The Express.
London, England, 1851-03-03 00:00:00

COURT OF BA? KRUPTCY.7SATuRDAT.

Bap.. Ma. CUmni.lamis Guro.iwas.
IN Mt VAN 1.P.0 Esut.-11KAvi FAILURE IN TM! WOOL

TRAPP:.
This was the mei ting for the last examination in the caw
of Peter Van der Ende, wisolstapler, d Stroud, near
Itoclo,ter. The balance.shect, pn.pared by Meoirv. llart
prothi•r., extend. d over 3i years prior to the 1:1th January
hut, aunt showed the fallowing item.:--To unsecured cre-
ditors, 5,.;7!11.; ditto holding security, 4,2:U.; capital,
3,6011,; protita, 7,2191.; liabilities, 42.7 d. by good debturv,
; property, ; ditto held by creditor', 3,:1001. ;
1101111. ; loaves, 10,4381.
The report of the oilfield assignee stated that the bank-
rapt'. tninmehethote And Inca very eztemive. Ile had
bought wool to the amount of 145,0001.; and he ascribed
his heavy hews principally to the late resolution in France,
the bulk of his good, having been consigned to that market.
Ilia books had been regularly and well kept.
The solicitor to the tuoignee, requiring time to look into
the accounts an adjournment was unit n..d.

IRSOLVENT DEBTORS' COURT.-S.►TURDAT.

SIIIIOLIt Ms. eissuwaisn Noun*.
la lift THOMAS SAMUEL W. 111.1.16.
This insolvent, whom case appeared in our paper on the
toth J.111U:117 last. &pull MM.' before the court.
alf. (*woke optioned for • creditor, and se.cral others
appoared in person. Mr. Down. supported.
The insolvent had been the musical din etor at the Poly-
tochnor Institution Ile was frii uollily arrested un the former
oreasion, and his petition was olisioissail. Ile was still in
prison at the Mime suit, and now again applied to be
dmi hawed.
The car•, after an investigation a. to some furniture, &e.,
was adjourned to Thursday neat, fur • broker to et.unine
the furniture, w►ich it was alleged bail nut been seen by the
neater of the mart.

ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE.
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'nig, was an action of ejectment' brought to try the right
to elating& freehold at Widford, in this county,(of
the value of ♦,I JOI 11 r. Ydwin James, Q.C., and Mr.
Pearson were fur the plaintiff, and Mr. Serieont t'hannell
sai Mr. Ilawkins conducted the raw for the defendants.
'The trying of this case occupied considerable time, and
tba main question at issue was whether a person named
ark Anne Clarion, who made a will on the 1 I th September
lOC by 'shah atm devised the property in question to the
defendants, was of sound mind when the will was made.
the plaintiffs it was alleged, and to some extent proved,
that the to statrit was partly an idiot ; but on the part of
the defendants a great number of witnesses were called to
posse that, although singular and eccentric, and very
nervous, she was of suflkient intellect to understand the
nature of the argrument which she had executed. The
will itself was rather a CUTIOW, document, end it appeared
that it had been drawn up by a emiehmaker in London,
who was in the habit of framing instruments of this de-
scription for those who npplied to him to do so.
The Lord Chief Justice summed up the case with great
minus. nem, and the jury ultimately returned a verdict for
the defendants.

Tbi CAuar euseluiletl the business of these assizes. The
roesulissiou for the euuuty of Ewa will be opened ou
Monday (this day) at Chelmsford.

OXFORD CIRCUIT.—AntxmIoN, FED. 29.
timea• Jeersce Pirrswisi.
Arrasy Imo PKINeI Atrium's lizerras IN WIND.
SOS PAWL.
RWlSeoltille, aged 27, and IVilliass .Vorris, de-
athbed in the calendar as • sawyer, aged 2-1. were charged
with having, on the night of the 22nd of November last,
enlawfully entered certain enclosed land belonging to her
blejesty fur the purpose of taking and destroying game,
and with having assaulted Thomas Foster and George
Parker, they being lawfully authorised to apprehend them.
T. Foster, one of the gamekeepers in Windsor Park,
Mated that he was watching in that pert of the forest
known as School Allotment," on the night of the 22nd of
last November, and between eleven and twelve o'clock,
seeing two men, one of whom had a gun, he went in pur-
suit and succeeded in overtaking one of them. At about
this time • scuffle took place between his assistant, George
Parker, and soother man • few yards off. Whilst he (wit-
ness) was struggling with one of the poachers a third man
came up and struck him • tremendous blow on the forehead
with the barrel of a gun, which rendered him insensible,
and the fellows consequently got away.
0. Parker, the assistant-keeper, saw Foster seize a man
by the collar of his cost, upon which the fellow called oat
to hi. comrades for assistance, and the prisoner Newcombe
ran up with the view of releasing him from the keeper's
custody, but he (Parker) stepped in to prevent mischief.
Newcombe, however, commenced senfiling with him: they
fought some time with sticks, and he received some very
severe blows on the head. In the course of their struggle
they both fell on the ground, and whilst lying there a third
man. maned Weston, whom they had been unable to ap-
prehend, came up and struck him with • gun barrel on the
head. The poachers got the better of them and escaped.
lie was quite confident the prisoner Newcombe was the
man he encountered. When he in some degree recovered
front the effects of the Moline, he had experienced he went
towards Foster, whom he found to hair been greatly
injured, and suffering very much from the lam of biped.
Mr. Pearl, surgeon, basing testified OD the OrillialiPtiries
received by the keeper,
Ephraim Grant, the rawable, of Ckwer, mid, that when
he apprehended the prisoner, Ranseonibe, he observed a
wound on his face dot had evidently been recently indicted.
Shortly afterwards ha observed the man Norris, and his
companion, Weston, come out of a house, and as soon as
they noticed him they both set off at fall speed and ran
away. He ascend Norris, bet the other got clearly away
and had not Sinn bus heard of. Ho afterwards
the how, tams Midi be saw ties* sail Weston esserro,

and found eaucaded beneath a quantity of wood, two guns,
and on the stuck of one were marks of blood.
Both prisoners were found Guilty, and his lordship sen-
tenced them to seven years' transportation.
01\ FORD. Mattes( I.
The commisdon was opened to-day before Sir John Pat- '
tenon and Sir T. N. Talfourd. The business of the aisiso
commences on Monday.; the cause list contain, only three
entries, one of them is of much interest to certain parties
resident in Orford. The calendar contains the names of no
less than
fire of
There is one charge of wilful
murder, five of burglary, and three of forcibly breaking
and entering premises and stealing.

MIDLAND ClRCUlT.—NonuAmrros.
Heroes Ma. Daum Aimless awe Ma. Junto, Cotatmos.
SETTIIIO Fins TO • MILITAZT PRIdON.
Jaws {Kakis:, a private is the 15th Regiment of Foot,
was charged with felonimuly_setting fire to a certain district
military prison, at Weedoe near Northampton. He had
been sentenced by a court martial; to two years' imprison-
ment, and attempted to destroy himself by setting fire to
hi, cell, but his cries betrayed the attempt and his own im-
minent peril.
Baron Alderson sentenced the prisoner, who avowed
that ho had intentionally tired his cell, to ten years' trans-
portation.
EXTRAOLDINA UT C/lAROE OF FORGERY.
Catherine Tilley, a good-looking girl of 22 years of age,
war charged with uttering a forged cheque, with intent to
defraud the Northampumshire Banking Company.
Prisoner was a servant in the family of a Mr. Somes, a
farmer, living at Itadelen, near M ellingborough. In
October last she press nted a cheque for payment at the
Northamptonshire Banking Company, purporting to be
drawn by her master on the branch bank of the company at
Malin homugh for 2e/. The cheque was paid, but was eller-
, ward,' declared to be a forgery, and prisoner, who had re-
' eently left her master's service, was arrested on the charge
in M ellingliorough. Mr. Some, swore that the cheque was
not in his handwritin:. and it appeared that two cheques
had been taken from hi, cheque-book, as he said, without
his privity, one of them being the alleged forgery, and the
other. in blank, being found in the prisoner's box. The
defence suggested was that the cheque had been given by
Mr. Some' to the prisoner. On his troei.eiamination he
denied having given her any such cheques, and could not
olleet that he had ever given her half a sovereign, but ho
could not swear that he had not.
Prisoner admitted that she had written the body of the
cheque, but said that the signature was Sonwe's, and that
he had given it to her, and told her she might till it up as
she liked.
After an aide address ham Mr. Serjeant Miller, in which
he urged the probability of the prisoner's story, the jury
returned a verdict of .\e•
RUTLAND.--OSICHSY, Frn. 28.

Brro.sts Ma. ir.TPCM Ca26.11.H.
The businesv of the Midland Circuit commenced this day
at Uakham, the commivion havinif been opened yesterday.
The last eras a maid. n moire in thus county. The calendar
for the present Is.<.are contained the names of seven
prisoners.