The Express.
London, England, 1860-09-21 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, FRIDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBE lI 21, 1860.

PUBLIC HEALTH aIPOBT.

By the Public Health Act of 1858 the Privy
Council are empowered to came inquiry to be made, wbeu
they see tit, iu relater to the public health in any place ' •
aad • medical officer, Mr. Biros, is attached to the council,
and supperintends such investigations. His report of the
of 114.59, which has recently been usual, deals
with several suhrets of great interest. Among them is
that which hay 'till to be called " the Thanes huisonce."
In a paper communicated by Mr. Ord, that gentleman de-
emiless the simptoms of a poisoning of the nervous system
which occurred very generally in the summer of 1.15 d
among persons employed upon the river, and observes
that in when extensive disinfecting operations
were carried on at the mouths of risers, the
sulphoretted hydrogen gas was nut in proportion
milkiest to the production of the symptom. ; and
he remarks, that if the emanations of a river in so foul
• state do not actually originate disease, nod .in the other
hand, percolations from cerapools into the soil and wells is
proved to be highly injurious, then even this stage in the
process of pu-nfyiug Loudon must be accepted as an improve.
meat upon its previous condition. The putrefactive matter,
instead of abiding in a thousand place. as a focus of disease,
is brought into one te, where it may be more
rcahly to disinfecting preemie., and where it
Bud. is the aster of the receiving stre.uu elements which
&item. to disarms it of much of its destructive influence.
I.Lppily this source of disease is destined m a very few years
ton much more complete banishment. We pass, then, to
another subject, the state of "the diarrhor district. of
En4laie I. Inn-rhos' diseases, though generally pirestible,
are increasing in this cotrizo:nd their epidemic 'grave-
tii .110 are sometimes of • severity. It bee base truly
aid that probably since t e days el the greet plague death
ha. never so seared an Eoglish populatios r In the cholera
epidemic of Newcastle in lsrCl and io the Golden-square
outbreak in Now, iliarrbual diseases prevail with
extraordinary inequality in different parts of the country ;
and it is to lc recollected that the endemic causes of
dearth. re are the causes of much other disease. It was,
therefore. determtued to begin these authorised local rout-
ries in can of excessive preventible mortality with ea ex-
amination of the disproportionate localivitiou of clianixes
in pertieular distncts. Accordingly, eight large towns
were selected last year, which habitpally suffer • very
I great ease, of nwrt►lity from this muse,
iand Dr. Green-
hoer was as a temporary nspector, to in-
quire into their sanitary condition. The towns an
Coventry, Manchester and &Mord, Nottingham, Bs:-
.
Dwdley, I.eedi, Wolverhamptra end Merthyr
Tyatirahlait was necessary to Ind a fair standard for the
rate of diarrhea dame. There are districts d log-
lead ia which endemic diarrhea is unknown, but, leaving
them, it was thought reneemble to take two considerable
coatigeoes real Nellie* an in the north, and
=her is the math—dishide by no mans so (althea
se to be shappeensiabia ha in theme the annual average
distrhinal dear rate aria the yeses 18174855 was only
le is 100,000 of the parries. In the eight towns just
named the mortality from this canes is from three to nine
I Mille as pest. In all of them Dr. Greenhow found it
coincident with or or ether of these two circumstances
—the habitual drinkingd impure water or the tainting •
of the atmosphere with the products of organic drum-
pusitiou evartally of hams refine. In other words, in
the districts which suffer from high diarrboal death rates
the either breathe or drink a large amount of
animal refuse. He traces street by street, show-
,
bow visiting eisrly thinner but slightly, is
=a grenped round them spots where there is an ac-
e( aightecil isiesting the air in the midst of a
deem pepalation, arm piped that the exhalations pe•
, trate his the he.,, arms be but slowly dispersed into
, the genesel sansephera The sempuntive immunity of other
diarists reesea=zthsne is ell respects, save the abeam
at Shim lama hod to be so constant, that it
tarts inDiddiniblo le what the relationship es me of
ease and effect; sad the medical min affirm that dietetical
dame h sot only mere peer but also more unmanage-
able, in iff•conditased pfaesa A single sentence concerning
Banniegham tells the tale el all the towns " Not only has
distract most prevailed, and preyed most fated, in striae
when these causes of atasepbseis imparity existed, but, se
has been shown in the biter, of particular streets and
courts, it has selected as Na viable persons much exposed
to these MUMS, to the compeatiee exclusion of others." It
has often been shown that these amen produce diarrbon,
but their investigation hes hitherto bees limited to epi-
demic epochs, and especially vieliafione of cholera ; it is
here demonstrated that their inilnence is wee constant,
and Dr. Greentow remarks that the oconneacie of epide-
mic epochs may arise from peculiarities of meta ving
plater elkacy to thew local amuses, or possibly from the
decomposition at such periods being different
r.d "of
those at ordinary times. How DINIIVISIONID this
disease commonly is may be judged from the ease= of
sanitary improvements in almost all those very districts
in reducing the local prevalence of diarrhea. But,
though much has been done, the report shows
that it is very far from enough ; and it may surely be
hoped that the authorities of these team will take
means for removing from their administration " the
reproach of preventible bat unprevented disease." There
is a motive that should especially stir the peat manufac-
turers, whose unparalleled wealth is acquired is these
districts. A very large proportion of the deaths from
diarrboa are those of infante ; above half this mortality
occurs under one year old, and this is attributable, partly
at all events, to the extensive factory employment of fears
labour. A mother has to leave her infant at three or five
weeks old to the care of a little child, or of • hired suns,
and bony home hinted to breakfast and to dinner, with
little time in which to nurse her child and get her own food,
and in her absence her child is fed on unsuitable diet, and
has its cries of hunger and dare= quieted by those opiates
which are in such request at the centres dour manufactur-
ing industry. Mr. Simon remarks that the all may be
averted, or at least greatly mitigated, by anua
which, however, the labouring classes theesselves Levu not
the power of organising.

HILeLTEI OF SOOTLANI).—In the eight principal
town of Scotland, contiming io 1861 • population of
781,306, and now estimated to haves population of 908,146,
the births in the month of August were 2,361, thedeethe
tMrb.
1.73,1, the marriages 556. It is satisfacto
ry to see the
excessive mortality of 1880 is at length arrested, the
deaths minted to the avetegs or a little below it.,
daily deaths in the sight towns were 95 in Februare, and
above 80 in March and April, bet have been falling in num.
ber oversaw:a, and were only 56 in August. This, however, is
a higher mortality then that of London. The population of
these eight towns in 1861 wee almost exactly a thinl of that
of the metropolis; the deaths in the eight town in August
were at the rats of Mr2aweek, but the deaths in London in
August, instead of being three times that number (1,176) in
a week, siarcely exceeded 1,000. But the mortality of Lon-
don last August was nearly 200 a week below the average
of the last ten years (corrected for increase of population),
and there might have been an improvement in the mortality
returns of the Scotch towns but for the prevalence of opt.
deems—measles in Obegow, smallpox and measles in Dun.
dee, sad scarlet fever in Leith, Paisley, and Aberdeen. The
mean temperature of the month was in Aberdeen 518 deg.,
in Edinburgh 571 deg„ la London (Camden-town) 58 deg.
The depth of rain at Omani& was 5130 inches, at Glasgow
4'47, at Edinburgh only 116 ; iltoalMden-town it was 448.
flf the births in the eigM atedish towns 91 per tent. ware
illegitimate, and Aberdesa metes its pre-mainenon—in
that city 181 per cent., men thaa one is six, of the
children born were illegitimate, In the detailed return.
foal Scotland for the eseend quarter of this year instances
each as these occur —Hanish, out et 97 births 1:1 illegi-
timate ; laverury, 10 ass et 36 Asehindoir, 5 out of 19.
Gash ad lays the dame on " 861,1 labour;*
sonar am girls Oafs to swim is " the low coma-
tyatesibiLd attributes a donne el the Immorality to
al employmest sad high wages proi=
~" a fourth, who nays his return tells a
tabu slyly adds that, having lye mein clergymen to isms
Um
She moms et 1,50.1 people, " it mama he charged mated • want al
peas."
_

TiU AITIOI IT TO ARIAIISINATR THS EARL op
Unita. --The Duties Density Mud mays :—Mlle bet
that the intending seareeln Bred from the door of his .we
boas* ia a public street, at • time of the day whim his
escape was nearly impossible, may probably be considered
sulkiest proof that be was Mersa when it shall be stated
is his defenses before the prow tribunal. In the present
stage, however, no assumption of such a condition r jus.i•
gelds ; sad it is the duty al the magistrates of the district
where the outrage we committed to impairs promptly and
strictly tato all the circumetasces of the tramactiou.
Nevertheless, up to yesterday—that la fear days from the
date of the untrog•—we have resets to believe no such
gip was takes. la truth, the course of justice is coca.
Cirparalysed, la regard to the graver criminal offences,
eeffetem hilnhar magistracy which prevails he this
ormatry. The Local unpaid justices dislike to act is the pre-
sence of the ' stipendiary,' and he dare sot stir until he has
communication with the Castle.' lie perhaps shrewdly
seepsels, in the present tam, that the governmer I may
sot be indisposed to hush the matter up, and he is in so
hurry to bestir himmlf. We venture to stimulate him sad
them by mentioning the followiass circumstances, is the
words of • wellmformed t James Murphy,
the ems a custody for fig at the lAA of Leitrim, is in so
way counseled with kis lordship's estate ; but he formerly
kept a very irregular house, at which Ribbon ineethip were
hekl sad se wee brought coder the monitorial notice of
Lord Leitrim, giving much trouble in sad enhemneat
years. If he be mail. as seems to be the cam, be bee been
incited to this attempt by others, who would willingly take
reveal(' for the interference offered to their proceeding, at
that time. and thoaglit they might safely accomplish their
end liy the hand of a lunatic. These are matters which
ought at least to be inquired into, and the fact that the
magistrate had taken the obvious step of examining the
Larl of Leitrim upon the fourth day after hi most
miraculous mope is creditable weetber Is the sliverymolests nor to the immanent whisk sentry& it."
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ARRRSP OP A RUNAWAY DEFAULTER IN
NEW YORK.

Ludovie Joachim Julius Tode a Russian, about
30 yams of age, was taken into custody on September the
3rd, charged with being • defaulter to the amoaut of
75,1100 dole. The accused, it is alleged was the agent for
an English house (Messrs. Earle sod Co., of Hull) at St.
Petersburg, and about • year ago, while acting in that
csii sold a vessel for his employers, and pocketing the
proceeds
fled to America. A reward of 2,000 dole. was
offered for the capture of the fugitive, and photographs of
him were forwarded to the polies in America, with the
request that they would be on the look-out for the gentle-
man. Every effort was made to find some clue to the
whereabouts of T. sle in America, but the officers tailed
to tied the slightest trace of him until within the past two
or three weeks. Some tins, in August last detective
Elder Inirned through a Wall-street broker that there was
a Russian nobleman in town who corresponded in appear-
ance with the fugitive. The officer, seized with the idea
that the Russian nobleman and the man he was so long In
search of were one and the same, went to work and searched
for him accordingly. After several days and nights of bard
toil, he succeeded, on the 3rd inst., in meeting the object of
his search in Broadway. He immedLitely accosted him,
end, informing him of the nature of his laminae, conveyed
him to police head-quarters. Subsequently Tode accompa-
nied the officer to his hotel, where, on searching a trunk,
the latter found 50,090 dole. in paper roubles. The prisoner
took the matter very coolly indeed, and told the officer that
he would have all the trouble for nothing, as there was no
treaty in existence whereby he could be sent back to Rus-
sia. In answer to some questions put to him by the officer,
he stated that he hail been travelling all over the United
States, and, after visiting all the watering-places,
came to New York, for the per emu of spending
the winter here. He talks English quite fluently,
although he has been in America but a short
time, and is very gentlemanly in his appearance and
manners. Whether the police will succeed in sending the
accused to Europe is • matter of extreme doubt. There
will be an effort made to snake Tode disgorge hie wealth,
for the benefit of his friends in England, but with what
sitcom it will be attended it is hard to say. It appears that
Tod' took • paeans at erupted& in the ship Pepperell for
Boston, where be arrived in November 1859, under the
assumed name of Newman. Messrs. bide and Co. of
Hull, England, the firm whom he had swindled
so extensively, obtained information of Tale's move-
meats Bsiag acquainted with the fruitless efforts of
the American detectives, Meagre. Earle and Co. despatched
two rimer London detectives in pursuit of him ; but after
making • tour of the entire Union, and Cuba in the barmen,
the chase was given up. When the officer arrested Tode he
was coolly surveying a jeweller's window in Broadway, as if
nothing at all was the matter. At the hotel at which the
prisoner put up the officer found, in addition to the money,
a ticket for passage to Havre by the Vanderbilt ; the ticket
WWI in the name of Monsieur J. L. de L'Arc. There is
' reason to believe that the prisoner, after leaving Boston, re-
paired south, and, being in delicate health, spent the winter
at St. Augustine, Fist Florida. His object in returning to
the continent, it is alleged, was to pass off the Madan
money somewhere in the south of Europe. He is • Prussian
by birth, hut a Russian citizen, having resided in St. Peters-
burg fur several years.—Eastern artistica Herald.

Tax Nam/maim FOR4llll2l3.—Yesterday morn-
ing Mr. William Tait, Jeweller, Wheelermsts, Nottingham,
was brought up on remand before the mayor and borough
magistrate., on • charge of being concerned in forgiagig
of exchange upon Mr. Lewis Samuels, lace manufacturer,
and parparLag to be thaws by Mr. James Wilson, hogier.
Bail been accepted for the prisoner to the amount of
1,000/., and since his first examination he has made himself
• bankrupt. There has been a good deal of excitement in
the town for some days in consequence of rumours that still
more extensive forgeries, implicating persons moving in •
high station of life, would he brought to light, and the
court to-day was crowded to hear the examination
of Tait, who was defended by Mr. Bluish, bar-
rider, and Mr. Maples, solicitor ; Mr. Milton attended to
watch the case for the prosecution. The prisoner appeared
before the magistrate. at 11 o'clock, and they consulted
Smother for half an hour, at the end of which the Mayor
(Mr. Probitt) said that he (Tait) would be further re-
graded for five weeks, and the present amount of bail
(1,0001.) would he accepted. The police have not yet Inc-
seeded ia apprehending Isagbans, who was concerned with
Tat a the present car of forgery, and it is in consequence
• lasighian being still at large that the further examina-
tion of Tait could not be proceeded with
CZTOTAL Pitiacs Dircrater GAR COMPANY.—The
following is the directors' report for the balf-year ending
30th June :—" The directors have to report the satisfactory
working of the company's operations during the half-year.
The new works are progressing satisfactorily towards sow-
pletion. The option given to the proprietors of paying in
full those shares upon which 21. had been subscribed, re-
comm. tided at the last ordinary meeting, has been promptly
responded to ; only ninety-or shares remaining unpaid on
the 30th of June. The balance-sheet made up to the 30th
of June, and duly vosiched by the auditors, shows • profit
on the half-year of 1,861 i. Is ; of this sum the directors
recommend the declaration of • dividend after the rate of
6 per cent. per annum, with • bonus at the rate of one per
cent. per annum, both free of income-tax, and that the re-
malodor be appropriated as follows :—namely, to write off
parliamentary expenses, 1001. ; and carry the balance,
1581. is. ad., to the profit of the succeeding half-year.

•
GEL? NORTH OF SCOTLAND RAILWAT.—The
report of the directors of this company states that the
receipts for the half-year ending the 31st of July last
amounted to 44,3241. and the expenses to 16,1681., hoeing •
balance of 28,159/. The rent of the Old 11(4drom Junction
Railway amounted to 3251., the intense ou haw and low.
=lesion to 3,294?., the dividend on new shares at the axed
rate of 4i per oent per annum to 4,5971., the proposed divi-
dend on preference stock at the rate of 7 per cent. per
annum to 10,1881., and on the original stock at
the rate of 7 per cent per annum to 9,6901. ' • together
28,0941., leaving • balance of 641. for the next
account. Those result, afforded a dividend on the prefer-
ence and original stocks of company at the rate of 7 per
cont per annum, as compared with 51 per cent. for the cor-
responding period of last year. The working expenses for
the half-year, exclusive of feu duties, rates, and taxes, to
31 per cent, or, inclusive of them, to 37 per cent. of the
green receipt., as compared with 32i and 40 per cent. re.
an/chesty, for the 11 months ending July last. The rolling
stock and permanent way continued to be efficiently Vain-
Wined. The directors thought it right to state, in reply
to inquiries of shareholden regarding • projected line,
from Forces to Dunkeld, 100 miles in length, that
the value of the through tee& between stations on the
lavereaso line ' and the South was apt to be much over-
rated ; that the dividends hitherto paid had, to the extent
of eine.tenths, been derived from local traffic (which would
be exhanced next year by the opening of the Forroartine
and Buchan, and Keith and Dufftown railways), and that
the resources of the company's district and the report of
Aberdeen were such as not only to secure the present, but
to give the prospect of an increased rate of dividend, sot-
withateading any partial divinities at through traffic belle
opening of the proposed Highland line, should it be made.
It was intended to apply to parliament in the next session
for power to extend the Keith and Hellbent Railway from
the latter place, by the valley of the Spey, to Orantown.
The capital account to July 31 showed that 1,127,9291. bad
been received, and 919,0=. expended on the line, works,
and rolling stock, end 122,1161. in the stocks of other com-
panies haring railways in connexion with the main line,
leaving a balance of 86,7861. The revenue account for the
half•year ending July 31, showed that 44,0411. had been
received, and 16,4911. expended, leaving • Wanes of
27,5801. The receipts per train mile era hated to 78169.,
end the working expenses to 2918 d.
Ties Witognia age Caen lies SOOTLARD.—Sias
Wednesday the weather has been favourable. With the
exception of eeessionel reewers on Sunday afternoon, no
rain 11•11 Whs. lleadassibri cloud , but Tuesday wan
bright, the sun ban The range of tem-
pura has leen high. ne rainfall for the month, up
to the present date. aseeente to only half•an.inch. It is In-
teresting to knew that the rainfall for August amounted
to 227 TWO the average rainfall is 2.863
inches. In ffilabeatO the rainfall daring August
and September les been considerably below the
average. On Tuesday the thermometer was steady
at 29.360 inches. Harvest operations have bees
vigorously carried forward. Cutting on farms favourably
sheeted around Edinburgh will be generally finished this
week. In one or two team the whole grain crop is already
secured ie the stockyard, sod the carrying of the crop has
been kept close op to that stage of winning at which it will
keep in the stack. Thatching is generally behind—this
partly from the want of straw, and partly from the desks
to concentrate the labour of the farm on the esitlig sod
carrying of the crop. The estimate as le balk end yield is
now higher than when harvest operstiows eeemoneeell,
most farmers are eatistied that the crop Awe ea everega
Thin wiles not only to the Lothians, but to Ileolieed
geserany. Potatoes continue promising, the Welt seeking
Little program. —Seasesess. _ _

ANOTITIRR A011)131? 111011 • &LAPIN° id•Clilling.
—A serious occident took pkeeoa
.
Tueodaimeoirsing lost,
cm the estate of Mr. Stobb* Dalloehnee flarlingehire
A reaping rnaebioe was is fall working whoa Mr.
John Armour, the overseer, stepped forward tot lead au of
the hones, which had become restive. Huhg pet the
animal right, Mr. Armour was is the act of tondo( aside
when one of his legumes aught by the tooth of Go mathise
• little above the ankle, eteupleter, sevarlog ths hues, be.
aides cutting the leg in various plum. Dr. Wffeigia was
moo on the spot, and Dr. Noodle, from Stirling, afterwards
visited the sufferer. The medical gentlemen did not coo-
eider amputation of the limb useemay, and Mr. Amour is
understood to be amnesic* favourably.
A 14Lerr Itannuon.—A worthy son of Mars
came " home from the wan " lest week, to pay his Moods
in his native tows • visit. He hod sot been above bate-
boom boon in &war Dudes whim he met in hie moths?.
boom a beau* ludo whom he hid *ever sou Ware, and
mosedistely he fell • victim to bar ammo. Bo propmed,
wr and is now a ourrled man. The question wee
on Saturday, the louse were "cried " on Sunday,
splieed* on Monday.—Deader Curiae.
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amok
iretal ameettwou and hi= power ban yew
aired ea beverage. fib.
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lab; InttUironct.

COURT OF BANKRUPTCY.—SEPr. 20.
(Before Mr. Commissioner Holroyd.)
RE AIM!, [EIGHTH, AND ♦XTELL—HEAVY FAILURE IN
THE LEATHER TRADE.
This was MI examination meeting under the bankruptcy
of Jas. Alfred Antell, Wm. Rudd Knights, and William
Axtell, of No. 1, White's-ground, Bermondsey, and St.
Root's, in the count)• of Huntingdon, tanner.. The balance-
▪ prepared by Meson. Johnson and Wilson, commomvs
on Ist Jun., 1819, and ends on the 19th May, 1060; ex-
hibiting this summary :
Ds.
To creditsos, unsecured C 13,350 12 5
Ditto, holding security
Pro6ta
Premium received with apprentices
Wm. Axtell, capital
Surplus bit June, 1859
Liabilities
Difference

Total

E 36,729 17 2

--
By debtors, good
Ditto, doubtful Bl 210
Ditto, bad—B3,Bo3 18 11
Property held by craters 3B 18 0
Property given up 4,449 16 8
Shares in the General Discount Company
Bills receivable in the hands of the Unity
Bank as collateral security 371 17 4
Amount retained lm bill-broken on account
of bills discounted
Losses 6,467 17 11
Trade e
T. A. %TM policy given up
Ditto drawings
151 14 7
Ditto for omcial assignee
B. Knights' drawings
T. A. Aztoll's accepted 'disks 2O 0 0
Wm. Attars drawings
Liebflities

Total £36,729 17 2
The " trading account" shows the ales to have amounted
to 29/. 17s. Bd. The holders of billa—many of which are
acceptances of persona who have failed in the leather trade—
appearing in the hat of liabilities are the General Discount
Company, the Mercantile Discount Oompsny, G. Clay and
Co., Reeves sod Whitburn, E. A. Oliver, the Unity Bank,
and Charles E. Royland and Son.
A proof was tendered on behalf of the Mercantile Dis-
count Company, which was objected to under these circum-
'Mama. It appeared that the company had allotted shares
to Knights, and the bankrupts having taken a batch of
all. to discount, the company retained 1,6501., which it was
contended they had no right to do, as it belonged to the
firm, and could not be applied t) the liquidation of one
partner's obligations.
Mr. Linklater, for one assignee, aid that the assignee.
bad filed a bill in Chancery against the Mercantile Discount
Company, but as he understood they were now willing to
give credit for the money in their account, and for the shares
which had been taken, it was therefore desirable that an
sod should be put to the litigations.
Mr. Miller, for the other three assignees, however, consi
dared that the company might be called upon to refund the
1,7001. ; sod anotherr Fame who was present said he
ought it wee an ill, transaction.
A claim was entered , with liberty to apply hereafter that
it might be turned into a proof.
After a brief examination of Axton, it was stated that no
advantage would be pined by an adjournment, and the
bankrupt' peened their examination.
Mr. J. P. Godfrey, of Gray's-inn, appeared for the
(auditors.

11 TEI OINZIAL DISCOUNT COMPANY (LINTISD).
Mr. Owes Tucker presented a petition to wind up this
company. The petitioner is Mr. Septimus Frederick
Marlyn, of Dowgate-hill, wholesale shoe warehouseman •
creditor for 200 f. The allegation in the petition is that a
notice of demand has been served, and although three
weeks have expired the debt has not been paid. The hear.
ing of the petition is tiled for the Bth October.

al FINN.
This was an application for certificate by William Fenn,
of 11, New thudetreet, and of Lloyd's, underwriter.
The eccounta, by Mr. Edmund Harding, show :
on-
secured debts, 6,8361. ; secured debt., 1,0131. ; in addition
to which there are liabilities on outstanding risks not yet
ascertained. The assets consist of : Furniture given up to
the assi 355 f. ; securities with creditors, 6501. ; and
good del gnees,ts. 4,7011., subjected to be reduced by losses on
outstanding risk'. There is 2,0631. 12s. ed. due from S. T.
Oooper. of lisainghall.street, on bills dishonoured, con-
sidered irrecoverable and be is therefore t down ea •
doubtful debtor. rho bankrupt • surplus in
March, 1867 of 2,3521. ; and the ts also subject to losses
are stated at 5,686/., against wh there are kisses liable
to be increased by the same contingencies, 9671. ; trade es-
pouses, 1,5731. ; domestic and personal, 5,8881.

INSOLVENT DEBTORS 00IJRT.—Sirr. 20.
(Before Mr. Commimioner NiChal.)
TN u JAMILB HENDIROON.-BINGULAR CARL

This insolvent, who had been in the medical protection as
an assistant, was opposed by Mr. Bargood ou the part of
Kim Elizabeth Stewart Dobson. The insolvent was his
own advocate.

illecameEsclosed some liar feature. The insolvent
had professionally • in the country Admiral Dotson,
the WWr of the oppos•ng creditor, in 1843. In 1854 be
was an assistant in London, and Miss Dobson discovered his
residence, and always visited him when she came to town.
He declared shat she repeatedly offered to advance him
snonsy, which he declined. In July, 1858, she made him,
he rad, • gift of 3001., which he voluntarily, in two hour
afterwards, turned into a debt by giving an acknowledg-
ment for it. 011 being premed, be said the advance was •
" debt," and so be had wandered it. He accompanied Mir
Dobson to her agents at Westminster, and when she osme
out she handed to him 3001. He had only expected 2001.
When they reached her home he pee her the acknow-
ledgment. Ina fortnight she came to his lodgings in a vio-
lent passion, and demanded her money back, which be
could not give her, as he had paid 2001. of it away. He
offered to pay her, at a solicitor's, where he took her, 501. a
year, which she had refused. She had hunted him out
wherever he was employed. In 1858, he wee sued by her
when at Stratford-upon-Avon, and afterwards he sold some
przttimalgieje in Ireland.
asked the insolvent whether he had not,
prior to getting the 900/. from Mir Dobson, proposed to
marry her, and bad been accepted.
The insolvent said he had not. She bad proposed to
him, and had had • design on him for ten or fifteen years.
Mr. Sargood rid he should be under the necessity of
calling Miss Dobson.
In answer to further questions the insolvent denied
that he was • married man, or that there was • female who
pared as his wife. There was a Mrs. Henderson, who had
some years ago been his housekeeper, and she was entitled
to that nine, but not as his wife.
Dr. Parkes, and a surgeon named Burger, were called.
They believed the person alluded to was the insolvent's
wife, and Dr. Parkes rid that the insolvent, when he spoke
to him on the subject, begged him to spare his feelings on
account of his poor wife.
The insolvent reiterated his statement, and said Dr.
Parkes was mistaken...

Miss Dobson was called, and stated that prior to July,
1866, when she lent him 3001., he had made an offer of
marriage, which she had accepted. He obtained the money
from her by @eying his remittance from Ireland had felled.
In creasszaminaton, the creditor denied that she had before
offered to lend the insolvent mow. . . . .

Mr. Sargood sulinglied Mint Min Inativest had got the
mosey by a false pranneco, by any* that be had pro-
mieed to marry Miss Delwin.
The insolvent, in his reply, admitted that after be bad
the money there was a prospect of marriage ; but she mine
in a fortnight like • fury, and demanded her money back,
and had since persecuted him wherever he went. tihe was
• violent woman.
M r.

Nichols deferred expressing his opinion
till Tuesday. The ease was accordingly adjourned.

CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT.

IorZW COURT.
(Bohn Mr. Justice Blackburn.)
Daniel de fa CAeroie Oourlay, 00, physician, was indicted
for that he, being a trustee, unlawfully did convert to his
own use certain /WAS of mosey, to wit, the sums of
5031. lie. 041., SOW, and 1,40 W. 10a. 4d., with intent to
defraud.
Mr. Cooper and Mr. Metcalf ted ; and Mr. T.
Atkinson and kfr. Ero Jesse defsided.
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Mr. (hyper, having briefly laid the feats before the jury,
called . _

Joseph Huggett, • detective officer of the City polies,
who stated that he went to Edinburgh on the 30th of July
with a warrant to ►pprehend the prisoner, and
upon the let of August found the prisoner at
the Turk Hotel. When told that he had a war-
rant fur his apprehension. the prisoner said that he should
be able to prove that he had not put one farthing of the
money to his own use. Witness then asked him where he
warn living, and he objected to my. Toe witness then told
him that be knew that be wes living at No. it, Henry•treet,
Edinburgh, and asked him to go there with him to get the
papers which be had there. The prisoner pretested against
his papers being interfered with. Witness then left the
prisoner in the custody of an Edinburgh Gem, and went to
the lodgings in Henry-street, and there found a box con-
taining • will and other papers relating to this case. The
box was opened in the presence el the primmer with a key
taken from him. . _ _

131inIiigg, examined, mid—l am a widow, and live at 5,
Jame...terrace, Nottiug.hilL My late husband was a roll-
, eitor at Waterbury. He died in Septeniber 1858. 1 have
known Dv. Gourley for a long time ; be bad attended our
family, and we planed great confidence in him. He was
executor under my late husband's will along with myself.
At Ant he did not wish to act. Two other gentlemen were
named with him, but they detained to act. The will gave
me a life interest in the property, and provided for numerous
hocks after my death. At the time of my hos.
bend's bull I had 701111. is, dd. in Ham-
mad% ha at Quilearry. loss attar I sago.

used Dr. Gourley to draw it oat, and allowed
him to take 2111 f. out of it to pay some ex-
penses, end the mat I directed him to invest, 'ilk it %vas
trawderred to his account in the Western Smirch of the
Bank of England. In August, 1858, a mortgage of :WC
fall in, and this was also transferred to his account at the
Western Bank, and I wished it to be entered in our joint
names, but he objected, and said "not until it was invested."
We went once to a solicitor's tome if there was any investment.
I wished it to be invested, but he said that them was not
anything which would be in accordance with the provisions
of the will. In the March of the present y, ar the pi ...nor
and myself had some conservation about selling out some
stock in the 3i per cents., to satisfy the legatees, solos of
whom had pronounced against the will. Prisoner said he
was advised to do so, and so prevent the matter being thrown
into Chancery and squandered away in law expense.s. On
the Bth of March 1,492/. 4s. lot. was sold ont, and the on
maiaing 1,011.108. 1 left standing in my name. I never gave
the prisoner any authority to lend it, or pay any debts of
his own with it, or to put it into the National Insurance
and Deposit Society. I did not know of such an institu-
tion. He said it was paid into that bank.

erces-examined-1 inthorisel him to sell out to pay out
the legatees. I was in Scotland to avoid the notimw from
the Court of Chancery, and so he has had the arrangement
with the legatees.
a A good deal of documentary and other evidence was then
given, which proved that the prisoner had paid several sums
of money and lent some to his friends from the loonies
which he had received in trust. The will was not disputed,
and therefor, not given iu evidence, but it transpired that its
provisions were somewh►t remark►ble, there being amongst
the numerous legatees a great many teetotal and other
societies, to whom the testator had ►eft small sums.
Mr. Atkinson, for the defence, in a moat able and lucid
speech, reviewed the evidence which had been given, and
contended that although his client might have used
some of the money entrusted to him for his
own purpose, there had not been anything to show
that there was the guilty intent upon the part of the pri-
soner which the act of parliament contemplated under
which he was prosecuted. The prisoner was nut an insol-
vent man, using the money where he could not make it up—
be was ',visible of replacing it.
His Lordship, in summing up, told the jury that it was,as
the learned counsel for the defence had told them, • quer-
lion of intent, and they would have to decide how far the
evidence went to show that the prisoner had an intent to
defraud when he used the money which was entrusted to
him for another purpose. His lordship then went most
carefully through the evidence, and pointed out the legal
bearings of it.
The jury, after • brief absence from the court, found the
prisoner (bitty, but recommended him to mercy on account
of his age.
His Lordship, in passing sentence, told the prisoner that,
setting aside the provisions of the act, which had but re-
cently made the conduct be had been guilty of a legal
offence, • man in his position must have known that ho was
acting moot dishonestly. It was a painful thing to have to
pass sentence upon a man of prisoeer's age, and but for that
age the sentence would have been heavier than the one he
was about to lam, which was that the prisoner be imprisoned
and kept to bard labour for six months.
Prisoner—A most unjust sentence, my lord and jury. He
then bowed and left the dock.

THE POLICE COURTS.