The Express.
London, England, 1864-06-03 00:00:00

The COMMiniosar—Usdosbtedly, property of that kind
ouibt to be sold by an artist., or some mu who eademieads
it.
Mr. Graham said that had the pictures remained with
de artist they might ham been Laken in execution for hie
sat.
The Commisaioser—Property ought to be won pa w.
gran of by properly qualified persons, sad sold with deems.
yr. Graham mid there wan no Intention of falling the;
r tura. There were other three at the bankrupt's ales,
;,1 Dope of them had been sold.
Mi. Roxburgh said it was the duty of the official amigo's
to cite possession of the whole of the bankrupt's property
aud keep it in safe custody. There never me any intention
of wlhog those paintings ; and the awe bed been suds • peg
whereon to hang a chargeapiest Yews. Cotten aid Davis.
the official assigns. had exercised the discretion which was
„mad in himlf
the selling a bankrupt's property to the beet
,d,o,tage• system of making such orders were bad,
if ought to be reformed ; bet it should not be made the
test for bringiog outmoded amps agaiost
here would be no necessity for rescinding the order, as, by
tie appointment of a trade assignee, it fell to the greeted ma
, matter of COUTIe.
The Commissioner—Then it is mach ado about maim.
(Laughter )

13 RC HURT 1.0018 DAVIS.
The failure in this ease manned 17 years ego. The bank-
was then trading u • glass and china dealer, I. Lad-
, 4,ha11. The debts were about 2,0001. Be shortly after
went abroad, sod the examination adjourned /ADO die. He
we passed his examination by ooasn►, and a day was
aimed for the certificate sitting.
(Before Mr. Commissioner Holroyd.)
011E10NA= WILLIAM GLOVLB.

The bankrupt Trai;aincribed as • composer and publisher
of music, sod contributor to a daily newspaper, of Adelaide.
Toad, Haverstock-hill. The adjudication was on the bank-
rapt'. own petitios. He attributes his failure to his bay*
renewed debts from which he had beam diacharged under
t:3l former bankruptcy. Debts, 3941. ; assets, Ibt. The
bankrupt states his expenditure at 600/. • year daring the
two years preceding his failure.
On the application of Mr. Sargood, en adjournment fOr
two months was ordered.

THE FOLIOS COURTS.
(THIS DAY.)

CLUMENWELL.
cH *Cr OP SITALINO RINGSYROXAWOMAIeII PINGLA.

t 1 ar rer.gt, aged 18,a CrieidaTy
reeding at 16, Phoinizatreet, St. Giles's. surrendered to
recwisanees before Mr. I,Tyooonrk charged with bur.
earously breaking and *Oaring the dwalling.lionse of Mr.
I banes Belton, a otial.dealer, carrying on business at 1
rullwood's-rests, Holborn, and eteeluig therein 15e. And
three gold rings, his property.
Toe fact, of this case have already been reported.
Mr. D'Eyncourt inquired if there was any farther evi-
dence against the prisoner.

The-Oomplainua replied in the negative. An she knew
ass that the prisoner was the man that wee in her room,
and stole her money and her App. She would say so
until the da of her death. She had a witness that would
prove that the • was seen loitering about her house
at 1 o'clock on the morning of the robbery.
The prisoner said that the complainant had been drink-
ing freely and did know what she was about or she never
would have said he wan in her room. He wee with her
the night previous and had fetched her two lots of gin.
Mr. IYEynoourt asked the complainant if she had been
drinking the night before the robbery, as described by the
prisoner
The complainant said that her husband had assaulted her
and that she had taken a drop of gin to comfort her poor
soul. (A laugh.) She hid not taken a drop too much, for
she could swear positively that the prisoner was the fellow
that was in her room and stole her rings. She was quite
disconsolate, u one of the rings was a wedding ring and the
other a keeper, but now some one wag keeping them for
her. (A laugh.)
Mr. Layaooart said it was a very drug* story. He
should now discharge the prisoner, and if any more evidence
could be brought against the prisoner he could be spin ap-
prehended.
The complainant said she would soon get that and then
left the court.

ASSAULT BY a MOTH'S UPON BU INFANT.
Jane Lifford, aged 34, who described herself as a married
woman, residing at 4, Vinei-strest, St. Andrew's, waseharged
with being drunk and creating a di:tee:mice, and violently
assaulting her infant at the Gray's-inn-road.
Mrs. Sarah Green, of =9, Gray's-inn-road, said that last
night, between 8 and 9, she saw the prisoner, who was very
drat*, Musing and beating her infant, which she was car-
rying in her arms. She dropped the child several times on
the stones, and its head struck the stoma. Because the
child cried when she picked it up she beat it very severely
about the body, and her conduct towards it was very brutal
sod nornotherly. She took the child from her, and then
the prisoner struck the child whilst she had it io her arms.
After that the prisoner struck the child in the face, and
caused a severe bruise. She gave the prisoner into custody,
end the prisoner called her most profligate names. The pn.
loner, beforeshe was taken to the police-station, fell several
times whilst she had the child in her arms.

Mr. D'Eyncoort said th►t drunkenness was no excuse for
such violent conduct., and sentesced her to be imprisoned
and kept to bard labour in the House of °onset= for two
cslendar months.

The prisoner was then removed.
WORSHIP STREET.
NOM LOST Ile THI STRIZT.

Wilfient Sistpion,---aYOtizimaiii;tgexiploy of the
Independent Gas- Works Company, was charged with steal-
jutail:lvirlin l ckyer, about 11 years of age, said that on
Saturday evening last she picked spa sovereign in Cross.
street, Horton, and that a little gitl who was with her
eslled out, on seeing it, " Halves." The prisoner, who was
passing, turned his head when he heard this, inquired what
she had found, and on her displaying the coin in her ex.
tended hand, instantly took it, remarking, " A woman bus
sat lost it with some other money, and I shall give it to
her." He thee yeah ewe!, and she saw no more of him.
Mary Holding, the child's companion, nine years of age,
..,rroborated this evidence, and Watts, a detective of the
NDivision, statedthat having received • good description
of the prisoner from the girls, and also of the sovereign being
a particularly bright and new one, be apprehended the ac-
cued on the charge of stealing. There was not any denial
of his being the person who took the coin from the child,
but he declared that it was a farthing instead of &sovereign,
and be actually gave it lathe loser a sheet distance only from
the spot where it was picked op. Subsequently, when last
night it was claimed at the station-house,nod an accurate
description given of it by the respectable woman who as-
serted the had lost it, he offered to give it up.
Mrs. Ann Bartley, the wife of a traveller living in Haber-
dasher-street, Horton, said she of worse mould not swear to
the sovereign produced (which bad been fouled in the mi-
boner's pocket) being the same she bad lost while dioxin
her handkerchief from her pocket on the evening in quer.
moo, but it was so very similar as to leave no doubt upon
her mind as to its being so. She had missed it immediately
on returning home ; and a day or two after, chancing to
hear of a " very bright " sovereign having been picked up
by a child now the Crown and Sceptre public house, situ-
ated in the street the had passed through, she immediately
went to the station.house, where she found the prisoner in
custody.
Mr. Heritage took the same line of defence adopted by
the prisoner at the station- house, and contended that not
any felony bad been committed, nor eras there an intention
to steal. His client . bad seen a woman, not the lady
present, drop money, which he restored to her,
and finding the child in pomoseim. of a coin she
had picked up, he reasonaNy suposed it to be •
part of the lose, although but • farthiag, sad taking it
trim the girl followed and gave it to its owner, as he
believed. Moreover the sovereign produced was not sworn
to by any one.
Mr. Cooke observed—The person who finds his, next
to the loser, all the right in the world to retain possession of
the finding. There is not the 'Bestial doubt on my
mind that the prisoner took a sovereign from the child's
hand, raider the troluence of momentary temptation
and that the coin proluced is the same so lost and found.
Certainly there is not sufficient to prove a felony ageless
the prisoner ; but I fine him twenty shillings for the un-
lawful possession, or one month's imprisonment. The
sovereign must be given up to Mrs. Bartley.
The fine was paid immediately. Mrs. Bartley gave the
girl ss. out of the recovered piece of gold, and all the
turtles left the court.

THE LORD MAYOR OF Dual-M.—lt hat been the
practice of the Dublin oorporatiou to elect alternately •
h6eral and • conservative to the office of lord mayor. These
political terms hays, so far as the chief magistrates are con-
ceised, uniformly represented religious distillations. The
liberal lord mayor has always been • Roman catholic, and
the conservative lord mayor hen always been • prolostant.
There are, no doubt, liberal protestant, in the conned, and
Perhaps conservative Roman catholic.. But neither slams
of politicians finds favour with the body of their co-
religionist'. The arraogement adopted is O'Coanoll's
time, in the interests of pea on and conciliation, by
which a protestant and • Roman catholic were to AU
the civic chair alternately, has been regarded by the
conservatives as the result of a compact by which
rich party was to nominate its own candidate, who was to
he accepted, as • matter of Joan*. by the other party.
This the liberals, who are the majority, have denied ; and
they insist that the best man should be elected,
tr-, of politics or religion ; and, as • matter of fact, they
',!leeted three gentlemen—Alderman Wilson, Alderman
'-^4lsell, and Councillor Martin, who bad beep put forward
unaoituously by the conservatives. Oo Wednesday, lir.
M. Sullivan moved for • committee to *aim whether
or not the compact existed. An amendment was moved by
the Hoe. Mr. Vereker, affirming the expediency of the ex- I
'sting arrangement. The original motion was adopted by
a majority of four; and Mr. Sullivaa's committee was
IPpoitted.

4.67§07111RN. —After the performance of David
(-1,1,4 at t►e Haymarket Theatre, oa Wedeesday sight.
t!:.2s popular &Mat was, at the »quest of the Prime of
promoted to Ids royal Isigbaess, as well as to
Yr4ce Louis of Huse sad Priam Philip of Wesisaibmig.