The Express.
London, England, 1853-06-25 00:00:00

THE AGAPEMONE.

At the Bridgewater County Court, on Saturday,
en action ws• brought by Mr. W. Walters minima "My
Lord" of the Agapemone, to recover certain articles of do-
mestic use, carried to the Agapemone by the plaintiff on
going there to reside, and not dclivered to him again on his
leaving, which, in the course of the trial, it appeared he did
at 12 o'cloe't at night on the 3uth of April loot. hiv
Lord" did hot himself appear in court, bit was represented
by the Rev. S4lllllt i Starkey and Mr. Cobb, who, during the
trial spreared to give Mr. Lovibuud such instructions as
were necessary.

W. Walters, examined by Mr. Trevar—l became an
inhsbitint of the Agspemone in 1843, end remained
there until the last day of April of tho present year.
i saw Mr. Prince most days. lio was the he: d of
the establishment, but gave Lis orders through the
Inchon% of others. I took meats sometimes with hint.
Mr. Prince never gave orders except in trifling matters.
Mr. Thomas was the to i:1 of "My Lord," and said, in
orders, " You shall do so and so." Mr. Prince was
treet.d in the istablishment ss superior to man—as the Lord
Jess.: Chri't, holding himself forth as such; and was called
my Lind who died on the crers—the cnly Lord Jesus
Christ and was treated as secii. Orden were given for
"the Lord," and carriages or hones, de , by Mr. Thomas
er Mr. Starkey. Ile was first called " beloved," then " the
head of the establishment," and subsequently "My Lord."
I col stantiy saw him, and addre sed him as such. Mr.
Thomas and Mr. Starkey were next to him in degree. I
saw my goods at times in general use, and when I came
away I I 'ft them behind, and sent a waggon for them; some
wen brought, others were left behind. I received letters,
on going to the Agapemone, whilst in treaty. They were
written by Mr. Thomas, and have received some since I'
left ; one of which soya—" Why dist you go away without
thankieg My Lord for Lis love to you ?" another says—
" God is going to make all the cottages one Agapemone."
Mrs. Starkey was also neat Mr. Prince in honour and
authority. She was called Helen, afterwards " beloved."
She sometimes gave directions for Mr. Prince, but did
nothing except by his will. When I first went to the Aga-
pemone, I is. Prince the same day. One of the letters I
have received since I came away says—" We have nothing
to do with answering .etters which, in great ignorance, you
have caused a lawyer to write."
Mr. Trevor here c died on Mr. Starkey to give evidence ;
but the Deputy. Judge, C. Saunders, Esq., who bad several
times advised the parties to endeavour to settle and save an
exposure, continued to examine the plaintiff.
Plaintiff's examinatim continued by Judge—l had com-
munications with Thomas before going to the Agapemone
in the name of brother Themes. I treated with him as
agent for the " beloved." When I got into the Agape-'
mono, Prince conducted himself as head of the establish-
ment, and Mr. Thomas as agent. Prince may have been
present many times when Thames gave orders; but
Prince was treated as superior, and Prince appeared at the
head of the table when we dined. We always addressed
Dim as head. Mrs. Starkey salon one aide and Mr. Starkey
en the other. Mr. Thomas sat second, and Thomas on
every occasion acted as agent. I believe he would not say
one word or do an set without the sanction of Mr. Prince.
Mr. Prince declared Mr. Thomas was his will, and he had
no other will. I received every word of Thomas's as
Prince's. When I left, they said " I left as a thief in the
night," in one of tho letters. I left at twelve o'clock at
night. I was there five years. I did not make an inven-
tory of my things on going, except linen ; and what I took
was in use there. Some were lost and others broken.

At this stage of the proceedings an agreement was come
to by the partite, after several attempts, to s tile the matter
as follows, sin.:—" Plaintiff s3reed to take judgment for
the goods contained in his list without costs," and so the
case terminated. From what we could ascertain further,
it appears there was not the slightest desire on the part of
Mr. Prince to detain the goods; but in consequence of their
I having been mined up with the other furniture of the esta-
blishment (which is most extensive), a difficulty arose as to
the finding what belonged to plaintiff and what did not,
and plaintiff did not appear to have anything like a distinct
idea of what did belong to him. The cue was conducted
on both sides with the greatest respect towards each other ;
and plaintiff 561 seemed to regard Mr. Prince with extreme
reveream.—Siierboriee Journal.

APOTHECARIEe HALL—Names of gentlemen who
passed their examination in the science and practice of me•
divine, and Tuella," certificates to practise, on Thure.ay,
Jana 23, 1333 :—William Kaylet Curtis, Harting, Peters-
field; Horace Kerrey Debenham, Norton, Suffolk; 'Ed-
mund Chapman ; Christopher Deighton, Edinburgh; Per.
ins Armstrong, Appleby, Westmoreland; William Robe,
Pant Merchant, North Curry, Somersetshire ; Joseph Fer-
guson Lindley, Staleyhridge, Lancashire.
A FRENCII PARLIAMENTARY REPORT.—Here is
a veracious account of a living of the house of Commons,
from a very recent frail/don by the eery amusing Monsieur
lrd2g He tells that "Stretches are u.-livered in a pada-
tone e members sleep here and there, and crerybody
yawns; the speaker does not use a bell, and nobody is
ever called to order; there is never any agitation on any of
the benches; !lOW{ rains in torrents; Whigs and Tories
share among themselves badly baked biscuits; a great deal
of Barclay and Perkins' Porter is drunk ; members go out
every moment to swallow basons of turtle soup; oa their
retain they turn over collections of caricatures; Ministers
play at short whist in a corner ; those who are not asleep
read a romance of Diekens ; speakers seem not to care about
being listened tn."—Dickens' " Household Words."
LUILNTABLE 00CURRENCE.—Inquests were held
by Mr. Kerma, on Tui.efisy last, on Henry sod Maria Yeo,
of Puekeridge. The man, a carpenter, was found about
twelve o'clock in the day in a well in his garden, by his
wife, who called a young man named Barton, working in
the same gard.in, to help her lift him out. The feet of
the poor man were resting on the boards ist the ton of the
well, the rest of his body being under water, his head
downwards. The woman and Barton each took hold of a
leg, but while in the act of raising him, the poor woman
fell to the ground dead. The y use man not being strong
enough to hold him up alone, was obliged to let
go his hold and get further ass'stance. Three or four
men ran from the large i.tone works near, and in
a few minutes he was taken out, and laid on hie
stomach on the ground, with his head hinging over the
well. One of the persons presrnt gold he seemed to breathe
after he was lifted out once or twice; but shortly after Mr.
Washbeurneourgeon, came to the spot, and found both
husband and wife quite dead. At the inquest Mr. Wash-
bourne stated that although he had found a wound at the
back part of the woman's head, produced by the fall, it
was his opinion that such a sudden death was caused by a
ruptured vessel of the heart, or in the brain, and by excite-
ment. Barton and another witness spoke to Yco about a
quarter of an hour before he was found in the well. lie
was then intoxicated, and in company with his wife. Yer-
dicts—" That Henry Yeo was found drowned in a well in
his garden, there being no evidence to show how he came
there." " That Maria Yco died suddenly from excitement
and natural causee."—Sherberne Jounce.

This was an action to recover a sum of between 7007
and trOul. for work and labour. The defendant pleaded
payment nod never indebted, upon which issue was joined.
t Mr. Knowles, 1.4. C. (wish whom was Mr. Lush), in open-
. ing the plaintiff's case, said that Mr. Nelson was a gentleman
of educati and considerable attainments, eed that the
the defendant was Mr. Attwood, • leo was well known as
I" a gentleman poesesseil of a fortu.te of almost fabulous
. amount. The plaintif, on l.aviog college, came to Lon-
. don, and was engaged for some time upon the press, and
in writing for Varielli periodicals. Ile afterwards inserted
an advertisement in one of the newspapers, stating that the
ads ertiser was desirous of inferno ing young men 3, hose
education had been neglected. In consequence of this
advertisera.nt, he received an application from the
defendant, whe.se nephetv'e education had been neglected,
to take that young gentleman under his tare, in order to
tit him for Oxford. lie accordingly arranged to give ;xing
Mr Attwood three hours' tuition cci ry day, receiving fur
it 11. Is. for the three hours. After some time the plaintiff,
finding his nephew fretting en very well, arranged that he
should nth nel Mr. Nelsen for seven or eight hours a day.
Fur these extra hours no money payment was to be made,
hut the d fondant wes to use his influence in obtain.
in,; fur the plaintiff a government si uatim. The
defendant, addle this second arr-ngement was still
going on, was employed by the plaintiff to obtain
tor him ooks wherewith to furnish his library at his
country-house at Highlands, Essex, in prosecu ion or
which purpose Mr. Nelson was engaged during a portion
of every day for a period of Icier years. For this labour
he had nes..r received one shilling, and it Was in respi et
of it that he brought the present action. Two receipts,
however, h. ,d been given by the plaintiff' for certain sums
of money due to him for educat'rg the defendant's nephew,
and for boo':s furnished to that young gentleman, in which.
in addition to the acknowledgment of the receipt of the
specific sum, the words "and in full of all demands
were contained. These words, however, the learned
gentleman stated, had reference only to the matter of eilu.
cation, and not to the labour of collecting books for the
library.
The plaintiff was called in support of this case. Upon
the occasien of one of the receipts being given, he stated
that cn his hinting to the defendant that the receipt, beicg
expressed to be " in full," should not put an end to his pro-
mue of an appointment. Dlr. Aetwoud replied, " You
know who I am: Peel (meaning the late Sir It. Peel) can-
not refuse um anything. I dare not tell you what I have
done for him. I am goiug to return for one of my
boroughs Peel's nephew by his favourite sister ;
let me have this receipt, and you shall have a
post worthy of your acceptance." The witness also stated
that are both occasions, upon his mentioning his doubts as
to the c tfect of the receipts upon the clrim for collecting
books for the library, Mr. Attwcod said that they would
net interfere with that charge, inasmuch as the accounts to
which they were referred would show that they related to
the nephew's education merely. Subsequently an acgry
correspondence took place between the witness end de:en-
dant on this subject, and when they happened to meet at
Harwich, Mr. Attwood said if the witness had acted more
amicably he might have had his money.
Sir F. Tbesiger (with whom was Mr. Hawkins) then
addressed the jury for the defence. lie was very sorry
to say that this was a case in which he mute ask the jury
to disbelieve the whole of the statement put forward by the
plaintiff. The account which he gave of the transaction
was this. Mr. Nelson, having in the course of his an.
quaintance as tutor with the defendant's nephew, heard that
Mr. Attwcod was about to furnish his library at Highland!,
asked that er, ntleman to allow him to select the books,
no remuneration having been mentioned. In support of
this case Mr. Attwood (tl.e defendant) was called, and cor-
roborated the statement of his counsel with regard to the
engagement to collect the library. lle also stated that he
had never said anything to the plaintiff about Sir It. Peel,
having in fact no acquaintance with that gentleman which
would warrant him in asking a favtur of him. The
plaintiff hal asked him to obtain • govern-
ment past, but ho had explained to him that
he had no influence. The plaintiff signed the receipt in
full without any demur. He admitted that he met the
plaintiff at Harwi h, but he was very shy of him there.
Mr. Mots, n parliamentary ugent, who was called to prove
the handwriting of Mr. Attwood, stated in his erossexami-
nation that he had the management of the defendant's bo-
roughs, and that ho introduced Captain Dawson (the ne-
phew of the late Sir It. Peel) to him with • view to his
standing for one of Mr. Aftwooer's boroughs.
Lord Campbell, in summing up, said that this case en-
tirely rested on the credit given to the respective parties. If
the jury believed the plaintiff's statement, then their ver-
dict must lio for him ' • if they believed the defendant, then
they must find in his favour.
The jury retired, and after about an hour's absence re-
turned into court, and gave a verdict for the plaintiff for
3.101.