The Express.
London, England, 1850-03-07 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, THURSDAY EVENING, MARCH 7, 1850,

consisted of sugar, were sod to his fether.in-law. Part was
used in the business, the nualndtr was sold under the bank-
ruptcy. He (bankrupt) was the origitadar of the building
'mien., and although hire. Whitteridge was a shareholder,
she did not know where the society arm held, H ee,Adueted
the businns for that lady, who kept in the moiety solely to
I oblige hint.
Mr. Lawrence said that he attributed no vindictive feeling
to Litt. Barrett, who, he entrained, bad made no cue against
the bankrupt, with the exception that at the time of
tha purehase of the goods the bankrupt was, es sub-
sequent events showed, in a state of entharrawment.
Wrth respect to the father's debt, it could not be leer ached,
and the security held by him IMP subject to the same remark.
He held a warrant of attorney dated 1841, which he did nut
pet in t xecution, even when the bankrupt had two sho; e
well stocked with goads. Ile had to complain of the attempt
made to attack the bankrupt es regarded the transaction
with the father niter the matter had been comeomised. lt
must ba admitted that the colourable sale to was
wholly iodetensible. and the only apology for it wee, that
it was in order to effeet a compromise, and that the property
had bren given up. Looking to the generale.ratt..stasees of
the case, it would be seen that he bad eourener.ced with a
capital of 3601 ; that he had made a profit hi four year. and
a half of 5,8561, which exceeded the expenditure
by 2,40 W. It was true that the lo see on building specula-
tions wan 3,916/.. but Mr. Lawrence never saw a person
who had made a profit by these ,building societies; and if a
who had made a prafit could be plodneed, it would
G"7 wonderful exhibition. (Laughter.) Mr. Lawrence
that no case for suspension had been male out.
Aged
Humour having recapitulated the Greta of the ease,
said that at brat sight the .ceusation of preferecce to hie
lather was very heavy. True he bad a warrant of attorney,
but old warrants of attorney wire the prat of tee coat:..
However, a debt existed. The case of imbruing the she')
to Taylor was a most impudent attempt at fraud, and would
not oily be reprobated, but pu•tisleid. Ile had unduly
made away with part of Barrett's auger ; the buildiug spe-
culations were reckless, and the certificate must be sus-
pended for 18 mouths from the last exanduation.
IN,

had sines stated she left a public house in the neighbourhood
called the liner in cempany with a young man, ar.ti that be
told her I. stop while he went up to the stack to 14(3 his
pipe, and that directly after this man went away she saw the
stack was on fire. A policeman likewise proved that while
the prisoner was in his custody she began to cry, and said
that a young men:who sits with her bad set fire to the stack.
The prisoner wits convicted, and sentenced to be trans-
ported for seven years.
No can has yet been disposed of on the civil side of enfd
cknt interest to justify a report.

NORTHERN CIRCUIT.—DuanAx, Mmicu 3.
Clown Courr.—Breoan We. Below *nommen.
Fouuaay.
IT Murray was charged with having, in Durbara,
feloniously uttered a forged five-pound note, with intent to
defraud TIIOIIICII and Joseph White. The forgery in this
east was on the hank of M . Jonathan Deckhouse and
of Darlington, who have also banking houses et Dur-
ham, Bishop Auckland, Barnard Castle, S.ocktoo, Rich-
mond, and Northallerton. At all those places spurious
notes were uttered to some extent on the same day, Satur-
day. the 21. b of November lavt. In Durham some seven or
eidit were diepowd of, and with three of there it was sought
to conr.ect the prisoner. The question turned entirely upon
the identity of the prisoner, to whom none of the witnesses
would p sitively swear, although they all said that they bad
no doubt he was the pe nun from whom they had received
the oohs ; and ease had picked him out as the mon from
other persons, in two caves not knewi:lt that he was to be
pt.( vela. Fur the defence witnesses were present to prove all
alibi. bat they were not called, and the jury elevated the
prisoner.

WESTERN ClRCUlT.—Wmcnerorme, MARCH 6.
CHARGE AGAINST A 11.ELIRVINCI OFFICER.
Edward Henry Simmowis was yesterday indicted f if re-
fusing to admit Blizeheth Diggs into the workhouse at
Southampton, whereby she died of oaf and huger.
From the evidence rt appeared that the prisoner wee the
relieviug oiliest of the town and county of Southampton, sun
that on the 21st of December the deceased, who was in a
most horrible eats of destitution, applied for ndmitcion to
the workhouse, having an order from a medical man. The
prisoner was intoaizated at the time, and said the would
bays nothing mole than the vaerant ward for the night, and
turn out in the morhing. Ida asked her where she got a
chili: which oho c•rried in her arms, and if she had a hue-
band. She toll him she ban out. lie then ordercu
her into the vagrent tramp room, where there
was no other eccommodatiou than a little Lone
straw and a rug. Tito weather wee very inclement at the
lime. As the wee discovered to be very ill she was removed
to a lo 'ging in the town, end subsequently died.
Mr. Cooper, the surgeon who ban given her the order for
admiration into the workhouse Meted that at that time the
' deceased woe in a high state de zhenstion from want of food.
' Sne required the greatest care and attention, which is was
the duty of the authorities to bus bestowed, and he had no
hesitation ie ascribing her (lentil to the neglect which she

THE POLICE COURTS.
WORSHIP-STREET.
FATAL EFFECTo ow PABRlOrt.—Akwander Lovey,
a working gunsmith, charged with the wilful mur-
der of his wife, Charlotte Lovey, by stabbing her
with a tablo-knife, was fully committed to Newgate for trial
upon:the charge of wilful murder.
CHAIM! AOAINIIT CAM:RAFT, wttil EXECUTIONER.--
!Minn,kraft, the public mew ioncr, was the. charged
at the instance of the parish officers of the Witham
Union, in Essex, wi h having ?closed to support his aged
mother, S :rah Caleraft, who hod become chargeable to the
perish of Hatfield Peveril, he being of sufficient ability to do
so, and legally liable for her maintenance.
Mr. Shea, the relieving officer of the union, stated that
the defendant's mother, who won 73 pairs of age, had been
en inmate of the Witham workhouse duriuK the last fort-
night, and, having been subjected to the usual examination
to ascertain the position and cirtiunstances of her nearest
xisting relatives, it was elicited from her that she had only
two sou, one of whom was the deft ndant, and that the other
eon was wondering about the country without any fixed
habitation or any apparent means of affording her relief. It
was there fore determined to proceed against the defendant
for the mother's maintenance ; sad, in consequenee of
directions he had received from the board of guardii ram,
witness came to town by railway on the preceding day, and
repaired to the defendant's house, in Caving-street, Hoston,
' where he found him in the working dream of a shoemaker,
which he believed to be his ordinary necupatio., ; bat, upon
eliieloarg his business, the defendant posit:s..l) refuse,' to
comply with the requisition of the board, and it therefor*
became necessary to take out a summons against hiea.
Er. 'lemma!, on referring to the terms of the set in-
lating to such cases, said that it was not only ne cewary to
establish the defendant's liability, but also to prove he had I
competent means to support Lis mother, which last was I
strictly enjoin rd by the act, and inquired if the relieviug
officer was f arnished with the neceesary evidence to qite:tint 1
The witness answered that it was well known the delta-
, dant was in receipt of a good incorre from the office he held
under the corporation of L.endon, in edition to which the
indications he had himself ail rded of carrying on the trade
of a shoemaker were confirmed Ly the testimony s f mo-
ther, who was thin in such a state of helpless debility, from
her age and iofirmitiEs, as to preclude leer retirees .1 to town,
a distance of 36 mile", to support the complaint; but it the
magistrate felt it nice-Eery to adjourn the c.ese, he should
be able to produce an alive of the corporation to de pease
to the smount of the permanent inomne the defendant
received.
Mr. }lemma' said that he did not conceive he should be
justified in mukerg an order against the defendant in the
absence of such evidence, which was imperative; and in
order to afford the relieving-officer an opportuni y of ad-
ducin4 the formal proof that the defend ant was ie. a condi-
tion to support his aged mother, he should adjoura the case
far a wok. _

LAMBETH-
CHII4O2 OP HOUPE STPALING.-3/P. C. Fowler, a
man of tespect-ble a; pearance was placed at the bar on a
charge of being concerned with his brother, cot Jr. custody,
in stesliepc six horse' of tho value of 3001., tae pmpemy of
Mr. Foible Law, proprietor of the Three Nuns livery
stables, in Aldgate.
From the veldt nco of the prosecutor, it appeared thth hav-
ing known the prisoner and his brother for many years,
and Ending that thty were out of employment, 13e tor.k
large prt mins in Clap'eam, and placed both brutht rs there
to conduct the business for him of livery stables. He sub-
sequently sent eight valuable hunters—the greeter
number of them thoroughbred—to the stables, with
bridles, caddie,', erd horse clothing of every de- cription.
On the bth of January last he (Mr. Law) received inti.vma-
tion that the prisoner and his brother had absconded, taking
with them rig of the most 'Audible el the animals. He had
traced two of the horns to a horse-healer in Oxtera, to waom
the prisoner had sold them fur less than hale their value, but
this permit refused to deliver them up until the per on who
Stole them was convkted. Of the prisoner bienolf ho (Mr.
Law) heard nothing uniil the preceding afte ru va, • hen ke
walked tutu the Three Nuns yard, and, wi h the most per-
fect indifference, acknowledged that he had sold the hones,
and spent the ni-ney, i-nd was then given into custody.
The defence set op on behalf of the prisoner was that a
partnership existed between him and the prosecutor. This,
however, the prosecutor p3aitively denied; and toe prisoner
remanded until Tuesday next
SOUTHWARK.

CONVEYING 814111;7174;;"ifie 417iEN'A
Fpvrt ire, a lawyer's clerk, was cbarged with di gully con-
trey in? spirits into the Queen's Prison.
Dennis, one c.l the turnkeys to the prison, stated that the
prisoner mu in the habit of frequenting the prison on bu-
sine s connected with the law; a, d lately he btu some sus-
picions re. voting haw. as he entered several times in the
course of thy day. On Tuesday evening. between .es awl
seven, he rutered the lobby, w,en witness told another
turnkey to eenrchhins, and a bottle of wee mond sus-
pended between his legs with a cord tied round his w ist.
Mr. Alii:ekett said a person In his situation must bare
known that he was actin: contrary to the rules uf the prison,
and as a caation to him f r the future he shoo 1 rite him
end is dcrault of payment commit his: to pr:ion for two
maths.
Lo t e course of the day the neap w‘s paid, and the de-
tautest was discharged.
WANDSWORTH. _

MELAECUOLT DEATH OP •A
low. COLLECTOII.—Two I
mere witnesses were brought bcf..,rc the curt, one fr:m
Petu anis, in Sane:, and the other from 11Jokham Cum-
mon, to give evidence in the ease; and, t s in the last hear-
ins,, the facts were drawn more CIOSEIy together. Waist
was disel-scd, however, eautot as yet be =Ade pubuc,
and the prisoners wire again remanded, the two witnesses
betag end over to prosecute.