The Express.
London, England, 1853-03-16 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, WEDNESDAY EVENING, MARCH 16, _1853.

was expedient for the committee to adopt in the prosecu-
I lion of the further proceedings, 10, under the wording of
:he set of parliament, which he thought was defective, he
t-,..,red some difficulty would arise unless they were care-
ful' 1 hero was nu lioubt that the electors of the borough
wets m:itled to a notification that they would be allowed to
attend tht, enquiry by counse'.
The comm. ttea adjuutned till 11 o'clock this day.

CIRENCESTER.
PONSONRY (MATZO.

Yesterday. after fob:e discussion, tho petitioners
withdrew, and the etwamt:rca declared Mr Possomby
elected.

THE RAILWAY ACCIDELIT AT WILLINOTON.

NEwcurrug. ox-Triss, MONDAY.
The inquest on the body of WLI.
~ident on the Tyne-
Stephenson, en-
' gineer, whu was killed by the recent ac.
Tyne-
mouth Branch of the York, Newcastle, and Berwick Rail-
way, near Willington, was resumed this Any, before Mr.
Red, coroner, when
Robt. Horn, the inspector of the penmen Int way, was
recoiled and examined. Ile stated that in repairing the
line,ballut had been placed between the rails si here the ac-
cident occurred; it might be floe 3 inches above the height
of the rails, but quite clear of the flanges of t,he wheels.
The rails were in a slippery state, owing to.the frost and
mow, and he thought the wheels of the engine • meld be
more liable to get off the rails on that account.
John Goulden, the flagman at the Willington 'educe,
was also exsmined, but no new feet bearing upon the cause
of the accident was elicited.

The inqunt wu again adjourned till Wednesday, in t telt
week.

MILITARY.
FROM LAST NIGHT'S GAZITTR.
WAR-OFFICH, ISlLacm 15.

The following Lieutenants to be promoted to be Captains,
without purchase :—Ard Light Dragoons, Edward George
Swinton; 9th Light Dragoons, William Richard Newport
Campbell; 10th Light Dragoons, Thomas Sargent Little;
14th Light Dragoons, Robert Johnston Brown ; 15th Light
Dragoons, John Macartacy ; Bth Regiment of Foot, Ellis
James Charter and Robert Stuart Baynes; 10th Foot, Ro-
bert George Jepbson and Charles Doyle Patterson ; 18th
Foot, Anthony `Villiers Samuel Freeman Armstrong and
Isaac Henry Hewitt; 22nd Foot, Herbert George Bowden
and Robert Blackall; 24th Foot, Charles Mackechnie and
Thomas Ma ling Greened' ; 25th Foot, George Bent and
Charles D. Pogrom; 29th Foot, Henry George Walker and
St. George Mervyn Nugent ; 32nd Foot, Henry John Da-
vies and George Jeffrey; 51st Faot, John Henry Dickson
and James William Mansfield ; 53rd Foot, Thomas Mon-
bray and Micartney Hume Oldflold; 60th Foot, Stephen
Kenny and William Hutclinson ; 61st Foot, Andrew
Grant and Drought Richard Croasdaile ' • 64th Foot, Henry
Francis and Alfred Pict= Bowlby; 70th Foot, James
Maxey Buchanan and Archibald J. Oliver Rutherford;
7Elth Foot, William Thomas Smith and Edward William
John Knox; 78th Foot, Alexander Mackenzie and Doug-
las Hastings; 80th Foot, George Samuel Young and Wil-
liam Frederick Adams Colman; 83rd Foot, R. H. Payne
Crawford and John Sharman Molony ; 84th Foot, Spier
Hughes and Charles Alexander Halfhidc; 86th Foot, John
Rees Croker and Charles George Butler; 87th Foot, John
Halkett Le Couteur and John Fitzgerald; 94th Foot,
James Stewart Menzies and Ueorge Durehill; 96th Foot,
R. F. W. Cumberland and Herbert Vaughan Mundell;
93th Font, Henry Thomas Richmond and Richard Young.
The following Cornets to be promoted to be Lieutenants,
without purchase :-3rd Light Dragoons, Frederick Thomas
Ongley Hopson, vice Swinton; 9th Light Dragoons,Robert
Charles Kidd, vice Campbell; 10th Light Dragoons, Ed-
ward Martin Roper Stapylton, vice Little; 14th Light
Drsgoons, John Pitt Kennedy, vice Brown ; 15th Light
Dragoons, George Barrington Price, vice Macartney. Com-
missions agreeably to the above list to bear date the 15th
day of March, 1853.

LATEST BETTING AT
TUIFIDATt

Most of our leading speculators having left for Warwick,
business was dull and unimportant upon any but the events
to be derided at that plsee. The following were the only
transactions that come under our notice :

WARWICK HANDICAP.
to I apt Poodle (t)
9 to 2 Comore (t)
0 to 1 Little Dane (t)
6 to 1 Montague (t)
LEAMINGTON STEEPLECHASE.
7 to 2 apt Warner (t)
6to 1 Peter dimple (t)
2to 1 the above coupled.
METROPOLITAN HANDICAP.
II to 1 aget Contentmest (t)
to 1 Lampedo(t)
NORTHAMPTONSHIRE HANDICAP.
7 to 1 eget Hobbyhorse (t)
7 to 1 Defiance (t)
12 to 1 Maria (t)
16 to 1 Lanford& (t)
15 to Molasses (t
CHESTER CUP.
16 to 1 apt Trifle (t
veto 601.)
Lady En (t)
30 to 1 Black Doctoly r (t)
33 to 1 Truth (t)
40 to 1 N may (0_
110 to 1 Richard Primmer (t)
lOW to lb Babette (t)
TWO THOUSAND GUINEAS STAKES.
7 to 2 apt West Australia& (t)
4 to 1 Sittiogbourno (off)
DERBY.
9to 1 apt West Australian (t)
12 to 1 Orestes (t)
.500 to 20 Honeywood (t)
400 to 20 Etbelbert (t)
400 to 14 Filbert (t)

Lau iintelUsence.

r.-YESTEILDIT.

COURT OF
Banks Ma.
Ise se 011011.01 MAILSH.—CASI OF ABSCONDING.
This was the last examination meeting. The bankrupt
was a draper, of Carnaby-street, Regent-street.
Mr. Ashunt, jun., for the assigner., stated that the
accounts were not tiled, the books not being forth-
00111111e. The bankrupt had absconded is January of the
present year, and iu the early part of this month the as-
signees received information that he was at Bristol, await .
.
mg the arrival of the Agnes Blaikie, in which vessel he
intended to take his departure for Australia. The messen-
ger (Mr. Cooper) of this court immediately started
in pursuit, and after some considerable trouble,
succeeded in discovering him at a small village
near Bristol. Sumo property of bankrupt's was
lalso taken from the ship, other property being too far in
the bold thee to be got at, but the owners of the Agnes
Blaikie, Messrs. Dobbin and Co., of Bristol, to whom a
notice had been given, said that they would return the pro-
perty so soon as the vessel arrived from Melbourne. The
result was that there would be sufficient to pay the expenses
and upset the nefarious frauds contemplated by the bink-
rapt and his confederates. It appeared that the bankrupt
had arranged to hand over all his property to another
party, who was to join him at Bristol, and then
proceed together to Melbourne. The bankrupt when
arrested offered no resistance, and since he had come
to town, he had rendered every assistance to his assignees.
Although the confederate had sworn in this court that he
had advanced the bankrupt large sums of money, he now
admitted that that statement was a faSrication. His (Mr.
Aahunt's) object in bringing this subject before the court
was, there being so malty cases of absconding by bankrupts
with their creditors' property, and likely to be more, to
teach bankrupts that they could not treat as nought the
process of this court, and that it will be useless for them to
avoid arrest, particularly after such so arrangement as had
been made in this ease with a confederate, who had, in
fact, committed perjury.
His Honour said it would be well for the bankrupt te
make all the reparation in his power. It would be useful
to persons to know that within the last fortnight there had
been some balf.dosen cases of arrest by the officers of the
court. Trader, did not very often take the steam-packets,
and it would be very likely that when they got to Melbourne,
instead of meeting the " diggings," they would meet a
warrant of arrest from this court.
The solicitor for the bankrupt appiit I for an allowance.
His Honour—lfe must have subsistence—merely sub-
sistence, if the estate will allow it.
The case was then adjourned for six weeks.

INSOLVENT DEBTORS' COURT.-YESTERDAY.

Biros. lan Cant+ CONNUOVIONRS.
IN THE MATTER OT CHABLIS UIidDELL.—E,74TRAOHDI-

NARY SOSXII.

This case again oc•mitTedheagii the whole day, and to-
wards the conclusion an extraordinary scene ensued. The
insolvent had for a number of years kept the well-known
tailoring establishment, at the corner of T ottenham-court-
road, opposite Nieux's brewery. At the beginniag of last
year he was a man of capital, and througsn assistin,t his son
and partner. Austin and Ilbsdell, he he 1 become insolvent.
Austin had decamped to Australia V ith money belonging
to:the firm which he had collected, and the eon
was in the same prison as himself. lie considered that he
had been deceived by Übadell and Austin.

• There were six counsel in Opp' .inti in to the application
for discharge, Mr. Nichols, Mr. Dowse, Mr. County, Mr.
Luca., Mr. Barnard, and Mr. Ernest lt,:cd Mr. Cooke,
with Mr. Sargood, supported .
The investigation was a very 'emir one, occupying nearly
two days. Towards the. red of the second day a point
which had been raised on the previous day, whither the
arrest was a friendly Ista:sienna, was brought to a termina-
tion. The insolvent was nadir examivation by Mr. Reed,
and on being asked whether the arrest ear nut a friendly
one, made a pause.
The Chief Commissioner gate him a solemn warninp, and
besought him to tell the truth.
Thu insolvent said he could not soy that it was not:friendly.
Tito Chief Commissioner told him he was a very foolish
num. Was it not a friendly arrest?
The tamoireat admitted that it was a friendly arrest.