The Express.
London, England, 1860-04-14 00:00:00

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COUST OP BANKRUPTCY.—Amin. 13.
(Wore Mr. 'Coddietioner Evans.) •
fel inersosourez sexiest cesium 00eiraT.
This was bit audit idetins. At appeared that Mr. Jobs
am the official liquidator, had reamed %OM., red had
corded beer 5 per edit en that mount to the ehisf I
hsin tval
krupibeecoeyust, that Wog the coarse usually adopted in
_t.
Mr. nix calla the attention of the court to this de•
ductioa, end seheeilled time millet the Limited Liability I
Ad al XMili the meta to. be the WIN se thee in
the 04mt el Chancery.
His Bobber, alive ooh with Kr. Commissioner
W'rheld that tibanYderwer was *Mr entitled to ore.
er4cent. ; a sum of about 40f. Will therefore
bad to be refunded tor the benefit of the estate.

INSOLITENT DEBTORS COURT.—Aran.' 13.
• (Be.lovio the Clad Commissioner.)
ttt TIM MATTER OP HENRY LAM.

This insolvent, • publican, who had lately kept the
George the Fourth, at Croydon, was oppmed by Mr. Dome
on the part of James B•aleld, a pedestrian, and supported
by Kr. dargood.
The complaint was that the inscdvant had cheated Bea-
leld out of 201., and hadlet him to CIL law expenses in
, getting a benne verdiet. la November Banteld walked on
Me insolvent's ground, at Croydon, 1,000 miles in 1,000
half beam Me extraordinary fad, day' }ad ni6t, wae
easomplished in termamee days. Oa the 30th
November, • dinner ME fives ia estebra.ce, and Banfield
was presented by the 'mesterei with • cheque on his
bakers for 25/. Of that sa® 201. WED to have
been Masi at the p and the tandiaili 51. en
account of the casfam brorgt to 114 Ws% ,qty
an action was brought wing the ftusevied. %vim tam
cheque bad been returned, to recover the mment, an While
the jury sweedeel 151. as damages, sad the ante wire
421. 4s. &I. The insolvent bad been taken sank%
having abbot the time of the trial disposed of of hisat pablie-
house, which be bad held for sit yam. The change
produced upwards af 1,7001., *Ed Al he reesived was
101. The point ia that ore wee, whether the
defence to the action was amcatiens pritiambhig. led the
evidence now given Inn of er soldradietary carselar. Ban'
held alleged that he was to have the mesa collected. It
amounted to IN 18.. 10d., end was considered as 201. The
inimolvent give a cheque for 261., and it was handed
a day or two afterwards to the insolvent to take
care of, as there were some suspicions characters is
the how, and the money might not be ed. Subsequently
}infield applied for the money, ad on *l2th of Dimmable
a bill of wss delivered to 111. 12. 10d., and salmi-
quently one to 201. 18.. 10d. An action was broughatrd
resulted es stated. On the other head the insolvent alleged
that the nwobant was to pay the examen, and hi Ullman
tei2ol. 18s. 10d. Ns denied thee he applied to/idled to walk,
butHandad declared %bathe had applied tobbitHe had walked
before at the inalvent's ground m Mar ad received the
collection, paying his expenses. The insolvent said he had
ir:gnker's amount. He foetid a blank cheque, which he
ed up. He declared that the ceremony was robe
h in order that &Mild's friends might further sub-
.tribe, and that the cheque was to be returned. Bandeld
declared that he you' to have the money, which was to be
placed ia the Lank for his welfare.
The Chief Comminioner was of opinion that Bantleki
had spoken the truth, and that he bad been unfairly dealt
with by the insolvent. It was not to be supposed that •
man ma to labour in much • manner for three weeks for
=thin. Therefore ha believed Bealleld's stationsed. The
cleat spivs • *peat of eight calendar months for a vs:a-
llow defence.

MIDDLESEX SESSIONS.

NUTT r. THI JL'HTICIIR OF 7111 JUKOVIR-SQUAU DIVIIIION.
This was an appeal against the refusal of the justices of
tile division meationed to renew the license to the King's
Arms, in Duke-street, Groevenornquare.
Mr. Poland appeared on behalf of the respondents ; Mr.
Weigh fer the appellant.
Mr. Poland said the justices below had felt it to be their
duty to refuse the renewal of this license, as the appelleat
bad permitted persons to assemble in his house avowedly
for the purposes of betting on bone-racing, attar having
been warned by the chairman of the petty simian ow men
then one occasion, and for which he had been coevieted by
• polity magistrate, and fined 50f., under the Betting-house
Act. From a knowledge of what was going on, the polies,
under the authority of Sir Richard Mayne, entered the
tent's house on the 4th of April, 1850, and proceeded
stirs to • beck room on the first floor, in the door of
• it was • pane of glass on which was written " Bab
esription.room, and there they found • number of persona.
about 30, engaged in betting, end books relating to
bitting transactions were found upon moot of the
parsons present, who consisted of professed betting-men
gentlemen s servants., and some few tradesmen. For this;
*Renee the appellant was eonvieted under the Rettinglouse
Ace by Mr. Hendon, the enagitinde, in the penalty of MW.,
shed two others, named Rumen and Harrington or Her-
rington, were sleo convicted, be believed, on the same utter
skin. Mr. Sleigh appeared for the appellant, but no appeal
was made against the magistrate's decision. The bench
hid warned all rthe publicans in the division that their
linemen would be refused if these practices were carried on,
sad that they would not be allowed to transfer their
licensee if they disregarded that caution ; and this being
;soy the bench below • miry had oase, as setting at
t were the openly expremed determination of the
they decided, and the decision was come to by
a very full bench, who were unanimous, that it was their
ditty to absolutely rebus) this license to the appellant. it
Was for this wort
now to determine whether the judgment
they had given woe • proper one, and be (Mr. Poland) yen-
to submit ttfht
.upun a consideration of the circum.
=i
the court would confirm their decision. BeHe would
call the witnesses..

Mr. Sleigh maid the feet of the conviction wee uncontro-
vested ;he sclnilttAxi it. . . _

The 'Assistant-Judge odd it would be better for all the
Ireumstaaeee to be detailed to the court.

Superintecileat Han:tent was then called. He said he
produced en order of Bjr Richard Mayne to enter Mr. Butt's
house, and on the 4th of April he executed it. It was in
the evening, probably about nine o'clook. He went up-
stairs to a rem on the first-floor, on the door of which on
a pane of glass was written " Subscription-room." When
he entered the roonis he found the appellant, end thirty
ether persona. He asked 'limit he was r. Butt. He Wed
he MAO, and witness told him he had Sir Richard Mayne's
warrant to enter the house as • betting-house, and that her
sad aU who were prevent meet °amidst themselves in can.
ty,.,;.atHe 110Steked and found a number of books on betting
ions, which ha gave to the inspector who wee with
him (Webb), and took pessesaion of about 0101. in money.
There were ten or eleven known betting men there, ten or
eleven servants, grooms chiefly, in livery ; the rest were
tradesmen. Some of the bookie were given up, as they con-
Mined only ordinary memoranda. The betting-books were
detained, and were now in court. (A pile of them was pro-
duced.)
By Mr. Sleigh —Sim* the conviction the house had been
well conducted, and not the least complaint had now to be
made of it or of the appellant.
Inspector Webb was next called—He mid he accompanied
his superintendent on the 0001114Unt and took from the land-
lord 8001., and the sums found us the others varied down to
a few shillings and coppers. He found there iu the room
sporting books, " Ruts amide," handicap lists, cards,
bearing the names of horses spinet which marks were
placed ; some of them were taken from the person, other.
were found under sesta where they bad been thrown when
the police entered. He wan present at the licensing meet-
lag held previous to this visit, and heard the chairman
caution the victualler., the appellant of course among them,
that where betting was allowed the magistrates would neither
renew nor treader a license. It was well known that
betting was carried on in this "subscription-room," as it
was termed, and that persons resorted there for that pur-
pose only. He produced the books taken in the room.
Police-constable 298 A mid be went to the house on
March 28, 1859, in plain clothes, by order, and went up
stairs to the subscription.rmau. There were about thirty
persons present. Betting was going on, and he heard 100
crowns laid to 1 about the Earl winning the Northampton.
shire Stakes. The talk was all about betting, and the
company were making hets all among each other. He war
in the room when the superintendent and Webb entered on
the 4th of April.
Mr. Sleigh then proceeded to address the bench on behalf
of theappellant, and submitted that the license might be
planted on every principle of Meek*. The licensing magi..
Mates having refused to renew the license to the appal.
last, he had sought their sanction for transferring it
on three moasions, but they had refused, as he
(Mr. Sleigh) believed, with some regret, as they
felt themselves bound by the pledge, given formally
by their chairman, that they would not transfer a license
refused to be renewed under such circumstances. With re-
Tact to what the appellant had been convicted of, which
so,etreltsw htilhlaiedend vindicated, vio6titlieoanp;fetitentiaLifpliitiC;Were
his
penalty of 501., he submitted to it, and said he would
come to this court and ink them either to grant him the
license to continue to carry on the house himself, or to be
allowed to treader it to tome one else. There was a highly
respectable person, Mr. Pick, ready to take it, if ties court
would not sanction Mr. Butt continuing to conduct the
house ; and what objection amid there be to that either in
law or in justice ? Mr. Butt had been described as a betting
mot, but why should that have been imported into the case
to prejudice him in that which he was sacking? bid not the
highest and noblest in tie land bet—and, if such specati
were illegal, where was the limit Look at the Stook
Exchange, the Corn Exchange, the ditto° market, and see
the transactions carried on there—not only there but in
almost every branch of commerce. The same term 'meld
apply to the Pl'olllllol this country, or any other person,
however high or noble, who went upon the tart, and why
should it he applied to this appellant to prejudice hien in
Ibis important imestion of his lissome, when the same
was dime openly and avowedly by hundreds and
of others? This maalted conducted Ms hewn
and respectably 'ter tea years, yet he was brought
the Betting Ad, taiib wee pummel ID pet dews awe bet-
ting elkope, which unipeastiopabiy Imre a moral posiname,
where the yaw ead inexperienced were lured to eptealete
nil always with of their own, bemuse, forsoMk, he
we bind! a Ids who interested himself in Making in ;
nod whim .worm ewe a mu aseraely who did net •

I forced construefiles of *et sot the eppellaht had 1, • m
brought within its operation ; he had suffered for it ; the
law, If he had broken it, had been justified and viudicated,
sod he now appealed to the sense of justice of this court, iu
which the element of mercy as well ought not to be entirely
overlooked, to give him back the Lionise which the justices
below had deprived hint J. so that be might continue to
anakeel his house as lwastofore himself. of mune without
the eiseheiveret mum remng s to some tn. ONO tt US
'Mit so vrihad it. The bench would bear in mind that
this betting did not take place in public, indiscriminately,
over the muster, bat in a private room upstairs, on the door
of which " Subscnption Room " was written long before
Mr. Butt had the house, and that there was not now the
least police complaint against either the house or the ap
paean.
The gasietant Judge then put the question, awl the
appal was rejected almost unanimously, the appellant to
pa gists.
Mr. Kenisheed called attention to the short time that bad
dbetween the issuingof .the dews and the day
aring, and said that with respect to apresla on new,
licenses, magistrates bed not bed tune lie visit the houses to
tte for themselves as to the requirements of the neigh-

—After Mane discussion, it was resolved to postpone the
appeals ia the new ems fora fortnight, and to proceed with
them to leting to renewals.
Mr. Boland mid he had to apply to the court is rasped
of theme of Nathaaiel Lengham, who appended spinet the
refusal of the justices of the Strand division to renew a
Seem to him for the Cambrian Stores, isioeslerequarn
Be wee intructed to my that Mr. Edwin JOHNS, who was
lathe ease, was sot fully prepared to proceed with it then,
and there ware other reason, why it should be postponed,
as it wee necessary for further information to be obtained.
Mr. Serjeant Ballantine (specially retained with Mr. Met.
mail said there was mother in. in the bat, that of BOOM
WAS MOM, and if the case of m were to Mad over,
be should wish that Carnet's I=kita also. Langliese's wan •
Mt to mien sad he should auk the court to take the ores
as they stood, lianghain's first, for reasons which be need
mitt= Mee, but it would be very desirable that Oausit's
amid Issilie taken by itself, but follow that of Imseem.
Mr. Antrobus, chairman of the Strand division, said be
meal Dot see say reason for sot taking Count's apart from
• ; they were quite dirtiest cam.
V.aafferjeant Balkans° said am had an indirect bearing
upon the other, and he should prefer that they should be
taken is order, lainglisin's before Cannes,
A din:union ensued, in which it was suggested that those
two cases Mendel go over to the day for appeals on the DOW
lissome, which proposition was much objected to, and
eventually it was decided that they should stand adjourned
to this day week, and be then beard by themselves.
William Miller appealed "gained the refusal of the justices
of the Hanoverequare division to renew a lianas to the
George South-street, Berkeleyequare.
Mr.Metcalfe said this license was refused, the landlord
having been convicted of two offences committed on sepa-
rate occasions. The appellant was a very respectable man,
end the gambling of which be bad been convicted had not
been a system, nor had it been continued. The police re-
ported very favourably, and, under all the circumstance',
the justices (for whom be appeared) thought they could, con-
sistently with their public duty, withdraw their opposition
to the appeal, and no doubt the appellant would profit by
the wanting which the case the court had decided would
afford to all interested in such matters.

The license was granted.
James Coring appealed against the refusal the Strand
justices to renew a license to the Three Tuns, in Houghton-
, street, Clare-market.
Mr. Metcalfe appeared for the appellant; Mr. Keene for
the respondents.
In this case there had been a complaint of • conviction
about liquor being served after eleven o'clock one Sunday
Klett
A savant and a eciestable of the P division gave • his-
tory of something concerning a stolen quart pot, and •
woman being carried away dead drunk on a stretcher, at
half-s 4 eleven at night. The sergeant would persist that it
was P.M.," he repented it a half-dosen times at least, and
talked about "civilians," as mitre-distinguished from the
police, bet it was so jumbled together as to be seemly
understood, though it occasioned some entertainment.
It having been intimated that the justices did not wish
to press the opposition,
The AmisteaLludge took the opinion of the court, and
tits license was restored to the appellant.
These were the only cases in the list as to renewals
(encept amt sad Lamina's), and the court adjourned.
The agenda paper for the county day has been issued,
and it contains a supplemental notice that the election of
of gas meters, under the "Sales of Gas Act,"
inspectors plies on the day appointed, "in consequence
of • ormsmonication from the Board of Trade."