Swansea and Glamorgan Herald, and South Wales Free Press. — 1854-05-17 (Swansea, West Glamorgan, Wales)

EEDRY.—At the Brietol Court of Bankruptcy, held on Thursday, Mr. Stone appeared in support of an epplica• tion by motion on the part of the Illimi. Central Rail wey Company, against the assigmes of the bankrupts, for en order on tires to deliver up • certain quantity of iron rally, which formed part of a minim. Olittle of them on the pert of the Illinois Cement Railway Comp... Mr. Edlin, for the assignees, oppmed the motion. Mr. Stone put in the MBltisits of Jeremiah Goodrich Smith, the agent in &gland of the Illinois Company, and Jamm Speller, iron merchant, of Liverpool, which detailed ell the feels of the ease, and the groondu on which the motion for the delivery of the rails in question erus grounded. Ile contended that the rails In question were not even in the order and disposition of the bankrupts at the tints of the failure ; and that neon all the authoritim, the bankrupt'. aseignees lied no claim whatever to the property in question. li, however, it nppeared that the rails were ill the order and disposition of the benkrupte, it could not be estehlished thet (hey were so without the consent of the true owner, mil therefore could not pass to the amigos.. The learned council cited the following cases • in support of Ins arguments :—Booder e. Edward. and i ethers (1 Carrington and Payne); Bertram e. l'ayne and i othem (3 Carrington and Payne); Smith v. Toppin (9 • Barnmell end Adolphus) and several others referred to I, in the note to Wyse on hmkrupt laws. Mr. Edlinhaving I been heard on the part of the assignees, his Homer gave judgment in favour of the Illinois Central Railway COTOpop, ordering the assignees to pay the coat of the application, We observe that Mr. Townsend, the recently appointed 000 v e yor of Reath, has entered upon his duties with some vigour. Ile has already effected considerable, and very judicious improvements in the road near the Union, which was in a very bad state. Setelve.—We ri gent to learn that, on the night of Wednesday lust neon the morning of Thurstley, Mr. Woo. Jones who hod for some rare past, occupied Blaenhonddan 'Farm, about three miles from Reath, committed suitide by Mooting himself through the head with a pistol. Mr. Jones had, for many years, earned on busimas as a draper, at Swansea, at the Author shop, in Castk.square, where he was highly respected. An inquest wm held before Alexander Cuthbertson, Esq., coroner, and a jury of the inhabitants of the neighbourhood. It appeared from the evidence of a female servant named Hughes, who her lived with the deceased for about thirty-seven years, that he had hir some weeks prior to his death. been unwell and in a very desponding state of mind, being haunted by fors of impending poverty, Whiell, it is Hated, were latterly groundless. On the night in question, he retired to his bedroom about nine o'clock. nutting that the deceased did nut make his •ppearance next morniug, one at the servanm entered his bedroom, where she found the deeemed, who was partially undressed, and rue sitting posture on a chair. quite dead. One aide of his head and face was considerebly slimmed, while a discharged pistol was in 13s hand. It is a singular circumstance that the other inmates had not been disturbed by any report or noise to-attract their notice. The jury returned a verdict to the rivet that the deceased, who svas about sixty-six years of uge, had committed suicide, while labouring under temporary itisamty. IIIIITON,E1011".—A little bey, ten Teem of age, um of Thomas Jenkios, carpenter, Briton-ferry, met hie death by drowning on Monday. He was playing in a boat with twolother boys, when the owner appuntched and called upon them to get out. W hilt attempting to leeve hastily, the poor churl fell into the river. The owner of the host junipml into the water, but wee not successful lu rescuing the ilece_