The Sun.
London, England, 1861-08-13 00:00:00

TPLE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY 141ENING. AUGUST 13, 1861.

LAW INTBLLIGENCE.—{This Day.)

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COURT OF BANKRUPTCY.
(Before Mr. Commissioner Fane.)

THE COMMISSIONER'S LETTER TO LORD PALIMERSTON ON

THE EANKRUETCY AND INSOLVENCY BILL.

His Honour having announced yesterday his intention
to read to-day a letter he had written to the Right Hon.
Lord Palmerston, on the subject of the New Bankruptcy
and Insolvency Law, and soliciting the attendance of mem-
bers of the bar, press, and others interested, the court was
crowded to excess before 12 o'clock, although an hour pre-
viously it was generally understood that his Honour had,
for reasons he would explain, deferred the reading.
His Honour was in attendance before the time appointed,
and on the arrival of Mr. Bayley, to whom he had ad-
dressed himself on the previous day, briefly addressed the
gentlemen of the bar, &c., and now said that since he last
mentioned the subject he had had a conversation with a
gentleman, upon whose judgment he placed the greatest
confidence, and, in deference to his opinion, he should post-
pone the reading of the letter until, the re-assembling
of the legal world after the holidays. Those
gentlemen, therefore, who were there in anticipation of
bearing the letter read would, he was sure, be disap-
pointed ; but disappointed only for a short time, for after
the vacation he should certainly read the letter. He ex-
pressed his regret that ho had caused the disappointment.

The Court gradually assumed its usual state of confusion
of tongues and voices generally experienced in these courts.
The cases were few and briefly disposed of.
A certificate meeting was held in the matter of William
Broddon, coal merchant, of the Holloway Coal Station
Depot. The accounts by Mr. F. B. Smart, Basinghall-
street, shows—Dr. to Cr., £678 ; assets about sufficient to
pay expenses.

His Honour granted a certificate of the third class.
IN RE TALLIS.

This bankrupt, Lucenda 'rani, described as of Warwick-
square, &c., bookseller, applied for her certificate.

The accounts by Mr. Janes Hutton, of Moorgate-street,
shows—Dr. to Cr., £1,706; to ditto holding security,
£986. Creditor—good debts, £258; doubtful, £27; pro-
perty, £164; property in the hands of creditors, £521;
deficiency, Ist Jan., 1860, £1,581.

His Honour granted an immediate certificate of the third
class.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.—(This Day.)

MARLBOROUGH- STREET.

THREATENING TO STAB A CONSTABLE AND A LAND-
LORD. - Phoebe Ricktts, a well-dressed female, was
charged as follows :

George Mott, 97 C, said—Last night I was in Grosvenor-
market, and was called by Mr. Camfield, a builder, to the
prisoner, who was making a great disturbance. I asked
her to go in-doors, and as she would not I was obliged to
take her into custody, when she took out a pair of scissors
and threatened to stab me, and struck me several times.
Mr. Wm. Camfield, builder, of Grosvenor-market, said
the prisoner caused a great disturbance, broke the
panels of the door, and also threatened to stab him with a
pair of scissors, and then struck him in the eye. She had
been drinking.

Prisoner said she only broke the panels of the door to
get at her husband, who had locked her out.
Mr. Mansfield said of course he would do that if she got
drunk, and fined her 20s. or 21 days.
ROBBERY WITH VIOLENCE.—Henry Covey, a rough-
looking fellow, was charged with stealing some money
from the person of Elizabeth Whitehead.
The prosecutrix, who is an " unfertunate," went into the
Black Horse public-house, Jermyn-street, with a com-
panion, and undid her pocket handkerchief, in which was
wrapped some money, nearly a pound, when the prisoner
made a snatch at it and made to the door. The prosecu-
trix's companion seized him and asked him to give the
money back, when he struck her a severe blow on the eye.
He was, howe-ier, secured and handed over to the police by
one of the hackney carriage attendants, having thrown the
money to his companions.
Mr. Mansfield said it was a most outrageous, ruffianly
robbery of these poor creatures, and committed the prisoner
for trial, ordering the constable to make inquiries whether
the prisoner had been previously convicted.

SHOCKING MURDER AT TROMP:.

FROME, MONDAY.

This neighbourhood, which during the past
twelve months has been so fraught with deeds of
blood, is again the scene of a murder of a cold-
blooded, deliberate, and determined character. The
deed was committed late on Saturday night, but it
was far in the day yesterday before particulars
became generally known. No investigation has as
yet, of course, taken place, but we believe the fol-
lowing details will be found correct in the main
About a week ago three labourers, named Byard
Greenland, liriah Greenland, and Win. Millgrove,
left their home in the rural village of Buckland
Dinham, about three miles from Frome, with the
purpose of seeking work in Wiltshire during the
corn harvest. They found employment in the
neighbourhood of Warminster, and there they
stayed until Saturday last, when all three started
for their homes. They reached Frome in the even-
ing, and visited two or three public-houses before
they resumed their homeward walk. Soon after
eleven o'clock they left the town, all being sober,
and apparently quite friendly. They had not pro-
ceeded far on the road to Buckland, whet, a slight
dispute commenced about the division of the money,
Byard Greenland, as leader of the company, having
been paid the whole of the sum for their work.
His companions were somewhat displeased at his
delaying a settlement—hence the origin of the
altercation, which, however, was of no very un-
friendly character. Byard said Uriah had damaged
a gun of his, and he should deduct eighteenpence
from his ;hare. Uriah said that, however that
might be, it was no reason that Millgrove should
not be paid his share. Upon this all three laid
down their scythes upon the road, being about
half a mile from the town. Millgrove, who has
furnished these particulars, supposes the scythes
were laid down for the purpose of then and
there dividing the money. It would appear,
however, that this was not the intention of
Byard Greenland, for he at once rose his arm,
and directly afterwards Uriah fell, exclaiming,
" Oh, Bill! he has hit his knife into I." Millgrove
immediately assisted the fallen man, and when car-
rying him to the bank on the road side said to Byard,
"Thee hast done 'un." Byard said, " Thee can't
swear that Bill." Millgrove replied, " I can." When
Millgrove had placed the fallen man on the bank,
both he and Byard went forward to the turnpike
'gate, which was only about 100 yards in front of
them. Millgrove told Gane, the gatekeeper, of what
had occurred, and Gane recommended him to run
into the town and procure medical assistance. Mill-
grove did so. Byard, meanwhile, told Gane that
Uriah had ran against his scythe, and that it was in
that way he got hurt. He at the same' time told
Gane to take possession of his scythe, and see if
there was blood upon it. He then proceeded on the
Buckland-road, and it was afterwards ascertained
that he went into the cottage of his nephew, to
whose wife he repeated the story he had told the
gatekeeper, and afterwards, at another house, he
made the same statement.

In about half an hour Millgrove returned with
Mr. Mallam, a surgeon, but upon their arrival the
unfortunate man was quite dead. Mr. Mallam, on
finding this, despatched Millgrove back to Frome
to inform the police, and also prevailed on another
man who happened to be passing at the time to ride
to Buckland, and give information to Millward, the
police-officer stationed there, and to request him to
secure the person of Byard Greenland.
Mr. Mallam at length procured assistance, and
the body of the ill-fatcd man was conveyed to a
neighbouring beerhouse, and upon examination Mr.
Mallam found that:a wound had been inflicted upon
the left breast, above the sixth rib, and that the
heart had been penetrated. Death must have been
almost instantaneous. _ _

In consequence of the information Police-constable
Ward received from Mr. Ala Ham's messenger, he
proceeded to Byard Greenland's house, and found
him there changing his clothes, evidently with the
intention of escaping. He was taken into custody,
but the examination of his clothes showed little or
no trace of the bloody deed he had perpetrated.
The Greenlands are distinctly related, and the
motive for this most deliberate crime appears to be
that Uriah had procured a warrant against Byard,
and that the latter became aware of the circum-
stance. There is evidence to prove that he has fre-
quently threatened to stab the deceased.
The prisoner is a very giant in height and
strength. He has a wife and eight children. The
deceased leaves a widow who is enceinte, and one
child.

The knife, a dagger-shaped instrument with a
spring, which the prisoner purchased only a fort-
night ago, has not yet been found.
The prisoner is to be brought up for examination
to-day.

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SOUTH LANCASHIRE ELECTION.

MR. CHEETHAM AT GOLBORNE.

Last evening, Mr. Cheetham addressed the elec-
tors of Ashton-in-Mackerfield, Golborne, Colcheth,
Kenyon, Haydock, and Lowton, at Golborne. In a
capacious bowling-green connected with the New
Inn, the local committee had construted a hustings
for the accommodation of the speakers ; and there
was a good muster of the supporters of the hon.
candidate. Mr. Cheetham was accompanied by
Mark Philips, and there were present Messrs. J.
M•Keand, Jabez Johnson, Joseph Knott, Thomas
Kirkpatrick, Caleb Wright, T. L. Travers, J. Hol-
land, 7. Unsworth, J. Standring, R. Greenough,
Walker, &c.—Mr. Macand was voted to the chair
and commenced the business by introducing Mr.
Mark Philips to the meeting. Mr. Phiiips said
that Mr. Cheetham had already served the county
well for a long period, and had a strong
claim upon the electors, now they had acquired the
right of electing a third member. There was not a
single Liberal elector who must not have thought
himself somewhat disgraced at the result of the last
election in Lancashire, the nest of free trade. Mr.
Cheetham always gallantly stuck to his colours, and
it was rather too much of Mr. Turner to 'come for-
ward and claim credit for measures in obtaining
which Mr. Cheetham and his friends had borne the
burden and heat of the day. When they had to fight
for free trade Mr. Turner was in the ranks of their
opponents, and it was a shabby pretext to come for-
ward now as a free trader, and he (Mr. Philips) was
persuaded that the electors would not be led away
with such chaff. (Laughter.) Mr. Cheetham had
devoted mii.3ll of his time to the subject of the cotton
supply, in which it was true he was himself
personally interested, but so was every man, woman,
and child in the country—(hear, hear)—and he for
one did not wish to stand by and hear another claim
an equal right to gratitude when Mr. Cheetham had
laboured so long in so important a cause. He (Mr.
Philips) did not know whether he was called a
Radical. He did not care much indeed what he was
called. (Laughter.) But he wanted to see things go
a little quicker than Mr. Turner and his friends,
and he did not feel in the slightest degree alarmed
that Mr. Cheetham would displace the political
machinery ; and, therefore, he thought the interests
of the county safe in his hands. The Tories often
made a great push at elections, and claimed to be
as good as their oppmr nts ; but old birds were
not to be caught with such chaff. (Laughter.)
The polling day was close at hand, and he
called upon them to show then that they appre-
ciated those who had worked hard in the cause of
advancement. Mr. Cheetham was not the sort of
man who wanted to put a rope to the steeple of the
church to pull it down, any more than he would
wish to pull down his neighbour's mill. He was
not the man to interfere in any respect with other
peoples' religion, and would have every man enjoy
his own opinions politically and religiously.
(Cheers.) He (Mr. Philips) hoped to have the
honour of seconding Mr. Cheetham's nomination on
the hustings, at Newton•le-Willows,on Wednes-
day, and he should take the opportunity of asking
Mr. Turner and his friends whether they would
faithfully promise to allow every elector to vote
without exercising any undue influence. If they
would not do that, let the voter have the pro-
tection of the ballot. (Cheers.) He recommended
Mr. Cheetham as an honest man, as a sound politi-
cian, and as ono capable of serving the constituency
honestly and faithfully. (Cheers.)—Mr. Cheetham,
on coming forward, was loudly cheered. He said
the two parties who were contesting this election
were widely distinct from each other, and their
principles were clearly defined. One was the party
of progress, and the other the party of obstruction.
The party with which he was identified had ever
been in favour of advancement, and the result had
proved that
.they were right. They had the ad-
missions of their opponents that on the subjects of
free trade and reform the course eagerly contended
for by tne Liberal party was the correct one, But
now Mr. Turner asked them to forget the
past, and accept his promises for the future.
Mr. Turner claimed to be an authority
on the subject of the cotton supply, because
he had been in India and America for the purpose
of selling calicoes. (Laughter.) But he never
heard of Mr. Turner in connection with the ques-
tion of cotton supply before that election, and he
never heard of him when representations were
made to the Indian Government to induce them to
abandon the unwise measure of imposing a duty of
10 per cent. on all goods imported from England.
(Cheers.) At the conclusion of Mr. Cheetham's
address, a resolution approving of his principles,
and pledging the meeting to support him at the
coming election, was proposed by Mr. Jos. KNOTT,
and seconded by Mr. T. L. TRAVERS.-Mr. J.
Walker, of Liverpool, also addressed the meeting,
and the resolution was unanimously passed.
Mr. Turner, yesterday, addressed a public meet-
ing at Ormskirk.