The Express.
London, England, 1853-04-05 00:00:00

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ROUSE OF LORDS—YzsURDAT.

Th-.. 4 lordships eat yesterday on appeal. The lords pre-
sent were the L•rd Chancellor, the Earl of Albemarle,
and Lord Orentone.

WISNART r. WILLIE AND OTNEIIA.

This is an appeal from the Court of Session in Scotland.
The question involved relates to certain encroachments
alleged to have been made by the appellant in the chan-
nel of a stream which forms the boundary between his
lands and those of the respondents. The channel having
been partly diverted by a flood, the appellant proceeded to
pleat in what the reepondeota alleged to be part of the ori-
gami channel certain trees, and to perform other operations
on the bed of the river, which it is stated would not only
prevent the restoration of the stream to its former course
but also cruse the water to encroach on the respondent's
land on the op to Lank. The whole matter turned on
evidence as to what was the original channel of the stream,
and having paved through various stages of litigation, from
the Sheriffs' Court up to the Inner House, and various in-
terlocutors having been pronounced which went to establish
the fact of encroachment by the appellant, it was again re-

mated by the Lord Ordinary to a surveyor to make another
report with regard to the localities. At this stage of the
proceedings the appellant appealed to the house against all
the previous interlocutors, contending that the decisions
which declared that he had made encroachments were erro.
mous ; while, on the ether hand, the respondents urged
that it wee not competent to bring an appeal in the then
sibling state of the cause. The matter has been in process
of litigation since March, 1840.
The arguments were not concluded when their lordships

ADMIRALTY COURT.-YESTERDAY.
Ihrou Da. 1.0•1111PIGTOM.
TAE CHANCELLOIL—SALVAGE.

This was a suit brought by the owners of the steam tug,
Independence, against the Chancellor, a vessel of 864 tons.
The vessel laden w ith a valuable cargo of cotton was re-
turning home from Bombay ; and had antved at Liverpool
on the 7th of November. She had employed the tag to
take her into the port for 6/. ; but the hawser breaking she
began to drift towards the banks. A new hawser, however,
was attached, and she was conveyed safely into the harbour.
The sum of 61., together with 21. on account of the broken
hawser, had been tendered and refused. The value of the
ship was 30,0001.
Drs. Addams and Twiss appeared for the salvors ; Drs.
Robinson and Byford for the owners.
Dr. Lushington pronounced *paint the claim and con-
demned the salvors in the coots generally; but inasmuch as
the owners bad set up a groundless and unjustifiable charge
he condemned them in the costs so far as related to the
pleas in question.

INSOLVENT DEBTORS' COURT.-YESTERDAT.

Rums UR. Ooiniusiowsa LAW.
Ix THR MATTIR OF JOHN FORD.

This insolvent, was stated to be seventy-
eight," applied to be liberated on bail till his hearing. He
was a pensioner in Dulwich College, and had been sued on
two bills of exchange drawn by Amon and alleged to have
been accepted by him. He denied his emplane*. Ho was
d in execution and taken to the Queen's Prison.
Mr. Commissioner Law inquired into the circumstances
of the case, andordered the discharge on Rustics till the
hearing.
Iu RR ROBERT BURGLAR.

This was a protection cam, and Mr. Sargood opposed for
a creditor, on the ground that the insolvent, a cab-owner,
had disposed of his property to a relation, and now peti-
tioned to be relieved from the claims of his creditors.
His Honour refused to name a day fur the final order.

Bayou Ma. C,ovinasiosia Pimure.
lit it JOIIIPH BARTLETT.

This insolveat,;bdca, at Kean New Town, Chelsea,
was opposed by a creditor in perms. Mr. Ernest Reed
supported.
Aso eamaination took place reepec• Cliff some debts it was
alleged were due to the insolvent which he bad omitted
from the schedule, and a debt collector, named Shankey,
gave evidence.
There was a variance between the insolvent sad Shankey
in their statements.
Mr. Commis•loner Phillips told Shankey be bad fenced
in his evidence, and he believed the insolvent. A day was
named for the Anal order, and further evidence was to be
preduced.

ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE.

NORTHERN CIRCUIT.-LIVERPOOL, APRIL 4.

Pow cot.

Upon the sitting of the court this morning, Mr. Justice
Creme,ll proeed to sentence severe: prisorsen for the
crime of forgery.

MIIRDIIL AT

Wiliam Terra. 18. was indicted for the waled murder
of Joseph Quinn, at Manchester.
Mr. Monk stated the case to the jury. On the evening of
the 21st of January the prisoner, the deceased, and some
other parties, went to a beershop in the neighbourhood of
Oldham•road, Manchester, where the prisoner wanted to
fight, and pulling oat a knife threatened to stab the de-
ceased. Upon leaving the house the prisoner renewed his
threat., and challenged Quinn to fight. Quinn said be
would fight if the prisoner would show his bands
first, but the latter refused, and rushing upon
Quinn stabbed him first in the stomach, and then
on the left shoulder. Quinn called out that he was
stabbed, and the prisoner made off. Quin was taken to the
infirmary, where he afterwards died.
Several witnesses having deposed to these facts,
His Lordship summed up the evidence, pointing out the
distinction between murder and manslaughter.
The jury retired, and, after an absence of about three-
quarters of an hour, found the prisoner Guilty of murder.
The prisoner having been replaced at the bar, hie Lord-
ship, after a brief address, sentenced him to be hanged.

NORTH WALES CIRCUIT.—MOLD, Aran. 2.
LIIIIIL.—Ktwo v. HiIfIVOILTIL
This was an action brought by Mr. Alexander Mug,
mine agent to Mr. Thomas May, proprietor of a mine at
Trenddyn, Elintshise, against Mr. George Heyworthi a
partner of a firm owning another mine adjacent to Mr.
May's. The damages were laid at 2001. The libel was
alleged to have been committed in • letter sent by defen-
dant to Mr. May, in reply to one received from that gentle-
man, complaining that he had not fulfilled certain agree-
ments between them, relative to a railway established
between their respective mines. In this letter defendant
was alleged to have said that Mr. May would be better
looking after his own interests if he paid attention to the
habits of inebriety of his agent (the plaintiff).
Mr. Webby ably addressed the jury in defence, con-
tending that the defendant had bad imputations cast upon
him by plaintiff, which had called forth the remonstrative
letter of Mr. May, and that he wrote his reply under feel-
ings of irritation. The charge of inebriety he had not
brought forward as of his own knowledge, but merely u a
matter of hearsay. The smallest coin would be sufficient
damages in such a case.
The jury returned &verdict for plaintiff, damages 2001.,
the full amount claimed.

CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT.

YESTERDAY.

Szavas my 211c01212.
CHARDS or PZILIVIIT.

Joke Alkie surrona;r7nTtO— ZoTti-s—aal upon an indict-
ment fee niadsmaaanr.

Mr. Parry and Mr. Lawrence prosecuted; Mr. Reliant's'
we, counsel for the defence.
The misdemeanour imputed to the defendant was that he
had committed wilful and corrupt perjury. and the ease arose
out of proceedings in the Clerkenwell County Court, where
the prosecutor of the indictment, a person named Stone,
had been summoned by the defendant for a debt of 111. odd.
Upon the hearing Stone, who resisted the claim, put in
some receipts for money he had paid to the defendant, and
with regard to one of them, which purported to be a receipt
fur the sum of 11.45. lid. the defendant swore positively
that he had ant signed the paper in question, and that he
had not received the amount. The result of the hearing
before the leanly court judge was, that a verdict was given
against Stone, who was ordered to pay the amount claimed
by instalments of 2L per month, and it appeared that upon
an application being afterwards made for a new trial, the
application was refused, and it would seem that upon
this the present indictment was preferred against the
defendant; the assignment of perjury being that he had
falsely sworn that the signature to the receipt for
11. 4s. lid. was not his writing. In order to make out the
case for the prosecution, Stone, who is a blind man, was
called, and he stated that he carried on the business of a
mat maker, and that the defendant, who is a rope maker,
had been employed by him in his business for several years,
and it appeared that there had been transattiuus between
them to a very considerable extent. He swore that on the
day the receipt in question bore date the defendant brought
him some goods home for which he had to jolly him
IL 4s. lid., and he asked his wife to fetch him a
sovereign and he added the difference out of his
own pocket, and gave it to the defendant, who then
at hie request signed the receipt that bad been pro-
duced. The wife of the prosecutor confirmed his evidence,
with regard to fetching the sovereign on the day in ques-
tion, and the money being handed to the defendant, and
the son stated that according to his belief the signature was
that of the defendant. Upon the prosecutor being asked
how it happened that be did not produce his wife and son
u witnesses upon the trial in the county court, he Sc.counted for it by stating that when he attempted to state
his case, he was stopped by the clerk of the court, who told
him that be would make the case last all day, and that he
was in a hurry to get the business over ; and without any
interference on the part of the judge, who he said did not
even take a note of the proceedings, a verdict was given
against him, and he was ordered to pay the amount of the
debt by instalments of 21. per month.
Mr. Ballanrine, he addressing the jury for the defendant,
said that as at the present time the law permitted a great
deal of what was called justice to be performed in these
county courts, be could not help observing that if the con-
duct of the judge and the clerk of the Clerkenwell county
court upon this occasion had been truly represented, it ap-
peared to him that they were both utterly unfit for the
offices they held. He did not, however, believe that the
prosecutor had told the truth in this respect, and he had