The Express. — London, England, 1864-12-12 00:00:00

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The judgment of the House of Lords having been in Major VELA' RATON'S favour, the ordinary step for carrying it into final effect was by a motion to the Court of Session to apply the judgment But when this was made on Saturday week it was met by a counter motion on the part of Mrs. Lorrowoarn YELWERTON to allow her to state facts which bad come to her knowledge since the decision, having a material bearing on her case ; and to allow these facts to be proved. The allegations were to the affect that • brother of Major Witusis Yetvtirrow, FREDERICK by name, who died in February, 1860, had expressed a belief that the marriage with Miss Ur:woe-ill in Scotland was valid, resting that belief on the declarations made to him by Major Yuveerow himself as to the nature of the ceremony gone through in Scotland, and as to his intending it at the time to be binding. Affidavits of two witnesses were produced in sup port of this statement One was sworn by a WIL LIAM BIGGS, of Bannagher, describing himself as land agent of Lord AVONMORE, and intimately ac quainted with the members of that family, and who declared that he fully and distinctly remembered Fic ED ER IC K YELVEATON frequently making the assertion that WILLIAM bad " acknow " lodged to him, the said FREDERICK, that " said Scotch marriage had really taken " place between him, WlLuut Qualm Yr.i.- " veirroN, and the said THERM. LONGWORTH." 'The other was sworn by the Rev. E. G. Cattrani, Rector of Kilderry, in the diocese of °glory, having visited in his clerical capacity one Sagas MAL LINA, then an inmate of the Meath Hospital, in Dublin, who on her deathbed informed him that she had been • servant in the family of the acme FREDERICK YELNERTON at the time of his death, that he then expressed in her bearing much contrition for the part he had taken in aiding Major YeLvestrow to set aside his first marriage, and that she had heard FREDERICK say to hiabrother, " We are ruined by " ' your marriage with Mistress Fours. How " could you take her after reading the marriage " service with Miss LONGWORTH in Scotland, and " afterwards being again married in Ireland I' " That the said Major YELVERTON replied, ' It is " sad thing to have acted so, but it can't be " ' helped now. When I reed that marriage ser• 4 " vice with her I had fully resolved to have her " as my wife, and it wee to satisfy her importu " nities I renewed it again in Ireland. I had no " thought of deserting her then, or to marry " Mistress FORBES, or anybody.'" Of this dying evidence of SARAH MALLINS the clergy• man who made the affidavit depones, "And I say " that the said SARAH MALLINS appeared to in. " to speak with candour, and I have remembered " what she said distinctly, and have given the sub " stance of it correctly and accurately." All question as to the admissibility of this evidence, bad it been tendered in time, is removed by the rule of the law of Scotland, that statements of persons who aro dead may be received. Nor can it be disputed that this evidence would have been very material. A jurywould undoubtedly have given very great weight to the narrative of independent witnesses who testified that a brother of the prin cipal party lived and died in full belief, derived from conversations with him, that he had gone through the marriage service in Scotland, intending it to constitute marriage, and one of whom had actually heard these words from the defendant's own lips. It will be remembered that the whole question turned upon the double doubt whether mocha ceremony bad been performed at all, and if performed, whether it had been more than • pre tence intended ou both sides only to quiet the lady's easy scruples. But it must be kept in view that if at the time the ceremony was really sup posed by both, or even by one of the parties, to be a valid form of marriage, no subsequent change of mind in either would alter its effect. Hence if the jury, or the Court of Session and the House of Lords, which in this case performed the part of jury, considered this evidence credible, it would have supplied the missing link in the chain, which in default of evidence was held to be a fatal defect in the proof of marriage. But not being tendered in time, it is clear that at least the Court of Session could not now enter tain it. When that Court has pronounced judg ment, and the judgment has been carried by appeal to the House of Lords, the Court below has no further concern in it, save to perform such duties as the Court of Appeal may direct. The Howe of Lords is tenacious of privilege in this matter, and any difficulty or delay made in carrying out its in junctions would certainly have been visited with at least the penalty of strong language on the part of the Law Peers. But it does not follow that all remedy is therefore barred. Application will doubtless be made to the House itself to admit this new evidence, and it is pos sible that the House may not consider the application too late. It has laid down before now the principle that its judgment is not irrever sible, if it has been obtained by concealment or by fraud. In the present case its judgment is of the nature of a verdict, and in this country the grant ing a new trial after verdict on the ground of the discovery of important evidence for the plaintiff is not unfamiliar. Such a course is matter of dis cretion of the court ; the main object being to prevent injustice being done. And in this in stance it would seem that the plaintiff cannot be charged with laches in not producing the evidence in question sooner. Had FREDIRICH YILVERTON been still in life, his testimony would naturally have been called for at once. But when he was dead, the plaintiff could hardly be expected to seek out or discover those to whom he had privately made important declarations. Still less when SARAH MALLINA was dead could it have been ex pected that the clergymen who attended her death bed should have been examined. Till these wit names came voluntarily forward then► was no due to lead to their important knowledge being divined. Yet even if this attempt should fail her, Mrs. LOSUWOUTII YELVERTON has still a resource. She proposed, when judgment was pronounced by the House of Lords, that the defendant should be examined on oath. This was refused, but it seems she has renewed the application in a different form. By the law of Scotland a party in a suit haa, even after verdict, the right to "refer it to the " the oath "of the other party. Instances have been known where the terror of perjury has caused the surrender of an unjust demand or a false defence. This ancient rule is obviated in general now-a-days by the modern practice of examining the parties as witnesses, as in our own courta. But since in suite respecting marriage the parties are not allowed to be examined, Mrs. LONGWORTH YEivr.a- TON proposes to resort to the older form. It remains to be seen whether it will be admitted at this stage. The Court of Session has done no more as yet than order it to be argued. It will doubtless be represented as in so far a different step in the procedure that it may be conceded without interfering with the decision of the House of Lords. But whatever the judgment on it may be in Edinburgh, no doubt it will again ccme before the Court of Appeal. Nor can we blame a woman who thus uses all the means which the law puts in her power for ascertaining the truth, as if she were pushing litigiousness and tech nical forms to extremes. A woman may be per mitted to be litigious for her honour and for the name of wife, and a prayer for inquiry directed to the honest discovery of the real facts ought not to be branded as technicality. Vbt Court. WINDSOR CASTLE, Die. 10. The Queen walked and drove in the grounds of the Castle this morning, accompanied by Princess Bekaa. Princess Louise, attended by the Rot. Emily Catboat, took a carriage drive. Dec. U. The Archbishop of Canterbury arrived at the Osseo yesterday. The Queen, Prince= Helena, Princess Louise, Prinoses Beatrice, and Prince Leopold, and the Ladies and Gentle men in Waiting, attended divine service this morning in the private chapel. The Rev. W. R. Jolley read the prayers, and his Grace the Archbishop of Canterbury preached the sermon. A deputation, consisting of the subjoined parliamentary and municipal representatives, had ea interview with the Right Hon. Sir George Grey, at the Homirodfos, on Satur day, on the subject of the utilization of the sewage of towoa, and preventing the pollution of rivers and streams :--Froni Birmingham, the Mayor (Henry Wiggio, Esq.), Mr. Conn. cilia. Sadler (chairman of the Public Work, Committee), Mr. Standbri.lge (town clerk), Mr. Till (borough surveyor), and Mr. Murray Dale (solicitor), accompanied by Mr. Scholefiskl, M.P. • from Nottingham, th e Mayor (W. Pegs, Fen.), Mr. Alder man: Vickers, Mr. Councillor Barber, and Mr. M. C. Tarbottom (borough surveyor), accompanied by Mr. C. Paget, M.P., and Sir R. J. Clifton, M.P. ; from Derby, Thos. Roe, Esq. (Mayor), Mr. Alderman Madelsy, Mr. Councillor Longden, and the borough surveyor, mom- pealed by Mr. Beale, M.P., and Mr. T. Baas, M.P. ; from Wolverhampton, Mr. Alderman Banks (chairman of the Sewage Committee) and Mr. Hayes (town clerk) ; from Coventry, Thos. Soden, Esq. (ex.mayor), Alderman Wyley, and the town clerk and city surveyor, accompanied by Mr. Treherse, M.P. ; from Preston, Mr. J. Newton, C.E. (borough engineer) ; from Bath, the Mayor and Mr. Stone (town clerk). The Right Hon. C. B. Adderley, M.P., and Mr. John Bright, M.P., were nimble to attend. The Hon. George Brown, President of the Executive Council of Canada, had several interviews with the Right Hoe. Edward Cardwell, at the Colonial-office, in the course of the lan week. Despatches were seat on Saturday from the Cola:tied office to the Governors of the North American Provisoes, Malta, Ceylon, lions Kong, L►bnan and Gibraltar. His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge returned to Gloucester House, Park-lane, on Friday evening from visiting the Marquis and Marchioness of B►th at Longlest, Wilts. A distinguished patty was invited to meet the royal duke. Her Royal Highness the Princess Mary of Cambridge ia expected to return to Cambridge Cottage, Kew. early in the ensuing month from Germany. The Duke and Duchess of Manchester have left Brighton for Calais, on their w►y to Nies, when they pro pees to spend a few weeks before returning to Kimbolton Castle. The marriage of Miss Bouverie, granddaughter of the Earl of Radnor, to Mr. Stephenson, son of Lady Mary Stephenson, and nephew to the FArl of Albemarle, took plans last week at Colsehill Lome, Berkshire. Her Majesty has been graciously pleased to confer upon the Earl Spencer the Garter vacant by the death of the Duke of Newcastle. Mr. Childers, M. P. (Civil Lord), and Captain Clarks, RE.. Director of Works, leave the Admiralty this evening on ao official visit to Portsmouth and Portland. The Council of tLe Royal Academy have named Mann. Millais, Ward, and E. W. Cook as the managing committee for the coining exhibition. Messrs. Lee and Herbert should have served in rotation, but they Sr. absent from England—Mr. Lee in his yacht, Mr. Herbert in the Holy Land. The Council of the Diocesan Institutions of Oxford have nut a requisitMe to Mr. Disraeli to sanction their publication of the speech on church policy recently delivered by the right boa. gentlem►n in the Sheldonian Theatre, and we (Heraldl have great plessura in stating that Mr. Disraeli has assented to their wish, and the pub lication, by Messrs. ltivingtoe, will appear immediately. By the provisions of the Government Annuities Act of last session, the life tables and other forms which ante be need must be on the table of the House of Cons. mons for 30 days before their adoption ; hence no steps can st present be taken to carp the statute into immediate operation. By that time, however, all the requisite arrangements will have been completed and explained for the guidance of the public. II Trovatore ii announced at Covent Garden for four nights during the present week, followed by the third act of Masanialo ; TAe Bride el &nig, with Row; or Lore's Ransom for to-morrow ; and Helrellyn for Thursday. Operettas by Messrs. Frederick Clay sad Frank Mod, with open& by Mount Henry Leslie and George Osborn*, are accepted. M. Goonod's comic opera, Le litedecia Mature Lid, adapted for the English stage by Mr. C. L. Kenney, which was to have been produced before Christmas, is now poelponed till after " boxing night; and this foreign adap. tattoo is to be immediately followed by soother (by the alum adApka)-111. Filiation David's Leila RookA. THE EXPRESS, MONDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 12, 1864. LATEST INTELLIGENCE. AMERICA. The New York World of Dec. 1 sap : Usle.s the indications are deceptive, W0;61111000 hear of warm work, not only in the neighbourbrod of Richmond, bat at several point/ along the coast. The firing that was heard near Dutch Gap Canal, an account of will be found in our despatches, signalises, unless we are much mistaken, the opening of a most determined engagement between Grant's and Lee's forces. The importance of the canal has, we imagine, been overrated, for, even if it succeeds, it will bring our batteries only some StU yards nearer Richmond on the James River—a matter of no account at all. By the extracts we give from the rebel paper., it is clear they expect the ►ttack to open upon the J►mes River, and north of th.t stream, though they suspect that the massing of our troops on our left means that the real attack will be from that Quarter. There is also reason to believe that our fleets are in motion along the coast, and that, by the time Congress maim the country may be gladdened with the , news that the last rebel port has been closed to contraband traffic. An expedition to open communication with Geiser's' ShermaMis also, doubtlees, under way. Of wee these movements are intended to help the daring sod splendid campaign of General Sherman. The latter, if at all sooner Id, must now be nearing the seacoast, and it is the dictate of common 1 prudence to keep every army of the rebels fully employed, so that troops cannot be spared to impede his progress. It is incredi ble, also, that the armies under the immediate c nnmand of Coastal Grant should go into winter quarters without making one more attempt to capture the rebel ospitel. That they may be successful is the fervent prayer of all who love their country, Lad who wish to see armed rebellion emitters to the earth. The coming two weeks promise to be the most eventful of the war. They will probably witness' great battle near Richmond, another in the Shenandoah, a third, as important as either of the others, in Tesassees; several minor conflicts, with pregnant results, in Georgia, and at less; two important naval 'clime along the coast, The Richmond Sedind:of Nov. 28 says : There wee some cannonading at Dutch Gap yesterday, but nothing of importance occurred on other parte of the line. We learn from Washington that Grant left there on Wednesday for the front, and before leaving held consults. time with the Secretary of War and Secretary of the Navy. This may foreshadow the combined attack by the land and naval forces so long threatened, and which the Yankee correspondents declared wee only delayed until the Dutch Gap Can.l was finished. There is, however, a prospect of another 641111012 of rainy weather, and consequently a con- dition of roads that will lay an embargo upon the move manta of artillery. When Grant dose move, he will meet with obstacles of greater magnitude than mud or rain—the invincible army of Northern Virginia. Scouts report that Grant irrgrednally mwiuglhisjtroops to.our right. and, it the weather continues favourable, he will probably make another effort in that direction. The Savannah Republican of the 24th contains contradictory statements as to Sherman's move ments, particularly as to crossing the Oconee river. It says that the column operating on the Georgia-road kept the western aide and struck off in the direction of Macon, as though contemplat ing a junction with the forces in that vicinity. It is stated that a strong force of cavalry is follow ing Sherman, and that "it is not impossible that Forrest may ere long bang like a wolf on his rear and flanks." Some of the recently exchanged prisoners have reached Washington. They Ray that when they arrived at Savannah from Millen they were kindly treated, and furnished with the best food which could be provided, and that the people intimated that there were forces under Beauregard and Johnston at Macon and Augusta to oppose Sher man ; but they did not believe he would encounter them, or that the military authorities would iu time decide where to concentrate the forces they had. At Savannah there were only 1,r30t) men, who would make but a feeble resistance. The blockade-runners Armstrong and Talisman bad &mired at Bermuda, the former with 700 and the latter with 400 bales of cotton. They report that the Chickamauga bad arrived at Wilmington after a alight brush with the blockaders, and that the Tallahassee was safely in port, and would leave in a few days with a cargo of cotton for Bermuda. Another incendiary fire took place at New York on the 30th. The lumber yard of Messrs. Ogden and Co., situated in Hubert-street, and running from Washington to West and Hubert and through Beach-street, was fired about a quarter to 4 o'clock in the morning, and resulted in the destruction of 80,000 dole. worth of lumber. The fire was kindled about the centre of the lumber yard, and bore ample evidence of the hand of the incendiary. There was no combustible material like phos phorus or turpentine, however, found about the place, all being consumed in the intense beat. But it is believed that it is a part of the plot to burn the city. THE PRESIDENT'S MESSAGE. Most of the President's message and all the secretaries' reports and those of the War and Trea sury Departments, had been placed in the bands of the public printer. Measures will be taken to for- ward copies of the message and some of the reports by telegraph to the press in the principal cities, at the moment the reading of the message commences in the two houses. The New York World says that the message will be conservative in character, and will aim at the conciliation of all parties and classes in the North. President Lincoln, it is said, " will repudiate the factions which would establish the present conflict upon a sectional basis, and will take strong national ground upon which democrats and conservative republicans can have no hesitation to st►nd and rally. He has been induced to adopt this policy by Mr. Seward, whose efforts have been to unite in a common cause the conservatives of all parties, and to form out of these elements a new party which will sweep Greeley and the radicals out of exist ence." The principal and most interesting part of the message will relate to the present condition of the finances of the country, and to the measures cal culated to prevent it from growing worse. To that effect the President, rumour says, will recom mend Congress to stop the issue of any more greenbacks and of gold interest bearing bonds, and to find, in the increase of taxes upon real estate and other property, the means to make the receipts balance the expenses. THE PEACE ADDRESS FROM ENGLAND. Hon. W. H. Seward, Secretary of State, &a, &c. Wubington, D.C., Nov. _'6,1864. Hon. Sir,—l beg to interns you that I have been de. pitted to convey to this country an address from the people of Great Britain and Ireland to the people of the United States of America. The address was presented to Governor Seymour, for him to primal through the proper channeL I wu runested by him to convey it to the President of the United States, as the authorised channel of communication between the people of other nations and the people of the United States of America. May I, therefore, ask the honour of an opportunity for so doing ?—I am, honourable air, yours, most obediently, JOSIPH Pall/MI. To Joseph Parker, Waahington, D.C. Department of State, Washington, Nov. 26, 1864. Sir,—Your letter of this date, stating that you an the bearer of an address from the people of Great Britain and Ireland to the people of the United States, bee been re ceived. Before answering the qusetioa which your letter contains, it is desirable to be further informed whether you have authority from the government of Great Britain and Ireland for the purpose referred to, and whether your minion has been made blows to the diplomatic agent of that pvernment accredited to the government of the United State .—I am, sir, your very obedient servant, WILLIAM H. Sgsrattn. Hon. W. H. Seward, Secretary of State, &c., laz. Metropolitan Hotel, Washington, D.C. Nov. 26, 1864. Hon. Sir,-1n reply to your letter of today, permit me to state that the address which I have the honour of being deputed by the parties signing it to bring to this country, and containing the sigoatares of some three hundred and filly thousand of my countrymen—from the peer to the artisan—is not from the government of Great Britain, nor from any political party. It is simply an expression of the earnest desire of the masses of the people of Great Britain to ear pence again restored to this continent. Waiting your favour, I am, hon. sir. your, moot obediently, JOSEPH PARKER. To Joseph Parker, £.q., Metropolitan Hotel. Department of State, Washington, Nov., 1864. Sir,—The government of the United Stater cannot re ceive the address which was mentioned in your note of this morning. Your request for an interview with the President to present the address is therefore declined.— I am, sir, your obedient servant, WILILY H. SEWARD. The .N a• York Tribune says that the real name of the bearer of the addrees is Barker, and that he is the noto rious Joseph Barker who figured in ALUffielt a few years ago as au avowed champion of atheism. TELZGRLML) THE BANK OF FRANKFORT. FRANKFORT-ON-THE-MAINE. Dsc. 12. The Bank of Frankfort has reduced its rate of discount from $e to 5 per cent. THE WEST COAST OF AFRICA MAILS. LIVERPOOL, Dic. 12. The Royal Mail steamer Athenian, with the above mails, has arrived here. She brings 21 pas sengers, 1,662 ozs. of gold dust, and 5,1101. in specie. Herdates as follows :—Benin, Oct. 24 ; New Calabar, Nov. i ; Bonny, i ; Lagos, 10 ; Accra, 12 ; Cape Coast Castle, 14 ; Cape Palmas, 16 ; Sierra Leone, 21 ; Bathurst,.23 ; Tenerife, Dec. 1; and }Weirs, Dec. 3. Dr. Bailie had arrived at Lagos, en route for England. Trade was totally stopped at Benin. All other news unimportant. (uuus's arses.) THE ITALIAN SENATE. TURIN. Dec. 10, Entente. The Senate to-day voted the bill for the inscrip tion on the Book of the Public Debt of a sum of 1,067,000 francs Route in favour of the city of Turin. The bill authorising industrial and commercial companies to establish their chief Cates elsewhere than at Turin was also passed, as also a bill for the transfer of the Court of Cessation from Milan to Turin. SPAIN. MADRID, Dze. 10, Evarnrn. The Corrupondencia announces that the Queen has accepted the resignation of Senor Llorente, and adds that the motive for this step on the part of the minister was a simple question of expediency with regard to the order of introduction of certain bills in the next legislature. Senor Antonio Benavides, nominated Minister of Foreign Affairs in place of Senor Llorente, bas taken the oath of allegiance to the Queen. WEATHER REPORT.-{THIS DAY.) YONDAT, DEMONS It, I La W. 0.13 n E 141 S. Notre 4 &W. 2 6 &W. o- 1 2 abordaaa -19.61 6.8.8. 2 2 1 11. ro 010, 4 Leith 129.41 4/1 I.E. ~ 6 3.3. 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S. to W. and N.W., strong, squally with strong to bosh, some rain sod local plea. roan. S.E. to 8. sad B.W , Woman. &SL. to W.S.W., strong, squally, with strong to fresh. moms rain. rain. 8.8. E. to S.W.. strong 2111WOJL 8. to W.. strong to to fresh, some rata. modasede. Northirm=sooeland. WaSsremlntleact, WYw . sod MN teszlea. Sou thorn= In,!lab Mama sod Oa, a Bias/. Limes allaitward ZugWad aa4 North Ss. ArrEmPr Or PRIBON ERA TO Escarg.—On Thurs day last a ierionsatteropt groomed, by the Federal prismen °Defined at Salisbury, North Carolina, to maps, which was rapidly and effectually quieted at the expense of consider able Yankee blood. It appears that the plot had been formed among the prisoners (of whom there are at Salisbury some 1.3,000) to overpower the interior guard of the en campment, then break through the line of parapet guard, and after securing all the arms they could to march through Western North Carolina into Tennessee, and make good their escape. In the first part of their programme they succeeded. The interior guard were soon overpowered, and two of the unfortunate men were killed while resisting. They then attacked the parapet guard, who fought bravely against the terrible odds until the alarm bad been fully communicated to the garrison, and two pieces of artillery were thrown into position bearing upon the entainpmeet. Two of the parapet guard were killed in their gallant de fence. In good time the artillery opened, and after a few raking discharges of grape and canister the Menem- Maoists cried out for mercy, and declared that they would make no farther effort to get away. By this time they were completely surrounded with artillery and infantry, and it is well for them that they reared their demonstration, end sued for matey. In ten minutes more the whole camp would have been one scene of slaughter. As it was, about forty were killed, and a large number wounded. Thus a very foolish attempt to escape front Confederate durance has ended. It will prove, no doubt, a lesson to primitive in the South. But for the coolness and, it may be added, the consideration of the officers commanding the garrison, the punishment inflicted upon these misguided captives would have been far more serious, if indeed it had not amounted to the annihilation of the entire body.—Richmond Enquirrr. Nov. 28. NARROW ESCAPE OF GRNERAL Buttga.—A Washington despatch, of Nov. 28, nays :—" As the steamer Webster was coming down James River yesterday, when near Hog Island, she discovered that the steamer Greyhound, General Butler's despatch boat, was making signals of distress. On Dearing the Greyhound she was found to be on fire. Generals Butler and Schenck and Admiral Porter were on board the Greyhound ; but the steamer Pioneer came up and took them off. They were afterwards transferred to the tag Columbus and oonveyed to Fortner Monroe. The Webster took off the crew and pawn. gen. The Greyhound had been up to City Point and was on her return when the accident took place. General Butler and his bleeds armrest dinner at the time. Suddenly the furnace doors blew open and scattered the orals ell over the floor, driving the firemen and engineers from their rooms. The Greyhound was almost immediately enveloped Is flames, and notwithstanding every effort to save her, she was burned to the water's edge. Ten horses belonging to General Butler and staff were burnt to death. Shortly before the accident, the Greyhound had received from the steamer Cossack, the army mail for General Butler's depart meat, which left Washington yesterday morning, and It is supposed to be loot." LAW INTELLIGENCE. (THIS DAY.) COURT OF BANKRUPTCY. (Before Mr. Commissioner Goa Thorn.) Ai GM). ALM= BUCK.—JUDGMENT. The baakrapiWaa ToomaTiMion eon t.lilbert.atreet, Victoria-square, Pimlico, and elsewhere, who applied for hit order of diechara??a Tbanday b u t. . . . . His Honour now delivered judgmeet, and said the bank. rapt had clearly brought himself within the 159th section of the act. He appeared to have been a bird of passege. There were • large number of addresses, including New Zealand, Crosby-square, Lc. The bankrupt was the son of • man named Buck, who bad held a good commercial position io Crosby-Iquart. He unfortunately died, leaving I hie business to hie widow. This worthless man (bankrupt) seemed to have considered himself entitled to a share in a mine, which, however, he had once valued at 20,00 W., but had the hardihood afterwards to say that he con sidered the mine worsb nothing. He could not understand how Mr. Fox, the upholsterer, could have trusted the bankrupt with furniture of the value of 3:101. The creditor demanded security, and the bankrupt gave a bill oo Buck and Co., who bad been through this court. This waggon load of furniture went to Staines, and the consequence was ttat the tradesmen—butcher, baker, and others—courted Lis custom. This man had carried on his business through the assistance rendered to him by • loan society. The bankrupt returned one bad debt of 21. :11. as the amount of the assets. To pay debts of 2,3110/. the bankrupt gave up a bundle of papers. The bankrupt, a pauper, bad contracted debts without any reasonable expectation of pay. meat and been guilty of extravagance in living by plundering the tradesmen in the aeighbourbood. The Commissioner said he should treat it se a grow fraud and should should sonata, the bankrupt to be Imprisoned either in Monate or Whitecross.atreet fur four months, the hakrupt having already suffered two months' imprison meat. El T. E. BRITTON. This was the sitting for ezenaination ---- aad discharge. The bankrupt was an ivory turner, of Holywell.row, Finsbury. The total liabilities ate 2,Aff/., of which 1,065/. are unse cured. fiirT Hotter. of Tooley-street. offered no opposition. Then would he a good divideed for the creditors. His Honour ordered an adjournment to ascertain the re sult of the realisation of tbe estate. CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT. (THIS DAY.) The December SlNlrion of this court was opened this morning before the Lord Mayor, the Recorder, Russell Gurney, Esq., Mr. Alderman Phillips, Alderman Sir Robert Carden, Mr. Alderman Lusk, Mr. Alderman and Sheriff Dolan, Mr. Alderman and Sheriff Bailey, the Under Sheriffs, Mesas. Davidson, De Jersey. Sm., Se. _ . The first edition of the calendar contras the names of fifty-seven prisoners. The Recorder, is his charge to the grad Jul, rid the period which had elapsed since the last mare was very short, and therefor the number of cases to be brought before them was naturally not large. He was, however, sorry to find that some of the oases were of serious cha racter. and there were no lass than eight cases the circum stances of which affected human life, and three of these charges were for the serious offence of wilful murder. One of these charges was against a prisoner named Ferdinand Ed ward Carl Kohl, for the wilful murder of Theodore Christian Furhop. Both the prisoner and the deceased were Ger mane, sod came over to this country together in September last, the prisoner having been here before. The deceased, it appeared, at first lodged at the house of a hire. Warren, and afterwards lodged with the prisoner, in the neighbour hood where the murder was committed , up to the 3rd of October, and OD that day the prisoner and decease' were MID to leave the house together between 9 and 10 o'clock in the morning, and about 10, or • little after, they were seen together in the neighbourhood of Plaistow marshes, and this appeared to have been the last time deceased was seen alive. The prisoner returned home about 12 o'clock &loos, and was asked where deceased was, and he said he had bad occasion to call at • sugar bakery in the Commercial-toed, and left deceased waiting for him outside, sod when be went for him he was gone. Decreed did not return, and it was suggested that be had given the prisoner the slip, and had coos off to America as be had talked of doing. The prisoner aid he would examine his boxes and see if his things were there. The boxes were examined, and were found to he almost empty, and the conclusion was that deceased had gone. Nothing more was heard of him until the Bth October, when some pries were on the Plaistow Marshes with • gun, and one of them having gone farther into the marshes in the hope of driving some birds that the other might shoot them, found • dead body with the bead cut off. The body was removed, and some little time after wards the head was found buried in the ground some little distance from the plate where the body was found. The body was found & very short distance from the spot where the decried and the prisoner had been seen together. but there was no doubt, however, that the body was that of Furhop. There could be no doubt, from the marks which were found on the body, that death was caused by violence, and it was supposed that the principal merles on the heed, and which of themselves were sufficient to cause death, were inflicted by &crow or axe, and there were other wounds which appeared to have been inflicted by some blunt instrument. From these circumstances there could be no doubt but • murder had been committed. Red thee came the question of who had committed it. The deceased, it was supposed, had a good deal of property which had been made away with. At the time he lodged with Mr. Warred he left with her some mosey, and after he left her, and paid her what he owed her, be was seen with several sovereigns. Besides this th e deoessed had a greet quantity. of clothing, none of which was found after his disappearacce. The circumstances which led to the supposi tion that the prisoner was the person who committed the murder were, first, Abet the last time the deceased was seen be was with the prisoner, near the spot when the murder was committed. Then our the untrue account respecting his having left the deceased while be went into the sugar bakery. The prisoner when giving a fuller statement, said he had been with the decried to the decks to get &ship for America, but it was proved that be was seen in the neighbourhood of Plais tow. Another circumstance was the state of the prisooees dress when he returned OD the day the murder was sit to have been committed, and he was then noticed to be in very muddy state, and on brag spoken to about it by his landlady be brushed his clothes. The mud was of the game description as that at the spot where the body was found ; sod again, at the time the prisoner was apprehended his clothes were examined, and some marks were dis covered, which it was rid were marks of blood. In addition to these circumstances, it appeared that the prisoner was in the habit of borrowing a hatchet of re of his neighbours, and the day after the 4th October it was found in the prisoner's kitchen, and at that time the handle had been altered, having been piloted over. It also greeted that • t quantity of clothing, which was identified as having belonged to de creed, was proved to have been pawned by the prisoner, but before the day on which the murder was committed. A knife bad been found, sod there might be some evidence that it had been seen in the prisoner's poesessioo, and it was suggested that it was the knife with which the head had been severed from the body. The Recorder would ask whether from these facts they were satisfied that there was au ffi cient evidence to establish • prim& facts case spinet the wirer, and if so to return a true bill. His lordship then alluded to the cease in which a person named Jackson was charged with the murder of his shop mate in Cleekenwell, and said it would be for the greed jury togay if there was a prime facie ere. The third infant murder was against • female for the murder of her child. He then drew the attention of the grand jury to several charms of manslaughter, one of which was of rather a peculiar character. The deceased's clothes ap peared to have caught fire, and she was burnt in such a manner as to cause her death • and before she died she made • statement to the onse t that the p ri soner had at tempted to kiss her, and she, in attempting to get away from him, set light to her clothes by the fire. The expla natioa of the prisoner was that the deceased's clothes hid caught fire, and he put his arm round her for the purpose of pulling her away, bat she misconstrued his purpose. His lordemp said if decreed, is attempting to escape, he brag in the attempt to take liberties with her, met with the accident, be would be unstable to the law ; but it would be for the grand jury to say whether or not the car was made out to their eatidactir. After alluding to one or two other mess, his lordship dismissed the grand jury to their duties, and the regular burrs of the court was pro cried with. The trial of the prisoner Kohl, for murder, or postponed until next @onion upon the application of Mr. Best, who is retained for the prisoner Mr. Gifford, on the pert of the prosecution, offering so objection. (Before the Recorder.) TD[ CASS OP DWINDLING DT • PIPTITTOZO lintLs4. Mary Hors/all (22), spinster, was indicted for steellsor • &tin, a ring, two bracelets, s ad several other articles, the property of Miss Caroline 01ley. .Dely sod Mr. H. Palmer promoted, and Mr. F. H. Lewis defended.. This case has bees several times before the radio. It would appear that the prisoner weal to Miss Harvey. who keeps an educaticral establishment at Blackheath. early is September, and iotroduced herself to her so Mir HorafsU, niece of Mr. Honkll, M.P. She said ale was eomewhat backward is her education, and she wasted a little polishing np. Terme were agreed spot,. and she «Awed Ashbernham Hall as a parlour boarder, and she very soon made hermit intimately segnsiated with the other inmates, and succeeded to worming herself into their good graces in a very short space of ties, telling them that eh* should one day come into oceseashe of vast property. She slept is the same bedroom as the prosentris, sad it was while so inhabiting part of her room that the robbery took pkgs. On the 24th September Miss Harvey and the primmer left for Bath, ea a trip to see the rich relations of the latter, who boasted of the good things in perspective. After she bad left the smiatilisluasat His Oiler missed the articles men. tinned in the indictment, sod wiroce.es w,re that the primmer bad pledged the crestnr p.rt party at Mr. Lawley's, Farringdon-etreet, .Lul at broker. at Greenwich. The jury found her Guilty. Two other indictments were then goon into, with obtaining goods by fraud, but by the ju the prisoner was acquitted on both, the false pet. being made out satisfactorily. Mr. Daly add there were other is lictwent• • but be should not proceed with them. An officer was called who was acquria;.•l souse, and he stated that a short time aco she I gentleman of great respectability at Etttuiughk, engaged to be married to him, but be forteueeh • out before it was too late. She had eves g••oe • order the carriages and furoiteire, which iuc.udu! • .. She was sentenced to 18 months' imprisouttati. THE POUCH COURTS. (THIS DIY.) CLERK EN WELL DISORDERLY 1101:81ES IS 3011ill.s•7 Charlo..fe DarriP, arid *I, a showily •attiivi a • gave her address 21, Mast-street, Niue worth, was brought up on • w , I _4l keeping three disorderly houses, situate at 4%, 4 Little Clarendon-court, St. Pinellas. Mr. Cooper, solicitor to tb e vestry, atteode,l f., • seentioa ,• sal Mr. H. Allen. prov.r.itim; •• . Associate Institute for improvio4 sal ENfore for the Protection at Women, also attended to a - 56. Coopersaid it was the fixed iwetiii a o' th mg dr t o u. a d i er thz e t.d ., :t i r w ly h a om e in . tte b p r . . ,4 .1, te • vestry had passed a reeolutioo eta powena 4 hito to take the necessary steps for that pul.te. 1. it to be known that no lenity would be shown • but that in every CllllO where a dieordeily house r.. , ties would ensue. In all the CANSI that ~. prosecution ken up, convictions had taken place and L.... tenets bad been passe d . Mr. Barker (the magistrate) said he was glad t, the perish had determined to pat a stop to the had been so frequently complained of at tb”. e. .rt. should commit the prisoner for trial at the aims,. He would, however, take bail, two wont, • each, but notion must be given to Mr. Cooper. in • :_. be might inquire into the validity of the securities. The prisoner was then removed. MARY LEBON DISTERBLNCE AT THE METROPOLITAN LAM.... . . John and Ellen Cumming, man and wife, were with the following disturbance et the Edgwarermi of the Metropolitan Railway. From the evidence adduced it appeared tilt two prisoners, in company of two more men, ei the station in • very drunken state, awl quently were refused tickets. They became r. r noisy and the male prisoner pushed a lady into • vat. It was then put out. The other two men bad also k, t,ea out by force, and as they were being turned out rte e.i prisoner struck Henry Croker, the ticket collector, 4 blow in the face. The woman pulled his hair Led sad scratched his face. ffbe also tore his und.Ar.. With some difficulty they were 10ck.4 up. The female prisoner, in her defence made a long mil rea meet statement, urging whether it was likely she drunk after having been to bury tre children at is, green yesterday. It was not drink that °screams he:. wee grief. - - Mr. Yardley, however, elicited from her that at ..• one child she buried yesterday. He then seatecc.: pay a fine of 55., or throe days, sod the mac to ply 1!•... seven days. WORSHIP-STR E ET. DREADFUL Arnutrr AI a ICAUL. Patrick Stay, 31 years of age. a shoemaker. Queepoqoare, Eldon-street, Finsbury, wu chan,e,i attempting to murder btruself br cutting his throa:. t Ropemaker-street, in the same neighbouzhood on the Inman. Oily poliorrionstable, No. 126—0 n the log of the god of November last I was called into a ... door room, at 22, Ropetnaker.street. Prisoner woo ly; on the doer, bleeding profusely from the throat. .t dos was present, who, after in some measure stomno; flow of blood, directed his removal to at. Barthoom Hospital. sod I conveyed him there on a Wet I brought him out this monitor ; it was supposed that he could possibly recover. The two ks . . were lying in the room. (Witness pr..duoed two ksi with acute points, used for cutting leather; they covered with blood.) I was told that be had stably men, who endeavoured to take them from him. He 1 gime me soy amount of the matter. William Smith—l am a shoemaker, bare koown the loom nibs years; he is a bard-working honourable in every respect. On the morning sposen of he can my house sad appeared very , dull. I said, •' are you. Kelly he replied, •I am much trouble my mind." I knew he bad lately been discharged from ployment, and thinking that be might have taken it heart, endeavoured to rally him by adverting that had occurred close by a short time but he would not give attention, and after minutes suddenly begged me to lend him a shilliog. knowing what he was going to do with it, I refuse..l. then salted me for the prim of a pint of beer. while at the other side of the room some halfpence from my pocket, my little cried out, " Father, father, he is cutting hi. Wrest:' wee leaning forward at that lasted over the cutting I seized his hand, and while I was trying to wrench one time knives from his baud he made a stab at me with I did get it away, but be then caught up s knife, and made a second stab an I struggle him for it, Some persons who heard the alarm came and the knife was takes from him, but not before one r was injured by it. The police thou came. Prisoner, wbo even yet appeared extremely weak. great di ffi culty articulated, " I have nothing to say," remand was ordered- o➢ the the m to a sec r wY :y' . Ada tonnimi Ilao.otoe 'trout two koi wo kalif they w stabbed t He has irs the arable he came id, " H troubled d (roc, ikon it g to a ' to bef site[ e Thug. N refuel. isser , m little root :" ich woe no with p a i.e listed w 11l OVUM re OLle • weak. w lay," a➢ CAB. d by I • the d rbo lost len up saw -street had • id to c it mom the II t➢r , haft of wheel • tad gallu • tolled a • to the Hr. lf aa, P comp son to otis ith a arpet. fall. • ol the - . epee[. Ladle& Ire alt with g &tee ua oodsh fly so h glbd may .1 •E,R . Ee. 11. Not m, boo reels to I to C or.foo ikyob at SI am 31 Nov. se, So sow, pa Co'!' the tti earl 03. I: sod I sods olitors aro in • td we alt '20, , POW. ON of A LADY HILL= BY A HANSOM CAB. INQUO3T.—(TEUB DAY.) This morning an inquiry was resumed by Lenkester at the University Hospital, relative to thr of Mrs. Margaret Taylor, a lady aged 72 years, who life through being run over by • Haroom rob at f town. The driver, Charles Parrott, was brought up custody of the polies. Police-constable Staocoart, 2d9 B, said be ow accident while standing at the censer of Park-street Highotrest, Oamden•tows. The decea se d lady bad talking to the timekeeper and then attempted to the road in the direction of Highgate. At that m • Romans cab came down Parkoneet, at the of about 12 miles an hour. The horse was tt into High-street, sod caught the demised. the abaft rob striking her headaed knocking her doom. the wheel hag over her. The driver then whipped the hone and gall away at the rate of 16 miles ao hour. Witneas called and took deceased, who was covered with blood. to tb pitaL He afterward. found the cab and horse at Mr. stables, Henrietta Mews, Brunswick-square. The jury returned • verdict of ** Manslaughter." The building near the Bridge of the Alma, intended to lodge the Emperor's horses, Las bore comp witbia the last few days. A Amish is being gives to interior of the ridiagocbool, which is a spacious ‘' lighted with bull's eyes. The floor is covered with a coat of mad mad sawdust rolled as smooth so a carpet. well eskulated to preveat any injury from a NI walla aro likewise padded to prevent accidents, and the gallery at ow sad sufficient to accommodate forty sr The apartme►ts for the officers ►od servants, the nailer* ooschtnaken workshops, and the smiths' forge are alr occupied. The whole establishment is kid out with taste. The stables themselves are oompoeed of three separated by arches and divided into stalls by wooden titions. The mangers are made of cement, nearly as as stone, and beside each is a trough always filled water, so that the horse which occupies the stall may whim be is thirsty. The interior oourtyards an sul with watering troughs filled with Seine water. ARRIVAL OF TIIE ESSEX.—DoVER, De.•. 11. Messrs. G. Marshall's ship Essex, 1,25 d toos, from She hal ea the 11th August, with 2,000 tom of tea, boo rived in the Downs. She spoke the following resole • the 16th August, the Brockhant, from Shanghai to pool ; Sept. 18, the Michele, from Hong Kong to sandal; Oct. 5, the Canute. from Foochow.foo London ; Ott. 23, the Jays, from Akysb Falmouth ; Oct. 25, the Eddystone, from pore to Loodoa ; Oat. 27, the Lise, from II gamer to Bordeaux; Nov. 4, the K sthay ; Nov. Kensingtoo, outward boned ; Nov. 15, the leeks, de from Cardiff to Singapore ; Nov. Id, the Luckoow, Loudon to Bombay ; Nov. 16, the Hinds, from r Moats Video; Nov. 23, 3rd pemsa•t 9,274, from to Bombay, supposed to be an Americea 'bowleg the Br flag ; Dec. 5, the Egeria, Mammies to the southward. Majesty's steamship Rattlesnake was at St. Helena. SORPENRION or PATIERNI IN TIM METAL Tr; —We understand that Meson. H. J. Waldeck acid metal brokers, of M•nehater Birmingham, and where, have 'coveted • mostiug of their editors Wednesday next at Leeds. Various rumours are is eidetic" es to the amount of their liabilities, sod we' heard them estimated, oa good authority, at about W. , This suspeosioa of paymeat has been primarily aimed believe, by heavy losses sustained in noasequenee of haekruplcy of Messrs. Barker and Soo.—Birsout , Gauffe. ll\ .