The Express.
London, England, 1863-03-06 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, FRIDAY EVENING, MARCH 6, 1863.

LAM INTELLIGENCE.
(THIS DAY.)

The officer said that yesterday afteraooa he was on duty
near Loodon-bridge, when he saw the defendant driving an
open landau, which contained a gentleman sod two ladies.
He broke the ranks. and when witness went up to the
horses, to put them in the proper rank. he wee struck and
EQUITY COURT. ! fell to the ground. His hat wee crushed, and the lining
torn out.
(Before Vine-Chancellor Sir W. P. Wood.) I The defendant said be could not help it. He was coin-
THE EARL or =roar r. THE net-. era w. DARELL, run. rm.lled to get out of the rank by other vehicles pressing upon
This suit, which was heard at great length by the Vice-
Mr. Combs told him that it was of the utmost importance
Chancellor is January last, sow came on to give his Honour that the vehicles should be kept in the rank, and that
ic opportunity of stating his reasons for postponing drivers should obey the orders of the police. If such was
not the case great sacrifice of life would take place. He
The plaintiff is the sixth Earl of Egmont, and the object should order the defendant to pay for the damage, hoping
that would be • caution to him and other driven
of his suituto have an issue directed by the court for the
purpose of trying the validity of an alleged will of Henry
Frederick John James, fifth Earl of Egmont, as regarded
gilts to Sir Edward Tierney, Bart., of estates within the
*idiotic.e of the court which belonged to the earl at the
time of his death, so that if the plaintiff should succeed in
establishing the invalidity of the will as regarded the devise
is question, the persona in whom the estates were now
vested may be decreed to convey them to the plaintiff as
the person who, but for the devise to Sir Edward Tierney,
would have been entitled on the plaintiff redeeming any
=satisfied mortgage on them.
The use has excited much public interest, and the facts
have Aires& appeared in the Express.

SUICIDE OP 1111...GEOINE COOKS, THE

COMEDIAN.

We regret to have to state that this much re-
spected member of the theatrical profession died by his own
band, yesterday morning. He lied been suffering forsorne time
from a dropsical diceass, the pain of which probably caused
a fit of temporary insanity, end be cut his throat. He had
long been an actor of old men at the Olympic theatre,
where his genial natural acting made him a great favourite
with the public. His impersonation of the old sailor in the
drama of the Lighthouse, and man► similar sketches of
character will long be remembered by playgoers. it will
Dot be easy to supply his *ea The management of the
Olympic, with its anal liberality, was very kind to him
during his illness.

lo addition to the litigation pending in this country there
S a suit now standing for judgment in the Irish Court of
Mammy, the object of which wait is to obtain POSSOWOO
the late EMI Henry's Irish property.
Sir Hugh Cairn', Mr. Gifford, and Mr. Wickens were
for the plaintiff ; Mr. Alfred Bailey appeared for some
lefeodaute in the same interest ; the Solicitor-General.
Ir. Jamesi, and Mr. J. Pearson, were for the defendants
claiming under Sir Edward Tierney.

The Via-Chancellor now said be had caused this suit to
be put into the paper in order that he might state his
Talons for postponing his judgment until after a decision
bid been arrived at by the Irish Court of Chancery. His
Honour then adverted briefly to the facts already staled
above, and pointed out that the main gist of the ease, the
Towession of the real estates, rested upon a decision not
vihin his jurisdiction. Under these circumstances, he con-
roved that this court would best advance the interests of
the parties by postponing its judgment until after the
:talgment of the Irish court was given.

COURT OF PROBATE AND DIVORCE.
(Either As Jades Ordinary sad a Special Jury.)
SCOW AND HARRISON V. GREENWOOD.
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Mr. Coleridge, Q.C.. and Dr. Spinks for the plaintiffs ;
the Queen's Advocate, Dr. fierabey, and Yr. Arobibakl for
the defendaat.

This was a suit relating to the will of Mr. Joseph Green-
wood, late of Rogen.q.equere, Brighton, and formerly a
captain in the 31st Regiment. He died on the
pith of January, 1861, and the instrument which was pro-
pounded by the plaintiffs, the executors, was dated the
rih of August, 1839. It was opposed by Mrs. Greenwood,
the widow of the deceased. on the usual grounds. namely,
undue execution, want of tostakiry capacity, and undue
influence.
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The ace had Dot mode much wpm wham is wont to
prtms.

COURT OF BANKRUPTCY.
(Before Kr. Commissioner Fess.)
IN as ABBO7T.—ZITIAORDINAM MAUD.
The bankrupt, described as • timber merchant and fire-
wood maaufacturer, of Cambridge-street, Pimlico, applied
for his discharge. Debts, 1,8001. ; no waist'. The Mecum-
ItUleta of the case were very extraordinary. Some eight or
moo months ago, it became known that Yr. Ca-
ren, the British consul at the Dardanelles., had
nosed insurances to be effected in this country on
cargo of oil of the alleged value of 12,0001. It was
represented that the oil had been shipped per the Sidon,
cad a circumstantial account was atarenrda laid before the
underwriters of the destruction of • large ship, supposed to
be the Sidon, by tire, on her voyage from the Dardanelles
to this country. Oa the matter being looked into by the
underwriters, it was discovered that no such cargo had ever
been shipped, and that it was • scheme on the part of Calvert,
who has since been dismissed from his post, and has ab•
seceded, to obtain the ineureace money from the under-
when The bankrupt's connexion with the transaction
vas that he was the penes by whom the insuranosa hod
been effected, he having dune so in pursuance of • letter
from Calvert.

---11r.1,11einiou opposed the granting of the order.
Mr. Lawrence, on behalf of the bankrupt, mid there was
no doubt that • grove fraud had been perpetrated by Calvert,
the late consul at the Dardseelles. He bad instructed this
roan to effect an insurance of 12,000 f. cm • cargo of oil ; it
eau thee reported that a large vessel had been seen harming;
sod all the documents verifying the loss had
through the hands of Calvert, as the IM8:11
consul. These documents were handed to the un-
derwriters, who having reason to suspect the
boas fidsa of the insurame, enserodull resisted the claim.
Calvert, of course, bed bees • from him appoint-
ment as consul; be bad atededed, and had never since
been heard of. This me bad stood over, on his Honour's
suggestion, for six mooch', but uo further light had been
thrown upon it. There was every reason to suppose that
the bankrupt had been made a tool of by Calvert.
The bankrupt, in examination, lan mew Calvert
os the 4111 of lam last. I met him in Cembridge-etreet,
Pimlico. He tried to avoid me by turning down • street.
but I followed him. I recommended him to deliver himself
up to Yr. Nicholson, that the whole case might be investi-
gated. He mid be was acting under advice, and he would
me about it and let me know. I ham never beard from
him ner Imo him since. I sold Mr. Nieholeou
at the time of this interview. I did not say I had sees
him in Fenchurch.sireet, and purposely avoided him. It
me in Cambridge-street, and I went up to him. The meet-
Ire/ perfectly exidental. I wee quite surprised to see bim.
I have sever men him since.
Mr. Nickelson said that, after reading carefully through
the denepoodeses, be had come to the oomilmion that the
iankrupt was as accomplice of Calvert ; but after
beximinatkin he would not rely on that ground
d opposilies. The bankrupt had received • longed letter,
purporting to be signed by Fumin Aga, • Turkish merchant,
directing him to effect • marine insurance on oil of the
*lee cf 12,0001., but in reality no such oil existed. Ab-
solving the bankrupt frees the charge of complicity, no
complaint was mode of his borrowing 3001. is pay
the 'um of issuance, but ha bad borrowed
1,200!. is exam of that, and had paid the money
is the account of the firm of Beatable sad Co.
d which he was a member. Supposing Fussein Aga to
lave bees • reel person, the bankrupt would have hese
pay of a misdemeanour under the Factocu Act for obtain-
s% an advance of a larger amount than he had paid ; and
*serious was this offence considered, that it was punish•
able by transportation of from sere. to fourteen years. Under
awes chmanstanoce the creditors submitted that the bank-
rapt had contracted this debt by a gross species of freed.
Jr. lawrance segued that so offence yeast. the 159th
section had been proved. The bankrupt might have
offended against the Acton Act, but what bad the court
to do with that! That was a matter for tbeOestral Cried-
eal Court. The bankrupt had been before the court twelve
months.

His Honour reserved his judgment.
(Before Mr. Commissioner Holroyd.)
ZZ ALFRED GURNEY.
The billikrlllA, a win-merchant, of Upper...treat, Laing.
toe, came nap for his examination and discharge. He own
to uwcarod crediton 17,18111.•. to those bolding security,
19,2871. The assets are estimated at about 2,0001.; property
held by creditors. 19,9151. The pausal expenditure for
the two can preceding the bankruptcy had been 3001. a
fear. are unsecured cash creditors to the amount of
11,639/., but they an chiefly members of the bankrupt's
heady.
The assignees requiring further time to examine the aci.
sante an adjournment was ordered to the 24th of April.
E. Reed. Mr. R. Griffiths, and Mr. Linklater,
reared ia the ease. A large proof for upwards of 4,6001.,
tendered by Mr. Arthur Gurney, brother of the bankrupt,
vas adjourned to the memo time.
IS RE °MIMI& —CASK Or • LIEUTENANT IN THE 14• VT.
This was the sitting for examination and discharge in
the can of Ferdinand George Gambier, • lieutenant In the
eery on hailer, of 39, Chester-square, Pimlico. Hes
tebts are 7181. ; 'ante 20/., consisting of a gun which the
hiekrupt had given up to the official anignee, and
*oh he stated bad coat him 201. His- half.pay
a 731. a year. Dario; the two years preceding
tite baakruptey hie expenditure had been 1801. • year. The
alai are chiefly for mooey borrowed, and for goods sup-
Plied to the bankrupt by tie/keens at Portsmouth. At
:be last sitting as adjournment was directed, in order that
the bankrupt might give up a chest of drawers,
some gad' hoed trousers, and a musical box of the value of eight
ftioeu, which he had admitted to be in his possession.
The order was sow granted, subject to the coeditiou
the bankrupt setting aside 304 a rear out of his half-pay,

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