The Express.
London, England, 1868-02-10 00:00:00

THE CATASTROPHE AT BOW LURING THE
STORM.

THE ADJOURNED INQUEST.—(THLS DAY.)
This morning Mr. John Humphreys, Middlesex
coroner, resumed et the Leedom Hospital, the inquiet on
the body of Mrs. Eliza Thompson, one of three weft,
who were killed on the lit inst., by the faU of a rliamney
shaft at a factory in Boer.

The jury retailed II verdict, " That deceased was kilnl
by the fall of a certain chimney shaft, and that the a„.
fall was accidentally caused by a storm ; but the 4,,,7
would recommend that such shafts should be regul.o;,,.
emitted, so that any deterioration in the quality of th,
mortar might be discovered, and thereby loos L •
avoided.' _ _ _ _ _

Farman said he would attend to the reeouncen.l..
tion of the jury.

RIATHZIt REPORT.-(THIS DAY.)

MONDAY, Flail:UM 10. 8 A.M.

111.-"1" I

L. T.l
89.02 r .50.
30.04r1471
so.lero:

---- LAW INTELLIGENCE.
(TlllB DAY.)

COURT OF APPEAL.
Lonn arsTicz SELWYN TARING HIS SEAT.
At 1.41 f -past 10 o'clock this morning Sir Jasper Selwyn,
Q.C.. Mr. for the University of Cambridge, and Solicitor
rrl.proceeded in hiarobee and full-bottomed wig to the
private room of the Lord-Chancellor, at the Chancery Courts,
Liocoln'a-inn, where he was sworn in before his lordship as
cne of the Lords Justices of the Court of Appeal
Ck.ncery, in the room Lord Justice Bolt, resigned. The
new Lord Justice, after receiving the congratulations of
thr 1,,,d Chancellor, repaired to his private official apart-
Ton; in Chancery, and at eleven o'clock, acoompanied by
yeri Justice Cairns, he entered the Court of Chancery
:uul took his seat for the first time. Tho court
at fix time was densely crowded by the gen-
of the long robe and the general pub-
lic but the only members within the bar were
Q.C., Mr. Roxburgh, Q.C., Hz. Prendergast
q.t.% ; Mr. Auiphlett, Q.C. ; sad Mr. Lyme, Q.C.

COURT OF COMMON PLEAS.
:!ittii,-s at Ni.i Prins in Middlcsex.—(linfore Lord Chief
J ustice Bovill and a Special Jury.)

MINK= V. SMITH.

Dlr. Murphy said that the plaintiff in this case was
n, the equestrian actress, and she sued
to rroart d lunges for an alleged breach of a
cont,., t to eo,ploy her at Aetley's Theatre. The
present oti.lication, made on behalf of the
attend mt. aso. that the trial should be postponed upon
the ,00ta.d t;t fdyher, who was • material witness
for W.is in Paris, ill with small-pox, and of
cour,. for some time brought to London.
the plaintiff, said that the defendant
bad Ire.oly ,li.:,,yed the trial by summoning a special jury,
and low it a-.y delay took place it would be a very
wrio,„ r for the plaintiff, because she expected to
hast t,, t.. *.,:ffornia in a month's time.
Lor.: Justice said that the defendant could
not I.: fid.•.! to go to trial iii the absence of a noccaaary
t‘itot.—. hot in granting the application he should direct
slat •,,Te ,houhl he changed to some place on the
circ,:it, so that the plaintiff could try before she
0....,;,0n to leave the country.
AT.it:tcAtiou granted, and venue changed to Essex.

COURT OF BANKRUPTCY.
• (1., fore Mr. Commissioner Gonlburu.)
IN 11E t.. 10 NATHANIEL HALES, BART.
ii, was an application for release from custody by the
Iti.t whose case has recently excited some interest.
;b,; n. rcpt claims to he a baronet, and is so described
the proceeaings ; he also claims an interest in eer-
-1,,.., ,Iwrty in various parts of the metropolis. In
it .q.; h. ized souse house property, and an action
!.,11,:ht which was decided against him, the
,„,t, mounting to about 704. A abort time since
..nkrupt again, broke into the mine house

•'. • !,•,Cto his trial at the Central Criminal Court.
; .! y tumid him guilty, with a recommendation to
t; c 1 Recorder, in giving judgment, allowed the
,ett ent to leave the court upon his undertaking to come
1.1. f .I.lgment if called upon. As he was leering the
;ie WSJ arrested for the costa incurred in 1862, sod
the wily debt appearing on the schedule. No
Tl.. 'non was offered to the release, which was granted
t •ual form.

(Before Mr. Registrar. Murray.)

IN ItErrro, AM/ CSAMITOIf,.

Thi was a sitting held under the Path section of the
act of Lail, of which ten days' notice had been given in the
~,/. I lef, for the acceptance of the reemluition of
M.. T. I '. Pickersgilleunliffe.one of the creditors' assignees
r this failure. The meeting was attended by Mr. May-
no .1 ..0 behalf of the assignees and by Mr. Heaney the
..,licitor for the retiring assignee.
It 3ppeared from an affidavit filed by Mr. Cnoliffe, that
L. Lail interests in the London, Chatham, and Dover Had-
a .y, antagonistic to the interests of the assignees. He
“1...0 about to go abroad, and under these circum•
stolen he felt that he could not satisfactorily discharge
thr duties which devolved upon him as an assignee, in
of PO touch importance. Ire wished to express his
satisfaction with everything that had been done in
the matter.

Ni. Maynard expressed his regret that Mr. Canliffe had
fi 11 it Lis duty to resign, and the other assignees were
quite satisfied with the reason he bad given for his resig-

Mr. Registrar Murray remarked that under tLe 011111141 of
the act of parliament the court bud power to remove an
aesiznee, but it was much more satisfactory to tinil th-
creiliton willing under the circumstances to accept Mr.
l'unliffe's resignation.
. . . .

The resolution was accordingly prepared, and hating
been declAred to be duly passed, was reported to the
court.

THE POLICE COURTS.
(THIS DAY.)

CLEIMEN WELL.
ult lOVI EOOBEItI UT A I.II,,Ii..RATHEIL

ft...war Grohnsi, a well-dressed middle-aged man, wear-
it, several gold rings, was charged with stealing a gold
Of pin under the following strange circumstances:
In priwaier was looking fur apartment., and shout 10
o.k in the morning applied at the house of Mr. Menge,
:to.. Minh gentlnoan, realiaillg at No. ii, Duncan-teinice,
1.1.1 „ion. Mn.. Frederica Bingo showed him some fur-
,. lii apartments which were to let, and they descended
:..ti,, front pat lour, on the mantel-piece of which the pin
onion woo placed. Being near the fireplace the lady's
night the fire-irons and displaced them ; she stooped
;.• : them, and on suddenly rising the prisoner's
Lame in contact with her shoulders, he having
si, tolled across her while stooping and taken the pin.
it at once, and he left in a most hurried
saying ho would call again. The prosecutrix
called her husband, who pursued the mummer, who
t: rti running, and captured him opposite No. 1:; in the
icrracc. Shortly after the pin was found on the top
u.,t, r tank which was in the area of the house opposite
: • the prisoner was stopped. Inquiries have been
concerning the prisoner, awl it was found that his
r•n.t was correct as to his being a photographer ; his
...., were in a very respectable position, but they all
, n kg that the prisoner was weak-minded.
I I :i•oner was committed for trial.

MARLBOROUGH-STREET.
BTKEET tATKAGES.
i• . r *ay, a butcher, residing at No. 6, Market-
'', n • \ nn pert-market, was charged before Mr. Tyrwbitt
tt,• . • I,twing outrageous conduct.
I • • ...tattle Rittman, 2.id C, said that about 9
n•• • 'I, previous evening be saw the prisoner, who was
'in' i -
. -mug against females in Coventry.s&et. The
I••• tilen struck two little boys, and afterwards
t••.. ' t down a young loan and tried to bite hint, and
t.tok the prisoner into custody.
I. k I taus, a young man, living at No. 21, Brick-
, t. Piccadilly, said that while on the previous evening
e ital.; 4 the oorner of Windmill-street for some friends
/lit priloner walked up to him and said, "Do you
u..at to tight ?" To avoid the prisoner he walked away,
thn• prisoner, as be we doing so, striking bim on the
‘1,01,1.!..r, and saying he would knife some that night.
taitioas) went and spoke to a constable, and told him
a Pat the prisoner bad said, and that he Lad better keep a
esdidi on the prisoner, and the prisoner, after striking two
...ys returned to him and knocked him down, and while
Ine was on the ground tried to bite his face, and afterwards
sot his thumb into his month and tried to bite it, but he
pr. mud him, and the constable then came up and took
V•• prisoner into custody.
In answer to Mr. Tyrwbitt, both the witnesses said the
prisoner was drunk at the time.

The prisoner said he wee drunk, and had no recollection
of %hat occurred. . .

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Mr . Tyrwhitt said that as to the prisoner being drunk
.out haviug no recollection of the matter, that was no
“ntwer whatever to the charge. It was absolutely neces-
z-ry that persons walking harmlessly along the street
be protected from wild tallow, like the primmer.
Ai.uut every other day there was some case or other of a
',rum being shot at, and about every other day a case of
•!• mon being knocked down, kicked, bitten, and threatened
t. be knifed. The prisoner would have to pay a fine of
or a month ; and he considered that if the prisoner
Ir. well flogged in the bargain, it would only be doing
jus.i.e to him.

SOUTHWARK.
DARING BIP.CLART IN MR NEW-CUT.
William fart aad Henry Tividelf were brought up for
tin.ll examination, charged with burglariously breaking
into the premises of Thomas E. Ackerman, draper, New-
(3, and stealing therefrom several pieces of printed
tulle°, a largo quantity of red woollen, and other property,
Rath about 501.

'f home Phelan, 170 L, said that he was on duty in the
hemr-eut near 1 o'clock on Tuesday morning, when he saw
Tiadtll come running with another man from the direction
of prosecutor's premises, carrying a bundle. Witness pur-
sued him up Windmill-strett, when be threw the bundle
"AY. Witness called the attention of 15$ L, who pur-
sued !Mu, and took him to the station-house. He then
letarned to the prosecutor's premises, and found that they
bad been broken open, and on rousing Mr. Ackerman
he identified the bundlers some of his property.
Jam Chester, 123 L, said that on Tuesday afternoon,
faun information he received, be proceeded to 21, Wind-
tay•row, New-cut, and saw a female who lived with the
Prooner Hart. He found in a back loom • large hamper
old:Lining the property, which the prosecutor identified.
V. bile he was searching about, something dropped
?"ass the window in a back yard which ed.
King-street. He immediately went there
found • large sack oontsining pieces of print, some red
!kat, and some to all of which Mr. Ackerman also
identified. Witness took posesseion of the propert, and
proceeded with last witness to a beerahop, when,they
feud Hart and took him into melody.

THE

Corroborative evidence was given, and the prisoners,
who reserved their defence, were committed to Newgate
for trial

CROWDING AT THE THEATRES.

TO TEI EDITOR OP TEI 111PR188.
Bra,—What manager will try and remedy the
crushing that nightly takes plate at our theatre doors?
How easy it would be to have a pat-box, of easy
Recess from outside the theatre, opened one hour (or more)
before the doers open, at which box visitors might pro.
cure their checks as they arrive, so that when the
doors open they have merely to present them to the check-
taker. Sholld one manager be bold enough to try my
plan, I feel almost certain that the alteration will be so
relished by the theatrical public that other managers
would very soon follow in the wake.—l am, ko.,
London, Feb. 5, 1868. ALGERNON.