The Sun.
London, England, 1858-02-13 00:00:00

LAW INTELLIGENCE—Feb. 12.

COURT OF BANKRUPTCY.
(}ltfore Mr. Commiuiurivr. Goulburn.)
IN RE LEOFOLD REDPATH.-THR GREAT NORTHERN
RAILWAY COMPANY.

The bankrupt war; a clerk in the employ of the Great
Northern 1?..ail '- ay Company. fit gorged its scrip to the
amount of 22.0,000/. llla debts to others are about
5,0001. ; hie as sets have realized 30,0001., and an tx-
poard to real:zz a fertiwr suru of about 5,00 Q/. The
corni:any recently sought to prove agaiint the estate on
an!affitlavit contarring a general allegation that all the
bankrupt's other (Wits Ind been satiLfied by the company,
and that, if; was a creditor for a very large Puna arising
from the hankrupt'e forgeries and fraulls. The learned
Commissioner thereupon intimated an opinion that a
pro. f could.not be admitted on a roic.Tal allegation of
fraud. He alto intimated an opiLi-,n that the bankruptcy
debts having been contracted by mean 9 of the appearance
of wealth which ths company had allowed their servant
to as.tune, there ml ht to be no bargaining or cornocund-
ing with those creditors, but that they should be paid in

Affidavits; wore now put in selting forth that all the
other creditor', with one exception, as suggested by the
Court itself, had been paid 20. in the poun t, and also dis-
tinctly specifying scrip to the amouLt of 65,000/. which
had been traced to the bankrupt, and been had and
receivei for his u=e and benefit.

His Honour said the course now taken by the company
net his entire approval, and removed every legal objec-
tion to the admission of the proof tendered. The public
would not suffer to the extent of a single shilling by the
bankrupt's forgeries of the company's scrip to the amount
of 220,0001., and the bankrupt's creditors would be
bltnilarly exempt from loss. It was honourable to the
company that it had now voluntarily offered to guarantee
the payment of 20e. in the pound to any creditor of Red-
path who might hereafter substantiate a claim against
his estates, and, be must repeat, its conduct in the matter
net his ent ireapproval. _

Proof admitted accordingly. The company will thus
obtain restitution to the amount of some 25,000 or
30,0001. for its losses of 200,0001. by its clerk's frauds
and forgeries.

(Before Mr, Commissioner iloiroyd.)
IN RE B. W. A. SLEIGH.)
The bankrupt, Col. Sleigh, was the proprietor of the
Frills& Army Dispatch and the Daily Telegraph news-
papers. His certificate was recently suspended with a
refusal of protection for a limited period.
Mr. Murrough now applied for a re-hearing. The
application was grounded chiefly on the non-admission as
evidence of a letter written by Major Walker, the op-
posing creditor. An affidavit of the bankrupt was put
in, to the effect that he had been unable at the time of
the hearing to procure this and other documentary evi-
dence from Scotland which had a material bearing on
the case, and that a portion of the statements of Major
Walker was untrue.
The Commissioner said the omission to give evidence
arose from the lathes of the parties then advising the
bankrupt, and that he could not come to the conclusion
that the evidence given by Major Walker was untrue.
Application refused accordingly.

THE DREADFUL COLLISION IN TLIE

IRISH CILINNEE.

We yesterday briefly announced, by a telegraphic de-
spatch, a shocking catastrophe, which had befallen the
ship Leander, by being run down by the North America
screw etearn-:hip, between Tuskar ond Holyhead. One
of the survivors of the ill-fated ship, Mr. James Kerr, a
passenger, gives the following statement of the loss :
The Leander, American ship (900 tons), sailed from
Liverpool for New Orleans, at nine o'clock on Tuesday
morning, with a fine S.E. breeze, having on board the
captain, his wife and son, one passenger, two mates,
steward, cook, and 14 seamen. She was in light trim,
having SOO tons salt, and 150 tons ballast on board.
Made point Lynas at three o'clock, Skerries at five,
Holylicad at six, having run all this time eight and nine
knots an hour, with a fresh breeze, and all plain sail set.
All went on well until one or two a.m. on Thursday,
when I was awoke by a terrible crash of timber, and
the first impression was that the ship had been struck
by lightning. I arose, and tied on my life belt, and
tried to open the state-room door, but it was jammed
fast. I heard the mate's voice say, "Run to the passen-
gers' room !" and immediately he sad the captain's son
burst open the dens, brokeandhitmhetnahaatteway. (Icingforward
the window,
and get out. I followed
to the cabin, which is on deck, with a slightly raised
walk round three sides of it, I found the captain's wife,
son, and second mate. I then knew we were run
into, and cut two-thirds through the deck, just abaft
the main rigging, starboard, on the lee side. The cap
tain's wife exclaimed, " The ship is sinking. Oh I
save me somebody." It was too true, and while she
spoke the ship settled fact in the water. I went aft
again to the binnacle. A man rushed past me, pu
the wheel down, and jumped overboard. I took -otlet
look forward, and saw the waves rise on every side,
and then pour in likp, e aancd matacraaeet. Then I was carried
up to struggle with
others in like circumstances. The
timewaves
down
of
these
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hhe
occurrencesi
as not more than five minizuntsets beleapcsoeudntferdomin
tsheceonfidrast,
shock until the shipwent down. The steamer that
ran us down was a short
North American, from uPpo.rtlSahned
way off and in about 20
minutes I .was picked
fr turnedL Liverpool
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eh
ne
all saved wore mustered ws numbered 12, viz., the
muaeu self.
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captain's
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captain and his son, mate, steward, cook, Fix men, and
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wits,ev secondevery
kindness mate,
shown
an d
us eighton
board the steamer, and the passengers raised money
enough to give the mate 51., and eight of the crew 1/.
each. How the accident happened I know not, nor
who was to blame. The names of the survivors who
were picked by the s'eamer's boats were Capt. Curtis,
Elijah Batchelder, first mate ; James Noyes, steward ;
James Davies, steward ; George Wood, Chas. Childs,
Edward Phillips, Oliver Mason, Wm. H Decuq, Peter
M'Ardy, seamen ; Oliver Quimby, boy, and Mr. Kerr,
Silitmger, Drs, Curtis} and nine seamen drowned,