The Express.
London, England, 1856-03-27 00:00:00

LAW INTELLIGENCE.

11118 DAY.

COURT OF BANKRUPTCY.
MOAB rL coinnammits VLF%

barilrart was a wine sad s ir.t merchant, of Win-
chester. Tao was ►ho ezeudnetion meeting. No &ecotone
had beta bled, and as behalf tf the bankrupt is adjoarn•
meet wse asked for.
Hollow wished to know the reason of the
It was stated that tte bankrupt, before his bankraptey,
had wide in aesigament fJf the beaefit of his creditors,
&ad that the bo)ks had been retained by the trustees under
that assignment ; hence the inability of the bankrupt to
Saks out his beeowit..
. .

As a ijoaremeat lets ordered The bankruptt
see Matta at shoot 3 ; a ate et tr.lbeg amount.

SHERIFFS' COURT.—RLD Ltox•SQeAU.

WOOS XM.

This woo ea sawn to recover tr.e sea of Gt. on a dit-
!messed cheque. The plaintiff mac a grocer in Drury-
late. sad lad advanced money to the dereadaat on a cheque
for et., nine% •at dattocioured. The cheque, sighed "C.
H Meths's," was put in en l the signature proved.
Verdict fir plaint.e,
ISIONT P. DI:MAYNE.

7h;o was as action to raeoccr the automat of two 1 0 We,
me Mr 6/. 10e., aad es* for It. Toe pllintiff booms the
owner of some premiss in En •h .u. ,D. B ant,i4
Towt, and found ,he 'hi/admit, who win the employmost
of Howitt sad Co., wvehoasemen, is Holborn, is amps
tall. Than was as armor of rent, and IS a
sittlemest twigs c me to, the defendant gave two I 0 t's
kr tea proem, which were not paid as priaoistrd, and the
presest maims war is coewquvace brought. With a view
to pretreat the plsiatilf rrcotrering cults, it was elicited t►at
t`e delcadast bead withis t sooty 11111.1, 10 that l'lllaatiOß
could hats been brought is toe county c Art.
Vt tint for tor stases'

THE POLICE COURTS.
THIS DAY.

MANSION•1101:133.

Tabb and David Cecil were averred with having
attempted several tome to pick the pickets of gentlemen
en ilea:efts. They lead been followed by two policemen, sad
one of the prisoners bad managed, when they selected an
r•bir:t to prey epos, to draw hie .pron before his compen,on
ha loch a meaner set) acre en h•m from the observation of
passers by. They had both hers sentenced to impri-
sonment for picking yrekets on several occasions, sad were
committed far eta wimples by the L'ird Meyer.
Mary Ferry, egad 65 years, was charged with having
be hen the nom of Mary Bemi.b w,tb s pint pot.
The defendant had been long known as a very violent
women, and was fined 21., or imprisoned for ono month,
for the smanit.

WESTMINSTER.
♦ 117IAL1 lIVIFIAR.

Georgian& Chalton, the w.fe o• a a-Le-hones proprietor
et Knightsbridge, was plead at the bar charged with felo-
niously assaulting and ss,iiieding her hustand with a poker.
The cimp'aiaant, whose head was covered with linen
cloths, said that his wife had been before committed
from this ccurt f.r stabbing him, and bad un-
derliee six months' imprisonment for the offence
She so earnestly {'named to conduct herself
well for the future, that be we, induced, on the
day cf her di/chairs from custody, to take her back
to live with him. That was three month, ago;
and nothing material had occurred between them up
to lan night. Prie4ner's lister and some friends
bad come up from the county to visit them,
and, at his wife'. myosin, be took them on Wed-
nesday to acme paces of publ.c amassment, and went to
fetch them frJrn the bore of a friend where they bed been
staying last night On his return home, be found bin wife
quarrelling with ter sister, who bad previously
arrived, end in inch a Ti. lent state that she beet
her sister and tore her bonneted'. Prisoner then seined the
poker, and broke 1 panes of glees. He tried all that
kiedness would do to elitisma her, hot uselessly; and then
she indicted a couple of deepen• 6 blows on his head with
the poker, and be was conveyed to the hoepital to have his
head drepaed. He did not wish to pie is the charge if pri-
soner would Inv* him, and accept a etiparate maintenence.
Mr. Payette said he could not permit the withdrawal of
no very serious a case against so violent a woman, end re-
mudded her for a week.
WORSHIP•STREET.
110111111 T OF COMMUNION PLATO.

Rabat Mania, a privwe is t • 3rd Middlimig snit's, and
Joseph Raid, a yosae rasa employed ss a pew-spaner at
Basapton Qips', Hackney, wars charged With being eon.
toned in stoahrg foot commission caps, vales 121., alder
followtag circumstances.—

Mr fintothy Edward Le Bean, one of the trustees of the
shape' mentiontd, has a ren fence immediately behind the
banding, and was sale rumor of the communion service,
to which, on the fins fienday in eyery month, the prisoner
Reid had access, for the peep re of conveying it to sad Ire-
The property wu locked in a box, which, in tare, was kept
In proosentor's bed-room, aced owe day, while engaged
sliming the windows, he ohurved to the servant-maid—

"Oh, that is the pleas where the plate is kept." Saha-
qiently he questioned her u to itt value, and what pawn-
brokers would lead on it. When required on the Ist of
Much the cups were mewed, aid Idasoo, 26 8, somewhat
singularly became acquainted w.th the feat that Marsh
was raised up with the r bbory, end proceeded to the head-
quartsrs of the 3rd Middlesex Militia, at Hampstead, where
he found that prisoner, who, hetes Colonel Wcod, admitted
that he knew someth•ag of it, but denied being the right
mu. Francis, 227 N, a vary sass °Moir, who had charge
of the ease, meanwhile diccosered that one of tto
imps had has, sold to • watchmaker is Orarr
larread, who, is tun, had disposed of tt to
Ms. Benham, enecersor to Mr. flirriel. the TO-
Mat, of Habitat'. Real admitted that he bad diaposed of
it to the watchmaker for 17. , but it iris sw.ve that 11. 15•.
add was the paid prim.

Mr. Benham cieicr,bxt the appearaace of the *holies
offered kin for pushes* u beiow masifutly destroyed sad
battered far Ml* particular purpose. sad not from you; he
refuted le purchase or auk it ; but a day or t aro ski rwerde,
duds. his abet ore. ohe of the authorised sensate of his
Mtablieha■t bought it of Mr. Baglasd, the watchmaker la
quertion.

- Bah prison. re protested their immense, Reid denying
that ►e ►ad ever admitted to the odleer Francis having sold
the cap, but a former conviction was proved agaizat lianh
for felcay in 1864.

Mr. Humidl tally committed thou for trial at the /Mello-
an Sessicar.

Mareb-1 eey that we ought be mat to Nowise' aid ay.
I ha tzisl sad sot to bl.deltemtr.

SOUTHWARK.

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niroaTAirr DECISTON C:/DER ?MI LOCAL

ACT.
NI Joseph John Hillier, a traumas, residiog at No.
74, Landon road, wu summoned by the bawd of works for
et. Gorse* gmthwark, seder the 83rd section of the New
Local Ni►aysmeet As*, for aelisrfally bookie, iota a
Miff i• Yoe rust, London-road, without the wow of
the vestry of tits said /omit.
Nr. George Hamblia, the clerk of the works, staled t►at
a few days sin ialonsatios was rereirod by the heard, that
the delsoduit bad, without asking their swum:it, tasselled
from a how in York..treet te .As sewer, which he slaw.
tally eyelid. Warless had eisailaad it sad avertaised
seek is be Use fur.

Richard Jab% • bricklayn, et 25. Yerk-street, said that
o the 28* of Jeerer, he wee willed is by Mr. Heßier t,
'emir* ►is eseepool. He found it in a eery bad state, sad
that there was so way to carry off the ranee water, *Hopi
by • connsenieetion with the sewer. He accoediagly hes-
ailed and opened the latter.

The magi:trate iegtaired----;betber be 'ud remission ei
tba local board of workA for Slatbw.rk

Witness replied that he did not ; but knowissr that the
Comaissioaers of Seven pat down a miliaria York-iireat,
and that them eras a junction to Mr. }lollies's premise% ►e
thought them was ro harm is °poising h.
Mr. Hamblin informed hie worship that ihero (widely
was a jun, tiqa for every house, hut no party had a ris►t to
epee tee 00000 ctioo with t►e sewer without the enema et
the t oard.

The defendant mid that when the sew maw wee put
dews hie commaniestion Will Ca of. The coseequesew
um: that the lower put of his premises wee issatlated with

a liquid filth. He therefore thought he could m a barrel
drain to the junction.
Tritton, the vestry-clerk, told his woish;p that it was
an in wish of the board to prose for the penalty la the
present instance, but they wawa the inhabitant' to knew
that they must not break into the sewers without the con-
van of the vestry. If his worship would order the defia-
nt to pay a nominal penalty and coats, he should be satis-
fied. The nets were 13.. Bd.

The Magistrate accordingly fined him a sh,lling and the
mats, staking It altogether 14e. Bd.

SPECIAL MEETING OF MIDDLESEX MAGIS-
TRATES.-(THIS DAT.)

-•-.

A special meeting of the Middlesex magiqtracy
was held at 12 o'clock t tie day at C'erkenweill, Mr. Pownall
in the chair, " To cot eider the report of the committee of
visitors of the county lunatic asylum at Haswell, and the
plats annexed for proposed alteratiose there, laid before the
court on the hut Limier, county day; and also to con-
sider the report of the• committee of visitors of the
county lutist c asylum at Caltey Hatch, and the plane
mussed for the proposed alterations there, laid before the
court on the last January county day; and farther, to
consider the report of the visiting justices of the House of
Cutrmtioa at Wesitamiter, and the plans encased for pro-
poled alterations there, laid before the court Oa the last
county day."
There was a fall attendants of megistratee, and a long
discussion ensued. lhe pmceediag had mot termiaated
when we went to per

THE FATAL ACCIDEAT ON THE IVIUBLEDON

AND CROIDON RAILWAY.
Yesterday, Mr. Cuter held an inquest at the Bull
Ins, Mitehant, nn ti. body of James berms, aged 54, a
shawl printer, lately empl,,yed at Mesers.Dempsey's work.,
Mitcham. The evidence was simply a cmarmatitn of the
part radars of dammed'. death previously pobilehed ; and
it appeared therefrom that the deceased was crossing the
Womblelnu aid Croydos Hallway, on M ,nday morning,
about two mike (four Wirabledia, when he was ran over
by ems of As trains, and died shortly afterwards. Them
us several foot-crowinp on the line between Wimbledon
and Croydon, and deceased bad total. one of these crossness
to pt to his employers' work.. The teed' might have heal
ism by bias nearly bait a mile eff, there beteg nothing to
obletot the view ; and it mu therefore suppaest that, being
ofaillowbat deaf, he had not heard ita approach, or had mis-
Mihealated the time that it would take to resell the point at
white he was messing the line. The evidaam Wag ma-
claded,
Oas of the jurors maid that three applicatione, the Rest
extending se far back as December, had been mada from
the Addable= Veairy to the Wimbledon and Croldta
Railway Company as to the dangerous state of the
public earessage over that railway, tne place where de-
ceased wee killed being one of them, but to notice had
been taken of them ; and on the very day the accident hap-
pened a c•mniunicstion on the subject was sad' to the
Baud of Toads.

Ihe Coroner intimated that any opinioo of the jury
would be forwarded to the proper quart r.
The Jokey returned a verdict of Accidental Death," at-
tributing no blame .0 the engine-driver ; bat were of opinion
that Nome better m• are should Mt taken to guard the public
mooing *en the line.

NORTHAMPTON AND PYTCELEY
RUNT MEETING.
THIS DAY.

itacritto 1111.101API.)
LATEST BETTING.
EARL SPENCER'S PLATE.
4 to 1 apt Post Hone
Bto 1 Fitorow
6 to 1 Coal Black Rose
8 to 1 Benzins
10 to 1 Acy other.

BODY OF A YOUNG WOMAN FOUND El THE
Tsawas —Oa Tneeday, Mr.W. J. Payee held an inquest at
the Vestry Hall, Fairetynt, Horse Wows, on t►e body of
a line Town woman, of unknown name, that was found
Boating in the Thames on Sunday ms ruing last. Mr. Ed
ward Everest, inspector of Themes polies, said, on Sudsy
morning last, about 11 o'clock, he was on duty on the
Thames in his boat, and when opposite Davies wharf,
Horselydown, he saw the body of a female floating in t►e
river, about 20 yards from the John Hall steam skip. He
got hold of the body, and it was draws ashore. On the
body were a black silk bonnet, with red and white etriap,
grey worsted shawl, dark brown dress, plaid pettieoa•, white
cot'on stockings, and cloth boots. la the pocket was a atone
about 2 pounds in weight, but no money or any other article.
There were nor marks of violence oa her nem'', nor wen
there any sinks on her linen. A description of her person
hod bees sent round to all the police-statists, but they
could gain no Intelligence as to whom she was.—Mr. John
Story, beadle of St. John's, raid the deceased was 6 feet 6
inches in het h•, with dark hair. Several persona had been
to see the body, but they did not recognise it.—Fraacis
Sopo, Poliersergesat 13 M, said he ►ad searched the police
ho.ks for a month test, but found no entry corresponding
with the person of the deceasel.—The jury returned a ver-
dict of "Found dead, but without marks of violence."
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_
FALL OP A ROMAN CATHOLIC CHAPEL AT PRESTON.
—On Thursday hut, about n,,on, St. Mary's Catholic Chapel,
Friargats-hill, saddeoly fell down, and became a man of
rains. @mogul workmen hove be.n employed for some
time at the balding, preparstvry to eta enlargement. They
were shoat to widen it, sad for that pupae istended to
take out the aids wall. A largo guaettty of earth had bees
dug away from Oa wall, and it is supposed that it weakened '
it, and was the immediate canes of the destruetiosof the
building. The two gable ends are stall standing, bet in
such a dangerous state that their fell may be looked for say
moment. The seats, furniture, books, and, isdesd, every-
thing belonging to the chap I, have been smashed and tors
to pMams, sad buried beneath the raise. Very fortunately
sous of the Ems employed about the betiding were in any
way Mimed. The chapel will sow have to be esti/My re-
built.—Preston Owardian.

FATAL ACCIDINT AT WOOLWICH DOCKYARD.—
A laborer, sassed John Honig**, lest his We is • di/-
tensing as as the evening of Tuesday last. Her
Majesty's skip VISQVIIII was is basis Gosling, and ne boon
of esaviet labour bale; past, the defused, with others, wu
eggeged fa an* g the fuel on board. Ails was walking
dug with, kb hordes, he stet pod late ea oyes hatthwey
mad deassaied violently into tbe non below, with the
waled et sal ea bit back. He wee picked up thweaalble,
sad it was lbewel that the bony franework of his body was
quits team ages and destroyed. He was still liageriag is
issarskeesks
sk shakes yesterday dame& He has • wile sad
.

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DREADYL ACCIDENT TO A BOY TROY MACHINERY.
--One of the most awful of the easy easualtiee we as faked
apes to report took places cm Thursday neoraiag lett, about
a quarter peat 6 e'd iek, at the mirk' of the Mean. Dawes,
Bromford. At the time &little boy, sump years of go ally,
*awed Timothy fltaasway, whose waits live at Oldbury,
was statiosed as usual at the rolls, without his joskst, sad
pat Wear= through the spindle' or hone to reach a busier.
la as twist the repidly.revolvieg maeltinery teak up his
shirtsleeve, drew in his body, wash passing twies is sad
out Styes the rolls, presented a spectacle awful Li look
ups; the bead we ton from the truck completely, aid
the bowels sad visere, rest away, ware scattered about.
Nike-mutable Pfltl/1111111 WAS 11•11 i from the elation by
Sao inspector Hotbed, but the nada' had been takes to
the poor parents at Oldbury, who have other children, sad
are labotulag peep e The first object he aoticed at Staa-
sway's Mktg. was the little sufferer's brother, about Sti-
tes; he sat fa • beep by the fire, is a toner, sad took so
maw if spas to say oar. Hs worked at Wombed, sad
bad mesa thetentile fate of his little workmate sad playmate.
Watearliampton Chat:meth.
WESTMINSTER IMPROVEMENT COMMDISION.—Mr.
Ogle, late chairman of the Ceassittee et bigotry appointed
by the bondholders osier sus Wastmiaster Improvomeat
CORMildOlll, has address/ le 411116 keedbolder who signed
the petition, a circular to impales apes thou dm importance
of patties, thesselse in immediate isinsemeloalles with the
"arise memben of the counties and strum la which
they reside, that the cousteassos mad earpert ofiltoseaeatio•
moo may be secured when Um petition is pareated to the
house by Sir Joha Bh.Uq, sal eappeobed by Sit De Laity
Eves/.
HUGE MORTAL.—Au imams aortae, capable of
throwing a shell 18 inches is diesseer, which be lees'
manufactured by Mums. Ueorge regrester and Co for her
Majeatee goverment, was fantod damp Liesrpiol oa
Monday upon a Suck, drawn by a dames proarfal hones.
Fullowlag the 'aortal ware two Amy Nail., kladed with
enormous shells. The metal of alai ebb Ogre% projeta-
tile is compised was obtained homellitAtediaa I roe Com-
pany's mimes in Nova Scotia. Whoa the cattieg of the
mortar was completed, it weighed If blew but aft, r boring
and fiaishii.g it was, of tours, esaiderebly reduced, end
it now weighs 14j tots. Its bomb le 7ft. 6to. and breadth
3't gin., and the bore is 111 m. diastietor.—lfasuctiestar Guar-
dian.

"TAKING THE BULL BY Tat lioixe."—On
Thanes, week, as Berry Boorman, sew., who atteads oa
the tatUe at the Three Chimielsom the Estate,
God horst, was fodder's': a teo-yeee eid Jaw It Tao
at him, husked ►im down, sad tenet Ws wen' times
with ail horn., tolerating his thigh, break's' one et hie
Sagan, and severely bruinng boss ea the body. Boorman,
Woad a smug powerful sun, seised the bull by the home,
and held his tor 20 minutes before swislaneo strived, the
ball kasellag, with his ■ree ea Beeemea's body, ranting,
foaming, sad be lowing ell the whole. Three nee, at leer,
cuss to his assistance, armed with pitchforks, bat the en-
raged brute 'would not leave hint seta two ooge were Woo
ht., oce of whist' seised his by the throat; the other
wonted him behind. %omits is lain well ander the OM
Of a enrgeos.—,sues Evros..