The Express.
London, England, 1862-12-01 00:00:00

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THE EXPRESS, MONDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 1, 1862.

MS RAILWAY BILLS OP NEXT lOLISION.

The following is a complete list of the railway
place and sections if which were duly deposited before
8 o'clock on Saturday avteieg at the slice of the Board of

Tads:
Andover and Redbridge; Anglesey. Conics] ; Aberyst-
, with and Welch Comet •; Aylesbury and Buckingham ;
Albert Station and Mid-London.
Busby; Blackburn, Chorley, and Wipa ; Bela and Dol.
Kelly ; Bristol and Exeter ; Boston sod Ilreston Shore
Railway and Pier ; Bristol Roamer, Junction Railways ;
Burton•upon-Trent and South Leicertenhire Junction ;
Banff, Portnoy, and &relish' ; Bsreei and Great Northern
Junction ; Bradford, Wakefield, and Leeds; Bauff, Mar-
duff, and Turriff Extension ; Bristol and South Wales
Union ; Banstesd and Epsom Downs; Brecon Jun/lion
Bristol Central Station and Railway ; Bristol and Portia-
head Pier mid Railwa ; Bristol and North Somerset ;
Beckenham, Lewes, and Brightoo ; &meshy Goal ; Branch
Railways from the North London to Imperial Gasworka ;
Brecon and Llandovery ; Brecon and Merthyr Tydfil ;
Barna, Hammersmith, and Kensington ; Bognor, Chi-
chester, sod Midhurst ; Birmingham and Sutton Goldfield
Extension.
Caledonian (Improvement, and other wombs); Caledonian
(Bredishoim Deviation); Caledonian (Cantsize aodDolphin-
ston Branch) • Csrmsrthen and Cardigan, No. 1 ; Carman.
then and Camiivs, No. 2 ; Oockermouth and Workington ;
Cockermouth, owlet, and Penrith ; Coln Valley and
Halstead ; Cookstown and Pomeroy; Cardiff and Caer-
philly ; Garrnartheoshire ; Cardiff, Caerphilly sad Aber
Valley.
I Dundee and Perth and Aberdeen Railway Junction ;
' Dover, Deal, and Sandwich ; Dundalk, Carbagford, and
' Gramme ; Dublin Metropolitan ; Derby and AMby ; Dare
Valley; Wicklow, and Wexford ; Dulas Valley
Dayton Junction.
East London and Rotherhitbe ; Ely Valley Extension ;
Edinburgh and Glasgow ; Evesham sod Redditch ;
Edin-
burgh, Dunfermline, and Perth (North British Railway) ;
Eak Valley ; East and Wert Junction Railway.
Forrnartine and Buchan ; Fochabess and Germoutli ;
Fulham and Haparrimith ; Pursing end Midland ; Yarn-

borough and Aldershott.
Greenock and Winnyes Bay ; Great Northern (Spalding to
March) ; Great Western (Branch); Great Northern (Oweton
to Cotton) ; Great North of Scotland (Aberdeen Junction) ;
Great Eastern (Additional Powers) ; ,Glasgow and South
Western (Additional Powers) • Great Southern and
Western, end Midland Great Western Junction ; Guildford
end Leatherheed ; Great Northern (Extension from Notting-
ham, Ac.) ; Grist Eastern (March and Spalding) ; Great
Eastern (Chatteris and Ramsey)) ; Gravesend and Earning-
ham-rod Junction • Greenwich and Woolwich ; Grand
Livorey and Commercial Doek ; Great &stern (New Metro-
politan-station and Branches.)
Hemel Hempsted and London and North Western ;
Haniersmith and City (Junction and Great Western)
Holbeach North Junction ; Hadlow Herne Bay and
Canterbury Junction ; Hoylake • Hertdeld and Uckfield ;
Hastings PM, Harbour, and Railway ; Hammersmith, Kew,
and Richmond.
Ilfreoombe, Western Line ; Ilfracombe, Eastern Line •
Irish North Weetern • Isle of Purbeck; Inverness and Perth
Junction ; Inverness ind Aberdeen Junction ; Isle of Wight
Valley Junction ; Isis of Wight, Eastern Section.
Kendal and Windennere • Kettering and Thraystone
(Extension) ; Kington and Eaidisley ; Kensington, knights-
bridge, and Metropolitan Junction.
Llanelly Railway end Dock ; London and South
Western (Omnibus) Bill ; Letterkenny ; London,
Brighton, and South Onset (South London Davis-
tions, fro.) ; London, Brighton, and South Comet (C=l
Palace Park Station, ha.) ; Landport and South's'
way ; Londonderry and Lough Swilly (Extension); Laun-
ceston and South Devon ; Lancashire and Yorkshire
(Doncaster, eon.); London and North Western (New Branch
Lines) ; London and North Western (Additional Powers);
London, Brighton, and South Coast (South London, Tooting,
and Sutton Junction) ; London, Brighton, and South Coast
(Dorking end Leatherhead) ; London, Chatham. and Dover
(No. 1) ; London, Chatham, and Dover (No. 2) ; London
end Epsom Downs • Londonderry (Sedan) to Sun-
derland); Lytham Ind Preston; Ludgate Station
and Junction ; London (Victoria Station) ; Leicester-
square, Hammersmith, Kew, end Richmond.
Miattry, Thorpe and Walton ; Milford Haven Dock and
Railway ; Manchester and Milford ; Milford ; Moffat ;
Market Harborough and Melton Mowbray ; Mid-Kent
(Extension and Branch) ; Montrose and Bernie ; Mid Wales
(Mangotafield and Bath) ; Mid Wales (Additional Powers) ;
Metropolitan ; Malmesbury ; Merthyr Tredegu and
Abergavenny ; Manchester and Milford Railway and
Aberystwith and Weloh Coast Railway ; Midland (Exten-
sion to London) ; Metropolitan, Tottenham, and Hamp-
stead ; Marton and Harbin,.
Newry and Greenove; North London and Edmonton ;
Northumberland Central ; North and South Staffordshire
Junction (Railway and Branches) ; Newport Palma ; Nor-
wich and Spalding (Extension to Wisbesch) ; New Milford
Docks; Northampton and Banbury ; North Enstern (New-
man and Starbecla ; North Eastern (Hull and Doncaster) ;
North Staffordshire (Additional Powers) ; North Stafford-
ahire (Madeley and Drayton) ; Newcastle-upon-Tyne Docks
and Branches ; Northern and Southern (City Junction)
(Railway and Bridge.)
Ogreore Valley ; Okehampton and Lidford Junction ;
Ouwestry and Newtown (Branches) ; Odrestry, Ellesmere,
and Wink-Much.
Poole and Bournemouth ; Potteries Junction ; Peter-
borough, Wisbesch, and Sutton ; Putney, Balham, and City
Junction ; Pimlico and Paddington.
Rotherhithe. Ramsey and St. Ives ; Ringwood, Christ-
church and Bournemouth (Extension) ; Rickmansworth,
Amersharn, andlChenham (Extensions); Rnmseyfftaaway and
Brecon and Merthyr Tydfil Junction ; Regent's-circus.
Scottish Central ,• South Yorkshire (Alteration of Line,
he.) ; South Yorkalare (Extension, fic.) ; Southampton and
Netley ; St. his and West Cornwall Junction ; Seaton and
Beer ; South Mayo ; Stonehouse and Nailaworth ; South
London and Greenwich and Woolwich ; Saffron Walden ;
Somerset Coal ; Southern ; Stokes Bay Railway and Pier
and Isle of Wight Ferry Company ; South Eastern (Folke-
stone Harbour Communication, due.) ; Shiffoall, Newport,
and Norton Bridge • Sligo and Ballaghaderreen.
1 Tunbridge Wells and Eastbourne ; Tottenham and Ramp.
, stead Junction ; Teign Valley ; Tendring Hundred.
' Vale of Neath ,• Victoria Station sod Pimlico.
WhiteSaven, Matra, and Edemont ; Workington Dock
(and Railway) ; West Midland; Worcester, Dean Forest,
and Monmouth i Ware Hadham and Buntingford ; Wol-
drhampton and Bridgeporth West London Extension ;
Welsh and Midland Counties Junction ; Watford and Rick-
mansworth ; Wexford and Enniscorthy ; West Drayton,
Staines, and Woking Junction; West Drayton. Staines,
and Cbertaey Junction ; Wallingford Railway and Tramroad ;
Wimbledon and Streatham ; Waterford a Pump ; Went
Shropshire (Extension end Deviation) ; Wrexham, Mold,
and
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2 Weiaseday, I; Monday. 4.
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BRINTIOAD.—Tusiday, Dee. 2.

6—Monday, c. Dec. 1; Tuesday,
2 ; Wednesday, 1: Friday, S.
BnOszollo2, Oldatraeareed.—Thursday. Dee. 4.
BOW. Bovarsed.—Moaday. Des. ; Friday, &
rooTetWasa, iiwneatreet.—Teseday, Deo. 2; Thursday, 4;
Friday. 6.
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Mrs or LOUoICS, OviAdliall-balldinspa—Mouday, Dec. 1 ; Wed-
nesday. S . Friday, 6.

COURT OF WIEN'S BENCH.—Nov. 29.
Sittings at Nisi Prins after term at Westminster.—(Befogs
Lord Ma/ Jaffitie•Ooekbura and a Spacial Jury,)
TIIII WEIN V. 1111111111—OHABOR_Oir PZILIUBY AQAINST A

NOLICTPOIL

This was an indictment for perjury. The defendant
pleaded not guilty. A difficulty arose at first with
reference to the proceedings. Only tee special
jurymen answered to thew ems, and, as is
necessary in indictments tried in this wart, neither
party can pray • tales is the Attereey-General's absence
without his warrant. This the proseentioa had not est, sad
the Lord Chief Justice, after nmerldng on the fact as me
of those obsolete forms that could set be got over said he
was afraid the case must go over in mem
.Inquiries
were made for the Attorney-General in Westminster-hall,
but he was nowhere to be found, and jest as the parties
were considering they would have to leave the mart with-
out • bearing, and some of the learned counsel engem&
were tying up their briefs and papers, Mr. Memuley pro-
duced the Attorney-General's warrant, and prayed a tales on
behalf of the defendant. The case the proceeded.
Mr. Serjeant Ballantine, Mr. Sleigh, and Mr. Telford
Salter, were counsel for the prosecution ; Mr. Macaulay,
Q. 0., and Mr. Brent were counsel for the defendant.
Ths feats and circumstances of the case having been so
repeatedly before the public, it would be • waste of
.pace to enter fully into the details. The prosecutor. Mr.
Dawson, ie an attorney, and in 1858 he entered the service
of Messrs. Harris, hi respectable solicitors, at Rugby
as ,
conveyaming clerk, atghly • @shay of 2001. per annum. At
the end el three or four months Mr. William Harris, the
defendant, suggested that the prosecutor should look out
for another situation. The prosecutor, seeing the death of •
person announced who held • public office that he thought
it was likely he could get, immediately left Rugby for
London ,without seeing or communicating with his employers,
and was absent two days On his return he was dismissed for
neglecting his duties, the defendants paying the salary due
down to the day of the prosecutor's leaving. The pressen-
tor brought an action against the defendants, which was
tried in the Court of Common Pleas, the only question being
whether under the circumstances he had neglected his
duties in such • manner as the law would consider was en
abrogation of the contract. The prosecutor had assumed
that as he was under notice he had • right to do as he had
done. In the action before Mr. Justice Byles the jury re-
turned • verdict for the fall amount claimed. The follow-
ing term the defendant obtained • rule for • new Irbil,
which was made ebonite, and the second trial took place
in June, 1959, before the Lord Chief Justice Erie,
which resulted in favour of the defendants. An application
was then made by the plaintiff for • third
trial, but as the learned judges were two and two,
the matter dropped, and these proceedings were instituted.
The perjury complained of was that the defendant stated in
his evidence on the second trial that he was greatly incon-
venienced by the prosecutor's absence in reference to •
Chancery suit, " Young v. Richardson," which he had in
the office, and was under the prosecutors management.
The prosecutor was called, and it appeared from his
evidence that he knew something about • Chancery case in
which • person named Fry was concerned, and that he pre-
pared the notice for the change of attorney to the defend-
ant, and on eras-examination it • peered that Fry's came
was omnected with "Young v. • ," which circum-
stance bad escaped the prosecutor's memory.
The Lord Chief Justice interposed, and said that although
Mr. Harris might have said what was not exactly correct,
that he had &Chancery suit in his office, yet he had the
embryo from which be expected it would spring ; and he
thought it would be difficult to procure a
oonvictiou for
wilful and corrupt perjury, cepecially after the prosecutor's
evidence relative to his knowledge of those proceedings.
Mr. Serjeant Bellactioe said he doubted if he could, un-
der the circumstances, ask the jury to convict ; and after
whatthe Lord Chief Justice had stated, he thought he
ought to withdraw from the prosecution.
The Lord Chief Justice said be thought that was the best
course to pursue. No one ever sat on the bench with a
stronger opinion with reference to perjury, or who would
act stricter in calling upon a jury to do its duty, or who
would discharge the office of judge with greeter severity
when called upon to inflict punishment, than he would in
owe of perjury, but they must ell make allowance for
the defects of human nature and the misapprehensions that
would arise. He thought no jury would convict of wilful
and corrupt 'my in such a case as this. There were the
materials for a Chancery suit in the defendant's office at the
time the prosecutor absented himself. It was not because
there was no material business in an office that • desk
would be justified in absenting himself without leave.
Mr. Serjeant Salentine said he preferred withdrawing
from the prosecution to asking the jury to come to an
opinion on the matter.
The Lord Chief Justice mid the learned counsel was quite
right.
The case was then withdrawn.

BAIL COI/RT.—Nov. 29.
Sittings at Nisi Prins after term at Westmiuster.—{Before
Mr. Justice Crompton and a Common Jury.)
KNIGHT V. JACOBS AND ANOTIIEB.-CUIDOUS CASE OF LIBEL.
This was an action for libel. The defendanta pleaded a

justification.
Mr. Huddloam, Q.C., and Mr. Prentice, were counsel for
the plaintiff ; Mr. Coleridge, Q.C., and Mr. Lopez, were
counsel for the defendants.
The plaintiff is a chemist and druggist, carrying on busi-
ness at Alton, in Hampshire, and the defendanta are the
proprietors of the Hampshire Chronicle, published at Win-
chester, and the libel complained of wee as follows —" This
town has been during the greater part of the past week the
scene of one of those boisterous exhibitions of popular in-
dignation known an rough music. A certain Knight of the
pestle and mortar having taken it into his head to maltreat
his wife, pull her out of bed, beat her, and turn her out
of doors in the night, a crowd of several hundred men and
boys, armed with old tin cans, sheets of iron, and other
sway instruments, paraded the streeta beating, groaning, sod
yelling, to the great annoyance of the quiet and
peaceable inhabitants. It MAIM hard that if one
party is so unmanly as to lift his hand or
his foot to a woman, and that woman his wife,
the whole community should be outraged with im-
punity for several evenings together by such a hideous up-
roar.' After the publication of the paragraph the plaintiff
wrote to the defendants, complaining of it and asking to be
informed the rime of the correspondent at Alton who bad
furnished the paragraph, considering it to have been written
for the purpose of prejudicing him with the public. The
defendants answered that they had every confidence in their
correspondent, would communicate with him, but declined
to give up his name, holding themselves responsible. The
plaintiff wrote a second letter, in which he said he could not
acquit the correspondent of personal feeling, notwithstanding
his alleged respectability. In the letter he referred to
his family differences with his wife, and asserted that
the paragraph was written by the Alton correspondent
of the paper with a view of ruining him, and it gave an
account of proceedings before the magistrates relative to
plaintiff end his wife. To that the defendants sent a reply
offering to publish a copy of the proceedings before the
magistrates. The plaintiff then consulted his solicitor, who
wrote the defendants and issued proceedings, and in the cor-
reapondeece that ensued the defendants bad offered to pub-
lish the plaintiff's version of the affair and insert an
apology, but it was not accepted.
The plaintiff and several witnesses were called to prove
the disagreements between him and his wife, and their
separation. At the time in question the plaintiff's wife
mune in his absence from business to his house, remained
there the whole day, and went to bed before he came
home. On his return be went to her and insisted
on her leaving. She accordingly got up, dressed hermit
and left, but immediately re-entered by the shop-door, be-
came very violent, broke the plaintiff's spectacles and also
his watch chain. lie was rather excited and put her out,
but he used no more violence than was necessary. He
denied pulling her out of bed or, striking her. and his female
servant Gudgeon, who said she was listening, deposed at
no violence took place between them in the bedroom. The
plaintiff said he had been married to his wife 20 years and
they had had 12 children, but two only were now alive.
They lived happily together for more than 12 years, arid
until she joined the Independents.
Mr. Justice Cromptou—Which—M religion or circum-
stances? (Laughter.)
Plaintiff said—Religion. It was the following night that
the "rough music" uaembled in front of his shop.
Mr. Justice Crompton—What is rough music.
Plaintiff—Old tin kettles and the like. (laughter.)
Mr. Justice Crompton—And that is what you call music!
Plaintiff—Yes, and when ha asked what it was for, they
said, " For you." (Loud laughter.) There was a similar
serenading the following evening.
Crces-examined—He bad threatened his wife with •
knife or pulled her or knocked her off her chair, but he
threatened her once with as unloaded gun is a moment of
excitement, which he afterwards regretted, relative to some
socks. His wife told the servant to thrust them down his
throat.
Mr. Justice Crompton—Clan or dirty!
Plaintiff—Dirty. (Laughter.)
Mrs. Gudgeon said that after Mrs. Knight came to the
house she went into the cellar and opened a bottle of port
and drank some of it, and went to bed about 2 o'clock. She
got up about 5 o'clock and got a bottle of sherry, which she
&sok. She told the children, who saw the bottle in her
pocket, that it was water. (Laughter.) She went to bed
again about half-past 'even o'clock. When she came back
into the shop she seized the plaintiff and shook him up.
Mr. Coleri•dge, for the defendants, regretted this case
should have been proceeded with after their offer to apolo-
gise. Am men of 'honour they were boood to steed by their
correspondent, and as the pleintiff would go us gay Irmo

obliged to call the wife : and the plaintiff had only himself
to blame kettle of his family squabbles and diffe-
rences. Me comma
aircomplained of the unmanly insinuation of
drunken's= on the part of I:.he wife.
Mrs. Knight was called. Was said that be had on several
occasions invested her, and oil one occasion be struck her
when she was sitting in an arm-chair. On the day in
question she went to his house for some money, but
he was not at home. She was unwell, sod
made herself some arrowroot, into which she put a glass
of wine, which wee all abe drank that day. She
positively denied that she war intoxicated. She poured out
a glare of wine for Oudgeoo, but she would not drink it.
She went to bed because she was unwell, and not from
dranksaaess. When her husband nrthrsed home, he came
to the bedroom, called bee a -- drunkard, palled her
out of bed, and said that if she did not knee the lease he
would murder her. She retuned to the beam become she
could not get a bed elsewhere. In the pomp be pat his
bards on her shoulders, placed hie foot against her aid% and
pinked her down the steps. In the struggle she aerOt
his watch cbsio, which broke. Re afterwards came to her
with a policeman, and charged her with dealing his wade.
She denied it, and gave up the thain. She went the follow-
ing dry before the magistrate, but declined to persecute en
account of her children. in croseenaaninatiss,die admitted
telling the merriest to push the seeks down bee husband's
throat, but she afterwards regretted it.
The jury ultimately returned a verdict for the plaintiff,
damages 1001.

ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE.

HOME OlRClllT.—Munevoiri, Nov. 29.

The commirsion for the coonty of Seat was opened in this
town on Saturday by Yr. Jostles Bylea. There are a good
many prisoners for trial, roe of when I charged with
murder. There are also normal men to be tried for man-
slaughter arising out of • poaching affray, and there are a
good many other serious cases to be disposed of.

THE POLICE COURTS.
GUILDHALL.
Mary Wilson, a young woman, fashionably dressed, was
charged with robbing Idr. Leekin of 301. in bank noise.
The prisoner was seen by Francis Bird to be struggling
with the prosecutor in Aldersgateretreet, at eleven at night,
and afterwards to run away. When followed she gave up a
pocket-book, which she had in one hand, and bank notes,
amounting to 301., from the other.
The prosecutor, who was drunk, did not remember seeing
the prisoner until she returned his property, and asked him
to forgive her.
The prisoner said she had been with the prosecutor for
two hours at several public-houses. He promised to give
her 15m, and at last his pocket-book fell out, and she picked
it up. He then asked her to take cue of it for him, and
when he wanted it back she gave it to him.
The prosecutor positively denied the whole of the state-
ment.
Alderman Humphery said the prisoner's statement was
ingenious, but he did not believe her. Sentence—Three
months' imprisonment% with bard labour.

THE METROPOLITAN RAILWAY.

Nothing definite has yet transpired as to the
opening of this line of railway. lir. Fowler, the engineer,
in his last report to the dinettes, elated most confidently
that everything would be ready for the opening by the Ist
of October tut. The bursting of the Fleet sewer was
assigned as • cause of delay, and when all the damage occa-
sioned by this accident bed been repaired, a further cause
for postponement was found in the necessity for arranging
or adapting the system of working the signal'. Then it
was found that the curlews which had been built for
the railway were too wide, and that the doors could not
lin corequence be opened in the tunnel They were,
in fast, made some 10 inches wider than the
ordinary carriages of the Great Welters Railway. This
blunder has, we believe, bees now rectified by reducing
the width of the carriages. One reason for not opening the
he. was, however, put forward, which, =like any of those
aheady mentioned, bad really so foundation, viz.. that the
delay was occasioned by difficulties interposed by the (beat
Western Railway, who had undertaken to work the BIM to
far beet this being the case, the Great Western Company
have teen prepared at any time within the last three
menthes to undertake the working of the railway, and 00
blame whatever can be attributed Is there in this reepeca
The Greet Western Company are prepared to abide by and
to carry out the working anangemente in the fairest
mat honourable manner. Among the rumours which ha
been current during the last week as to the awn of '
delay are some of • very grave MUM. It was stated that
the works connected with the new Fleet sewer were not
sufficiently strong, that a very large portion of the beak of
the cutting sear the bsuionolteues, Clerkenwell, had given
way, and that the reseestruetion of • large part of the ro-
tatable wall in some ether pens near the line of the sewer
would be neeswary. Ibis OA report, we are glad to lamest
has been considerably =sweats& There is a portion et
the line between the =Am and the smith of the Coppier
row tunnel the retaining wall of which had not been built
up in brickwork. Itt was • part_ which the
branch line to rim under .itlifield was to
diverge, and here the beet wee kept up oely by • short
wall and sumo piling. A portion of the Guth slipped,
but it was only to • Udine( extent, sad smell suffictsub
to interfere with the line ea the permanent way. There
are other reports of an unsatisfactory nature as to the con-
dition of some part of the brickwork in the tunnel, but we
are unable to ascertain whether there is any foundation for
this report. ItoiElrible to say with certainty when
the line will be for traffic. No day far the official in-
spection tee yet named. The directors of the Great
Western Company have dose all in their power to complete
the arraagements ; the station-masters, and guards, and
porters are appointed ; and the =ewer now given to all in-
quirk* on the subject is that the opening day will not be
delayed beyond the middle of next month.—Observer.