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TATTERSALL'S,

(THIS EVENING.)

CHESTER CUP.
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66 to 1 agst Newnainster (taken).
Offers to take 40 to 1 about Virago.
DERBY.
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9to 1 agst John Scott winning Derby and

Oaks (taken).

RESIGNATION OF LORD PALMERSTON.

( From the Times. )

It will probably not be very easy to bring the public
to any exact agreement with regard to the amount of
loss the Ministry has sustained by the withdrawal of
Lord Palmerston from her Majesty's councils. Every
one will judge of it for himself according to the estimate
of the man, and there are few public men about whom
estimates so conflicting are formed and expressed.
There are those who insist upon considering Lord
Palmerston as the best friend to the march-of liberal
opinions on the Continent of Europe, regardless of the
calamitous fate which has sooner or later overtaken
all his porteges, and which he used no means to
prevent. There are others who have been in the
habit of looking up to him as the head of a party of
more advanced liberality in home politics than any
that has yet scaled the defences of Downing-street.
Rather than own themselves mistaken, those persons
will probably adhere to their expressed opinions, and
insist upon believing that a severe shock has been sus-
tained by Lord Aberdeen's Ministry in the loss of a
nobleman so liberal and so popular. But they who look
at the matter without prejudice, and with a wish to
judge it fairly and impartially, will probably come to
the conclusion that the • loss, however great, is not
irremediable. Whatever opinions may have been
held by certain parties with regard to Lord Pal-
merston, those who attend carefully to the cir-
cumstances of his resignation will find very much
in them to diminish their regret for his loss. The
time was one which peculiarly demanded that
patriotic sacrifice of individual opinion out of which
the present Coalition Ministry derives its existence. On
nthaetiothnrs o
eshfotlhdeoefaarthw,awrhwein thetho bneeof theeantr
of t powerfulaverting
this terrible contingency is the unsatnimmity 'of all parties
and the thorough accord of all counsels, a principal
officer of State feels himself called upon abruptly to re-
nounce his official position, and to quit a Governmenther
which had hitherto obtained his support. T
nothing in the time which pressed for an immediate
decision, decision, and there were many things, to a mind
capable of rising above party and personal motives,
which counselled delay and forbearance. War de-
clared, or peace re-established, would have left him
free to act with little public injury. Nor was
there anything in the previous history of the man
which should lead us to consider him as of too unbending
a nature to submit his own opinions to those of others
for the sake of the public good. There is no party in
the country which he has not served, no set of opinions
which have not at one time or another been supported
by his vote. A nobleman who could hold office under
Mr. Percival and Lord Grey, Lord Liverpool and Lord
John Russell, can scarcely plead a punctilious delicacy
or a rigorous adherence to consistency as an excuse
for the resignation of office at a period so singularly
inopportune for the best interests of the country.
If we turn from the time to the avowed causes of Lord
Palmerston's resignation, we see still less reason for
considering his loss irretrievable. Lord Palmerston re-
signed because he could not agree to Lord John Russell's
Reform Bill, although to carry a measure framed on his
view of the subject would have been, in the present tem-
per of the Legislature and the public mind, an impossi-
bility. It matters little whether Lord Palmerston de-
clared at once that he was against all reform, or whether
he objected to the disfranchisement of more than twenty
boroughs, and insisted upon giving all the members
thus placed at the disposal of the Legislature to the
counties, at the same time that he objected to lower by a
single shilling the county franchise. It is quite ob-
vious that ministers would have done more wisely to
encounter Parliament without any Reform Bill at all
than to redeem their pledge in so futile and unsatisfactory
a manner. To bring forward a bill of so much moment
in order that it might be rejected would have been un-
worthy of the character for good faith and honesty
which the public ascribes to Lerd.•Aberdeen and his
Government. And yet, because the plan of the Minis-
terial measure was not of this evasive character—be-
cause it was intended honourably to redeem the pledge
which the Government had accepted, the statesman
whose loss we are called upon to bewail as irretrievable
resigned. Happily, England is not yet so poor in talent
and experience as to regard as irreparable the loss of
a Minister who, never celebrated for the consistency
of his opinions, resigns hi eat in the Cabinet rather
than fairly carry out the pled P to grant a just, mode-
rate, and necessary reform, and selects for that resig-
nation a most critical moment, when such an act is sure
to be misconstrued by foreign nations, to the great
detriment of the public interests, and the complication
of affairs already sufficiently entangled.
We understand that upon Lord Palmerston's resigna-
tion, Lord Aberdeen offered the Home-office to Lord
John Russell, and we regret to hear that the offer was de
clined, mainly from the fear that his acceptance of it migh
be misconstrued. The office has now been offered to Sir
George Grey, and awaits his acceptance or rejection.
Whoever is destined to be its future occupant will, w
trust, be prepared to advocate and carry through a fai
and substantial measure of Parliamentary reform, and t
consider his official situation as a great trust held for the
benefit of the country, neither to be undertaken rashly
nor flung aside hastily, and least of all when the welfare
of the State exacts every sacrifice in order to preserve
in the presence of foreign nations the appearance of unity
and harmony in our councils.

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Though, we thestated,l
a whole matter
can only be completely entered
into and explained before
the tribunal of Parliament, we do not hesitate to affirm
with confidence that, from the first, serious differences
of opinion with regard to the course to be pursued
towards Russia existed between Lord Palmerston and a
certain section of the Cabinet, and that the Home Secre-
tary's views of foreign
policy were opposed to those of
the Premier. It was not, however, for a patriotic man,
whose experience was acknowledged, and whose coun-
tenance was requested by .all, to resign office because he
could not persuade others to act together upon his con-
victions. Suffice it that he could effect a partial good,
and be of more use in the Cabinet than out of it.
It will be remembered that, on the 17th of August
last, is a memorable speech, Lord Palmerston used
these words :—lf England, united with Fiance, shall
say that Turkey shall not be molested by any other
Power, their dictum will be enforced." Every one
-knows that when Lord Palmerston says a thing he means
it, and does it, and we may be sure, bad his c muse!
been followed, that the often repeated dictum of
d France would have been uttered but once,
England an
and then acted upon with an energy worthy of the nations
pledged to it.
Instead of that Turkey has been " molested," whilst
Russia has been treated with a vacillating timidity that
has tempted her continued aggression far more than any
weakness of Turkey, or present haste to obtain the long-
coveted Empire of the South.
And what has been the consequence ? Why, that
Russia holds the "material guarantees " of her demands,
and that up to the Present time she has held the com-
mand of the Black Sea, with what effect let Sinope tell.
That disgraceful catastrophe could never have occurred
if proper measures in regard to the Black Sea bad been
adopted.
The dispute must result in one of two possible issues
—either Turkey, beaten, prostrate at the feet of the
Czar, may submit to his demands, or the Emperor of
Russia must withdraw his pretensions.
The policy of England was simple, had her statesmen
carried it out. When the Emperor threatened to cross
the Pruth, we should have replied that, as soon as he
committed that act of war, our fleet would pass through
the Dardanelles and the Bosphorus, then open in accord.
ance with the provisions of the Treaty of 1841, and would
enter the Enxine ; and when he occupied the
Principa-
lities we should have taken command of the Black Sea,
giving notice to the Czar that, if the bo •
wsprit
9a us-
sian man-of-war appeared beyond the our o b har r
e as-
topol, it would oertainly result in his
to Constantinople. ship's being towed
This would have been a v.
policy, worthy of the country vigorous and an effective
are merely in the Bosphorus. ; instead of this our ships
con-
siderable service to the Sultan They certainly are of
from d • a coup c maul, which
ultan for they protecthis capital
have proved as effectual at C but for their presence might
We do no more than onstantinople as Sinope.
cause forsooth, it is feared this, however, and whereforeh— be-
ared there might be " war" were
we to enter the Black Sea, and, for instance to prevent
Russianreinforce
which is a inentsbeing conveyed to Sokourn Baleh,
Batoum ; but Russian
port within some days maroh o
ally, as those forces are to march against our
where is the difference of their being landed at one
port or another, so their purpose be the same ? Yet
we profess to protect the Turkish territory, though the
profession was but ill supported at Sinope. If w e under-
take to protect Turkey, why do we not do so ? Why are
English professions and English ail all show ared no sub-
stance ? If we are afraid to act the part which on r interest
and honour require of us— if we are afraid to put Turkey
in command of the Black Sea, lest we offend the A ,utocrat f
—if we are afraid to send our cruisers, or to send a fleet,
to convoy the Turk's ships or shield his ports !—wee might
almost as well not have sent our fleets to Constanti-
nople, this being as much interference with the- Czar as
any other act we have named, and quite as much. " war."
A course apparently tame and timid has been pursued,
and the audacity of Russia has been encouraged, not
checked Sooner or later this policy must be changed,
if the independence of Turkey, the honour of England,
and the great interests of Europe, are to be saved..
That Lord Palmerston throughout has urged a staraight.
forward and honourable policy, his every precedent
rantees ; and we have every reason to believe that to the
neglect of his advice the disaster of Sinope and the pro-
sent unfortunate state of affairs is owing.

DONAGHADEE AND PORTPATRICK
PACKET STATION.

(Prom the Belfast News Letter.)
We have been favoured with the following correspon-
dence between the Marquis of Londonderry and Sir J.
raham, first Lord of the Admiralty, and in consequence
ofa former letter having been published by the Belfast
r Loch Ryan Committee, we are authorised to pub-
Athe same :
^k"THE MARQUIS OF LONDONDERRY TO SIR JAMES
GRAHAM, BART.

• •
."Tower of Garron, 12th Oct.; 1853.
" Sir, —I do not often trouble her Majesty's Govern-
ment with any. representation, but it appears to me a
duty from my position in the North of Ireland, humbly
and earnestly to call your attention and that of her
Majesty's Government to the consideration of the short-
est.sea passage communication between the two islands.
Years have passed since I anxiously have laboured un-
successfully in calling attention of the different Govern-
ments to this subject, every day becoming of more and
more vital importance to the commercial industry and
prosperity of the coast population of the North of Ire-
edand and. North West of Scotland.
"I have presumed to send you to-day a Belfast
News Letter, in which I have developed my linnible
views as they appear to my mind at the present moment,
but I should be sorry to forego, if there was the least
•:chanee, of their ultimate success, those long-cherished
sentiments which still have unshaken force, but been
overcome by stern impossibility.
" I would not, with the deepest desire to have the
object of a short sea passage accomplished, forego the
full considerations and weight of those who are still
strenuous in their contention for Port Patrick and
Donaghadee versus Belfast and Loch Ryan, and there
fore I enclose a paper sent to me by the late superin-
tendent of Donaghadee (Commander Hawes, R.N.), an
• ,officer of very great experience and ability, and whom
• I' have sailed with often.
•• "Pardon me, sir, if I venture to state that I think
• no one subject whatever under the consideration of the
Board of which you are the enlightened head, and of
-whose great intellectual mind the country is well
aware, would afford the administration of your great
' department more real credit and honour than if they
underi66k,and brought to a hippy issue and conclusion
thielhortest,line of sea communication that science and
'art can contrive between Great 'Britain and Ireland.
" Allow me to inform you of what I believe to be the
present state of the great discusiions going on in Bel-
' • 'fast upon this important affair.
I C : "The GreenOck Steam Company Packets,'in having
bribed her Majesty'slate Whig Government to give up
carrying the mails; at a certain expense (though really_
trifling), between Portpatrick and Donaghadee, by
offering •to carry them gratis, which they now do, are
extremely' alarmed at the possible success of the new
scheine of steamers between Belfast and Loch Ryan,
lest, by the undoubted superiority and celerity,
when ,the• line was -perfectly established, they would
carry,,,,,,ceey both mails again, and passengers, &c.,
• which they think to have secured by their late ma-
, seeouVres in knocking up Portpatrick and Donaghadee.
• - ,e-This large body of persons in the Greenock establish-
, . -eaents are now advocating,. in'the• strongest manner, the
return to the old ports exploded, beingmorally convinced
that these will never, be resuscitated, but the cry thus
raised again for them will damage, by the opposition,
' the Belfast and Loch Ryan line, which the Greenockers
are wofullye'alarmed at, from the most disinterested
views. •
"-The.press teems with reasons de parti d'autre, by
- some noted and some anonymous writers. Unquestion-
ably, all the Belfasters, not Greenockers, if I may so
term it, are hostile to the very chance of any other place
than this modern city of Ulster, having the great steam
' Station across the channel, and its accommodation in
every way makes it most eligible, and from it, I, too, must
fear, alone the departure from Ireland must be ulti-
Mately fixed. •
, "However, the time seems arrived when Govern-
ment will be driven to form some patriotic determina-
tiOn; ittid-be no longer swayed by interested companies,
or miserable rnisapplied•economy. Can it, in your days
of progeess, be borne, that the greatest naval power in
the world, with riches, science, and means', to any—eze._
tent, should for years-past and still permit the immense
:advantages of a two or three hours' passage, against ten,
-twelve, or fourteen; to be neglected, and entirely to be
• lost sight of, and still allow two ports that coat
400,000/. to appear as barren rocks upon the verge of
the ocean. dilapidated and decayed, an e,oblem of former
follies and present supineness of British legislators.
"It would be worthy of you, sir, to point out the dis-
comfort and inconvenience, not alone danger the most
suffering and weak part of our inhabitants in these re-
gions are exposed to, which a very trifling sacrifice of
your superabundant means at command would so easily
remove. Immense sums have been expended on the
Holyhead and. Dublin line, but Dublin is not Paris. It
is not Ireland' as Paris is said to be France. By the
unfortunate mistake of them and the commissioners who
originally directed all the Holyhead outlay, they entirely
lost sight of the provinces. Why was not Belfast, Lon-
donderry, Larne, and other ports considered ? But have
they got rid of the long passage by Dublin and Holy-
head? No ; shortened as the passage may be in sum-
mer to 6 or 7 hours, you must have much more in win-
ter, when you are now offered from '1 to 31, and choice
of lines.
• "It has been long the misfortune that the cry of the
Scotch Railway directors was, when the Government
will establish good steamers and fix their port, we will
make the railway ; while the Admiralty, on the other
hand, ejaculated, When the directors of the railway
company will commence the railroad from Dumfries to
the port, then we will make the harbour at Portpatrick
more complete, aiol give the steamers.'
"These subtertTees have allowed matters year after
year to slumber. But, sir, I humbly but strongly con-
ceive, as an Irishman, that you, as a Scotchman, are
bound by every public and private duty not to let this
great object longer slumber or sleep. Take the instant
way ; let no niggardly feeling of your Cabinet arrest you
from forcing fom ward—not justice to Ireland alone, as
you have announced, by employing her sons in your
department and ships, but justice to the crying neglect
and wants to those large numbers that are obliged
from their duties and adventures to pass that dangerous
element, the miseries of which, to those who are unac-
customed to it, are too well known.
" Why not try something immediately ? return to
Portpatrick experimentally, until Belfast•and Loch Ryan
be determined on, act with your own wonted energy and
vigour, and, as you have formed and brought together a
a glorious specimen of your efforts at Spithead. and
Portsmouth, extend them to the poor regions and that
class of your countrymen and mine who now claim your
powerful protection and decision.
"I have the honour to be your obedient servant,
" VANE LONDONDERRY.
"Sir James Graham, Bart."
Letter No. 2.
THE LORDS OF 'TER ADMIRALTY TO THE MARQUIS OF LON-
DONDERRY.

• "Admiralty, 27th Oct., 1853.
"My Lord Marquis,---I am commanded by the Lords
Commissioners of the Admiralty to acquaint you that
your lordship's letter of the 12th inst , and its enclosures,
on the subject of Portpatrick harbour, and the establish-
ment of the packet service between that place and
Donaghadee, have been laid before the Board of Admi-
ralty by Sir James Graham.
" In reply thereto; I am directed to inform your lord-
ship that Portpatrick harbour is not neglected, but that
a vote of public money has been granted for its immediate
repair, and that the work is in progress, under the advice
and inspection of a Government engineer.
"If the advantages of the short sea passage l)etween,
Donaghadee and Portpatrick be evidently superior
the board is of opinion that private enterprise 'cannot
fail soon to realise them, in the immediate 'neighbour-
hood of a great mercantile community so wealthy and
so enterprising as that of Belfast.
"The public has provided additional harbour-room,
thus affording two commodious harbours at a great cost,
one on each shore, and still maintains them, without
harbour dues being exacted by Government. If the
wants and commerce of the neighbourhood require the
means of transit, private capital will supply them, under
the ordinary inducements of profit ; if there be no pro-
fit, and extraordinary exertions are to be made, the
capital alreadyexpended on these two harbours is a liberal
contribution on the part of the public, and sonic local
effort must be made to supply the steam accommoda-
tion.
"The board directs me further to observe that Go-
vernment packets are no longer employed in any part
of the United Kingdom, except at Dover ; and there,
also, the service is about to he performed by contract, to
the exclusion of Government yessels.
" I have the honour to be, my Lord Marquis, your
lordship's most obedient servant,

"W. A. B. HAMILTON.
" To the Most Hon. General the Marquis
of Londonderry, G.C.8., K.G., &c.
Letter No. 3.

THE MARQUIS OF LONDONDERRY TO SIR JAMES GRAHAM.
Mount-Stewart, Newtownards,
...• 12th Nov. 1853.
• "Dear Sir James,—A severe accident, and a very
4-14.1:attack.of influenza, have prevented my earlier re-
PiYink.to the official letter of the Lords of the Admiralty
of
the 27,th ult, and your private note of the 9th inst.
"Itaxialt.ing yeti sincerely for the latter, of course,
when -their lordships and the board address me, the mat-
ter beef:ants:at once a public affair, and will be laid before
311'Parties,interested-
"My letter';}e you and my anxious efforts in this
business were instigated both by your private knowledge
of the position of matters and the weight which your
energy and decision must have on the government of the
Admiralty.
"These various reasons induced my appeal to you in-
dividually, and you fell into no error by supposing T did
• not address you also publicly, for every word of my let-
ter'of the 12th ult. called upon you in all the official
character you possess.
thank•you for giving me credit for the active part
I have long taken in this business, and you are right in
supposing that I wish to revive my opinions before the
public, and to again place them on record, having, during
the experience of a long life, found that, by continued
perseverance, and never giving up an indisputable and
meritorious cause, ono is always certain to succeed.
"I will not recapitulate the arguments in my former
letter ; the clear and visible object must now be to obtain
the short sea voyage instanter. It is in vain to allow the
grass to grow under our feet. For years we have suf-
fered, and were continually the victims of much serious
inconvenience, which your department, and that of the
Post-office, in common compassion to us, should have
averted. We had small steam packets for a long time,
and it is ortthe records of your office, and ,to the credit, !
that; they never lost a mail or failed in the service during
theieverest winters. To economise, the former Post-
master-General (the Marquis of Clanricarde), unmindful

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of the evil he entailed on this part of Ireland, was -led,,
together with your predecessor, to carry away from us
this advantage, which involved so trifling an expense,
by depriving us of any communication between two
ports, which their lordships inform me they are thoroughly
repairing and still expending money upon. Will you
allow me to ask, under these circumstances, for what
purpose this outlay is made ! It is to be hoped that you
and Lord Canning will not allow us still to doubt as to
what your decision will be on the relative merits of
Donaghadee and Portpatrick as contrasted with Belfast
and Loch Ryan.
"From the numerous representations you will re-
ceive, there must be strong partisans for each line. I
have already endeavoured to represent their merits to
you, as well as my own conviction that it is impossible
that both lines, with a double set of packets, can be suc-
cessfully established in this district, and I am equally
certain that both must fail if the contest is persevered in
and the Government will be so weak as to decide in favour
of neither. All me to say, with all respect to the Board,
that it is idle to assume that private enterprise must
soon realise all that we seek far in this desirable object.
Time has already shown how inadequate our capital is
fel such objects, and can it be alleged that the Govern-
ment can in no case aid poor and populous districts in
Ireland because the speculation and expenditure will fail
to pay ? It is because it does not pay that speculators
will not embark their money, and thus the duty of the
Government to assist arises, and can it be a reason that
because the Government have provided
~commodious
harbours at a heavy cost, they are now to leave them
wholly useless for the want of some future aid, which it
is clear this part of Ireland cannot supply ? Do the
Government conceive that what has already been ex-
pended on those harbours is so liberal a contribution on
their part as to induce the expenditure of private capital
on steamers, while it is known that, owing to these har-
bours not having been completed, as originally intended,
they are not at present in a state to receive steamers
which could efficiently perform the packet service ?
With respect to the observation of the Board that
packets are no longer furnished by the Government in
any part of the United Kingdom, it need only be asked
is there any part of the United Kingdom similarly cir-
cumstanced where so little assistance could accomplish
so much ,and where under existing circumstances aid
appears to be so justly and imperatively due ? And I
would only direct your attention to the strange anomaly
of an arrangement which subjects the mails and passen-
gers to the risk and inconvenience of a nine hours' pas-
sage through a turbulent sea, and all the contingencies
necessarily resulting from it, in preferdice to the short
and easy passage of three hours by Cairn Ryan, or one
and a half by Portpatrick.
"And now to conclude this long prose, I would im-
-plore—the -Board of Admiralty, and more particularly
yourself, to carry into effect, with the least possible de-
lay, some measure for the accomplishment of this great
nautical object. And be assured it will give you more
gratification and popularity than striking out further
improvement in the steamers plying between Dublin,
Holyhead, and Liverpool ; and the Treasury spending
more treasure on the Vivids, Ladies Alice and Hands,
going between Dover and Calais for the aristocracy and
visitors, 'and their retinues ; and if our short passage is
thus established, it will surely induce her Majesty to
visit this portion of her empire, then brought so close
to her Highland residence in Scotland.—l remain, my
dear Sir James, yours very faithfully,

"VANR LONDONDERRY.

" Sir James Graham, Bart."
It was then stated in a communication from Sir James
Graham, not official :

"That the proposition and its adoption depended on
the will of Parliament, and on the controlling power of
the Treasury ; and Sir James Graham could not ask
them to reverse a decision so recently taken, after full
description arid after a careful review of the merits of
the case."

In reply to the above, Lord Londonderry addressed
to Sir James Graham the following letter :
" Mount-Stewart, 26th Nov., 1853.

"My dear Sir JaMes—You are always very kind in
your expressions of friendship and personal considera-
tion towards me, but in the present case this business
has taken.a public and official turn. I can make no
use of your private communication, as I look for some
-official-answer on the laws of the Admiralty, and the
case will then stand before the public at large, and will
afford, I hope, fresh fuel to that fire that I shall not fail
to keep up on her Majesty's Government and Parlia-
ment as long as I have any power to wield my humble
pen, or means of public expression of my opinions.
"I know the will of Parliament must be bowed to,
but I know also a continued agitation on a just and
good cause (to wit, Free Trade, &c.), overcomes in the
end mistaken economy, and obstinate misconception.
"I know, also, that talking of some few thousand
pounds outlay for the Treasury of Great Britain, for a
substantial national object for her Majesty's liege sub-
jects in Ireland, is what our poor lost duke would de-
nominate a farce.

" I shall wait your official answer before our friends
in Belfast move further. May I beg you will not delay
it, if you think it, right to send any reply. There was a
large meeting at Donaghadee yesterday, but this will
have no result. All must unite in one cause, and one
course.---Believe me always, yours most sincerely,
" Sir James Graham, Bart., &e."

" VANE LONDONDERRY.

No further communication having been received, up
to the 10th December inst., from the Admiralty, it was
thought right to publish the foregoing correspondence,
in consequence of great public and general meetings at
Belfast of all the northern gentry, merchants, and pub-
lic men, on this most important subject.

LAW INTELLIGENCE.

COURT OF BANKRUPTCY.—DEc. 17.

IN RE TREDINNICK.-CASE OF A MINING SHAREBROKER,

This was the last examination meeting in the case of
Richard Tredinnick, described as of "No. 6, Haymar-
ket, sharedealer, dealer in shares, dealer and chapman."
The accounts, which are very voluminous, have been
prepared by Messrs. Harding and Pullein ; they extend
from the 18th March, 1851, to 3rd November last, the
date of the failure, and occupy 49 folios. 'They comprise
a statement of the bankrupt's affairs in March, 1851,
when he appears to have bad a surplus of 491. The
position of the estate at the time of the former bank-
ruptcy is also detailed at great length, The former
bankruptcy having been superseded, most of the lia-
bilities under it have revived. The balance-sheet is in
the following form :-
Dr.-To creditors unsecured, 7,4041- 13s. Bd. ; credi-
tors for calls on shares, 3,8931. 4s. Bd. (see contra) ;
creditors holding security, 6,5161. 9s. 10d. ; liabilities,
3,3541. 4s. 4d. ; surplus, March 18, 1851, 891. 7s. ld.;
profits on shares, 17,0121. 19s. 11d. ; sundries, 38g.
13s. ; profit rental, 1111. 12s. 10d. ; difference in books,
ld.-Total, 34,879/. Os. 9d.
Cr.-By debtors, good, nil ; doubtful, 571/. 2s. 9d. ;
bad (carried to losses), 2,6801. Os. 10d. ; household fur-
niture, &c., realised 1551. 6s. ld. ; shares, estimated to
realise, after deducting calls due, 8001. ; property held
by creditors, 7,5421. ; liabilities and per contra, 3,3541.
4s. 4d. ; trade expenses, 2,3241. 10s. ld. ; interest and
discount, 1,4241. 13s. 4d. ; law charges, 1,4681. 4s. 2d. ;
house and personal expenses, 1,5361. 18s. ld. ; ex-
penses under former bankruptcy, 4581. Os. 6d. ; pro-
bable depreciation in shares given up to the assignees,
2,5061. ss. 4d. ; losses, 7,743/. 9s. Gd. ; ditto on shares,
4,994/. 6s. 7d. ; total, 34,879/. Os. 9d. _

The unsecured creditors are numerous, and of small
amount, only two of their debts exceeding 5001. The credi-
tors for calls on shares are the Leeds Town Consols Mine,
the North Cornwall Mining Company, and the South Ding
Dong Aline. The bankrupt appears to have discounted
largely ; amongst the losses is an item of 3,439/. in re-
spect of some acceptances of Mr. Hennett's, which the
bankrupt discounted, and for which he had to provide
On Hennett's failure. From the detailed statemants of
profit and loss on the various share transactions, it
would appear that the bankrupt had dealt in about 60
different kinds of mining shares.
The petitioning creditor under the bankruptcy was
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held on the 19th ult., debts to the amount of 1,7001.
were proved, and Mr. Benjamin Pidwell Bathen, mining
broker, of Crown-court, Old Broad-street, (a creditor for
1551. for money lent), was chosen trade assignee.
Mr. Cox, en behalf of the assignees, asked for an ad-
journment of the last examination meeting, as the ac-
counts had only been filed on the preceding day. It
was a very extensive failure ; and the accounts com-
prised a tremendous mass of figures.
The Commissioner—Here again I am asked for an ad-
journment. We never pass an examination now on the
day fixed for it. How is this?
Mr. Nicholson, the official assignee, said the accounts
involved an enormous mass of figures, and would require
careful investigation.
The Commissioner—Never mind the mass of figures.
What do you say as to the mass of property ?
Mr. Nicholson said there was some property.
Mr. Cox believed the amount of assets reali sed would
depend entirely on the exertions of the bankrupt. Thi,y
consisted of shares in an immense number of rnines,
which were depsited with creditors, and some of
them might be of very large value. The assignees
were entirely dependent on the exertions of the
bankrupt in this matter ; and he was bound to say
that since coming into that court he had used the ut-
most diligence in endeavouring to realise the property of
his estate,i and had already succeeded, in several in-
stances, n getting rid of a parcel of shares which were
not supposed to be worth a shilling. The assignees
would readily assent to any reasonable adjournment,
believing that the bankrupt had been very diligent in-
deed in the preparation of his accounts, and that much
tune had been necessarily consumed in their preparation.
The Commissioner- -What is the date of the adjudica-
tion'?

Mr. Cox—The 4th of November.
The Commissioner-- Well, that is not a long time.
What time will you require to examine the accounts ?
Mr. Cox—l think a month will enable us to make the
investi,:ration. The books, I understand, have been re-
markably well kept by double entry.
The bankrupt said the accounts were as perfect as he
could make them ; he did not think they would require
amendment. He had gone carefully through the ac-
counts ; lie understood them, and was satisfied that they
were correct.
The Commissioner—Then let the examination stand
adjourned for a month.
Mr. Cox, in the absence of Mr. Lawrance, who was
instructed for the bankrupt, asked for an allowance, and
again referred to the assistance which the bankrupt had
rendered the assignees.

His Honour said the question had better stand over
until the assignees had examined the accounts. That
was another reason why he was averse to granting ad-

journments ; it involved not only`the expense of another
meeting, but of a continued allowance to the bankrupt.
Mr. Cox said he should be able to remove any diffi-
culty on that head, as he was employing the bankrupt
to sell these shares, which he did without any com-
mission.
The bankrupt said he should have to devote the whole
of his time to the business.
His Honour said that should be considered when the
allowance was fixed at the next meeting.

SHERIFF'S COURT, Dse. 17.
PASSENGERS FOR AUSTRALIA.

An action was brought by Mr. Hann and his wife
against Sir E. G. Hodgkinson, shipowner, of Cornhill
(the late sheriff), to recover back 151., which had ben
paid as deposit-money for a passage of the plaintiffs wife
before marriage in the ship Emily, to Geelong, in
Australia.

Mr. Hodgson appeared for the plaintiff, and Mr. Ellis
for the defendant.

In the course of last summer the plaintiff's wife (then
Helen Courtier) and Miss 111‘Leod were desirous of pro-
ceeding to Geelong, where they had friends. Mr. Rose,
a merchant, of Upper Thames-street, kindly interested
himself in their behalf in affording them protection in
his own family, and selecting a ship for their conveyance
to Australia. On the Ist of August his attention was
called to the following advertisement in a morning
paper :—" With immediate despatch, direct for Geelong,
the frigate-built ship Emily, 530 tons per register, A 1,
coppered, William Wilson, commander, loading in St.
Katharine Docks. This ship will take a few interme-
diate passengers at 25 guineas ; poop-cabin passengers,
30 guineas. For freight or passage apply to the owner,
Sir G. E. Hodgkinson and Co., 74, Cornhill." Thinking
this would afford a favourable opportunity for the
young ladies proceeding to the colony, Mr. Rose waited
upon Mr. Clarke, a general shipping agent with a view
of making some inquiries about her, and, if satisfactory,
to secure passages in her. With the agent's clerk he
went down to the docks, and was somewhat surprised to
find the ship unloading. He remarked upon her state ;
when he was informed that she would sail in a fortnight ;
that her cargo was already waiting to be shipped, and
the passengers' accommodation could be arranged in a
few hours. Mr. Clarke also saw the defendant's ship-
ping clerk about securing the berths for the young
ladies, who, in answer to his inquiries, was told that the
freight was all ready to be shipped, and that she would
sail in a fortnight. This was communicated to Mr.
Rose, who, upon the faith of these representations, paid
301., as half-passage money, for berths in the cabin. A
copy of the dietary scale was also handed to him, show-
ing that she was pui on as a general passenger ship.
The 301. was duly paid over to the defendant, and on
the fortnight arriving for the vessel to sail, she was
found quite in an unfit state to commence the voyage,
and it was not till eight weeks after the advertisement
that the ship sailed. During this interval Miss Courtier
met with a gentleman she had previously known and
married him. She then gave up her intention of going
to Australia, and a return of 151., being half of the de-
posit was applied for, but the defendant, Sir George
Hodgkinson, positively refused to give back the money.
Miss IVl'Leod sailed in the vessel. Miss Courtier
was quite prepared to have gone off, and would have
done so had the ship have sailed within a reasonable
time.

Mr. Ellis, for the defendant, contended that it was
the young lady's marriage which prevented her from
leaving England. The ship was advertised to sail with
immediate despatch ; a term signifying that she would
depart with expedition.
The Judge, upon looking at the card, said the vessel
was said to be loading, whereas she was unloading.
Witness said this was the usual statement when a ship
was about to load.

The Judge—Then the sooner the statement is done
away with the better : a custom of telling lies is a bad
one. If I saw an advertisement that a ship was loading,
I should never conclude that she was unloading. It is
clear the deposit was paid upon an agreement that the
ship was to sail at a much earlier period. A verdict
would therefore be given for the plaintiff for the whole
amount-151. and costs.