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ram announced to me officially, as I may term it, on the
Ist of November, that we could not go on. On the
evening of the 3d of November (the same day the French
goods came in), we made a sale of French shawls to
Martin, Abbott, and Co.. of Aldermanbury, I think to
th:yawount of 9061. Lilo not think there was a great
loss. It might have been 10 or liff per cent. We were
paid the following day. That sale was not entered at
the time in the books, nor the receipt of the cash, and
the proceeds were appropriated in the same way as the
money -received from Messrs. Cowper. We had, three
months prior to our stoppage, made breed sales in the

way to meet our inpi-lents. I recoll;et a sale we
made to,SpenCe and Baggeley about September 12th, to
1113 extent_.of about 2,0001. We had orders from the

connting-house, when we were pressed for payments, and
hence it was that we were obliged to absorb the stock in
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proportion to meet them. 3fr. Pryce Mottram bought
goods after he made the communication to me on the
IA of November. At these times, when we divided the

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money, as stated, the amount was entered, but not as we
received it. Other entries were substituted, instead of
the lumping sums, falsely stating what the money was
..opropriated for. Mr. Mottram and myself did that in
Mottram's private counting-house. The disburse-
ment of the money I received will be shown in my cor-
rected private balance-sheet, part of which I have handed
over to the official assignees, viz. 2001.
The bankrupt Williams, in answer to further ques-
tions said, that with respect to the execution put in
4,-; Mr. Moore, Mr. Mottram's father-in-law, he heard
Mr. Mottram say, « Now, Sir, you must never allow that
this was concocted between us, but you must say that
you came into the City and heard accidentally that we
‘vere in difficulties, and then went to your solicitor and
entered up the bond." That was the first time I ever
beard of a bond being in existence, for you will under-
stand it was a matter of disenssion when woo first [Vera
partnership, whether any one of us had given a bond,
and it was said not.

Mr. Muttram, who had been reading his depositions
during the examination of Williams, said that Mr. Wil-
liams had in his evidence called to his (Mr. Mottram's)
mind that he had received money from Parr, who had
been paid by Lewis and Allenby. He admitted it sub-
t:equently, and wished his deposition to so accord.
Mr. Commissioner EVANS told Mottram there was
Still time for him to make a full and true disclosure, and
he hoped on Thursday, to which day he should adjourn
the case, he would do so. lie could not but say that the
affair of the salary-book pressed much on his mind ; it
was quite absurd to speak of the amounts of the ex-
penses as 21,000/.

The examination was then adjourned, it being after
four o'clock.

The total of debts proved up to the present date is
77,7171. 18s. 3d, and the assets realized up `to the date of
the audit, the 23d of March, 7,8271. ss. 3d.

INSOLVENT DEBTORS' COURT, Ap il 23.
The Court was occupied during the morning in hear-
ing applica,iona for bail, of which there were ten town
eases and four country. Most of the bail were allowed
to justify. and in none of them was there the slightest
feature of general interest.

. POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
GUILD HALL.
Robert Hambling, a fine-looking young man, and one
of the sergeants in the City police-force, was brought
before Mr. Alderman Farebrother, to answer a charge
of. felony committed by him when in the execution of
his duty.
Mr. Humphreys attended as solicitor for the prisoner;
and Mr. Martin, of the City Solicitor's-office, for the
prosecution.
The charge against the prisoner was for stealing a
!old pencil-ease, theproperty of Mr. W. Hunter, a gen-
tleman living at Greerm ich. 4
.The prosecutor stated that in January last, he hav-
ing reason to suspect that property of a valuable kind
was concealed in the house of a Mr. Smith, at Brcmley
Middlesex, he employed the prisoner to search
th,,.:‘ premises, and this was done by him, in the presence
of witness and Mr. Shaw, his attorney. Several trunks
were opened, and various articles of plate, jewellery,
apparel, and other property, were therein found, of which
Mr. Shaw took a list. The list (produced) did not con-
thin a gold pencil-case, nor did he see such article during
the search. He had seen it since, it being traced to a
pawnbroker's at Somers'-town.
By Mr. liumphreys—Mr. Shaw, myself, and tweipolice-
raf.a, went to the house, but only the prisoner was pre-
s, ;:t at the search. Did not give charge of Smith for I
:.aling • the property, but having a guilty possession
of it.

;It came, out indirectly that Mr. Smith carried away
:Mrs.
accom Hunter fro:n her husband and house, nod his flight
was panied or followed by sundry boxes of vain-
ablo property.]
Mr. Humphreys said, it would bo necessary to call
firs. hunter, but he would abstain, as much as possible,
from putting questions which would recall an unhappy
occurrence.

Mrs. Francei Hunter. •
years
of
age,
satagede7teteill!tyt lres.sed woman,
abimit 22
Mi. Hunter. She was at Broailev gall on thei wife °I.
January last, when the prisoner, her busbalnd, t'send6(Theori
persons, came there- and demanded her keys which
she delivered up to Hambling, and some. ;If the
went up stairs, and others stopped beh
_Aw. way nut
present herself at the search. airing other articles in
i )119 t' live trunks was a gold pencil-case, inclosed in a
i cl
. - c.t.Ar L .. She saw it safe the day before the search,
,a -ale ey had never been out of' her custody until she
delivered 't to the prisoner. The day followino. she
.., missed if,land several other artitle.s, • but supposed} that
th6Jr-h-ellieen given up to her husband with the other
articles in?. be list. Sho had slur.* learned it was not so.
. '. The gq!Apencil-case now in the office is her's ;it was a
dpreSei2l-, from her father ; is qttite sure of its identity
f altkpugh the cedar pencil halt been taken out. Mr.
Sniith was not present at the search.

. that out to pay debts I owed, principally private debt
and for housekeeping. I drew that sum on the Ist, 2d,
and 3d of November, to pay my private debts;
Mr. Commissioner Evassg—Did you ever draw out so.
large a sum before ? that is the question. The
bank-
rupt—Never before. •
Mr: Commissioner EVANS—Then why did you do it
on the present occasion ? The bankrupt-1 knew I
owed private debts, and saw my difficulty on the 3d of
the month, which was the reason why I did it.
Mr. Commissioner Evaxs—Did you think you would
-be a bankrupt ? The bankrupt—l did not, Sir. In con-
tinuation, to answers put by Mr. Maynard, he said—
. I made a payment on or about the 2d or 3d of November,
Of 258/. 1 ls., a bill of George Austin, of Gloucester-
street, Queen-square, which he had accommodated me
with. The bill was not then due, but would be due in
January ; it was an accommodation acceptance of
Austin to us. I gave the money to my brother, Mr.
Pryce Mottram. I have charged myself individually
with that 258/. 1 Is., but it is not included in the 1,3001.
A clerk of our house took the bill ups,. I made a pay-
ment to Turner and Hensman about this .period, .No-
vember 2, of 1,0001. on account of loans to our firm on
the 9th and 14th of October. The receipt of those loans
were not entered in the cash-book at the time ; they were
. in the banker's book ; in fact, the-money was paid into
the banker's. Made a payment to Messrs. Bennett about
that time. We gave •him 184/. 6s. 3d. in bills. Ile did
not show us the bills. On the 4th of November I paid
• • Mr. Richardson 1861. Gs. 9d., for services and balance of
account, which appears in our books. The accounts I
have put in to-day will show howl disposed of the 1,300/.
The state of our accounts with Turner and Hensman is,
that we now-owe them 1,123/. 12s. 3d., a cash account,
independent of charges for costs, &c. They have secu-
rity for it.
Mr. Commissioner EVANS—You say here in your
• separate balance-sheet, that from December to the pre-
sent time you have been living at the rate of 2001. a-year
out of the money you have pocketed from your creditors.
The bankrupt Charles Mottram—Yes ; but I had 14
• children to support ; they could not starve.
Mr. Commissioner EVANS said, that was always the
plea ; there was no necessity for it, if the bankrupt had
conducted himself' properly.
The bankrupt Charles Mottram said, the assignees
would not allow him a farthiwr
Mr. Commissioner EvastsAlthough this may be the
case, you ought not to support your family at the
expense of your creditors.
Mr. Maynard said,' the assignees could not in justice
to themselves allow the bankrupt anything, his conduct
as a tradesman had been so disgraceful. When he came
end represented that he had not a shilling, he must have
had the money in his pocket at the very moment.
The bankrupt Charles Mottram, examined by Mr.
Maynard.—l do not recollect a sale to Lewis and Allenby
• in the n.onta of November, nor the receipt of the. money.
• • Mr. Maynard—This transaction .does not appear in
the books, either in the shape of a sale or a receipt for
Money.
The bankrupt Williams examined.—l sold the goods,
inn I never received the money. I have heard of this
.subject liefore.
. Mr. Maynard—Prom whom ? The bankrupt Wil-
iams—From Mottram ; he told me he received the money
rem Parr. (Murmurs ran through the Court.)
The bankrupt Williams (addressing the Commis-
sioner)—You see, Sir, I am here in a very painful situa-
tion; I must either disprove what my partner has already
• testified, or stand a perjured man before you.
• Mr. COlllilliSSlOZier EVANS—It is so; but you must du
your duty to yourself, the Court, and the public.
The bankrupt Charles Mottram, recalled—l do now
recollect the sale to Lewis and Allenby. The money went
into the counting-house. It was the sum of 2'1., but
was not entered in the books. It forms no part, to the
best of my belief, of the monks I dre' out.
Mr. Commissioner EVANS—Do you think that is the
only omission? The bankrupt—l- believe it to be so.
Mr. Commissioner Evaass told the bankrupt hcswould
have to give credit for it. The whole case was one of a
most outrageous character. Here were they charging
21,500/. expenses, 7,400/. for their own expenses' while
• their profit,: were only 5,783/. If there was any further
concealment, they had better at once disclose it.
The bankrupt 'Williams (examined by Mr. Maynard)
—I recollect the sale of goods to Messrs. Cowper. Mr.
_Mottram returned on the morning of the 27th, the day
fbe goods were sold, from Manchester, and he was pre-
s ent at the time of the sale. They were sold for
5 56/. 17s. I think there was a loss upon them of 15 to
'3O per cent., but I cannot state. exactly. They were
%ammo kins of goods. On the 27th of October I know
ante credit was gone in the French market, we having
received a letter on the 22d, stating that goods which I
had purchased would not be sent. That letter, I believe,
-was destroyed. Mottram was present when that
•letter was destroyed. The money for the goods sold
to Cowpers was received on that day or the
"lbllowing morning. The sale of those goods was
not entered in our book. 'rho reason why the entry was
not made was because Mr. Mottram and myself divided
the money. I mean we divided the identical money.
On the Ist of. November I knew our firm would not
continue its payments. I received goods which I had
purchased in Paris on the 3d of November. Mr. Mott-