The Express.
London, England, 1852-06-28 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, MONDAY EVENING, JUNE 28, 1852.

Act. (His Honour nod the section.) It we, Waisted by the
defendant that the present case did not come within that
section at all. He did nut give any opinion upon that,
because be thought if it did the oltnivl manager must stand
in the place of tho original plaintiff. It was the original
suit which he was ordered to prosecute, and to put any
other construction upon the section would in many cases
I. ad to great haidship, Independent uf the merits of the
case, he thought, therefore, the bill could not be main-
tained; but the case was one so deeply affecting the cbs.
ravers of the defendants that be had considered it his duty
to look into the merits. The defendants, Brodie, Harrison,
and Harmon, were charged with issuing spurious certifi-
cates for the purpose of eidaiiiing the dividend upon them ;
and the other defendants were charged with negligence in
paying upon them. It appeared that the cenificates were
bound up in books, and that some of the directors signed
the eertificates before they were issued, and put their ini-
tials to the counterfeit. ; that as the signing took a great
length of time, the books were sometimes taken home by tl e
dirt 'tons ; that book 39, from which .01 the spurio a cer-
tihtsates had been taken, had been in the hands of Brodie ;
that Hannan became secretary in Ifiti, and that the cer-
tificates had never been countersigned by the previous secres
tary, NA had never been returind to the office. The bill
then charged a series of contrivances, by which it way
alleged the fraud had been tarp, trated. His Honour went
through these statements, soil said that if the case had had
to be decided on the merits, ho thought the plaintiff must
have failed ; that taking Brodie's case, which was the
strongest, there was nothing in the evidence to fie him with
the fraud. Under such circumstances, the bill must be

dismissed with costs. lie observed that it was originally
tiled by the person who had Men the solicitor of the com-
pany, and after reading through the whole of the papers
more than once, he could not doubt that it had its origin
in other motives than the good of the shaieholders. More-
over the bill contained choral a which ought never to have
been made, and being wrung in its inecption, and one which
the official msuager never ought to h ye adopted, the coats
must be paid by the officivl munng• r.

ttlFflat VICRXIIANC*LIAIS su hues PAFICIIL
IN TIDY. MATTER. Or TIM BEIIVOUILI CHARITIES.
The munificent Harper ehuritiis for the benefit of the
town of Bedford, including tie provisions for its ebiesical
and commercial free schools, and who ample funds distn-
buted amongst the poor residents iu Bedlortl, were sub-
jected to certain regulations by an act passed in the ith
(leo. IV., c. 29, and the schedules therct,. The manage-
ment of the charities has since been the subject of Oil-
. termer. itt the parish and of litigation in this court. A
new scheme was some time since promoted. On that MCA-
Rion two gentlemen of the names of Merry and MUM in
ISI9, presented • petition, by which they asked limo to
attend the proceedings in the Most, is office upon • scheme
for the future mauage,ent or the charity. Their petition was
dismissed with costa to be paid by them to the Attorney•Oe-
neral. Three petitions uow came on to he heard. The first
of these was a petition by the Attorney-General, complain-
ing that some of the monies of the charity gieen to the
recipients of it had been taken from them under undue in-
, Susnce from the trustees, and bail been applied to pay
these costs ; the prayer of the petition was that these sums
might be made good to the charity by the trustees, and that
they might pay the costs of the petition.
Mr. Stuart and Mr. Jamcs appeared fur the Attorney-
General in support of the petition.
Mr. Sehomberg (in the absence of Mr. Malin.) opened
the case of some of the trustees in answer to the petition,
and was addressing the court, when his ]honour postponed
the hearing until Monday.
It is understood that the questions raised by these peti-
tions have created great public interest at Ile

COURT OF QUEEN'S BENCH.—SATeepAy.
srEcIAL Jump, .',Si)TM& COURT.
Lord Campbell said that there had been a very unsatis-
factory attendance of special jurors during these sittings,
but he had not put the law in force against them because
before the next term he expected there would be an altera-
tion in the 14w. A bill had passed both Houses of l'arlia-
ment, and he hoped that her Majest)• would be graciously
pleased to give it her royal went, and then the special jury
sTstera would be placed upon a more satisfactory looting.
lher.- was tho bill, which he would hand el •wu to his
►earned friends that they =rant lose no time in studying it.
And he wished, amongst edher legal improvements, that
they could have a court in which they could sit without in•
convenience and without suffering to their health. It was
very bad; he had suffered very much himself during a late
trial, and he leered that others had suffered also.
[We eau add our testimony to the oppressive and ex-
hausting character of the atmosphere of the court on the
occasion referred to. It is not only ill ventilated but open
to currents of cold air, which often entail great inconve-
nience and suffering upon those who are obliged to sit in
the court al day.]

Mr. French, the landlord of the Orange-tree, Kvw-read,
proved that between nine and ten at night the female pri. !
nmier came to the bar and ask. il for two bottles of briedy, I
and tendered the 2Uf. n de. Ile put ninny queiticni to her,
hut she gave such spurious answ, rs to th.ou that he gut the
note changed by Mr. Fenn, a neighbouring trideemm, and
he gave her three N. non s and V. Ills. in gold. lle watched
r out of his Louse, sow la r join a man in a smock-!too k,
to whom she seemed well lr.wn, and he was then determined
to give information at the police-station, which was fortue
ately near to witness's house, besides Rending his potman to
watch. The eons( quence resulting from this praiseworthy
conduct was the speedy apprehetini. n of the female prisoner,
at the shop of Mr. Steed, a grocer in Richmond, where she
changed one of the 51 notes for half a pound of tea, by
Sergeant Conway, lb V, and the male prisoner by another
constable outside the shop, who had a bottle wrapped up in
l• blue handkerchief under his arm. On both prisoners
reaching the station-house they were searched, and on the
male Ketone' were found 4/. 10s. in gold, and 9,. 4d. in sil-
ver. The temale prisoner had the second With, of brandy
and the tea in her basket, and upon her wan found 4/. vs.
Tan notes were still missing, but they were fortunately
found by the police on the r .ute to the station, one of the
prisoners hosing got rid of them.
Sergeant Conway stated that on examining the cottage
occupied by the prisoners lie found an arrow silver shawl
pin and a sovereign in a work-bas. In the male prisoner's
hill were three sovereigns in a puny, and one lying tome at
the bottom of the box, and a bank book of the London Pro-
vident Institution, Dla,mH, Id-street, blonrfields, in which
hail been Om d' 01. on the tith of May. Previous to this
deposit, which was a sole one, Mrs. Kemp had missed a
lilt. and a 3/. note, nail there is very little doubt that this
deposit won the property. There were also three cut-glass
salneellars, toilet covers, chair covers, expensive knives
and Aoki., satin visites, a new Cashmere shawl, dress cap,
three bonnets, and hat and feather for a child, as also
other articles of lint ry, much above her position. The male
prisoner had two dress coats and a great coat, throe waist-
coats (satin and velvet), five pairs of trousers, six silk hand-
kerchiefs, and divers other articles equally unsuited tor •
labouring man.
Mr. Charitock, jun., solicitor, who appeared for the pri-
soners, applied for the bank bock and five, sovereigns, taken
from their house, to he given up to them.
Mr. Penryhn refused the giving of the hank book, but
allowec for their defence.
Committed for trial at the Ouildfonl sessions.