LAW AND JUSTICE

... CouET OF BANKRUl'TCY.-INqTHE MATTER 0o JAMEs DmENw- iibarot carried on one of the most extensive concerns at tile Tbf, ofth bnitown, s house and estate agent,- auctioneer, &c., att ?? Charles-street. Bcm-keley-sqiiare. The Petitioning creditor N,0DMobson, a-surgeoin, of Hadlow, Essex, for 200. The debts 'rd liabilities are supposedi to exceed 70,000, but included in that ant is a debt of 50 ...

Published: Sunday 18 October 1840
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 2209 | Page: Page 7 | Tags: Crime and Punishment 

COMMISSION COURT—YESTERDAY

... I ?? _2_COM MISSIOX COURT-YESTEADAY. The Chief Baron and Judge Johnson took their seats on the bench at ten o'clock. CHARGE OF PERJURtY. Edward Segrave was indicted for wilful and corrupt per- jury, in giving evidence last Trinity Term, in the case ol Pratt v. Pratt, tried before Judge Crampton, in the Court I of Queen's Bench. Mr. J. A.'Curran and Mr. John Walsh appeared for the I prosecution ...

BELFAST REGISTRY SESSIONS

... BELFAST IEMIST1RY SESSIONS The Rrgistry SeSiOnFl both for the County of Antrmin and tie bolot0gh4 of 10lfast, ?? at 10 o'ehwl yestilrday, and terminated. The following has bt en fiu. iuahed to 1s, on behalf of tho Liberal party, as the result, s3 far as the borough is coneerned:_ LIilEALS. Total Regiktered ?? - 49 ]le-lBegistriesof 1832-3 ?? 7 Re-Registries since last election ?? 17-24 New .. ...

POLICE INTELLIGENCE—MONDAY

... POLICE, INTELLIGENCE-MONDAY. MANSION-HOUSE. Mr. Holph 'Ricardo, Mr. W. A. lWilkinson, and Mr. James Wilson, A depututiozt from the Metropoltatiu Anti Corn- Law Associutlon, vialted upon the Lord Mayor, for the Purpose of eallng his lordship'ts attention to ahilmd-bill, pnr- p~orting to be issued by fin anti-corn-io-vc board, 29, Tckeff- hnoue-yord, an vidently intendled as a means of obtaining ...

DISCOVERY OF THE CAUSE OF THE FIRE AT DEVONPORT

... DISCOVERY OF THE CAUSE OF THE FIRB AT DRYoNPORT, I DEVONPORT, FRIDAY.-The lengtbened inquiry Into the causes of the fire has at last produced evidence suffl- eient, it is hoped, to prove that it arose from cau1*sesO ?? accidental. Nothing official has yet been publs5o. but enough has transpired to relieve the public mind. Frome the total destruction of the Talavera, anid of everything Im- ...

COURT MARTIAL ON CAPTAIN REYNOLDS

... IcOair MARTIAL ON CAPTAINnsEN(LDS1 SAT+BDAY. OCTOBER 3.Th; _ .. MAT5DAY, UCToaaEn 3.-This morning, at eleven o0 uck, the court resumed its sittings. The arrangements for the:accommodation of the press were admirable, the re- porters being admitted before the visitors. The ingress wias the same as yesterday, by getting in at the windows, which t had a most grotesque appearance. On the opening ...

MR. WILLIAM MARTIN

... At the Quarter Sessions for the North Riding of Yorkshire, on Nlonday week, the following correspondence, which has taken place between the Home Secretary and the Visiting Justices, relative to William Martin, a prisoner sentenced to imprisonment for a seditious libel at Sheffield, was produced and read, and after a long debate on the subject, was banded over to the reporters for publication. ...

POLICE INTELLIGENCE—SATURDAY

... POLICE INTELLIGYCfT-SATURDAY. MANSION HOUSE. A rough red-headed 1elulw, named Y homas Smitih, the cut of a emnuggler, was brought before the Lord Mayor, charged with having attempted to defraud Mr. Vceors, the wholesa!e and retail tobacconist, of No. 52, Aldoregate- street, by inducing him to purchase rabbish as tobacco. The complainant said that, tboat a fbrtnight 9go, the prisoner walked ...

COURT OF COMMON COUNCIL

... Yesterday a court was ?? for the purpose, amongst 3ther business, of receiving several reports of public importance. Mr. HlNTKR was anxious to know whether the chair- man of the City lands intended shortly to bring up a report relative to the vacant space of ground at the west end of Cheapside, or whether anything was in contem- plation with respect to the occupation of that portion of =round? ...

THE CARDIGAN DUEL

... It will be in the recollection (says the Globe) of our readers, that in the report which appeared in this journal on Thursday last, of the examination before the magistrates at Wandsworth, upon the occasion of the comnmittal of Captain Harvey Tuckett, Captain Page brought forward the question as to the equality of the weapons with which the combatants had fought, with a view of adducing ...

SURREY SESSIONS.—TUESDAY

... SURREY ,S'ESSIONS.-T''Uj ESDAY. Ll3efore Mr. Hedger and a 1l39ell ol Ntpiapstrateo.] 2'iorlaa Usherand James Ushier, two little boys, aged ten arid twelve years, weru indioted lor steli-g es Hetceft pounds weizht of lead, the preperty of their Iathir. The Chairman, treving ?? the 1iepneitillS FeiXila't the two yorrthfll prisorers, celled their fattier forward, who, in reply to the q'restiols ...

THE ATTEMPT TO FIRE SHEERNESS DOCKYARD

... THE ATTEMP T FIRE SHRERNESS I ~~DOCKYARD. [URtel OUB OWN CouIRESPONDENT.3 81neE1ttNESS, OCT. 7.-ln my letter ot yesterday I ac- qiaillted you with my intention to make a formal applica. tmin for aidrasion to the dockyard, and to the investigation, whith is to he resenmd to-morrow III the prerence oF the prisoner now in custody on the charge of firing the Cau- perttion. I ?? moraing wrote to ...