Insolvency Proceedings. (In the Supreme Court.) Certificates Confirmed
The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Wednesday 20 October 1847 · page 2
On Wednesday, on the motion of the Chief Commissioner, the Court confirmed the certificates granted to John Jefferson, Charles Cable Warby, John Ross, and Edward…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Hunter River District News. [From Our Correspondents.] Singleton. Police Court.—thursday, October 21. (Before Henry Dangar, Esq., J.p.) Two Charges of Horse Stealing
The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Saturday 30 October 1847 · page 2
Thomas Cagney, arrived free, was charged with stealing a filly, the property of John Lumley, innkeeper, at Singleton. It appeared that Mr. Lumley had missed the filly…
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The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Saturday 30 October 1847 · page 2
On the motion of the Chief Commissioner, the certificate granted to Robert Smeales was confirmed. The proceedings of the court below, in the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Sydney News. Supreme Court. [From the Sydney Morning Herald.] Monday, November 15, 1847. (Before his Honor Mr. Justice Dickinson, and a [?]ury of four.) M'DOUGALL V. SWAN
The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Saturday 20 November 1847 · page 4
This was an action of trover; the declaration stating in the usual form that the defendant converted and disposed of, to his own use, divers bushels of maize, hay, &c.,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Original Correspondence. the Abolition of Capital Punishment. "The proper end of human punishment is not the satisfaction of Justice, but the prevention of crimes.... What would it be to the magistrate, that offences went altogether unpunished, if the impunity of the offenders were followed by no danger or prejudice to the commonwealth? The fear test the escape of the criminal should encourage him, or others by his example, to repeat the same crime, is the sole consideration which authorises the infliction of punishment by human laws."—PALEY. To the Editor of the Maitland Mercury
The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Saturday 4 December 1847 · page 4
SIR.—Your ingenious correspondent "Ibis," in the Mercury of Wednesday last, finds fault with Sir W. Molesworth's opinion, that "in dealing with offenders against the law,…
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