LONDON, MAY 20, 1854. Ax important bill now before Parliament, prepared and brought in by Mr. Headlam and Mr. Hutt, to "consolidate and amend the laws of mortmain, and the laws regulating gifts to charitable or religious purposes," by which it is proposed to repeal the 9 Geo. 2, e. 36, (commonly known as the Mortmain Act), demands at the present moment attentive consideration. It proposes to repeal the Mortmain Act, except as to instruments executed on or before the 1st November, 1854, (sect. 1), and to enact that the exemptions from that act are not to be applicable to the present bill, (sect. 17), but that the facilities given by the Sites of Schools Acts are to be continued, (sect. 4). By the 3rd section land may be conveyed, assigned, devised, or bequeathed to be used exclusively as a site for any church, chapel, churchyard, or parsonage-house belonging to the Established Church, or to be used exclusively as a site for any building to be devoted to purposes of religious worship, or for a burial-ground, or for a minister's house, by any sect or community, or as a school or college connected with any religious community, or as a site for any library, museum, or other building to be applied for the benefit of the public in the promotion of literature, science, or the fine arts, subject only to the following conditions, viz. That a copy of the conveyance, within one month after its execution, be delivered to the Charity Commissioners; or in case "the same has been left by will, then that within three months after the death of the testator, and a notice of the devise has come to any of the persons to whom the same has been devised, a copy of the VOL. XVIII. S PRICE 18. COURT OF QUEEN'S BENCH-(Continued). Reg. v. The Justices of Worcestershire.-(Highway, diverting or stopping up-Certificate of JusticesAppeal-Jurisdiction of Quarter Sessions-5 & 6 Will. 4, c. 50, 88. 84, 85, 89, 91)... BAIL COURT. Mitchell v. Hender.-(County Court-Concurrent Jurisdiction-Place of carrying on Business). COURT OF COMMON PLEAS. ...... Borrodaile v. Nelson.-(Practice-London County Court Act-Suggestion-Costs-Attorney's Privilege to sue in Actions above 201.-Rescinding Judge's Order).... COURT OF EXCHEQUER. 424 430 431 Watts v. Rees.-(Personal Representative-Set-off").. 433 434 devise shall be delivered to the Charity Commissioners." (Sect. 3). By the 5th section, where the quantity given for a site, under the 3rd section," shall be greater than in the opinion of the Court of Chancery is requisite, or shall be greater than is actually used for the purpose," power is given to recover in the Court of Chancery such portion of the land as is not so used, or is not so deemed requisite. The power to give sites for the purposes mentioned in the 3rd section seems to us in every way unobjectionable, inasmuch as no partiality is shewn to any sect or community. The mode, however, of testing whether the quantity of land given for a site is excessive, viz. leaving it to be determined by the arbitrary judgment of the Court of Chancery, without any rule either with reference to the actual quantity of land, or the proportion it bears either to the value or quantity of the donor's other property, is liable to great objection, as having a tendency to lead to continued litigation, embarrassing to the judges and unsatisfactory to the public. Power is then given to sell lands to trustees for charities, a copy of the conveyance one month after execution to be delivered to the Charity Commissioners. (Sect. 6). The alteration of the law proposed by this section seems to proceed upon the principle that the restrictions necessary in cases of voluntary gifts of land are not in general applicable where money already devoted to charity is laid out in land*. It seems, however, to be objectionable on this ground F that in process of time it either will put, ot have a *See Report of the Select Committee on the Law of Mort main, 1852. SALE.. tendency to put, a large extent of land in mortmain, and so take it out of circulation, the evils of which were, in our own country before the Reformation, and are in other countries at the present day, matters of notoriety. The mode in which it is proposed that land should be conveyed to charitable purposes is similar to that in sect. I of stat. 9 Geo. 2, c. 36, except that instead of inrolling the deed in Chancery "a copy of it is to be delivered to the Charity Commissioners within six calendar months next after execution thereof;" and although the deed is to contain no reservation for the life of the grantor, it omits what is contained in the statute of Geo. 2, "or of any person or persons claiming under him." (Sect. 7). It will be observed, that one important principle running all through the bill is, that the greatest publicity should be given to all trusts for charities; it therefore substitutes for inrolment in Chancery a very defective means of insuring publicity-the transmission of a copy of the inrolment to the Charity Commissioners. Another innovation is, that land held by way of mortgage may be given to the person to whom the mortgage money is given. (Sect. 8*). Except in the above-mentioned cases, no land, or any interest therein, is to be given on charitable trusts. (Sect. 9). Stock, money due upon mortgage, and all forms of personal estate connected with or savouring of realty, (except leasehold estates and chattel interests in land), may be given by any person during his lifetime to any charitable purpose, on the following conditions: The transfer, or other legal solemnity, must be complete three calendar months before the death of the donor, and notice of the amount transferred, and the purposes to which it is to be applied, must be given to the Charity Commissioners within one month after the transfer. (Sect. 10). All forms of personal property, except the particular descriptions mentioned in the 10th section, may be given to any charitable purpose by any person during his life, subject only to the following condition, viz. That whensoever any gift is made for the purpose of founding any new charitable institution, the trusts whereof are declared by any deed, instrument, or writing, such deed, instrument, or writing is to be deemed void from the death of the donor, and the property so given is to be held at his death to be part of his estate, unless a copy of such deed, instrument, or writing has, during his life, been deposited with the Charity Commissioners. (Sect. 11). Specific legacies for the promotion of art may be given without restraint. (Sect. 12). Any description of personal estate may be bequeathed to any charitable purpose, subject to the following condition : That the will should be duly executed and attested three months before the death of the testator, and that, within one month after the death, or the execution thereof, a notice, signed by the testator, of the amount so given, and the nature of the trust to which it is given, is to be delivered to the Charity Commissioners. (Sect. 12). Trustees of charities must sell within a reasonable time mortgaged land to which they become absolutely entitled. (Sect. 14). Defective execution of powers by will in favour of charities are to be no longer aided in equity. (Sect. 15). Except in the cases before provided for, no personal estate is to be given or bequeathed to a charity. (Sect. 16). In order that the charitable or religious purposes to * It will be seen in a subsequent section that such land must be aliened within a certain number of years. which any property is devoted should not be kept secret, trustees are rendered personally liable for the rents and profits, if they should wilfully omit to give the notices to the Charity Commissioners required by the act, by a suit at the instance of those who would be entitled in the absence of the trusts; or in the event of their neglect for five years, by a suit at the instance of the Attorney-General. (Sect. 18). The provisions in the 18th and some of the preceding sections will go far to prevent the occurrence of such cases as that of Metairie v. Wiseman. They will prevent many a gift, extorted from persons under the influence of superstitious fears, or the weakness occa sioned by approaching death, and will enable relatives of the donor either to contest a gift which they believe to have been improperly obtained, or to see that it is applied to the purposes for which it was destined. Provisions are then made for curing the defects in the title to land heretofore bonâ fide sold, (sect. 19), or given (sects. 20, 21) for charitable purposes. It then repeals the act for chantries collegiate. (Sect. 22). The next section enables corporations to advance money on the security of real estate, (sect. 23), and to avail themselves of these securities by foreclosure or otherwise; but they will incur a forfeiture of the land unless they sell it within five years. (Sect. 24). The Charity Commissioners must acknowledge the receipt of all documents forwarded to them under the above provision, and their receipt is to be evidence of delivery, (sect. 25); and they must also register the notices given to them under the act; but notices of gifts by will to charitable purposes are not to be acces sible to the public during the life of the testator, nor are the same to be made accessible after his death if he shall have revoked such charitable gifts. (Sect. 26). With reference to this section we must observe, that although the bill carefully provides for the public not having access to the register of charitable gifts in some cases, it does not, except inferentially, provide for their access in cases in which it appears to be the object of the act that there should be the greatest publicity. Lastly, the bill is not to apply to Scotland or Ireland. (Sect. 27). Upon what principle is the bill confined to England? Why should Scotland and Ireland be exempted from its operation? It is true, that the act of Geo. 2 was not extended to Scotland or Ireland; but if the present is a good measure, the fact of there not having formerly existed one of a somewhat similar character in those countries seems to be no reason why they should be deprived of its benefit now. If it be bad, why should England submit to it? Judges have occasionally said, in remarking upon the Mortmain Act, that its policy was not applicable to our colonies, or to Scotland and Ireland. That, however, seems to be an assumption far from correct; but, like many others proceeding from the Bench, because it becomes law it is yielded to, without doubt, as an authority. Why, however, the Mortmain Act, and, above all, the bill we have before been examining, should not be considered applicable, at any rate, to Ireland, where the same laws prevail, and where there are at least as many evils to be guarded against, seems difficult to say. The principle of the bill is to prevent gifts to charitable or religious purposes being made by persons in extremis, or without due consideration; to give publicity to these gifts; and to see that by no secret or evasive administration by trustees they should be applied in a manner not contemplated by the donor. It is true, that in Scotland there is a wholesome restriction upon dispositions made to the prejudice of the heir by a person on his deathbed. That, however, is not the case in Ireland. It may, however, be said that one Christian community in Ireland is not endowed, and that every facility should be given to its priesthood to obtain endowments for their religious and charitable institutions. The same reasoning would, however, apply to the cases of various communities of Dissenters in England. The bill, however, does not seek to prevent gifts to charitable or religious purposes; it seeks only to prevent the exercise of undue influence in obtaining them; and there seems to be no reason why in Ireland opportunities should be afforded to any religious sect to obtain from the dying penitent gifts which might be represented as covering a multitude of sins; or why conventual communities should be tempted to withdraw themselves from the contemplation of celes-, tial things by exertions to draw or retain within their precincts the wealthy widow or the youthful heiress, carefully trained and cautiously led into the regions of religious romance. an injunction to restrain the setting up of the legal estate. The case is different where the deed is declared void on such grounds of fraud as would invalidate it at law, and the Court is merely exercising that jurisdiction which it has concurrently with Courts of law. Here the conveyance was declared void in equity as being a breach of trust. If the conveyance had been void at law, the question as to improvements could not have arisen. But granting that the decree could defeat the legal operation of the deed by relation, that, under the circumstances, would not have afforded the desired relief to the charity, for the defendants had a clear and admitted legal title by adverse possession, independently of any conveyance; and the information sought relief against that title, on the ground of the charitable trust. That relief, beyond the account of the rents and profits, seems to have been denied them. The most interesting question in the case was, how THE BAR OF CHARITABLE TRUSTS BY THE ever, that which arose on the plea of the Statute of STATUTE OF LIMITATIONS. In the case of The Attorney-General v. Magdalen College, Oxford, (18 Jur., part 1, p. 363), the Master of the Rolls lately decided that the Statute of Limitations, 3 & 4 Will. 4, c. 27, is incapable of operation in favour of a title by possession adverse to a charitable trust, when the trust is of such a nature that it can only be enforced by information. The principle of the decision seems to go further, and to involve the proposition once asserted by Lord St. Leonards, (The Incorporated Society v. Richards, 1 Dru. & W. 258), but afterwards retracted, (The Commissioners of Charitable Donations v. Wybrants, 2 Jo. & Lat. 196), that trusts for public charities are not within the statute. The decision was made in an information on the relation of certain inhabitants respectively of the parishes of St. Olave and St. John, Horselydown, (formed out of the ancient parish of St. Olave), seeking to set aside a deed of conveyance of the 3rd March, 1790, whereby certain charity land was absolutely conveyed to the Master and Fellows of Magdalen College. It appeared that for upwards of a century before the conveyance the rents of the land had been applied for the benefit of the poor of the parish; but the origin of the trust and the title to the legal estate were not shewn. The convey- | ance in question was a feoffment in fee in consideration of a perpetual annuity of 15l. The purchasers entered into possession and levied a fine, and had continued in possession up to the time of the information. The defendants relied on the sufficiency of the consideration, the fine, and their title by possession under the Statute of Limitations. The decree declared the conveyance void, directed it to be delivered up to be cancelled, an account of the rents and profits since the filing of the information, and the land (which was covered by buildings extending to other land) to be marked out by metes and bounds. The question as to the defendants' right to an inquiry as to improvements was left open. The information asked for a reconveyance; but the Master of the Rolls said, "As respects the reconveyance of the property, I expressed my opinion at the hearing, that the declaration of the Court, declaring the deed to be void, and delivering it up to be cancelled, would revest the estate. I expressed my opinion to that effect in the case of Hoghton v. Hoghton, (17 Jur., part 1, p. 99; 15 Beav. 321), that where a deed was marked cancelled' by the Court, the parties were put in exactly the same position as if such deed had never been executed." In this respect the decree seems to have been erroneous. A decree, declaring a conveyance of the legal estate to be void on equitable grounds, and the subsequent cancellation of the deed, cannot revest the legal estate, though it may entitle any party claiming the benefit of the decree to Limitations. It was admitted that at law the defendants had a good title, either under the conveyance and fine, or under the Statute of Limitations. As to the bar of the remedy under the trust, the enactments in point are the 24th and 25th sections of stat. 3 & 4 Will. 4, c. 27. Sect. 24 enacts generally, that "no person claiming any land or rent in equity shall bring any suit to recover the same, but within the period during which" he might have recovered at law, if his title had been legal; but by sect. 25, "when any land or rent shall be vested in a trustee upon any express trust, the right of the cestui que trust or any person claiming through him, to bring a suit against the trustee or any person claiming through him, to recover such land or rent, shall be deemed to have first accrued, according to the meaning of this act, at and not before the time at which such land or rent shall have been conveyed to a purchaser for a valuable consideration, and shall then be deemed to have accrued only as against such purchaser and any person claiming through him." The operation of this provision seems perfectly clear. It prevents time from operating as a bar to equitable claims under an express trust against the trustee, or those deriving title from him other than purchasers for value-i. e. purchasers for value with notice; for the want of notice would be a defence independently of the statute. "Any person claiming under the trustee❞ must mean, in all cases where the defendant relies on the legal estate, a person deriving the legal estate from the trustee. But if the defendant has been let into possession by the trustee without a valid conveyance, so that the trustee can at any moment eject him, then, as both his legal and (by the hypothesis) his equitable titles are invalid, he cannot, either while his possession is ripening into a legal title under the statute, or afterwards, be said to claim under the trustee; and the 25th section is not applicable in letter or in spirit, and possession adverse to the cestui que trust may be relied on. (See The Attorney-General v. Flint, 4 Hare, 149, where the true grounds of the decision are not perhaps very clearly expressed). In a suit against the trustee and a third person who alleges a title through the trustee, lapse of time is no defence under the statute to the trustee, and no defence to his co-defendant, unless he makes out his title as purchaser for value at the commencement of the enjoyment on which he relies. But if he makes out a title, not through the trustee, but adverse to him as well as to the cestui que trust, as by adverse possession during twenty years, and also shews possession adverse to the cestui que trust, then he does not come within the terms of the 25th section, for his defence is that of a legal title, which was never bound by the trust. This, if we may venture to differ from the very able and learned judge who decided the case, appears to have been the position of the defendants in The Attorney-General v. Magdalen College, on the assumption (which seems to us the proper one) that the conveyance of 1790 was inoperative at law. They had a legal title by adverse possession, which was not bound by the trust. If, on the other hand, the conveyance was operative at law, the remedy of the cestui que trust was barred, because the college, being purchasers for value, were entitled, under the 25th section, to the benefit of the statute, assuming that it was capable of operating against such cestui que trust. This conclusion would have been allowed by the Master of the Rolls if the trust had been of a private nature; but the Court held that the trust in question did not come within the statute at all, because the information was not "a suit by a person claiming the land in equity," or rather, as the Court put it, because "there had not existed any person or class of persons, other than the Attorney-General, who, since the date of the conveyance in 1790, could by themselves indivi-churchwardens and overseers and the rector, if maindually have instituted any proceedings for the purpose of redressing the wrong which had been inflicted on these parishes by the alienation of the property;" and because, "where no such person or class of persons existed, the stat. 3 & 4 Will. c. 27, does not bar a suit by the Attorney-General, whether ex officio, or at the relation of others, to redress the injury.' The condition in the second proposition implies, that though an information is not a suit within the statute, the remedy by information would be barred by the effect of the statute in cases of charitable trusts enforceable directly at the suit of objects of the charity, without the intervention of the Attorney-General; and if trusts for public charities are within the act at all, this appears to be a logical deduction from the 34th section, which bars the right as well as the remedy; so that an information, though not (according to the doctrine of the Master of the Rolls) a remedy within the scope of the act, must fail if it is founded on a right originally enforceable by means of a remedy within the act, which right is extinguished by the bar of that remedy. his Honor said, "For the defendants it was urged In support of the conclusion that the trust was not within the statute, the Court relied, first, on the rule existing prior to the statute, that time is no bar to a If it is said that this is a narrow construction, and charitable trust; secondly, on the omission of any ex- that the objects of the charity are substantially parties press reference to charitable trusts in the statute; and, to the suit, which is brought for their benefit, and that thirdly, on the inapplicability of the expressions used in other cases the equity of the statute has been applied in the statute to the case of an information. The 24th to cases not within its letter-as where it was held that section limits the time within which any person the statute was a good defence to a claim by a defendclaiming any land or rent in equity" may bring any ant, although he could not be said to have brought the suit to recover the same. The word "person" is by suit-the answer is, first, that the case of a defendant the interpretation clause extended to a corporation, and falls within the letter of the 34th section, which extinto a class of persons as well as to an individual. After guishes the right as well as the remedy; and, secondly, referring to the doctrine of Lord St. Leonards in The that the case of a charity is not analogous to any case Attorney-General v. Persse, (2 Dru. & W. 67), that time expressly provided for. A charity is, in effect, a legal does not begin to run against a cestui que trust until there perpetuity. Every object of the charity, as he comes is some person in existence who is entitled to claim*, into existence, has an original claim under the trust, * In The Attorney-General v. Persse, a testator, having objects; he has a new right, and there is no bar under not in any way derived through other prior or existing devised the lands of Ballinruane to R. P. for life, remainder to B. P. in tail, gave to his executor 50l. to build a school on the the statute analogous to the defeating of such a right lands of Merton, in Galway, and charged the devised lands by anticipation. Even in the case of creditors, who are with a yearly rent-charge of 251., to be paid thereout, as a expressly included as a class in the scope of the word salary to a schoolmaster for the said school, which school-person," the time does not begin to run against an master should be in the nomination of the person for the time individual debt, payable on a contingency or in future, being in possession of the estates in Galway, (apparently dif- until the time for payment has arrived. That the ferent estates from those charged with the rent-charge), with a Legislature has omitted to provide a bar in the case of power to the schoolmaster to enter and distrain for arrears. charities may be strange and inconvenient; but the More than twenty years having elapsed, and no school having Court of Chancery is justified by the authorities in not been built or schoolmaster appointed, it was held that the extending the statute by analogy to charitable trusts. statute was no defence to an information seeking, among other And here a consideration occurs adverse to the sugges things, an account of the rent-charge, because (assuming that charities were within the statute) the time could not begin to tion, that if there had been a direct remedy for a cestui run until there was a person to claim the benefit of the trust. Drew. 395) seems to be, that a charge on property in the hands It will be observed that the rent-charge was in terms legal, of the beneficial donee does not constitute an express trust but it was necessarily void at law for want of a defined donee. within the 25th section, but is left to the general operation of It was held good in equity as a trust. If a trust, it was an the 24th section. In that view the decision of The Attorneyexpress trust, and so protected by the 25th section. But the General v. Persse appears to stand on the same ground as that better view (see 2 Jo. & Lat. 191, 197; Petre v. Petre, 1 in The Attorney-General v. Magdalen College. que trust the statute would have operated. Suppose that in The Attorney-General v. Persse a schoolmaster had been appointed, and (to avoid the question in Grant v. Ellis, 9 M. & W. 113) that the trust had been of a house of residence instead of an annuity, the schoolmaster, omitting for twenty years, whether by collusion or by neglect, to recover possession, would clearly have been barred for the term of his appointment; and during that term an information could scarcely have been maintainable, or, if maintainable, would probably not be instituted. To allow the statute to operate as a bar in such a case would be objectionable; and generally it may be said, that the case of a charity is much more like that of a benefice than that of an ordinary holding, and should be regulated by analogous rules of limitation. G. S. London Gazettes. FRIDAY, MAY 12. BANKRUPTS. EDWARD ARTHUR WEEKS and ALFRED WILLIAM GEORGE WEEKS, Park-cottage, King's-road, Chelsea, Middlesex, horticultural builders and hot-water apparatus manufacturers, May 23 at 1, and June 29 at 12, Court of Bankruptcy, London: Off. Ass. Johnson; Sol. Fesenmeyer, 23, Bedford-row.-Petition filed May 9. FREDERICK SCOTSON, Aldermanbury, London, and Maiden-lane, Southampton-st., Strand, Middlesex, tavern and hotel keeper, victualler, dealer and chapman, May 23 at half-past 1, and June 29 at 1, Court of Bankruptcy, London: Off. Ass. Johnson; Sols. Van Sandau & Cumming, King-street, Cheapside.-Petition filed April 11. JAMES THOMAS SHAYLER, St. John-street-road, St. James, Clerkenwell, furrier, and Little Saffron-hill, St. Andrew, Holborn, Middlesex, skin dyer, May 18 at 11, and June 24 at 12, Court of Bankruptcy, London: Off. Ass. Nicholson; Sol. Fesenmeyer, 23, Bedford-row.-Peti- | tion dated May 9. GOWEN CLIFFORD, Strood, Kent, builder, May 18 at RICHARD BREVITT, Coventry, ironmonger, May 23 and RICHARD FAIRBOURN, Preston, Lancashire, wholesale MEETINGS. John Harrison, Sunderland, Durham, licensed victualler, May 23 at half-past 11, District Court of Bankruptcy, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, last ex.-James Sivyer, Stratford, Essex, grocer, May 24 at 12, Court of Bankruptcy, London, aud. ac.; June 5 at 1, div.-Walter Fitch Hart, Brighton and Worthing, Sussex, tailor, May 24 at 12, Court of BankCharles Clarke, Norwich, brewer and maltster, May 24 at ruptcy, London, aud. ac.; June 5 at half-past 12, div.11, Court of Bankruptcy, London, aud. ac. Frederick Mayston, Great Yarmouth, Norfolk, grocer, May 24 at 11, Court of Bankruptcy, London, aud. ac.-Mier Levy, Little Alie-street, Goodman's-fields, Middlesex, tailor, May 24 at 11, Court of Bankruptcy, London, aud. ac.- Carnaby T. Ansdell, Barnet, Middlesex, coach proprietor, May 26 at 11, Court of Bankruptcy, London, aud. ac.-John Frater, Manchester, brewer, May 23 at 12, District Court of Bankruptcy, Manchester, aud. ac.; June 13 at 12, div.-M. Wood and J. Wilding, Openshaw, Lancashire, boiler makers, June 1 at 12, District Court of Bankruptcy, Manchester, aud. ac. joint est. and sep. ests.-N. Crook, Preston, Lancashire, tailor, May 25 at 12, District Court of Bankruptcy, Manchester, aud. ac. -Daniel Coe, Ardwick, Manchester, grocer, May 25 at 12, District Court of Bankruptcy, Manchester, aud. ac.-James Pollitt the younger, Manchester, maker-up and packer, June 1 at 12, District Court of Bankruptcy, Manchester, aud. ac. Wm. Potter, Birkenhead, Cheshire, and Liverpool, merchant, May 23 at 11, District Court of Bankruptcy, Liverpool, aud. ac.-John Pointon, Monks Coppenhall, Cheshire, innkeeper, May 22 at 12, District Court of Bankruptcy, Liverpool, aud. ac.-Wm. Shuttleworth, Bradford, Yorkshire, stuff manufacturer, June 5 at 12, District Court of Bankruptcy, Leeds, aud. ac.; June 6 at 11, div.-Daniel Edgar Monies, Liverpool, broker, May 25 at 11, District Court of Bankruptcy, Liverpool, aud. ac.-John Andrew Christian Reimann and John Gerard Geller, Liverpool, merchants, May 25 at 11, District Court of Bankruptcy, Liverpool, aud. ac.-Thomas Wm. Thame, Greenwich, Kent, ironmonger, June 5 at 11, Court of Bankruptcy, London, div.-Christian Druke, Garlick-hill, London, drysalter, June 5 at half-past 11, Court of Bankruptcy, London, div. CERTIFICATES. To be allowed, unless Cause be shewn to the contrary on or before the Day of Meeting. Henry Groom, Bray, Berkshire, miller, June 5 at 12, Court of Bankruptcy, London. — James Rogers, Orchardstreet, Harrow-road, Paddington, Middlesex, mason, June 2 at half-past 1, Court of Bankruptcy, London.-Joseph Carter, Gloucester, scrivener, June 6 at 11, District Court of Bankruptcy, Bristol.-Joseph Flint, Sheffield, Yorkshire, shoe manufacturer, June 3 at 10, District Court of Bankruptcy, Sheffield.-Edwin Cottrill, Redditch, Worcestershire, dealer and chapman, June 5 at 10, District Court of Bankruptcy, Birmingham.-Thomas G. Crofts, Leicester, draper, June 2 at 10, District Court of Bankruptcy, Nottingham. To be granted, unless an Appeal be duly entered. Henry Shead, Witham, Essex, miller.-George Winter and James Winter, Hastings, Sussex, builders.-Charles Housley, Broad-street, Golden-square, Middlesex, surgeon. — John Whitmey, Birkenhead, Cheshire, currier.-John Kay, Prestwich, near Manchester, calico printer.- Isaac Dewhirst, Halifax, Yorkshire, commission agent. SCOTCH SEQUESTRATION. John Wm. Deans, Edinburgh, tea dealer. INSOLVENT DEBTORS Who have filed their Petitions in the Court of Bankruptcy, and have obtained an Interim Order for Protection from Process. Joseph Wilton, Bristol, general-shop keeper, May 18 at half-past 10, County Court of Gloucestershire, at Bristol.-D. Keeling, Wilmslow, Cheshire, farmer, June 16 at 11, Cononley, County Court of Cheshire, at Knutsford.-James Munday, Kildwick, Yorkshire, tea dealer, May 26 at 10, County Court of Yorkshire, at Skipton.-Joseph Borrow, Bishopwearmouth, Durham, sawyer, May 24 at 10, County Court of Durham, at Sunderland.-James Roberts, Selattyn, Shropshire, grocer, May 27 at 10, County Court of Shropshire, at Oswestry.Edward Brackenbury, Horncastle, Lincolnshire, schoolmaster, June 7 at 12, County Court of Lincolnshire, at Horncastle.-William Clarke, Bury St. Edmunds, Suffolk, tailor, |
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