The Express.
London, England, 1862-01-28 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, TUESDAY EVENING, JANUARY 28, 1882.

Till WINDHAM LUNACY COMMISSION.

(Costisued from yesterday's Expres..)
Kr. Chambers ploceeded is comment upon the are
dieting statements which Mr. Wisdhani made to the meth-
eal sees who mawriperted le mambo bun. Poe
be told Mr. Hasse & and all the ether gentlems=
was not istemperate, sad yet Dr. Take said he had seen
him in states et guitarist whir be orrandered attribute.
ble to drink. ate to the tither contracts, the running away
of his wife, asd his rhombi her to tilsegoir, and other suds I I
matters, there were varier diacrepeueles, I
showed
that he was sot so coherent sail consequential se bed'
been represented. The learned counsel neat proemial;
to show that Mr. Wiedham, as a child, • boy,
and a yens, ems. we. believed to be much below ,
perilous of his cows age, and that he was so
treated by everybody who came near him. He censured ,
Mr. Bickaiore for keeping back the fact that young Wind-
hatu was sent away from the school because lie used foul
language and it was feared he would corrupt younger boys.
This fact was not elicited by errs -examination, but was
screwed out of Mr. Bickniore by one of the
jury. Of Mr. Ingram, the tutor at Feltharn, he fancied
Le wan right is surmising that he had forgotten all about
Wirral, and so with the ladies who administered to the !
wants of the boys at Eton, and who had been called to bear
testimony to Mr. Wiudhani's cleanly and gentlemanlike
habits, sad of hie general ability at school. The Rev. Mr. :
Devon, he thought, warmed the evidence of the tutors '
and oomranions of Mr. Windham who had been called for ,
the petitioreers. Mr. Devon mentioned that Mr. Wind- l
ham spoke to the landlords and waiters of the hotels
where they stayed about his treat property, and it was well
known that idiots and imbeciles had a great idea of them-
selves, and were always boastful, chiefly to their inferiors.
Passing from the talon the learned counsel directed the
attention of the joy to the evidence of the dependenta,
servants, and others, who had been called for Mr. Windham.
Mr. and Mrs. Martins had up to the last moment treated
him as *child ; and their visit to Duke-street, when they
heard that he was about to he married, was a visit to one
whom they considered a child, and their remonstrances
were not remain:roes addressed to • full-grown man in pos-
session of his senses. The waggoner had proved that Mr.
Windham WAS feed cif driving Maces, which was • favourite
amusement with Laird Portsmouth. and lodised with many
others who had been of weak mind& Many of the other
Remote and dependants had notiesigoistUy Peen strong
testimony is favour of the petitioners, simply bemuse it
had been attemplodat lfruCdhenes friends to make the
evidence too good. • • the evidence of Mr. Bingham,
the tailor, of Norwich • Mr. Charles Howlett, a plumber, of
Norwich, sod the he. seemmion of Mr. Windham, sod
other tradesman. be ped Met it wee unworthy of Credit.
He had hem essesed y qessindag some of thargentlennes
how they hod mased theamoires, and with having charged
them with pie to the Abetter, is Leicester-aquare.
He had said maim spit the Abandon, to
which he thought_ may me mien go milk credit
to himself. He lisped the Allwahrs .Preg_Pee,
but be was not quite so certain of Mane Meade is MA Hay
market where some of the Norfolk bed met
Mr. Windham during the time the Frei hid lam
pending. The neat elms of mamas ',be W ailed
to adorn the case" were *abettors. the hildrosreir at Ryan.
the waiter at the Melaka, Mr. Seeley, the stellenmesbe
at Thorpe, and others, who were seam* dbuiend by
au &smear es the part of the loam& erased that be
could not swallow their evidence. by their
absence were Lord sediStaffield, Lady his °thrill.
Mr. Chappell. Lady 's souther red other peen=
who might Mee bees and wadi Mee bees ealla.
they could haw premd Mot Mr. lifinibmi was of mond
mind. No doubt Lord kelleld habeas inked to maw and he
should lake to know who was his ammo. One wham
whom he had net menliened who had beta called for Mr.
Windham —the No" Mr. Doha* Miler of A n tring hem
—bad reoderod pod elegise he the petitioners for he had
shown that Gemmel Whims bed @brays been kind to hie
unfortunate noplesn rd use Ma to him still, and that
his nephew had alums edmMledllK soul he benumb imbe-
cile and fell into ftwaspir barb. Ho spoke of Lord Claude
Hamilton as the klielsel-learird as in the wed& sad of
has evidence es met sheurd ; of that of Sir Haley PAW=
as ludic red of that of some of the other witrems r
ti thes~ hu did not wish to treat them with any
Be would now messed to chow that the
by the petition see was - ooa-

Mr. Born' showed calms against a rule obtained by Mr.
Denman to bring up two orders made by the corporation of
(landlord in May and Beptoonber, 1881, for the payment of
oertain sums to the Town and Borough Hall Company
(Limited), with the new of their being quashed. For some
limo pan gnat complaints had been made of the buena-
eieoaceanoodalion provided for the mane Mine at

He&Herd, and a pabils'essupany wu established with the
ebjeei et greeting a Wald other buildings in order to supply
entrant la that reigestos well sa to provide a place for bold-
ing teenage, and for ether public purposes. The corporation
resolved to subscribe 500 k towards the company, and
speed to pay a certaio rental when the building was used
for the arises ; and the orders directed the borough tree.
surer to pay two instalments, amounting to ZVI., to the
company, which was raised by rates among the ratepayers.
The question was whether the oorporatioa could apply the
funds of the borough in the erection of usize courts for
the county. The learned counsel contended that it was a
perfectly right and proper application of the rates. He
also submitted that ths court ought not to interfere as the
motion of the present applicant, Yr. Austin, as, althh
the whole proceedings of the corporation in regard to the
contribution of the money were publicly known, he took
no steps to question or invalidate them until six months
afterwards.

—.
Mr . Kaye followed on the same aide.
Mr. Denman and Mr. Archbold baring been heard in sup-
port at the rule,
The Lord Chief justice was of opinion that the =
tion bad no surplus, within the meaning of the In
9orporatithe Act, applicable to the purposes of borough
improvement., so long as there was a necessity to
_tax the
inhabitant, by a rate. Upon that ground he thought that
the orders could not in strict law be maintaieed ; bat it
we. obvious that the corporation of Guildford had not meted
male fide,:or with any 'Mistsr motive, in applying the
in the way they had done. It was clearly duiable
on their part that the anion should not be removed from
Guildford to another place, which be might undertake to
see would ioevitably have been the cue, if the maim awaits
hid not been materially improved or changed. With the
view of keeping the assizes at Guildford, a public company,
under the Limited Liability Act, was formed to ergot appro.
priato buildings, and u the shares were not taken up to the
full extent., the corporation maid they would make uSsh4e
deficiency by subscribing 5001. That was not strictly
but it wan done with perfect good faith and houraty, to
a very public manner. Under these eiresimatances, the pea.
pent applicant sought the iatervention of the court, but as
he did not take any steps is the matter until six menthe
altar the find payment was made, and had failed to exOath
the delay satisfactorily, the court thought that it ought ad
in its iiiicretion to make the rule absolute for a OOTUD(114.
Rule discharged.

trumpery,
sort of diarespsoa
evidence adduced credible,
sistent, and cor__.....ire—that Mr. Windham could never
advance in intellect, and for this purpose he should have to
introduce other medical roan who were familiar with Mr.
Velialbsni—tutor and others, to whom he could not help
@smug meat injustice had been done during the course of
the inquiry.
The 'Master ingested that as it wee now bait-past four,
MI as Mr. Chambers bad lees .peaking all day, it would
be convenient to adjourn till to-morrow (this day).
The court thee adjoaraed at half-past four.

SUSPECTED ATTEMPT ro POISON A WIPE.
Peter Simpson, of No. 10,
.High-street, Park,
Sheffield, seater, was apprehended on Saturday, on •
charge of attempting to poises hi wife and child. Ilse
circumstances are these. Simper* and his wife, who
have bele married about 36 years, sad had 11/ children,
lived very condoetably until • few years ago. latterly
they have led as extremely uncomfortable life, owing, se the
wife alleges, to her husband's ill- trestssent. He, on the other
band, attributes their unsery to bar hinder baste. For
semi time past they have estespied separate rooms.
Thar practice bas been to nee early is the niorniag,
aid for the wife to prepare breakfast, while the husband
asteuded to his horses. Ha then returned and breakfasted
before going to work. Loot Thursday morning
Way roes as usual, Simpson going to ended to his
horses, after making the fire. The wife prepared breathe,
but he did not return to partake of the meal ecoording to
custom. A little boy, who sleeps with his mother, and had
noes with her, beams* clangorous for food, and the mother
and child sat down to breakfast. At the tint sip the woman
perceived that the tea had a curious taste, and remarked
upon it to her son. He tasted it,and confirmed herstatemest.
The woman thereupon threw the two cope of tea she had
poured out upon the thy beck. Finding that the tea in the
pot bad the same taste she put a portion of it into • bot-
tle, and then thoroughly washed out the teapot at the
water branch. She next made some fresh tee, which had •
perfectly satisfactory taste, thus showing that the um-
usual taste was not camel by say peculiarity in the
water. The drinking of the first tee produced a burning
seesation in the mouth and throat of mother and child,
sad this fact, together with the ennumatance that Simp-
son did wit go to breakfast as usual, excited a suspicion
that be led let seasibieg into the teapot. The wife,
seesedingly, took the tea which she bed preserved to
Ar. Roper, druggist, by whom she was recommended to
forward it to the chief constable. Mr. Jackson, on receiving
the tea from the woman, ventured to taste it, and imps-
fleeted the same sensations as she and her child, in a lees
degree. The chief constable submitted the liquid for ins.
Lititlatioo to Mr. Griffiths, surgeon, who found strong traces
of arsenic in the demotion. Simpson' wee accordingly Ns-
prehended, and will no doubt be brought before the magis-
trates. Steps have, in the meantime, be Milieu to obtain a
more complete analysis of the liquid. —Shelield lode.
pendent

COURT OF COMMON PLEAS.—JAL
Sittings in inco.—(Becen Lail Chief illation Fib, Aug
Jontioaa Wlibm, sad Kenting.)
711 GIZA? WINTERS MAILMAN COMPANY, APPELLANTS, N,

WATCIII ROL
The 'Fps: Unto had been held Bale_ by Lhiesinstiess to
=with rate for their weirdoes at Maids sad this
was now appealal against.
Mr. Griffiths appeared for the appellants, sad Mr. Grey
for the respondents.
The Municipal Corporation Act enacted that a
fund should be formed, but that DO property slibeirt
liable to the watch rate unless it was within 200 yards of a
continuous street watched by Wight and by day. The
missy in question were within this exception. The
tad and 3rd Victoria, cap. 28, however enacted that the
town council might by order impose a watch rate apoe the
owners of any property within those parts of the borough
which were watched by night and by day without any re-
ference to the distance of 200 yards. The question was,
whether this clause got rid of the exemption upon the
ground of distance, and rendered the company liable to pay
the rate.

The Court thought that the order of the justices should
be afarmed. The general power of making a watch rate
was limited to ezteud to property within 200 yards of a con-
tinuous street, but this limitation was got rid of by the fol-
lowing statute, the 2nd and 3rd Vic., cap. 2d.
Appeal diemiseed.
PARRY O. THE CROYDON CONNIZRCIAL GAS MIRAN!:

kat° inulligenct. , was passed "that such offer of oompreenise be sio.
1 cepted." Then it had occurred to the parties promoting
the arrangement that it would be better to proceed radar
the 185th section, the provisions of which were totally slit-
COURT OF QUEZICS BENCIL—JAN. 27. fermi, and required the estate to be wound up by deed of
Hither in Baum in Hilary Term.—(Before Lord Chief composition, arrangement, or otherwise. A deed had been
drams Cockburn, and Justices Crompton sod Blackburn) put upon the proceedings without say referee* to it in the
NILLOR r. titans.—NOTIONS roe NeW TRIALS. resolution ; and there appeared to have been a total jumble
This was an action to recover compensation for • collision of the provisions of the two motions. The court could not
at see, tried at the last Liverpool assizes before Mr. Baron confirm the resolution, but was anxious that the real sense
Mastic , when a verdict was returned for the def,,,„1,,,,t, of the creditors should be taken, at a meeting called by ten
Mr. Edward JMOVIS laid he appliol iu last Michaelmas days' notice ; and the court would then be disposed to give
term for • rule for • new trial, but it was refused ; awl he full effect to their resolutiou. At the previous meeting
now made a similar motion upon afadavite. The learned nearly all the creditors voting had dope so by proxy ; only
counsel said that although there existed a rule of court that one was actually present. Many of their debts were of
applications fur new trial must be made within the first small amount, while the aggregate of the bankrupt's liabili-
four days of term, it was one subject to exceptions, and tale was upwards of 10,0061.
especially when matters had been discovered since the trial Mr. Lewis protested naiads slur being thrown on the
which might have materially affected the decision of the creditors because they voted by attorney.
jury. He then referred to the &Mesita to show that His Honour said be cast no slur on the creditors or on any
certain evidence was adduced at the trial which the defer- one ; but in a case like this, where there were upwards
dente must have known at the time to be untrue. 19f 100 creditors, • meeting at which only one attended
The Lord Chief Justice wee clearly of opinion that there could not be taken to express the sense of the whole body.
ought to be no rule. No precedent had been cited for the I Mr. Lawrence said there were 600 creditors, and only 28
applicatioo, and for the best of all reasons, that none could had voted at all, either in person or by proxy.
be farad, and it appeared to him to be wildly unwarranted I Mr. Linkiater, for the bankrupt listed the court to state
mad Isjoitillable. The course of practice had been abund- the other grounds on which it refused to confirm the rem-
and, established, and though it sometimes happened that lath*.
facts came to the knowledge of a per after the trial which, I His Honour said that, apart from the objection that so few
if they had been brought forward at the right time, ! of the creditors had voted, it wee necessary that the court,
insight have led to a different result, yet, looking to the before confirming • resolution of this kind, should have
trammels importance of putting an sad to litigation at one from the bankrupt some statement of his affairs. This would
Yes or mother, a rule had been passed by which except give the creditors a better opportunity of considering the
seder spiral circumstances, an application must be made matter before they came to vote at tbe next meeting. There-
within • certain. fixed and prescribed period. If a ease of fore, the court declined to confirm the resolution, and
fraud or conspiracy to pervert the administration of justice directed that another meeting should be summoned.
were brought to the attention of the court, that rule, which ' This was also • sitting for the last examination of the
was established fur the general benefit and convenience of bankrupt. His statement of affairs shows debts and liabi-
litigant parties, might be departed from; but, in the present . lithe of 9,7361., with no meets, beyond woe property held
instance, there wis no pretence for preferring such a charge as security, valued at 700/. or 8001.
against the defendant. It would be a dangerous precedent The examination was adjourned until the result of the as.
Iti my that in such • ciao, after an en. In. for • new =gement should be known.
sill once beeu made and refused, counsel might come
@gain in a subsequent term and get a rale.
Rule refused.
QUEEN F. CORPORATION OF OITILDFORD.—ASSIZ3 COCRTS AT

CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT.

George GOA' surrendered to take his trial for the man-
slaughter of Edward Pratt.
Mr. Ooozeer redacted the reeeention ; and Mr. Ribton
1411basaareiriwairIt that the whom and the deceased were both
us% and that on the day named in the indict-
ment the latter was eery drunk, and he had some altercation
with the Owner about a pipe. They were separated, but
the deemed shortly afterwards renewed the dispute, by
=athe primmer of insulting him, and the prisoner
im a blow which mused him to fall, and in so dotes
he fractured his skull and died on the following day.
ntittry found the prisoner Guilty, but strongly rem-
a him to mercy ou account of the provocation he bad
reeeived from the dreamed. . .

Hs was sontanood to ow swath of hard labour.
liglfailliforgedon Atusapeoff,.
Bask :=Douguilt! to &charge of otter.
He was soutones& to four years' pool servitude.

Edward Met
emte 40,beadiag • teepeetable-looking man, was
with
_and * the several sums
?fair 91. Bs., sad 41. 12a. hi,stool the morays of his em-
ployers.
Mr. Ribton eradiated the prosecution the prisoner was
defended by Mr. Letigford.
The prolocutors in this /Me were Mears. Rowe sad Co.,
who awry on an extensive business as soap manufacturers
at Brantford. The prisoner entered into their service in
July last, end his duty was to gip about tows soliciting
orders, and to receive money from the different eastemers,
and the understanding was that be was to amount to •
gentleman named Cross, who was one al the Arm, ca each
Tuesday and Thursday after be waved the . It
was proved that on the 18th of December the
received 91. la. from • customer moused Melba ; on the
24th of December, 341.10 x. from mother sesame! erased
Baylis ; and co the god of Jas the further sum of
41. las. 84. from another rained 0 and that he failed
alithia to account for the two s sums, and only
paid in 171. 10s. instead of the larger ens el $41.10a.,
which be had actually received.
Mr. langford addressed the jury far the prisoner, and
celled several witness" who gave him an excellent character
extending over a period of many years.
In answer to a question put by the learned Recorder, the
prosecutor (Mr. Cross) said that from the inquiries that had
been made he believed the total amount of the prisoner's
defalcations was about 701., and that they extended over a
period of three meths. Be added, that for the sake of the
prisoner's wife and family be was desirous that the court
should peas as lenient a sentenos upon the prisoner as was
coosisteot with the interests of justice.
The Recorder said that the edemas of embezzlement by
sormate wee one of • very salons description, and under
ealiaaryoirameratasse the court always felt compelled to
pus a sentence of peed servitude upon all persona convicted
of it. In the present case, however, taking into madders.
doss the good the prisoner bed resolved, and the
recannseedation to mercy by the prouseneer, be should not
pas a sentence of so Devon • chorister, but should order
him to be kept to hard labour for eightsos 'tenths.
Shortly before the doing of the sari, an inthration was
given to the Recorder that the primer John Oros Smith
was desirous that mime should be at moo pained ogriset
and tint as further day should take plass, toile wail
Mr. y brought op 64 that
licialitkineon ambled his Pl=i4p that the Firma
wee convicted of the Wham of not surrendering to pees his
examination at the Bankruptcy Court, and Masi it was
that he abscondedfrom this country, taid with
paved
large quantity of property belonging to his
When the primmer wee called upon, he asserted that he
did not take any property with him, and that all the mossy
he had when he went abroad coomisted of 381., the produce
of the sale of his furniture.
The Recorder said that the prisoner had bees convicted
upon very dear evidence of the offence of not surrendering
to he examined at the Bookruptcy Court, and there was no
doubt that the object of his absconding and not doing what
the law required vas to conceal the fact that be had im-
properly din of • Large qproperty
tity of belonging
to Isis crec=:th aod of which he thus succeeded in de-
priving them. is was • vary grave offence, and he felt it
his duty to order him to be kept in petal servitude for throe
. years.

is as out-patient, and is at this time afflicted with a
wrens scalp wound and injury to the shoulder, &c.—C.
Uvula, honee•surgeon." This was not the first
time he had assaulted his wife.
The complainant, when she appeared in the witness-box,
bad her head enveloped in surgical bandages, and one of her
eyes was blackened. As soon as the was sworn she said abe
would freely forgive him this time if he would not do so
again. He had home children by his bet wife, rod he was
very drunk at the time.
lir. Barker—Theo you wish to withdraw the charge?
Poline-coustable Porter, 4M S, said the woman was
issensible foe some time, and the surgeon stated that if the
blow bad been a little lower it would have caused her
&Mb.
Mr. Barker discharged the prisoner with a caution, and
told him that the charge would be remembered against him.

MARLBOROUGH STREET.
A respectable trailesinao in Oxford-street employing a
number of respectable young women, enclosed, fur the ;
perusal of Mr. Tyrwhitt, the sitting magistrate, a handbill
which had been bit at hi shop, and which he had racer- ;
,tined had been circulated in other shops where young
females were engaged as assistants. The nature of the
handbill, which is unfit for open publication, may be col-
lected
from the heading, which set forth that a treatise of
an atrocious character, Wooled to married and unmarried
women, might be obtained by sending twelve =
stamps to certain initials at a post-office io Cam
The toad/moat said he fortunately was able to prevent the
circulation of this handbill and its infamous purposes in his
establishment, but he thought it a matter which ought at
once to be communicated to the magistrates for their
opinion.
In connexion with the circulation of • certain class of
handbills, it may be mentioned, that numerous complaints
have been made at this court against persons who have had
the audacity to throw these bills into the carriages of ladies
as they have been out shopping.
Mr. Tyrwhitt requested the police to look sharp after the
diatribution of this last kind of bills, and with respect to
the "Treatise" nuisance, that might be left with most ad-
vantage to the prem.
The bill was thou handed to our reporter.

GREENWICH.
rows Covey, of 6, Southgate-terrace, Cobnyg-road, Old
Heatread, • Post.offloe clerk, was placed in the dock
Woes Mr. Trull, charged with using obscene and offensive
language towards two young women residing at Sydeohsm. ,
Fromthe evidence of the complainants it appeared that
about 7 o'clock on Sunday evening they and a young lad
were in Stanstead-lane, Sydetham, proceeding towards ;
their home at Forest hill, when they saw the prisoner in ^
company with another person and a dog following them.
Before they got up to the prisoner he turned round, end
used each disgusting expressions towards them that they
OM Information to the police, and he was taken into
▪ bilisiotemialgra 61 B deposed to taking charge of the
Oen* the ems the wore for liquor.
The primmer denied using the expressions, saying that he
recollected what took place at the police-station, but bed
no recollection of what the complainants had stated.
Mr. Train inquired of the prisoner if he bad any withers?
The prisoner replied in the affirmative, and eillW
James Charles Serria, who said be was with the prisoner
at the time stated, the complainants not being behind them,
but they being behind the complainants. The witness
here admitted that the prisoner used an expression (which
he explained, and which is unfit for publication) as apply-
ing to the complainants, but said it was not intended that
they should hear it.
Mr. Train said, taking this witnema's statement to be the
truth of what had occurred, although he had no reason to
doubt the testimony of the complainants, the conduct of the
prisoner was very bed, and was deserving of the heaviest
fine the law empowered him to inflict ; while for wing the
expressions deposed to by the complainants, snob fine was
altogether too low. The prisoner war then ordered to pay
a penalty of 405., or in default 21 days' imprisonment.
The prisoner was removed in emend , bat the money
being subsequently paid, he was