The Birkenhead News and Wirral General Advertiser. — 1888-01-25 (Birkenhead, Merseyside, England)

OOO. Thiele; what I had to pay him. At that time two parties owed sue money, one for services rendered, and one for cash lent-1600. I therefore paid my debtor cash £250, and the aforesaid debtors to me guaranteed to my creditor what they owed to me. Thus, in effect, I paid my score and was happy. Unfortunately, both my guarantors failed, so down comes the defendant again on me, and I lose both my loan of £6OO to my friend and my law costs as well I This is tolerably bard lines, especially when my opponents had previously offered to compromise the case—give me something and pay my costs iuto the bargain. Even when I lost, the now dead Guilleaurne told me at Cologne (where I have friends) that he never expected to win. At all events, he might have been content with the £4OO I have paid him, certainly when be went to a laud where no further cash would avail him. But no! A man of immense fortune, still he mast proceed to the bitter end, and, to do him justice, he was perfectly within his rights and entitled to harass me as much as he pleased. I strongly suspect that my poor average for N.B.C.C. last year was due to the mental strain imposed on me by the deceased commercial knight of the Fatherland! I don't complain. Only let us have the facts. The rigmarole about businei.i (which, till you correct it, is passing for fe..,-) is derived from a perfectly legitimate son ae also. The Government officials appear to be empowered to poke into one's affairs for 6 years back—so in they go. Of this I don't complain. The only thing which troubles me is that anybody should think I owe practically anything for goods sold and delivered. Thank God, sir, I have purchased upwards of £SO),C )0 worth of raw materials, and no man can say I have not paid him 20s. in the pound for them, ditto for rents, rates, wages (I have paid £so,Cal under this head), or taxes. Therefore, sir, draw this 1 line for me between trade matters and misfortunes at law. And please allow me space to thank scores of friends in this parish for their kind wishes and numberless acts of singular courtesy towards me at this present jolly season, for I suppose I am now duly purging my offence according to lav On the whole, why should I not recovel, sir ? I am reminded of Charles Reade's words—" You, thinking of suicide bccan3o trade is declining, speculation failing, bankruptcy impending—don't do it. Whether you are English, American, French, or German, listen to a man that knows what is what—and don't do it. I tell you none of these horrors, when they really come, will affect you as you fancy they will. The joys we expect are not a quarter so bright, nor the troubles half so dark as we think they will be. Bankruptcy coming is one thing, come is quite another; and no heart or life was ever really blighted at twenty years of age." As lam not much over that age I propose to keep up my courage, and try, try, try again. The High Court of Appeal I shall studiously avoid, also lawyers, barristers, Q.C.'s, commissioners for oaths, shorthand writers, ushers, right reverends and wrong reverends, High Chancellors, Lard Chancellors, and the like. Law doesn't cola T rannrnmer.l if of vameflr CL. Wni lasey Local Board. They seem to win. It is very nice when you win.—Yonrs, arc., T. E. EDW• Wallasey, 18th January, 1888.  T. E. ED.WAIID