The Express.
London, England, 1855-03-16 00:00:00

MR. 11011BITCW8 COMMITTEE.

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Yesterday, for the first time, the committee
adopted the very convenient arrangement of allowing the
public to take their places before the commencement of

proceedings, and the consequence was that the committee
room assumed, on the opening of promedings, a quiet sad
orderly upset, unknown to it for some days past.
The Bari of Lucius (who with the Earl of Cardigan pa:U.
cipatod in the perilous command of the light division charge
at Balaclava) was examined. His lordship (who was accom-
panied by hie aide•de-camp in the Crimea, the Hon. J.
Bingham, and encumbered with a carpet beg, containing
his military journals, and a variety of letters) said, he
commanded the light division Cavalry Brigade, and arrived
at Scutari on the 4th May. His division landed and en-
camped at Halals', where there were great facilities foe
landing, inasmuch as the s►ips could come almost up to
the sides, of the quay. His Sint commissariat
difficulties began at Halals', where the officer was fre-
quently changed. At Haase his horses had 121 b. of bar-
ley and 161 b. of chopped straw, but no hay. He presumed
that the commiesary officer was changed by Commissary
Ficder, and not in consequence of any representation from
him, for he objected to the change. He complained that
the commissary °Sous were inexperienced men, and, to the
best of his recollection, one was a young gentleman from the
Treasury, of the name of Murray, a son of the Bishop of
Rochester, and the other • Mr. Cookcaley ; but they were
both inexperienced. When his division arrived at Varna
difficulties were experienced in obtaining forage for the
horses, though the troops were well fed, and had fresh meat
daily. Sickness sad cholera to a great extent broke out
while they were encamped upon the beach at Yarns, and
in consequence they encamped throe miles to southward;
bat there again the cholera broke out, and be.
OEMS very virulent. There were great delay and
difficulty experienced in obtaining • sufficiency of
forage. Their second place of encampment near Varna was
what was known as the Adrianople road. There was no
rank vegetation, and to all appearance it ought to have
been one of the healthiest spots in the country. He selected
the spot himself, and though he shifted the encampment the
cholera still followed them. The Dragoon Guards and
Raniskilleas lost 10 per cent. of their number. On the 31st
August they embarked for the Crimea, but previously,
having lost 150 plea and 86 horses, he wrote to Lord Raglan
requesting reinforcements,and he received a• answer from

Lord Raglan saying that he would apply for the aun but
not for the hones, bat assigning no moon. They bed very
bed weather during the disembarkation et Old Fort; and there

were several casualties arising from their having improper
boats for lauding. He was not aware that the French assisted
them in disembarkation. A great many of the boat. in-

tended for their landing were destroyed one morning by •
tremendous surf, and they were compelled to use boats un-
fitted for the purpose. Ile embarked the whole brigade,
coesisting of 1,100 bones. During their see passage from
Varna there wee a fearful, amount of sickness among hones
and men. It was no exaggeration to say that he had at
lout 160 led or ineffective horses. Some of thee, sick
horses might have carried the tents, but could not have
taken the ambulances. He had 600 sabres sod lances at
the bottle of the Alma. Although there was no difficulty NI
regarded t►e supply of forage, he had never more than one
dere store on hand, so that it might really be said they
lived from hand to mouth. They could have obtained
stores at Balaklava. There were ships full of barley in the
harbour, but they did not get it because the commissariat
officers said they could not land the barley. This was the
answer be received when be made representations, and he
thought that with the crews in the harbour they might
have landed it from the ships ; but frequently he was
obliged to send down his own dragoons to get the barley out
of the bolds of the vessels. No hay was served out to them
until the end of October, though he presumed there was a
great deal of it in the harbour, inasmuch se every ship that
brought horses from England had a large quantity of hay
in emu after the voyage. They got no chopped straw,
end the hones for a short time were fed entirely on barley.
They suffered in consequence from that kind of food, and
became deteriorated in condition from the time they left

Coastaatinopla until within a month of his leaving.
Although the harem saffered from cold and from the
climate, they suffered more from want of forage, which was
mainly dos to the management of the commissariat. He
(the noble earl) had had considerable correspondence while
is the Crimea on the subject of the commissariat, and " this
book, said his lordship (holding up a hook of considerable
else), is full of them." The oorrespondence went to show
that the officers of the commissariat department were totally
unfitted for their duties. His lordship proceeded to reed
ese of these letters addressed to the Quartermaster-General,
in which he (the noble earl) stated that he was " driven to
essaplain of the commissariat arrangements, and of the very
defective manner in which its duties were discharged in
regard to the cavalry division under his command. The
men and horses had constantly to bear with pri-
vations that seriously impaired their efficiency ;
more particularly the horses, and of them it was
no exaggeration to state that they were occasionally border-
ing on starvation. (Sensation.) He (the noble lord con-
tinued the letter) had daring the last few months repeatedly
remonstrated with Cemmissary-General Filder, and ea-
treated his attention to the wants of the cavalry, but to no
purpose whatever. He insisted on leaving the commissariat
duties with youths altogether without experience, and who
did not show any seal or desire to make up for their pee-
-1 sOnai deficiencies. Unlike other divisions, Consaiessary-
Bewail Filder persisted in _leaving the cavalry divisions
without any superintending oommiseariat officer, which sp.
peered to him irrational. Operating as the army was so
dose to the sea, there could be ao difficulty in procuring
corn ; still their supplies of forage were most 'emptier, and
frequently failed them altogether." This was only one out
of frequent remonstrances, of which his (the noble lord's)
book was tall, addressed to the authorities. He got an
answer to the letter, but it was not with him ;
but there was no remedy to the evil. Re had
understood, on its being represeate4 to him, that
Lord Raglan observed that no care could make up for
want of food. At first he used to make verbal tom-
plaints to Cousnissery-General Filder, bat subsequently by
letter, thinking it safer. The non supply of forage con-
tinued the entire time. Daring all the winter months be
never received any forage is advance from the ships. The
noble lord then proceeded te read another letter, addressed
to the Quattellliallter-Cioneral, and io reply to an allegation
on the part of the Comaiseary-Geueral, that during twelve
days the cavalry were well sar.plied with forage. la the
War in wadies the Coutinivary-General had ingeniously
awed urea twain days, when both the light and heavy
bd.& brew sneers of forage, in discharge of arrears due
ouam—Ogusgitterl,--end as far as possible to repair the
onedaffillsiltem positive starvation under which many were
arpgar mastisg. He (the noble lord) had no answers to
sassed these reprusatatisas; bat one from Lord Bogies
stated that he very much regretted it, sad he hoped
it would gat orutinae. Nobody doubted the justice
of (his (the noble earl's) complaints. In Bulgaria
his ma were well fed, but not so in the Crimea. After the
bth of November the moat they received was nearly
always salt. At Demi his division was very sick, and the
men suffered very mach in their feet all the time they were
in the Crimea. Their clothing began to get thin awl

teasel, bat they bad am Sabin and eat in December.
The SIM IMO 'applied with skis iodises, which were very
vino asAswasfortablo. Oa °Mar 18 be marred punk
ilea of Lied Rain to rod ems a kis aowaseralelesed
alms to Coomutiamie it Main sad stores, bat whim
Choy wasted to return tree Coastaatimpie they foul that
Admiral Baer Grad sot PO than a mum back, mad a
Mie•th's daisy famed Is their Morn, nosh to the saistriag
Sid lassanaissee at the treepa. He did ea termally sem
wine of this, Meuse he theasht It would he of so mse.
Bash was their wart ot lunge, between the 14th sad
90th 'lngmar, that General Camara was kind .sash
to famish then Mopped straw salleisat ise thirty Ma
la Jesus, the Pros* were skeet et fa...., Mt they ma
planed that this wee Gaud la seseaspassee of our ocuamie-
suns wet falliguis their sagegemeas, aad rennin the
Mopped straw they Mat to the laglish. (Karmen of ilk
appeobatioa bon the pablis.) There awe smarm stooks
if hay Moat Bahama, but the hay was wand by the
tarps Mari it to la; urea se beddias; mid, la mese-
amiss et this, he pouted marks watt then heaps et bay to
prevent this, tellies the commisearist that if this wade was
sealased they would la a few days be without &rage. Ne
mild rot give say estimate of the "malty of bay they
loud Masked between the Woronoff reed mad the Teher-
an*, se by the Iskormaaa heights of the Burk ;
no did be number that the Bursas burst large quad.
ties. The sank, wore sot @applied with anabege sad
esker romisiess, aad, to.smsgtr.sus of this, the gasoline
they esesuatend wen kidessabable. Is ememsean saheb
am Gamin nombege a great dad of tense we lest in
wet weather. Whoa cavalry were witkia three mike of
stores, he thought they might be sailed upon by the am-
Muria to huh the supplies themeless. Beyond that it
would be sisabievoas sad ionamaisat to do so. This was
the miens of the Duke of Welliagton, and formed are of
his war maxims. Whoa his (the sable earl's) divided vim
at Means, he led to send for forage six miles distant,
sad frequently the ism retuned without it. The basses
&feted very rusk from Ude haressiag sort of work. In
October the heavy and light brigades had 1,884 bones fit
ter duty, bat es the 314 et Donnas lie both brigades
load eel, 1,163 bones left, sad et that tuber 808 rem
hero fle cesan. The larger smut et then died from
eletsees, expeeare to the Monte, sal overwork. The net
of a cavalry bone wee 761. He wrote to Lord Basks,
mating that he seat olden baggage males ben Asia
Minor for 61. a head ter the work the Gantry
hones wen brag searileed tee, sad whisk they might set
to lure performed. He aloe adverted in his eammaaleadou
to the homiletics the others at his &Mies felt at the psei-
tioa they were "relied apes to fill. • great seerillse of horses
arose from the delerat character of the coausisoariat. A
baggage posy, sash sa could hen been obtained for 61. in
the CfillliOS, would have done the work of four of the waft
hoses. He caladated that 860 cavalry hone wore wave
60,0001. He could, from the Lateral rooftrees of Terkel
in }Leroy, sad Asia, bare formed aa ancient reamed NP,
vies apart sad independent of the courniseariat, sad mode
a proposal to Lord Raglan to that sired, bat se step was
takes in the natter. They lost a
,large ansabor of dock
hones between Varna sad the Crimea by overcrowdlag sad
the Tuna of the pardtioas by which they were separated.
Whoa the Tema rolled, those parities' which romaimd pen
way, sad the aline mem of home fell about mid embed
nab ether to deeds. After the clothing was Mud to the
horses, the audition of the signals senewhat hmemed.
The hones of this Chan's. d'Afrique aadealmedly stud
the weather by far the best, bat neat to these oar ma Mop
kOTINS wcatthrough the weather and the work earned,
well. In this respect they were far @avarice to the lea&
cavalry bones. The Ruin horses whisk wen Nat kb
the map were in pod condition, sad wren Ng VIM
bones. They were not used foe the eavary is sonsponie
et mord*: from Lord Raglan to apprJpriate there* */
ariglay. He headed over 66 buss to that mem et
the army. No offer of tarpaulin fen the puma atadering
hare us made to kin passaally. He bed MIMI lash aa
offer was made by sine amnia, bat he did am ham by
whom. The int has rased for the Mans Wall by klm
self. He bribed his Nuking with • ftwar= Immo
attached to his dieing" but his redid al drat
was a vast of nails. When he sable away the IMlNdity
man the bones ceased. ?bore was mabilastsiagilor, of
amuse, but he moot say a worse organised step he
arm maculae& The wounded IMO roamed by Sm.
He did not sorraidor the embalms carders were well
adapted for the purpose to which they were applied. 1,-
deed whoa the roads became bad they wore quite useless
sad the sea were deseadent spas the I ron& sad odd;
mean which wen devised for their removal. He wrote to
the Ateljatast-Gen en! as the subject of orgaaisfas a more
. _

SOCIETY.

Testerdby the twenty-first anniversary nseetingial
the litatitiosi Benny was Indio the Mof sear the rrst
is i<lssees.onsare ; Ur. W. Toms. the _
the chair; supported by the Bari sr Harman. Lord
Stoney, 11. P.. Colonel dyne, Lad libriagten M.P., Mr.
Introre
en the hes. sennasits, reed the report i
of the essetod ea the tarpon of the sonny dung the
put year. It galled attieti*ele ea bermes of eera ezteb.
in the eleseinties of Ibe . es Sus
the doe
letter of the year; and warded to the
ens= whin had the lellionise a general i
isles te Ihe eseimesjeureaL The aspens of enapillag
sad pining as Iran. whin had inanely robin every
peempogh at the *ad Inn its ouneosese=giegariz
==tmeeny_espor Menteleed bed hen
Mid est defy the =pow of lie
itestine, bet led crested • __e emerge or lessen tea
owagy. The noun attributed men of the meson whin
W Mann this lissesial espeeinmat es the Wive sad
soden wises of 11r. Chubb% the eines agresity a the
The send had soasiiseed ameliorable so&
teoNdirg the enspiletba of a doodled olphabotisel-
kneed die Many, whin work hod bets entrusted le the
able mid espsoines I Undo of Mr. Whestly, ►hy Ines the
hod= had Less prepend. hiked jest hen esseplink sed
was oshuieled le the needed. The WM Oglat
C h
peinelpies or whisk tin eatelegis ad M.sdiemegileil.- The libmay somielned UN Mo-
dest inns, gashed,. of bin leeks; sad MS edema.
The mats mode. of the misty sine the lest muivor-
r.7""ArriZese='itlit=:l-rt itt
day, had boos mewl wed dimmed. Milt emegegell
by revering to the him whin the oesisW hod oestaleed by
the noun of Leos or a lodge lossouy under;
sail the still nen seven ion hy coati of an of its Mind
nooness, Mr. Joseph Inas, M.P., • seonhor the ens-
siL The misty wend shore with the
ter. sad the oessioy, the regret win whin alt:
envoi the esanasennt of the bones of ewe who,
doing keg life if nonised did se esomb to
nesenstoste nine of aeourate oßnl
sad le nply it to the purpose of geed penmen.
The Berl of HAIUMPIifT, a menu the *pass of
the repeee, mensal his delight that to society ems la a
psi inunal gemlike, sad that the oat el the journal
omodaind to In SOW oat etheated a few years
age that the Jensen @bend be respseded ; but he (the
Mae was of ionise that, wham, Wins he mei.
that noun be oetenoL (Beer, hen.) IS wee the
goon link an been logosher the wenn NMI the neat
monlion of the eadolp, sad wend neve catty Intel
to the moralists sad isgbiteue of ratan sin. By man
of thetvat=l the sonny was nailing oat beet dives day
1011116 sad journals, Use Ned it IMO POW
tie 7 wend nap the fruit. The imputing of She misty
was iiwsig *wry day. It was slew net poniemeat
war lowning nue and awe unfitted for the
of great evens which required one aid
consldentia. Pußmism ores overwhelmed whit beim,
and it Wee net le be tweeted that, seder snob noun
stances, 600 or 000 an tend meet and disease pkileseght.
many these great sad share.* subjects with which it was
the duty of the society to deal. One of the great
handless of the society wee to prepare matters for
teat poet assembly, and that duty it appeared to
be well. (Cheers.) The society woo more-
eVer the public mind. Let them take, for
inetriate. that paper which wee nod by Mr. New-
learn • few avniup sem on the subject of the loans raised
by Yr. Pitt, sad he wend ask whether the publication of
diet voleshie amp me ass onforring an Immense benefit
epos the putimert maths public? (Load cheers.) The
esertine af the misty won sot confined to political mat
ten. It embroiled all other 'objects, and it would have
been well U note of ear soldiers and sailors had availed
themselves of the inforatatioa it had circulated. Thera
would ass the. have been that awful sacrifice of life which
had been eased by *onset* sod blunderiog.
Colonel SWIM seconded the resolution.

Lord fstesertwer. M.l.,;di;dll3l—setlmeny to the gnat
value et the moiety.
After some moults hem Mr. DAMSON en a matter of Is-
warm saly to the smeaben, the ropers was adopted.
Lod Ideummt,lll.P., in moving a vete el thanks to the
preeidath end ems , etingraniMird She eeekAy is its in.
mooed end keereaslng trefelnese. He thew.* ewe meths
ought SD he thopted fee nithing he operations better known,
elPslikey. niembeee leitskthere. who WO
dopy innirethed la the quid/sem it inesellmated. He
thought that people who tad' is With* is pulls affairs
should be mole mem eztoasively thiullated with what the
eatiety was Msg. (Hear. hear.) He kilns that that feel-
We*y gemsy puticipated in. The *man of the
were astasairally read, although they costaiset
moot valuable ioth. At pprey nt he believed their
Swas aiming eoadihed to them who took an
istelidissiteuttrowit sehm
ontlisseesded the =kith, whisk was manhnously
Wed to.
The following gentleman were sleeted the semen for the
ensuing yoari—James Bird, M.D., Bir John Peter Boileau,
Bart., F.E.S., the Right Hee. Lord Viscount
M.P., William Farr, Req., tha Right Hon. Chartaillari
m
Earl Fitewilliam, H.G., F.H.8., the Right Hen. W. B.
Gladstone, M.P., D.C.L., William Legumes Gay, MB.,
the Right Hon. tAis Earl of Harrowby, Janes Heywood.
Req., 11. P., F. 1113., Thomas Hodgkin, Y.D., J. G. Hub-
bard, Beg., Charles Jellies" Baq., Witham Golden Lumley,
Rm., the Right Hoe. Holt Mackenzie, F. 0.8., Herman
Midvale, Esq., Hones Mass, Req., William Helmuth,
Req., the Right Hon, Lord °version*. the Right Rev. the
Lard Bishop of Othoni, F R.S, the Bight Rem his John
Somerset Palftift, Bert. M.P., Robert AO** Shell.
fete.,T. H. 11thilla Setherm, Req., M.P., Vie Right Rem.
Laud fkathey, M.P., Odooel W. H. Sykes, 1.R.5., Thomas
Tooke, Reg., 1.R.5., Lard Harry George Vane, M.P. haus
Walithr. Req., M.P., Lied John Wharncliffe, F.R.L. the
Right Herm Lord Weieheeee, the Rey. R. Wyatt-Rdgell,
James William Gilbestrlimi.,F.R.S.

▪ anbulasse carps, is ail respect; dues: IS the
French. He remind a reply from the Adjutant...meal,
Seeking him ea behalf of Lord Baths for his haler, end
Mating that the subject was ander the considered= of the
Impish government. With regard to cavalry equipment,
he thought groat improvements might be made. Whet was
termed a patrol order gave a man quite salleint Osage et
clothing, and should be always the eerier is wank light
malty earned upon a campaign. TM yells vista his,
sad wee, man certain arametemees, lee heavy be the
hones. If, from any cause whatever, there were se
means of trouper; he thought Lord Eagles was
Imitated end was quite right Is employing cushy
Mane to perform the duties to width they were put rather
than that the army should wafer um eeemeary privadsee.
When be received the list hash et mho, he had them
all clipped is the lett ear, mad he relealainidad this a
similar mark should be pissed ea rimy geseessasat lose
Is the any, ie ceder that they might be norgithal st
any time. He did set know whether the mules has Opals
were breaded with the initiaL Y.R.." The sale old
then west on to eats the somber of hones that wen hot
is the steamer War Cloud sad other verse* bat amid he wee,
sot metals as to the numbers, apes. which the dwinein
said be woad mon the Mess to all for the sebum Is
the event of a long campaign, hones ought le le presided
with clothing, but it was unussal. Fewer aMe Mein'
items died, because they bed clothing. There weer we
each a campaign as that In the Crimea. The light Meader
task Meals; kept the wet off, but did sot give inner
Oar hones named much has the weather, aed far messilsm
the French : the canditioa of the latter was musk Wighee.
The horses suffered as mach from want of water u of bud.
They sometimes had only half rations. No offer of Imp
plains was made to hlm by anyone, and when he left my
hone was hatted. He could not as the planking, for they
had forgotten the mails. (Laughter.) Them was a Weeds
about them at Constantinople, sad they were kept Wad
days for want of sails, and the horses suffered from set
being severed in. When he left the Crimea the raeletelby
der the heiress send, and the 780 bones he left, It set sew
worked, would be well. There was at hat a peat dillealip
In getting "planking," and they were Negri *a lOW
the rafters. • mere ill-composed emu, a. dm illeelled
40 the invite, was never attached to as MEN Om the en-
talus, seeps. The anthelause were allidlaand, large,
and ausedisily uneasy. As nos as the resiblimens herd,
Meg Meuse useless. The Frame had no eardeges for their
ash/Means, but curia their de on mules. The kisses
ware week whim the mu were straw, Led when the hones
visioned the rues were too weak to Rae them. They were
Ulna* well if tor medical assisisses, and the hones were
well seepplied with veterinary *argues. Then was so
great abundance of hone medicines. The Medway
brought .tot a large quantity of hone medicines, hat it was
moue diemoyerod nun Are months afterwards. (Laughter.)
No odkee ems epseWly appointed at Balaclava ten attest to
the (beige, Nod Nerve of the hay about the harbour Is ids-
men might be re bees sand. The sailors might haw bees
employed for mho purpose. The horses, having say see-
third the proper quaatity of Msg., landed in • Maud
✓ime of debility. Nothing was more ridicules. their the
mem eim of the valise. You night put ewe sr these
p„ash ewe Leto it. The commimulat were boys bus the
Treasury, who had no uprisen is the Held. The heavy
helgeie drew *ammo cf their owe ibeeppe. A great neap
at the Moses were stoles the Ant night they landed. Hs
did not Mew the camber of widowed eines there were
is the oemmiemaist, but as eimmiuseil sae ip the 'ovary
washerscame, Tby 1115•faelv• days
la kWh. the seirekseleyaz6v• weralag
AM oar maid met Seallaste the he seat his stem
demi be get the lenge. With the Brigade thin was
a Mr. Melbas* • reryz="l effleerj a Kr.
Buthedead, a yeazsesad las ens;
;and mr.
ray. a veep geed r. Be Mil Mr. Tdder that yet eidy
his divides kit the rolls Mein" were esfiernff tram the
Mr.of the eseauleseelat, bat hie repressatelleas le
ills wan Lie Wif reseeded to ai may fin •-/6 'begs
thought the minims* elope ill-arraaP ...
d for mnim-
-7_1!,1 welshed et iavallds sad ram with", vosititailms
'Maar UMW be be =vbs.
the
Arm=Mtn mom, of letters od ibe sidled et
la the Crime. Ks wide
eeet's 'Mame ear :NZ= as the
whaervir is the
eele."l I= made either bp the eetaimilies • Me
smite bed Ms Me
label
arty at lialeidava.
The "Ile .tea be label obese eameldev sass
shog the SlSTidles, was aulmed eh& s•
mad limpagmes
Ajmer free the Ocpasawees
the paws. eniairsivaluris—ipsoia-- bh
Z•18"1". Mid !be essraiNse
ePeUeft. te this by r 4

Rats *statue act.

ROMS 111011411IIMIllidn NB MIDI MM.
IMAMS 11l lIOU.

The plastid is this sat is a Wane awreherst. sad the
Okuda.% ma, Ilisew_a. Is s shik Ti. mmer tad, et seeds to Ile AMINE= Wees.
sussed est dekeikei bed =deed leek -' chess
boa the pkiedf he le the amount et fantail/1.,
and that the Ind delhalsal atssesperi mimed to
seed eat to ea Ibsk jektesessat, awl at
their equal risk. Mk 'pelmet was soled MI to the
tonal of about 1,5001. Diatoms seise es le the dis-
pri et the Aselsell sal es le the term es
whisk des
the adowshendsires were switi ii,rtikes, sot dowse= this
hill was lied puspls for an meet of the Wsruestless.
Mr. Melba sod Mr. Rosh* were fee the *kW; Mr.
Waft and Mr. Amelia WIN kr die dedbodest.
The marl dares* that ea eseeess disslit he taken,
barker resod Se way egessemat between die porde'.

COURT OF

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The' bankrupt, a hepTesei, gad iieed merahout, of South-
amptoa, applied for thussetithate. The asisonabl. prettwed
by Mr. Pettis, shee data above 6,SMIL ; liabili on
bills, 6441.; assets wiliseVlSOL
Mr. Lawrence the hathrupt's application, and
urged that the mes was we ei mishetsee.
Mr. No&ageppeeed for the Wpm, on the ground of
makes
Mr. Pennell. the oasis'selpsee, reported that the bank-
rupt's ossilement et_thel is 11th was fallacious, and that
his trading bed reenned in a km ad 4161.
His Heath, responded the oortillease for 12 mouths fres
the date if the petition in November lost; but, observing
that the thine was portly the remit if uthmidable loss
and Methane, dtheesd that the outlasts should be of
the seised aims, with menthe far three aseatis, renewa-
ble is Om sad of that tins if came wen ass shown to the
rionthary.

BOOM U. C
IN 11l

This was the earufleate needs' is the see of T. Card-
w, plu she
ut r. of liamseressith. TM debts wes 2,2141.;
ts abo 3001. _

I;;Perted.
Yr. Deno= onoesed ea the ground of realm trading,
bat stated that tU bakrept had dm' all is his power
Math the Mare to midst ht mite' the estate.
Hie Rawer supsaded the eeetiaate (statiad elan) for
of: aeciatha, with protitstimi.

INSTER COUNTY COURT.
cows 11. LINDSAY.

The plaintiff in this action is a law student of Gray'a-inn,
and the defendant, Mr. Lindsay, the proprietor of the Qua-
drant Hotel, carter of Regent.street and Air•strest. The
-Utica was brought to recover 171.15. 6d. under the following
peculiar circumstances. In the month of July last, a " fast
man," Mr. Beals by name, went to Mr. Lindsay's hotel and
engaged ao ordiaary bedriora at two shillings per 'let,
which he retained far some time, paying regularly. He
subsequently Molt ether apootamim and dined daily at the
hotel, insea *we, and samellmes with his Meads.
Believing Ids (Kr. Beals) to be impeetable, he was al-
lowed to ma abill to the Meat eV:. Ls. 6d., the meant
for whisk the posesat mike we loeught. The &feudist
&Wag. bswever, that Kr. was playin g kat and
Wee apes** tows, sliced him forßeak the aissuat of his bill,
sad Kr. Beak rooked payment la a her days. Moor&
ingiy, late in the amain of the Ka d January last, he
rim down from upstage and mead to nee the defendant.
He said to him, " Jut let sae have • weed with you, Lind-
say ;" and he wee seeardiagly ushered into a
private room, when he threw down upon the table a cheque
for 321., payable to bearer, at the seas time saying,
" Lindsay, we went some money to go eat on the town ;
what can you do towards that ? and I will settle to-meerow."
The defendant looked at the cheque, and seeing it was upon
a welMmews beaker. sell" I will do what I ma for yogi, ,
end pmeseded to head Mr. Beak 8L Mr. Beals end his
friss& shortly after mat oat, and did sot raters till late
the following anoutosa. Oa their return Beals ordered
some wine, goyim "yea sea charge this also out of the
WWI;all fro w be by sad bye." Accordingly they
WWI win; vitae, and la about half an hour Beale
cam &ma to mina, whoa his bin (171. Is. Id.) was handed
to him. sad the belongs of the is Ilpea receiving it
he (Beals) deemed very . mask Ni el, sad " You
have made a mistake ; that woe Oselleseliegas, net aim. I
intended to pay you out of lame after mom, whisk, tm
fortunately, I have sot received." Mr.
" Well, you hal bettor arrange with your I=4;
you brought the segue to me as your own, mad yes pro-
mised to settle whit tae; you always treated the cheque as
your own until tiapreseat aimatat, and I can't help you."
Tao SSW Maki ißr. Ceekk ailed at the Wok sPalso-
seeded la sa eutormoom same/ to demand Me halms, of
the cheque, apes whisk the ishedaat rehrmi Ids to his
astioa. legal remedy. Yr. Corkh amordingly bNought the polecat
TM midis* in support of the plaintiff was, that the plain-
tiff sad Kr. Beals both swore that the sieves was the boas
fide property of the plaintiff.
Irma this miasma the teemed Judge (Bayley) bell that
teataintiff was sot Maud by the ausrepreseataties of Mr.
and made an order for payment of the amount
claimed. Verdict easordially.

ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE.

HOME ClRCUlT.—Marsirrom, Ileum 15.

-- so
that the
1 prom lia astmlatail the Mtn is seder to caudal other
Mier thus dismoslama, lie felt it his duty
redsiblig. rdirhlo ill be hips is penal united, for four years,

CIRCUIT.—Yoir., MARCH 14.

IT.-12.70111 Xi IVITI iIiaIIIWILL.
TIM OTLIT IttrADIK.

Mary Blessing, 46, was charged with the wilts' murder
of Francis Blearing, her uncle, at Otley, on the Bth of
January last. Mr. Hardy and Mr. Middleton were for the
prosecution ; Mr. Dearsley defended.
The prisoner is the wife of a man named Bryan Blessing,
living in Otley. The deceased, Francis Biasing, uncle to
the prisoner's husband, was as infirm old man, 84 years of
age, who, far maay year., had lived with the prisoner and
her husband. Deceased btained his living by begging, as
his age and infirmities prevented him from doing any work.
On the morning of the Bth of January, the prisoner went to
the house of a man named Mullen, and informed him that
the deceased had fallen down stairs and killed himself.
Mallen went to the house, and saw the old man lying dead
at the foot of the stairs with a fender lying in front of him ;
sad on which it was alleged he had fallen. Prisoner, and
one of her daughters aged 11 years, were the only
members of the family at home, the rust having
left for their work some hours previously. Mullen
observed various things which led him to doubt the pri-
ether's statement. On going up stain he found blood on
the wall and oa the bed in deceased's sleeping room. There
was no bleed upon the fender, and on the table lay a
hammer having grey hairs and stains of blood on it.
Further investigation tended to establish the conviction that
the deceased had been murdered, sad at the coroner's
Inquest, the prisoner, who had previously given several
different statements, confessed that she had struck the old
man with a hammer four or Ave times on the head, and then
dragged him down stairs to make it appear that his death
was accidental. She further represented that deceased had
been a great burden to her and her family. He did
any work, would always have the beet in the home, and
made such disturbances at night that none of her lodgers
could be got to stop. On the morning of the murder de-
ceased accused her of wanting to break open his boa.
She denied such an intention, high words ensued, he
threw a shoemaker's last at her, and In her passion
she struck him on the head, as before stated.
The death of deceased by the band of the pri-
soner being admitted, the question between the defence
and the prosecution was simply, whether the faets proved
the cam to be one of murder or manslaughter. For the
prosecution It was relied upon, among other fasts, that a
man who lived neat door to the Blessings, and who, owing
to the thinness of the partition, could hear very slight noises
upon the premien, heard blows on the morning in question,
but no words, or sound of voices, or anything leading to the
supposition that a quarrel or struggle was toting place.
The evidence of Mary Blessing, • girl eleven years old,
one of the prisoner's children at home with her on the
morning of the murder, though adduced for the pro
sedation, tended to confirm the statement made
by the prisoner before the coroner's jury. Mr.
Manley, also, commented upon the fact that the
hammer had not been concealed. It was laid upon the
table when the parties entered the house, tinged with blood,
and some of the grey hairs of the deceased were adhering
to it, inviting attention and forming an Important piece of
evidence against the prisoner. If, he urged, as had been
guilty of deliberate murder, the flat thing she would have
done would have boon to make away with the deadly weapon
—that was the line of conduct pursued by all murderers.
His lordship having seamed up,
The jury retired for a quarter of en hour, and on return-
ing into court gave a verdict of Guilty of manslaughter,
and his lordship sentenced the prisoner to transportation
Me life.

gasll"was a “SY• mag dulair th. whole ait h. SOUTH EASTERN RAILWAY COMPANY.
had set sae walla hews Ndie Owls
isaffimeg ratd..lb Musa essasel nut be aware
that seek es sneering's was nest kook, sad Yesterday the ordinary hal:Toady general meet-
arid It compelled bin to sake this renerly Mat if he Lad mg of the proprietors of this eenseey wee held at the
end sothing la (avow of the primmer, is wee benne it Bridge-house Hotel, Loadon•behige ; the Has. J•esse
eliCiM his that there was really seals' to say. BTXO, the deputy chairman of the es Ninny, presillag.
dury nos agate deliberated, ash after meat time they Mr. Suites, the secescan, read the mom whisk bee
ceidel violin to the else% that the primmer had already appeared it the Did Nam
uttered • forged lestessast Wise to The Cistesuiro is moving the of the refill.
direln7its. BernereU, but without in/ lateaties Ie de mi WS, sec et then
Sir Alba Om,'
bell of the et mu enspany, • had hiss NSA
Mr. Pe asked the wort to reserve the gentles of the upon to preside ea that enemies. Ea had to
ethos of Me sadist fee the essadereiles of the Court of the proprietors that, although they bed lost the=traselltse et
Minkel Appel; Int tilr. Ihmanall mid he wee of opinion Sir John Campbell, the buskins of the compaey, as well as
thee it enesated he a amain of guilty. He would, how- the interest of the shareholden bed been equally well
ever. take whin ugea thessilgeet ; sad in the mistime, hs attended to by the directors, had felt it his duty to state
shend renew peedzsminenesee. that no lose bad thereby arisen to the company. The affairs
The primmer was seedy brought sp Misjudgment, of the company were so fully set forth in the report, that
sad Mr. Beenwell said the bed ems gilled die judges it needed little elucidation from him, sad he would simply
with referents to the reedit that hid bees delivered, cud novo that it be adopted and circulated among the people.
deer fall seisideratien the resale seined at was that the tees.
huh beta preps* sienleled. The eaten et The report was agreed to.
was very whose sae wader say eireseastaner, Mr. Four's urged upon the clinchers to promote the
Mine prelim intaaes there meld he no doubt Kid-Have " which h
- would

w aae

-Kent lice, - he was of opinion
beneficial to the eompany.
Several of the shareholders exprested thentselves to the
same effect, and the meeting then proceeded to the election
et directors. The directors who retired by rotation were
Mr. Macgregor, M.l'. Mr. Reashaw, and Mr. Rich, M.P.
Oa the 14th March, 1860, the proprietors directed the board
to reduce their number to nine by ballot among themselves,
which was done accordingly, and the directors have con-
Saud at that number until the present time. Repruenta.
times, however, had been since made to the board by In-
Samatial proprietor, of the expediency of again inermang
the number of directors from nine to twelve, with the view
of adding to the efficiency of the board sad eemamitteee, and
in consequence of that representation, the directors passed
a resolution at their board meeting on the 22nd February
but, recommending the shareholders to increase the number
of directors from nine to twelve. Accordingly, yesterday,
The Customs"' moved. resolution to that effect, which
was seconded by Dr. Blum; one of the directors ; and
after mime discussion, eventually agreed to.
A long oenvemation thea das to the mode of nomi-
nating the parties to fill up the vacancies in the direction.
Ultimately several pattern= were put in nomination as
directors, of whom 12 were declared duly elected by the
=aim= on a show of hands, but a poll being demanded, it
wait fixed to take place forthwith, and to dose on Saturday
at 12 o'clock.
A vote of thank, was accorded to Mr. M'Oregor, M.P.,
for his earring in the direction, for which that gentian=
expreeseliotelgratification.
The lags, which wen protracted several hours,
concluded with the usual compliment to the Chairman.

THE FATAL ACCIDENT ON THE HULL AND
BARTON RAILWAY.

At the Lincoln Assizes, on Saturday, before Mr.
Baron Alderson, Anthony Ontemer, eeeond locomotive fore-
man on the above railway, was charged with the man-
slaughter of Thomas Jubb. On the 14th of February a
great deal of snow fell, and a great delay of the trains was
the result. That from Barton due at the New Holland
Station at 1.40 did not arrive uutil 4.22. The prisoner had
some conversation with Wooll, the driver, upon the sub-
ject; and when Woolley urge the diflicalties of the jour-
ney, said, " Cannot you manage to Barton with the engine
you have ?" Something more Reseed, but the result was
that the Berton train left New Holland ate quarter to fire,
Woolley being under the impression that he would be left
to shift for himself on his return from Barton, end the pri-
soner thinking that Woolley was anticipating aid from
New Holland. The consequence was that the pH-
seiner left with an auxins to meet Woolley's traie, and •
collision resulted, causing the death of Jubb and another
nun. Mr. Macaulay, for the defence, said that it would be
hard to hold the prisoner, a mart possessing • high character
for skill and caution, responsible for a misapprehension as to
the meaning of a conversation between himself and Woolley.
The misapprehension was quite as likely to have taken place
in Woolley's mind as in that of the prisoner. It was true
that the prisoner had said that " he was very !lorry," and
that "no one was to blame but himself," but those expres-
sions were as intelligible when referred to a mere misappre-
hension as to a wilful dereliction of duty. Fainting and sad
as the prisoner was when he uttered them, they showed that
he was still alive to the sentiments of humanity. The jury
returned • verdict of "Not guilty." Mr. Baron Alderson
said he concurred in the verdict. It wee a very unfortunate
cue, hut he thought, looking at all the circumetanees, that
if he had been in the prisoner's place, he ahould have
understood that Woolley would have expected him.—Shef-
field Iris.