The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1844-02-06 00:00:00

LAW INTELLIGENCE.

In the Bail Court, on Saturday, Mr. Atherton moved
that an attorney might, at his own request, be struck off
the roll, in order that he might be more entirely at liberty
to pursue " philanthropic occupations." The application
was granted.

On Saturday Mr. Forbes M`Neil was sentenced by the
Court of Queen's Bench to three months' imprisonment,
for an assault on Mr. John Abel Smith, in Belgrave-
square. Mr. Justice Patteson, as senior Puisne judge,
pronounced judgment.

In the Court of Queen's Bench, on Monday last, T. L.
Holt and G. F. Brander, two of the proprietors of the Age
newspaper, were sentenced, the former to twelve, the
latter to three months' imprisonment, for a series of
atrocious libels on the ex-Duke of Brunswick.
PAGET v. CARDIGAN.—In the Court of Common Pleas
the rule nisi, in the case of Lord William Paget v. the
Earl of Cardigan, for entering up judgment as in the case
of a nonsuit, was discharged on Wednesday, on the terms
of a peremptory undertaking to proceed to trial. The
witness Winter still keeps out of the way.

In the Court of Bankruptcy, onFriday, assignees in the
case of William Bromley, solicitor, of Gray's Inn-square,
were appointed. Not less than £47,274 were proved.
Dr. Lushington and Archdeacon Brymer proving for
£20,340, and Mr. Blair, of Bath, for X 26,833 14s. which
amounts were for trust moneys placed in the hands of the
bankrupt for investment on mortgage or otherwise.
STATISTICS OF INSOLVENT DEBTORS.—It appears
that under the new insolvent debtors' act of last session,
that from the Ist January, 1843, to the 3lst December
last, no fewer than 2325 persons petitioned the Court of
Bankruptcy. The following is a list of the several districts :
Bristol, 165 ; Birmingham, 246 ; Exeter, 60 ; Leeds, 425 ;
Liverpool, 172 ; Manchester, 262 ; Newcastle, 31 ; Lon-
don, 962. It has been ascertained that in the business of
the Insolvent Debtors' Court the total deficiency in 1842
and 1813 was 892 cases.
HOT BLAST CASE.—The proceedings in this long-liti-
gated case have been finally settled by compromise—the
Messrs. Baird, the last of the parties with whom an ar-
rangement had to be made with the patentees, having
agreed to pay £lOO,OOO for the use of the patent, and a
farther sum of £6,000 in name of expenses. We learn
that had the original demand of the patentees, viz., ls.
per ton, been acceded to, and had no attempt been made
to break the patent, the whole amount to be paid would
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Compromised for ss. a ton.—Glasgoze paper.

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BANKRUPTCY AND INSOLVENCY.—It is rumoured in
the profession that a measure will be speedily introduced
into Parliament for the purpose of giving the insolvency
business to the Insolvent Debtor's Court, by the removal
of that branch of the law from the Court of Bankruptcy,
where it has been exercised under the New Insolvent
Debtors' Act of last session. A great number of indi-
viduals have availed themselves of the new provision, and
it is feared that the principle of the new law, which was
conceived in the spirit of humanity, has been abused.
Upwards of 2,000 people, principally in the country, have
petitioned the Court of Bankruptcy, but it is calculated
that not more than 600 of the parties would have ap-
plied to the Insolvent Debtors' Court. It is admitted
that the Court of Bankruptcy has no machinery to work
the measure, and the Learned Commissioners have re-
peatedly declared in Public their anxiety to get rid of the
duties imposed. on them. The rumour in the profession
is, that a bill is in a state of preparation to remove theoperation of the new law to the Insolvent Debtors'
Court. There are provisions in the two acts which could
be amalgamated, and out of their ashes a measure framed
having regard to the ri,,hts of creditors as well as to the
consideration of debtors. The principal question seems.
however, to be whether the Court of Bankruptcy or the
Insolvent Debtors' Court shall have the exclusive juris-
diction in the matters mentioned.—Standard.

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