The Express.
London, England, 1853-03-17 00:00:00

Mr. Linklater, representing Hampson, asked that he
should pass, the requisitions of the assignees for additional
accounts having been complied with.
Mr. Dupree, for Meekellar, stated that he was as Ceylon,
where he was detained by Blue's, and asked that the time
fur his surrender should be further enlarged.
Mr. Reed objected to any adjournment but one sine die.
lie should also do what was very untie ual with him at the
examination meeting—ask for the protection to be with-
drawn, on account of the conduct of the bankrupts.
Mr. Linklater submitted that the protection could not be
withdrawn till the bankrupt had passed his last examina-
tion, up to which peri,d he was protected by the act. If
further accounts were required, protection must be given to
the bankrupt to enable him to prepare them. The case of
"Es parte Wright" (9 Glyn and Jameson) established this
principle. liampson was perfectly ready to render any
further accounts that might be required.
Charles }tampion, one of the bankrupts, deposed en exa-
mination—We commenced business on the 16th January,
18.51, as shawl warehousemen, aed stepped payment on the
9th September last. We commenced without capital. We
now owe 24,107/., and the assets are about 5,5.01. There
are also upwards .if 10,000!. of liabilities, consisting princi-
pally of bills drawn on our customers who have failed. Of
this sum Worms's acceptances amount to 7,7001., which will
come scainot the estate. Weems is a large debtor of ours
in addition, to the amount of some thousands. We took an
account of our affairs at the beginning of 1852, and found
a deficiency of above 2,3141. Our debts were 8,7091. ;
assets, 6,3951. At that time we had had accommodation
bill transactions. We found it necessary to enable us to
keep up our payments. On tho 3rd July, 1552, Worm*
told us he most stop payment unless we misted him, his
hank. rs having refused to discount his paper. Mr. Banker
and Mr. Jamesor, two of our large creditors, advisi d
us to go on, and Mackellar said that, by increasing his
purchases, he was confident he could carry the concern
on. I could not tell, by reference to our books, what
Worms owed us at that time, there were so ruany bill
transactions between us. They owed us 4,0001. then. We
had previously had large accommodation transactions with
Messrs. Jameson and Henke', some of which:were running
at the time of our stoppage. In July, after the meeting of
Wotms's creditors, we bought goods to the amount of
5,4001 ; in August, 11,10.11.; and during the first eight
days of September, 1,0&51.—in all between 17,0001. and
18.0001. worth. After the 3rd July, we lent Messrs. Worms
2,000/. We took stock on the 16th July; it was 5,3141. ;
14,798 L worth was afterwards purchased. Our net sales
during the same period, deducting allowances, were 11,9201.
The stock given up to th• assignees was valued at 4,4801.,
leaving a deficiency of 3,700., the amount of loss which we
sustained. I superintended the bandana department ;
Mackellar the shawls ; and Mr. Rhodes the other depart-
ments. Mr. Gray, of Sheffield, and Mr. Mackintesh, of
anehester,were large purchasers from us after the 16th July.
Very fow of these sales, if any, which were continuous,
week by week, were at a profit. They were invariably at
less than cost pric I sometimes looked at the books to see
the prices at which Read.' were sold, and I saw they were
being sold at a terrible sacrifice. In the stuff department,
gar's were sold, and a discount allowed afterwards ou the
price at which they were entered. The amount so allowed
to Gray and Mackintosh was about 9471., the sales being
entered in out books at so much more. The object of this
I suppose, was to prevent the young men knowing the
prices at which they were told. The stock in the bandana
department, from the 16th July, was sold at a loss. On
23rd August I bought of Messrs. Baker, Tucker, and Co.,
49 pieces of India bandanas, at 12s. They were soid to
Mr. Gray, I believe, by me. on the same day, at 105.9 d. the
piece. On the Ist September, I purchased from the same
firm 2•i pieces of India bandanas, at 131. 4d.; these were
also sold by me, on the same day, to Mr. Gray, at 101. 91.
per piece. A great many other goods were sold at a loss.
On 25• h August I bought from Messrs. Bennock, Twenty-
man
and Rigg, 351 dozen cher.° cravats, at 21s. 3d. the
dozen, making 3761. 18s. Of those, I believe I sold 50
dozen to Mr. Gray on the 28th of August, at 17s. 6.1. ; 10
dozen on the 15th to Mr. Spence, at 21s. 6d. ; 100 dozen
on the 3rd of Septemb r to Mr. Mackintosh, at IGs. ; and
39 dozen on the Ist of September to Mr. Gray, at 17s. 6d
Part had been given up to the assignees; 89 dozen are mo-
ue wanted for; Ido not know what has become of them.
On the 12th of August Mackellar purchased of Messrs.
Candy 61 cashmere shawls at 48a., amounting to 1371. On
the 21st of August I sold 110 shawls at 30s. to Mr. Mack-
intosh at Manchester. I was asked to ge down to Man-
chester to force large sales and send up remittances the
same night. I did PO ; goods were sent me there, and I
sold them for the best price I could gat. The bankrupt
was further examined very closely as to some entries in his
books, which it was suspected had been made on erasures,
and admitted that those entries differed from invoices with
which they ought to correspond. Ia one case, 18, 10, and 3
handkerchiefs had been altered to 18, 10, and 3 dozen

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Some other witnesses were examined, and the further
hearing cf the cue wa then adjourned.

THE POLICE COURTS.
WORSHIP- STREET.
James Pindett, who was charged on Monday at this
court with lacerating the body of his nephew, three years of
age, was again examined.
The evidence of a surgeon having confirmed that of the
previous witnesses,
Mr. Christie, the relieving-officer of the union, intimated
to the magistrate that, although the board of guardians was
fully preparsd to carry the case to the sessions, it was thy
wish of the vestry-clerk to save the parish the expense of
smelt a prosecution, if it could be summarily disposed of.
Mr. D'Eyncaart positively refused to accede to the sug-
gestion, es his summary powers user: wholly inadequate to
deal with such a case, and ordered the prisoner to be at
once committed for trial.
CLERKENWELL.
John Taggart, a warden in the Model Prison, Penton-
vine, was fined 601. for secretly and unlawfully conveying
a letter to a convict named Thompson, under punishment
in that institution. The accused was allowed a week to
seek assistance in appealing against the decision.
SOUTHWARK.
Three of the trustees of the "Ancient Britons Benefit
Society" were summoned at the instance of David Lloyd,
one el the members, for unlawfully eicluling him, in the
time of sickness, from the said society.
The complainant stated that he had been a member of
the Ancient Britons Benefit Society for a period of nearly
twenty years; that a few weeks ago, owing to serious indis-
position, he made application to the steward, and had the
usual allowance granted to sick members. His allowance,
however, was suddenly stopped on the 17th ult, although
he was not convalescent, and he was ultimately expelled,
and the reason assigned for it was, that he infringed •
clause in their rules, by doing some work in his house. He
added that he disputed their authority to att as they had
done, and accordingly summoned them to show cause why
they had excluded a member who had been paying money
into the society fur so many years.
William Lloyd was then sworn, and he stated that he was
a member of the same society, and that on the 17th ult.
ho called on the complainant, and found him in the act of
sawing some wood, intended for firewood, a quantity of
which he had for sale in his shop. He (witness) told com-
plainant that he should report him to the trustees, in order
that his sick money should be stopped, and the reply was
that he had net infringed the rules of the society.
'rho complaisant stated that he was wholly incapable of
doing work at the time mentioned, and that he was only
showing his wife the way to cut up some wood to light their
own fire, when the last witness entered the house and saw
him do it.
The witness said that there were several blocks of wood
by the aide of the complainant, ready to ba cut up, and that
a considorabio quantity was in the same place, and also in
the shop, tied up in bundles as firewood. He added that it
was absurd to suppose that the complainant was only show-
ing his wife haw to cut the wood, for, in fact, he was at
work himself, and the rules specified that if any sick
member was .:iscovered "at work, or employed in any pe-
cuniary way," he forfeited all benefit from the society.
Mr. Combo said, that under these circumstances he could
make no order on the society, and therefore dismissed the