The Express.
London, England, 1862-06-11 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, WEDNESDAY EVENING, JUNE

LAW INTELLIGENCK
(THIS DAY.)

COURT OF PROBATE AND DIVORCE.
(Before the Judge Ordinary.)
TN THE GOODS OP MART wrociatr.
Dr. Spinks applied for administration of the goods
of Mary Stuck y, who disappeared in • myste-
rious manner from her mother's house) at Clapham,
about seven years ago. One evening she left home
without saying • word to any one, and she was afterwards
woo in company with a strange man; but with that excep-
tion nothing had been heard of her sinew
The Court granted administration to the executor of her
father's will.

IN THE GOODS OF J. JONES.
In this cue the will of the deceased had been wilfully
destroyed by a member of the family who was now suffer-
ing a sentence of fifteen months' imprisonment for the
offence. On the motion of Dr. Spinka,
The court granted probate of a copy of the instrument.
CLARKSON V. CLARESON-SESITENCIL
.....

This was atestameniarisuit—ihe question...raised being
whether a will destroyed y a testator under the impression
that a subsequent paper which bad been executed by him
was a good will, but which had been pronounced ioralid,
was really cancelled ?
Sir C. Oresswell pronounced for the former will, but
cedind all the costs to be paid out of the estate.

COURT OF BANKRUPTCY.
Wore Mr. Goconsisioner Holroyd.)
1! It BOBBEIT Jul® DOBIL

The bankrupt Traea---;oficitor, formerly of High-
burycreacent West, in the count y of Middlesex,
and late of Belmont Villa, Twickenham, in the
county of Surrey, and since a prisoner for debt
in the Queen's Prison, in the county of Surrey.
The accounts prepared by Messrs. Hart Brothers and
Bayles contain the following items :—To creditors, 6,1221.
7s. 9d. ; to ditto holding security, 11,4621. 12s. 9d. ;to lia-
bilities on bills discounted, 600/. ; to ditto on
tees, 851. ; to creditors to be paid in full, 161.aralZ
By debtors under 101. : Good, 911. lOa. ed. ; doubtful,
41. 19s. ed. ; bad, 5/. es. Bd. By debtors above 10t. : Good,
7801. 16e. 24. ; doubtful, 1,4801. 17s. 14. ; bed, 3,062/. 6a. Bd.
By property in hands a creditors. 14,0611. 18a. 114. ; by
interest under my marriage settlement, 51. ; by deficiency,
1,8611.165. Bd.

Mr. Lawrence, for the assignees, did not oppose the grant-
ing of the order of discharge. Inquiry had been made as
to a bill of sale executed by the bankrupt, and as to a settle-
ment on the bankrupt's wife ; and the value of the bank-
rupt's interest in this settlement was returned at 51. only.
Mr. 011une opposed, on the ground that the bankrupt
hal been in parWership with Mr. Moson, and had rendered
no partnership accounts.
Mr. Linklater, for the bankrupt, said the partnership bad
terminated in 1857.

The bankrupt was examined as to a bill of sale which he
bad given to his aunt in June last. A few days after judg-
ment had been obtained against him in the county court by a
creditor, he had given in payment cheques on the London
and Westminster Bank, knowing that his former cheques
had been dishonoured, but he expected that there would be
aose4s. The advance made on the bill of sale had been re-
tained by Mr. Cave, who applied it in discharge of a debt'
doe to himself. Believed that the affairs of Dobie and
Moron had begs wound up. Such sanste as were not realised
were in his balance-shat. He had released Mr. Mixon.
The furniture comprised M the bill of sale had remained in
his house at Highbury, and was afterwards removed to
Twickenham. He had not the enjoyment of it. for he was
in the Queen's Bench at the time. (Laughter.) 30W. was
advanced a day or two before the bill of sale was given,
and there was an antecedent debt of 4031. There were writs
out against him then. He was endeavouring to make a
compromise with his creditors, and be kept out of the
way for that purpose.
Mr. Farrar opposed for Captaia Cole.
Bankrupt, further examined, said be did not bold a lease
of No. Z 3, WoLsepterraos, Kentish-town, on behalf of Cap-
tion Cole, who bad advanced 3031. on the property. Had
written toC►ptela Cole, acknowledging that be held the
leaae. The money was advanced to Mr. White, who still
owed it to Captlin Cole. Captain Cole bad not got the
lean nor a mortgage of the property. In July, 1859,
Captain Cole had advanced 400/. to Mrs. Dobie, his aunt,
and deeds were deposited as security. The deeds afterwards
came into his bands. and he bad not returned them. 2031.
of the ken had been repaid ; be had not received the whole
of the 4031. for repayment to Captain Cole. The bankrupt
was examined at great length as to the items in his w-
e/ruts._

(The ease was prooseding when oar repot t left.]

THE POLICE COURTS.
(THIB DAY.)

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Daniel Collins was charged witiiPi7k4; lady's pocket
at the Exhibition, and Henry Thomas with receiving the
property.
Joseph Gough, 468 X, said he was on duty List evening
outside the Exhibition in plain clothes. Observing the two
prisoners loitering about he watched them. It was about 7
o'clock,when a greet many persons were leaving the building,
and Collins, mixing in the crowd, tried several ladies' pockets;
be lifted up their dresses and folt their pockets. He then
went to the door of an omnibus as persons were getting into
it, lifted up a lady's dries and took a purse from her pocket.
Mr. Arnold asked where the other prisoner was at this
time ?

----Witness replied that he bad been in company with Col-
lins all the time, and after Collies had taken the purse
from the lady's pocket he handed it to Thomas. The latter
then emptied the contents of the purse into his pocket, and
threw the parse over a fence.
Mr. Arnold observed that Thomas should have been
charged with stealing the purse as well as Collins, as they
were both acting in concert.
Witness said that while the ladies were getting into the
omnibus Thomas was busily engaged trying to pick pockets.
Mr. Arnold asked whether they bad ascertained the
amount the prisoners stole.
Witness replied he had not, es in the confusion the lady
got into the omnibus, and was driven away.
Prisoners were remanded.
Inspector Holden said there was another charge against
Thomas.

DESPERATE ENCOUNTER OF AN IRO/MASTER
WITH HIS I)oG.—One of the strangest 0000ITOOCHI hap-
pened to Mr. Ambrose Hughes, of the firm of Hughes and
Son, ironmasters, of Bradley, near Balaton, • night or two
ago, with such perilous results that his life is despaired of.
That gentleman has • large bull and mastiff dog to guard
his residence, and, as wee usual, he unfastened the dog at
night. The dog bounded into • field, as he was wont to do,
and scampered away. After wandering about, he espied
something getting under the railing, and as it was his
master in a heeding position, with his hat towards the dog,
and it being quite dark the dog did not recognise him, and
commenced a desperate attack on him, which he continued
until he almost tore Mr. Hughes to pieces. The flesh was
torn mid bitten all over the body to such an extent that
Mr. Hughes's life is almost beyond hope. He vainly endea-
voured to get away from the dog but could not do so till
be succeeded in getting his pocket-knife out, with which he
desperately cut the animal. Mr. Hughes was seat morn-
ing found exhausted on the ground, the dog lying almost
dead some distance away. Dr. Best attends Mr. Hughes.
The dog has been kept alive. The least that can betel Mr.
Hughes from this awful encounter will be the lies of his
legs, it is mid.—MarwAviter Examiner.
A You:Tx:rum Coars NEARLY POlSONED.—Con-
siderable excitement was clawed in Skiptou yesterday by the
rumoured poisoning of nearly forty members of the Burley
Volunteer Corps. It appears that the corps visited Skipton
yesterday under the command of Captain Forster, for the
purpose of taking part in a rifle contest, and on their
arrival between forty and fifty partook of bread and cheese
at the Black Horse. They were subsequently seised with
violent pains and the symptoms of poisoning, and shout
Testy of the cases assumed • serious character. The
greater number of the men, however, afterwards rallied,
and, with the exception of four, were enabled to return to
their homes. The four are expected to recover, but the
state of two causes some anxiety.
ST. THOMAS'S HOSPITAL—After a very long and
severe contest with the authorities of the South Eastern
Railway, and many disappointmenta in obtaining a suitable
site in the sweet of • determination being come to, to remove
the hospital, the governors have at length been enabled to
adopta course which it may be hoped will prove sstisfactory
to all parties concerned. The Royal Surrey Gardens, situate
in Walworth, and about a mile and • quarter from the
three great metropolitan bridges (London, Blaokfriara, and
Westminster), will in the course of a very short time be the
spot on which St. Thomas's Hospital will be erected, all the
arrangements for the purchase-money having been made
and the usual amount of deposit lodged. It will be of
course some little time before the ground can be cleared
and the new building raised, but there will be no unneces-
sary delay, and in the course of • few months the patients
of St. 'Thomas's Hospital will be in a position to be removed
from the noisy neighbourhood of a complicatiou of railway
stations to the more peaceful shades of Walworth. The
site now occupied by the hospital will be devoted to the
porpc of the South Eastern Railway Company.
es`al. COLLEGE OF SURGEONS OF ENGLAND.—
The following gentlerneu, having undergone the necessary'
examinations for the diploma, were admitted members of
the college, at a meeting of the Court of Examiners on
the 10th inst., viz, :—Messrs. Thomas Jewison Jefferson,
Market Weights's, Yorkshire; Abraham William Dias Bandar-
nayke, M.D. St. Andrew's, Colombo, Ceylon : James Kelly,
Corbrulge, war Hexharn ; Edward O'Sullivan, Milloone,
Berehaven, Cork; William Logan, Bellyclare, county
Antrim ; Charles Stratherne Claw, Dublin ; Albert Lek
Fernandes, Sandal Magna, Yorkshire; Thomas Redfern
Chesterfield, Derbyshire ; John Cramp Linder, Newport,
Shropshire •, William Peter Itawltes, Kentish-town ; Samuel
Messenger Bradley, L.S.A. Manchester; Warne Edger,Kirkby Stephen, ,Westmoreland • Arthur Kennedy Wal-
lace, Dublin ; John Harkin, °mesh ; Thomas More Mad-
doe, Lie. H. sad Q.c.r., Ireland, Dublin • John Wilson
Ashford, Hinckley, Leicestershire; Albert M`Diarmid,
Rochester; Robert Richards Hawkins, Martin's-town, Dor-
setehire ; Copley Jabas Oarr, LR.C.P. Edinb., and La.A.,
leer, Bucks ; and Themes Hunt, Hampstead.