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io drunk, adding thai had he found him in the streets of York in sueh a state he should have locked him With regard to the bwaMing of the cell windov hag of nails end staples, and The defendant was fined 10. and costo, default of payment, a month to the House of Correction. What bscajk of a Fabhidabl Morrell, milliner, College-street, was charged SERIOUS FIRE AT Ait ORGAN BCIfiB AT HUDDERSFIELD. On Tuesday afternoon, shortly beore two o'clock, flames were seen issuing from the jidows of the organ manufactory belonging to Messrs. 'jonacher and Brown, in Upperhead-row, This building, which is a aipall triangular one, at Jne corner of Half Moon-street, is only a portion the manufactory, and is separated from the larger part by the premises of Messrs.

Atkinson. Jlnir The. hvtt COn- Acaster Wesley an Mission aay Meeting. On Wednesday evening, the 23rd the annual Wesleyan missionary meeting was held at this village, when Mr. Chad wick, of York, occupied the chair.

Addresses were delivered by the Rev. R. B. Lyth, late missionary in Fiji and New Zealand, whose statements were listened to with considerable interest by the Rev. Luke H.

Wiseman, the Rev. M. C. Osborn, Mr. Luke Thompson, YORK LOCAL NEWS.

Clergy Orphans' Corporation. On Sunday evening last, the BTx J. J. Needham, M.A. (son of the late Mr.

NeedVim, surgeon, of this city), preached in All Saints, fHvenient, in behalf of the fund for the pecuniary assistance of the widows and orphan daughters clergymen. The collection amounted to four guineas. A Large Ego. A pullet, of the black Spanish breed, belonging to Mr. as.

RoundeU, moulder. No. 6, Long HCht BANKRUPTCY COURT, tfBDNBSDAY, June 23. (Before Mr. Commissioner Araion.) RE SAMUEL TALBOT HASSELL.

This was the certificate meeting. Mr. Jacxsos (Stamp and Jackson) appeared on behalf of one of the trade assignees, and Mr. Blansharo, barrister instructed by Mr. Pettingell), appeared for the bankrupt.

The bankrupt was examined at considerable length in reference to the various companies with which he bad been connected, with a view of showing that the bankers were aware of his proceedings, and that they were fide speculations with the prospect of success. He was also examined for the purpose of showing that his personal expenditure had not been extravagant. Mr. Blansharo, in a speech of great length, addressed the court on behalf of the bankrupt. He said the two prominent points of the case were, first, that the bankrupt had been charged with reckless trading and secondly, that his private expenses had been extravagant.

He (Mr. Blanshard) reminded the court, with respect to the first charge, that many of these speculations had been carried on by other parties for years, apparently with success, and that they were not all set on toot at the same time. He called attention to the part which Messrs. Hanison, Watson, and had taken in these transactions, and said it would have been impossible for the bankrupt to have carried on for so long a period had he not been pushed on by his bankers, who well knew that their fate was bound up in his. Refening to the second charge, he contended that the bankrupt's expenses were not great for a British merchant, and that, had he lived in a much more humble way, it would have excited suspicion, and led to a speedy disclosure of his affairs a result which Messrs.

Harrison, Watson, and more than the bankrupt himself, did uot desire. Mr. Jackson then addressed his Houour in opposition to the bankrupt, and submitted to the court as foots for consideration the magnitude of the bankrupt't lebts, the lengthened period during which he had been hopelessly insolvent, the appearance he kept up, the immense trading concerns in which he embarked and kept afloat during such hopeless insolvency, and which constituted the most extraordinary case which had ever come before this or any other court. His Honour You see the opposition here the statement of the ground of opposition is that the bankrupt begins in the year 1835, that in 1835 he was insolvent, and that since then he has been more and more hopelessly insolvent, and that he has since then been engaged in mere adventures which have been called mere bubbles, and that he has lent niuney in a very reckless way to a Mr. Tyas, and also to a Mr.

Newmarch, and that he has dealt in shares alwiys at a loss and it has also been said that the result is that the bankrupt conduct as a trader has been desperate, that he has been not only a desperate trader, but that he has been more than that, that he has been a desperate gambler that for- twenty years past he has been carrying un hi.s business under false pretences it has been said that his private expenditure, though not per extravagant for a merchant, yet it has been above 1200 a year, and that the bankrupt along worth nothing, and well-knew he was worth nothing and that he was hopelessly in debt, and that his private expenditure being, as he well knew, at the cost of his creditors, was an extravagant expenditure. The was another charge made of undue preference, under clause 250, but it was not pressed, and I think wisely not pressed, because although it was no doubt a preference- because the bankmpt paid it in conteuiplatiou of becoming bankrupt yet he gives this excuse, which I think under the circumstances ought to be admitted, that lid it bond fide, under the idea that tradesmen ought to receive a preference although it is a great mistake, and the assignees, if they think tit, can recover the sums so paid but I do not think the bankrupt meant anything, and I do not think I ought to take that into consideration. In the case of parte Dornford, in which the lords justices considered that reckless trading ought to be punished by considerable suspension without protection, now, the answer given to this was principally mainly, if not entirely, that if the bankrupt was to blame, his bankers were also to blame. I consider that the defence rests upon that. Now, fa that any answer but if it is an answer, how far, and why an answer I If two persons are taken up to a police ottice, charged with the same otfence, is it any defence to say, I had an accomplice Sometimes, when a man and a loy are taken up for pocket-picking, for instance, it is urged that the boy is not quite so much to blame as the man, and the judges very frequently consider this is the case.

The question here is, how far that doctrine applies to this case. Mr. Blanshard. But if the prisoner says, I took the prosecutor's purse because the prosecutor said I was to do so, the case is different. His Honoi'S.

But the assignees of the bank are the prosecutors in this case, and they gave no authority for the purse to be taken. His Honour then resumed With respect to the bankers, Harrison, Watson, and enough has been said about their conduct. I do not want to open old sores by saying so, nor does anybody wish to do it but nobody can defend the conduct of Harrison, Watson, and in advancing money in the way tiny did to the bankrupt but Looking at i-he atfair as men of the world (and I trust that is the light we look upon it), is a man so very much to blame who receives money which is actually poured into his pocket If th 56 bankers were always willing to honour the bankiupts drafts, it was certainly a mitigation of the bankrupt 'a. duct that he found the hankers willing to do so. He was engaged with other people's money.

He was like the people at the diggings who had only to dig fur ijold in order io get it. Mr. Hassell had only to present the check, in order to get the money from the bankers. Now that ifl to some extent, and to a considerably extent, an excuse for the bankrupt going on in the way he did, If a friend chooses to furnish a man with money from year to year, there was another person in wie mC with the defendant, but he had little doubt aa pfofc damage. The two Nutbrowns nxt gave evidence as to I what occurred on the night in question, and both of 1 them deposed to Pick being intoxicated.

Mr. E. Anderson -said that he should show that his client had only had three glasses of ale during the evening, and that it was a mere accident that caused him to be out of doors A the time in uuestion. The defendant, with his mother, conducted a farm at Bishopthorpe, where they had long been respected. On finishing his day's wovk in one of the fiesds, he got his tea and subsequently Went to his uncle's, Mr.

Bailey, who keeps the Grey Mare, about nine o'clock, and remained there till a quarter to twelve, when, recollecting that he had left his coat at the field, he set off for it, but did not find it, one of the servants having brought it home-unknown to him. In going home past Miss Nutbrowns' house, he saw the policeman seize Harrison, and on advancing to see what was the matter he was seized himself. On inquiring the reason, and asking for the policeman's number, he was knocked down by the officer and taken into custody. The defendant denied being in the garden at all, or having any idea oi disturbing the young women. The parish constable would prove that Pick was not drunk, that Rolfe said he had taken him into custody for being insolent, that Pick did not stagger, and that they walked to York in half an hour and five minutes.

He (Mr. Anderson) did not believe the officer was in Miss Nutbrowns' house for the purpose of doing his duty, but for an improper purpose. Mr. Coltman. I don't think you are right in imputing motives they might as well impute motives to you.

Mr. Anderson submitted that in the honest discharge of his duty, he was justified in commenting on the policeman's conduct. Mr. Coltman. You have no right to say so publicly unless you can prove it.

You must not throw a slur on the officer for doing what you are doing. Mr. Thompson thought Mr. Anderson was going too far in the absence of proof. Mr.

Anderson said he should submit with the utmost deference to the bench. He then contended that the excitement shown by his client at the constable's and at the York police office was that of a person highly indignant' at being falsely accused, and not the excitement of drunkenness. He then called John Gott, tailor and parish constable, who proved that Mr. Pick was sober, and that the officer did not accuse him of being drunk, but insolent. Mr.

Rd. Bailey spoke to the defendant having only three glasses of ale at his house Mr. BurnelL blacksmith, deposed to leaving the defendant perfectly sober at twenty minutes to twelve o'clock David Kirbyson, servant to Mrs. Pick, stated that his master was quite sober when he left his uncle's, and he saw him set off to seek his coat at the field and Richd. Harrison, labourer, stated that he went to Mr.

Bailey at seven o'clock, and found the defendant there then. They played a game at brasses for a hat, and they had a shillingsworth of ale among four of them. On leaving at midnight, witness got a pint of gin, which several persons drank, but he was almost certain Pick had none. He and another person went to Nutfcr jwn's door, but Pick did not. Pick was not drunk, neither was he in the garden.

Mr. Brearey then replied, and referred to some discrepancies in the evidence for the defendant, after which the bench said they considered the defence had broken down, and therefore they fined the defendant and 1 13s. the expenses. The above ease occupied upwards of four hours, and seemed to cause considerable interest. Cross-Summonses.

Assault and Wilful Damage. Mr. Wm. Thompson, of Rufforth, was charged with having, on the 8th inst. assaulted Abel Ainsworth, a farm servant.

Mr. H. Anderson appeared for the complainant, and Mr. E. R.

Anderson for the defendant. On the above day, the complainant went with a ladder to take a crow's nest in his master's field, when the defendant's sons pelted him with stones out of their grandfather's field. The complainant got over the hedge and pursued them home, and Boon afterwards the defendant met him, struck him several times, and knocked him down. The bench thought the defendant had received great provocation, and hence only fined him 5s. and 18s.

6d. costs. A charge was then preferred against Ainsworth for wilfully damaging the herbage of a field belonging to Mr. Joseph Thompson, by running over it in pursuit of the boys. Some potatoes had also been injured in a similar manner, and damage to the amount of sixpence was proved This sum the defendant was directed to pay, along with 12s.

costs. Another Charge against a Servant. Sophia Dalton, of Copmanthorpe, was charged with having left the service of her master, Mr. Wm. Cundall, fanner, of Nun Monkton, on the 15th inst.

The reason she assigned for this act was, that she was set to work for which she was not hired. After hearing Mr. Cundall's explanation, the magistrates were of opinion that she was not justified in running away, and that she must either return to her situation or go to Wakefield House of Correction. She said she would not go back to Mr. Cundall's, but after a good deal of persuasion she was induced to say she would, whereupon she was discharged, the costs to be deducted from ber wages.

YORK POLICE GUILDHALL. MONDAY, June 21. Before J. Meek, and W. C.

Anderson, Esq. Irish Disturbance, and Assault on the Police. Michael Brannan charged with having assaulted Harrison, policeman. Between twelve and one o'clock on Saturday morning, the complainant found the defendant creating a disturbance at the Fat Ox inn, cattle market, the panels of the door of which house he had broken, and on the policeman interfering with him, he struck the officer with a poker. The defendant was again disorderly on Sunday morning, between two and three o'clock, in Long Close lane and George-street, and the complainant then took him into custody.

In going to the Station-House, Brannan threw Jackson, policeman, down two or three times. The defendant had already been three times fined 5 for assaulting the police, but it was stated he was a quiet man when not under the influence of liquor. He was fined 1 and the costs, or in default of payment to be imprisoned for one month, to hard labour. The same defendant was charged with having violently assaulted Thomas Livereedge, of Fisher gate, glass founder. After leaving work on Friday night, the complainant went into the rat Ox public house to get a pint of ale, and whilst he was there the defendant came in about half -past eleven o'clock.

Being liquor, Mr. the landlord, reiused to let him have any more drink, and he went into the bar, where the complainant and several other persons were. Having used some ratner annoying language, the landlord took him to the door, when a woman rushed in and said Don't you insult an Irishman. Ji you think he has no mends, he has plenty." The defendant liberated himself, and he, being reinforced by a party of Irishmen and Irishwomen, they attacked several of the persons in the house. They got the complainant down and inflicted seven wounds on his head, and they pulled nearly all the hair off the head of a man named Smith.

Eventually wie lauuioru succeeded in turning the ofienders out, and it was then that the door was broken by Brannan. The bench were of opinion that he had been guilty of very outrageous conduct, and he was informed that if this case had stood alone they should have fined him more than they were about to do. The penalty for this assault was 10s. and costs, or a fortnight imprisonment in addition to the other month. THURSDAY, June 24.

Before J. Meek, and E. R. Anderson, Esq. Charge of Robrery.

Caroline Prince, of Water- lane, who was remanded from Tuesday on a charge of navmg robbed two men named John rurdon and Thos. Oates, again but Mr. Chalk said that he had no evidence to offer, the two men having left the city. The prisoner was discharged. Alleged Robbery by a Lodger.

Marv Ann Cole. who was remanded from last Friday, again appeared on a cnarge oi navmg stolen a petticoat and other articles, the i cm! i il a -i t- ptupcibj uj. -ciiuaucku ait, oi rnargate, on the 11th inst. She had been lodging for ashorttime with the prosecutrix, and on the above day she left. A petticoat belonging vuc prosecumx nau since been lound at Mr.

Uolburn's, pawnbroker, and this article the prisoner represented she had pledged at the request of Mrs. Air. The prosecutrix followed the prisoner to her home at Toller-ton, where she said the girl's mother threw a pail of water over her. The magistrates, thought the case was scarcely proved, and the accused was discharged. Charges agamst Policemen.

Mr. Mann appeared on behalf of Mary Ethell, of Garden-place, and preferred a charge against a policeman named Jackson, for having violently and indecently assaulted her last Saturday Mr. Chalk said that the offir A asked the bench to adjourn the case until Monday -ikuew, wuo wouia not appear without being summoned. The application was granted Thomas Appleton, another officer, was charged with having assaulted Sarah Thomas, a married woman on Snnfi.iv rm th k. i 7 1 iri.

1 mopped and pushed her down. The policeman admitted the charse saying he did not know she was a married woman i i i j. took her for a prostitute, and in trying to stop her she ien aown. ine oencn wwugnt me attendant had only acted under a misapprehension of his duty, and that the justice of the case would be met by a fine of 2s. 6d.

and caste. Assault on a Landlord Michael Henderson, of Church-lane, Walmgate, was summoned for having, on the 19th instant, assaulted Mr. Charles Gibson, of the City Arms. The defendant did not appear, hut it was shown that on Saturday evening, he entered the defendant's house, when, in consequence of having been previously discarded, he struck him on the face with ith having assaulted manna -in the same street. On Monday, the complainant went to the defendant's house with a bonnet which the latter had made for her in order to get it nf it fashionable shape.

The de fendant said it was, and she would not alter it, neither would she make up a dress she took. The defendant then pushed Mrs. Mallinder down, bit her thumb, tore out the crown of the unfortunate bonnet, and threw both it and the dress into the yard, after ejecting their owner The defendant denied the charge, but the magistrates were of a different opinion, though they suggested the parties might settle the matter out of courx, wuivu WnruL Damaob. Mary Arnett, of Heworth, was jl i wiL broken three squares of glass, be longing to Ann Arnett, of Rusby Place, Hungate, on the 23rd inst The parties are sisters, and on the above day they had a fight, after which the defendant tsmashed her sister's window, thereby doing damage to the amount of 2s. This sum she was ordered to pay, along with the costs, and, in default of payment, was committed for seven days.

SCORTON VEGETABLE SHOW. The twenty-fourth meeting of this society took place on the 17th in the long room of Mr. Thomas Outhwaite, of the Shoulder of Mutton Inn. The relative worth of the vegetable productions shown was decided by weight, and the judgment of Mr. Burrows, head gardener to Sir Wm.

Lawson, Bart, of Brough Hall. The successful competitors were as follow Potatoes. 1, Mr. Thos. Best 2, Mr.

John Gibson 3, Mr. Joseph Gibson Cabbages. 1, Mr. Thomas Outhwaite 2, Mr. Josh.

Foster 3, Mr. W. Brownless. Rhubarb. 1, Mr.

W. Fowler; 2, Mr. Jno. Gibson 3, Mr. Joseph Gibson.

Potato onions. 1, Mr. Joseph Gibson 2, Mr. Geo. Hall 3, Mr.

Thomas Outhwaite. Cabbage lettuce. 1, Mr. Joseph Gibson 2, Mr. John Jennings.

Cos lettuce 1, Mr. Joseph Foster Mr. Thomas Outhwaite. Turnips. 1, Mr.

Joseph Foster 2, Mr. Thos. Best. Carrots. 1, Mr.

George Hall 2, Mr. Thomas Best. Gooseberries. 1, Mr. W.

Watson, jun. 2, Mr. William Fowler 3, Mr. Joseph Foster. After the show an excellent supper was provided by the host and hostess.

Mr. Headley, farmer, officiated as chairman, and after supper many healths were proposed and responded to. SERIOUS CHARGES of EMBEZZLEMENT AGAINST A CLERK. THE REDPATH SYSTEM AGAIN. At the Clerkenwell police court, on Tuesday, Henry E.

Tottemy, a respectably dressed man, about thirty years of age, described as a confidential clerk, was charged with embezzling several sums of money belonging to his employer, Mr. John Jay, the great contractor of the City Basin, City-road. Mr. Yallance attended for the prosecution, and Mr. Lewis for the defence.

The case for the prosecution, as it appeared from the opening statement, was this The prisoner had been in the employ of the prosecutor for some time as a clerk, at a salary of 2 10s. per week. It was the practice of the prosecutor to have the whole of the cash books gone over and checked with the vouchers, for the purpose of seeing if they were conect. A short time since, when the books were given out, the prisoner informed one of the clerks that he would find some mistakes in the books, and asked him not take any notice of them. He said he would not take any notice to the other clerks, but any further he could not promise.

When going over the books it was ascertained that there were several defalcations, and some of them appeared to have been effected in this manner if one of the workmen had only one day's work to charge, it was entered in the book as such, and the amount put down in a separate column. In two or three instances the figure had been altered to four, and the prisoner had pocketed the extra money. There were now several charges against the prisoner, and the books had not been gone over for the whole of the period that the prison had been employed. The prosecutor, as the prisoner was in the receipt of a good salary, considered it a very bad case and as the figures had been altered, there was at present no opportunity of telling the amount of the prisoner's defalcations. Mr.

Lewis, who had consulted with the prosecutor and his solicitor, said his client would plead guilty to the charge of larceny, and would take the full extent of the magistrate's power, two six months' imprisonment, one to commence at the expiration of the other. Other magistrates had adopted the same plan. Mr. Conie said if it was a case in which the prosecutor would be satisfied with his judgment he would deal with it. The prisoner had lost his character and his situation, and if Mr.

Jay thought it was a case in which he could recommend to mercy he would act upon it, but he would not then at present give any opinion upon the matter. He did not think it was intended that he should have the power to inflict a greater punishment than six months' imprisonment with hard labour. After some hesitation the counsel for the prosecution assented to this course. The prisoner pleaded guilty, and was sent to the House of Conection with hard labour for six months. ADMINISTERING ARSENIC TO A YOUNG LADY, IN LEEDS.

At the Leeds Court House, on Satmday morning, Sarah Ann Hartley, a girl of 14, charged with administering arsenic with a felonious intention to Miss Woodcock, was placed in the dock. She was not defended, her parents alone being in court on her behalf. She was crying bitterly during nearly the whole of the investigation. Elizabeth Woodcock deposed I reside at 2, Brunswick-street, with the Rev. Robert Jackson, who is my uncle.

Prisoner has been servant with us two months. I had reason to chide her last Sunday evening, because I found she had taken some money out of a drawer in my bedroom. I asked her if she had taken it, and she acknowledged that she had. I told her I should inform her mother about it. On Tuesday morning prisoner brought me up a cup of tea a little before nine o'clock.

I was then in bed, being rather unwell, and my aunt sent up the tea to me. As I was drinking the tea, I discovered a peculiarity in the taste it was not nice, and as I also observed something white floating around the edge of the cup, I did not finish it. The prisoner had left the room immediately after bringing up the beverage. I tasted a spoonful a second time, and I noticed that there was something white adhering to the spoon. I then took the cup down stairs, as I suspected there was something in the tea.

My aunt was alone in the kitchen, and I asked her what had been put in the tea. The prisoner was then out on an errand, and I did not see her for twenty minutes. She then came again into the bedroom, and I asked where her mistress was. I replied that Mrs. Jackson had gone out, but would soon be back.

Mrs. Whitehead, a friend, was with me in the bedroom, and she said to the prisoner, Sarah, what have you put in Miss Woodcock tea?" Prisoner replied that she had put nothing in it. I then said, It's no use you denying it, Sarah, the powder is found, and Mrs. Jackson has taken it to the doctor's." The prisoner did not immediately reply, and so Mrs. Whitehead again spoke to her, saying, Sarah, you must have done it.

Was it that white powder Prisoner replied, "Yes, I have put a little in." Mrs. Whitehead asked her motive for doing it, and she said nothing at first in reply, but on Mrs. Whitehead saying again, You must have had some motive for doing it," she said, I put it in to make her poorly, so that she could not go and tell my mother. But I hope she'll not die." I was sick about a quarter of an hour after taking the tea. Mr Clayton surgeon, came to attend me.

I did not vomit much, but I continued sick during the whole of the day the stomach-pump not being used, until about three-quarters of an hour afterwards. I was not confined to bed altogether, being able to get up in the afternoon. 1 told the prisoner in the after part of the same day that it was very unkind of her to give me poison, as it might have killed me. To this she AA tint nW T- cept by repeating that she did not mean to poison me. I did not know there that day, but I had been away from home for six weeks.

I had previously chided her for her dishonest practices, and threatened to send her home if she continued them. When I went downstairs I poured the tea out of the cup into the saucer, and then I saw a white sediment at the bottom, and the cup in this state was then taken by Mrs. Whitehead to a neighbour's. and she afterwards took it out of the house to the doctor's. The tea I noured into the saucer remained there, and it was taken awav by the officer on the Thursday evening.

In the interval the saucer was in say bedroom. After the evidence of Mrs. Jackson (who deposed that the prisoner knew where the arsenic was kept, and also was aware of its poisonous qualities), and Mr. Clayton, Burgeon (who said he had not yet made a critical examination of the sediment in the cup), the ease was adjourned until Wednesday, to give time to Mr. Clayton and Mr.

Moriey to make a thorough chemical analysis of the contents of the cap. On Wednesday, the girl Sarah Ann Hartley was formally oomznitted to take her trial at the Mmmm. I of York, and J. Cruven, of Hignthorne House. I The Rev.

L. H. Wiseman preached an excellent sermon I in the afternoon of the same day. There was a large attendance on both occasions, and the collections exceeded 32, being an increase on the past year. PRiumvt Methodist Anniversary at Dcnningtoh.

The Primitive Methodists held their chapel anniver-I sary on Tuesday last, when very interesting and numerously attended tea meeting was held in a spacious tent erected on the premises of Mr. Grainger, farmer, kindly lent for the occasion. Tea was provided by the friend at Dunnington and the neighbourhood, and a very bountiful repast was prepared, which forth the approbation of all who had the pleasure to partake of it. After tea a public meeting was held, over which H. J.

M'Culloch, of York, presided, and addresses were delivered by the Rev. Robt. Smith, of York, the Rev. W. Bennett, of Easingwold, and Mr.

Mr. Walls. Mr. Porter, ef York, and other friends. The collections, donations, -and profits of the tea amounted to the sum of 17 14b.

The meeting separated highly satisfied with the proceedings, but before its conclusion several votes of thanks were given, and a wish expressed that the present meeting was only the beginning of a course which weald in future be adopted. Fire at York. Metsre. Calvert, ironfounders, besides their works near Northstreet Postern, have a foundry at Clementhorpe, in the suburbs of this city, near to the river Ouse. The building is 200 feet long, and a portion of it is devoted to the moulding depart i ment.

The model-room is a few yards from the furnace, and in that room was a quantity of straw on Monday last. Between three and four o'clock on that day, the straw in the model-room ignited, it is thought, from a spark from the furnace, and an alarm having been given the men on the premises immediately set themselves to work to extinguish the flames. One of the men threw out of the room into the yard a portion of the burning straw, and in this hazardous operation he was rather severely burnt. Buckets of water were also thrown on the straw, and information was forwarded to the New-street and St. Andrewgate stations for the fire engines.

Mr. Dent, the foreman of the fire brigade, and a few of the firemen proceeded with them to the foundry, but for some reason or other about an hour elapsed before one of the engines could be brought into play. The other was worked in a short time after having been taken to the Bpot, the water, we need scarcely add, being obtained from the Ouse, and between five and six o'clock the fire had become entirely extinguished. The damage i uone, we believe, is only trifling, and the premises which, we understand, belong to C. Fletcher, are insured.

Had it not been for the promptitude displayed by the workmen of Messrs. Calvert much valuable property would have been destroyed. Society of Arts' Examinations. The awards of prizes in connection with the Society of Arts' Examinations have just been announced. Amongst the first-class certificates for arithmetic, we notice the names of John Stamford Walton, of the Mechanics' Institute, Northallerton, and Henry Irwin Jenkinson, of the York Institute second-class, Thomas Henry Sowden, York, railway clerk Thomas H.

Harper, Selby, and Thomas Bedford, Selby third-class, John Allison Zachariah, Hartlepool, Thomas Pearson Tate, West Hartlepool. Trigonometry, third-class, H. I. Jenkinson, York. Practical mechanics, third-class, J.

S. Walton, Northallerton. Physical geography and geology, second-class, T. P. Tate, West Hartlepool.

Mensuration, third-class, T. Bedford, Selby. Bookkeeping, first-class, J. 8. Walton, Northallerton second-class, Jas.

F. MennelL York third-class, T. P. Tate, West Hartlepool and John Robertson, York. Geometry, second-class, Henry Jenkinson, York.

Magnetism, electricity, and heat, third-class, J. S. Walton, Northallerton. AINSTY PETTY SESSIONS. YORK CASTLE, SATURDAY, June 19.

Before J. D. J. Preston, C. H.

Thompson, and W. J. Coltman, Esq. The Servant Assaulting the Master. Pharaoh Ainsworth was charged with having, on the 7th assaulted his master, Mr.

John Ord Jolly, farmer, Acomb Grange. Mr. Hodgson appeared for the complainant, and Mr. H. Anderson for the defendant.

From the evidence adduced, it seemed that in the afternoon of the above day, the defendant having completed a day's work at gravel leading, went in to dinner, when he asked if he could not have some beef to the bacon placed before him. The servant went to make the inquiry, whereupon Mr. Jolly entered the kitchen and inquired what all the noise was about. The defendant repeated his request, when the complainant told him if he were not satisfied with what he (Mr. Jolly) had had for his dinner, he must leave the house altogether.

The defendant, who was in liquor, swore and said he should not leave, whereupon the complainant lifted up his chair in order to remove him, and he fell on the floor. Ainsworth, on getting up, seized Mr. Jolly by the throat, and, after a scuffle, they both went down together, the defendant uppermost. The other servants then interfered, and separated the two, who were struggling on the floor. Mr.

Anderson complained of his friend for not calling two of the servants who were present all the time, as witnesses. He contended that his client, after being at work since half-past three in the morning, without anything to eat, and walking one and twenty miles, was quite reasonable in asking for some beef to his bacon, and that in reality Mr. Jolly had committed the first assault by removing him from his chair and throwing him on the floor. However, in the subsequent encounter, the master had proved the weakest, and the consequence was, the taking out of a summons by Mr. Jolly.

The magistrates themselves agreed to call the two servants to give their evidence. The latter stated that they were leading gravel with Ainsworth on the day in question, and that they had ten quarts of ale among eight of them. They rode in their carts when they were empty, thereby reducing the distance walked by one-half. Having given their version of the assault. the magistrates said that it seemed there had been great irritability on both sides, and, under these circumstances, they should only impose the trivial fine of 2s.

6d. and costs, amounting altogether to 1 5s. 6d. Disorderly Proceedings at Bishopthorpe. Molesting "Unprotected Females." Mr.

Thomas Pick, farmer, of Bishopthorpe, was charged with having been drunk at that village on the 6th instant. Mr. Brearey attended in support of the summons, and Mr. E. R.

Anderson for the defendant. The former gentleman stated that on Saturday evening, the 5th some races took place at Bishopthorpe, these being the vestiges of the feast which had been held there during the week. In consequence, one of the West-Riding constabulary, named Rolfe, was requested to attend the village, Sergt. Leigh, the district officer, being from home. About one o'clock on Sunday morning, as Rolfe was proceeding along the village, he heard some gravel thrown at the window of a house occupied by two unmarried sisters named Nutbrown.

He then heard the sound of running footsteps, which he followed to the Palace gates, where he lost them. Whilst standing there the younger Miss Nut-brown came up, and he returned with her to the house. The sister asked him to step in, when she informed him of the annoyances and insults they received from parties in the village. While so conversing, they heard the approach of footsteps, and presently some one (whom the Nutbrowns would say was Pick) said "Give it kick, wnereupon the door was kicked. The policeman then rushed out of the house, and found the defendant and a man named Harrison in the garden in front of the house.

He collared Harrison first, and then Pick, and as the women said they knew both of them he let them go into the road. Pick then began to be abusive, demanding the officer's number, and telling him that he would report him, as he was out of his district aad had no right to be there at alL Rolfe told him his number was 428, but the defendant asked him a second time, when he said he should not tell him again. Pick went up to the officer and put his hand on him where-upoa the latter, as he (Mr. Brearey) contended, very properly pushed him away, and being drunk, he fell The defendant then became bo violent that the policeman took him into custody, and proceeded with him to the house of the parish constable, who was called up. While there the defendant put himself in a fighting attitude before Rolfe, who then placed the handcuffs on him.

He, however, offered to take them off again, if only Pick would go home quietly, but the latter said he should not, and he would be locked up like a felon The defendant was then brought to the York police-office by the policeman and the parish constable, and given in charge for being drunk. During the night the defendant broke five squares of glass in his cell and tore up several bricks from the floor. He (Mr. Brearey) understood that some evidence was going to be given on the other 1 aide, with the view of showing that Pick was not drunk, i i i i i i i i4n aiter earing me testimony wmcn ne snouiu auuucc, he thought the bench would hare no hesitation in convicting him. The policeman was then examined in support of these statements.

In cross-examination, he sud the Nutbrowns were entire strangers to him. They reside alone, and he was in their house perhaps ten minutes. Witness had had a glass of gin that evening about eight o'clock. He was quite sure Pick was in the garden when he seized him first. Pick staggered and, his general appearance denoted that he was drunk, but he was more riotous than drunk.

Inspector Haley spoke fck defendant having all the nppcTof feinf I tiguity of property of do dangerous a character necessarily made the inhabitants in the neighbourhood very anxious as to the result. At the time of the first alarm, Mr. Conacher was in. the metal room on the basement floor engaged with some customers. The smell of burning fortunately gave both him and his friends time to escape.

Mr. Brown, the other partner, was upstairs, and had only time to leap the staircase to save himself. The town fire-brigade was promptly on the spot, followed by the Leeds and I orkshire, ana in a minute or two aiver their arrival, kept a well-directed aim on the burning mass. The fire, however, had easy material to work on, and in a little more than half an hour the premises within presented a black skeleton. The flames fortunately were prevented from reaching the candle manufacturers, and the loss is therefore limited to the destruction of the workmen's tools, the sounding boards, organ pipes, In this loss must be included the sacrifice of a "swell" for the Leeds Parish Church, stated to be one of the largest "swells" in the world.

It would have been 1 9 feet 6 inches across, 8 feet deep, 11 feet high, containing 700 feet of two inch wood, and was being prepared in time for the royal visit to Leeds in August. The entire loss is estimated at 850, and Messrs. Conacher and Brown are only insured for 500, the office being the Imperial. The building, which belonged to Messrs. Dyson and Atkinson, was insured in the Globe.

No reliable suggestion as to the cause of the fire has reached us. FATAL ACCIDENT TO AN EXCURSION TRAIN. An accident, resulting in the death of one individual and the injury of two or three others, occurred (n Sunday evening to the up excursion train from Portsmouth, while in the act of passing throngh the Bishop -stoke junction. The train, consisting of nineteen carriages, arrived at the junction at the proper time, and fourteen of the carriages passed over the points safely, but from some cause, at present unexplained, the fifteenth carriage left the mils, and falling over on its side threw the remaining four off the rails. Unhappily one man in the fifteenth carriage was killed, and three others injured, although not seriously.

The points at this station do notjequire to be held over while a train is passing, and at present it is impossible to say how the accident occurred. The presumption is that some mechanical defect must have existed which was not apparent to ordinary care and foresight. Mr. Hill, station-master at Bishopstoke, rendered every possible assistance to the injured persons, and the train came on to Waterloo after a brief delay consequent on the rearrangement of the carriages of which it had been composed. We believe the present is the first accident in which the life of a passenger has been sacrificed on the South Western Railway during a period of about fifteen years.

The following despatch supplies some additional particulars Southampton, Sunday Night. A serious accident occurred to an excursion train on the South Western Railway this evening. The train left Portsmouth at 7 o'clock, consisting of 16 or 18 carriages, full mostly of excursionists. On arriving at Bishopstoke, about 8 o'clock, the last three carriages of the train, consisting of a first class and a third class carriage and the guard's van, ran off the line as the train was crossing the points close to the station. The third class carnage, which was the first of the three, turned over on its side, and the coupling chain connecting it with the advanced part of the train broke, leaving these carriages detached from the rest.

No one was injured in the first class carriage, or the guard's van. The passengers in the third-class carriage were less fortunate. One man, whose name we have not been able to ascertain, was killed on the spot, his brains being scattered about on the line, and four other persons were seriously injured and several more bruised. One man had his arm broken, and a little girl, twelve years of age, is not expected to live. The accident was immediately communicated to this place by telegraph, and medical assistance demanded.

Dr. Hearne and another medical gentleman started at once for the scene of the accident, which is about five miles from this, in a carriage, accompanied by Mr. Beach, the deputy superintendent of the South-Western Company at this terminus. Of course, very little is known here as yet about the accident, but I have gleaned these facts from a young man who was on the spot, and arrived here by the down train from London, which passed just afterwards. My informant says that there were two medical men in the train, who gave their assistance immediately, as well as a surgeon resident in the village, making, as soon as the two from Southampton reached there, five medical gentlemen in attendance on the sufferers, who were lying in the refreshment room and at the hotel.

The passengers who were uninjured went on by the train in other carriages. THE STATE PROSECUTIONS ABANDONED. THE LIBELS ON THE EMPEROR OF THE FRENCH. THE STATE PRESS PROSECUTIONS. The trial of Mr.

Truelove, bookseller, of the Strand, took place on Tuesday morning at the Queen's Bench, before Lord Campbell and a special jury. A considerable amount of excitement was created, and the court was filled at an early hour. The libels for which Mr. Truelove was indicted were published in a pamphlet entitled Tyrannicide is it justifiable The defendant pleaded not guilty. The Attorney-General, Mr.

Macaulay, Mr. Bodkin, and Mr. Clark conducted the prosecution. Mr. Edwin James, Q.C., Mr.

Hawkins, Mr. Simon, and Mr. Sleigh were counsel for the defendant. The Attorney-General, in addressing the jury, said he rejoiced in having to announce that they would not be called to try this indictment. It was a prosecution instituted by the Attorney-General by reason of the publication of a pamphlet, containing certain passages tending, as it was thought, to incite evil minded men to the crime of assassination and of murder.

When he (the Attorney-General) succeeded to the office which he now held, he felt it his duty to adopt the act of his learned predecessor, and to cany on this prosecution. But he learned with great satisfaction from his learned friend, Mr. James, who was the counsel for the defendant, and he had no reason to doubt it, that Mr. True-love, who was a most respectable tradesman and the father of a large family, was ready to deny, in terms unqualified and without reserve, that he never intended or desired, directly or indirectly, to countenance the crime of assassination, and that he was ready to express his regret that any such misconstruction should have been put upon his publication. Upon that assurance it remained for him the duty, heartily and truly, of at once assenting to a verdict of Not guilty on the part of the Crown.

Mr. Edwin James said he had not the least habitation, as representing the defendant, to disavow, on his part (and that would have been his defence if the trial had gone on), that there was no intention on the part of the writer of the pamphlet, or on his (the defendant's) part, as publisher, to incite any persons in any way to the crime of assassination. Under these circumstances the defendant was quite ready to promise that there should be no future publication of the pamphlet. Lord Campbell, in addressing the jury, said they would have the satisfaction of finding a verdict of not guilty in the way that had been suggested. If the trial had proceeded, he had no doubt the inquiry would have en a most careful and patient one on the part of the jury.

He had no doubt that the defendant had acted with the most perfect propriety, and that his counsel had acted in a similar manner in giving advice to the defendant to enter into au engagement on his part that this publication should no longer continue. A verdict of Not guilty" was then taken. The Queen v. TcnoazEWSaM. This was an indktmentof a similar character, the Crown having prosecuted the defendant (Stanislaus Tchorxewski) for a libel published by him on the Emperor of the French, in a pamphlet entitled "Letter to the Parliament and the Press, by Felix Pyat, Beason, and A.

Talander." The Attorney-General, in addressing the jury, said that this was also a prosecution instituted on the part of her Majesty's government against the defendant, charging him with the publication of a libel on the Emperor of the French. It was unnecessary that he should repeat the observations which he had just addressed to the jury in the preceding case. He understood that the defendant had most wisely placed himself in the hands of his learned friend, Mr. James, who was conducting his case, and was ready to pledge himself before a British jury and a British public that he had no intention in the publication in question to incite any one to the commission of any crime, that be regretted its publication, which he had no idea would have subjected him to a prosecution. He (Sir F.

Kelly) accepted these JTiT ith P60' gwA wm ttd rity on the part of the Crown. 8id. 00 ideation on the part of the defendant to incite to the commission of any crime of murder, and acting under the advice of his counsel he once undertaken that there should he no further publication or issue whatever. Lord Campbell said the counsel for th given him sound advice, and the defendant had acted "'J auiiug upon 1U. ZSSLl 5 guiIt7" WM token, and the pre prosecutions" were at an end.

Close-lane, York, laid an egg $4 iuches in errcumfereKce and 4 inches in length. It "weighed 4 Ounces. Reckless Drivino, On Saturday evening last, a child two or three years ef age, residfrg in Gillygate, in the suburbs of this city, was run over by a spring cart, which was recklessly driven by a man who was ir liquor, and who, it is said, lives at Haxby. The child was taken up bhj4ingat "the mouth, -and it was found that it had rec aired several bruises, but providentially no bones wen feroken. This is tot the first instance of reckless firiing on a Saturdayin the above locality, and we hope this accident will operate as a wartdng.

by Drowning. tn Monday, inquest was held i Eowsham, before J. P. Wood, on view of the jy of John Ditchbirra, fifteen yerrs of age, the son Thos. Drtchburn, of Nether Popfdeton, labourer.

The 'deceased was farm servant to Mr. Hudson, of Ho retain, and an Sunday afternoon lie went to bathe in river Forwent. He could not swim, and having St into a hole, he sank overhead. He rose again a ihe surface, and was observed by some of his com-paTnous, wko, however, could not render him any assist -jfcu-e, and he again immediately tank to rise no more mlive. The river was dragged, end the body of the deceased was taken out the same afternoon shortly before four o'clock, he liaving been in the water about two hours.

The jury returned a verdict of Accidentally drowned." Poppletox House Academy. Midsummer Ekami-IIatiox. Reading 1st class, 1, Graves, Harton 2, A. Ridding, York 3, J. Hindle, Selby.

2nd 1, T. Reaston, Barlby 2, T. Scoby, Cawthorn 3, Gale, Whitby. 3rd 1, Seymour 2, S. Hindle; 3, Wharneford.

Writing 1st class, 1, Nicholson 2, Graves 3, W. Kexston. 2nd 1, Wharneford 2, Thomas Eeaston 3, Frank, Kirbymoorside. Orthography 1st class, 1, A. Ridding 2, Jdansell, Maltou 3, J.

E. Hindle. 2nd 1, T. Reaston 2, T. Scoby 3, Welburn.

3rd 1, Seymour 3,, S. Hindle 3, Whirneford. English Grammar 1st class, 1, A. RiJding; 2, J. E.

Hindle; 3, Graves. 2nd 1, C. Ridding; 2, T. Scoby; 3, Mansell. 3rd 1, Frank 2, Wilkinson, Whitby 3, Seymour.

Composition 1, Gale 2, A. Ridding 3, Mansell. Geography 1, J. E. Hindle 2, Nicholson 3, Pickering, Pocklington.

Sacred History 1, A. Ridding; 2, Gale; 3, Mansell. British History 1, Nicholson 2, J. E. Hindle 3, Gale.

Arithmetic 1st class, 1 Mansell 2, A. Ridding 3, Graves. 2nd 1, Volans, Wistow 2, Gale; 3, Seymour. 3rd do. 1 G.

Scoby, Rooksbarugh 2, Annakin 3, S. Hindle. Mensuration 1, Ridding; 2, Mansell; 3, Graves and J. E. Hindle, equal.

Surveying 1, Wilkinson 2, A. Kidding 3, Mansell. Latin Welburn. Music J. E.

Hindle. Drawing Annakin. Conduct during the half-year 1, Frank 2, Mansell, Elsworth, and Thorner, equal 3, Wilkinson. The silver medal for the greatest general proficiency was awarded to Master J. E.

Hindle. Ditto for the greatest progress during the last quarter, to Master Mansell. Ditto for "the most gentlemanly conduct during the half-year, to Master W. Frank. Tims.

Cooper as a Preacher. On Sunday last, many of those who had listened to Mr. Cooper in the twofold capacity as lecturer and controversialist, heard him as the faithful and earnest preacher of those divine truths which now once more receive the homage of his intellect and heart. On that day, according to previous announcement, he conducted service in the Primitive Methodist Chapel. Little Stonegate, in the morning, and at the Lecture Hall, in the evening.

The congregation at the chapel was larger than usual, though not crowded, and the preacher selected as his text Luke 17 Whosoever shall not receive the kingdom God as a little child shall in no wise enter therein. In the evening, the Lecture Hall was crowded, and Mr. Cooper addressed his large auditory from Isaiah lv. 7 Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts," These passages of scripture he made the bases of two addresses, in which the doctrinal was subordinated to the practical, and in which the humility of the Christian was blended with the astuteness of the reasoner. Those who have recently heard the man, with his short, unprepared, sententious modes of utterance, would not expect anything very flowing and graceful in his style as a preacher but they would find plenty of good sense and good advice, combined with not bad theology.

His two discourses were characterised by a free, easy, colloquial manner, his great desire being apparently to render himself clear to the humblest capacity. Having not much sympathy with the generalizations of many pulpit productions, he applies his words very closely, and dissects and analyses the evil pra tees of life with a steady, unflinching hand. He referred to the time when once he was a Methodist, and thanked God that he was now one again in heart. On Monday, Mr. Cooper left York for Sunderland, where, we observe, he has been announced to deliver the same course of lectures whieh he lately gave at York, the proceeds, after the payment of expenses, being promised to the funds of the Infirmary.

Death of Dr. Snow. We regret to announce the death of Dr. ohn Snow, of London (brother of Mr. Snow, of the Temperance Hotel, in this city), which event took place on the 16th inst.

The deceased, who was only forty-five years of age, had attained considerable celebrity from his successful administration of chloroform to the Queen, during her Majesty's accouchement. Of Dr. Snows attainments, the Athenmim of last Saturday says The medical profession has sustained a loss in the death of Dr. John Snow, of Sackville-street, which took place on Wednesday last. Dr.

Snow was well known in the medical profession for his researches into the effects of ether, chloroform, and other agents upon the human system. He has probably done more than any other man for reducing the practice of anaesthesia to its scientific principles, and thus securing its successful application for the alleviation of human pain. Dr. Snow was also known as a sanitary reformer, and though on many points he was what may be called crotchety, he yet brought to bear on the subjects he investigated untiring patience and devoted zeal. He was the first to point out the connection between the cholera and the drinking of foul Thames water, and by his own personal investigations in the Lambeth district showed that the mortality as six times as great where the water below Battersea Bridge was drunk as compared with that btaine 1 from Thames Ditton.

He also by his personal investigations showed the relation between the outbreak of cholera in the Golden-square district and the Broad-street pump, which subsequently led to those investig -tione which have proved the connection between foul well water and cholera. Dr. Snow had recently been president of the Lmdon Medical Society, and was an acti ve me Tiber of the Epidemological Society." York Poor Law Union. The weekly meeting of the guardiaus on Thursday was presided over by J. H.

Thomas, who announced that the city out-door relief expenditure had been 61 9s. and in the rural district 39 17s. the number of paupers relieved in Use city being 717 against 748 in the corresponding week of last year, and in the country 395 against 4u3 last year. Mr. Horsley said that if there was anything of importance at the board, it was generally brought forward when he was not there.

He saw by the papers that hut week Mr. Foster had referred to a correspondence he had had with Col. fianyth on the subject rf the chargeability of paupers, the board, as he thought, in a epr partial and selfish manner, bad anointed committee on the subject, consisting of city gmrdians. Now as the country parishes constituted a majority in ihe union, ie submitted it have been far aaore respectful had there been an equal number of country guardians placed on it. The subject of charge -ability was verj importantuo the country fetishes, owing to the expedients retorted hj.

in order to charge city cases to the tiunmon und. Mr. Foster was a strong political character (laughter) and Jhad written to Smyth on the subject, as favourably to the city as -he could no doubt. It would J) at do or bin (Mr. ioenlighten the country on this point, so he? Mr.

Horsley) had written to CoL Duneombe, ibe member for the North Riding, and had pointed out the difficulties under wiieh they laboured in country parishes. J8e had infomaed him tliat the common charges for his parish exceed itejout-door relief, one being 18 odd, and the other mere than 19. Under such a state of things, ie was satisfied that there was something wrong, and his co- wisLioiieis bitterly complained of sueh a system. He tried to remedy these things by proposing that their jward day would be isatuixiay instead of Thursday, so i-hat the country might be better represented, bat this did not suit the city guardians. The matter, however, wan now earned on to such an extent that the country guardis were disgusted, and they would not attend there to he insulted.

All they wanted was justice a. id fairplay, and in this spirit he would propose that Mr. Farrow, Mr. Herbert, Mr. Gray, and himself be added to the committee.

Mr. Foster said that he did not write to Col. Ssyth first, but CoL Smyth wrote to him. His own proposal was that the chairman, along with the two vice-chairmen, pne representing the city and the other the rural district, should be the committee, and nothing, he thought, eouiJ be fairer. Some one else, however suggested Mr.

Waiter and himself, and they were added to the committee. Mr. Hanky's motkn was then agreed to unanimously. I I it certainly is a mitigation or the offence which the bankrupt commits if he avails himself of that offer to use the money. But stiU it only mitigates the offence, whatever the offence was committed by Harrison, Watson, and that 3ame offence was by the bankrupt, because he must have known he was drawing nosey which he could not reasonably think that he would be in a position to be able to repay.

And what is the result of this case. The bankrupt began in 1833 with I trade, 11,000 capital, and he forthwith proceeds to dispose of the only profitable trade of his to another person the only profitable one he ever possessed. He then enters into a series of speculations, and as he had nothing of his own to proceed upon, these speculations were gambling, and 1 must say, though we must not always look at the results, that they were reckless. There are some men of whom it is sai' I that everything they touch is turned into gold but everything Mr. Hassell touches turns to a loss, lie began with a good business, and because it was a good business, he must part with it to somebody else, and everything after that which he touched has been a loss.

Now I must say that when I look at the manner in which he has been receiving money, the manner in which he expended the money has been reckless in the extreme. 1 never yet in the course of my experience ever heard of such case. It is not a speculation- -it must not be dignified with the name of speculation, but gambling of the most reckless kind I ever heard of, and what is the result After loosing his business he enters upon all these speculations, and he could not have carried them on without the assistance of the bankers. Here is one of the most reckless of bankrupts, who found the most reckless bankers I ever heard of, and the two together carried on until the time of the failure of the bank and what is the result I do not believe that there is such a case as this on the bankruptcy records of the country. The bankrupt's property is worth 5,000 his gross profits over the six years have been 200 and no more he has some other profits, 2, 256 but these are not profits strictly they are from rents his debts are, at least, 233,000, and his dividend will be, i anything, a few peace.

I do not bebeve there ever was such a case brought before the court, and I should certainly say that in such a case it would be very doubtful whether he could have any certificate at all, if it were not for the circumstances of mitigation that the money was found by a friend called a banker. His Honour then referred to thecals of tx parte Dornford, showing that "T'i aiiiorthe bankrupt conduct, and where credit had been obtained by exaggerated statements, the court would be justified in refusing protection. Now (continued bis Honour), there have been no exaggerated statements charged against the bankrupt; in fact, there has been no fraud charged against the bankrupt, exceptand I must make the exception that 1 consider such a dreadful reckless trading is a kind of fraud in itself. And then the last thing mentioned is the bankrupt's expenditure. It must be remembered, that when he was worth nothing, and worse than nothing, I must say that his style oi living though not large in itself for a merchant, was shamefully extravagant, considering the bankrupts true position.

As to the educating and setting up 0f his children, why he has been doing it out of the money of other people, and he knew he was doing it. My private opinion would have been, a few years ago, that no certificate should have been granted but there have been a great number of cases before the lords justices, showing that opinion would now be erroneous, and that it would not be sanctioned by the court above. I believe that under the circumstances of the case, and considering that this bankrupt obtained his funds from his friends the bankers, I Jo not think I ought to suspend hi. certificate for more than two years. I do not think this a severe sentence, but believed it would be approyed of, and as there ha been no traud charged against the bankrupt, I think I 2 tiSi si proctioQ- 10 of.