The Express.
London, England, 1853-08-27 00:00:00

ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE.

NORTHERN (. IRCUIT.—LtvERroot, Auc. 26.
Oetoaa M. Jrxnec

M`NAVOOTEN P. THE I%lAYit ♦M, CORPORATION or
Lti-EurouL.

The court sat this morning at nine o'clock, and from
cousultati•ms which were going on amongst the leg el gen-
tlemen engaged in the case it seemed probable that some ar-
rangement would be loon come to.
Upon the Attorney-General arriving be said he was
happy to inform the court that an arrangement had been
come to by which the jury were to be discharged from
giving a verdict upon all the issues except the plea of jufti-
tication upon which a verdict was to he entered fur the
defendants. The plaintiffs to give sip all claim to compen-
sation for the past, and in consideration thereof the defen-
dants to give up their claim for costs, all litigation to be put
an end to—as well with the corporation as with the con-
trators. All questions of future damage to be referred to
the legal arbitrator. He (the Attorney-General) hoped
that the defendants would be able so to conduct their works
that no necessity for future li•igatioss would arise.
Sir Fitzroy kelly concuricd in what bad fallen from the
Attorney-General, and said that the terms come to were
uch as would secure the plaintiffs from further damage, so
far as the corporation could possible do so in the construc-
tion of the works ; and it they were compelled to use the
goits, the) were as noun aspossibh, if the circumstances
admitted of it, to give notice to the plain.iffs.

THE POLICR COURTS.
0 UILDRALL.

A gantionsan attended yesterday b. fore Mr. Al/. Finis,
siecompanied,by Mrs. Mitchell, to apply on that lady's behalf
for a summons or a warrant,whichever might be WM( d ne-
mum against Sarah Sich,who gave evidence at the trial of
Mitchell against the Prince of Armenia, for wilful and cor-
rupt perjury. The gentleman stated that the tel took
place on the Bth it July last in the Court of Queen's
Bench, Guildhall, on which occasion a verdict was given
against the Prince, damages 7501. The gentleman said he
bad enjoyed the confidence of Mr. Mitchell both
before and after the trial, and thought his
conduct unimpeachable, and being the friend of all
parties, he was making this application with a view
to check the proceedings taken in the Ecclesiastical C net
to obtain a divorce. The assignment of perjury would be
grounded on that part of Sarah Sich's evidence in which
she swears that a pair of boots were brought home on the
morning of Wednesday, the Bth of Septemle r, ac(' that on
taking them up to Mrs. Mitchell, she found that lady and
the Prince of Armenia in that position which led the jury
to believe the charge established. The circumstance in
itself appeared very insignificant; but it proved very
material to the case, for Lord Campbell, in addressing the
jury, told,them, it they believed that witness, the charge
was made ow', and they must find a verdict for 'he plain-
tiff. Now, the witnoses applicant intended to produce
would show that the boots were brought home
in the evening, and not in the morning, and
on Saturday the 3rd of September, and they were taken
up to Mrs. Mitchel on the following Monday, September
the sth. The Prince of Armenia was at present abroad,
and the question therefore was whether Mn. Mitchell, not
having been either the plaintiff or defendant, although the
injured party, in the action in which the perjury was
alleged to have been committed, could, in the absence of the
pricers, take out a summons against the party cons.
plainod of.
Alderman Finnis asked if the prince had applied fur •
new trial.

The gentleman said the prince applied at Judges' Cham-
bers, but he was required to pay into court the amount of
damage ; and being un exile, and not able to raise the
money, he was obliged to refire, and leave his friends to
fight his battle for him.
Alderman Flinn+ said that the specific charge of perjury
suet be set forth in the summons, fur it we, not a case for
a warrant, before it could be investigated by a magi-trate.
The applicant, not bi mg prepared with the precise form
in which the charge ought to be framed, then left the
court, on the understanding that a summons should issue
when applied for in the proper form.
BOW-STREET.

_ .
filbert Hardman, one of the swell mob, was charged
with stealing a gold watch from the person of Mr. Jo►eph
Huisegen, a foreigner.
The prosecutor stated that he ws.: leaving Drury•lane
Theatre with a lady, when he fi It a sudden tug at his fob,
sad in shother minute he found that his wati.h was g ine,
having been torn from the ring which attached it to his
chain. He seized the head of the prisoner, satisfied that
he was the thief; end the ring ass found at the prisoner's
feet.

A soldier on duty at the theatre deposed that he plate.)
up the watch near the spot where the robbery occurred.
The watch was produced and identified, and the prisoner
was emnimitted for trial.

deny bonal4, a tailor, wu charged with assauh.log
in lrishwoman._ _

The parties lived in Nottingham court, and the be-
haviour of Me defeudant in the dock showed him to he
the wildest of his race ; but the woman had token such
pains to besmear het Lice with blond, that Mr. Jardine sus-
pected her of cossider.itily es.tugetating the nature of the

The defendant, who could scarcely speak from the in-
tensity of his passion, said that he had slightly corrected
the complainant's boy fur wilfully annoying him, and then
the boy's mother and a host of violent lrishoomen com-
menced au attack upon him, and he merely defended him-
self from hping murdered. lle assured his worship that he
was the honest's', most intlir.trious, and most respectable
person ever brought before him.
Mr. Jardine considered hint the meat passionate man he
ever saw in his life, and this satisfied Aim that an assault
bad been committed, if not so bad as represented.
The defendant was then tined at, or three weeks. He
declared his intention logo to prison.
Thomas Williams, a convicted felon, was charged with
highway rubbery and with assaulting the police.
The prosecutor, John Kelly, a house porter, living in
Dorset-np.are, was passing from Angel. court into Long-
acre, between 12 and 1 o'clock at night, when the prisoner
pounced suddenly upon him, seized Dim by the throat, and
held km in that paition while a coapanion, actin custody,