The Express.
London, England, 1853-11-23 00:00:00

OITTIPIOII 111 1141.00.-1111,0111 CMS. ANTICS 1111•111.

The Chief Janice came into wart this morning, to see
whi.thsr there were any motions of pressing importance;
but there being none such, he immediately afterwards ad-
journed the eosin, he having to meet the ether judges in
the Court of Error.

SOLOMON T. TODD.-QUISTION OT LIABILITY.

The defendant in this cue was one of the ownen of the
vessel Ana Batas, and the plaintiff sued him in that cha-
racter, to recover the price of certain goods alleged to have
Men sold upon his credit.
Mr. &dam Biles and Mr. Metcalfe appeared for the
plaintiff ; and Mr. Hogging, Q.C., and Mr. Charsock were
for the defendant.

The Ann Bates, it appeared, was some time ago about to
sail for Rio Janeiro, under the command of Captain Rich-
ardsor. and a quantity of ponds was purchased of the
plaintiff to send eat in her, and the price, 271. Ils, was
paid. Poise more goods, however, went out; and the
plaintiff now sought to recover this prior of these eaten
goods, upon the ground that they had been sold upon the
joint credit of Ciptain Richardson and the owners of the
Ann B des. Captain Richardson had since died abroad,
and the plaintiff, therefore, sued the present defendant.
The ease foe the defendant was that the extra goods were
not sold at all, or said only upon the credit of Captain Rich.
animas, and not upon that of the defendant.
The jury retired from court to consider the matter, but
is a short time they came back and gave a verdict for the
drfosdent.

THZ aCZYMIN.

Whilst the jmy in the last ems wee out of court, the
associate's clerk proceeded to call another jury, to try the
neat case. It was fuuad, however, that there were not
enough jurymen in coast to form a jery.
His Lordship, therefore, fined all those who were absent
in the penalties of 40s. ; and he said that when he again eat
at Ni.i Prins in the City, he would have the panel celled
ever the Ant thing is the morning, sad awe all who were
Owe oboist.

RAMP? P. VISITILLY.-ACTION POI TUB MCP OP

TIMWILATI24O ♦ FILINCH WOLK.
This was s action to fte,Pter 73t, the price of a transla-
tion fro. Punch into English of a "Life of Louis the
fin tweeath," and also one sheet of " Lamartine's History
et the Restoratiow."

Mr. Berjeant Thomas and another I d gentleman ap-
Mred h.r the plaintiff, and Mr. Serjeant Bytes and Mr.
eneatara for the defendant.

iiapp•a;siikiTitiiepl;iot;if is a member of the bar, who
has bents for many years engaged in literary pursuits, sad
septrislly in translating, and the defendant is a printer is
Peterborough-smart, F eet-street.
The Malatire cam was that in the latter part of last
year be was employed tbs uefesdaat to make the trans-
lation is coalition ; and it was agreed that he should be
paid at the tame rate as be had bean paid by Messrs.
Ingram sad Conks for similar work. According to this
rate, the price for a work if the sin of the one in question
was two and a-half guineas a sheet of thirty-two pairs, the
number of chests translated was tweaty-nine and s-half,
wideb would make the amount claimed 751.

Div plaintiff wu examined in support ot these facts, and
he proved that the work was done on the terms stated, and
that no complaint was made of the =tuna in whit t it had
b .en done.

_
is crow-esamisatios, he admitted that only part of the
tasaslatios sad bees writtits by his owe Iss; the rest
►aries beta dose by his son, sad his cousin, a lady. They
generally wrote frog his dietetios ; sad always ander his
eerreeties,

The defeadasts' *passel admitted that Mr. Haslitt him.
self was essiamitly qualified to perform the work which he
lied undertakes ; bat he complaines that is consequence
of his heels, allowed other persons to do part of it,thery was
se great a number of errors in the translation as seriously to
damage the wink. That the reader bad corrected a great
111111hef of them whilst the work was being put imo type,
aid that a gentleman mama! Short had been emp:nyed to
go though the translation aga,o, and correct the mon
which still remained. That thie was necessary in order to
firth* work foe publication, and that the sum paid to Mr.
Merl for his labour was 271. In addition to this that the
eating up of the work had cost 141. or led. more than it
weald have dome if • proper translation had been furnished
at dm. Mr. Visetelly Plated in Ins evidence, that at the
time he employed Mr. Huhn to do the work, no menti-a
whatever was made of price, and he denied that any re-
ference whatever was made to Means. Ingrain and Coke,
or ri the price paid by them for translators.
The jar) found a verdict for the plamtdi for the amount
chimed.