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MONDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 22, lB5l.

; been carrying on the practice of medicine with great
success, and if he had confined himself to that he
, would have kept himself clear of embarrassment. The
bankrupt had passed through the usual stages, and he
had now arrived at the last stage—the application for
his certificate, by which he would be absolved from
all bygone engagements. To this application for his
certificate there was not only no opposition by the
creditors, but it was obvious that the principal cre-
ditor, who was also the assignee, a gentleman of
the highest character and respectability, was
extremely favourable to the bankrupt. He
was of opinion that the fact of a large
body of creditors uniformly abstaining from
making opposition was strongly in the bankrupt's
favour. There was no one found among the nu-
merous persons Dr. Granville was connected with to
oppose his certificate or to gainsay the request he
now made. He (the Commissioner) must therefore
start in this case by saying that this absence of op-
position appeared to tell favourably in the bank-
rupt's favour. There was another feature in the case
which was extremely favourable to Dr. Granville,
that throughout his large dealings, and in every part
of them—for they had been very various—everything
he had done was as it were recorded, and every far-
thing of expense was vouched
,by certain books and
documents which the official assignee said gave a
complete and true history of all his transactions, his
outgoings and incomings, so that no person could
doubt the truth and accuracy of these accounts. And
he (the Commissioner) must apply to Dr. Granville
the rule applicable to all, that such a circumstance
was always very favourable.to a person who failed. The
great majority were without those proofs, everything
in fact being estimated, and creditors were left to
raised accounts, as they were sometimes called, or
supplemental accounts, but the better term would be
accounts guessed at. No such imputation, however,
could be cast upon Dr. Granville, as, whatever were
his faults, they were transparent, which any one
might see by reading the documents. He (the Com-
missioner) could not but contemplate with regret
and pain this case, where a gentleman of talent
far above the ordinary class, who if he had confined
himself to his profession, in which he so excelled,
would have reached nearly the top of his profession,
as it appeared he was making a large income indeed ;
but it had happened to him, as it too often did with
men of genius, a rage for speculation entered his
mind. He had thought of schemes and adventures
which it was scarcely credible he could have ever en-
tered into, First, he wanted to establish a company
called the Thames Improvement Company—but he
(the Commissioner) could not quite see the connexion
of that with medicine—of which he said he was
manager and director; he would have much better
have managed and directed his patients. The next
thing he did was to become a shareholder and direc-
tor of the Benevolent Life Insurance Company. He
then got to other speculations, and engaged in the
farming business, which he took to in 1844, and he
imputes one cause of his failure to the measure passed
for free trade in corn subsequent to his taking the
farm, which, in consequence, had . reduced his
profits. These were what he specified as the
causes of his failure, but he had forgotten one
speculation. He had conceived an idea that he
could establish some sort of traffic in Seltzer water,
by which he would obtain profit and make a large
fortune. But he did that which was certain to get
rid of a fortune—be embarked in a Chancery suit,
which was still going on, and it appeared that the
progress of that suit had lost the creditors a very con-
siderable amount for costs expended. What had he to
do with Seltzer water ? Why did he not confine
himself to that pursuit in which he was excelling and
making a comfortable subsistence ? A circumstance
that was favourable to the bankrupt was this--that
upon looking at his expenditure it would be found
that it was quite within the range of his gains and
profits. He had not indulged in profuse personal ex-
penditure, but it was very small, considering his posi-
tion as a physician, as he had appearances to keep up;
and it appeared to him (the Commissioner) to have
been extremely moderate, and certainly within rather
than without the limit to be assigned to persons in his
circumstances. These circumstances bad induced
him (the Commissioner) to think he might accede to
the wish of the bankrupt to have an immediate
certificate, and it was not only the wish of the bank-
rupt himself, but of the gentleman who from the be-
ginning had been a firm and untiring friend to him,
and the wishes of both would be complied with. If
there had been opposition, perhaps he might have been
disposed to take another view, but there being no one
to oppose, he did not see anything to induce him to
step out of the ordinary course, and to say " No" to
what so many people wished. He should grant an
immediate certificate; the only question now re-
maining was of what class. This case was not to
form a precedent to others who embarked in specula-
tions without the excuse made for Dr. Granville.
Parties who had ample means were not to be repro-
bated if they kept within the amount of their own
funds; but parties had no right to speculate without
the means of meeting any adverse results which
might ensue—to speculate upon the funds of other
people. The judgment of the Court was, that Dr.
Granville should receive an immediate certificate of
the second class.

(Before Mr. Commissioner FANE.)

IN BB J. B. MAY.

The bankrupt was a draper of Camden-town. His
accounts from March, 1848, to July, 1851, showed—
capital, 7741., subsequently increased by a legacy of
755/. ; unsecured creditors, 6,872/. ; creditors holding
security, 974/. ; the assets are expected to realise
about
Mr. Lawrence supported, Mr. A. Turner opposed.
There t 2,6
was 00/. a
ihs wave the certificate meeting.
veryi protracted hearing, but in conse-
o
quence of the Commissioner reserving his judgment
H
our report is deferred.
IN R MARRIOTT.
The bankrupt was a seed merchant, of Leighton
Buzzard. This WAS a certificate sitting.
His Hosious granted a certificate of the third class.

ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE.
NORTHERN CIRCUIT.—York, Dec. 19

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Ann gill,llt;laged 25, was
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NISICHILD Baron•PLATT.
indicted for the wilful murder of her infant male child
on the 20th of October last, at Wakefield.
Mr. Overend and Mr. Hardy appeared for the
prosecution, and Mr. Pickering defended the prisoner.
It appeared from the statement of the various wit-
nesses, and from the opening g of the Learned Counsel
for the prosecution, that the prisoner was a servant
girl, and that about four years ago she had been de-
livered of a child. She herself was an illegitimate
child, and had been brought up and taken care of
from infancy by old Mrs. Gill, the landlady of the
Blue Bell public-house, in Kirkgate, Wakefield,
whom she was accustomed to call " mother •" and
Mrs. Gill's son, who now kept the public-house, she
was in the habit of calling " brother." When out of
service she usually went to old Mrs. Gill's until she
could find another situation. The prisoner had for-
merly livid with a Miss Anty, of Dewsbury, and on
leaving Miss Anty's service some time ago she
went into the service of a Mr. Smith, a porter
merchant at Wakefield, where she remained till
the 4th of October. On leaving that situa-
tion, being out of service, she went to old Mrs. Gill's
to stay, and remained there till the 20th of the same
month, when she again entered the service of Miss
Anty. Miss Anty, on engaging her, asked her, from
her appearance, if she was in the family way, when
the prisoner replied, " I'm as much in the family way
now as when I left you." It appeared that in June
the prisoner had consulted a surgeon, who told her she
was pregnant, and that he was sure the child had
quickened. Another servant maid at Mr. Smith's,
where she was then living, had also perceived her con-
dition, and told her she was pregnant, which the pri-
soner then admitted, and said she was about to be
married to the father of the child. On the night of
Sunday, the 19th of October last, old Mrs. Gill's son
and his wife and family retired to rest between ten
and eleven o'clock, and about five o'clock on the fol-
lowing morning the prisoner rapped at Gill's door and
said she was going to Dewsbury. She bad told them
the night before that she was going by the half-past
five Government train in the morning. They had
advised her not to go by that train, but she said if
she did not she would have to pay more. She then
went, saying "Good bye to you; will you be good
enough to send my boxes after me to Dewsbury ? '
She had been observed about one o'clock that same
morning by a neighbour of the Gills—a Mrs. Fell—
going across the yard to the privy ; and a son of Mrs.
Gill, who worked in a factory, and who had to go to his
work between five and six o'clock in the morning, on
going downstairs found the prisoner in the kitchen,
apparently lighting the fire, and she asked him if he
would help her. She was then wearing a victorine
and a light straw bonnet, and was dressed as if in
readiness for going out. He then went out to go to
his work, and he heard the prisoner come out after
him, and saw her going towards the railway station.
He saw her carrying a bundle and a basket. On
the Saturday night before this (the 18th of October)
the prisoner had a blue band-box in her room at
Mrs. Gill's, and on the Monday morning, the 20th
of October, the day she left, the bat- box was gone.
That morning there was a Lancashire and Yorkshire
Railway Government train going from the Wakefield
station to Dewsbury at half-past five o'clock, and a
railway porter, named Jackson, was at the station at
five o'clock. On opening the doors there was nothing
in the passage to attract attention, and he saw the
train off and several passengers in it for Dewsbury.
After the train had been gone some three or four
minutes, a woman came to the window where the
tickets were delivered and asked for a ticket for
Dewsbury, and she was told the train was gone. She
then asked what time the next train went, and was
told at 11.30 o'clock. Some one was with her to
whom she was heard to speak, and, from
the answer given, that person was supposed


'to be a man. After she was gone a blue
bandbox was found by Jackson in the passage at the
railway station, without any address upon it, and it
was thereupon taken into the booking-office and
opened, and in it was found the dead body of a male
child wrapped up in some linen, quite warm and
bleeding. The neck was slightly cut on one side, but
more severely on the other, the artery being cut
through. From the evidence of the surgeon the child
had been born alive, and in his opinion the cuts had
been made before death. Intelligence of the disco-
very of the child immediately spread, and a man and
woman walking near the railway station were taken
into custody on suspicion of being the persons who
applied for the ticket for Dewsbury. This, however,
turned out to be a mistake, and a reward was offered
of 251. for the apprehension of the criminal, and a
further reward of 501. and a free pardon for any ac-
camplice were afterwards offered by Government.
From suspicious circumstances affecting the prisoner,
she was taken into custody on the 2d of November,
and on examination by a surgeon, though difficult to
express an opinion, from her having had achild before,
he gave it as his opinion that she had recently
given birth to a child. She was also seen walk-
ing into Dewsbury that same morning at nine
o'clock carrying a bundle and a basket. Gill's
premises were then searched, and discoveries were
made which indicated that the prisoner had been de-
livered at Mrs. Gill's of a full-grown child. A piece
of cloth was found there which formed part of the
cloth in which the dead child was found wrapped, and
which had formed part of a chemise belonging to the
prisoner. After this the prisoner had said to Mr.
M`Donald, the superintendent of the Wakefield police,
that she bad had a miscarriage at Gill's of a four or
five months' child, and that she had thrown it into
the privy. On searching the ashpit up the yard of
Gill's house an afterbirth of a full-grown child was
found. While in custody the prisoner wished to see
a clergyman, and the Rev. Mr. Jones, curate of the
parish church at Wakefield, saw her, and to him she
made a statement that she was delivered on the night
of the 19th of October of a child, and that Gill came
into her room, took the child, and murdered it by the
bed. She afterwards said that Gill and his wife had
murdered the child. All the family of the Gills were,
in consequence, taken into custody. It was elicited in
cross-examination of one the policemen examined, that
while before the magistrates, when Gill was discharged,
he stooped down and kissed the prisoner. Gill,
however, stated, when asked as to this, that as he
passed at the magistrates' table he said to her," Well,
you've made a bonny job of yourself." She answered,
" Will you forgive me ?" He said he did, and shook
hands with her, and stooped to do so, as she was
seated, but did not kiss her. (In their evidence Gill
and Mrs. Gill, and other witnesses, entirely contra-
dicted the prisoner's statement.)
The Learned Counsel for the prisoner then addressed
the jury for the defence, contending that the evidence
was inconclusive to fix this crime on the prisoner;
that her statement to the clergyman was made when
she was scarcely conscious of what she said from
terror and exhaustion, and was not to be relied on ;
and that it was physically impossible for the prisoner,
if she had given birth to a child, as alleged, on the
night of the 19th of October, to have got up next
morning at five o'clock, and after walking with her
bundle and the child in a bandbox to the railway
station, to have afterwards walked six miles to Dews-
bury. The child must, therefore, have been placed
where found by somebody else.
It being now ten o'clock the court was adjourned
until next morning.

—December 20.
Mr. Baron PLATT this morning proceeded with
great care to go through the voluminous evidence,
occupying nearly two hours in summing up.
The jury having retired, after an hour's absence,
found the prisoner Guilty.
His LONDSHIP, having put on the black cap, then
proceeded to pass the awful sentence of the law upon
the prisoner. His Lordship held out not the slightest
hope to her, as her crime had been aggravated by her
falsely charging another with it, and that other ber
foster brother, who had given her hospitality. His
Lordship in the usual form then sentenced the pri-
soner to be hung by the neck until she was dead.
The rest of the day was occupied by the trial of a
poaching case possessing little interest.
In the Crown Court Mr. Justice Maule was occu-
pied all day in trying rape cases and cases unfit for
publication. _

The grand jury were discharged this morning.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
CLERKENWELL.

Henry Martin Flanagan, aged 60, described as
a gentleman, was placed at the bar on remand before
Mr. Tyrwhitt, charged with obtaining from a woman
named White 11. 3s. Gd., under the false pretence
that he was clerk to Mr. }lorry, the barrister, and
that for that sum Mr. Horry should defend her
husband, who subsequently was sentenced to trans-
portation.
Mr. Horry was now examined—He said he was a
barrister, and had chambers at No. 1, Warwick-court,
Holborn. He had not received any money from the
prisoner to defend a man named White, who was tried
at the Middlesex Sessions and transported. The
prisoner never was his clerk, and he was never au-
thorised to receive fees except when he was specially
sent for them, he (Mr. Horry) sometimes having em-
ployed him as a messenger. He never authorised the
prisoner to represent himself at the House of Deten-
tion as his clerk.
Cross- examined—l knew the prisoner as an attor-
ney's clerk, and if I had not taken briefs from him, all
the other members of the bar at the sessions would
have been glad to do:so. I have not been in the habit
of giving him the clerk's fee when he brought me
briefs. Might have done so in some cases. I cannot
swear that I have not. I have received the depositions
in cases from :him, and defended prisoners with no
other instructions.
To the MAGISTRATE—That is a very commonprace
tice with the bar at the sessions, and it is customary
to take the guinea without a clerk's fee at all. I have
no clerk at this time. I cannot say I have not done
it. I never gave the prisoner the half-crown out of
the guinea. Flanagan and Mrs. White came to me
on the Monday of the sessions, and she instructed me
to make a motion to put off the trial of Edward
White until the next session. She appeared in great
trouble and distress. She promised to pay me the
money at the end of that week or the next. The fee
was 11.33. Gd. The prisoner introduced her to me.
I made the motion, and Mr. Witham postponed the
trial. I have defended prisoners and made motions,
believing that the fees would be paid afterwards. In
such cases the prisoner has received the fees, and paid
them to me afterwards. I have defended cases on the
promise of the prisoner that I should be paid. I have
received briefs from him. I expected to receive the
fee for the motion in question from him. I should
have looked to him for the fee entirely.
Re-examined—l did not understand the prisoner

to be a❑ attorney. I have known him to be a clerk
to several attorneys, viz., Davis, Head and Williams.
I knew him first in 1847. I then lost sight of him
for two years, and saw him again two years ago. He
gave me briefs, but in no particular character. He
brought briefs and clients, and the parties sometimes
came without him. I did not authorise him to re-
ceive money for me, but I had not forbade his receiv-
ing it. If he did receive money, I expected he was
to pay it to me. In this case I expected he would re-
ceive the money and pay it to me, not as my clerk
though, but as a client.
The Clerk (Mr. Mould)—Without reference to
this case, are there not a number of persons who
prowl about the court to get hold of poor persons
under the pretence that they are attorneys or clerks ?
Mr. Horry—Yes, and every member of the bar at
that court takes briefs from them. I objected to it
ten years ago, and called a meeting of the bar upon the
subject, to reverse the whole system. I proposed that
there should be a regular roll of the attorneys of the
court and their authorised clerks, so that counsel
should receive briefs from none but them, but it was
not carried out. I wish to say that lam not in par-
ticular an example of this system. It is general
amongst the bar.
The MAGISTRATE, after recapitulating the facts,
said he should commit the prisoner for trial.

Flanagan said Mr. Horry had behaved most cruelly
to him in denying that he was his clerk. "I have
been living with him?' he said, "for six years in the
same chambers, and I have signed all his papers and
been consulted in all his business matters; and didn't
I make an application to my schoolfellow, the O'Con-
nor Don, who was a Lord of the Treasury, to get
him made a county court judge; and didn't I intro-
duce all my friends to him as clients ? I have two
brothers of my own barristers; and I declare to God
I never had a penny of this woman's money. I had
to write on the chambers-door every morning where
I was going. Ob, Mr. Horry, what a cruel man you
are 1"

The prisoner was fully committed, the Magistrate
consenting to take bail for his appearance to answer
the charge at the sessions.
MARLBOROUGH-STREET.
Arnold Gerber was charged before Mr. Hardwick
with uttering a forged cheque, purporting to be drawn
by Messrs. Selim, Dean, and Co., for 340/. on the
London and Westminster Bank.

George Tozer, clerk at the St. James's-square
branch of that bank, said that that morning the pri-
soner presented to him for payment a cheque for 3401,
signed " Selim, Dean, and Co." The bank had cus-
tomers of that name, but as it was directly discovered
that the signature was not in the handwriting of the
firm, the prisoner was questioned as to the party he
had received the cheque from, when he mentioned
the name of Sims, and said he received it from that
person.
Mr. Dean, Mr. Selim's partner, said the cheque
was not in the handwriting of his partner or himself,
and the prisoner was an utter stranger to him.
• The prisoner, in anwer to the charge, stated that

being in want of a situation, he had advertised in one
of the morning papers, and in reply thereto he received
the following note :—" If A. G. has not yet met
with an engagement, he is requested to call to-morrow
(Friday) by one o'clock, at 06mond's Coffee-house
in the Strand, and inquire for Mr. Sims. If found
suitable he will be engaged." He went to 03mond's
Coffee-house and asked for Mr. Sims, but was told
by the landlady that that gentleman had left a note
for him. The note stated that Mr. Sims had waited
for him and had gone towards St. James's-park, and
would be found leaning against the Duke of York's
pillar. He went there and found a well-dressed
stranger who said his name was Sims ; and after
some conversation, he told him to call on him
at the same coffee-house on the following day
lie did so, and was engaged, and the cheque i❑ ques-
tion given him to go to St. James's-square with, and
get cashed.

The prisoner was remanded to Tuesday next for
further inquiry.

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.
PORTSMOUTH, SUNDAY.—Her Majesty's yacht
Fairy, Captain Lord Adolphus Fitzclarence, G.C.H.,
embarked the Queen and Court at Cowes yesterday
morning, at eleven o'clock, and conveyed them, under
the customary honours, to the Royal Clarence Vic-
tualling establishment, Gosport, where they disem-
barked, and were received by the Hon. Miss Byng,
Admiral Sir Thomas Briggs, G.C.M.G., the Com-
mander-in-Chief ; Rear-Admiral Superintendent
Prescott, C.B. ; Lieutenant• General d'Aguilar, Act-
ing Lieutenant-Governor; Captain Superintendent
Sir Edward Parry, and the other officers of the Cla-
rence-yard; Messrs. C. Stovin (manager), Beattie
(chief engineer, &c.), and R. W. Stevens (superin-
tendent of the South-Western Railway Company),
and a guard of honour of the 48th Regiment, com-
manded by Lieutenant-Colonel Ward. At five mi-
nutes to twelve o'clock the Royal train in charge of
Mr. C. Stovin, left the Royal station for Windsor.
Her Majesty and family appeared in excellent health
and spirits,

The half-yearly examination of mates in the Royal
navy, and cadets of the Royal Marine Corps, termi-
nated yesterday at the Royal Naval College, when
Mr. Edward Field was declared qualified, and ad-
judged the Lieutenant's commission awarded to the
most proficient; and Messrs. E. C. L. Durnford, E.
Gladstone, U. L. Morris, J. G. Shanks, A. C. J.
M'Meekan, and G. F. Walker, Marine Cadets, were
recommended for commissions as Second-Lieutenants
in the Royal Marine Corps.
Mr. Mends, landing waiter at Southampton, is ap-
pointed Surveyor in the Customs at this port, vice
Baskett, deceased; and Mr. Dawes, landing-waiter
at this port, removes to Southampton, vice Mends.
Admiral Sir Thomas Briggs, Commander-in-Chief
at this port, has most handsomely consented to become
the patron of the Portsea Free School.
PLYMOUTH, SATURDAY.—The flag-ship Impreg-
nable, 104, will be paid off and recommissioned on
the Ist of January next with a complement of 208
men.

The steam block-ship Sanspareil, 81, having com-
pleted her boilers, was this day warped to the jetty.
The circumstances connected with a collision off
the Start on Wednesday have excited a great amount
of interest here. According to the account of Captain
A. Van Oosteroom, the Corinthian was seen at eight
o'clock in the morning under two topsails, mainsail,
foresail, fore and aft mainsail and mizen, jib and
staysail, on the larboard tack, sailing down Channel ;
wind variable, S.E. to E.S.E. The Theodora and
Sara was close-hauled on the starboard tack, under
topsails, maintopgallant sail, foresail, mainsail, jib,
staysail, gaff-mainsail, and mizen. About nine o'clock
the Corinthian struck the Dutchman between her
cathead and stem, and cut completely through her
bow, causing her to fill and sink in about an hour.
The Theodora and Sara left Batavia on the Bth of
September, called at St. Helena on the lit, and sailed
therefrom on the 2d of November. Her cargo of
sugar, coffee, and tin, and the vessel, have been esti-
mated at the value of 25,0001. She was 400 tons
burden, and had a complement of 15 hands; in addi-
tion to them the Corinthian brought to this port
the captain's wife and daughter and Lieutenant Baron
van Heeckereen van Branzenburg and five soldiers,
invalided from the service of his Netherlands Majesty
at Batavia. Every attention has been paid to the suf-
ferers by Mr. Luscombe, the Consul for Holland at
Plymouth.

The Aboukir, hired ship, with pensioners and their
families and male convicts, last from Portsmouth,
arrived on Friday. After embarking 60 or 70 con-
victs from the Dartmoor prisons, she sails first fair wind
for Hobart-town.