The Express.
London, England, 1863-02-16 00:00:00

COURT OF COMMON PLEAI3.-Fn. 1L

fittings at Nisi Prins in Loodar..--(Briare Laid Chid
Justine Ma nod n Spatial Jury.)

COLLINOWOOD O. BBILINLIY ♦ND OTHIIIII-1111 BRITIBM
COLUMBIA OVERLAND 'CRANK! COMPANY.
(Coodaded from Saturday's Erpresa)

The learned counsel for the defendant addreued thzeL7
for their respective clients, cud io the course of this p
tug come reference wu made to the charge of fraud Nosiest
the defendants.

The Lord Chief Justice said that that part of the ease
need not he dealt with at length, for to support it the de-
fendants must be proved to have been guilty of wilful,
deliberate faleehood.

The Hos. Francis Henry Fitahardinge Berkeley mid—l
am one of the defendants, and I have bees for ai years
M.P. for BristoL la April last Mr. Heinen called on me,
and brought with him a preliminary prospectus, sad asked
permission to put down my name as director. I saw there
the names of Mr. Mangles and of another perms whom I
know, hut I was chiefly caught by the name of Mr. Mangles,
whom I knew as a man of sound judgment and of cannier-
cial importance. Ultimately, after making some inquiries,I contented to belong to the company whichever it
should be formed. The inquiries made were with reference
to the route and its precticability. At the interview with
Mr. Henson, Colonel Sleigh, whom I knew by name, was
not mentioned. In May I saw Mr. Henson about the ques-
tion in the House of Commons. He Joked me to go to my
place in the house, watch what was doom and say anything
if it seemed to me good to do ere He did not on this occa-
sion mention Colonel Sleigh's name. I bad heard nothing
of the company in the meantime, and I t it was in
abeyance. I had not heard of their having I did
not onside, myself a director. The prospectus was for •
company to be enrolled under the Limited Liability Act.
I had never during this time seen my name in the Times,
or in print at &IL I see the Times daily, and read the
political part and the money article, and sometimes the
ordinary intelligence, but never the advertisements ; indeed
my sermets never bring me the supplement unless I ask
fee it. My correspondence with my constituents occupies
• great deal of my time. I took no part in the discussion in
the home, in fact I regarded the formation of the company
as •remote contingency. I had never heard that Colonel
Sleigh was receiving money and trumpeting business. In
eseamtumee of something I heard after the discussion in the
looms i Irmo to Mr. Henna to withdraw my name. I saw
the steels, in the Times aboutithe difficulties of the journey,
aid this led to inquiries, in consequence of which I withdrew
my name. My inquiries led me to infer that the affair was
a monstrous fraud upon the public, and therefore I with-
drew.

ortionezaminsd—l was to be • director upoe haring cer-
tain paid-iip shares, but the amount of qualification was not
sneetioesd.
Mr. flerjeant ghee—Thrry were to hare the "droning* of
your 'binding and political ;maim, sod you were to hare
she adraatsge of eillior the paid-up shares.
Witnow—No. I could nut will, breams the shares were
imoragy as • qualification. I should also bore the directors'
fee for estendsore:

Mr. eiriesat Eitwo—Al2, the =bury rim (A kaik).