The Sun.
London, England, 1863-09-22 00:00:00

men knew that he went into the Kingdom with the
firm intention of staying there and making himself
at home. the peasants had, in fact, become accus-
tomed to his presence in the palatinate of Lublin,
and this explains to a great extent their favourable
attitude towards him. It is impossible, on the other
hand, that they can feel any confidence in the in-
surrection in places where detachments are constantly
entering and are invariably beaten back, after re-
maining sometimes for a day or two, sometimes
only for a few hours, on the Russian side of the
frontier.

A notion has somehow or other got abroad that
Lelewel was a workman (a shoemaker from War-
saw, according to one report), and it has been
argued that his great success in conducting par-
tisan warfare was owing to his want of regular
military experience. The simple fact was, that he
had had considerable military experience, having
served throughout the Hungarian campaign of
1848-9. He had confidence in himself, and knew
how to inspire confidence in his men—which for an
inspired cobbler might have been a hard matter.
Lelewel was in the Engineers during the Hungarian
war, and became a civil engineer after its conclu-
sion. He was apparently about 40 years of age,
was a tall, powerful-looking man, with black hair,
a large black beard, and eyes which announced all
the energy and determination which he showed so
plentifully in action. His death has caused great
grief ; and if some 20 other insurgent chiefs were
not only to lament him, but to imitate him, thein-
surrection would soon become a very much more
serious affair than it is at present.

CENTRAL CRIMINAL COTIRT—Sept, 21.

OLD COURT.
ABSCONDING FROM BANKRUPTCY.
Bernhard Behrenz, brush maker, was indicted under the
new Bankruptcy Act for misdemeanour, he, after being
adjudged a bankrupt, having concealed and disposed of a
part of his property with a view to defraud,
his creditors.
The defendant had kept a brushmaker s shop in
i
Cam-
berwell, and also reported himself as a general dealer n
the habit of attending the faire held in Germany, and upon
these representations he obtained a largo quantity of goods
from Messrs. Wilson, warehousemen, and paid various
sums of money from time to time. The defendant was
adjudicated a bankrupt on the 27th of May last, and on that
day he went to a shipping-agent at St. Katherine's
wharf, and represented that he wanted to forward
a number of packages to Cologne by the next
packet by way of Rotterdam, and it was of the utmost
importance that no delay should take place. In a short
time after a large quantity of cocoa nut matting, Dutch
carpeting, &c., &c., was sent to the wharf, and when he
next saw the defendant he said he had disposed of his busi-
ness to his brother, payment for which he had received in
bills of exchange, which he took away with him as well as
a gold chain, a large quantity of silk scarfs, and a number
of trunks and other travelling boxes. The defendant left
England for Cologne, and afterwards he was apprehended
on a warrant by Webb, of the City detective force, and on
their arrival in England the officer discovered the residence
of the defendant, and there he succeeded in recovering a
large quantity of property for the creditors,
The Recorder, in summing up the case to the jury, said
that it was one undoubtedly of considerable importance, be-
cause while, on the one hand, it was clear that any trader
who became bankrupt through misfortune or unavoidable
causes ought not to be made amenable to the criminal law,
still, on the other, it was most essential in a commercial
community that when a man became bankrupt from any
cause, no portion of his estate should be improperly disposed
of, but that the whole of it should be made available for dis-
tribution among the general body of his creditors, in order
to lessen the loss they would otherwise sustain. He then
called their attention to the evidence, and said that the
material question for the jury to decide was, whether the
defendant, by the course he had taken, intended to defraud
his creditors or not.

The jury, after a very short consultation, returned a ver-
dict of Guilty.
The Recorder, in passing sentence upon the defendant,
said that it appeared to him that the jury could not have
returned any other verdict than they had done upon the
evidence that had been laid before them, and there could be
no doubt that he had taken all his property abroad in order
to deprive his creditors of it and prevent it from being dis-
tributed among them. He then sentenced him to be im-
prisoned and kept to hard labour for IS months,