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London, England, 1865-04-25 00:00:00

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COURT OF BANIERUPTOT.—Antra 24.
(Before Mr. Commissioner GoaThum)
us ILI PREDIOIIOI HAMM
The bankrupt, a shipowner, of Fencharoliotresk WPM
for his order of dleobame. The aggregste liabilities are
142681, of whki 48,8881. ia doe to auditors lioldiag seen-
rity, the property so held being returned at 48,4771. Be.
pond this there are no assete.
Mr. Beardlry appeared for the magma ; and Mr. E.
Read for the bankrupt.
His Honour suspended the order for six. mouths, os the
pound that the bankrupt bed contracted debts without
probable means of payment, but gave promote,» for three
mouths, to be mewed unless came were shown to the
contrary.

MYSTERIOUS DEATH Or A WEL IN THE NEW

At the Clerkenwidi Police-court, yesterday,
Sanaa Young, aged 29. of 9, Albion-pleas Quethethed.
Holloway, • labourer is the is splay of Ow Great Northers
Railway, was charged before Mr. Barker, ea auricles et
having cowed the death of Matilda Coward,
_seal 19, bt
drowning in the New Meer. ie the parish of bangles
Polies-000stable494N•sid—Aboet 2 o'clock as themoraing
of Saturday, the 22nd 1 wee an duty is the Grua
Lime, Stoke Newiegtoe, bear the Pwiro• publirb••••• I
beard some ow come, down this road,'BA I waited setil
the prisoner rams up to me. I saw he wee • littlein drink.
and he was muttering to kinself. I 'eked him wire was
the matter ; and he said he bed fallen into the New River,
and that 1 oosht to have bees there to have palled him
out, as he shouted loud sough for any oar to here
heard. I asked him where he worked, sad lionaid," Domes
the Lanes;" and I this felt down his deaths. and fouled
them quite wet. He was wet Ns to the skis.
Police-ooestable Laces, N, --Aboat 3 deka oa
Saturday morning 1 saw the primmer oramies towards ma.
I salad him wWse he lived, tad he said that we. kis
business. I asked him what be had cot in his eats* and
he said he had got emu inetnetioas Wagging io the Great
Northers Railway. I felt he was wet, and I asked him
where he had bees and hew he got in that data He mid
he had bees into the New Rine, sad bed bida good tugs in
there. I asked him whether lie had attempted to dawn
himseU, and he said " No." Last night, about half-past 8,
I saw the usenet.. and I told him I was •
and salsa hies if he hero me. I told =an=
better be caret ul what he mid. and I thee mid, I hue muse
about a young woman that has bees fogad drowned I. the
New River. He said In Pram sable( at all shoat it, sad
I this asked him if he ham me. f 'eked him if he bed
bees to Stoke Newingtoe, end he said be had bees ea the
lime to see Bobby Caesar. Afterwsrds be arid he
about till 2 o'clock in the month& and I thee eald.silt
you not go up to Webber, New-park r and he mid be
did oat know. I told him he was wit through to the akin
whoa I met him Dear the New River, and he said he had
not base there aor anywhere else. In onseqnuee al that
I took him to the policeotatios and whoa 1 charged him
with haring ceased the death of the deceased, he again said
he us not nut the spot,
Yr. Barker—How near was the *was to the spot wham
the young women was found when you girt saw him!
Witasse—Abort 400 Ards sad ha was that mutter*
and apathies to hi
Pthorooustable flatter 459 N mid—About half-past four
on Saturday morning I saw the primmer coming ever the
New River Bridge. He was excited, sad speakift to him-
self. Suing he was wet, I asked him wheth he lull bees,
sod he mid lie had bust in the water, sad bed • tura up
there. I asked him if he knew who it was with, end he
said he did not keels and be also mad he did not know how
In came there. I asked him for his name, sad he mid he
did not know ; and when I asked him where he lived, he
said that was just what he wasted to know. I then let
him go. Two hours el terwerds ray &Siestas was ogled to
the New River, when I saw a wawa in the water, lying ea
her Liu sad hands. With aid I palled her out, searched
her, and took her to the deed hues add seat fora medical
man, who pronounced the woman quite dead.
Mr. Barker—Sbouid you say the prisoner wu drunk or
sober whoa you met him
Witness—lie had bad something to drink, but he was
not drunk. When I first saw hint he was about 150 yards
from the spot where the body of the deemed use found.
The prieoaer—Did you ever me me slug with say one
that night!
Witasse—No.
The prisour—Did you see me with the young women
that is deed
Witness—No.
Mr. Thomism Coward said—l reside in the Shakespeare-
road, Stoke Newington, and I via the employ of Mr.
Ryden. On Saturday 'Teeing, after paying my men, I
returned home alone 7 o'clock, whoa my wife said, "Tom,
Matilda Las been out all night" I said, "Good God,"
and then remembered that I bad hoard that a young woman
had tun pulled out of the New River that morning. I
went to the deed-house at Liberian, and identified the body
there as that of my daughter. Ido not know the primer,
and have never seen him before.
Mr. Barker—Had you any words with your daughter
previous to her death.?
Witness, who was in teen, said he had not He did not
know that she had anything to oppress her mind.
The prisoner—I never saw the sea in my life Ido not
know the young woutaa.
Charles Kest.. mid—l reside at 7. Spenoer-road. About
hall-past blue I saw the deceased in Kiaplaad. I spoke to
her, sad the was thee tayias.
Inspector Judge asked for • remand, as there had sot
been area for the post madam exeratisatioa to have been
made. It WS. kW, that the primmer was in the employ of
the Great Northers }Galway.
The prisoner said be was not guilty, and did sot know the
young women that was drowsed.
Mr. Barker said it woe a vary suspicious use, and r•-
guwded the prisoner for a week.

CRIMINAL APPIAL. —AL meeting of the j urieprn-
deuce department of the National Association for the Pro-
motion of Social Science was held at their rooms in the
Adolph' last evening ; Mr. G. D. Hastings in the chair,
to further consider the report of the lauding committee
the department on the law of appeal in criminal
cuss. In the opinion of the committee, the chief objects
which should be accompliebed by airy scheme for ameedieg
the law, are that it should shoed to those convicted of
any criminal offence the mum of bringing under judicial
consideration any fair pounds for submitting the charge to
a second investigatioo. That the public should be care-
fully guarded spinet the possibility of the right being exer-
cised is such a way as to defeat or delay the execution
of criminal justice). That all persona convicted of any
offence should be entitled to have • sewed investiga-
tion, and the Luna constituting the charge against them taken
before a jury. Theme objects the committee believe would
be secured by a system of tipped, framed in accordance
with the following resolutions :-1. That the present
system of revising sentences of tie court by means of the
Home-office is unsatisfactory. 2. That soy person convicted
of treason, felcny, or misdemeanour, should be entitled to
apply for a new trial, and such application should be made
by motion before a court composed cif not less than three
judges of the superior courts, and that the said courts
should sit at intervals of not less then one month through-
out the year ; bat that so such %alined.= should be
made except upon the certificate of the judge
who shall bare presided as the trial, that the
case is one foe ash as application. 3. That if
an application for a new trial be granted, the accused
should have the option of being tried before the court
which shall have granted the new trial (provided the
court will consent to snob an arrangement), or, as in new
trials in civil cases, before • jury. 4. That if the accused
elect to he tried by the court which has granted the new
trial, that court should blue the power of surnomeing and
examining vicunas on oath, sod all the power, jarisdic.
tioo, and authority exereieed by the court before which the
accused was originally tried. The meeting was addressed
by Mr. J. Dickinson, Mr. A. J. Williams, Mr. W. Dean,
Mr. R. Wilson, Dr. Parkhurst, Sir J. Eardlsy Wilmot,
Bart., Mr. H. G. &Ilea, Mr. F. Hill, and the Chairman,
after which the resoladoes were put seriatim and carried.
UNITED BILTHODIErr Fan. CHURCHIB. —The
eighth 1 missionary meeting, under the auspices of
the friends and promoters of this association took place
lut evening at Exeter-ball, Sir S. Morton Peto, Bart,
M.P., in the chair. The hall was crowded with people,
and amongst those on the platform were the Bishop of
Toronto, the Rev. C. H. Spurgene the Rev. J. Coleman,
President of the Annual Asumbly,.the Rev. W. Wilkinson,
Baptist Missionary Society. the Rev. W. AnUiff, Primitive
Methodist, the Rev. W. Griffith, the Rev. W. Reed, Dr.
Burrows, Dr. Scsotleff. &a The proceedings bevies beta
opened with a hymn and a prayer, the Rev. Samuel Chester
nod the report, which stated that the society bad good
reason to rejoice at the emcees of their taboos', and the
permanent position they had established. The eociety was
emphatically • home and foreign missionary society.
While looking abroad and surveying the cruelties, idola-
tries and heathenish practices of these abroad, they were
not ioserudble to the ignorance, spiritual destitu-
tion and moral degradation of multitudes who dwell
in our own land. In the rural districts there
was mods to excite their commiseration ; hot it
was in the large towns and cities that the most appalling
Domes of ignorance and profligacy were visible. TorseA• these
scenes and ameliorate them as far as possible the society
bed spent Dearly 3,0001. in missionary agency Caning the
past year. Braden the missionaries labouring abroad they
hod specie' at work in Ireland, the West Indies, Aus-
tralia, Western Africa, Chins, and New Zeeland. They
were progressing suoasestally in distant parts. and an in-
crease had been obtained in their numbers of 91 full mem-
bers end 47 on trial. Their eumhers as a body stood thus :
—members, 64,331; oe trial, 5,971; ministers, rti ; local
preachers, 3,096: leaden, 4,029; chapels, 1,065; other
preaching rooms, 415 ; Sunday schools, 1,046; Sunday
scholars, 135453 ; Sunday-school teachers, 93,754 ; and day
schools, 45. Os their foreign statism, which were inelnded in
these statistics, there were 19 misiouries, 105looalprsubers,
3,88'2 church members, 349 on trial, 31 chapels, and 5 other
preaching rooms. In the finsacial &putmeet the general
receipt.' from the home circuits bad been 6,1751.8 a 10d.,
being as increase op= the reosipte of the year, amounting
to 6741. 11 s. The foreign masts bad emanated to 2,L''7l.
Its. 2d., makis • total of 8,3031. 3s. The chairman thee
briefly addressed the meeting, reed observed that there never
was • time when man was more degraded, or more is need
of the aid which their efforts were caloulated to bedew than
at the present moment. He was glad to Dear that the so-
ciety bad kept its mind attentively fixed rpm the colonies,
as then woo no field which presorted such as extortive
area for their labosus as was farad in those colorise. Tim
Rev. S. Burka moved the adoption of the
repot,
which wss seconded by the Ray. J. H. Tvykse7P4
supported by the Rev. W. Griffith, who grinder'
the sesertious of Giptain Burks, and them who advo-
cated his opiaiena regarding the " saisthievegs" Sudsier at
the miss work. The man was whirled, ss war
mime a designed to peesiobe the *este of the
eogiety.
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