The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1840-07-21 00:00:00

IN THE MATTER OF JOHN DAVIS

Mr. Cooke applied on the part of Mr. Davis, a solicitor at
Liverpool, for an order to restrain his assignees from selling
his real estates. Mr. Davis was discharged some time ago,
when his debts in the aggregate were set forth at £26,000,
of which sum 20,000 was secured on his estates, and he had
some law costs arising on Chancery suits, and his simple con-
tract debts were about £2OOO. In his affidavit he stated his
real estates were worth .C 50,000, and he expected a decree in
a Chancery suit in the course of next year, by which his cre-
ditors would be paid in full. He therefore prayed that his
property might not be sold, and that the assignees should be
restrained for the reasons he had mentioned.

Mr. Commissioner Bowen said he 11;11eard the case, and
was aware there was a good deal of property. He asked the
clause under which the application was made.
Mr. Cooke referred to the 48th section of the present act,
under which the court had the power to restrain the sale of
property in cases where it was detrimental to the interests of
insolvents.

The court granted a rule nisi on the assignees

OPENING OF THE PRESTON AND WYRE
RAILWAY.

This railway, which is about nineteen and a half miles in
length, was formally opened on Wednesday last, by the di-
rectors, proprietors, and their friends, preparatory to its
being opened to the public, on the following day. About
ten o'clock, a.m.. the Fleetwood engine was sent from Fleet-
wood with four commodious carriages to Preston, in one of
which was Sir Ilesketh Fleetwood, Bart, M.P., and several
other gentlemen, in order to meet the other directors and
their friends, previous to the grand procession from that place
to the populous and thriving town of Fleetwood-on-Wyre.
Before the arrival of the train at Fleetwood, a large concourse
of people (we should say nearly three thousand) were assem-
bled from the adjacent country, to witness the novel and in-
teresting sight. About 1 p.m., the grand train arrived from
Preston, in which were Sir Hesketh Fleetwood, W. Garnett,
Esq., besides a large number of gentlemen. In fact, nearly
the whole of the respectable people in Preston were there.
The carriages were crowded, and the trains were greeted with
enthusiastic applause by the assembled multitude. Imme-
diately after the arrival of the train, a party of about 600
took an excursion in the steamers " Express," " James
Deniston," and " Cupid," from the port round the new
light-house, at the mouth of the Wyre. This was a most
satisfactory treat to the parties. On returning, a salute of
three or four rounds of cannon were fired. At three o'clock,
a most respectable party of about 400 sat down in a splendid
pavilion, the new Station-house, at Fleetwood, which was
fitted up on, this interesting occasion with all the glitter of a
banquettng ball, to a most excellent dejeuner. It was a cold
collation, including everything the most fastidious could de-
sire. The wines were plentiful and excellent—sparkling
Champagne, Madeira, &c.
After the repast. Sir P. Hesketh Fleetwood (who presided)
in an appropriate speech proposed the health of her Majesty
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and Success to the Preston and Wyre Railway," on the an-
nouncement of which three rounds of cannon were fired ;
T. F. Brockholes, Esq., High Sheriff of the County," " The
Rev. C. Hesketh," " Manchester and Liverpool Railway
Company," " Mr. Stevenson, the Engineer," by Mr. Gar-
nett, which was responded to most enthusiastically. The
day passed off completely to the satisfaction of all present
until the departure of the seven o'clock train to Preston,
when, we are sorry to relate, a most melancholy and fatal
accident happened to a young man named William Dean, a
tailor from Preston. When the train had proceeded about
one and a half miles from Fleetwood, the unfortunate man
•was seated in one of the Ist class carriages, and in an attempt
to get upon a carriage before, he accidentally fell down be-
twixt the carriages, and, awful to relate, his head was com-
pletely severed from his body, and instantanteous death was
of course the consequence. (The writer of this was on the
same seat this poor fellow fell from.) An inquest was held
the day following at Fleetwood, before R. Palmer, Esq.,
coroner, and a respectable jury, when a verdict
of " Acci-
dental death" was recorded, and at the same time the jury
wished to record that no neglect on the part of the engineer,
guard, or any other servant in the service of the railway
company, was to be attached.—,Lancaster Gazette.

FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.

TURKEY

Our accounts from Constantinople are to the 28th ult. in-
clusive. They state that the intelligence received from
Syria was of a nature so unfavourable for Mehemet Ali, that
the inclination of the Sultan and his ministers for an ar-
rangement with the Viceroy had suddenly become cool, in-
somuch that the resident agent of Mehemet Ali at Constan-
tinople had been-prohibited communicating with Sami Bey,
the private secretary of the Viceroy, who (as our readers al-
ready know) had arrived with a proposal for the restoration
of the Turkish fleet, and who was under quarantine. This
intimation having been communicated to Sarni Bey, he (on
the 28th of June) despatched one of his secretaries to Alex-
andria by a steamer, to announce it to his master.