The Express.
London, England, 1862-03-11 00:00:00

PIERS AND HARBOURS BILL

This bill was brought im isy ifi. EL Gresox, and read a
first time. _ _ _

TRADES PARRS BILL

Mr. W. WOOD poposed to all the name of Mr. Moffatt
to the committee on this bill.

Mr. ItonecK oppoeed and Mr. M. GIBSON supported the
Smarties of the name.

Altar a abort conversation,
The debate, on the motion of Sir G. Lima, Ina ad•
pursed till Thursday.

NEW BILLS.

Leave was given to bnog iu the following :—Turnpike
Tolle Exemptam (Sootland), Public Houses (sootland) Acts
Amendment, and Moveable Property (Scotland) Bills.
The house rose at a quarter past WO,.

Tare MCROEI 121 RATCLIVFL—RII4IT2I or THU
CULPRIT.—The public AN aware that a wretched sailor lad
named Patrick Devereux, was convicted on Wednesday last
at the Central Criminal Court of the murder of a crimp in
Itatclille.highway under very painful circumetanees. He
had been robbed of all he posarossel, and turned into the
street, and io a moment of uncontrollable excitement at the
tre.truent he had received, he inflicted the fatal injury for
which he was sentenced to die. The awe excited the
greatest sympathy in all who heard it, and the jury
strongly recommended the unfunny lad to mercy. Mr. Mare°
Martin, who tried him, maid that he should at once forward
---....eridation to the proper quarter, and intimated

tartar should also give it hii 'airport: It in satisfactory to
state that the wretched lad has been relieved from the
capital punishment, and that yesterday a communication
was received by the sheriffs directing tout he should be
napited during her Majesty's pleasure.
SINOVLAR Fasart or a HORSE. —During the
heaviest part of a gale of wind which was blowing on Wed•
mislay evening last, a fine dray horse, belonging to Mews.
Pickford cod Co., which had been waiting on the approach
to the floating bridge at Gosport, suddenly walked into the
water, and notwithstanding the fact that a heavy sea was
running at the time, swam to the landing place at Poste-
mouth, on the opposite side of the harbour, and lauded
, quite safe. The horse haul the ordinary waggon hareem on.
and must hare struggled with extraordinary strength and
instinct to reach the Portsmouth shore, as a strong ebb
tide was running at the time. It was feared that the
animal, which was in the water nearly half an hour, would
have been carried out of the harbour by the current, and
drowned. It was frequently lost sight of in the trough of
the sea.

THE DINTREE4 AT BLACKBURN. —The returns pre-
sented to the Blackburn Board of Guardiane, on Saturday,
show a decrease in the number of poor and in the amount
paid in relief. In the Blackburn district of the union the
number relieved was 6,727, agaioat 6,836 in the previous
week, and the cost List week was 3921. ardent 432/. in the
preceding week. The number relieved in the whole union
List week was 8,709, of whom 2,918 were able-bodied, at a
cost of 482/. 0.. g d ; in the previous week the number re-
lined was 8,791, of whom 2,942 were ahlirborlied. at a coot
of 5251. Oa. 2d. In the corresponding week of last year
the number relieved was 2,644, of whom 51.5 were able•
bodied, at a colt of 144/. lle. sd. Within the last few
dare a subscription has been got up, which now amounts to
• for the purpose of employing the distressed operatives
in levelling and forming the grounds of the infirmary,
which now stands In au unfinished state, but the guardians
have resolved that the week shall be done as a labour test,
in return for the relief given from the rates, so that the
subscriptions will be available for the relief fund.—Man-
cheater Guardian.
FATHEZ DALY AND THIS GALWAY 80111....--The
Galway priest has returned home, and the trades of Galway
honoured his return with a band to parade the streets of the
old city on Friday evening ; sod, to complete theirwer:
welcome, they made an attack on the stained-glass
lof the Congregational church. This is the secoodamault
on that beautiful edifice in one year, sad, to tied:credit,
the respectable catholic@ of the place demount* it • bat lb*
set shows how imperfect is the proteW. on and liberty
metaled to oar ehurebes fa bolas& and the kind of out.
she na Ain they are daily exposed. The persecutious
and annoyaanas sad the 'cuteness of property destroyed iu
the the peals at the ministry of the Rev. John Lewis would
Ease a keg dory. The most costly of the windows was the
gift of Jos Cromday, Lg.—Patriot.

tab) intelligence.

EQUITY COURTS.—MARat 10.
(Before the Lords Juaticeo of Appeal.)
111 IrntIMAIL-121 LUNACY.

Sir Hugh Chiron, 9.0., at the sitting of the court,
_pro-
ceeded with his opening adtlress in support of Mr. Wind-
ham's petition in this cue. He proceeded to read the
evidence contained in other affidavits on which was founded
the original application to their lordships for an inquiry.
Amongst others the affidavits of a maid servant at Felbrigg,
from which it was made to appear that on one occasion,
ince his marriage, while dining with his wife and two other
ladies at Felbrigg, Mr. Windham had seised two pistol' and
left the house, threateningto shoot himself. This witneuhad
not !annulled orproduced for examinetion upon theexecution
of the commission. One of the ladies present on the occa-
sion deposed to had, however, been examined, and from
her evidence it appeared that the whole proceeding had
been acted by way of a joke and a frolic. There had also
been idSdavits by certain policemen, stating that they had
frequently seen Mr. Wintffiarn in the streets, and that his
behaviour and carriage had been such as to lead them at
once to the conclusion that he was out of his mind, but
how could this be reconciled with the evidence of Lord
A. Hervey himself, that his nephew was per-
fectly rational in his general conversation and written
corral ndenoe Again, Llewellyn, with whom Br. Wind-
hem . lodged, had deposed to the fact of his having
known all the family. of the Wiedhams for many years;
but, on further examination, it turned out that the only
communication he had ever had with the Windham family
before the transactions now in question had been on the
occasion of attending, as clerk to a wine uercheat, the late
Mr. Windham with a bill for wines, receiving the amount
of the bill, and giving a receipt. This parson had eke
deposed to having been in the habit of taking
Mr. Windham, while lodging at his house, by
the hand to the bath-room, and putting him into I
the bath and washing him as if he were a child ;
where's, from the evidence upon the commission, it
appeared that Mr. Windham had always been left elan
in the bath-room to manage his bathing himself. Another
fact deposed to in this witness's iGidavit was that Mr.
Windham was fond of being called captain, or by 1101112•
other military title ; the fare, well known to the respond-
ents, that be was actually an officer in the Norfolk Militia,
and therefore entitled to the use of some such title, not
having been mentioned before their lordships.
Them instance, of variance between the affidavit,
read before their lordships and the complete
evidence afterwards obtained under the commission showed
a recklessness in the collection of evidence as a
foundation for an inquiry which was extremely censurable,
and of itself a mfficient ground for relieving M.. Windham
from the payment of these costs. Another ground was, that
the; promoters of the inquiry were aware, when they
petitioned the court, of the existence of another description
of evidence, which they might have collected and produced,
but which they did not, knowing it to be inemocileable
with the affidavits read before their lordships; of this class
were certain letters belonging to Mr. Windham which
had been taken possession of by Mr. Llewellyn
end placed within the power of the petitioners for the
inquiry. Amoogct these were • number of letters written
by Mr. Windham to his bailiff at Felbrigg, all relating to
matters of business coaneeted with the management of the
Felbrigg-hall estate, and all perfectly rational and business-
like in their tenor. Another description of evidence of the
same character was that which might have been obtained
from various members of the gentry living around Felbrigg-
hall, all of whom must have been well known to General
Windham, and of whom several ware subsequently
examined upon the execution of the commiarion, when
all deposed to their belief that Mr. Windham was
competent to the management of his affairs. Mr. Windham
had else &IA whole month since his majority been
present, and service as lieutenant, with his regiment
of the Militia in orfolk. Many of the officers of the regi-
ment had been examined upon tbe commission, and all had
united in testimony to the effect that he had shown himself
a good officer, fully up to the duties of his post, and that
there was no pretence for saying that he had exhibited any
sign of unsoundness of mind during hie stay amongst
them. Upon all these grounds the learned counsel
submitted that the evidence upon which the commission
had been directed to issue had been presented to their lord-
ship' in inch • state of incompleteness and unfairness,
having regard to that which it was in their power to produce,
as that their lordships would not be justified in throwing
upon Mr. Windham the enormous expense of his successful
defence to the inquiry, and in the other proceedings which
had been consequent open it.
In the course of the argument it was arranged that the
present petition should be amended by entitling it in Chan-
cery as well as in Lunacy, to avoid any question as to the
power of the court to deal with the petition, there being
now no longer any question as to lunacy.
Mr. Maimed (of the eimuseerlaw bar) and Mr. Rowell&
followed Sir H. Cairns for the petition ; Mr. C. Sarandon
was heard for Kra Windham on the question of casts.
The argument for the respondents is to commence to-
iorrow (this day).

COURT Of BANKRUPTCY.—Maras 10.
(Before Mr. Oinntnimicser Holroyd.)
IN RIC FRANCIS song STURMAN.
The bankrupt was a boot and shoo warehouseman. of
Sing-street, irituibur7, Manchester, and elsewhere. This
was the ;adjourned sating for discharge. The unsecured
data are 4,3514; assets about 1,9004
Nis, Bagley opposed for the assignees ; Mr. Lowrance
sup
It was urged against the bankrupt that, when knowingly
insolvent, he bad made preferential payments to his father-
in-law, and had obtained goods on cre&t ; also that be had
tranderred the leases of some of his pleas of business to his
father-in-law,
His Honour asked under what particular section of the
new act these charges were brought?
Mr. Begley mid be was bound to admit that there was
nothing in the new act which exactly touched the ow of
fraudulent preference.
The Commissioner—There isnothing in itto touch fraudu-
lent preference per se ; but of course fraudulent preference
may be • particular act in connexion with other circum-
stances which are pointed out by the act.
The bankrupt's examinations, taken at former sittings,
were read, from which it appeared that he had paid 100/. to
his father-in-law after some of his bills were dishonoured.
He had also agreed to pay ball cash for goods supplied be.
yond a certain date, but had failed to do so.
His Honour said the material question for the conside-
ration of the court was whether the bankrupt had
contracted debts without a remonable probability of being
able to pay them. Had he known his own affairs he ought
to have stopped in May last ; for be was then obliged to
borrow money of his fatber.iirlaw ; the toads was in a very
depressed state; and he ought to have beat extremely
caretul what representations he made to his creditors. He
admitted that he was unable to make payments as he had
promised, because the creditors refused to send in more
goods. This was nothing but an attempt to trade on tho
capital of others. Had he stopped when he ought, he might
have met his creditors under very favourable circumstances.
footled of that he bad gone on contracting debts when he
bad nut the slightest probability of paying them, but had
depended on goods obtained from A to pay B. Taking
into amount the favourable circumstances in the case, the
order of discharge must be suspended for six months from
that time, with protection.