The Express.
London, England, 1851-05-24 00:00:00

THE GOLD-DUST ROBBERY.

WINCHESTER, IMIDAT ETTAINO, MAT 23.
This day William Pamplia, who hus been already
twice examined on a charge of being implicated in the
great gold-dust robbery, was again brought up at the Guild-
hall, Winchester, in charge of Mr. Superintendent Shep-
perd, and placed at the bar.
Mr. Crombie, on the part of the South-Western Railway
Company, said he proposed to ask for a further remand of
the prisoner, but that he intended to call witnesses. to cor-
roborate the evidence of the railway porters, Edwards and
Smith. given on the last occasion.
Mrs. Lydia Cross. examined by Mr. Crombie, stated that
she was the wife of William (inns, who kept the Eagle
tavern, at Winchester, near to the Railway station. She
remembered the evening of the Bth of May. She also re-
membered one of the railway porters coating to her house
on that evening. This wcis about half-past seven at night,
as near as she could remember. The prisoner came to her
house on that OCC:1`4011. There was no other person in the
house at the time. She saw the prisoner there on the
Thursday night, with a bag and a large parcel in his pos-
session. Ile was at her house tit about half-past eleven.
When he lett the house, he had a parcel in one hand
and a black bag across his shoulder. It contained some
thing about 11 inches long and 8 inches wide. The prisoner
had a pint of beer in the house. He hail it in the taproom.
There was a young man, HAMA John Pearce, the ostler, in
the room at the time, but he was asleep. The railway
porter, Edwards, came in after the prisoner. The prisoner
did not remain more than a quarter of an hour. Ile paid
her daughter 3sl. for the beer, the money being in rapper.
She (witness) afterwards changed a sovereign for hint at
the bar. He asked her to give him change, and she did so.
Ile lett shortly before 12 ai clock, and she saw him go out
with the two package. in his possession. One of them he
held down by his arm, and the other he carried across his
shoulder. She had never seen the prisoner before, but had
no doubt whatever that he was the man she had teen on that
occasion.

Eliza Cram, the daughter of the last witness, corruboratml
her mother's ‘tatement.

Mr. Inspector Field and other police officers stated that
they believed they should be able to prove that the prisoner
was connected with other parties who were implicated in
this robbery.
Mr. Pelham contended that the evidence was insufficient
to warrant the detention of the prisoner.
The Bench, atter a short consultation, mid that they did
not consider they should be doing their duty if they did
not give au opportunity, by remanding the prisoner, fur the
production of any further evidence that mitiht be brought
against him. As to the question of an alibi, if the prisoner
was able to bring forward 20 witnesses as to his being in
certain places, that would hen question for a jury to deter-
mine. flie case, therefore, would be remanded for a week,
and he (the Mayor) might state his individual opinion that,
the LAM: should then be brought to a conclusi ~,,, us he dhl
not like remanding prisoners from week to week without
some strong reason fur doing so.
Mr. Pelham then applied for the return of some property
found on the person of the prisoner, but this was refused
until the next examination.

The prisoner way then removed in custody, and the pro-
ceeding" terminated.

ALLEGED MISCONDUCT OF A BANKRUPTCY

COURT OFFICIAL.

The Manchester Court of Bankruptcy was occu-
pied for several hours on Thursday in the further hearing
before Mr. Commissioner Skirrow of several cases of alleged
irregularity on the part of 1/r. Mackenzie, one of the MU-
cial assignees. The first case came under the attention of
his Honour yesterday week at a meeting for the declara-
tion of a final dividend in the estate of Messrs. J. and .1.
' Sharpies, cotton-spinners, near Blackburn, which was held
in this court. in the course of that meeting his Honour
said it appeared that on the Ist of April, 1551, Dr.. Mac-
kenzie, the official assignee, received 9744. In one
sum, and retained it under his control, con-
trary to the orders of the court, made by the
Lord Chancellor for the benefit of the public, and iu order
that the bankrupt law might be efficiently carried out.
The 13th order, and it was an imperative one, said: "No
official assignee shall keep under his control, upon any one
estate, more than 100/. ; or in the aggregate of moneys of
bankrupt's estate snore than 1,0000. ; and any excess beyond
such sum shall be paid forthwith into the Bank of England."
The 43rd order directed that if the official assignee should
keep under his control more than the sum, specified, fur
more than one week, he should be charged in his account
by the commissioners with such sum as should be espial to
interest at the rate of 20 per cent. on the excess of such sums
for such time as it should be kept under his control beyond
the said week. And unle-s the money had been kept from
proper causes the official assignee was liable to dismissal
from his office on report to the Lord Chancellor, and to any
costs and expenses, and have no claim for remuneration.
The official assignee said he acknowledged having, front
inadvertence, committed the fault with which he was
charged. lie considered, front what he understood was the
practice in some other courts—he did not know that it pre-
prailed generally—that the rule was for the assignee at the
end of each quarter not to have iu his hand, mare than a
balance of 1,0110/. lie had had two quarters here, and
'in his first return the balance in hand was not
4002, and in the second the balance was under
' 900/. The practice, he perceived, by which he
' was misled, was clearly wrong. As regarded this particular
sum of 9001. it was received on the Ist of April. his clerk,
who of course managed part of the business, had been ill
since early in April, and he (1)r. Mackenzie) had managed
his duties as best he could. He did not want to throw
blame on his clerk, but during his absence he wished nut to
interfere with the money matters which were more imme-
diately under him. He had been much surprised that the
money in Sharpie 'a case had not been paid in, but had had
no opportunity of learning anything from his clerk, further
than that it was inadvertence. The official assignee
I received no benefit from retaining money in his hands, fie
banked with the Union Bank, on the London terms; they
gave no interest on the money deposited, and charged no
commission on the money drawn oat.
His Honour said he could not admit that inadvertence
was a defence, when the orders were so imperative, and
expressed in language so clear as not to admit of a shade
of doubt His Honour then said he should make the order
for the payment of the 20 per cent., and should make a!
declaration on the dividend paper, to the effect that the
official assignee was not entitled to remuneration.
On Thursday Mr. Capes, auctioneer, appeared to com-
plain that an undue influence had been: exerted at that
court. by Dr. Mackenzie, in hie official character (without
any regard whatever to a stringent clause in the act of par-
liament which took such power entirely out of his hands),
iu matters affecting the sale of the property of bankrupts ;
and that such undue influence had been exerted on behalf
of a gentleman named Garkaill, an officer of the Liverpool
Bankruptcy Court, and an auctioneer, both in that town
and in Manchester.
The official assignee denied having exerted the undue in- ,
Hamm complained of.
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REPORT ON TILE AGILICULTIIt.k 1. SECTION
bpi bass retidned by the official *soignee, contrary to the
orders. At the end of April he had in his hands OF THE (MEAT INDUSTRIAL. I;xl'oslTlox OF
2,3781. Is. &1., whereas he ought not to have had above I THE NINETEENTH CENTURY.
1,0001. And on the 9th May he received 3.50/., also
3111. 103., and 1,1841. 17s. 6d. in canal shares. This money
ought to have been paid instanter on its receipt by the
official assignee to the credit of the accountant in Dank-1
pt great variety, each maker hating dune hi* best to isintrite
NO. lll.—Cultivators or Scurifiers ore shown in
ey.
/dr. Martin, barrister, of London, who appeared for Dr. : a good form of tooth or tine, to fasten unit arrange the teeth
re
Mackenzie, argued at con,iderehle length that 1)r. Mac- in the moat useful and efficient in: 4., and to scheme the
kenzie hail not violated the spirit a the orders by the simplest and easiest method fur lilting or lowering the frame
irregularities complained of, winch had resulted from a which contains them. Anil all are towdructed entirdy of
isinterpretation of those orders. iron, with the exception of some of the wheel.. J. lienthitl,
His Honour said that he should take time to consider his i of Woodbridge, shows a useful implement, called a Puteut
4110cci,ion. lie should, however, not feel justified in allow- universal self-adjusting cultivator, tor skimming, cleaning,
Incany remuneration to the official assignee. pulverising, or subsoiling laid. It has eight hue. fixed ire
l'he case was then adjourned till Friday, the 20th Juno ' mortices in a strong frame, which e. cast in one piece. The
machine is raised upon two wheels by a ant axle turned by
a lever, this giving a pull very li like that in a printing
pros—the purchase greatest at first, when it is most wanted.
!'here arc two small wheels iu front of the scarifier the axle
being attached by a joint to au upright spindle; dun king
able to aceinunuidate itself to inequalities of the land. The
tines carry double-winged shams.
It. Bean's patent cultivator seems entitled to rank in tho
first class. The frame is a triangle of cast iron ; the tines
arc fired in the same way as in the Cloy cultivator, and the

From the Gardeeeee Ceretitrie.

method of raising is the same as in tort excellent imple-
ment—with an improvement. The objection to the t. ley
wheel and screw is the length of time occupied in turtling
it; if the simple parallel motion could be effected by the
mere depression of a lever handle, it would be the best
movement yet invented for the purpose. A smaller pinion,
working in that on the wheel uxie, is turned by a lever;
but while time is saved, the distance raised is, :ierhaps, tint
so great as in the Cley drug. To Heart's cultivator urn
attached two immensely heavy rowels, which either ride upoit
the frame to weight it, or run behind to break the largkr
clods.
A cultivator, by W. Nicholson, of Newark, is lifted in a
singular manner. The three wheels support as many up-
right bars, which pass through slots in the trume furnished
with friction rollers. On the top of each bar is a semicircle,
the two hinder ones fastened upon on axle, cud connected
with the hiremost one by a connecting rod; and as they all
move simultaneously by u lever behind the machine, the
frame is raised or lowered by chains passing mud the
semicircles.
11. Carson, of Warminster, Wiltshire, has invented a
scarifier, with a very simple parallel act' for raising. A
single pull of a long lever effects the movement, but a. the
whole draught of the horses is imposed to the dinvtion in
which the frame is lifted, we should may the mill would
have to be both "long and strung." The tines are fitted
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into mortices with iron a edges—tile frame is all cast in a
piece. Coleinau, of Chelmsford, ha. a patent scarifier ur
drag, in which each tine works ou a lout binge, or joint, in
a mortice. A lever on the loop tunic a barrel or apindle,
which, by connecting rods, raises the tines forward ;di
together. This, we should think, is not on a good principle,
as the joints would wear, and the teeth become unsteady.
Smith and Co., of Staunton!, Lincolnshire, have a
scarifier, in which the operat'on of lifting it out of the
ground is rendered more easy, by the addition of a weight
in connection a ith the lever • but we can hardly approve
of any contrivance that introduces unnecessary aright and
complication into the machine. The tines tit spun the side
of the frame bars, and are screwed tight.
11. Cowan, of Costorphine, near Edinburgh, exhibits a
two-horse grubber, which obtained the tint prize at Edin-
burgh in 181$, and at Glasgow in Witt The tines fit by
studs upon their sides into mortice, in the bulls or bars of
the frame. 'f hey cannot be set higher or bower. The lift
is very simple, but we fear not suffieiently gradual
to he dune with ease. Ransomes and May show Biddle's
scarifier and their West Indian cultivator. The fames of
both are well known; the fernier being decidedly the rival
of the Cley cultivator, as regards its %soaking capabilities,
though not so simple in form and mechanism. The Indian
cultivator is undoubtedly u good imiolement ; but its double
frame gives it a needles, complication.
Among the great improvements now struggling to get
introduced into general farm practice is, the autumn clean-
ing of Wheat stubble.; and our implement om factional
have determined that the fault shall nut rest with them, if
this system is not speedily carried out wherever practicable.
Fur they have deigned ...serail sorts of skim and paring
ploughs with which to commence operati 4444 ; mid we art
happy to say that all the specimens appear calculated to
answer the it papooses ill 31 aatisfitetorr m:
Mary Wedlake and Co., Ilernehureh, loses, have
made a double-beamed wooden plough, carrying
two iron skeleton plough+, with single winged
shares lying one way, one following the other.
and both toroidal' with coulters. E. Hill and Cu., of
Brierly-hill Works, near Dudley, exhibit their skint for
paring stubble, turf, dcc., consiatmg of two broad angular
shares or knives with the wings faring each other, and just
craning the centre line, one being a little before the other;
these are supported by a frame of the very lightest, and
yet sufficiently strong kind, carried on three wheels. A
tine shod with a wide chisel or tool precedes them in the
centre line; and two curve) tines follow, one be-hind each
share, for the purpose of breaking the soil into smaller por
tious. This has the effect of espieang the cotta of wee*
fte., more perfectly than would others ise be the case to the
action of the son, thus preventing, if' possible, their grow-
ing again. These coulter. or time+ are suspended front
the ends of two short levers. and slide up and down in
sluts, so that either of them eau be lifted out of work
instantaneously. The implement possesses simplicity of
construction, will easily work three acres per day with a
pair of horses, at a moderate depth ; or may be
employed as a steadier, if required, fl ur II inches deep.
By la-aring on the handle+ the knives rise out of the ground,
to facilitate the turning. John Smith, of Uxbridge, has
oho a skim or paring plough, having tall somewhat similar
shares, bat without the tool in front. Two curved lin"
follow the shares, mad are throw a out of work by Lomax's
patent movement," a combination of 11:1014 *0 contrived
that though the tines can be turn. d up harkward+ with the
greatt,t case, without pressing,pring.orwithdraring bolt,
au7e Perhaps onn°ePourt hert immop‘l'e n'Xito fie; .•rkot
stirringt o'er%) g.
land that has been once ploughed, i. the •• patent broad-
share and subsoil plough," invented by E. It. Ikattall, of
Ileybridge, near Maldon, Essex. The beam is of iron, long
and straight, and in section of this form , having a small
wheel at its fore-end. TWO 110110 W square anus are screwed
on at each side, above the plough body, and opposite each
other, so as to form a transverse beam about 1 feet lung,
being very light and strung. The testy of the plough con-
diets of a east-iron plate, somewhat ',wedding a solid land-
side and as thin as consistent with its strength. It carries
a chisel point in front, a wide double-absed share behind,
of peculiar shape, and two horizontal blades, one above
the other projecting on each side of the main plate or body.
Two strong cultivator tines are fistenoal upon the transverse
beam ; they are serrated behind tea arda the top, and are
nipped by 'navies and screws to the face of the beam, the
upper side of which has a projecting edge fitting between
the teeth on the tines, this :Mussing of their-being set
higher or lower. There are many holes in the beam,
through which the two staples can pass, no set the tines
closer or further apart. These time, have chino I a to, and
carry angularly-placed cutters or double-winged share.;
behind them. By means of all these points and cutters,
the soil is first broken up and then divided into small per-
' Bona The novel arrangement of placing the broad-share
at the heel of the plough instead of in front, seem,. eal-
*iodated to render its action more easy, the soil being shaken
as well as cut by the chisel-point and plate preceding it.
This implement appears capable also of working as a regu-
lar subsoil plough. Itatisomes and May have patent im-