The Sun.
London, England, 1865-02-15 00:00:00

LAW INTELLIGENCE—This Day,

COURT OF BANKRUPTCY.
(Before Mr. Commissioner Goulbmia)

IN RE BARNETT-APPOINTMENTS OF TRADE A SEMI TEES.

This bankrupt was described as a ship and- insurance
broker, of Gracechurch-street, and to-day he c ame up for
his order of discharge.

Mr. Reed, for the bankrupt, said he believed' there was
no opposition to the bankrupt.

Mr. Doria said that he appeared for the assignees, and
he was instructed to say that they were perfectly sat isfied
with the accounts as filed. In order that the court znight
be under no misapprehension as to the character of the trade
assignees in this case, he (Mr. Doria) might state thvt he
had been chosen by creditors representing £2,000 in value.
His Honour—You have anticipated that which I was
about to ask Mr. Doria, because in most cases one knows
that the trade assignee is a sham.
Mr. Doria—He is no sham in this case.

Mr. Reed—l can explain the cause of the losses suffered
by the bankrupt. He speculated in the corn trade, and the
p eat influx of corn from the Baltic to.this country has
caused the present bankruptcy.

His Honour—Very well; there is no opposition, and the
assignee is satisfied. The bankrupt will pass, and take his

order.

Order accordingly.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.—This Day.

MARLBOROUGH-S TREE T.

THE "GENTLEMAN PICKPOCKET" AT Tom THUMB'S.—
John Brown, alias Abraham Brown, a well-dressed young
man, was charged before Mr. Tyrwhitt, with being a sus-
pected person, and at St. James's Hall, supposed for the
purposed of committing a felony, and also with having in
his possession a purse, supposed to be stolen.

Sergeant Edwin Coathupe, of the Detective force, said
that:yesterday evening,while in the entrance of St. James's
Hall he saw the prisoner coming out of the concert room.
Knowing him, he stopped him, and he said he had merely
come to the place to see Tom Thumb. He asked the pri-
soner what he had about him, and he replied " only my
own purse." He then told the prisoner he must search him,
and did so, and found upon him a dark green morocco
purse. On asking him how much the purse contained, he
said about 165., but on opening it in the prisoner's presence
he found: it to contain 20s. in silver and 2d. in copper.
He then told the prisoner he should take him into custody,
and did so.

In answer to Mr. Tyrwhitt, the sergeant said the priso-
ner had only been recently discharged from Wandsworth
prison, and had several times been convicted. He wished
for a remand, as two purses were missed last night.
Sergeant Cole, of the C division, said the prisoner had
been convicted of picking pockets at this court, and com-
mitted for three months with hard labour. The prisoner
formerly used to keep a pony and frequent Rotten-row,
always dressing well, and wearing several rings. He took
him in custody at Slough for picking pockets on the occa-
sion of the Prince of Wales opening the British Orphan
Asylum, and he then had in his pocket a guinea ticket,
which he had taken for the banquet. The prisoner had
once told him that he used to regularly visit the Inter-
national Exhibition, and well sweated it, having cleared
£2,000 by it. He knew the prisoner to always have plenty
of money.
Mr. Tyrwhitt remanded the prisoner.

ASSAULT ON A FEMALE.—William Joseph, a clerk, who
gave the address 205, Fleet-street, was charged before Mr.
Tyrwhitt with assaulting Elizabeth Davis, an unfortunate,
in the Haymarket.

The managing-clerk to Mr. Boodle, solicitor, Chancery-
lane, appeared for the prisoner.
The young woman said that on the previous night she
was going up the Haymarket when she saw the prisoner
and other gentlemen in his company. The prisoner made
use of language she did not like to repeat, told her to get
out of the way, and then struck her with a stick across the
face, she not having spoken a word to him. She fell, and
her nose bled very. much. Some gentlemen came up and
told her to give the prisoner in charge, and she did so.
The solicitor's clerk, after cross-examining the prose-
cutrix, said he was instructed that the prosecutrix knocked
off the prisoner's hat, and that he put up his stick to de-
fend himself, and thus injured her face. He had two
gentlemen in court who was with the prisoner, but as they
did not like their names to get mixed up in the affair in the
papers they would rather not appear.
A constable said that he saw the prosecutrix bleeding,
and ON gave the prisoner in charge. The prisoner's hat
was off at the time, but he did not say the prosecutrix had
knocked it off.

Mr. Tyrwhitt said all he could do for the prisoner was
to let him speak to the prosecutrix. _ _

Subsequently it was stated that the prosecutrix had
received some compensation, and the prisoner was dis-

charged.