The Sun.
London, England, 1863-06-17 00:00:00

LAW INTELLIGENCE—This Day.

COURT OF BANKRUPTCY.
(Before Mr. Commissioner Goulburn.)
IN RE VfAEGII.

His Honour, to-day, gave judgment on the petition of
this bankrupt, Colonel Waugh, to be allowed to surrender
under his bankruptcy.
Mr. Linklater said the assignees had taken the opinion of
the ereditors on the question whether they would consent
to the bankrupt being allowed to surrender without bring-
ing into court the £590 ho admitted that he had taken
with him when he left England. Creditors to a very large
amount had concurred, and he (Mr. Linkiater) was in-
structed by the assignees to say that they consented to the
bankrupt being allowed to surrender unconditionally. An
individual creditor (a Mr. Prior), who was a creditor for
£4,000 opposed on the ground that the very day before the
bankrupt left England he borrowed £859.
Mr. Sargood objected to any specific charges being gone
into in the absence of Col. Waugh, and he (Mr. Sargood)
was not instructed to enter into the case on its merits.

Mr. Lewis said he appeared for Mr. Prior, and was pro-
ceeding to state the circumstances under which the bank-
rupt borrowed the £BOO.
Mr. Sargood objected to Mr. Lewis being heard, and
complained of the hardship on the bankrupt.
His Honour—The hardship is on the creditors, but I
cannot hear Mr Lewis, as the case stood over solely for the
assignees to cowider whether the bankrupt should be
allowed to surrender—but the creditors would have an
opportunity of stating their grievances when the bankrupt
came up to apply to pass his last examination.
Mr. Linklater repeated that they did not oppose the
bankrupt's unconditional surrender on the faith that the
bankrupt would give the fullest examination in his power
as to his transactions, and at meetings of the town creditors
and country creditors it was decided that it was unadvis.
able to prosecute the bankrupt at the expense of the estate.
Any creditor might indict him at the public cost. There
was a very large amount in 'he public treasury, but he was
not aware how far it was available for that purpose.
His Honour referred to the previous Act of Parliament
by which the non-surrender of a bankrupt was declared to
be a felony, and the bankrupt subject to transportation for
life. That clause, however, had been repealed by the pre-
sent Act except under circumstances, and he himself con-
sidered it very doubtful whether the bankrupt was amen-
able under the words of the present Act. He thought,
therefore, that the interests of public justice would not be
advanced by a prosecution, for there appeared to be a feel-
ing on the part of judges and juries to take advantage of
any technicality, and therefore bankrupts—however gross
the commercial fraud—escaped. He did not know anything
of the bankrupt's conduct. He had heard statements, but
there was no evidence before him. The creditors would
have an opportunity of opposing the bankrupt's discharge.
He should, therefore allow the bankrupt to surrender, but
as the bankrupt would, if the decision had been adverse to
him, had the opportunity of appealing, he would give the
creditors the same, and withhold drawing up the order for

twenty-one days.
Mr. Linklater suggested that the order should be made,
but protection withheld, as there would be nothing to ap-
peal against.
This course was adopted.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE—This Day.

MARLBOROUGH-STREET.

AN 6' ARTIST'S" TROUBLES,-A FORGIVING HUSBAND

—Mrs. Galina, wife of Mr. Sydney Collins, of 31, Little
Pulteney-street, St. James', well known especially in sport-
ing circles for his ability as an " artist in colouring black
eyes," was brought before Mr. Tyrwhitt on a warrant
charged with violently assaulting her husband.
It appears that at times the defendant leads her husband,
who appears to be a good-humoured man, a very unpleasant
life owing to her violent conduct, and it has compelled him
to seek the protection of the court.
On the present occasion Mr. Collins said he did not wish
to press the charge, and asked that his wife might be dis-
charged.
Mr. Tyrwhitt ordered the defendant to enter into her own
bail to keep the peace towards her husband.
THE USE SERVANTS MAKE OF THEIR MASTERS' NAMES.

_
—Two young prostitutes, named Julia Warren and Ann
James, were charged before Mr. Tyrwhitt with disorderly
conduct, and John Ford, in the service of Lord Clarence
Paget, was charged with attempting to rescue them from
the custody of the police.
Police .constables Austin and Cane proved the case against
the females, and said that while crossing the Haymarket
with the female', Ford came up and interposed and pushed
against him, and on his telling him to desist he said that he
was Lord Clarence Paget of the Admiralty, a member of
Parliament; and, seizing him by the collar, said he would
take him (Austin) to Scotland-yard.
Mr. Tyrwhitt—You are sure he did not ray he would
take you to the Admiralty. (Laughter.) I suppose he is
a gentleman's servant.
Ford—l am in the service of Lord Clarence Paget. The
constable (Austin) threw me on my back.
Austin—That was done in strug4ling with you.

Mr. Tyrwhitt—Ford will have to pay 108 ; and the girls,
who have not been here before, I shall discharge.

THAMES.

THE SWELL MOE ON THE NORTH LONDON RAILWAY.
—Robert Fitzgibbon, a well-known member of the swell-
mob, aged 29, v ho described himself as a plasterer, residing
at an eating-house in Shored itch, was brought before Mr.
Woolrych charged with stealing a purse and money from
the person of Susanna Bonett, a young lady dwelling at
No. 21, Susanna-street, Poplar.

The prosecutris said she was a passenger on the North
London Railway from the Islington station to the Stepney
station yesterday afternoon. Her mother accompanied her.
At Hackney Wick, one of the stations on the line, eight or
nine gentlemen got into the same carriage. The prisoner
was among them, and he seated himself on her right hand
side. She was seated next to the window. All the gentle
men who got in at Hackney Wick commenced playing at
cards and betting. The prisoner said he would show the
other gentlemen a trick with the cards they had never seen
before; and, addressing her and her mother, said, " You
may all bet if you please." He then had his coat tail over
her dress, on her right hand side, where her dress pocket
was. Her purse and about lls, 6d. in silver were in that
pocket. While the prisoner was betting and looking sted-
fastly at the card playing, she felt his hand in her pocket.
She jumped up quickly, he drew his hand out, and she saw
her purse hanging to her pocket, and three parts out.
There was a key in the purse when she put it in her pocket.
It was gone. She had since recovered it. The key was
picked up in the carriage. She said to the prisoner, " You
have picked my pocket, sir." He took not the least notice
of what she said, but appeared to be deeply concerned with
the card playing, and said to the gentleman opposite, I'll
bet ycu a dollar." She said, " Never mind, I shall know
you again, you shall not escape me." On the arrival of
the train at Stepney, and before it had completely stopped,
the prisoner jumped out of the carriage and " flew" right
away. She followed as closely as possible, and called out
" that man has robbed me." The guard of the train came
to her assistance, and the prisoner jumped into another car-
riage. She pointed him out to the guard, who ordered him
out of the carriage. The prisoner would not leave, and he
was dragged out. The guard detained the prisoner till& a
police constable arrived.

Stedman Nicholls, 33 K, said the prisoner was given into
his custody, and wanted to beg the lady's pardon, and com-
promise. Ho found on the prisoner a railway ticket, pen-
knife, and 4d, in money. The prisoner said he lived at an
eating house in Shoreditch, opposite the Great Eastern
Railway station, He went to all the eating houses in the
street. The prisoner was not known at any of them, but
was in fact a swell mob thief well•ktown in Shoreditch and
the Kingsland-road,
Mr, Dawdler, the junior clerk, said this was the sixth
case of the kind on the same line of railway within a fort-
night. The leader of the gang, Graham alias Campbell,
was convicted on Monday at the Middlesex Sessions for
robbing a lady, named Cuthbert, at the Stepney railway-
station, and sentenced to ten years' petal servitude.
Mr. Woolrych—W e must ascertain more about the pri-
soner, I shall remand him for a week.

THE NEW PRIMA DONNA.—MiIe. Antoniette
Fricci was born in Vienna, in the year 1839, and is
therefore now in her twenty-fourth year. When she was
only fourteen, a writer in Ihe Queen informs us, she fre
quented the Conservatory of Music, in order to acquire the
first knowledge of that art; and afterwards becoming ac-
quainted with Mme, Marchesi, she began to study singing
under the direction of that renowned songstress. The rapid
progress she made, and the talent she evinced, clearly
showed that some day she would take a high position in her
art. Sho made her debut at Pisa in 1857. Although a
little town compared to those to which she was afterwards
ca)led; our readers must know that the Pisan public, com-
posed principally of students, is N ery hard to please. The
brilliant success she met with there made her name known
throughout Italy ; and after having charmed by her
clever performances Livorno and Florence, she was en-
gaged to sing at Turin and at the San Carlo, Naples.
She passed from one triumph to another, each public
acknowledging her talent, and the more than extraordinary
feeling (what the Italians call sentimento) that she put into
her acting. Aferh
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necklaces, the Emperor and Empress expressing personally
to her their high satisfaction. She is now at Covent-
garden for the second season. When she made her first
appearance in London, almost every journal was of opinion
that she bore a strong resemblance to Madame Grisi, in
voice and acting, as well as in personal appearance, 'Un-
boubtedly Mlle. Fricci possesses rare talent, sufficient to
make her a worthy substitute for that great prima donna.
GOOD EYESIGIiT.—The lion and the horse dis-
puted one day as to whose eyesight was best. The lion saw
in a dark night a whit!: hair in milk; the horse saw a black
hair in pitch. So the horse won.—..dll the Year sound.