The Express.
London, England, 1857-09-18 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, FRIDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 18, 1857.

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INSOLVENT DEBTORS COURT.—SErr. 17.
Mims Mr. Commissioner Murphy.)
nr 13 YWICIII 1011NSON GIBBON.

Ws Sr avant, Tikes opeersaoe bdore the court yam
ettreseted to being weaned-ea a director in the General
Indsemllttre end Ids Inememse Company, waa opposed
Ingram Yr. A& dationst.
The Insolvent bad been a bluer, butcher, &e., at Ban-
=Oxfordshire, and his connexion with the General
"ty Corot:easy had diverted his attention front his cc-
!options, which, with his liabilities to about 2,0001.
Ice the company now being wound up, had °condoned his
Insolvency. Eris own debts were about 6001., and ha had
deposited 1001. in money with the comp y, and had given
Ms to 2001., whkh were not, he surged, to be wed.
Mr. Job said he wee a creditor of the company to 1,0001.
H. was not a shareholder.

iir.6inoLssioserliOPhy WI the thickset's shore woe
Meet 141.

16.11. e•-• d mid the buolvent bad lest hi. mosey In the
"Ireand lila bills bad been peal smug.
emmirdoure, Murphy thought he had seta very fool-
!ably. He had ban in piece, but wee of opinion that s re-
mand fora that period -should be slum.
The learned Comniimioner wee about to pporoommeeeeoae the
adjudication when some formal matters were ducuvered and
the oar adjourned to November.
The imeolvent wee permitted to 1023•127 On bail till the sent
ccoake.

Mr. Ettinnsy moved for the diaeharge of the insolvent, who
bed mewed •judirmant of six months, and sines the adju-
dication had removed himself from Whitecroewstreet Prison
to the Queen's Prison.

The cToart—
gnus ied the eppliesties.

CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT.

OLD COURT.--BKrr. 17.

Maw Dew's% IS, was Indicted for feloniously stabbing
Mr..
wooden
ductent to murder him.
Mr. Bodlda sane Clark ed the promeuties.
upFT.lrjayseenkr In this cam is police-constable, end it
that while es duty in the Sbourhood of Denry-
bee b.led ineseien to hike en knot to the workhouse,
end while so mined the prisoner • umber of other
diseedetly obseseters biterfland with Mee, sod his het was
knocked o(, end as be was picking It ip he aocidentelly
Week the rimer a Might blew on Ma fees, and she ap-
peared eery miry, and tittered threats Kahan him. Having
Uh the hey to the wottbouse, he ~turned to his duty,
end the prisoner met him, and said ohs had been home to
get something for him, and, as it appeared, without any
provomti ,oc made a meet savage attack upon him with a knife
sad slabbed him ill the !see and other ;ens of his body, at
the sante time making use of the most fearful threats, one
stab is them being accompanied by the exclamation that,
if ohs mold not have the constables life, she would have
kb eye oat.
The prisoner, when called upon for her defence, said she
was drunk and did not know anything of what bed hap-
pened.
The jury found the prisoner guilty of wounding with in-
tent to do grievous bodily Warm.
Mr. Bodkin informed the court that the prisoner had been
convicted of serious assaults upon the female turnkeys of
different prisons in which she had been confined, and she hod
also been repeatedly convicted of riotous conduct and 'moult-
ing the police.
Mr. Justice Crompton, after observing upon the aggra-
vated character of the offence, said that *be polies must be
protected in the roper direharge of their duty, and he then
sentenced the prisoner to penal servitude be ten years._ '
The prisoner, u she wee loaning the dock, exclaimed, with
great violence, " I'll never do never dolt I"

-JYiuiaat Elia* Jaws Ilillyar, a respectable-looking lad,
who eurrendand to take his trial, was indicted for felony in
having unlawftillT uttered em true and uins • forged
certificate of baptism, with intent to
Mr. Potent:lord and Mr. Sleigh eanducted the grceenution
on behalf of the Admiralty; &meant Ballsnllnawrapedally
retained for the defence, with Mr. Lilley.
Mr. Petspdorff, in opening the awe said Iplow=ted
that the duty devolved upon him of a
charge of so serious • description spinet a young man
so reepeotable en the prisoner and his family undoubtedly
were, but the authorities of the Admiralty, feeling that •
vcrymieekkvous offence bad been committed, had no alter-
native but to institute the present {inattention as a warning
to all whom it might concern, that they incurred very great
danger by committing an act of the devil 1011 that was now
the subject of inquiry. lie then prvaeerW to explain that
by en order in councd, which indeed was likely to be of •
very beneficial character, all persons applying fur appoint-
ments in the civil service of the government were
required to undergo eertnin exansinan as to their
eases*, and there were other regulations to be com-
Jilted with, one of which was with reference to the
age of the applicants; and with regard to appointment*
in the Admiralty, the youngest cgs at which- any clerk
could be appointed was 17. An appllatim had, It appeared,
been made to the Admiralty for an appointment for the pri-
soner, and he was directed to attend at the Admiralty for the
purpose of undergoing the usual ezaminetion, and lie did so
oa the 27th of July. Upon this ocemion he eigteed a paper
LJ which he dated his ege to be 17, and he at the rune
tone produced • certificate of baptism and the certificate of
the registrar of births, &e., by which It appeared that be
wee burn on the 22nd of May, 1840. The gentleman to
whom be gave the doeument• disoovered immediately that
they had been tampered with, and that the date originally
entered was 1841 and that the 2 had been erased And a 0
" ' .

sultelitulad. The 'defendant attended on a eubsequent day
and underwent his examination; but upon all the facto
mat * the knowled,re ot the Board el Admiralty, they
Mt it to be their duty to direct that the present indictment
hershould be preirred.
. West, a clerk m the Admiralty, proved that the de-
nudes* wee reconiromeled for an oppuintmeot, and that the
weal letter war rent requiring him to attend end be ex-
amined. He said he believed that the application fora situa-
tion was originally made by the privonera father. By one of
the regulations of the t:uiloolostimers, no per was eligible
for an appointment in the Admiralty who was ander 17 or over
2S }ears old.
Dv Serjeont Bellantine—The connexions of the defendant
were highly rupectelle. Him father was en officer of rank
on board the Agamemnon.
Mr. Hansphrm, the senior clerk in the Civil Service Com-
missioners Office, stated that the defendant cams to him, by
appointment, and he asked him to fill in written answer* to
certain ganglions, and he did so, and one of the gnawers he
gave was tLat hie ago was seventeen at his meet birth-day.
The defendant then handed him two *pen, one purporting
to be • eertiecate of baptism and the other a register of births,
and he looked at them and saw at °nee that the dotes had
been altered from 1842 to 1840. He asked the orteeeer if he
was ewers that the certificates had r een altered end he maid
he was, and he amounted for It by stating that Mr.
Iletcherd, the clergyman. had made a mistake in the date,
and that the documents had teem rent tack to him, and that
he had made the alteration. Witheill told him that he
could not give credit to him statement, but he waisted In
stating that it wee true, and he afterwards said that he rap-
weed hie father knew something about it.
fontattr.ould'ilUTut renke4iltv ir—The
eT" gpointilmereritehtih.e He
do-
could not hat iiebuT he would have received, but he
would haven liable to be discharged at any moment.
The lies. Mr. Hetchard, the %liar of St. Andreae.,
Plymouth, where the prisoner's fondly resided, proved that
the date of the certificate of *Uses had been altered from
1842 to 1840.
By lilerjeant Ballentine—He led known the prisoner from
his childhood, and always considered him a very good boy,
and hie family were highly reelechtble.
John Dennis, a person connected with the Westminster
Police Court, pmved that the prisoner told him that he was
only fifteen years old.
Seejeant Dellantine made a meet eloquent and feeling
aPrhale ll to tee iet“rrY. Cob:m.l°lM! tolfiethmaite er. of the. Royal Novel
School, was culled sa a witness for the defence, and he
elated that the prisoner had been under his charge for five
years and that no complaint had ever been made against
him.

Mr. Baron Watson, in stuuming up, observed ay.=
the great importance of sustaining the integrity of in-
struments such so certificates of blobs, &c., and
said that the question in the present case ;Ina whe-
ther it was estsblished that the rheum had uttered
an instrument ea a cartigrate of baptism, the con-
' tents of which be most have known to be Wee. If

thin fict were nude out to their eatufsMion, they were
bound to return a verdict of guilty, but if they entertained
any reasonable doubt upon the subject they would of Court
give the prisoner the benefit of that doubt and acquit him.
TIN jury, after deliberating for a considerable time in the
boo, expremed a wish to retire. They left the court at six
o'clock. and returned at seven, when they gave a verdict of
Not Guilty.
There was a bunt of applause when the verdict was de-
livered.

NEW COURT.
(Before the Recorder.)

William Wearer, 20, tai Mr, was indicted for robber., with
Aufence upon lienjiunin Blake*ly, and stealing from Lim his
watch and guard.
Mr. T. Salter proseen:od, and Mr. Sleigh defended.
It appeared that the prosecutor, • lad 16 years of ego,
was about nine o'clock in the evening standing at the cornet
et Milford-lane, Strand, when the primmor came up and
fished Lim to (rune down the lane and he would show him
something. Upon their getting some distance down some
mar, apparently drunk, ran against the promentor, upon
which prironer sod two others knocked humdown, and stole
his watch. Prosecutor, however, managed to get up and
follow the prisoner until he was taken into custody.
The primmer wee found Guilty and sentenced to See years'
pawl ewvitude.
Meru .I.Aaseri, 3s, tailor, woe indicted for receiving a
=tit of silk, vaned at 30W., the property of (lane(heewd,
Lowing it to be stoles.
Mr. Rates, Mr. Sleigh, and Mr. on4dge appeared.
The found the prisoner Guilty, and he was sentenced
he six years penal servitude.
The smolt jury having found tees bills against Cepletre