The Express.
London, England, 1863-08-26 00:00:00

CAUTION TO FRAUDULENT BANKRUPTS.

At the South Lancashire Assizes, yesterday,
Samuel Nash, • baker sod dour dealer, who became • bank-
rupt at Liverpool in March last, was indicted Woes Mr.
Judie Blackbura, for having freeduleutly sonoseled a por-
tion of hi estate with intent to diminish the amount avail-
able for division amongst his creditors. The bankrupt's
debts at the time of his failure amounted to 613/., and ex-
ceeded by 5221. the value of the assets disclosed upon the
face of the balance-sheet. He admitted • considerable
deficiency, and when the errors in hie accounts were cor-
rected that deficieory was increased to 3501. It was proved
that in the month of February the bankrupt was the
owner, or reputed owner, of 150 =arse in • building society,
that be had drawn out • sum of 1951. which was
due upon those shares ; and that the money than received
by him bad never been accounted for to the aswgoeae as
part of his estate. When he was examined before the com-
missioner, be explained this omission by stating that Ow
shares bad been his own property, although they were
registered in his name ; that he sold them in trust for lbw
Douglas, • married woman with whom he was on terms of
peat intimacy, and who lived apart from her husband,
end that the sum of 1961. had been headed to Mn.
Douglas in doe comae. It was now contended that this
mplanaties was untrue, and that the heakrupt and Mn.
Douglas were in league to defraud the auditors.
Mn. Douglas, however. was not called as • wit.
nem upon either aide, and several other persons who had
been subpconsed did not appear. It was doubtful
therefore what had become of the money, but it was found
that cm the sth, two months after the bankruptcy, a sum of
1001. bed been deposited with the A delphi Banking Com-
pany, and subsequently drawn out. The clerks of the com-
pany were usable to identify the prisoner ; but the deposit
soles were produced, and the name and address of the de-
positor, "John Ward. 34, Stanhope-street," which appeared
upon them, were sworn to have been written by the
prisoner. It was shown that there was no such penes as
John Ward, 34. Stanhope-lateen Upon these facts the
charge principally rested. The pekoe= wee found guilty,
but as the statute did not allow • sentence of bard labour,
In was ordered to be imprisoned merely for 20 months.

Slams or AN ix-lefiNcaserra MERCHANT.
()Mow Wolff, a OININSII, else lately failed in business in
Manchester aid removed to Birkenhead, when he waii ern.
ployed at Mass,.. Blundell's coal offices, was yesterday found
suspeaded by his handkerchief to a bed post in his home,
Midleed.etreet. Oxtoo-road, at seven o'clock am. lila
wile bad sees him at half-past six alive, and apparently
quit* well. The deceased for three nights had slept aloes as
his manner was rather strange, and Ms wife did not like to
be with him. Mrs. Wolff had not communicated her fears
to the authorities though she had mentioned to one or two
neighbours that her husband appeared to suffer from &bens.
Mon of the mind. The deceased has left a widow and five
children.

MELANCHOLY DEATH FROM DROWNING.—A me-
lancholy occurrence has just cast a gloom over the small
watering-place of Ault (Somme). M. Carpinglier, second
master of the normal wheel of Amiens, who had just sniped
with his wife to pass his holidays, was bathing in the sea
when, although a good swimmer, while at a abort distance
from the shore at a spot where the water was beyond his
depth, be suddenly called out for amistance and disappeared.
A hathingmaater hearing hie cries rushed into the water,
bat was seized by him in such a manner as to endanger both
their lives. A second swimming-master, seeing the i.eril of
the two, swam to the spot sod succeeded in releasing his
eonirade, but was in his turn seized by M. Carpeutier and
both sank to the bottom. The first bathing-master, who
had lost his consciousness, was cast oo shore by a wave, and,
restoratives having been used, was brought round. The
bodice of the two other men bare not been recovered,
ANOTHER FATAL CRINOLINE ACCIDINE—An
inquiry has been held by Mr. Wm. Carter. meal the coro-
ner for the county of Surrey, at the Cricketers' Tavern
Croydoe,
hopsresting the death of Phcebe Anse Wells, aged
14 years, w pired ea Friday last from the effects of
fearful injuries from fire received under the following cir-
cumstances :—lt appeared from the evidence that deceased
was a domestic servant in the employ of Mr. Smell.
bone, 14, Tamwortb-road, for the last week. While in
the act of removing some linen from the copper in
the kitchen, her dress, which was distended by large
steel hoops or crinoline, was thrust is the Sue, where
it caught fire and instantly blazed op. Finding herself in
flames she screamed and rushed upstairs, and was in the
act of running into the street through the front door when
Mrs. Smallbone caught hold of her and rolled her on the
floor, and wrapped a large rug over her. Deceased's per-
son was terribly burnt, and Mrs. Smalibone had ultimately
to extinguish the clothes by rubbing them between her
hands. Medical aid was at once obtained, and deceased
was removed to the local infirmary, where everything pos-
sible was done for the poor girl's relief, bat without avail,
and she expired in great suffering. The jury returned a
verdict of " Accidental death from fire."

FATAL ACCIDENT TO AN OMNIBUS DRIVEL—On
Mooday, about one o'clock, a very rnehtneholy skeideut oc-
curred on Haverstockthill, whereby John Clarke, aged
34, a driver in the employ of the London Geoend Omnibus
Company, lost his life. The omnibus driven by the de-
ceased ran from Londoethtidge railway station to Ramp.
stead, nod on this day, as it was going up Haverstock.hill,
the conductor felt a jerk, and be clung tightly to his strap
to support himself, sod had oo idea of what had occurred
until a nutlet:aim, who was near to the plasm, called out to
him sod told him that the driver bad been thrown off his
box into the road. The gentleman took hold of the bones'
heads and the conductor went back, when he found the
driver lying in the road, with blood slightly oozing from his
nose. There was no external appearance that he had been
.cyual injured, but on attempting to raise his head it
on one aide, and he was found to be insensible. Dr.
Hafo7d, who lived only a short distaoce from the spot, was
sent for, and promptly attended, but on examination of the
unfortunate man he declared life to he extiott. Deceased
was a very steady, wellaonducted, and respectable man, and
was much esteemed in the neighbourhood. He was put in•
side the omnibus sod envoy est to Hampstead, and informa-
tion was forwarded to Dr. Lankeeter to bold an inquest.
The rause of the accident was supposed to be one of the
wheel■ coming in contact with the stone kerb.
RAPID INCREASE 07 EMIGRATION TO AMERICA.—
Owl°, to the excitement produced by the Southern rebel.
lies, public attention has not been much occupied with the
of foreign emigration le then shore.. Nevertheless
Ite7tlade has been and still is steadily rolling on, with vast
benefit to our population. The number of emigrants arrived,
and who after arrival have left this city, during the period
between March I and August 1, is ti3Olt, against 42,410 for
the:lame period ie the year 1862, The emigration this year,
then, for the period named, is just double what it was last
year. There is nothing to restrain a tide like this to the
Westein World.—Nrir York Pap. r.

A fife given on Monday at Badord-park, near
Nottingham, the seat of Mr. North, the eollisay proprietor,
was attended by • melancholy 00O1OTOOOL There were
some thousands of people present, and smug the eatertain-
monk provided was • proposed balloon anent by Mr. Cone
well, the well.knowa aeronaut. The " sew sad magnificent
balloon.” as it was described in the advertisements. occupied
• prominent position at the lower part of the grounds,
when it bad been placed at the month of an old main, laid
down some years ago on the occasion of • simile:. lite. The
process of inflation had been commenced on Sunday after-
noon at five o'clock, and was not completed at five o'clock
OR Monday. We (Nottingham Daily Guardian) have
heard it staled that the fir was of • very inferior quality,
defective in respect of buoyancy, and that the inflation
in consequence was a matter of considerable difficulty.
We baye also beard that the balloon, however magnificent
in appearance it might be, was not altogether new ; that
some parts of it wen old, and those parts the upper por-
tions, upon which the resistance of the pa would be
beaviszt. Be that as it may, there was considerable hesi-
tation as to the ascent. Mr. Caswell absolutely declined to
go up. He stated as his mama that the balloon was not
sufficiently buoyant ; and that be was too heavy in weight
to sawed with it. After this stakeout • member of the
committee proceeded to Mr. North's residence with the in-
ter:non of venially. card of direction to be affiud to the
balloon, which he proposed to send up empty. The cord
was actually written, and cookined di:odious to any person
into whose bands the balloon might come to telegraph to
Mr. North, and send the balloon by railway or other avail-
able conveyance. This plan was adopted by Mr. Cozwell in
Staffordshire, and answered the purple, sufficiently, al-
hough it did not give complete satisfaction to the sensation.
Ws. It is not improbable that Mr. Colwell might have
adopted it on this oocasion also, but that Mr. Chambers offered
himself as willing to ascend. Mr. Chambers wee • light
man, weighing only about 94. 31be, or • stone and • half
lighter than Mr. CozwelL His father was • well-known
aeronaut, slid made the first ascent from the Arboretum at
the time of its opening. Mr. Cbambsrs had made no
fewer than twenty-seven susses in balloons, and on some
Masse or four of those 00111Oid011 be bed ascended quite atone.
The desire to gratify the solution appetite of the public
seems to have been uppermost. The gentleman who bad
pee to write the direction cards for the seeding the helloes
bask in mu it should go up without an occupant of the
car had not time to return to the enclosure in which
the balloon was being filled. The machine had se-
conded with Chambers In the ear. The fact was that
the buoyancy of the pa was so much less than
ordinary that Mr. Colwell stated his fear that if •
shower of rain came down and reiterated the silk and
tank" it would be impossible for the belloos to ascend at
all. A dark mass of clouds appeared to the south-west,
driving rapidly before the wind. It tram evident to the
Lest skilful meteorologist that it would bring with it a
heavy shower. Chambers, in whom Mr. Cozwell bad con-
&knee, was in the car. It was aseasary to throw oat
every bag of What, save one ; even the grapnel was
thrown away because of its weight ; and Chambers satisfied
himself with two beams of wood for anchorage. The tutu-
inp were loosened, and slowly, vary slowly, but still
grandly, the great air ship rose into the sky. The rain aloud
had sot es yet come on, but the wind blew in fitful gusts,
sufficient to Indicate to • person who had been emus-
tuned to weather sip' that there was something trea-
cherous in the air. The balloon, with ill-fated Chambers
is the oar, had not been up five minutes when it entered
• dark nimbus, and wee hid completely from view. After
• minute or two the balloon re-appeared from beneath
the under surface of the rain cloud. It seemed fo be fear-
fully collapsed, not flattened as • bladder from which the
air is compressed, but like a crushed hat, the upper surface
driven down on the car. It fell with terrible rapidity
towards the earth ; and every spectator in the park feared
that some dreadful Meister had occurred. During the time
that this was observed • heavy rain shower was descending,
the force of which few but the most eager spectators could
withstand. In twenty minutes afterwards an earnest group
of gentlemen interested in the fit; aseerulded on
the lawn in front of Mr. North's mansiou, were
accosted by a young man who had ridden over from
Arnold with the intelligence that the unfortunate
Chambers had fallen in that locality, and was • corps.
Dr. Robertson and Mr. Maltby, who were on the ground,
volunteered to pursed to Arsold end attend to the eau A
carriage was obtained from Mr. North, and the medical pa-
Omen drove over to Arnold immediately. After their de-
parture, and In the doubt in which everybody was placed, •
consultation wee held among the managers of the fire as to
the propriety of dismissing the multitude. It was found
to be practically impossible to attempt this ; but it was,
after much coosideration, decided that the bands should be
directed to play no longer. It took some tine to
send the order around the broad expanse of the
park. But eventually the sounds of mask were
no longer borne on the breeze, and • statues
and • gloom settled on the vast assemblage. The joyous
groups of dancers were broken up. The merry parties of
old people, enjoying themselves with pipe and glees, and
pleasant joke or anecdote in the tents, were suddenly
changed to moralists upon the uncertainty of life and pity
for the victim. Gradually the crowds cleared away, and the
grounds were empty some hours earlier than was eim•cted.
Our Nottingham correspoudent -ends us some additional
details, from which it appears that the balloon rose steadily,
and was carried somewhat rapidly in • north-easterly duet-
tioo towards Nottingham. It proceeded as far as Arnold
Vale, when it wee seen suddenly to collapse whilst still at
• considerable altitude, and then to fall quickly in an un-
shapely meas. Some young men who were sear the spot
where the balloon fell hastened to render assistance. The
balloon heaved and fell WI it descended, completely covering
the car, and ultimately both dropped an a field sear
Soost-lase, three miles front Nottingham. The car
struck the ground and rebounded several feet, and then fell
again, when it was caught bold of by the youug men and
stopped. At the bottom of the car lay stretched the body
of the unfortunate amateur aeronaut. Be wee lifted out,
and fantod to be just breathing, but quite insensible. having
his handkerchief in his mouth. He was conveyed to the
nearest dwelling, arid all means adopted to restore animation,
but without effect. Doctors Robertson and Maltby after-
wards sae him, and it was discovered that his left thigh
was fractured and some of the ribs on his left side were
broken, but they wondered it very probable that the us-
fortsoate man bad died through suffocation, as the hand-
kerchief which was found in his mouth bad been evidently
there by himself when he found himself in danger of
tier stifled by the gas (mm the collapsiug balloon.
Au inquest upon We body was held at half-past 2 o'clock
yesterday.
Mr. Cottrell stated that he attributed the accident to
deceased's mistasuegemvnt of the balloon.
The proceedings had not terminated.
Chambers was employed at the Midland lostitutioo for
the Blind is Nottiosham, as master weaver in instructing`
the pupils. lie had been in the establishment for a period
of eighties mouths, and was in every respect an °zero plat 7
man. He leaves • wife and five children. He bad only left
the Midland lostitution at four o'clock, and could not have
been many minutes on the ground before his offer to pilot
the balloon was accepted.

Despatches were received yesterday at the Colo-
- from the Governor of the Cae of Good Rope.
SIRIOL'a INJURY Cavan) BY A FLT.—Mr. M. P.
Crofton, of the City water-works, met with • serious and
alarming injury on Saturday under very novel circum-
stances. While reading at his table on tiaturtley evenhig lie
felt something like the bite of a midge 0n the back of his
hand, and on looking at it saw a small greyish fir not unlike
a midge on the spot in which he felt the bite. The intruder
was instantly killed, and though the irritation of the bite
continued to be felt, very little notice was taken of it till
next marlin, when the port bore all the appearance of
active inflammation, a compsinied with deep discolora-
tion and much pain and throbbing. Surgeon ll'lliamass
was:gconsulted, and on examining the part a series of little
versicles were visible, end the subcutaneous Sane was found
to be coogested and nearly purple. Active remedies were
applied. local poulticing and other surgical treatment were
resorted to, but yesterday the s% mptoms had au increased
that it was found necessary on consultation to make several
incisions into the baud and to cauterise the arm, mating •
complete circle of cauterised surface round the limb. For
some hours considerable anxiety was felt as to the ultimate
result, and the medical attendants found it necessary to
pay several visits in the course of the day. On inquiry
last night we learned with much satisfaction that the
alarming symptoms had considerably abated, and that the
apprehensions felt as to the possible results had passed away
midst the active treatment resorted to. It has been mig-
rated that probably the little insect bad been regaling him-
self on some put rid flesh befoi • he came to quaff s. me of
Mr. Crofton's claret, and that on making the incision to pro-
cure the requisite access to the ruddy liquid, be ii oculated,
and is fact poisoned the current. A remarkable feature in
the case is that Mr. Crofton is a gentleman of r, bust habit,
but of great strength of careitution—attire, red-blooded,
and ab""t3cm--juot the w*.an whose bits.: ought to resist
poison, if not of • sir st virulent chi rectet.—Freemon's
Aima',