The Express.
London, England, 1862-07-30 00:00:00

LAW INTELLIGENCE.
(THIS DAY.)

EQUITY COURT.
(Before the Lards Justine of Appeal.)
I.IOIIIIWALL r.
The following order wee, by consent of the parties, taken
at the sitting of the court :
The petitioner, Mr. Aspinwall, undertaking to abide by
any order as to damages which the court may make,
and to amend the bill on or before the Ath of Avis%
and give ootioe of motion for decree on or before
the 15th -August, and to consent to any day being tired fur
the hearing of the cause which the Master of the I;.,11/
may appoint, an injunction is granted in the terms of the
prayer of the bill. Application to be made to the Mater
of the Rolls to speed the cause. The defendant. or any of
them to be at liberty to pay into court the sum of timuoc,
and upon such payment being made, this order to be of
no force or effect. Liberty to apply.
The facts of the OM appear in the report in another
page of the appeal from the refusal of an injunction by
the Master of the Halls, which was heard on Tuesday, wiles
Mr. Willoock, Q.C., Mr. T. H. Terrell, Mr. Jeasel. Mr. C.
T. Swoosh:on, and Mr. Batten, appeared for the different

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THE POLICE COURTS.
(THIS DAY.)

CLEBXENWELL.

VIOLENT LSSAULT ON •N INSPICTOI OP POLICL -11111E40N.

NU? WITHOUT A /MIL
John Wdls, a preen residing at 2, Felix.etreet, Liver-
pool-road, was charged with being drunk and violently as-
saulting Mr. Richard Williams, inspector of police, “reat
Northern Hallway, in the execution of his duty at King's.
cross goods station, tit. Pawns.
The complainant stated that last night he was at the
goods station, starting one of the excursion trains, 'bee
he heard a complaint that the passengers were being so.
noyed by some fellows outside. He went there and found
the prisoner, who wee behaving in • violent manner, and
asked him to go away. This he declined to do aod truck
him, and behaved in • very unmanly way. The prisoner
said if he was not taken hold of he would go to the station
quietly, but he was no sooner loosened than he struck him
in the eye and bruised his face. He also endeavoured to
kick him seriously.
The prisoner said he was the worse for liquor, or he should
not have acted in the manner he had.
. . .

Mr. Barker said the only doubt he had on his mind was
whether be ought not to send the prisoner for trial. As it
was, he should indict the heaviest punishment he had it in
his power to do, viz., two calendar months' imprisonment,
with hard labour, in the Howe of Correction.

WORSHIP-STREET.
ANOTHIE HIGHWAY ROBBERY.

William 0 winning, Z. 5, a tall and wiry-framed man, warn
charged before Mr. Cooke with the following robbery upon
Mra. Mary Ann Brookes, the wife of a solicitor.
The prosy:atria rid—Let evening I wee returning to my
madam in Brudenell.place, New North-road, and while
Endo. cwaittworriw=hil mant
adttieciYatri mym rfienglicul.
So great was the violence he used that my hand was
severely hurt by his repeatedly tugging at it. On obtaining
poseemion of the property be ran off rapidly. The parse
produced is mine and was in my reticule at the time. It
costumed about 21. 7s.

brotgGriffiths, 12 years old—l was looking at a pawn.
eshop window, when Illeard a scream, and on turn.
ing 1 saw the prisoner dragging at this lady's black bag ; he
pulled very hard, and when he got it I followed him acme
the read and through several streets. At last be hid in •
corner, and when he noticed me said. " give you a quid
(a sovereign) if you say nothing ;" but a pplice-constable
coming up I told him where the prisoner was. I saw him
throw something over a wall as he ran before it, and also
put something in his pocket. Them " somethings"
turned out to be the identical purse belonging to
the promoutrie and the money it had contained,
the former having been picked up on • spot indicated by
the boy, and the latter in exact amount having been found
in the prisoner's pocket by polioe-constable 2180. who took
him into custody, and whoincontionatioa of his evidence, said
—The prisoner insisted that I had got hold of the wrong man,
but on seeing the lady he told her that if she appeared
against him his friends would meet certainly be " down
upon her."
Mrs. Brookes corroborated this statement, and
The prisoner, when asked for his answer to the charge,
declared, despite the combined evidence against him, that be
was innocent, adding, "and it's very head that a poor
young fellow who never did nothing should be served is
this here way."
Mr. Cooke ordered • remand, that an opportunity might
be afforded to constables of other divisions to see the
prisoner.