... BANKRUPTS. I Thomas Bret-tell, Rupert-street, Haymarket, printer, to surrender May 27, at one, and July 1, at twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Official assiguee, Mr. Belcher. At- torney, Mr. Arden, Red Lion square. William Smith, Curtain-road, near ...

... MESSRS. fV/GJVBrS BANKRUPT( > (From our Correspondent. BRIGHTON, \ You stated in your City article of yesterday port of the proceedings of Wigney's bankrupted a painful sensation in the City. I can assure you • lt has excited the utmost disgust in Brighton ...

... to decide in this case was, whether the bankrupts had conformed to the laws in force relating to bankrupts ; and that question, according to the whole of the authorities', and full scope and moaning of the Bankrupt Act was, whether they had discovered all ...

... that, on the very last day of the existence of the late commissioners of bankrupts, they decided that the bank had forfeited all claims upon the estate in consequence of the bankrupts having paid into the bank a bill of exchange after the docket was struck ...

... the different items in the balance sheet, observed that the bankrupt's expenditure appeared to be very large, if not considerably too large — how was that to be accounted for ? The bankrupt answered that he had paid upwards of 700/. in advertising in ...

... which were not worth one halfpenny. After a short examination of the bankrupt (Bradshaw) on the subject of these bills, His Honour said that, in any case in which he found bankrupts to have dealt largely in accommodation bills, he had a strong objection ...

... by the accident. The bankrupt being sworn, was examined at very con- siderable length by Mr. E. James, and stated in substance that his balance sheet was made out by Mr. Perkins, and the items were supplied from his (the bankrupt's) memory. The accident ...

... for the final examination of the bankrupt, described as a shell fishmonger, but much better known as the proprietor of the tavern called the Picca- dilly Saloon. The fiat has been issued about six weeks, but the bankrupt, in consequence of ill-health ...

... any protection from the Bankrupt Laws The bankrupt said he had kept a day-book or journal, in which all his bills and cash transactions had been entered, and these were long since given up to the official assignee. The bankrupt was here examined at co ...

... co-obligor, and not in a case as between the bankrupt and hi. creditors, it was not the less a question of the effect of the payment of the dividends under the estate of the bankrupt obligor, and I do net think a bankrupt, in the event of a surplus, is to be ...

... through the bankrupt, it was impossible with any ac- curacy to ascertain either the probable amount of his debts and liabilities on the one hand, or his assets on the other. The only proofs offered n>-day (with the exception of the bankrupt's clerks) was ...

... creditors said that they required some further time for the investiga- tion of the bankrupt's accounts ; and, in fact, the balauce sheet had not been yet put in. The bankrupt said that he had offered to give every in- formation in his power, and had written ...