The Express.
London, England, 1861-05-13 00:00:00

GUILDHALL.

Mr. David Basad,• corn factor, of Uxbridge, appeared on
bail before Alderman J. Clarke Lawrence, to answer a
variety of charges for obtairdog cheques and goods to a con-
siderable amount of several persons under lain and fraudu-
lent pretences ; and Ala°, under the Bankruptcy' Law Con-
solidation Act of 11449, with fraudulently trading within
three months of his bankruptcy.
Mr. Metcalfe, for the prosecution, intimated that the
assignees intended to indict the defendant under the Fraudu-
lent Trustees Act, so that in the event of his proving that
he had the wheat to sell, his parting with it to other per-
sons would constitute him a fraudulent bailee. With regard
to the wheat obtained of Mr. Nash and Mr. Way the evi-
dence in those cases would be used to support
urge of
obtainiog goods on credit within three mouths of delnt's
bankruptcy, under the false °odour and pretence of carrying
on basins.' and dealing in the ordinary course of trade with
intent to cheat and defraud his creditors.
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The depositions having bean reed over, Mr. Metcalfe
asked foe the defendant's committal upon all the charges.
Mr. Buchanan contended that there wee not a particle of
fraud in the defendant's oonduct, and although his liabilities
hail been stated to be nearly 20,0001., it would appear that
his meets .01 realise between 5,0001. and 6, • and it
should also understood that the defendant's triamations
averaged nearly 100,0001. a year, and the confidence
reposed is kin was such that not one of his creditors, not
even the petitioning creditor, whose claim amounted to the
large sum of 4,000/., either believed the defendant had say
fraudulent intentions towards them, or wished him to
be punished criminally for a misfortune whir-hero,* from the
unfavourable wawa and the continuous rise in the markets
against him, a misfortune which had happened to hawked'
of highly respectable people who had not been subjected to
such a prosecution on that account. Mr. Buchanan then
reviewed the whole of the evidence, submitting that every
circumstauoe tended to corroborate his view of the defend-
ant's conduct as a merchant and to entitle him to his dis-
charge.
Alderman J. Clarke Lawrence said he had devoted great
attention to the whole of this cue, and although he was
aware there was a peculiar mode of doing business in the
corn trade, the facts given in evidence disclosed • course of
trading which brought the defendautwithin the 251st section
of the Bankruptcy Law Consolidation Aot for obtaining
goods under the false colour end pretesce of carrying on
business and dealing io the ordinary course of trade, and
he therefore had no alternative but to commit the defendant
for trial on all the charges.
The defeadant was accordingly committed upon four
chairs of obtaining cheques by false pretences, three of
obtaining goods, three of obtaining the same goods within
three months of the bankruptcy, and four under the Frau-
dulent Trustees Act as a fraudulent bailee, making fourteen
charges in all.
The defendant was allowed to put in bail to the amount
of 8001.
THAMES.
Mr. Joseph Smith, a solicitor, in Arbour.sgnate, Stepney,
waited upon Mr. Woolrycb, and said be had to solicit his
advice under very extraordinary eirournatheces. Be ap-
peared on behalf of Captain Kennedy, of No. 4, Perry-
class, East India-read, on nmender of the ship Coldstream,
lately arrived from India. In the month of 13eftmber last
Captain Kennedy received on board the Coldstream, at
Calcutta, • youug lady, mined Patience Dunbar, about 24
years of age, as a passenger to England. The purge money
was paid, and an attendant provided. She was slat on board
by thaßev. R. C. Bailey, of Poonamattee, in the East Indies,
and was stated to be the daughter of the paymaster Dunbar,
of her Majesty's 74th Highlanders. According to the
written iustruetions received by Captain Kennedy the
young lad wen to be that, on her arrival la England to
the Rev. Edward Halloran, of Ifeathfield•honee, near _ '
month. A certificate of the young lady 'e insanity was
given. to_ Captain Kennedy, when he received the young
Captain Ken-
attlyiwn faithfully attended to, ..E given
and
her attendantl or 'on went to Heathnelei•noueey and
the Rev. Mr. blalloriluideclined to accept her, having no
mato% of accommodating her, and complained that he
had no connexion with her family whatever, and was
very much surprised that Miss Dunbar lad been =t-
ared to him. Captain Kennedy had been obliged to
bring the young lady to Leedom, and she was at present
at his own house. Mrs. Melia, (formerly a Mn. Fitz.
Beath% the atep-mother of Mice Patience Dunbar, was
lately living with her aon•in•law, Captain Bell, of the sth
Middlesex Militia, at Uxbridge. °wt. Kennedy wrote there,
and no sooner had the letter arrived than Mrs. Duoliar left
the house of her son-In-law, sad it is said she has not
returned. He (Mr. Smith) thought Captain Bell niust know
where his mother-in•law had gone to. Miss Patience Dun-
bar was not in any way related to Captain Bell's wife, who
was the daughter of Mr. or Captain Fitzgerald, the first hus-
band of Mn.a Dunbar.

--iir:WOorrieltasied If Mn. Dunbar had at the present
time any relations renal( in India.
Mr. Smith—Yee, sir. Mrs. Dunbar is le the receipt of
70f. per annum left by the young lady's father, and now dis-
cards this poor insane daughter of her late husband,
although enjoying her father's pension.
Mr. Woolrych—lt appears to me, if the young lady is •
lunatic, and she his no relatives to take charge of her,
that the relieving officer of the parish in which she now is
is hound to interfere and see that the is taken chugs, of and
placed in safety.
Mr. Smith—Captain Kennedy has been put to grad ex-
pense and inconvenience, and it appeals that the consign-
ment of the young lady to the Rev. Mr. Halloran was a
trick of her relatives in Ladle, and that Mn. Dunbar has
left Uxbridge to avoid the responsibility. Captain Kennedy
cannot turn the young lady into the street.
Mr. Woolrych-1 should hope not. Than is no other
COMO open to you besides the one I have suggested.
Mr. Smith-1 thank you, sir. I will immediately put
myself in communication with Mr. Jeffrey., the relieving
officer of the Poplar Unica, and ask him to send this un.
fortunate young lady to the County Lunatic Asylum.

EXAMINATIONS AT THE INOOZPORATED LAW
flociere—Zairrxe Teas, 1511.—At the examination of
csailidatee for admission on the roll of attorneys and solici-
tors of the superior courts, the examiners recommended the
following gentlemen under the age of 26 as being entitled to
honorary distinction, sod the Council of the Incorporated
Law Society have accordingly awarded them the prizes of
books mentioned : Mr. Moser, the prise of the Hon. Society
of Clifford's-ion, and, as • further mark of distinction. one
of the prizes of the Incorporated Law Society ; Mr. Grey,
the prize of the Hon. Society of Clemeas.ion ' • Mr. Good-
man, one of the prizes of the lecorporated Law Society; Mr.
North, one of the prizes of the Incorporated Law Society ;
Mr. limiter, one of the prizes of the Incorporated Law
Society.
'ICE WAGER Qum/now IN LANCASHIRE.—Great
uneasiness is at runt manifesting itself among the coal
misses in the neighbourhood of Anhtun, owing to the dis-
putes at present existing between them and their employers.
On Friday rooming the miners employed at Limehurst col-
liery, near Ambits', refused to go to work, in consequence
of their masters offering a reduction of one peony in the
shilling. It is in contemplation by several of the mill-
owners in the Ashton district to commence working abort
time. Whether it will become general or not remains vet
to be ascertained. Werra. Leech and Co., Bardslev Mali,
near Ashton, have given notice to their workpeople that
they will begin to run four days a week after the present
week. We learn that Water-.treat Mill, Stalybridge, is
stopped for a month.—Mandiester Guardian.
MR. JONAS WEDS AND THE BABRAHAM FLOCS.
—Agriculturists throughout the kingdom, and, indeed,
in others, will be sorry to bear that Mr. Jonas Webb has
come to the determination to discontinue his celebrated
annual sheep shows, and will be sorry also to learn the
cause. The show that took place in 181 g.) was the thirty-
fourth and last. Failing health is assigned as a reason for
the declination ; the care and maxisty required in conduct-
ing such an establishment is considered too much for him.
Mr. Webb will still continue the farm, and his energies will
in future be devoted to the breedingoishort-horns, in which
he has already acquired some celebrity. Mr. Webb's im-
merse stock, eimisisting of CAI rains and nearly 1,000 ewes,
will be brought to the hammer in July next. These shows
were always looked upon u one of the events of the a
cultural year, and the unbounded hospitality of Mr. Webb,
with the hearty good-will the visitors always received at the
bands of himself and family, will be long remembered.

A GOOD WATCH AT A MODE:RATH PUCE-11 Th•
danger In walking through the City of London toast be asto-
nished to see so many establishments whom windows are gnat
with watches and jewellery of the moat may description.
Among these there Is one fast Hang Into celebrity forth
and excellence of Its productions—we Mesa the

1,47 'W
Demon: :rata, manufacturer, of SS sad 111,
gate-bill. and 46 sod 47, Coroltill. Aa • good watch Mi 4 tied
on all Nina to be bultpumable to the nun of beam" w• hawo
poi•Ung out a watch NiNhafaelory whore oar
=cgkornar. the article without paying ea eserittlant
nriee."— Telegrapi•—lbernon'a illwatrolod Oxyhtek post
fyw kw two {WWI" to 16111111/01.111 of every coustruetion of wake
sow nada Wenches eels W put to all porta of the plitos.—
AdwartissoraLl

1861.