The Express.
London, England, 1864-06-27 00:00:00

LOGS 07 IXGO AUL

This was an action to recover :PA. Mu, the value of the
contents of • portensoteen, which it was alleged bad been
lost through the negligee°e of the dethodents' servant.
Mr. Field, Q.C., sod. Mr. Henry James were counsel for
the plaintiff. and Mr. Wood for the defendants.
On the 27th of April kat Bra Budd, the wife of the
plaintiff, Mr. Thos. H. Budd, a solicitor, practising in
Loodon came by
_a train oo the defendants' railway from
&Ado; to the Waterloo station. Previous to entering the
eerriage she directed a man named Alliogham, who wiui Dot
in the employ of the company, but bad beet
allowed by the station-water to act for a port.r,
who was &beset from ill health, to label the
portmanteau, and pleat it io the luggage-van. Allingleni
ewers Maths did this, bat raid he could not state what
be put on it. hire. Badd'a sister, who saw the portinanteoi
pat into the van, stated that she pail cularly observed the
label, sod law that it bore the word Waterloo." When
Mrs. Budd arrived in London the portmanteau was not to be
found in the van, and though the company made every
Inquiry it woe 00000 recovered.
For the defence. the loss of the portmanteau by the plain.
tiff was admitted, but the compsay denied that it was ever
delivered ho them. They also said that they were not
liable for the acts of •Allingham, who was not in their service
or paid by them. As soon u Mra. Budd informed the
company of her loss, telegraphs were sent to dl
the stations on their Bass, se well as as the
hew et the South Fasters Company; but they
never beard anything of it. It was stated that the chime
upon the company for lost portmanteaus were "tremen-
dous," and that io • case of this kind in which they could
ant trace that the property came into their poseassiou, they
considered it their duty to resist the claim. The inspector at
the Surbitoo Station said he had told Allingham never to !Abel
Wipe, but admitted that he bad acted as outside porter
in the place of the man who was &besot from illness. sod
the guards of the train maid they bad we recollection of a
portmanteau having been placed in the van whoa it stopped
at the station.

The jury found u verdict for the plaintiff ; damage;
391. 10e.

COURT OF BANKRUPTCY.
(Wore Mr. Commiuienor Holroyd.)

evidently been thrown on the floor off the fire,
metal being seattered all about the room, the car-
pet, where it bed Ueda *lmmo, but oa *kith some
water bed been thrown WY &ISO smoking, being partly on
fire. The prisoner had also made his escape, end although
witness tried his utmost, he was not successful in Sliding him
till yesterday (Sunday), when he went to No. Northam
boriand.street, Mary shone, and having waited a short time
the prisoner walked in. lie told the prisoner that he should
charge him with stealing a pint pot from the Adams'
Arms. The prisoner said " Wait a bit," and then took two
pewter measures from his pocket, at the same time stating
they were pots he had had beer in. He then took the
prisoner into custody, when he offerer! him (the constable) fls.,
telling him that he would get 2/. from his mother, which
he would also give him to let him go. At the
room the prisoner was also occupying in Northumberland-
street he found a frying pan with the remains of pewter I.
it. On the way to the station the prisoner said the ladle
was his property, and on telling him that he had been to
his other 1 edging in Buckinghamstreet, he said that he had
left that place bemuse it was getting too warm for him.
He found on the prisoner some silver massy and one
pieces of pewter.
Mr. George Osborne, of the Adams' Arms, Hampstead.
street, Fitsroy-square, identified one of this measures as his
property, and said the prisoner was in his house ce Friday
afternoon.

Mr. Thos. Harris, of the Warwick Arms, Lissas-grorat
also identified a measure. The prisoner was at hie hours
yesterday, sod in the evening the measure was mimed.
John Whiting, barman to Mr. Woods, of the Pitt's Hied,
corner of Paddingtoo•street, identified a measure se the pro-
perty of his employer. The prisoner was at the house yes-
terday at 1 o'clock, and in the evening the messure was
mimed.

.Mr. F. Davey, of the Lord Nelson, Upper Charlotte.
street, said the prisoner called at ha house and took away
his metal waterlog ; went to the Adams' Arms, and there
dropped it, and on picking it op said be had it to repair,
and that he should be happy to repair any for the Ladled/.
Mr. Knox having centioeed the prisoner, he said that all
the unwires he had from the different holier with beer in
them, sad that as for =shin lead he did that in his boat-
nese as a plumber.
Mr. Knox committed him for trial on all the charms.
LAMBETH.
rITTOCNDED CHARM!.

A young man named 7.;;;;;;;1;:ged before Mr. Elliott
with parsing a bed half-crown, at the house of Mr. Hart,
the Crown and Cushion, in the Westminster-med.
James Mead, potmaa at the Crown and Cushion public,.
house, said that on Saturday night the prisoner and three
others mitered the house of his master passed into the
coocert-room, and called for four half-gore of gin, in
payment of which he gave him (witness) half-a-crown.
Be gave him the: difference of change, carried the half-
crown to the bar, and gar. it to Miss Hart. She put it
into the detector and broke it into pieties. With.= told
the prisoner that be had given him a bad half-crown, but
be denied it, and refused to make it good until he got bank
the pieces. A constable wee thee present, and took the
prisoner into custody.
Mr. Lewis, Junior, who attended for the prisoner, sow
plained of the treatment his client bed experleoesd at the
bands of the polies, la being treated like a Won or a common
passer of hoe cobs, when he was a person of respeetable and
unexceptiousble diameter. Whim charged with paw's( • base
half-crown he certainly denied believing that he had net
such a thing as • bad half-crown in his poseeedoe, and if he
had pared it be did so innocently, and without a guilty
knowledge. He (Mr. Lewis) further wished to say that
though his client bad given his right name and Odra' out
Saturday night, it was .rot until Sunda, morning the poises
thought it necessary to make soy. inquiry about him.
Etagere, 53 L, who took the prisoner into custody, said be
bad attempted to make his escape on going to the station.
house.

Lewis said the reae,,,e 'or hie doing no was that he
did not like to be dragged along the street ea a commoa
bloc

Elliott observed that a bad half-crows might be in
the possession of the most respectable perm°, end diet
animadverting in were terms on the conduct of the pace,
discharged the primate.

LONDON AND COLONIAL BANS.-(THISDAY.)

A special general meeting of the shareholders was
hold at 1 o'clock at the Bank, 9, Canoon.street ; Mr. JOHN
GLADnronn in the chair ; for the purpose of confirms, a
resolution for adding to ths capital by the creation of 5,000
additional shares of 1001. e. h.

The CRAIIILUI, in moving a resolution for the above
purpose, said the extension of the bank's operations
bad for some time part made it desirable that there
should be a larger capital, and the hoard ooald
now recommend an increase with peat coefidenos.
The capital employed at Montreal bad been largely aug.
mated already, and this had led to a proportionate in.
crease of beldam. The vigorous prosecution of business
was of course impossible without adequate means. The
shares of the bank now commanded an encouraging premium.
sod the proposed increase of capital would be virtually a
bona to the existing shareb olden. Ha then referred to the
arrangement made with the British sad American Exchange
Batik, sad add be anticipated great beards from it. That
bank built up within a year a large sad profitable besieges,
and its unfortunate position en regarded the dispels, of
the board bed eandneed to their own advantage. The
baud bad net imitated to adopt the bushman and to
accept the eapital of the bank in question, and be eon•
grstulated the shareholders on an arrangement which
was calculated to enhance materially the vela*
of their property. The shapital would thaw
be increased by 15,000 shares off 151, paid up,
and the total amount of capital, after the arrnagemente to
whisk he bed referred bad been carried out and the Menses
of capital now proposed had been made, would be 450,0004
The appreash dividends ware to be oo equal terms. Is
cceitimeirm he Ninved that another meeting would shortly
be sonveaed, that in the meantime the board would have
been strengthened, and that the nominal amount of the
slimes woad probably be reduced from 1004 to 504
In reply to qe•iatis,
The CHAIMIAIf aid that the commie bad no bad debt&
—{oleos)—end that Mace the SE nezatioa of the British and
AlOllllOl6 Friallege Bank the directors bad received offers
of amalgamadon front five other beards.

The iisolatioa was the; adopted sod the meetieg sepa-
rated.

ATLANTIC ROYAL MAIL STEAM NAVIGATION
COMPANY (LIMITED). -THIS DAY.

An extraordinary general meeting of the share-
holders of this company via held this afternoon at the Loa-
d% Tavern to cionsider the propriety of paring a resolution
far the purpose of enabling the company voluntarily to
wind itself up, in ooesequeooe of its lethality by reams of
the laibihtias to continue the business; Mr. JOHN CHAIMAI
occupied the chair.
Mr. Bola. the Secretary, having read the advertisement
convening the meeting,
Mr. Vaurecir reed a short report stating that atter the
appointment of the committee at the last meeting.
with • view of preserving the postal nobsidy for
Ireland, that ommittes put theseelves into communi-
cation with the Postriaster-General, and subsequently a
deputation heeded by Lord Clanricarde waited upon Lord
Stanley of Aiderley, ard requested a sespeosion of the see-
eke in order to afford the friends of !relied an 9
to cutout MOH plan by which the service 2
he carried on and the subsidy be primewed
for Ireland ; sad Lord Stanley bowleg ispremed
his willingoess to osetinue the suspension for owe mouth,
an official letter bad bees subsequently mosived seepsud-
hag the service to the 13th of July. Under these circum-
stances Um board recommended that the present meeting

be adjourned till that day.
The CHAIRMAN, in noviog the adoption at this report,
mid that the board wars in daily oommuatention with
pities anxious to nonacitato this' °callosity, or rather the
cootract, and he was informed that by Thursday nit
would hare something lice • definite proposal
therefore, thought It expiation to recommend thatTliZetirp
mom of the meeting to the 13th of July in order that
no mean should he lost which might food to iroosiane the
interest of the shareholders.

MY REYNOLDS, IS ase;;l:rig the motion, eorndrlained very
mach of the noodled government.
of the gornment. and especially
the PostmceterGeweisl. Indeed, he estimated the
lam to the company through the hostility of the
government at no leas than 230,0001. He hoped that
the adjournment would ultimately mire the shareholders
from loss, sod immure to Ireland the advarstages of a posed
communication with the new waled. At the MOW time be
expressed very little confideoce in the result.
The report wee thee adopted, and the meeting adjourned
to the 13th July.
A vote of theists to the chairman coocluded the pro.
antilop.

A letter from Naples,referring to the sudden and
unexpected arrival of Garibaldi at the sulphur baths of
Ischia, says :—" No one appeared to be aware of the fart;
an English yacht lay off the island. and Mr. Clem, the
proprietor, went on board and offered a small carriage, which
was declined. About 2 o'clock Garibaldi leaded ; there
rue very few prior present ; there was no demarka-
tion, and he who had conquered and gives away a kingdom
mounted an am and rode off to the baths at Cassmiociols.
Row (nog he will remain is doubtful. certainly sot more
than fifteen days. The probabilities are that he will not
visit Napier ; he dislikes being mobbed, sod ie. I us cm'
*need, unwilling, at the present moment, to mere any
useless enthusiasm. Or effect of the visit, howe►er, has
bm, to send Cardinal d'Andres to Sorrento, instead of to
Ischia. whirs be had intended to take the baths. This car-
dinal is, iodised, of eufliciostly liberal teedeedes. bet he
would lose every remnant of his narrater win he to sp.
prosch anything re unholy as Gerikekti."
"The celebrated Hloudin," says the Entr'acte,
"bin arrived is Paris. He has espied, before Laving
Puri.. to give three or four performers, at the Hippo.
drums, the ant of which will take plass o the let Judy."
Ttje Rev. Charles Henry Bromby ban been sip-
pointed Bishop et Tasmania.