The Express.
London, England, 1855-02-19 00:00:00

MONDAY FEBRUARY 19, 1855.

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the third lesson, all the spoons bat one were leaked ap, bat
within half-an-heer ei the plalatlif ',awls& that (TODn.
withal had been seed in the preeettee of the plaintiff, ma
valeeed ; sad as so see else had bees in the room, the dales-
dent believed the plaintiff nest have taken the spoon, said
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whether they believed the deludes% awed upon • meow
able pronsii that the plaintiff bad eenatued the felony.
The*, retuned a verdict ter the defeudaat.

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This wee an action to recover 367 i. 16e. 11d., the Whom
due for article, supplied to the ship Mary Holland, of
which the defendants were owners ; and the plaintiff sought
to recover interest on the debt.
Mr. Weteoe, Q. 0., and Mr. Tomlinson, appeared for the
plaintiff ; and Mr. &desist Sheri and Mr. Milward wen for
the defeadants.
The plaintiff le • marehant in business at Penems, sad
at the letter *ad of 1849 the Mary Holland wee almelmod
for ea outward voyage to that port, and consigired le Ws.
At the time of her arrival, vestals were in great demand to
take parengere from thence to flea ?Tandem, and the top-
wit was offered 7,000 dollars to go that voyage eel early
as He, however, thought it wadi he hells it he
had tli•res.eseel fitted up and took passengers em ble own m-
oonlit ; sad the fittings end Mores were amerdiegly supplied
to the amount of about 7001., and they mere paid for by the
plaintiff. It happened, however, thaeMesual ether vessels
arrived about the time, and the meet, San Frenetic*
turned out to be so unprofitable one.
The defendants' case was that it was an improvident
thing to incur such a large expense in fitting up the vessel
before it had been ascertained that a sufficient number of
passengers could be procured to warrant the expense.
The jury gave a verdict for the plaintiff for 4291. 9e. 6d.

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Mr. &dust Thomas and Mr. Prentice appeared for the
plaintiff; and Mr. Edwin James and Mr. T. Chamber.
were annual for the defendant

TMs was an action brought by the plaintiff, a hone-
dealer, against Use defendant, who carries on the same
business, to recover the value of a horse which the defen-
dant had sold to him, and warranted quiet to ride and
drive. The plaintiff, it appeared, saw the hone at the
stables et the detandant, and bought him on the above
warranty. As soon as the animal was restored to the
plaintiff's minims he found that he was worthless, Wag
afflicted with the " mad staggers." The ease having oc-
cupied the court for a considerable isms,
Mr. Baron Martin said he was of opinion that Inch a
verbal warranty was not binding on the defendant, and
thereto» the action could not be maintained.

Idr. Serpent Thomas said, after the ezpression of his
lordship's opinion be would elect to be nonsnited.
Nonsuited accordingly.

Mr. Reed wieleei the emitter to stead over for his Mend,
Mr. Outfits.
Mr. Commiseieser Phillips said, certainly not. It was a
latter over which he bed no jurisdiction.
Morale wee diselearged, and the insolvent remake Ia
durance vile.
IN RI K. P. LIMO -•NOTRIBR COMICITIIIIXT IT •
COUNTY COURT /ODOR.
Te day (fisterday) the diseharge el this hiselvest took
plies from Whitmore-street prison, when he had been
committed by the Clerkenwell County Court Judge for 40
days. The frequency of these mess lawny calls for some
legislative enamenent. Pomona who petition ender the
Protection Act an protected, es they imagine, ben impri-
sonment, bet .County Court judges, usetwithetunding the
order of the wart, keys their eoneneltineate, and abs
are put to gnat espouse and seeable, belly *mart:
remand ward" of the prism. Mr. Dowse applied for
the discharge, aid the application of the insolvent showed
that hi died his petition for protection on the 24th
December, which was issued two days afterwards. Boon
afterwards a County Court samisens was issued, returnable
on the "23rd" Jaanary. As order wee made for payment,
and M a short time &judgment summons was obtained, re-
turnable on the Ilith February lust. An order of email-
sent was, however, made, and the insolvent was taken to
I prison.
The court bead that the ease same within the rule laid
down by the commissioners, and ordered the discharge to
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This Waviest was opposed by Mr. Dowse for a Mr. Clark.
The insolvent wee a butcher at Newark, bet was satiated in
London. It was complained that the insolvent had mali-
ciously injured the premises he held of tke creditor. One of
the witnesses described them as being in a " dreadful
state." The insolvent denied that he had injured the pro-
perty ; but, on the 'misery. bad improved it.
A good deal of evidease was given is the case.
The insolvent declared that he was in great distress,
without a shilling in prison, and a family depending on him.
Mr. Commissioner Phillips pronounced a judgment of six
months hose the vesting order.

THE POLICE COURTS.

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Joesph Chapeaus WasThbarged with hand.
Charles Sherwin, ehopmen to Mr. /Stahl, cutler, in Pea•
church-street, said—The prisoner called at our shop, and
said he mme from the firm of Simpkin and Marshall, of
Paternoster.row, with a request to here 60 or 100 cata-
logues, u they were making a shipment abroad, aid wished
to send them out. The catalogues were given to him in my
presence, and I followed him, and saw him go into two
shops in Bishopegate-street, and Bully into a small place
in Long.'llsy, where he arranged the catalogues on the
mutter. The value was fie.

Henry Parry a general dealer in Long-alley, said—The
prisoner offers to sell me the catalogues as waste paper, and
I offered him 2d. a pound for them. He wanted 21d., but
he commuted to take the former amount, which was all I
would give.
A clerk front another house stated that the prisoner had
also obtained catalogues from his employers under precisely
similar circumstances.

The prisoner maid that be had been &bookseller's assistant
for 20 years, and was now oat of employment; that he
obtained the catalogues for a relative whom he expected
from abroad, and that he merely left them at the house of
Mr. Parry as a pledge to be redeemed for a trifle, to boy
bread for his distressed wife.

It appeared from what was stated, that a great number
of like documents are constantly procured for the purpose
of being sold an waste paper.
The prisoner was remanded.
Mr. Purcell, the owner of empty bosses, 26 and 26,
Poultry, was tined 10s. for having neglected to cause the
pavement before them to be swept.
Inspector Mitchell said that several accidents had hap-
pened la consequence of the neglect.

BOW-STREET.
I John F4sier, a constable of Eta C division, aad a man
named William Griffith., were charged with drunken and
disorderly conduct, and assaulting the police in the exe-
cution of their duty.
The def.odaata were both in private clothes, and it was
not until the ease had been disposed of that the fact of
Foster's being actually a constable became known to the
lout. Oa being placed at the bar, he stated that he was in
some trade, and, consequently, the circumstance deposed
to in evidence of his having called himself a constable was
not regarded as worthy of notice, but simply as the idle
boast of 'drunkard in trouble.

Thomas Prior, poise= at the Baster Arms, in Barleigh-
street, Strand, deposed to having seen the two defendants
enter the house between the hours of 12 and 1 at night,
quite drunk, sad one of them took up a glass of brandy and
water beloagieg to another man at the bar. The latter
having eomplained of the circumstance, witness ordered
them out, upon which they both abused him in the most
filthy lung sge, and oommenoed fighting with the man at
the bar. 10111411 went round and began endeavouring to
put out the defendants, when Foster swore at him and ex-
' claimed, "I am a pollee-officer, and I will have you up
before Mr. Henry, at Bow-street, to-morrow morning."
Two oonstablesof the F division interfered, and the defeat
dents were taken to the station.
It was proved that Foster, on being taken to the police-
station by Constables Bawler and Pigot, of the F division,
assaulted the latter officer and said, " Don't take me to the
station, for I am a police-constable myself, of the C divi-
sion." This statement, however, was not believed.
Mr. Henry fined Foster 40s, or 21 days' imprisonment,
and his companion, Griffiths, 208., or 14 days'.
Both the fines were paid.
It having proved on inquiry that Foster was in reality a
*mudism table, he was reported to Scotland-yard, and forthwith
issed.

MARLBOHOUGHSTREBT.
Hannah Twymass was bruught before Mr. Hardwick for
Anal examination, charged with stealing a quantity of pro.
petty belonging to Jo.aph Avery, under the following cir-
cumstances:

William Sims, errand boy to Mr. Avery, window blind
muter, Great Portland-street, said his muter sent him to
sell some rags at a shop in Ridieghouse-lane. The prisoner
was in the shop at the time, and she followed him out and
asked him to rob his muter of some linen. He refused, but
meeting with kir again he yielded to her solicitations, and
stole two pieces of holland and gave them to the prisoner,
who presented him with 2s. He went on stealing property
from time to time, all of which he gave to the prisoner. As
he was about to cut off some holland from • piece in the
shop he was detected by the foreman, and this led to a
disclosure of his robberies and the prisoner's complicity.
Police-constable &nee produced a quantity of rings,
rollers, holland for blinds, and other articles, all of which
had been stolen from Mr. Avery, and found at the prisoner's
lodgings. The prisoner, when taken into custody, denied
all knowledge of the boy, and declared she had never pur-
chased anything from him.
Folly ummitted.

Mr. HammiU, the sitting magistrate, was occupied for a
considerable time in the investigation of a charge of perjury
preferred at the instance of Mr. John Knight, the landlord
of the Royal Oak, in Turrille.street, Bethnal-green, against
Alfred Alexander Ha, a police-constable of the H division.
Mr. Heritage, who conducted the prosecution, reminded
the magistrate that, about three weeks since, his client, Mr.
Knight, was charged, on • summons at this court, with
having opened his house at an unlawful hour on Sunday,
,the 14th ult., and that the defendant Hall appeared u a
witness in support of the information. On that occasion it
was positively sworn by the policeman Hall, that while
standing opposite the Igtoyel Oak, at • quarter pest 11
o'clock on the morning in question, he saw a large
number of custooten enter the Louse, and that he

afterwards counted no fewer than twenty-three per-
nu ',beware let oat by the defendant's daughter within
thashart space of • quarter of an hair. The °Meer added,
that on denuding admittance the door wee sneertme-
nionsly shut in his face, but that he ultimately effected an
entrance, and on communicating what he had seen to the
landlord, he treated the matter with the coolest indifference,
and deliberately drew • glass of ale from the engine at the
bar, which he drank in his presence.
The testimony of Hall was entirely unsupported by any
other witness, and his statement was so completely nega-
tived by the evidence addued for the defence, that the
gistrate at once dismissed the complaint ; and ilia
eusidered it his imperative duty to institute the pneuat
proceedings.
The notes of the defendant's evidence on the hearing el
the summons, to the above effect, having been read OM
by Mr. Hartman, the second clerk,
Mr. John Knight, the prosecutor, was examined, and
stated that on the day referred to in the summons no cus-
tomers whatever were admitted at his door between the
hours of ten and one o'clock, and that only two men, both
of whom were lodgers, left the house during that period.
He recollected the defendant having 'kited his house at
the time meatioaid, bat his allegation that be had seen
witness draw a glass of ale wee not only utterly fain, but
manifestly impossible, as his beer engine was all to pieces
at the time and was in the very act of being repaired by •
man who was now in attendance In court.

Sarah Mansfield, complainant's mother-in-law,
Lucy Knight, his daughter, and Joseph Bryant, one of the
lodgers, who were severally examined, corroborated the
landlord's evidence in every particular, and emphatically
declared that not a single perm, with the exception of the
defendant himself, and the man who repaired the engine,
was admitted into the house up to 1 o'clock on the day in
question.
William Morgan, a gas-litter, in Half Mooa-street,
Bishopegate, stated that about 10 o'clock ou the morning of
Sunday, the 14th ult., he went to the house of the prosecu-
tor, aooording to appointment, and immediately upon his
arrival he unpaeked the four pumps and removed the valves
connected with the beer-engine at the her, which he was
occupied in repairing until upwards of half-pest 12, during
which period he oaly saw the defendant sad his family,
and that It was a physited=ribLity to draw any beer
until he had completed lib
Oa being 'AIM if be wished to say emytbieg, tbe defen-
desk in a low toss, replied that he had spoken Metking but
the truth, sad would adhere to his Wawa yet.
Mr. Hantetill said that it was a iamb t ievestiga-
doe • sad after the evidence he had be bad no hesi-
tation Is ordering the defendant to be emndtted to take
his trial for wills! and corrupt perjury.
The defendant made an urgent request to be admitted to
bail ; but the magistrate peremptorily resod to anode to it.

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SOUTHWARK.
A short thick-set young men
_, strongly marked with the
small-pox, and named Join King, was charged with steal-
ing a Weer watch from the person of Mr. Walter Harrison,
medical student.
The promecutor stated that about eleven o'clock on the
previous night he was standing in Holland-street looking
at the Are, which was then raging with great violence. He
then had a silver watch in his waistcoat pocket, attached to
a guard chain round hie neck. He perceived the prisoner in
front of him pushing very actively about the crowd, and all
at once he saw his right head pass towards WitISIMMVO waist-
coat pocket, and he felt his guard-chain snap. At the same
sine he looked down, and saw his watch in the prisoner's
hand, and the guard-chain hanging down, and before he
scald seise hold of him he believed he passed the watch to
another man. Witness called out to him You have stolen
my watch," when he replied, "Your watch—you never,
had one," and he titan ran through the crowd. He called out
Stop thief" as loud as he could, and pursued him, and saw
him stopped in the Blackfriars-road by a man, who detained
him natal a constable came up. Whams lost sight of him
for a moment or so, but he was sure the prisoner was the
man, as ha saw his face distinctly, and could hardly forgot
such features as his. When witness came up to him he im-
pudently denied having been in the crowd, and made most
strenuous efforts to get away. The watch has not been
found.

Charles Kennedy, police constable 181 L, said he wu on
duty near the fire, with several other conetables, when ke
heard cries of Stop this!" proceed from the direction of
John-street sad Holland-street. He ran toward the spot,
and saw the prisoner struggling with the prosecutor end
another man. When he came up he wu given into his
custody fir stealing the prosecutor's watch. He searched
the prisoner, but nothing wu found on bins, excepting a
white handkerchief; which he believed to be stolen.
In answer to the charge, the prisoner said he went to look
at the fire, and, having a bad cold, he kept the handker-
chief in his hand. When the muscular accused bim of
stealing his watch, he must have mistaken it for the hand-
kerchief, and at the same time he offend to be searched on
the spot. He wu a French polisher, and not a thief.
The prosecutor swore positively that he wu the Tim,
who stole the watch, and Mr. Comb. committed him for trial.
There were no less than a hundred watches changed
hands at this firs on Friday night.