
bankrupts, time was required to nrake the calculation pre-
viously to declaring the amount of the first dividend.

Lvsq,LVENT DEBTORS' COURT—Au°. 10.
After a case or two of no public importance, a distress-
ing scene occurred in the Court. About two o'clock an
insolvent named Thomas Newman was ordered to be dis-
charged, and within a few minutes afterwards was a corpse.
His case stood on the cause list of Wednesday, and Mr.
Commissioner Bowen called the list, in order to hear the
cases unopposed before two o'clock, that the parties might
obtain their liberty the same day. Newman was not op-
posed ; he was ordered to be discharged. The excitement
had evidently affected his mind, and before lie could leave
the Court he was seized with a fit, and expired in the im-
mediate precincts. He was bled by a medical man, but
breathed his last in a few minutes. He had been confined
some time in Horsemonger-lane. The surgeon gave it as
his opinion that he died from apoplexy, no doubt•hastened
by imprisonment for debt. The body was conveyed to the
public-house opposite, for a Coroner's inquest to be held.

ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE.

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NISI PRIUS COURT.-DOBSON AND OTHERS P. DENNE AND

()THE It S.

This action was brought by the plaintiffs, to recover
damages from the defendants, for running down the Gipsy,
a Greenwich stean\er, by their vessel the Royal George,
a Margate steam-boat.
Charles Down, the master of the Gipsy, stated that the
Gipsy left Greenwich at ten o'clock on Saturday, the 3d
of last June ; the tide was flowing. When she reached
Pitcher's-point she met the Royal George coining down
to the southward. A Trinity lighter and a coal barge
were also floating with the tide. He called out to the
pilot of the Royal George to ease her engine and stop.
The Royal George was three times as large as the Gipsy.
The pilot on board the former took no notice of what the
witness said to him. Witness directed the engine of the
Gipsy to be eased, which was done, and she remained
perfectly still. The Royal George continued her course
and her speed, and very shortly ran foul of the Gipsy, and
knocked in her starboard paddle-box and disabled her.
There were twenty passengers on board at the time, who
were obliged to get into other boats, the Gipsy being towed
into the Union Dock
_at Limehouse to be repaired. Had
the Royal George taken a southerly course, the collision
would not have occurred.

Other witnesses proved the same facts, and stated that
if the Gipsy had gone to the southward she would have
run down a coal barge. The bill for the repair of the
Gipsy came to 831.55.
On the part of the defendant, Mr. Allen, the master
of the Royal George was called. On the morning in ques-
tion he left Fresh Wharf to proceed to Margate. The
Royal George pursued a mid-channel course ; when she
met the Gipsy, the latter boat was nearest to the south
shore. He waved 4is hand to the pilot of the Gipsy to goi