The Sun.
London, England, 1857-11-23 00:00:00

second class.

IN RE LEAH ISA/CS.

His Honour gave judgment in the case of this bank-
rupt, who was described as of Piccadilly, cigar-manu-
facturer, and who applied a few days since for her
certificate which was opposed on the ground that the
bankrupt had made false and fraudulent representations,
and had concealed property. In the first place, when
pressed by a creditor for money she had promised part
payment ; and afterwards she said the firm, which was
carried on under the style of Pickard and Co., be-
longed to her nephew ; and that her brother, who lived
in the house, bad fled with 6001.
His Honour said this was one of those cases in which
there was the positive oath of the bankrupt on one side
and facts and circumstandes oa the other, and it was his
duty to decide on which side the truth lay.
His Honour then proceeded to read through the whole
of the evidence, and ultimately granted a certificate of
the third class.

CRIMINAL COURT.—(This Day.)

OLD COURT.

The November session of the Central Criminal Court,
the first under the mayoralty of the newly-elected, Lord
Mayor, Sir R. W. Carden, commenced this morning,
and, although barely three weeks have elapsed since the
the grand jury were discharged at the last session, there
are more than a hundred prisoners for trial already, and,
in all probability, about twenty more will be committed
before the session is brought to a cl,lse.
The Recorder, in charging the grand jury, said
although so short a time had elapsed since the court last
assembled, there was a large number of prisoners for trial.
It was a satisfactory fact, however, that there was not a
single case of murder or manslaughter in the calendar,
and although there were some serious cases of burglary,
wounding witb intent to do grievous bodily harm, there
was an absence of the graver description of charges,
which had unhappily been so numerous at some of the
recent sessions of the court. There was one case of very
considerable interest to the commercial world to be
disposed of, was a charge against two persons named
Marks and Simmons, of having obtained goods to a very
large amount in anticipation of bankruptcy, with a view
to cheat their creditors ; and there was also a
second charge of the same character against a
person named Skinner and some other defendants.
Although the cases were to a certain degree complicated,
he did not anticipate any difficulty would arise to the
grand jury. If so, the Court would most readily lend
them its assistance.

The grand jury then retired to their room.
The judges who will preside during the session are
Lord Chief Justice Cockburn, Mr. Justice Coleridge,
and Mr. Baron Watson.

It will be remembered that at the last session an
indictment was preferred against Lord C. Clinton and
a person named Jeffree for obtaining money from
stockbroker in the City by the deposit of shares, tl e
transaction being alleged to be a fraudulent one, and
the grand jury returned a true bill against both
parties. The trial was postponed at the last session,

and during the interval application has been made to
the Court of
,Queen's Bench for a writ of certiorari, to
remove the case into that Court, and the application
having been acceded to, the trial will therefore not
tyke place at the Old Bailey.

The Hon. Mr. and Mrs. Vernon have arrived at the
St.. George's Hospital.
FERRYBOAT RUN DOWN BY A STEAM PACKET —A
fatA accident occurred on the river Ouse at aoout
seven
o'clock on Friday night, by which bur persons lost their
lives and two others had an extremely narrow escape
from dreeNning. The Empress steam packet, which plies
hetwoen Hull and Thorne, started from the former piaci-
on her return journey at five o'clock on Friday evening,
with reheat 50 passengers on board. The night was dare,
and tt it, vessel carried a light at her stem and ano her at
her st rrn.. Ou approaching Whitgitt-ferry, on the river
Ouse, the captain of the steamer observed the ferryboat
cressiag die stream, and called out to the men in charge
of it to back their oars. The tide was running strongly
at the time, and the men in the boat either did not hear
the captain or were incapable of getting the boat out of
the w ay, and tho steamer struck the frail craft in the
middle, lifting it up on one side and turning it com-
plete ly over. There were six persons in the boat, in-
dud rug two ferrymen, and they were of course all thrown
into the river. Tee boatmen ana two other persons (a
Mr. Sneesby, son of a cattle dealer living at Sheffield,
and his cousin) perished. A master of a barge named
Taarior succeeded in gaining the steamer, and was re-
scued ; and another man, a ratcatcher, who was greatly
coneeirned about his ferrets (which were ultimately
a :recove red), escaped by swimming to the shore. A party
'of mea were engaged all Saturday in dragging the river
`tlor the bodieF, but up to the evening of that day not one
-',of them ,bad been found.