The Express.
London, England, 1858-05-24 00:00:00

THE EXPRFSS, MONDAY EVENING, MAY 24, 1868.

of human intelligens. The question wee, bad ther=
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they were entitled to say to this court, " We, as
hare 6 right to our certillose." Had they ever shown
lisusives entitled to preludes P They had certaialy
diem seeiteetoes attention Is Ifs interests of their me-
Ors does their bantiregesy, sad Kr. G the
add argark hod espered his peat
tick serer If the sour kis week pare at
aD theircendeet before their the sniper
wen sot deakens of interposing any le • lenleat
cossideestien et the case, but they left it with dr kart.
Ns. JAM/at rid the bankrupts could lei eseeplain of
west of ingerienes. They wen net wither ~sins, for la
11111 the lea 101 stupsnded murk The pest ground
tapieki ene est Itrdegedis ef the ensineres lad been
by the lerbugle le thsk rhea leeke—the
eel the hiswery. The rimer le Ideegiterson led
km ash in the rest maim roses,and thin was no
preef an ass single eterion, had they asked fir
ef Mien her ids led been
Ind net MO bar the innintris le bin. The het =di
albs was t
npiddhisin Orr he west abroad mar here
reinesil he hug before their failure, that the
dub/ was kirkbbeeppuMkasar. Nordic's debt, in like manor,
W beat i• Ibir hair den yews, end hed gone on inereseleg.
That deli led been estintsted in 1852 as worth 6,8261. ;
they only asesnel dna to have had a surplus of 11,0001., ear
hat of which lodoneed to the father's estate ; consequently,
this debt turning oat% be bad, the surplus muddled at once.
In 1886 a farther Is. of 3,0001. was known te have been in-
curred by Thompson's debt. They had still pre on slating
hiregrary pride. by competing interest on these bed debts,
when, to many, there were no poke whatever, the business
ban eostbeeted at an absolute lose The bank had been
kept ops from 1862, merely as a convenience, and for the
purposed the bankrupts themselves. In het, In the interval
sines Way, 1862, notwithetandhsg the bad debts then existing
Is the amount of 42,8404 they bad iaourred other bed and
&Judd debts of 50,4901. Thus had they squandered azati
the hard earnings of those who had deposited
them for safe custody. When the stoppage, so lettleatY•di
at length came, to meet debts of 110 0004 they had only
90,000 f. of assets. In the list of creditors thine were no lees
than sixty-six sick clubs and bens& societies, to the amount
of 8,2001. There were forty. eight executors and twelve trus-
tees who were creditors for 20,0001. There were ninety
holders of notes for 1,2951, end 700 dqoieters and customers,
whose claims amounted to 98,1222. The result of the
failure had been to reduce many from a state of comfort to
one Of poverty, and So involve many reroute of carousers and
trainees in expensive • on. Be submitted that the car-
t/Sues should be raheed altogether, and that the protection
ought so be withheld.

Mr. Leyte, for the bankrupta, 'eked far en adjournment,
It Wag then kelf-past font o'clock.

'MIDDLESEX SESSIONS

(Balm tha Amitteat Judge, it Westaitotter.)
Tll ILP/AL 0111113011 00/1/PANIAL-APPIAL.

Seaowlhoard Nedeeild, a driver in the employment of
the General Omnibus Company, an the Brerepton line, ap-
pealed spinet a coasted= by Kr. Poynter, the police ma-
enads, tutelar ths Metropolitan Stage Carriage Act, for
wanton and reckless driving, and upon which be was sen-
tenced to two month M the House of Correction.

14. Metaslfa and Mt. F. 117;;; porTert the appeal,
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for the General Omnibus Company; Mr. H. Gifford ap-
in support of the conviction for the Metropolitan
Omnibus Company.
This case arose from the system of " nursing" pursued by
the drivers of the two companies, and it wee alleged against
the appellant that on one occasion, in the Broom-
ton-road, be wantonly his horses in the way of one of
the Saloon cennibtures, which, by the oollision that waned,
was drives into•• cab-rank. As to the fact of which driver
wee to blame then wee testimony. the witnesses
on one aide averring that the t wee not to blame, and
that the collision wee owing to hie endeavouring
to avoid a brotigham, end through the carelmenses of the
Babas driver ; on the other, that it was a deliberate
end wanton gewgaw an the pert of the appellant.
It was &pond that • great deal of " slang" and char'
bad ban exchanged betimes the drivers, Lod that one bad
several times threatened to double the other and his omnibus
up, while the " nursing" wee gotag on.
The court, after • long hearing, decided that in the terms
of the &eviction the appellant bad been proved guilty of
an bet d wanton and realms driving, and that the convic-
tion was a one.
The t wee therefore committed to the House of
Correction, to undergo the term of two months' imprison-
ment

Ardstaat Judge said he learnt from magistrates who
at ht Petty fiessione that theme cease of drivers running
against eas another were very frequent. By such conduct
the amity 01 the public was trepanned, sad the pro=ters
themselves ought to strictly prohibit an of the
Costs wen ordered against the appe which would be
paid by the ccenpany.

Vary Ann Gro;;;;;;-indkt;r for keeping a common
26, Upper Creorge-strest, Edgware-road; mums
and liar, Oaainp, the like, 26 Cirreoester-plaos • and
Theism Brain, the Won 4, Buckingham-street, Meryl:Acne.
They pleaded guilty, and were ordered to enter into sureties
to appear for judgment at the next asenons.
These oases were rerouted by the parkh Marylebor,
which wee represented by Mr. Moos* instructed by it,.
Randall. The counsel for the dehndante were Mr. Cooper,
Mr. Sleigh, Mr. Ribton, and Mr. F. H. Lena.
Mr. Metcalfe pruned that the defendants should be
punished by way of example, particularly sa they bad been
conducting their horse sine ray wen indicted le the
erne way es bans, but the court thought the ennui adopted
ealikdent at t, but if the ddnadrite did not deist
from their Ira k they would be punished sevently.
wake'', Goners Barlow, convicted on a former day of
obtaining money from a publicise by fake reresentations
about moan property in Chancery, was brought up far
aat jadg-
A km. coavicdon for fraud was put in against him,
ea the court sentenced him to twelve months' hard labour.