Dover Express 14 October 1865.

LONDON COURT OF BANKRUPTCY. October 5.

RE: THOMAS CRADDUCK.

This was an examination and order of discharge sitting, under the bankruptcy of Thomas Cradduck (sued and committed as Thomas Craddock), described as late of the "Odd Fellows Arms" beer shop, Beach Street, Dover, and on the 19th June a prisoner for debt in Maidstone Gaol, from which prison he was subsequently released by order of Mr. Registrar Scudamore. The Bankrupt attributes his failure to the following causes, viz: "The illness of myself and family, the death of two wives and four children, and bad debts."

Mr. Sykes represented the official assignee, and stated that the bankrupt had not filed any "statement of accounts," according to the provisions of the Bankruptcy Act, 1861, whereupon the Court adjourned his examination sine die, (without a day fixed)  with liberty to apply for another sitting at his own expense, when he shall have filed such account. - Enlarged protection from arrest was granted the bankrupt for a month, and the sitting ended.

RE SARAH CRADDUCK.

This was also an examination and discharge sitting, under the bankruptcy of Sarah Craddock, wife of the above bankrupt Thomas Craddock.

It appears from the examination of the bankrupt, that she was in Maidstone Gaol, from the 16th May to the 19th of June last, and at the time of her arrest she was living with her husband at the "Odd Fellows Arms" beer shop; and that she had previously lived with him at Boughton Monchelsea, at the "Rose" beer shop, which she kept for three years before her marriage in February, 1865. The amount of her debts before her marriage, which still remain unpaid, is about £60. The husband's debts are stated to be between £300 and £400.

She has no property whatever, and she attributes her difficulties to "losses by lodgers, and the heavy rent she had to pay." Mr. Aldridge stated that in this case there were no accounts, and the Court made the same order as in the foregoing case.