The Express.
London, England, 1851-01-16 00:00:00

COURT OF BANKRUPTCY.—YESTERDAT.
Bemis kla. Coesmaim.= Boum,.
la as ft. PEACOCIL.
The bankrupt was a plumber at Ledbrohe grove,Notting.
hill. This was a meeting for the proof of debts and his last
examination. His balance sliest, es prepared by Messes.
Harding and Pundit, shows debts to the amount of 1,8001.,
and about 15001. worth of assets.
Mr. Lin- later objected to a proof that woo tendered by
Mr. Chapman, of the King's Arms, Oxford•treet, on a bill
of exchange for 251.
She bankrupt said that the bill was given by him to Mr.
Chapman in March, 1850,9 as per date thereupon.
Mr. Lenklater—How do you reconcile that eatement
with the Stamp office date upon the stamp, being November
lest ?
The bankrupt said that the mistake must be oa the part of
the Stamp office.
Mr. Cosp•nan was called (the bankrupt having been
ordered to leave the room), and after his attention had been
called to the discrepancy of dates, he tLought the mistake
meet be on the part of the Stamp ottice. The bill was dated
March, 1830.
Mr. Linklater—But when did you receive it i After
various indirect replies and long ',moo, the witness said be
should wish to speak the truth.
The Commissioner—You must speak the truth, or you
will be committed to Newgate ?
T►e Witness—lt was in S. ptembir or October.
The Comeniesioner—That could not be. It win not issued
from the Stamp.oftloe before the end of November.
Mr. Chapman—Oh! (Great laughter.)
Eventually Mr. Chapman acknowledged that be bad not
received it until a d..y cc two alter the bankruptcy, on the
22nd of November. The bankrupt wu indebted to him
251., on account of former bills. He had told the bank-
. rapt that the old bills would be of no use In the Court of
Bankruptcy, and had then obtained the new bill and de-
stroyed the others. The 251. had been had by the bank•

rupi.
Mr. Linklater—That is very probable.
The bankrupt upon being recalled, persisted in his former
statement, and denied Mr. Chapman's statement. Ulti-
mately, however, he admitted that what Mr. Chapman had
stated might be true, and that the Stamp Offioe's date was
correct. Proof disallowed.
Mr. Linklater asked that the bankrupt's esraffication
might be adjourned sine die.
The Commissioner had expected that the application
would have been that he weight be committed to liewgate.
There could be no chubt but he had been trilling with the
Court, sad stating that which he knew to be false. 115
examination would be adjourned sine die, and without
protection.

COURT OF INLAND REVENUE.—YESTERDAY.
"Items IL V. fItzPOINKW. gad., C. J. lIPSKIPS, Leo, AP D
Cleaetxa PatelLY,
PROSECUTIONS FOE TEN ADULTIPATION OP PEPPIN.—
PENALTY THEIR HUNDRED POUNDS.
Thomas Christie, grocer and tea dealer, of Bishemgate-
street, Comesertial-read East, and Whitechapel, was charged
with adulterating pepper with rice.
Mr. H. H. Pearce proved the purchase of a small quantity
of pepper at defendant's respective establishments.
Mr. G. Phillips stated that be examined the pepper given
to him by the last witness. He found that the rice was in
the proportion of one. third of the whole. He separated the
rice from the pepper by washing.
Another chemist stated that he had arrived at the same
result by an independent analysis.
Defendant declared the pepper was sold just es it came
from the docks, end called three of his segments who
swore that they knew nothing of adulteration being practised
on'the premises.
Mr. Stephenson remarked that the pepper must have been
received pure from the docks, as it was ungrouod.
Defendant repeated his ass ion.
Mr. Commissioner Stephenson then delivered the judg-
ment of the court that the defendant be fined in the full
penalty on three counts of the informations of 3001.
Mr. T. Bboston, of 39, Little Pulteney.street, Soho; Mr.
E. Shaine, of 20, Bedford-plate, Commercial-road ; sad H.
Pal 'ter, 11, Seymour-plate, Camden•town; were each fined
1001. tor similar offences.

BOSTOS AND THORPE ARCH BATH COMPANY.—
Yesterday his Honour Master Farrar, on behalf of Sir Wm.
Horne, W.ho was absent from indisposition, cleaned a call
of 151. per share on the contributories to this company, pay-
able on the .I4tb February nest, for the discharge of the
company's lie biUdes, mounting to 1,8001., tides:to of the
expenses jahur.:•ed in winding up the company. The fieseciel
statement of Ms. Thomas Head, the offimsl scat ages, set
forth that the h umber of contribtcories was 62, bolding
224 shares. and Oar the call of 151 per share, calculated to
produce 3,3601
woh. Id be indSpeusable after allowing for
,
failures and defaults. A meeting of the shareholders bad
been held upon this suh;ect, and they had agreed to the call.
WORCESTER CORN ,EXCllANGE.—Yeaterday V.ere
was a ..6,4 before his H. moue Muter Kindersley to con•
elder the order of proceeding in this matter.
HT. GEORGE'S STEAM PACKET COMPANY.—On
Tuesday his Honour Master Fs,-rer appointed Mr. Soulby
official manager of this company's . affairs.
FATAL ACCIDENT AT THE .TRATELLERS' CLUB
Hocax.—Yesterday, an inquest was ts:{en by Mr. Bedford,
as the Charing-ernes Hospital, on the body of Michael
Flanagan, aged 22 The deceased had bi'nr, at the works
sew going on is the Travel/en' Club House, a ell-mall, and
on Friday afternoon he and four others were h"oing. on as
usual, when the foreman obterring they had been ~druking
desired them to go home. The deceased had got to tie top
of the building and was going down a very high ladder, but
the foreman suggested a better way by which he had coma
up by a ladder only 20 feet hirh. The deceased assented to
this, and was mimed among the scaffolding, but was coon
found lying on the stone flooring in en insensible state, and
bleeding profusely from the MIL He was taken to the
Chuinevcroes Hospital and died ;honest night, having
been able to speak. Oa a post monist examination of the
body it was foetid that the shall was fractured from ear to
ear, and there was laceration of the brain by the bone.—The
foreman thought if the deceased was incapable of work he
ought to have bees waisted down the ladder,—The jury then
mused a vomits% of "Accidental death."