The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1845-07-29 00:00:00

LAW INTELLIGENCE

A question of some importance has arisen in bank-
ruptcy—viz., the issuing of a fiat against a public com-
pany. The Forth Marine Company is the case we allude
to. The precedence set of making a public company
bankrupt, will bring on others, which will be one of the
ready means of exposing some of the bubbles of the day.
MISS CRELLIN AGAIN.—In the Vice-Chancellor's
court on Monday, Mr. Romilly moved than Ann M`Gill,
of Liverpool, (otherwise Crellin) and John Orr M•Gill,
might be restrained by injunction from proceeding in an
action of ejectment to obtain possession of premises,
whereof the plaintiffs, Lyon and Jones, were mortgagees,
His Honour was of opinion that it was a case in which the
court could not interfere.
In the Vice-Chancellor's Court, Mr. Rogers, on behalf
of Mr. Charles Mathews, moved the court to restrain Mr.
Webster, of the Haymarket Theatre from performing
the well-known farce of " Used Up."
Mr. Mathews
claimed the farce as his own under the new Copyright
Act, having translated it from the French, and re-written
portions of it. He has lett the Haymarket, but Mr.
Webster still continued to perform it. The Vice. Cha-
ncellor suggested that the matter should stand over for a
day, to enable the other party to appear, and this was at
length agreed to.

CASE OF Cant. CON.- ROBERTS v. lIERBmAN.—A
most painful case of this description was tried on Tuesday
last at the assizes for the county of Tyrone, (Ireland,)
and excited much curiosity, not only from the circum-
stances attending it, and the position of the parties, but,
as well, from the fact of its being the first action for crim.
con. tried in the county for upwards of 30 years. The
plaintiff in the case is a Mr. Percival Benjamin Roberts,
first master of the Alfred frigate, in which he is at present
on the South American station, and the defendant is a
mercantile man, a member of the firm of Mulholland and
Co., of Belfast, and resident managing partner of Sion
Mill, near Strabane. The lady was a Miss Pettite of
Malta, who was married to the plaintiff whilst he was
with his ship at that island. Itappearect in evidence that
on the plaintiff, Mr. Roberts, leaving England with his
ship he offered his young wife the option of remaining
with his own brother, a bachelor of mature age, or of
visiting Ireland aWI residing with the wife of a Doctor
Moody, the surgeon of his own ship. She chose the
the latter; and it was whilst residing with Mrs. Moody.
whose cottage was in the immediate neighbourhood of
Sion Mill, that she became acquainted with the defendant,
and visited with his wife and family. During this time
the seduction of Mrs. Roberts appears to have taken place,
the case being aggravated as against the defendant by his
great pretensions to piety. Ultimately an exposure of
the connexion between them took place; and Mrs. Ro-
berts was delivered of a child since dead. The defendant
when first charged with the offence fully admitted his
guilt. The damages were laid at £5,000; and the jury
returned a verdict for £l,OOO, which appears to have been
more lenient than it would otherwise have been, owing to
considerations of the injury which might result to the
wife and children of the defendant from the infliction of
heavy damages.

SPO RTING INTELLIGENCE.

NEWTON RACES

WEDNESDAY,—The Trial Stakes were won by Mr.
Aleiklam's Midlothian, beating Sir J. Gerard's Juvenal.
The Lyme Park Produce Stakes were won in a walk over
by Mr. Price's Lena. The Gold Cup, value 100 sovs.,
w,th 100 sovs. added, was won by Mr. Bell's Winesour
by half a length, beating seven others; Mr. Meiklam's
Lightning came in second. The Drawing-room Stakes
of 20 sovs. each were won by Mr. Heseltine's Slayer's
Daughter. A Plate of .f:7O was won by Mr. Whitworth's
Lady Sarah.
THURSDAY.—The St. Leger Stakes of 20 soya, each,
with 30 sovs. added, were won by Mr. Bennett's Hope.
The Golborne Stakes of 20 sovs. each, with 50 sovs.
added, for two-year-olds, were "on by Mr. T. Worthing-
ton's c. by Stockport. The Garswood Hunt Stakes of
10 sovs. each, with 50 soya. added, were won in a walk
over by Sir John Gerard's Jessie. The Borough Cup,
of 100 sovs. in specie, added to a handcap sweepstakes
of 20 sovs. each, was won by Mr. Johnstone's Rowena,
Sir J. Gerard's Brunel being second, A Sweepstakes of
20 sovs. each, with 20 added, was won in a walk over by
Sir John Gerard's Pluto. A Plate of 70 buys. was won
by Mr. Dawson's My Pet.
FRIDAY.—The St. Helen's Purse of 50 sovs., added to
a sweepstakes of 15 sovs. each, was won by Air. Hill's
Sweetmeat. Sir John Gerard's Cup, f 100 soya. value,
added to a sweepstakes of 15 soya. each, was won by Mr.
Collett's Corranna. The Scurry Stakes of 5 sous. each,
with 20 sovs. added by Sir John Gerard, was won by Mr.
Jones's Persian Lady. The Newton Stakes, of 5 soya.
each, with 30 added, was won by Mr. Buckley's David.
A Plate of 70 soya. was won by Mr. Wilkin's br. f. by
Physician, out of Venus.

BETTING AT NEWTON.—FRroAy.
- GOODWOOD STARES.
9 to 1 agst Boarding School Miss (taken to £200.)
10 1 Pvtbia.(taken)
15 1 -- .lEgis (taken)
25 1 .Warp (taken)
25 1 John o'Gaunt. (taken.)
ST. LEGER.
10 1 Mentor (taken to £50.)
At Newton, on Friday, lronmaster was declared not to
start for the Goodwood Cup.

TATTE RSA LL'S, THURSDAY.
Of the many horses returned on Monday as having been
most prominently in favour, Boarding. School Miss, Py-
thia, and lEgis,' alone were backe • earnest. Of
trio of fillies, the first-mentioned y far the most nu-
this
merous party ; and, as will be
red from the sub-
joined quotations, with a most important iNfluence on her
position. Lotharia was also in demand, indeed was the
only horse in the Goodwood lot that was at all fancied.
Rowena, Wee Pet, and Europa, were not named: and
Queen Mab and Venus were only mentioned at nominal
prices. The latest quotations were as follows :
GOODWOOD STARES.
9 to 1 agst Lord Stradbroke's Boarding • School Miss (t)
10 1 Mr. W. H. Johnstone's Pythia.
12 1 Mr. A W. Hill's The Lbel.
16 1 Mr. Etwall's YEgia (taken)
16 1 Sir J. Hawley's Venus.
17 1 Mr. Meiklam's Lightning.
17 1 Mr. Payne's Queen Mab.
20 1 Mr. Ramsbiittum's Pineapple.
20 1 Duke of Riehrnood's
23 1 Lord G. Bentinck's Mi,s Elis.
25 1 Lord Howth's Warp (taken).
25 1 Mr. Treen's Una.
30 1 Lord G. Bentinck's John o'Gaunt.
30 1 Lord Eglititoun's Britannia.
33 1 Mr. Collins's R ,eliesrer.
GOWOOD
3 to 1 agstJohn Day's D
lot. VDU.
11 2 Mr. Vane's Valerian.
10 1 Mr. Gully's St. Lawrence.
12 1 -- Mr. A. W. Hill's Iroomaster (taken).
14 1 Lord thepteifield's Gamecock (taken).
15 1 Lord G. Bentinck's Miss Elis.
20 1 Mr. Salvia's Alice Hawthorne.
Gratviicke's Stomacher.
Very little"done; St. Lawrence only backed in earnest.