The Express.
London, England, 1853-02-22 00:00:00

TO 11111 IDITOI OP Till =PRESS.

Stn,—As you have taken up the canoe of the
agricultural labourers in this con, Hume by this poet
sent you a ropy of the Salisbury ;meal, in which you
will see that • yous man, named Masselwhite, aged 17
years, wu au before the magistrates at Salisbury,
for leaving the empley of his master, Mr. Nicholue, and
in his defense meld be bad but three &Maim • week, sad
he did not think that was enough.
I send also a paragraph, cut from mother Salisbury
' piper, the Quay Mirror, published yesterday, and in
which is a report of soother case brought before the see-
strata* yesterday, of • carter, David Yemen, who wee ram-
stoned for leaving • situatioa, where he had the sum of sir
shillings a week, and along with these two moos are si: of
poaching. Deal you think, sir, if you bad to work is the
fields alt day for a shilling, aid saw a hare worth eighteen-
pence destroyieg ur master's crepe, you would be
tempted to knock him down and pat bin into your pocket ?
I should.

A great portion of the land in the parish of Barford is
the property of the Earl of Pembroke, brother to Mr. Syd-
ney Herbert, who is taking so much pains to improve the
condition of young women in London, by sending them oat
of the country. Would he not be doing as much good in
trying to improve the condition of the young men who are
almost the serfs of his brother's soil ?

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I enclose my eard, bet have so wish my name *head
sync Ir.—Yours. Ate., 8.
Trowbridge, Feb. 16.

ROBBERY or BANN NOTES.—On Saturday even-
ing, about nine o'clock, a very daring robbery was com-
mitted at the shop of Mr. °llium', silversmith, at the
corner of Ezehange-street and St. Mary's gate, Manchester.
Mr. 011ivant had been engaged at a desk close to the dace
11 facing Market-street, adding up the sales of the day, and •
cash box containing a large sum in bank notes was lying
open before him. He had moved about one step away from
the desk in order to be a little nearer the light, when a
man suddenly darted in from the street, climbed up • wire
screen in front of the desk, and snatched away the notes.
As he was going out again his feet slipped, and in
order to save himself from falling be yut his hand
against the door, but in so doing he burst the
string which had kept the notes together, sad they roll on
the fiaor. The thief then made a desperate snatch at a few
of the notes, and vanished into the street. The whole had
been the work of a moment, and the shape's, who at lint
had been in doubt whether the man's entrance had not
been a drunken freak, on punning him to the door could
find no indication of the thiers course except the proffered
information of • man who steed by the window. He asked
the shopmeu, " Are not you going after that man ? " and
added that be had gone up an entry in St. Mary's-gste.
The thief. however had got clear off, though leaving the
greater part of his prise behind in his trepidation. The
po:ioe are taking active steps for his apprehension. We
believe that the amount first seized was above 1,6001., but
that the thief dropped above 1,3001. se we bays de scribed.

CALORIC ENEtlielefl.—Wo have no wish to nay
word against the Dew method of propulsion that is about to
be tested in its application to the Ericsson, which vessel in
the course of a short period may be expected to arrive I.
this country from America. AU that we wish to draw
attention to, without disparagement to any. successful 'modi-
fication that Cautein Ericsson may put in operation con-
nected with heated air ea • motive power, is the het, that
the invention, said to be his, is not new. Aboutthirty years
ago, a vessel named the Highland Lad, that many of our
readers will remember as a passage-boat on the Clyde, was
fitted up by Messn.ClaudGirdwood and C0.,0f Glasgow,with
a caloric engine, the invention, we believe, of the Rev.
Mr. Stirling, now minister of a parish—Galston, we think—
near Kilmarnock. This engine propelled the vessel at the
moderate rate that gave satisfaction is these days, being
estimated es working to twenty horses power. It was sub-
sequently removed from the vessel fa consequence of the
working parts yielding to the enormous heat, and thereby
becoming soft and giving way. and its place was supplied
by an ordinary steam engine. We fear that Capt. Ericsson's
engine wi I labour under a like disadvantage; bat, be that
as it may, he must content himself as ranking in this coun-
try as the mere modifier of the invention of Mr. Stirling,
whose caloric engine we saw working regularly in Dundee,
in 1941, in • factory.—Glasgow Advertiser.
ADULTERATION OP LARD.—A communication has
been received by the Pharmaceutical Society, on the above
subject, from Mr. Whipple, in which he states that for
some time mast be has had reason to suspect the purity of
commercial lard, and bad recently made a few experiments,
which led to the detection of large quantities of some fari-
naceous substance in it. In • quantity weighing 10bi lb.
he found ss much as 221 lb. of this foreign matter; and in
ano:her lot, weighing 431 lb., he found 121 lb. of a similar
substance. Mr. Whipple points out the pernicious effects
which this adulteration would be likely to produce in the
emnloymcnt of such lards for some pharmaceutical pur-
-1 •
polies, and the danger which might ensue from its appli-
cation to machinery. In another communication from
Mr. Calvert, of Manchester, that gentlemen confirms Mr.
Whipple's statement, and informs us, in addition, that
the American lard analysed by him contained from 10
to 12 per cent. of water, 2 to 3 per cent. of alum, and
about 1 per cent. of quicklime. The quantity of alum,
It is suppcsed, is added by the manufacturer for the pur-
Ipose of communicating to the lard the property of facili-
tating t'le reliable, and increasing the whiteness, of the con•
fectiouer's paste, in which it is largely employed.
THE LATE ELECTION FOR THE CARDIGANSHIRE
Sokol:01E11.—A tradesman in Aberystwitb, late a stamp
distributor, has been informed against for the penalty of
11001. costs, and proems has been served, for having sued on
, the conservative side. The conservatives, on hearing this,
were much astonished, and a subscription list has been set
on foot, and the amount required bar nearly been collected.
—Carmarthen Journal.

PROGRESS OF EmIGRATION.—The emigration
mania has taken deep root in Wiltshire. The Hight. Hon.
Sidney Herbert, who resides in that county, does all in his
power to assist poor persons to emigrate to Australia. A
large village in Wiltshire is almost depopulated, owing to
the inhabitant, h tying emigrated.
NEW ARRANGEMENT 01 TUE OVERLAND MAIL.
—The neat overland arrival from India will bring a Cal-
cutta and China mail. It i. due at Malta to-morrow, and
is a day or two a telegraphic announcement from Trieste
of its arrival may be expected. This India and China mail
is due at Marseilles on the 2Gth instant. This will be the
Brat arrival from China and Calcutta in the beginning of
the month. it will bring news from Hong-Kong up to
the 11th ult., from Singapore up to the lith ult., and from
Calcutta up to the 20th ult.
SOUTLI EASTERN RAILWAY.—Grose traffic receipts
fur the week ending Feb. 19, 1833, 9,6331. Os. 7d.; ditto,
Feb. 91,1832,10,02:1.186.2d. Demean in 1853, 4881. 17s. 7d.

Kat)) 3intellteence.

HOUSE OF LORDS—YESTERDAY.
GAMMILL C. TRY CuDDISSIUNDIOI UP WOODS MID
Fouvas AND run Lo: AMWAY' or SCOTLAND.

Thjt cause, which was commenced at the lain sitting of
the hou6e, was resumed to-liy. The opening of the ap-
pellant's cue we. not concluded when the boas. adjourned;
we therefore ri:serve our report.

EQUITY CO URTS.—YarrzsDAY.
bn'ou Tl■ Laws Ammar or Arram..
Ex rARTI HACSIVILL.

Mr. C. M. Rolm.ll appeared in support of an application
by Elisabeth Hakewill, a married woman, to be permitted
to cue in forget pauperis without a next friend ; that she
might be at liberty to file her petition in this court without
the payment of the fee of 11. required by the orders of the
court ; and, lastly, that counsel and solicitor might be as-
signed to her by the court. The object of the proposed
proceeding was to obtain the custody of her children under
seven years of age, four of whom were kept from her by
her husband, from whom she war living separate. The
lady had herself obtained possession of two of her chil-
dren, ono above and the other under weep years of age,
whom she kept secreted from her husband. After the
quarrel and separation of the husband and wife, the latter
had sued for and obtained a decree of the Ecclesiastical
Court fur a restitution of conjugal rights. This order had
been evaded by the husband, who, instead of taking her
home to his house in Harrington-squore, hail hired another
house, in which he had assigned her separate apartments,
but had avoided all communication with her. The hus-
band then obtsined a writ of habeas corpus against the
wife to bring up the bodies of the two children whom she
withheld, and, upon her net obeying the writ, applied to
Mr. J notice Erie for an order committing her for contempt.
The judge did not at ones sign the order to commit, but
had expressed his intenti:n to do so to-morrow, unless
application were iii the meantime made by the
lady to this court for the custody of her children.
Vice-Chancellor Kindersley, before whom the application
was in the first instance made, had requested that it should
be carried either before the Lord Chancellor, or the Lords'
Justices. The application was supported by an sMdayit of
the lady, stating that she was not worth 51., exclusive of
her wearing apparel; and that she was unable to obtain
the 11. to pay the fee upon the proposed petition.
Their lor&ships made the order asked.

UK= m Morro. or Tao lour.
HIWISON o. Nlora.

The bill in this ease was filed for the foreclosure of a
mortgage whereby the defendants, William Negus and his
wife, in consideration of a debt due from the husband to
the plaintiff, e.nveyed certain real estates in March, near
Wisbescb, and certain sums of money, which arose from
the wife's property, to the plaintiffs for securing payment
of the debt and interest. It appeared that in 1848, more
than two years prior to the mortgage, the husband and wife
effected a post t.uptial settlement, whereby the same estates
and sums of m, ney were vested in the defendants, Thomas
Tustin; and Thomas Gales, upon certain trusts for the be-
nefit of the has land ,and wife and their children, of whom
there are two. The mortgage, as well u the settlement,
had been acknowledged by Mrs. Negus under the Fines
and Recoveries Abolition Act. The question raised was
whether the mortgagee had a prior claim to the trustees
and persona beneficially interested under the settlemet.
Mr. Loyd and Mr. B. F. Bilton, who appeared for the
plaintiff, contended that inasmuch as the settlement, al-
though emoted previously to the mortgage, was in the
nature of a voluntary deed, it must consequently be post-
poned to the mortgage which was given for a valuable con-
sideration, even admitting that the mortgagee had notice
of the settlement, and that the case must be governed by
" Butterfield and Heath," Low Tinter, and Helms and
Helena," also reported is the Low Tunes of the 12th and
19th of February last.
Mr. R. Palmer and Mr. Osborne appeared for the de-
fendants.
liss Honour reserved his j,dgment.

Bees Vtai-Caascaraos inessauxv.
IS if HAiIiaLL.—MARRIED WOMAN SUING IX FORMA

This was an appliestioOossthe;rt of a married woman
named Elisabeth Hakewell, that she might be at liberty to
present a petition, wader Justice Talfourd's Aet, for mess
to her children, in forma pooped', and without • next
friend. The circumstances of the case were peculiar. It
appeared that for some time past quarrels had taken place
between Mrs. Hakewell and her husband. There were
seven children of the marriage ; Ave were at present In the
custody of the husband, some of whom were wader seven
years of age, and two were with the wife, one of whom was
under seven. A suit had been instituted by Mrs. Hake-
well in the Ecclesiastical Court, for the purpose of obtaining
• restitution of conjugal rights, and a decree was given
in her favour. The husband and wife then lived =der the
same roof, but separate in different parte of the bran. Mrs.
Hakewell had lately applied for • writ of babies mew,
to obtain the custody of the two children in Mis eon piN-
session, end the judge at common law risnmememdei
Hakewell to apply to this court for access to those children,
who were under 7 years of age, under Justice Talfourd's
Aet. Not having any money allowed her by her husband,
and being unable to procure any, the present application was
made that she might be allowed to sue in forma pauperis.
The issuiog of the writ of habeas corpus had been deferred,
in order that this petition might be presented.
Mr. C. Roswell appeared in support of the application,
and cited the ease of Wellesley v. Wellesley," 21 Law
Journal, 738, in which it was decided that the wife of a
peer, living apart from her husband, might sue in forma
pasperis without a mot friend.
The Vies-Chancellor said this was a as which ought to
be =rationed to the Lord Chancellor, who was the proper
person to decide whether a petition might be presented or
not. An application to the Lords' Justices, in ease his
lordship was not sitting, would do equally well, but he did
I not think that he had power to make the ceder.

COURT OF QUEEN'S BENCH.-Yunzimy.
&moils at Min lam is laourom—Busiiiin, Low Cuieso.r.
LIM • Bri/CIAL JOWL

TXI Q 17311 O. ---3XT 103 PI3IIYRY.
This was an indictment aphid H. Broome, charging
that upon the trial of one Sill he (Broome) had hem guilty
of wilful and corrupt perjury.
This indictment arises out of the affair which has been so
often before the public, and is known as the Brighton card
cheating ease. The defendant is the well known pugilist,
and the prosecutor was an attorney. After the occurrence
at Brighton, Mr. Sill had been employed to prosecute the
parties implicated in that business, one of whom was the
defendant's brother. In respect of this prosecution there
had been a bill of costs due to Mr. Sill, amounting to up-
wards of 3001., which was taxed down, through various
technical objections, to a sum under 40f. Some time after
this taxation Mr. Sill met H. Broome at en oyster shop In
the Strand, when the latter said the taxation was a mis-
take, and that he had some acceptances which had been
entrusted to him by Mr. Hemp (the prosecutor
in the card cheating case) for the pumas* of pay-'
fag the satesat taxed off the bel. Mr. 8111 I
caned by appointment at H. Broome 's and found that the
securities mentioned by the defendant were merely bills of
exchange drawn by Hemp, but with no drawer's name in-
serted. Mr. Sill explained that these were valueless, and
ultimately H. Broome drew a bill upon his brother (J.
Become) for 2401., sad handed It to the prosecutor as col-
lateral security. Thus, according to the prosecutor's state-
ment, the securities were merely handed to him in payment
of his bill of orate. On the occasion of the indictment of
Mr. Sill, H. Broome had sworn that the bills were obtained
from him by Sill, upon a representation that he (Sill)
would, males* the bills were siege him, proceed with the
prosecution of Mr. J. Broome ; but upon the receipt of the I
securities he would use his influence with the Secretary of
State, by means of which J. Broome would be released
from all liability. This statement the prosecutor declared
to be false.

Mr. Sill wu called in rapport of this case.
At the conclusion of his evidence (which occupied about
two hours and a half) the other witnesses in support of the
prosecution were called, but they did not answer to their
names.

Lord Campbell thin said, upon the unsupported testimony
of the prosecutor, he did not think • verdict for the crown
could be found. He doubted much, however, whether
justice was at all obstructed by the non-appearance of the
witnesses. There never was such a combination of infamy
as had appeared in all the transactions connected with this
Brighton card-cheating cue. It was shocking to think that
such transactions could be carried on in this country. A ver-
dict must be fund for the defendant.

The jury expressed their entire concnrrence in what had
&lien from his lordship, and returned a verdict accord-
ingly.
Mr. M. Chambers concurred is the observation which
Lord Campbell had made.
Verdict for the defendant.

ANDREWS V. CIIAPNAN.-.-ALLZOBD LIBEL IN THE

MORN'S° !JERALD " NIRCIPAPE-11:

This was an action for libel. The defendant pleaded not
guilty and a justification.
The plaintiff appeared in person. Sir F. Thesiger and
Mr. Bovill were for the defence.

From the plaintiff's statement the following facts ap-
peared. Mr. Andrews wu an attorney and notary, and
the defendant was the registered publisher of the Morning
Herald newspaper. Upon the 20th of November, 18410,
there appeared in that paper a report of a judgment of the
Lord Chancellor C,.ttcultaint in • suit in which Mr. An-
drews was plaintiff. This pediment wu preceded by a
narrative, stating what purported I. be the facts of the ease,
but the plaintiff contended that it wu an unfair and libel-
lous statement.

The alleged libel was then pat in. It stated that the
plsintiif in the suit (Mr. Andrews) had, as early as 1824,
commenced proceedings in Chancery ; that since that time
he bad made a great many applications to the Court of
Chancery ; that be bad also proceeded at law ; and that
the course he had pursued was harassing to the defendants
in the suit.

A mimeo' was also called to identify Mr. Andrews.
The detindut's plea of justification wu proved by the
printed ca• e, which the plaintiff had made out on carrying
the suit before the House of Lords, where it is now
pending.
Mr. Clark was called, also in support. He proved that
the printed case n as delivered by the plaintiff, and that the
report in the Mot 'sing Herald was in substance a true ac-
count of the matter.

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The p,alutiff replied.
Lord Cal:label% in summing np, said it wee rather a me-
laaci old to bee a gentleman so far advanced in
life, who might have ended his days in respectibility
and comfort, from a morbid love of litigation,