The Express.
London, England, 1850-08-14 00:00:00

lain 3intelitentce.

COURT OF BANKRUPTCF.—YISTIUMAT.
Barons Ma. elwatrenowau 00CliMay.
IN an Nun ANN NIALN.
An applieation was made ta hie Honour, on behalf of the
econatant is this ease, to make the payment of the rams
which he had hew est of pocket to pr.puiag the inialic."
sheet ; hat It appeasing that theses the aceosutte had been
fledbefese the list amenities meeting. they had not been
ae filed the requisite number of days to enable the bankrepts
W pass, hie Resew de-lined to wake say oldie.
Grozos Coonte
The liankrapt, • linee-s,ape, at 7'. etbampton, came up
toe hie lie seminude's on • bakes sheet, extending from
J moan 1848 to May last, and containing the following
lents :—To creditor', 2,4081, • ditto secured, 8151. ; capital,
1771. ; peed% 8761. good debt., 861. ; doubtful. 1371. ;
is
property hands of creditors. 7001. ; lenses, 1,8741. ; bed
debts, 1231 • trade ezpenews. 7811 ; dowses ditto, 6031. ;
debts naiad. red irrecoverable, Jan. 1, 1848, 3711.
Mr. Pain ercuted, f r tl,• saelgnew, on the ground of
baud, and tradire when insolvent. He had given • pre-
ference to Er. Adieu, his mother-in-law, by aeries him to
get poeellefieli of his stock and property, while several other
melons were I. -r ding. The aseigneee had required farther
bit :meting as to Asilett's debt, which had not been fur-
aished ; they were consequently unable to test the accuracy
of 9 o account-. His eess k. had been mutilated, nine leaves
!mint torn fr. m one of item.
Atter • beet az aeinitioa of the bsakrupt, who could give
no cicenteentery eviaenee of the debt to his brother-in-law,
H.s Honour said that if the brother-in-law had any regard
for the bankrupt he would give up this property, otherwise
the ni a would never pas It i. owe. Believing the amount
to be wilfully nacre, he should adjoin= the examiaation
tine
Ix as L. ALIIANDIII AND CO.
His Berour gee judgment this morning on a disputed
question in this off baukruptcy, the woopedings under
which are still lingering on. Mr. Morrhon, a director of
the Britanr.'• L • In.urance Company. had piiiiilowd the
court. Pettier forth that the company had advanced 2,1001,
in 1845, to Mr. Budget, one of the bankrupts, who was
els) a director of the company. for which 330 cot the eon-
pans's shares were deposited with Mr. MortiNAS a mosti!v.
There was now due, as principal and interest, 2,3081
The prays, of the petition was Nat the company might be
declared equitable mortgagees of the shares an held; that
they might be s uld un the stcck exchange, and the proceeds
applied la the discharge of their debt. This was opposed by
the assignees, on the around that the property is the shares
was in them. The ewe of the Lancaster Canal Company
had been much relied en in the argums at, where it was rukid
that shares held by bankrupts, if not fully transferred,
paned to their assiesen. la this eters there bad born no
actual teamster, nor bad ft ever been contemplated, beyond
an agreement et the part of the back tip; to transfer when
oall,d upon to do so. The whole thing was ; and
when the loan was made the entry in the eompan)'s book
contained no mention et Dlr. Bardgett's name. It was clear
the intenU. a was :tat the ownentlip and &speed:ion of the
shares should r.maitt in Mr. Berdgett, who continued to
receive the divilends, sod to vote as a proprietor. The owe
of the Lancaster Ca- al Company had never been over-
re. ; thin ease came entirely within that rule. He must,
therefore. hold that the property vested in the assignees, and
the result wool,' be that the petition would be dismissed
with costs,

Nil! Ormuz. Amoral.

A Turnout prevailed in the courts this monsine, that a
sew t iel assignee had beat appointed, is the parson of a
Mr. N.:choler/a. The appointment rests with the Lord Chia.
mil r ; and it was understood that the present vacancies
would not be fined up. Should the statement prom correct,
the newly appointed cificial will act in Mr. Commisdoser
Cloulburie coin.

ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE.
OXFORD CIRCITIT.7OLorcErrn, Am. 12.

Suomi Ma. hones WILLIAM
Too Coon or 8 TION.

[We brought nponr7teilo;i of the ;LaOfSarah Hebb foe
the murder of Maria Hook in yesterday's paper up to the
departure of the latest available train on Monday. We
sow memo the report from the point where we broke off
yesHr.Hterday.]
umble, farms, and medical officer of the West-
bury-on-Severn Uision, deposed Mat he first saw the deceased
in November, 184., when the prisoner and Ann Apperby
brought her to him. Ile exualaed the child, and prescribed
a slight aperient kr her, directing that she should have port
wine and nourishing food. He found that she was afflicted
with prolapse's ani, a disease not uncommon to children, but
sot of a eiangerous character. In 1849 (dummy) be again
saw the deceased at her fatter's house. Sze was huddled up
over s ;sae sent., and was asked with the exception of • small
Mover her eboolden. There was no the is the room, and the
dal i seemed emaciated from wart of proper food and clothing;
mad* a von weorfree examination at UN body, and found it
in art exmasive state of emaciation ; it only weighed Gibe.
(6:nsation in ^he court.) A child newly born would usually
weigh from 611)1. B:he. This child was four years old. It
appeared about the usual b^ight of a child of that age, but
was a complete skelet a. D ?Atli from starvation would pre-
sent each external appearances as the body of the deceased
Maria Hook prestrike'. The body internally was healthy;
the lungs were reflect, sad there were no symptoms of con-
samption. The bract and viscera generally were small.
The stsenaeh was perfectly empty. LoQking externally and
Internally at the appearances presented by the body, witness
was of opinion that the child died from want of milkiest
Ilsod and clothing.
Charl.s Hampton, huckster, proved that Hook and Babb
bought git.ds at his shop to the amount of 10s. to 14s. per
wed..

Atter as address of two boon from Mr. Pigttt, who await
especially as the &berme of motive for murder, his Lordship
gummed op io a sposels of as hour and a half, and tin jury,
after retiring for ten mantas, returised a verdict of Guilty
of agar►vated manalanghter, and the prisoner warn sentenced
to transportation for life.
The trial occupied Curtly 12 boors, having closed at aloe
o'r,/trik p m.

AUGUST 13.
Etron Ma. Jyrrire WILUAMS.
TEL STARVATION CASE.

Rider .r 1 Hook wee charred the nianalaught:r of hie
daughter Maria Hcok, at Churcham, by omitting to give her
proper f0...d and clothing.
The pasticulan of this can need scarcely be repeated.
As will be seen above the prisoner's enter-in•law, a
woman named Bubb, was convicted of manslauehter
and sentenced to be transported for life. The prisoner Hook
was charged with hung a party to the manslaughter. The
evidence wu similar to that given on the trial of Babb
yercrelay, but it came out that when the prisoner Hook was
at home the deceased wee generally treated better than in
hL absenc,.

In hit defence the prisoner said he bad alw►ys provided
suffiient food and clothes for the child, and hod directed
Bubb to attend to her.

be jury found hies . a Guilty.
PoitioNlmo CAse.

Hannah Curtis was eiterieriouticecoroner's inquisition
with the wJful murder of Thomas Hanle, her former hus-
band, at the parish of Frampton Cottrell. The prisoner was
formerly married to Harris, who died after • short illness,
sad in a month after his death she married a man named
Curtis, who used to visit her during the lifetime of her
husband. On opening the body there were trams of sneak
discovered in the deceased.

A great number of witness es were examined in support of
the insietment, but the ems for the prosecution had not
dosed wh rt oar report wee deepetehed.

WESTERN CIRCUIT.—WELLs, Aroun 12.
CkOWS Coosa —Berms Ma. Rawl Cotaupoc.
MIIIMBM.

Henry Hislier, OW Henry Azford,3o.was indicted for the
wilful murder of Thomas George, in the pariah of Nunney,
on tke 3rd of April, by cutting and wounding him in the
throat with a knife.

Joseph George,tether of the deceased, said—Mx us
Thomas resided at Noway with me. I know the prisoner
at the bor. We all worked at Messrs. Hoddinctt's farm.
On the 3rd April my son left work, and went home with me
moos afar 6 o'clock. He washed and dressed himself when
ke got hems. I had some tea and went to bed, and left him
talking with hie mother. I was called by my wile about
half-past five, end got up and went to search for my son. He
had not beet out all eight before for 4: months. I west up
toe carthoun oa Messrs. Hoddinctt's term, and saw the
body of a man lying Is the shed, and went and looked at
him, hit his fees was so covered with blood, that I could sot
tell who it wee. I sew that the aniukfrock was smoothed
down under him, and his two hands straight down at his
Me. I west out of the shed, and went down a little way,
when I saw the prisoner, who lives about fifty yards off,
standing at his door, tieing up his legging' or shoe. Assoon
ee I saw him, I said, " Hen , for God's sake come up,
for Fred. is but almost to death." He went
up with me end looked at the body, and
said, " Oh, this is Tom, he hu cut his throat."
I went tut cr3ing, and saw emu of the thrashers ping to
work. I went home to my wile and falsity, and staved
there • few miaow. When I went beck to the shed the
body lad bees brought outside ea a hurdle. Saw that there
was no blood s& the heads of the body, or ea the sleeves of
the smock-(reek. The body woo then stiff. My son bad a
Mite, which was picked spit the evening ; there wee blood
apes it whet It was 'mad. The body was brouelit home
to my house, bet I cannot say whether the prisoner helped.
The body Me wished is the afteraeon. We feud the
aockerchief eat is three or four lase.. HY mudielothes
sad waistcoat were both unbuttoned; the mails- et had
been two out. On the outside of the rlßht.lesdpeast
the smallclotkes was the bloody print of flews, eM ea the
Wade of the left-hand pocket ; there were also make et
blo4 ea the flap. I wok my sea's Italie sad
aerial it hems, sad it remind time till the i 5,...
mime. Alms that I broke a pima off the balk, aid worn
gales to pot it in the 'Min, beam no 0130 should have
their throats cat with it again. It was afterwards gives to
the co stable with the beadle mad the other part of the
blade.
Crom-tgaseised—When I sew the grimier studies at Me
door, I believe he bed kis hat as. BM Velma is the time he
wield have to go to work et the he.. There are several
bosses besides the priscomee MIR the art-shed.
Mary George, mother of the dseseeed, deposed to several
ef the rase teete es the lam whew, sad elated that at skeet
Mae o'clock the sight previews te the 3rd el Ayell, prim,
some to their hoses sad asked whether her kosbead knew
that )ke was to p *mow. Asked him if he
had ems 'Pam (Mosem4 and be said he bed net slam he
was at the kililembewee dear, whisk adjoined George's
bow. Primmer esomllime WWI at the lame fee demised
to ge est with Ma, bat Nome mediated hY suaief Wen
to sok nest her Minh wok.

Mr. Edmund Cocker, outgoes, of Prone, examined the
body of the deceased cm the Monday following the body.
April, and dew:rand the appearane. a presented by the.
There were two wovuda in the throat, estaudistg doves ea
the spine; the gullet, windpipe, and weed army hang
entirily wend. Assemiog the deceased to have taeieted
the first wound, witness was of °pintos that it wee impossible
fur him to hays inflated tte second. ()Teethe telt eye there
veal a cot about an inch end a half in leagth, which had
hootared the base, and appeared to have base inflicted by a
heavy billet ieslemest.
Several witnetess were then called, from w Dom It was is
&around to be shows that on the night of the murder ri-
veer wee anxious to get rid of a person who maid at hfs
holm, representing that he wanted to get to bid; that afta r•
wards he was seen with the prisoner sad some ether parties;
and that on the night in quads. primmer woe dressed lea
mark frock. A man named Solemn Hilton was sailed to
show that on the night of the 3rd of April, prisoner came to
him, to caution him not to sleep on the farm that night, as
the Mesas. Heddioott had been complaining about it ; those
gentlemen, however, deposed that the had made no remarks
about persons sleeping on the fare, either to the prisoner or
is his preempt.
The meet extraordinary witness, however, vase boy named
William Charlton, step son of the prisoner, who stated that
on the night in questi.in he went to bed soon after 7 o'clock,
and woke up in *a night and beard his father-in-law
tome up to bed, his mother following jail behind him. Wit-
ness continued—When they cams into the room my mother
asked priemer to tell her where he had been, and be said
he would not. She asked him twice, and be gave her the
same answer. He was dittoed in a smockfrock at the time.
I observed some blood on the sleeves and on the bosom. My
father-in-law took cff his imotkfrock when he came into the
room, and put it down by his bed. When he got into bed he
had on all he clothes except his boots. I did not hear any
clock strike while I was awake. I went to sleep, sad awoke
in the morning before my father-in-law. I saw bin dress
himself; he put on a pair of breeches, but did not take
off anything before he put them on. He then told
me to get up. I saw my mother carry the smock-
frock down stem, and when I got down I saw her fetch out
a pan of cold water; she did not do anything with the pen
sad water before I went to work ; did not beer .f any
emitter's inquiet being held. Crces-examined.—l have been
in gaol for want of safeties ever since I gave evidence be
fore the magistrates; to the beet of my knowledge I never
woks in the sours* of the night before ; I ant quite certain
I did not hear a clock strike while I was awake; I said I
did before the magi/grates, but that Is not true ; I also said
that I heard two pumas talking down stairs before they
on.. up, cad that one of them went out, and the deer was
then locked ; but woes of that is true. The boy the. weal
on to contradict nearly the other statements costalned In
his deposition., and said that his master had told lt.na to say
that there was blood on the smock frock.
Mr. Edwards—Did you ace any blood at all on the
smock ? _

Witness—No, I did not.
The Judge—Did you see any smock at all when your
father came to bed on this night ?
Witness—Ne, I did not.
Atter this statement, Mr. Edwards put it to Mr. Phins
whether he would po on with the eau ; and his lordship,
having consulted with his brother judge, sail they were
both of opinion that, u there was sous evidence to go to
the jury, it would be better sot to stop the cue.
Several other witnesses were celled, who deposed to the
prisoner having spoken in threatening terms towards de-
ceased ; but although they wine said to have been used two
or three meths before Oeorge's death, they were tot men-
i Sued by any of the parties till they were called on at:el the
inquest.
His Lordship, before allies on Mr. Edwards to addrem
the jury, would ask them to sty whether, pileug out of
the qua:ion the evidence of the boy Charlton, as he thought
they mu t, they would feel safe in coming to a conchnion of
the prisoner's guilt.
The Jury expressed themselves of opinion that there was
not sofileient evidence without that or the boy Charlton on
which they could convict. A verdict of Not Guilty was
accordingly returned, and the prisoner was discharged.