The Express.
London, England, 1857-09-18 00:00:00

THE LONDON AND EASTERN BANNING

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Vice-Chancellor Sir W. Page Wood has fixed
Monday next for hearing the petition for the appointment of
an official liquidation in the cam of the London and EaMast
Banking Company. The esse, which wO.l be beard at
Ipswich, come before the Vice-Chancellor on the petition of
Dr. Abel Stuart, of South Bank, Itegenee-pa* and Mr.
G Duplex, of Torrington. &Owe, who state that very
shortly after the company had commenced business, the
directors commenced making advances out of the paid-up
capital to each other on insufficient, or without any security
other than persona, and eta rate of interest considerably
lower than ought to have been obtained for advances had the
mine been made to persons unconneeted with the directors,
or in the ordinary and proper conduct of the business
of the bank, and that, among* others, they lent
to Colonel Waugh the sum et 237,0001, upon security
of a nature and value wholly insalcient to warrant such en
advance, even if made botoi fide to a stranger, and upon the
realleation of such security a loss to the amount of 100,000/.
end upwards will probably en.no. Tho petitioners further
*Begs that the Accounts made up and presented at the half-
I yearly meeting were delusive sad untrue, and that, notwith-
standing the mate of things, the directors have made calls
which they intend to enforce. The petitioners contend
under the circumstances, the directors having committed

great irregul eitiee, are not the proper patties to have any
control over or interference with the affairs of the company,
and pray fora winding-up under the sets of 1848 and 1849.
The case continues to excite the ereateet attention amongst
the leading merchants and bankera in the city, and the dem-
cisiou of the Vice-Chancellor on Monday next is locked for-
ward to with unusual interest.

THE SUPPOSED MURDER AT LEIGH WOODS, NEAR
Currow.—lt was stated in yestetday's Repress that a
card, forming part of a beeil•elrovs, had been picked up In
the room where the inquest on the woman's body was held,
and had led to the apprebencion of a man named Davis,
whose name was upon the card. It has since been 'neer-
tained that the hend-drees belonged to a niece of Davis, who
dropped it in the room while there looking at the body, and
Davis has in consequence been set at liberty.
DEATH IN A RAILWAY CARRIAGE.—On Thurs-
day, the 10th, John Sanders, a heirdretaer. of Northampton,
wee returning home from Rewrote, after being there a short
limo for his health, which woe fast declining. Between
Roads station and Illiewetth he expired. Only he and his
wife occupied the compartment. A few minutes before he
died he told has wife he thought he felt ft little better. The
body was conveyed to the hotel et Bliewotth. The juWe
verdict was Death from natural causes."—Sfainford llrr

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EXTRAORDINARY SALE OF CORPORATION EFFECTS.
—We mentioned on Monday that the fixtures in the new
baths and wash-hotutes belonging to the corporation of Tyne-
mouth had been seized by the collectors of income tax fur
191. 16e. re-asateement to make up the drfelcations of a col-
lector named Briggs. The solo took place on Wednesday
afternoon, the pods distrained and offered by the hammer
being worth upwards of 1001. f,no of the auctioneers be-
longing to the town would undertake the job, and a person
from Newcastle was engaged to do it. A large and very
noisy mob of burgesses ailed the building, and upon some
brokers offering to bid there was a great rush of porters and
waitherwornen into the room. when the broken made off
and, after a most Morin, scene, and to prevent a riot that
seemed to be impending, the agents of the Income Tax
Commiritioners were glad to knock the articles down to the
corporation at one penny each, the whole of the sum realised
by the sale being one pound and eightpence. If other
*limns am mole the scene at the bathe and wash-homes
wftl bo re ; and, from the temper of the town, if any
Mew fie occurs, a riot is not at all improbable, foe
the greater portion of the ratepayers declare that they will
not_pay money over sgsln for which they hold a receipt.
THE BELFAST RIOTS.—COMMISSION OF INQUIRY.
—At the Court-house, Belfast,. on Wednesday, the examina-
tion at Mr. Tracy, which had occupied the whole of the
preceding pitting. was renamed. The court was densely
mowded. Mr. Tracy said that, generally opeihing, the
griconcerned in the riots wen the nibble on both dam.
Xtributed • portion of the virulence to municipel con-
tests in the town. There was no opposition to street preach-
ing before the July riots. Since thin he had heard of the
formation of a gun club, which, from the mailerte of the
subecription, he should my belonged to the humbler closers.
After Mr. Tracy, Mr. Lindaay, had constable of local polkas
was examined.