The Express.
London, England, 1849-01-26 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, FRIDAY EVENING, JANUARY 26. 1849.

years. He is about 25. Hirst told the colonel that I was
is the family way la 'seamy, 1848, and alter that he re-
amed to ese me upon any toms whatever. I shortly after-
wards left foe France to be confined. I went dose. Colonel
Blase wrote some insuldng letters to me. Muller, to wheel
I wrote,sapplied me with. • Mile maw, en my return. I
gees the appellaat seeks of my iatandon to g,e to Fromm.
Muller did lot support me end the skald. aad Mau
tweed ourselves into the solkosere presence, buses, he bad
given the porter directions to refuse me admission. Ws
!Vthe porter ads and west up to the colonel's rums.
at with Muller to Jollies's bonus Colonel Blase lave
me • rivets box on purpose. He bad heard me speak
of Muller and wanted to sea him. The colonel was on the
I did net ore hies. He took are of that. I
Muller en puree for the colonel to us him. I never
,sent to the Prlnesm't nestles with Muller. On say oath I
new did. Ido set know bow much we demanded et the
Wend fee upeeirm. It was over 1001., but not VIOL I
weer said to any one that the child wa. born et Brumes.
Rebn COWL, the porter at Colonel Blaze's chambers,
peen& did he had rep( redly admitted Miss Mertz, and
that she usually remained with the colonel some time.
Mr. Ilkeisent Adams mid he saw in one of CM letters this
pmeage: "I send you two tickets for Satarday sight, of
which, I trust, my dear Sophie, yin will be able to make
me." What did that refer to I—Miss Meets replied that
that letter was accompanied by two tickets for Covent-garden
Theatre, which w,s Just then opened as au opera house.
Mr. Muller, who said that he was a commercial man is
Mincing-lane. corroborated the respondent in every particular
in relation to which she had mentioned his name.
Miss 8 phis Lambert, who was examined in French by
Mr. Parry, said that bet re Mir Mertz west to France, it
was commonly reported that she was eterinte. Miss Meru
west to Madame Lubret, a sister of witness's, at Lisle.
Thomas Dante, the porter at the Senior United Ilseelm
Club, proved that to the but of his belief the letters produced
were written by Colonel Blaze.
Ballantine then submitted that the court bad me
jurisdiction whatever to deal with the case, and in doing so, I
ha was aware that he questioned the jurisdiction of the ma-
gistrate who made the order appealed against. The birth of
the child had taken place clearly in a foreign country, and
the child ucqueetionably was a French subject.
Mr. Sajeent Adams said it seemed to him that if the
thallium attached only at the time of the application to the
singigkrate, the jurisdiction was clear; but ii the jurisdiction
sellerthed at &bourne of birth, then The point as to the juris-
daises at the court would no dubious.
Ballsatine said that was exactly the cue. This was
the child of an alien, and it was clew, though the statute
under which the order woe made did not express it in en
many words, that it could atly he applied to children born
within England and Wales, for even Scotland was excluded
from its operation. He then quoted " Mnstyn o. Pre DM r-
emit" (Smith's Leading Cases, vol 1., p. 36E9.
Mr. Maynard followed on the same side, contending that
*out only appled to children born in Ragland and Wales,
besides, where was the evidence that the child pruduc d in
start was that of the respondent ? fhe point was one of such
inceleulable import, that he trusted, should the decision of
the wart be adverse to Colour' Blanc, an opportunity would
be abeded of having that decision reviewed.
Mr. Serjeant Adams said that his first impression wss that
the wart had no jurisdiction, but his opinion and that of
his friend Mr. Witham on the bench had changed, and he
was now clearly of opinion that the court bad jurisdiction.
The magistrate below had jurisdiction in such cues before
the child was bore, and therefore it was not birth that gave
jurisdiction. There was nothing in the statute upon which
it could be held ;that if the birth took place in a foreign
country, an English court had no jurisdiction ; bat it was
indispensable that when the application to the magistrate
was made the child should be within the juriedicton. The
objection was so utterly betide the merits of the case, that in
case Colonel Blanc went elsewhere to reverse the decision of
that court, he should have all the assistance he had a right
to but nothing tot re.
Mr. Ballentine then addressed the court upon the merits.
He said that Colonel Blau knew best whether he was or
was not the father of the child, end it could not be supposed
that he would have incurred the enormous costs he had dens
in resisting this demand, and bringing it before that court, If
he had not acted upon principle, it he bad not fully believed
that he was the victim of an artfully concocted scheme.
Colonel Blanc believed that there was not the slightest pre-
tence for the claim made upon him. Though the appellant
had been upon familiar terms with this young lady, be had
the sumps% possible reasons to suspect that he was not the
father of this child.
Mr. &deist Adams did not trouble Mr. Parry to reply.
He said that the corroborative proof wee as strung as in any
case he bad ever met with—and animadverted strongly on
the conduct of the appellant, for bowleg seduced the young
woman and then discarded her. Here was a colored m the
army meeting a young French girl at the door of an esta-
blishment where she was employed. For six months be
follows her about in all directions; he pomades her to visit
him at his cbaniteen. And what was his object in doing so ?
What did he induce her to visit him at his private rooms
ter? Was there any man in that man, or anywhere else,
so much of a monk, se much of an anchorite, so blind, as net
to know what purpose this Colonel Blanc bad in view ) The
endearing terms of the letter, proved the intimacy of their
acquaintance. The story told by the girl was fully him*
out. The colonel clearly seduced her, end when there was
indication of the results of the intimacy he deserted her, and
turned round and eimuerd the cousin, whom, at the colonel'.
own instigation, Hiss Mute had taken to the theatre, of being
the father of her child. Under these circumstances the
court would confirm the order, and direct the costs to be paid
forthwith by the colonel.

POLICE v _UTEKDAT.
MANSION-HOUSE. FILONIOUNLY 81100/INO. —J.
Crshway was reexamined, charged with shooing Emma
Tyler. The eve appeared in this paper of Frid., last—
Emma Tyler said on the evening of Wednes ay week I saw
the prisoner, whom I have known about eight months, and at.
the time • young man named J. Somers came by. 1 called to
him, and we talked together. When Somerslelt me. I went
over to the place when the prisoner had been standing with
a girl named Elisa Graves, and found he wits gone. I soon
afterwards saw the prisoner, and I asked him what was the
matter with him. to which be replied, "Go on." I then
took his cap off and waked away with it. He turned
another way, and I followed him and put his cap on, and
again asked him *hat made him so angry, and he said,
• Begone." I went home, and was there about ten
minutes, when Eliza Graves came and told me
that Cashway wanted me. When I went to
him he said he wished to speak to me alone;
and when he and I and Eliza Graves were Heading together,
I asked him what he wanted to speak to me about. lie
caught hold of my right band, and when I asked him why
he did so be said that was his busload'. I said, "How long
are you going to hold my band ?" He said, angrily, as long
as he thought proper. He said, " Either you or I shall go
to prison." He still held me, and I could not get away
from him. He had at this time his other hand in his pocket.
I asked him to let use pin doors; he said "No,' and hie
looks frightened me. Eliza Graves asked him why he
looked so wild, and he replied it was enough to make him.
I then heard the report of a pistol, or something of
the sort, and I felt that I was wounded. I fell to the
ground, and I found that I was wounded on the left aide of
the head. I tried to rtes, bat I tell again. The primmer
was then gone. I did not know what kappmed till
I got to the hospital, where I have bees ewe ekes.
In answer to the Lord Mayor witness said : The primmer
had been courting her six swaths. Witness is 19 pees d
awe, and the prisoner a little older. Twice before the OUP
note he said he mid not like me to speak to &SIM Ap-
prehended it was jealousy that made him do it. Hai bete
men a pistol in his possession. Did not believe he wee in
his muses when he did it, and should net wish at all tam beat
yams—Impactor Forherry Bitted that Cushway said epee
befog taken is the station-house that Emma Tyler wanted
Idea to buy two pistols, one to despatch her, the other to
despatch himself, and that there was nothing but brown
paper in the pistol.—Mr. B. Mason, house-surgeon of
St. Bartholomew's Hospital, stated that Emma Tyler
lad been brought into the hospital on Wednestay
week in consequence of a shot wound on the lett side of the
bead. A bullet had entered the flask at one part and come
out about two inches beyond, without Wising the bone.
The left side of her hoe was scorched with pagewder • the
bullet was found in her hair. The wound was not dallier-
ona—The prisoner was committed for triaL—Tha eisperia-
Modest ot the Wesleyan School, in the neigkbendisal k
with the painter resided, said it was with west
that he had hind of the warrens*, as Cudiway had
always teem in the eked as a mild lad, of very kindly
and there was good reason for believing that he
EniallilL een asked by the romantic trash which ailed the
pew *Meadow about town.—The Lord Mayor advised
tat%edema to attend the trial, and certify uto the psi-
sausage.
GITILDHALL.—Ton Box Saar.—Yr. J. Yeausghia-
=l Gerrard's hall, Basing-lane, was summoned for an
—Mr. Culliaridge, of Akieregate-street, stated that
en the 13th inst. he went to the Plower Pot pnblic-tionre in
Disherepate.strest,fer the purpose of catching the last Kings.
lend emmilten He took the box seat, which was vacant
He hod net bean there loog before the coachman came out
dr public house and said that the seat was engaged. Wit.
ae:seaViadhat he supposed it was, as he was is be. He,
shortly after me out, and also mead that
ha served tae place, and desired him M Nee down.
He deeMsd, saying that he had occupied ft same minutes,
whoa the defendant called him a liar, and threatened that if
be dell not descend he would make Wm, and
eventual, he forced winters to the die, and
he biped es the ground to avoid falling. Mr.
Younghneteed aekno wledged that he pushed exsplain-
ant from the seat, "as it is mine, for I pay for it whether I
die w art"—Alderman &demons thought that if there had
only lama eau= courtesy on the oc tori, he should never
have bard el the are The
complainant had no right
to take pommies el tits seat. As the seat was regu-
larly paid foe whether the defendant occupied it or not, be at
all times meld claim it in the same way as if he took a seat
on a soak or any other conveyance. He, under these
had come to the conclusion that Mr. Collin-
ridge hod esly himself to blame and had invited the assault,
for any owner had a right to use reasonable force to eject a
trespasser ; and in this case there appeared to have been no
violence used, therefore the summons was dismissed.
WORSHIP-8 re
Oors•es.—Y.
Fox, a master printer in Abbey-street, Badmal.aus;
was charged with cutting ad wounding Lewis a
broker's man, with intent to do him some
harm.—The complainant was employed esyvo
for tent at the defendant's home ea 'Mien efiefleelle,
bat had no sooner established himself in an upper teem Men
the prisoner ordered him instantly to quit the Aim. Me
was at the same moment seised by the , who d
him by main force to the landing, and Sang ragged him deem to
the bodes of the stairs ; as soon as he recovered himself Ise
took relay in a lower apartment, but was followed by the
primer, who seized hold et the poker and made a furious

attack upon him until the weeps was wrested from him by
his wife sad jouseymem wham Ite assailed him with a
Ghoul, which was also hued eat of his hand. The prisoner
them seised a long knife, used in his business for cutting up
pour, with which he made a violent blow at his head, bat
it " M 11114114 law& by the leather peek of his cap,
Ilrem which it alascsd ele gad laid epos the upper part
of lie Week. The }Wenn they made repeated blows at
him with the knife, and, in his efforts to ward them off, his
heed wes eat in several places. He was ultimately driven
Yee lite West, when he obtained the assistance of a polies-
WM. Whenemased with hies to the house end took the pet-
suer Inn enstedy.—h sower to the charge, the Weiser
deffseed that upon entering his house the complainant failed
peed wee any warrant or other authority for the seizure,
emerl therefore, considered himself justified in exerting his
be efforts to eject him, but denied having taken up a knife
mr am; other weapon upon the ocession.—The prisoner's
jimeneymae, however, who was sent for by the magistrate,
end vs his evidence with manifest reluctance, completely
MmdrmN the oomph' nut's account of the transaction, and
edmitemithatthewantestwas of a protracted anddespetatedes-
adpeion,end that the brolter'saaWtant was bleeding prolwmily
hem the wounds he had sustain( d.—Mr. Hamad! considered
the case of far too serious a nature to be unimarily dealt
with, and ordered the primmer to be committed fee trial.
Demolitions SPIIUTIX—Assts O'Neal was charged with
hawking a quantity of illicit spirits without a Bunn. It was
proved by two witnesses that the prisoner entered the Star
public-house, in Old street, with a can con•sining upwards
of half a gallon of spirits, which she offered for sale ; but the
landlord refused to have any dealings with her, and caused
her to be followed and given into custody. The can of spirits
was produced in court by an excise (facer, who described
them as being a very pernicious compound, which had been
coloured with a preparation of charcoal and other ingredients
to give it the appearance of brandy.—The prisoner, with
great effrontery, eclared that the 'lacer was entirely mis-
taken, as the can contained nothing but simple varnish,
which she had brought over from Ireland.—The prisoner
was ordered to pay the mitigated penalty of 241., or is de-
fault to be committed for three months to the House of Cor-
rection.
MARLBOROIJOII•STRERT.—" RIMING" • Banco-
' Res.—T. W. Preston. a person of respectable connexions,
was charged with having obtained a brougham from
Messrs. Fuller, carriage builders, by fraudulent pretences.
—B. Fuller stated that, on the 26th October, the prisoner
selected a brougham, which he ordered to be furnished with
imperials, and also his crest to be painted on it. The prisoner
stated that the Meson. Peewit', bankers, were his cousins,
and that he kept a banking account with than. The price
of the brougham was 1601., but, with the additious ordered
by the prisoner, the total cost was 1891. The prisoner i
agreed to pay cairn ; but, on the 4th of November, when
the carriage was delivered, no cash was fortbcominF. •
Soon after, in consequence of seeing an advertisement so
the morning papers of a carriage for sale in the Canterbury-
road, Kentiogton, witness sent the clerk to look at the car-
riage, and it was ascertained that this was the identical car- ;
nage sold to the prisoner. Shortly after the brougham was
fetched away on the prisoner's order he called at the ,
manufactory and said it was not convenient for him to pay 1
cult and witness took his bill for the amount, which was I
wade pa able at Messrs. Grote and Prescott's bank on the 1
10th of January, and when it was presented at the banking
house the answer war, " no effects."—H. Ra,pli, clerk to
Messrs. Grote, Prescott, and Co , said the prisoner never
had a banking account with the firm. There were no effects g
to meet bills made payable at that house.—J. N. Bernie, of It
Cornhill, said the prisoner owed him 61., and he proposed to f.O
settle the account by selling him a carriage. The prisrner
brought • brougham which he represented to be his pro- II
perry. Witness advanced him 501. on the security of the 1
carriage, but when more money was applied for, he refused
to make any further 'deuces. The carriage was the one
obtained from Messrs Fuller and Cm—Mr. Ballantine, who
attended for the prisoner, croseezamined the prosecutor, and
elicited that previously to the prisoner coming to the manu-
factory he had been spoken to by. a Mrs. Bedford, who said
• gentleman named Preecett was in want of a carriage, and
would call and whet ans.—The prisoner, in general terms,
denied the charge of fraud, and was ordered to stand mom
milted on this charge.
WESTMINSTER.—AnkIILTiIIf A Bonniest —J.lfolder,
a private in the Scots Fusilier Guards, was charged with
ssoulting a po icemen.—O. Rodwell stated that at about
seven on the previous evening he was in Orchard-street,
Westminster, when defendant, who was drunk, commenced
pulling him about, and wanted to take his cape off. Another
soldier endeavoured to persuade the defendant to go home, a
nut he refused, and alter following comelainant, who tried
to avoid him, endeavoured to shoulder him up against t+•
shop window, and then made several blows,
ri
which compiainrnit warded off. A scuffle ensued,
and they feli, and upon complainant's getting up 1%
defendant threw him over his shoulder, and be fell with
his forehead and face upon the pavement. Defendant was 41
so violent that it required six or seven constables to ctuvey
‘
him to the station. Complainant bad been in very great 14
pain and unfit for duty ever since.—Mr. W. Williamson,
who was passing at the time of the assault, said he saw the le
defendant dash the constable down on the pavement. He r
fell heed first upon the stones.—Defendant, in reply to the
charge, said he was sorry for what had happened, and, in
default of finding bail, was committed to prison for whet
LAMBETH.—A WRALTHY Pineakau —Ann Walsh,
a middle-aged female dressed in widow's weeds,
was charged with stealing a piece of beef steak of the value
of ninepence. Mr. Daddy, butcher, of Baker's-row, Wal-
worth road, deposed that between 12 and 1 o'clock on that
day he noticed the prisoner bargaining at hie stall for some
veces of meat with his man, who bad taken tome of them to is
weigh in the shop, when he saw her hake up a piece of beef
steak and conceal it on her person. On being charged with I
the theft, the prisoner drew from under her arm the piece of
beef, saying she had only taken it in to have it weighed and
pay for It, but he rave her into custody. She begged and
prayed, and offered Dim half-a-crown, and then a crown, to
let her go.—The prisoner, upon whose person Si 9s. in gold
and silver was found, repeated that she intended to pay for
the beef, and said she bad not been from Ireland more than
a few days.—Mr. Norma convicted her in a penalty of 61.,
which she at wee paid, end was discharged out of custody.
SOU 1 HWARK..—CONIIPIKING TO DEFRAUD • RAIL
WAY CONP•IIY.—W. O'Brien was charged will being can-
oe raft: with Duncan and his wife in conspiring to defraud the
London and North Western Railway Company of 1211.,by pre- t
tending that they had received intone injury, owing to a
collision near Leighton-Buzzard, as reported at length in the 0,
I &sprees of the 17th.—A policeman said that when O'Brien
was informed of the nature of the warrant issued against g
Man, he said that Duncan was a traitor, or words to that ef-
1
feet.—The prisoner declined for the present saying anything
with reference to so serious a charge, except to correct the
policeman's a sternest to to the words he seal in reference to
Duncan. What he did say was, that Duncan was a man
' capable of saying or doing anything.—Mr. Cottingham said
he would take bail, the prisoner's own recognisance in the
sum of 2001., and two sureties of 1001. each —The prisoner,
who s-id be was not in condition to find such heavy sureties,
was then committed In default.
THAMES.—Fns Rxwasias.—Mr. T. Christie, tea-
-1 dealer, appeared to resist the payment of three rewards to
twe firemen and a turneock, which the churchwardens and
overseers of the hamlet of Mile-end Old town bad paid, and
summoned the defendant to reimburse the same.—Mr.
Christie said he was called upon to pay the rewards on the
ground that there was a fire in the chimney of his house in
the Commercial-rod, but he meant to deny that there was
any fire a ell, and he was determined to resist the payment.
—Mr. Hickinott, carers er of the hamlet of Mile end Old-
town, on the part of the parochial authorities, dis-
claimed any hostility to Mr. Christie, and said the
churchwardens had paid the rewards and were bound
by law to sue the defendant.—W. Jones said he was
passing down the New Road, near Hereford-place, Com-
mercial road, on the 19th ot December, when a spark fell on
his noes and burnt it. He looked up, and saw sparks and
smoke issuing from a chimney-pot at the top of Mr. Chris-
tie's house, end he went to the Welleicemsquare station for
the engines, which moon arrived, and the water was turned
on.—Mr. Yardley : And allowed to flow through the streets,
becauso a few sparks issued from the chimney. Did you fee
say flames at all I—Jones : No, I did not ; but I know my
nose was burnt,and that the road was strewed with sparks
A fireman who brought c ne of the brigade engines to the place,
said tnat he was told there was a chimney on fire
sad he went into the house adjoining Mr. Christie's, tomer-
tain if there was any chimney on fire there, but could not
discover anything of the kind. He then went into Mr.
Christie's how, and saw his young man, who denied there
was anything the matter ; but he was certain there was.'
There was • fire in the grate in the lower part of the haw,
and he believed the chimney leading from it was on fire.—
Mr. Yardley said this was more extraordinary still. The
fireman knew so little of the locality of the are that he was
obied to ins all the fireplaces in the two houses, and at
lasts grate was pointed oat to him, and he con-
clude the chimney was on fire. Firemen and turncoats
could not expect rewards because a few sparks issued from a
chimney. If he were to order housekeepers to pay rewards
every time a few 'patio' were seen coming out of a chimney,
it would be a most intolerable nuisance. He dismissed the