The Express.
London, England, 1852-03-31 00:00:00

CONS ASSOCIATION.

This was en action brought by the plaintiff, who is a
civil engineer, to recover damages for the breach of a con-
tract entered into with dm by the defendants. '
This cause commenced on Friday attendee, end was not
bremliti: a conclusion until nearly twelve o'clock on
NI night. A host ef whalers were examined on
either , but the question at issue was principally of im-
portunes le the parties oesseerned,, god wee not of much in-
hume Or the gamed public. It seemed that In 1860, in
ersipaammetzdzeatithe ande
wish tterripriincethe boyro‘i,sl
tamed he the gee suppled te them by the existing 00111.
peaks, modeed to iselves into an association, for
the pewee ef supplying gee to the district, and esta-
blished • eiany, under the title of the Surrey Consumers
Gas Light sad Calm Association, and they undertook that the
price al *up limited by them should in no case exoeud
4s. per theneeml het. It appeared that they entered into
an agreement with the plaintiff, who was to be their head
engineer, and to have the entire management of their
works, by which agreement the company undertook to
pay him a salary of 3001. a year, and he was to receive half
a year's notice of their intention to dismiss him. Things
went on very well for some time, but at length the com-
pany, it appeared, came to the resolution of removing the,
plaintiff from his office of engineer, and a motion to that
effeet was carried by a majority of one, six of the directors
voting in favour of the motion, end five against it, and
upon this the plsintiff brought the present action to re-
cover dimness for what, be contended, was a breach of the
contract that bed been made with him. A great many
pleas were Dat upon the record by the defendants, but the
meet metoeW one was a plea that the plaintiff was an in-
competent to fill the ones he had under-
taken, on that ground he bed boss dis-
missed. The plaintiff himself wee eolith as 6 wit-
ness and be stated that be bed caseyears
devoted himself to the menthe ef the of a
gat amieser, with sat" prim to the ponies by when he
bad beef Venous emeismnieh Mlle ability
were put In miasma, sod It Mewls. appeared that ,
the Menem of the wreammy lied epos several occasion
ii.....Avetes of thanks to him hr the seal sad ability held
me their had&
=Dior te melte out the piss ef isseemetimm several
eritamese woe whom evident. mat **ow that
thilletlff bed nes kept peeper amply 'fps in the gas-
% heaths the meetemen with quantity
--and OM, in gereiseier when the tiongsm fret lighted a
portion ef the bewyi of lbouthmet;
every anxious Amid hove hem
sad that am dem very 1 , the
ply wee only th e
shoppkeepers's:Ll= light, but that as the night
advanced NM of the Beds wen altogether eztintaished.
Proof wee also gime that the plaintiff, in order to increase
the quantity of bed made use of Canneli
mei, shish ow u= there expensive, the effect
of which was to gethease a much richer gas,
and es the beam need by the compeers customers
were not Weasels& to consume gm of tide description,
the offset NAM um of it was to awe the Menses to snake,
sad thereby wale& nearly as math as the want
of light, inaddieha to the fact thee ff teal were
no 4 it mail lave been utterly to asgLitt:
gal at
the silpulatod price. A deal of the
wee urely technical , and it was suggested
that a seal sissy of OW iIIOOUTIMPAISNO sod Mures im-
puted i• the plaintiff were the astmal mmeements of the
ieldedabilimant of works of oat►a themstm sad not to
ese=sissa his part
a, at the oleo of the case for the de-
kodante, made a very able reply ea behalf et the plaintiff.
Mr. therm Parke then summed. up the whale MM, and
the jury, _eher a short imhomed • veedict for
the psdff men all tie Iwoa*alt hes* which
=UVdm *Wig MA net whet he had
with reseed ft lhe gle in the
end at the prim reqn , sail Oh plea they
isasi it the defendants ; but they at the sone time ma
ZomWeg. ei= OW 60 ihoftelademis beg been
the and the, Ms mare had
segnime est being 'applied with proper ammo by the
=y, sad they recommested that Ise 1. be paid
moos Wary.

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liesonto ti. Miontsoon, Cr.nad.— tt -PICIAL JURY.
' Al the Unshed* et the evident* for the plaintX yes
deriewit Wilkins NU was leibviag under an
alidardasser), applied IP the WNW lodge to
Fhim the inisigewee it wigwam hie adieu ft the
en
wit* lsholt et tie deist** used .6. MOTU.
op, to his Ueda* wwineed. As sarr
due wanly& the sewn wee Mind milk essoarypeetabie °week
the hilerlet oohed in the owlet halts& ha-
mmed ease Ile Roder* Thrigweli opennog Igoe& yes-
Mr. Julies Cromwell took his *eat at nine Wink pre-
cisely, and
Mr. &rjeant Wilkins proomeded to idiom *elm he
the defendant. lie said he hod marked the been eibr
elution with which the Joey had lisersed to his honed
(viand. Sir Thesigee yosterilsy ; bat be mead net help
Wu ead4that at Ur eine it the pirdweire ewe
iddenor they Pas
es the Ed *e 'videos. to the
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he Mhos of his -cientwei. As a
wee specimen
t *ad h;
but the seathrowle sad =ies signed to Me ales
Wan nese* *pt. end Iwingle est the mew ehengly
w*Mukha ead the of bit link The Jury
ere Mad by their givens verdlet had inteevorkedier
shame ton proem to when that seetowes would be more
slostestedee then reeerdsedi their; and it was urged that
durraellisse awappliod to mate before a jury fee
b wrongs and the viadisatices et his litiesewes bet they would set be ird away Imam=
anowlitas oe od toptanden esesindownoves them& asal
ng
tens her Ideassly's AtmenwireenereL They wad holt at
the lisle. ma dewy' the inelewneate wide the plaintiff
hnd nook wee IL The aaaway W base femehed tv sod
edge he minds thee Geoid asap le own purpose% sad yot
any but thus bad boa key& belbrathen, whew viewed
dm* She Ohl s awrieted with hrweetwe rather
Ibis pill Thejtasy eseld mat fail to peassie• that the
eareashe who hid brim oiled bad sumsrowed
whMk odd led whist as_ ,sreehr net011••=14/111-
tom pa or fin was soy toufwatioa et re. sr by*
nor i• tb Ilhese
tab bin ti IM sittlga tt hitiretrikibrißtaa=

ease, he (Serjeant Wilkie.) would show the jury that the
plabitiff was not robbed of that affection ; but that he had
thrown it away, and by his ruthless, clue', and unkind
conduct had brought ruin on himself; while she, the in.
Weeded victim of this inquiry, had clung to him long after he
had pates her the grossest insults and meet cruel affronts.
The Ismael 'sunset then proceeded to comment on the
absinth of way
-le female relative ef the plaintiff, or any
ether othigelent Werns, to prove lient be lived on terms of
with his wife. The lathedeatjeoat then pro-
seeded mars the (Mime, eththeilig that if what
they thief were true, the dattheist ithet-be a perfectly
eneanteellable istyr—a beimief pselleatly lama= instincts
—helmet of a respeeththe asiM el of the church
of Upland. He would so talk of ; that was a
etheideraties Wish he left tithe plaintiff. But if the jury
&sold glee even a itartleing it would amount to a condem-
nation, rid eat teethd be worse than death.
But he believed they rod* dui it thole delight and their
privilege to say this defendant is set that hcrite and
traitor le hie Mend and his God, the plaintiff ha not been
injured, nod his own suspicions able have brought these
evils on his bead.
Mr. Jostles Cresswell having wanunad up the evidence,
the jury retired at half-past 12 'Week to consider their
verdict.
After nearly six hours' abeam, the jury returned a
verdict for the defendant.

THE POLICE COURTS.
THAMES.
_ . _

lri!limn Cooke, Geo;;;Tow7r—inee, Alfred Wiley, and
henry Broom, engineers in the employ of Mr. APLean,
Bateliff-highway, appeared to informations charging them
with threatening and intimidating John Fenwick, another
engineer, in the employment of Mows. Juhn and Alfred
Bligh. The case was one arising out of the strike.
Mr Pelham, who prosecuted at the instance of Messrs.
Bligh, said the only object these gentlemen had in view
was the protection of the men in their employment. Fen-
wick, who had been employed at Mr. M'Lesn's, was in the
first instance one of the men who refused to sign the decla-
ration required by the masters, but finding that he only
received 301. per day to support himself, his wife, and his
children, after sixty days of inaction he signed the declare-
tios, sad entered into the service of Messrs Bligh. On the
Med kat., whilst ho was taking refreshment at dinner-time
at the in Poplar, the prisoners and four others
entered the we, and taunted him with having
signed the declaration. They called him and his associates
" knottatieks i" and Browne said, amidst the applause of his
companions, and with many oaths, " that if the complainant
would but stand before him for a quarter of an hour, he'd
blind his eyes, for he wu a rogue that would hang his own
brother." Lawrence also abused him. Coolie said,
Let us throw him into the river." He (complainant)
was in dread of his life, walking in the middle of the streets
lest some one should pounce on him, and even in broad
daylight he was afraid to proceed through any of the
bye-streets.
Mr. Smith, for the defence, crow-examined the complain.
ant to show that when he was amongst the outs he hail
used language much more violent than that attributed to
the defendants, but he stoutly denied that such was the
fact. He never said he would have his arms hurried off be-
fore he signed the declaration. What he had said was, that
nothing but poverty should induce him to i.o so.
Several witnesses were called in corroboration of the com-
plainant's statement.
Mr. Yardley, not waiting the defence, said he did not
think' there wee rofficient evidence of the serious charge
which, M the event of a conviction, would be attended with
such disastrous coosequences to the defendants. Had the
charge been under the Police Act, to which the defendants
had rendered themselves amenable, the heaviest penalties
should be imposed, for labour must be unrestricted, and
every man might dispose of his labour as he pleased so long
as he did not contravene the law ,• and his (Mr. Yard-
ley's) conduct on that bench would show that he was
determined to carry out that principle, the adherence to
which would prove of the highest advantage to the work-
men themselves.

Mr. Pelham said that he wee sure Messrs. illigh would
be perfectly satisfied with the investigation which had taken
place.
Mr. Smith—My clients are respectable married men, and
in retorting his own words on the plaintiff, may have sur-
passed the boundaries.
Mr. Yardley—Under the Police Act, their conduct was
well calculated to provoke a breach of the peace. I had
thought that the frequent strikes which unfortunately have
so recently taken place would have taught the working men
of this country that they must not do any acts calculated
to provoke imtation.
The informations were then dismissed.