The Express.
London, England, 1847-03-13 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, SATURDAY EVENING, MARCH 13, 1847.

dowel again to day, when, no farther Information having
been obtained, the order pronounced in January was made.
Dares e. ROBASTS.—LIABIL ITT or BAR Liss. —Foßowirr
—ln this rase a question of some im_portanea Is involved.
The plaintiffs were the trustees of the Pelican Life Assurance
Company ; and the defendants were Mears. Roberts. Cur-
tis, and Co., who, for some time, have been the bankers of
the cowpony. In 1839 Mr. W. J. Tate, the company's agent
at Manchester, drew a bill on the trustees of the company
for 5,0001., the amount of a policy, in favor of Mrs. Isher-
wood and her three daughters, and the bin weasel& payable
to the four ladies or their order. The bill was steeped by the
trustees, payable at Mears. Roberts, Curtis, and Co.'., and
on presentation was paid. It was afterwards discovered that
the signatures of Mrs. Isherwood and her daughters, in-
dorsing the bill, had been forged, and the question to be de-
cided in this snit was, whether the bankers or the company
should bear the lose. Sir W. Curtis being a member of the
banking firm, as well as a trustee of the oempany, the ques-
tion could not be decided elsewhere than inaeoart of equity.
Sir F. Kelly, Mr. Rolt, and Mr. Ct. L. Russell appeared
fir the plaintiffs, and suggested that, as the matters were to
be conducted on amicable terms, the better coarse would be
to strike out the name of Sir W. Curdy, and let the point of
liability be decided in an action. Mr. Rummell sad Mr. Serj.
She*, on behalf of the defendants, consented to this course ;
end it was accordingly arranged that an lotion should be
tried at the sittings after Trinity Term, and that it should
be admitted on both sides, for the purposes of the action,
that Sir W. Curtis is not, and never wee, a member or part-
ner in the company or the banking firm.

tended to show that than was no proof of the child having
died front any other than natural noon.—The Lord Chief
Justice upon this stopped the cue' and the jury under his
lordship's direction, returned a vevtliet of Not G;tilty,

POLICE.YrsTERDAT.

CLERKENWELL.—AMICONDING FROM BAIL —Mr.
G. Marten was charged by Mr. George Bacon, with
having absconded from his bail. The prisoner was also
charged with obtaining a pair of chaise traces and other
property by fraudulent means. On the morning of
the 10th of February last, at three o'clock, Serf giant
Webb, 10, 0, and another officer, entered the shop of Mr.
Bacon in consequence of some disorderly conduct, when the
prisoner who was a lodger there, interfered and asmulted
them, and his conduct was exceedingly violent. He was
brought to this court and ordered to fled bail to answer the
charge at the last Middlesex Sessions, when Mr. Bacon, and
a Mr. Sullivan, of Fox Court, became his bail. He however
absconded and nothing was heard or seen of him until
yesterday afternoon, when • friend of Mr. Bacon's
saw him in the Dover-road, and gave him into custody,
and had him brought to this court. Mr. Allard said the
prisoner obtained the property without his authority from
Mr. Brown, of the Chalk Road, Pentonville, but,
be was not in attendance. Mr. Bacon and Mr. Sullivan now
identified and surrendered the prisoner. The prisoner did
not appear at the sessions, and, on application, the rector.
nisance was respited and continued by the court until the
next sessions, on the 25th of March. Mr. Combe asked him
what he had to say ? He denied the charge preferred by
Mr. Allard.—Mr. Combe inquired of the prisoner whether
he now had any bail P—Prisoner:l am not prepared with
sureties. Mr. Comb*: Then you stand committed for trial
at the next Middlesex Sessions for unlawfully assaulting
Henry Webb, a police constable, while in the execution of
his duty, but I will accept good and sufficient bail for your
appearance at the rossions.—The prisoner was conveyed to
prison in default of
MARYLEBONE.—A NOVELTY.—The cases heard at this
court were unusually few, and of an unimportant nature :
the government van which arrived at the usual hours, 1 and
6 o'clock, for the conveyance of prisoners, went away upon
each occasion untenanted, a circumstance which we believe
to have been quite unknown in any other instance to that
match talked of bat most mysterious personage, the " oldest
" of the neighbourhood.
WESTMINSTER.—Arrarrren BUROLART.— 'Valiant
Roasiter w finally examined, charged with having
attempted to break into the house of Mr. Sinclair, War-
wick-square, Pimlico. At an early hour on the morning
.of
the 13th of Feb., Matthew Mortlock,2l6 B, hearing a noise
in Warwick-eq•are, Pimlico, which is at presentin an un-
finished state, went to the spot from whence it proceeded,
and there, after a diligent search, found the prisoner ena-
meled in one of the archways' intended as cellars to the
houses about to be erected. The officer inquired what he did
there, when the prisoner, who pretended to be very sleepy,
said he had been out with some friends, and had
come there to take a nap. Within a few yards of the place
where the accused was found, the constable picked up a large
Loa inateensent newcabling a crow-bar, the sod of which was
0.11111011 colt UfNeeZ, and upon examining the adjacent
k wee dimmed that a number of bricks had been
breed est ef the wok Xr. Sinclair's house, and that
en spettma bed bees made nearly sufficient to admit a per.
ean of pekehues the to the pone leading to the kitchen-
stabs. Ptiewase owe two h dremes, and subsequently
admitted that he had also given • false name. He was fully
committed Ice trlaL