The Express.
London, England, 1863-05-22 00:00:00

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TWELL 0. ELRILIL

This wee an action against the relieving officer of Lambeth
to recover damages for false imprisonment upon the ground
that the plaintiff bad been taken to the workhouse, and
there confined as • lunatic. At the trial before Mr. Justice
Bytes, the jury awarded the plaintiff B)&
Mr. fierjeant Ballantine now moved for a role for • now
trial upon the pound that the damages were excessive, and
stated the following circumstances :—The plaintiff had for-
merly been • person in a respectable position ; but, having
become addicted to drink, he become so affected as to lead
to the 000cluaios th►t he was insane. He had threat-
ened his own life and that of one of his children, and
bad turned others of them out of doors, and had threatened
violence. His daughter, • girl 18 yams old, applied to
the defendant, and he, on a certificate of insanity signed by
• medical man, confined the plaintiff in the workhouse.
At the end of three or four days the workhouse doctor was
of opinion that the plaintiff was not insane, but in mow
qualms of the state of his health he bad to remain in the
workhouse some days longer. Before the defendant
could properly have confined the plaintiff he ought to have
had certificates from two medical men, and to have com-
plied with some other requirements of the Lunacy Act.
The learned serjeant, however, submitted that, so far from
the plaintiff having been damaged, be received great benefit
from being taken to the workhouse, and added that it was
probable that his own life or that of one or more of his
children had been thus saved. Under these circumstenoes,
it would surely be enough if the defendant had to pay
nominal damages in addition to costa.
Rule granted.

ARCHES COURT.
(Before Dr. Lushisgtoe.)
JOIIEB r. JILL—JUDOMINT.

This case, before reported ie the Expreas was DOW
derided. The office of the judge was promoted by the
Rev. John Jones, rector of Danaher in Wales, against the
Rev. William Edward Jell, for performing divine marries
without bit license and in an unconsecrated chapel.
It appeared that the pariah was a large one, and the
e services were in the Welsh language ; but Mr.
TJSII:d officiated in a schoolroom in the English
and had built a chapel which the Bishop of Bat=
licensed, and it was alleged that he bad the bishop's
licence. The rector, however, gave him notice to desist,
and after that notice services had been performed on two
occasions. It was now admitted that he was in error, sad
the question was ea to the payment of the oosts, and this
question was discussed at considerable length.
His lordship gave the bishop and the rector credit for
being actuated by the bent motives, but the question for
him was one of law. After reviewing the cane he Adm.,.
Dished Mr. Jell, and condemned him in the costa.

The Queen Advocate Oar R. Phillimore) and Dr. &rebel,
were for the Re•. Mr. Jones, and Dr. Twits sad Dr. Tris-
tram on the other side.

Decree accordingly.

COURT OF PROBATE AND DIVORCE.
(Before the Judge Ordinary.)
1011TLI V. Man= AND BURIDOE (WUHAN lIITHEVENING).
10 this CYO the petitioner, Captain Forster. sa officer in
the Indian service, obtained a decree nisi, with a verdict of
5,0004 damages against the co-respondent, who was •
partner in the firm of Menu and Co.
Mr.,Coleridp, Q.C., and Dr. Tristram were for the inter.
rimer; Mr. Mundell and Mr. Gibbon for the petitioner.
Mr. Coleridge maid Mr. Graham, a wine merchant at
Stockton, for whom he appeared, was • friend of the co-
respondent, and he wished to show cause why the decree nisi
should not be made absolute. It war right to hifonn the
court that the Queen's Proctor had been asked to intervene
and had declined to do so.
_ . . .

Sir C:Cresswtll-1.1505a Mr. Graham intervene at the
instance of Berridge ?
Mr. Coleridge—No.
Sir C. Creswell—Does be swear it?
Mr. Coleridge—l don't believe that it appears one way or
the other ; but if you mean, did Mr. Borrfdge apply to Mr.
Graham to intervene, I believe not.
Sir C. Creswell—lt is quite immaterial—only ewe is
rather curious to know how the fact is.

Mr. Coleridge—The one is one in which a friend of Mr.
Berridge might very fairly interpose on the ground of public
morality.
Sir C. Creswell—l should rather suppose that the legis-
lature meant that some third person should interpose on
independent grown* for the purpose of informing the court
of matters wilfully withheld from its knowledge by the
. .

Mr. Coleridge said that the grounds on which Mr. Graham
sought to iotervene were—first, that the court never had ju-
risdiction, because both the petitioner sod the respondent
were born in India, and neither bad left it till after
the birth of children ; secondly, that there were grounds to
believe that the petitioner had himself been guilty of re-
peated acts of adultery in India ; and, thirdly. that be had
himself contributed to his own dishonour by neglect of
his wife.

Sir C. Cresswell said he should have been very glad if
some member of either house would bring io a bill deciding
the question of domicile. He remembered Lord Campbell
speaking to him on the subject, and he said, "Do pray,
my Lord Chanoellor, introduce a clause settling the ques-
tion." and his reply was, " I can't."
Mr. Coleridge, having discussed the question of jurisdie-
lion at considerable length, proceeded to read the affidavit
of Mr. Graham, stating that he had reason to believe that
in the years 1851.0 the petitioner had kept a woman aa his
concubine in India, and that if the court would postpone
making the decree absolute, be (Mr. Graham) should be
able to substantiate that allegation as well ea
that of neglect. lie had also filed other affidavits
explaining or denying the matter, which had borne most
heavily at the trial against Mr. Berridge.
Sir C. Cresewell—ln other words, you are moving for a
new trial on affidavits. That is really too bad. I have en-
dured a great deal from Mr. Graham, but that is a little too
much. The fact is, he thinks the 5,0001. which hie friend
has to pay according to the verdict of the jury is a very
large sum, and he would like to help him out of the scrape.
Mr. Coleridge—That may be so ; but the facts AM facie
that he wishes very genninely to bring before the court
Dr. Tristram followed on the name side.

Sir e:sresawell said be was certainly curious to know
from whom Mr. Graham bad obtained his information.

Mr. Mundell said that no light was thrown upon that
matter by the affidavits. The questions respecting the tow
duct of the petitioner in India were formally raised en the
record, which bad been amended several times in the
course of the suit, but the respondents bad abandoned
those allegations at the trial. It was now stated in the
affidavit. that the co-respendeot's attorney had °video°,
of the wilful neglect, and that be would have brought it
forward if he had foreseen the course which would have been
taken of vilifying the co-respoedent. It was quite °leer, there-
fore, that the inns might have been tried if the eo-re-
■poedent had thought fit ; and it was not to be endured
that after lying by till be had seen the remelt of the trial
he should be ►llowed to raise the question again,
Sir C. Cromwell stopped the learned gentleman in his
address, and g►ve judgment against the tatervener. The
object of the enectuteet wee he check the predice of collo.
don, or to meet cases ohm a petitioner preceded Lem
Ede to obtain a divorce; bat here the reepoodeata had mitten

which they might lave alleged in defence, but where tbeyhd
wilfully lacted to brill them forward. It was clearly
not intended to justify an application like this. g• th.
oneetion of jurisdictioa, he ehould be very gad if
the Itgielature would deprive him of it in an ssek
oases. He could not doubt that the present appikstice
was really made by the co-respondent himself the obi.*
befog to_prevent the exaction of the costs sad dumps tin
Oaptain Forster could Cll2lO to this country, and be p
in the box to be cromaxamined. But the court could is.sd
not
forget that Hr. Berridge had put 00 the record an allegation
of adultery molest • lady ; and. that when she h. 4
gone to • great expense in coming over to Englund
to answer the charge, the learned °Tinsel had, very pro.
pally, shrunk from prooseding with it. As, therefore, this
gentleman had lent himself to this application on the part
of the co-respondent, -end had not even condescended to
inform the court where be had obtained his information, Its
most pay for his experiment.
Application rejected with costa.

COURT OF BANKRUPTCY.
(Before Mr. Commissioner GoalbariL)
in Li POWLI3.-EITILAORDINART cAtin.
The bankrupt was formerly an omnibus and cal).
proprietor, at Bread-court, How-street He rune to
the °Dort on his own petition in forme paper* mrin
1,5001. At the last sitting it was allege that the teak
-
roe' had had 5001. in his possession a short time before the
bankruptcy, sad a witness =DO forward to swear that
be had seen the bankrupt produce gold and notes of about
4001., which, he declared, the creditors should wirer touch.
Aldridge opposed for the official assignee;
Denny supported.
His Honour directed that counsel's opinion should be
taken as to whether apromontioe could be sustained spirit
the bankrupt, and further adjourned the case for that pur.
QOM

THE NEWLY-ELECTED COMMISSIONER OF POLI4A
FOR THE Cm.—Colooel James Fraser, the new commis
eloper of police for the City, ham served is the army in
various parts of the world, and passed through the seven'
grades of the service as • commissioned officer dnrimg
thirty jean of active duty. He was made ensign •
2
1831, lieutenant in 1E34, ,septssin in 1136, breeet.ciajor 1846,1
major 1849, lieut.-colonel in 1851, and colonel in 1854, OD
full pay with his regiment, and an the staff. Leaving
active service in January, 1858, he was chosen on the 14th
of that month, and in the same year, as chief constable of
the county of Bmks, an appointment which he at present
bolds. He had testimonials of. high order from his Sow
Highness the Duke of Cambridge, E.G., the oommaaes.
in-chief ; John Walter, Fag., kf..P. for Berkshire ; Richard
&mums, Fsq., H.P. for Berkshire, vice-chairman of the
Ooart of Quarter Session., and chairman of the police com-
mittee of the county ; Viscount Barrington, the chairman;
the Earl of Radnor, ke., be, He has commanded two rein.
meats in her Majesty's service, and organised, since leaving
the army, the police force of the county.
SMOCKING &TIMM OF • BOY.—OR Sunday even-
iag • very shocking suicide occurred, the propetrake
being a boy named Wm. Mumby. son of some poor people
living near the upper end of the East Marsh, Grimsby, and
who was only between 11 and 12 vein of age. It swum
that in the afternoon the boy bad played truant from the
Baptist Sunday School, for which his mother punished bim
slightly, and on his parents going to chapel in the evening
they looked him up in the house. After leaving chapel
they took • walk, and ea returning home found the boy
bad hung himself with a cord in the pantry. He had evinced
extraordinary determination in the fearful deed, having
evidently got upon a shelf to attach the cord to another
piece of cord suspended by a hook in the ceiling, and Mai
thrown himself down. The shrieks of the poor mother on
the discovery are described as of • piercing and heartrend-
ing character ; indeed she was nearly frantic. Am inquest
was held on the body on Tuesday, before George Barris,
Eq., coroner, when the above facts were deposed to, and •
witness, a companion of the boy's, having stated that the
deceased had told him • few days previously that if his
father punished him any more be should hang himself, the
jury returned a verdict that the deemed had committed
suicide, but there was no evidence to show in what state of
mind he was when he committed the act,. . .

asnat.:=Wexford county
bu always been remarkably fres from crime, and agrarian
offences have been seemly known in it for many rum A
great horror has been excited by the foal murder of a
nationalachool master named Pit:henry, near his own home
within a few rails, of New Ross. The deed is described by
the Wexford papers as one of " brutal and ilendiah atrocity."
The victim was found on Sunday morning, in a lane, quite
dead, with his skull battered in and hie brains scattered
about, surrounded with blood. There Is yet no account of
the coroner's inquest, but a correspondent stets that the
police have a chain of evidence that will be likely to bring
the guilty party or partite to justice. It appears there was
a dispute about the payment of money foe some lead to a
relative who was going to America, and it is suspected that
' this led to the murder.

•
BOAT ACCIDENT IN PINAR= RI/ADA—Three
lives have been lost by an accident near the Holmes, in
Penarthroads. The captain of a vessel lying in the raids
and four of his crew were returning in a boat to their vestal
on Wednesday evening, the wind blowing fresh, when toe
boat was swamped by coming in contact with a mooring
shackle, and the fire men were seen struggling in the water.
The captain and one man had • hairbreadth escape, sac-
needing in catching • rope thrown to them from the ship.
and were hauled on board in an exhausted state. The
ship's boat was instantly manned, and sent to moue the
three others, but the poor fellows had all sunk. The bodies
have not yet been recovered.
REMARKABLE ESC IPE —On Monday Last Mr.
Brown, of Bingham, Nottinghamshire, sent his servant is
charge of • horse and cart from the field to the homestead.
On his way home he bad to cross the railway, and opened
the gate to let the horse and cart cross over without looking
if there were soy trains in sight. The horse and cart had
no sooner entered the crossing than • luggage train came up.
The buffer of the engine struck the body of the cart, sepa-
rating it from the shafts, without in the least injuring the
enimal lJnfortunately, Mr. Brown's son, a little boy three
years of age, was riding in the cart when the collision took
place. The poor child, together with the remnants of the
shattered vehicle, was tossed into the air shout 20ft. high,
the little boy's nap alighting on the top of the engine. The
child fell close by the side of the rails senseless to the
ground, while the remains of the cart were thrown over the
hedge into au adjoining Geld The father, who was left in
the field, heard the collision, and hastening to the spot
found the boy lying seuselesa. After the lapse of some hours
the child showed signs of life, and hopes are entertained
that he will recover.

RUNNING FOUL OP • LIONTEIOI7BE.—The tempo-
rary lighthouse, stage, and piliLg, which marked the eite
of one of the Spithead forte on the Noman Shoal. was die-
oovered at daylight yesterday morning to have disappeared
from its position, and all that could be discovered of it was
• few logs floating on the edge of the shoal. Subsequent
information has, however, cleared up the mystery. it ap-
pears that the Danish galliot, Carl August. which has
arrived at Southamptoui from Beattie, ran foul of the piles
and staging at about 30 minutes past 1 yesterday moreing,
sad carried the whole away. A man and a boy who lived
in a cabin on the staging, and attended to the lights, were
picked up by the boat of the galliot, and taken on to South-
ampton.
Tar ABODE or Lovr..—Considerable sensation
las been created in Glastoubury by a bold attempt made by
a party of the Priocites to induce a lady to leave the dom .
oils of her husband and retire to the enviable Abode of
Love, • place notorious at Charlie* near the town of
Bridgwater. It appears that the Ldy, who was once an in-
mate of that establishment, would not have been an unwil-
ling captive ; but just as the scheme appeared ripe for exe-
cution, and • carriage at hand waiting to receive her, the
discovery was made, the plan defeated, and tLe 'Mutter
ignominiously compelled to beat • retreat, amidst the Wr-
ings sod bootinge of a crowd who speedily rsembled. It is,
however. announced that, nothing daunted by defeat, the
eeductor is entrauched iCI sight of the residence, ready
to resume the attempt on the first favourable opportunity.
—Devizes Gazette. _ . .

HIRING Fan& —The annual statute for hiring
servants was held at Louth on Friday last, and as moral
• large number of country lade and lasses were prese!do
althocgh not nearly so many as in years gone by. hot
much hiring was done in the open air, the principal part
being accomplished throxgh the medium of register-ea,"
some of which were crowded for hours. We are sorry to
have to report promaa io anything but a sAtisfactory
as to the conduct of the young on this occasion, mere chU•
dren indulging themselves with the potions weed. many
more by far than the usual number of youths and children
being either drunk or in the very last stage approischieg to a
note of inebriation. To three who feel interested iu the
spread of education, morality, and religion, it was extremely
painful to witness the grossconduct and be.ring and to
bear the libidinous talk and revolting oaths of these town
visitors "fresh from the country." Surely it is high time
, the clergy of all denomivations, with parents, masters, and
mistresses, turned their special attention to attempt to
improve the morals of thaw whom they have oversight.
That many of the evils of the day are promoted rather
than discounteDancel by the system of public hiring It
too manifest to require proof. One circucustame which
plain) y indicates the viciousness of the system is, there
is little if any inquiry as to the antecedents of the hired.
Character is only little esteemed. The wortbleas and dig•
isolate, if they can but work, stand upon • perfect level
with the virtuous and praiseworthy, and the consequence
is that a good character not bearing any appreciable
market value is regarded as of small importance, and
efforts either to obtsin or retain it become proportionately
few.—Sfaniford Mee asap.
Eight men who were engaged in the Preston
riots on the 22nd April, were tried at the quarter sessions
yesterday. The ringleader was severely pouished. He re-
ceived a aeotenoe of three years' penal servitude. Five got
six months and two twelve months' impiisonient.
In Waltham, liam.ulussetta, there is a watch
manufactory which employs Dearly 600 miasma and turns
out 50,000 watches annually. AU the works of the watches
are made by machinery. One pouted of wire, worth • guinea,
is converted into 100,000 watch screws worth 7001. The
jewels are
the
by a drill which is as nee as a spider's
web, and perforations are measured by gauges that
iodieate the ten-thonsitoilth part of an inch. If a Waltham
~watch gets out of order anywhere in America, any rut ei
the works can be obtained, exactly suitable, by seeding the
number of the watch to the manufactory. America now
pays Europe a million sterling • year for watches.

THE BRITISH AND PORTION ANTI-SLAVERY
SOCIETY.(THIS DAY.)

This day the annual meeting of this society was
bold at the London Tavern ; Mr. 6. W. ALUAIII)K11, the
t-,curer of the society, is the chair. The meting was
sumerously attended.
Amongst those present were Sir T. F. Buxton, Birk;
the Hon. and Rev. Baptist Noel ; Mr. C. Burton, M.P. ;
Rev. Dr. Massey; Rev. J. Kennedy ; Rev. W. Arthur;
Mr. Sinclair. tte.

The CHAIRMAN ilia he regretted the absence of Lord
Brougham, who was to have taken the chair, the mote soma it
brought him into a position for which he was quite unpre-
pared. Their object in meeting together was to protest
against the system of slavery, which, whatever might be said
in extenuation of it, could not be other than cruel, for
when one man had uncontrolled power Over his
fellow men it could not but lead to cruelty.
They might see the effects of slavery in the war now raging
in America, but if the effect of that war should lead to its
abolition, the evils and horrors of war, peat as they were,
would be accompanied with one beneficent remit. (Hear.)
Yr. BURTON, M.P., said that a letter had been received
from Lord Brougham, stating that no one was to blame
for putting him forward as the chairman who was to have
presided at the meeting, but he thought it better not to
take the chair, as more eoosistent with that neutrality
which he thought ought to be observ:d by every one in the
contest now going in America.

Mr. L A. Criaitutovzow, the Secretary, red en abstract
of the report, which detailed the principal facts connected
with the slave trade and slavery during the put year.
The African slave trade to Cuba war carried on
with undiminished vigour. There were 38,000 slaves
landed in Cuba, and u for every slave landed
two perished there were 120,000 men and women exported
from Africa to supply that one market. The report at-
tribiated the contest now going on in America to the system
of slavery prevailing in the South. It appeared from the
account. that the receipts for the year 18032 were 1,4604,
end that there remained a balance of 291. The following
letter was then read by the secretary
(CoPI-)

" Leiation of the United Staten,
"London May 21,1863.

" directed by the President of the United
States to acknowledge on his behalf the reception of the
proceedings of a special meeting of the British and Foreign
Anti-slavery Society of the 19th of January teat, which wan
duly transmitted to bim through the medium of this /op-
tion. It gives him pleasure to observe that these proceedings
are distinguished by an earnest desire that peace may now
and for ever be preserved between the United Stake and
Great Britain, that the anion of his own country, which is
the bulwark of Be safety, may be maintained, and espe-
cially that it may not be overthrown so as to give room to
a new nation, to be founded on the corner atone of
human slavery. I am further directed to say
that the justice of these sentiments., as well as
the confidence in the President, which is expressed is
the proceeding+, would entitle the subjects of Great
Britain who constitute this meeting to a special, grateful,
and fervent notice on his part. His sentiments ea the
subject involved have, however, been so fully expressed in
replica which have been made to the working men of Man-
chester, to the citizens of London mumbled at Exeter-
ball, on the evening of the 29th of January last, and to the
citizens of Bradford, that instead of repetition, he prays
that you will consider the spirit expressed in them as
equally entertained in the present ceas.—l bare the honour
to be, your obedient servant,

"Camuss Fuse= An Aug."

The following resolutions were proposed for adoption,
and were supported by Sir T. F. Buxton, the Rev. Baptist
Nord, Mr. Buxton, M P., and other speakers :
"That the report, of which an abstract has bees sub-
mitted to this meeting, be adopted, and bo printed and air-
culated under the direction of the committee, end that the
gentlemen whose names hare been read be the committee
and the officers during the ensuing year, with power to add
to their number."

"That this meeting deems it of the utmost importance at
this crisis to re-a 0 km the fuudameotal principle of the anti-
slavery movemeot, that 'skvaholding is • sin and a mime
before God,' sod that its speedy extinction is devoutly to be
desired on the highest grounds of religion and humanity."
" That, in the opinion of this meeting. the abolition of
skvery, dowsed to take place from and slew the lat of July
next, in the Dutch Wert lodia colooies, and In 1876 in all
the transinarine possessions of Portage] ; the emancipation
of the serfs is Ramis ; the total aeration of the
African slave trade to Brasil and from the Por-
tuguese provinces in Week Africa ; the new dove-
tail. treaty with the United States government, gent.
her • right of search ; the abolition of slavery in the di-
ktat of Columbia ' • its prohibition for ever ut the territories ;
the recognition of the negro republics of Hayti and Liberia,
end other measures which the United States government
has iodated, in furtherance of emancipation, claim signal
and grateful recognition from the friends of human freedom
in call lands, and are acts calculated to encourage them to
unabated and united efforts to °titan the total and speedy
extinction of the slave-trade and of slavery wherever they
exist."