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LAW INTELLIGENCE.—M:s Day

COURT OF BANEIRTipTcy.
Lssioner Winslow.)
IN (BeforeßurAi;iTra AND CRAMPTON..
These well. kupwn contractors, whose stoppage
created so much excitement recently, were to have
come up to-day to pass their last examination, but
no general accounts being filed the case stood
over to a future day. The following copy of
the abstract of the claim of the London,
Chatham, and Dover Railway Company may
perhaps be most interesting to the public :
The company claim as follows :—Cash paid to the
bankrupts as per contracts, £4,403,442 ; stocks and
debentures taken or realised by the contractors,
£11,594,551—t0ta1, £15,997,993. On the other
side :--The contractors have paid cash, &e.,
£2,171,336 ; work done, £2,993,264 ; cash received
by the company from the public for the Metropoli-
tan Extension stock and debentures taken by the
bankrupts, £4,171,450; balance due to company,
£6,661,943. The bankrupts dispute these figures,
and the realisation of the estate depends upon the
settlement of this account.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.—This Day.

BOW-STREET.

John Connor, a tall, powerful-looking specimen
of the London-Irish Rough," was charged by
Theophilus Redstall, the gaoler of the court, with
assaulting him in the execution of his duty, and
also with using threatening language ; and Margaret
Murray, an ill-favoured elderly woman of the same
class, was charged by William Lynch, one of the
warrant officers of the court, with attempting to
rescue the other prisoner.

Redstall deposed that about a quarter to seven
o'clock last evening he was engaged, with the assis-
tance of the warrant officers of the court and con-
stables appointed to the duty, in removing ten pri-
soners to the police van, which was drawn up in
Bow-street, at the door of the court. As he was
taking from the court door to the van a man named
Bryant, who had been committed for 10 days for
an assault, he saw the prisoner standing on the
pavement, near the entrance steps. The prisoner
had also appeared (on a summons) to answer a
charge of assault, and had been ordered to pay the
costs and find bail in two sureties of £lO each
to keep the peace for six months. He had paid the
costs and found bail, and had been discharged from
custody about ten minutes before the van drew up
at the door. But while under detention he had
been confined in the same cell with Bryant. As
Bryant was about to slip into the van, the prisoner
made a rush towards him and tried to pass to him
a bundle wrapped up in a red pocket handkerchief.
Witness took the handkerchief from him and found
that it contained a bottle of spirits.
William Lynch, warrant officer of the court, said
he was ou duty at the time, and seeing the prisoner
attack Redstall seized him, and endeavoured to
take the bundle from him. A woman in the crowd
called out, 6, sling it, Jack" (meaning throw it
away).
The Magistrate said for the assault on the
constable he must be imprisoned one month, and
then find two securities of £lO each to keep
the peace for three months. He then inquired
as to the character of the woman Murray, who it
seemed had been repeatedly in custody for assaults.
The magistrate committed her for 14 days.

,oBER 9, 1867.

FENIAN OU2 R._ IGE / N I NCHEST ER.

The authorities continue to receive anonymous
letters, and in some of this correspondence the
.writers profess to give information where Kelly and
Deasy are concealed. Whether these letters are the
result of zeal in the cause of justice or are intended
simply by misleading the police to keep them off the
right scent is at present only a matter of specula-
tion. They do not feel justified in disregarding
such information, and it consequently leads to much
annoyance and useless effort. The Salford police
made a descent on Monday night upon a house i❑
Ford-lane, Pendleton, in that borough. They made
an examination of that and the adjoining houses, but
without result. The search disclosed that some of
the occupants had Fenian sympathies, for portraits
of Burke and Fenian newspapers were found in the
house. A man found in ono of them, bearing a
strong resemblance to Kelly, was arrested, but
afterwards set at liberty.
Yesterday, at the Manchester Police-court, James
and Mary Foley were brought up on remand
charged with having threatened a witness named
Ellis, upon whose information one of the Fenian
prisoners (a brother of Foley's) had been arrested.
Mr. Roberts remarked that the prisoners had been
remanded for a week, and that the case was not one
that called for severe punishment, and he asked that
they might be discharged. This the magistrate
(Mr. Kennedy) refused, and ultimately the pri-
soners had to find two sureties in £5O each, and
enter into their own rccognisances for £lOO to keep
the peace for six months. It may be remembered
that the two defendants went to the witness's house,
when the woman said that she would be avenged of
him if she" swung" for it, while the man said if
witness gave any more evidence he would pay
smartly for it. The witness Ellis, who was in court,
was wonderfully changed in appearance and demea-
nour through the fear inspired by threats and warn-
ings. He lives in Ilyde-road, near Irish neighbours,
and told the magistrate that through the loss of
appetite :aud health he bad been unable to work
since the attack on the police van and his appear-
ance as a witness. He wished to know if he could
have any compensation. The clerk of the court said
that was not the place to apply for compensation.
It may be remarked that Ellis was one of the most
intelligent of the witnesses of the occurrence when
he first gave evidence. He now appears to have lost
courage sadly as well as health, and the police com-
plain that many witnesses lost courage to state in
the witness box what they had said when first con-
fronted with the prisoners and identifying them.