The Express.
London, England, 1847-05-15 00:00:00

COURT OF EXCHEQUER.

Nut P'area—BeforeStr P. Pollock, C.B.,aad aMiddlesexSpecial Jury.
THE ATTOILNET-GENEEAL V. HITCHCOCK.—EXCISE
FRAUDB.—THE MALT-TLX —This was an information at
the insignee of the excise deportment, against the defend-
ant, a brewer, at Yoxford, in Suffolk. It appeared that in
the autumn of 1845, the defendant, who had previously
occupied the premises for nine years, built a cistern to the
rear of his kitchen fireplace, enclosing an apartment which
had been before then used as a back kitchen, and connecting
it, by means of a secret trap-door, with the molt-house,
which wee above it. He thus contrived to run malt secretly
and in fraud of the excise, for 12 months. Upon the 20th of
November last, a discovery was made by the officers of
excise, through the instrumentality of a person named
Spooner, who had been suddenly dismissed from the
deb dent's employment in September last, and who
we. yesterday the principal witness in support of the
The excise officers discovered grain in
=ll6lt ages of germination on many of the floors and, it
vas eStErlietd, that the defendant transferred a quantity of
malt from floor to floor equal to the amount taken from the
cistern, and added it to the malt on the first and suceeeding
floors, until it became St for removal to the kiln, from whence
it was taken to the storehouse, and thus escaped detection.
The Attorney-General with the Solicitor-General, Mr. Wat-
son, Q. C., and Mr. Wilde, were for the crown. Mr. Bovill,
for the defence, called several witnesses who had been em-
ployed on the defendant's premiees during the entire time
laid for the commission of the offences; and theriepoeed that
they had never seen any frauds perpetrated.-1 he jury, after
a short consultation, returned a verdict for the crown.—
Penalties, 6,0001.
The court rose shortly before 7 o'clock. The Lord Chief
Baron will preside at Nisi Prism this morning at Guildhall.

COURT OF BANKRUPTCY.
Wore Mr. Commissioner Enos.

ALEXANDER RAIN;';; Bartitauricr.=—. Thia bankrupt
was the well-known auctioneer and house agent in Regent-
street, and he now applied to pus his last examina-
tion. upon the balance sheet prepared by Mr. Wryghte,
which ran over a period of ten years, Mr. Rainy
having been in business for about twenty years; and the
fallowing are the principal items therein :—To creditors,
14,9431. ; to creditors holding security, 6,3531. ; capital, lit of
January, 1837, 8,7411.; gross profits, 61,0831. By good
debts, 2,3811.: doubtful (which the bankrupt expected to be
reedited), 6,74 W.; bed, 6,3841.; property in the hands of
Messrs. Canna sad Co., 12,N0L • by losses, 10,9271. ; by
trade expenses, 29,6001.; by dome;tic and personal expenses,
18,5261. After some discussion, in the course of which Mr.
Frampton, solicitor, stated that there would be a dividend
of 14.1. in the pound, the ease was adjourned, for Mr.
Rainy to file a detailed account of his personal expenses.—
Mr. Cooke, for Mr. Rainy, stated thst hie client would
give every uistance which might be required by the court,
and would, as far as he wu able, with the ssei•tance
of Mr. Wryghto, his accountant, give the account now asked
for.—Case adjourned accordingly.
A BANKRUPT Arroaoiy.—lx RE D. E. COLUMBINE.
—This bankrupt was an attorney and scrivener; the case
has been frequently reported. The bankrupt now our.
rendered, and appeared to pass his last examination, but no
balance-sheet has as yet been filed, and therefore we cannot
state with accuracy the amount of debit, which we believe to
be large, or the assets to meet it. The result of a lengthened
examination was, that the case was adjourned for two
month, in order to enable the bankrupt to make out his