The Express.
London, England, 1855-12-01 00:00:00

NBW COURT.

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IJpou the Remeder takkeg his east is this mart, he mid
that as swamies, letter had been addressed to his,
awns; se the sews of Dr. Verbatim, sad complaining of the
way is whisk he (the Beeerd.es) had dee/gibed him to tbe
grand jury. This letter was of a very 'stamper** and
libelloas character, sad wines to bias with • view to pre-
holies hi. mind. He wished it to be publicly Meows that
sash madast was • coatempt d mart, sad ewe that be had
the power to pawhh. Such as set woe extremely wrong,
and sae that he would treat with severity it brought before
the mart. Tits baadwritlag appeared to him that of a
wanes, and be would take time to eteekier whether he
should not pima the latter into the hands of Dr. Vangbaa's
legal adviser, as It was • libel. A puma guilty of sash •
somempt at court was liable to be convicted sad committed

*Cis.
tow Tomas*" MINS ia this mart were of a wholly
unimportant ohanater.

THIRD COURT.
norm b. VFW; 6111.
Chubs Adana, 19, brieklayer, was bibbed hr perjury.
Mr. Dellautthe and Mr. Poised yreseenta, aad Mr.
Ribtos &hand.
The preseoutka bad his. iestitneed by the authorities at
the Wu-odes, sad the eireenstenese Peng des to the pa-
ssions we. these : Ups the It efollebor a nail naiad
Webb sampled the bonny as mink Meshy at the thee
that he was aa unneeded nen la babe a ale of the
serene that needed sees sad appeadess enact be ealisted ;
bat upa Webb qty _ PhDs neenewase In wits sane
Awned; and lefeenal sit &sabre los ahead, mad the
reand:ipmelegeenethasews het the leanly nosey width
he bed sod dee She pay win& be bed Manle ed
=ssuffithe the these days previous to ping up is the
le be attested. • great ene, of this eases
of frauds lawn. ban sonnittei, the authorities at the
War-eMse adored the preeseadea of Webb, who was tried
at the Middling Baden Phew Kr. eeriest Anne he
=l2, away in hies postears, sad ups that Psi
pimp Aiwa and a aim nand Walloon both
se wheel awe that the ma Webb bed told the magma
who sealed bin that he was a sand oath. The Jay
however did not believe those witnesses, lad Webb bong
manna the an insane were sent by Mr. Sedan

&lime he Idol:-
It appeared ht the ereecosanainatiou that at the this the
enlistment ha ghee the recruits had boom was hash at
the pabilodiewee. sad had &mak s good deal of beer.
The jar, liiispitted the prisoner end rho the sea Watson
who was Whiled upon the sane feet, sad tried at the eel

of tke first ease.
James Worthington Maude, a gentlemsalrlsoking man
ensothisoth to take his trial for obtaining by false pretenses:,
loom Timms Reginald Romp and George Clay, an Geier
the el 1401., and Edwin Whitby, who also sm.
and woo bilked with him for satrapies; to defraud
Os mil TYs.sp Kemp and George Clay of the OM of NW.
MA Piny mid Mr. T. Baker prosecuted ; and Mr. Bel-
beetbs, Kr. fthdp, end Mr. Poland defended.
' Mr. Parry, to stating the case to the Jury, said it was sae
of the greatest important* to a emanteroial omumutity ; and
if the Weeklies were guilty of the ceedust imputed to
them, he thought that they (the Jury) would agree with
him that it was a truth of a very gram character. The
homed mammal then detailed the evidemes in support of the
indict:seat, scachidlng by saying that he partly understood
that the defeaos would be an attack on his clients for the
intermit they had charged as discounters. The jury wadi
bear la udd that money misused as a commodity, and that,
in the language of • groat statesman. • man might trade
in messy L the MOW nether as he would in cotton—
making the best market of his capital
Thomas Reginald Ream examined by Mr. Salter—l am •
bill broker sad banker. I reside in Nicholthlam. Abed
three or four years ago my partner (Mr. Clay)
doing business with the firm of Covingtom aneill&Marie
knew the defendant Mande, and antidote& hises MO id
the Arm, though samiquainied with his name. Our loth►
actions hove Welly been with Meads' whom we Kemp
ladatoosed es Mr. Covington. Oa the 17th April last year we
had an fa the aeimpspen an amount of the death
of Mr. Oodogion, Denier, and spot that oesseloo
we spas Moth the cironestathe to Mask, who had
Pith% tale us them were sit parkas in the kn. He
mid the were Mr. Covingtoo, senior, Mr. Cooing-
tee, jdd Ithoself, and three others,whose names Ido net
reps psi t Define spooking of the death we said to Maude.
that ems thste was des parker leas there would be more to,
divide. Ho soil, "Tee. they take a good deal out of es."
We then stabs to Km about the bills we were
and askant. whether they were trade bills. Ha=
somewhat seephed at our putting the gustiest, ass
"Yes, nethbg but trade bills." We than went im tommi
acting trios with his to the 14th July. when in Flamm
to ay pig en the osetkent, I asked Maude what
s 1
he thought the firm would require daring my absseere=
we would make arrangements. Ikea after this ass
we reeshed • letter in Maude 's handwriting, ebbs that
they would want about 800 L, as they were happy
to say their liabilities were mesedingly
Oa the ithk August I again saw Mask on sass
bills which had ism thessuthed by us in my atm
genes. Them bills esermatod to about 2061, and he
reply to the ,amuses pat, Maude said they wen myths
trade bills. We AM at ask him what they were for, as wit
had no to es at the time. We have two rams of
business, on woof which we Mak 26 per seat. dice ton
all bib, sal Am* it to what we mil the "
l
soremml. asked him what he wanted that dey2, 1,1112 C
said UK ibb wpm we admired, and should net berth
done so had we net believed they were regular trade bib
and ales that them were, as he bad @Med, other parttime he
the less. Oa the Skid Osteher we maw his main en the
statute( a with the some of Clans en it. It was a bill
we bed reheat that 18th Ostober. We toil hies we had
seen the same of Gene es a county mere judgment for
111. h., sad we thought that such a penes had so right to
accept a bill fee 1081. Oa the 2ad November we saw the
other &feudist Whitby, whom we bad looked upon and
dam bushier with as Kaude's clerk. We then asked Whitby
if he was the senator of the bins which he had brought
ivom tints to tom to u. He said, " I sever brought any of
my own sompances. I purposely avoided dais( so." My
partner, Mr. Clay, who was present. said, " No, but pi*
always took two•thirds of the money;" and I said, "Do pre
think we *odd have dismantled the bills had we knows
you were anbothe shirk 1" Whitby then said, " Has at
KA Mande hid piths about that ?"
On oromemedeblek Mr. Romp said be tad Mr. lam
mestitated the meet ay. Both himaalf and partner had
Deco beakroplo partionely to their partnership. At the
time of interim bite partastehip he did not know Mr. Clay
bad been a bankrupt Daring the period they had des
bushiest with Ceviagtoe sad Co. they had dealings to about
3,0001. He found on Marasco that several of the bill
bore Whitby's cams on them. They neva saw thee,
bills after they arrived at maturity, as they was
They were meditats of Covinetou's firs to shad
I;firt It was in the latter end of 1864 that the Minds=
Maude opened the banking account. They (Ramp sod
Clay) were bankers and share; babes, indopendest aartbiell
tramastices. They retain the 26 par sent so ase
NOldasand do not allow it to Mdraws set until tie ill
That depth woe not an intheasseet few them
to t. He did not know why_they adopted the man/
with Maude in 1864. He knew Whitby es stork, but did
not haw his math He had not seen Whitby on the Coal
insbomp. He did not know any of the Covington/ but
always haesseted business with Mande. Ho said to
RIB that he believed that Mask did not intend to defraud.
He wesid net say that he had not said tootethieg to that
Whet Hill sailed and said be wished the conversation
between them to be ass of confidence, and he (victims)
woad not have otootioned it if it had not now
base brought up. Hill made • request that the matter
ebseld be oomprossissd and he (Mr. Ramp) would not have
Anis& to it. se Hill wished it se be in soalidence. He (Mr.
Wwould names, that Mr. Clay did not say it was a
oo to make cap. He and his partner had refused an
Mkt of IA is Os peed from Mande. He (Ramp) bad
AIM he 1848 tor sleet 16,0001. He paid whip, at the
h..bet his thethloss bad got a good deal sines. He had
up 7,0811. of bh old kik/ He gave 261. ter them,
se=wers bedews they afield not be boned by the Statute
of
Iffithothei Hhi eertilbsts was suspended for three
mselho, at the be bad the of the mooed ekes. He
bad base a dilater of ex different railways. He
bad his am& put to essay others without his
The witness was further examined as to his
and it appeared that his principal creditors Wen
friends, and trim whom he bad since had ambiance, and
wee on the most frienterms with them. Ho added that
be was MOM more dewed la any man thou Maude. All
pre se knew that the firm sontimod of himself and Clay.
Ks. Clay, the partner of the last witness, was nest tar
mined. He sometime/ad the testimony of Mr. Hasp.
alleles that when they became acquainted with the fraud
(hey told the dolsodent that it wee one of the greatest sob
dlea they bad over beast.
Os most-ozembastion Mr. Clay said he wee a beetroot
lo KO. He had instituted this prosecution partly from
Mikis Justice—sot that alone, but to get back what had
Nan motes hem them.
Mr. Commissiimer Gamey asked the witness if hi oblate
wee to get the swam from the deteadsate Meade.
The witaese said he should not have gate on with the
froustisis if the bills had been paid.
ths farther arose examination the vat:reel said he did net
ksew that Mr. Kemp had bees a bankrupt. He believed
be key soli his venom of ten bankrerey at the time they
j eeimitholl Whew
11101111 to Mr. Parry, the witness said be bad plasm
Mak of his solicitors, sal had Noy maw
Owed/WM wines&
Now milleaso was given. API that since Issg
lbw WWs so rem el *I sum Coupes /a a