The Express.
London, England, 1868-05-22 00:00:00

VIWIRS it raw AIM OTKINB.

This case occupied • considerable portion of the day.
It was an action brought by the plaintiff, a contractor,
against Sir M. Peto and others, tried before the Lord
Chief Justice at the last Westinioster after
term sittings, when a verdict was entered for the
defendants with leave to the plaintiff to move and enter
the verdict for him. The actwo was upon a contract foe
the removal of rubbish and materials in the construction
of the Metropolitan Extension Railway, and the matter
in dispute turned upon the construction to be
put upon the words "cubic foot" in the written contract.
whether in solido, or when brought to the surface. Sub-
sequently a rule was obtained, and the case cams on the
day for argument.
Mr. Coleridge, Q.C., Mr. Charlet. Pollock, Q.C., and
Mr. Horace Lloyd, Q.C., appeared in support of the rule
the Attorney-General and Mr. Rocbfoot Clarke showed
cause against it.

COURT OF BANKRUPTCY.
(More Mr. Commissioner Holroyd.)
_ IN EF. PA\IU KF.NNARI).

The bankrupt, a surgeon, of Lambourne, Berke, applied
for hie order of discharge from debts of 1,11411., against
which there were assets of above 1,0001.
Mr. Bagley and Mr. G. Lewis opposed ; Mr. J. It.
Miller supported. The principal ground of opposition was
that the Ninkrupt had been collecting debts belonging to
his estate.

After a protmeted examination his Honour directed an
adjournment sine die, the assignees being at liberty to pro-
seed by indictment if so advised.
(Before Mr. Acting-Commissioner Maxlitt.)
IN RE PAIN, AN LYSOL% ENT DEBTOR.
Thia was a petition by Mr. Stanafeld, the provi.
sional lue.ignee wider the insolvency of William
Henry Bellew Pain, risking that the insolvent should
be ordered, under paiu of commitment, to execute an as-
signment of certain monies invested in the Three par
Cent. Consolidated Annuities, and standing in the name
of the Accountant-General of the Court of Chancery to
the credit of the cause " Bellew v. Bellew."
_ _ _

Hia Honour now gave judgment. The insolvent had
Med his petition in April, 186,1 ; his debts were 1,377 f.;
but he gave up no estate, and there bad been nu divi-
dend. He obtained his order of discharge on the 7th
of May. By the death of the Countess Bellew in February,
1865, be became entitled, as one of her next of kin, to a sum
of 2,250 f., which was carried over in trust to the joint
accounted the insolvent and the provisional assignee. The
insolvent bad since refused to execute the requisite trans.
fee. In September, 1863, bebecamebankrupt, and obtained
his order of discharge in January, 1864, and it was argued
that all his debts, both under the insolvency and under
the bankruptcy, were thus discharged. But the court
was of opinion that the insolvency was a proceeding *till
pending, and that the vesting order was good. The
order would, therefore, be made as prayed.

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POLICE COURTS.-(THIS DAY.)

MANSION-ROUSE.
A..+SAVI.TING A BTOCK BROKER.

Jane Wilde, a respectably dressed woman, described as
having no fixed residence, was brought up on remand
before the Lord Mayor charged with assaulting Mr. George
Henry Aston, stockbroker, by striking him on the head
with a stick in Threadneedle-street.

At the former examination it was stated that the pri-
soner had been tried and convicted at the Middlesex Ses-
sions some eighteen months ago, for destroying property
of the value of 2001. belonging to the prosecutor, and upon
that occasion she woe bound over in her own re-
cognisance, in 1001. to keep the peace towards
him, and she promised verbally as well as by letter that
she would not molest him in any way. Nothing further
occurred, but during the period that bad elapsed the pro-
secutor received a number of letters of the vilest kind,
which be had reason to believe emanated from the prisoner,
and on Thuraday,tbe 14th inst., whilst pursuing his avoca-
tion in the neighbourhood of the Bank of England, the
prisoner went up to him and struck him several violent
blows on the head and shoulders with a stick. smashing
his hat and causing his bead to bleed. The prisoner was
immediately given into custody, but was remanded on
the application of Mr. Payne, barrister, who appeared for
the prosecutor, in order that application might be made to
Sir William Bodkin, the judge of the Middlesex Sessions,
to transfer the prisoner to his court.
Mr. Payne now informed the Lord Mayor that he had
applied to Sir William Bodkin for an order to transfer the
prisoner to the Middlesex Sessions, and that the re.
quest had been acceded to.
The prisoner was accordingly removed, sod it was stated
that her case would be taken at the Middlesex sessionsthis
afternoon.

MARLROROUGH-STREET.

THE MARQUIS TOW:ID/TEND A\II THE STREET SINGER..

Emma ScrMike, address refused, was charged before Mr.
Knox by the Marquis Townshend with begging.
The Marquis Townsbend said that on the pre-
vious afternoon he saw the prisoner singing in the
middle of Oxendon-street, having a child in her arms,
He asked her if she was in &stream and she said she was
and wanted to pick up a few halfpence. He asked the
prisoner where she lived, and on her telling him, ho told
her that he would go with her to see if her story was
correct. She objected to walking with him, and he
therefore proposed that he should follow her
and she walked on., but did not go in the
proper direction of the place she had indicated,
and walked into a public-house with a man she met, and
he then gent for a constable, on whose approach she ran
away, but was afterwards taken into custody. He saw
the prisoner receive money from a servant in Oxendon-
street. and she said the servant give her money every
week, but he had since ascertained that to be untrue.
The prisoner said that when she had her child she was
in service, and having lost her character, being ashamed to
go amongst her friends, possessing a voice, and seeing other
persons going about singing, she did the same, thinking
there was no harmt . .

Mr. Knox said the charge of begging could not be sus-
tained. As far as he could understand the matter, it
appeared that the marquis wanted to assist the prisoner.
The marquis said he would not have charged the pri-
soner, but that she bad attempted to deceive him.
Mr. Knox, in discharging the prisoner, said that if she
chose to step round to No. 15, Soho-equsre (the office of
the Universal Beneficent Society) he bad no doubt a help-
ing hand would be extended to her for her own benefit and
that of her child.

The marquis said that something should be done for the
woman if she applied.

WEATHER REPORT.-(1111.8 DAY.)

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