The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1841-10-22 00:00:00

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The tenour of the intelligence
regarded in the City and cn the
of rather a favourable complexion, but
,arly appear, unless it Must he taken for
i-arited that people having made up their Minds .to find
M'Leod tried, condemned and hung by the present arrivals,'
were agreeably disappointed that no one of these grave events
had taken place sir late as the 2d. instant. Upon the strength
of this more encouraging aspect of affairs Consols improved
to to 8 for money, and 88 to 3- for account. Bank Stock
was Iti24 to 34. India Stock 242 k to 31. Exchequer Bills
10s. to 12s. premium.
In-Foreign Stocks as in the Home there was not much bu-
siness doing. Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents .were 511 to
4, the Five per Cents. 991 to 4. Belgian 102 to 3. Spanish
improved to-day, the Active with the Coupons being 204 to
4. Portuguese Five per Cents 291 to 4, the Three per. Cents
17i- to 18. Brazilian 42 to 51. Mexican 231 to 44. Co-
lombian 184 to 194. _ _ .

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The mallets tor c.
moderate business doing.
The public sales of tea were brought to a close to-day
The result is a decline of Id. per lb. on green teas, and about
former prices for other sorts. Company's Congou was at
Is. 94d. to Is. 94d. per lb. cash.
Tallow was steady to-day. Prime yellow candle, 475. 6cl.
per cwt. on the spot.

colonial p

lace were firm, with a

In the Hamburgh commercial markets during the week
ending the 15th instant, coffee was quiet, owing to the arrival
of supplies. Sales 5600 bags Brazil, at 3P. to 5d., and 1400
Domingo, at 41d. to 41c1. sch. The ord and good ord sorts
were lower. In raw sugar large transactions; 800 to ouo
boxes white and brown Bahia; 1300 brown and yellow
Havana; 6000 bags :Manilla; 400,000 lbs. molasses. Rice
sold for present wants. About 1000 boxes Cassir Lignea sold.
English pimento was at 3 1-16 to 31 sch. English pepper,
no alteration. Auctions of tobacco were coming on.

COMMISSION OF BANKRUPTCY

EXTRAORDINARY PROFLIGACY.-IN RE DAUNCEY

BIII.MINFGLIAM, OCT. 20.—Some months ago the papers
contained an account of the apprehension and committal of
William Dalton Dauncey, ironmaster, a young man aged 22
only, charged with feloniously absconding from his creditors,
and taking refuge upon the continent, instead of surrender-
ing to his fiat of bankruptcy. It will be recollected that the
bankrupt, who for a period of a year and three-quarters oc-
cupied the Bordesley and Atlas mills, was taken by Superin-
tendent Stephens at a ball at Cuxhaven, and was afterwards
ccmmitted to take his trial at the last Warwick Spring As-
sizes, but owing to an objection, grounded upon the invali-
dity of the notice served at the late residence of the bank-
rupt when the fiat was issued, he was, under the direction of
Mr. Justice Matteson, acquitted. The creditors, prepared for
this result, and determined that he should not escape with
impunity, lodged a detainer against him, and Dauncey was
transferred from the criminal to the debtor's side of Warwick
Gaol. He subsequently petitioned the Insolvent Debtors
Court for his discharge, and the schedule which he was com-
pelled to file for that purpose has exposed a course of reckless
profligacy never before exhibited in any bankruptcy case in
Birmingham. Dauncey having been remanded by the Com-
missioner of the last Insolvent Debtors Court held at War-
wick until the next circuit, the assignees under his fiat have,
within these few days, brought him in custody from War-
wick, and subjected him to a searching examination before
the Commissioners of Bankruptcy at the Waterloo-rooms in
this town. _

At Dauncey's examination it appeared he commenced
business at the latter end of the year 1838, and was
bankrupt in the summer of 1840. During tbis period he con-
tracted debts to the amount of £19,183 Bs., having com-
menced business with a capital of £lOOO, and realised a profit
of £3OOO, amounting together to £23,183 Bs. The assets
were estimated at £1,668, leaving a deficiency of £21,515,
which was accounted for by the bankrupt as follows—
£. d.
1,484 17 8
770 0 0 •
225 0 0

Amount of debts owing to me, abput

For rent
Keep of horses during 1i years, about
Discount and interest paid and allowed on bills
and accounts during this period, about .. 1,500 0 0
Carriage of goods during this period, about .. 1,500 0 0
Taxes .. 175 0 0

Servants' wages, including wages paid to work-
men, about .. .. 4,580 0 0
Other household expenses for 11 years, about 1,000 0 0
Expenditure on the Continent, from Septem-
ber, 1840, to March, 1841, about ..
Clothes for It years, at £5O a-year, about ..
Law charges during the same period, about ..
Surgeons' bills, about ..
Travelling expenses ..
Loss on erecting four new furnaces, and pulling
down old ones, at Bordesley, about ..
Loss on erecting guide mill, &c., at Bordesley

400 0 0

90 0 0
100 0 0
20 0 0
1,000 0 0

600 0 0

502 0 0 I