The Express.
London, England, 1862-12-30 00:00:00

TUESDAY V-4AIING I DfeingliEß 30, 1862.
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THE DISTRESS IN LANCASHIRE.

week at a oat at 1,352 f. lb. nag against 22,781, at a east
of 1,267 L 7s. 3d: in the previcsis week. The returns for the'
Blackburn dietrict showed an itioream of 6119 recipients as
compared with the previous week, but there was a decrease
in the retuned. for the Our Darwen and Oswaldtwistle dis-
tricts, arising from a slight improvement of tirade.
Bovroir.—There was a alight reduction in the
number relieved by the board of guardians for thilweek end-
big Last Tuesday, and during the peat week the Poor Protec-
tion Society relieved 9,272 persona, or 1,418 less than io the
previous week. The number of families relieved was 2,863.
The cost of the relief granted was (exclusive of 3,612 quarts
of soup) 5594 13s. The board of guardians relieved 6,106
within the borough, at a coat of 4361. 18s. sd. ; making •
total of 15,375 persons, and • total coal of 9961. Ils. sd.
PRESTON. —There has been no change during the
put week in the cotton trade of Preston. Out of the 87
mills in the town 37 are closed. At present there are 5,170
operatives working six:days per week ; 473, five days ,• 1,293,
four • three, 7,568 ; two, 119. The number entirely un-
employed is 12.783. The number of cues relieved by the
local committee has been 10,707, comprising 39,952 Persons,
at a cow in provisions of Lill& 14s. 2d. In the previous
week the cuss numbered 10,571 or 136 lain than in the
peat week ; the persona, 40,627, being 675 more, and the
expenditure, 1,2044. 14e. 10d., or 331. os. Bd. more. After
considerable solicitation, the relief committee have made a
grant of 404 to the committee of the distressed managers
and overlooks,.. There Las been • decrease during the
peat week in the aims connected with the sick kitchen.
Dr. Ridley who was specially appointed a few weeks ago
to look after the patients in the new ward, has had an at-
tack of fever, and he IS at present Incapacitated from dis-
charging his duties.

SALFORD. —The county of Stafford Relief Com-
mittee has increased the weakly remittanoe to the Central
Committee in Manchester from 100/. to 1801., at which rate
it is hoped it may be continued for the remainder of the
twenty week' over which the fund has been distributed.
Besides this weekly remittance, a gift of 1,0001. was made
immediately after the county meeting.

• - J.atu Entellignice.

OotTla OF BANICRUPTOY.—Dsc. 29.

(Before Mr. (lorrodedrater Glowlburn.)
Uf R 2 J•Nli 1111/13010.
Tbe bankrupt, • butcher, of Hammersmith, applied for
Ids ender of discharge.
){r. lmcas opposed. The bankrupt bad defended an
action brought against Lim by a creditor, whereby an ex-
poem of 31111. had been incurred, and the creditor had been
delayed upwards of two months.
The bankrupt in examioation very candidly admitted
that he had pleaded to the action in order to gam time ; he
was trying to make as arrangement with his creditor,. In
the interval be sold his business for 801., but received only
9!. 15a. clear.

His Honour said the bankrupt had been guilty of a very
serious offence ; but as his debts were only 831., the order
of ducharge would be granted after three month? sus-
pension.

Ix 31.11.411112•7.

The bankrupt was ileac;iii;cFsaan engineer, of Men.
&ester-building. Westminster. This was the adjourned
sitting for examination and discharge. Debta 4001.
Mr. Bargood opposed for the directors of the Graving
Dock Company, of Liverpool.
The bankrupt was the patentee of a chain pump, and he
had employed the opposing creditors to construct several
pumps au his patent, am d which had been exhibited in
the Exhibiting. He bad paid nothing, and the pumps were
(000.
The bankrupt, in a letter which be bed written to the
mart, in very amusing English, alleged that he had spent
4,0004 in this country.
His Honour adjourned the examination sine die.
Di
_an A. O. LOGAN.

The bankrupt, described as olKietiriaid, Chelsea. has ire-
quently been before the court. The ease was adjourned
at the last sitting for additional accounts. Debts about 8001.
Mr. Sargood opposed, and several creditors appeared io
person. Mr. Aldridge appeared for the official assignee •
and Mr. 8.. Griffiths for the bankrupt. It was stated that
in May the bankrupt bad bought a pianoforte of Mears.
Erard for 63!. ; iu the following month he bad gives a hill
of sale on it to one Dingley, who advanced 251., aad he then
sold the pianoforte to another party for 301. In April.
1861, he had obtained his discharge from the Insolvent
Court, and bad since, it was contended, been living on the
public, for be bad hail no income during that interval.
The bankrupt, in answer to the court, said he had been
in custody nine months, and was so still.
Mr. Sargood said he had contracted debt. linos 1861 with
stationers, music-dealers, inixlieepera, hosiers, lodglog-
house keepers, boot makers, jewellers, dreaming-case makers,
and with several persons for money lent and on acoommo-
dation bills. In twelve months he had victimised the
public to the extent of 5121, besides the liabilities of 2651.
The creditors thought this a case of commonplace swindling.
The bankrupt had MO MOWN, nod no social position.
His Honour said he understood the bankrupt was an
officer In her Majsay's service.
Mr. Sargood—He has ventured to swear it.
Bankrupt—l do so now. I have been an officer in her
Majesty's service ; not at home, but abroad, in the West
Indies. I first entered the service some 20 years ago. I was
is the Kingston (Jamaica) Militia. I held a communion as
captain, by appointment of the colonel, Colonel Pilkiegtoa.
I was then 23 years of age, I think. lam now 48. I wee •
captain is the Kingston Militia for three years, and then re.
signed. I wee in the light infantry. I have held no COM-
rniasion in her Majesty's service since. I enlisted aa a pri-
vate in the King's Drsgoon Guards! some eight years ago,
and then bought out soon after. I did not waist in my own
name, I have forgotten the name in which I enlisted. It
was at Exeter.
Mr. Sargood said that the bankrupt had omitted one huge
creditor from his schedule in the Insolvent Court ; the result
was that Messrs. Green and Nioer, from wham he had ob-
tained a large chandelier under extraordinary circumstances,
were deprived of the opportunity of opposing him in the
insolvent Court, and had only been able to got hold of him
recently and place him in custody. It was quite evident
that the bankrupt bad been contracting debt. without pro-
bable means of paying them. What could such • man want
with • 631. piano from Messrs. Erard?
The Commissioner—What were Masan. Erard about to
trust such a man ?

The bankrupt (laughing).—That's the question.
His Honour inquired if the transactions had not taken
place before the new act came into operation !
Mr. Sargood rid that several of them had, and that
would be another difficulty. Still the case might be dealt
with under the 159th section ; the bankrupt had clearly
been guilty of unjustifiable extravagance and of contracting
debts without probable means of payment. He submitted
that the bankrupt ought to be sentenced to imprisonment
under the 159th section.

Mr. Starr°le opposed for Merv. Amer and Sherwin,
dressing-case makers, in the Strand, who complained that
the bankrupt bad contracted a debt with them a few days
before the bankruptcy.
Mr. Asser was examined. On the 9th of April last the
bankrupt purebred of his a travelling- bair for W. 7s. 6d.,
for 40
reference to a Parkes, and producing a cheque

The bankrupt denied that be bad ever produced to Mr.
Amer any cheque for any amount. He showed him •
cheque, hut did not produce it to him. (A laugh.) He had
a post-dated cheque for 651.. which had been given him by
a friend—a Mr. Johns. He did not know who drew it.
When promoted it was diabonoured. Mr. Johns was a
gentleman living at Hyde-park-gate—No. 3. Believed he
was a gentleman ou the turf, keeping race-horses. Did not
know he was living there Dow; believed he was dead, or
something. (Laughter.) He gave witness a cheque for
65/. for a debt of 204 Had frequently dined with John. at
his house, at 3 or 4, Hyde-park-gate. Had had two or three
accommodation bill transactions with Johns. Had given
back the cheque for 651. to Johns; it was Dot worth a
straw. Had not inserted Johns in Ms balance-sheet as •
debtor. It wan an old debt of three years standing.
Mr. Steckpoole—Has he ever paid you that debt !
Bankrupt—Paid me! no. Ask me some other question.
Pm tired of standing here. (Laughter.) It was a debt of
honour. I have not put him down as • debtor; I
have forgiven him. I have not heard of him for a long
time. I bare beard that he is dead. The Mr. Parkee, to
whom I referred Mr. Amer, is my solicitor. He Sled my
schedule in 1861 in the Insolvent Court.
By Mr. Griffiths—The cheque was given by Johns fora bet
on, the Derby. It warn • debt of honour, and I have forgiven
_ _

Mr. Btackpoole—lt appears by his accounts that he sold
the travelling•bag, five days after be purchased it, to Yr.
Allen, for 41.
The bankrupt—This man took 31. from me in court to-
day, not to oppose, but he maid it was not enough, he
wanted 41.

Mr. Staclpoole—There is not a word of truth in the
statement. I never heard of such a thing.
The Commierioner—Of course I do not listen to any
such statement. I know Mr. Stackpoole too well If the
bankrupt does not conduct himself properly. I shall direct
him to he removed from court.

Mr. Dodd opposed for the Hampshire Banking Com-
pany, from whom the bankrupt had obtained an advance
of 261., on a representation that Mr. Parkes., his solicitor,
had a great deal of money in his hands belonging to bini.
The bankrupt--The Hampshire Booking Company have
not proved.
Mr. Dodd laid that was so.
The

-Then we cannot hear the opposition.
The bankrupt, further examined, said that on the 25th of
July, 1861, when he drew a cheque on Mr. Parkes for 251.,
that gentleman had not a penny-piece in hie hand of his,
nor had he when he gave an order on Mr. Parkes to the
Norvrood Hotel Company.
Mr. H. T. W. Ellis, jeweller, of Kinkstreet, Covent-garden,
deposed that in Apt .4 1861, after his discharge from the
Insolvent Court, the bankrupt came to him and repre-
sented that be was about to marry a lady of property, and
wished to purchase a " tronessau" of the value of 50/.
Witness declined to trust him as a stranger, and he referred
to Mr. Parkes. Mr. Parkas afterwards guaranteed him to
the amount of 331., and got the goody from the bankrupt.
Of those goods the bankrupt had given no guarantee.
Aber some further evidence an adjournment wee ordered.

boss ape, baud lost his lioense through his cruel conduct.
• Mx. Ifgyacourt wired the prisoner what be bad got to
style answer to the charge.
The prisoner—l don't want to My anythlog; and I don't
cam at all abpot the matter.

Rutherford, the Royal Society's officers, said the
prisoner had been formerly convicted of similar acts, and
was about to give the dates, when he was stopped by
Mr. Mould (chief clerk), who said it would not be fair to
the orisouer, as it might tend to prejudice the mind of the
magistrate.
Mr. D'Eynoourt characterised the conduct of the prisoner
as most cowardly and brutal in the extreme. Re always
towed that persons who behaved like the prisoner, and who
treated dumb animals in such a brutal way, were the
greatest of cowards. The prisoner's conduct was more like
that of • savage than a man ; in fact, the prisoner had not
one spark of manly feeling about him, or be would not have
acted in the mamma be had. Drunkenness was no Mean
for such conduct, and to mark his sense of the piisoiter's
conduct, be should send him to the House of Correction,
without giving him the option of paying a fins for two
calendar months with bard labour.
The prisoner, who pretended to my, was then removed.
Police-constable Richard Powell, 425 A. said the prisoner
had previously bad two months' bard labour from this court
for • similar offence, and Rutherford, an officer in the em-
ploy of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Ani-
mals, said be had the primmer in custody at Romford for •
similar offence, and he was then sent to prison for two
months with hard labour.
MARYLRBONE.
John Magenis, a man apparently about 40 years of ago,
was placed at the bar before Mr. Yardley, charged with
being • deserter from the lit Battalion of the Fusilier
Guards.

Thomas Baker a private in the same battalion, lying at
the Wellington Barracks, depoeed that be was passing
along the Marylebone-road and met the Prisoner, whom he
knew, and took him into custody for omerting from the
regiment, he being a bandsman. He handed him over to
the police.
Mr. Yardley—Wby was he not taken at once to the hen
racks as well as being looked up and brought hero?
Baker—They would not take him.
Inspector Coombe', D Division—l sent to the barracks,
and the sergeant-major refused to come and take him.
They preferred his being locked up at the station.
Mr. Y annoy —I suppose they thought they would not get
the usual 10s. if be was takes direct to the
Baker—l don't know saytbiag about that.
Mr. Yardley—We hear a good deal about red-tape in the
civil service, and I begin to think now that then is red-
tapism in the military service also.
Prisoner was than sent to the barracks.