The Sun.
London, England, 1861-10-07 00:00:00

LAW INTELLIGENCE.—(7 is Day.)

COURT OF BANKRITP I CY.
(Before Mr. Commissioner Fane.)
IN RE W. S. BOUSFIELD.

This bankrupt was described as trading, with others,
under tl e style of the Patent Engine and Boiler Company,
at the Alpha Works, Isle of Dogs. . _

The balance-sheet extends froinDoc•,,,mber, IS6O, to July,
1861, and from a statement of affairs at the former dak
there was a surplus of 4768.

The present accounts (by Messrs. C. Browne and Dubois)
shows—Debtor to creditors, £(387 ; to do. holding security.
£4,183 ; liabilities, £2,306 ; creditors by cash, £B3 ; good
debts, £693 ; prorerty given up to assignees, £5OO ; do. in
the hands of creditors, £4,349; losses, £4,232; domestic
expenses, £192.

The creditors holding security are family creditors, for
money lent, and the property arises under the bankrupt's
interest under his brothers.

The liabilities are on account of a person named Scott,
with whom he had been connected in business.
The case had been twice adjourned, but Mr. Murray, foe
the assignees, asked for a further adjournment for further
inquiry.

Mr. Linklater, for the bankrupt, objected, on the ground
that the bankrupt had answered all the requisitions of the
assignees.

The bankrupt ultimately passed

11.11DDLESEX SESSIONS.—(This L'ay.)

The adjourned sessions commenced this morning, before
the Assistant Judge, at the S9ssions House, Clerkenwell-
green.

Dugdale, the llolywell-street publisher, was indicted for
publishing immoral books and prints.
Ile pleaded not guilty. He objected to his trial being
proceeded with that day, as he had not had sufficient time
to prepare his defence. He also claimed before trial a list
of the witnesses that were to be examined to bear out the
indictment.

The Assistant-Judge said every facility should be afforded
him to meet the charge; and, in order that he might not
complain of haste, he Would postpone the trial till Monday
next.

Another person, lately carrying on business in Russell-
court, was indicted for a similar offence, but he 'pleaded
guilty.

Sentence was postponed until after Dugdate's trial.
Stephen Meakin, a labouring man, was indicted for steal-
ing quantity of lead from the roof of a house in the neigh-
bourhoed of Leicester-square.
Evidence having been adduced to prove the charge, the
prisoner called witnesses to character, amongst them his
late employer, who said for 12 years ho had placed the
greatest reliance in his honesty and had never known him
fail.

The jury returned a verdict of guilty.
One of the warders said the prisoner was known at the
House of Correction, as he had been there more than once.
The Assistant-Judge recalled the person who had given
the prisoner a character for honesty, and asked him what
he thought of the information that had just been given to
the Court.

Mr. Ambrogetti said the prisoner was honest. He knew
he was addicted to drink, and that was the reason he had
quitted his service.

The Assistant-Judge told him that people were not
generally sent to the House of Correction for getting drunk ;
but as it might be for assault, and not for felony, ho would
defer passing sentence till next session, when he should
expect to hear something definite about the prisoner. If it
turned out he had been before convicted of felony, he would
pass a very severe sentence for the offence of which he had
just been convicted.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.—(This Day.)

MARLBOROUGH-STREET,

ASSAULT ON AN OIkINIBUS CONDUCTOR.—MichaeI
Grady, a gas-fitter, and who gave his address, 29, Sloane-
square, Brompton, was charged with assaulting the con-
ductor of a Brompton omnibus, badge 6,581.
The conductor said the defendant got on his 'bus at the
top of the Haymarket the previous night, and seeing that
he was drunk he refused to take him as a passenger, and
told him to get down. The defendant then used the most
dreadful language, the 'bus having several ladies in it at
the time, and tried to pull him off his standing place, and
then struck him. He afterwards gave the prisoner into
custody.