The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1846-03-31 00:00:00

ExPourioNs.—On Saturday week, John Buchanan,
aged 21, and Bernard 111.Goey, aged 24, were executed in
front of Longford gaol,

.he murd

at Gowlan, en the lst of November last, of which crime
they were convicted, on the clearest evidence, at the hst
assizes. According to the new form of passive resistance
to the law, they, of course, both protested their inno-
But the priests are wort
Iv to lot

ng this artifice so sys-
all its effect. The Dub-

lin Evening Mail, in recording the event, says—" Two
more martyrs to the Celtic free-trade in human blood
have achieved their crowns—i. e. justly expiated their

crime on the drop at Longford

assizes

They were found guilty

!lot county town, o

was carried into execution. They both died. as they said,
• innocent—innocent as the child unborn ;' and believing,
as we do, that they rushed into the presence of God with
a lie in their right hand, we cannot but record their un-

t I-happy fate with a shudder."

UNIVERSITY 4 CLERICAL NEWS,

It is now said, that the King of Prussia has offered the
Bishoprick of Jerusalem to the Rev. S. Gobat, who had

previously been nominated to the Vice Principal's chair,
in the College at Malta.
The Archnihop of Dublin (Dr. Whate

ley), who 1

already published his views in opposition to the proposed
Evangelical Alliance, has threatened to withdraw hi 6

debate in the House of

shower" supposed to be falling very plentifully about
that period. He had dealt very extensively on the Stock
Exchange, his transactions over about eight months
amounting to nearly £BOO,OOO, and his gross loss during
that period was nearly £9,000. The bankrupt, during
the interval of giving up the business of a tailor at Leeds,
and taking to the calling of a share-broker, had, it ap-
peared, engaged in the guano trade ; but of the particu-
lars of this latter branch of operations nothing could be
traced in the balance-she, t. The prospect of a dividend
was miserable indeed. In addition to the argument
urged against the bankrupt for misapplying funds en-
trusted to his care, it was also contended, that his share
speculations were gaming transactions within the mean-
ing of the act, and that therefore the court was not em-
powered to grant the certificate.
Alter a short examination of the bankrupt, adducing
the leading facts submitted by his opponents, it was con-
tended that throughout these transactions no fraud was
manifest. The panic which bad caused much disaster,
had ruined many besides thetbankrupt, who bad entered
into the business without the least disposition to arj
otherwise than an honest man. If fraud had been the

I bankrupt's object in entering this busintss he would have
mred to have derived personal benefit from it, but
case, for even his personal expenses only

I this was not the c

onths of his

trading. Tak►ng a lenient view of the case, and ►egarding
the bankruptcy as one arising from the misfortunes of bu-
siness, it was prayed that the court would grant the cer-

tificate.
Mr. Commissioner Shepherd.—l do not know that
1 am bound to refuse the certificate altogether in conse-
quence of the speculation in shares, but I do consider this
to be a most flagrant case. A worse case Ido not think

ever came before me. Here is a man who comes trom
Leeds, and was formerly a tailor, starting as a share-

broker and speculating in the most reckless mariner to
the extent of hundreds of thousands in the course of a
few months. His balance sheet shows a deficiency of up-
wards of £lo,ooi. This is most certainly gambling—
whether op-rating for a rise or fall in shares, and no bet-
ter than if he went into a " hell " and gambled to his ut-

shall not be doing justice to his creditors and the public,
unless I adjoiurn his certificate for a long period—a period
of two years.

LAW INTELLIGENCE

BREACH OF PROMISE.—At the Exeter Assizes, Mrs
Ellice, a widow lady, obtained a verdict of £5OO damages

against Mr. Fen Wit::
At Exeter assizes

, for breach of promise of marriage
before Baron Rolfe, Mr. Lane rec

Tiered £3OO damages from Mr. Foale, for having
to him the commission of an abominable crime
judge said the case called for liberal damages.

imputed
The

THERE LL

Our readers may remember

hat anew trial was granted in t

s case to try the gt

double crime of incest and adultery. It was to have been
tried at the Kingstone Assizes, but the plaintiff has de-
clined to proceed, although paid his costs pursuant to the

.ule of court

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