The Express.
London, England, 1861-04-13 00:00:00

111 NZ HARDT AND WAL/LER.

This matter, reported in our unpriesioerot yesterday, wee
a meeting in Walker's separate opiate only. Wean re-
quested by Mr. Hardy to state that it is untrue that 5,000 t.
had been lost in • few wash, or that there had been any
abstraction of property, or that Hardy was insolvent ; the
contrary et these statenseeta appears by Mr. Walker's
balanoaabeet. Hardy's account. hare not been flied, be.
oases he has heen unable to obtain atoms to the books, frau
which aloes those acconota can he made out.
(More Mr. Co".lbiana. Pane.)
in 111 IL RATIMAII.

The bankrupt was a timber merchant, of Old Breed-drest.
This was the whammed examination meeting. The total
liabilities are 19,1131/. ; onsets about 45,0001.
Mr. 1A117..00, for the assimadiell ananitzres. At the
last sitting as adjourantent because the
accoants had not bees Sled in time.
The booklet pried.

CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT.
THIRD COURT.
(eer! the Casmon theissat.)

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At the sitting of tke Snort Joie &hisses' Gibson, who
wobiesterslay convicted al anthmalentent, was again
tap to take hi trial upon the other indictments pro-
f wand him by the &stern Counties Railway Com-
Beeisant Bellantiue and Mr. T. Atkinson prosecuted ;
and Mr. tiarjeant Parry and Mr. Metcalfe were for the
prisoner.
Mr. Birjeant Balla:dine said that after the conviction
which had taken pines yesterday those who instructed him
fah that the ends of justice had been satisfied, and having
no desire to press heavily upon the prisoner
they would not call upon hint (the learned serjeruat)
to proceed with the other indictments. The prosecu-
tors felt deeply for the position in which the
prisoner had placed himself. He was • man of highly re-
spectable family, and had a wife and arms children. The
company did not desire to interfere in may way with the re-
oommendation of the primer to mercy with which the
jury aecerwaniedtheir verdict ; but ha, op= the part of the
°cowpony, oomplaimed of that part of the recommendation
which alluded to the lax manner in which the accounts were
kept. He (the learned 'enigma) said both* what-
ever bad transpired in the evidence gives apes the
trial to warrant the jury in making such • remark.
Mr. Berjeaut Parry said that after what had been maid
by his learned friend, Mr. Serjeant Ballantine, he felt he
could not add anything which could place hi unhappy
I client in a better position with the court. He thanked the
Prcescution for the generoan and kind spirit they had
shown.

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The Common Serjeant said that hi did ant agree with the
jury is that part of the recotoseadatice to mercy which
stated that their ground for doing se wee the lax manner in
which the amounts of the company wen kept. There wee
nothing abetted during the investigatioci that the ac-
counts had been improperly kept. The prisoner
was a man of education and experience, and had
swim hie •11661 0111111t0a the department over which lie pre-
sided, aid aim six leeks to conduct the business of that
oak*. He (the loomed judge) could not, therefore, agree
with the jury that any blame could be attached to the com-
pany ; is the contrary, it appeared to him that there was
quits a suficient check. It was not the caw of a poor man
employed to collect rents, whose duty it was to account
24 bourn for the moneys which he had
every
; but here was a gentleman of position
and character, belonging to an honourable profweioo,
and cue is whom the company placed implicit weildseos,
and who disarmed all suspicion by that fact. He (the
leaned Common Serjeant) felt sure tbat even the prisooer
himself would not claim the slightest indulgence upon the
staled by the jury, namely, that the accounts were
rptlimidel a leen and lax manlier. He again repeated there
wee with* to all for each a remark. It seemed to him
that the seem& of the company had been kept in a °went
and bastows-like manner.

The prisoner was then ordered to stand tack, and at a
later hour in the day was brought up for judgment, when
the Common ilerjeaat said it was not his desire in passing
sentence to aggravate the prisoner's position by referring
to the circumstances under which he was convicted. He
wee exceedingly glad, in consequence of the humanity of
the prosecution, that he should not be sailed upon to per
sentenced• penal servitude ; still be and psis on the
prisoner one of severity. He then catered kits to be he.
primped (0,18 asestke, end kept to herd labour.

TNE ALLIOLD ILL-T'REATNINT OF A LETNATIc.—
Yesterday. Mr. 0. S. Brent, deputy coroner for West 'fid-
dles'', and the jury previously empanelled, re.iusemliled at
the Oulney Hata 6oanty Legate:. Asylum, Friers %mi.
for the purpose of further Investigating the drounistaeces
anusected with the death of Samuel May, aged 49, whom
death, it was alleged, was the result of injuries metained
through the violence of an attendant, as cs ort d is our
columns of Monday last. Some further aridesos having
Leen taken, the jury, after • short deliberation, returned a
verdict, "That the deceased Samuel May died from ex.
haustion, accelerated by fractured rib., but Low those
injuries were produced there was not sufficient evidence
before them to prove." The jury were about to attach to
their verdict • recommendation that the aaphalte Mooring
should be removed, when Mr. Smite said that was already
in hand, and would be completed In about three months.
Extra attendants would also lie engeged.
A IDCCTION IN INILAND.—At the Clonmol sensione
• day or two since, the case of the Queen at the prosecution
of Mary Hickey, junior, v. John Connor, came on for hear-
ing. the prisoner on being called stood forward in the
i dock, in custody, charged with having unlawfully allured
or taken away from the custody of hes mother, end without
her consent, Mary Hickey the younger, under 18 years of
age, and, as seat of kin to her mother, entitled to certain
property. To this misdemeanour he pleaded not guilty.
The jury, after a long deliberation (having been locked up
in consequence of their protracted disagreement), returned
into court, and handed down a verdict of guilty. His
lordship sentences' the prisoner to twelve months' imprison-
ment, and in doing so expressed his full concurrence with
the just verdict which the jury had returned.
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..Perhaps there Is no article of personal ornament and utility
that admits of greater scope for the display of • cultivated
asaletie taste than the ornamentation of the dlale and beats of
watehee Countless destine displaying the greatest ingenuity
am still the characteristic of the F.nilish manufacturer's pronto.
Urns, whl e designs of • nigher order of merit are but rarely to
be met with. The lonyer's desideratum I/1 to Slid au eetablish.
mint where will pus presented to him ample choice of artistic
t=lt is, therefore, with pleasure that we can earns the
t melt an establishment. It is that or Mr. J. W. Benson.
Want* at 33 sad 34, Ludgat, hill. and 46 and 47, Comilla--
Moraine Herald. Benson's Illustrated Pamphlet, post free for
two steams. is emertptive of every coastructrio of watch now
node.L Wadies eats by post to all parte of the iltibia—(Adver-
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