The Express.
London, England, 1861-12-25 00:00:00

PROGRESS OP BANKRUPTCY BUSINESS.

The number of petitions for adjudication in
baoka aptcy registered in the chief registrar's aloe since the
12th of October, up to the afternoon of the 20th, is 300
under 3001., and 599 above 3001., io Loudon. In the
country districts during the same period, so far es the re-
turns have yet been received, the number is 464, and in the
county court, 734, making a total of petitions under the
new act of 2,067. The number of trust deed. registered in
the offlos of the chief registrar during the same ; ,rind is
316 ; and the premium of Marinas in this particular depivt-
meet is becoming so heavy that It will be imparithr for the
mutat staff in the office of the chief registrar to deal with
at We understand, indeed, that an order is about to
issue by the Lord Chancellor directing the transfer of
three of the officers of the Insolvent Debtors Court to
Baeingball-street two of whom will be attached to the
department of the chief registrar, and employed in the
registration of trust deeds, and the other will be attached
to theregistrar of the day in chambers, to assist that officer
in the dlaeharge of his multifarious duties. The great
question, however, which still has to be solved is the ac-
commodation which eau be provided in Beeinghallotreet
for that deputmest of the chief registrar's office which
has to register trust deeds. The only socommodation at
preesat enjoyed by the chief registrar for the fulfilment of
the many responsible and difficult duties entrusted to him
consists of two rooms, oat of which is necessarily occupied
by himself, and the other by his three over-worked clerks.
A simple order by the Lord Chancellor, transferring, for the
use of the chief registrar, the room on the right hand of
the entrance, now occupied by one of the clerks of the
accountant in bankruptcy, who might without any incon-
venience be removed up-stairs, would remedy one great
inconvenience now sustained by the officers of the court,
and the practitionen and suitors resorting to Baaiogliall-
street. —Gazette of Bastkruptcy.

TEN MusD= NRAR CAILINLIL—WiIIiam Cheri-
toe, as engise-drivwr on the Newcastle and Carlisle Rail-
way, was apprehended on Monday night at Carlisle, ma the
charge of murdering the old woman. Jane }lmmerses, at
Donso-hill creek of the Newt:mrtis and Carlisle Railway,
and afterwards rubbing her house. Oa the morning after
the murder the prisoner had to go to Newcastle in
?barge of • mineral train at 4.30 a.m. Accord-
ing to the rules of the company, he went to the
engine-shed about an hour before that time to prepare
his engine. He soon left, however, telling the fire.lighter
that he was going for his breakfast —a very unusual thing
to do. When he was away his mate, the stoker, came
and oiled the engine. The primmer, on returning, told
his mate, not that he had been for his breakfast, bat
that he had been for a knife. They started with their train
in about half ea hour, and when approaching the scene of
the murder, about a mile from earful., Charlton directed
the attention of the stoker to • nursery garden on the op-
posite side of the line from where the dead body of the
murdered woman was lying ;• and as they were going
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and needless thing so early on the journey. The stoker
tans did not observe anything peculiar about the gates or
the cottage as he passed through. They arrived at
Newcastle about ten o'clock, and on being told by the
driver of the next Uain from Carlisle that • murder had
been committed, and asked what he had seen, Cbarltou said
he had seen • light in the cottage, sod he appealed to the
stoker. The stoker, however, remembered that he had been
firing at the time they passed. Charlton afterwards said he
might be mistaken shoot the light. He also made other
conflicting statements, and has appeared latterly to be in •
despondent state. Upon one occasion he directed the at-
tention of the stoker to • man working with a pickaxe on the
sloping banked the railway when there was really no such
loan there. The police are in possession of other evidence
against the prisoner which they do not wish to be divulged
at teemed, as they expect it will lead to a coovictiou.
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Pores.—Yesterday morning, at 3 o'clock, an accident oc-
curred in Poplar, by which three persons lost their lives.
There is • wretched place called Nelson-court leading out
of the High-street, in which there are several dilapidated
tenements inhabited almost solely by poor and industrious
Irish. One of those miserable houses was omupied by •
labourer named Richard Cogan, aged 60 ;his wife, Margaret,
58; sad their two daughters, Mary Ann,
Elm, aged 11 years. They slept in one bed, the parents
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la &dying state, and was converecl to the Poplar Hospital,
when the medical officers pronounced her to be dead. The
youngest daughter, Ellen, was only slightly injured, and
yesterday evening was doing well. The calamity is attn.
notable to the falling of an old wall against the house 00312.
pied by the Cogan, which was a kind of lean-to quite
unfit for the habitation of human beings.
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