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London, England, 1825-12-07 00:00:00

COURT OF CHANCtRY:=TIIIS

PRIVATE HEARtimcf.—lN Tile MATTER OF MR. WILLIAM

ARCHIBALD WARE.
This was a motion to supersede a commission of lunacy inuttd
against the above Gentleman. Both parties having prayed the
LARD CHANCELLOR to bear it in his grivate room, his Lordship
consented, and the parties attended bins this morning. 'llte result
was, that his Lordship superieded the commission, on the produc-
tion of an affidavit by br. turner.
IN MATTER Of DRAY.
Mr. &ewes/ prated the Court to confirm the Report df the
Master, who bad found, by his Report, that it, was necessary to
per:hase certain articles of jewellery for the Use of the lunette.—
Motion &rental.

311211 V. WARD.
Mr. Hitt suited, that as the parties had agreed to settle their
dispute, it only remained for him to ptay his Lordship to refer the
question tb the Mister, se agreed no by the panics.—Granted.
His Lemon* then proceeded with a Bankrupt Petition, which
was likely to last the whole day.

VICE-CHANCELLOR'S COURT, Daemons 6:
LANIMAR tl. VINCINT AND °THERA,.
This bill has been filed for an account of the trans-
actions and profits of the Newbury bank, carried on
formerly by Messrs. Vincent, F..rmer, Barnes, and Han-
cock, who had become bankrupts in consequence oft
their bank being robbed in the year 1815. It appeared
that the banking-house, which consisted of two rooms
under the White Hart Inn, at Newbury, being shut up
on the night of the 9th of December, 1815, alter busi-
ness hours, it was broken open during Sunday, the
night of the 10th, and robbed of notes, bills, and specie
to an immense amount. In consequence of this, the
6rm stopped payment, the banking-shop was shut up,
and the patties were not to be found upon the premises
to transact their usual business, thongh they were not
searched for at their respective dwelling-houses in the
neighbourhood. The material question now was,
whether this amounted to an act of bankruptcy within
the meaning of the sta•ute Ist James I. ch. 1.5, sec. 2. ?
Mr. Bea es and Mr. PARKER submitted, that th;6
was prima facie an asi of bankruptcy. It had been held
that in a case where% man had carried on the business
of a newsvender on the Rnyal Exchange, and there
only sold his newspapers, the Royal Exchange was to
be considered his shop, that being the place where he
generally transacted his bosiness, and that his absence
from the Royal Exchange to avoid his creditors con-
stituted an absenting within the meaning of the statute,
and, consequently, an act of bankruptcy. In another
case, where it appeared that a man had usually carried
on his business at a coffee•house, and had not fre-
quented it to avoid his creditors, that was held to be an
act of bankruptcy,
Mr. HART submitted, that thi: was not an act of
bankruptcy. Here the bank had been robbed, There
were no assets in it, and, therefore, it was unnecessary
to keep it open, as the bankers could not carry on their
business. But no attempt had been made to shew that
the bankers had been inquired for at their residences,
and were denied ; or that they had absented thetissilves.
The VICE-CHANIIELLOR.—The words of the' statute'
are, " That if any person shall depart the maim, of
keep house, or absent himself from his' or her place of,
business, for the purpose of delaying hiS Bei cre-
ditors, that shall be deemed an act of bankruptcy," 1
am of opinion, that the White Hart Inn,- being, the
place of business of these persons,- and. all. of them
having shut themselves up, and absented themselves, it
is an act of bankruptcy, subject, however, to exsJina-
t;on, because the cause of absence*Miy be oxplatileie.r
COURT OF KING'S BENCH, WESTMINSTER, DE. S.
WILLIS D. WALKER.

This was an action- by an attorney to reinter the
sum of 171. the amount of his bill for preplt ing •the
deeds necessary to convey to the defendant a leasehold
interest in a house at Chelsea. The defendant contended
that he had only engaged to pay a moiety of the ex-
pense which he tendered to the plaintiff; who, never.
theists, arrested him for the whole on a Saturday
evening, directing the officer, however, that the party
was a respectable man, and that he might take any
bail offer ed.
On the main point in the cause, whether the plaintiff
was employed by the defendant on an understanding
that he was liable to pay the whole of the expenses,
contradictory evidence was given.
The LORD CHIBT Miler, in summing up the evi-
dence, took occasion to express his disapprobation of the
conduct of the attorney, in arresting a man of whose
responsibility there aas no doubt, on a Saturday even-
ing, for so small a *sum ; but directed the Jury not to
allow the feeling such a circumstance might excite to
influence their verdict.
The Jury returned a verdict for the defendant.
RAMAT V. NAUMAN.
This was an action on the case for falsely and deceit.
fully representing a horse to be sound, which the vendor
knew to be rotten.
Mr. Nordin, for the plaintiff, stated that his client
was induced in September, in the last year, to.purchase
a horse of a groom of the defendant, for Sa. on a re-
presentation that he was sound, except- a thickness in
the wind. It proved, however, that the horse was dis-
eased and rotten, and in two months he died. The
Learned Counsel admitted that, in this form of action,
it was incumbent on him to chew that the defendant
was aware of the condition of the horse ; end this he
thought he should thew from circumstances which could
not be mistaken.
The sale and the representation of the groom were
proved ; but the plaintiff's Counsel having totally failed
in ,hewing that the horse was known to be unsound by
the defendant, consented to be nonsuited.
COURT OF EXCHEQUER, Dsciotaaa 6.
?HE ZING O. WM. STEPIERNs.
This was an information filed by the Arrow:re
GENERAL against the defendant William Stephens, for
having an illicit soap manufactory in his premise', and
for sending out and receiving quantities of soap with
false certificates. The information was supported by
the same Counsel and the same witnesses as were em-
ployed in a similar information, tried last week, in
which Thomas Stephens was the defendant, and in
which a verdict was recorded for the Crown. The case
occupied the whole day.

The TWEED atrived at Halifax on the Sth ult. with
the Rev. Dr. berms, Bishop of Nova Scotia, and family, on board,
after a passage of SS days, troth Falmouth.
A Meeting of the Shareh lders of the Grand Junction
Canal took place yesterday, at the Crown and Anchor
Tavern, at which a dividend of 51. per Share, and a
bonus of SOs. was declared,

Saturday, about eight o'clock, eighteen houses, near
the Salford-crescent, Manchester, gave way, and fell
into the liver Irwell, wits► a most tremendous crash.
0 sing t,r the highly dangerous state they had been in
Juriag the last two day., the iiii.ahitants of them, and
three adj ining ones, had luit, v. ith tlocir int st valuable
effects.