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affection, is in your case no subject of anxiety. But
if fortune can be influenced by our hopes, you will
not only reach them in safety, but return in 'health
to witness the realisation of those plank of human
progression with which the name of Robert Owen
will, through future time, be associated.
GEORGE JACOB HOLYOARTE.
MALTUS QUi:STALL RYALt.

Mr. Owen replied at considerable length to these
addresses, in topics principally relating to the policy
and general affairs of the Socialist bony, and gave
earnest advice as to the manner in which they-should
be conducted during his absence from England, which
he stated would be from eight to nine months.
Several leading members of the Society also ad-
dressed the meeting, and after a sitting of nearly four
hours, the meeting, which exhibited in the most un-
equivocal manner the esteem and strong affection in
which Mr. Owen is held by his discipls, separated,
highly satisfied with the proceedings 01-thenprningl

LAW INTELLIGENCE..
COURT OF BANKRUPTCY, Aug. 15.
(Before Mr. Commissioner GouLuuroz.)
THE LINENDRAPERY TRADE.—CAPTURE .OF THE RANK,

RCPT.-IN RE BANNISTER. • • •
The bankrupt carried on business as a linendraper at
Portsea, and at the previous hearing it appeared that he
had purchased goods in London and Manchester in the
course of a few (six) months to the amount of nearly
10,000/., of which he made. forced sales, be the sacrifice
what it might, and leaving his wife behind him, and the
place of business remaining open, he repaired-to France,
but soon found his way rgain to London, where he ex-
changed his bank notes fur gold, and ultimately took his
departure (absconded) to the island of Madeira, whither
he was immediately pursued by an officer of the Court,
armed with the warrant of the Learned Commissioner,
and such other aid as could be furnished by the Secre-
tary of State for Foreign Affairs, and was there arrested,
some 2,800/ in specie having been found in his posses-
sion. He arrived yesterd ty in London, in custody of
the messenger, but his surrender not having been taken,
he still remains in custody, and, as we are informed, with
his own consent. •

It is confidently expected that, from one source or
another, the creditors are likely to realise 10s. in the
pound.

INSOLVENT DEBTORS' COURT, Ark]. 16.
IN RE RICHARD CLEAVER.

The insolvent had carried on business in the Edgeivare-
road, as a builder. His petition Nsas opposed by Mr.
Cooke, on behalf of several creditors, and was supported
by Mr. Nicholls.
Upon a former occasion the insolvent had been before
the Court, when his case was gone into at great length.
It appeared that he had made away with certain pro-
perty by means of a collusive bill of sale.
After hearing some additional evidence.
Mr. Commissioner HARRIS said that a case had seldom
come before him in which there was stronger evidence
of fraud. It had been proved in the most concluiive
manner that he most fraudulently and dishonestly made
away-with considerable property, to the detriment.of his
creditors. As he (Mr. Commissioner liarril) was de-
termined to punish such conduct with the utmost seve-
rity, he should order the insolvent to be remanded for
twelve calendar months from the date of his' vesting
order.
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IN RE THOMAS HENRY HORATIO CAUTY.
• This insolvent, whose case has been already frequently
reported in our columns, and who, by the name of Capt.
Canty, was so well known for his bill dealing and other
transactions with Lord Huntingtower, Colonel Copeland,
and others connected with the sporting world, appeared
in Court this day, to receive final judgment.
Mr. Commissioner HARRlS'said the case had been
heard before Mr. Commissioner Law originally, but, in
the absence of that Learned Commissioner, he (Mr.
Commissioner Harris). should pronounce the''Ziecision
which had been come to. There was no point in the
circumstances, such as they were, which brought them
under the penal clause of the Act, and he should, there-
fore, order him to be discharged forthwith.

The insolvent then left the Court.
IN RE CEO. AUGUSTUS JEWEL CHAPMAN.
This case had been heard some time back. when it
appeared that the insolvent, and his father before him,
had been the proprietor of the saloon in Drury-lane
theatre. He had rented it up to about a year and a half
ago, at which time he was compelled to give it up. The
reasons he assigned for his failures in the saloon, which
at one time was most profitable, and by which in " the
good old days of Drury," his father had realised a large
sum of money, was the loss which he suffered in conse-
quence of the order by Mr.• Macready to exclude all
females of a certain character from the saloon. He
paid at the rate of 4001. per annum, but after this pro-
hibition his profits fell away so much that he was unable
to pay this amount ; and the renters of Drury-lane
Theatre brought an action against him, which he de-
fended through an attorney named Pitcher. Eventually
Ar. Pitcher sued the insolvent for a balance of costs of
about 301, which action he defended, and put the oppos-
ing creditor to upwards of 501. expense by this vexatious
lefenee. Having been called up for judgment this day,
Mr. Commissioner HARRIS said there could be no
ioubt but that the insolvent had been guilty of a most
1 vexatious defence, whereby he put a person, to whom he
iwas justly indebted, to great and unnecessary expense.
The judgment of the Court was, that he be imprisoned
or tight months from the date of his vesting order.

SUMMER ASSIZES.
OXFORD ClRCUlT.—Monmouth, Aug. 13.

NISI PRIUS COURT.—(Before Mr. Serg.ant AT-
CHERLEY and a Special Jury.)
WALTERS V. BARKER AND OTHERS.
Mr. W. J. Alexander and Sir T. Phillips .appeared
for the plaintiff in this case, and the defendaqts were
represented by Mr. Whateley, Mr. Whitmore, and
Mr. Keating.
The action was brought by the plaintiff, the widow
and administratrix of one Benjamin Walters, deceased,
against the defendants, as Directors of the Allit&llorne
and Foreign Mutual Insurance Association, to recover
he sum of 5001., upon a policy of insuia,neei.-„effected on
the life of the said Benjamin Walters. To this the de-
fendants pleaded, first, the general issue; secondly, that
it the time of Walters making the declaration which
was the basis of the contract he was affirct.kl with
paralysis; thirdly, that his habits 'of life were -intem-
perate; fourthly, that he had, although he had stated the
contrary, frequently consulted a Medical man; fifthly,
that the policy was effected by fraud, Covin„ and misre-
presentation; sixthly, that one Charles He rt Croft
was interested in the policy, but that his name vette not
inserted therein; and lastly, that the policy was made
for the benefit of Croft, but that he had no interest in
the life of Walters. The plaintiff joined issue on the
first plea, and replied de injuria to the others.
Sir T. PHILLIPS having opened the pleadings,
Mr. ALEXANDER stated the case to the jury, and said
that the policy in question was effected on the life of
Benjamin Walters, a cattle-dealer, at Bedwelty, on the 4th
of May, 1841, Walters being at that time in the 60th
year of his age. Mr. Walters had the misfortune to die
in the August following, when only one annual premium
had been paid, but that in itself would be no ground even
for suspicion, because the uncertainty of human life was
so great that no man, however young or vigorous, could
be sure of another hour's existence. The defendants had
put many pleas upon the record, all of which it lay upon
them to prove, except the first, and the execution, of the
policy having since been admitted, he might rest his case
upon that admission, and wait till his Learned Friend,
Mr. Whateley, had closed the evidence which he had to
offer on the part of the defendants. He should not, how-
aver, take that course, but anticipate, as far as he was
able, the case intended to be set up on the other side,
and he should show that Mr. Walters, although at the
advanced age of 60 years, was a man originally of very
vigorous constitution, and of active habits, and that he
had never been attacked by any disease like paralysis,
although in the March of 1840, in coming over the moun-
tains from Abergavenny to Tredegar, on the top of a
coach, he had caught a severe chill, which had c4nfined
him to his bed for some time. It wasproper that he should
tell the jury that the plaintiff in this case was only nomi-
nally a party to the action, the party really interesud in
the result being Mr. C. H. Croft, a solicitor, of great respec-
tability, residing at Newport, to whom Walters was
largely indebted for money advanced to him. At the
instance of Mr. Croft Walters, who had. Rreviously in-
sured his life in the Norwich Union Insurance-.office for
2001., made proposals through Mr. Croft, who had re-
cently been appointed the agent of the Alfred Insurance-
office, for a policy upon his life of 5001., and his proposals
having been accepted, after he had been examined by the
medical officer of the company at Newport, Mr. Essex,
the policy was assigned by Mr. Croft, with the full know-
ledge and approbation of the Alfred-office, as he should
show by various letters which passed between "Mr. Croft
and the solicitors to the company in "Londbh. (The
Learned Counsel here read the letters.) 114,.-) Walters
died on the 7th of August, 1841, but the Alfied had re-
fused to pay the 5001. secured by the policy, and.at last
the present action was brought.
The policy on the life of Benjamin Walters, for
5001., effected in the Alfred-office, was here put in
and read.
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Several witnesses were examined, all of whom des-
cribed Walters as a man generally in the enjoyment
of robust health, but suffering occasionally from rheu-
matism.

Mr. WIIATELEY then addressed the jury for the defen-
dants, stating that he should prove to their complete sa-
tisfaction that Walters had intended to cheat the Alfred
Insurance Company by concealing from them his- know-
ledge of the fact that he had been attacked by paralysis,
of which, in fact, he died, and also by representing
that he had had no medical attendant since he was 21
years old.
Witnesses were then called for the defence and exa-
mined for the purpose of showing that Walters had had
an attack of paralysis in IS4O, and the regbiter of his
death was put in, from whic!i it appeared that paralysis
was there stated as the cause of death. This part of the
case was, however, disproved by the evidence of one of
defendant's own witnesses, which was as follows:—
William Williams, examined by Mr. WnATELEy—
Benjamin Walters died in my house. 1 gave the account
of his death to the registrar as near as I could. He
asked me what was the cause of death, and I said that
he had a pain in his bowel", and that Walters h. d told
me that some one at Pontypool had told him that he
had had a kind of stroke. I signed my name in the
column next to that in which the cause of death was put
down. I did not read what was written down, and I
did not know that the cause of death put ..down was
"paralytic stroke."
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