The Express.
London, England, 1857-08-08 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, SATURDAY EVENING, AUGUST 8, 1857.

LAW INTELLIUENCE
THIS DAY.

COURT OF BANKRUPTCY.
(Won Mr. Contutimioner Fuel

IN RE OLONRIA AND aLoysit.

These bankropts went described se of the White Bose,"
Piccadilly, and to-day was appointed fur a meeting fur proof
of debts and choice of assignees.
Mr. Fitch slid he appeared on behalf of several creditors
to ask fOr an adjournment, in order that a propeeitiou which
bat been made by some of the banknapts friends to tricot •
competition might be taken into considantion. Tin 'Jai-
homes creditor did not object.
Ilia Honour asked whether soy ether creditors objected er
to pt.ove.
Mr. Fitch aid be believed not, although, if necessat-y,
client. would prove.
His Honour said it was entirely • question for tbetneelees.
—lse had no power to compel them to do m, rile. they
thotutht It.
All the creditors present anointing, an adjournment took
place Syr three weeks.
I The debt, and liabilities are small in amount

IN W.

This bankrupt waa described of Vi..toria-road, Deptford,
heathr and contractor, and to-day was appointed fur choice
of assignees.
Mr. 11. Harris, Meorgato-strect, appeared for the petition-
ing creditor, and assignees were risen.
The debts sad liabilities are about 1.000!., and the aorta
3.0001., but subject to mortgage. and the realisation of pro-
perty, Ito that buts small dividend eon be eapcsted. Thu
failure is attributed to tho high prim of lobos and materials.
There were two other curt us the lint for rtioiou uf as-
signets, but which wan of no interest.

THE POLICE COURTS.

THIS DAY.

MANSION-HOUSE.

Zeolite Ilughea was brought before the Lord Mayor,
charged with uttering • counterfeit half-crown.
Mr. eltrimio, china &der. said—Thu primer walked Into
my shop, and having asked for • trifling article, the fen* of
which was Dice-pence, offered we • counterfeit half-crown.
I queetioncd her about thu bad money, and she answered me
the meet insolent manner. I then sent for • whomen
and gave her into hi. cult Ay, and be end I were very much
ahead by. her.
The runner, who gum a wrong addle..., was renianded.
-fins 1)4110/iNe was charged with having stoke a oaf.
A Policeman—l maw he between four and five o'clock this
morning going towards Petticoat-lane, carrying a mat. She
mid she had got it from a Mr. Aaron's, and, as I was taking
her to the .cation-hour shallow same glees away. I moo-
rshe has Moles both the ere and the sat from a public-
se.
The ;trimmer —The devil • bit of me ever et le enyaling.
Faith I gut Out ould mat for doing • bit of a Job for a gen-
tleman.

-IteiTaatted.
Ellen Matthews who wait charged w:th having robbed •
gentleman of his watch, after haring havered him, wee
brought up for re-examination.
The prosecutor had been not by the pietas?. who told
hint that she was fatigued, and • stranger in London. She
accompanied him to • public-house, when b• Madly treated
her to refreshment, end she returned the compliment by
slipping • drug into the •10, by which be wee thrown into a
deep sleep.
Committed for trial.

CLERKENWELL
11.0HKETY HT A BLATANT.

Atha Nark, aged 17, of No. 2, Csaltceourt, Holborn, an
errand-boy, and Faeny Frearlrill, aunt of the other prisoner,
were charged, the firmer with stealing • coat, the property
of his master, Mr. John Shields Thompson, a clothier and
outfitter, residing at No. leG, Holborn•hill, and the latter
• with receiving the smile, knowing it to have Leen stolen.
Frain the evidence it appeared that the younger prisoner
had beta in the employ of the prosecutor about sin weeks,
during which Ham he hail boat property to the value of be-
tween M. and 601. Being unable to detect the thief, he
gave information to the police, and the matter being placed
in the hand, of Tyler, 42 0, an active detective
oMeer, he watched the pmeeentor'e premise., and yester-
day afternoon he saw the female primmer cuter the shop
during the temporary absence of Mr. Thompson, when the
boy took down a valuable coat and putting it m his aunt's
apron, she at once roade off with it. Tyler followed her
for wane distance, and when he @topped her and asked her
whet she had got, she replied, " Nothing." He then took
from her apron the coat given bee by the male prisoner, when
she tried to get the truth mark off, but was prevented, and
was then with the boy taken to the Ration, r when they loth said
they knew nothing whatever about it. Upon searching the
female's milder, &number of pawnbrokers duplicateembich
it was suspected related to the other property stolen, wort
found, and a remand sue ordered for further inquiries to be
made.
The prisoner, who had nothing to say in answer to the
chug., was remndod for a few days.

EXECUTION OF JACKSON, AT STAF-
FORD (THIS DAY).

(IT ILICTRIC TILEORAPIL)
SCENE ON THE GALLOWS.

The convict George Jackson, who with Charles
Brown, since implied, was sentenced to death, for the murder
of
Mr. Charietworth, st Abbotts Brumley, suffered death this
morning, in front of the county gaol, at Stafford.
When the unhappy men was made acquainted with the
fact that his fellow prisoner wee to be spared and himself
hung, he me way to one of those fearful puotyisuis of
grief to which he has been subject more or less since him
conviction, and when on Thursday he wee visited by his

aged parents, three sisters, and a brother-in-law, the scene
was one of a moat dixtreasing character, and exceeded any-
thing of the kind soar pros ioualy wit:mimed within the prison
walla.

Shortly before eight o'clock this morning the various
authorities of the gaol proceeded to the condemned cell.
where they found the unhappy man in a most pitiable con-
dition. When informed that the fatal moment had arrived
be sank to the ground overwhelmed with grief, and
while the process of pinioning was proceeding the
spectacle was heart-rending. In almost an insensible
state he was carried from 'the condemned cell towards
the eeaffuld, but on reaching that spot, he began to
struggle most violently, and cried, sobbed, and shrieked in a
manner that struck awe into the breast, of all. When the
cap wee placed over his face, he again struggled, and ear-
lneeded In pulling it off. At length, however, the prelimina-
ries were concluded, and the bolt wits drawn. The unhappy
man struggled most violently, and death did not appear to
take place for several minutes.
Daring the whole of the morning, and at the time of the
execution, the rain wee descending in torrents, still there
wee a large concourse of persons present.

THE MURDER OF MR. LITTLE.

DUBLIN, FRIDAV EVININO.

The anxiously expected trial of James Spollon,
the railway servant, charged with the brutal murder of Mr.
George Samuel Little, in November last, at the Broadatone
terminus, commenced this morning at ten minutes peat 11
o'clock. Chid Justices Lefroy and Monahan took their
seats upon the bench, when the Clerk of the Crown directed
the prisoner to be produced.
He walked up the Asps leading to the dock with great
deliberation. No visible change has taken place in his ex-
terior except in dress ; the white hexagon jacket which he
wore hitherto has been exchanged fur a neat blue frock coat.
His gore seldom wandered from the bench, but when the
jury were brim called ho scrutinised each gentlemen closely
as his name was announced.

Spikes camel sunned the right of r hallenge to nine-
teen jurors. The mown est Nib Are gentlemen.
The jury haring been itapinelled, the clerk of the err
gave the prisoner in charge cm the indictment for murder.
The _ _

then ia sa alio address, which
occupied three -hoary la the &away. skin the use for the
prosecution. In the comae of bb titer issmaid gentle-
men called attention to the 'melanin sennseted with the
draining of the canal, and the weapons which would be pro-
duced to the jury. The Leer of ate hews would be
found to have red bed bibedlid Ybe WNW= of the
wood at the heed; dims the an Powered Y Ile canal.
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will to bow& Is a omission bilin Mosby.