The Express.
London, England, 1866-01-24 00:00:00

WEDNESDAY EVENING JANUARY 24, 1866.

LAW INTELLIGENCE.

COURT OF QUEEN'S BENCH.—JAN. 23.
Rittings in Banoo.-ore the Lord Chief Jostioe, and
Jostler& MmkW.re, Mellor, sad Leah.)

WINEIOR O. THY QIIIIMM

After our report loft yesterday:the hearing of the argu-
ments on the part of the crown was adjourned notate.
morrow.
The prisoner was spin removed in custody to Newgste.

COURT. Or BANKRUPTCY.—JAN. 23. ;
(Before Mr. Commissioner Holroyd.)
IN na Bonin ;oils imam!.
This was • renewed application for relines from custody.
The bankrupt, it will be remembered, was in custody at
the suit of his brother, Mr. S. T. Moetyn, for non-payment
of 3,182/., which he had been ordered to pay by the Master
of the Rolle. At the laat sitting the petition waa dismissed
for informality, and another hadsinoe been filed.
Mr. Brough opposed the application on behalf of the
detaining areditor and the plaintiff in the Chancery
and asked that it should stand over until after the choice Of
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After hearing Mr. F. H. Lewis for the bankrupt,
His Honour directed the application to stand over.
(Before Mr. Commissioner Winslow.)
IN RI OSABLIB JAMB NAIINYTII.
The bankrupt was a merchant, of Great St. Helen's. This
was an adjourned sitting for examination and discharge.
The case has been before the court since July last. The
figures are of large amount. The following are the principal
items :—Aggregate liabilities (including 2,6421. on memo.
dation bills), 46,0471. • assets—good debts, 466/. ; bad and
doubtful ditto, 10,8081. • property given up, 1,886/. ; ditto
held as security, 20,4061. The bankrupt states his expert.
dittos at 1,0001. a year for the two years preceding the
failure.
Mr. !teed, for the assignees, stated that the bankrupt
bad carried on business in London as an Fast India mer-
chant, and was a partner in the house of Nasmyth and
Sedgwick, at Bombay. The liabilities were very large.
The assignees had required additional accounts, which had
been furnished, and it appeared from the profit and lass
account that the bankrupt hid lost no less than 16,5054 in
one month, June last. Nearly the whole of this loss arose
on shipments made by the bankrupt to the house of
Nasmyth and Sedgwick at Bombay, from whom be claimed
in the first instance 30,0001., but now admitted that little
more than 10,0001. was receivable, the fact being that the
; house would not pay a single farthing in the pound. The
I amounts, which were very voluminous, had only been 111•3
a fortnight, and the assignees required further time to exa-
mine them. The good debt* returned at 4661. would only
realise 80/. ; and from the property, valued st 1,8861.,
little or nothing bad been received, the pro.
party consisting of cotton which was the subject
of an action. The assignees also wished for a deficiency
account to explain the enormous lases which the bankrupt
alleged he had made.
His Honour thought that the fact of the bankrupt's
books being perfectly well kept rendered further accounts
unneoessary.
Mr. Sargood appeared for a creditor, but said that his
opposition was rather directed to the order of discharge.
After hearing Mr. Lawrence for the bankrupt,
His Honour said the assignees were entitled to time to
examine the amounts, and directed an adjournment for a
month. Meantime some further inforon might be
received from Bombay as to the position a firm there.
Adjourned accordingly.
IN RN WEIGGLIIIIIONTH.
The bankrupt, a bankrupts' clerk, applied for his order of
discharge from debts of 9651.
Mr. Dubois opposed ; Mr. E. Reed repported.
The bankrupt, in examination, stated that he had specu-
lated on the Stock Exchange, and had lost a large amount
in paying differences. When he was successful the parties
owing him money absconded. (A laugh.) He had had
fifteen shares in the Imperial Ottoman Bank placed in his
hands by Mr. Millington, another clerk.
Adjourned for a twelvemoothe cash account, sad au
account of the proceeds of the shares.

FATAL ASSAULT UPON A POLICEMAN.-011 Satur-
day night last a fearful outrage was committed in Drury-
lane by • number of desperate characters who live in that
locality. It appears that Petrick Fitzgerald, 50 F, a very
active constable, has for some time kept • sharp look out on
them, and has been able to obtain several convictions
against certain members of the gang, and caused them to
have various terms of imprisonment. Several of them
vowed vengeance when they came out, and late on Saturday
night a number of them set upon the unfortunate man,
knocked him down, and beat and kicked him most brutally all
over his body. Assistance, however, arrived, and Fitzgerald
was rescued, but almost in a dying state. He was taken to
King's College Hospital, where Mr. Howell, the house
surgeon, paid him every attention. He found that both
Finger::ld's arms were broken, Knit be had received very
severe internal injuries. The poor man lingered in great
agony until between one and two o'clock yesterday Munr
mg when he expired. One of the gang, a ruffian named
William Daly, has been arrested for the assault ; but as the
policeman is now dead the charge will be one of wilful
murder.
Tali ALLEGED CARD PLAYING IN ST. FANCRAS
C•sesLWeare. —Yesterday, at the meeting of the directors
of St. Pancras, Mr. Churchwarden Lawford in the chair, •
report was presented as te the recent alleged card playing
in the casual wards. It said " A great parade was made •
few days since In some of the daily papers, who put oat
• sensational line, ' Scene in the Casual Ward of St.
Pancras,' which turned out to be no 'scene' at all, and
is thus explained by the muter and by one of the parties
concerned, namely. Henry James. A tramp named James
Williams, who had been remanded, was brought up on
Friday, the 19th, charged with having on the 14th instant
broken open a cupboard in the casual ward, and stealing
some hooka, tobacco boxes, and other articles, the pro-
. party of the said Henry James, and ho was committed
sod sentenced to 21 days' hard labour. The matter is
I thus explained. On January 14th, the night of the robbery,
I the master feeling the necessity of providing increased
room for the great influx of wayfarers, directed that a
ward occupied by 'able men' should be vacated at ogee
and appropriated to the reception of vagrants. It was late
at night before the necessary arrangements could be carried
out, and the cupboard in question could not be emptied of
its contents on account of the lateness of the hoar. In this
cupboard was, it seems, a pack of cards, which had been
taken from another tramp a few days previously. Up to 11
o'clock that night the ward was visited by the superinten-
dent of labour, and the men all found to be quiet. After
that hour the robbery was committed, and no doubt the
men did play with the cards for • time that night. This is
uthe otythoccase ion upon which card" sere or ever could be
ward,d for the thieves took the pack with them,
! and by means of them were detected in the casual wards of
Mary e us I lio. The statement reported to be made by
M'Farlane, who was a tramp and not an inmate, es to cards
being played every night, is wholly untrue, and the muter
• declares he never beard of the card playing in this instance
! until be saw it in the papers." The report was adopted.
THE ALLEGED FENIAN AERWTS IN BELFAST.—
Since Thursday night last, so far as we have been able to
learn, no further arrests or searches have been made In this
town. It was rumoured on Saturday that two arrests had
been made, but we have been reliably informed that such
was not the fact. However, the police are still on the alert,
and several suspected houses are stall closely watched.
Most absurd rumours are afloat since the arrests. and
it is with the greatest difficulty that any information
whatever can be obtained. It was extensively reported
on Friday that Stephens, the "Head Centre," was in
town, but the detective who was supposed to be in pur-
suit, and who, it was said, had traced him se far as Newry,
has again left town for the South, and will proceed to
Liverpool, owing to the exciting rumours which are afloat
in that town and other places in England. It was rumoured
yesterday that • "break out" had taken place in Montag.
has, sod it was even stated that some of the military from
Belfast had been despatched by an early train to quell the
I disturbance. Oa making inquiry, however, at the barracks
we found that no soldiers bad left, nor had any report of
the kind been received in Belfast. The panicmongers were
certainly very industrious. The wildest and most incon-
ceivable reports are afloat, for which there is not the
slightest foundation.—Northern Whig.
THE FENIAN TRIALS.—At the Special Commis-
sion Court, on Monday, Daniel O'Connell was placed on his
trial. The prisoner is a native of Toomavars, county Tip-
perary. The principal evidence offered against him was his
having written, under the signature of "A Spiritual En-
lightener," • letter to the Irish People, in which he said
that he believed it to be necessary that Irishmen
should Lind themselves to fight for the iodepend-
(MOO of their country. He had also written to O'Donovan
(Rusa). inquiring now he could procure some works on mili-
tary drill, and the best medium through which to obtain
an Enfield rifle and a Colt's revolver. When arrested a
drill-book was found on his person, and • pus-book, con-
taining the names of a number of men, with cyphers
appended to each name, was found in his desk. The jury,
after an absence of 40 minutes, returned a verdict of
"guilty" on ell the counts, the foreman adding that •
majority of the jury concurred in recommending the
prisoner to mercy. The court then sentenced him to two
years imprisonment with hard labour.
NEW STATION FOR, THE WESTBOURNE-PARE AND
KENSAL•GREIN DISTRICr.—On the first of next month •
new station, now in the coune of erection at the junction of
the Metropolitan and Hammersmith branch with the main
line of the Great Western Railway, near Westbonrne-park
and Renal-green, will be opened for the accommodation of
the inhabitants of that district, who will by this additional
facility he pat in direct communication with the City, by
means of the Gress Western and Metropolitan lines of
railway.
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