The Express.
London, England, 1867-03-05 00:00:00

LONDON, TL: I.NDAY EVENING, MARCH 5, 1867.

ab, Ent,'ligence.

COURT OF BAN KRUPTCY. —MAl:tit 4.
(Before Mr. Commissioner Goulburn.)
IN RE GEORGE FREDRICK ',RITE.

The Li:mkt-mit was a solicitor, of St. Swithin's-lane.
The liabilities amount in the aggregate to it, of
which o large portion has le en incurred in connection with
various riilway and other schemes, sonic of which had
failed to obtain the sanction or parliament. The assets
and property held are returned at upwards of 40.000/.
hut some are of a doubtful character, consisting of chains
on the prouloti rs of companies whose undertakimp. have
not met with public approval.
This was the sitting for discharge. Mr. Graham, the
official assignee, stated that only 90/. had come into his
hands.

Mr. Munns, for the assignees, stated that they had
examined the bankrupt fully as to the character of the
alleged assets, but the result was not favourable. About
?AY. had come into the hands of the awignees, and 200 f.
had been applied in defraying current expenses. The
assignees lib' not ask for any further adjournment, be.
lieving that the only effect would be to dissipate the small
remaining amount of assets.
Mr. Lawrence, for the bankrupt, add that Mr. Thorpe,
a creditor, had opposed at the last sitting, and had
obtained leave to examine the bankrupt at a private
sitting ; that sitting had recently been held, hut the cre-
ditor declined to take any part in it, alleging that he had
not had sufficient notice of the meeting.
Mr. Reed, for the opposing creditor, complained of the
want of notice, and asked for an :uljournment, with a view
to another private sitting being held.
Ultimately an adjournment was ordered, the question of
costs being reserved.

1 insist on your coming down. He came down and
swore at her very much, and he gave her one kick in the
stomach. It was a very violent kick. His wife never said
• word, only breathed like a gurgling in her throat. We
asked him to let us fetch a cab, and he said, " No cab
shall fetch her, nor shall any doctor come here to see her."
He said, "If you are a neighbour take her upstairs." I
told him I conld not, and then he took hold of her, began
to cry. and said he was the best doctor for her. He was
quite drunk.
Mrs. Harriet Hawkins said-1 am the wife of Charles
Francis Hawkins, cab proprietor of 13, Verulain-street.
The prisoner lived with his wife in a room on the second
floor of my house. She confirmed the evidence of the
previous witness with reference to the kick, but could not
say whether it was on the stomach.
Charles Francis Hawkins, • child, who said he should
be nine years of nge next April, was examined by Mr.
Cooke as to the nature and the responsibilities of taking
an oath, and having answered the question with great in-
telligence, he was sworn, and said—On Saturday, • little
before my mother came home, I saw Mrs. Snelling coming
down stairs, and she fell as I was going up the stairs.
She fell front the third stair to the bottom. She did not
scream or say a word. She was drunk. She fell back-
want and rolled over to the bottom of the stain. She laid
there, and I went up and saw the prisoner, who was on the
second floor stairs. He came down, picked her up by the
shoulders, and "bashed" her head on the stairs and her
face as well. He turned her over to " bash" her face. He
did it wilfully, and he was drunk. She never said a word
when be did it. She could not, as she had only a little
breath in her. Re did that three or four times.

Police constable Le:iieet7l;2,lfiiiTs;;ClJAbout half.
past 9on Saturday night last I was sent for to the pri-
soner's house. When I got there I went up to the second
floor front and saw the prisoner sitting on the side of the
bed, and his wife lying on the bed. The prisoner was cry-
ing. I looked at the woman and thought she was dead.
The prisoner said, "For God's sake fetch a doctor." I
went for Dr. Norton, and he mane hack with me and exa-
mined the woman, and pronounced life to be extinct, and
said she had been dead for some time. Prisoner was
drunk.

Mr. Cooke remanded the prisoner fora week, and di-
rected that the medical man should be in attendance.

MARLBOROUGH-STREET.

Thomas ii%dxl, an inmate of the workhouse of St.
Georges. Hanover-square, Mount street. was charged,
before Mr. Tyrwhitt, with stealing a suit of clothes, of
the value of 21. Os. ;id., the property of the guardians of
the poor of St. Georges, Hanover•quare.
R,bert Plowright, porter at the workhouse, raid that on
the 50th of January the prisoner, who was an inmate of
the workhouse, went out wearing a new suit of clothes,
and nothing more was seen of I him till Saturday evening
last, when he came to the workhouse and asked to be ad-
mitted as a tramp. He was admitted, and afterwards
given into custody by order of the muter.
Mr. George Cole, the master of the workhouse, ex-
plained that the guardians provided each of the inmates
with a respectable suit of clothes, different to the usual
workhouse clothing, so that when they went to visit
their friends it should not be known they wereinmates
of a workhouse. On asking the prisoner what he had done
with the clothes, ho stated that he got drunk and lost
them.

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Mr. Tyrwhitt said he had no doubt the prisoner had
pledged the clothes, and he would rem►nd him to give an
opportunity of making inquiries respecting them.

*parting intelligence.

TATTERSALLII—Noxosy.

The subscription room waswell attended to-day, but owing to
seven) of the members taking their departure at an early hour
for Liverpool, business was of a comparatively brief duration.
The Grand National was, as a matter of course, the chief me-
dium of speculation : and Shakespeare, who has within the last
two or three days become all the rage, was suppirted in several
quarters. and in the aggregate for a lane amount. In the first
instance if to 1 was laid, but at the finish backers contented
themselves with a point less. Shangarry, who came with crush
at the clubs In the morning, kept his newlysscifulred position
at 10 to I, and King Arthur was still In favour at 100
to 8. Cortolvin was in moderate emus :if, and backed for
good money, but the supporters of lan holding sot for a point
more than the odds offered, did not book her name. A
gentleman, having a c ~,,,, OiS6lOll In favour of Tennyson, was
disappointed in his endeavours to obtain 25 to 1, and the
same hitch occurred with rensw.ppeecctt to Globule : the first-
named, however. met with occasional 'support at 20 to I. Ge-
nicer, and Silver star, both of whom were in force In the early
part of the day, were quiet at 20 to 1 offered, although In all
probability the coneession of a few points would still have found
takers. Dennot Author, and Doctor were on a par, 25 to 1
being taken and offered about each. Little Wideawake was
supported at 40 to 1, and the same price was accepted to a
Milted amount about the "old stager." Thomastown. Colum-
hie, who we. once first favourite for this race, was dismissed to
the rear rank with 50 to 1 offered, and the desperate price of
0,, to I was laid against ShampuTy'a stable companion, Clansman.
The disgrace,' favourite, Sunny, whosecase haslatterly appeared
hopeless, was offered to lie laid against at 1000 to 5 without a
response. The Liverpool event so completely absorbed attention
that scarcely anything else was Introduced, and beyond the
backing of nautili for the Two Thousand for X5OO. nothing oc-
mired calling for remark. The prices at the close were as
follow: