The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1848-03-07 00:00:00

March 7, 1848.

LAW INTELLIGENCE.

DISTRICT COURT OF BANKRUPTCY.

BEFORE MR. COMMISSIONER PERRY.
IN RE HOWARD HORSELEY.—Mr. Evans, solicitor,
applied on behalf of the bankrupt, to obtain the rest?ra:
tion of papers and other documents which had been seizes
by Mr. Day, one of the messengers of the Court. bfr;
Fletcher, of the house of Irlam and Fletcher, represented
the assignees, Messrs. Blackburn and Co., under whose
authority and guarantee the seizure had been effected:
According to the statement of Mr. Evans, the bankrupt
had borrowed £l3O from a gentleman of the name 04
Jones, to enable him to go to America. £B5 had been
paid for the passage of himself, wife, and seven children,
and a further portion in making the necessary prepay'
tions. A search warrant had been issued, and under this
£2O found in the box of the bankrupt, a gold watch and
seals, a number of private papers, and recommendaterl
letters to persons abroad, had been seized by the messen'
ger, at the instance of the assignees, and a silver watch,
also belonging to one of the bankrupt's sons. By the
detention of his papers, which were elementary to hi
success abroad, his journey had been staid, and he was
now unable to proceed to his destination. Under these
circumstances Mr. Evans contended that any money
,
as property acquired, and was not within the meaning, ni
which the bankrupt might borrow could not be considerei
the act. The bankrupt was examined, and stated that
beyond the money mentioned, he had none other in 11
possession ; neither had his wife, with the exception of
Is. After some little conversation, Mr. Fletcher, on the
part of the assignees, consented that the 'money and
papers should be given over to the bankrupt, and the
inquiry terminated.

The Queen's Bench have decided that the News Room
at Birmingham is liable to local rates, because not coming
within the terms of exemption provided by a late Act for
Scientific and Literary Associations.
YORKSHIRE SPRING ASSIZES.—On Thursday next,
the commission for the Yorkshire Spring Assizes will be
opened before Mr. Baron Alderson and Mr. Baron Rolfe.
There are sixty-five prisoners for trial, be4des a considera-
ble number of persons who are out on bail.
At the Bankruptcy Court in this town, on Monday, the
case of Richard Baynes, flour-dealer, late of Mill-street,
was adjourned sine die, the bankrupt not having made the
disclosure of his estate and effects sufficiently satisfactory
to the commissioner.
In the Westminster County Court, on Wednesday, Mr.
David Wemyss Jobson, a literary gentleman, sued Mr•
James Luke Hansard to recover a suit of £8 Bs., for
terary services on a journal called the Spirit of the Time"
He had contributed various articles, but which were 11(4
inserted.

DANGER OF WEDDING WITH A WARD IN CHANCERY.
—At the Central Criminal Court, Thursday, Samuel
Brown, a man about fifty years of age, a butler, wee
found guilty of having given a false statement on the owe-,
sion of his marriage. It appeared that the lady lie nal
married (who is now only eighteen years of age) is a ware
in Chancery, being heiress to about £1 ,100 a-year.
SPRING ASSlZES.—Reading, Feb. 29.—Shipton v. the
Great Western Railway Company.—This was an action
to recover damages for very serious injuries sustained 131
the plaintiff, in a collision on the above railway, The"
defendants pleaded only not guilty. When the jury were
sworn, a compromise was effected, the defendants con-
senting to a verdict for £4OO.
IMPORTANT DECISION.—On Friday, in the Court of
Exchequer, an action was tried which was brought by the
widow of George Andrews, to recover compensation from
Messrs. Napier, the engineers, under Lord Campbell's
Act. Andrews, was a painter, and on the 3rd of August
last was painting the paddle-box of a steamer called the
North Star, opposite to the entrance to the London
Docks. when the Isle of Thanet steamer came up the
river. As the Isle of Thanet approached where the North
Star was moored, she slackened her speed to avoid th
schooner, and a reach to the south side. In doing this
she unfortunately struck with her bow the broadside of
the barge, and the barge being driven against the North
Star, Adrews was killed. He was a good workmen,
earning, about 355. a week. The Jury, returned a verdict
for the plaintiff, estimating her damages at £lOO, and
each of her children at £25 ; in the whole £175.
CURIOUS CASE OF BREACH OF PROMISE OF MAR"
RIAGE.—On Saturday, before Lord Denman, a case was
tried, in which Miss Knill, aged forty, sought to recovg
from the Rev. Mr. Lewis, aged eighty, an Independent
minister at Wootton-under-Edge, damages for a breech
of his promise to marry her. The uncle of the lady was
also an Independent minister at the same place, and the
plaintiff herself, who laid her damages at £l,OOO, is the
mistress of the National School at Wootton. The old
gentleman met her at her uncle's in the August of le
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When the old gentleman returned home he wrote love
letters to his lady love, and arrangements were cone'
menced for the nuptials. An ill-tempered daughter-in'
law stepped in, pronounced the whole proceedings foolish,-
rebuked both parties severely, and put an entire stop to
the correspondence. The jury found for the plaintie
damages.£so.