The Express.
London, England, 1865-11-21 00:00:00

as a C. MUM.
The bankrupt, late en adjutant in the London Rifle
c(Volunteees), residing at Chiswick, applied for his I
• from debts of 9784 The bowknot attributes his
tads lees of his appointment as adjut Viand excess of
over Mourne. The expend'
is stated at
grttuy7er, and the creditors include all clams of trades-
Then was no oppoeition, and the order was granted.
Licklater and Mr. Lawrence appeared in the ow.
tY 8a visimen.
The
The bappriceprtiStwas described as
M a speculator in Mad and
tomer, of field-bona, ay field, Sums. 50.05 b,
.05b, by Mann Johnetone and Om, show lia-
bilities of J 0,7471. ; assets and property held u malty,
17,04
On the spoliation of Mr. Reed, for the sedguNs, an ad-
joaroment was ordered for the examination of the accounts.

CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT.

(THIS DAY.)

ref ALLZOZD VELIJDS 015 THZ ITIMINGHLZ DANK.
The trial of Benjamin Taylor and Henry Kelly for con-
.jejog together to defraud bankers and other pencils was
elenseed this moodsg.
great deal of time was occupied in reading a number
of letters that had been written by the prisoner Taylor to
may. the object being to show that their transactions
~see legitimate ones, and that they had got into difficulties
end were draggling to recover themselves. The reading
of the letters by lir. Hemp. the amirtent-olerk of ensigns,
weepied a coosiderpable time, and at the coodusion of the
somewhat tedious roems,
Sr. Serjessit Ballantino proceeded to sum up the evidence
Mich had been adduced on the part of the promotion.
The learned cowed said that the owe was one which celled
far the utmost consideration by the jury, who he was con-
fident would not begrudge any time -tUt might be devoted
with a view to developltheitruth. The prisoner Taylor,
_it
*peered, had begun his momenta' wear to a respectable
way of business, and would, no doubt, if he bed punned
• boom:able course of proceeding, have maintained his
character with which be began. But it WM disclosed by
the evidence of the accountant called io under the deed of
composition between Taylor and his creditors, that after a
ending of three years' duration Taylor had Incurred
liabilities to the amount of 35,0005, having smote to the
extent only of 10,0001. At the time he bed become in-
debted to the Birmingham Bank to the sum of upwards of
2,5001. After a scrutinising review of the correspondence
between the two prisoners, and which had now been read
is totem°, he submitted to the jury that though it was
manifest that many letters had been carefully and elabo.
rgiely kept back, still there had been dieclosed
amply sufficient to exhibit a well concocted scheme
between them to defraud. The proposal by Kelly
to take offices in different names had been adopted by
Tay* who, if an honest nun, would have ignored sod repu-
diat4 such a proposal, for the jury, as men of business and
Ma of the world, would not fail to believe that such a frau.
blest proposition would induce him to brash the connexion
with the individual from whom the proposition had ema-
sated. Instead of this Taylor adopted the scheme and thus
natters went on. He urged upon the jury that taking the
whole of the cormepoodento which had been read, it showed
most clearly and distinctly the complicity of both the
prisoner, on the grounds imputed to them by this iodict•
meat, that of palming off fictitious piper ia the
form of bills of exchange In order co support falling 0011-
cern. It was, however, for the jury to say. whether or not
the conespoodeme bore out that proposition to the full
extent, or whether, as men of sense, as men of bushier, and
is men of the world, they could put any milder construction
upon it. But the case did not rest wholly upon the oorres-
pmdenoe. It was clear that when in a condition of hopeless
insolvency theprisoner Taylor applied for dimeounts to the
Birmingham Banprk, and in the course of warmly 20 days ob-
tained discounts to the amount of 2,5001. and upwards on bills
which ware represented by Taylor to be those of respect-
able tradesman with whom he had extensive dealings. At
this time an honest man would have boldly met his credi-
tors face to face and told them the troth. whoopee he
availed himself of the attendance of his monist. Kelly,
and obtained these diaconate on manufactured and fictitious
bills instead of being, as misrepresented by Taylor to the
manager of the hank, the genuine paper of respectable and
impossible parties. The bills, 17 in number, were
proved to be wholly valueless, and the fraud, he contended,
had been fully established against the primmer.
ilr. Gifford then proceeded to address the jury on the
part of the prisoner Taylor, and was proceeding with his
speech when our report left.
[The case is expected to lank the whole of the day's sitting.]