The Express.
London, England, 1865-01-30 00:00:00

COURT OF QUEEN'S BENCH.-JAN. 28.

Sittings in Baisoo.Before Lord Chief Jmtioe Cockburn
and Mr. Judos Shea.)
The court did not sit lista after two o'clock, in oomo•
uintet, of the learned judges being engspd is the
Criminal Court of Appeal In the cam of the Qom m
Payton.
BBILLIT r. IMIRLOC/L—LIBIL.
Mr. %Mil, Q.C., applied for a rule nisi to &Mame sa
order made is Ibis caps by Mr. Justice Owiespoo. Thu
plahatiff ma the incumbent of 134 Gear* Liverpool, sai
the defeedaet is the proprietor of the Liverpool Aiwa. TIN
MOO was originally laid is Loadoo, but it bulbous removed
to Liverpool by Mr. Julies Oremploo's emir, sad it woe
Mat order which it was wept to wit aside, is order that
Me cam might be tried in Lowden, as the pound that the
plastid! maid not have a fair trial to Liverpool in weer
imam of the great exaftement that promiled in ooeueolion
with the controversy between the pram and ths preju-
dice that suited in the public Wad at Liverpool against the
plaintiff. The learned counsel read portions of the libels
esmplained of, in which .tho piebald was described as as
"Irish inspostor " aid ehastiog him with having "and
away at the worthy sad remedied Jewish Mid magistrate
of Liverpool, the lowa compillon generally, and all the
inualaipal voten of the community.
Hide panted.
BUSH V. MAISILALL.

Mr. Hawk's, (1.C., applied for • rule islet forfora we
on the ground of misdirmaloo, sad that the verdict was
naiad isvldesoe. The cam wee tried in the Bail Omit, be.
fors Mr. Justice Sine, whoa the jury Warned • verdict for
the plaintiff, damages 271. The laWes was for the rest of
• foreland house in St. John's Wood, sad the defence was
that the house wee aot in a habitable state from vermin.
When Mrs. Wardell saw the bows she Liked if it was clean
sad owelortable sad free from inesele, which the &deadest
interpreted, " are there any bugs about the plum" sad the
pielatlff's wife replied, "Oh deer, ao, scabies of the Mai.
Then are only • few bleak boftlso, whisk the oat rate."
(Laughter.) Mrs. Wardell afterwards mitered tato poseserloa
sad as soon departed. The platetire wife. cc the trial,
mid sbe bad
the boom, bat her daughter had egos sees one, set i•
town, however, but at Margate. (L4thillitic) They appeared
M Ay from her sight in the morning. as be was isformed wee
their habit by three who had studied them. (Laughter.)
The yam lady never could Cod anything or sea aeything
at Margate, but she supposed it was • bug, from the history
that had been given to her of these insects. They also
emßed two witaissess, who were not likely to see bugs, two
lawyers who slept oa the ground floor—(laughter)—sad
ware aot likely to be troubled by hugs. The charwomas
said she bed never mesa say bugs there, bat vim she was
erase-examhsed skis add she webbed out tyre from the dimity
' lathe back kiteheo, sad,'sa she mid, they were usually found
la the woodwork of the bedsteads. The defence was that
the ladies brought them to the house from the railway °or-
der, or had brought • family of them in a carpet they bad
brought with them.
The Lord Ohief Justice—The old eterudyped answer.
Mr. Hawkins said it was suggested by his friends who had
studied entomology that • carpet was not • place where
bap bold their happy meetinp—(laughter)—but that they
were to be loud, as the charwoman soul, 1a the intentions
of the bedstead. Mrs. Wardell and her daughter slept ia
the best bedroom, Lad. oetwithatheding they bad a night
light, the inmost they laid down they felt semethiag at-
tack* them ; and the son, a lad of 14 years of age, who
slept in the down, bad to rush to hie summa for protecting
fur the bugs were actually devour's" him. Omightral
The ladies A. the mansag showed that they
been subjested be • very beside attack. The
meow' night wee equally as had, and the
w
was they woe obliged to have the hoes% anritterel-
feedsot took Mrs. Warded and her family to Webb's
Hotel, liecedilly. The mar Cull, who wee vaned for the
deems*. said he maw two begs in the daytime walking down
the Sartain'' which he handed over to the ',oak for the
purpose of being slaughtered. (Laughter.) The plaintiff
sad the withers" said they had sever beer disturbed by
lambert which was vary probable, for they were no doubt
used to them ; but it was very different when the Inge got
• ideas wheimome holly fresh up from the country.
. .

(Laotians.)
The Lord Chief Jostle, asked if there was any positive
*videos, as to the q.schty al mimic.
Mr. Hawkins said there woe not; but the ladles said they
suffered from a gneiss sessatiou—(laughter) as coos es
they got to beckbet 6e7 could neither see coos find anything.
Mr. Justice She, said he thought the deleadant's we
wee mush exaggerated. Her eon meld he saw ewe as large
es a ladybird. (f.bter.) The learned mama appeared
to make fun cwt of Um cum.
Mr. Hawkine—ladeed, I only made at the trial a plain
and unvarnished statement of the facts. (Laughter.)
Mr. Justice des,—You made the most of
Mr. Hawkins—l don't think I made mime than I ought to
have down
Mr. Justice Slim—Yon made more of it than many would
have dorm
Mr. Hawkins said that all be stated was from his in-
structiens, and what those Wound him who were learned
in the habits of the bag. (Laughter.) II was suggested
that yoga could hear bugs ; sad at the trial it was stated
that aas was taken out of his bad at a (wintry inn, and
when they won deprived of him they actually got upon
the chairs end barked at him. (Load laugoter.) Some-
thing was said at the trial at their not being musical bug;
sad that they did not play the fiddle ; but d they did not
play on the fiddle, there was *sty of getting upstairs by
j them (Roars a laughter.)
I The court refund the rule.