The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1848-01-04 00:00:00

IN RE BARTON, IRLAM, AND HIGGINSON

The adjourned hearing for the second examination of
these bankrupts took place on Wednesday, before Mr.
Commissioner Sergeant Ludlow, at the District Court of
Bankruptcy. _ _

Mr. Myejrs, solicitor, of the firm of Messrs. Lace, Myers,
Rigge, and Roscoe, appeared to prove a debt of a bill for
£3OO, on the part of Messrs. Nelson and Adam.
Mr. Myers then made a similar application on the part
of Nelson and Adam for a bill of £lOOO, drawn on Hig-
ginson, Dean, and Stott, by Sir Samuel Gibb, and which
having become due on the 14th Dec. last, was then dis-
honoured by the bankrupts.

The right to claim was allowed in both cases.
The court then proceeded with the examination of Mr.
Dean, a partner in the- house, who resided for the most
part in Barbadoes. He was examined at considerable
length by Mr. Lowndes. At the close of the examina-
tion, the latter gentleman said that the assignees had
found his accounts in a most satisfactory state. It ap-
peared that Mr. Dean had been prevented from making
out his balance sheet in full, owing to some of the books
being away •, and a question arose, on which some dis-
cussion took place, whether he should pass his examina-
tion now, or whether it should be adjourned until his
return from Barbadoes.

It was arranged that tho further examination of Mr.
Vein ilficitird-bd /5o t-ported till—t-Tre inn or-amp, 11348
and the next examination of Mr. Iligginson should take
place on the 11th of January next, at twelve o'clock.
The court then rose.

IN RE DOYDELL AND WILLIAMS

Tuesday last being the day appointed for the adjourned
meeting under the fiat issued against Messrs. Boydell and
Williams, Mr. Dodge, solicitor to the fiat, stated to Mr.
Commissioner Sergeant Ludlow, that at the former hear-
ing of the bankrupts he had prayed an adjournment in
consequence of discovering that several leaves were miss-
ing from the bankrupts' ledger, a circumstance which at
the time gave cause for suspicion. He had since gone
carefully over their books, and in justice to the bankrupts
he was now bound to say that, haying investigated the
whole matter with respect to the missing leaves, his own
impression was, that everything relative to the books was
quite correct. It appeared that the bankrupts had em-
ployed a young man as clerk, who had not previously been
in the habit of keeping a ledger, and that he had torn out
some leaves in consequence of blunders committed by
himself. The learned Commissioner said it was very
proper for Mr. Dodge to state what he had stated, and it
was also very proper that the matter should have been
sifted as it had been, as without it there might have been
a kind of floating impression abroad that something was
wrong. Mr. Dodge said that his observations only applied
to the books so far as he had investigated them. Mr.
Sergeant Ludlow.—" Just so ; and as far as your investi-
gation goes, it is favourable to the bankrupts." Mr.
Dodge.—" Yes sir ; I have no further opposition to offer,
and I do not think the bankrupts have anything to fear
from any further opposition on the part of other creditors."

In the Secondaries' Court on Friday, a verdict for £2OO
was taken by consent in an action brought against the
South-Eastern Company, for injuries sustained on the
line by a Mrs. Mary Thiselton, which occasioned her
death. The accident occurred through a cart knocking
away some of the timbers of an arch which is being
formed over in Bermondsey. The coroner's jury returned
a verdict of accidental death. The Company pay all ex-
penses, even to the letters of administration.