The Express.
London, England, 1852-11-23 00:00:00

BAIL COURT.—Yarnabsy.

ammo to BAlRN—Barons Ma. ivarma Coaroar.
THE QUIIS r. JAVISON.—CLIIIINAL Inroam•vtore.
Mr. Crowder moved for a rule calling on Mr. Charles
Jackson, a druggist at Plymouth, to show cause why a
criminal informauun should not be filed against him for a
libel contained in a pamphlet published by him, throwing
some aspersiorui on the character of a Dr. Rowe, a physi•
clan, at Plymouth. That gentleman it appeared had at-
tended Mr. Jackson', wife, and scot him in a bill amount-
ing to 271., subsequent to which Mr. Jackson bad brought
an action against Dr. Rowe, for improper treatment of his
wife. The jury found a verdict for the defendant: after
which Dr. Rowe published an account of the trial, which
induced Mr. Jackson to send forth the pamphlet in qua-
tins containing the libel, in the nature of some sever im-
putations on Dr. Rowe's character.
The Learned Judge said he would take home the papers
and consider the matter.

Tug QUNILX V. TIM JUDOII OP 711 S COUNTY COURT OF

KIXT•-1111ANDAMI:e.
In SW was Yr. Lusk obtained a ruts for a inandalault
calling WI the judge of the County Court of Kent W met
a jury Oil be summand in a case of " Nutting v. Nutting "
in whit* ow trial kM taken place, and a new trial kid
been granted. Ha* lbs parties wished the cause to b.
tried by &jury bat the learned judge refused to sweat to
that Mlt
ine. WM now contended that he could nut so
refuse.

Tut QVZIN V. THE LORD. Or 7111 TRIAIURY.
MANDALIM.
. .

Mr. Willes obtained a rule for a ripmdamus, directing
the Lords of the Treasury to pay Mr. Burge, the Mater
ot the Cnurt of Common Pleas in Ireland, 1,4001. • year,
their lordships contending that, by some arrangement, Unit
gentleman was only to receive 00W. a year.

COURT OF COMMON PLEAS.—YearenpAy.
SIMFuII is liapco.—breoas Cum Jounce Jamie, hla. Jenne,
Maeut, Mt Jounce N 11.1 tAer, AND Mit.lartica TALFOraI..
11 11Alla18 V. TIIO,VSuN.—SLAIMLISk.
Thie was en action of slander, and was tried before the
Chief Justice at the sittires in Middlesex after last term,
when the fury found a 'millet for the plaintiff for 150/.
Early in thi present term, however, a rale wet obtained to
enter a verdict fur the defendent or for a sew trial, and to-
day this rule came on for arguktent,
The facts, out of which the *Minn arose, were these—
The plaintiff was formerly secretary to the Brewers and
Distillers Insurance Company, and also auditor of the
London Necropolis Company, and the defendant was
a director of each of these companies. lhe plain-
tiff had some &urges preferred against him as secre-
tary to the insurance company and was dismissed,
and subsequently the ds fendant brought this circumstance
before the /4ecoopelis directors is the plaintiffs absent*, I

and stated that he had bees dismissed from the secretary-
ship for obtaining mosey under tree pretences from the
iolicaors to take spa bill of his owe, sad for giving an
1 0 U of ►is own for • petty cash debt due mon the
company. The defendant on this occasion proposed that
the plaintiff should be dismissed from the office of auditor,
but upon the ►uggestion of the chairman it was resolved
that the matter should be investigated, and that the plain-
tiff should have nodes of the meeting for that purpose.
The co sequence was that the plaintiff attended with his
solicitor, but the defendant declined to make any state-
ment in the presence of the solicitor, and upon that gentle-
man offering to withdraw he ids° declined to make his
changes in the presence of the plaintiff himself. At the
trial his lordship was of opinion that the communication
made by the defendant to the Necropolis directors
was privileged; and he left it to the jury to say whether
the defendant had acted maliciously, and they were of
opinion that ho had so acted. 'lke principal point now for
the ouu•ideratinn of the court wan, whether th, re was any
evideaee of which was h ft to the jury.
Tb. Chief J ustico said lie was of opinion that be was
wrong in leaving this case to the jury; and that he ought
to have withdrawn it front their consideration, upon the
ground that there was no evidence of express malice for
their consideration. The only thing relied upon to prove
main w■e, that the defendant having made the charges on
the !3rd February, before the Necropolis directors, refused
on the Bth March to enter into a detaileerstatement of these
charges; hut this circumstance was elpiained by the fact
thet at this time the plaintiff had commenced an action,
and therefoth the defendant refused to enter farther into
the matter. lle was of opinion that the rule must be alao-
lute for • nnneuit.
Rule absolute.

INSOLVENT DEBTORS' COURT.-YESTERDAY.

Menem Ms. Osimissinssit LAW. -
IN TIIE MATTES or NEwMAN NAPIITOND.—.ITDOMENT.
This insolvent, who was a bookbinder in Kerby-street,
Hatton Golden, appeared for judgment. Mr. Sargood op-
posed, and Mr. Cooke supported. The ease was heard on
the 13th of September.
The complaint was a making away of property to the in-
solvent's father for en alleged old debt. Fortier, it was
alleged that debts had been contracted in a short time in
contempt& ion of the fattier putting an execution on the
premises, and claiming the whole property under a bill of
sale.

Mr. Consmiwionrr Law reviewed the care, and pro-
nounced a judgment of eighteen calendar month. from the
vesting order, for a fraudulent disposition of property.

CENTRAL CRIMINAL CO (IRT.

YESTERDAY.

IV. Jarrett and 11. Keen surrendered to take their trial
upon an indictment for a conspiracy to defraud.
The prosecutik of this iodic:event was Mr. Pinnock, a
flour and corn factor, carrying on his business in the
Marrow-road, and also at the Corn Exchange, end from his
evidence, and that of the other witnesses in the case, it
appeared that he had been made the victim of a very in-
genious and deliberate system of fraud, practised upon him 1
toy the defendants. It appeared that in Jmy Keen coded
upos the jabaecutor at the Corn Exchange, and intimated
that he was in n position to recommend him some very good
customers. The prosecutor hid known him about two years
before, at which time he was in the service of a respectable
firm, and entertaining no suspicion, he agreed to accept of
any customers he might recommend, but at the saruo time
told him to take rare not to introduce him may but good
ones. In the b. ginning of August Keen again called
upon the prosecutor, and told him that he knew of a very
excellent customer, who was just going to set up in bust-
nen as a b iker in Southamptowstreet, Camberwell, and
that he was a man of property, and had gut plenty of
I money. Ile then gave the prosecutor an order fur ten
auks of flour, which were sent to Southainidowstreet, and
in a few days afterwards Keen again went to the prosecutor,
accompanied by the other defendant, Jarrett, whom he
introduced us the excellent customer he hail spoken of.
Upon this occasion Jarrett confirmed all that had been
swept by Keen with regard to his position, and stated also
that le had got possession of the bu,iness iii Southampton.
street under peculiar circumstances ; that the few c of the pre-'
mixes had formerly been sold for 7001., and that he was sure of
doing a good business. Jarrett then ordered ten quarters
of outs, which were seat to his house, and a day or two
afterwards he went again to the prosecutor accompanied by
oatp:wrso. tore?
sila:oipesholols.,ewihnoo.7.pstearetd,inwathsethßeoroow.guzr
and the other in Lock's-fields, Walwortb, and who he de-
scribed as hie neighbour and triend, and upon this occasion
he purchased fifty sacks of flour at thirty-five shillings
per iiwk, and it was arranged that he should pay for
them on the Monday week following. Nicholls, it ap.
peered, offered to lend Jarrett MI, to be pool
on account of the transaction, but Mr. Pinnock said
he did not require it, and be should be satisfied if the
money was paid at the time agreed upon. The 50 sacks
of flour were sent in, and on the following day Jarrett
called upon Mr. Pinaock and paid Lim 501. ea account.
This was no doubt a portion of the intended fraud, the
money being paid for the porpoise of giving confidence to
the prosecutor; and on the same evening Jarrett ordered
fifty quarters of oats, the whale of which he succeeded in
obtaining posussion of. Very Icon after this Jarrett was
arrested for debt, and conveyed to Honiemenger-lane
gaol, and, upon inquiries being mode, it turned out
that the shop in Southampton-street had merely been
taken for the purpose of carrying out the fraud, and that 1
the moment the property was obtained possession of the 1
oats were disposed of at very little more than half the price
at which they had been purchased originally, and it also ap-
peared that the whole of the fifty sacks of floor had, by a
circuitous route, been taken to the shops of Nicholls,
Jarrett and Keen both taking an active past in getting rid
of the property.
The dory without hesitation returned a verdict of Guilty
against both defendants.
The defendants were then sentenced to be imprisoned and
kept to hard labour for eighteen months.

THE POLICE COURTS.
MANSION-HOUSE.
Lionel G. Thompson, late of No. 1, Riches-court, Lime-
street, shipping agent, wu brought before Sir Robert W.
Carden, in the custody of Michael Hayden, the officer, upon
• warrant issued under the Passengers Acr, for the non-
payment of the sum of 591. 41. Gd., being the amount of the
passage money, and the expenses, incurred in consequence
of the default of the prisoner to pros.de certain pinions
named Hart with passage in a vessel:called the South Sea ;
and also charged upon • warrant for a conspiracy with G.
Shutter, to defraud William Henry Bassett, a person who
expected to be a passenger by the same nasal, of the suns
of 141._10a. _ .

O. Shutter appeared in pursuance of his recognisance
upon which Sir It. W. Carden had discharged him, who ex-
pressed at the same time his opinion that Shutter had not
been aware of any intention to deceive the emigrants.
Michael Hayden said he had apprehended Thompson on
Friday evening at Chipton, where the defendant was living
under ite assumed name. Witness had received the war-
rants on the Ist of October, and had been to Southampton,
Ashford, and other places, for the purpose of apprehending
Mr. Thompion, whose counting-house was elated, and
who, no doubt, kept out of the way to avoid the war-rants.
The defendant Thompson said—l lied paid the money
mentioned in the warrant issued under the Fes:toggles' Act,
to the agents at Liverpool, and the parties have sailed for
their destination, So that the exigency of the warrant was
satisfied. It is very hard that under such circumstances I
should be subjected to the accusation of corrupt motives.
Sir It. W. Carden said the particulars of this case, as well
as others of a similar nature, have been repeatedly before
me, and I entertain not the slightest doubt that you have
for a considerable time pursued a system of fraud upon
helpless persons, who have been put to the greatest incon-
venience to collect the money which they placed in your
hands to secure their panne. It is quite obvious to me that
you have been depriving one passenger of money to pay
the expenses of another, and that you went on in that way
until you could not pay at all, and thus several poor people
have been mercilessly plundered of On it own hard earn-
Inge and the assistance afforded by the benevolent exertions
of their friends.
Thompoon—l had provided three hundred pawengere for
the South Sea, and I acted under the belief that I had full
authority on behalf of Mr. Baynes, who so the owner of the

tsir It. W. Carden—lt is in evidence that you have
received • large sum of money from different persons,
upon your undertaking to procure for them accommodation
and a panage in the vessel. You sent them to Liver. '
pool, where they bad to encounter the heavy disappoint-
ment of rejection, and were obliged to come back for
redress; and you have done all this with the painful exam.
pie of a similar...am before you and the awful punishment
dazed to the offence. Now, tiers are some of these indus-
trious but unfortunate adventurers who have been relieved
from this justice-room. When the ease came last before
me I intimated that notice should be given to the various
emigrants who have been defrauded in their attempts to go
to another country for less precarious support whenever yen
should ho apprehended, and I now tell you that it is
my intention to rend you to the House of Correction
for three months, under the Passengers' Act, unless you pay,
the sum of s'.d. lOs. 6c1., and 1 shall remand. you until
Saturday next on the charge of conspiracy, in order to
afford all parties who complain of having been defrauded
by you of appearing and substantiating their claims. I
think it necessary to observe that Shutter has been moat
harshly treated in being allowed to remain BJ long a time
in prison for want of boil, as it appears to me that he had
awed all through nailer your authority.
Thompson was then conveyed to the Compter.
WORSHIP-STREET.
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Jeremiah Donovan, a tall, muscular fellow, was charged
with &murderous assault upon his wife, who was lying in
the London Hospital with several of bar ribs fractured, and
In a state of imminent danger.
The prisoner, it appeared, in the course of a domestic
quarrel, had knocked his wife down and then jumped
upon her several times, fracturing her ribs ou both sides,
and inflicting other very serious injuries, in consequence of
which her lite was in great danger.
Mr. LiTyncourt ordered the prisoner to be remanded for
• week, and directed the constable to proceed to the hospital
at an early hour in the morning to ascertain the eontivion
of the injured woman from the medical officers, and whether
they considered his attendance would be necessary to receive
her deposition.
SOUTHWARK.
In the course of the day Mr. I'hillips, the patentee of the
fire annihilator, waited upon Mr. A'Beckett for the pur-
pose of soliciting his advice under t►e following circnm.
stances :

The applicant said that within the last few days he had
received information that the company formed for the
manufacture of the fire annihilators had premises in Great
Suffolk-street, In the Immediate vicinity of this court
that the ingtodients, which were of a highly inflammable
nature, were permitted to lie about in so negli-
gent • manner that danger was to be appreheuiled
of an explosion, U great care was not taken. Acting upon
the information ha had received, he celled at the manufac-
tory that day, with the view et inspecting the place where
the mete (We were dopoeited, and pointing out to the per-
son in charge the necessity for the utmost caution to be
observed, especially in such a crowded thoroughfare. He,
however, was refused admission, and had therefore deter-
mined on calling at this court, in order to acquaint his
worship of the circumstance, and to ascertain if proceedings
could not be adopted to pet vent soy casualty that might
arise (morn carrying on such a dangerous process in so popu-
lous a neighbourhood.
In reply to Mr. A'Beckett, the applicant said that be had ,
reason to b lievo the man in charge of the plate of which be
complained was totally ignorant 1,1 the chemical nears of
the materials used in the monads, tore of the fire annihi-
lator, and that therefore be woull not be expected to
use that degree of eautlim which it was so 110Cthatil y to ob-
sellre.

Mr. A'Beckett sent Sergeant Baker to request the fore-
taste of the manufactory to atti int, and on presenting
himself, in reply to the questions put to bun by the magi.,
trate, ho said that he was foreman at the place tu Suffolk.
street belonging to the company ; that he did nut under.
stand the chemical properties of the Are anuihibitor, but
that he was aware of their explosive nature in the event of
any fire coming in contact with thintiu the course of manu-
facture. _ . _

Mr. Phillips repeated, in the hearing of the foreman, the
great caution necessary to be observed where uny portion of
the mmtufeeture of the Ingredients composiog the bra maul-
hilrb,r were earrirdon, and
. . .

Mr. Alleckett pointed out the heavy responaiiiility on the
foreman in the event of any accident arioing after the cau-
tion he had receited.

Tho applicant baring thanked the magistrate, then with-
drew.

DRAMA.
PRINCESB'B.

The veteran comedian, MrTßartley, hu com-
menced an engagement of twelve nights at this theatre, fur
the purpose of taking leave of the puhl a precious to his
final ret.rement from the stage. The enga.;ement began
last evening, and (*a is nenounaecil) will conclude with Mr.
Bartlev's farewell benefit m. siturdav the 18th of Deem.
ber ; that day being the fif Is anniversary at his 144
appearance In Loudon. luring this long period Mr.
Bartley has held a high position ou the Cage; distinguished,
as an actor, by het., knowledge of his art, and
genuine cis remits; and highly esteemed in society as a
man and a gentleman.
The character of folagff, in which he appeared Lit
night, has always been coniailered one of his most success-
perfarinsnces. lor many years, indeed, lie has been
the best Falstaff on the stage. Ile has been 1.0 lung in
the habit of playing the part, that his acting of it is familiar
to the public ; bath in its merits and its defects ; and any
criticism of it would, therefore, now be superfluous and nut
of place. It is sufficient to say that he was iu lull posers-
shin of his powers, acted with hid usual spirit, showed his
thorough knowledge and just c ,nception of the character,
and gave point and zest to the fat kuiglit's jokes and witti•
dims ; making his delineation nut only true, hut most
genial and pleasant. Ile was received by the audit nee, it
is hardly necessary to add, with those warm demonstrations
of favour which he so well deserves.

The play (the First Part of " King Henry the n.urth ")
is extrtniely well got up and performed at thi, theatre.
The fiery, impetuous D'otspeiv nn excellent repreventa
tire is Mr. C. Klan; and Mr. Walter Lacy paints the prier.
V Wales very happily, both in the gay and the chivalrous
phavoi of his character. The .eencs of broad comedy are
mode very amusing by James Vining, Addison, llarley,
and Mrs. Daly; and the coquuns and appointments are
not only rich and brilliant, but show great attention to his
torical accuracy.