The Express.
London, England, 1851-01-09 00:00:00

INSOLVENT DEBTORS' COURT.-TE3TEILDAT.

Isms TIBI 00•1110U07.1.
Tna:M•Trea or liwitiald etaustl.
This ino•lveat, who applied under the Protection Act, was
imposed by Mr. Luse, with whom was Mr. Sargood, os the
part of Sir Wyndham Anstruther, liar. Me. Cooke sup-
ported the application.
The re wits only one debt in the schedule. Sr Wyndham
Autiother was tweeted sea molder Co 664/. arising out el
an annuity teaseactsw entered into la 1533, whet Sir
Wyadhain to cute surety err the insolvent. and respecting a
composition on the same • statement wa made on the sche-
dule. It was the only debt he owed.
The Clio! Commissioner said be peruived it was the only
debt envoi a sum for which the providoosl soignee cf the
rout ass inured ow accouut of some firmer insilvtacies.
Pray how often hue, you been in this court, sir ?
fusel vent —Three tunes, unfortunats:y.
Mr. Laces—Tar,* units, and your ode has an interne of
.eow. a year.
The us direst said on the first beriss Mr. Day. his
latter-lia.law, was shy,. Ile stated that his first spouts, ee
was it 1830; his wooed in 1846 ; and kis third is D 149. He
hal hied soother petition is this .'sort, and also is the
Court of Backruptcy, but did not proceed co them. He
wee sot now willing to make say arrangement to pay the
doSt to Sir Wyadhans Austruther. lie hid nutted from
hi. wile 3001. in the last sin months, and had event about
ill. a work it visiting plaits of emu/India His wife was
sot in wort. She had been summoned to attend, bat was
too wows Ii to @puss.
A diuusion arose respecting a litter, which it was 'ad
Ciagett had signed to pay the annuity, and
Mr. Lucas restated that it should hays been paid.
In answer to farther questions, the insolvent said he was
living with hie wife is Abbey•road, St. John's Wocd. Mrs.
Chou ki of four horses and three carriages. He kept note,
hut rode out in the curiages. Si,. Simplot was her trustee.
The iccorui of Mrs. Clagett under her father's will was
a year, and site let • house to the Doke of Brunswick
tor t5lOl. a year
Mr Lucas asked the insolvent why be, as a gentleman
end a man of henour, did not pay the debt for whlci. Sr
Wyndham Andruther was ?
The insolvent said he had been excessively ill treated in
tlor matter.
The Chief Cammissioner asks d the iasolvent why he did
not pay the debt. It was the only one on the tehedule.
The insolvent said he had no means of tattier the money,
sad that about the time of his marriage Sir Wyndham got
01101. sad went to tbe continent, Mrs. Clag, stt had lost
her krifene through biro, as Mr. Day was annored and
altered his will, by which she would nave tad 25.0001. a
year. and cut her off with 3.000/. a year.
Mr. Lucas—That is what you call losing her fortune.
The iniolvest said there was a great difference between
;1.001.11. and 21,0001. a year.
Mr. Lucas-1 fear it would not have made any different'.
'Pc* insolvent said he bad been ill used, erd therefore was
not willing to make any arrangement. When Mr. Day
dkd he was in prison, and the money was obliged MI be
Pei&
Mr. Laces said he should ask the court whether this was a
use for protection. Was a man whose wife had 3,8001. a
year to some to this court ?
The Chief Commissioner said that when the learned
counsel bad finish. d his use he would give his opinion.
As effort was made to read a letter to Mr. Torso's: from
Mrs. Clagett, about the annuity, which was rejected as
hodmissible as oviduct,
Mr. Lucia intimated that he had finished his cue.
The Chief Commissioner protested that he did not know
what use had hem made.
Mr. Lucas addressed the court in an excited manlier. He
asked whether a man with 3,8001 • year was to come to this
court and get protection because he would not pay one
debt? Was he, with tko,l a year as pocket money, Tenti-
ng it is places of amusement, a fit person to be protected ?
It would be a rose libel os Otte set of parliament to give a
man with nearly 4,0001 a year, iadulgieg in every husty,
his protection, whoa the court was Is the habit of staking •
poor el. rk or half.my Stout pay 001. or 301. • year cut alli•
It would be mosstres to pain such a use as the
present.
Mr. Cooke rose to reply.
'Lae Chief Commissioner told the learned connect ha red
not trouble himself. U Wear had eabibited the elms al
debts tontaisod is the a:bedsits mimed to, thee Mere
would have beet tome analogy is the oases, but it did not.
'Tom wes no tradesmen, and only est debt on an annuity
treteactioe. There was no ',ideate given before him, so
eroneris tallied, and he could nor, is the absents of Ostrom
act ow the Wogs °beneath*, of the learned counsel. His
Brow told the insolvent he ought sr to have appeared in
this mart atter his former rppoaraaem, sad ad stead him not
to mom agaie. A. day min ►t be road foe the fisal order.
• damask* awes as to the smart of debt aue to Sir
Wysdhun Anstruthtr. It was stated that he bad only paid
3011 Os the ether Mad, it was insisted that the motet
isseeted it Mt schedule should stand as a protection to the
imaideest.

11;:i•egood mkt that Si: Wpontaitt was only • creditor
to 304 i. email he paid some more mosey sal seed the M-
oslem's.
Mr. Csoke said the Lamle's% bad bees sued, and no doubt
would be ustais sued.
TIN Carat named the Mat for the final order.
Ie Y Tamouts BTOVEN.O
This Wolves; who was a committee of a lunatic, we
swami ea au put shim For law guartiiene of Lambeth
Lirliwhim Its wee Indebted for Ma maintoomme.
to
seired man
paid ea guirilias. Meth, Coen of Castaway, mad had sot

The Court held that he had committed* breech of trust
sad adjourned the case etas die, ut warn without pro•

CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT.

OLD COURT.—YISTERDAY.
Tbo loaned judos, Mr. ionic' P►tteema sad Mr. Judea
Taltoutel, took atilt opus la Ulla omit at tea o'clock.

AMA MI AND It
WWlvas Thowepoon, 26, was indicted for having, in cam-
patty • its two ether persons, unlawfully assaulted Adi,lphies
DAM', and robbed his of a watch and char' hie property.
It appeared in this case that about nine o'clock at night
on the 13. h of December, the prosecutor, who is a dentist
re.idiog in tie neighbourhood of Leicester ignore, wee
walling 'load Upper Norton•sueet, in the New roid, wi ea
he ribber ted three men standing in a doorway, apparently
to shelter themselves from the rate, which was at tbe time
tolling hi avily. At the moment he arrived opposite to
them :ley all rushed open him, and a rope 0'1144 was
placed rowed his neck en tightly a. almost to ,111111 cusp.
tattoo, and upon his making an attempt at Minutes, one
of
the men eall,d out, t' Glee it him," and the rig, or what-
ever instrument was made use of, was then pelted go tightly
as to ceuse immediate it.sensibility, and while in that state
the prosetwa r was robbed of tos watch and chain. The
mow was clearly proved to have been one of the men
concerned in the outrage, and he was shown to have thrown
the swatch and chain down an area while endearourint to
make his escepe.—The jar, returned a verdict of Guilty.
Mr. Justice ransom, in paring sentence, paid that the
prisoner bad been convicted of a very serious offence—an
offence of • character which had only been heard of recently,
end for which but a very few years ago he would undoubt-
edly have been banged. The crime was no longer capital,
bet it still subjected thine who were convicted of it to very
severs punishment, and it was almplutely necessary for the
safety of the public that it should be made known that
although parties who committed such an offence no longer
risked their lives, they were still liable to very
penishment. lie then atittenetd the prisoner to be truer
ported for life.
Porr-ourten ROshaiti.
11 ill,~m Burgess Swift 22, sad Wolter Scrivener, 21, two
poet office cliche, Osumi guilty to indictments charging
them with stealing letters, the property of the Postamter-
General.
There were some mitigating circumstances in the cue of
Swift, and he was sentenced to be transported for seven years
The other prisoner was sentenced to be transported for ten
yam.

NEW COURT.—YESTERDAT.
BirOltS Tilt REO3IDZI.
SINTINCS ON lIMINITT, /HS Jaw.
Moses Barnett, the Jew, who was yererday convicted of
receivicg goods, knowinc them to be twin, was brought up
for sentence.
Toe private!, being asked what he had to say why yen-
tenth should not be passed on him, raid that he bad been
falsely swcrn to, and at some length complained of the way
in which the charge had been got up against him, denying
that he had received the indigo for hie own use, but m•nly
to take care of it for the lad.
The Recorder, in passing sentence, said that the prisoner
bad been eery properly convicted by a considerate and mer-
ciful jury of receiving the Indigo, knowing it to have
been stolen, end the circumstances were of a pe-
culler nod most atrocious character; and the jury had ,
come to a conclusion which he (the leaned Recorder)
had no doubt whatever in his mind was a correct one.
S I witnewies had been called yesterday to give him a good
character, some of whom did not know much of prisoner, and
some who knew him more intimately; but that merely
proved that he bore a gond character as tar as they knew of
him. Still there was no doubt of his (prisoner's) guilt, for
hie conviction did not rest upon the evidence of the lad,
whose character was most suspicions, but upon the clew
testimony of the respectable clerks and officers. In conse-
quence of the character given to the prisoner, sentence had
been postponed until this day, in order that he (the learned
Recorder) might have time to reflect upon the character of
the offence. He had done so, and had also made inquiry of
the magistrates and others, and from what he had learned,
he felt it thee to the interests of society that a severe sentence
should be passed. His lordship then adverted to the peculiar
circumatencee of the ease, adding that there could be
no
doubt but that the prieouee's plan had been to
bang about and get into the company of young lade, and
finding them discontented with their situations and the wages
they were receiving, instigate them to increase their gains
by dishonesty; and subsequent inquiries proved that the
offence of which he had been found guilty was not the only
one which he had committed, hut her plan had bees,
not only himself to participate in plunder, but corrupt others.
' It therefore was necessary that a severe 'maple should be
male. The act gave power to transport him for 14 years,
but he thought the ends of justice would be satisfial by
the sentence he had made up his mind to pass on him,
which was that he be transported foe the term of 10 years.
Tee prisoner, who frequently kept asserting his innocence,
no sooner heard his sentence than he said he bad been
falsely sworn agates., and as he was leaving the dock and-
deal? stopped, Lad clasping his hands as if so prayer, said,
with much apparent sanctity, " I am innocent; " act tare-
' iag !tisane upwards added, I hope the Almighty God—"
he then seemed unable or unwilling to finish the sentence.
The Recorder—You had better say no more.
• He then moved slowly and mechanically eat of the dock.
The few cases disposed of during the day were totally de-
ltoid of Wawa.

THIRD COURT.—YKsTesma.
preen TIM Ostrow Sou wrr
• CIIANCIST Pratortnotezia.
Paul Felix, 63, clerk, was indicted for obtaiaieg. by Woe
prat- ace, of Witham W the sum of 17..64., of Coulee
Samuel Chutes the sum of 11. 35., and of George Brodie the
'um of IL 7.. 64., with intent to chest them respectively of
the said monies.
The prisoner, a respeetable-looking old mar, and who
assumed en air of legal importance, pleaded not guilty, in a
re ty polite but dignified manner.
'Pb. case presented features of great hardship, the victims
of the prisoner's duplicity, many of whom were ea entart,all
being persons of the pout.% clue, and to whom, ludgiog
item their &prefaces, the sums the prisoner had ob weed,
aethingh wit en each instance of a large amount, were of the
most vital importance, and in order to procure which they
hod put themselves to the greatest privation.
The first sharp proved *Retreat the prisoner was that of
William Weaver, a poor shoemaker, being in Cross street,
Old Kent-road, who stated that towards toe end of last Noe
ember the prisoner called upon him, and said be wanted to
tied the faintly of the Jackson', for whom some property was
now held in trust b the High Court of Chancery, of which
court he was an olLer The witness inquired what Jack-
son', and prisoner told him the amount, 6001., bad been left
by Mr. John Jackson, of Springfield, in Amtriea, near New
fork. Witness said Lis wife was a relation to the Mr.
Jackson, and prisoner said, " You had better petition the
court, and you will no doubt get it." He then °Haul his
services to draw up a petition, for which he said he should
required., fur the stamp and 61. for office fees, and noshing
for himself, Ile gale wham his address, 161, High-
street, Shoreditcb. He then wont away, miming again on
the 2nd of December, and bringing with him what he said was
the petition, obtained the 5t.6d , adding that prosecutor should
hear trom him @gain in not IMO than four and less thus eight
days ; accordingly on the 6th he came:and brought what he
called an ',newer t. the petition, but said that another
Jackson had put in 1: leas ursine him, which would cost
12 L. 61. to sourer. Witness then made an appointment to
meet him on the 10:h, and in the meantime made the
police acquainted with the fact, and upon the occasion of
the nest interview Polim-constable Jephson, 72 P, made ono
of the party at the consultation, being in ;plain clothe..
Witness then gave prisoner 12s. Gd., which was marked, and
again asked him if be was an officu of the Court of
Chancery, and he said he was; but it would appear he began
to suspect all was not right, and told the prosecutor that hie
business would not suit him, when he was taken into
custody, when it turned out that he had been duping a
great number of other poor people.
George Brodie, a poor, simple fellow, following the occu-
pation of lamplighter, and living in the Old Sant road,
stated that hating hoard from a Mr. Charles, one of the par-
ties included in this indictment, of the prisoner being a man
who could recover property from the Court of Chancery,
and fancying that he hd something there, applied to him en
September last. When he come he got Iron him 51. 6d. for
the petition, and to the course of a few days called again and
said he had got, and that he should require 22e. 6d. to take
out letters of administration. Prisoner showed the poor
fellow a paper which he said was the answer, and added that
he could not have had a better if he had paid 1001. for it.
The result was that the poor gulightman was so elated that
he at once paid the 22a. t 4., which he managed to scraps
together, and the prisoner departed and he saw no more of
him until he was in custody iu December. In this instance
witness had asked him if he was authorised by the Court of
Chancery, when the prisoner said he was en officer of that
hosourable court, and produced a large Deal, which he said
was We coat of um' and authority, and tan him 3 guineas.
If,. Frederick Lecke, clerk to the principal secretary of
the Lord Chancellor, said the prisoner did not belong to the
court, and that no petitions had been sent for the parties
alluded to.
The prisoner, in his defence, said that he had repre-
mated himself as anything more than an agent, and that he
had undertakes, se he would say odd job that fell is his way,
to obtain foe thew poor people property which he believed to
be in that sanctum sanctorum, the coffers of the Receiver,
General, and was the legal !maule of his prosecutors. He
then went into a long rimblieg statement about the un-
claimed dividends now in the Court of Chancery, and the
abases of the court, and concluded by tutting in two docu-
ments slued by his resection's, that they would hold him
humbles of all matters that might arise o hint prosecuting
their Maim*
The jury found him Geulfy. He was sentenced to twelve
months' imprisonment

MIDDLESEX
Haman Ma. WITHAM /OM ♦ BZOCII 07
TiE Wrenn o. °oakum—No Btu.
Mr. Prendergast applied to the tout ter on order tor the
discharge from the House of Detention of n primmer who
was indicted in the name of Jamie Gordon, Mr tabard
exposure in the Green Park. The isdistmeat was Ignored
by the grand jury, and in the ordinary mine the prisoner
would not be discharged daring the Mating of the grand
jury. The learned counsel said t►e accused wee a gen-
tleman of wealth and station, biting a member of n noble
family.
TM owlet was mated.
DOgntli zit vas DOCK.
As Woman Highland piper, salmi Donald U'Phsesss,
was *ad la the disk, sttJred is Ida, staid, th., speak a

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