Star.
London, England, 1830-05-06 00:00:00

COBBETT V. DODD.

This was action brought by Mr. Wm. Cobbett, one of
the assignees under a commission of bankrupt, issued
against a person named Lister, to recover the sum of 3001.
from the defendant Dodd, who was a co-assignee under
the commission. The facts were these :—ln August,
1828, Lister was indebted in the sum of 1,7001. and he
owed above 3001. to the defendant Dodd and a person
named Bidgood. They called upon Lister, and examined
his books, and they found that there was a sum of three
hundred pounds due by Lord Essex to him, and they in-
duced him to give them a guarantee that they should receive
the 3001. when his lordship the money. A Mrs. Brown,
an aunt of Lister, gave the required security, and when
the money was paid by Lord Essex to Lister, he handed
it over to Dodd and Bidgood. In the September follow-
ing, Lister became a bankrupt, and the creditors subse-
quently discovered that two of the assignees under the
Commission—viz. Dodd, the defendant, and Bidgood—
had applied the three hundred pounds paid to Lister by
Lord Essex, to their own private accounts, instead of
distributing the money amongst the creditors ; and the
question the Jury had to decide was, whether the money
was paid to Dodd and Bidgoood on their private accounts,
or on behalf of Lister's estate.

A number of witnesses were examined pro and con,
and his Lordship having summed up the case, the Jury
at seven o'clock at night (the case having occupied the
greater part of the day) found " That the 3001. was paid
by Lister to Dodd and Bidgood, for the benefit of the
creditors." Verdict for the Plaintiff, Three Hundred
Pounds.

A petition in favour of the claims of the Jews was
sent off on Saturday evening, having received the signatures of
1,947 of the most respectable inhabitants of the town. Consider.
ing that there was nothing like a canvass, and that the petitions
were only placed in the public rooms, this is a very satisfactory
number. ,Petidons much more numerously signed have undoubtedly
been sent from Liverpool, but scarcely ever has a petition been
signed by a rester number of well educated and really respectable
individual.—Liverpool Paper.
There is a fact stated in the Star of Brunswick, of
Saturday, with respect to rum, of which we had not been
before apprised, but which we find, upon inquiry, to be
correctly put forward, and it is this—all bonded liquors,
on being drawn from store, pay duty on the strength and
quantity both were found to contain at the time of
storing, no allowance whatever being made for evapora-
tion, leakage, or other causes of deterioration. The con-
trary practice prevails with respect to rum, and to rum
only, on which duty is paid upon the strength and quan-
tity leaving store. We understand that the advantage
thus given to one spirit over another is immense ; and we
have ascertained that our contemporary is quite right in
stating the undue preference to be the result of a trea-
sury order issued for the exclusive advantage of dealers
in colonial produco.—Evening Mail.
We have been informed that a number of the emigrants
who are leaving this country for the back States of Ame-
rica have sailed, or are going to sail, to New Orleans,
with a view of proceeding up the Mississippi and the
Ohio to their destination, and that others are thinking of
proceeding to the Southern States of the Union. This is
an extremely dangerous course. Persons sailing from
this port about the present time will arrive at New Or-
leans in the middle or end of June, a time at which the
shores of the Gulf of Mexico and the Southern States of
America are beginning to be visited by the yellow fever
and other complaints which are so fatal to the natives,
and against which no European constitution can bear up.
It is greatly to be feared that many of those who proceed
to New Orleans or the Southern States will be destroyed
by the climate.—At New York the heat is most oppres-
sive to Europeans during the summer months, and at
every degree further south it becomes more so. We be-
lieve that New York and Boston will be found in every
respect the best places for emigrants to land, whatever
may be their destination.—For persons unaccustomed to
the climate to proceed to the shores of the Gulf of Mex-,
ico in the summer months is a rash and most hazardous
experiment, and will be very likely to cost those who are,
so unwise as to try it their lives.—Liverpool Paper.

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.
CHESTER MAX 3.
The Grosvenor Stakes of 15 soy. each, with 50 added ; three yrs.
old, 04t. Slb. four est. 41b. five, Bst. 121 b. six and aged, Mt.
31b Mares and Geldings allowed 216.-I:homelier Course (about

lt mile).
Mr. Clifton's b. h. Fylde, 6 yrs
Mr. Houldsworth's ch. f. Fortitude, 4 yn 2
Sir T.rStanley's b. h. Joanne, 6 yrs 3
Mr. Miles 's Sarah, 6 yn. Lord Doty's Grimbold, 4 yrs. Sir T.
Mostyn's Ultimatum, 5 yrs. and Mr. Turner's Olympus,s yrs. also
started, but were not placed.
Produce Sweepstakes of 50 ay. each, h. ft. for 3 yrs. old. Two
mil 14 Subs.)
Sir T. Stanley's b. c. Laurie T d, Bst. 41b.
Mr. Houldsworth's b. c. Beagle, Bst. llb 2
Colonel Yates's b. :c. Edgar, Bst. 11b.
Mr. Beardsworth'c Birmingham, Sir W. ‘Vynn's Georgians,
Lord Grosvenor's Barometer, and Sir T. Mostyn's Regina, also
started, but were not placed.
Sweepstakes of 15 soy. each, for horses that had not won before the
lit May ; 3 yrs. old, Est. 121 b. four, Sat. five, Bst. 101 h. six, 9st.
and aged, 9st. 31b. mares allowed 31b. Two miles.
Sir T. Stanley's ch. F. 'Augustina, 3 yrs
Sir W. Wynn's b. c. Penrhos, 3 yra..
Mr. Critchley'a b. f. by Tiresias, 5 yrs .......... ....... 3
Mr. Clifton's eh. c. blinster, 4 yrs 4
The Tradesmen's Cup of 100 gs. added to a Handicap Sweepstakes
of 15 sow. each, 10 ft. and only five if declared, &c. To start at
the Castle Pole, run twice round, and end at the coming-in chair;
eight Subs. pd. 10 son. ft. and 10 pd. 5 sort.
Lord Derby's b. c. Felt, 4 yrs, Sat. 31b
Mr. Richard's b. c. Allendale, 4 yrs, 7st• 51b.
Sir T. Stanley's Doctor Faustus, aged, Mr. Mytton's Ralston, S
yrs, Mr. Giffaril's Sampson, 6 yrs, Mr. Houldsworth's Terror, 5
yrs, Sir T. Mostyn's Mona's Pride, 4 yrs, Mr. Clifton's Lely, 4 yrs,
Mr. Steels's Wellington, 4 yrs, and Mr. Ormsby Gore's Tit, 4 yrs,
also started, but were not placed.
The Stand Plate of 501. for maiden horses ; tbree yrs old, fiat. 121 b.
four, Set. 21b. five, list. 101 b. six and aged, 9st. ;Mares and geld.
logs allowed 21b. Heats twice round.
Sir G. Pigot's b. f. Dandina, 4 yrs. 1 1
Mr. Ormsby Gore's b. f. Caroline, 4 yrs 2 2
Sir T. Stanley's bl. c. by Blaeklock, 4 yrs . . 3 3