The Sun.
London, England, 1848-11-06 00:00:00

HAGEN AND DAGEN'S BANKRUPTCY.

The i aTikrupts, described as merchants carrying on
business at Bermondsey, passed their final examination
without opposition.

INSOLVENT I)EB7ORS' COURT, Nov. 4.
(Before Mr. Commisiioner HARRIS.)
IN RE EDWARD JOHN LACK.

This insolvent, lately a clerk in the office of the Board
of Trade, was opposed by Mr. Skinner on behalf of Mr.
Whiting, a printer, and also by two creditors named
Payne and Avis.
The insolvent, whose salary during the latter perioi
of his II taming his situation was 2501. a year, had peti-
tioned the Bankruptcy Court in 1843, and obtained a
finll order of protection against 31,292/, of debts, a con-
siderable portion of which were :liabilities on account of
bis father, a retired comptroller of Custoins with a pun-
sion of 1,000/. a year. The debts in the present schedule
amounted to 8,0201., of which 3,509/. were without con-
sid ration, and 2,6481. were hia consideration debts..

Mr, Whiting complained that he had been indu.3..tl to
advance 2301. to the insolvent upon a written statement
of the latter that his father's pension (which was im-
pounded by the Court of Chancery, and of which there
was about 5,000/. in hand) would be paid out in Novem-
ber; 1847, and that he (Mr. Whiting) should be scoured
for his advance-by a first claim on the fund.' Tbe suit.
in Chancery, however, still depended, and there were
several prior claimants on the fund, whose securities
were in existence to the insolvent's knowledge at the
time of borrowiug the money from Mr. Whiting.
grs. Payne, an oyster room keeper, near Charing-
Cross, complained that the insolvent had contracted a
debt. with her to the extent of 38/. for refreshments, and
had also induced her to become security for him to a
loan society for 151., which she would have to pay. She
brOught 'an action against the insolvent, who pleaded,
and thereby increased the costs to 41/.
Mr. Avis, a coal merchant, stated that he also brought
an:action-to recover a debt of 321., to which insolvent
pleaded, and increased the costs to 46/.
Mr. Commissioner HARRIS was clearly of opinion that
Mr. Whiting's debt had been fraudently contracted, the
insolvent at that time being perfectly unable to repay the
loan. In the cases of he other creditors, gross cases of
vexatious defences had been proved, and the judgment of
the Court was that insclreat should be discharged at the
snit of Mr. Whiting at the expiration of 12 cat en der
months from the date of his vesting order, and from. the
suits of Mr. Avis and Mrs. Payne after a period of eight
months.
These periods alo'cbncurrent, the shorter term merg-
ing in the

MIMILESEX SESSIONS.
BROTHEL-KEEPERS.—On Friday Madame do Sonzt,
who was Sentenced to six months. imprisonment with
hard labour in Coldbath-fields, at the last sessions, fur
having kept a brothel in Bury-street, in the parish of St.
James, applied to the court for a remission of some part
of the sentence, upon the ground that possession of the
premises had been given up to the landlord, the rent
paid, and that the house had resumed its previous
character.
The JUDGE went over the circumstances proved upon
the trial, and said.the gravamen of the charge was that
the prisoner, after a previous conviction, had gone into
another street and opened a new brothel there. Nu-
merous letters had been sent to him, none of which he
had read, upon this very case; for if he were to listen to
all applications of this nature, after trial and sentence,
justice would be completely mocked. His only anewer,
then, to the Learned Counsel was, that he had done, and
would do in this case, what justice seemed to him to
require.
ArroTuEn WHOLESALE BROTHEL•KEEPER.—On Sa-
turday, George Joseph Murray, alias Bradley, alias
Jones, alias Williams, was placed at the bar, indicted
with Ann, his wife, and seven other persons who did not
appear, for keeping brothels in various parts of London.
Mr. BODKIN prosecuted for the Society for the Pro-
tection of Young Females, and stated that as the female
prisoner was enceinte with her ninth child, and appeared
to have acted under the coercion of her husband, the so-
cie:y would not proceed against her.
The male defendant then pleaded guilty of keeping a
house in Curzon-street, Mayfair; another in Eagle-
street, Red Lion -square; and a house in Sheppard-street,
Rinover-square, as broth' l=. It was stated that he had
an interest in the celebrated " Mother H's," in Brydges-
street, Covent-garden, and upwards of 30 other houses,
chiefly at the west end of the town. _ _ .

As the prisoner was brought up on a writ of habeas
carpus from the City Compter, where he was undergoing
a ,genteuee of imprisonment for another offence, the Court
po.itpomal judgment thi the term shall have expired, and
the prisoner was sent back to the Compter.

AN UPSTART.—A negro boy was driving a mule
in Jamaica, when the animal suddenly stopped and re-
fused to budge. " Won't you go, eh?" said the boy.
Feel grand, do you? I s'pose you forget your fadder
was a jackass?"—American Paper.