The Warrington Examiner. — 1869-04-24 (Warrington, Cheshire, England)

MONEY LENT.—CLIFF V. HILL.— This was an action brought by Jane Cliff to recover £5 158., money alleged to have been borrowed of her by the defendant, Francis Hill. Mr. Moore appeared for the plaintiff. He said that in March last year, the defendant borrowed the aforesaid sum off the plaintiff, and it was to have been paid back in the following September. They could not, however, get back the money, and they asked for an immediate order. The defendant, he believed, was a man who had a deal of money in railway shares, and it was somewhat surprising that he should object to paying back money which was honourably lent him.—The plaintiff said the defendant had borrowed £5 lo's. from her in March last year, and the conditions were that he should pay it back in September, but he had not done so up to the present time. His Honour: What is he —Plaintiff:l" He is a cabinet maker.—Mr. Moore: Yes; and lives in Riverstreet; he indulges in a harmonium, and his daughter in a sewing machine. (Laughter.)—His Honour: Is he on the wing ?—Mr. Moore: lam afraid he is often on the wing. He indulges in flights of fancy occasionally. (Laughter.)—His Honour gave an order for the SUM to be paid forthwith. BiNIERUPF.—Mr. Thomas Lowe appeared to pass his last examination. Mr. Bretherton appeared in his behalf.—Mr. White said'he had been instructed to oppose in this case, but he had given a careful consideration to the opposition, and was of opinion that, although there was ground on which the bankrupt might fairly be opposed, the reasons were not of sufficient strength to result favourably; therefore, he would only be wasting the time of the court by raising the objections.— His Honour granted the application for discharge.  At Inverness, on Tuesday, John. Smith, farmer, Dalmore, was convicted of sheepstealing, and sentenced to five years' penal servitude. A man named Twitchell, who was to have been hung in Philadelphia for the murder of his mother-in-law, committed suicide in his cell by taking arsenic. A large nugget of Australian gold found by two Cornish miners in the Donolly district, and which realised £9,600, has been shipped for this country in the Reigate. The Right Rev. Bishop Trower (late Bishop of Gibraltar), has accepted a commission from the Bishop of Exeter empowering him to undertake generally the episcopal duties of the diocese. A Doncaster pig jobber named Farrell has been sent by the Sheffield magistrates to prison for two months for offering for sale the carcase of a pig which was unfit for food. Messrs. Powrie and Keithley, of Perth, large fishery owners in Scotland, were fined 40s. and costs by the Manchester magistrates, on Tuesday, for the negligence of a servant who had sent to market fish unfit for human food.  A fatal accident occurred at Astlybridge, Bolton, on Monday evening. William Simpson, a joiner, was going along the road with a loaded gun, when by some mishap the shot went off and penetrated his left thigh, and he died in a few minutes.  One of the servants of the Cheshire Lines Company at the Woodley Station, is in custody at Stockport, charged with stealing (along with a clerk now at large) four railway tickets, and re-issuing the same. James Shaw, who killed his paramour, a woman named M'Aulay, in Glasgow, last December, by stabbing her, was tried in that city on Tuesday, and sentenced to 20 years' penal servitude. On Monday Mr. Hackney, a china dealer, residing in Pride-hill, Shrewsbury, cut his throat, and afterwards held his head in a boiler full of water. He was discovered before life was extinct, and it is believed that he will recover. The Wesley in body in Dudley have. long desired to have a chapel at Dixon's-green n addition to the one in King-street. At a meeting on ?Monday night the members of the congregation subscribed £l,lll towards the fund. A fireman on board a steamer plying between Hull and Hamburg has been sent to prison for six months— in default of paying a fine of