The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1843-05-02 00:00:00

LAW INTEL LIGENCI

QUEEN'S BENCH, MONDAY, 24TH APRIL.
. FARRAR V. DEFLISNE.—This was an action of very great
importance, tried at the late Liverpool assizes, before Ai
Justice Coltman, in which the plaintiff sought to recover thr.
sum of £l,lOO and upwards from therdefendant, whom lie.
alleged to be a partner M the house of Thomas Todd, whict
became bankrupt in the month of June, last year.
diet passed for the plaintiff for the amount claimed.
vet::
Mr. Dundas now moved for a rule to show cause why a
new trial should not be bad on the grounds, Ist, that part
of the evidence taken on the trial
was inadmissible ; 9ndly,
that the balance of evidence was in favour of the defenddg.'
ant -
and, 3dly, on account of misdirection by
the learned judge,
oughta4
He briefly enumerated the leading facts of the case,
pointed out the instances ins whic hee excepted to the admis-
sibility of the evidence; i, we the witnesses had di_
vulged the existence of the partnership between the defen
dant and Todd, not by any authority of the uefendant, but
merely on their own surmises; and contended that it
not to- have been admitted, inasmuch as there was no autlio-
h e
Lwoarsd
rity by the defendant to those witnesses, either express or
implied, to divulge the existence of such partnership. hie
was proceeding to explain the precise nature of the evidence,
in order to ground his application on the second point, whel:
a rule,
sptoeplipmetalrliiy: takelthoeueocaunrt.

Mr. Dundas

case.
On Thursday week the first stone of the new courts ef la
in Lincoln's Inn, was laid by Vice.Chaucellor Knight Bruce
assisted by Lord Lyndhurst. ,
The probate of the will of the Earl of Abergavenny has
just passed the seal of the Prerogative Court of Canterbury
The personal estate of the testator was sworn under X250,006'
and paid probate stamp duty of £3OOO. ,
The estate of Bronte, oranted to Lord Nelson by the King
of Naples, is now a subject of litigation in the Court of
Chancery. The case involves Questions in civil, Sicilian, and
municipal law, such as never occurred in any previous
The estate includes a part of Mount Etna.
REFUSAL OF A CERTIFICATE.—One day last week, the
Court of Bankruptcy in London refused to grant a certificate
of conformity to a bankrupt tailor in Piccadilly named
webb;
on the ground of extravagance in business, reckless payment
of discounts, and not having had assets sufficient in the
course of insolvency and two bankruptcies to pay a shill. '
in the pound to his creditors. mg
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RAILItriIY INTELLIGENCI

to be
pany to
."Ci:lse'syle and
The directors of the Brighton Railway have determined to
rpuenr
performed
mtrained iticim
about London,ooe stopping amid" g oitilell once,niyritnyg m
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Royal
The Royal assent has been given to theeNdlntemscdhaeys.teprieneekrdosla(i)
ton, and Sheffield Railway Bill, authorising that coin
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works are
to be fixed for to-morrow, on which occasion his
l;
held
Highness the Duke of Nemours is to be present.
special meet-
wilt be opened to the public on Thursday.
The Bristol and Exeter Railway is to be furmthier o
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consideration
Exeter terminuS. We bear that the inter
Monday next, namely, to Brcambridge,
being prosecuted with much spirit.
Bnisroe AND GLOUCESTER RAILWAY.--A
ing of the proprietors of this company was
day, at Bristol, for the purpose of takin, i
the terms of an arrangement proposed to 'lt°
Great Western Railway Company, for co be made with the
the Cheltenham and Great Western Railwayutinning the line of
tion with the Bristol and Gloucester railway from its junc-
tion
for the use of the locomotives, to Gloucester,
Great Western Railway Company. A stations, &c., of the
out this arrangement was carried by a lam
m°6"
YARMOUTH AND NORWICH RAILWAY
and Norwich Railway may be said to -The Yarmouth
Thursday, when a party of workmen have commenced on
proceeded to Postwick, there they
connected with the line
ground markedby throwing a took possession of the
tween the marshes, and a field • own part of a hedge be-
Cyrus Gillett, jun., the pro pert mn the occupation of Mr.
We believe, also, the line wasy of
the Earl of Reseberry.
menced at Reedham, on laud "rnewhat similarly cons-
/pszeich Express. belonging to Mr. Cockerill.—
I eosn from
\‘e the
es-all
RAILWAY TRAFFIC.—The following
last weekly returns of 44 calculation of the
will be of iliterest railways,:—Number 1,560 miles in length,
227,142, consequently the total of
passengers on 28 railways
500,000. The receipts for for the week must be about
£68,832 17s. 3d ; ditto for passengers on .44 railways,
10s. lid ; total £91,359 sgsoods on 39 railways, £22,526
£5B 10s. per mile per week. . 2d. This is an average of
The traffic, therefore, is cer-
d
tainly at the rate of about four millions and a ;villa year, an
carrying twenty millions of passengers. South Eastern Rail
way.—The traffic line
on this has increased, inconsequence of
the extension, to £2 0-3 •
, J this week. Eastern Counties Rail-
way.—The traffic on this line already gives some promise. It
amounts to £2,300 for the present week. Brighton Receipts.
—We observe that the Brighton traffic is £1,200 more the
last week than the corresponding one of the preceding year.
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BANK OF ENGLAND

(From Friday's Gazette.)
An Account showing the Quarterly Average of the Weekly
Liabilities and ASSCtS of the Bank of England, from the 2St It
of January to the 22d of the
Bank both inclusive, published
pursuant to the Act 3 and 4 William IV., cap. 9S.
LIADLITIES. ASSETS•
Circulation .• • . £20,239,000 I Securities •• .. £23,587,000
Deposits ...... 11,63.1,000 g Bullion ..... 11,190,000

£31,873,000, I
Doming-street, April 28, 1843

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Coin WATER.—The Germs° papers
person of a young woman 23 years of age, who for eleven
an extraordinary extension
years has subsisteil entirely on cold spring water:
mittee of physicians have been form. ed to investigate the case
sect, hay-
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LEGAL A iinucriWe have just learned that Mr. Pim
of Alountmellick, has forcibly carried away his own
wife,
o'clock
its. 11cht igri rsesbed.
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awl). etl,ishinnobittr;o,oleuriogaefi:tonit
in the carriage, much against lier will, and the was
place('
off amidst the cheers of the spectators.—Dubli e vehicle drove
Eveniny
of
lfitseottliolleef
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water
system,in the