The Express.
London, England, 1851-08-16 00:00:00

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Chides stoat iudiebd for the wilful murder of
his wit'.• EliLaheth Halliday, at Stroud.
prison.r was a collector of rage and bones at Stroud,
and his wife and three children lived with him. On the
evenirg of Monday the ith July the prisoner CM, home
about seven o'clock, and toldhis wife he had earned nothing
that 1111 y. Ile quarrelled with his wife about the m •at
which ihr had prepared fir him, and said it was the pigs*
swat, and that he would not maintain the family any
Warr. Me went away and returned again about twelve
o'clock at night and asked for his supper. The it-ceased
had gone to last and called t n him that his supper was up
Mairs. IV replied ~ You d—d —, why did you not
wait up fur me. What did you take it up there for:" Ile
then went up stain, and still he would go out and go to a
Melia gi•I; on which the dee( ;nest said he should not, and !
that she• would die before he should go. There was then a !
atrumtle between them, and the deceased said if he went
she Would en with him. A lodger in the house named
Butler and his slaughter head all that passed in their room
underneath that in widish M TA. Halliday had gone to bed, mad
heard her say to her lits.band, Fur God's sake get off me,
Ch ales, ne I shall he dead." Th./ fell down the stairs and
the devemeil said, "'thou halt done for me now, 'barley.
That's what thou haat been trying for a long time." They
then went upstairs again, and the quarrel was renewed.
'llse evidence of the lodger Butler having been taken,
his lordship said, had he known that the deceased had
the: stencil to go out with her husband (which fact did not
appear on the depositions taken by the coroner), and that,
Bic n•lnre, she might have accidentally fallen down stairs,
be should have directed the grand ju-y to find a bill foe
Manslaughter.
Mr. Armstrong, surgeon, proved that he attended the
sins word two days alter the quarrel, and delivered her of a
dead child, born prematurely, and in consequence of the
violence which had been used towards the deceased. Mrs.
Halliday died no the day after the birth of the child from
the %dints of thew injuries.
radir these circumstances, Mr. Cooke, who was re-
tained tier the prisoner, declined to edam's the jury, sub-
mitting to a verdict of manslsu•thter.
Ilw Lurdahip sentenced the prisoner to be transported fur
This case occupied till a late hour.

WESTERN ClRCUlT.—}huerrin., Aro. 13.
Barons Una Mar Jeartea Canisau..
Rrcu AND ANolltatt r. Ltt.Lry.
Mr. Butt, with whom was Mr. Stone, appeared for this J
plaintiff+ ; an I Mr. Greenwood and Mr. Montague Smith I
for the defence.
Mr. Stone opened the pleadings. The plaintiffs were '
John Jones Heed and Stephen Stephens lteed, and the de-
fendant, John Lilley. The action was brought for the re-
Covery of the hire of a ship, for money paid to the use of
the defendant, and upon an account stated. The defendant
hail put three phas upon the record. Ist, The general
haw ; 2nd. payment; and 3rd, a act of
Mr. Butt stated the case. The plaintiffs in the action,
fir John Jones nerd and Mr. Stephen Stephens Reed,
were shipowners, carrying on their business in the city of
Bristol. and the defendant • no reliant and shipowner of
considerable respectability, residing at the port of Liver-
pool, and the plaintiffs had been compelled to bring the
present action to nciover from the defendant a
sum of money in which ho had become indebted
to them for the hire of one of their vessels.
The eirromstances of the case were briefly these:—
The plaintiffs, in ISIS, were the joint owners of a brig
called the Maria Joan. At the latter end of the year ISIS,
the vessel was in Liverpool, and Mr. John Reed, who was
there also, entered into contract rith Mr. Lilley, the de-
fendant, which resulted in it charter party under the term+
of a filch the Maria Jane was to take cargo from Liverpool
to the coed of Africa, and bring back a cargo of 113131 oil.
In oth, r words, by this arrangement the vessel was in fact
to be absolutely let and given up to the defendant, who was
to appoint his own captain, crew, &c., and to take the ship
from a sin-rifled time. lie W. 11.4 to pay for the hire of
her a lump slim of 7101., provided that the resod was not
employed upon the voyage more than eight months, but if
she was retained in the service oldie defendant for *longer
time, he was to pay for the extra time a proportionate sum,
or about 901. per mouth, and if she brought home more
than 215) tons of oil, the charterer was further to
pay the sum of 9s. per ton per month on the
surplus cargo. The owner. were to find the
ship in naval stores, crockery, cooking utensil., &e.,
i and to properly equip her for sea, and the charterer agreed
tipsy and provide fur the entire crew, the port charges and
charges for outward lights, 4,144 of loading, unloading, &c.
Ti,,,hiring was to commence front the day the vessel was
cleared from the Custom-bons, and to terminate• in two
tiv•:ilt.-r her arrival at Liverpool. The payments were to
In: 111.1.• as I'olll/WI: 300/. on the day of sailing by the
charts Fur\ acceptance at four months, one-third of the
bat iiii• • in rash upon the arrival of the ship, and the re-
law ler oisin her discharging her cargo at the port of din.
ek.du•-. lo bilis payable in I ondon. The vessel was cleared
on the 2.iid of Ikeember, ISIS, and the charterer by his an.
eeptanee paid the 3001. in advance. She sailed for the south;
western coast of Africa and went to the river Bunt%
Where she discharged her outward cargo. She returned
with her cargo to Liverpool nu the Ist of December, 1849.
The plaintiffs now sought to recover 410/., the balance of
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