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London, England, 1847-01-21 00:00:00

COURT OF EXCHEQUER, Jan. 20.

COURT OF REVIEW, Jan. 20.
IN RE RIDGWAY AND co.
This was the petition of a trustee to the bankrupts,
praying for an order in reference to certain moneys in hi-4
hands. The bankrupts were joined in the firm of Gaskell
and Ridgway, who carried on business at Pernambuco, and
shortly after the fiat was issued, a meeting of their creditors
was held at Manchester, and two trustees were appointed.
In the interim, some specie, which had been consigned by
the partners at Pernambuco, who were solvent, was seized at
Liverpool, but subsequently they paid the amount of the im-
port duty and sold the goods. Payments were then made to
some of the creditors, but a misunderstanding bad arisen in
reference to this duty which had been paid, the consignors
contending that it should be returned to them.
His HONOUR said it was difficult to come to a correct
judgment on the case without knowing the state of the ac-
counts between all the parties; but as they were agreed in
desiring him to make an order, he would direct that the
money in the hands of the trustee should be paid to the
assignees, under the fiat of one of the partners (Johnson)
without prejudice to the demand of the deceased.

SECONDARIES' COURT, Jan. 20.
(Before Mr. Secondary JAMES.)
PALMER V. JAMES.
This was an action brought to recover the sum of 31. 10s.
for a quarter's rent. -
The defendant lives in Canal-place, Camberwell, and held
the house under an agreement, and pleaded that he was not
indebted. The agreement was proved, and when• Mr. TMOMAB,
who appeared as counsel for the defendant, examined it, he
said he could not sustain the defence. The agreement was
not stamped, and it appeared that the defendant relied on
the terms as requiring no stamp.
RUSSELL AND WRIGHT V. MOODY.
The plaintiffs in this action are the successors to the well•.
known Mr. Warren, the blacking merchant, in the Strand;
the defendant is a grocer at Castle Carey, Somersetshire.
The action was brought to recover the value of twenty
half-boxes of blacking, alleged to have been supplied by the
defendant's order.
Mr. ThomAs called the plaintiff's traveller, who spoke to
obtaining the order in the usual course. and the transmission
of the goods per order.
Mr. PARRY appeared for the defendant, and cross-examined
the witness, with an endeavour to show that only six boxes
had been ordered, and that the goods had been returned, but
he did not elicit any answers to bear out the defence, and
submitted to a verdict.

WEST V. KEASLEY.
This was an action to recover the value of coals supplied
to defendant, who pleaded in abatement that he was not
solely liable, but that at the time of the goods being deli-
vered other persons were in partnership with him. The case
was not completed, depending on the question as to when
the partnership terminated, and was not of public im-
portance.

COURT OF BANKIWPCY, Jan. 20.
THE FLORES EXPEDITION.—IN RE WILCOX SLEIGH.
This insolvent, who described himself as of Somerset-street,
Portman-square, a Captain in the naval service of Spain,
• came up this day for his interim order.
The ins,,lvent's name has lately been prominently brought
bofore the public in connexion with the Flores expedition."
His debts amounted to 370/. ; property "nothing.'
He was supported by Mr. Buchanan. solicitor, of Basing-
tall-street, and opposed on behalf of Mrs. Cumberland, the
lanilady of a furnished house occupied by him in Brompton-
row, Brompton, for which he paid a rent of 1201. a year. He
underwent a strict examination as to his means of payment
at the time he took the house. He :,aid he had saved money
from his services in Spain and Portugal, and also as Assistant-
Commissioner of Police at Manchester, and expected a re-
appointment from the Home-office.
The COMMISSIONER—How came you to give up the ap-
pointment? Captain Sleigh—l did not resign ; the appoint-
ment depended on an Act of Parliament which existed only
for three years, being passed for the suppression of the dis
turbances in the north. He had also received 1001. from Sir
J. Kirkland, an advance on his patent for a sea barrier and
breakwater. He had made a proposition to his creditors to
avoid these proceedings.
The COMMISSIONER —What proposition can you make now?
—I cannot make any at present, persecution has pre-
vented me.

The insolvent admitted that " hope" was on the " Home-
office," an " appointment" under the British Government,
and his expectation under the " Flores Expedition"; and
His HONOUR did not consider there had been any miscon-
duct on the part of the insolvent to prevent a day for the
final order, the appointment of assignee being adjourned, the
opposing creditor might have in the interim the opportunity
of obtaining full information.
Interim order granted.

STATISTICS OF THE ROMAN
CATHOLIC CHURCH IN GREAT BRITAIN.
Orroacites AND CHAPELS.—.In England and Wales there
were 540 churches and chapels In Scotland, eighty-two ;
besides twenty-two stations were Divine service is performed.
Grand total of Catholic churches and chapels in Great Bri-
tain, 622.
CATHOLIC COLLEGES.—In England there are eleven
Catholic colleges, viz. St. Edmund's, Hertfordshire ; St.
Peter's, St. Paul's, and St.. Grery's, Somersetshire ; Stony-
hurst, Lancashire ; St. Mar s, Staffordshire ; St. Cuthbert's,
Ushaw, Durham; St. Lawrence's, Yorkshire; St. Edward's,
Lancashire ; St. Mary's, Derbyshire ; College of the,lmmacn-
late Conception, Leicestershire. In Scotland, St. Mary's,
Blairs, Kincardineshire. -
CON VENTS. —London district, 12 ; Central district, 8;
Western district, 5 ; Lancashire district, 4 ; Yorkshire
district, 2 ; Northern district, 2; Scotland district, 1.
Total. 34.
. Mortasmixs.—Central district. 7 ; Western district 1.
MISSIONARY PRIESTS IN GREAS BRITAIN, ENG-
LAND, AND WALES. —London district 135 ; Cen'r"l
district, 132 ; Eastern district, 39 ; Western distric,
68 ; Lancashire district, 173 ; Yorkshire district, 68;
Northern district, 61; Wales district, 24. Total, 714, in-
cluding Priests without any fixed misssien. In Scotland,
Eastern District, 25 ; Western district, 44; Northern district,
24; St. Mary's College, Blairs, 5. Total, 98. Grand total
of %lissionary Priests in Great Britain, 818. Of the 766
Priests contained in the alphabetical list of last year, only
eight have died, and eight more have retired or gone abroad.
Exclusive of these last, the increase during last year is forty.

SHOCKINGLY FATAL ACCIDENT IN THE EDG •
WARE-ROAD.—On Tuesday a very shocking and instants-
. neously fatal accident occurred in the Edgware-road, almost
at the corner of Cambridge-street. It happened between
eleven and twelve o'clock, and hundreds of persons who were
hurrying to see her Majesty proceed to Parliament became
cognisant of it. The unhappy victim was a waggAter, named
Richard Head, aged about 30, tri the employ of Messrs. Parry,
coal merchants, of the Harrow-road. At th, hour indicated,
he was driving a team of horses that were progressing
towards Hyde-park, with a waggon laden wit ti coke. A por-
tion of the harness got deranged, and whilst Head was trying
to arrange it,without stopping the horses, they started off, and
threw him down, and one of the wheels passed straight over
his head, crushing it to pieces. The brains were so com-
pletely squeezed out, that the policeman scooped them up
with his hands. Of course death and the accident were si-
multaneous.
The Duke of Norfolk (the Master of the TiGrse)
and Lord Edward Howard ( Vice-Chamberlain), in conse_
quence of the premature and mi.-spewed detnise of Lord
Bernard Fitzalan Howard, at the Queen's most gracious
pleiusnre, will not attend on her Majesty to-day et the open,
-log of the Lagielatum

CHILTERN V. CROYDON RAILWAY COMPANY.
This cause, which has been brought before the attention
of the Court upon several occasions, was again brought for-
ward upon demurrer.
The plaintiff, it will be remembered, was a passenger from
Sydenham by the Croydon Railway Company, but upon his
journey up it appeared that he had lost his ticket, and upon
refusing to pay the whole fare from Croydon, was given in
charge to a policeman, and brought before the Lord Mayor,
and was finally discharged upon paying the fare claimed.
The action was brought to recover compensation in da-
mages for the imprisonment complained of.
Mr. KENNEDY was heard at great length against the de-
murrer; at the conclusion of which the Court gave judgment
against the company, on the ground that they had no right
to give a passenger in charge under the circumstances of the
case.