The Express.
London, England, 1855-04-10 00:00:00

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NORTHERN ClRCUlT.—Lancatrin, Aram 9.
Pllll Plll/11-111.10111 aL rooms carman.
TOO HOPWOOD WILL CASE.
Copula Hopwood, who was ander emanation es le.
teas, evening at the helm of the court, wee orb Omni
is the be:, sad his mose.emaisatisa reemasd err
Titoism. He ssii—l have resided aisle my nestellet gelth
simily Ia Woks. The Stage at Hopwood was fitted up id
me by ay amt. I was is the Mhit of Midas the shark
My father used to visit Soothed. sad Mersa exist Ode'
her, and I thea west lee a time. No death Was my kir
thews were at Hopwood they attended to my father. limed
ban bees I. Judy, 1862, that I wee requested by eie
rugger brother, Harvey. to the Pilo. 1$
lea atter my father'* inane, on the 10th of July, Ha
lousedistely after that illaess, which lasted two de"
there was always embalm of thought. His Wad
was lees Mau. I deal mesa le ay after that ate*
Ids Wad was in • rushing state. His powers of mad
lees, led be die not somprehred matters with that Men&
is the sane maser as before. Deriag the wig glst of
wrist; I did sot Mara* him amble of masegbe
natter of business. Tea• was about the latter tad of
March, 1862. I spoke to his late in July, 1862, alone the
Masse at his bankers'. I had boss laying out a porde* of
the nesse of the °Wilsey lama the selliery. It might be as
musk as 1,5001. a year, but I masa speak mearately. I
berm in 1848. A great deal passed betwom the *Diesel
sad myna on the 'abject in February, 18.53. He began by
stabs, that there had hem as inegelarity about oil, and
he pressed me to take the household sad look into the bills.
I objected to this, sod he said then was so sae to control
or regulate the household expeons. It was mach against
my own wishes, and it was settled boffin we
tat that miss bills of tradessasa should go
through his hands, but the larger matters through
aloe. Nosily all the orders te Dixon were gives from
Wales. All my orders were for my father's comfort. I
spoke to Whits, the Mem, sod se the boasokseper sad
ten them wig I Zak the asesesasat. I spoke aWhite
bet, sad rersseted him to awe lb book to me ; aka told
him that heavy orders 1111/111.1161161ves to me, sad he was
to glee me sages time tie seder the articles, so that oohing
should bs wending. I sell ray lather was not in a fit state
a m Mite the establikkossat. I wee only afraid of the
abeam of mess ast of the 'Eden of any me. I did
set speak to oily Mass tenni. I did not see Harvey oath
the 26th of Mara, and it was on that night that the roams
oaths betwesu us took place. He spoke loudly, led fouled
fault with me for the soave I bad takes. He did
sot ay that he wished his father to be muter of his owe
home, and of his own sensate I mad so smelt words
as, " Now I understood you sad you shall t Marstand
sae. I sad where I imps • salting *hall be
ordered without my permission, sothiag shall be paid
for without my sasetion." I did sot say the arrant. were
rebellious, led they would be more so if the mime! took
their pad. I treated my father with respect sad affection,
as I hod before. I spoke to his, and he spoke to me. He
at at the head of his table. He said anything to se
about crippledosads. I consider. d him at that time inca-
pable fur say matter filminess. Whoa I left Hopwood I
intended to go to the bankers, Lloyd, Entwistle, and Co.
I did ant say anything to my brothers abut it. I saw Mr.
Janis at the lank, sad said that my father was ineompe-
teat for any Meioses. I said anybody that drew, and pre-
sented a cheque to him, could obtain his signature. I did
sot say that aaybody had obtained his signature improperly.
This letter is is my handwriting, ad I addressed it to Mr.
Ronny with one of the pamphlets. I did not know of any
of my brother, Meng used my father's signature improperly.
I prepared the paper which I took to my father at Moor.
My signature was on the order. I did write a limiters fit
the beakers, which on cheques was the sort of me the ban.
ken might coped as one of the coaster erases. The
paper was at order for the bankers not to honour cheques
without tie signature of myself or those of my brothers.
I did not been their mom, but I did my own, at gnat
length. My (ether asked, " What is all this about ? and
I replied, " We are on a little business, sad a lady inter.
fares. We must bow to the lady." I destroyed the order
after I left the house. It occurred to me after to have two
counter eiguatana, and that I comonsioated to Mr. Slater.
When Mr. Slater said a commission of homy would be
hurtful to my fathers !foliage, I did set say, " Feelings ! he
has no sore Menhir than that boa." I said it would not hurt
" his Inbar, ahe could act compnbend what was passing.
When Mr. Slater saw me at Manchester, be said, I could
sot as en father unless I acknowledged my error and my
father's competency tor business affairs, end his ability to
airs say documents.
Ite.emmiaed by the Attorney-Genent—After July, 1852,
there was a want of apprehension and want of capacity.
The incase of the *May was about 3,0001., sad sometimes
more, is a year. There were some preparatory works going
es which Ware smeary for the existence of the colliery.
They had bees determined oa before my father's and be-
ams week, sad Maws the outlay of 1,61401. a year. Whom
I and stock the management of the house it required it.
My tether at that time did aot join is any ocenrsation
with people is the kern. I stn had as idea that
my WSW, had got hint to ilia cheques. The
observation shout a commission of kmasy smaaatod from
Mr. Slater, sad It was a Nelms& motioned. My
lather mien have Dna irritated whist me, but it would
sect bare remained es his miad • insmest. If I had seen
my father, I was attain he would hen estenained no ill
Salmi against me, ss he compeebseith nese. My father
ceased to write to me is September, sad I sealed to write to
him, is oessegasaos If a letter Iris Fmk. My father,
neither by letter nor otherwise, aregialasdl of ay sot
writing. Thus may have bees err thing like 100 pus
Ohs, but they 'were only sent le Mills= sod friends.
The postmaster at Middleton asked a nth the bill fa
Chanary. The letters of my brother were set pet is the
pamphlet, became it was a mars npetities of their intui-
tion to frachule se.
lir. Jonah Harrop, a magistrateof Obselio sad the
West Riling, sad a deputy tel the musty, was
manned, and deposed to the siesemelmasse of the visit to
Hopwood, is company with Calais amswered, se already
',win. The wham fully ineselnestod pomp
velar the Inkiest* of Captain est Mrs. SepweN. with
respect to the refusal Its.. Hopwood set with whs. she
desired to news' the letter to Mr. Hopwood. He Om
mahatma : I newstbsv
very messy weak, both in body meeting Lord Sofa. October,
1862, sad Ip:boiled hew Mr. Hopwood was. Ilia sell he
was led mini I
mid, oh hie ad disseed ?" Re said, " Yes ; kis Wed b
vise gone" or " gebs&" I don't kaow which.
Cromessmincolby &leant Wilkins—l had not bees SA
iattside terms with Mr. Hopwood. I had bees at lib
home ems se hue times is see his, and had lunched with
him. I nom talked te him moo family affair. I bare
bees istiorately oggseastel with Captain Hopwood for 16
7eon.
James Dime. Lad agent to Mr. Hopwood frost 1648 to
the preseat time, said—Very early in the spring of 1860
thin wee • path Miss off in his rapacity. He complained
them of his Meth sad mold sot add up the moues. Mr.
Hopissed enomissd the sensate in 1850 and he could not
me through a yens He mid, " Dixon, this is too much for
me; I hoe I shall Ism my held." I said, " Sir, if that be
the use, I &mil like you to get some one tO audit the
seaman" Be NAM 'I am satiated with you." la
tedqrlB6l, Mr. Hoiood grew much weaker every day,
l not remain out so long as before. Ws °palmation
wee set so full as before. In April, 1861, met Captain
Ibeweed et Middleton, and said, " Sir, your father is quite
lasempoome to leek over ay sesounts as I should wish ; he
dm leak at them, but dews% mdentand whether they are
thenat. lkol I sued you oessuate every fortnight for my
eatieleetiser He said, " No. I have the colliery to attend
to; end tho eirtaightly asenste to my father, aid
somebody will =maim • them who may be then."
Thehli= I saw sod resolved hoes Mr. Hopwood Is
hie was bon lea He had great diiikalty is
=skim them est. He imps vary well. Oa February 12,
1842, be made est • asps gar 6001. he a . He
bean very wsl, bat pat posse is two phew. He hatted
it too; sad them ho ethos very such. I WM te appose
sad get him to who test r. I nth to. he what
the ohms, vres He soared Os ham very
LZler :out it. I named the ddissont weds the
ass. Tease were several other sosesismo. 11. haw sees
him write elseques. He wookl begin we se eves weeds
sad beanie totally bewildered. This lappeoed essay
times in 18.51, and several times he had to write two shares.
After February, 1862, I don't remember ever .11iskn l.
Mr. Hopwood on any matter of Mas aass Ho w still
sad familiar with me. I shall sever meet with his like smith
I used to tell hiss the hares were plentiful, sees belted meth
aoraetisses he would say, A. I'm a poor devil;" stoma may
6. I'm doss up, Dims, I'm a wreak." I was MI new to'
trouble Mr. Hopwood ors an matter of bathos, eseeo
slag nevus or leases, sad I saw bier mime only far le I
1862—sone afterwards. He slimed them all mono dey. He
asked so Inestios about these. I pistol out the gloss
where be wee to put his sass. 1 told Yes amines bum,
sad hr signed them arm that. Ia 1862, be mum sed said.
" Dina, ban yes plenty email' to make the smell ?"
I said. "The bvermisilll de very well, sir." Ia
Ilthosbile . hash said that his hese wai
wee
busbies. remember, is the autumn alga,
Mr.was at Hopwood. Frank saw me use mem
lag, U-resl-34 se is. He said, " Dimon, I duet haw
what most be dies • my father is Li snob a note this
amain& he has Ithilionst his mild • be eassthadoy life in
ley wois lath Wig a poet Mitt ha men removed,
he but I Ms hog selhos Wed." I mid,
" Hie aid bee bees mks it a Ism He rejoined
" Yet, it km." Is 1862 Mr. Stull its sew Wild*
land, and I referred hiss to Capt. I sold Freak
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Mr. (Wyss said he had pecks& wlmo woes
easedsdes to whisk the Worms !al eisluaisi tar the
purse dohswift that mythic' likollowd woo suer for a
segint patios= at the ha.
Hold loorester—l saw the peierwor st the Stowwarket
Haim at half lost 13 Veleta ea fkurday. I easertalood
that Ms same was Ilamer& Bridges. sad 1 said I wasted to
mit Wm a few awed's& es is • bill for MI. which had ben
pseesesd at Busby's, steepled " Jobs Gill." which
that goadousa had desk& to be hie. The usla
=PM thorn auk& ip to Luau, sad I got two tichete,o
ow& WI to Idea that he mut sosospeay me to szplsis t
Mw.'. Husky sit& Cs. as to the bill. He said that Hr.
Gill sot pay it. Whoa we was la the railway carriage
I pue Ida the full particulars of tits trussetios. He then
sa*l4l he was sot **rut of the bill. sad I brought his

to London.
Cresonzamined by Mr. Gailgten—l cautioned hie that
he used aot answer me if he did not please; that be was
not obli6ed to answer ; but I did not say that his answers
Eared east Lim. I had no warrant for his sp-
. When we arrived in London I seat to Mr.
from whom I had received instructions oil the
madost.. My impression is, that the prisoner believed that
he was going to Messrs. Barclay and Co.'s to implant about
1 the MB.
Mr. Guavas then expressed a hope that the Alderman
would ussept boil under sash circumstance*. The gentle.
he said, a person of the highest respectability and
-of --y, sad had not Viso slightest notion
deeeribed, a-

1610 was, -
ithreetations of prejsety, aim a..
of urines, any 'seem in the traamastion and se-
mufti's of the met usqesatiaaable ebanotar were ready.
lir. Menses mit le seem et resit astute he was always
nukes to Moe it to the elides of He magistrate, without
ert ssieLightion, to swept or reject bad.
them premed upon the alderman the palpable
iridium that his client bad never intended saytbiog wrong
or Waimea to anybody.
Alderman Rom said he regretted to be compelled to say
that it was his duty to refuse bail. Be referred to R. v.
Beare," BC. and P., 143, where Jostle. Coleridge was le-
ported as follows :—" As to the intent, I mast tall you that
every man is taken to intend the natural comeseisesese et his
own act. If I pretest to you a bill with the name of one et
my fries& upon it, harming it to be forged, it world be idle
to say that 1 had no intent to injure him."
The prisoner was then remanded till Saturday, when II&
Mullins said it would be his duty to eall apes the slew
ems to commit upon the evidenoe already produced.
MARLBOROUGH-STRBBT.
Jodie Wad& and Samuel Rogow, two respectably-
armed young men, were brought bolero Mr. Bingham,
charged with stealing a sovereign, the property of the
directors of the British Telegraph Company, 48, Repot-

artire7Piesadilly.
John Astrop Head stated that he was a Mask i. the
employ of the above company, at Om al laa ißa=
circus, Piaadilly, end that in ceneengeilbell
various saes of money from a hatimer r thishigamhmlb
room, end suspicion fallings apes NM gebeessk be eneebed
a euereige, and, with Other aaeeape, plied Hla Ilhe some
drawer, about flee eels* as y shams& Aheat
bail-past twelve o'dook es the soma night the pelsamm
left ; as soon as they were gone, he looked over the Mary
in the drawer, sad missed therefrom the marked soverslia.
He immediately, accompanied by a policemen, followed the
prisoners as far as Scott's Supper Rooms, in Coventry-
street, where be gave them into custody.
Police constable 30 C proved taking the prisoners into
custody at Scott's Supper Rooms; sad on telling them what
they were charged with, Waddle said It was a shameful
thing to collar e_,young rasa in a class like that, where they
were knows. Witness then conveyed them to the statics,
where they were searched, and on Rayner wu feud the
marked sovereign produeed, which last witness Identified
as the one he had put in the drawer.
miTstrlsoners, who made no answer to the charge, wen
until toraccrow.
LAMBETH.
Join Williaisse, the driver and owner of the cab No. 942,
appeared Wore Mr. Elliott, to answer the complaint of Mr.
George Stockman.
The complainant deposed that he desired defendant to
drive to the South Western Railway station, in the Water-
loo-road. The defendant accordingly drove hies there, but
on reaching the entrance gate leading to the down platform
rhe pulled up, and refused to eater the station, alleging that
he bad no right to do au, as it was private property.
Mr. Miotc—Then he compelled you to walk from the
pate, in the Waterloo-road, on to the platform, to enable you
N go by the train ?
Mr. Stockman-1 could not have walks d there, inameash
a 1 had luggage and could not carry it, and the result was
that I lost the train and the greater part of the city.
The defendant, who is not unaccustomed to litigation, sad
hes acquired the cognomen of " Attorney General to the
Cabmen," contended that in law he was net justified is
driving on the private property of the railway company, for
that is ibis* se he should subject himself to be treated as a
lasipMets, gel therefore required a legal settlement of the
qpislism
3lr. MO, however, decided that the defendant was
met imp* in his refusal to drive os to the platform.
The &Cada:a begged that if a penalty was imposed, it
alight be nefteed by a distress warrant, for in that case he
en*ht have an apportunity of trying the question of law es
111.111 "Tu. Elliottet
said ha should deal with his ease as with say
saber, sad his decision was that he mast pay a peachy of
s shilliap sad impasses, or in default to stead committed
to kr six days.
TIM dellandast, at whose request the mmimons had been
laws sat as an eitpseimost to try ems of his legal
matiele. soma Ida aolossied at the result, owl said
Oat bewail sense go bas than pay the army, and
WI $s mat Y essplay milk the per.
Toe Soma Midas limalso,whoso distimadag eases wars
bursa gla midst the sits of Mr. =Mt by one of the
at bibs of Camberwell perish, eosin attended before
*at megOtrato, sad repealed their stateliest of the very
ibluming situation in which tbcy were plass& by the ship-
load' of their husbands is the Black Sea, sad their capture
by the ilimiaaa, sad the result of what they had dote by his
winkles emotions.
wProm tbsit statament it appeared that on the let of last
age Imsbaads of both of them had sailed from this
maratry ea board the Culloden, a transport, hired by govern•
moat to take oat troops from this soestry to the war in the
Rest, sad from that time until about Christmas they ra•
osimil the half—the ow of 21. 10s. and the other of 21.21.
a mast—boss Ms. F 'of No. 2, Royal Exchange-
balldiss. the owner. Qa the 14th of November the Col-
lodi, was semsbod is the Black Sea, and the mow; having
been obliged la abashes her, took to the boats, sad were cap-
tured by the itemions. The °mammas@ was that the half-
pay was stopped. sod the applicants become havimirsoms mash
ditto sod same imam the notice of the ho vbitsr, w
senommondsl Ems as St objects for relief the pm:r-
hos Mo TIMIS& sod the chief clerk, coasidering their
OissiONIMIS under the drasmstances, of mere Wotan-
111111mi t relief then that which they were enabled
to elm mossamendod them to apply to is Patriotic
fted, at ffto. bell:MN sash feed to be sahla to
thab partWeW Noss; owl they laud the result
lot what they bed less. ThoYfeillsolgaltat, in the list place,
they got a Mead to writs to Mr. Fe:gum, the owner of
eat Cilloden, and the following was the reply from that
gmllearan
• Leedom March 13, 1855.
"To Mts. Page and Mrs. West,—l am In receipt of your
sem of yostudoy. It is Impossible I can advent* you any
more mosey. Ton have had more than your husbands'
wages will min to. I Not oat 1001. to the mew Weigh
Admiral Dwain, is addition to their Mums, you allot-
mist W.% used the oath they have had from the eaptain.
.
—Tonsasstly, " Honor Fialorsox.'
They also applied at the dim of the Lloyd's Patriotic
Fund, and received the following reply :
" Patriotic Fund, Lloyd's, OMee, Son Chambers,
81, Threadneedle-street, April 2, 1855.
" Mts. Page and Mrs. West,—ln reply to your
Una el the tad last., I sea directed to acqualot yes as
weds the mann is the peewit war, the txuWims toe
rte spprepriatiss of the available helms of Cis read ma.
Sas (Moth= to goblins and stammer dished item wounds
resolved in mdse. and who have boss ibehergol her Ma-
jsety's loise ia seassquasos sad he sash relatives ouly
hist widows and esphowq as :Upend ler support on them
billed is maps with Ms moor. As yea an due not
mow leader either of the abovomessei sue doom the 'm-
ains* are prodaded from axtemilas to yea say relief from
this fund.-1 am your obedient
"Tri.nria, Secretary."
Mr. Lines kindly added te hie letter the following postscript :
" The Anoelaton for the Relief of the Widows sad Orphaas,
Wives and Families of Seamen and Marines in lONS
out of the present War," affords relief to the widaersarti
orphans of seamen who have tat their lives in the ampere
service, bet it does not Appear that it affords relief to their
wives and families. The aloe is in Bt. James-street,
Adelpiti."
Mr. Elliott—Well, did you apply to this office in the
Adalphi
Mrs. Page—Yee, air ; bat we were told t`_st nothintt meld
be done for m, as we are not widows nor oar children
orphans ; beast present we are just as bad ; but I hope
God will spore ear husbands, and that they will get safe
est slits hoods of the Russians. They have written to as
after hod been takes prisoaers to say they had lost
every Wring but what they stood in, bat that they were
kindly treated by the Burdens. My husband is stepfather
Ito West, who is his fellow rigour, as West married say
daughter by a tamer marriage. She has cue child, the boy
wise assomptalso hoe ; sad I have the baby in my arms and
asethea slid to =Malabo.
Mr. 1120 A—Well. I masider your asses szoesdingly hart
mid Mist dieWsosiag, sod I begs that some 'misty will be
iklerd alms foals eat be applimMe. At present yes
shallots ISA owl him the fowls of the poor.boz, and ley
the sad if the week SOON forgoer misuse, may be heard of.
TM poor amatures sobbed est their ratites* being
MadlyOM to a ' kiadasee
received,