The Express.
London, England, 1863-10-13 00:00:00

II( el OEOIIOI COURT.

The bankrupt, oat of ;;lidi;Oribed as of Mother-
fieldstreet, lalingtoo. He owes 1,9001.: the property, con-
sisting of policies of insurance. and valued at 500/., in held
by his brother, Mr. Arthur Gurney. The bankrupt was
formerly in business as a licensed victualler.
It appearing that an I 0 17 held by the bankrupt had
not been given up, an adjournment was mitered.

TE6 POLICE COURTS.
(THIS DAY.)

OLERICENWELL.
GAMS AND VIOLIN! ASSAULT 01 ♦ In

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Wafter Pinch, a Homan, of 19, Desnarketrest, Islington,
and .7altpl Loseby, a coach-body maker, of 249, Copen-
hagen-street, Islington, were charged before Mr. Barker
with violently esearalting Mr. Benjamin Eamon, sating.
bourne keeper, of York-road. Hing's.cross.
Mr. Lewis, of Ely-plane, attended for the complainant.
From the evidence it appeared that the complainant was
nearly in front of hie own door, when he met the two
defendants. Finch pushed roughly against him. and
when be asked bim what he did it for, be made no
reply, but struck bim in the month and brought
Wood. He followed this np l.v hitting him in the
face. blacking one of his eyes. end knocking him down.
Whilst he was on the ground Finch kicked him in the
temple, and, in fact, behaved more like a savage than a
man. While the complainant was on the ground, Loseby
leant on him, and, as the complainant suspected that they
both intended robbing him, be gave them into custody.
From what he bad heard this morning be did not believe
that Loseby etruck him, sod that all be did was to parent
the other defendant from further ill-wing him. The ef-
fect of Finch's violence was plainly visible on the com-
plainant's face, and be stated that he now felt pain.
The defendant Finch said that all be did was in self.

defe;;;;dT.hattlecnreplainaut was drunk, and Ant
%moulted him . .. . .

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The constable stated that the cumplaioant was sober, and
that Finch was very much intnxicated.
Mr. Barker discharged Loseby, and fined Finch 3/. ; or in
default of payment one month's imprisonment with hard
labour in the House of Correction.
The defendant was locked op in default.

WRECK OF A STEAM-110AT ON Tun BAIL—It was
reported yesterday in the Exprom that the steamer Energy,
of Middleeborough, had been totally wrecked on Tees Bar on
Saturday last. We also added. on the authority of the Rev.
John Lawson, hon. secretary of the Seaton Carew branch of
the National Lifeboat Institutioe, who wrote late on Satur-
day evening, that although apprehensions had been enter-
tained in the morning th►t the crew of the (steamer, three
men. bad been lost, yet it was subsequently discovered that
the poor men had been picked op by a Prussian mewl far
ont atm.. mid that they had afterwards been refelv brought
into the Tees. Some of our morning contemporaries of to-
day report that the crew bad perished ; but such I. fortu-
nately not the case.
SHOCKING DEATH OF A VOLIINTILIR.—An inquest
was held cm Saturday before Mr. Browne. comae; at the
General Hospital, Nottingham. on th-- body of John New-
ton. a member of the Robie Hood Rides, whose death had
reedited from a wound in his side remised on the day of
the inspection of the force last Monday by Colonel Harman,
on Stilwell Forest. It appeared that on the return march
of the regiment from the forest. the bayonet of the deceased
jumped from the sheath as its owner was springing over
one of the hillock. upon the road, and that he fell upon it,
the point of the bayonet penetrating his side. The wound
was in the left side, two or three inches from the nipple of
the breast, and in such close proximity to a vital part as to
render recovery almost hopeless from the time be entered
the hospital. The poor fellow, who was highly esteemed is
his ounpany, died no Friday night.
"Stated in the aggregate, the navies of the
three leading commercial nations compered last year ee
follows :—Frans, iron-clods. 16; steam vessels. 32S
United States, iron-clads, sift= vessel., 323 (an
!NAM, 427) ; Eaglaad, iron-clads, 16 ; steam-vessels, 341,
including all. Franca and England each have four iron-clad
ships at eta. The former be. two more nearly if not quit*
ready for see. and 10 cm the stocks. Egglaad bas four
tirrelsenehed, and eight in an admixed state of amateur-
bon. The United States at the date of the last annual
report of the secretary of the navy had 54 iron-clads, ha-
rkens' 32 armoured iron vessels (many of which were an•
Stashed) and a number have been added since."—Neto
York Journal of Commerce.