The Express.
London, England, 1864-11-21 00:00:00

EN RE Slltr,ON.

The bankrupt was an innkeeper, late of New Bridge-
street. Blackflies,. He applied for his discharge from debts
of I,4ati.
Mr. Loose opposed ; Mr. Reed supported.
It appeared that the bankrupt's premises bad been taken
by the London, Chatham, and Dover Railway, sod he
had been awarded 1.3451. as compensation. Of this
sum, he stated teat nothing bad come into hie hinds;
the whole had bees taken by the mortgagees. In liv;*2 he
had executed a deed of assignment of the property in the
hotel, which had beau afterwards seized by the lerellool.
He had held the hotel on a lease for 211 rears, at a rent of
2UOI. a year. He had borrowed 20v1.- from the Muted
Loan Food Society, giving them security on the
property for 21107.; from a friend at Manchester he bad bor.
rowed 4001., giving a mortgage for 7a.00/. There was another
ruortgure uu the property for •901., which also had to be
satisfied.
Au adjournmest was ordered for additional accounts.
(Before Mr. Registrar Murray.)
IN RE JAUEi
The bankrupt, described as a professor of shyging, cf
Drummond-street, lEllmo-road, is engaged as a Mager it
one of the English opera houses. This was the first sitting.
The debts are 2:-*;/ . The bankrupt attribute, his failure to
loss of voice and inability to accept tray engagement. So
assignee was chosen, sad the next sitting was tired for the
10th of January.

IN RE EDWARD BEHRECDS.
The bankrupt was described es • general merchant, of
Cleveland•rosd, hlington, formerly of New York, sod of
HAnaburgh. The debts are stated at 13,2111. ; ammo are
about :ttalt. or 6takl. The debt• are chiefly due to breign
creditors. This was the sitting for choice, but an adjourn•
meat took plane.

CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT.

(THUS DAY.)

The November sessions of the Central Criminal Court--
the brat in the present mayoralty were opened this comma:,
before the Right hon. the Lord Mayor, Mr. .tldermsii Ilde;
the Recorder, Russell tint-nes', Esq., Mr. Alderman Sabo.
moos, Mr. Alderman Rose, Mr. Alderman Waterlow, and
Messrs. Aldermen and Sherida ',Akin and Beeler, 314
Under-sheriff Davidson, se.
The first edition of the calendar contains the DAM'S of
prisoners.
The Recorder, in his charge to the grand jurY, sail
the number of cases that would be brought before them
during the present session was not at all large,
and the nature of the cases generally was simpl,.
and would call for very few remarks from him. lie
was very sorry to have to allude to two cases of nor.
der, one of which was against a woman for the murder of
her latent child ; but the party being to ill to attend the
case would not, is all probahilttv, be brought before th,,,
and he therefore would not allude to it any further. With
' regard to the second case, it was of a very peculiar ctio.
racter. It appeared that the prisoner and another person
I had a dispute in a public-house, in which the other pervou
struck the prisoner, who seized a poker to retilide
—but some one present took it away from
him, and elI the parties sat down again quietly.
. Shortly afterwards the deceased went into the room
in which the psrtie• were seated, and after some little
time sat down by the side of the person with whom the pri.
super had quarrelled and both went to deep. The prisoner
appeared to have again taken up the pokt r and stru. k both
'the deceased and the other man on the heaad with It-
Whichever of the two it was the intention of the prisoner
to strike the deceased man received the most severe blow
and shortly afterwards died from the injury. The
Recorder mil that supposing the prisoner had no
intention of striking the deceased, he could not
say that the ease would not come within the
! definition of murder, and unless these were other facts
connected the case which did not appear in the
depositions as they appeared before him the co*
I was undoubtedly one of murder. There was a charge against