The Sun.
London, England, 1865-02-20 00:00:00

WOOL.

The trade for all descriptions of English wool continues
very quiet. The amount of business transacted since our
last is small, at the recent fall in prices. In the value of
colonial wool, in the private contract market, very little
change has taken place ; the market, on the whole, may be
considered steady, notwithstanding that buyers operated
cautiously in most descriptions. The first series of public
sales for the year will probably be commenced on the 2d

This extraordinary case, which was reported in The Sun
a few days since, again came on for hearing to-day. The
accounts have been fully published, and it will be remem-
bered that upon the last occasion there was considerahle
opposition to the order of discharge being granted.
Mr. Linklater appeared for the bankrupt, and Mr. Reed
for the assignees ; while Messrs. Sargood and Griffiths op-
posed on behalf of certain creditors.
Mr. Brough said that he appeared for a creditor who
not being aware that the case was coming on on the last
occasion, now wished to put a few questions to the bank-
rupt.
His Honour observed that this would be extremely in-
convenient, as the evidence was concluded on both sides.
Creditors should inquire as to the day of hearing.

The creditor in question said he had not inquired when
the case would come on. He had been to prove his debt
on two or three subsequent occasions. _ _

Mr. Brough urged that he should not wish to ask more
than four or four five questions, which would be very short
Mr. Syme said—l am a private gentleman, a retired
licensed victualler, and live at 41, Westmore-park-road,
Westminster. In Dec., 1863, I had an application from Mr.
Leigh to advance money. I saw him personally at 9, Sell-
yard, Doctors' Commons.
Mr. Linklater asked what would be the nature of the
opposition ?
Mr. Brough—Contracting debts without a reasonable
expectation of being able to pay them.
Witness—Mr. Leigh informed me that all his debts did
not exceed £5OO. A bill was drawn up, and I advanced
about £l6O. The amount of the bill was £175. I cannot re-
collect how much I advanced to him, although I can remem-
ber the exact words he used. I think I advanced £155. Mr.
Leigh said nothing about his salary being encumbered, and
if I had known his circumstances I certainly should not
have advanced the money. He said he only had one other
bill out. When the bill was presented the answer was
" no order."

Cross-examined—l do not know Mr. Antrobus, a soli-
citor. I came to know Mr. Leigh through Harris, of
Doctor's Commons, and no one else was present but my-
self, Leigh, and Harris. To the best of my recollection I
advanced £155. I will swear it was more than £145.
His Honour—£2o for £175 for three months.

Witucao—l took a Olicquo in 1.7 pookot ready to sive tlao
bankrupt. It was drawn in the office after hearing Mr.
Leigh's statement. I generally carry one or two loose
blank cheques.
This being the evidence, his Honour asked the bankrupt
how old ho was?
Mr. Loigh—Fifty-six.

Mr. Griffiths asked to put one more question as to the
charges on the bankrupt's salary of £1,200 when he was a
police magistrate.

Mr. Leigh—At the time I was discharged there was only
a charge of £BOO on my salary.
Mr. Sargood said he should rely on two points in the
159th section, and he did not think the bankrupt's attorney
would be able to get over them. There would be a general
complaint that the debts as a rule were contracted without a
reasonable chance of their being paid. The learned counsel
then reviewed the evidence given in the case.

His Honour inquired if Mr. Sargood meant to allude to
the other debts ? _ _ .

Mr. Sargood said he should be obliged to touch upon
them, though he should confine himself as much as pos-
sible to the debt of his own client. There could be no
doubt that the bankrupt had not acted properly, and though
he had been pressed by force of circumstances, yet no feel-
ings of sympathy ought to be allowed to prevent the
public being protected by the judgment of this court. He
(Mr. Sargood) could not help thinking that tho bankrupt
had made a groat mistake when he applied to be
removed from his comparative obscurity in the
country to the open glare of his position in
London, where he surely could not help to lessen his
obligations. Speculations on the Stock Exchange and other
matters had helped to swell the list of his debts, and at last
he was driven to do that which he must now look'back
upon with great abhorrence. Now, as regarded the trans-
action with Mr. Flight, it was quite clear there could have
been no reasonable expectation for paying back the money
advanced. Mr. Flight advanced £6OO in hard cash, of
which £l5O had been repaid. There was a large rate of
interest charged, but Mr. Flight never charged less. He
sold money to those whose difficulties induced them to
apply to him, but no rate of interest could ensure a
money lender against positive deception and fraud.
The argument which would perhaps be brought to
bear against Mr. Flight, fell then to the ground. Let the
Court look to the fact that Mr. Leigh came from the coun-
try with £25,000 of debts, and how could he possibly hope to
pay them? The Mutual Loan Fund lent its money at a very
moderate rate of interest, some 20 per cent. The credit of
private purses having been exhausted, the bankrupt was
compelled to fall back upon Mr. Flight and the Mutual
Loan Fund. When the crash came all the creditors were
astounded. A deed was prepared, and Mr. Leigh offered £BOO
per annum as a sum to liquidate debts amounting to £30,000
—not enough to pay the interest. Then the creditors could
not help referring to the statements and representations
under which the bankrupt had obtained the money, and
they were astonished at the fraud perpetrated upon them.
He (Mr. Sargood) was obliged to use the word " fraud,"
although it gave him great pain. Upon the subject of
rash and hazardous speculation on the Stock Exchange
there could be no doubt that the bankrupt depended on
some lucky coup or other to relieve his position. It was
then for the court to put aside all personal feelings of pain
or reluctance. There wore two or three courses open to
the court, and the refusal of the order of discharge would not
meet the merits of the case. If the court were to take away Mr.
Leigh's miserable retiring pension what good could possibly
accrue ? There remained no course open to this Court in
the present case but one, and that was to sentence the
bankrupt to a term of imprisonment for his conduct to his
creditors, and from this punishment the bankrupt could
not help to escape.
Mr. Griffiths called attention to the particular mode in
which Mr. Cole's debt was contracted. It must be remem-
bered that at the very time the bankrupt obtained the
money from Mr. Cole, he had charged his salary with £BOO
per annum, for debts amounting to £30,000. Mr. Leigh had
shamefully abused his position as a police court magistrate
by calling to his assistance Mr. Beard, ono of the professional
practitioners of the Court at which Mr. Leigh presided.
His Honour must remember that Mr. Beard had been called
by the bankrupt into a private room and induced by him
by certain representations to introduce Mr. Coles to ad-
vance the money. Mr. Coles' was the worst case of all,
and his money had been advanced but a very short time
before the bankruptcy upon statements certainly false and
deceptive. If the court should be of opinion that there had
been false statements, then his Honour would, without
doubt, bring those portions of the Act of Parliament to bear
upon the case as would best meet it.

The case was proceeding when we went to press.

The West London Docks and Warehouses Com-
pany requires a capital of £500,000, in £2O shares,
with the view of constructing a canal basin with
wharves and warehouses adjoining the vicinity of
the Victoria railway bridge at Battersea. The
objects of the undertaking are two-fold : firstly, to
supply good wharf and warehouse accommodation
to the south-western district of the Thames ; and
secondly, to accommodate the traffic of the various
railways, which converge to the point at which the
wharves will be situated.

NEWPOUT, Feb. 18.—Wind S.W.—Arrived—Mary Ann,
and Saladin, from Bilboa.
RAMSGATE, Feb. 19.—Wind S.W.—Arrived—Hother,
from Hull for Rio Janeiro.

SWANSEA, Feb. 18.—Wind S.W.—Sailed—Claudine, for
Valparaiso.

(BY MAGNETIC TELEGRAPH.)

GRAVESEND, Monday Morning.
Arrived, Feb. 19—Lion, steamer, from Harlingen.
Arrived, Feb. 20—Schwan, steamer, from Bremen.
DEAL, Monday Morning.

Anchored—Jane, for Salcombe ; Odessa, screw steamer.
for Malta; Fortuna, for Genoa; Britannia, for Gibraltar—
all from London ; Susan Ann, and Barnard Castle—both
from the North for the West ; Leo Fanny, from Rustanjee
for Falmouth.

The accounts from the various manufacturing
districts represent that business generally has been
very dull. At Manchester prices of both cloths and
yarns have been rather lower, consequent upon
the late advices from America. The woollen
trade of Leeds, Bradford, and Huddersfield has
been dull, the late severe weather having delayed
operations in spring goods. At Leicester and Not-
tingham there has been rather more activity, while
at Birmingham, Sheffield, and Wolverhampton a
more cheerful tone has prevailed in most depart-
ments.

An interesting ceremony was performed on Satur-
day afternoon at the girls' school of the Clergy Orphan
Corporation. At the beginnfng of the present century Mr.
James Farmer bequeathed £15,715 to the society on con-
dition that on every twenty-first anniversary of his death
the committee should award £5OO to the orphan in the
school whom they considered most worthy of it. On
Saturday one of these presentations was made by the
Archbishop of Canterbury. The fortunate recipient of
the money is Miss Fayrer, daughter of the late Robert
rayrer, of Emmanuel Church, Camberwell.
LEOTARD REPUDIATING HIS WIFE.—A trial is
in process before the First Chamber of the Tribunal of
Toulouse. Silvia, Bernini, wife of Jules Leotard, the
celebrated performer on the trapeze, has applied for a
separation from her husband, while he, on the other
hand, has pleaded nullity of marriage on the ground
of default of publication and of the consent of his
parents. There could be no doubt of the fact of his
marriage, which was duly performed in London in the
presence of a Roman Catholic priest, as was shown
by a certificate produced by Madame Leotard. The
marriage took place in the month of July, 1862,
and for some months the gymnast and his wife lived and
travelled together. At length M. Leotard left his wife at
Turin to fulfil an engagement in Paris. During his absence
she learned through a letter from a stranger that Leotard
had repudiated her as his wife and spoken of her as his
mistress. On this she instantly repaired to Paris, whore
she found the report to be only too true. The unfortunate
woman in despair threw herself into the Seine, but was
rescued, and has lived to bring this action against the hus-
band who had so cruelly wronged her. The Advocate
Imperial has pronounced in favour of Madame Leotard, but
the judgment of the Court has yet to be given.

The Imperial Court has just heard an appeal
from a judgment of the Civil Tribunal in an action
brought by M. Benedict, a horse dealer, against the Princess
Wolkowski, to recover 12,500 fr., the value of certain horses
alleged to have been purchased for the latter by a person
named Londynski, acting for her. It appears that in 1861
and 1862 the princess had employed Londynski as her
confidential agent, and that he purchased of Benedict, in
her name, certain horses which were delivered at the
princess's stables, and subsequently used for her car-
riages. Some time afterwards Londynski absconded,
after embezzling considerable sums of money
belonging to the princess, for which offence he
was tried by default and condemned to five years' imprison-
ment. Benedict, who had always considered the princess
as his debtor, then applied for payment of the 12,500 fr.,
but she refused to admit her liability, on the ground that
the horses had been purchased by Londynski on his own
account. Benedict then commenced proceedings to recover
the money, and as he proved that the horses had been
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WHERE THERE'S A WILL THERE'S (NOT ALWAYS) A
WAY.—In the majority of cases, where testa-
tors make their own wills, or have them prepared by
incompetent persons, they unconsciously provide food for
the lawyers. To save a few pounds in his lifetime, a tes-
tator will often deprive his children and legatees of hun-
dreds after his death. It is an old saying and a very true
one, that the village schoolmaster and the parish clerk are
the lawyers' best friends. Nearly every one thinks him-
self competent to draw a will, a document which requires
more skill and caution in its preparation than any other
that could be named. Even lawyers themselves who draw
their own wills often make mistakes. Sir Samuel Romilly's
will was improperly worded, and that of Chief Baron
Thompson the subject of Chancery proceedings. The will
of Bradley the celebrated conveyancer, a man who spent
all his life in drawing other people's wills, was set aside by
Lord Thurlow for uncertainty ; and a late learned Master
in Chancery directed the proceeds of his estate to be in-
vested in consols in his own name !—Chambcrs's Journal.

THE FEDERAL AR3IY.—The pay of private sol-
diers in the Federal army in 1861, with bounties,
was $4OO for three years, which under the old rate of ex-
change was nearly £lOO. The high price of drinks,
clothes, and other articles reduces it to one-half that amount,
and makes it a good deal less than the pay of the British
soldier. There is, however, an item of about $3O a year for
clothing, which makes the pay nearly as good. Soon after-
wards an increase of £l4 was given to the soldier. In Sep-
tember, 1864, the pay for three years was augmented to
$B6B, or about £174, according to the old value of money.
In December of that year a corps of veterans was formed
under Hancock-, which receives the highest pay ever known
—viz., £6 ss. a month. New York boasts that she paid to
volunteers in the State not less than £13,000,000 in green-
backs last year. The officers are calling
.out for some in-
crease to their pay to establish their equilibrium. .pr-Aesrie:
and Navy Gazette.
A communication from Flensburg, in the General
receipts,
Correspondence of Vienna, says :--
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expenses,
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which amount to 7,000,000 thalers (26,250,000 f.),
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The Lincoln meeting, fined to commence to-
morrow, it is very doubtful if it will take place, owing to the
reappearance of the frost. The first event set for decision
on the opening day is the Trial Stakes, which is likely to
fall to the lot of a three-yr-old, as they have much the best
of the weights. Last year the first two were three-yr-oldg,
viz., Anglo Saxon and Siva, but the first mentioned had to
succumb to-Benjamin and Partisan in the Lincolnshire
Handicap. The frost having interfered with the work of
so many horses, the fields for the various handicaps will no
doubt be small. Terror or Sancho should defeat all the
old horses engaged in the Trial Stakes. Very few horses
up to the present time have figured in the quotations for
the Lincolnshire Handicap--Heurlys, Manrico, and Donny-
brook being backed for most money. The former ran very
well last year in France. The French division ran third
for the Trial Stakes last year, and first and second for the
Lincoln Handicap, and it would not surprise me to see them
do the same on the present occasion, as, besides Heurlys, they
have also Jarnicoton engaged, who is a speedy animal over
a mile. The same may be said of both Maurice and Donny-
brook, but as the latter belongs to the Crooked division lie
had better be let alone -till some stronger demonstration be
made in his fairour. The race will result in a match be-
tween Heurlys and Manrico, and the judge, I anticipate,
will hoist the number of •

HEURLYS
as the winner of the first race of any importance in 1865..
A FRESH MAN,

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.

LINCOLN, MONDAY.
In consequence of the severe frost, Lthese .aces are po6t-
poned until Wednesday and Thursday nelr..t.

BETTING AT MANCHESTER—SATURDAY.
There was a good attendance at the rooms to-day, and a
fair amount of business has been transacted. For tho
Liverpool Steeple Chase Emblematic was in great demand,
closing at 10 to 1. Lord Zetlancl was in force for Chester
Cup, 1,800 to 200 having been taken about him in one bet.
Very little doing on other razes, and nothing at all on the
Derby.—All bets being off on the postponed Coursing
Meeting several new books have been opened on Waterloo
Cup, in the nominations for which several chances am
anticipated. Closing prices :