The Express.
London, England, 1862-10-31 00:00:00

RE BRAENBECK.

This was an adjournedapPircatiOn for release on bail.
The bankrupt, Edward Braunbeck, was described as of 34,
Loudon wall, civil engineer. On the last occasion one of
the bail was accepted, and the other, through a miedescrip-
tion, was rejected.
Mr. J. J. Holt now appeared for the bankrupt, and
tendered the following gentlemen as bail for 50i. each for
bankrupt'sdue appearance beforethe court :—Mr. J. Myers,
boot manufacturer, of Duke.street, Aided* ; and Mr.
Solomon Abrahams, of Gravel-lane, Houndsditch, biscuit
baker.

pThe bail baring entered into the required reeognisances,
an order for the bankrupt's release was made. It was, how-
ever, stated that a warrant had been lodged at the gate of
the prison to detain the bankrupt on a criminal charge. „gag

RE HALL.

This was an examination meeting and application 'for
order of discharge. • din/ , • M t•
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The debts, secured and unsecured, amount to 9001.
Property returned at 6931.
There was no opposition, and the examination was passed
and order of discharge granted.

U CARTWRIGHT.

This was an ►pplication for release from custody by Joseph
Cartwright, of 21, Benjamin-road, Hornsey, previously of
No. C, Albert-villas, Seven Sisters-road, Holloway, and at
4C, Bow-lane, following no trade or profession, but occa-
sionally betting on horse racing both on his own account
and on commission. The bankrupt, it was stated,
was koowu amongst his sporting acquaintances as the
Garibaldi of the Turf." He was in the h►bit
of lending money at a high rate of interest to others of the
betting fraternity. Debts 380/.
Mr. J. J. Holt stated that the bankrupt's difficulties arose
from non-success in his speculations, and there was no oppo-
sition to his release.

The bankrupt was discharged.
RE JOSEPH.

This was an appliaktif;tiloi release by the bankrupt, of
ham's Coffee-:louse, King-street, Aldgate, licensed vic-
tualler.

The debt. are about 600/. It is stated that the bankrupt
bad been a publican fur forty years, but latterly his takings
bad fallen off, and this, combined with serious illness in his
family, had brought him to this court.
Hr. J. J. Holt was for the bankrupt, and on his applica-
tion, and in the absence of opposition, the diacharga was
granted.

RE HUGHES—A POLICE CONSTABLE IN COURT.
This was an application for discharge. The bankrupt,
John Timothy Hughes, was described of Printer's-Flace,
Bermoudaey, metropolitan police constalsle.ll
The debts are 511.9 a. 6.1 amen, 21. lffx I "41111
The principal crediton are Robert Wooldridge and
wife, leaving-shopkeepers, Kanburn•street, Rotherbithe,
4.V. 9s. h i., and 154 the amount of damages for an action
brought for false imprisonment, bankrupt having taken
them into custody on the charge of being in poeseesion of
stolen property, which was dismiss( 1. The difference was
for costs in the action tried on the 26th of June, 1862.
Mr. W. R. Boehanan supported the bankrupt.
The examination was passed, and the order of discharge
greeted.

RZ rEEKINS.
This was an examination meeting and application for
order of discharge. The bankrupt, John William Perkins,
was described as of Churchtield Howes Academy, Margate,
schoolmaster, formerly of Victoria-cottage, North End,
Fulham, consulting chemist.
Mr. W. R. Cm:banal' appeared as solicitor for the bank -
rapt. The debts are 1,1501. ; secured, TOOL ; debtors, good,
458/. ; doubtful, 1,7304 ; property, 6201.
The failure was attributed to the former proprietor of
the school haying deceived the bankrupt's to the raid value.
The examination was passed and discharge granted.

CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT.
(THIS DAY.)

(Before the Lord Chief Baron.)
THE MURDER IN THE CITY.

The trial of the prisoner Samuel Gardiner, for the murder
of his wife, wag resumed this morning.
Mr. Ribton proceeded to address the jury for the defence.
He said the time bad now arrived when he had to address
the jury on a most difficult and complicated cue—a case of
inure difficulties and complication, with the exception of
one, that was the Road murder, he had never recollected.
He bail every confidence in the jury and in the learned
judge who presided on the beach. If ever there
was a case which required great attention to
master its intricacies, this case was the one. He was SW*
the learned judge would hold the scales of justice in this
awful inquiry with a Fran and intrepid hand, and that no
observations would fall from him which would tend to pre-
judice the prisoner in their minds. The law said that the
jury, and the jury alone, were to be the judges. Through
the kind indulgence of hie lordship, be had had time
to examine the points in the evidence, and be felt some little
conlideure that he should be able to couvinco them that the
prisoner was not guilty, lie should first ask the jury if
tt hod been satisfactorily established that the death was not
the result of suicide ; and if this was established, and they
should believe that a murder had been committed, the
next point he should contend for was that it was
equally probable this menhir wan committed by the
woman Humbler as by the prisoner. He then
called their attention to the medical testimony,
and_ urged that too much reliance ought not to
be placed upon it, and that they would not be justified in
coming too hastily to the conclusion upon the mere theory
that bad been put forward by the medical gentlemen who
had been examined. MI that their evidence amounted to,
as it appeared to hiss, was that it was improbable that the
deceased woman should have committed the act herself.
With regard to the cuts which were on the hands they might
have bet 0 dune hy the clutching of the knife in the con-
vulsions of death. If that were so, could they say
beyond all doubt the poesibility of suicide was
excluded. He next drew the attention of the
jury to the letters and valentines that hail been
found in the room, sod the repeated insults which the
deceased had received from the girl Humbler, and to the
quarrel which took place on the morning preview. to the
occurrence, and he asked the jury whether this might not
afford a sufficient reason for the act having been committed
by the deceased herself ? He then pr seeded to comment
as the evidence as to the period which elapsed from the
time of death to the time the body was discovensl, 11,0/clock,
and contended that vet y little reliance could be placed upon it.
Taking all these feet. iuto consideration could the jury
satisfactorily say that the deceased had not committed
suicide. If they were of opinion that she had not done so,
the next question to consoler would be, who had committed
the murder, was it the prisoner or the girl Humbler?
Whoever had committed the act had evidently armors! the
body for the purpose of giving it the appearance of a
suicide, and be drew the attention of the jury to the fact
that the prisoner had never once suggested that she had
committed anieide, but, on the contrary, as soon as he went
into the room sod saw the body of his wife on the floor, he
accused the girl Humbler of killing her, while she, on the
contrary, at once said that the deceased had cut her throat,
and this was evidently the complexion she desired to
put upon the case, and he said be should show
that in many of the statements she made when she was
examined Wharfs the coroner she was not speaking the truth.
The learned counsel t hen said that he should produce evidence
to account for the mariner in which the prisoner's time was
occupied on the morning from the period when he left
his own Louse until his return, and be said that although he
considered this evidence was not of any material im-
Port:ince, the prisoner instated that these witnesses should
be called, sod he felt that he had no alternative but to
comply with his wishes. The learned oounsel then pro-
ceeded at considerable length to all the attentioo of the
jury to the other facts of the ease, endeavouring to show
that it was as probable the crime was committed by the
woman Humbler as by the prisoner.
The court was ieljourned for a short time in the middle of
the day in order that the jury might have some refreshment,
sal the trial was then resumed.
'rhos nature of the evidence that was brought forward
was to show that the prisoner had gone from his house in
toe morning to several places in the City where be was etn-
played to sweep chimneys, and that nothing at ell unusual i
was olserred in his appearance or conduct.
Mr. Poland then replied on behalf of the prosecution, sod
was proceeding when our report left.

Two private Louses at Wigan were blown into
ruins cesterday by an explosion of gas. It is supposed
that the gas had moped from a pipe beneath the door—not
an unusual place of rec.-tee-1M nothing was done to God
out where the pipe leaked, though the smell of gas had
earful' the inmates some hours before the explosion. The
neglect nearly cost the life of the teuriut of one cottage,
bilat the two cottages were very much injured.