The Express.
London, England, 1866-08-18 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, SATURDAY EVENING, AUGUST

NORTH LONI-OV RAILWAY.

COURT OF BANKRUPTCY.
(Before Mr. Commissioner Winslow.)
IP RI 18IDOR WATTA.—APPLICATION TOR RRLEARE.
This was an application for release from prison. The
bankrupt was described as formerly of Great Tower-street
and elsewhere, wine and spirit merchant and commission
agent for the side of wines, trading as L Matta and Co.,
since carrying on the same business at Bush-lane, Cannon-
street. He petitioned in forma pauperis, and front a
preliminary statement which he has filed, it appears that
his debts and liabilities amount to 10,950/., against which
he has claims of nearly 9,5001. upon other parties. The
failure was ascribed to bad debts and heavy losses on con-
signments of wines and spirits.
Mr. Holt, from the office of Mr. Costley, supported the
application. He said that there were two detainers, and
in respect of one of them there was no opposition.
Mr. Langton said he opposed on behalf of Messrs.
Wisdom and Warter, of Mark-lane, wine merchant+,
the detaining creditors, and they objected to the bankrupt
being released. He was instructed that considerable diffi-
culty had been experienced in serving the bankrupt with
the process under which his arrest was effected.
His Honour dismissed the application, but said the
bankrupt might renew it after the sitting for choice of
assignee. had taken place.

THE POLICE COURTS.
(THIS DAY.)

CLERKBNWELL.
COMMITTAL OF FOCR FEMALE BURGLARS.
Emily Blundell, aged 17, • servant out of place, who
gave her address at • low 1 -house in Blue Anchor-
alley • Eliza Kinsella, aged 17, of no occupation, of No. 1,
Macclesfield-place, St. Luke's ; Jane Stephens, aged 14, of
no home, a servant, and Jane Crooks, aged 16, having no
fixed place of abode, • cap front maker, were charged before
Mr. D'Eyncourt with burglariously breaking ame entering
the dwelling-house, No. 12. Waterloo-place, St. Luke's,
and stealing one petticoat, one shawl, two ooats, and other
articles, the property of Mr. Frederick Gregory, metal re-
finer.
Mr. Ricketts, solicitor, prosecuted.
The facts of the case are very simple. Between 1 and 2
in the morning the inhabitants of the house broken into
were alarmed by hearing persons walking about in the
parlours, and they at once called for police. Their cries
for assistance brought police-constables Smith, 95 G, and
' Baker, 74 G, to the spot and they at once found that au
entry had been made by working back the bolt that
fastens the shutter in the front parlour ; and the thieves,
having gained admission, stripped the place, as nearly
everything in the shape of wearing apparel had been re-
moved. The constables then searched for the prisoners, and
found three of them in a water closet, and near them a
large bundle containing some of the prosecutor's clothing.
Before they were told the charge, the prisoners
said "We have have not taken anything, and if
the house is broken into we did not do it for we had
nothing to do with it." On the opposite side of the way the
constables went to another closet, and there found the
prisoner Crooks, and near her was a parcel containing
some o: the prosecutor's goods. No men were seen near
the spot, and about a quarier of an hour before the alarm
was given, the prisoners were seen near the prosecutor's
house, and they were allknown to the police as companions.
The prisoners, in answer to the charge, said that they
were innocent, and as for committing • burglary.
bow could they do that? They had only just gone
to the place where the police found them, and then of
course they being there the police were bound to say they
were guilty.
The constables said they found on one of the prisoners •
knife, which appeared to have been used in effecting an
entry to the prosecutor's premises.
Mr. D'Eyncourt said it was a case he could not settle,
and committed the prisoners to the Central Criminal Court
for trial.

MARLBOROUGH-STREET.
DIFRIACEPtI. CONDVIT TOWARDS PFMALES IN HYDE-PARK.
Jutu Long, writer, of 2, Upper Dorsetatreet, Pimlico,
was charged before Mr. Tyrwhitt with insulting females in
a most disgraceful manner in Hyde-park.
After hearing the evidence of three children, and Howes,
park constable, No. 14,
The prisoner denied the charge.
Mr. Tyrwhitt said there could not be the slightest doubt
about the prisoner's guilt, and as there had been two mutes
proved he should commit the prisoner for three months,
with hard labour for each offence, or six months in all.

WANDSWORTH.
EXTRAORDINARY CASE Or ANNOYANCE.—BURNING AN
EFFIGY.
Four young men, named William Whidle, John Mayn't,
Alfred PeMier, and William Pedall, appeared before Mr.
Daymen, to answer adjourned summonses for insulting
behaviour to Mr. Henry James Hoebottom, of Chat-
ham-road, Wandsworth-common.
Mr. Haynes appeared to support the summonses, and
Mr. Wilson for the defendants.
A number of witnesses were examined on both side'. The
case for the complainant was as follows:—He was in the
service of Mr. Broadwood, and by his industry he had been
enabled to purchase a plot of freehoidland in the Chatham-
road, and to build a house in which he now lived. Nearly
opposite a house had been built to which a public-house
license had been granted, and in consequence of his com-
plaining of the conduct of that house he had been sub-
jected to a species of annoyance, and he had also been
threatened that he should not live iu his house. On the
7th iust., the complainant was attracted by a great
noise outside his house. He saw a great number of per-
sons, including the defendants, with a large effigy MK feet
in length, affixed to a frame. A witness described it as a
" regular guy," which was called " King Squatter," and
seine of the parties sang " Let us hang old Roebottoin on
the sour appletree." l'cttifer carried a lamp on the top of
a pole, and Mayall. who is the ostler at the public-house,
took hold of a leg of the effigy and attempted to strike the
complainant with it. The whole of the defendants
groaned and hooted at the complainant, and told him
that they had got his effigy. It also appeared that the
effigy was set on fire by Whistle, who is a lodger at the
public-house, close to the complainant's fence.
The defence wee that some children had the effigy and
called out three cheers for King Squatter, meaning Mayall,
who was known as " King John."
Mr. Dayman thought the case was proved, and said
be looked upon the conduct of the defendants as
being disgraceful, for nothing was more likely to
create a breach of the peace. He fined Whistle and
Mayan 40s. and 10s. costs, or one month's imprisonment
each, and the other two defendants each '2os. and 10s.
costs, with the alternative of 14 days' imprisonment.
The defendants paid t'se money.

LAW INTELLIGENCE.
(THIS DAY.) I The following is the report of the directors of the
North London Railway, to be presented at the half-yearly
meeting at Easton-station on the 22nd inat•nt :—" The ac-
counts, herewith submitted to the proprietors, exhibit •
result for the past half-year which must be considered as
highly satisfactmi. The receipt', compared with the cor-
responding period of the previous year, are as under :
186 x. 1805 Increase.
Paisengars
Merchrndire and Ilinerals 54,404 .. 49,027 .. 5,437
Live Stock 2,100 .. 1,709 .. 391

Total 1:138.7d0 L 98,030 £42,150
The expenses, on the other hand, are necessarily increased,
but not to a greater extent than was anticipated , by the
additional cost of working, consequent on the opening of
the City Extension line and stations. The general
result, after providing for debenture interest, is
a disposable amount to the credit of revenue of
62,12!1/. 9s. 11(1., from which your directors recom-
mend that a dividend be declared on the preference
shares, at the rate of 4i per cent. per annum ; and on the
ordinary stock and shares at the rate of 6 per cent. per
annum; leaving a balance of 4,5787. 9a. 11d. to be car-
red forward to the current half-year. It should be ob-
served that the goods station at Brnad-street, now in
course of construction by the London and North Western
Company, being still unfinished, the earnings on the City
Extension Line do not include any receipts from that
source, whilst the interest and dividends on the entire
capital expended by this company, form a charge against
revenue. A new station has, during the past half-year,
been constructed at Poplar, with the view to passenger li
traffic over the line between Bow and Poplar, which has
hitherto been used for merchandise and mineral traffic
only ; arrangements have also been made for the con-
struction of an additional station between Balaton
Junction and Shoreditch, by which increased facility
will be afforded for development of the messenger traffic.
No less than nine bills affecting this company were, during
the recent session of parliament, promoted by other par-
ties ; but in each case satisfactory clauses have been ob-
tained by negotiations, and the necessity avoided of any
p..rliamentary contest. Your directors have deemed it
prudent to defer making calls on the share capital during
the pressure which has prevailed in the money market 131
through the past half-year ; capital will, however, be re- !I,
quired during the current six months to carry out the ;
works authorised at previous half-yearly meetings. The g
amount of capital raised by preference shares being now g
fully called up, a resolution will be submitted to authorise S
their conversion into preference stock. The director's re- S
gret to have to repot I the death of Mr. C. J. Sanderson,
one of the auditors of the company, by whose decease a
vacancy is created, which it will be necessary to fill up on
the present occasion by the election of a successor."

We (Western Tim-s) regret to announce the death
of the only child of Sir John and Lady Guendolen Kaman
(daughter of the Duke of Somerset). The deceased infant
was a daughter, and was born only about six weeks ago.

We (Army and Navy Gazette) deeply regret to
find that the change in the pay and position of the naval
medical officers has not produced the beneficial effect
which might have been expected by the Admiralty. We
understand that no fresh candidates of an improved cha-
racter have come forward for examination since the issue
of the circular which lately appeared in our columns. It
is quite evident that the popularity of the naval service
wan reduced to so low an ebb in the chief medical schools

of the country that it will not only require time, but pro-
bably the temptation of a further increase of pay, to bring
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it again into favour.
We have much pleasure (says the A rnty and
Nary Gazette) in announcing that General Sir George
Wetherell, G.C.8., has been appointed Governor of the
Royal Military College in succession to the late Sir Harry
Jones. General Wetherall's long and valuable services li
pre-eminently entitle him to so substantial a reward, s
while his sagacity and clear judgment, undimmed by age,
will no doubt exercise a most beneficial influence on the ii
institution. Major-General Henry Sandham, Governor of
the Royal Military Academy, is to be appointed a Colonel-
Commandant of the Royal Engineers in the room of Sir

Harry domes.
QUEEN EMMA OF H -
HONOLULU.—Queen Emma's
visit to England is beginning to show some results. On
Wednesday Mr. Slater, the architect, received instructions
to put in band immediately the first portion of his design
for the church which is to form the modest cathedral of
that newest and smallest of national churches, and at the
Lune time the monument of the remarkable man the late
King, who was the founder of that church in his island
kingdom. The portion thus undertaken consists of the
choir with a circular apse and an aisle running all round,
and the tower,which stands at the north-west of the choir.
The style is English-Gothic of the early dc:orated period.
The church will not he very large or ornate, but finely
proportioned. The cost of the part undertaken is a little
over a,OOOl. It is hoped that the other 5,0001. will be
speedily forthcoming.
EARLY CLOSING ON SAFI' RDA YS.—lt Will be

within the recollection of our readers that at a meeting of
ladies held about a month since at Stafford House, on the
invitation of the Duchess of Sutherland, it was decided to
make an effort to obtain a weekly half-holiday for those
employed in the retail establishments of London, particu-
larly of the West-end. The linendrapers' and the mercers'
trades were selected for the primary experiments, and,
after hearing of the arguments adduced in favour of such a
course, 34 of the leading houses agreed to make the essay
by closing their business at 2 o'clock on Saturdays. So far
the experiment, we believe, has proved satisfactory, and
38 other houses in various retail trades have adopted the
same course, while a large number of smaller houses have
determined to close at sor 6 o'clock on Saturdays, which
will afford great relief to the numerous persons who are
employed by them.
NARROW ESCAPE.—On Tuesday, about noon, Mr.
S. Wilke, M.D., of London, who is staying with his family
st the Alexandra Hotel, Scarborough, started (alone) to
walk along the sands, expecting to reach ',Hey. After
walking about five mike, he found the projecting rucks
hindered his further progress. He attentpted to retrace
his steps, hut the tide basing risen considerably he was soon
hemmed in. He promptly sought refuge in the cliffs ; when
the title receded it had become dark, so that he thirst not
come down, but was obliged to remain the whole night, and
unfortunately when dat light appeared the tide luid again
returned anti he was compelled to wait for hours. Search
was made, but without effect. On 'Wednesday morning
Mrs. W'ilks and her son proceeded to Filet', and having no
tidings of him engaged the services of some fishermen,
who, with the assistance of ropes, went over the cliffs and
explored the rocks After searching in vain fur sonic
time, they found that Dr. Wilke, exhausted, had crawled
over the rocks to the door of a small cottage built upon
the beach, asking admission. The poor woman seeing his
wretched condition, at once admitted him, and %annuls.
tered a little brandy to him. His clothes, which were
saturated to the neck, were immediately taken off, and he
was put to bed, and messengers were afterwards despatiled
to Scarborough for a carriage, by which he was taken home
to his hotel.
ALAKM I Zit ; RAILWAY Al 'CID EN T. —On Thursday
an accident of a very alarming character, but fortunately
unattended with loss of life, took place at Walton June.
tion, about 100 yards beyond the semaphore on the Cheshire
Junction Railway. Shortly after 1 o'clock, as a goods train
was being shunted front the down to the up rails—the
position of the train being *cross the line—it suddenly
became stationary, and a guard'. van e ntl a lurry containing
poplars were left on the up rails. Before any step could be
taken to remedy this state of affairs the 1.28 express train
from Warrington to Chester came up at express speed and
dashed into the lurry and van with great violence,
pitching them over the down rails. The collision was a
serious one, as may be supposed, and the passengers in the
express train were more or less knocked about in the car-
riages. One gentleman was severely hurt, and several
others received cuts and bruises, but they were not very
serious. A remarkable incident occurred in connection
with the collision. One of the poplars in the lurry, by
some means difficult to imagine, was forced right through
one of the compartments of a first-class carriage in which
a lady and gentleman were seated, and their escape from
injury, if nut from instant death, must be regarded as pro-
, vidential. The lady and gentleman referred to were Lord
and Lady De Tabley.— Warrington Guardian.
EXTRAORDINARY ROBBERY BY RATS. —.k short
time ago Mr. Parks, superintendent of police at Appleby,
received information that a leather purse containing
241. in gold, belonging to George Belles, had been
stolen from a bedroom at Strickland HalL He pro-
ceeded' to the spot, and made a careful investigation
into the affair. It appears that on retiring to bed,
about 11 o'clock, on the previous night, Mr. Belles
had left the puree containing the 201. and other 71.
loose in his pocket, and on rising at 5 o'clock next
morning be found that a hole had been made in the
Pocket, that the purse and its contents bad been ab-
stracted, and that the rest of the money was lying
scattered about the room. Suspicion attached to a
servant man who had occupied the same bed with the
unfortunate loser, and he was charged with the offence ;
' but when Mr. Parks came to examine the place, be
saw that the thief was a creature of a very different kind.
He found that the pocket had not been cut, but had been
gnawed through, while the fact of so much money being
found lying on the floor showed that the thief
was not one who cared much for the current
coin of the realm. Further inquiries put him in pos-
session of the fact that the house and outbuildings
were infested with rats, and be then became convinced
that the burglars were still lurking about the premises.
He accordingly sent for a joiner, and caused him to pull
up part of the bedroom floor, and also part of the stairs
landing, and the result showed that his theory was correct.
Under the landing boards the miming puns was found,
completely eaten through, part of the money lay close
beside it, and the rest was discovered under the bedroom
floor, about a yard att.—Westmoreland Gazette.
THIS PILCHARD FISHERY. —Several hundred boats
are now employed on the Cornish coast in the pilchard
fishery, which at present gives promise of a very produc-
tive 101:400il. Thus far the greatest catches have been as
the south coast, where, during the past few days, the
catches have averaged 4,000 per boat. Good prices have
been obtained, varying from Is. Bd. to 2s. 6d. per 120.
Large commissions are to bind for the ldediterranean
supply, but the stock in cellar it still but 'small. -