The Sun.
London, England, 1856-07-11 00:00:00

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LAW INTELLIGITOE.:—',This Pay.

COURT OF LANXRUPTOY.
(Before Mr. Commissioner Fans.)

- TN RE J. W. NINNEI.
Thid bankr►apt was deEcribed as a jeweller, of Ton-
: bridge wells, and to-day was appointed for his last
examination.. -

The balance•sheet, prepared by Mears. Butler and
incpherson, shov!sdtbtor to creditor - unsecured,
1 5061. ; ditto holding security, 1,6471. ; creditor by
,lebtnrs, 2051 ; property surrendered to assignees, 8161.;
ditto in hands of creditors, 2,2001. ; profits, 1,2061 ;
losses, 1,2261. ; capital, June, 1854, 1,5971. ; trade
expenses, 1,0501.; domestic, 3401.

There was no opposition, and bankrupt passed.

IN RE PEARCE.
This bankrupt was described as of Great Northern
Wharf, li,n;4's-cross, lime and cement merchant, and
thiii was an a ijourned examination meeting.
The balance-sheet, by Mr. Atkinson, comma, clog
Sept., 1853, and ending March, 1856, shows capitol
4,0031. Debtor to creditor, unsE cured, 9,929/ 13s. 2d. ;
ititto, hCilding security, 5,8301. ; liabilities, 6,6901. 10s.
credit good debts, 1,1001. ; cash, 141. ; stock, 1.3871. ;
property: in the hands of credit ire, 9,2501., consisting
of the following items ;—Bad debts, 1,6651 ;
loss by sale of bricks and plant, at Southall,
800/. Co.t price of buildinzs on wharf not estimated of
any value, 2,0001., and amongst the bad debts are the
names of Rowland and Evans, builder, 5381. 193., and
Pearce, Camden•town, builder, 3841,

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On application, on behalf of the bankrupt, for a fur-
ther adjournmeLit for three weeks, it was intimated
that it was in contemplation to supersede, as bankrupt's
friends bad offered to advance a certain amount, which
the creditors were willing to accept.
Ili, Honour said he would grant the adj.,urnmett,
but ;would advise the buikrupt to have nothing to do
with a supersedent, but take a certificate of this court
and become a new man.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.—(This Day.)

BO W STREET.

UTTERING A FORGED NOTE.—This morning a re-
spectably attired mac, named William. Sumner:, was
placed at the bai, before Mr. Henry, oo remand, charged
with uttering a forged 51 Bank of England note.
From the evidence of Mr. Al!cock, the landlord of the
Sorei-eign public-house, Upper St. Martin'sdaue, it ap-
oearsd that a few days ago the prisoner entered his
house and, having partaken of some brandy and soda
water, tendered the note in question to the bar-
maid in payment. She, not having sufficient cash
to change the note, called to him in the cellar,
telling him change for a 51. note was required.
On arriving at the bar he received the note,
and from its appearance he felt satisfied it was a forgery.
Re took the note up stairs for the purpose of comparing
it with a genuine one, and further to test it, he applied
some water to the mark in both notes. The effect was
on the genuine one the watermark became more visible,
:lilt on the spurious one it completely obliterated it.
To make assurance doubly sure, he sent the note to a
neighbour, by whom 'it, was returned as a very bad one.
The answers to the questi,na he put tr, the prisoner not
being at all satisfactory, he gave him into custody.
The prisoner protested his innocence, and said he did
not know the tote was a spurious one.
-Mr. Henry said that might be so, but it was a very
suspici,)us circumstance that when the prisoner was
asked to write his name and address on the note he wrote
a fictitious one. The accounts, too, as to how the note
came int, his possession were far from satisfactory.
Tne prisoner again protested his innocence; and said
the note now produced was not the note he gave to the
barmaid ; his good note had been exchanged for the pre-
sent forged one. He certainly took the pen in his hand
to write his name, but he did not do so.
The magistrate reminded the; prisoner of the statement
ne had made to the barmaid. He distinctly told her he
;ad written his name on the note. However, as the
prisoner
said he was a respectable man, and innocent of
time present charge, he would give him every facility for
proving it. He should therefore remand the case till
Tuesday next.
MARKET NEWV.3.—(This Day.