The Express.
London, England, 1863-10-16 00:00:00

&SATZ OF 1111 COUNT.

Owing to the fogeriiciPre;:iiedi;Cie City from abaci
one o'clock the commissioner found it diffloult to proceed
with the bosMees, the court in which he was sitting (that of
It,. Cessimiesioeer Foobleoque) not being lighted with gm
Events'lly • supply of hall • dome mediae was obtained,
aid them beim distributed about the court, the darks's§
was partially dispelled. A more serious interruption was
ocomioaed by the ioceseant din of the workmen employed
la an adjacent court, and in the basement story, the effect
of which was so great that Mr. flargood declared be could
Dot bear hie own voice, much less what wee said by others.
His Honour met out • messenger to direct that the noise
should be shipped, bat as the workmen do not acknowledge
the isuindictioa of the omit, bat me acting under other
orders, it is seedless, to say that the interruptiou continued
anabsted, and the Weiser lad to be got through as it beet
might.
(Before Mr. Registrar Haditt.)
rg NZ W. AND W. J. alum.
• • - _

The bankrupts were army °intrados, of Lakeeter-place,
Leicester-square. This wee the drat sittiwg. Their mat
debts appear to be between 800 i. and Mi. Yr. Thos.
liar-
Amos,of Little Comptow-street, wee chosen, magpie. Mr.
G. C. G. Allen is the solicitor.

IN Si 11. N. HOSES.

The bankrupt was; ur7tZtor-, of Ware. Debts about
3,0001. Mr. C. F. Foster, beaker, of Cambridge, 'rancho's°
Wade assignee. Messrs. Gropon and Son are the solicitors.

THE POLICE COURTS.
MANS.ION-HOUSF-

Henry Thornton Tubbs, a gentlemanly-looking young
man, about nineteen or twenty years of age, was brought
before Mr. Alderman Abbiss, who was sitting for the Lord
Mayor, charged with stealing a letter coutainiog four 51.
Bank of Braised notes, the property of his employers.
The primmer was a clerk in the ea.ploymeot of Mean.
Dalgety and 00., Greshansiareet, merchants, and it ap-
peared that on the 29th ultimo Mr. Demo; the managing
clerk, mot the primmer to the Leaden sad Westminster
Bank with • cheque fur 201., telling him to get it melted is
51. notes, and at the some time gave him • letter, in which
be was to copy the numbers of the note', and after copying
the numbers to enclose the notes to it and Sand it to the
post. The prisoner took the cheque to the leek and
received four 61. notes. for it, and the letter
we afterwards seen by Mr. Demos directed io the prisoner's
handwriting. Information was afterwards received that the
letter sever reached its doettastioe, and bemires were
made and a complaint forwarded to the Post-odloe outhori-
ties, who made all possible inquiries. Ls the meantime the
notes were paid ism the Bank of Beglead, sad it was woe
taxied that two of them were paid to a jeweller in Cboapside
for a gold abort watch chain and • pin end a ring. On
Wedeeeday one of the officers from the missiag.letter de-
partment of the Post-office west to the prosecutors' office,
and Mere saw the prisoner in the presence of his employers.
He put several questions to him as to the making-up of the
letter, and what he subsequently did with it, and the pri-
mmer said he was quite sore that he made the
letter up and enclosed the ware, but he did
sot take it to the poet, es that was not • part
of hie duty, hot he put it in the boa with the other letters
for the porter to take. The officer told the prisoner that
he bed received inforniatiqo that two of the rates bail been
Fives in payment for • gold chain sad • pin sod riog, at
jeweller's in Cheapside, sod he asked the prisoner
what jewellery h• hail about him, at the rune time
polling copra his coat, which was buttoned, sad revealing •
gold albeit, He questioned bun as to the possession of it,
sad the prisoner then banded the guard, to which a silver
watch was attached, a wad pin, sad • rag, which be
Molt at his Seger, to his employer, et the name time stating
that the, were the proceeds of the four notes which he re-
ceived in payment for the 301. claque, he having spent
nearly the whole of the mosey in jewellery. The watch he
bought at the West-end for W. Detective carer Russell
was thee en/led in, and in the presence of the prisoner the
articles at jewellery were given up to him, end the premier
was given into his custody.
Mr. Decree said Meows. Dalgety were desirous that the
saes shield he disposed of summarily, and wished the pit-
safer to he dealt with as leniently as possible, consistently
with Swam.
wish
Thto e Ciamier hwvial Piwadod guilty, and Militated his
dealt with at coos, ltd it halo • ore braced the
power et use suirietra• to deal with. Mr. Alderoute Male
We. slat for, to dispose et the ernes i. petty osmium