The Sun.
London, England, 1859-05-25 00:00:00

IN RE WEBS.

This bankrupt was an apothecary of East India .road,
Poplar, and applied for his certificate. In April, 1857, he
had a surplus of £6,675, and he now owes to unsecured
creditors, £7,861; to ditto holding security, £21,225. The
assets are returned at £2,200 ; property held by creditors,
£33,380 ; profits, £2,797 ; expenses, £2,960.
Mr. Pennel, in his report, stated the accounts had been
well kept. The failure arose through building speculations.
There was no opposition, and it appeared that the bank..
rupt had offered 20s. in the pound by instalments extending
over three years, but one creditor refused, and bankruptcy
ensued.

Mr. Lovell, for the bankrupt, said that the property had
been greatly depreciated by 'the failur e of Mr. Mare and
the closing of the yards at Millwall, whereby 1,000 men
had been thrown out of employment. Bankrupt had de-
voted the whole of his time to managing the property for
the assignees.

His Honour said there was no taint on Mr. Webb's cha-
racter, and as the failure might fairly bo attributed to un-
avoidable circumstances, and as the accounts had been
accurately kept, the Court had great pleasure in granting
him a first-class certificate, and be would leave the court
without a stain upon his character.

SHERIFFS' COURT.
BUCKLEY Y. ISAACS.

Mr. Clarke, of Bedford-row, appeared for the defendant,
and stated that he had to apply for a new trial under rather
novel circumstances. The defendant owed plaintiff £8 lls.,
and for this amount he was sued. The cause was appointed
for hearing on the 18th April last, but plaintiff did not
appear, and the cause struck out. Plaintiff was induced to
call upon defendant, and defendant offered to pay £1 per
week. This he did, but a new summons had been
granted to plaintiff for hearing on the 16th May,
and the defendant thought that would not be pro..
ceeded with so long as he kept up his payments. On
the 16th May, however, plaintiff attended the hearing, and
took judgment for £8 11s., although he had received £3.
Mr. Clarke now applied either to have that judgment set
aside, and an order made for defendant to pay £1 per week,
or for his honour to grant a new trial.
Plaintiff said that defendant was told by him to attend
the court on the 16th of May ; this defendant denied.
Plaintiff—And the £3 has been paid into court.
Mr. Clarke—Yes, but not by defendant. He paid you
personally. You paid it into court.
His Honour said it was not right to take a judgment for
lls. when only £sllx. was due. He could not grant the
application. The only way to get over the difficulty was
to let the matter go to a judgment summons, and then the
order could be made upon cause being shown.
Application refused.

As an example of the ludicrous insolence which
accompanies the barbarity of General Gyulai's proceedine
in Piedmont, a printed document has been circulating
in Paris. There is no suspicion of its being a forgery. It is
a kind of passport, given to some Sardinian subjects, and
dated from Mortara, with these words at the head :—"Aus-
trian Empire— Province of Sesia."
AMERICAN TRAVELLERS.—There has been no
general war upon the Continent for nearly 50 years, and
during that time American emigration to Paris, Germany,
and Italy has increased many fold. Numerous American
families reside in Rome, Florence, and other Italian cities.
Many have children at German schools and colleges ; others
live in the south of France, in Switzerland, or nestle in
cosy nooks along the Rhine. The effect of the war will be,
first, to send all these residents to Paris or London (for
who knows that the city of Paris may not again be occu-
pied by foreign troops, as in 1815 by the allies ?) and,
secondly, to arrest the usual summer travel to Europe. So
much the worse for the European shopkeepers, tavern
landlords, &c., and so much the better for the same class
of people here. Our fashionable birds of passage will be
obliged to seek their pleasure and spend their money at
home, it may be, for some years ; for when war commences
it will not be easy to fix the date of its conclusion.—New
York Herald.