The Sun.
London, England, 1868-07-06 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, JULY 6, 1868.

COURT OF BANKRUPTCY.

Business
done.

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OLD COURT.

LAW INTELLIGENCE.—This Day.

IN RE PETO, BETTS, AND CRAMPTON.

These bankrupts came up to-day to pass their last
examination for the orders of discharge. Mr.
Linklater, for the London, Chatham, and Dover
Railway Company, said accountants had been en-
gaged' on both sides, and he was willing to allow
the company's proof to the amount of £560,000
to appear, but those figures must not be taken in
any way to prejudice their large claim of £6,600,000.
His Honour asked if there any opposition to the
orders of discharge being granted, and on being in-
formed there was none, he said he should grant the
orders without expressing an opinion in the matter.

CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT—(This Day.)

The July sessions of the Central Criminal Court
commenced this morning. There are upwards of
100 prisoners for trial.
Tht; Recorder, in charging the grand jury, said
the calendar contained the names of a more than
usual number of persons for trial, and the offences
with which they stood charged, although happily
not embracing one of murder, yet they were of a
very serious nature. There was one attempt to com-
mit the capital offence, and two cases of arson, but
one that would probably call for their greatest at-
tention was an indictment preferred against a per-
son named Sarah Rachel Leverson, who stood
charged with unlawfully obtaining, by false pre-
tences, from Mary Ricker Borradaile, the sum of
£1,400. The case was of a very peculiar nature,
and connected with it was a very voluminous cor-
respondence, and as that had not been returned to
him he had to ask them to read the whole of it
very carefully before they disposed of the case, but
there appeared to be a curious chain of evidence,.
which, of course, they would hear in the course
of the case, and having done so it would
be for them to say whether there was a prinza facie
case against the prisoner, and if so it would be their
duty to return a true bill. There was also a case of
much importance to the commercial world, and,
that was the indictment preferred against three 1
persons named Frankle, Harris, and Rewman, for
feloniously having in their possession divers papers
purporting to be Russian rouble notes. The offence
of having forged Russian notes in their posses-
sion was one that had already led to a long and
patient inquiry, and it was much to be desired that
the parties who appeared to make a trade in these
forged securities should be discovered and punished.
They would have the whole of the evidence placed
before them, and, having considered it, say whether
there was sufficient to put the prisoners on their
trial before another tribunal. He did not think it
necessary to refer to any of the other cases in the
calendar, but every assistance would be rendered
them in the event of their requiring any.
The grand jury then retired to their room, and
the trials shortly afterwards were proceeded with.

violent, though he had previously gone quietly.
The police said they would not hold Ferguson so
tightly if he would go quietly, and he did so, but
on Mr. Philpott again interfering, he became vio—
lent again. He (witness) got assistance for the.•
police, and saw them do no more than necessary to
take the prisoner to the station.
Inspector Harrison said the police had a great
deal of trouble in such cases through persons inter-
fering who knew nothing about the matter.
Police-constable Loosley, 46 C, said that he was
obliged to be a little rough with Ferguson, as he
tried to choke him. It was all through Mr. Phil-
pott interference that Fergusion became violen'J,
and he would have gone quietly had he 'dot
done so.

Mr. James Hollis, of No. 283, Oxford-street,
complained of the great annoyance he had received,
in common with other inhabitants of Oxford-street,
and said that he coull not on Sunday evealugs oc-
cupy any of his rooms in comfort.
Mr. Tyrwhitt said it all arose from the preacher,
who howled forth and attracted people who had
nothing better to do. Preaching was always tolerated
till it created an obstruction, and when it did
so, it should be swept away, preachers and all,
by the police. There was no doubt that the preacher
had caused all the mischief in the present case. He
had no doubt, what between the howling of the
preacher and the bawling of the persons collected,
it was a great nuisance, and was a good reason for
the police interfering. He believed but for the un-
necessary interference of the witness (Philpott) the
p risoners would have gone quietly to the station,
the prisoners taking advantage of his interference
on their behalf, most unnecessarily so, as he (Mr.
Tyrwhitt) thought. He did not believe the police
had illtreated the prisoners. He should discharge
Healey, and fine Ferguson ss.