The Express.
London, England, 1848-05-31 00:00:00

EXPRESS, WEDNFSDAY EVENING. MAY 31, lB4g

nature the court only gave effect to the intention of the
legislature to secure to authors of such works the profits
ansieg from their representation. The use of the production
in question, both by the plaintiff and the defendant, showed
that it was adapted for representation, and mieht be pro-
ductive of profit. Upon the whole, therefore, the court was
of opinion that. e
" Ship on Fire " was • dramatic pieoe,
and Crosby-hell, for the time being, • place of dramatic en-
tertainment within the meaning of the statute. The rule
must accordingly be discharged.
COURT OF CORYON FLRAS.
Mildew In Demo.
ORINN V. SLACI.—RIONT OF BAILS" TO MAINTAIN
TILTEN.—Tbis was an action of truer for a hose, tried at
theO London sittings after lest term, when a verdict was
found for he defendant, lei, bng reserved to the plainti
to enter at
verdict for 161., which the tury found to he theff
velem of the horse. The facts of the cue need not be repeated
It is sufficient to state that the defendant, having a claim
against a person of the name el Newman, the owner of the
horse, for ita sgistmee, seized it when in the pouession of
the plaintiff, and afterwarda, under a sulipmed right of lien
and of sale, in order to reimburse himself his demand, and
having first given smite of his intention to Nereman, mold
the horse at an auction. The judge at the trial ruled that
the defendant ii an agister had no right of lien, end
that though be had • lien this (lid not com-
prise • right to sell, but left it to the j
t ury
by
to
any whether there was any truth in the story old
Newman and another witness of the sale of the torso from
Newman to the plaintiff.—The jury, thinking the transac-
tion a mere shuffle, in order to give the plaintiff an r
an ar-
um. of title to maintain the action, found their verdict for
the defendant.—Mr. Serjeant Talfourd now moved, puss
suaat to leave reserved, to enter a verdict for the plaintiff,
on the ground that the action wee maintainable by plaintiff,
although there had been no sale of the horse to hit;m that
the question of sole was irrelevant; that as again he do-
fi ndent, who was a manifest wrongdoer in returning posses-
sion of the home for the purpose of wetting an imaginuy
right of lien, simple poem talon with the sent of the real
owner, which who proved in this caw, was sufficient to entitle
the plaintiff to reap Ter.—F.4le nisi Smote&
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p ILE ROO ATI V R COURT.
Berme air Hubert Jews Yiat. •
Suntan v.Cattrau AND .0401118,1•'-11" SA," ~
LAND.—This wu • nuestio; raised npun the validit yof a
will, The court delivered ill ludgment. It appeared the
testatris had stated, during her lice, that she had mode a
will bequeathing half her property to her brother, Mr. .1 •
Freeland, and to his children, and the .:,ther portion to her
niece, the daughter of her deceased br,:ther. After her
'oath search was made for the will, but 1.: could not be
found, in consequence of wt Jell letter. of o,iministralion
were taken out by her half sister, a Mrs. Carter, as nest of
certain
kin. Some time after a will was found under
articles of dress, which it was now prayed the court w,e°,ld,
admit and grant probate to. The will bore date Apr..' , 'l,
1820, twenty-seven years since, and was written on pa 1...e1f
sheet of letter pain r, with some alterations. The testatli.
mentions her intention of leaving certain legacies ill a codicil
she refers to in the body of her will, hut which codicil has
not been found, and the court entertained • doubt whether
the half-sheet, which was tore off, might not have been the
codicil. The these witnesses state they signed the payer, but
at different times, at a distance of 10 years andone said be at-
tested it in 1820, the period it bears date never law it
after ; another said she signed it in 1836,1 e was the servant
of the deceased, and saw it frequently afterwards ; one wit-
ness said the deceased had spoken of leaving property to her
brother's children, but in this paper there was no notice of
those children. There wasreivon, therefore, to believe thole
was another paper signed by the &casual. Under these cir ,
before the ct.urt mart have stronger evidence than is now
before it to pronounce in favour of the will. The costs of all
parties to be paid out of the estate.
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with an imploring gesticulation appealed for torgivene4;
but a policeman, who had witnessed the occurrence, imme-
diately took her into custody.—Alderroan, the gaoler,
an
the prisoner as havieg been a practised street thief and
shoplifter for nearly ten yam ; and stated that, in additior
to several summary convictions, she had been twice tied at
the Old Bailey, where her brother, who is also deaf and
dumb,. and bail pursued a similar coarse of crime, wee some
dine Sine. sentenced to ten years' transportation, which be
was now undergoing.—Mr. tiara was upon the point of
tomntitting the prisoner for trial, but having been assured
by Mr. Robinson, the solicitor who attended for her, that
she was about to,
be placed in • penitential asylum appro-
priated to deaf and dumb delinquents, he was induced to deal
summarily with the case, and ordered her to be committed
for three months to the }louse of Correction as a reputed
thief.
M ARLBOROUO H- ST RERT.—RAILWAT ROnIiERY ST
I. 4. OaNTLINA person, who refused to disclose his
name, was brought b. fore Mr. Arnold, charged with bav:ug
stolen a portmauteau and two boys —Mr. Frederick Attree
stated that he came to town on Monday by the Gnat Wes-
tern Railway, and on arriving at Paddington station he
found that his portmanteau and two b-see had been stolen.
—Poliee-sergeant Orgy, from iniormation he received. went
to Wehb's Hotel. Piccadilly, end there tound.the prisoner,
whom he took. Witness searched the prison, r, and found
the duplicate of a portmanteau on him ; two boxes and some
brushes were in the room, which the prisoner said were his
property. Witness went to the shop where the portmanteau
was pledged, and Mond that it wee the portmanteau stolen
from Mr. Attntl. The two hoses and the other property
were also identified as part of the stelen property.—The pri-
soner said he should reserve his defence until he had an op-
portunity of consulting his solicitor.—Remanded till Friday
next.
LAM BETEL—Tile Porta SoLntra —The following sums
have been received for Ward, the poor soldier,. *hose
tressing case ibis appeared in the Express under the
howl of this comet, viz , 8., 41.; L. P . IS. ; IL 1,., 11 ; J.
H., 10s. ; O. 8.,11. . • and F. Y. 8., 2a. 6d.