The Express.
London, England, 1866-06-12 00:00:00

Matto Intelltiinta.

EQUITY COURTS.—JuNs 11.
(Baton the Master of the Rat.)
STRAND HOTZL CONTANT.

A petition was presented by a contributory for winding
up this company, which was established fee building an
hotel, assembly-roam, and shops in the filmindZs
street, and liolywell-street. The company took a •
lease of a large quantity of land, upon winch they bad •
out upwards of 30,0001. in building many shops, now com-
pleted, but the hotel and other buildings are only
CT/rfinished. The company for want of funds
eaped for nine months to wry on the build-
ing operation. The rent, too, being in arrear,
the landlord had distrained for it, and brought
an action of ejectment spinet the company, which, how-
ever, had been re, ,Whimd by this court pending the hearing
of the petition. The company had come to a resolution
to wind up voluntarily under the unpervision of the court,
and the question was whether the order should be for a
compulsory winding up by the court, or under its super-
vision. The order, as made by his lordship, was to wind
up under the supervision of the court—the liquidator to
be appointed at chambers.
Mr. Jesse! and Mr. Cottrell for the petitioners ; and Mr.
Selwyn and Mr. Roxburgh for the company.

(Before Vioe-Chaaoellor Sir J. Stuart.)
IN RE THE CONSOLIDATED BANE (LIMITED).

Mr. Wickens smeared in this matter on behalf of the
provisional official liquidator, who had been appointed by
the Vice-Chancellor Kinderaley, and said there was some
ground to apprehend that the order to wind up the bank,
which had been made by this court, on Friday last, would
interfere with the steps which the liquidator wit about to
take in the matter.
The Vice-Chancellor said. that the order which he had
made on Friday, was stopped on Saturday. The official
liquidator must act, if at all, under the order of the judge
who had appointed him ; and his Honour thought there
would now be no difficulty in the matter.
Mr. Melina, Q.C., Mr. Greene, Q.C., Mr. Cracknail, and
Mr. Swindon were in the case.
The order obtained on Friday was stopped on Saturday,
after the rising of the court, on the application of the
petitioner who had obtained it.

CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT.

(Before Mr.

Kerr.)

Thomas Richard Hall, a respectable looking man, sur-
rendered to take his trial upon the charge of stealing a
quantity of leather, the property of William Frederick
Rock and others.
Mr. Giffard, Q.C., was specially retained with Mr. Sleigh
and Mr. Healey to prosecute; Serjesint Ballantine, also
specially retained, and Mr. Metcalfe, appeared for the
prisoner.
The prosecutors in this case carry on an extensive busi-
ness as wholesale stationers in Walbrook, and the prisoner
had been in their service for several years as foreman. He
was discharged in the month of February last, and in con-
sequence of some information that came to the knowledge
of the prosecutors shortly afterwards, one of the firm
went to the prisoner's residence, accompanied by
Scott, a City detective' and • quantity of white
leather, such as is used for lining purses, was
found, which the prosecutors identified as their
property. At the time the discovery was made the pri-
soner
made an observation to the effect that he was not so
black as he bad been painted, and that he had done no
more than had been done by other* who were in Messrs.
Rock's employment. The defense that was set up for the
prisoner was that he had no felonious intention in taking
the property, but intended to pay for it, and in cross-ex-
amination it was elicited that upon previous occasions the
prisoner had taken articles from the stock of the prose-
cutors, which he had worked up at his own house, and
which he had paid for.
Serjeant Ballantine made an able address to the jury
on behalf of the prisoner, and he called a number of re-
spectable witnesses who gave him an excellent character.
The jury retired to consider their verdict, and after an
absence of an hour, returned into court with a verdict of
Guilty, acoompanyiw it with a recommendation to merry.
Mr. Commissioner Kerr, after consulting the alderman
who sat with him, sentenced the prisoner to two years'
imprisonment with bard labour in the House of Correc-
tion, remarking that, but for the recommendation of the
jury, the sentence would have been one of penal servi-
tude.

Thomas Newman was convided of a burglary in the
house of Harvey Greenfield, and stealing therein a bottle
of brandy, on the night of the 10th May last.
The prosecutor is the landlord of the Windsor Castle, at
Old Ford, and early on the morning of the 11th May the
prisoner was met on his way from that place to Bethnal-
green, carrying a heavily filled basket, by an intelligent
police sergeant, who stopped him and asked what he had
got. The prisoner replied that he had only his plumber's
tools. The officer, however, crammed the haalcot, and,
besides tools such as housebreakers might use, it contained
a bottle of brandy, which was identified by the prosecutor
as his property. It was then found that the cellar had
been forcibly entered, and the entrance bore marks corre-
sponding with some of the tools found in the prisoner's
basket. _

The prisoner, who WWI not previously known to the
police, was sentenced to 18 months' imprisonment, with
hard labour. . . .

The Common Serjeant was occupied in trying Mint
cases in the New Court, but no case of novelty or interest
occurred.