The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1833-12-20 00:00:00

INSOLVENT DEBTORS' COURT, DE.c. 17.

' Henry Harrison was opposef by Messrs. Nicholls and Wood-
rale, fur Mr. Briudell and Mr. Hall; he was supported by Mr.
Cooke. _ _ .

The insolvent had been three times a bankrupt; his debts
under each of the commissions had been toe very large amount; .
ou the second bankruptcy to the extent of £30,000. He had
obtained his certificate under each of the commissions. His
present debts amounted to £3,400, and had been contracted be-
tween
May, 1832, and October, 1833; since his last bankruptcy,
which-was in May, 1832, he had warehouses both in Manches-
ter and Liverpool, and for the last three years had resided at
Liverpoel, and traded as a commission-agent and merchant.
The arrest had taken place in Fleet-street, and it was contended
that it had been a friendly arrest. The learned counsel also
urged a remand on the part of Mr. Hall, on the ground that the
debt due to that person, amounting to £3JO for goods, had been
contracted in a fraudulent manner. There was little or nothing
left for the creditors.
The Court said two points have been urged,—the first a col-
lusive arrest, and secondly, the manner in which the debt due
to Hall was contracted. This is a case under which the Court
will remand under the 39th section, and under that section the
insolvent shall not be entitled to his discharge until he shall
have been in custody twelve mouths for fraudulently contract-
ing the debt due to Mr. Hall.
The Rev. Edward Martin, who formerly kept a school at
Durham-house, Chelsea, was opposed by Mr. Cooke, for Mr.
Sambrooke, a coal-merchant, by a Mr. Strange, a baker, in
person, and by Miss Charlotte Zouch in person.
The demand of Mr. Sambrooke was for coals supplied to
Durham-house, to the amount of £5 12s. For these coals, no
payment having been received, an action was brought and a
verdict recovered. The verdict proved an unprofitable one,
and the plaintiff was put to the expense of £2B costs. The
ground of opposition was a vexatious defence.
The demand of Strangc was £22 for bread. Mr. Strange
swore that the insolvent had represented to him-that he had an
income of £6OO a-year in right of his wife, throu"h, the hands
of Loid,Lonsdale, apd upon that representation he had given
. the cridit. This assertion the insolvent affroled he bad never
made to his &editor.
The opposition of Miss Charlotte Zouch was grounded upon
a claim of that lady under the will of Mr. Zouch, to which she
had administered, and also upon a claim for £360, under the
will of her sister Frances. It appeared that the insolvent had
married a-sister of Miss Charlotte Zouch; that Miss Charlotte
Zouch, Miss Frances Zouch, and the wife of the insolvent had
each £720; that Miss Frances Zouch had by will left her £720
to the. wife of the insolvent and to a younger sister, and that the
£350 bequeathed to that younger sister had been expended in
her (the youngest sister's) support by the wife of the insolvent,
who had been appointed by the will to bring her up.
It was decided by the court that the opposition of Miss Char-
lotte Zouch could not be supported. She had no right to claim
the £350 bequeathed to her younger sister, nor was she in a si-
tuation to oppose at all, intimater' as she had herself taken the
benefit of the act, and an assignee of her estate had been ap-
poioted.
The insolvent had, unfortunately, in order to raise money, put
his name to four bills for £lOO each, which bills had got into the
hands of John Minter Hart. Ile had been obliged to take up
two 'of these bills, but had never received a farthing for any part
of them. He affirmed that Lord Lonsdale had kindly under-
taken on one occasion to assist him to the amount of £5OO or
£6OO, but that he had never made the representation as to his
income which had been stated by Strange. If it had not been
for the bills in the hands of Minter Hart. and other bills of a si-
milar character, his real creditors would have been paid, and he
should not have been obliged to apply to this court. There was
nothing for the creditors.
The court observed—This insolvent will be remanded upon
the opposition of Mr. Sambrooke. We will not remand on the
ground of a fraudulent representation being made to Mr. Strange,
as it is probable that creditor might have misunderstood what
the insolvent said to him with regard to his income. The judg-
ment is, that he shall not be entitled to the benefit of the act
until he shall have been in prison three calendar mouths, fur
making a vexatious defence to the action.

LONDON POLICE REPORT.

MANSION lIOUSE.

A poor young Irishwoman, whose husband is confined in the
hospital on account of a broken leg, complained on Monday that
the, officers of the parish of Aldgate refused to.give her relief in
her destitute condition.

Kiunersley, the beadle of the parish, said to the Lord Mayor
in a compassionate tone, "My lord, I am willing to pass this
poor woman and her child home to Ireland."
The Lord Mayor:—What! separate her from her husband?
Kinnersley.—Oh ! my lord, her husband is in the hospital:
The Lord Mayor.—Aud so you would console the unfortu-
nate man in the hospital by sending his wife and child away
from him! What rapid marches. some of us make in humanit; !
(A laugh.)
The Irishwoman.—l don't wish to go to Ireland, my lord; I
know nobody there. I wish to stay with my husband.
The Lord Mayor.—To be sure you do, and you shall stay
with him. I never heard of a more cruel proposition than that
of separating these poor people under such circumstances.
Kinnersley said he had apainful duty to perform, but he was
expected to go through with it. Nobody but a parish officer
hail any idea of the gross impositions practised.
The Lord Mayor said he was quite aware of the ruinous im-
positions carried into effect; but it could not, suroly, be expected
that a poor man, with a broken leg, could support his faMily
without the assistance of the parish. His lordship then peremp-
torily ordered that the woman and her child should he relieved
until ,the husband recovered so far as to be able to resume his
labours.

The Lord Mayor, it is but justice to say, never fails to inves-
tigate scrupulously the cases of pauperism which are so .fre-
quently brought forward in the justice-room, having observed
that many of the parish officers are so narrow-minded and so
hard-hearted as to draw inferences from a few testimonies of
imposture to the prejudice of every wretched person who pre-
sents himself for a morsel of bread.

Two sailors' wives, named Pomeroy and Biass, complained
to the Lord Mayor that the iigeuts to the owner of a ship in
which their husbands were able-bodied sailors, had refused to
pay them the monthly notes given to them at parting. The
young women said that their husbands went away from them
fully impressed that not the most distant objection would be
made to the payment of the notes. Upon applying, however,
a plump refusal was given, and they were advised then to repre-
sent the circumstances to the chief magistrate.
The Lord Mayor asked when the husbands of the complain-
ants were expected home ?
The young women said the ship had gone to New York, and
was to go on a trading voyage, which would, prolaibly, detain
them two or three years.
The Lord Mayor having sent to the agents, a gentleman
from their office attended, and his lordship requested to know
why the wives of the seamen were treated as had been described?
The agent said that Mr. Hawkins, of Hull, who was the
owner of the ship, had instructed his agents in London not to
pay the monthly notes. They were, therefore, obliged to refuse
the young women ; because if, after having received such an
order, they honoured their notes, they never would be reim-
bursed by th 3 owner.
The Lord Mayor.—This is most cruel treatment. Able young
men are induced by you to go upon a long voyage under the
conviction that their wives will have support in their absence,
and the moment they get to sea you deny to their poor wives
what they had every right to expect.
The agent said that the house he represented had not engaged
the then. It certainly appeared from the ship's list, which he
had in his hand, that the men were of the crew, but the owner
had issued directions which it was compulsory upon the agents
to observe. _

The Lord Mayor (to the women.)—Are you now in distress?
The Sailors' Wives.—No, my lord,'we have a little money
remaining.
The Lord Mayor.--Because, if you were in necessity, the
parish in which you reside would relieve you, and take care to
call upon Mr. Hawkins to reimburse them.
The agent said that he would at once write to the owner upon
the subject.
The Lord Mayor.—Very well; let me know the result. I
repeat that it is a most cruel thing to mislead poor seamen by
pretending a readiness to supply their wives, who, the moment
after separation, are left to shift for themselves, in such a place
as London.