The Express.
London, England, 1862-06-07 00:00:00

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TEE EXPRESS, SATUILDAY EVEN [NG, JUNE 7, 1862.

Mr. Roxburgh said that many of those who had signed
the deed did not know what they were signing.
A Contributory—Nomense ! You are libelling the poor
men.
Mr. Roxburgh said this company bad taken 18,0001.
of the poor depositors, and it was now sought
to entangle them in a precisely similar scheme,
which would probably end in the same way. Theft limited
companies were a mockery, a delusion, and a snare. The
proposal now before the court bad originated before the
winding-up order was made ; the petition had stood over
for some time to 800 if the arrangement could bs carried
out ; and there was no doubt that if the scheme was a bene-
ficial one for the depositors it would be gladly accepted by
the official liquidator.
The Commissioner—lf an offer of that kind is made, and
the parties choose to accept it out of court, what have I to
do with it'
Mr. Roxburgh—Nothing more that this—you are asked
to defer payment of the cell in consequence. My friend
says he has got the assent of 7-91hs of the depositors ; but
out of 4,016, only 430 have signed this agreement.
Some are holders of large numbers of shares-1,000
or 1,500 ; their object is to stave off payment as tom as pos-
sible ; but I 'submit that they ought to be made to pay as
speedily as possible, and that the poor contributories should
not be dragged out of one quagmire into another.
The Commissioner—lt is making confusion worse con-
founded. I shall make the call as asked for.
Mr. Crscknell—Will you not give the additional time
The Commissioner—No. If you can carry out your sr- 141
rangementa in the interval, well and good ; payment of the r„..
call will not then be necessary. But the winding up of this og
company mast proceed is the usual way.
Ultimately an ardor was pronounced, making the call IS
payable on the 7th al July.
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THE POLICE COURTS. lei
(THIS DAY.) I 6

WORSHIMSTREET.
• DASTARDLY PILLOW.
Meyer Jacobs, a yaw( German Jew, was charged before S.-.
Mr. Leigh with violently smashing Jane Mom, a pretty
girl, 16 years of age.
Mr. Maynard, from Mr. Beard's office, attended in sup- s
port of the complaint, and from his statement, which was sa
borne oat by the injured girl and • witness, it
appeared that she we. in the employ of a tailor lk
in Fortelciet, Spitalfields, who had numerous eit
hands engaged at the stitching machines ; that on se
the 29th of May last she was asking some person et:
in the workshop for a coat to finish off, when the defendant,
who is foreman there, desired her to go instantly to her lie
machine ; that she told him the occasion of her absence ilk
from it, which be appeared to consider unsatisfactory, and
repeated his order, edam "If you do not. I'll throw the a.
machine 'Apia ;" that she then remarked, " Yon dare not
do so ;" upon which he seized her by ow arm and se.
twisted it, at the same time striking her five or six blows au 1148
the bosom with his fist. the consequence of which was that h.
she fell to the floor, had a fit, end became afterwards • 16.,
patient at the Loodo• Hospital. A certificate from Mr. lb
Dyte, house-surgery there, showed that complainant had to
suffered from contusions in thebrauts and arm, but was not le
in danger therefrom at present.
Mr. Vann, for the defence, observed that although it was 14._
quite impeesible to justify the foreman's conduct, it was yet n.
ianresaouable to suppose that he committed such violent" ri
intentions* or without provocation. The fact was, the ok
girl had slapped his hoe when he desired her to return to at
the machine, and that act no doubt irritated him to lay his It.
hands upon her. The contusions might have
occurred from a subsequent struggle, and to a Iv
certain extent have bees the result of accident. It
Defendant had been only four years in this country, three to
of which he had passed in the service of his present masters. es
Mr. Maynard entirely disproved that the complainant had le
assaulted the foreman or been impertinent, and N.
Mr. Leigh, with strong remarks upon the grossness of the
outrage, infficted a fine of IN. and all oats, or, in default,
six weeks' impriererasst.
Defendant was looked up in default. at.

AWFUL EXPLOSION WITH LOSS OF LIFE IN rt
BISHOPSGATHSTREST.-(THIS DAY.) W
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At s few minutes before 9 as one of the large I ri.

omnibus was passing in the middle of the broad street,
and when in front of the house of Mr. Boor, &manufacturing tiVI
chemist, Bishopagate.street, at the angle of Artillery-lane, K.
the vehicle vu struck by some explosive substance. At the sat:

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same time the front of the building was blown si.
out into the street, and almost simultaneously every t.
room in the building wu in fumes. At that aa.
time there were seven or eight if not nine persons in Mr.
Boor's premises, Several made their appearance at
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