The Express.
London, England, 1848-12-01 00:00:00

MILITARY.

Foartott Saavics.—We intimated some days since that
thet 64th, 70th, artcl4l3rd regiments had rtecterwie orders
regimentsto gr7a.relbr
tloa
will embark for their dest now
ination in January neat.
MILITARY ROADIIIT.WOOLWICK. —The gentlemen cadets
who bad been dismissed in consequence et the prevalesne of market
fewer in the establishment, returned to the Academy on Monday. The
practical claw will past their examination for commiasions in about •
fortnight ; there not being at the present time a single second-lieute-
nant In the corps of Royal Artillery, and the list of first.litutermais
being one deficient of the proper number.

SPORTING.
TATTERSALL'S.—TMtaiDAy.

The subjoined quotations are made up chiefly from the
bnainew transacted at Warwick on Tueeday and Wedmedas, the bet-
tins of yesterday having been on so mall a goal, ea twarctlY to Justify
retain.
CHESTER CIIP.-35 to 1 apt Coamek (400 to 10 laid)
.1,000 to 20 apt Blucher (t), 1,000 to 15 apt Heft= Platoff colt It)0:1
mt,ooo to SO apt Bon Mot (t), 2,000 to 30 apt Peep-o'daoy t)
*7,000 to 120 apt Fogleman (t), *5,000 to 70 apt Canceou (t)..2,
to /5 apt rum= (t), 2,000 to 25 apt Attraction (t), 1,000 to 10 apt
Liailame (t).
• Laid at Inninineces.
DERBY. —l2 to 1 apt Honeycomb (t to 50:.), 20 to I rest
()stetter (t), 24 to 1 apt triel, 40 to 1 apt Saucy Dick (t to 500.
•10 to 1 apt The Knout (t to 501.), 40 to 1 apt Montague, 45 to 1 apt
Eacalade (t). _ - .

• Laid at Leamington.
atia.-7 to 1 agst Sister to ttrkaright (t).

Cabo inteillgente.

COURT OF QUEEN'S BENCH.—YISTMIDST.
Nat Putt—Before Lord Denman and a Common Jury._
BATTEREBT v. RossELL.—SLANDaIt.—Mr. Serjt. Wilkins
and Mr. Lush were counsel for the plaintiff; and Mr. Cock-
burn, Q.C., with whom was Mr. Hugh Hill, appeared for
the defendant.—This was en action brought by a publican to
recover compensation in damages for certain slanderous ex-
pressions uttered by the defeat t.—Mr. Sent. Wilkins, in
stating the cue, said that the plaintiff was the proprietor of
the Prince of Wales public-house, at Tumham-green, which
he had conducted for the last ten years ; and the defendant
had formerly been head gardener to the late Mr. George
Robins, but wiz now in the service, in a single? capacity,
al Mr. Lumley, the lessee of the Italian Op, re-
Ismael. The circumetance which gave rise to the
slander being uttered, of which the plaintiff now coni-
'Mined, was this. On the 7th of February, in the present
year, a young man of the name of William Aflick who was
gardener to Lady Montague, called at the Prince of Wales,
about four in the afternoon, where he remained until seven
in the evening. From that time be was missing until the
10th of March, when he was found drowned in the river
Thames, under Mr. Lumley's garden-wall. The flint per-
'on who saw the body was the defindant, who identified It.
The deceased must once taken to a public-house called the
Cannon, and a police officer of the name of Scomey having
heard of the occurrence. thought it his duty to inquire into
'he matter. Accordingly, he went in company with a per-
sin of the name of Richard Bullock to view
the body, and, after having seen it in an outhouse
belonging to the Cannon public-house ,be returned in-doors.
The defendant happened to be there, as were also mete
other parks, and a conversation ensued between him and
Scotney, it the course of which the former made an accu-
sation against the plaintiff. The defendant had not dared
to justify the observations that he mode. If the chugs
against his client was true, it was the duty of the defend-
ant, u a good and honest citizen, to have proved it, in or-
der that if the plaintiff was guilty of the offence alleged
against him he might be visited with the rigour of the law.
The conversation to which he was about to call tbeirattenti
wascommenced by Scotney saying to the defendant," It wee
very fortunate, Mr. Russell, that the body was found so near
you, and that you were able at moo to identily it, uI don't
t',ink you could now." The defendant replied, "Itis a fin-
gular affair, and that Butersby is in the habit of drugging
his liquors for the purpose of Unpitying people, that they
may be robbed in his house ; and I have no doubt that my
friend (meaning the deceased) has been served in the same
way," and then the defendant added, that he had been
drugged in the plaintiff's house himself. He further stated
that two or three of his friends had also had their liquor
drugged at the plaintiff's house, and that he would not as
much as drink a glass of ale at the Prince of Wales, for
"it was a bad house, and • bad lot frequented
it." On the MIMI inning Scotney had occafiim to
see Mr. Milk at a public-house at Hammersmith about an-
other inquest tint he was then ho.ding, and also to inform
him that the burly of Atli* had been found. While
Scotney wiz having an interview with the deputy-coroner
the defendant came in, and ~gain he made the same r.otrift.
than agaivat the plaintiff. The learned serjeaut here is
pealed the observations of the defendant, which Were in sub
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