The Express.
London, England, 1865-10-28 00:00:00

;CH OF GENERAL VON MANTEUFFEL.

LAW INVILLIGDNOIL

COURT OF BLNICROPTOY.—co=n 27.
Olden Mr. CO'strandone Owalbars.)
111 C.. 1. COLLIN&
beslnspi Vas liesseed victualler. recently soapy.
jg Langton Hotel, at flydeoltam, floe taken by tie
Sydeaban Hotel Company. Thiii was the sitting for oz.
sad discharge, but no aoasuets bed been filed.
dr.geed, foe the benkrupt alleged that the &halt erss
°An to the bankrupt's book; baring been mislaid in the
of of the ofßeiadd l assignee.
hat VU
His Hoeoar a tso sufikdsat excuse, and ad.
*wad the tam doe die.
°sagfoe the assignees, objected to protec
utiont of
Wag give& ,The baokrupt had kept the sasi zees og
Yr.
the Linton Hotel ; they be have obtained 1,0001. for I
item ase sydowiliam Hotel Company ; bet Oiling to the
hostile prooesdule of the bankrupt, they had only
got 0/.
His Hower thought it better to give protection.
rz al COLOSSI. CHASSIS COOPCL
Th. bowknot was described as ooloael oa the retired lid of
Kstrty's ledian forces.lde of Coleford, Glower.
ssisbjei. Worthing, aid m. places. He vogue to the
cornet on my OWO petitioe. attributiag hi failure to" charges
ssis pp Pty snonity and pardon, litigation relating thereto.
miry law code." He owes
to unsecured creditors 5371.;
to crediton holding security, 2,2001. ; the eecurity being
cgurger on the bankrupt's pen,
of 4501. • year, and his
=
ay of 2001. • year (the validity of which be disputa);
and property held as security, 104/. The expendi-
ture a retareed at 4001. a year. The bankrupt states that
helms a elsim of 600/. on the Indian government for losses
motsined is the lodiao mutiny, also other SUMP for prize
Bey sod booty on different occasionv.
ate cam was adjourned till the teturn of Mr. Commis-
rider Window.

_lf POLICE COURTS.
wisiox.HousE.
William Matthews, late chat engineer on board the
erprehip halls, the property of the Helen and Adriatic,
nom Navigation Company, Wooded before Mr. Alderman
wage, who gat for the Lard Mayer, to prefer • oomplaist
spirt Mews. Suckling and Co., the agests of the cow.
wi4llor having carefully detained • quantity of clothes
a to him.
gr. Weenier, junior. appeared is support of the coin.
plait The deletion* did sot &teal nationally, but •
mutate= connected with the firm was present on their
Ur:Weiser stated that the complainant, Mr. Matthews.
was engage as chief engineer of the Italia, belonging to the
Italian and Adriatic Steam Navigation Company. The
and Wiled from London, sad on her arriving et Gibraltor,
be, with the omen* of the captain, went on shone.
Wavered that among other regulations of the authorities
at that place was one that at • certain hoar is the evening
go pea was closed, red no one was allowed to leave upon
ay by
whatever. and the closing of the port wasan-
seused by the firing of • gun. The complainant, it ap.
pared, sot being aware of this regulates. walked about the
plate said the evening, and he was en his way beck to the
read, when just as he arrived at the beach the sun Bed,
sad be was stopped. He offered to give • boatman • move.
reign if he would take him on board his ship, but the rules
were so stringent that he did
o!nothore dare to
all night, ga do so. He was
therefore obliged to remain
shone the
pude, who, he was instructed, had some spite against
kite,went away without him, leaving him on
the reek with only the elothee he had on, and very
little money. He was obliged to remain three or four
days at Gibraltar before he could get • ship to bring him
home. He immediately applied to Meese. Suckling, who
were the agents of the vend, and they *forme hiss that
the captain bad plead he scathes in their charge. and they
Tibia to give than up without as order from the captain.
The ably excuse that appeared to be given for this proceed.
leg we that the tramplainsat bad deserted the vessel ; bat
the. was not the slightest ground for sub • charge. He
add prove, if it was asoranary, that the owners, or rather
Its annpany, were aware that the complainant bad bees
idt behind at Gibraltar ender the eircirmatances be had
stated, and if they had desired to prefer any charge against
its complainant they knew perfectly well where be nut*
he found, and could haunches proceedings against him at
sajAirtnians Wilson asked what right the captain had to
hip the compiainant's clothe?
Mr. Wontoer said, none whatever. They ale not only
detained his clothes, but the captain had received his wages
sd kept possession of the money.
Alderman Wilson inquired of thogentleman who attended
annum* the defendants what explanation he had to
gr the extraordinary course that had been punned ?
gentleman replied that Messrs. Buckling had sot
the slightest wish to detain the clothe. All they knew of
the cue was that the ospthis had placed the property in
their weenie is the serene of the caeseary, and told
ties not to give it up without • written order from him.
Th. captain was now at sea, sad would sot be back for •
Weight.
Alderman Wilson maid the captain bad no right whatever
to detain the clothes or to give tench an order.
The complainant wee the ewers, and be proved the facts
es above recounted. He said that Messrs. Suckling were
ray civil to him whoa he applied to them. They at once
admitted that the clothes were in their possession, but said
they would not give them up after the directions they had
need from the captain. There was 171. de to bim for
viva, and among the property that was detailed by
Yews. Suckling was • desk which oadelned his fist-elves
catifieste from the Board of Trade, without which be
mold not obtain an appointment on board say other veal
alderman Wilson said it appeared to him to be an
exceedingly herd we that eosins the tromplasant had
ate been ibW to get to the boat before the gun fired, and
en board his
had consequently been prevented from going
letheuld have been treated is this manner ; and he st
mss made an order that the property should be immediately
delivered up, and that full costs should be allowed to the
complainant.
Three stalwart looking real, named William Ross, John
Clark, and Walter Johnstone, aged respectively 24, 21. and
H, were charged with disorderly conduct in the workhouse
of the East London Usion.l
It appeared from the evidence of Sollaway, the ener.
*eldest of the houseleas poor Raid Of the above %Mint,
that about six o'clock on Thursday teeing, the primers
and eleven other men applied to be admitted to the
meal ward, and they were accordingly taken in.
They oath bad • warm bath, and some bread we given
to them, and they went to bed. They all got up in the
musing at six o'clirek, and wets VU to the labour
yard, where • pound ot askant Pen to este
of them to pick, and when they had done this they
weld have had their breakfast. The prisoners continued
to work for about ten minutes, when he missed them, and
food that they had pas to the water-closet. Trading
that they remained a leg time be went to ow what they
won about, and discovered that they had torn their clothes
cempletely to atoms and thrown them down the closet, and
were entirely naked. The prisoners seemed rather to glory
la what they bad done, far they admitted that they had
tors up their clothes, and said that their object in doing so
was to be sent to prison, and they would rather be there
than in • workhouse. The officer stated that owing to some
alterations baring been made in the establishment there
were no clothes on the premises to give to the marines,
tad they *seeped naked in the water-closet while he gent
to the workhouse belonging to the union at Homerton for
the apparel they had on at peewit
The prisoners laughed heartily while the officer was giving
his evidence, and appearedto treat the affair as • good joke.
Upon being asked why they had acted in the meatier de-
ether!, they said that they tore up the clothes because they

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were diity.
Rollaway said this was not true. They were better
clothes than those they now had on.
Aldermen Wilma said the doilies they were supplied
with were a great deal too good for snub idle, worthless
fellows. He should suggest that clothes reads of seeking,
or some Inch material, should be provided for persons like
the prisoners, in order that everyone might know what
dais of people they were.
The officer said that the union authorities had just given
instructions to that effect, and in future, when any el the
usual paupers destroyed their clothes in this manner, •
rough ride would be giveu to them upon which would be
stamped the words "Kest London Colon."
Alderman Wilson said it was monstrous that at • time
IMe the present, when there was plenty of work to be bad.
great bulking, lazy fellows like the pawners ahould throw
liesmeelves open the ratepayers for support, and it &p-
-cared to him that the power of punishment vested in the
alegietrates was quite inadequate for such an offence as the
ensoners had committed. thefortuoately it was too true
hat • were better tweeted in • price than in •
lark one, and this wee • state of things which called
badly for some alteration. He thee sentenced the pri-
merit° twentymne days' imprisoammat. the effect of which
121 be that they will be kept on abort diet.
The prisoners left the bar, grinning, and evidently oat at
all dimatiolled with the result.
BOWL-STREET.
Six prisoners were brought up on . various charges of
Pocket picking and attempted pocket pecking in the trend
a the line of route lame by the funeral corfige which
aceoropenied the remains of the late lamented Premier
to their resting place in Westminster Abbey.
They were remanded for farther examination.
David Jonu, a ragged. dirty, dissolate-looking young
man, was charged with stealing • till containing 21.13 e. 6s.
in money and two medals, from-the shop of Mr. Hainan,
dairyman, 8, Brydgee-street, Covent-Paden,
Hr. Hallman bad been to witeces the funeral of Lord
Palmerston, and on his return had oocesion to change his
*Mee 'the room behind his shop. While thus engaged
ha heard a lioglieg sound, as of the fall of • banish of keys,
which =Zed him to look round. He then maw the prisoner
leaving the shop with the till under his arm covered
Mil • towel which be must have taken from the counter.
The jingling sound must have been penaseed by the fall of
the keys which he bad left in the leek, and which were
afterwards found in the e where ab doubt theprisoser
had dropped them. He fol the prisoner, who was
stopped by Kybert, hackney carriage attendant, No. 100,
oa duty at the cab-rank in Brydgeirstreet, who took the
horn the prisoner and delivered it to Mr. Hahne*. It con-
tained 2t. 3s. ltd. in silver, and 9e. 7d. in copper, sad also
two medals—the Crimean medal with four cusps, and the
Turkish medal. Mr. Hall Man bad nerved all through the
Crimean war as a sergeant ol Ream.. He had placed the