The Express.
London, England, 1862-07-29 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, TUESDAY EVENING JULY 29, 1862.

LAW INTELLIGENCE.

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.

HOUSE OF COMMON&-(THIS DAY.)

(THIS DAY.)

The Smite' took the chair at 1 Aka. ,
NEW MEMBER.
COURT OF BANKRUPTCY.
Mr. AYTOUN took the oaths and his seat for the .
;
lirkceldy Burgin, in the room of Colonel Ferguson, who (Before Mr. Commissioner Hoiroyd.)
Lad accepted the office of the Chiltern Hundreds. IN THR MOTU OF • DUD OF INSPIECTION. 1
The Lords' Amendments to the following bili, were , Hie Honour P's judgment on an application which was
read and agietd to i —The East Grinateed, (iron.,- made to him ysiderday by Mr. Sargood, on behalf of
bridge, and Tunbridge Wells Railway, London a dissenti!g creditor under a deed of inspection. He said
and North Western Railway (Additional power.). that in ' Walters v. Adcock" (6 Lam Tines, Ex.
Merthyr' Tredegar, and Abergavenny Railway, Mid 583,) it had been held by three of the barons
sums and Ilidhurst Junction Railway, Somerset Gm. of the Exchequer (the Chief Baron and Barons
mil sod Dorset Central Railway Companies, Wellington Martin and Bramwell) that a deed which left the debtor in
and Cheshire Junction Railway, and the West Riding, undisturbed possession of the property, with nothing but •
Ilan, and Grimsby Railway. promise to pay, was not such • deed as was contemplated
PRIVATE BUSINESS. by the 1920 d section of the Bankruptcy Act of 1861, and did
Colonel W. PATTEN moved the consideration of the re- ' ' not bind the creditors who had neither executed norms/Mel
port of the select committee for the revision of the to it. On that ground he should decline to interfere, the
Anding orders relating to private bills mid the matter being beyond his jurisdiction.
adoption of the revised orders. The alterations lad Afterwards, on tbeliPlication of Mr. &Fred,
been principally in the directMo of assimilation to the His Honour consented- to grant a rale rain, calling on the
marling orders of the HOUR. of Lords with the object of debtor to show cause why he should not be taken in execs.
diminishing the present enormous fees which attached to pit. I Lion at the unit of the dieleritioll creditor.
sate legislation. It was hie intention to bring the whole sub- In RR SIR JOHN MALCOLM, BART.
~,,t under the consideration of the house at an early The bankrupt was described as late of Park.lane, now a
period of next 'amnion, prisoner for debt. This was the sitting for proofs and choice
After • few words from Colonel FRENCH, of mailmen. A few debts were proved, and Mr. John
Ibe motion was agreed to. Dyer, of Merton Surrey, groom., wee chosen swipes.
Me. ADAIR also moved some verbal amendments in i The debts are about 1,0001. i meets uncertain. No appli-
>tending order 136 A, which were agreed to. j cation was made for discharge from custody.
Sir G. GREY complimented the hon. and gallant
member (Colonel W. Patten) upon the able manner in which
the labours of the Standing Orders Committee had been
performed. The country was very little aware of the extent
,I valuable labour which was bestowed on the legislation of
the country by the committee presided over by the hon. and
gallant gentleman.
The standing onion were then ordered to be printed in
the revised form.
THE BANKRUPTCY ACT (1861) AMENDMENT BILL.
On the motion of the Arrosscr-OssssaL, the order of
the day for the third reading of this bill was discharged,
mid the bill was recommitted, in order to enable the go-
vernment to introduce • new clause relating to the officers
of the late Insolvent Debtors Court.
The clause was agreed to and reported.
The bill was then read a third time and .
GUNPOWDER ACT AMEND T BILL.
This bill was reed a third time and passed.
BURIAL BOARDS (MORTGAGE OF RATES) BILL.
This bill me read • third time ad
COUNCIL OF MEDICAL ED CATION BILL.

THE POLICE COURTS.
(THIS DAY.)

This bill was read a third time and pamed.
SALMON FISHERIK4 (SCOTLAND) BILL.
The Lords' amendments to this bill were considered and
agreedU to.
b JUDGMENTS LAW AMENDMENT (IRELAND)
STAMP DUTY.
The report wee brought up end adopted.
AFRICAN SLAVE TRADE TREATY (No. 2) BILL.
Thu bill passed through committee.
'MERCHANDISE MARKS BILL.
The Lords' amendments to this bill were considered and
agreed to.
The sitting was then suspended a<2 o'clock.

SOUTHWARK.
193104T1J1 CL 15011MONE.

Mr. Frederick Adios, • ien—tre-ossaTeddivr at Clapham,
wee summoned before Mr. Burcham, by Charles James, the
driver of cab No. 11,265, for refusing to pay him sixpence,
justly due to him for the hire of the said cab.
The complainant said that on the afternoon of Monday,
the 21st instant, the defendant hired him near the Swan
Clentam-road, and he set him down in Nelson-s
Bermondsey. treet,
y. The gentleman entered a house there, and
sent him out by the servant two sixpences and two four-
penny pieces, stating that there was two pence for himself.
Witaesn accepted the money, thinking it was his fare, and
drove off, but a few hours afterwards he found that be was
wrong, as the distance was over three mike by 210 yards.
Be accordingly returned to the gentleman and demanded
the 6d. due to him, and on his refusal he Wok out the pre-
sent summons. .

LONDON, BRIGHTON, AND SOUTH COAST

RAILWAY.L(THLS DAY.)

The half-yearly meeting of the proprietors was
held, at one o'clock, at the Bridge-house Hotel, London-
bridge ; Mr. Len SCHUSTIaa in the chair.

ir.BureLra —You took the money in cousideratiou of
your fare, and you had no right to go to the gentleman
sod demand more. . . . .

T-17e ;ern and accounts having been taken as read,
The CHAIRMAN moved their adoption. He observed that
the capital amount had increased, because all the recently
completed lines bad come into the receipt of divi-
dend, the amount upended on them being 400,0001.
The rite of interest paid for borrowed capital had again
been reduced. The debenture stock at that moment ex-
ceeded 80,0001., a matter of great importance to the
compsny, r such stock involved no expense for re-
newal'. In his opinion, its value as a security was
quite equal to that of console, and he hoped
the proprietors would waist the board in converting the re-
mainder of the debt into debenture stock. (Hear, bear.)
The increase of 23,0001. in the receipts appeared to him,
under the circumstances, very satisfactory. The number of
third-clam passengers bad been increased 1:50,000 ;
and the board, wishing to accommodate that of pas-
sengers to the utmost, would from the Ist of August
reduce the third-class charges on all parts of
the line to a uniform fare of one penny per
mile. (Hear, hear.) Some other companies bad
been in the habit of charging to capital all the expense of
improving the lice. The Brighton Company had taken
a different view of the matter ; as such improve-
ments diminished expenditure, the money laid out
for that purpose had all been charged to revenue, and by
the end of this year they would begin to reap the
full benefit of the improvements which had been going
on for several years. (Hear.) Powers had been taken for
providing increased accommodation for the public at the
London-bridge station, and he believed the result would be
to do nearly all that could bare been obtained by ex-
tending the line to Charing.cross. He then dwelt on
the advantages of a circuit line about to be constructed, which
would, he said, complete the circuit of the metropolis on
the south side, and join the North London line at Ken-
sington.

Sir. JAMES SCOTT. deputy chairmanoseconded the motion.
After a short discussion the motion mu adopted, and the
proceedings terminated in the usual meaner.

TEWKESBURY AND MALVERN RAILWAY.
(THIS DAY.)

A special general meeting of the shareholders in
this;company was held to-day, at the office in Bridge-street,
Westminster, Mr. HZNKT in the chair, for the purpose of
considering the propriety of raising additional nodal under
the powers conferred by the Tewkesbury and Malvern Rail-
way Act of 1862. . . . .

The CHAIRMAN, in II few preliminary observations, moved
the following resolution : 'That an additional capital be
Ni‘ed, under the power of the Tewkesbury and Malvern
14ilway Act of 1862. not exceeding in amount 120,0001., by
the One of 20,000 shares of 101. each."
The resolution having been seconded, was unanimously
greed to.
. _ _

The meeting then terminated with the customary vote of
thanks to the chairman.

GOLD, SILVER, AND COPPER COINAGE.—It ap-
pears from a parliamentary return just ironed that from
I', 2to 1861 inclusive, there were 13,453,832156 oz. of
gokl coined at the Royal Mint into 52,385,860 sovereigns,
lad 1,107,121 W oz, of gold into 14,773,863 half-sovereigns.
In the mine period there were coined 16,471,352 50n,,,,
21,9.17,175 shillings, 20,048,996 id:pewee, 1,849,574 greets,
41,540 fourpences, 16,420,756 threepencea, 59,412,564
Penny-pieces, 89,642,781 halfpence, and 29,122,516 far.
things.

Cabman—l iiWasht it was the right fare, or I would not
have accepted it.
Burcham —lt is your duty to know your fares. Sup-
posing this gentleman, had given you sixpence more than
your fare would you have taken the trouble to go to his
house and give it back to him ?
Cabman —Well, air, that's another thing. I should have
considered it a gift. The gentleman, b , most have
known that he had not sent out the proper fare.
Mr. Adanis—l never paid more than eighteenpence, and
no more was ever demanded of we.
. . . .

Yr. 13 11re7hrmto Kiil;;;Tbcas.Sihat he was supposed to
know his fare. The gentleman sent him out what he be-
lieve.' to be the fare, and he accepted it without a murmur.
The summons must be dismissed.