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London, England, 1826-04-04 00:00:00

INSOLVENT DEBTORS' COURT, Area&

This morning Mt. Commissioner LAW presided, to
adjudicate upon those cases where no creditors had sig-
nified their intention of opposing the application of the
petitioners. Those prisoners who were ordered for
hearing to-day, having opposition marked against their
names, will not be brought up for hearing until Mon-
day the 10th inst. and the opposed cases for to-morrow
(this day) will not be heard until the 11th inst.

MOTION Tull RE-HEARING.-IN AN JOSBIPH WOOLCOMI

This insolvent was before the Court about eighteen
months ago, when he was opposed by Mr. Pontifex,
the coppersmith, and another creditor, the result of
which was, that the insolvent was remanded for a con,
siderable period. for fraudulently contracting debts and
concealing his property.
The term of the insolvent's imprisonment having et.
pired, the creditors procured fresh evidence, applied to
the Court, and obtained a rule absolute, citing him to
appear before it for the purpose of being re-examined
relative to matters connected with his petition and
schedule.

It appeared that the insolvent had contrived to elude
the Officer whose duty it was to set ve the rule upon him,
which occasioned the rale to be enlarged several time.,
until at length service was made upon him ; but it or-
dered him to appear on a day when the Court did not
sit, and was therefore rendered nugatory.
Mr. Haavn this day named the circumstance to the
Court, upon which Mr. Commissioner LAW said, that
the Learned Gentleman must commence de novo ; bnt
under all the circumstances, the insolvent was not er.-
tided to expect any indulgence.
The Court tken ordered the rule to be enlarged.
Philip Stutter was heard on his petition to be dis-
charged. It appeared that before the Insolvent went
to prison he gave a warrant of attorney to one of his
treaiturs, who since he had been in. confinement had
entered up judgment, and swept away every article of
furniture which is allowed by the Act, and commonly
termed " excepted articles."
Mr. Commissioner LAW said, that this was a hard

case upon the Insolvent, but the Court could afford him
no remedy, as the proptrty seized did not pass under
the assignment to the provisional assignee. •
The Court then ordered the discharge to issue.
Eh is much to be hoped, that before the Bill dew pending before
Parliament be passed into a lw, a clause will be introduced which
will prevent the recurrence of an act like that referred to, which
completely frustrates the benign intention of the Legislature.]
The following petitioners were declared entitled totheir dis-
charge, viz.—John Pcter Bennett, of Great St. Helen's, merchant ;
Thomas Lloyd, Back Road, Islington, sheep salesman; William
Linley, of Sheffield, cutler ; John Brickhill, of Gorton, Lancashire,
baker; Charles King, of Horsleydown, lighterman • Thos. Lane,
of Cullum-street, coffee dealer; Mary Ann Mumford (knows as
Miry Ann Bloomfield, as Jensima Bloomfield,. and Mary Ann
Sinclair), of Upper Thornhaugh-street, spinster; James Smith, of
Cavendish-square. postmaster; Henry Belk e.Hoaton Fields, car-
penter ; James Rayment. of Vineent-laneCommercial Road,
tailor; and Jonathan Ridgeway, of Ores( 'Dover-street, South-
w.irk, engineer.

ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE.

MAIDSTONE, Aritu. 1.
Joni Dal-email was indicted for the wilful murder of her female
bastard child, by-suffocation, at Scale, on the 12th March last. The
Jury acquitted the prisoner of the mdtder, but found her guilty of
endeavouring to conceal the birth, and, under all the circsinstances.
she was sentenced to three months imprisonment.
James Willeocts was indicted fol. assaulting John Shan, on the
King's highway, at Davington, putting him in fear,"and forcibly
taking from his person, a Sve pound bank note, ten shillings, and a
pocket.book.—Nat Guilty.
Jahn Askbee, a young man of respectable appearance. was in-
dicted for a btirglary and robbery in the dwelling-house of John
Cork at Stapkhurst, on the 254 of March.
The Jury found him Guilty, but strongly recommended Min to
mercy, in which recommendation the prosecutor most urgently
joined. Sentence of Doak was recorded.
Jahn RelfWlB indicted for stealing, at Crayford, on the 12th March
a horse the property of Thomas Buck.
The Jury found the prisoner Guilty, and sentence of Death was
recorded.
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YORK, MAuH 51;
DODSWORTH, SART. V. HAIGH.

The following is the verdict in this case :
ist. We find there was a soke at all the townships ka the districts
of the soke.
td. That the township of Alverthorpe-cum-Thorne is in the sake-
-54. That Sandell Mill is only an auxiliary mill.
4th. That the throe mUlepossegs sufficient power without the
fourth, which it is supposed will give rise to proceedings again in
the Duchy Court.
4fiemson, for hone-stealing, is reprieved. Lade and E. are
left for the law to take its course.

CLONMEL.

Maurice Cro.tve was put to the bar, charged with ut,
tering base coin on the 7th of February last, at Thurles.
This was rather a curious case: James Cesar deposed,
that he went on the 7th of February to the fair of
Thurles, for the purpose of selling a cow; the prisoner
became the purchaser, and tendered in payment six
sovereigns and some change, and observed that he had
received them in payment the day before for pigs ; wit-
ness objected to some sovereigns that the prisoner took
out a bag, on ',llia he took more out of another bag,
and offered them to the witness. The witness having
occasion to pass the sovereigns shortly after, ascer-
tained that they were base. The prisoner, on being
brought before Captain Wilson (Chief Magistrate), was
searched, and other sovereigns found on his person;
on that occasion he said be had received them inEngland.
Mr. George Harkness, assay-master to the Bank of
Ireland, was called up, and having examined the coin
found on the prisoner, as well as these he had passed
over to the first witness (Cesar) pronounced them base.
On being questioned. he said the coin purporting to be
sovereigns were British farthings.
The Loss Cum Jurrice expressed his opinion that the prosecu-
tion should drop, inasmuch as the coin in guesden, which had been
laid in the indictment as counterfeit, was not really so, but the mere
representation of British farthings.
The Court and several Gentleaseo of the bar seemed to think the
case a novel one.
Mr. Harkness was further examined by the Court.—
The teverse on the sovereign, be explained (which was
previously done by the Learned Judge), was St. George
and the Di agora—that on t 1 British farthing the figure
of Britannia; consequently there was a dissimilarity I
between the money found on the prisoner (whit* the
indictment described as counterfeit coins, but which in
reality was no more than a farthing), and the genuine
sorer.- ign.
Counsel for the Crown read extracts from sits of Parliament In
support of the proemotlen, which were, however, over-ruled by the
Court, as not being analogous to the case under consideration,