The Express.
London, England, 1867-07-16 00:00:00

LAW INTELLIGENCE,
(THIS DAY.)

COURT OF BANKRUPTCY.
(Rt fore Mr. Commissioner Coulblin3.)

IN VI: It. %.)011.

bankrupt, who rasa ALeh:di in the St. Katharine's
1 •,. Cuitipauy, applied to be al,cliargetl from debts of

Mt. Ragley opposed on behalf of the bankrupt's mother-
,w, a creditor for ttif., in respect of money lent to the
I- apt at different times. The case luol been adjourned
I y Mr. l'unindasioner Ilolroy.l for the bankrupt to make a
his creditors, but he had not done so. The
.urt was now asked not to grant the discharge, except
the lkinkrupt setting aside part of his yearly salary
aliout NO/. towards the payment of his debts.
:titer bearing Mr. Dubois, who supported, his Honour
. id. that as the bankrupt lad only hinuielf to keep he
. lit to be aide to In upon 3 guinea a week and set aside
t' re.t of his salty. but the case had been before Mr.
4roy .1 he would vain adjourn it for the consideration
. that learned commissioner.

THE POLICE COURTS.
(THIS DAY.)

GUILDHALL.
I LItGLAM._

a yoiiiiin; who .aid he had no borne,
alai ha. been often committed from this court for dif.
•, at offences, was placed at the bar before Alderman
charged with having broken into a butcher's shop
I arringdonmarket, belonging to Mr. Marvin.
17 appeared that William Chidzey, the beadle of the
• aket, observed one of the shutters of Mr. Marvin's
p pushed out at the bottom and slid down,
.ring a large aperture at the top. He called
265, and they looked into the premises
the prisoner ransacking the drawers. The officer
bins into custody and starched him at the station.
Ile found on him a florin, a live shilling piece, three
H..nees, a packet of coppers, a packet containing
I. in copper and Is. la. in coppers loose in his pocket,
. .t counterfeit shillings, and three counterfeit sixpences.
officer examined the *hotter, and found marks on it
-,,spontling with a chisel found in the priaoner's pocket.
inspector asked him wherehe got somuch money from,
I he said he won it at tossing in the ruins in }erring-
nwrl
Mr. Marvin identified the bad money as some that he
A taken year* ago in his business, and he had put it
Se so that it should not he used again. Ho also missed
,e silver, a as. packet of coppers, a 2s. packet of coppers,
I some loose halfpence.
Jones Hann handed in a list of summary convictions
t. asst the prisoner, all of which Agar, at Holloway,
prove.
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Able.ruian Stone fully committed the prisoner for trial,
11.1110 was directed to communicate with Agar, so that
I might prove the convictions on the prisoner's trial.

CLERKENIVELL. • -
NINGI:LAIt CHARGE or BIG.UIT,

Mary rifford, of Easton-street,Clerkenwell, was charged
Mr. Barker with being drunk and unlawfully knock-
.; at the door of Thomas Clifford, her husband, a dead
a. at salesman, of 27, Canonbury-road, Islington.
Mr. John Wakeling, solicitor, prosecuted.
It appeared from the evidence that the complainant bad
Levu married to the defendant for about twenty years, but
been separated from her for the past four years, owing,
a. Le said, to ber having committed bigamy. Since he had
been parted (number he allowed her a separate maintenance.
Busing been to the Crystal Palace with two ladies, he was
surprised on his return home to find a mob of between 200
au.i .01 people round his house, and the defendant in the
milt of them. She asked him for some money, and be-
cui-e he did not at once give it to her, she abused him
sal the mob that surrounded them pelted him with mud
sal flour. The police interfered, and sent the parties dif.
ferent ways; but she returned to the house, knocked
at the door, and made such disturbance that he was
compelled to lock her up.
The defendant said that she was lawfully married to
the complainant, and as her husband did not give her any
motley, she went to the house to get some, and being re-
fused, she certainly asked her husband fur money, and
was then locked up.
Mr. Wakeling said as the defendant was a bigamist her
husband wanted protection.
Mr. Barker said it was not proved to him that the de-
lendant had committed bigamy. Ile should ordmr the
defendant to pay a fine of be., or in default, three days'
imprisonment.

WORSHIP-STREET.
DREADFUL AtOtAULT ON A POLICE-CONSTABLE.
William Patrick, a carpenter, and William Burke, a
Lbourer, both very powerful men, were charged before
Hr. Ellison, with the following outrageous assault on
police-constable David Gibney, 372 K &neon.
hlr. Abbott defended Burke, and Mr. Graves Patrick.
The assault was committed on the 29th ultimo,
knee which date the injured man bas been
cafined to his bed, and now could scarcely
ELI up his head, or stand in the witness-box. He stated,
tut with great feebleness, that at 12 o'clock on the night
((the month mentioned he was on duty in Whitechapel,
and strove to quell a disturbance among those quarrelling,
lad the most forward was Burke, on seeing two other con-
tales approach he took him into custody, the other emi-
t:Ales each took one of the offendemand the rest dispersed.
butte became very violent, and some one behind tripped
suless up, but he still held his prisoner, who then struck
to with a broken bottle, severing the ear and that part
d the gesh immediately beneath it ; still this pri-
heef could not get away, but in the struggle
the police belt gave way and the lantern fell to the
pound. Burke snatched it up, and exclaiming, "Hen,
Wee your lamp," struck him with it a tenable blow
is the pit of the stomach. At this point, having
jut turned the corner of the Dog-row, he became
to enfeebled that he was compelled to give up
the custody of his prisoner to another constable,
ha walked a short distance from him. The other pri-
mer, Patrick, then commenced upon him, and, suddenly
zs.sng his hand, flung a brick at him, which, had it
aria him in the face, must have smashed it;
has he instinctively turned, and the missile caught
th, back of the head, inflicting a fearful wound.
Parke was by this time safe in the station-house,
bat stones were flung at the constables in charge of
Patrick up to the very doors, when other constables were
not out who conveyed him in.
At this stage of the evidence the prosecutor became so
west that both attorneys tot the defence admitted it
mold be wrong to subject him to era:a-examination, and
the farther hearing was postponed.