The Express.
London, England, 1862-10-15 00:00:00

LANCASHIRE RELIEF FUND.

Mr. J. Maclure, hon. sec., Manchester, acknow-
ledges with thanks the following contributions : Yrs. Sarah
Bayley, Wirobbakm•common, 1031. ; the Vice-Chancellor of
Lancashire, 51. (third subscription) ; James Bischoff and
Sons, 521. 10s. ; collection in Killingholme Church, 31.
13s. 4d. ; in Harborough Church, 31. 3s. 11d. • Richard
Hardy, 501. • employes of Massa". Schrann, Kell, and Co.,
monthly enhe'criptaews, lle. sd. ; Gregory, Boweliffe, and
Boweliffe, per Major Coppock, 251. • N Z.., London, 51. ;
Harvest Thanksgiving at Hunstanton,'Norfolk, 14/. 12a. 51;
first contribution from Whatley Frome, 31. • Bird and Hull,
10a.; fichloas Brothers, 25/. (first donation); Greeford
Church, weekly collection, October 5, 71. 64. ; Harvest
Thanksgiving from the parish of Little Ponton, Lincolnshire,
151. 4s. ; Henry Alger, Preston, ledbury, 10s. ; Miss
Burdett CouMs, 1,1001., in payments extending over six
months ; Mrs. Bevy.% 2301. • Henry Blacklock, 251.: Hai.
ton Park Review, 1401.; collection at Westoo•upon•Trent,
per Rev. 8. Plant, 81. la; A Collie and Co., monthly, 10/.;
Nathaniel Clayton 1001.; employ/s of Great Northern
Railway, Doricastee, 101. ; fifth donation, 11. ; Mime
; Bayley, 1001. oollection at St. Thomas' Church, South.
borough, 231. 10s. 2d. ; employ!' of London and North
Western Company, Crewe, week ending Oot. 4,151. 7a 6d.;
ditto, at Wolverton, Oct. 4, 111. 9s. 4d.; ditto, at Loop
sight fortnight ending Oct. 4, 61. Ili. 4d.; Mr. Batman,
7s. ; Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire Railway Com.
piny, 6001. ; first monthly payment, 1001.

WEATHER REPORT.-(THIS DAY.)

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N. to K. and S.E, R. Coal. N. to it. sad 1.W.,
strong, unsettle,L strong, 'bowers.

DOWNING-STEIRT, OcrOws". 13. The Queen has
been pleased to appoint John Charles Whyte, &quire, to
be Police Magistrate for the colony of Hong Koag. —Oa:Me.
LORD PALMERSTON AT WINCHESTER.—After
attending the ceremony of opening the new Diocesan Tesin-
ing School at Winchester, of which we yesterday published
an account, Lord Palmerston pTeeided in the evening et a
grand banquet given by the civic authorities. Besides the
chief authorities of the city and several members of pulls-
' meat and other gentlemen connected with the district,
three bishops, those of Winchester, Oxford, and Salisbury,
graced the assembly with their presence. The speeches,
as • matter of course, touched more or less on the
important subjt of education. The Bishop of Winchester,
in proposing the health of the noble chairman, made same
humourous allusions to Lis lordship's juvenile days at
Cambridge, when he was the chairman of the Union and
Fusty Clubs. which afterwards merged is that of "The
Speculative." His lordship entered into these reminiscences
with much humour and animation, and then applied himself
to discus the question of education for the lower classes
Special politics were rigorously evaded, and the banquet
pissed off with much geniality.
BRITISH SUR:FAITS IN CHINA. —A series of de-
spatches from her Majesty's minister in China, bearing on an
outrage committed upon a party of British subjects at Woo-
chum-too' on the 14th May, are published in last night's
Gaza tie. The Hon. F. W. A. Bruce alludes to the seed-
Cymbals of the Chinese during the examittatioo periods,
and says :—" I therefore think that it would be well,
during the examinations, to advise her Majesty'e sub.
jests to avoid these crowds, for it is very dialectic to
obtain redress for such outrages ; and the gratificariou
of mere curiosity, and the assumption that there soy be
a scheme to curtail ultimately the rights of foreigner', do
not warrant us in disregarding a warming that, in Chins, is
not print facie unreasonable. For the maintenance of pro-
, per relations depends on meeting the authorities in a spirit
' of compromise, when what they propose io view of the state
of the country is reasonable, sad ill reeistiug them, Maly
but temperately, when it is not." Earl Russell, in s
' Foreign-office despntqlof the 7th October, expresses his
entire concurrence in Kr. Brace's views with regard to the
discretion to be observed by British subjects who and
themselves of the facilities provided by treaty foe Tin*
the Chinese cities.
MILITARY BALLOONING FROM WINVIIINTIE
BARRACES,—A successful aerial journey was yesterday et.
eomplished from Winchester to Harrow, travelling at de
rate of a mile a minute. Colonel M'Dooald and six officer'
of the Rifle Depth Battalion accompanied i
Mr. Colwell
his mammoth balloon. The soldiers obeying Mr. Ceneells
ideals with military exactness, draw the helicon to the
'Andvari side of the square, and at five minutes past 4 let
go the rope, when the balloon instantly roes in a onjessie
manner to a height of two miles. By passing overdo
Grange (Lord Ashbutton's) eight minutes later they
Perceived that they were going at the rate of s rule
a minute. The white and broken clouds were on On
occasion between three and four miles from the
earth. "Our direction was E.N.E. We left Aldershot:
camp two miles to the S.E., Virginia Water a mile to the
N.W., and with great pleasure recognised the friendly del•
ter of Harrow-hill for • quiet descent. This. however. es
paned by a mile, and landed in a grass field belooFogo
Mr
iuig . HUI Here, in the gentlest manner possNe,
the ' iron anchored us in the centre of the fuddled,
than to p Mr. Coxwell's judgment. without the Iliii.!blat
concussioo. With the hearty goodwill of the villag", es, la
the obli~ssistance of Mr. Hill, we parked up Inr
lied oar balloon to the railway station. It WWI 5.17....c10Ck
when we Aseasaded, and tie distance we had travelled II
OM hour and ten minutes moss led seventy miles. As es
reached the ground Mr. Corwell was kind emeigh
iocrelb to .lsor
us the manner in which be performed tbe almost le
feat of opening the valve with his teeth when seven ads
half miles above the earth."
WEST SURREY REGlSTRATlON.—Notwithstanding
the extraordinary exertions made this year by the cowers-
tives to better their position on the electoral roll for OW
SUM, they have gained osly a slight numerical advautsflo
The following is • summary of the recent revision —Cee-
narrative claims allowed, I'9S; ditto objections sustined,
18 ; overseers' objections to liberals sustained, 100.: Otali
313. Liberal claims allowed, 14! ; ditto objection sae
113; total,
- 2M.
idaia':ibtyjeeftoirocons..t.mooativseefrata.
22*.vesfheloere;
sinus revision was greatly in favour of the libersl", UM
there appears little doubt that the unimportant advstale
cow gained by their op is may, by a little more acne*,
in another year be easily reversed.
UNIVERSTrY COLLEGE—Yesterday the iielsim ci
the Faculty of Arta and Laws was open) is 01
presume of • large number of student' and voils.
te'!
The various 'Tetsuo's, oo entering the theatre, of y
college, were received with hearty demonstratiore
se:
good will on the part of the students. The 14,
lecture was delivered by Professor de 31orgiu. o°r
for nearly an hour sod a half, kept hie audience iilleOrli
amused. The subject was " Education ;" but instese ,
treating it in the " gond set phrase " of the stereotYfo°
lecture, Professor de Morgan dealt with the natter in ,
style peculiarly his own.

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LAW INTELLIGENCE.
(THIS DAY.)

COURT OF BANKRUPTCY.
(Brion Mt. Coramisaimer Foul)Logue.)

MIDDLESEX SESSIONS.
(THIS DAY.)

(Before Mr. Bodkin, Armistant.4ndire.)
Till ASSAULT OM VICTOR JULIES, THE TRAP=
PERFORMER.

;6-ij

IN RE THE ANGLINFRINCII AGRICULTURAL 'FRAHM° COMPANY
(ttgrren).
This was a petition for winding•up, presented by Mr.
Charles Vane Clark, of No. 2, Hatton-court, late secretary
to the company.
g. From the allegations in the petition it appeared that the
company bad been formed in August, 1860, and duly
registered, its declared objects being the purchase and sale
of land in France, farming, distilling, making bricks.
importing cattle, and exporting
.agricultural machinery,
manures, cattle, horses, sheep, pigs, &c. The capital of
the company had been fixed at 25,0001., in 5,000 shares
each. The registered offices were at 2, Hatton-
court. The petitioter claimed 20;3/.14e. for his
services es secretary. More than three weeks had
clamed since demand was made upon the company for
this amount, and the company had neglected to pay or
compound. _ -

11.11. r. Harrison appeared in support of the petition. He
said the petition had been presented under the 67th and
6fith clauses of the Winding-up Act, upon the ground that
the company was unable to pay its debts. By the 78th sec-
tion if demand were made of • debt, and three weeks
elapsed without its being satisfied, this was made evidence
of the inability of the company to pay its debts, and that
was one of the grounds on which • winding-up order might
be male.

-- •
• The Commissioner—ls the order opposed!
Mr. Harrison said that the solicitor for the company had
attended below, and had informed him that there was no
intention to oppose the order, and had then gone away.
The Commissioner—Let the case be called again to the
court below, and if nobody attends upon the expiration of
an hour the order will be made. Order acoordingly.
SUMMONING WITNESSES UNDER DEEDS OF ABSANGENINT.
Mr. Manus applied for a summons to examine a witness
rider a deed of arrangement, which bad been duly regis-
tered under the 192nd section of the new act.

The Commiseioner—l have very great doubt as to the
propriety of granting those summonses. The erriitors
hive repudiated the court for ordinary porpoises ; we were
told that creditors were to be omnipotent ; and now
they come to the court and ask it to help them.
I hive a little doubt about my jurisdiction over strangers.
There is nothing in the act to say that I shall have the same
jurisdiction as in bankruptcy over strangers. Unless the
matter is urgent I should wish it to stand over until some of
the other commissioners shall have returned ; and then we
will confer on the subject. It is very important in this
matter that the proceedings should be uniform.

IX II COLTMAN.
The bankrupt, a carpenter, of Kensington, applied to
peas his examination. His debts were 122/. only, chiefly
due to one creditor, Mr. Willis, his late employer.
Mr. liinibse opposed, sad charged the bwilcitipt with
keeping tack tart of his estate.
. . .

iienirupt, in examination, denied having removed any of
Ilia (molter. or having shown a handful of sovereigns at a
public-house a few days ago,
A witness named Hanson, in whose house the bankrupt
had lodged, proved the removal of some furniture after the
bankruptcy from the bankrupt's rooms to another part of
the house. When the messenger came he did not take pas-
SalgiOn of those goods. Bankrupt had since furnished and
let a room in the house.
Hr. Holt, who supported the banln opt, gave some (mei-
deace to show that the goods in question belonged to his
cousin, who had bought them, and lent them to the bank-
rupt.
His Honour said this was a very improbable story.
Bankrupt, in answer to further questions, denied having
ever bad any silver spoons or anything looking like them.
(A
Hie H- pour said be should require thecousin, Mr. Hefted,
to be produced and examined in support of the stourgsrew.
told by the bankrupt. If he did not appear, the
DOTI made would be taken as proved against the bank-apt
fhe examicatron must be adjourned for that purpose.

IN RE 8h.LF01311.-APPLICATION YOB iIKLEASE.
The haakrupt, a broker and commission agent, of Peck-
ham, appl;ed for his release from custody.
M. Kimber opposed for a creditor who charged the bank-
rupt with contracting • debt by fraud, and vexatiously de-
few'mg an action.
. _

It appeared that in May last the bankrupt was in busi-
ness in Mincing-Lm, and had ordered brandy to the amount
of 301. from the detaining creditor. He denied haring pro-
to;ted to pay on the following Saturday. His debts, LOW
3:17i., were then under 100/.

Mr. Holt. in supporting the appl,cation. contended that
the case did not coins within the exceptions specified in the
112th section of the act of 1849. It bad been decided over
and over again that a vexatious defence was not to prevent
lankrupt obtaining his releoae.
His Honour concurred, and granted the release.
IN RE CHIENL -CASE OF AN ARTILLERY OFFICER.
The bankrupt was described as of Sheerness, lieutenant in
the Royal Artillery. He now applied fur his release from
custody in Maidstone gaol.
Mr. IL 6riffiths opposed. The bankrupt
_was in custody
on a nom, and he ought not to be discharged without
giviegsecurity.
The Commissioner—l think his commission is his security.
If hedid not surrender be would be guilty al misdemeanour,
and would lose his commission.

Claude Nicholas Laurent, 50, cook, was indicted for un-
hwfully and maliciously wounding Victor Julien, with in-
tent to do him some grievous bodily harm.
The prisoner elected to be tried by a mixed jury of fo-
reigners and Euglishmen.
The prosecutor is an artist, well known for hie trapeze
performances at the Alhambra and other place of amuse-
ment, and through an interpreter stated that he lived at No.
Li, Wellington-square, King's-road, and the prisoner was
his servant but for months past he had been in the habit of
making indecent proposals to him. On the Bth of Sep-
tember he accosted him with indecent words, when wittier
&Kidd such were continued that he would publicly denounce
him. lie toll him that he was going to Manchester, and
that be would not take him with him ; upon which he ap-
pearol to be very angry. About three o'clock the urns
afternoon witness was going out for a walk, when be met
the prisoner on the stairs, who had a knife in his hand, sod
with which he stabbed witness in the left side. Witness
upon that went up to his room, and told the prisoner that if
he would not stab him again he would say nothing about it.
lie went on the following evening to the Alhambra
and performed, and told his (witness's) father what
had happened, and in consequence of what he said
the prisoner was given into custody. The wound
bled very much, and be stopped it with a plaster. When
wetness took off bin shirt it was completely covered with
blood; he left it in his room. When toe witness met
the prisoner on the stairs the knife was wrapped up either in
taper or a handkerchief. He SIM the blade, but not the handle.
Mr. Edward Love Webb, surgeon, of 9. St, George's-road,
Pimlico, mid, early in the morning of the9th of Sept. be was
called upon to see the prosecutor, and there found him
with • wound on the left hip, about five or six inches long,
running laterally, and, having probed it, he found it about
five-eighths of an inch in depth. The knife produced
would inflict such a wound. (The knife was about ten
inches in length, and very sharp at the point.) It was not
&dangerous wound. He was much surprised, however, to
bed that with such a wound upon him he was able to go
through his performances at the Alhambra.
John Perkins, sergeant, 8.11, said he was called to the
Pulecutor's house, and four-I the prisoner in bed there.
"told him the charge, and he made no reply. lie was
taken to the station- bones .i.d witness afterwards returned
to tLe house, and found the k ode produced at the top of
the cupboard in the kitchen. In the same place he found •
shirt in a tin bath, which was quite wet. There was also
a pair of trousers on a clothes-horse, and they had appa-
rently been recently washed. There was a cut on the left
sale which had been sewn on. In the second floor he found
the prosecutor's coat, which had also a cut in the left
akin.

The prisoner cross.examined the prosecutor, but his
dence remaiord unshaken. la his defence he said be bad
to motive whatever to attack the prosecutor, and that the
wined he had received was entirely the result of accident.
M to the shirt and trousers of the prosecutor being wet,
the voseeutor himself bad asked him to wash them. He
had nh ill.feeling sgsinst the prosecutor, and therefore it
ism unlikely that be would wilfully inflict this injury upon
The jury having consulted together for some time, the
foreman *aid they found the prisoner Guilty of stabbing, but
tot a ilfully.
The Assistant Judge—That is an absurd verdict. You
must my guilty or not guilty. Gentlemen, you had better
retire.
The jury thee retired, and on their return the foreman
mid they found the prisoner
The Militant Judge said in this country the use of the
knife was a very serious offence, and would always be
marked with a very severe sentence. The sentence of the
court was that the prisoner be imprisoned and kept to hard
labour fur six months.
TOE cAst Or NTITHETI RowARD MEANET.
On the applicati
at on of Mr. Nokia, Stephen Edward
convicted the last session, was placed in the
dock before Mr. Bodkin, the assistant judge.
The Assistant Judge said he had been consulted
me this case by Mr. Payne, and having given it
some consideration he had determined to submit
case upon it to the Court of Criminal
Appeal. Ile did not wish to detain the prisoner in custody
until the question wss decided, and therefore would allow him to be released on his entering into his own recognisance@
in the SUM of AO/.. and to find two substantial sureties in
the sum of 401. each, for his appearance at the argon after
the next held here, to receive ) ent if called upon, after the question had been to a omit of appeaL
Mr. Ribton mid be wished to offer a few remarks, sod le
tle first place to disclaim being mixed up in the ONO in any
'way secondly, to express • hope that Mr. Payne would
draw the use expressly as he bad stated it to the jury ; suds

thirdly, to say,that with respeetto the unseemly exhibitions
which took place in the court on the former occasiont that
he condemned them as strongly ea had been done by the
learned deputy-assistant judge on that oocisioe.
As it was required that the prisoner should give twenty-
four hour's notice of the hail he proposed, he was removed
from the dock to the cell below.