The Sun.
London, England, 1847-02-02 00:00:00

. BANKRUPTCY.-(THIS DAY

• IN RE GODFREY.
This bankrupt, who had carried on business as a builder at
Milton, near Gravesend, came up for his last examination.
Mr. SOUTHGATE, the solicitor to the assignees, opposed on
the ground that the bankrupt had not furnished proper ac-
counts, although the examination had been adjourned for
that reason ; an allowance of V. a week had been made to
enable him to furnish proper accounts.
Mr. COOKE said that the bankrupt bad done all in his
power, but, although they were in a forward state, the ac-
countant had refused to go on until he was paid further on
account, and bankrupt was prevented from doing that by the
suspension of the allowance.
Mr. SOUTHGATE said the estate was materially deterio-
rated by the delay, as there were mortgages, leases, and
rents mixed up together, and it vas impossible for the assig-
nees to know the justice of the claims or their own rights.
The Learned CommISSIONER said that assignees were at
all times justified in stopping the allowance to a bankrupt
it
he did not render, not only ordinary, but effectual assistance
to his assignees. The present difficulty was one the Court
had to combat, and arose from traders not keeping proper
books. The Legislature had not made the neglect directly
penal, but the Court was indirectly doing so, by leaving
those who were culpably negligent unprotected, or at least
without the pale of its sympathy.
Mr. CooKE said the Court was most effectually working
the desired reform.
The Learned CommtssioNEß said adjournments must not
take place from time to time at the expense of the estate; his
experience, however, was that assignees in general were
liberal, and if the bankrupt did his best perhaps the Costs
would not be required of him; the case would be adjourned
at the bankrupt's expense for three weeks, the 'accounts to
be filed in three days. He would not then suggest the allow-
ance until the bankrupt had evinced a strong desire to
assist the assignees.

CRIMINAL COURT.—(THIS DAY.)
OLD COURT.
(Before the RECORD/R.)
Robert Glenroy and Malcolm Graham, aged respectively
17 and 18, were indicted for a burglary in the house of Mr.
George Taylor, and stealing twenty-nine spoons and other
articles. The evidence was perfectly clear, and the prisoners
were sentenced to ten years' transportation.
John Wilson, aged 20, a tailor, George Williams, aged 19, a
brass founder, and George Standish, aged 18, a labourer, were
charged with a burglary in the house of Mr. Henry Perring,
of Farringdon-street.
It appeared that the two first prisoners, on the 23d of
January last, were seen loitering about the shop window of
Mr. Perring, and after a litte time one of them broke a
window, and abstracted a watch worth about 401., with
which they attempted to get away.
Their guilt was clearly proved, and Wilson was sentenced
to ten years' transportation, and Williams to seven years' trans-
portation. Standish was near the place at the time, but the
evidence was insufficient to implicate him with the transac-
tion, and he was acquitted.
Alice Lee, a very respectable-looking person, of seventeen
years of age, charged with stealing a basket, a necklace,
and a quantity of beef, was sentenced to six months' impri-
sonment.

NEW COURT.
Before the COMMON-SERGEANT and Alderman WILLIAM
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for the deficiency by the horse's consumption.
The COMMON-SERGEANT, who made merry with this alle-
gation of the prisoner, that one horse should eat two bushels
of beans in the journey to London, said, it had never yet
been laid down by the Judges, that the giving of food to
horses or pigs contrary to the master's orders, constituted a
felony.
Mr. HORRE, who bad frequently been interrupted by de
jury during his address to them, finally submitted that
the jury must have evidence of the exact weight of the
beans at both ends of the journey, less that of one'horse's
consumption, which had not been laid before them, and
ended by requesting the Common-Sergeant to read to the
jury the depositions taken before the magistrate.
The Common-Sergeant was about to begin, when the fore-
man of the jury returned a verdict of acquittal.
The JUDGE, who had not sent the case to the jury, was
evidently taken by surprise with the nature of the verdict.
Eizabeth Brown and Mary Keil' were indicted for stealing
from the person of John Golding, on the 26th January, in
Reynolds's-row, Southwark, a purse, containing eleven sove-
reigns and a pair of gloves. Brown had been in company
with the prosecutor on the night when he missed his money, and
when she was taken into custody there was found on her four
sovereigns and some silver, a gold watch, and a silver watch,
marked D. R., South-Western Railway, and belonging to
one of the superintendents of the baggage department on
the South-Western line, who had been robbed some
time ago.
Mary Keit' was acquitted, and Elizabeth Brown, being
found guilty, was sentenced to nine months' imprisonment
and hard labour.

Mr. Lloyd Vaughan Watkins, of Pennoyce, has
been appointed to the lord-lieutenancy of the county of
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