The Express.
London, England, 1867-12-31 00:00:00

LAW INTELLIGENCE.
(THUS DAY.)

COURT OF BANKRUPTCY.
ilk.fore Mr. Commissioner Winslow.)
IN NE BENNETT BARNCIT.
1..1nkl 1:0 Was a pi ture dealer and restorer,canying
• 1....•••tu -& .It •,, -
r, Piccadilly, and residing at Hydrpark-
,, The debts are No.
an application for release. Mr. Lucas opposed
f Wetherell, who was the landlord of the
Iby the bankrupt at Hyde-park•gate. Mr.
aui was in respect of rent and dilapidation.
~t had been bankrupt before, and there was no
.s.a•ting the release, the sitting for choice of
~et 6ea ing yet taken place.
supported, and said that the bankrupt
s,. wend.* in prison. He had no intention of
m.elf from the sittings of the court if his
granted. He had already been discharged by
,tsar from one detainer.
celiattivsioner—ls there anything for the creditors?
TI., ~,;rupt answered in the negative. He said that
, .„ tug away as fir as it would go before his

it,„ Il m .r said it did not appear that the creditors
:my benefit from the release of the bankrupt,
npl the application would stand over until after the
Lhoice bad taken place.
(Before Mr. Registrar Murray.)
IN RE GENN.IRO FARRAR!.
T • ' .krupt was a merchant, of Clewent's-lane, Lom-
t. -•, This was the first sitting. The adjudication
, ..... reditor's petition ; consequently no accounts
' tiled, but the liabilities are estimated at 17,000/.
ant of assets is not yet ascertained. Mr. Alfred
• ,•].. of Jewin-srreet. a representative of the Preston
, • r,mpany, was chosen trade assignee ; and Mr.
Ic dl ku..tecountant. Cheapside, was appointed manager
e, the estate. Messrs. Ashurst and Co. are the solicitors
..udLi the estate.

TSB POLICE COURTS.
(THIS DAY.)
MARLBOROUGH-STREET.
MUItDERAI. ATTAt I: ON A CONSTABLE WITH A HATCHET-
03131117t1L.FoR_TRIAL. _

TG...,;., a chairmaker, residing at No. it,
rpik.r kthbone.place, was charged before Hr. Tyrwhitt,
with ben.; tii,onlvrly and violently assaulting Police-con-
stable W Liter Griphy, 66 E, by striking him on the head
with a ktclic!.

Grigsby sal —About 3 o'clock this morning I was on
duty in Upt!or Itithbone-place, and saw the prisoner
standing oat Ins door abusing his wife who was In the
str et. The wife said she bad been in the street all night,
and was afraid to go indoors. She asked me if I would
protect her and I said I would. I spoke to the prisoner,
and tried to get them to go in together. The prisoner
went indoors and again came out into the street, and
began again making use of very bad language. I told him
that I should t ke him up, and went up to him to take him
into custody, when I received a blow from a hatchet,which
tame on tho brim of my helmet, and cut it through, and
cut my forehead just over the left temple. He then
dropped the hatchet and ran away through the passage into
the yard. I then broke the door open, and pulled him out,
and took him to the station, and hail my bead dressed.
Mr. Tyrwhitt—bid he say anything to you
Grigsby—He was offended with me for interfering with
him, and mid be would kill his wife if he was hanged for
it. Had it not been for the hatchet taking a slanting
direction I should have been seriously injured.
Alexander Sim, of Francis-street, Tottenhameourt
road, said—l was returning home this morning frun, a ball
when I heard a disturbance in Upper Rathbone-place, the
prisoner using had language towards his wife from the first
Moor window. The prisoner then comedown to the door, and
went in again, and came to the door a second time and
struck at the constable with something, but I cannot say
with what, saying something at the same time, but I was
not near enough to hear what. The prisoner's wife wise
in the street at the time. The constable told me that the
prisoner had struck him with a hatchet, and the constable
had blood running down his face. I afterwards saw the
hatchet in the constable's hand.

Thomas Austin, residing in the Name house, said—l live
in the same house u the prisoner. Some person in the
house told me that they had heard the prisoner say that
he would hare his wife's life if he was hanged for it. The
prisoner made a great disturbance ; my wife was confined
while it was going on, and my wife's nurse heard the pri-
soner threaten to kill his wife. I saw nothing of the assault,
but thought it to be my duty to come forward and state
what I have done.

Mr. Tyrwhit:::Tou have done q uite right.
Mr. Charles P. Skrimshire, assistant to Dr. Roma, of
No. I, Hart-street, Bloomsbury, the medical officer of
the E division of police, said—l was called this morn-
ing to the police-station to see the constable and
found he had a wound two inches in length on the
left temple, and it was such • wound as might
have been indicted with the hatchet produced. I attended
to the wound, which was not a very deep one.
Mr. Tyrwhitt—Do you, prisoner, wish to say anything?
You can do so or not, lust as you please ; but what you
say will be taken down, and may be used in evidence
against you.

-prisoner—The policeman hit me first, and knocked me
down twice before I struck him.
Mr. Tyrwhitt —Did you do so
crigeby—No, sir, I knocked him down after he struck
me.
Committed for triaL

MARYLEBONE.
tt.ILANT SPECIAL CONSTABLE.
Three lads named Page, Diggene, and Conway, were
charged with stealing a quantity of wet linen, and a man
named Srert-nr charged with receiving • sheet, well know-
ing it to be stolen.
\William Simpkins' residing at 146, Carlton-road,
Kentish town, a gardener and a special constable, pro-
duced a quantity of linen, and said last night he was
looking in at the window of the Mitre public-
how, Carlton-road, when he saw the prisoner Diggens
and donway drying some linen by the tire. Thinking
something wa, wr.4l.t, he went in and asked where they got
the things from? They said they belonged to Conway's
mother, and she had sent them to pawn them. Page
then brought in a pot of beer and some to-
bacco. Witness, thinking • robbery had been com-
mitted, add he would take them into custody,
at the same time telling them he was a special constable.
Page askel him for his authority. He told the landlord
to detain theia till be got assistance. They were all then
taken.
Rachel noel., servant to Mrs. Parisot, 17, Upper Park-
road, Ifaveretock-hill, said all the bundle of linen pro-
duced was her mistress's, and was missed from the back
garden.

Andrew,, 193 S, said he was called by Simpkins into the
tap-room. Conway said his mother gave them to him to
pawn ; and Diggena said as he was older he was going to
do it. Page said he only went in to give them some
beer.
Martin, 331 S, said he was on duty at the station
when the first three prisoners were brought in. Page
said they were stolen from No. 17, Park-road,
and that he had said Stevens a sheet for IA
He went and apprehended Stevens, and found the
sheet at his lodgings. It wax wet, and worth 9s. He also
found some more wet linen under the grate in the public-
house. This officer proved five former convictions against
Page. and previot, convictions against the others.
They were committed for trial.

WANDSWORTH.
THE .rri,-4.4 ASSAULT UPoN A DETECTIVE.
John War.;.,, surrendered to his hail to further answer
the charge of violently assaulting police-constable Roger,,
202 V, by striking him in the eye with his fist and also
with destroying Ina hat.
The assault took place in the Park Town Hotel,
Battersea, and not the Park Tavern, as previously
reported, and the case was adjourned to ewer-
tun whether there was any permanent injury to
the coostabit's eye. It will be recollected that the
constable way in plain clothes, and his duty called him
into the pubh.,howte. The prisoner pushed another man
against the constAle, who asked him the reason for doing
so. He made no st,,wer, but struck the constable a violent
blow in the ,ye. When before the magistrate the con-
stable's eye ap,eareel to be seriously injured.
The constaLl, now stated that his eye was quite well.
l'ir• 31'10 now lefended the prisoner, and produced a
written character from the clerk of the works in the erec-
tion of the 11.,p and 3141 t Exchange. He also urged upon
the magi•drate th:,t it was a Saturday evening disturbance,
the prisoner not knowing that be was a constable, and
therefore he hoped that he would take a lenient view of
the cane.

Mr. Ingham believed that it was an accidental public.
house row.
Inspector E non informed the magistrate that the
conitAle v.. tl,rre by direction of Sir Richard Mayne.
Mr. Mayo said his client believed the constable wee
going to hit, and he struck him, for which be was very
sorry.
`r. Ingham said it was a most unwarrantable assault.
flowerer, itto consideration prisoner's previous
goo character, he should only fine him 405., or 14 days'
earl labour.
The Conte.,blo asked to be paid the amount of damage to
to. hat. lie estimated the damage at ss.
Mr. inzhato thin ordered that amount to be paid in
addition to the tae.

TILE ACCII.ENT TO THI RIGHT How. W. E.
(4..‘1,,r0pt, 3f.P.—We are very happy in being able to
state. on the hest authority, that the injury to the right
h.m. member for South Lancashire is not so serious as wee
at Mat feare.l. The accident Longed contusion and abrasion
of the Cornea : for a time the elate of the organ gave cease
for ~harm to Mr. Gladstone end his friends, and even his
kedieal attendant, Dr. )(offal, of 11111,11rditill, was not
without doubts am to the consequences. Yesterday, how-
ever, the right hon. !gentleman was free from pain, was
found that the functions of the eye were unimpaired, and
WP uivivretand that the eye ie now se =ad " it was
before the accident. —Manchester Guardian.