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defendant's name. It appeared in all the prospectuses
published. It was arranged at the time the defendant ,
called about being a provisional director, that his nephew
should be appointed one of the local agents. A sub•
sequent meeting of the provisional directors was held at
the company's offices, Finsbury-plAce, on the 4th of
November, at which the defendant was present, having
come to London expressly to attend. A managing
committee was appointed at that time, and instructions
were given as to advertising the prospectuses in the•
newspapers. The witness in consequence of his in-
structions caused the prospectus to be inserted in the
Wolverhampton Chronicle among ether newspapers.
Further evidence was called to prove the order given
for the insertion of the prospectus, and the number of
times it appeared.
Under the direction of the LORD CHIEF JUSTICE,
The jury returned a verdict for the plaintiff for 191. ;
being the amount due for the advertisements inserted
after the meeting on the 4th of November, when the
defendant took an active part in the concern.
At the suggestion of counsel,
His LORDSHIP agreed to certify that it was a proper
case to be tried, as several other causes of a heavier
nature would depend upon it.

BANKRUPTCY,-(THIS DAY.)

IN RE THE TRING, READING, AND BASINGSTOKE RAIL-

WAY compa QY.
To-day was appointed for the last examination of the
bankrupts representing the company.
Mr. Graham, the official assignee. applied to the
Learned Commissioner for an order for the transfer of
the sum of 12,4001., standing in the names of Messrs. Hill
and Everitt, solicitors to the company, in the Union Com-
mercial Bank, should be transferred to the Bank of
England.

Mr.
JAMES, who appeared for the directors, objected.
He said, that Mr. Graham had obtained an injunctic n
over the property, and it was not in the power of the
Learned Commissioner to make any such order.
Mr. LAWRENCE, solicitor to the assignees, considered
that the functions of this Court had been superseded by
the bill filed in Chancery, unless the bankruptcy was
superseded, which could be done on the creditors re-
ceiving 20s. in the pound. The debts were not much
more than 4,0001., and the cash in hand 12,4001. ; it
would, therefore, save considerable expense if this was
done, as the proceedings in
Chancery would then drop.
Mr. JAMES said that Mr. Graham, as the official as•
signee, had no right to receive more than would pay the
expenses and the creditors 20s. in the pound.
Mr. GRAHAM said, as long as he was official assignee,
he was entitled to receive all moneys belonging to the
bankrupts.
It was then urged both by Mr. Lawrence and Mr.
James, that if Mr. Graham received more than twenty
shillings in the pound, he would be placed in great diffi-
culty as to how to apply the surplus, as there were dif-
ferent equities amongst the shin eholders.
Mr. LAWRENCE said this Court was not in a position
to remove the money, which was at present virtually
under the jurisdiction of the Court of Chancery.
Mr. JAMES said Mr. Graham assumed that the moneys
belonged to the bankrupt, but there was no proof of that
being the fact, it stood in the name of Messrs. Hill and
Everitt.

The Learned COMMISSIONER ultimately held that he
had no power to order the removal of the funds, or he
would have done so, but his power, under the 18th section
of the Act only applied to property in the hands of the
treasurer, officers, attorney, solicitor, or agent.
Mr. JAMES said, when the creditors were paid in full,
the injunction would be dissolved, and matters restored
to their original state. He said that the real struggle
was for Mr. Graham to get a large sum of money
into his hands to charge a commission on it.
Mr. LAWRENCE applied for a day to be appointed for
a dividend.
The Learned COMMISSIONER said he would not fix a
day till there were funds in hand.
Mr. LAWRENCE said there were funds.
Mr. GRAHAM said he had only received 2701., and the
costs of obtaining the injunction amounted to 91/.
It was ultimately arranged that a dividend and audit
meeting should be held, and that a bill of costs of Messrs.
Hill and Everitt, which they claimed as a lien on the
12,4001., and on securities for 6,1001., that the bill should
be paid, and the securities handed over to Mr. Graham.

SECONDARIES'.-(THIS DAY.)
(Before Mr. Secondary JAmEs.)
JuBBING v. BOURCHETT.
The plaintiff is a baker at Kensington, and sought to
recover the sum of 151. Is. 3d. for bread supplied to the
defendant and his family.
Kensington, but during
The plaintiff's attorney said that the defendant for-
merly
ry resided
summer
discovered until lately, when he was met with at a rail-
way his
office in Fenchurch-street, he having projected a rail-
way—be at the time admitted the debt, and promised to
pay, but had not done so, and no one now appeared on bis
behalf.
The jury having heard evidence to this effect, gave a
verdict for the plaintiff.
The only other cause tried was Haghe v. Webb for
brickmaking—the question was whether they had been
well made so as to entitle plaintiff to the full price. The
case was totally devoid of interest.
The jury were detained some time in consequence it
the absence of defendant's attorney and counsel, and o
was at length insisted on for the plaintiff that the case
should proceed and it was opened. The defendants'
counsel however soon afterwards appeared. The jury
said they were fined if they did not attend, and it was
too bad they should be unnecessarily detained.

GUILD HALL.-(T HIS DAY.)
A young man, a cab-driver, whose name and number
it is not at present expedient to make public, was placed
at the bar, before Mr. Alderman Wilson, charged with
stealing a great coat, the property of Mr. J. S. Robin-
son, of Middleton-square, from the stables of Mr. Grey,
the postmaster, in Earl-street, Blackfriars.
It appeared, from the evidence of the police and per-
sons in the employment of Mr. Gray, that the coat, which
was fully identified, was stolen about three months agofrom
the stables in Earl-street, where the prisoner's brother was
at the time employed. Several sets of harness, and
other portable property, disappeared about the same
period, and ne of the men meeting the prisoner, whose
brother had fallen under suspicion, and recognising the
coat as one of the articles stolen, gave information,
which led to his apprehension. His defence was,
that, six weeks ago, he purchased the coat
from a Jew, at the cab stand in Gray's Inn-lane,
for 245., and that he could refer for his character to re-
spectable persons who had known him for years.
The officers applied for a remand for a week, to give
them an opportunity of finding the brother.
Mr. Alderman WlLsox did not think that their sus-
picions against the brother were proofs against the pri-
soner, whose statement about the purchase might be
i
true. However, as the latter had bought n the street
from a person of whom he knew nothing, and whom he
could not produce, he must take the consequences of his
imprudence, if he really were guilty of nothing more.
But he refused to remand him longer than Monday,
advising him to have a search made by his friends for
the Jew dealer of whom he said he had purchased.

MARLBRCV-STREET.—(THIS DAY.)
James Miller, dressed as a seaman, was charged with
begging, and assaulting a licensed victualler.
Alexander Blackie, 85, Dean-street, Soho, said the
prisoner came into his bar last night begging.. When
requested to leave the prisoner persisted in staying and
begging, till the complainant, after showing him the
door, put him out by force, and in doing so was struck
by the prisoner several times in the face. But
the one door was no sooner shut on the prisoner
.when
he entered at the other, and complainant this time
pushed him out, so that he fell down on the door-way.
The prisoner, however, re entered, and as the policeman
was remonstrating with him, he forced past the police-
man, and struck complainant again in the face.
Horstord, of the Mendicity Society, said the man was
a well-known vagabond and impostor.
Mr. HARDWICK committed him to the House of Cor-
rection for one month.

CLERKENWELL.—(THIS DAY.)
Robert Cross was placed at the bar before Mr. Combe,
on the charge of stealing a four-gallon copper measure,
the property of Messrs. Charles Tanqueray and Co.,
distillers, of Vine-street, Bloomsbury.
It agpeared that a constable of the detective force,
named Haydon, met the prisoner running along Skin-
ner-
street, Clerkenwell, with the measure in his hand,
and followed by two other persons, who were well known
as bad characters. He immediately gave chase, and
upon taking the prisoner into custody he told the old
tale of having been employed to carry it. Three of
Messrs. Tanqueray's waggons were standing opposite to
a public-house in Skinner-street, and during the tempo-
rary absence of the drivers in the house, the prisoner
managed to extract the vessel from a large basket, in
which it was placed in the waggon.
The prisoner, when asked for his defence, repeated the
story of having been employed by another to carry it ;
and was fully committed for trial.
Henry Y enables, a young man, in the employment of
Mr. H. Dunningham, grocer, of No. 9, Seymour. street,
Euston •square, was charged with stealing a basket and
a quantity of tea, the property of his master, and also
with having received various moneys on his account,
which be had applied to his own use.
The prosecutor stated that a quantity of tea having
been exchanged by order of a customer, the prisoner
appropriated that which had been sent back to his own
use. He (Dunningham) had since ascertained that the
prisoner had received money from various customers for
which he had failed to account.
The parties who had paid the money to the prisoner
on account of his master not being in attendance, the
further hearing was adjourned.

E wD IhTOI 0 N .
GTehnee 1
gla,regrest belongingportion ,
allowance money from the various parishes throughout
of the men who are on board thhaeve
paupers, who
good
London and suburbs, for the purpose of emigrating, the
received two years
opportunity of getting rid
of their able-bodied poor by such means ; and the serious
question arises, in case of the confiscation of the vessel,
to T
her,parishesiE
what is to be the fate of these unfortunate people, as it
is supposed the parishes will not consent to receive them
into the union houses again, but will leave them to
starve, beg, or steal through the country.—Post.
COURT-MARTIAL. —HONOURABLE AC4UITTAL OF
rwtbLeirnellkEinagu
LIEUTENANT SMITH, ROYAL ARTILLERY.—This gallant
officer (2d), lst battalion Royal Artillery (recently em-
barked for Bermuda), who was tried by a general court-
martial in Dublin garrison, Major-General Monro pro-
secutor, for conduct unbecoming the character, &c., in
dishonouring a bill for 50/., given to a Jew bill dis-
counter named Gorer, has, after a most patient investi-
gation, been most honourably acquitted of the charge
preferred against him.