The Express.
London, England, 1861-10-22 00:00:00

LAW INTELLIGENCE.

(THIS DAY.)

COURT OF BANKRUPTCY.
(Before Mr. Commissioner BolroytL)
IN RE CONIRAM ♦ND LINDT,

______—
The bankrupts were merchants, of Fenchttreb-street.
This was the examination meeting. The accounts, prepared
by Mr. Smart, show debts of 3,308/. ;(probable assets, 5001.
or 6001.

Mr. C. E. Lewis, for the assignees, offered no opposition
to the bankrupt Coniham passing. The other bankrupt,
not having rurreudered, will be proclaimed.

IN IteHAIIIIIAN.--QUESTIOIi UNDER THE NEW ACC.
The bankrupt waa a general merchant of Martin's-lane,
Cannon-street. The liabilities are 2,753 f. ; assets about
WOE.

Mr. Solomon tendered • proof on behalf of • creditor
resident abroad, supported by his agent, who was allowed
by the new act to prove.
His Honour held that all pending proceedings must be
wound up under the old act, and that consequently the proof
must be made in the ordinary way.
The examination meeting was adjourned.

CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT.

(THIS DAY.)

OLD COURT.
(Before the Recorder.)
SINGULAR CAS&

William Brown was placed at the bar to receive the jaip
meat of the court.

This prisoner pleaded guilty at the last wesions to a
charge of steeling twelve bullocks from Plaistow Marshes,
and It appeased that he was found driving the cattle along
the high road, and when questioned upon the subject, he
gave two or three contradictory statements. The most sin-
gular part of the case is that the prisoner appeared at the
time to have been in good circumstances, holding a position
as sub-contractor in the budding trade. It was urged on
the prisoner's behalf that he could not have known what be
was about at the time of the occurrence, and that lie had
hitherto borne a very good character. Judgment was
accordingly deferred, in order that some inquiries might be
made. _ _ .

Sleigh, who again appeared for the prisoner,
urged this in the prisoner's favour, and said the very fact a
the prisoner being iu a good position was enough to establish
the fact that he could not have known what he was
doing, and, under these circumstances, his lordship
would be justified in passing a lenient sentence.
Mr. Cooper, who appeared for the prosecution, said he
thought it right to mention that the twelve cattle in qnee.
tion were not the only ones that bad been missed. There
had been twelve taken from one place, six' from another,
and two oxen and twelve sheep from another place, and
since the prisoner had been apprehended there had been on
other robberies.

Tho Reconler said that he had requested • medical gen.
Haman to watch the prisoner, and his communications did
not ►t all strengthen the idea that was entertained upon the
last occasion. 'rhe Me was very much aggravated by the
fact that the prisoner was in employment at the time, which
should have kept him teem temptation. He sentenced the
prisoner to three years' penal servitude.

AIM Hiller, 19, was charged with a burglary in the
dwelling-house of Walter Mailer, and stealing some costa,
a quantity of plate, and other articled, value 70!., his
property.
Zhucase was of a very singular nature. It appeared
that during the mouth of duly last a great many burglaries
were committed about Clapham-common and its neigh•
bourhood, and though the police made every exertioe
they had been totally unable to dismver a due to
the perpetrators, until the 2dril of September but, when
the prisoner went to a police-sergeant, named Shepherd, and
told him that she had come to give him some information
respecting the burglaries which had been committed. She
then went on to say that the robberies had been com-
mitted by a man named Barnes, or Barney, with
whom she lived at the time, and she Lad waited
outside for him while he committed the robberies ;
and she likewise stated that she had pawned
the property for Lim by his directions. The police-con-
stable inquired of her what motive she Lad in
Barnesiving
him such inforutation. She replied that B
had illused her very much of late, and she
showed him bruises upon her arms, which she
said were the consequences of his brutal treat-
ment, and in consequence of that she wanted to get
him out of the way. After making this statement the
' prisoner went away, and a few days afterwards she met
the same constable and told Lim that the statement she had
made on the previous occiaion was not true. She admitted
that she had pawned the property, but said that she did not
want to get Barnes into trouble.
Worioe, who defended the prisoner, said that the
prisoner had entertained a very strong feeling of attach-
ment towards the mau Barnes, and under some feeling of
jealousy, arising from some supposed neglect, she had taken
the course in question as a means of revenge and made
the statement to the officer, but afterwards thinking better
upon the subject, she iaLnitted that the statement was
entirely false.
The Recorder having summed up, the jury after a few
minutes' deliberation found the prisoner Guilty of feloniously
receiving the property knowing it to have been stolen.
Evidence was then given that the prisoner had been
before convicted of felony and that she was the constant
associate of thieves. _

The Recorder enuteueed her to three yesn' penal servitude.

NEW COURT.
(Before the Common Serjeant.)

William (Rorer, ?.8, labourer was indicted for havini in
his possession a mould for the: manufacture of oounteneit
coin.

Mr. Cooke and Mr. J. O'Connell prosecuted,
lu this case tho Mist officer Brennan Sunday, the
13th of October, wont to 12, Mary's-buildings, Isabella-
place, Lambeth, and broke open a room in tha home
and there found the prisoner, with moulds and all the
implements for coining, and 31 sixpences and 21 shillings
counterfeit.

—The prisoner wee found Guilty, and the court posed
sentence of four years' papal ser►itude upon him.

SURREY SESSIONS.
(THIS DAY.)

OLD COURT.
(Before Mr. Tilson.)
INWRZBREAKING AND RODDERT.
Dennis Col l ins, 21,A1 iehael Orange y, 23, and James Leash
22, were indicted for breaking and entering the warehouse
.if Edward Joseph, in Sing's Head•yanl, Tooley-street, and
stealing therefrom upwards of 2 cwt. of fat, his property.
Mr. Jenionett prosecuted, and Mr. Ltlley defended the
pricouen.

roliee-conetatile 154 111 said that about 2 o'clock on the
morning of the 2xth ult. he was on duty in Tooley-street,
when ho saw a quantity of tallow or fat strewed about the
pavement, and he traced it to a warehouse in King's Head-
yard. He then discovered that the latter place had been
broken into, and the iron bars of the window wrenched off.
lie immediately gave information at the station-house, and
Mr. Joseph was sent for. Witness bad seen the prisoners
loitering about, between 12 and 1, and he warned them
away.
Sergeant Arson' 9 31, said he examined the prosecutor's
premises. and traced the fat to No. 5. Brewer's-alley,
Bermondsey-atreet. Having gained admission he found the
prisoners in a back room with their clothes covered with
fat. Under the bed he discovered a large bag full of fat,
which he took possession of, and handed the prisoners over
to the custody of other constables.
The prosecutor deposed that he purchased a large quantity
of fat at the late fire in Tooley-street, and stowed it away
in his warehouse in King's Head-yard. He left the pre-
Imam securely fastened up on the evening of the 27th ult..
but on the next morning be found that the place bad been
broken into and a large quantity of fat stolen. He believed
that the fat produced by the officers was his property.
Mr. Lilley addressed the jury at some length on behalf of
the prisoners, contending that there was no proof that they
bad entered the prosecutor's warehouse, or that they had
stolen his fat. In fact, there was no proof that it was hie
fat.

The Jury found them Guilty and sentence was deferral.

THE POLICE COURTS.
(THIS DAY.)

THAMES.
TEL WRZILBAIROW THIEF.
A strange•looking man, with a huge nose, who give the
name of Williams Nathan, bat who has as many Misses Al
the Spanish Infanta lately christened has names. was brought
before
of whee Mr. Warrows.oolrych, charged with stealing a great numberlb

It appeared it had been the practice of the prisons to
hire wheelbarrows of poor wetermongers. and thee sell
these below their reel value and keep the money. !Inspector
Allison, of the K division, had revolved uumernua compkinte
of the prieceer's misdoings from poor and industrious menh
who earned& precarious living in the streets, and whose
barrows were their travelling shops.
Polioe-oonatable 309 K said there were a lust of pewee
in attendance who had been defrauded of their barrow' by
oolrych, after hearing evidence, remanded the
prisoner for a week.

WANDSWORTH.

1/71NIAL OF • CLEROTNAN TO CFIRISTSN AN ILLECI7IN

INFANT.
A respectable-look-in' g woman named Evans, who csrrica
ea latent in her arms, applied to Mr. Darwin for a litUf
advice. She stated that she went to Battersea Church sa
Friday bat to be churched after her confinement and WWII

ter ettl.l ehristee.4l. %ben the Raw. Ur. Jeukiseos refused
gsrefuesi lb, moms&
Mr. Irayeass-- What wee the eloyeeeiee?
Art4e...et rd. set buoy, de.
Mr. Ileums —There tieeet lave lees Noe reams.
Appbowel —I bare hod eight chains rbrieteter4 these
t.f.t►, errl tw. at.iretket we. mole by the Mew. Mr. Jot-
trlS.M. 1401.4 t the ressini of tis Ajecting is bonitos
I son int nissensit

Mr. I aquas --That waahl sot he a rawer.
.tpalreast had no rawarn. 1 &eked ha deo
remark sad ha Neel that a. I was sat 'owner.' haaahl
mislay. churl+ row woe rbrotrn nm chill. I went wile ea
SI/O.LAY. 14%11 bot hare it clone. I have hal other
chilrlow eliroitono4 Otero and no 014rction was snarls. I
moonily so to clue h at the cal .1 thew 'mks site my
rostaere. et 4, 1.44.1.0,641, root I have the child chra•
terwal at thr mow t
Mr. lam ni.ia It m a matter with the onrlesiastical law.
is wrlarels I aro hot ',mum!. I .In nos reummher a ekernaas
n Noma li.rhrnton a rbd.l loownoe it wa.. illourtimata.
apielionat I toik two arolfathera with me on Sundae. and
I *se toll that the chill ruald trot bw rhriateweal without
tlao perwommael lb.. rear. the Kew. Mrs./v.l'llmgal. I
WI .err ton. b Jai .1 -4 in ro4 h.rin my chill ehristraerL
Mr. Ts. he (the chief clerk) neve you seen the He.. Mr.
Jest tee*, •

il..tat I mow hist on Friday, .►n ►e to4l me he
1/.411111.4 r►urrb uu aor chrialtm toy chili
lir out had bettor ►pply to the bishop of the
me ..Si

Ttw genre. el the inel.e.t. r wen If rittru .1 .we
ohm e fer the eipb.-eat. sod she I. ft the
reert ',leveeing her Weeks to L. w.,rehap. fur his attektiee
to her ..se.

THE INCREASE OF CRIME.

BIRMINGHAM. MOND.% T gr..

At the quarter ....Pions itt this tows to-day, Mr.
M. Ina- the Recorder, in the roar.o of his ad-
dress to the mood kir', referred to the heavy calendar
pl.tossl before him. He was aware that Birmingham dal rot
stare! above I. that particular, but that there 11:tgl bent an
itierease in the containments over a large portion of the
coontry. Wh.,t the extent of the iDer•••• wall he could
not say until the ruturin of the various polio-gas were oh-
tgined Thou.4h three was a large increase in the ealetalar.
still that .lid not ehango his irialfsl as to the treatment
-1 criminal otiemlers, and he would again venture to
ur,:v anew the soniminem of the policy he had advocated.
(.ear or No yens ago the emotey was thrown into
a p.m... in onsequeoce of the belief that reins) was in-
vie to to Jangling extent, nod the moat extravageut
notions orosailed as to the treataiest of criminals. Other
loses,:. IMMO to occupy the pololie attention,
me: • rime was forgotten. Statistics were published, and
the year wont round it was found that the RM.
I 00l ingesee- if there were any Meream at all—wax
)et eery small and insignificant. It very frequently hap-
roust th.,t b.-,l eirennistenees tended to creel. an
increase .4 crime. VIII at other tinsel it occurred that there
•11•• general incre:..• throughout the country. He believed
that it mould Ise found that the igunsise of crimes! the pro
sent time arts n.nimon tea the whole country, alai would not
last more than for a short period. as it nom from a depres
sum in the prosperity of the nation under pendia: (imam-
., .1,3,, winch critaileil severe trials upon a large 1.4", of
the co 'tar, and happy would it be if England has seen
the wont of the evils which have been produced by the ekes
cutostanees to which I.e had referral. Theme events, how-
. gee, rogrzlat not to on the eontnry, rather 'time-
latethoir exertions towsols the euppresirm of crime. They
were not to throw down their oars and let the boat drift as
it le.ored losairse the stream ran more strongly and the
was more swiftly ezainst them than it was a time ago.
'Hi, should recolloet that owing to the force of eireum•
••• crime would rat times increase in spite of their hest
et d. amen ; hut still their efforts were out all in vain. He
tri-tosl they would hear with him in saying, in ',fer-
n:, to what had been the great business of the latter
-3rl d hi.liL•, that instead of their exertions having
loon too .troolloos, they were not sufficiently erne., and
the importance of the subpet was 1/04, as it .hook! he, before
their mind, on 311 or:caskets. The learned geotienian thee
proceeded to olio, t the attention of the grand jury to the
unjust parsinany which refuses to allow witnesss the
remuneration which 0110011.1 protect them from actigal loss
in rendering their testimonv against prisoner'. It was fag I
from hie wish that the nntioneretion shoubl in.. mode
source ni profit, hot it was ant a proper state of thing@ for
a mom on being oast apes as a pronieutor to SW. " I have
suffered nee loss, and now I am railed upon to suffer again,
is artier to protect that community which does not protect
me." It was ituia clam that that was contrary to true
But the C.3.•al pr wail ea the strommt.
There WY rote clam of witnomes whrwe profemicie, he might
may, we. to give tradracsi—the met lad officers of the police
—the greet tasty of whom are of secessity hot smuttily re-
munerated for their metiers. It was a great injustice if one
of thou men, with *Sh or les per week, were called urine
to go some 'eel Indio to rive evirleac• ; and he was out of hie
racket roily 1.. the extent of three or four shilling.. Bat the
inanity. of the pilots oakum are gesevally made for the
purpose of identifying at dieniat courts convicts who
had lowa previously °masted, and who it warn mart leas
passel matindil not escape the effects of were.! enavictice.
It was is the nature of thine that offkine sherd he de-
terred by lb* fear 'elf lee her uadertaking snob journey.,
and the rentilis would he that such escapee would Goer.
A at had reached him from a Deighliouriag moiety to
the *dm* that epos an investigation, mite be mac of the
bine sunder of jeers& pisoasn head is the gaoler the
peewit time—eml the who nada the Modem Iwo
fully pialillest. from their bran and pertion, though their
..rears revolted at the eraser - arrived at -that the
majority el
of the paresis the_ young primmer, were
shut to lied themselves al tkis time of premiere
relieved hens the rapers ef the mainternee of their
ill.prieg k nowise that they were in rem. The
iteformatory Schools Aet inardeil against a eirnikr
reiplaties en the lards anneifirarts whose children wee. sent
to reformatory, by thee to coetrilinte In the
me a their chitin's A theme It there wen technical
is weritieg Shear r prarel at ant, yet they hail
new bees rroodled ; asd the, greeter diflleslty - the millet-
sate of yr gietratee to rake the seesseary owlets - had alr,
to a large mind, lees enemies, lied he was of opiaine the
Ise ens working welt It right eat he proper is Mar le
threw eel the sammetine I. was about to de at present,
but he stereo thet while the patent was sailed upon to
eoatribute to the sopport of hie chill in • reformatory
wheal, he should atm he rolled opera to °attribute to his
warm% is risen, The iuggsmtioa might he a new or, tad
re es which the.. might be &vanity of *sire. but he
felt ere that re etiltieet would Tern their redid rtes.
boa : whether it would receive their approval or not was
mother rarer.