The Express.
London, England, 1851-10-08 00:00:00

IRELAND.

Dwaine, Ocr. 7.
The Clare Journal states that the Treasury has
re,einded the orders sent down for the repayment of
so far as the unions of Eunistymon and
Tulle are. comerned ; and it is expected that similar
clemency will be extended to other distressed unions
in tne
His Excellency the Hon. Abbott Lawrence and
party arrived at the Gresham Hotel on Saturday
eve..ing. from liallinasloc ; and having spent Sun-
day wait Viscount G....ugh, his Excellency, accompa-
nied b)• Mrs. and Miss Lawrence, again left town by
special train on the Great Southern and Western
Itailway, at twelve o'clock yesterday, for Cashel,
from whence he was to proceed to Knockevan, on a
visit to Baron rennefathcr, and to return to Dublin
this evening.
Lord Arundel has accepted the invitation of the
electors of the city of Limerick to a public banquet,
to le held on the 27th January next. His lordship
was presented yesterday with an address.
The fo lowing additional particulars of the extra-
ordinary whirlwind at Limerick, arc given in the
&wok's' of this morning:
. _ . .

At an early hour this morning (Monday) I walked through
th prtni.ipal parts of Limerick, where I was led to suppose
th, con nil sud destructive element—which was only of five
minute- duration—had committed havoc. At Cruise's
Dotei, I ascertained that Lord George Quin, who was
sitting io one of the rooms where a window was blown in,
received a cut in the thigh, from a large slate which was
heeled from a rout-top at the opposite side, and had the
spc.,-taeles swept from his nose, whilst none others in the
spa:lmila suetained irjury, although having experienced
the -hock. Of the two individuals who were received into
Harrington's Hospital last night, one has since died—a
you.ig man named Thomas Ryan, lace manufacturer, who
we-. by the gust, elevates) 30 feet from the ground, near the
Linen Hall, awl dashed against an adjoining wall with
such force that he swarmed severe concussion of the
brain, had hi. arm broken in three places, and
his ribs mapped asunder. He lingered in great agony,
quite insensible, for six hour, when death put an end to
au/snag..?The ether, John Quinlan, is not expected to
sorely,. It is stated that two milkwumen fare missing,
laving, it is supposed. 'seen blown into the river. A poor
man who sited to spend his nights as watchman in an
orclaerd at larrenshour, is also missing, together with the
nii-erable straw hut in which he used to repose. The meat
market in Denenark-street was completely gutted, chopping
hicks and stawl- disappearing in every quarter. The sheds
in the cattle. m.irket were swept away so if by magic, and
descended some 200 yard. distant. Mr. Denis Mulcahy,
who run out on hearing the crash, was uplifted from the
ground, and in falling 441 his face much bruised. I have
been speakiag with a man who was blown wry.s the river
from the forth-strand to Howley's-mail (a quarter of a
mile distant), without experiencing any sensation further
than that lie felt himself enveloped to suluhurie smoke.
Oilier. sty they were bespriukled with boiling water as
the plenemenua pawed, yet not one, even the most scien-
tific, is yet cognaant of what this destructive clement
was composed •. nor can it be designated by parties who
have tiavelled the Indies, east and west. Deal planks,
twenty feet long, with (iced shedding. in timber yards,
were borne aloft In the air, half a mile distant, and de-
wended through roof tops in Milkmarket.lane and High-
street. It is still more curium to add, that where window
gins. and frames were demolished not a particle of either
could he found, all having been furred away before this de
vast sting element. The ponderous bells of the cathedral were
slightly effected, and sent berth a deeding bound. When
the whirlwind first struck the water, en the river near
Wellesley bridge, a convulsive heave wat it spouting fifty
yards in the air, and tour small bade were completely
swamped. Having visited a place called Killalee, about
hull-a-mile outsid - the suburb., where several had congre-
gated, I found a field adjoining a churchyard bestrewed
with 'raiment' of trees, shrubs, glass, slate, timber, atones,
and mortar, and an inquiry was credibly informed by those
resident in the locality that they had fallen from the clouds,
as they main...wed, with a noise resembling the approach of a
railway carriage. Stich was the effect, like that of an elec-
tric Jock, upon the patients in St. John's Finer Hospital,
that they arvii from their beds, until compelled by the
nureitesiders to return thereto. It is to be regretted that
no i.strenonser or wientific gentleman witnessed (as far as
auk aware) this extraordinary and unprecedented v 6.-
136013.

THY. TIDE OF EMIGRATION still flows heavily on.
nundscr of emigrant* leaving by the train on !Saturday
molting for Liverpool was so great, that those who had
third class tickets had to get accommodation in first and
second-claw carriages. The emigrants consisted principally
of the farming classes, and the generality of them had re-
mittancts from their friend% in America, to enable them to
eino.trate. Amongst the passel:igen were several young
children going out to their parents, who had left this coun-
try two or three years ago.—Lir:writ* Eramainrr.

CLERICAL.

The Bishop of Chichester tronseertted two new
burwl.grounetts tat week—one et Worthing anti the other
at Latiettampton.

NAVAL

MOVEMENTS.—Scpt:3, Iler Mujesty'o whooner,
Bermuda, at (trey Town NicarAgu4.—Sept. 7, Her Ma-
j,.ty ship, Ileluta, at lturindeta.

I'ItIZE MONEY.
(From last Night's arzette.)

•
Tut: Inrtexl nt.E.—Notiee is given to the officers
and company of her Majesty's steam sloop Inflexible J. C.
Ileveasou, commauder, who were actually on lilted at
the rapture of certain pirates in the China seas on the 29th
April, 1819, that a distribution of the bounties received for
the said pirates will be made on 'l'hur•day, the 23rd instant,
at N.,. 14, Great George-street, Westmiuster, where the un-
claimed shares will be recalled for three months.

Commander .. £2BO 19 3 I Eighth
'third chess ... . 37 9 21 Ninth
Fourth
Fifth
Nixth
Seventh
HALLETT, untmoom, and Co., Agents.
Tn. CTONST.—Notiee is given to the officers and crew
of her Majesty's ship Cygnet, D. Robertson, Esq., Com-
mander, that the bounty money on the tonnage of a slave
schumer, II:1111e unknown, captured and destroy'd on the
Bth November, 1819, will be lkdd to those who were on
board at the time of capture, or to their representatives duly
authorised to receive the some, on the 22nd instant, at Nu.
1, Clifford's-ion, and the shares nut then claimed will be re-
called cvt ry Wednesday and Thursday, fur three mouths to
twine, agreeable to act of parliament.—Froportions due to
ova ohm :

Ogogmegre .. £l9 14 91 Eighth
&tied dm.... 91 19 6 Ninth ll7 11
Third l3 13 1 Tenth 1 6 3
Fourth 6 6 Eleventh
Filth ll3 101 'lrweltth
Mialh 316 11 Thirteenth 0 9 6
&tenth

'W. and E. UMW, Agent.

MILITARY.
(P Wt woe. Gaulle.)
WAR °Met, OR. 7.

let Ilegt. of Med. ode.-11.1or A. bemuse..nue, from the 9th Lt.
1..0., to be us*, vice Arks, who vied; Lteut K. T. THUICKIN,
to be eq. by per., eke trCallagbas, who reb..; Lieut. T. Wm-
se, Men the Lt. Deep., to be lieut., s letom.
Mb Lt. Ltrage.—Plopor W.W . Awes, trout the Dup. Gds., to be
Y. sire Opoulsw.e.le, who tub.
2,4 th Y.—LawL W. P. II 1., trout the 74th F., to be heat, Tice Wed.
der bw% wbo meta.
12.1 P. T. hymns. hogs h..p. mut., to bt amt. rice Comp.
bAI, des., brut. C. J. W. Noests to be cot., by pur., VlOl Butler,

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440 1411
;Gib P. hictit G Wsuotaarao, trots the 24th P., to b: heat., ries
Imo who sash.
blot ►.—Lear. I. B. Ctneaturrea to be eopt., by our., wee Perry,
who ret.., kw.. U. r. v. V7t.u.aa to be :seat., b• war., two Cut.
theme•.
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efieTi-Illoortenewt. M. Cuerol4 from b. p. of the Ghh F., to be
gowtenee.t., • re II
poseP, sop. to the Ithh
113. d T.- Awl 4.-tlews. E. Teem, M.D., has Mesta!, to te Moist,
bug., woe lame% who week.
WWI 11.—feet. WWI IL C. Wenn, to, how the 11. YU. Col., to
be ash. enthral pew, elle flunk, app. to the Seth V.
11.1 Crr AMUR. —MO' J. llaaw. Wool With F., to be lieut..ool.,
without R.
Boerne& even. -Asefet.-heeff. I. H. K. blow hos the ItSed P., to
be weisiteesrp. to the limes .tee Tweet, who nth-
Cal ..r.—Copt. T. DITILIA, of the 770 l T.. to be wove to the army.
1111.104111.1.1 —The Clortellea hones of Lit. Moooex, of the ISA
are "no thateemwe."

THE LATE COLONEL WM, FILt.BEIL—CoI. Fraser,
of Balmakewan. county Kincardineshire, died on the 4th
inn. lie entered the array in 1813, no an Ensign in the
42nd Highlanders, became a lieutenant in 1515,a captain in
1821, a major in 1828, a licut -colonel in 1831, and a colonel
in 1816. lie screed with the 42nd in the campaign of 181,5,
Was et the battles of Quatro Bras and Waterluo, laid on
both occasions was wounded.

DISSOLUTION OP TUE RAILWAY DO:MD.—From I,
and after Friday neat the ...Railway Board will be dissolved,in pursuance of an act of parliament passed on the 7th of
August. It is enacted that from and after the 19th of
October, 1851, the said act (9 It Id Vie., cap. 105) shall be
repealed, and all powers, rights, authorities, and duties
vested- in or exercised or performed by the Commissioners
of Railways under any act passed since the passing of the
odd recited act, or which may be passed during the present
session of parliament, shall be transferred to and vested in
and performed by the Lords of the Committee of her Blo-
od. y's Privy Council for Trade and Foreign Plantations, as
if they had lseen named in such acts instead of the aid
commissioners, and all proceeding% pending before the said
commissioners on the said 10th of October, or carried on
under their authority, shall b. continued and carried on
by and linen the Lords of the said Committee, who shall
ban, euniee, and perform the 144110 powers, right', an-
thill/hot and duties in respect of all such proceedings as
night hays been eaercieed or performed by such commis-
sional Iran this act had not been passed.- The others
appointed by the commissioners are to be continued, end
heasehrtkVie Board of Trade is to signify their orders and
leguidens to railway companies by their secretary, Or
sane ether Miser wham they shall appoint to sign docu-
ments sibelig is rellerap.

ILab) I

PREROGATIVE COURT.—TESTEIDAL
Bunt Da. noss,or.
The learned surrogate disposed of motions and allegations,
but they furniThed no materials for a report

ARCHES COURT—Yr-maws.
Tbis was an additional court day. Dr. Itobinson pre.
aided, but the business disposed of was merely of a formal
character.

COURT OF BANKRUPTCY.—TESTERDAT.
Wass Ma. CONIII.IOXIIII liourovu.
la az Justss.
This was the certificate meeting in the ease of Charles
Johns, fixture dealer, of Great Queen-street and other
places. The case has been repeatedly before the court, the
last occasion being when the bankrupt, after a series of ad-
journment, sine die, passed his last examination in May
last. It then appeared, from the balance-sheet prepared by
Mr. Maynard, that the bankrupt had begun with a capital
in January, 1418, of 2,0781.; owed to creditors, 8,3421.,
with 1,2 ha/. of liabilities; his sues were put down at 3261.
in good debts, and 391. in property. The property held by
creditors was evirnated at 1111.; and further property,
which had been seized under execution, and sold for 1,190/.,
was stated to have cost 5,7951. The profits (during sixteen
mouths ending is; May, 1849) had been 2,1211. ; loss on
the 1141 C, 4,GPd. ; by bad delfts, 8911.; sundry losses, 4841.;
law costs, 1,0111. ; interest and discount, 6101. ; trade ex-
penses, 2,708!.; household and personal ditto, 4821.
Mr. Liuklater supported the bankrupt's application.
Mr. Lawrance, for the as said be was instructed
to oppose the allowance of the bankrupt's certificate. It
was true the case had been before the court upwards of two
years, but the bankrupt bad not given due diligence in the
preparation of his accounts. The fiat was issued on the Ist
of May, 1849; he did not surrender until three weeks
after at the last examination meeting, having filed no
Balance•sheet, he was adjourned sine die. On the 12th of
January he came up at his own expense, when, the accounts
being unsatisfactory and untrue, he was again adjourned
sine die, and protection was withheld. No more was heard
of him till the 9th of November Lot; on the 12th he was
again adjourned sine die, the Commissioner stating that his
accounts were wilfully untrue. Ile ultimately passed his
last examination in May last ; and as the lapse of time had
been can-.d by his own misconduct, it could not be urged
as purging his offence. Ihe main point on which the 'a-
mounts were objected to was the enormous discrepancy be-
tweeu
the amount of capital for which he teak credit,
and the produce of the sale of his stock. There was
an entire absence of any legitimate evidence as
to the coat price of the goods ; there was nothing
in the shape of vouchers, which wo .Id enable
the assignees to arrive at the conclusion that the goods had
east any thirg like the amount stated,-B,oool,—while they
realized only something 1,100/. lie took credit for up-
wards of 1,0001. for law expenses in 16 months, showing
that he had been in the jaws of insolvency, and in the
beads of his principal creditars. through Mr. Shannon, the
sheriff** officer, for a considerable time. Still be went on ;
ultimately he placed himself in Mr. Shannon's hands, to
whom he had given a bill of sale, and everything was swept
off and ruthlessly sacrificed, according to his own statement,
it the course of al2 days' sale. Dunng this time he never
called his creditors together, but rather kept out of their
way. At one time he had no fewer than 19 executions on
his premises. During the whole time of the sale, so far
from attempting to stop the wholesale ruin that was going
on, he and his clerk were keeping watch over the docket-
c-Mee, and calculating that they were safe fur so many days.
The irresistible inference was, that the sale was a collunse
one, a mere passing of the goods through the form
of a sale, in order that the bankrupt might
afterwards derive the benefit of them lle now
came before the court without any assets, scarcely
enough to pay the expenses of the assignees. Though he
had not brought himself within the penal clauses of the act,
his caw having occurred before it was passed, there was
enough to warrant the suepensiun of his certificate for a
considerable tines !lie book-keeping had been very im-
perfect, and the assignees had been thus deprived of' the
memo of testing his statements. Ile was also chargeable
with having gone on trading while insolvent, and having
Min a consenting party to his property being swept away
by executans.
Mr. Linklater, on behalf of the bankrupt, urged that the
delay in passin; his last examination had arisen from the
extremely voluaninuus nature of the accounts, which formed
a ponderous volume, and for which the aceountatat'scharges
were no less than 140/. lie was then occupied about six
months in preparing a marked catalogue of the articles dis-
=lci( at the sale. Ile had seven or eight places of
ess, and had for many years employed not less than 70
men. Ills trade was a peculiar one, the largest of the kind
k !Auden. Though' the accounts had been declared un-
aatiefactory and untrue at one meeting, it was worthy of re-
mark that those were the aceountson which he had passed ;
eassequently this ought not to be urged against him.
Has Honour said he was not sitting there to hear an ap-
peal from the decision of the learned commissioner (Gsul-
burn) who had heard this case in the first instance. It was
possible the learned commissioner might have thus de-
scribed the accounts in an early stage of the proceedings,
but circumstances which had since transpired might have
altered his impression.
Mr. Linklater said that the bankrupt had been • good
deal delayed in the preparation of his accounts by his pro-
tection being withheld; and he was only able finally to
complete them after the assignees consented to his having
protection. lie then not only produced vouchers, but wit-
nesses to prove the value of the property seized ; and the
result was he was allowed to pass his last examination. He
had carried on a large and superior business for 20 or 30
years • sip to the Bankruptcy he had borne an irreproacha-
ble character. In January, 1818, he possessed • capital of
2,0781., and it was incredible that he should all at once have
begun to act fraudulently in his dealings with Mr. Shannon.
Had he acted in collusion with that person he might have
disguised the amount of property sacrificed by representing
it of lower value than it was at the time of the seizure ; but
he had made no such attempt. Ills largest creditor was
the Thames Plato Glass Company, a representative of whom
was one of the assignees, and was now opposing. The com-
pany bad gone on trusting him from 1847 to the time of the
bankruptcy. Unfortunately in 1848, finding himself in
rilMeultica' he had been introduced to Mr. Shannon, who
advanced him 7001., taking a bill of sale in the usual form,
whereby the whole of ha stock was transferred to the
lender. Up to April, 1819, there had been no possession
by Mr. Shannon ; but at that time the Thames Plate Glass
Company, having issued an execution and refused to allow
the lamkrupt to carry on his business under their inspection,
whereby the whole of the crealitor.s would have been paid,
and Mr. Shannon also would have held over his bill of sale,
he commenced removing the property. Bankrupt imme-
diately sent roused to all his creditors, entreating them to
I take steps to prevent the sacrifice of his property. They
refused to do so, and he then went away from his premises
under fear of arrest, and did not afterwards return. The
property was then seized by Mr. Shannon. Tte evidence
showed the sale to have been conducted in a very hurried
and improper manner, though it lasted fifteen days ; and
during all that time the creditors, imagining there would
be abundance of property to pay them all, and each
endeavouring to overreach the other, they had taken
no steps to prevent the sacrifice. If they wished to do
so, why nut have struck a docket then, Mr. Johns
having absented himself from his place of business. After
discussing the evidence at great length, the learned gentle-
mar admitted that the bankrupt had acted unwisely in
giving Shannon security over the whole of his property,
sad in not previously calling together his creditors, but
urged that he had then every reason to believe himself sol-
emn. In the plate-glass business his books had been accu-
rately kept ; his sales to the extent of 10,1810!. were all
vouched; purchases to the amount of 5,400!. were vcuehed;
end the only ground for charging him with imperfect book-
keeping was that he had not kept a stock-book, which was
akmat impossible with so many places of business, nor a
emisbook in one branch of his business, which was the less
eneessary as he had kept regular accounts of all his sales.
His personal expenditure had been very moderate, only
about 3001. a year, though he had a large family to support.
Seeing that he had cleared himself from all the grave
cheeses made against him in the first instance, including
that ut the removal of property, he was entitled, after the
misery which he had suffered for the last two or three
year*. to an immediate certificate.
His Honour called Mr. Liuklater's attention to the long
list of law cost.: a material point its considering the pro-
priety of his going on so long.
Mr. Linklater said that they had arisen in a great mea-
sure from the actions brought by the bankrupt himself to
recover his bad debts, which were of large amount, and
not wholly or mainly from actions brought against him.
Several executions had come in between January sad
April, 1819, and these had necessarily swelled the law
costs. Of the 8,000.. which the bankrupt owed, 'boat
1,2001. was due to his own attorney fur actions brought to
recover debts due to him.
Mr. Law rauee—And for defending actions brought against
him.
Mr. Linklater said this was not the ease to any great ex-
tent. If submitted that the bankrupt was entitled to a
certificate of the second class.
His Honour said he saw no ground for ,atirap any-
thing like persecution to the assignees. It wmiU limbos
a very extraordinary thing if they had not inweedgehd a
case coming before the court under the eiremmaseee
which this had done. No doubt the bankrupt had been
kept under the inquiry much longer tjsan a trader was kept
in the ordinary coarse of things ; but that had arisen prin-
cipally from his own mode of conducting his business, for
although in one trade (the plate glass trade), he seemed to
have kept perfectly accurate books, in the other and
more extensive one (the furniture trade) his books
were in a sea- imperfect state, and it had been necessary
to make supplemental ledgers, and he had kept no cash ac-
count. Much time had been thus consumed, and it was
urged that the bankrupt ought to have the benefit of it in
the judgment now to be awarded by the court. But if a
man so conducted his trade that time was necessarily con-
sumed in making out supplemental books, that time was
spent in the discharge of a duty which he ought previously
to have fulfilled, and he could not claim any leniency on
that account. The charges against him now were—im-
proper book-keeping, a long list of law charges, and the
dealings with Shannon. whom he allowed to get the control
over the whole of his property ; of which the last was the
most serious. He had been in a state of insolvency in the
latter end of 1548, and it was his duty then to have con-
sulted his creditor* as to the beet course for him to pursue.
Instead of that, he kept putting off, and borrowed .001. or
8001. from Mr. Shannon, giving him a bill of sale over the
whole of his property. Looking at this fact, that fora loan
of 700:. or SOUL, be was obliged to give a bill of tale of pro-
perty amounting to several thousands—looking at what fol-
lowed, the subsequent beakraptey, the enormous loss oa the
eke of the property, and the great diminution of the pro-