The Express.
London, England, 1862-07-24 00:00:00

LONDON AND BRIGHTON RAILWAY.

The report of the directors, to be submitted to
the meeting on Tuesday next, and the accounts for the half.
year ending 30th June, 1862. show the following results : -
The amount of capital raised to 30th June, 1862, is
10,341,4181., consisting of—Ordinary stock, 4,620,000/. ;
preferential stock sod shares, 3,329,4184 ; mortgage debt,
1,598,275/. ; debenture stock, 793,7251. ; total, 10,341,4181.
The amount of capital expended during the half-year is
208,6204 The reduction in the rate of interest on the
mortgage debt still goes ore, and the debenture stock issued
has reached 793,725 t. The loans falling due at 44 and 5 per
cent. have been renewed at 4 per cent., and the average, in-
cluding debenture stock, has been further reduced to
41. ls. 9d. per cent. The poet revenue for the half-year has
been 444,861/., showinganiocrease of 2.3,4*21. overtbat of the
corresponding half-year of 1861. Of this 12,0061. arises in the
passenger traffic, and the remainder from goods, tolls, ratite,
Sec. The increase which appears in the ordinary expenditure
arises chiefly from heavy repairs to the carriage and waggon
stock. The traffic during the early part of the year admits
the placing of the entire plant in the most perfect order, so
as to meet the increased demands during the summer for
the ordinary traffic, as well as for that in connexion with
the International Exhibition. A further sum of 6,0001. his
been charged in respect of compensations arising from the
accident of last August ; and a somewhat similar sum may
be expected to the debit of the current half-year, which
will, it may be hoped, close that account. A further in-
crease appears in the charge for dividends on preference
capital, arising from the fact that interest in respect of the
whole of the completed lines and works lies now become •
debit charge against revenue. The permanent way lir.
proeement account has been credited with the usual 3,0001.,
and the re-laying and fish-jointing of portions of the coast
lines and branches has been further proceeded with. The
contractor for the Croydon and Balham line has not shown
the energy which bad been anticipated. At last, however,
the works reached the state which enabled the usual notice
to be given to the Board of Trade, and the opening may be
expected without further delay, when great facilities for
both the through and the local traffic will be obtained.
The completion of the West London Extension lute has also
been delayed ; it is, however, nearly finished, and will be
opened as soon as certain arrangements new pending between
the companies interested shall hays been concluded.
The enlargement of the Brighton terminus is completed ;
this improvement emblem the traffic to be worked with in-
creased facility, and affords an amount of accommodation
and convenience not surpassed at any station. The works
on the Pulborough and Ford rifle, sad the Littlehamptoe
branch, are proceeding rapidly. The latter will, it is
be ready for the traffic of the approaching autumn. one
bill for the enlargement of the London-bridge terminus has
received the royal assent. The importance of the Loodon-
bridge station cannot be too highly valued, particularly as
the new street leading from thence to the end of Stamford-
street, in the Blackfnarrroad, ia approaching completion—.
its great width (eighty feet) and its connection with all the
actor the Thames will give important facilities for
access to all parts of the metropolis. This bill contains also
powers, authorising the company to own and work steam
vessels ; the continued progress of the French traffic is the
best assurance that these powers will prove highly advan-
tageous. By soother bill promoted by the company, and
which has also received the royal assent, powers are obtained
for the construction of • line from New Cross to the Bar -
ringtoteroad, Brixton, where it forms a junction with the
line of the Loudon, Chatham, and Dover Railway Com-
pany, which runs from thence to this company's line at
Stewart's-lane, • short distance from the Vicitork station.
The bill contains clauses granting to this company running
powers over the above-named portion of the Meth= Com.
pany's lies, in exchange for similar powers g tad to that
company from the Barrington-road to Deptford-wharf, and
providing for the laying down of four noes of rails throughout
the whole distemper, over which such running powers had
been granted to the respective companies. Thus means
have been provided for carrying on the traffic of the two
companies without interference or delay, while at the same
time the more important objects are attained of forming •
South London line from London-bridge to Victoria, and (in
connection with the West London Extension and the North
London lines) completing the railway circle round the me-
tropolis, a result which cannot fail to produce • large ac-
cameo of revenue to this company, in addition to the con-
siderable suburban traffic which will *rime from the line be-
tween London-bridge and Brixton. The bill also contains
powers for the construction of the short branch line froM New.
haven to Seaford, sanctioned by the proprieties in January
last, A special meeting has been convened, to be held imme-
diately after the termination of the ordinary meeting on the
29th instant, to authorise the creation of the capital neces-
sary for these lines and works, and for the completion of
the other works in progress, including the contribution to
the West London Extension Line and to the Horsham and
Guildford Direct Railway ; in connexion with which last-
named matter, the directors report that, acting in ac-
cordance with the authority given to them by the resolution
of the proprietors passed in January last, they have con-
cluded an agreement with that aim to contribute
towards its capital the 75,000/. authorised by parliament,
and to purchase the line (15i miles is length) when com-
pleted for the further sum of 48,0001., making in all 1 ti,oool. ;
this company finding the materials for the permanent way
and building the stations. The net amount of the credit of
the amount is 116,9811., out of which the directors
recommend the payment of • dividend of two-and-a-half per
cent. for the half-year, payable on the 12th of August,
amounting to 115,5004, leaving a bathe* to the credit of the
curreat half-year of 1,4811.

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EQUITY 0017RTES.—JuLY 23.
(Wore Vies-Chsaosllor Sir R. T. Kinder.ley.)

sane V. BODIN.
The plaintiff in this suit married Augusta Sophia
Weems, Gee of the daughters of the late General
Weeny's. Previous to the • the plaintiff's father,
Mr. Warrea Hastings Sands, Edinburgh, wrote to
General Wemyss • letter in which he proposed to take
Ibis son into partnership, to give him 5001. to furnish •
house, and to settle 5,0001. upon him and his intended
wife. In reply to this the general wrote• letter in which
he said, "Wffii my eldest daughter married I gave her
11,0001., settled on herself and her children, with
• promise of sharing what I may be able hereafter
to leave them, and this Inn do for Augusta. I wish I
could say more." The marriage took place some mouths
after, namely, in July, 1852, and previous to the marriage a
settlement was made in the Scotch form, settling 1,003/.
land whatever ohs might be entitled to on the death of her
1 father. Is March, 1838, General Werayss made a will, in
which was the following bequest :—" In cue I should not
have done on in my lifetime I give and bequeath to each of
my married daughters, Mrs. Heater Sarah Pigot, Mrs. Au-
gusta Sophia Sands, and Mrs. April's Ellacombe, the sum of
2,080/. New Three per Cent. Stock, to be transferred
by my executor into the names of the trustee'
lof their respective marriage settlements." And after
certain other bequests he gave the residue of
his property to is five daughters. On the 21st
of May, 1858, General Wemyas transferred • sum of
3,333/. 6s. Bd. into the names of the trustees of the set-
tlement. of each of his three married daughters, and by •
codicil to his will bearing date the 31st of May, 1858, he
revoked the legacies of 2,000/. to each of his three married
daughters, and also the gift of • share of the residue to
them. He died on the 19th July, 1860, possessed of very
considerable personal property, and the question was whe-
ther the letter written by him to the father of the plaintiff
before the marriage was • binding contract, and entitled the
plaintiff, by right of his wife, to an equal share in the gene-
ral's property.
Mr. Anderson and Mr. Perober appeared for the plain-
s tiffs ; Mr. Toiler and Mr. Itawlinson for the trustees of the
settlement ; Mr. Bally, Mr. Glare, Mr. C. Barber, and Mr.
H. Begabawe, for the other parties concerned.
The Vice-Chancellor said he war of opinion that it wee
not the intention of General Wemyes that the terms referred
to in the letter should form • part of the marriage contract,
which was • full and complete instrument in itself. Had
the marriage taken place immediately, and there bad been
no formal settlement, and nothing more than the letter, it
might have been different. No doubt the general went to
his grave without the leant notion that his letter formed
any part of the contract, or wag in the learnt degree binding
on him, and his transferring the 3,113/. fe. Bd. to the trus-
tees of the marriage settlements of his three married
daughters, showed that that was his impression. Under
these circumstances the bill must be dismissed with costa.

ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE.

HOME CIRCUIT.--Casuarosp, JULY 23.

Civic SlDL—(Bdof Br. Bum Bramwell and a Special
Jury.)
FOWLER V. BATLEY.

TheJAaintiff. Ihiri;iSpariCesiOWler, need thedefendant,
Vero Temple Bayley, for a breach of his promise to marry
her. The defendant pleaded—fiat, that he did Doti make the
promise as eller d ; and secondly, that the plaintiff was an
immoral person.
Mr. Pearce end Mr. Martin were counsel for the plaintiff ;
and Mr. Hawkins, Q.C., and Mr. Heneyman were for the
defendant.

Mr. Pearce, in opening the ease, said that the plaintiff
was a young woman living with her parents at Colchester,
and the defendant was captain in the 54th Regiment, and
the parties became acquainted while he was stationed at the
campat Colchester. The first acquaintance took place two
or three yearn ago, and the plaintiff and the defendant used
to meet at the house of a person named Woodson, who kept
• tobacconist's shop at Colchester, and he believed that on
more than one occasion the defendant expressed his intei-
tioa to marry the plaintiff, and while the defendant wan
at Aldershott and other places with his reement,
he wrote • great many letters to the plaintiff,
some of which he should have to read, and
the jury would judge from the contents of those letters
whether there could be any reasonable doubt that the par-
ties were upon terms of the greatest intimacy Rod affection,
and such as would warrant the plaintiff in believing that
the defendant intended to make her his wife. He should
also have to lay before them another document of a very
singular character, and which appeared to have been drawn
up and signed by the defendant, and which he submitted
would clearly show what his intentions were with regard to
the plaintiff. It was dated the 3nl of February, 1861, and
was i 0 the following terms :
"I, Vero Temple Bayley, lieutenant in her Majesty's
54th regiment, do declare that I consider Miss Harriet
Fowler, of Colchester, as my wife."
The learned counsel then stated that it appeared that in
the beginning of the present year the defendant had mar-
ried • lady, who, he believed, was possessed of considerable
property, and it was therefore impossible for him to fulfil
his engagement with the plaintiff, and under these circum-
stances it wu for the jury to say what amount of damages
she was entitled to receive at the hands of the defendant.

Jane Wendon deposed that her husband was groom to au
officer at the camp at Colchester, and in 1861 she kept •
tobacconist's shop in that town. She knew the plaintiff and
the defendant, and they used to come to her shop almost
every day during the year 1861. (The witness was then
shown the document that had been read by the lea wed
counsel, and she stated that it was in the handwriting of
the defendant.) The plaintiff was • dressmaker. The
defendant used to say • great many thing. to her. (A
laugh.) He once said to her in witness's preset es that if he
took any other lady tojtbe altar but her, he hoped he should
be struck dead. (A laugh.) He also said that he would
never have any other woman, and he threatened to destroy
himself upon one occasion when the plaintiff talked of
leaving him. . . . .

--
Crors-examined—Witoem at present kept a straw bonnet
shop. Nothing was done a. her former place of business
except selling t Amoco. The defendant and the plaintiff
need to be in the front shop together, but there was a
screen in the shop and they went behind it, so th►t
nobody could see them. Witness was always present,
and she was sure that nothing improper took place between
them.

Crow-examination continued—Tbey used to make love
before me. and did not mind my being there. (A laugh.)
No one else used to come to her shop to make love, and she
did not remember any other lady or gentleman going behind
the screen.

Mr. Hawkins—Did you ever hear of people in Co'cliester
going courting in a tobacconist's shop berme (Laughter.)
Witness—Well, I have heard of such things being done.
(Renewed laughter.) She added that the defendant was
quite a young man, but she did not know that be was not
more than one or two and twenty, and she should think
from his appearance that he was about thirty.
Mr. Pearce then put m a number of letters that had been
written by the defendant to the pl►intiff. He addressed
her as "My dearest Harry," and subscribed himself some-
time. " Vero," and at others " Her Boy." In one of these
letters the defendant said :

"I wish to put the ease clearly before rouAlint you may
for yourself. I have done all I can to show you
Isow much I love you, and if you desert me my life will be
a blank. You will always find a (nerd in me, and I will
fulfil all the promises I have nude.—Yours till death,
" Vale."

In another he said :—" You alai can save me from
destruction. I have been all day at the cups, and have
done nothing but drink. What I want of you is to make
me give up drinking. and I could do it for your sake.
(A laugh.) I have got up from my bed to write this.
(Renewed laughter.) You are the only person that can
save me. ( Laughter.) Come what may, I will never
desert you."
It another letter the defendant stated that he bad been
to a hall, and he felt the effects at five o'clock the following
morning. He observed that he was going out to dine at
Thompson's. whom she knew ea the m,n with the glass in
his eye and red moustaches. (Laughter.l
There reeve a number of other letters of a similar cha-
racter, and when they had been lead the case for the plain-
tiff was closed.

111;.flawkiWa then addressed the jury for the defendant,
and he contended that in the first place there was not the
slightest evideins upon which they would be justified in
forming the conclusion that the defendant had ever pro-
mimed to marry the plaintiff. He said that he could not
deny that the defendant bad written a number of very silly,
rubbishing letters to the plaintiff, but they only, as it app
peered to him, tended to show the character of the inti-
macy that existed between them, and that they
regatived the supposition that the defendant en-
tertained any idea of marriage. He then stated
that his learned friend bad neglected to inform them
that the plaintiff wee in reality the daughter of a cab-
men at Colchester; and be asked the jury whether it was
likely that, if the defendant, an officer in her Majesty's
army,had ever been no such terms with her as to lead !nth*
supposition that he intended to marry her, her parents
would not have been aware of the fact, awl would have
been brought forward as witnesses on her behalf ; but in-
stead of this, no one was called but the person who kept the
tobacconist's shop, where this extraordinary oourtehi was
re presented to have taken place. (A laugh.) He should
therefore contend that there was no evidence of soy
mutual engagement to marry having taken place be-
tween thee. parties, but he said if the jury should be of
opinion that there was any such evidence, he should show
that the character and conduct of the plaintiff was such
alter the promise was alleged to have been made, that the
defendant was justified in breaking it
Witnesses were thee examined, whose evidence went to
show that the plaintiff was in the habit of going to the
camp at Oolchester very Lite at night, and that she had COP.
ducted herself oo several occasions is an immoral manner.
Baron Bramwell having briefly summed up, the jury im-
mediately returned a verdict for the defendant.
His lordship certified that it was a fit ease to be tried by
a special jury.

Msrserolzmir ran HoenTAL, Davoirmaiss-
SWABS, CITY.-11radrirl numbs of =relieved
during the week :4 was:--19, 1,567;
surgical, 674—kW, 2,041, .1 which 721 wars new cases.

THE POLICE COURTS.

GUILDHALL

Miles John Dokton,arespet7tably-eonnected young man,
was brought up for final osaadoottsot ohorirod with un-
lawfully disposing of a pianoforte, value about 451., the
property of Mesas. Hopkinson, pianofortermanufactuers,
of Regent-street.
The evidence already before the court wu that the pri•
sonar hired the pianoforte, and soon after it was delivered.
be disposed of it to a Mr. Crossley, an auctioneer and
money leader, of If oorgate-strut, for an advance of
191., minus 31. deducted for interest and the ea-
peoses of carriage and warehowe room.
Mr. Crossley now produced a statutory declaration mad*
by the prisoner, to the effect that the pianoforte was his
own property. The prisoner denied the guilty intent, but
admittod that a temporary premium bad induced him to
raise money on the instrument for a short time.
Alderman Sidney fieed the prisoner U. for the offence,
and ordered him to pay the value of the pianoforte, or in
default to be oommitted to prison for three calendar months.
J. Bengo, a horse slaughterer, and W. Neville, a butcher,
both of Kingston, in Surrey, were summoned before Alder-
man Hale, to answer the charge of unlawfully sending to
Newpte. market the carcase of a cow which bad died from
disease and condemned as unfit for human food.

Mr. Btuchbury conducted the prosecution for the emu-
miasioners of sewers ; Mr. Kemp defended Neville, and Mr.
Way attended for Bengo.
A great number of witnesses were examined to show that
a eowkeeper of the name of Wallis had a cow that was
suffering from diseased lungs, and after being physiced for
some time the animal at length died, and the defendant
Bongo was sent for to remove the carcase. On being
asked what it was worth he offered les. for it,
including the hide, and eventually purchased it
at that price. A but her of the name of Ticknor
was employed by Needle to skin and dries On
carcase, which was afterwards sent up to the shop of
Mr. Nicklinson, in Newpte Market, by Neville, evidertly
for the purpose of being sold in the ordinary noun of bum-
mer for human food. This witness proved that the flesh of
the now was altogether unfit for human rood, and the in.
apectore of meat in Monate Market attended to prove the
state of the meet upon the arrival in the market. Their
evidence completed the case, and
Alderman lisle committed the defendants to Nowt* for
trial.