The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1842-08-19 00:00:00

INSOLVENT COURT, CHESTER-AUG. 2.

(Before Mr. Commissioner BowEN.)
Augustin Applin, of Manchester, publican. was opposed
by Mr. Thomas Bake, of Manchester, brewer, Mr. Joseph
Stancliffe, of Mirfield, mister, and Messrs. Procter and Co.,
kept a spirit vault at Ancoats, Manchester ; that on the 3d
"lay. 1841. he disposed of his house, furniture, stock, &c.,
to a Mr. Knott, a servant in the employ of Messrs. Mellor,
Spirit merchants, Liverpool, for £720 12s. 30d. out of which
Ht 7 paid the Messrs. Mellor £196, to his son-in.law Joshua
he had Lane, of Manchester, bootmaker, £235, which he said
bill ;a borrowed from him ; and also £27 10s. for a shoe
he also 12s. alleged to have paid away the whole of the £720
others of Without paying the opposing creditors, and several
of the sarsels bona fide creditors, a shilling. But on the 16th
letter (beingmtznth of May, the opposing creditors received a
posed of his e first intimation that the insolvent had dis-
shillings in helo°PertY) from the accountant, offering two
gaol in June last,ryd' It appeared the insolvent was sent to
for £l5O 10s. said to Mr. Towndron, an attorney's clerk,
previously. The avebeen borrowed two or three months
of Chester. arrest took placo at Bowen, in the county
The learned Commissioner stopped the case, saying it was
a very gross one ; that the
payments were clearly preferences,
and that the hearing must
produce
eaijourned till the next court,
and that the insolvent must the Messrs. Mellor, Mr.
Knott, Mr. Joshua Hyde Lane, and Mr. Towndron, the de-
taining creditor.
A detainer was lodged against the insolvent, at the suit of
Mr. Bake.
credi
Cotors,uncil
Mr. Leigh for the insolvent
Trafford, Venable ;_
ester, and Mr. for the opposing
, of
auch
Josiah Dearden, their attorney.
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COMMISSION COURT,
_ DUBLIN.—On Saturday a
(lay last, at this court, Mrs. Ellen llnaeanyßbyernreemweams
binedecdtentddhfalotirottnhhe:
murder of her husband.
of a coroner's inquest, which lasted the
wa
i patienttn
esses
affair was the subject
unprecedented periodect of sixteen days, and which ended in a
verdict sufficient to warrant her committal.guty.
sAofmteer
investigation, the jury found her no
who were medical gentlemen stated, th
circumstances
that the death of
than
Mr.
Byrne might have been caused by other
external violence. DROWNING,
NAAROW ESCAPE OF FIVE MEN FROM Fridat yo
AND GREAT Loss OF SllEEP.—During the n
the sth iust., a smack laden with 121 sheep
I 11,
Mr. Fletcher, farmer, Laggan-Ulva, lk o i belonginght of
off Craigneish,
on approaching
Crinan, struck on a rock, close to an island,_
and instantly sunk. The crew consisted of three herd,e men
accompanied by the owner of the sheep, and the shp h swamped
Two of the crew took to the small boat, which
W swim.
ore half way ashore, when they were compelled to _
The o-her man and Mr. Fletcher miraculously escaped,
partly by swimming and the surge of the waves, whilst the
shepherd with difficulty clung to the rock all night, and was
picked up early next morning. Only fffty-three live sheep
were found ou the island next morning, and forty-three of
those drowned were got into a small creek nine miies distant
from where the accident happened. Two fishermen, who
were passing on Saturday morning, took them from off the
unidhabited. island, where they were kindly treated, and
conveyed the available wrecked cargo to its destination.
The craft was on her way from the island of Mull to Crinan.
where the sheep were intended to be landed, and then ship-
ped on board one of the Castle Company's steamers, at Ar-
drishaig Point, and brought to eiasgow market. .