The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1847-09-28 00:00:00

LAW INTELLIGENCE.

Mr. Francis Brady, of the Irish bar, has been appointed
Chief Justice of Newfoundland, in the room of Mr.
Thomas Norton, resigned. The salary is £l5OO a-year.
NOTICES OF OBJECTION.—A PROPER DECISION.
Mr. M`Christie, the revising barrister for the city of Lon-
don, has given judgment which, if acted upon by other-
revising barristers, would soon have the effect of putting a.
stop to the indiscriminate objections to voters which are
now so freely made to every constituency. Mr. M'Cliri°-
tie taking, as we think, a sound, and certainly a most sa-
lutary view of the act of Parliament, will henceforth inn-
pose costs in every case of objection that turns out to be
frivolous upon being heard, or may be presumed to have
been so from the fact of its not being proceeded with. In'
the latter event, the revising barrister, upon proof of no-
tice of objection having been given to the person appear-
ing to defend his vote, will at once order him his costs, if
the opposition to his being placed upon the list should be
abandoned, after he has been put to the inconvenience of
attending. The result of this most wholesome course has
been the instant easing of the list of objections, which had
originally comprised between two and three thousand
names, but which were reduced to something under three
hundred after the revising barrister had announced the
plan he intended to act upon.
BANKRUPTCY COURT : IN RE HAMMOND.—The case
of Mr, W. J. Hammond, comedian, and late manager of
the Adelphi theatre, was heard before Mr. Commissioner
Perry on Thursday. Mr. Greene, solicitor, opposed the
insolvent's application, on the ground that the debts had
been contracted by him without any reasonable probabi-
lity of his being able to pay. Mr. Payne, on behalf of
other creditors, opposed on the same grounds. Mr. Smithy.
of the Falstaff Tavern, Mr. Sefton, of the Adelphi The-
atre Tavern, Mr. Parker, scene-painter, and Mr. Charles
Cummins, violinist, were opposing creditors. Mr. Cor-
mick, attorney, appeared for Mr. Hammond. Mr. Ham-
mond said he had twice before been insolvent, the first
time in 1841, when his liabilities were £7,802 6s. 3d, with
assets of £62 Os. 6d.; and again in 1843, with liabilities
of £1,918 18s. Bd., and no assets. His present liabilities
were £B2O lls. 6d. He (Mr. H.) was not possessed of
any furniture at all ; he was in furnished lodgings. The
furniture belonged to his wife's mother, Mrs. Jerrold,
with whom he lodged, and to whom it was transferred
upon the schedule of his bankruptcy in 1843. After
number of questions had been put relative to the moneys
borrowed by the insolvent, and the promises lie had made
of payment, and Mr. Cummins had been examined et
some length, remarks were made on the inconvenience of
commencing the account at a period of only six months
anterior to the bankruptcy. At length the case was ad-
journed to Thursday next, and it was ordered that the
account should be carried back so as to commence withlB46'
MAKING TEE MOST OF AN M.P.—At a meeting of the
Southampton Board of Guardians, held last week, tO
receive tenders for a new workhouse, a question arose e:
to the power of the board to remove from their present
site, when some of the worthy gentlemen proposed the
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the town member, Mr. Cockburn, Q.C., should be seat
and requested kindly to favour the board with his (-pinion-
Captain Breton said he had no notion of not paying bf!''
Cockburn his fee, because he was an M.P. Pay him his_
fee, and if he liked to be charitable, and give it to sow;
charity, well and good. The chairman said it would be
charity to them if he did not accept a fee. He hope!
Captain Breton would not come there and bring the!:
into heavy law expenses ; as yet they had nothing but!
sheet of foolscap for £7O or £BO. He would venture ut
say that if Mr. Cockburn made a charge, he (the chairrnr_f
would pay it out of his own private purse. The resoluti.T
was then put. to the vote, and carried unanimously, W 1
one exceptgon.

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