The Express.
London, England, 1862-10-25 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, SAYIIiRIi:LN EfENING, OCTOBER 25, 1862.

would receive back the pester portion of the outlay ; so
that the public would thus derive • great public im-
provement at a very snail' met. As to the par-
ticular mode of nosing the money, sod adjust-
ing its repayment by the owners of the pro-
perty improved, the members of the board, should they
adopt this view, are more competent to judge than myself.
The commissioners have recommended works for the im-
provement of section No. 3, the main features of which this
beard would doubtless desire to see carried out, and the de-
tails connected with which, will probably be carefully re-
considered before committees of the houses of parliament
during the coming session.—l have the honour, &c.,
(Signed) " J. W. B•z•Lorrre, Engineer."
This report was received, and ordered to be considered on
a future day.
The rest of the businew having been disposed of, the
board adjourned.

Lab, inttlltentet.

COURT OF BANBRIIPTOY.--o‘7. 24.
(Beton Mr. Commirionse
IN EZ JOSIPH PICKERING.

The bankrupt was described as a onstractor, of 35,
Bridge-street, Bladifriars, and of Burmese.houae, name
brook. This wu the sitting for last examination. It sp.
peered that the bankrupt had been engaged in several large
railway works, and was also the contractor for the execution
of the Swansea Docks. He owes to unsecured cre-
ditors 26,9901., and to creditors holding security,
51,875/. The assets given up to the assignee,
are stated at 4501., and 9211. of bad and doubtful debta.
The property held as security is returned at 57,53 e, and
consists principally of Witney Railway shares, and an
award of upwards of 29,000/. made in respect of the Swansea
Dock contract. The largest unsecured creditors are the exe-
cutors of the late Mr. S. Treadwell, for 11,7001.
Mr. Linklater, for the assignees, asked for an adjournment
for two mouths, which was ordered.

IN RI TIM AUSTRALIAN AUXILIARY STILII CLIMB CON•

PANT (Limmtu).
This was a petition for winding up, presented by Hr.
William Hay, merchant, of Sunderland, who claims to be a
creditor of the company for upwards of 3,0001. It appears
from the allegations in the petition that the company was
registered in September, 1856, end that in April, 1858, a
resolution bed been come to in favour of voluntary winding
up. The petitioner had served notice of demand on the
company, and 21 days having elapsed without the debt
being satisfied, he now prayed that the usual winding-up
order might be made.
Mr. Bagley appeared In support of the petition.
An order was made by consent for continuing the volun-
tary winding up under the control of the court.

BOW-STREET,

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.TAgroar Bennett, a tall, well- dressed young man, who said
that he had lately come to town from Manchester, and who
had a return ticket from that town in his possession when
apprehended, was charged with picking pockets at the pit
entrance of the Lyon= Theatre.
Mr. Martin, whe aUtted that he Ain clerk, and lived at
Bermondsey, deposed that on the previous night he was at
the pit entrance of the Lyceum Theatre, being about to
enter the theatre in order to see the performance of Mr.
Falconer's Peep o' Day. The entrance was much crowded.
He saw the prisoner standing beside him. During the rush
he felt the ring of his watch fall upon his hand, and
immediately feeling for his watch, found that it was
gone, and the guard hanging loose. Suspecting the pri-
soner, be immediately seized him. The prisoner, who
seemed surprised at his detection, said, " I have not got
your watch." Witness had act at that time accused the
prisoner of stealing his watch. He held a tight hold of the
prisoner, who then put one band into the pocket of a gentle-
man standing near. Witness asked the gentleman to feel in
his pocket and see if his (witness's) watch was there. The
gentleman was much annoyed, appearing to resent a sup-
, posed imputation that be had stolen the watch. Witness,
however, told him that he believed " this man" (the pm
soner) bad put it in his pocket. The gentleman then telt
in his pocket and found the watch, which he handed over to
witness. Witness gave the prisoner in charge.
The prisoner said he was not guilty. He was a respectable
man, and had only come from Manchester to see the &hi-
; bition.

He was committed for trial
WORSHIP-STREET.
William Barr, a. cabinet maker and upholsterer, carrying
on business in Curtain-road, Shoreditch, who had been
several time remanded on Mil, appeared before Mr. Leigh
for final examination, upon a charge of having, by his furious
driving while intoxicated, caused the death of his wife.

Mr. Beard, as before, attended for the defence of the
prisoner, who at • rather late hour at night took his wife
and several other persons out for a drive in his chaise-cart,
and • number of witacesee proved that he drove at • very
reckless rate. In the East-road, City-road, a man named
Mullets was knocked down and much hurt, but after a
momentary stoppage occasioned by that, the party drove
away at full gallop as before, until in Britaunia-street, the
horse starting aside and striking against the kerbstone, all
were thrown out of it and more or less injured, and the de-
ceased expired soon afterwards in a public-hones to which
she had been carried, her death being caused, according to
the medical evidence, by congestion of the brain.
William Pries, a boy 13 years of age, who bad been one of
the party in the carkowaa himself much injured, and carried
sway when the catastrophe took place, gave material evi-
dence on the second examination. His deposition was in
substance that the horse was galloping in the East-road,
and the prisoner striking with his whip by the side of the
cart (whether it struck the horse or not he could not say),
and it then knocked down Mr. Mullen', who was dragged
along by the tart. The prisoner and • Mr. Sanders
then got out, but immediately afterwards returned and set
off again at full gallop as before, and up Britannia-street,
until • cab coming round the corner of that street, Mr.
Barr's horse shied, striking against the kerb, and then,
said the young witness, we were all tipped out, and I was
picked up and carried away. He had observed. be said, that
Mr. Barr was about three-parts intoxicated neither
drunk nor sober. The police, however, proved that the
prisoner was drunk. .

The boy Price being questioned at a sabeequent exami-
nation, declared that he did not know the nature of an oath,
although he had previously been sworn and signed his depo-
sition. _ .

Mr. Leigh, therefore, again adjourned the case, and di-
rected that the witness should, in the meantime, receive the
requisite instruction.
The boy having now answered satisfactorily mut re-sworn,
and in reply to the questions of Mr. Befford, the clerk,
stated that at the former examination he really did know
the nature and obligation of an oath as well as now, and in
answer to further question. he said that a Mrs. Hill, the
keeper of a sweetmeat shop, had persuaded him to answer as
be did.
The voluminous depositions being now completed and
read over, the prisoner was committed for trial upon the
charge of manslaughter; the magistrate, however, admitting
him to bail as before—two sureties for lON. each, and his
own recognisance for double that amount.
LAMBETH.
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William Baker, • stalwart you ng fellow, who was de-
scribed as having been a potmao, but out of place, was
charged before the Hoa. G. Cl. Norton with a robbery which
might have ended in the most serious resulta.
From the evidence of Mr. John Lowry, the proprietor
of the Queen's Head Tavern. Stockwell, it appeared that
he opened his house's usual on Thursday morning, and went
upstairs about nine o'clock to dress for the day, and at
that time all the gas fittings in his house were in their
place and undisturbed. In a short time, in Consequence
of information brought to him by him errand boy, he
came down stairs and found that all the gas.fittings of his
tap-room had been broken away from their position and
carried off. His errand boy described the only person who
bad been in the taproom in the interim, and with the lad he
Funned the delinquent and overtook him near Kennington
gate, with the stolen fittings wrapped up and concealed in a
pocket handkerchief, and he at once gave him into custody.
John Hyde, the errand boy, identified the prisoner as the
only person who had been in the taproom, having been
nerved with a half-pint of beer ; and proved that he saw him
leave with a bundle under bin arm. On the instant he
missed the fittings, and gave information to his master, the
prosecutor. They pursued and gave him into custody.
In answer to Mr. Norton, the prosecutor said that the
value of the fittings was about 205., but that was not the
real consideration, for as the gas in his house was on at the
time full from the main, it was almost a miracle that ignition
did not take place sod the premises blown up.
The constable in charge of the case, Y 179, intimated to
the magistrate that when he apprehended the prisoner he
found on him other fittings beyond those identified by the
prosecutor in this case. There had been numerous robberies
of the same kind reported io the district, and of a remand
was granted the charges against the prisoner, who had
already been convicted of felony, would be multiplied.
The prisoner, who offered no defence, was accordingly
remanded.

Mr. Maude, after carefully considering the whole of the
argumeote of the learned gentleman, oonsidered that the
railway citation was • place of public resort within the
meauiug of the act, and that the defeudsot had committed
a breach of the law. He should, therefore, hoe him Ws.
Mr. Barnard Amused that he had so wish to say any-
thing disrespectful to his worship as to the decision, but he
disagreed with him, and with his consent be would carry
the matter to the Queen's Bench, provided his worship
would grant him • case.
Mr. Maude considered it a case of that importance that
be at once coincided with Mr. liarnard's views, and yester-
day the usual notices were served.

GREENWICH
The attention of Mr. Maude, the presiding magistrate,
wen occupied for a considerable time in disposing of sum
MOOK4' taken out at the instance of Mr. Tidd Pratt. the
Registrar of Friendly Societies, against several secretaries
of benefit societies held in the district, for having omitted to
send to the said registrar, on or before the Ist June, a copy
of the hat annual statement of the funds of such societies,
as required by the Friendly Societies Act, whereby they
had incurred penalties of 20s. each.
A gentleman who attended in support of the summonses
said he had been instructed by Mr. Tidd Pratt to ask, on
public /rounds, that penalties in each case should be en-
forced, as out of 21,000 societies registered in various parte
of the country, only about one-third of the secretaries con-
formed to the provisions of the act by sending in copies of
the annual stetementa referred to.

Mr. Meade then imposed nominal fines on each of the
defendants, expressing a hope it would operate as a warning
to them in future years, and also to others occupying similar
positions.

NAVAL AND MILITARY.

ADMIRALTY, Ocr. 24.—Arpourrtuutra.—Lieu-
tenant H. Berkeley, to the Ariadne.
Master's Assistants C. F. Goolden, to the Trafalgar ; and
C. Brent, to the Adventure.
Assistant Paymaster J. E. Moore, to the new&
Engineer J. Downs, to the Indus, for service in the
Partridge.