The Express.
London, England, 1848-08-30 00:00:00

train into that of the Preston Company was the cause of
the itiquiry west to shire that the signal at the Shy horse
Mati in was so placid that it could not be props rly et-en, and
that it was nothing like the signals in use on other linen. Toe
first intimation of danger he received was the sight of the
Preston train in the Bay-hone station. lie retuned his ea.ith
gine, and shut off the ateam, which measures, ter/
e the !w
ith
putting on of the tender brake, so far checked p
of the train, that had the Preston train, the diver of which
saw the express coming, moved on but 30 or 40 yards lny,old
the station, he was of opinion that no oollidon would have
taken place, et if any, • harmless ono. The investigation
was ultimately adjourned till yesterday (Tut 'day).
WARWICKSHIRE.
BANKRUPTCY OF ADAMS, WARREN, AND Co., OF
SHREWSBURY. --Ye,tenlay, its the Bankruptcy Court. at
Birmingham, Mr. Commivioner Daniell delivered judgment
on the application of Charles March Adams, one of the bank-
rupts in this firm, for his certifimte; Mr. Viarr n, the other
partner, having received his certificate, unepponed, some
weeks since. His honour commencid by observing that the
be:Arai:it was oppowd on the ground of reckless extrava-
gance. It appeared that in the year 1835 he became a part-
ner in the bank at Shrewsbury, and that previous to that
period he possessed property in homiest° the amount of 7,0001.
at Brighton and Worthing. This yielded him a good income ;
but about this time he wee solicited to join the bank at
Shrewsbury, and to enable him to do this he raised 5,0001.
It had been urged that this was a Mall cum for banking pur.
pure, but it shrink be recollected that Mr. Beck, also one of
the partners, who realised upwanls 410,0001 , advanced only
when he entered the concern 2,5001. Shortly after the b ink-
rapt became a partner in the Shrewsbury Bank a person
named Baton, oue of the firm, committed suicide, and the
partnership of Warren with Adams then I ommrnced.
Bo long as the bankrupt confined his expenditure within
his income his creditors c said have no sight to coin
plain of his conduct. His expenditure it would
appear, from his first unnexion with the bank,
was equal in amountan no tis to h income. He had never
made any *relive It wso, however, with Mr. Beck,
inasmuch as it slivered that in the year 1840, when he
retired from the batik, he drew out upwards of 10,0001. Up
to that period the concern bag been proeperous, and it had
been contended that the bankrupt had a right to anticipate
that such properity would continua ;
co t during a period of
seven years the profits of the bank tinued to &creme
nor was this all, for it was evident that the bank hat lest
during that time not leas than 12,0001. in bad debts. He
(the commissioner) had, in fact, considerable iloub.s whether
from the year 1840 the bank had yielded any profits at all.
Notwithstandg this, however, the bankrupt had
drawn out it the pockets of the creditors about
19,0001. for bin own use. It was quite clear from
the evidence, that the bankrupt, had he exercised pro-
per caution, would not have been boar in finding out whe-
ther the profits of the conctrn were falling off ; and unqites-
tionably it was bis duty to ascertain whether the hank was a
profitable or a losing concern. By his own admission he had
lived up to the amount of his income. He appeared to hue
been regular in his attendance at the bank, but he never
made out any periodical statement of account.
Ilis
honour then went into a lengthened review of the affairs of
thy concert, and its management, adverting particularly to
the fact of the bankrupt never having made himself tc-
quieted with the state of bis affairs ; and this, he said, led
bin, to the conclusion that be was unwilling to ascertain has
real position. He came to that conclusion reluctantly, but
he was compelled to do so. The property at Brighton had
become a loss indeed of • gain, and the property of the
linnknipt's wife wu unequal to pay the interest of mortgages.
It appeared that the bankrupt'sliabilities amounted to no less
than 34,5001., being at the rate of 4,0001. whilst he carried
on business at Shrewsbury, of which sum 19,0001. was
obtained from the creditors of the bank. The balance
was derived tram other persons, amongst whom was a sister
of the bankrupt, who was a creditor for 6,0001. This sum
the bankrupt had obtained by a sale of stock in his own
name, as trustee, and it had been alleged that by so doing te
bad been guilty of a breach of tryst ; and in his opinion it
was a matter in which the assignees had a right to interfere.
It showed. to say the least, a great want of caution on the
part of the bankrupt, as well as being an act of cruelty to his
sister. Moreover, that the bankrupt had been guilty of
reckless extravagance was not denied, and all that his conned
had urged in his behalf was merely in mitigation of the judg-
ment which mightbe awarded; but to him (the commissioner)
this appeared a case in which the severest censure of which the
court was capable ought to be pas.ed. Ile felt strongly for the
family of the bankrupt, an had no wish to add to his pain-
ful feelings. He should have recollected, however, the great
principle of hone sty, and that he was not justified in drawing
tiro@ the resowcea of others. In view, therefore, of all these
circumstances, he lelt it to be his duty to refuse the bankrupt
his certificate.

TAE REPRESENTATION OF CUELTENHAM.—A meet- 1
ing of the supporters of the lion. C. F. Berkeley, ee.mem-
ber for Cheltanham, was held on Monday evening last at the
Asson bly Rooms in that town. W. oyde, Eel., a ma
strata for the mini, having been called to the chair, Mr.
C. Berkeley addressed the meeting at some length, and con-
cluded by recommending to the notice of the electors his
cousin, Mr. 0. L. Berkeley, as a fit and roper person fur
their member until such time as he (Mr. C. F. Berkeley)
would again be in a positi,:n to b:come their representative.
—A resolution was pused pledging the meeting to support
Mr. 0. L. Berkeley.
ISLE OF MAN.
CIIARGE OF FORGERY AGAINST A SOLICITOR.—
On Wednesday the charge of forgery brought against Mr.
0. W. Dombell, of Douglas, Isle of MAD, was gone into be-
fore a crowded court. The charge comics in the alteration
of the date of a mortgage deed for 1,2001., whereby it is al.
leered that the claim under a prior mortgage was defeated.
The prisoner Is a solicitor and a member of the House of
Heys. Mr. Deemster Heywood took his seat at It o'clock,
and the court having been " fenced" in the usual form, his
Honour ordered the coroner to bring in the prisoner.
Mr. Doorbell accordingly made his appearance shortly
afterwards, in custody of the officer, and was per-
mitted to take his seat behind the bar, and near
his counsel, one of whom sat beside him during the day.
The Attorney-General opened the case, and proceeded to call '
witnesses, whose examination and the reading of various
documents, owing to the very dilatory mode of proceeding
adopted, the evidence of every witness being taken down at
length by an officer, and then read over tgain, occupied the
court till eight o'clock, when one of the jurymen (Mr.
Smith) was taken ill and obliged to retire. After the lapse
of about half anour the court adjourned. lhe ease occ
pied all nest day, when the defendant was at once acquitted.

UNIVERSITY AND CLERICAL.
CAMBRIDOII, At:O. 28.—TRINITY COLLEGE.—Subjeets
foe Lectures and Examinations, 84$, 1819,—Senior Sopha: Arie-
totles 'Meiotic, Book. III.; the Acts of the Apostles, tiro four.
teen chapters; the Epistle to the Hebrews; Ilialpry of the Christian
Church and the English Reformation ; Butler's Analogy; astronomy,
Newton, optios,
,:hydrostaties ; problems and miscellaneous ques-
tions; mathemstiail questions (elementary); Demosthenes adversus
Septum's" • Dome's Third Book of the Odes. Junior Sophia.—
Mieheelmia, 1849: Conic motions, treated geometrically-, and &may-
bes' geometry ; mechanic, (the differential calculus not to be used) ;
Butler's Three Sermons on Human Nature; Dr. Whewell's Elements
of Morality, Book L; Yirgirs Eneid, Book 11. Easter, 1849 The
Gospel according to St. Matthew ; the PIRA* of Plato; differential
and integre' calculus; mechanical problems and questions; the
theory of equations and analytical geometry; Newton's Principle,
Section 1., 11 III.: Euclid, Both XI.; mathematical questions.
Freshmen : Beecham ; llerodotus, Book V.; Horace Satire,
Book IL; Euclid, I. ; ugebra and arithmetic; plane trisect,-
Metry.
Cieures Coualog—Porten Medale, 1849.—Subject for the Latin
diseertattas " Beano argumentoestEmagelium divinituenrtum ems,
quad humane nawso necerattabilus spec corigruiL"—For the tnglish
Meal : . If a man lore me be will keep my words; and my father
will love him, and we will come unto him and make our abode will
Lim."—St. John, e. 14, v. 23. lompetition is open to all who have
not previously gained a arise of the same kind, and the exercises are
to be sent in (to the Maiter of Christ's) before the end of next Mi•hael.
mas term. —A handsome painted glass window, In pima memoriam
Ricanhas Burner (tormerly a student of the col(f err,tooted in
the chapel), is about to be Mane, in the neat and unostentatious chapel
of this college. It is the gilt of his sillier and heiress, Him Burney.
Eairsemn.Coxulos.—Leetures at this college commence on the
23,1 of October, and members its slaty pepiltari have had notice to be
in maiden°s by the 21st of the same month. The classical subjects
for tar lectures of next year tie:—The last book of Xenophon's Ana.
Weis ; Virgil's &acid, hook 11. Se. Matthew's
LAST WIGHT'S " GAZETTR" contains an order in council
wiping an enei eisetictl district to the comecrated church of St.
Michael, at hussar, in the parish of Bailey, Gloucestershire.
AT API OItDINATION of the Bishop of Norwich, held nn
Sunday Lit, at the cathedral of Norwich, the Rev. R. J. Staines
was ordained priest at the request of the !Mahon of London.
PKBPSYMBNTIC—Iter. I'. J. Oruggen, to the head master-
ship of the rammer-school, at Pack Linton, Yorkshire —Rev. A. L.
Brombead, to Winwick R., Northamptonshire; Sea 1. • dio. Pet. ; put.,
of Lincoln.—Rev. B. Fenton, to an honorer; canonry itt the
of Peterborough.

NAVAL.
iIECLA.—Last night's Gazette gives
: company of the Heels, et., C. slimmer, rem.
Alt et salvage money awarded by the lixth Court
services rendered to the merchant ship May (lure',
• • deposited in the regietry of the Admiralty on or
Chard, agents.
to. 29.—Dauntless, st. frigate, went out
a trial of her engines; and when they prove
e will be docked and prepared for immediate
returned in the evening, and the greatest spied
it to have been 71 knots. His expected same further
ordered in her.
t. 29.—Adder at-v., and Advice st.-v.,
on the mail packet service between Pembroke
this part, the former yesterday, the latter ,-
Aid off bete, and after being surviled wlt
preparatory to being reoammissioned.—Monkey,
,aater S. Bryant, after towing the Arrogant from
Wetness this afternoon, to take some stokers to
op, which is to accompany the royal squadron. titre
er the piahllethux boats for the 'bola at. stoop.—
er .I. Bolton, is to leave for the Baser Gambia, in
X the monthly mail brigs, but as she will not be
the vesv I wiaeli sail, on the lot of September, her
' probability be delayed tall the Ist of October.—
v.. to to have another experimental trial of her
r not being deemed satisfactory.
'o. 29. ArPOINIMSNT. Lieut.-Com.

SPORTING.
IGENCE EXTRA.—NEWMARKET lIRST OCTOBER
MEETING, IMS.
arcs.—Luke of Bedford's Tinto, Bst
s Tuscan, Set 41b. DJ.; h
het.et o Lady Mary and Festus is brought for-
,. In the Second Oetober Meeting to Vents, to the

Meeting.
noecarrox hIF.ETING,
-Lord Clitden's Czarina, 7st 121 b, east Lord
The Prone, dam by Comes, 7st 71b. Last hall of Ab.

•Duks of Bedford's Bridle, Sat 71b, snit Lord
sk of ibe Orwell, let 711. Yearling Course ; 100, h ft.
Y.—MATCH.--fdr. Gregory's f by Bird. ateher,
dam, eget Duke of Bedford's f by bi frauds, out o
If Mu.yearlings, 6st 3 b each. Yearling Course ; 100, h
-Duke of B. dford'a Sobrson agst Lord Glacgow's
A. dam by Acuson, Sat fib each.; ,T.Y.C. ; 200, it.

Bishop of Llnceln.—Has.
cathedral church of Petert
,1
I;
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SALTA()); —Ma II
notice to the and I
• . mender that an account r
11 • of Admiralty, fur orrice*
in July. 1247, will be dept
before eept. 23, neat...-.W
PoktTeHoUTH, AUG
!ll yesterday morning for a
caltient the Dauntless •
.ii
commission. She return
obtained wee stated to ha
alterations will be orders
WOOLWICH, Au°.
both recently employ a
.'' and Ireland, strived at II
day. They will be paid
thorough') repaired. pre
at. tug, second 'meter
Blackwell, Inc for Shier'
the Virago. at. sloop, wb
corks also with her the
Dover, Ir.*. ?doter J. I
company with one of lb
I ready to soompany the
departure will la all pre
..1
Plumper, sere. at.-T.,
maohinery, the former I
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ti T. O. Herbert, to Halal
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Fast October /riveting.
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t. ti.
°bogey** f by The Fri
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i MATOR.—Duke
I Glasgow*. Clerk of be
SATURDAY.—MA
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