The Express.
London, England, 1853-12-15 00:00:00

. THE EXPRESS, THURSDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 15, 1853.

being taken. S'i ooly after Cept. Irgiefield's departure,
lie. \lll :eel., had hten present at the internee.) et,
to mil, mot said Lc might saturate sharer far a Mr. Dupi a,
a din ctor of the enrol tsni asked whet the defendant
ot Add PTV Line if he ii 4 so. The defendant sill
he timid I have the th..rket price. He returned on
the sante day 110141 Laid he mold get 1,1)00 'hirer if
Mr. Duppa wet as':olied he would he paid fur them, and
that they troul.ri not go into the market. They bath Bien
went t Mr. buppa' who agreed to sell the 1,000 shares. The
defendant afterwards agreed to give Mr. Wilks Bs. 9cl. pre-
r.stuni for and lus. tor 600 of thela—that being, u he
told. Mr. tt ilk% the tomark t prim. He afterwards went to a
Mr Buckingham, who let him have TO at 12s. 61. Oa the
hollowing day Mr. Armitage had asked whose name should
be put in the body of the scrip; aid, hayloft seen Wilke,
he told him to insert the name of Captain Ingleliold. Mr.
Armitage subsequently banned over the shares to him, and
he paid tor them. He raid that he bad so personal interest
in the contract. The remaining 300 shares he obtained from
Mr. Wilks at a premium of 12s. 04. Oat of the money
handed over to him by Mr. Allaitlie• 371. 10s. bad gone to
31r. Buckingham, 3311. be. to Mr. Milks, and 1371. 10s. to
a Mr. lit nsuson, whn had gives up same of the last 300
shares. He had received multi., beyond 1001. commission
for the 2,000 shares. Mr. Buckianhans is vow dead, and Mr.
Wilk. was proved to be so unwell that he could not un-
dergo an examisation.
Mr. Duppa mad Mr. Bresura were called in support of
the defendant'. cam.

The Attorney. General having
Lord Campbell summed up. allbajleodebip said the com-
merce of this great city woo sae& in shs bands of brokers,
and it was very material that they abash be placed under
proper control. Hitherto they hal 'Was bonds for good
conduct, and the Lord Mayor sad the Mart of Aldermen
had exercised their jurisdiction' fa Whim care that them
bond. were not broken. It was of the lostimportasee that
brokers,who were open to great bingeadins, should strictly
and honourably perform their tessiew; sad above ali,that
in no transaction in which a beauty en ampleirol se broker,
he should derive any profit toped bis busbangs. He
thought there were namable gressis ite lielegiss the
action, but they were to my whether tb me aids out by
the plaintiffs had not been answered by the thilisdiat.
The jury returned a verdict for the plabitiff

COURT OF COMMON PLEA/I—YESTERDAY.
.rrrix,s ♦T mu rams lr unisam—ursea qlv JVIITICS lava

meet the lessees ar.4 :letors, alter paying the expenses,
divided the Pr4..e. On the 26th of July the plaintiff had a
very succes,.;ol btuefit, end in consequence of the crowded
stste of the hnu.e he proposed having another benefit, and
arranged with the defendant that it should take place on the
23rd of Amgii-t. On the 13th of that rfinith, in the ordinary
plav-bills, there appeared the following announcement :
"A. caution to the public against fraud. Viliereas, certain
persons having issued bills for a benefit at this theatre on
Tuesday, August 23, without any legal authority to do so
from the lessees, they,the lessees,feel hound to caution parties
against purchasing tickets, for that night, as they will not
be admitted, and no such benefit will take place at the
Pavilion Theatre." This was the libel complained of,
which, it was said, contained not only a charge of fraud, but
that the plaintiff had been guilty of obtaining money under
false pretences. The plaintiff, in his examination, stated
that he had sold a great many tickets, and should have
cleated a profit of from 151. to 201. by the benefit. His
ordinary salary was from 30s. to 21. a week, and the charges
for admission to the theatre were 10. to the boxes. and 6d.
to the pit. He was now acting at the Royal Standard
Theatre, where there were eight or nine different charges.
The defence was, that the plaintiff had associated a Mr.
Gaston, of the Standard Theatre, with him, against the
expressed wishes of the defendant, who had told him, when
be agreed to let him have the theatre, that he must have no
partner in his benefit.
The defendant was being examined in support of biome,
when Mr. James said he wished to have some conversation
with him, and after a short interview between the parties,
a juror was withdrawn by common comsat, and Mr. James
stated that the defendant withdrew all imputation on the
character of the plaintiff. Mr. Neale wrote the objec-
tionable paragraph in the play-bill under excited feelings.
A verdict was then entered for the plaintiff by consent.

CONSISTORY COURT.—DEc. 13.
immix DZ. 1.131111511011.
1110ADWOOD V. HOLLAND.
Dr. Jenner said this was originally a citation sued out by
Mr. Broadwood to compel Mrs. Holland, his mother, to
leave in the registry an inventory of her late husband's
estate, of which she was the administratriz. It appeared,
from a decree of the Court of Chancery, that Mr. Broadwood
was entitled out of the estate to the stun of 176 i. Mrs.
Holland, however, had not complied with the decree to pay
the sum in question into court. Under these circum-
stances, he (the learned advocate) moved the court to allow
the bond to be attended with in an action entered against
the sureties. _ _

Dr. Spinks appeared on behalf of Mrs. Holland.
The learned Judge 'Aid it appeared from the decree of
the Court of Chancery Mrs. Holland had not properly ad
ministered the estate, but owed Mr. Broadwood the sum
stated. The discretion given to the courtto allow the
hood to be attended with must be exercised with groat
caution. Where, however, there was an apparent broach
of it, if the court refuse 4 to allow the bond to be attended
with the parties would be prevented recovering under it.
The decree of the Court of Chancery must be assumed to be
just and equitable, sad therefore this court ought to allow
the parties to recover from the sureties. Persons who become
sureties to an administration bond should exercise due tare

in seeing it performed. It might be very hard upon them,
but it was their own fault—first, in entering hastily into
the bond ; and, secondly, in not seeing the acts required
performed. The bond must be attended with.

INSOLVENT DEBTORS' COURT.—YesTaaver.
111101111 MIL C 7111111•01111
IN 11 WILLIAM M. ATONA.R.
This ease wu reported on Thursday. Possession of a
house in Creel College .street had been given up to the
Sleekest! Junction 'ilway Company.
Mr. Cooke applied that the lease in court by the company
to the insolvent might be given ap to the company, being of
no value to the estate.
The Court granted the application. The final order wu
greeted.

IN 1.1 WILLIAM POLIIAM.

The question is this awe (under the Protection Act) was,
whether the debts exceeded 3001. Mr. Bargood opposed,
and Mr. Reed supported.
The insolvent bad worked at the Crystal Palace Tavern,
and the accounts in the schedule were examined.

Kr. Commissioner lderphy held that the debts exceeded
3001., end dismissed the petition.

IR 111 RICHARD THORNE.

This insolvsot, who was opposed by Mr. Down, and sup-
ported by Mr. Cooke, had sold his holiness as • baker
four days before ha petitioned under the Protection Act,
for 1001.

Hr. Dowse contended that the disposition of the property
was not under the exceptions of the act.
Mr. Commissioner Murphy dismissed the petition, ob-
serving that his belief was that the business was sold in
contemplation of insolvency. It would be dismissed on the
mint raised.
TM petition was accordingly dismissed.

ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE.

NORTHERN CIRCUIT.—You, Dr.c. 13.

:ached to it, and some F p .ce, which the trosemeer did not
mem to.

Cro<s•esamined by Mr. Parry—l do not knew whether
the milk was skim milk ; it was as spoilt the next
morning.

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Mr. Parry—Thera was a piece of beet-root; what be-
came of that? . . . . .

Witusas—Why, that being biled, got smashed. (Much
laughter.)
Mr. Legh recalled—l keep cows, and make my own
►etter. The skim milk and such pieces as these ought
to go into the tub for the pig.' keep. The prisoner, my
cook, said they were some of those pieces, and some of the
skim milk for the pig tub which she had gives her sister..
She said so at the station.

Tim Itecorda—The pigs should hate been the prose-
cutors.

kr:Parry, addressing the jury, said that however much
ha might deprecate any pilfering upon the part of ser-
vant., still he did not envy the feelings of any man who
could press on so paltry a prosecution against a servant
who bad been in his service for some time, and who had
borne a good character. She had acted improperly there
was no doubt, and the prosecutor had been instigated to
do this from representations made to him, bat when he

found how auttirs were he should not have followed it up.
The Recorder said there wu no cue against Killer and
Angelina Hut.
They were all Acquitted.

THIRD COURT.-YESTERDAL

Philip IVoolf, 35, plumber, was indicted for stealing a
dress value 61., and other goods, the property of Thomas
OctaviusJ.mes. . . .

City police•constable George Watkins, stated that about
eleven o'clock upon the morning of the sth of this month
he saw the prisoner in Sun-street carrying a bundle, and
followed him for some distance, and finding him going in
the direction of the noted Petticoat-lane, he stopped him
and asked him what he had got there ; prisoner said that
was his business, that he had bought them in Petticoat-
lane, but did not know from whom; he then tried to get
away, but being secured was taken to the station, where
the bundle was found to contain the new silk dress named
in die indictment, two waistcoats, a pair of trousers, a coat,
a pair of women's boots, and a lady's visite, and also a new
coat, buttoned under his own coat. He had upon him a
hunch of skeleton and other keys. At the station he said he
had bought them of a girl.
The prosecutor, a trimming manufacturer, living at 32,
Newgate-street, said that about ten o'clock upon the morn-
ing of the sth December, some one in the house game to
him and brought him, waistcoat which he had found upon
the stain; prosecutor then ran up to the dwelling part of
the house, and found that the bedroom upon the third floor
had been ransacked, and all that could be carries off was
gone. He gave notice of the robbery to the police, and
when he saw the prisoner at the station he recognised him
as a man whom he had seen about ten days before upon the
stairs leading to his dwelling apartments ; and the prisoner
then in broken English said he wanted the German ware-
house. Ae the door leading from the dwelling part of the
house to the warehouse was kept locked, the prisoner must
have watched the news-boy, who was the only party that
came in that morning, and slipped in unobserved.
The jury found the prisoner Guilty.
It further appeared that a strut many robberies of a si-
milar description have been committed in the City, and
property to a large amount stolen. The plan practised by
the prisoner was to go about to places situated like the pro-
secutor's, carrying with him some glass and putty, and all
the paraphernalia of a travelling gluier, and if met under
any suspicion at one said he was looking for a job. Al-
though acquainted with English, the prisoner, when put
upon his trial, pretended he could not understand a word,
end a gentleman named Albert had to be fetched to inter-
pret before he would be tried. The officer said that he had
had the prisoner twice before, once in 1861, and once last
year, fora similar offence.
The account given by the officer of prisoner he seemed
to perfectly understand without the aid of an interpreter,
as also dial he the sentence of 18 months imprisonment
and herd labour.