The Sun.
London, England, 1851-08-30 00:00:00

AMIENS TO BOULOGNE.

An extraordinary general meeting of the share-
holders of this company was also held in Lemarde-
lay's great room at the same time as that of the
Northern Company, and at it the treaty was also
ratified.

RAILWAY SHARE MARKETS.
BRISTOL, AUG. 29.

STOCK EXCHANGII.—The market continues much depressed,
and prices have a downward tendency. The transactions to-
day were as follow :—East Lancashire, 13—GreatWestern,
Original Shares, 76 ex div. - Midland Stock, 393/4 ex div.
—South-Eastern and Dover, 19%.

LIVERPOOL,' AuG. 29.

STOCK EXCHANGS.—The share market continues ex-
ceedingly flat, and prices are all lower. The transactions
to-day were as follow :—Lancashire and Yorkshire, 463/4
Leeds and Northern (late L. and T. ), 954—London and
North-Western, 1121/—Ditto, New Quarters, 15R p.—Man-
chestergheffiefd, and Lincolnshire, 231,4—Midland, 394--
Ditto,Halves, 21 8-16 dis.—South-Easternand Dover, 131/2.

MANCHESTER, AUG. 29:

STomit E WHAM/E.—The market opened heavily, but ma-
nifested symptoms of improvement as the day advanced, and
a tolerable business was done.
BIRMINGHAM, Aua. 29.

STOCK EXCHANGE.-Our share market opened fist this
morning, but prices somewhat improved before the close of
business. London and North-Western Stock was quoted at
1134, and rates generally were the same as in London. There
are few sellers at present prices, and the absence of all ex-
citing cause renders the proceedings on 'Change extremely
dull.

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LAW INTELLIGENCE.
COURT OF BANKRUPTCY. Aug. O.
(Before Mr. Commissioner PANE )
IN RE SMITH.

His HONOUR, in giving judgment, said this was a
petition to annul an adjudication of bankrupty against
one William Smith, who had been adjudged bankrupt
as a timber dealer, on the ground that he was not.
He (the Commissioner) had carefully read over all the
proceedings, examinations, and affidavits, and had not
the least doubt that Smith was not a timber dealer.
The case was a most extraordinary one. It appeared
that Smith, being a person not in any trade or busi-
ness, but having an income, either of his own or his
wife's, sufficient to maintain them, took of Mr. Mack-
ley, who was building a row of superior houses on
some ground at a place called Westbill-grove, -t
Wandsworth, part of the ground on the terms of build-
ing a house of the same character as the rest. After-
wards wishing to be relieved of his bargain, and find-
ing that Mr. Mackley would not (to use his own
words) " unshackle him," he determined to harass and
annoy Mackley ; and, instead of putting an ornamental
house on the ground, he put everything he could think
of that was disfiguring and offensive—poles, and flags,
and tin-kettles, and other things as unsightly. Mr.
Mackley, very properly, sought legal redress, and sued
Smith for the nuisance ; an the jury gave Mr.
Mackley 5001. damages. Before this, Smith had
quarrelled with other neighbours about his fences,
and in 1849 and 1850 many proceedings took place,
in which Mr. Ambrose Haynes, the petitioning cre-
ditor under this bankruptcy, had acted as his attorney.
Amongst the litigated matters was an action brought
by one Bottomley, which was unsuccessful. Smith,
fearing that Bottomley would become successful,
adopted the every-day contrivance of handing over
his property to other persons beforehand, and, having
part assigned to one and part to another, he at last,
in March, 1850, executed a deed transferring all his
household furniture and effects to a niece—one Mary
Ann Steadman, who had always lived with him and
his wife ; and about the same time the niece nominally
hired a house, to which the furniture was removed,
and with it went the niece and the uncle and aunt,
and they all lived together as before, only in a dif-
ferent house. These steps afterwards formed
useful contrivances to defeat that justice to which
the jury had declared Mr. Mackley entitled.
But still this would not secure Smith's person
against Mackley's execution. So that it became
necessary to think of something further, and for
this purpose Smith got a book of the bankrupt laws.
" I further say," says one of the deponents, Robert
Neal, " that I was present at the trial of the cause
Mackley v. Smith,' on the 31st of March last ; and
I further say that about three weeks after the trial
had taken place I was present at the French Horn
public-house, at Wandsworth, and the said William
Smith entered the said house and spoke to me as fol-
lows, or to the following effect :—‘ Neal, I want to
make myself a trader in order to be a bankrupt, and
you know I sold some posts to you. ,I have got
a book of the bankrupt-laws, and looked at everything
I have to fear.' " The result of Smith's study seemed to
be that Mr. Ambrose Haynes, who had acted as his
attorney since 1849, and had in consequence a large
bill of costs against him, petitioned that he should be
adjudged bankrupt, and having produced one Rut-
man, who could not write, to swear that Smith was a
timber dealer, he procured the adjudication. Rut-
man had since sworn that he knew nothing of Smith
being a dealer in timber. Having procured the adju-
dication of bankruptcy the activity of Haynes ended,
for he did not appear at the first meeting to prove his
debt, nor had he since proved it, but left Mr. Mackley to
prove and vote himself assignee under the bankruptcy,
which Haynes must have known was invalid, for it
must have been impossible but that he must have
been well aware that Smith was not a trader. Mack-
ley having begun to perform the duty of an assignee,
discovered that there was no evidence of Smith having
been a trader, upon which ha called upon Mr. Hol-
combe, who had as solicitor for Haynes, "to let him
know in detail the evidence on which he acted ;" to
which Mr. Holcombe replied, " I beg to state that I
consider your application most unusual." Nor had
Mr. Haynes taken any steps since to prove that Smith
was a dealer in timber. Under these extraordinary
circumstances, and others which it was not necessary to
detail, Mr. Mackley stated upon his oath that he believed
" that the adjudication was not obtained bona fide, or
with a view to the distribution of the assets of the said
Smith, but for the purpose of defeating him (Mackley)
of his said judgment debt." He entirely adopted Mr.
Mackley's view ; but whether he was right or not, it
was quite clear there was no evidence of Smith having
been a timber merchant. The adjudication must,
therefore, be annulled, and the petitioning creditor
must pay the coats.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
MANSION-HOUSE.
Thomas Potter, a respectable youth, about 17 years
of age, described as a clerk, was placed at the bar for
further examination before Mr. Alderman Ilooper,
charged with forging and uttering a cheque for .50/.,
with intent to defraud Messrs. Gosling and Co., of
Fleet- street.
Mr. Mullens, of the firm of Bush and Mullens,
the solicitors to the Society of Bankers, said he was
not prepared with further evidence in the first case,
but proposed to take the evidence against the pri-
soner in two other cases, and called
Frederick William Battiscombe, clerk to Messrs.
Williams, at Bridport, who deposed that on the 16th
of August a cheque for 181. 75., drawn on Messrs.
Gosling and Co., signed John Bullen, was presented
at their bank for change, which they are accustomed
to do if the parties are known at the bank. Witness
paid the amount of the cheque to the prisoner, who
brought it. Shortly after another cheque for 201. 103.,
also signed John Bullen, and drawn on Messrs. Gos-
ling and Co.' was brought to the bank by another
lad, named William Lock, to whom he gave the
change, in four 51. notes and a half-sovereign.
The prisoner declined to ask any questions of the
witness.

Miss Mary Ann Bullen, of Charmouth, Dorset-
shire, deposed that she was niece to Mr. John Bullen,
of Charmouth, who kept an accouet with Messrs.
Gosling and Co. The signature, John Bullen, to
either of the cheques was not in the handwriting of
her uncle, but she believed that the whole of the body
and the signature was in the handwriting of the
prisoner, who had been in the service of her
uncle as clerk about two years, and left on Friday
week last.
William Lock, the lad who presented the second
cheque for 20/. 10s., stated he met the prisoner at a
place called Markham, and went with him to the
Royal Oak public-house, where he saw the prisoner
write out the cheque, which he told him to take to
Messrs. Williams' bank and get changed, which he
did, and afterwards met the prisoner at the Royal
Oak and gave him the money in four 51. notes and
half a sovereign.
The prisoner was again remanded for further eel-
deuce, there being several other cases against him.
GUILDHALL.
Mary Anne Johnson, a young woman about 23
years of age, who was understood to be the wife of a
commercial traveller, and highly respectably con-
nected, was placed at the bar before Sir George
Carroll, charged with ill-treating her infant daughter,
aged 14 months, by omitting to supply it with nou-
rishment and otherwise neglecting it, whereby its life
was endangered.
The child was produced, and created a great sen-
sation in court by its emaciated state and the filthy
condition it appeared in.
The charge was preferred by Jane Hunt, a mar-
ried woman lodging in the same house as Johnson,
2, Three-herrings-court, Redcross-street, Cripple-
gate. She stated that the prisoner took a room in
the house, and came to reside there on Monday
week, and had been drunk ever since. She was in a
continual state of stupor, and as soon as she re-
covered sufficiently to stagger to the dram-shop she
repaired thither and took a fresh dose, and then came
home to lie down till the effect passed off. She had
two children, one about four years old, and the other
(that in question), fourteen months old, and the al-
most incessant crying of the latter annoyed every-
bodyin the house to such an extent that witness was
on Thursday morning induced to go up and see what
was the matter. On entering the room the scene
that presented itself was of the most miserable de-
scription. The mother and the child were lying on
the bed, without the slightest article of covering. The
child was crying, and by its side was a crust of
bread, from which the little creature hrd contrived to
pick out the crumb. It was crying for food, which
the mother, from stupor, was incapable of giving.
Witness carried the infant out of the room, and
washed it (which it much needed), and gave it some
warm tea and milk. She afterwards delivered it
to the care of the mother again. The poor child
commensed crying afresh, and continued to do so all
night, and yesterday morning, fearing that it would
perish from the want of warmth and clothing, witness
went up again with two or three of the neighbours,
when they found the mother and child in exactly the
same state as before. Witness offered to prepare a
little warm victuals for the infant, but the mother
declined to accept any assistance. She then proposed
to take the child, and bring it up with her own ; but
this philanthropic offer was also refused. Witness
then determined to take the child away without the
mother's leave, and she carried it to Dr. Lloyd, who
directed her to give information at the police station
immediately, as the child could not survive many
hours if it were longer neglected. She did so, and
prisoner was accordingly apprehended. Witness took
the child home with her, and fed it with biscuit pow-
der and milk, as Dr. Lloyd had directed. Witness
was the mother of twelve children, and having ex-
amined the child, she could say it was most see nda-
l•liey gl,-,;Lcd in t z.tntr.,:hino:r
and cleanliness. When she first went into prisoner's
room she found three of the child's fingers
completely matted together with filth. On

Tuesday the mother fell from the top of the
stairs to the bottom, in attempting to descend
while in a beastly state of intoxication.
The want of proper and sufficient sustenance bad re-
duced the poor infant to a mere skeleton ; its legs and
arms were so thin that they would almost pass
through an ordinary size finger ring. The back and
posterior portions of the child's person were one mass
of sores and inflammation, arising from continually
lying in its filth. Witness said the cruelty to Jane
Wilbred was not equal to the neglect of this child by
its mother.

Sir GEORGE CARROLL commended the humanity
and motherly feeling Mrs. Hunt had exhibited in
taking such care of a child that had no claim what-
ever upon her. He asked the prisoner if she had any
questions to ask of this witness ?
The prisoner sobbed and groaned, but made no an-
swer, and looked as if she was still iu a state of par-
tial insensibility from drinking.
John Hodges, 120, said he saw the prisoner at 2,
Three-herrings-court, and took her into custody. He
examined the room. There was a wretched-looking
bed on the floor, but no covering to it of any kind,
neither was there any fire in the grate nor any ap-
pearance of victuals in the place. The child four
years old was in the room, without shoes or stockings,
and prisoner appeared to be labouring under the effects
of drink. He went to Dr. Lloyd, who said he had
seen the child, and that it had been abominably ne-
glected, and that he could not be answerable for its
life for even a few hours, unless food was immediately
administered to it.

Sir GEORGE CARROLL then asked the prisoner if
she had anything to say in explanation of her conduct?
She cried, but seemed totally incapable of attempting
any defence.
Sir GEORGE CARROLL said he would not proceed
any further with the case then. Ile would defer
taking the examination of Dr. Lloyd, in order that
the extent of the injury to the child might be better
ascertained, and in the meantime both the children
should be taken to the East London Union and placed
in care of the matron. In the course of next week
the police would probably be able to get some account
of the prisoner, who would, in the interim, recover
from the effects of her frequent and continued visits
to the gin shop.
The prisoner was then remanded till next week,
and the children were sent to the union•

Margaret Rayman was placed at the before Alder-
man Sir George Carroll, for further examination, on
a charge of assaulting John Rayman, a little fellow
only six years of age, by throwing him out of the
window or her room on the third floor into the court
below, with intent to do him grievous bodily harm.
Mr. Archer, house surgeon of St. Bartholomew's
Hospital, stated that the wound was a comparatively
slight one, there was not the least cause for apprehen-
sion of danger.
Sir GEORGE CARROLL said it was a most serious
offence, but after the evidence of the surgeon, looking
at the imprisonment she had undergone, he would
forego committing the prisoner for trial, and fine her
40s. or twenty-one days' imprisonment.
The prisoner, in default, was conveyed back to
prison. . _