The Express.
London, England, 1864-02-13 00:00:00

TAW INTELLIGENCZ.
(THIS DAY.)

COURT OF QUEEN'S BENCH.
. Tom Sittinp at Nisi Prins at Westaainston—(Beforo
al Chief J Waco Cockburn awl a Spada Jury.)
rialto:MS O. 1101017.

ryr irtber hearing of this ease was resumed this mornisg.
Vole e, Q.C. ; Mr. Mellish, Q.O. ; end Mr. Q.
, ousel for the plaintiff ; Mr. Bovill. Q.C. ; Mr. Lush,
.01 lir. Garth were weasel for the defendant.
aleridde this morning replied on the whole cue.

COURT OF COMMON PLEAS.
SECOND COURT.
3;, at Nisi Prins is Xiddlseez.Hßrlore Mr. duAla
• Willis, and • Common Jury.)
'i.ilt r. MOIL —ACCIDENT IN FLZWY-ITRENT.
vas an action to recover datums' for injuries sus-
. r the plaintiff, in consequence of a paving-'tone
Calm upon his leg.
•:. Kesealey and Mr. Cooper appeared for the plaintiff,
iir. Madero= for the defendant.
laintid, a gentleman 60 years of age, had SOON little
:v, and in addition he acted as a oommission agent.
' • of September last he was olcieg
;.;ad at at that time the footpath was repaired.
of paring Gloom was placed in the roadway claw to
• .erb. at *point 16 feet from the canerßridge-
'. • at the moment that the plaintiff was peeing
dray was driven round the comer, and it struck
of doors and caused one of them to fell upon the
is leg. The consequences were an abrasion of the
lan injury to the membrane that covered the shin
.toil the ioilamnistion led to a thickening of the parts
neirlibonrbood of the ankle joint. For time weeks
. was confined to his ho and was for two
. wider the care of the doctor, who now thought that
rndable that two years would elapse before there
. • . totted cure.
;lack of stones was formed is this way. A number
^ra were placed perpendicularly upon their edges, and
end other stones Were lamed against them ; and it
. _
-:-.tended that this was an improper way of placieg
and that the stones in the middle shall have been
,t instead of mod upon their edges. If so placed
.• k would have been firmer, and less likely to be

toderson submitted that there was no use for the
:.rf inasmuch as no harm would have happened bet
,batman driving against the stones. If anybody
it woo the owner of the dray.
• awe Wince said that it wee very clew that if one
_ ever his head a sword suspesded by a hair, and
...er run cut the hair, they were both reeporible.
• r lence was then given that there wee no negligence
re on the part of the geniuses of Yr. Crook, who
- . tor cootractor for doing the purist ; that the stack of
vu properly formed ; and that everything had been
the niod way, and with due care.
-try said they thought that the stones were placed
• r:e unsafe way, and they found for the plaintiff
:o'.
aline Willem said that he concurred that the Acmes
properly stacked.

COURT OF PROBATE AND DIVORCE.
(Before the Judge Ordinary.)
HEARD AND 11741.113 AND }1.91114

Coleridge. Q.C., Dr. Tristram:. and Mr. Bare for the
pl ::.!s; Mr. Kanlake, Q.C., and Dr. Spirit. for the

;Tesiatrix in this case was Grace Oren, late of Bert_
had. Devonshire, widow, who died, at a vary advanced
A 't the I,th of April last. The executors,
:',•otids, two of her nephews, propounded a
a .144 on the 9th of the February previous;
s• aetemisot. Mary Harris, her sister, pleaded undue
e. r. incaacity, undue influence, and !mud. By the
ir.• :11 question the testatrix devised some freehold
t; Lich she posseaseel in Kent to the defendant for
les i:-. sod afterwards to three or four of her nephews
sr!: x..e. The personalty, amounting to 1,2001., was left
piAintiffs.
. .

me was prowteding when we west to meal

COURT OF BANKRUPTCY.
(Beim Mr. Oorambrioaer Hoiroyd.)
15 RE W. TITZL

- .00krupt was a wholesale shoe manufacturer, of Nor-
, rim was the adjourned sitting for discharge. The
.Shales are 6,6121., of which 1,2001. are in
u.modation bills. The wets an estimated at 2774 f.,
..;1,3411. on bills receivable, wad ski 1,104&
...irept states his expenditrue at . a year for the
. -4rs preceding his failure.
Reed opposed for the • Mr. C. H. Lewis
-.7. VIA Sandau for creditors ; Yr. Ss goad infilmeed•
.4skrupt, summed, said ho woe bankrupt in 1860,
• and an immediate certificate of this fiat eta He
Ain's. in the September following, with a burrowed
of 7.101. Niue months after he began to *maga
- abroad.

• I:sed, having referred to a report made cre the ease by
tut, socouatant, io which it WU stated that the beak-
i.a(l sett out goods for the purpose of ebtaiaiug ad-
., no them,

.4.4r,;OCriprotarted against the practice. a growing
this country, of acossetante making reports in which
- •.•t ooly analysed the amounts, but took upon them-
- • to critic:Me and madame the conduct of a bankrupt,
. sit in jugdment upon him. He protected against
is of report as, in the Logan* of Chanosry, a
I and impertinence."
Homer said that the 143rd maim of the set gave
• ,vein to soomatasts who were employed miler the
of the court to assist bankrupts in the propagation
:accounts. and they were authorised to ewers their
•,val or disapmval thereof."
'argnod contended that this was restricted to ap-
disapproval of the accounts. He referred to some
•a in Mr. Paul's report which he considered objets.
as censuring the ,akrupt'e waded.
• urination continued. —ln 1862 be sent out a maga-
tto Sydney by •the George Marshall ; that venal wee
• lie got ao advance of 601., lees charges, on the
arid afterwards 2004 more. By the John
be sect a consignment of 7631., obtaining advances
. and luo/. The goods were consigned to Mr. Span,
whine brother in this ecuntry made the ad-
lost largely by those consignments, but made
consignment by the Jonson of 1,2481., receiving an
of 7211., less change. Siam May, 1862, his
,zniesta had animated to 3,9421., on which he
r-ceived advances of 2,5001., WS the
were very heavy. Up to this time aothirigt=
received from theme consigements. He had so-
' Ashen tramactioes to the amount of 1,400&, of which
on was with one Cook Willer, a hawker, in the
• ......arhoul of Norwich. Had had similar transactions
.room, a shoe manufacturer of Norwich, siese beak-
In 1662 he made weed heavy lows, by
r. of Liverpool, and otheis, who bad
be-
- Prakrupt • but having made • profit of 7001.
• he thought be had a right to go on. In
months before the bankruptcy ha had cm-
. 7. 1 a debt of 83/. with Mr. Lemma, sod other debts to
••irait of 1.8741., of which 1,176!. remised unpaid;
.7 •.; .± of the creditors bad forced their goods upon his.
'• ,4 4001. of those debts were imurred in January,
• and he mans to the court on his own yeti-
' • on the 11th of February. He had previously
- t leased by creditors and bad dinhosimed balm in
person in his employ named March wee •
t r for :1941, for commission. Shortly before his failure
se to Mach some customers' bills, and some to his
father. who had also got his furniture. Had obtained ad-
ras VIS on the accommodation bills from the Metropolitan
amt.

Fcai
biLett—OleMr. C. E. Le—Oas Denial, with whom be bad
bill trissactioes of 1,0001., bad absconded ; but be us-
entood that llarraat bad paid bills oa which he was
Lable.

lii: serval said that the Ilearepontan Bank, which had
d 'minted the bills, admitted that they had a balance in
ad due to the baakropt's estate. Had bad transaction
a•th Mr. Drage in September, 18R2, and had given him a
tamer's bill, which was dishonoured.
by Mr. Se:good—He had dealt before with the customers
in whom he obtained goods in the three months pre
silig the bankruptcy.
Mr. Reed submitted that the bankrupt was guilty of the
•ileceee specified in the 159th eactioa--trading ea Setitions
mial—cootractisg debts without probable means of pq-
at:t. and embarking in rash and hanardotta speculation.
l' 11. the extrusive consignments made by the taakrupt,the
inees had reoeived nothing, and expected to receive
Lintz..

[The cue was proceeding whoa our report left.]

THE POLICE COURTS.
(THIS DAY.)

MARYLEBONE.
.1, Bi 1"0:41181%
1",1 before Mr. Mansfield, to answer a charge against
the following brutal amanlt upon a young man named
awes Batchelor.
Aliplainant stated that between 12 and 1 of the night of
Le 4th Oct.i he went in company of a fried into the
ioil.or Castle public-bones; in New Church-street He
• shossieg his (eiaed an op:a-laden when Tyson and
ue .r •:.e members of the ring see it. He showed
• t-. Tys.o. who heeded it back again. Complainant wail
Lt 4 ,trw:k violently by some one, sad Tyson knocked him
'‘,"o on the floor, where he lay insensible. He was nicked
p.' nrre9 in blood, by the barman, end laid on thin:ma-
r. wi,re he remained for some time. The opera-glass
a. stoke from him.
Tymc—Did I strike yol, •
—Most decidedly you did.
Italrlock corroborated oomplaiosnt's evidence.
TY**,,— When I was in the house I certainly was savage
•I odd.
ther:otte Franklin, wife of a photographer, stated that
,
saw Tyson strike complainant. He was picked op,
•^'l 44 profusely, and placed on the counter, when Tyson
ck Lim &gait.
Mr. Nlausfield thought the barman ought to be present,
-,oad to be the most important mitoses.
' o,Pl..inent asked tor an adjournment, and he would have
• - ; r•gt at.