The Express.
London, England, 1855-01-19 00:00:00

VIE EXPRESS. FRIDAY EVENING, JANUARY 19, 1855.

Min assessment of compematioa on a claim made by • per- l fesdaat is ant *adios to the minim The damson were
son of the name of Phillips, se the ground that two of tie laid at 1001.
jury who were sworn to assess the claim were not duly Mr. J. A. Basoll appeared for the plaintiff. The Mend- I
Under the provisions of the Lands Clauses Como- ant was not rep
s d.
lidation Act a jury was summoned to determine the ems- It appeared
that both plaintiff and defends/it were rad-
pensatim which Mr. Phillips was entitled to receive as he dents at Dever, he.t former being a solicitor and town clerk
could not agree with the company as to the amount. At of that plasm. Dr was a corporate borough, and is
the time of h only mil jams were present, and Mr. divided into certain wards, me of whiek is sand the Pier
Phillips haviisa to ta with that asather, the I Ward," nod the plateaus* entitled to vote for seemlffiers
Under ObiWeesionmsd els ealteejurees, pomaded with I and ales fee the reprensalidea of the bemire% Is Mea-
th. trisk end seemed die deroosen The claimed being MISS. In November WI en Maoism of enneeffilere torn
&mooed with Ws area some, sad having anasstainee elms, and them woo Iserteandidelle duly qualille& he Om
thet two of the jurors who had been loot
eammosed Pier Ward. Two—atesers. Weed alai Pays Mem intaired
were ase dulfied, now sought to make void the by • nasjority of 13 mese mer Me 'Mee earliMilm, Messrs.
legalities y qualified,
. Duke and Geoids, end after the deaden was ever a head-
The wort were of °plans that Mr. Phillips not having bill appeared, bowleg the ammo of the latter ganisona,
tealleepdvseLbetry, they amid set MI6 :fare. and oastainiag Mel neer eamplaissed et MI m
Melo follows:—" to the mim* lkogesses of the Pim Wm*
Geatleisse,—With a mend nalkaaelisa we Mkt re me
dooms thanks for year NlMeal Sweet. It is strikingly
so from the small majoelhp what us, having allowed the
polling to be strictly aaeogft by Me, gift, or intimidation
all of which were exerted tbe foment
Went by both thi
rod sad blue parties, the tows sleek, end his friends. We
will refrain from anything like emeam, bat having had the
offer to aame a second prim for a eertain class of bargains,
the thirteen majority &Oast us will be better understood. In
again flanking you fee your liberal rapport, we gratefully
take leave of you until November ISM, when we have de-
cided to offer suraelms, if approved, for your future sup-
port to supply the plasm of the retiring members of the
sound far the Pier Ward. We are. pntlemen, your
obliged inmate, Jones Dann, Cisoima Guntur. Dover,
Nov. 3, 1854." In mosequesee of the inspatatios upon
the plalatiff waning in this handbill, he Manacled his
solicitor to esummaisate with the parties, the result of
which was that a letter was remind from the defendant,
who was stated to be a commission traveller, avowing the
publication of the haadbill in these words:—" I in the en-
thusiasm ant moommou at the time of an election, did of
my own amord write, case to be printed and circulated the
bill referred to is your letter, for which I received the
severe unsure of my friends, Mr. J. Duke and Mr. George
Geskin. If I have at all injured the rerotatios
of the town sleek, I am quite willing under the
eirmasstames to make mapology rso done he rasy re-
quire, my fries& Duke sad Gambia for
having neither part nor
knowledge till after.—Your most obedient servant,
" FRANCIS BRNO."
In the same letter he said that his advice was that the
sueseesful candidates should be left to triumph in their
msjority without remark, and that muss would have been
adopted, but that a bill was issued by them expressing their
satisfaction at their return by the unsolisited suffrages of the
burgesses, he knowing that canvassing had taken place, and
that*, town clerk had canvassed, and con,idering " the
important Milos of town clerk to be • post calling for ales,
unshackled, and sober demeanour," he caused the bill in
question to be issued. After the offer of an apology by the
defendant he was required to make a statutory declaration
before the mayor of Dover, but he declined to do so from
some ecosciestions scruples, and then sent a letter stating
that M all probability he could sustain the correctness of his
handbill and • fully contend the point." Ts afford him
mopportunity of doing so, if he could, the plaintiff pro-
eroded with this action, to which however the defendant
did not appear. He did not auk heavy damages ; his object
was to vindicate himself from an imputation which, if well
founded, might lead to serious consequences to him under
the statutes relating thereto.
The plaintiff was tendered as a witness, bat
The Under-Sheriff said be did not see any necessity to
examine him, as all the facts were admitted. He we en-
titled to such reasonable damages as would act as a mmilien.
The defendant had attacked the plaintiff, not in his waft
as a private individual, but as a public officer, and if he hal
been guilty of the conduct imputed to him, he would be
liable to heavy penalties, and the jury should give such
damages as would prevent a repetition of such conduct.
The jury assessed the damages at 201.

ADMIRALTY COURT.-hx. 18.

SIMI NIL

NOUNlN.—stociuDi mesa.
This wee another of the group of blockade mess which
have so long oesepied the attention of the wort. It di(-
fered only bees the previous ones in the nationality of the
vessel seised. The Noreen had sailed from Bergen under
Norwegian colours on the 25th of April. Oa the sth of
May, called at Elsinore' when, according to the Manumit
of the claimants, the took the beet means to ascertain
whether there was a blockade at Riga, that met being her
destination if it should preys to be open. Being informed
that there was no:blockade, she spin sit sail, and on the 9th
of May she hailed a war steamer, by which she was told
that she was free to enter or Wave' Riga. Oa the 16th, she
went into that port, whore she unchanged her cargo of
herrings for one of hasp, and sailed once more oa the
20th. Oa the let of Juno she was seised by her Majesty's
ship Archer, about six miles from Lyserort.
The Queen's Advocate and Dr. Junior' on behalf of the
captors, contended that ample notice of the blockade had
been given by the British consul at Riga, and also by imp-
ulse of Timis them. It was evident that the Nimes had
seen the blockading squadron, and there were greet dis-
cremmeles in the auseint she gave of the manner in which
she had get Matt It was a very suspicions einem-
stases, fiat the Norma had admitted having sun
a war elsasise, mew did not venture to say M
which the bed hem hailed, or whether it was by
a Nor a Dania, we an Brutish ship. knowledge
of the was not denied by the supercargo, and the
fact of the blockade was unalaly knows at Hamburg
before the emi of April. The mpereargo had simply de.
posed diet asi mi.i entillution bad bees gives him by a
bleelmdieg um* Under all the eireurnstances of the case
they (the leamed gentlemen) bald that the vessel ought to
be seubsesseeL
Dr. Addams dir the owners urged thatill there had really
bum a bleat& Is facto, it mast have bees a matter of
amens aekiriety. It was said that a blockade de facto
had existed Enna the 17th of April ; but there had been no
aotifleatim of it until the 16th of Joao. The 7elsarterparty
of the Norma contained a provision for it* being void in
the event of the vowel being prevented from entering the
eCtepoets, and A. was e then to discharge her cargo
re. Considering the state of things then existing,
that was such a tharterparty aseenlii he hooestly intend
into, because it was impassible to sein that certain poets
of the Baltic would not be Idedia It appeared Usti
between the 10th of May and the Mb of September 'event
neutral mauls, bound kto ;PIM% is the Gall of Rigs,
had been allowed to pass without steesedien. sad it was in-
consistent with a state of Meshed. AO se many ships
should have sailed and amps& the squedren. lie con-
tended therefore that the slain might Is allowed.
Dr. Twins followed en the sew side.
At the concl nein' of the reply on behalf of the crown,
Dr. Lushingtos intimated that he should now consider
the ergament on the general question slued, and that the
remaining arse mast be discussed merely on the special
points raised on each. lie should give Ms judgment when
all wen finished.
There still remain these oases before the court.

COURT OF

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did sot speak te KW, sad Ito did mot amigo. whether the
other boy spike is him. Kim was walking with his hands
In his ematposket. He had seed before in Leicester-
square, that sea the lest Ow he saw him. He resollemed
• lily scar the rembassa. He took a pales boo bar
pocket. Tire yew( aim were awe him whoa he did so
After petting the mew be west dews Bleabeiaseteps, and
sear Crewmen* be head there wee a sovereign sad no
ask M_lllearia the poses.
Mr. som•—whos did yes do with the silver ?
The hey bsolleask seises be mkt he gam It away.
Mr. Bodkia-4/100 did ea
give
The bey sena builateC at MA sold "King."
Mr. Bedkia—ebbs die give it to him for?
Boy—Boman I ea*AtfgiM*ed.
Mr. Bodkin—Did yes see Kim before yes picked the
Inly's pollees ?
Bey—Yes.
Mr. Bodkin- Wu Wag plain &thee ?
Boy—Yes.
Mr. Bodkin—Did you know King was a policeman ?
Boy—Yes.
Tbe boy, In answer to further questions, said he saw
King after he had somudtted the robbery. King having
to go down Blenheim-steps, he followed and put it
into his hand and walked away without saying anything.
He had ones before done the same thing with King. The
occasion alluded to wee in Bathhono-pbee. He gave
him a shilliag_w_bialt he get from a lady's pocket In Bath-
bone. place. Before he picked the peeks, he saw King in
Orford•etnet; the puree remained Ave shillings. King
followed him sat his two companas up Grese-street, and
said to bias Wag it." My ccomeaisa said sling what?"
King said yin Woe got it, and them the muse was given to
his, with ea the sway In it. Kin gave his (the boy's)
mammies these &Map, and kept the purse aad the rest
bimemeM. The pane was • blue one, with steel beads on it.
The divides Seek place in • publierbease In Stephen-street,
Tottealimeemehrosd. They bid seem ale. He got le. for
his she., cal his sompentsas get the mese. There is a
place where pie*" in trouble's* eltrailles for their defence.
they an wiledd Meads' ameaMp.'• He bad seen King at
one of them He had llama King two years, and
during that thee he bad albs* seen him in different
clothes. He know what a stall was; it was the duty of
a stall to get is frost of the person about to be robbed.
He had seta King walk in front of people, and thou
ponces were sonnumes robbed.
Mr. Hillard asked the boy whoa he first spoke about
what he had told them to-day ?
The boy—About a fortnight ago, to the schoolmaster
In the prison.
Mr. Bodkin km applied for a remand.
The depositions having base listed by the several wit-
* Theesses,
magistrate then remanded King till that day week,
at twelve o'oloek.

Mrs. Mary Coaab;r, wife of a man of independent means,
residing at 14, Frederialootreet, Gray's-inn-road, was
charged with assaulting Fromm Thompson, her servant.
Toe summon had been ilea the day before at the sot
wtiosi of Mr. Tubbs, the eiltrelng eager of the Meryl'.
bone Union. Oa that armies the ghi exhibited thestate
et her back from the Injuries insisted on her, and it Mai so
horrible that the megistrate shuddered, and, without hear-
ing any further sealunent, directed e emunuts to be issued
When the case wee mad em Mr. Tubbs stated that the
=we kneirelei by the Ilarylebone Board of
elm geMpleiment tomb, been plated from the
weakens* es sermst with the accused. Mr. Tubbs put in
• medilealuseMeate to the effect that the complainant's
bask smil sem were covered with weals end discoloration.,
pubs* genet by a stick ; and added that the complain-
ant laden Wednesday sought refuge again in the work-
house, as the mid, to avoid oontinued ill treatment.
The compleimat, a diminutive, bat otherwise healthy-
Molds' girl, en belay sworn, said—l am 16 years old, and
for above two years have been servant to Mrs. Camber.
Yesterday I wee dusting the passage, when she
came to me, end said, " Look at the dock!"
She thee Galled me into the back parlour and
beat ma with a sane over the shoulden because
I did not clean myself and get my work done by two
o'clock to lay the dinner cloth. When she beat me, I bad
inky my Man hook en, and an apron and collar ; and after
Amiss* me, site Mid me that if it was at 12 o'clock at night,
eie weld Oft me naked, and beat me until she could not
semi. She VIM went upstairs to dress, and I put my
lesnost on sod went to the Marylebon• Workhouse. She
might have streak me 40 times, but I cannot say, because I
was running about the parlour when she did it. I was
beaten in the morning before, and twice before that. Once
because I used a house-cloth to wipe up something, my mis-
tress stripped me naked in say_bedroom, and beatme.
Croes-exasnieed by Mr. Wakeling —My mistress's
daughter and another urvant were present when she beat
use in the back parlour. 1 never complained to the work-
house until yesterday. On one occasion my mistress did
complain to my sister of my pilfering, but that occurred be
cause I was sent for two pennyworth of carrots and two
pennyworth of turnips, and the greengrocer gave me the
change 4d. out of 6d. I did keep the 2d. ; but when I told
my fellow-servant she told my mistress that I had twopence
out of the change, and my mistress said that ought to be
here, as I had taken It from the man wrongly. At first I
denied it, but to save myself from a beating, I confessed I
did pilfer or steal the money. I have broken things, but
when I did so I paid for them at times.
Mr. Wakeliog—Have you ever written or received letters
from your sister about your bad conduct ?
Complainant—l have rveloived letters from my sister.
Mr.W.keling—Are these them (handing the complainant
some papers) ?
Complainant—Yes; these are mine.
Mr. Tyrwhitt—Really this is very paltry treatment of •
poor child, to take her letters, addressed to herself by her
sister, to whom they are a great credit. I have perused
them, end I think it a most miserable proceeding to open
any person's box to take letters and make them evidence for
the defence, but after all there is nothing in them.
The cane (produced) was • rattan, about the thickness of
a man's little finger, and about • yard long; sad to verify
the excessive punishment inflicted, the girl exposed her
beck. Its appearance made every one in court shudder.
A more strict cross-examination showed that a most ex-
traordinary amount of work was desired of a mere child,
and because she did not do it she was badly treated.
Mr. Wakeling, in admitting the seasult, treated the mat-
ter as a mere correction for insubordination ; and the ma-
gistrate, deciding that the assault arose out of a mere hasty
display of tamper, inflicted a fins of 40s.
The money was immediately paid, and the defendant
departed.
MARLBOROUGH-STREET.

Jaws Henry Puttock, of Oakland Cottage, Brook-green.
Hammersmith, was brought before Mr. Hardwick, charged
with embezzling various sums of money, amounting to
more than 4001., received oa account of his employers,
Messrs. Garrard and James, solicitors, 13, Euffolz•strest,
Pall-mall.
Mr. Morgan, of the firm of Humphreys and Morgan, ap-
peared for the primmer.
air. Stephen Garrard, of the Ann of Garrard and James,
stated that the prisoner was is their employ as cashier up
he the previous night, when, in consequence of circum-
stances which took place in the office, he required defen-
dant to hand him a particular amount of the rental of an
estate, the rents of which were very much in arrear, and
told him that he should collect them himself to-day. From
the primmer's manner at this announcement he (prosecu-
tor) was induced to charge him with having received the
rents and embezzled the mosey. Prisoner at once ad-
mitted that he had done so. Prosecutor upon this desired
him to make out an account of all the money he had
received and embezzled, as the facts must come out on in-
vestigation of the books and the communications of the
various tenants. The prisoner then proceeded, in prose-
cutor's presence, to make out the particulars of the account
which he now held in his hand, admitting monies received
and embezzled amounting to near 5001. Prosecutor wes not
at pr. sent prepared to go further into the ease, and begged
for a remand.
Prisoner was remanded for a week.
SOUTHWARK.

John Williams, a fashionably dressed young fellow,
brought before Mr. A'Beckett, charged with attempting to
Dick the pocket. of two females at the doors of the Surrey
Theatre.
William Coombe, an .z-polionsan, and well known to
' the Loadou thieves as the " Surrey Wolf," stated that he
wee at the box-entrance of the Surrey Theatre last night,
about half past 11 o'clock, when the audience were about to
leave. He saw the prisoner pushing among the crowd, and
suspecting him, he watched his actions, and saw him go up
to two ladies, and feel about their dream. He called the
attention of Mr. Phillips, one of the check-takers, to his
actions, and finding he still pushed among the females, he
gave him into custody to Watmough, 106 L.
Mr. ATeckett—What did you give him into custody
fee?
Coombe—For attempting to pick pockets.
Mr. it'Beekett—Did you see bin touch anybody's
pocket ?
Coombe—No, sir ; but I saw him feel about the dream of
two ladies.
Mr. A'Beekett—What are you ?
Combos—l am a peseioner from the polio..
1 Mr. A'Beekett—What is your business then at the
theatre ?
Coombe—l go there to help Peckham, the officer of the
theatre.
Mr. A'Beckett—Are you paid by any one to do that ?
Coontbs—Te., lam paid by Mr. Shepherd, and I look
latter the thieves.
Mr. A'Beckett—l dery say your looks are enough to
frighten them away. However, your evidence is not
enough to convict him before a jury, therefore I must die-
&ergo him.
LAMBETH.
The chairman of the Board of Guardians of the parish of
St. Mary's, Newington, accompanied by one of the guar-
dians and Mr. Bargees, their clerk, waited en the Hon. G.
C. Norton, and having referred to a report in the Daily
News of Monday, wherein his warship was abated to have
sommented in severe terms ea the Goaded al Herring,
the relieving officer of Newlagtoa parish, In Ids negligence
of the poor, he said that is esamaueass of those maven
remarks the board bad ealloi am XT. Herring to (arab&
Ihma with his writhes mpleoatins. Mr. Herring then
he writing that the statements which appeared
his were uatrue, sad he also alleged
tbsgpsensa es when ease Ise (lessen)
heel ee=i, the yeetheese, but elle Went Oe ea-

"pt it.
Mr. Norton here remarked that if rick had bees the
owe Herring the Maw bad sot meatiemed a Mails weed of
his ham done eo at the limo, he MA he Om is Ids
Ott.Nottua's) interfasass wadi bee boa at asttL The