The Express.
London, England, 1846-09-10 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, THURSDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 10, 1846.

ADMIBALTY COURT, Yastassay.
THE Sizar4A.--SALvAos.—This was originally a suit by
the commander, oMcers, and crew of her Majesty's ship
Cam4deon, to recover coast lunation for alleged salvage see-
vials rendered to a Seq vessel in November last off the
Sussex coast. The assided by Trinity Masters, on
the 9th May last, relied the claim for salvage, and con-
demned the asserted salvors in the costs. Subsequently,
the commanding officer of her Majesty's ship took the
benefit of the Insolvent Debtors Act, and in order to recover
the coats, the foreign owner obtained a monition agairat
the *dicers and crew of the Camelion, to pay the costs.
The monition not being obeyed, the proctor fur the own-
ers of the Sirens now moved the Court for an at-
tachment against the parties, who appeared by proctor
to the monition, and prayed to be heard on his petition
against the issue of the attachment.
Dr. Ronsirrson (who sat for the judge) doubted whether
the parties were entitled to be heard, the merits of the
question having been fully discussed and decided upon when
the monition was granted, and whether an attachment did
not issue as a matter of course upon non-obedience thereto ;
but the other proctor consenting, ho allowed the petition to
be entered into.

CONSISTORY COURT, YESTERDAY.
This was an extra court day. The Court sat for a short
time, but no business of palate interest occurred.

, BANKRUPTCY COURT, YESTERDAY.
Before Mr. Commissioner Fame.
Pnoors ENDER ILLEGAL CONTRACTS.—IN RE TIPPLE.—
The bankrupt who had carried on business as a woollen-
draper and batter at Norwich, came up to pass his last exa-
mination, which was opposed by the assignees, on the
ground that the bankrupt's accounts were insufficient.
A prof was tendered again►t the estate to the amount of
5601. 9s. 3d. under an award.
The learned Commissioner, after perusing the award, said
that it was one of the strangest documents which had ever
come before him. It appeared that there had been some
illegal transactions in adulterating tobacco, and the bank-
rupt had received money on account of the claimants in
respect thereof The bankrupt, however, had set up the
defence that the contract was founded on an illegal tran-
saction.
The Solicitor said that it was denied that such a plea had
been put in.
The learned Commissioner said that he could only go by
the award tendered in support of the proof, and a more un•
intelligible piece of legal jargon could not well be imagined;
it went on to say that a general verdict had been entered for
the plaintiffs, subject to the reference, but that if the award
was entirely for the defendant, then the verdict should be
entered for the plaintiffs for only 40c debt, and Is. damages.
In the eye of reason and common sense this was an ab-
surdity, and he would not admit a proof on such an award
without an explanation; he did not know whether the ab-
surdity arose from a form, or whether it was erroneous—the
award on the face of it appeared to be erroneous.
The Solicitor to the assiznees said it was a most extraordinary
form, and was perhaps framed to meet the pleadings, as It
was suggested that the bankrupt could be charged with the
amount received as agent, notwithstanding any illegal con-
duct on the part of the plaintiffs.
The proof was rejected, and the case adjourned for the
bankrupt to furnish further accounts, his expenses being
treble the amount of his profits; he had, however, kept the
usual books, and said that he would be able to show that the
expenditure arose from losses.
The Commissioner said a bankrupt was not required to
justifylimself on that account at the examination ; it was •
subject for inquiry when he applied for his certificate.

nal* an attack on him,and he was obliged to by for his life,
as the fork entered his coat on the righthand side, but fortu.
nately did not injure his person. She swore she would do
for lum.—Prisoner, who often interrupted the evidence of
this witress, exclaimed that she did not owe a farthing of
money, and asked White if he did not promise to leave the
place on the receipt of half a sovereign.—white replied that
he only asked her for the rent.—Chas. Hardy, broker, of Union-
street, Spitalfields, corroborated the lastontnere's evidence.—
Mr. Bray stated that he gave the warrant, signed by Mrs.
Bray, who was executrix to the property, to the last witness,
to carry into execution. He had tried everything he could
to get her and her husband out of the house, but could not
succeed. The property was going to wreck and ruin through
them.—Prisoner : I don't owe you a farthing ; will it please
your honour to hear my witnesses ?—Aldorman Wood : I
will give you an opportunity of your witnesses being heard,
by sending you to take your trial at the quarter sessions. You
area moat violent woman. Howevertl will take bail for your
appearance there.—The prisoner, in default of bail, was
locked up.
TR REA TEN ISO ALDERMAN WOOD. —Eliza EMU, •
woman who has been in prison above a hundred times fo
breaking windows, getting drunk, &c., and who has con-
stantly been in the habit of receiving a trifle from the vari-
ous aldermen at this court on her promising to behave better,
was yesterday placed at the bar charged with behaving very
disorderly in the court, as well as assaulting Mr. Roe, the
warrant-officer. —lt would appear that yesterday she called
here, and asked either to be sent to the Compter, or for the
Alderman (Wood) to give her some pecuniary relief. This
the alderman told her would not do, as she was too eon
stoutly coming there, and ought to go to her parish. She
said she would see the parish hanged first, and as she could
get no relief, she would go out and break some windows,
but it should be those of the court,and not a tradesman's.
She became at last so insolent that she was turned
out into the adjoining room, where she was overheard
saying that she would find out where Alderman Wood
resided, and then ace if she could not obtain relief. On the
Alderman leaving the court, after the business was over, she
followed him, and Mr. Roe thinking she was going to annoy
that gentleman, went up to her and remonstrated with her.
She refused to turn back, when Rot caught hold of her to
prevent her going further, upon which a scuffle ensued, and
the prisoner managed to get one of her legs between his and
they both fell. Mr. Roe however, was up immediately and
had her locked up.—Alderman ood said, that if he had
properly done his duty on the previous day, he should have
held her to bail to keep the peace in consequence of her
threats. With respect to himself he cared little about her
threats, as his residence was not within her reach.—
Prisoner: I often say things I don't mean.—Alderman
Wood: There is no doubt you intended to do something by
your threats to break windows, and by your conduct to the
officer of the court, and, under those circumstances, I shall
hold you to bail to keep the peace for six months, and in
default to be confined in the House of Correction.—
Prisoner: Very well, it shall cost you something when I
come out after my six months' imprisonment.—She was then
removed from the bar and conveyed to prison.

BOW-STREET.—Tae STABBING IN DRURY-LANE.—
William Norris, who was remanded en a charge of stabbing
a man named Henry Figgins, was again brought up for re-
examination. Henry Figgins said he was a shoemaker, and
lived in the same room with the prisoner, at No. 1, Feathers-
court, Drury-lane. On Sunday night week, about half-past
twelve, when he went home, the prisoner was at the door,
they began larking, and they fell in the court, he being
undermost. He then struck the prisoner with his open
hand, and went up stairs to go to bed, the prisoner followed
him up shortly afterwards, they had a struggle in the room,
and he again struck the prisoner with his open hand, as he
was very spiteful, and immediately afterwards he felt himself
stabbed. The prisoner was leaving the room, and he called
out to his landlord, " Stop him, he has stabbed me." He
was then taken to the hospital.—Mr. Porter, landlord of the
house, corroborated the evidence of Figgins, and proved that
he detained the prisoner when called to by the prosecutor.
—W. Pcterkin, constable F 55, repeated the evidence given
by hint on a former day in detail. —Henry Stevens
said he was acting-house surgeon at King's College
Hospital. On Monday week the prosecutor was brought
there bleeding from five wounds in the chest ; two of which,
if they had deviated an eighth of an inch, would have been
very dangerous, and another under the left nipple would
have been instant death if the knife had not struck on one of
the ribs. The man was now out of danger.—The prisoner in
his defence said that the prosecutor aggravated him very
much, and he did not deny that under that feeling he had
taken up the unlawful weapon which he had used.—He was
fully committed for trial, and the witnesses bound over.

WORSHIP-STREET. ATTEMPTED SUICIDE. A
young woman, named Mary Fitzgerald, about nineteen
, years of age, was charged with having made the following
determined attempt at self-destruction:—Police-constable
Newell, N 102, stated that while on duty near the canal-
bridge at Cambridge-heath, shortly before ten o'clock on the
?-evading right, he t.',hareee. th 3 we:k:ns;
such an agitated manner as to excite his suspicions that she
contemplated self-destruction, and after watching her for a
few minutes. saw her rush towards a dwarf wall on the
brink of the canal, where she clasped her hands, with the
exclamation, " Lord, have mercy upon me!" and instantly
precipitated herself into the water, with such energy that
her body was thrown into the centre of the stream. Wit-
ness, though unable to swim, immediately waded in after
her, till the water reached his mouth, when he lost his
balance, and narrowly escaped drowning himself ; but ulti-
mately succeeded in dragging tb•• prisoner to the bank,
whence she was conveyed to a neighbouring tavern, and by
the application of prompt restoratives, her life was preserved.
From subsequent inquiries he ascertained that she had been
in the service of a laundry-man in the neighbourhood, with
whom she had had a serious quagrel that evening, which so
wounded her feelings that she determined to put an end to
her existence. In answer to the Magistrate, the prisoner
said that she had been ill-treated in her situation, and having
neither friends,clothes, nor home, she had no resource hut to
act as she had done.—Mr. Broughton said that it was
manifestly unsafe in the present state of her feelings to allow
her to go at large, and he should therefore commit her for a
week to prison, where she would be properly admonished upon
the rashness and wickedness of the act which she had
attempted to commit.
M A RY LE BON E.—EXTENSIVE SYSTEM or PLUNDERING
JEWELLERS AND WATCHMAKERS— G. Fitzherbert,astylishly
dressed young man (and who has occasionally gone by the
names of Watson and Williams), was charged under the
following circumstances. The prisoner had gone upon diffe-
rent days to the shops of Mr. Kaiser, Park terrace, Regent's
Park, and Mr. Mills, 149, Oxford-street: from the shop of the
former tradesman a gold watch was stolen, and from the
latter a gold diamond ring. In each case the articles alluded
to had, beyond all doubt, been handed by the prisoner to a
confederate, who, while the shopkeepers were looking for
goods to suit his (prisoner's) fancy, had stepped in to ask a
question as to the setting of a ring, or some other
matter of trivial importance, and upon receiving a reply,
went away. The prisoner was ultimately stopped and
given in charge by Mr. Kaiser, who, after the departure of
the " gentleman" (the suspected confederate) called in a
constable, Cooper, 67 D, by whom the prisoner was con-
veyed to the station-house. In addition to the two eases
before named, a third was now preferred by Mr. John James
Harris, 11, Upper East Smithfield. It appeared that on the
31st of July the prisoner came to the shop and asked to look
at some gold lever watches, several were placed before him
en the glass case upon the counter, and while
he was examining them another young man en-
tered and asked what would be the charge for cleaning a
three-quarter plate lever ; he was told that the charge would
be 4 shillings, and be then went away ; the prisoner followed
him saying that he would call again in a fortnight or three
weeks, and shortly after they had left one of the gold
watches was missed. It was further stated that the young
man who made enquiry respecting the cleaning of his watch
was now under sentence of transportation.—Mr. Rawlinson
(to the prisoner): I shall send you for trial, and you can
therefore say any thing here or not, as you may think pro-
per.—Prisoner: Neither of the parties who have sworn to
me ever saw me in their shops at all ; another man has been
transported, and it seems that they want to transport me.—
Mr. Rawlinson committed him upon all three of the charges.

LAMBETH.—IMPORTANT DECIBION.—Mr. Elliott de-
livered his judgment in a case of some importance to persons
levying executions, and the hearing of which occupied much
of his time and attention on a former day. Its brief facts
were these : —Mr. Thomas Chittenden, a hop-merchant, re-
siding in John-street, Albany-road, Caniberwell, appeared to
• summons charging him with an assault upon Samuel
Tickner, by setting a furious dog at him. The complainant,
who is a licensed broker, deposed that on the afternoon of
Saturday, the 29th of last month, he went, armed with a
warrant from his landlady, to levy a distress for rent upon
the defendant's premises. He got legal possession, he said,
when the defendant set a furious dog at him, and his men
ejected him from the premises, and in doing so jammed his
foot between the gate and gate-post. In his cross-examina-
tion the complainant reluctantly admitted that he bad
brought many charges of assault at police-offices against per-
sons for obstructing him in taking possession of premises, and
his manner of answering questions was anything but satis-
factory. His witness, an ex-policeman, gave his evidence in an
equally unsatisfactory manner, and his sole object appeared
to be that of leading the bench to believe that Tickner, his
employer, bad gained possession of the premises. Mr. Chit-
tenden, in reply to the charee, complained of the conduct of
Tickner for the ontrace he had committed, and said that by
right he should have been the defendant in the case and not
the complainant. The fact, he said, was, that a Mr. Taylor
was his landlord, and the person to whom he paid his rent.
He (Mr. Taylor) and his wife, it appeared, had some differ-
ence, when the latter took it into her head that she was
entitled to the rent, and sent Tickner, who was in the habit,
he said, of taking such jobs, on the system of no cure, or
rather no execution, no pay, and who was not, therefore,
particular how he executed them. On the evening in ques-
tion, Mrs. Chittenden had just let in her son, a little boy
who had come from school, and had actually locked the
front gate after him, when Tickner sprang towards her, and
endeavoured to secure the key, just as she was in the act of
taking it out of the lock. Mrs. Chittenden being thus
attacked in such a rude manner, called out to him, and on
his approaching the place, be found the complainant with
his foot inside the gate, his body being outside, and insisting
that he bad thus gained legal possession. He (defendant)
told hint otherwise, and was about to remove him from the
gate, when the dog, who had followed him out, and seeing
the complainant abort to get held of kin, dew
at him, but did not bite or injure him. The
facts, as stated by the defendant, were satisfactorily
proved, and it was also sworn that the dog was
a harmlesi and quiet animal.—Mr. Elliott took time to con-
sider on the case. and yesterday delivered his judgment upon
it. It appeared to him that, according to the complain-
ant's own testimony, he must be regarded as a trespasser.
The law was very clear on the subject. It declared
that for a broker to obtain legal possession the outer door
mutt be open or so easily to be opened in the ordinary way
as that doing so will be unamompanied either by violence

or a breach of the peace. In this instance he could not
regard the broker as having obtained such legal possession as
the law contemplated. In point of fact he had not obtained
even a colourable possession, for the door was never out of
the command of the defendant's wile, the key of the lock
having bein in her hand whil,t the arm of th.. complainant
was inside the gate. In conclusion Mr. Elliott said, that he
did not believe that the dog was set at the complainant, or
that any excess had been used in the resistance offered, and
therefore he must dismiss the complaint. The complainant
asked for his expenses, but they were refused.

WESTMINSTER.--SIIICIDE TN A POLICE STATION.—
Yesterday morning, Mr. Moran, an inspector of the B divi-
sion, informed the magistrate that Joseph Mahon, who stood
charged on the police-sheet with being found sleeping in an
empty house in Lowndes-square, had committed suicide at
the station-house in Elisabeth-street, Pimlico, by suspending
himself from the frrating of the cell by his handkerchief.—
Mr. Burrell inquired whether anything was known of the
deceased.—Mr. Morin said he understood that one of the
plain clothes constables of the division had been some time
in quest of him for felony, and but for his having put a
period to his existence, some parties would have been in
attendance that morning to prosecute.—Mr. Burrell observed
that information of the circumstance must be immediately
given to the coroner of the district.—The inspector said that
that had been already done.

TH AMES.--Cu RIOUS CHARON or HOBBERY.—Hr.
Henry Bradley, a respectable tradesman carrying on busi-
ness as a fancy bread and biscuit baker, at High-street, Pop-
lar was charged with stealing a watch, the property of
Samuel Humor, No. 8, Wellington-street, Waterloo-town,
Bethnal-green. It appeared that the complainant came up
from Gravesend on the previous evening, accompanied by
his brothers, John and Abraham, in the Satellite steam•
boat. They sat in the after cabin, and the prisoner and his
wife (a most respectable looking woman) sat near them.
The complainant, who was near the cabin door, dozed
away for about a quarter of an hour, when the
prisoner's wife said te one of the brothers, " If
that man is a friend of yours be has lost his watch,"
adding, that a tall man in a dark frock had been at his
pocket. By this time the prisoner had got upon deck, where
the prosecutor, finding that his watch was gone, pursued
and charged him with the theft, which charge was indig-
nantly denied. Whenthe vessel came to Blackwell the pri-
soner w..s given into custody and taken to the Poplar station,
where he was instantly recognised as a respectable inhabi-
tant, by Sergeant Wood, of the K division, who, after allud-
ing to his position, and referring to his respectability, asked
the prosecutor if he persisted in the charge. The latter said
he should do so, and Mr. Bradley was accordingly locked
up, his wife having been also kept in a sort of
custody for the space of three hours..—Mr. Pelham,
who appeared for the defence, in cross-examining
the prosecutor's brothers, and a man named Thomp-
son, the steward of the steam-boat, whose mode of
giving evidence, coupled with the animus which he evinced,
drew down the indignant remonstrances of the magistrate,
elicited a number of facts to show that the charge had not
a shadow of support. One of the prosecutor's brothers
having fenced in an extraordinary manner with one of the
questions put by Mr. Pelham, was severely reprimanded by
the magistrate, who observed that in a case where a respect.
able tradesman was charged with a felony it was mast
important that the witnesses should answer the questions put
to them distinctly and directly. After a very searching
inquiry, which occupied a considerable part of the morning,
Mr. Broderip said there was not a tittle of evidence which
would warrant him in calling upon the prisoner even to
make a defence t the charge. It was very distressing to
have a respectable man placed at the bar of a crowded court
charged with a felony on such trifling grounds, and it was
probable that the prosecutor would hear of it at another
place, as Le had rendered himself liable to an action. In
discharging the case, he (Mr. Broderip) felt it his duty to
say that nothing had transpired during the inquiry which in
the slightest degree militated against the character of the
prisoner as a honest and upright tradesman.
GREENWICH.—HORSE-STEALINO.—John Johnson was
placed at the bar on a charge of horse-stealing. It appeared
from the evidence that, in the early part of Tuesday, the
prisoner offered a horse for sale to a man on Blackheath-hill,
alleging it to be the property of his uncle. The bargain was
made between :he parties, on condition that the prisoner
should satisfy the intended purchaser that the horse really
belonged to his uncle ; and to test this the man who had
for the animal accompan;ed the prisoner to town,
but, not being satisfied with the inquiries there made, re-
turned to Greenwich, when the prisoner was given into
enstody. Police constable James Rapsey, upon making
Inquiries, discovered that the horse, together with a set of
harness and other articles, bad been stolen from the yard of a
Mr. Hatteraley, a cab proprietor, of the Horseferry-road,
Westminster; but, as the evidence was not complete, Mr.
Treill remanded the prisoner for a week.
The person who stands charged with an immoral offence
towards Frances Jane Garlick, a child 10 years of age,
and who in the first instance gave his name at the station-
house as Henry Nicholson, of 14, Gray's-inn, barrister,
but who'e proper name occupation, and address appear
to be Henry Nielwl, manager to Elmsley and Preston,
solicitors, 47 A, /doorgate-street, city, attended in discharge
of his recognizance&
It will l.e remembered that the case stood over for a week
in order that the child should be properly instructed in the
serious importance of an oath. The girl was brought into
court by her mother, and after Mr. Traill had questioned
Mrs. Garlick as to the competency of her daughter to un-
dergo examination, she was called to the witness-box.
Jane Frances Garlick was then sworn, and deposed that,
on last Tuesday week, about 2 o'clock, her mother sent her
into the park with her brother and sister, and while there,
the gentleman (prisoner) passed her and said. " Have you
got all those children to mind? ' and she said she had not.
He then offered her a shilling, and asked if she had been
with any gentleman before ? She did not understand him,
and be said, Did she know what he meant by asking that
question ? He then took bold of her hand and pulled her
to him. He said, Would she go with him for a shilling?
She then saw her mother coming along the park, and
told her little brother of it. Her mother asked her
what the gentleman was laying against her for? and':
she said the gentleman had offered her a shilling to go
with him. lie did not hear her tell her mother. Her
anther then followed him until she saw two policemen, who
ran after him over the hill.—By Mr. Train: Her mother
spoke to her before the gentleman got off the gnus. He had
hold of her frock and hand by her side. Did not use any
degree of force. She got up, and he came again and sat by
her.—The pri-oner here remarked that he was in the moat
public part of the park ; hundreds of persons as well as the
police were about; believed the child was in the middle of a
group. He certainly offered a shilling, but not with say
sinister intent. He intended to give it to the children. sad
believes he said, " Let us go and buy cakes, &c. The child hen
said that the gentleman (prisoner) invited her towards the
trees.—Prisoner replied that he was walking up towardsßlack-
heath, when the mother of complainant followed, asked what
he meant, and said he was not a gentleman. The prisoner
observed that one of the witnesses who was examined the
previous dry said, " You will be taken in charge ; what will
you give? "—Mrs. Garlick was then called in, and deposed
that on going into the park, she saw the prisoner on the ground,
and her child, She asked her daughter what had happened ?
The child said, " He has offered me ls , mother, to go with
him." Thinks be must have heard the questions put and
the answers given by the chile. The prisoner walked
very fast away from her, and as son as he saw the
police coming he ran off She had told him she should
call the police. Is sure the words spoken to her daughter
could be distinctly heard by the prisoner. Witness saw
prisoner lying amongst the children. Heard her child say,
" Here comes mother." She asked what the gentleman was
lying. there for ? and she min. He has offered me a shilling to
go with him, and had asked her if gentlemen had been with
her before. She asked what he meant by offering a shilling
and asking the child such questions ? Prisoner replied that
he did not know what she meant; it was a mistake alto-
gether. She said, he appeared to be a gentleman, but his
manners did not show it. Witness is sure that the child
would not tell a story. It was probable she would think of
what she bad deposed to.—The prisoner remarked that the
nature of the case would not admit of his adducing contrary
testimony.—The child was recalled, and said that her mother
had never sent her into the park but once before, and
then it was to take care of a Mrs. Dale's children, a month
since. Had never spoken to a stranger in the park before.—
The two female witnesses who had been examined on the
first examination were called, but did not appear.
Police-constable Braddick, 64 R, deposed that when he
apprehended the prisoner he did so after pursuing him over
One-Tree-hill, round the tree, and down the hill on the other
side by the pathway. On being overtaken, prisoner said,
" Don't take me into the crowd.' Witness then went back
to the child, and she told him what she had sworn to here
to-Mrday.
. Train. said, after the evidence adduced to-day, it
would be impossible to let the prisoner off without punish-
ment. The statement of the parent and complainant proved
an attempt to commit a misdemeanour, even if no mischief
had been done in this particular case. The law required
that be should net deal with it summarily. He could not,
without a fiction of law. The injury to the morals and feel-
ings of the child might have been very serious. Under all
the ..cumats -'es he was bound to send the charge to the
Hi Trail)) then signified that he would
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sessions. (Mr.
take bail, two sureties in 401. each, to appear and answer the
charge at the next sessions to be holden at Maidstone. If
bail was tendered at 6 o'clock he would be set at liberty, and
if not, he could be brought before the court to-morrow (this
day), when the absent witnesses might be produoed.—The
prisoner said his wife was in a very delicate state of health,
and he wished to be at liberty as soon as possible. He then
complained of letters which had 'appeared in the pa-
pets, charging him with exposing his person, such sot
being the fact.—Mr. Trail said there was no legal evidesee
on the first examination ; but the child's evidence bill sis•
altered the matter, and caused it to be his duty be peons&
With regard to anonymous charges in the newspaper, ha
(Mr. Trail) had been a magistrate for 13 years, and during
that time be had never, he believed, been accused of coneesV-
ment of anything to shield delinquents. In the present ace,
a wrong name had been given; the name was, however, cor-
rected on the police-sheet afterwards, and an officer was sent
to the place of address to prove its accuracy.

MONEY MARKET.

WEDNESDAY EVISNINO.

The funds opened rather better this morning, and
Consols were quoted 96 to 1 for money, and 961 to 1 for the
sceount, but just at the close of business the prices gave
way, and were called 96 for money, and 961 sellers for
time. The dealers appeared not to have much confidence in
the stability of the market at present quotations. Reduced
Threes, 96f to I ; Three-and-a-quarter per Cents., 981 to I ;
Exchequer Bills, 10s. to 14s. premium; Long Annuities,
101 to 7-16 ; Bank Stock, 210 to 11; India Stock, 2591 to
601. A report obtained some currency that the Bank Direct
tors contemplated another alteration us the rate of interest,
to be determined at the usual Board meeting tomorrow.