The Express.
London, England, 1865-06-21 00:00:00

LAW INTELLIGENCE
dram DAY.)

COURT OF COMMON PLEAS.

Stitinp at Nisi Pries in ilicidlssax.—(Bstoni Lord Chid
Jurtiea Brig sad s Special Jury.)

11600111 e. CLAIM —IXTRAOIDINANT ACTION otos • 800.
This was an action epee a loan for 3001., which had best
given by Mr. Giles Clarke, a solicitor, and formerly diik
to the Saddlers' Company, to the plaintiff, a young wafts
with whom he had beset on intimate terms. The ease we,
partly heard yesterday, and the hearing was resureed thh
more
Haan, Duman, Q. 0., Hr. Kthealey, sad ]fr. Gm?
for the plaintiff ; and ID. Hawkins, Q.C., aid
r. H. far the befeedent.
Ma. Elizabeth Staler, formerly cook in the service of ths
defeedsat4that she remembered a ball takingdetz:
Saddlers' June, 1861. The plaintiff and
went there came home together. Witham dimwit*
noticed certain circumstances.
The Lord Chief Justice interrupted at this stage of ty
proceedings, and suggested before the ow went hone
the propriety of mandating whether some arrangemses
could not be come to.
The foreman of the jury saki that they also thought that
owns arrangement ought to be mad&
Upon this suggestion a long consultation took place he.
tween the enamel, which resulted in a settlement.
Mr. Denman said his friend desired that he ehoe'd, sadly
was perfectly willing to make a statement. From what
bad heard from his irked, he had no doubt that there es
sufficient ground for behaving that Mr. °larks, at tinting
that this bead was given, and also at the titue when be alp
posed that he had afterwards catcalled it, was is each
stets of mind that he did not entirely saderstay
the nature of some of the acts that he was dam,
Oa the other band his {fawned friend agreed that he lad rest
sufficient more to eat op against the plaintiff that she knew
the condition of Mr. Clarke's mind during wine Isaterid
portions of time, nor that she did not believe that the hag
a good esearity In the bond.
Mr. Hawkins said that he had not proposed to est the
jury for their verdict upon the plea of fraud which thin
was epos the record • but his great reliance had hem nee
the state of Mr. Clehe's beat. He should bare prowl
by medical testimony, that from early is
Clarke's intellect had suffered, but be did not say that ghs
plaintiff knew of the troubled state in which he was it
that time. The melt was that Mr. Clarke had to go into
an asylum for a time, but his recovery was not completed
lag the end of 1861, because in the early part of the sett
I year ha had agate to go into an asylum, and remained mist
eare until the close of 1863. Down to the tiros of this
malady attacking him be had been aoiverially acknowledged
to be a man of very quiet gentlemanly habits, and strictly
regardful of everything that a man of his position 'hold
regard. He had only to add that he believed that the
arrangement which had been come to was one which eel
satisfactory to both parties, and that he had thought at
right that there should be no verdict taken, but that then
should be a juror withdrawn.
A juror was then withdrawn, subject to terms which
were not mentioned in court.

COURT OF PROBATE AND DIVORCE.
(Before the Judge Ordinary.)
ZEIMONSON V. ZEMMOL

The petitioner (who appeared in person) prayed fora di.
worm, on the ground of cruelt►, adadtery, and drawbar.
She maths wife of a coppenmith, and she lived with him et
Lambeth till 1858, when he left bor. Darin the embalms.
boo, he had treated her very badly, sad he had =MAW
adultery.
Decree aid with costs.

SNUB V. SMITE AND &DION.
Dr. Slinks and Kr. Murray for the petitioner; Die
Waddilove for the respondent.
The parties were married is Ju1y.1857, and they sailed NOG
al forwards for India; the petitioner, Mr. Henry Claudius
Sandi, being a merchant in Cblentta. Mrs. Smith cams to
England more than once on account of her health ; and so
one of these occasions
,she returned in the seine skip "Fitt
the 00-respondent, an ensign in the 54th. To contort ,ity
the Indian custom, the Smiths invited hi to Dior hoar,
and be continued for some months apparently on the
footing of an ordinary visiting soqoalatanc•
Not tke twit wrong wee elispected ; bat on thi
Mat of March, 1882, the respondent suddenly quitted ha
home, leaving behind her a letter for her husband begienica,
" When you 'waive this I shall be with the only being
have ever loved. How I love him yon may gum when l Isar
my children for hic sake." There had been two children ton
of the marriage ; and in • subsequent part of the letter, de
aid that air had for weeks been weaning her heart tom
them. The husband nu reading this note, set off in pinion,
but VI she had obtained several hours' start it was trucks"
Evidence was given to show that she continued to collate
with the on-respondent.
The court made a decree nisi with oasts.

COURT OF BANKRUPTCY.
(Before Mr. Registrar Brougham.)
II Si JOZATIIAN NATTHITIS.—DITIDIND.
This ease may now be said to have reachel MLA
o=The amigo's, Mr. Paul, having received resale
01. offered by the govetement, the North Loses
Railway Company, and Mere. Roberts and Co., the
endears were today summoned for the purpose of &clues
&dividend. The debts proved against t • estats amount I,
5671., and the sum available for dividend, after deludes
the expenses, is 2401.
Application was made on behalf of the bankrupt for a
allowance out of the estate, and 501. was voted to bin.
A resolution was passed declaring a dividend of Si. is the
pound.
DI KZ LOBO ILLIDIT GORDON.
This case was reoently before the court on the quails
of examination sad discharge. His lordship it described si
a tobacco and ooloaial broker, of Feochureh•stieet. The
wee a sitting for dividaud. Debts to the amount of 711.
hays been proved ; the assets in head are 5661. A rash.
tion was pained declaring a dividend of 12a. 6). n the
mead.
(Before Mr. Registrar Hazlitt.)
IN BC BISHOP.
The baakrupt was a builder, in an 6:Maim way ci bee
nem at Portsmouth. His liabilities are said to he Ant
25,0631., with assets of large amount. Mr. Orcebie, of es
firm of Qnlltsr, Bell, and Co., official liquidators of Ai
Portsmouth and South Heats Banking Company who he
creditors for 6,5001., was acres assignee. The smuts es
in mune of preparation by Mr. Slater. An allowance cf
51. • week was mode to the bankrupt.