The Express.
London, England, 1851-02-26 00:00:00

THE POLICE COURTS.

MA Ri.BOROUGH-STREET.
ACCII,rNT To Mill:. DI6RAVLI.—John stanky.
driver, was summoned before Mr. Broughton for liming, by
careless and wilful misbehaviour, done damage to the car-
riage of Mr,. Disraeli.
A solicitor. who attended professionally for the eom-
plainant, said a collision having occurred in Regent-street
between an omnibus driven by the defendant and Mr.
Disraeli's carrimte, Mr. Disraeli had thought it necessary
the circumstances should be investigated, especially as the
lives of three persons were thereby endangered. A, it was
not unlikely that a great number of additional vehicles
would he licensed in consequence of the Exhibition, it was
desirable that the drivers should be placed under stringent
regulations.
oin% Jarrow, coachman to Mr. Disraeli, had been in his
pssient service for nine years. On Saturday, the Bth of
February, while turning clown Regent-street from Glass-
house-street, about five o'clock, with a brougham, in which
was Mrs. Disraeli. an omnibus was suddenly pulled over on
to the brougham, and the result was a collision which
knocked over the brougham. Witness was thrown oil the
box, and an was the footman. Witness was driving at the
rate of about four miles an hour. the omnibus was driving
also at • moderate pace. Witness was on his right side, the
omnibus was on its wrong side. The collision was too
sudden to allow witness to pull off so an to prevent contact.
Several other witnesses were called, who confirmed the
material portion of the coachman's statement. They stab d
that if the defendant had pulled up instead of pulling over
towards the carriage, the accident would not have taken
place.
A gentleman named Gray witnessed the accident. The
brougham ran into the omnibus as it appeared to him, bc•
cane the bad of the horse in the brougham actually came
into the window of the omnibus through the glass. The
defendant was a very steady well-conducted man, and
.45 driving at • very steady pace when the accident oc-
curred.
Another witness, named Pellew, who was outside of the
omnibus at the time, said the omnibus was about to pull up
to let out some passengers at th? time when • gig was paas,
ing. which apparently was not sten by the driver of the
brougham. The driver of the brougham, in attempting to
clear the gig. ran upon the hind silted of the omnibus and
• caused the accident There was no negligence whatever
on the part of the omnibus driTsr. The lady inside the
brougham was obligtd to be tak, es,t at the window.
Another witness, named Stai.h, said he saw the
brougham pull into the omnibus. Had the brougham-
cirin r driven properly no accident •oultl have occurred.
A cab-driver saw the oceurranc . which he considered
was the result of accident. It arose from the horse in a
gig shying at the noise made in loading a rubbish-ran.
Mr. Bingham said. had it not been for the last witness
he should have considered there was really no ease in which
he had any jurisdiction ; but the czbueeihmi eo completely

contradicted the previous witness, who attributed the da-
mage to the coselunan's attempt to pass the gig when
there was not sufficient room, as to give a totally different
complexion to the matter. However, he was PO much per-
plexed by the evidence that had btrn given that he should
not give judgment at once, but I.ostponc it until next
Thursday.