The Express.
London, England, 1856-12-08 00:00:00

•Tl ARUM hiONOrafaEVRON6Iv pagtat4u= ,1868.

p alley ita4f saylacthat it wail be void in cos of esiempse-
, seatatios se food. Soh • esnolition was set, f=oil7
toned In pollens, and it vary Mle ass gale rise to qu a of
held
to to safticignt to render the policy tell ted void ; bat the
; poheles of the New National office wire held out to all th.
I world as tedisputable eacrpt in case. of fond,
and therefore n,thiorr could be inserted in Wes
which was eat mimeo with that general econtost.
•They should recollect that Mr. Getting wee as asedosted
moo, and might not have been alive to the Importance of
&sangria, the queatioas of the company with strict Go-
oney. Bat he went to Subagent, who had known him
a great many year., and no doubt Stood to In putting la
the correct sassier', and it was somewhat strange that this
agent, who ought to have looked after the tattiest, of his
egos toyer* gad pro* cid them from imposition, Lever
pointed out the mistake, width Mr. Gaoling ands in reply-
ing to the different question., sad it almost looked se if a
kind of trap bad been laid for the soured. The questiele
for th. joy would be did Mr. Grling make say outgoes&
at volsees with the fact; and next, ws that ststetniont in-
national, fa:se and with the view of deceiving the divis-
ion, b. having proem, in his mind the importance of say
'sewn be might give as affection th• question of laser-
toe, because unless they bslieved it was not only untrue
bat also false and fraudulent the plaint ft be apprehended
would be entitled to recover.
The following evidence was then given.
Mr. T. Watford ezamined—l am a medical practitioner at
Reading. I sea medical referee, for the company. I bad
known Mr. Galion lot some yams as a fellow townsman. I
never had any dealiegs with him. I torained him in 36p-
umber, 1366, on the part of the defendants' company. I
bells,. I statsd his health was very ;mod. I thought his
institution good at that time. On questioning him about
his temporises he said he was a great deal shoat, bat that
he drank very little, and that coy weak. adding, that as ha
could *either read nor write, it would not do far him to
drink math. I made a report to the company of my tool-
nag= of Mr. Goofing.
Crees-ezamined—l wrote that be was act ruptured, bat
that ho bad hydroid.. I date say he aaswerad that he was
not raptured, bat it may have nee written from my own
observation. It is pond& I may have mistaken raptors
for hydroole.
Lard Campbell—Ought not a medical man to be ashamed
of himself if ha mistook rupture for hydrooste
Witasse-1 should sot like to maks mob a mistake. The
two diessee may, however, ea-exist
Mr. Wells, another medical man, retry years pro:thing
at Readier, said he sever kaew Mr. Gosling to be an in-
temperate man, but he was not acquainted with his do-
mestic habits.
Mr. Thomas Roe, an linkups,. at Reading, said he bad
known Mr. Gosling about twenty years. He attioaded ht.
public bout once or twit. a week. He took ocasionally
' several glom of spirits end water. He osuldsred him a
I Mamas man. Had sees him the worn for liquor, but
hompable of &seeding tebiasians.
Caterionnoinsd—l hive seen him pretty fresh on live or
sin limo—not °tuner. He took between two and three
gloms of spirits and water in an neaten.
Mr. Geeing, the son of the &amid, said—His lather
always preferred water to his male. Hs was a temperate
man. H. seldom took more than one OM cf spirits and
water with the farmers. When he cam, home In the ovation
he used to repot all his rnonsgetions daring the day, and
seldom aver mad* • mistake, though he carried on a very
loge bugloss.. He had arrest capacity for again.
Other evidence s° the nos greet was then given.
Mr. Haowles, In lamming up hit evident*, observed that
if after this testimony the jury fond a verdict for the dr
fondants, on the gritted of Mr. Gosling's &noted lateen-
peruse, be would eaelairn, "God help every man who has
Wood his life for the booth of his wife tad Wally."
Lord Campbell said the only evidence on that subject was
Mr. Gosling calling himself a fro liver."
Mr. Collin replied on the whole oast. He admitted that
If the dsfendsats bad relied only on thoi ground of intent-
penults thsir is.. would have failed, °boning that on this
object they 66d boa raided by Mr. 04ling's own state.
meat, bet he eoetended that be had sufficiently supported
the plots la other respect. to entitle his clients to a
Tenet.
Lord Campbell, icterrapties th. I d cosasel, said it
was deer to demonstration that Mr. Gosling made a proposal
to the It. George °See, which was actopted at an iscreased
rate of premium, and vet he told the second company to
which he applied that he was not swan of any such thing,
he himself having rented to give moo than 301. when they '
earl 481. That pan of the plea was therefore distinctly
made oat. Mr. Gosling how that if the whole truth were
disclosed Ike company would want a larger premium than
30L, and his object clearly was to get an insurance at that
rate by supposing the real facto. The question of tatto-
o/ante was very properly given up, but he did not me how
any of the jury could entertain a moment's doubt that th.
otho portion of the plea had been completely established.
The foreman said they entertained no doubt upon the
penß
Verdict for the defendants.

White and Bagley, of Chellyakam, ant a number of books
kie•
Womb! 'shoal ati Barbary, Nanifekshire, to be
bound. The ordar watasszeouted and the books packed la a
ban and despatched to the owners, but eighteen volumes
wen abstracted in the passage of its ben to Ctultenkers,
including • pattern volume and tb. 'nand vAnage
of " Gordon Cumming's Hunter's Life in Smith Africa."
At Swindon the hoc had to be transferred to the
Cheltenham Ilse, sad the prisoners were the officials
iea duty at tbe time of lb arrival. No @nylons
however, attached to them until the Bth of Henan's;
last, when Padfield's lodglap were saarehad, sad els of the
volumes found, Wending the bluing volume of Gordon
Gumming. At the lodgfop of Thresher 11 others wen
found, the renialalag volume of the eighteen could not In
i kneed.

The jury found the prisoners
Thresher wastbea tried on a charge of stealing a pair of
aspiulgue Magi end Is table spoons, also the property of
-The Misplay.
The jay found the prisoner Gloat,.
The learned Judge, In passing sentence, said the pre-
via+e good character of the prisoners did not operate in
their favour, u they had made that t►e means of getting
into dt•ations which alforded opportunity for hand to
• etessidersble enlist; and when he remembered the
nature of their employers' eagagements with the public, It
woe impossible for him to consider the present as ordinary
cases of larceny. Foe the last °Hence be sentenced Thresher
to Mx tomtits' imprisonment; sad for that of which the
prisoners had been Jointly found gaily, he directed the
punishment of 4 years' penal arreitude, to commence, in the
caw et Thresher, at the expiration of the former sentence.
Without Robins wee indicted for the manslaughter of
Alfred Burgess, at Oaks.
Mr. Swaps@ prosecuted. The prisoner wee undefended.
Oa the evening of the 19th of August, the prisoner and
another men were fighting at the Bear lon, Caine, end the
deceased, who was an ostler these, wee called In to quell the
disturbance. He send bold of the prisoaer, who threw
him down, end kicked has on the lower part of the
stomach. He fingered for some time, aid then died. The
surgeons wbo made • pest moue= 'nomination of the body
observed no external gawks of violence, bet internaily there
was oousiderable isilsomenation. They would not, however,
say whether death arose from violence oe from natural
COSMO.

—Theliterood Judge said if the doctors could not say whe-
ther death wee eassiosed by violates, it was hard to coil
silica 'jay to do so. He therefore put it to Mr. Swans
whether he hod not better withdrew from the prosecution.
This course was assented to. The jay returned a ver-
dict of Not Gaily, and the aleph.: was discharged.