The Express.
London, England, 1861-03-15 00:00:00

LAW INTELLIGENCE.

EQUITY COURTS.—MARcH 14.
Melon Vice-Chancellor Sir R. T. Hindersley.)
IY RI Tlll NORTHUMBERLAND AND DCRHAX DIeTIICT
BANKING COMPANY F X PARTE IMO.
This was a motion to rescind au order of his Honour •
chief clerk, directing the sale by suction of a portion of the
property of the bank, under these circumstances. In No-
vember, 1860, Mr. Henry Hied contnicted to purchase the
property in question for 16,0001., but that purchase was by
private contract, and was not isieramed by the sanction of
this court. A gentleman named Grainger then offend
17,6001., and the order in question was made, whereby aa
auction was directed on Mr. Grainger paying 1,6001. into
court, and be was to be allowed to had, but if be made de-
fault, the contract of November was to stead.
Mr. Teller and Mr. Dickinson ►ppeared for Mr. Hind.
Mr. Giffatd and Mr. Yield for the official liquidators,
who had taken no part in the discussion iu chambers.
Mr. Roxburgh, for some of the creditor., opposed the
motion.

Mr. Hay, Mr. Glare, Mr. Southgate, and Mr Hob-
house appeared for *the? parties
Hi Honour having suggested tent the °Mon' liquidators
should be the moving parties. if they were willing,
Mr. Field, on their behalf, agreed to do so.
Mr. Dickinson raid that he had advised that the question
should be discussed before the judge in chambers penocally,
but Ili use inionned that au application made to the chid
clerk for that purpose was refused.
The Vice-Chasmllor said that he bad twenty times ex-
pressed his opinion that any party interested bad a right to
require any question to be brought before the judge in
chambers personally. In this moieties there mud hams
hem a misapprehension. for be bad sent to the chief clerk,
and bad received a note in reply, stating that no application
had been made to him, and, be eapected that the parties
would have been brought before his Honour personally.
He (the Vies-Chancellor) was sure that neither of his chief •
clerks had an idea tlmt they bad a right to refuse go have
any question brought before him personally. The motion
must stand over, in order that the oditial liquidators should
be the movie, parties.

COURT OF BANKRUPTCY.—Mascm 14.
(Before Mr. Cotntnissioner Evans).
111 as DAVI= AND T2OOO/37011.—THE ISHOREDPICH BAWL.
Th7e3olb:reiskru te were bankers, of filtioreditch. This wee
the ad '•
itemisation meeting. The debt,are
1114 .; a dividend of se. Gd. in the pound has been de-
clared.
Mr. Linklater appeared for the assignees, and Mr. Law-
rence for the bankrupts. Mr. C. E. Lewis appeared for
Masers. Evans, builders, who are large debtors to the
estate, and who had hese summoned as witeemem
Mr. Lieklater mid that the assignees bad tendered requi-
sitions to the bankrupts, who were prepared to make some
trilling alterations in their account.. They had taken credit
for a large amount of bills receivable which they had die-
counted ; but the item of 27,000/. from that source would
be considerably diminished. Before consenting to the
bankrupts paining, the assignees wished to examine them.
Mr. Lawrence said that of the item of 27,000/., 21,0001.
had been actually received.
H). Honour did not think that any alteration was nem-
sary in this respect.
John Nichol Troughton, one of the bankrupts, was ern-
mined at peat length.
It was then arranged that no further examination should
then take place, that the bankrupts should be allowed to
pass, and that the inquiry should be continued at the cer-
, thicate sitting, on the 26th April. •
Passed accordingly.
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CROWN Sum —(Before Mr. Justice. Wightmen.)
Maria Day, JO, (loupe HlNgifiß SS, and Pass Allison,
45, three powerful looking labourers. were charged with
feloniously @booting at Evan Powell, with intent to murder
him ; and in a second count their intent was Lad to be to
prevent the lawful appreheesion of John Dine.
Yr. Russell and He ' Colquhoun conducted the prosecu-
tion; Mr. Ribton sad Hr. Wondey defended Huggins and •
Thw ; the other 'whiner was undefended.
It appeared that the prosecutor erns as assistant game-
keeper to Sir Edmund Filmer, ILP., upon his estate at
&at Sutton, and that on the night of the Ist of Jrnnary,
he and two other keepers were eat watching in • wood
called Willow Best Wood, which was a preserve for hares
and pheasants. While eco engaged, about 3 o'clock in the
morning, the report of a gun was heard in the wood, and
Powell went straight in the direction from whence it pro-
ceeded, while the other two keepers went in other direc-
tions. The prosecutor then came up with four men, Dine,
the man named in the indictment being one of them, aod
the prisoners the others, three of them having guns, and
the fourth a thick stick. The prosecutor seized Dine, and
the other men made a start as though they intended to
run away, but Dine called out, Come on ! come on !"
and Huggins, who had the stick, went up to the
keeper, and struck him several blows on the bead,
and knocked him down. He still kept his bold of Dam,
however, and another of the men, whom he believed to be
the prisoner Day, went up to him and seized him by the
throat, and endeavoured to force him to loose his bold of
Dino. He, however, did not succeed in this, and while the
prosecutor and Dine were struggling together, another of
tie poachers fired a gun et • distance of five yards; from the
keer, and the charge passed close to him, but fortunately
he sot receive any injury from it. The other keepers
MOO neat this time, and the three prisoners ran off, but
Dins, who was still lathe hold of the prosecutor, was se-
emed, end on his being searched a deed golden pheanint
that had only been turned into the preserve a few days
before by Lady Filmer, was found in his pocket. The pro-
secutor was very much hurt by the blows he received on the
bled from the stick, and be bled so profusely that it tea
through him clothes into his boots, and very shortly after his
comrades arrived he fainted, and was carried to hie cottage
in as insensible state. The man Dine subsequently made a
statement iropliostieg the other prisoners, and he wee ad-
mitted as a witness for the crown, and he detailed the cir-
cumstances under which he and his companions west into
the wood on the night in question, and his evidence was
materially confirmed by that of the keeper Powell and
other witnesses.

The learned counsel for the prisoner+ severally addressed
the jury ou behalf of their clients, and they endeavoured to
show that the accomplice Dine was unworthy of credit, and
that at all events there wee no evidence to show that the
gun was discharged wilfully, and that the probability was
that it was accidentally discharged during the affray.
The learned judge having summed up, the jury, after a
abort deliberation, found all the prisoisere Guilty upon the
third count, of assaultiug the keeper with intent to prevent
the lawful apprehension of the man Dias.