The Express.
London, England, 1863-03-10 00:00:00

THE EIPRiSs, TUESDAY EVENING, MARCH 10, 1863.

people that collected at Hydelark Oehler. Orders were
however Muted by Sir Richard Mayne that no vehicles
should be allowed to pass into the park after 3 o'clock, and
the police were enabled, aided by the household brigade, to
have the space cleared within a gaiter of an hour, and it
wm kept as open se any street scald possibly be. The City
authorities were offered the assistance el say number of
the metropolitan police they could require, and also of the
household •ip& • but the resolved not to allow the home-
hold brigiule within the City boundary eximptasscoom may Mg
the pr,.. emion; and to have nothing to may to the metropo-
litan police on any account whatever. The subject of the
ainalgiuuation of the police deserved the attention of her
SWeety's government. The corurnisahmership of the City
yob,* being now vacant he trusted the Secretary of State
for the Home Department would not let the opportunity
par to bring in a bill, with • view to have but one police
force for the satire metrolis. (Hein.)
The subject then dropped
On the motion of the Duke of Nrwcnarm,
The house adjourned at 25 minutes to 7 o'clock until
Thurechty.

HOUSE OF COMMONS.—MONDAY, MARCH 9.
Th. Srzacze took the chair at 4 o'clock.
PRIVATE BUILINERB.

The following bills were reed a second time :—Becken-
ham, Lewes, and Brighton Railway ; Bretton Junction Rail-
way ; Midland Railway (new lines, &a) ; Wrexham, Mold,
and Conuali's Quay Railway ; and the Tractors Embank-
ment.

On the motion for going iato supply on the army esti•
mates,
STAY APPOINTMENTS,
Sir J, TRELAWNY asked the Secretary for War
whether the rule wee in force seeniding to which all otte,ra
en the staff were only allowed to hold their appointments
for five yes" and whether at that moment there were not
three 01110011 holding appointments in contravention of that
rale.

Sir G. C. LEWIS said the general rule was as the hon.
Bart bad stated, but in some exceptional Oases it was
not strictly enforced.
Sir J. TRELAWNY saked whethwr the ride applied to
the Duke of Gimbridge.
Sir G. C. LEWIS Mid the Appointment which the Doke
of Cambridge held was not comaidered a staff appointment,
to which the rule applied.

Nab) *nitiligtnlte
EQUITY COURTS.—loleaca 9.
(Before VierrOhancellor Sir B. T. Rieder&ley.)
nr as no anemia PATER Raw coirratre Merin).
This was • petition for winding up this company. The
petition was presented on behalf of a judgment creditor sad
another person, the holder of ten shares, sod the oompany it
was slated had meld to carry an basins's.
It was admitted that the petitioners bad been incited to
present the petition by Mr. Lewis Loyd, bat on the other
band it wee stated that he was the bolder of a great many
shares in the.oompeny, and had paid the calls upon them,
sod that a windincup order was the only means of making
the other ■hareholde contribute.
Mr. (Mame sad Mr. R. B. Turner appeared in support of
the petition ; Mr. W. F. Robinson against it.
The Vice-Chancellor said the circumstances were WOW
what soapicious, but he would make the order on an &Mark
being made explaining the facts relative to the petitioners
and Mr. Loyd. _ _

IN RR 1112 CRT =IR DOWWIRAN—INPENIAL Or PROTECTION.
The bankrupt, described as a promoter of public eoto•
ponies, of Suektnethem-merest, Strand, reosatly applied for
his order el discharge.
His Honour now pre judgment. He mid the bankrupt
bad not Leen opposed on the hearing, though the Mennen
had opposed up to that time. Bet nis was one of the very
many cases that occurred where, them beteg no armee al
any 'kind, assignees got tined of following a gestlemen al
that description, and left it to the court, am it
was called. In the lest case in which he had just
delivered judgment several gentlemen who bad been
led into a bubble ' company and victimised had
been fixed with a large amount of liability as shin-
holders. Now the ironic had to do with • gentleman who
described himself al • promoter of r last ile companies. If
the mischief done by those persona fell, an in the cue,
upon gentlemen of wealth and opulea only, it would set
so much signify ; they could take care of themselves ; bet
the evil extended to smaller people, who were induced to
take shares in some scheme plausibly recommended, and
thus lost their little aIL This bankrupt alleged that he bad
had a reasonable expectation of being able to pay hie debts,
by reason of some contracts into which be bad entered.
But be was not out of debt at that time ; on the coot/err,
be owed 17,2711. under his first insolvency in 1856, an
3,5001. under his second, in 1861. On both those occasions
he had been in prison ; be had obtained protection
for his person, but was still liable for this large
amount of debt. He bad given nothing up
to his creditors under either insolvency ; he had a peat
many debts, but they had produced nothing, He was last
discharged by the Insolvent oourt, in March, 1861; he
came here in June, 1862, baying in that short period, con-
tracted debts and liabilities of 1,2681. He reoriented that
2,2514 was due to him on certain contracts, and he re-
' turned those as good debts, on the strength of some legal
opinions that they might be recovered; thus making him-
self out to have a surplus. This be had done on the former
inaolvencies, but not a halfpenny bad been realised. His
personal expenditure for two years preceding the bank-
ruptcy had been 6001. a year—pretty well for a promoter of
public companies, who owed 20,0001. to old creditors, end
had not a farthing to pay them. His preent debts ap-
peared to have been incurred by travelling about and
expending money in the promotion of companies.
He claimed 8,0001. as due to him under contracts, and said
that the parties were perfeetly impossible. His wife had
an income of 5001. a year. He came within two branches
of the penal claws of the act. He had contracted debts
without probable means of ppaayment, and had embarked in
nab and hazardous specnlaiios. It was rash in the highest
degree for a man who had been twice in prison, and had
been relieved by the Insolvent Dobkin Court, to embark
in these large ensiertakiap. It we. about is bad a case as
the court had had before it. The question was how to deal
with it. He stood in a very peculiar 'Awakes, a situation
in which the creditors bed not fair play at all. He had an
income through his wife, a ccuidemble ose, which
enabled him to live reputably and reepsitsidYi sad
also to keep up false appearances. Persona law
that he lived in a good house; but the sown
from which this apparent modems waa supplied
was one that could never hi made available to hie creditors.
If be were discharged now for the third time, be would con-
tinue in the enjoyment of this income, and the creditors
would not be able to touch it. The proper course would be
to leave him liable to imprisonment, should the creditor.
think fit to proceed spinet him, in order net the case might
act sea warping and a lesson to others. Nnmbees of poor
men were constantly coming before the court—tradesmen
struggling with difficulties, the victims of midortnoe—
giving up small amounts it was true, but giving up all they
bad. With such cases as those the present case emanated
most uofavourably. This bankrupt had contracted large
debts without the smallest probability or intention of paying
anybody. The order of discharge must be suspended for
twelve mouths, and protection would be withheld until the
bankrupt had suffered three months' imprisonment.
Yr. Downing, who appeared for the bankrupt, asked for
a limited protection, in order that he might appeal.
His Honour refused to grant any protection, and said it
was a ease in which he had been strongly teeeted to emir-
cies the power which the act gave him of sentencing the
bankrupt to a term of imprisonment, but he thought it
better to mauve that power for cases in which debts bad
been contracted by fraud.
IN an CHARLES CLANK.—PITITION DIBRIBBID.

The bankrupt, a hosier's essiatant, of Trinity-smreni
Borough, bad only one debt, 371., which he owed for
and lodgings to a person in Bamingham, where be was then
employed. When said for the amount he had instructed
an attorney to enter an apparent*, but laid he did not
know that he thereby increased the plaintiff's cosh.
His Honour said it wee a fraud upon the act for a rose
who had not been in prison to come to the court purposely
to get rid of one debt. He should therefore dismiss the
petition. The bankrupt had run up a debt of 371. with •
poor woman for board and lodging, and then came to the
court to pay it, though he most have paid nearly as much to
hie attorney. if Mk IL MILD were allowed to paw, the pre-
cedent would be a moat mischievous one.
Petition dismissed.

Mr. D. T. Millar opposed ; Mr. Weatherfiald supported.

ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE.

HOME OlRClllT.—Cari.msroaD MAscn 9.
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The commission for the county of Bees; wim opened in
this town to-day. lu eonemimees of the marnsge of
the Priam of Wiles, the court will not sit for the &suet&
of buboes' until Wednesday morning.

WESTERN ClRClllT.—Doacuitencs, MARca 9.

(Before Mr. 4711 like Myles.)
MURDER AT WALDITCH.

Charles Pooh, 41,wiTaii;iiated for the wilful murder a/
Daniel Joseph Stone, at WaMitch, on the 29th of August
last.

Mr. Collier, Q.C., with whom was Mr. Prides/az, con-
ducted the prosecution, and Mr. Coleridge, Q.C., and Mr.
Stook defended the prisoner.
Mr. Collier opened the use for the prosecution. The pri.
sonar was • farmer, living at • village called Walditch, about
one mile from Endport. He occupied a good position in
the pariah, and had been overseer and vraperardeo. lie
won a bachelor, and lived in • home al
Walditoh. The unfortunate man, the cases of whose
death they bad to inquire into. was the flint cousin of
the prisoner, and was a near neighbour. Unhappily they
could not agree. What the origin and cause of their dissen-
sion might have been, was not known, but it was understood
that the prisoner for some cause or other entertained a
strong feeling of hostility towards his cousin. Efforts ware
made by the neighbours from time to time to Noosed,
them, but the prisoner refused, and he had used =premium
of • threatening nature, and instead of endeavonring to
rhea his feelings ef animosity, appeared to have indulged
them until they became too strong, and having • murderous
weapon la his hand he yielded to the sudden impulse and
without premeditation shot Stone, the act being deposed to
by a witness.

The prMoner (Foolus)was fouud Guilt of " Wilful Mur-
der." and matinee of death was passed in the uaual form.
The cam occupied the mart from 10 &al. till 7 p.m.

Preedy's trial (the emoriet) for murder will be oast-
mewed to-morrow morning. There are likewise two other
mass, namely, the mamas robbery at Beidport, sad aa old
man 70 years of ege far raps.