The Express.
London, England, 1849-09-28 00:00:00

ENGLAND..

P. Pilch, lbw, b 'rink) — - --..-.
blink/ 39
G. F. Cooke, req. a Blip, b Tinley... not out 4
B. Vernon, Fib., b Nixon
Naitingell, o Nixon. b Tinley
il
G. Parr, b Nixon
Guy,bw b Nixon a Langley, b Tinley...... 36
N. Felix, Esq., b Niue
Unitarian, b Nino' a =iy, b Nixon
A. Myna, Esq., 0 Roby, b Nixon ... b Tinley
C:lute, a Burt, b Nixon MR Oat 8
/Myer, not out not oat 2
Byes Byes, 6 ; wide, 1
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England thus won by one wicket.

Kabi 3intelligence.

INSOLVENT DEBTORS' COURT.-VESTERDAT.
Beau as Caw COXIIIMIIO/121.
His Honour was sufficiently recovered from his late indis-
position to take his seat on the bench.
Ix iron MATTI" or GEORG)" QIIANTOCI.—Ax
EXTRAORDINARY Canaan.
This insolvent, who had passed by numerous aliases, and
bad resided in nearly twenty different places, was opposed
by Mr. Cooke, for Messrs. Green and Nyler, glass meraants.
The opposition was instituted by the London Association for
the Protection of Trade to exams the insolvent, and thereby
put the public on their guard against his future attempts to
obtain goods.
From his examination it appeared that he had already
three times taken the benefit of the act, leaving behind him
a lure amount of debt. In 1820 he was relieved from 8571;
in 1827, from 3.1301. •, and in 1834, from 1,1901.
From 1834 to 1847 he bad managed to get into debt
upwards of 5.0001., which he now owed, and had no fewer
than 235 creditors on the schedule. After his last discharge
he went to St. John's-lane, Smithfield, where he assumed
the name of " George Slade," and there he was an ivory
turner and fishmonger at the same time ; at Croydon, where
he was a cabinet maker and upholsterer. His habit was to
stay a few months at a plies, contract debts, and then pro-
ceed in a very different direction. He went to King's cross,
when he was a linen-draper and commission agent ; from
which place he flitted to Huddersfield, where, u " George
Took," dropping a part of his name " Quan," he set up as
a grocer and draper, levying contributions to some extent.
From Yorkshire he decamped into Wales, where et Swansea
he was • provieion•dealer, &0., as " George Blade." After a
short sojourn in Wales, he went to Itomsey,in Hampshire,
where he wua grew and general dealer. Then he went to
Gainsbotough, Lincolnshire, and to Hanley, Staffordshire,
as "George Self," as a grocer and proviSon-dealer ; from
which place he paid another visit to London, where at Acton
Middlesex, with one James Truman, he was a grocer, &e.,
under the firm of " George and James Truman.' He was
at Acton four months, and whilst there obtained goods to
nearly 1,0001. Messrs. Green and Nyler let him have glass
to about 124.75.
Mr. Cooke informed the court that he did not intend to
ask for a remand. The insolvent had already been in prison
more than two years, and the object of the opposition, in-
structed by the Society for the Protection of Trade, was to
put the public as their yard.
The Chief Commissioner remarked that the learned
counsel had en undoubted right to make what inquiry he
thought proper into the history of the insolvent.
It appeared from the further examination of the insolvent
that he afterwards went to Canterbury, where be was a
audio factor and dealer in soap, under the name of " Gouge
Quinn." Then he went to Heywood. near Manchester, as a
grocer, under the name of " George Blade." Afterwards to
Whitchurch, Heretordshia, where, with one Walter Lloyd,
he was a grocer, toy and general dealer, under the firm of
" Lloyd and Weod." Then he went to Null, where he was
a journeyman cabinet-maker ; then to Selby as a grocer and
general defier. Again he came to London, and had been
confined in prison since the early part of 1847, when he bad
remained for the want of means to petition this court.
Mr. Cooke said each was the career of this insolvent, who
had gone from place to place swindling everybody he could—
! such an exposure would not be without its use to the public.
This was the fourth Insolvency, and then were as many as
I 235 creditors on the schedule. The insolvent had never
kept bake, which was always a strong mark of dishonesty.
I I wonder, added the learned counsel, how he had escaped
I the criminal law.
Chief Commissioner—l wonder how he has escaped many
things that might be mentioned. He has anticipated the
judgment of the Court by strying in prison more than two
years.
A creditor named Woodhouse appeared in person, end
complained that the insolvent had pot goods from him in the
name of Slade. An attorney residing near the Court had
recommended him as an honest and industrious man, hay.
ing known him, he stated, for some years.
His Honour declared that the insolvent was a thorough
bad one—a great profligate. He (the commissioner) bad
awarded him 161. out of the charitable fund to file his
schedule, whisk he would net have done had he known the
I nature of his ease as now diselfted.
It was stated that the application was made on a certi
I ficate
of the keeper of the guess's Prison. The bill of costa for
• the schedule emended 401.
I The lensed Gesendesiense seared the insolvent that it
was only statement dike long imprisonment he had leafleted
that he would sow be discharged. He strongly advised him
I to turn his hand to some honest occupation, or he would
shortly, find himself In a very different place. He was
ordered to be discharged.

MIDDLESEX SESSlONS.—Yarriarda.
Bar= Ma. Basins? ADAMS, deusraer
Bzuvarrx ro A Wtra.
George Porter, said to be a whiteamith, was indicted for
assaulting his now deceased wife, Mary Porter.
The assault charged spinet the prisoner was committed
on Sundry, the 9th inst., and appeared to have taken place
under very aggravated drcumatanoes. The prisoner bad
been married to deceased about eleven months, and they re.
sided at No. 8, Hertford-place, St. Panes's. A witness
named Tasks?, who resided at Ns. 16 in the same place, de-
posed that on Sunday, the 9th last, ahe was standing at her
own window, when her attention was attracted to the house
No. 8, is tibia the prisoner sad his wife resided, and on
dinettes her seetmlima meta particularly to the window of
the sper!!ssat eisepall by thew, she distinctly saw the pri-
seam belie, his wife down upon the bed with Ms left head,
whilst with the right he pips her a number of very heavy
blow, ; and eastwards, masa the pdson had left the house
taking his Mlle boy (ow et his anew wife's ohildren) with
hbizahliime mw M. Potter in her mom take up a
eel Ink at her face, as if examining some
bruise or molt apes it.
Mrs. Meadows, ef No. 8, Hartford-place, dated that during
the afternoon of the same day the deceased same to her, and
oomplalued bitterly of the priesner's conduct, exhibiting at
the same time severe bruises upon her arms and head and
breast. Her ears and lips were very much swollen ; so much
so were the latter, that the upper lip was oa a level with the
point of her nose. At that time she was fat advanced in
pregnancy.

The prisoner, in erne-examining these two witnesses,
asked theta if they had net, with three other women, been
continually drinking with his wife, but they at ones re-
riled the acousation.
Mr. H. Popham, surges., of Tonbridge-place, New-
road, was • witness in the ease, bat, before he was sworn,
be applied to the court to know whether he would receive
thy ismannagatits for having been in attendance two days.
He was a peedneithal man, and Isis attendance here had
been the owed= of great inconveniento to him in his pro-
Mimi 'apathy.
' TM learned Judge mid that, as the ease was one of en
k• had no power to allow Mr. Popham his expense.
Us had attended the court on recognisance; and, if he re-
hied to give his evidence, he (the Isernedjudge) should Mr-
tainly send him to prison.
Mr. Pophun was then examined. He deposed that wa
the evening of the 12th inst. he was called in to treat Ma
Porter, whom he found suffering under an attack of ihshos.
and she bad, shortly before, been delivered of • child. is
considered her labour to have been premature. He visited
her • second time, end on kis third visit he found her dying.
She was insensible, and could not speak. its observed @event
marks of ill usage uraisir, and • wound upon her arm,
as which however w over. She was of full habit, and
her condition was good plump ; but she was very dirty,
and vermin were crawling about her person. After she was
dead he examined her, and was of opinion that the imme-
diate cause of death was cholera ; but there were injuries
about her which, independent of cholera, were sufficient to
occasion death.
The Judge—Do you ensile', sir, that' the injuries she
bad received in any way promoted or influenced the canes of
death ?
Mr. Popham—They were of themselves an indirect caste
of death.
The learned judge said, if that were so, unquestionably
the prisoner ought to be indieed for a tsr more seriese
crime than an &Iseult. His lordship then distinctly asked
Mr. Popham whether, uthe professional man attendiog the
I deceased woman, he considered the blows or injuries to have
had any such effect es predisposing her to an attack of
cholera.
Mr. Popham said that anything that tended to reduce the
audition of • person would predispose that person to
cholera. lie considered that the violence that had been
used towards the deceased had brought on a premature
Mom, and that premature labour had so reduced her
.hearth, and had so weakening an effect generally, that it ren-
dered her liable to cholera, but he would not go so far as to
eey that the woman would have died of the injuries she had
nesived had cholera not supervened.
The learned judge said this restored the case to the shape
la which it bad been brought before the court; but
really, at one time, it had begun to assume the com-
plexion of a ease of mender.
The prisoner, when called upon for his dereoce, entered
he. a lewohened history of the broils and wnnglings he
had had with his wife, in consequence of a determined pro-
pensity on her part to Kander all his hard earnings in
procuring gin, rum, and other kinds of liquors, at the ex.
pease of food and clothing for his children. He asserted,
Galling heaven to whiles, the truth of what he said, that he
had never raised his hand in anger to her ; and his version
el the transaction which the first witness deposed to having
observed was, that having remonstrated with her about
spending his money in drink, she got into a passion, and
took up the poker to him, @eying, with an oath, that she
would beat his brains out; and it was his disarming her cf
this weapon that bad been witnessed by Elisabeth Tseker.
In the scuffle, his fist clenched, with the end of the poker
in it, came in contact with her mouth, and caused the injury
that had been described, upon her upper Up. lie assured
the court that he was innocent, and that his wife's other
injuries were caused by her falling dawn stain in a fit.
The learned Judge, in summing up, said that this was a
melancholy case, but, as it appeared to him, there was no
pretence for supposing that the woman came to her death by
the violence of the prisoner ' • had there been, he would
have been sent to another court, and there tried upon • dif•
(went charge. It appeared that she was a woman in good
condition of body, and that did not betoken any neglect on
the part of her husband ; but her being found in a dirty
filthy state, with vermin absolutely crawling about her per-
eon, showed that she greatly neglected herself, and likewise
indicated that she was a person of the habits ascribed to her
by the prisoner. As to his having assaulted her, he (the
learned judge) apprehended there could not be much doubt.
The jury immediately found the prisoner
The learned Judge said the prisoner had conducted himself
in a very brutal manner to his wife, under circumstances
that greatly aggravated his offence. The sentence of the
court was that he be kept to hard labour for two calendar
months.

POL/CE.—YzaTERDAY.

BOW-STREET.

THE BOARD OP HEALTH AND THII BURIAL•OROUHD9
—Tbe trustees of the burial ground attached to Whitfield's
Chapel, Tottenham-court-road, appeared to answer a sum-
mons obtained by the Board of Health for not suspending
interments in that graveyard, its compliance with the order
of the board. .

Mr. B.,dain, in support of the summons, oontendod that
the 9th and 10th clauses of the act gave the board complete
power to make the order, and rendered it imperative upon
the magistrate to levy a penalty of 01. for every case of dis-
obedience..

Mr. Clarkson, for the trustees, submitted that neither the
clauses nor the act generally could be interpreted to apply to
private burial-grounds of this description. They came nei-
ther within the term.; nor the intention of the legislature, as
was evident from the provision which was made in every
ease to enable the churchwardens or other managers of the
grave yards of a parish to indemnify themselves out of the
poor-rates. if it had been intended to give the board power
over such properties, provision for indemni:y would have
been made, as in the case of parish property, which alone
was contemplated.
Mr. Jardine said that when the application was made to
him for the summons ho doubted that the clauses relied
upon by the board empowered him to close any private
burial ground. The ninth clause empowered them to order
the use of disinfecting substances, or to take other measures
of precaution to prevent injury to the public health. This
clause certainly applied to all graveyards, public and private ;
and it gave power to enforce any measures of precaution
whatever, but certainly not the destruction of the property,
which shutting up a burial-ground would be. The legisla-
ture could no more do this than take away a man's freehold
without an indemnity. Such was provided in the case of
parish churchyards, to which alone the 10th and other
clauses relating to the suspension of interments related. lie
must dismiss the summons.