The Express.
London, England, 1857-09-21 00:00:00

Ul TEO WIZ= rimy OP C. C. 11/11CIA.

The bankrupt, a bidder, at Margate, obtained, onomaid,
an lemagiata ceniticate of the mood elan.

TX XXI MAXIM:PTO' OF D. MELHALDO.
The was a shipowner, at Doerr, trading as
Z. Badges art Co. The examination rotating was ling far
trif-rat 12 t►dq, wins, not sarrandrring. it Iru stated
that the awed proceeding upon sew =mender would take
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INSOLVENT DEBTORS COURT.—Barr. 19.
(Won Mr. Coarisakeer Mvrphy )

IN RS WILLIAM CLIIPDEN 001.011.
This insolvent, • young men, ffentrant in the 12th
Lacers, applied to be diaeharged from pier
Mr. Slrgood appeared to oppose for Mr. Do loss. err
meter of the 4th Dragoon Guards, sad Mr. Davis
supported.
The cane was opened on Friday, sad et the *l4=
court, adjourned until to-day with the view of •
with Mr. Douglas, who had advanced 11001. to eerie the
insolvent to obtain his lieutenancy in the Demers, big •
cornet at the time, with the understanding that he was to ea-
change in a given period and pay Mr. Douglas, who bad
advanced the money on the application of Quartertosaier
Drake. The insolvent had exchanged into the 12th UMW%
and was about to proceed to India.
Some time re occupied on the t occasion to
effectuate an smangement, and ultimo yit was carried into
effect. There re no farther opposition. and the insolvent
beamed entitled, rd rimed to be discharged. He will
forthwith proceed I. laths to join his regiment.

111 II LOUD CZCIL JAPES 00ZPOS.

In this atom mantionsd on Friday, an order was Maned to
permit Mr. George Lewis (Loris and Lewis) to conduct the
insolvent's ease st Tatuatcs. A former petition woo dis-
missed a few days slaw, and another petition was to be heard
is October.

.iea.e w.a granted.
The court rem till Tuesday.

CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT.

THIRD COURT.
(Before Mr. Prendergast, Q.C.)

At Na sitting of this court on Friday morning, John
avow, s fashionably dressed eesfaring man, wearing a beard
and risswetarte, surrendered to take his trial upon ea indict-
mud, barging him with haring assaulted Mohuvoceldeen, a
Mertes essman, upon the high miss and kicking out two of
his teeth. . . . . . .

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The came canted &greet deal of interest to coneequenee of ,
the recent trial at Liverpool, and the inquiry that is
now going on relative to the treatment of seamen
on board merchant Tamils, and en additional interest •
wee created from its being bairn that the parties charging •
the seemed are hiabotrunedens and Itindoos fresh from
laths. The appearance of the wits/ass and others of the •
crew who stomp:tied theta, in all about 2d, attracted
from time to time a considerable crowd outside the court,
where they bad been Pitting and lying about until the thee
came on. SOON of them were remthably due men, and in
their ragged fentastie attars presented a singular contrast to
those surrounding them. The court was filled with the
friends of the captain and the accused, both of whom aro
highly respectable men, and ate said to bear a good character
for humanity.
The complaint but been first beard upon euramens at the
Thames Police OM,. where the defendant was bound over
to appear here, sad the depositions were now, by the order of
this court, handed over to Mr. Ribbon to prosecute, Mr.
Sleigh appearing for the defendant.
Colonel Ilughes, under secretary to the /thistle Strangers
Home Society, wee present to watch the proceedings, but
leek no part in them.
Upon the defendant baling pleaded, Mr. Sleigh applied to
the court to allow a gentian= wham they hod brought to
Interpret, in place of the Marra:ter sent from the police
court.
The Commieeioner asked who the eentliaan was, sad he
was informed that his some was Spred Abiloollah. He had
been interpreter to the British eta in India, and was now
• attached to the court of Undo.
The interpreter from the police court said that the gentle-
man war mere competent than himself, and, with the per.
• mission of the court, he would mast in any technical term.
After some objections from Mr. Albion, the Commiesioner
said that the arrangement was a moat fair one, end it received

his sanction.
The prosecutor was then called and morn upon the
Koran, and in answer to several questions put to him by
the Commissioner, amazed the court with great apparent de-
votion that that form of oath strictly bound him to tell the
truth. He then, through the interpreter, mid that he had
been a mimeo on board the Dominion. Ile shipped with
other noire Names at Bombay ; be tine went on board the
Dominion live months ego. The primmer mu the tiret
meta. Shortly after be entered the chip left that port, and it
barbed at Ft. Helena. About three weeks after that, et
about four in the morning, witnw« was on deck, and the
defendant, who was there, sent for the Female, or Bettie
boatswain, end directed the witness to pull Blithe studding
tall. Whilst be wee so doing the defendant struck
witness a blow ln the mouth, then caught him by
his hair, threw him down and kicked him in the mouth,
knocking out two of his teeth. One of them he now pro-
duced, but be had lost the other. Defendant bad nails in
hi. Mom I htdinever disobeyed order.; we were ell at work.
At the time of this the defendant raid, " You pig, don't you
..e?"—Witness said, "W by do you call m pig ; famaMaho-
medsn—it lea foul name, why abuse oat" It wee then he
Week me, and in mouth woe hurt. The Smog saw it.
Crowe ' .—The Senn carried a rope for us, we ere
• dimiples, ha had not kicked me et struck me with his Bet
the ship was far from land,
By the Court—lt was about three weeks from St. Helena.
Cvnee-maasination continued—The ship was tacking, The
=plain was in his cabin. Witness hod all his teeth in his
bead when be left Bombay.
Baton Khan, the Serum, and Obeolab KhanAoth fn al-
most the same word', gave • similar account of the conduct
of the defendant.

Mr. Sleigh, tor the defence, Raid hie answer to the charge
wee • distinct denial of all the allegation. made. He said
be should t learly show ilh‘t thee men had knewingl=
he. Afteralluding to tho state of affairs In India, the
conned commented strongly open the character of the clew
of man comprising thou mew., and upon the fact of this
offence being rat to is conmotted whets room of the
Europeans excepting one wee present. The learned counsel
then callod . _

Captain Wm. John Green, who raid be was captain of the
Ektrutnion. The defendant woes eery humane man. WLart be
shipped thee...Oilmen' at Dowluj hemw be hail one or two
of by teeth out. He always mow irked the men himself, to
sae that they were tree frau wren. When within four or five
miles of the amid of Cornwall the eriniplulnaot let p. the jib.
sheet without order,, said the defendant pewit hastil)
said bushed or misht have stairk blip. Pcseenter made no
complaint of viel,nee, neither did 1 $ e<a :me marks air
boos upon him. I 'poke w Bowe nos at the police-court

about complainant's teeth being ont, but I was not examined.
He ha,. not complained to mo of being strw k with a hand-
spike. Soolethmg was said to some 0110 about his being
struck in the chest.

In co*, lamination the witness said that some of the
craw had ban in the hoapital for scurvy.
In answer to other questions from the learned counsel
and the court, witneas said he had not heard that • charge
wee In be pnaerred ageing him. There gnu ample food
found for them, and none of the crew were ill from bad. The
men were regaliuly &Meted at Bombay before the appointed
agent He was deceived in the character of the crew
he use to have ; the Europeans on hoard were the °Hetes. He
had taken a rope and given them a lick or two to fetch
them out of their berths.
The Commirsioner—le it usual on board these ships to use

• rice to the crew P That is an asrault.
lIIIPM—They arose levy, without something at that sort
we cannot get them to work; they will even hide themselves
&tricolor the balm of goods rather than moue out end work.
I had a Led crew shipped.
Commirrioner—You must not take those means to maks

semen good. We heard enough of the evils of that system
Ina cue tried at Liverpool.
Charles Gale, one of the apprentices on board the vessel,
said that the prosecutor had one or more of his teeth nut
when he shipped at Bombay. The defendant gave=
a blow upon the mouth for letting go the sheet.
never said anything about his tooth being out, and the first
he heard of it wan when the ship was in dock. The de-
fendant is a very kind man.
George Oliver, the second mate, was then called, and in
answer to Mr. Sk4sch, said that the defendant bore an
excellent character fur humanity, and was about to proceed
with hie evidence, when
The Commissioner interposed, and inked the minxes
whether ho did not stand charged with having illtreated
another of the crow.
Mr. Sleigh objected to such a question being put; It wu
quite irregular, and had nothing to do with it.
Commissioner—But I think it ha,. It is a question whe-
ther tho witness is a proper judge of what humanity of cha-
racter was when he himself stood charged with a want of it.
Mr. Sleigh—But he is not oonvieted yet.
The Commiseioner was about making some further re-
marks to the witness, when
Mr. Sleigh, with much warmth, requested that he would
not_persist in taking the witnessout of hie hands.
Conualesioner said that if Mr. Sleigh continued his
he should etercine the authority veithd in him.
Mr. folding up his lick?, and throwing It down
aspen the You may do nomad I shall throw up the care.
kw I cannot conduct a ease when the judge forgets himself
as a gentleman.
Mr. Alderman Farebmther maid that he had eat for many
years as ea amintant,commissioner upon that bench, and the
nurse he had seen pursued by the jud,gee was to leave a
witness in the hands of the counsel, and ask questions after
be had done. Mr. Sleigh had always conducted himself like
• gentleman, and his business with propriety, but the weather
was hot, which he hoped would be taken into consideration.
Mr. Sleigh said ouch frequent Interruptions confused
everybody and everything.
The Commissioner said that he wished it to be understood
that he knew his authority, and that he Ueda, ceder say
circumstances, put any question that he thought Et to a
witness.

Tke case was then proceeded with, and this witness and
two others of the European crew swore positively to the pro-
secutor having mane of his front teeth out when he came on
board, and that ho was seen pulling a loose one about during
the voyage.
Mr. Ribton then called several of the Lamar 811111161111, who
all MOM that the prolocutor had all hie teeth perfect when
be was shipped at Bombay.
Mr. RN= having replied, and the Commissioner summed
Opt the jury, after , some, deliberation! in the; boa, were
locked up.
George Mire,. the Nomad mate, wee then indicted for an
moult upon Meer Ali.
The same counsel appeared in this rase.
The prosecuot, another of the mimeo, swore that, whilst
weighing anchor at St. Helena, the defendant severely
wounded him upon the heed with a chain-hook, and he
otherwise had been illtreated by the Europeans.
Thie case solely rested upon the testimony of the Lamers,
and, as in the hot case, it wee denied, and also sworn that
no complaint had been loads during the voyage, and prom-
tutor had merely stated that he was hurt heaving the
anchor.
At eight o'clock in the evening, the jury in this ease
were locked up mato five minute. pest tan. when they came
into court, and returned a verdict of Not Guilty.
During the progress of this case, the jury in the That one
came twice into mut, and begged to be discharged, ea they
could not agree. Eleven were agreed, but one stood oat, and
said he would for a week, and the foreman created much
anemement by requesting the Commissioner to examine the
one who dissented, as he thought he was mad. Each jury-
man had argued with him, but he said he had a doubt and
would not 'goo. Not any of the jury had dined, and emu*
from out of the country bed been without breakfast. At a
quarter past toned at II they again tame into court, and
begged to lo discharged, but the counsel not consenting,
they were, a few minutes before 12, locked up fur the night,
refreshments being allowed them.
The night they spent in cleaning their dissenting brother
of that rest of which they were debarred, and at pecan this
morning the Commissioner, Mr. Alderman Phillips, and
Under-Sheriff Anderton attended the court, and they rare
discharged without agreeing, and the defendant was let out
on bail until neat 111.1042.
Eleven were for an attal. During the whole of the
remarks made upon the dßwenting jurymen he mover said
one word.