The Express.
London, England, 1852-11-27 00:00:00

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Poon v. BeLall.—..kff KITaAneDINART Caen.
Thl. was ius Wien litenght by the piehatilf; a furnishing
inromager, our*, an buniaria is Jammetreet, Beim.
hill, to recover from the defendant, a loallilar it frosantore
the sum of 66L lle. 7d. he goods sold miff delivered. The
defesdant immerse the wawa by_ paying 3111. 6.. 9d. into
wart sad ginsiimg Oaths was net Masa Indebted. From
the 'vides. k sjpgaweid that the defendant gelled at the
istiatiff's pima et bream sad settled the assume then den
ty payiag 301. in sash sad giving hie awsptanee for
Si. W. 10d. The plaintiff was not at haw when this
trawontion took plese, sad en his mum he direst. d
his clerk to ratan tie essepteeee end le maim
e cash payment, m the defendant's eseenat had bow dna
In some time. The clerk warrdiagly inclosed the bill, end
forwarded it by poet in the mool way. Them feets having
teen proved by the plaintiff, it was cattanded on the part
d the defendant that the acceptance had never been re-
turned, sad that It had been paid when It bream due.
With resent to the appl 'nations which the plaintiff stated
be bad waft Ow dm payment of the balance of his amount,
it wee reprornatal that with the exception of one letter the
defendant bed never received any.
Several witneesas having been called in support,
The Lord Chiet Baron, in leaving the cam to the jury.
observed that something wrong had undoubtedly occurred
somewhere. It seemed to him the harden of proof
lay on the plaintiff, as it we. quite clear
that the defendant had gone to the plaintiff's
and given hie acceptance for the balance of hie account.
:Jp to that time it was impossible that the defendant
could have anticipated that the bill would have been re-
turned, and therefor* that the transaction was bona fide
sad free from fraud. The defendant had proved by hi.
witnesses that he had paid his acceptance at the place
wime it was made payable, and therefore that the bill
must heve got into improper hands, after the plaintiff bad
directed his clerk to return it. Be was of opinion that the
material point to be proved, as to whether the bill had
'reached the defendant, rested on the plaintiff, and that be
sad sot made it clear.

Me 'lodges (tor the p!•iati9)—Yes, but we put the letter
ri the post, and r• we never endorsed it, the delenthutt is
Wand to prose h • paid it to us or our agents.
The Lord Chit "Baron—lt might hare been lost. The
4 lotion for the jury is, upon which party should the loss
The jury retired for a quarter of an hoar, and on their
return found a verdict for the defendant.

The Lord Chief Baron then said while the Joey were out
he bad considered the matter, and was of opinion that, inas-
much an the bill was not payable to bearer, and was not
endorsed by the plaintiff, that the defendant was bound to
prove he had paid it to the plaintiff or hie ',tent. The ver-
dict ought, therefore, to be fur the plaintiff.
It was ultimately arranged that the verdict should be en-
tered for the defendant, with liberty for the plaiutiff to
move to set it aside, and to enter it in his favour.

COURT OF BANKRUPTCY.—Yesreepay.
Bayou M. Coxxosnumaa GOULIMUI.
IX
11 LoADIBIL

To day was Bard for a dividend meeting in the caws of
this bankrupt, who had ben extensively 'passed in the
businesa of an upholsterer, of the Pavement, Finsbury.
From the statement of Messrs. [larding and Pullein, the
debts owing by the bankrupt are souut 13,Gi1.; ousts se-
turned at auflicient to pay in the pound. A dividend
of about 6s. in the pound will be offieally announced in the
ooune of • few days.
lx II J. MITCALT.
In this case Mr. Oxley, of the Borough, hop merchant,
was chosen assignee ; and Messrs. Robinson aid Knowles,

9.11‘,111112. 6nrooe.ia POIMIAVOM
ID DI RONINIO./ AND CO. _ _

The bankrupts wens libelant, clothiers, of Commercial-
road East. To day was fined for • dividend meeting.
Messrs. Harding and Co. state the debts to be about 12,000!.
assets 10s. in the pound. The amount of the first divi-
dend will shortly be announced.

IN II W. BARLITMAN.

Is the cue of -au • 1;;;ees were amen.
Hews. Harding are she engaged.

INSOLVENT DEBTORS' COURT.-YEBTESDAT.

Barra■ Ka.

-LAW.

IN 1/111•240111 EDltfl DUltUr.-SINOI7I.MICASI.

Thu insolvent, whose case was reported in our paper a
fortnight back, was further heard.
circumstances of this ems were of a very singular
character, and the evidence given on the prima occasion
added to the novelty of the ease The insolvent, having
been convicted of ftlony, had forfeited his right to upwards
of 3,0Ga1. under his father's will. The mown had, how-
ever, rtlinqu,shed the claim to the same, and the insol-
unt's aunts, on his mother's side, bad put in their claim, on
the ground that the insolvent was illegitimate. It uow
appeared that the insolvent's parents were msrried at St.
George's, Hanover-square, when he wits nearly two years
uld, having been previously married according to the Ro-
man catholic faith. It was now thought, on the part of
the creditors, that the property would pass, on obtaining
letters of adamant:alio., with the will of the insolvent's
father, which was made the cloy after the marriage at St.
Geotge's Church, end, deo, the creditors would be paid.
Kr. Commissioner Law appointed an assignee to prose-
este the matter, and eventna:ly the ease was adjourned to
serve some creditors, with an intimation to the insolvent
that he would not be dismissed, as a judgment would be
given at the suit of Mr. Phipps, his opposing creditor.
'lite insolvent was remanded to prison.

CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT.
OLD COURT.—YESTERDAY.
menus Mk. Beane AUMINON.
In the ease of JoAn Cooper, 40, who was indicted Teeter
day for feloniously breaking into the warehouse of William
Comber Hooper Hood and others, his tauten, and stealing
a quantity of plate end 621. 10e. in notes and gold, their
property, the Jury returned a verdict of Owl& y, but recom-
mended Ida tummy ea usenet of his good arscter.
baron Alderson said there were circumstances in the
cams whisk induced him to consider it advisable to postpone
the sentence to the neat session.
This concluded the bellows of the session, end the court
adjourned to Monday, Dee. 13.

THE POLICE COUIiTSt
MANSION-HOUSE.
William Leaden, a cabinet maker, was brought before
the Lord Mayor, charged with having offered tickets of
admission to St. Paul's Cathedral for sale to Mr. Daniel
Whittle Harvey, the Commissioner of the City Police.
Mr. Harvey said—As I was passing through St. Paul's
Churchyar4 In the eosins of the afternoon, the prisoner
stepped up to me, and asked me whether I wend buy some
tickets for the cathediaL I asked him if he lad any to
sell ? He replied, yes, he had for to day. I then asked him
if he had any for sale for to-morrow. He said he had. I
was on the footway when Ise stopped me. He did not thew
me any tickets, neither did he behive uncouthly, but I
thought it my duty to cause him to be brought before a
magistrate, as I was anxious to warn the public of the great
iadiseretion and impropriety of purchasing tickets of pec-
ans who have no authority to sell them.
The prisoner said that like other people he wished to go
to St. Paul's, bat having no ticket be did not know how
to pin admission. While he was hesitating he mat a man
who offered to sell his a ticket for a Is. Being but a poor
man the prisoner said he could not afford more than Sd. for
the acoommodatioo The man then said "he had two tickets
to all, and if the prisoner would sell ems of them for him
be should have the other for fia." That tees ell the elbow
be had committed, and he had no notion that he hod beat
acting wrong.
The Lord Mayor—You have subjected yeetroalf to the
penalty of 405., and in default of payment to Imprisonment
for ono month, for having obstructed the public thorough-
fare, bat as the commissioner does not seem disposed to
press the case, and experienced no incivility, I shall dis-
charge you. The object of the commissioner in causing
you to be brought before me will, 1 trust, he appreciated by
the public. I hope they will see the impropriety of pur-
chasing tickets from persons ia the streets, mere especially
as most of the tickets so disposed of have bees fabricated,
sad are of no value at all, so that disappointment, and loss
of money, and suspicion of unworthy dealing, must be the
00000q00000,
kilieediriseaer said the annoyanes to which be had exposed
would be an miswrote warning.
Is the course of the day, Mr. Deputy Carney, of Broad-
street Ward, and Mr. Bailey, of St. Paul's-churchyard,
waited upon the Lord Mayor to complain of the complete
obstruction to berthas in the neighbourhood which each of
them represented. They described the public thorough-
fares to be entirely abetted up with vagabonds of all kinds,
assembled together so doubt for purposes of plunder, and
they begged to lean from his lordship whether he would
advise an application to the Secretary of BUM Or to the
Dean of St. Paul's for the removal of so atrocious a nuisance.
The Lord Mayor said that all be could do la the business
was to send to the Commissioner of the City Police to re-
quest the attendance of additional inenthen of the force at
the places referred to, and his lordship acted accordingly,
and the commissioner immediately issued the summary
directions.

GUILDHALL.
William Works, JoAli Ittaykro, Matthew Hurley, and
Patrick Grady, were re-eaasticed, charged, the three Ant
with manilas wine, mid the latter with reeeiviag part of the
stolen property with s guilty knowledge.
The wine in question, in value bbl., was obtained by sap-
phi( and mining a wimpoellar in Bartholomew'aelose from
' the kitchen of • low lodgiasphouse in liack-eourt, fee-
wilted by the prieconen. To effect their object the ma
had to remove several esrt loads of brick, mortar, and rubbish
from the burrow, and, this done, the thieve* and prostitutes
who made the lodging home their rest were desalt foe days
upon choice Madeira, 20 yews in b Atli, with port, sherry,
brandy, Bacilli., sad other varieties of tipple.
The proprietor of the eollu complained my mach that
he had brought the lodging-hoses under the not.., of the
Bowen Commission surly six months before the date of
the robbery, but no steps were takes for its removal until
the mischief had been done to hint.
The prisoners were remanded.
MARLBORO U 0 11-STREET.
Asa Parrhare, slim Buiers'ito, was charged with having
attempted to defraud the Dowager Countess of Onnville
sad other charitable personages.
Is this saes thopeetenni of the applieaut—utterly Wai—
ves "a droulfally dimmed daughter. whoa she was

anxious to get into the Bea-bathing Infirmary, but war not
able to do so fir want of funds." CV niticatesof the most

commendatory character accompanied the application, but a
little inquiry reduced their value to uothintr, and the woman
wu given taut custody.—Remanded.

SOUTH WARN.
John Roans, cab driver 2,617, was summoned by a cab
proprietor for plying for hire on a stand wi•hin the gates of
the South Easter. Railway, that not being a place duly
licensed by the commissioner..
The question raised in this dispute has lately become
familiar to the public. The railway companies, who are the
real defendants in those ease', resist the interpretation of
the law which renders themliabl, to submit the cabstand. on
their property to the common regulations to which hackney-
carriage stands generally are subject. Hitherto the compa-
nies have pleaded the necessity of retaining the independent
rule and management of the'atands in their hands, fur the
purpose of enforcialt order. 'Yesterday, the facts laid hav-
ing been proved, Mr. Church, who appeared for the South
Eastern line, took new ground. It was, he said, a question
of pounds, shillings, and pence, a great tight for money.
The company went to great expense to bring eab
dation to their °Moe door, and were they not allowed to get
it back by selling the right to ply there
Mr. Alleckett was glad that a candid admission had at
length been made, bat thought that the hardship was on
the side of the cab proprietors, who, having paid in common
with others the heavy charges made by government, found
themselves excluded from soma of the most lucrative fields
of profit. The company might easily obtain the sanction of
the commissioners for their stands. Proper rules would
then be drawn up for the protection of the public and the
convenience of the company. lie could do no other than
impose a penalty of 20s. on the defendant.