The Express.
London, England, 1847-03-22 00:00:00

Mama law. His Honour sonsidered the point in this teas
very deer. A notice woe given in Muth, which was sub-
sequently treated as a ■allity by both partite. Then the
*outplay gave s new notice, but nothing was done under it,
and afterwards than came the notice of Dee. 24 ; but, althosgh
the company withdrew their previous notice, mill there was
no evidence or the plaintiff having consented to that with-
drawal, and it was his opinion that the defendants were
bound by the notice of Dee. 16 ;and without the consent of
the plaintiff, to whom the previous notice was given, no
subsequent notice would be valid ; otherwise, a company
might go on front month to month giving fresh notices, and
the penes upon whom they ware served would never know
bow to act with regard to his land. The injunction mut,
therefore, be grimed.

Before V
ABILAILI F. WARD.•

WINTsm.
TION or WILL.—John

Abram, We testator in the cause, by his will gave the rest,
residue, and remainder of his freehold, leasehold, copyhold,
and personal estate, goods, and chattels of what nature
were., to his eldest son, Hodgson Abram, and to the heirs of
hie body lawfully begotten for ever ; but in case his said son
Hodgson Abram died without children, the testator or-
dained and willed that the whole of the property therein be-
queathed to him should be equally divide! among the said
testator's surviving grandchildren, share and share alike.
Upon the death of the testator, his son Hodgson took pow
session of the property as tenant in tail, and after suffering •
recovery thereof, died in 1841, without ever having been
married. '1 he bill was filed by some of the surviving grand.
children of the testator at the death of Hodgson, for the pnr-
poee of redeeming a mortgage, which the testator had made
in his lifetime, of part of the freehead estates comprised in
the will. The title of the plaintiffs to redeem was
resisted by some of the defendants, on the ground
that the equity of redemption in the premises
had bees sold, after the recovery, by Hodgson
Abram, to a party under whom these defendants claimed.
The question was, whether under the above clause in the
will Hodgson Abram took an estate tail, or whether the latter
words Glebe clause had the effect of cutting down his estate
to an estate for life, with remainder to the testator's stir-
siring grandchildren. His Honour, who had reserved his
judgment upon the ease at the conclusion of the argument
on Wednesday last, now made • decree to the effect that
the words of the wM paired an estate tail to the testator's
ten Hodpon, and dismissed the bill with costa.

COURT OF BANKRUPTCY.
flebre Mr. Cramenbrroscr Pane.
Tics WOOLLEN TRAWL—This we, • dividend meet-
ing, the bankrupts, Brill and Dourglass, being extensive
woollen merchants; the proceedings in whom cams have
been folly reported from time to time as they occurred.—
Mr. Lowrance tendered • proof for 432 i. 8.. on a ball wpm
the part cis Mr. William Davis. The bill was drawn by
claimant's brother, on EMU and Dowglass, who Indonesia It
to Harris, Whiting and Co., and they indorsed it to Ike
Tinian Bank. Mr. Davis's brother had had several tamenab
time with the bankrupts, sad was liable to tie Mang of
about 11,0001, out of which sum nearly B,oooh had bon
proved against the =ate. Mr. William Dinh want
to the bank and paid the amount of the bill, whir.
fog to rove kis brother from • farther liability, tskims
at (the bill) with all in equities. Mr. Lower= es .
tended that his client, having taken the bill after it
became due, stood in the same position se the piety
from whom he took it, and therefore had • right to prove.
Mr. Commissioner Fano: I don't think it can be allowed.—
Mr. Lawrence Will your home allow this to be entered
as a claret—Ur. Commissioner Fume: Why, I don't like to
throw discredit on my own judgment. Mr. Cooke
tbr the aseigneee, epposed the proof.—Mr. Cooke made
an application under the 6 and 6 Vie., r. 122, by which
his honour was entitled to make the bankrupt an
allowance, not esseeding 1001. a year, he having obtained
his aernieate.—Mr. Commaistioner Fans : Well, I think he
ought to have the "Roemer:a, and it is for the assignees to
Bugged and me to sign.—A further dividend of about 9.1. in
the pound, upon 70,00 W., will be officially declared in a few
days.
Defers Mr. Cansaledaery Ooolbura.
TAB lIIWILLIIRY TRAWL—SUSPENSION OP CIRTIFICATI.
In the EMS of W. H. Osborn, which was discussed during
two days 1= week, the learned Commissioner delivered
judgment —His Honour, after a few observations, proceeded
to the bon of the case, and gave • detailed history of the
elder Osborn, from his establishment in Great Russell•street
until the period when the bankrupt joined it, as a principal,
in 1842. Much street bad been laud upon the circumstance
of the length of time during which the establishment had
been earned on. He could not but suggest to creditors that
that circumstance, standing by itself alone, ought not to have
the gnat weight which seemed to have been attached to it
in so many canes, and had been to such an extent in the
present ere. The legitimate profits of the bankrupt's trade
were small, and the trader required all possible care and
caution is order to carry forward such a business with profit.
In order to eke out larger profits, it was too much the cus-
tom is that trade to embark in the dangerous and
discreditable traffic of socommodatirn paper, by discounting
which foe necessitous persons, siversmitha frequently imposed
their geode on the latter at • price highly exaggerated, and
beyond their real marketable value. This practice his Honour
deprecated and pointed out at some length its demoralising
effects, as illustrated by the present inquiry. It was plain
that the bankrupt must have known he commenced insol-
vent ; and, moreover, that be had so enesged himself to pay
large was to others on his: father's account, that all
sound hope of suomeetal trading must have been at an end.
His commeacearent, fie, in trade was a very grievous
fault. At the very on of his career the bankrupt had
fought to enstala and wry brined this failing business by
what he milad asemmadstism paper. Transactions of this
End dm isersed eintsanloner stigmatised as a grow
deception mad hand on the bankers, and deserving the
severest eansare. He then adverted to the way in which
the beakript kept his books, and entered therein the names
et mesa Or straw as bawd fide customers of the firm,
pattbstilm therein, in the aceounte of these different per-
sons, all these bill transactions, as if they were goods sold by
him to then in the way of his trade, whereas in truth and in
fact no gesikshadevor were sold. His Honour concluded by
saying, thine 11111 as in the ease that aggravation which be-
longed tom= ems in the court, in which bankrupts had ab-
stracted stage moo= of property for the purpose of sub-
sequently eppropriatiag the proceeds to their own use.
Looking at the whole mire, sad what could be urged in mitiga •
tion of the bankrupt's miocceduct, he thought public justice
would be satisfied by not absolutely refusing Mr. Osborn
his certificate, bat by suspseeling the allowance of it for a
lengthened period. Mr. Osborn was still in the prime of
hie life, and if at the close of this period he should re-enter
trade, the learned commissioner trusted the experience of
this day would not be lost upon him. The judgment of the
court was, that the allowance of the certificate Ire suspended
for three years from the data of the fiat.

ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE.

OXFORD CIRCIIIT.—STAFFORD, MAZCR 20.
Nee Panm—Below Mr. Justice Mamie

Pane e. BKITi.-Tna WILL BOTCHISS.-Thill Inn
an action for ea alleged wroogfal ensure of meat
brought by the pintail, • butcher, frequenting the
Walsall market, against the defendant, eLo a butcher',
keeping a stall in the seam market, but clothed with
oft Rea the lawn sound of the borough, having
beenin tbassibet appointed to the dace of "flesh-teeter.
It was that the defendant had a motive in whet he
did. Wit in common with others of his craft, red-
dent Milts to drive the plaintiff from the market On
the put et a great many witnesses were called,
wha slated Not to ell al pearance the meat in question was
need sae It
std portions of the same animal, had
yam nollbund it " good, wholesome meat." On
the ether Ilenisset Allen, for the defendant, undertook
to wee the meet wee decidedly and maid-
IMO, mein ter ibed, sad that the defendant acted
with past pod faith, and was justified in mak-
ing the aware, aud the defendant's wnesses, animal
oases baba& gave it so their opinion that the animal
had died a natural death, and had none of the appearance
of herbarium slaughtered. One of the fraternity mid that
the farmer wr in the habit of bringing bad meat into the
=whet. alle *little geed "jest to show off the rest" -A ma-
-141/1/00 iff Web& Mend thin be saw the tout the dalsits,
ad on et eglaa that it wee eat foe
Tabard. to reply, urged that though the
adieu w esafrift *jury had, on his mule, fame, sad
aft the there agaaaiflaaa of rival butchers, to abase
molls, the admire wee owing ; and the opinion of witnemes,
mbe neW be
toads:eel impartial, was to be &amounted kw
by the theimaniese alder whisk they had esen the meat,
ages • auk Is the yard of the police station.-Verdict 63f
deusgea, 40s.
NORFOLK CIRCIIIT.-CAMBRIDOE, MARCH 20.
The semesiseion for this aunty wee opined yerterday.
The weaker ustolaa the mass of VI pthaese, but is in
eathae ROkllr
Arts-nalare the Odell/ma
down us tr. Dun te r.-Bkuni ea.-Raman wo aroma-
otan.-111r. flenjeagaleal end Mr. Naylor woe enamel taw
the *ilia; Mr. a the dedbasth Tbo
eolith wth breaglit to narrerr=ges kr eleathene made
anal of the *WIT in hie thenastee of emus. Tho'
ythe au a Net railty.' It appeared that the deindeed,
auk ma of the regal/ors of It,ads deothila Ole toeni,
odd ea • MIL Ray, who had been resuilly elabeed, it,
dm gown of registeriag the birth. He oda Mn. Bay
imbibed alleadoi her t-ed at being told that it wee the
plabellf. am& the weds amplained of, whisk in sob-
thaskapeatotbe plabiael bis patie ntsllutide mistaken treatment had
mand dear of ormal , and thetiaguesta
hest; i emoseqpiethy hem bald ea this. At the easiamage-
easnetet Ms or, wed beim the dellmbuit's awed kid
began Maths", It wen blasted that en *paw weld
be darlad Ni air, buremar, was deamed.-Ttw the
ebballat saggestal Oat the words wane net web=
madowily, sed kaliamt due say Teal itrizsd.tepdatir
The bused krimpa_teld the jury that
a lthaemalla and eamal that the wands
of wen auk s• be esola notjutifyna, mathellema
pane diet lie la then, be mut he tabu te brave
maned the court only them align to Ma
Ithiesamet eftiapenamem~ewei , bed yease=aleadeat
%An Mara EU so he ied men Om OM
US 0111=11 iris that spiky=
mbenrir weal bra inin eadthed, mug
dabs die ~fee saw
a , ea efloomgasammanages-
alleatil L wel-&—tile-17, mendthey lava Oft the
mud spa outlay* been wident ass k,
4sur

little fallow, though repeatedly told what the effect of his
plea "veld be, pr7leted in it, replying to every warning,
my lend. Mr. Wells applied to the court for a
mitigated sentence, an the ground that the child was of
week intellect. Soutanes was deferred.
Anoos.—Josepli Randall, aged 12 yean, was charged with
boring set doe to a stack of hay. hlr. Couch appeared for
the prosecution, and Yr. W. Cooper for the defence. The
evidence against the boy was, that early on the day named
in the indictment he was WTI by his schoolmaster amusing
himself with some inciters, and that the master took a box
of them from him ; that be was seen near the stockyard a
few minutes bane the ire broke out; and that he said that
one Bill Page, of whom no account could be obtained,
had done it. For the defence, it wee urged that evidence of
this hied was not sufilident to convict "a mere boy." The
traea returned a verdict of of Guilty, and the boy was
over to his friends.

MIDLAND CIECUIT.—DERBY, MARCH 19 and 20.
Caowa enese.— Before Mr. Justke Pattesion.
THI MURDIR AT CRESTIRTIELD.—John Platte was in-
dicted for the murder of George Collis, in the Butchers-
shambles, at Chesterfield, in the month of December, 1845.
The court was crowded to excess, the rase creating great
interest throughout the county. The prisoner is not mew
than 20 years of age, and his youthful appearance, and Me
awful character oleo crime imputed to him, produced a
marked feeling in the auditory.
The eircumotances connected with the murder, as staled
by many with ewes, ere he follow :—Early on the morning of
the last Friday in Angela (1846), some men were employed ,I
in emptying a Manta ass-pool attached to the premises a
Mr. Bunting, a Ilear-dether, living in Low-pavement, is the
town of Cheetetheid.whieetheir attudion was drawn to whet
sewed to le die =mime of the amass of a sheep ; a faith=
WM& agora thin=s baton of two leg and thigh hese%
and a quantity of IMlTaile. OR the ..11 being removed tea
field for width it was intended, pad el a coat, trousers, hat,
two silk hemilkareblefs, and the munins of • brace and
stockings were discovered. One of the handkerchiefs
was marked " G.C.," and, whim hand, was tied
as if foe the neck and on the leg-bone. wen
garters—apparently old ones—em red, and the other
white. This led to a more minute inspection of the ear
cliureand at the bottom waspicked up a skull, with a lame
of the right eye. The examination of the homes ley
• surgeon satisfying all doubts as to the remains, and the
finding of male attire with them, soon gave son=
grounds for supposing that a murder had been
and the body of Me deceased cut up as found. The westing
apparel being publicly exhibited, the handkerchief hearing
the initials of .O. C." was identified by a young ihnsale,
named Ellen Sersieferd, as having belonged to George Collis.
This party, in the emu= of the preceding year (1846), went
into partnership with the prisons', John Platte, as butchers,
and conducted their business in a miserable place called the
"Shambles," adjacent to the market-place in Chesterfield.
Since Sunday night, the 7th of December, in that year (1846),
Collis had not been sea, and the belief gained ground that
it was his remains that were discovered, suspicions at the same
dose being entertained that the prisoner was the party who
had taken sway his life, it being traced by the Chesterfield
pollee the he had got a man named Knight to pledge a
watch belonging to the deceased, at Mr. Wileockson's, a
pawnbroker in Chesterfield, a few days after Collis's sudden
disappearance. When interrogated as to how he got poems-
' sionot it, he said he had won it at • raffle, while to °them
he said he had bought it of a man known in the
neighbourhood as " IsWiey." These statements being as-
certained to be untrue, led to his apprehension. In addition
to Ellen Beresford (who had been enceinte by the deceased)
identifying the au, handkerchief found with the remains,
she spoke to the watch produced being in deceased's posses-
non on the 7th of December, 1846. They had kept company
together some time, and on his leaving her Louse on the
evening of that day, at 6 o'clock, he told her he was obliged
to leave as he had promised to meet the prisoner, John Platte,
▪ half4set 6 o'clock. He told her Platte had several times
promised to settle with him, for he was greatly in his debt,
and he was determined to
„get the money coming to him.
She never saw him after. When he left her she saw the watch
in his pocket. He was dressed in a black sortout coat, black
cloth trousers, eanary.eoloured waistcoat, and black hat. The
aritneu also identified the red garter found on the leg bone.
Deceased took it from her in jest. She bad the fellow one in
her possession, which she pr shard The mother of deceased
identified the clothes found in the cesspool u those her son
wore on the night of his disappearance, adding, that the pri-
soner, when applied to if he had seen anything of Collis, said
he believed he way at Manchester, as Collie had told him he
intended to get out of the way of the female Beresford, who
was in the family-way by him.—John Holbrook, an eating-
bowie keeper, near the " Butchers' shambles," said he re-
membered Collis coming to his shop on the night of the
7th of December. He came in about a quarter to seven
o'clock, saying to witness he had to meet Platte at their
place in the shambles, to get some money from him, and he
would meet Holbrook at twelve. Holbrook saw the deceased
go in the direction of the prisoner's place, but never saw him
after. That he went direct to the prisoner, not a doubt was
entertained.— Thomas Haney, a shoemaker, said, at
about twenty minutes past seven o'clock on the nisp.utl.:ll
es qution he was standing near Platte' shop, and
two or three blows struck, as if by a cleaver on •
piece of wood or block. The sound of the blows was rather
jarred. After the first blow the witness distinctly heard
=I ejaculated from • human being, and he made all
to his friends at home, and told them that he was sure
same =midge was going on in Platte' shop.' Hie wife and
item returned with him to the " shambles," and finding the
door seeseedi, they knocked, and asked Plans what ha was
001 m, and who he had in the shop I—The prisoner intim.
MoOdy answered—" Nobody ;" he had been taking IMF
ram, which had made him exceedingly sick, and that he was
going to lie down. He was asked to open the door, and
they would give him some water, but he would not. The
females then charged Platte with having a woman inside. '
He replied he had not, there was no one with him, and he
would not open the door for any of them. They then lib
the shop. Shortly afterwards Platte came into a neighbour-
ing public-house with one of his hands covered with blood;
he said he wanted to wash his hands as he had cut his finger.
Witness observed, as did the other witnesses, that Platte
had been kneeling, one of his knees being covered with dirt.
They again asked him who he bad had with him in the shop, but
be refused to answer. Other witnemes corroborated Harvey's
evidence. Mary Railing! moved meeting the prisoner in
January, 1845. He offered a watch (the deceased's watch,
moduced), saying he had won it at a raffle, and wanted 21.
for it. She told him she was not in want of • watch. After
the discovery of the mutilated remains she met the prisoner
at Chesterfield, and asked him if he had heard of the rumours
that Collis was supposed to have been murdered. He said
he had, but he believed Collis had done it himself. He
added that Collis had often told him that he would make
away with himself. George Knight spoke of having bought
a pair of boots of the prisoner for ss. (They were produced,
and were identified as belonging to deceased.) He also de-
posed to pawning a watch at the prisoner's direction. Itl
was redeemed alter the finding of the body by the prisoner's
mother, at whose house it was found by the officers ; the
prisoner telling them where they would find it con-
cealed. The statement the prisoner made when taken
into custody was, that he did not owe the deceased any
money, but that the deeeaoed owed him some ;
for he lent him 21. on the last omission of meeting
with him. That was on Saturday, the 6th of December,
1845. Mr. H. E. Walker, surgeon, of Chesterfield, stated
that the bones found in the soil, in the cesspool, were those
of a male about 23 or 24 year. of age. He was of opinion
that the fractales of the skull bad been inflicted before death.
There were fear is number, evidently inflicted by some
heavy instrument, such as a butcher's cleaver. Mr. Macau-
lay addranedi the court for the defense and called a number
of witmerskfreea whosithedmorry It en,
that, up to
the thee dale easuelimien of the ethmee, the prisoner had
base as eweeliont shanstertse korty.—The learned judge,
is ismaing op, kit it to Stet is say, Arse, whether the
monks Aar 1 mew thesecd thought shoo which be
these esakt hese thobt : Om, the priaciaer commit the
emir, or tae pert in the sett If satisfied that he was
lienentenedinthe emir, and that the body found was that
1 =key wadi Ind him guilty.—The jury almost ith
Memel a verdict of Guilty ; and the learned
=1:12 fa a sat kaprative lesseeer, pasted upon him
l!ho eamikleses fee Leiesseur arty and town were
Omni SY day (Saturday).
'WHSTRRN CIB.CIIIT.—BIETER, MARCH 19.
Comes ODUKT.—lucre Mr. Janke William.
A OIRTAMT PROSICIITID FOR '4IFTIALINO" A raw
Tnantra.--leks Eihests,eo437_, •labeeielas ma, of very
amok appeemos, woe Yid kr audios mks turnips,
the propmq of nosier, stNertion,es ttse 211 rd February
list.—Mr. Whyte poiseated.—The parser was a labourer
ii:=r oom yof Crept. Heels, at NOldlimma, and on the day
he we= into the cowthmema he the peeps. of
=dm sows, when his eawities 011116MMR (IMO was
his .cements) saw hit pot seem turnip its his
Va. tarok los tam lawasdiaisk IlTrardi. the eseelma geld le blet,
ing away kw torstp ?" sod the
=aided Os &arse. whireopea the maim= isidl
t to
I.
de
Istri aka im take theth sw, est Oho
Ilia kepi hay
to b vin. A asolleieo soh Itspelper.
low like the essuititor stegistsels was pot is, mai it
dated kat be lad taken the tosulps, Ilk kat he MI sow
Is. wake etas kind Wen. "Hs thweght Ikon ton
se lira la lit.ifoot was to doer." U is OMNI
Illstortion the learned judge, mesh
um with two children, sad that wages wen
kly 9s. a week. His lordship the lasoleol who
MM the inters. ism in this toss, end ere of die whims
doled that it was Capt. Keats, the prism% araksr.—Tbe
imisiljodge, la amain up, nor abed that the owe wee
is of a ,vety Orlin Ratak, but, ookailhelsee, it wee the
day Odle jury to end as primer paiiiq, it they thank
the done had bent roved waft tha. --Virile; Giiilty.
Hie isidthip said it wee veryinehmandy is mie a respectable-
=obi' g man charged with Mk es dhow as the preset;
bet the law would not allow Na to take trom his neater
eveu a few tarot= without pandemics= Ai he had already
bleu la psi three en
ke should saw waly sentence him
be two Isle' barticament.—Tbis ressontios suited pea
= la kort, mad when Wleeithip yes Wormed thee "
deposidleas " bad bean sumillad es *mar ea
easier upset Copt. Hants's property, be mad that it was a
hart ease that a man, whom wages was met Ems than 9. a
week, *Odd he seat to Woo the " seek of the
.6%.
tank "be fah eines =strake.
iltraoLtan.—Weiker IS, wee Wheal he =sepia-
ActitlT twildn..s_lhe d a Lydia v- • •
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