Insolvent Debtors' Court,...
A ne oun sat to-day at tile Old Bailey New UCoRrt. JoAun Bukock- was opposed by Mlrs. Broadfoot, a tailor's widow, for a debt of 161. It appeared that the insolvent who was clerk to a soap-manufacturer, bad dealt with Mlrs. Broa3foot's husbanid fir some time, and subsequently with her, (sbe continuing to carry on the business), and paid his bill annually, until 1823, when, in con- sequeence of bad health, he was obliged to go to Brighton. WVhile there, he wrote to Al rs. Broadfont in Septemnber, ordering a suit of fashionable clothes to be sent to him, and diTecting her to send the bill at the same time, deducting the discount. The clothes were sent accordingly; but the insolvent being 'abli7ed to remarin longer at Brighton than he could bA spared, lost his situation, and was not able afterwards to pay for themn. The COURT thought that the insolvent had acted dishenourablv to- wards this poor woman. In ordering an expensive suit of clothes, with an intimation (for that was what was meant by telling her to deduct thediscount) that they were to be paid for immediately, at a timne -when hehad no probable prospect of being able to do so. He was, therefore, ordered to be remanded for four months from the date of lihr4r his petition: part of this perlod, however, has already ex- pired. Peftr Coniyn, Esq., who was in the commission of thc peace for the county of Clare, in Ireland, was opposed by Air. Watkins, a tailor. The insolvent stated, that during his rRother's life-time lie lhad been in the receipt of 4001. a-year, derived from a farm and an an- nulty, which, upon her death in 1822, passed from him to his uncle Mfr. M'Namara. But he possessed a bene?lcial interest in sevea leases in that Part of the country, which, upon its being restored to perfect tranquillity, woull be sufficiently valuable in a short time to pay the whole of his debts. He had also lodged a bond, upon which judgment had been entered, for 6001., in coutt, which be had every reason to believe, from the respectability of the party who had executed it, would be paid off. The COURT directed the insolvent to be discharged forthwith. The other cases in the paper being disposed of, the Court rose at half-past 12 o'clock. INS?LVENT DEBTORS' COURT, MomnAy. Nnv. R.