No. 506-VOL. X. SEPTEMBER 19, 1846. PRICE 18. The following are the Names of the Gentlemen who favour THE JURIST with Reports of Cases argued and decided in the several Courts of Law and Equity: LONDON, SEPTEMBER 19, 1846. it*. Another maxim or proposition is, that no state or nation can by its laws directly affect or bind property out of its own territory, or bind persons not resident ENGLISH lawyers have often been reproached, and, we therein, whether they are natural-born subjects or must confess, not without reason, for their too exclu- others. This, indeed, is truly said, by the author above sive study of their own legal system, and inattention quoted, to be a natural consequence of the first propoto, or, it may almost be said, ignorance of the laws of sition, for it would be wholly incompatible with the other countries, and the general principles of jurispru- equality and exclusiveness of the sovereignty of all nadence. In this respect they are certainly far behind tions, that any one nation should be at liberty to regutheir continental and American brethren. For in- late either persons or things not within its own terristance, the subject of international law has never been tory. If nations had no intercourse with each other, systematically treated of by any English writer, and, and it did not happen that contracts, marriages, testaprior to the time of Lord Hardwicke and Lord Mans-ments, and successions to intestates' estates are common field, was almost unknown in our courts. Nor until the recent establishment by the Middle Temple of the Lectureship on Jurisprudence and Civil Law has it apparently ever been regarded as forming a necessary part of the education of an English advocate. Lately, indeed, Mr. Burge, in his valuable Commentaries on Colonial and Fo-contract, valid by the laws of the country where it is reign Law, has discussed many of its topics, but this only in connexion with the main object of his work. And it is remarkable, that, in a country possessing a colonial empire so extensive, and governed by so great a variety of laws, a work of even that character should have been so long wanting. It will probably be new, therefore, to many of our readers, to discuss one of the first principles of international law, viz. that by which the force and obligation that ought to be given in any country to the laws of foreign states are to be determined. Its first and most general maxim or proposition is, that every nation possesses an exclusive sovereignty and urisdiction within its own territory. And its laws affect and bind directly all property, whether real or personal, within its territory, and all persons who are resident within it, whether natural-born subjects or aliens, and also all contracts made and acts done within VOL. X. J J among persons belonging to countries whose laws are different and even opposite on the same subjects, there would be no occasion to seek for the third maxim or proposition, which is the foundation of international law. But, as this is not the case, and as, for instance, a made, is often sought to be enforced in another country by the laws of which it is positively prohibited, or a marriage may be contracted in a country the laws of which require the parties to have arrived at the age of twenty-one years, which they have, but one of them is the subject of a country whose laws require the contracting parties to be of the age of twenty-five years, we are driven to seek for rules to govern such cases:-to determine, in the former instance, whether the contract can be enforced; in the latter, whether the marriage is valid, and, if so, whether only where it is celebrated, and not in the other country, or, generally, in all countries. We have therefore to inquire, what are the principles upon which the laws of one country have any force or obligation in another. The continental jurists have attempted to find these *Story's Conflict of Laws, ch. 2, § 18. a higher principle,-a paramount moral duty, which would, in certain cases, justify the use of physical force. This objection has been stated by Dr. Schaffner, in a work published in 1841, at Frankfort-on-theMain, intitled “Entwicklung des Internationalen Privatrechts," (Development of Private International Law), and will probably become the subject of much discussion among jurists. We have observed that the distinctions of the con do not of themselves furnish a foundation for their force or obligation in foreign countries; but they may be useful guides in the exercise of the comitas gentium,the voluntary consent,-if that be the real foundation; or in the ascertaining the dictates of the paramount moral duty, if that should be adopted. And in this way they have been used in a very learned work published at Paris in 1843, intitled "Traité du Droit International Privé, ou du Conflit des Lois des différentes Nations en Matière de Droit Privé:" by Dr. Fælix. And, probably, in this point of view, the researches of the jurists of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries will be found of the utmost value; and, in a matter which, whether we adopt the comity of nations or the paramount moral duty, seems incapable of being settled on certain principles, and to admit, in the application of its rules to particular cases, of great diversities of opinion, will furnish us with the best means of determining to what extent, and in what cases, the laws of a foreign country ought to be regarded. in the nature of the laws themselves. They have divided statutes (by which term is meant not the positive legislation which, with us, is known by that name, but the whole municipal law of the particular state) into three classes: personal, real, and mixed. "Personal statutes are those which have principally for their object the person, and treat only of property inci dentally, such as those which regard birth, legitimacy, freedom, the right of instituting suits, majority as to age, incapacity to contract, to make a will, to plead intinental jurists as to the personality and reality of laws proper person, &c. Real statutes are those which have principally for their object property, and which do not speak of persons except in relation to property; such as those which concern the disposition which one may make of his property, either while he is living or by testament. Mixed statutes are those which concern at once persons and property." Personal statutes were held by them to be of general obligation and force everywhere, and real statutes to have no extra-territorial force or obligation. Mixed statutes, though nominally forming a separate class, appear to have been dealt with according to the predominancy of the real or personal quality. But, in the application of this classification to particular cases, there has been much diversity of opinion even amongst those who have adopted it; and, notwithstanding their ability, they have failed in fixing any certain principles. Indeed, the doctrine that the real or personal quality of a law ought to determine whether it should have authority or not beyond the territory of the state to which it belongs, is probably more fanciful than sound. The maxim or proposition laid down by Huberus, in his Treatise De Conflictu Legum, and adopted by Mr. Justice Story, is, that, whatever force and obligation the laws of one country have in another depend solely upon the laws and municipal regulations of the latter, that is to say, upon its own proper jurisprudence and polity, and upon its own express or tacit consent; but the difficulty is to ascertain by what principles this consent, express or tacit, is to be regulated. As to these, the axiom of Huberus is, that the rulers of every empire, from comity, admit that the laws of every people in force within its own limits ought to have the same force everywhere, so far as they do not prejudice the powers or rights of other governments, or of their citizens*. And this has been adopted by Mr. Justice Story in his excellent work, who says, "There is, then, not only no impropriety in the use of the phrase, Comity of nations,' but it is the most appropriate phrase to express the true foundation and extent of the obligation of the laws of one nation within the territories of another. It is derived altogether from the voluntary consent of the latter, and is inadmissible when it is contrary to its own policy or prejudicial to its interest."+ It has, however, been objected to by some writers. They have thought that the term "comity" is not sufficiently expressive of the obligation of nations to give effect to foreign laws, when they are not prejudicial to their own rights and interests,-that it is too general and vague to be the foundation of a perfect right or compulsory law; and they have sought to rest the obligation upon * Lib. 1, tit. 3, De Conflictu Legum. In the application of these rules to particular cases of conflict of laws, there is much to interest legal minds; and, having thus adverted to the subject, we shall in some future Number prosecute it further. Correspondence. TO THE EDITOR OF "THE JURIST." Sir, The judgment in the case of Lowe v. Steele (15° Law Journ., N. S., Exch., 244) must have excited considerable surprise in the profession, because it, in effect, repeals a portion of an act of Parliament. The Law Amendment Act authorised the judges, from time to time, to make rules for alterations in the mode of plead ing, &c., and such rules were to be laid before Parlisment six weeks before they began to operate. Certain rules were accordingly made, and laid before Parlia ment for the time specified, after which they became part of the act of Parliament. The 21st section of that act declares, that it shall be lawful for the defendant, in all personal actions, (except actions for assault, &c.), to pay into court a sum money, by way of compensation or amends, in such of costs and the form of pleading, as the judges, or eight manner and under such regulations, as to the payment to be from time to time made, order and direct. Under or more of them, shall, by any rules or orders by them this section, the Reg. Gen., H. T., 4 Will. 4, were promulgated, and r. 17 prescribed the form of the plea of pay ment of money into court, which was to be as near as that form, so far as concerns the subject of this letter, may be in the form there given, mutatis mutandis. Now is on all fours with the one given by the Reg. Gen T. T., 1 Vict. This latter form is copied, without an observation on the point in question, into all the books of practice and of pleading, and, being a statutory rule, ought, in my humble opinion, to have been upheld in the present case. We may, I think, reasonably infer that the collective wisdom of the judges in framing, and the Legislature in sanctioning this rule, have used terms sufficiently comprehensive to meet the objection made by Mr. Cowling in Lowe v. Steele. It is remarkable, moreover, that the late Mr. Chitty, who wrote early and fully on the statutes relating to pleading and practice, and all the other pleaders who have followed in his wake, have in no instance considered the plea insufficient for all purposes within its limits. The Chief Baron himself, on the first, and, I conceive, best impression, inquired, "Is not this plea good if it follows the form given by the rule of court? Those rules have the force of an act of Parliament." An observation more forcible and apposite could scarcely have been made. It was replied, that if this plea CAP. XLI. An Act for granting to her Majesty, until the 5th Day of Sep- CAP. XLII. An Act to authorise a Loan from the Consolidated Fund to the CAP. XLIII. An Act to suspend until the 1st Day of October, 1847, the making of Lists and the Ballots and Enrolments for the Militia of the United Kingdom. [7th August, 1846.] CAP. XLIV. were allowed, the plaintiff would be without remedy An Act to remove Doubts as to the Election of Members to for "interest." I think that proposition is not law, because the plaintiff might, I submit, have replied damages ultra, and if on the trial the plaintiff had proved interest to be due, he would have been entitled to a verdict as for substantial damages: if no interest were due, the averment in the plea, "that the defendant was not indebted in any greater amount," was true, and the plaintiff could not claim the shilling nominal damages, because the plea was a sufficient answer. If, in a plea of payment of money into court in an action of debt, the words "that the defendant never was indebted to the plaintiff to a greater amount," &c. are not deemed sufficient to cover damages for the detention of the debt, I would suggest that the general plea of nunquam indebitatus be altered by inserting the words "that the defendant never was indebted, nor has the plaintiff sustained damages, in manner and form" &c.; for, if the nunquam indebitatus in the general plea be a sufficient denial of damages for the detention of the debt, why should it not be so in the principal case? If the plaintiff fails to establish a debt, he fails in obtaining damages in the one case as in the other. Baron Alderson, indeed, says, "If the doctrine which Mr. Cowling contends for, is correct, the plea of nil debet was a bad plea, because it did not cover the damages." It is much to be regretted that the ingenuity of counsel should have been allowed to prevail against the common sense contained in this statutory form,-framed and approved of by so many learned judges,-written upon by a numerous class of practical lawyers,-and apparently prevailing against the first impression of the learned barons who decided the case. J. C. G. PUBLIC GENERAL STATUTES. 9 & 10 VICTORIE.-SESSION 6. CAP. XXXVIII. An Act to empower the Commissioners of her Majesty's Woods CAP. XXXIX. An Act to enable the Commissioners of her Majesty's Woods to construct an Embankment and Roadway on the North Shore of the River Thames from Battersea Bridge to Vauxhall Bridge, and to build a Suspension Bridge over the said River at or near Chelsea Hospital, with suitable Approaches thereto, including a Street from Lower Sloane-street to the Northern Extremity of the Bridge. [3rd August, 1846.] CAP. XL. An Act to declare certain Ropeworks not within the Operation serve in Parliament for the County of Chester, the Boroughs CAP. XLV. An Act to continue until the 1st Day of September, 1847, cer tain of the Provisions of an Act of the fifth and sixth Years of her present Majesty, for amending the Constitution of the Government of Newfoundland. [7th August, 1846.] CAP. XLVI. An Act to continue until the 31st Day of December, 1851, an CAP. LIV. An Act to extend to all Barristers practising in the Superior Courts at Westminster the Privileges of Serjeants at Law in the Court of Common Pleas. [18th August, 1846.] Whereas it would tend to the more equal distribution, and to the consequent despatch of business in the superior courts of common law at Westminster, and would, at the same time, be greatly for the benefit of the public, if the right of barristers at law to practise, plead, and to be heard extended equally to all the said courts; but, by reason of the exclusive privilege of serjeants at law to practise, plead, and have audience in the Court of Common Pleas at Westminster during term time, such object cannot be effected without the authority of Parliament: be it therefore enacted, by the Queen's most excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the lords spiritual and temporal, and commons in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, that, from and after the passing of this act, all barristers at law, according to their respective rank and seniority, shall and may have and exercise equal rights and privilege of practising, pleading, and audience in the said Court of Common Pleas at Westminster with the said serjeants at law; and it shall be lawful for the justices of the said court, or any three of them, of whom the Lord Chief Justice of the said court shall be one, to make rules and orders, and to do all other things necesssary for giving effect to this enactment. CAP. LV. An Act to defray, until the 1st day of August, 1847, the CAP. LVI. An Act to provide Forms of Proceedings under the Acts re- (To be continued). London Gazettes. TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 15. BANKRUPts. HENRY DRYSDALE, Lamb's Conduit-street, Middlesex, HENRY DEVERILL, Stoke-upon-Trent, Staffordshire, and WILLIAM WARBURTON, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, grocer MEETINGS. John Boulton, Ashton-under-Lyne, Lancashire, carrier, Oct. 2 at 12, District Court of Bankruptcy, Manchester, last ex.-John Taylor, Hollingwood, near Oldham, and Manchester, rope manufacturer, Oct. 8 at 12, District Court of Bankruptcy, Manchester, last ex.-Robert Priestley, Manchester and Ardwick, grocer, Oct. 7 at 12, District Court of Bankruptcy, Manchester, aud. ac.-James Wilkinson, Manchester, grocer, Oct. 7 at 12, District Court of Bankruptcy, Manchester, aud. ac.-Wm. B. Gaskell, Birmingham, draper, Oct. 8 at 12, District Court of Bankruptcy, Manchester, aud. ac.Charles Moyle, Whitchurch, Shropshire, linendraper, Oct. 9 at 12, District Court of Bankruptcy, Manchester, aud. ac.— Anne Casacuberta, Manchester, merchant, Oct. 8 at 12, District Court of Bankruptcy, Manchester, aud. ac.; Oct. 9 at 12, fin. div.-George Williams, Bristol, watch maker, Oct. 8 at 11, District Court of Bankruptcy, Bristol, aud. ac.John Stevenson, Manchester, tobacconist, Oct. 6 at 11, District Court of Bankruptcy, Liverpool, aud. ac.—Edmondson Cooban, Liverpool, common brewer, Oct. 6 at 11, District Court of Bankruptcy, Liverpool, aud. ac.--John Riky, Liverpool, merchant, Oct. 6 at 11, District Court of Bankruptcy, Liverpool, aud. ac.-Frederick Cordaroy, Liverpool, hatter, Oct. 5 at 11, District Court of Bankruptcy, Liverpool, aud. ac.-Robert Westmore, West Derby, near Liverpool, joiner, Oct. 7 at 11, District Court of Bankruptcy, Liverpool, aud. ac.-Cuthbert Taylor and Thos. Hawkey, Monkwearmouth Shore, Durham, ship builders, Oct. 8 at half-past 10, District Court of Bankruptcy, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, aud. ac.-W. Fordyce, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, bookseller, Oct. 8 at 11, District Court of Bankruptcy, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, aud. ac.John Simpson, Talentire, Cumberland, ship owner, Oct. 8 at half-past 11, District Court of Bankruptcy, Newcastle-uponTyne, aud. ac.-Henry Roe, Liverpool, goldsmith, Oct. 6 at 11, District Court of Bankruptcy, Liverpool, div.—John Stevenson, Manchester, tobacconist, Oct. 6 at 12, District Court of Bankruptcy, Liverpool, div.-J. J. Ayton, South Shields, Durham, linen draper, Oct. 9 at half-past 10, District Court of Bankruptcy, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, fin. div.-J. Taylor, Middlesbrough, Yorkshire, coal fitter, Oct. 9 at half-past 11, District Court of Bankruptcy, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, div.Thos. Snaith and George Snaith, Bishop Auckland, Durham, ironmongers, Oct. 8 at 12, District Court of Bankruptcy, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, div.-James Blacket, Stokesley, Yorkshire, flax spinner, Oct. 8 at 1, District Court of Bankruptcy, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, fin. div.-R. Bone, Durham, grocer, Oct. 8 at 11, District Court of Bankruptcy, Newcastle-uponTyne, div. CERTIFICATES. To be allowed, unless Cause be shewn to the contrary on or before the Day of Meeting. William Wonnacott, Bath, Somersetshire, grocer, Oct. 9 at 12, District Court of Bankruptcy, Bristol.-James Evans, Bristol, and Weston-super-Mare, Somersetshire, silk mercer, Oct. 13 at 11, District Court of Bankruptcy, Bristol.-Spenc Purser, Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, draper, Oct. 9 at 12, District Court of Bankruptcy, Bristol.-William Lonergan, Liverpool, wine merchant, Oct. 6 at 12, District Court of Bankruptcy, Liverpool.-W. Kirby, Liverpool, hotel keeper, PETER M'SHANE, Dundalk, Louth, Ireland, cattle dealer, Oct. 6 at half-past 11, District Court of Bankruptcy, Liver dealer and chapman, (trading between Dundalk and Liverpool.-J. Davis, Worcester, and Heaton Norris, Lancashire, pool), Sept. 25 and Oct. 20 at 12, District Court of Bank-provision dealer, Oct. 15 at 10, District Court of Bankruptcy, ruptcy, Liverpool: Off. Ass. Cazenove; Sols. Green, Li- Birmingham.-J. Coates, Leominster, Herefordshire, tailor, verpool; Gregory & Co., Bedford-row, London. - Fiat Oct. 8 at 12, District Court of Bankruptcy, Birmingham.dated Sept. 9. Daniel Antrobus, Audley, Staffordshire, apothecary, Oct. 15 10. at 11, District Court of Bankruptcy, Birmingham.-Charles The following Prisoners are ordered to be brought up before Burrotes, East Stonehouse, Devonshire, beer brewer, Oct. 6 the Court, in Portugal-st., on Thursday, Oct. 1, at 9. at 11, District Court of Bankruptcy, Exeter.-Ann Hall, Wm. Gosling, St. George's-place, Back-road, St. George's Manchester, innkeeper, Oct. 8 at 12, District Court of Bank- in the East, Middlesex, dealer in artificial flowers.-Robert ruptcy, Manchester.-J. Knight, Preston, Lancashire, mercer, Hutton, Laurel-cottage, Highgate, Middlesex, merchant.Oct. 7 at 12, District Court of Bankruptcy, Manchester. Chas. Burrage, South-st., Rye-lane, Peckham, Surrey, cowTo be allowed by the Court of Review in Bankruptcy, unless keeper. - Jas. Roberts, Islington-place, Park-road, Islington, Middlesex, cattle salesman.-Jos. Smith, Bolingbroke-street, Cause be shewn to the contrary on or before Oct. 6. Battersea, Surrey, carman.-Wm. Jos. Roome, St. Benet'sJohn Scott, Sheffield, Yorkshire, flour dealer.-Wilton place, Gracechurch-st., London, commission agent for the Wood, Liverpool, flat rope manufacturer.-Wm. Joy, Ton- sale of Sheffield goods.-Jos. Augustus Levien, Regent-sq., bridge, Kent, plumber.-Charles Pitt, Bristol, licensed vic- St. Pancras, Middlesex, clerk in the Crown Surveyor's Office. tealler. Wheatley Kirk, Salford, Lancashire, stockbroker. -Rich. Aldridge Lewis, White Lion-st., Islington, Middle-Jules Valle, Manchester, and Arnfield, near Mottram, sex, out of business.-Bartholemew Wood, Great Tower-st., Cheshire, commission agent.-Jas. G. Wilson, Standard Fac-working jeweller.-Jas. Hodgkins, Eagle-st., Red Lion-sq., tory, Wenlock-basin, Wharf-road, City-road, Middlesex, enMiddlesex, whitesmith.-Henry Holloway, Windsor-place, gineer.-John Hawkins, Maidenhead, Berkshire, butcher.- City-road, Middlesex, jobber in railway shares.- Edmund John Stevenson, Frederick-place, Hampstead-road, MiddleRichard Buller, Regent-st., Middlesex, out of employ.-R. sex, china dealer.-Wm. H. Smith, Esq., Swansea, Gla- Burridge Lawrence, Myddleton-square, Pentonville, Middlemorganshire, newspaper proprietor and printer.-Wm. Hen. sex, coal merchant. Hounsfield, Cardiff, Glamorganshire, draper. John Richards, Tooley-street, Southwark, Surrey, master mariner, Sept. 24 at 12, Court of Bankruptcy, London.John Jos. Cotman, Thorpe-next-Norwich, teacher of drawing, Sept. 24 at 12, Court of Bankruptcy, London.-Frances Caristey, spinster, Warner-st., Dover-road, Surrey, schoolmistress, Sept. 24 at 12, Court of Bankruptcy, London.Chas. Mears, High-st., Putney, Middlesex, grocer, Sept. 24 at 12, Court of Bankruptcy, London.-Geo. Bowtle, Finchingfield, Essex, bricklayer, Sept. 24 at 2, Court of Bank ruptcy, London.-John P. Offord, Great Yeldham, Essex, miller, Oct. 5 at 1, Court of Bankruptcy, London.-Peter Ringen, John-st., Booth-st., Christchurch, Spitalfields, Middlesex, scum boiler, Oct. 5 at 11, Court of Bankruptcy, London.-Rich. Birch, New-road, Chelsea, Middlesex, agent and collector for debts, Oct. 3 at 11, Court of Bankruptcy, London.-Wm. Curtis, East Peckham, Kent, boot maker, sept. 28 at 1, Court of Bankruptcy, London.-Chas. Smith, Hampton, Middlesex, farmer, Sept. 28 at half-past 1, Court of Bankruptcy, London.-Jas. Watson, Manchester, commission agent, Sept. 25 at 12, District Court of Bankruptcy, Manchester.-W. M. Granger, Manchester, attorney's clerk, Sept. 24 at 12, District Court of Bankruptcy, Manchester.Josiah Jackson, Bentley Hay, Staffordshire, miner, Sept. 22 at 12, District Court of Bankruptcy, Birmingham.-Adam Patterson, Liverpool, livery-stable keeper, Sept. 125 at 12, District Court of Bankruptcy, Liverpool. - John Gardiner, Liverpool, coffee dealer, Sept. 25 at 11, District Court of Bankruptcy, Liverpool.-John Wright, Liverpool, surgeon, Sept. 22 at 11, District Court of Bankruptcy, Liverpool. Saturday, Sept. 12. --- Orders have been made, vesting in the Provisional Assignee Richard Burridge Lawrence, Myddleton-square, PentonTille, Middlesex, coal merchant: in the Debtors Prison for London and Middlesex.-Thomas Devereux, Eldon-street, Finsbury, Middlesex, French polisher : in the Debtors Prison | tor London and Middlesex.– Hamilton Murray, Angelgardens, Shadwell, Middlesex, furniture broker: in the Debtors Prison for London and Middlesex.-Wm. Hen. Mathews, Gloucester, out of business in the Gaol of Gloucester. : INSOLVENT DEBTORS' DIVIDENDS. Charles Hellyer, purser in the royal navy, Stigant's, Portsea: 1s. 11d. in the pound, (in addition to a former div. of 18. 1d.).-Jas. Patrick Cockrell, R. N., Morston and Burnham Overy, Norfolk, chief officer in the coast-guard service, and lieutenant on half-pay, Symons's, Devonport: 2s. 8d. in the pound. FRIDAY, SEPT. 18. BANKRUPTS. JAMES JOSEPH FRYER, Birchin-lane, Cornhill, London, MEETINGS. John Smith Chadwick, Manchester, calico printer, Oct. 7 James Stuttard, Manchester, cotton spinner, Sept. 30 at 12, at 12, District Court of Bankruptcy, Manchester, last ex.District Court of Bankruptcy, Manchester, last ex.-Edw. Boult, Isleworth, Middlesex, grocer, Oct. 16 at half-past 2, Court of Bankruptcy, London, aud. ac.-Robert Spooner, Buckingham-street, Middlesex, licensed victualler, Oct. 16 at 2, Court of Bankruptcy, London, aud. ac.-Henry Morris, South Lambeth New-road, Surrey, stonemason, Oct. 6 at 12, Court of Bankruptcy, London, aud. ac. - William Rolfe, Manchester, music seller, Oct. 13 at 12, District Court of Bankruptcy, Manchester, aud. ac.- - James Taylor, Adam Adshead, Silas Garner, Joseph Warren, and Wright Hulme, Stockport, and Wm. Barnes, Ratcliffe-bridge, Lancashire, cotton manufacturers, Oct. 13 at 12, District Court of Bankruptcy, Manchester, aud. ac.-George W. Gee and John F. Gee, Leeds, and Horsforth, Yorkshire, drapers, Oct. 13 at 1, District Court of Bankruptcy, Manchester, aud. ac.—Charles |