The Express.
London, England, 1846-12-10 00:00:00

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bilier did eat tesespire.
NEWMARKET CIIAMPION COURSING MWITNG,
WEUNViDAI.-1:1-41NO FIKLU.
TOM Tins rex TOO Au.—korm Sionsa.—}P.ghbond Lamle beat
Figaro; Mae/worm best Spinster ; Omen beat Silents ; miles beat
Mak ; eish.you-rget-it beat Fortune Te'.ur ; Probity beat Mis-
chief Maxie beat Fa
rmer; Lacy Bertram boot Jericho.
Film Tess roe rue PUPPY &MAIM— -Daisy beat Cleentine ;
Twilight Farmer's teatVata.
EVOINO cones Fon Peril:an—W. Buckworth's Brutus beat Mr.
VWsn's Victory ; Mr. Foder's Molly beat Mr. Anstruther's Coiner;
3Cr. Inaltip's gm beat Mr. Arab. Agricola ; Mr. Parkinson's Stock-
ton beet Can Wendham's Willa Mr. Florin's Silesia beat Mr.
pylon's Fireaway ; Captain Wyndhams V. ildflre beat Mr. Bquires's
OrangLFlower ; Mr. Giliett's Gipsy it
brat Mr. B. Smyth's knight
Manag; Mr. Dotede'a Dolly beat Mr. Anstruther's Crisis.
Iti-n.ann firasas—Mr. B. Smyth's Sam Slick beat Mr. Arabin'.
All's Luck; Mr. R. Bagge's Treasure beat Mr. Dobede's Dim' • Mr.
Yceter' s Raney beat Mr. Nash a Crocus; Lord Strodb 's Mac beat roke
Mr. Squire's Oil. Gammon.
The finest dais coursing ever witnessed on Exiling Field ; all good
trials, and the ' most satidactory.
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Before Tio.43lllEoeUor Knight Bruce.
PREECE V. Psancn—PRIVILEGED COMMUNICATIONS
SOLICITOZ A?7D CLIENT —VENDOR AND PI:EDEN/ME.—
The bill WWI filed to compel the specific performance of an
agreement for the sale of lauds. 'The purchaser refused to
complete the contract upon the ground (as alleged) that a
of th!...7,.,
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fraudulent appointment had been made of the property vane
years ago: the purchaser having liberty given him to er-Anine
vendor in the master's office on the subject, put this question
W him : " Did not any, and what letters or correspondence
pan between you and such solicitor or solicitors, relative to
each appointment, agreement, or mortgage, respectively I
If yea, set forth the purport of such correspondence, nc."
The master having allowed this interrogatory, the vendor
took an exception V. the master's report, anti the exception
now came on for t'aguTent.
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fin:iding, re
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client .4 SI not SO protected.
Wis Honour was of opinion tt.st the client was protected,
and allowed the exceptios.

COURT OF rzjEENts BENCH.
Rim fluo•—llsfor's lord Denman and Common Juries.
PLIIIMER e. Awninsow.—PußLlC-tIOVeIIS
Mr. Se6eant C. James and Mr. Udall were counsel for the
plaintiff, who is a brewer, and brought this action to recover
the value of beer supplied to the defendant, who keeps the
Royal Oak, at Bethnall-green. That the beer was supplied
I was made out. Mr. Wordsworth and Mr. Bramwell for the
defendant then called witnesses for the purpose of showing
that there never had been null a debt between the parties as
that claimed, and that if there had it was exceeded by a
claim which the defendant was entitled to set off. To show
that there had not been such a debt, witnesses stated that
the defendant had in fact been put into the Royal Oak as the
servant for the plaintiff, for the purpose of selling the plain-
tifFs beer, for which he was to receive 10s. a barrel, and 5
per cent. To support the set-off, evidence was offered to
show, Ist. that the plaintiff was the person to whom the
landlord of the Royal Oak looked for the rent, and that the
defendant had paid the rent to an amount exceeding the
plaintiff's demand ; 2, that the defendant had, at the
request of the plaintiff, accepted from him a lease
of a beerdhop in Bethnall-grcen, called the Victoria,
and given him a promilsory note for 1,2001. as the pur-
ohue money; flat the lease was colourable, it being un-
derstood that it should be surten“cred to the plaintiff so soma
, as a license should be obtained for the house, when the defen-
dant' was to receive 1001. for his trouble ; and that the defen-
dant's troible in soliciting a limnse was fairlay. worth 504
which sum also exceeded the plaintiff's deman. The wit-
names for the defence were cram-examined for the purpose et
showing that this action had been already tried, with die
advantage of their testimony, before a judge Ina jury club
held at the Royal Oak, but this was not made out. In
answer, evidence was given to prove that the defendant had
paid the landlord by direction of the plaintiff, whose tenant
he sou ;tae the arrangement as to the Victoria was one
which entitled the defendant to retain the lease on
thathe
had given up the lease, bat not possession of the house. Lord
Denman, interrupting the reply cm behalf of the plaint ff,
leR the whole cave to the jury, as a cause virtually unde-
fended, and a verdict was at once returned for the amount
claimed, 401.135. 6d.

COURT OF EXCHEQUER.
NIMPar e.—Before Sir F. Pollock, C. 8., and a Special Jars.
CELL V. LORD CURZON.—PROVIbIONAL COMMITTEES.
—Sir F. Thesiger, Q.C., Mr. Martin, Q.C., and Mr. Ogle
were counsel for the plaintiff; the Attorney-General, Mr.
Cockburn, and Mr. Keane for the defendant.
This was an action to recover the sum of 6261., the amount
of the plaintiff" bill of costs, as solicitor to the Oxford,
High Wycombe, and Uxbridge Junction Railway Company.
The case was partly heard on Tuesdel evening, and, in addi-
tion to the general evidence of the liability of the defendant
u a member of the provisional committee, the following
points were reserved :-Ist. Whether the plaintiff, who had
not registered his general appointment as solicitor, under
the 7th and Bth Vic., c. 110, was entitled to maintain
his action. 2nd. Whether the defendant, who was a party to
the appointment of the managing committee, was bound by
acts of that committee done at meetings at which he was
no present. 3rdly. Whether he was bound by the report
tof a finance committee, appointed, not by the managing
committee, but at a general meeting of the provisional com-
mittee, at which the def niaut was not present; and 4thly,
whether evidence of the plaintiff's having received money
from a co.crontractor to discontinue an action against him for
the demand now sued fur, on "an honorable understand-
ing," that that action should be discontinued, and the co-
contractor not be further pressed, supported a plea of an
agreement to discharge and exonerate the co-contmetor.—A
verdict was taken for the plaintiff for the full amount
claimed, subject to reference to a gentleman of the bar, who,
in addition to the powers usually given on an arbitration,
will be empowered to call in the assistance of the taxing-
officer of this court, and state the questions of law in the
form of special case, if ho should so think fit, for the
opinion of the court.
The sittings at Middlesex having terminated list evening,
the court will sit this (Thursday) morning at Gudhall.

MIDDLESEX SESSIONS.
Before Mr. Ser.leant Adams.
ARREST DIMINO THE ACT OF REETITUTION.—Sarah
Lynn, a •ery pretty child, whose head did not reach the rail
of the dock, was indicted for stealing a pair of boom—The
prisoner went-to the prosecutrix's house and took the boots
in question, and carried them home. liar father was there
at the time, and after having !earned the way she came by
them, be ordered her to take them b child went
out tor that purpose, and on her way met the otfieer, to
whom she told the way they came into her possession.
Ile took her to the station-house, and a charge was afterwards
entered against her.—She was Acquitted.

ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE.
NORTHERN CIRCUIT.—YORK, TUESDAY,
James Caulay, convicted the day before ot a robbery,
attended with great personal violence, had judgment of
death entered upon record against him.
POACHING ON HORSEBACK. —John Ilarby, 20, and
Ralph Lister, 39, were charged with having, ou the 13th of
October, at Wilton, stolen a mare, the property of John
Jackson, a farmer, at Lackeuby. On the day in question
Mr. Jackson turned out four horses into a held adjoining
the high road. During the afternoon the prisoners were
seen in the neighbourhood, and for certain reasons they were
watched. At midnight a gamekeeper and two watchers
were out, when they heard some one trying to catch a horse,
which was afterwards heard going along the road. The
watchers immediately proceeded in the direction whence the
sound came, and at about a mile distant came up with the
mare of the prosecutor and the two prisoners upon her
back. Lister was at once seized end secured, Haxhy,however,
jumped from the horse, made his escape, but was subsequently
arrested. When Lister was taken some game was found upon
him, and he said he " didn't care about the game, if it had
not been fur the horse;" and linxby, when before the magi-
strates, said " all that had been stated about their being taken
at Eaton was true." The defence was that the men had been
taking game, and that being tired, they had mounted
the old mare in question for a ride, and not with any felo-
nious intent. The prisoners, no doubt, had taken game,
and might, if indicted, be punished for that, or fur the tres-
pass; but as to the charge of horse-stealing, it was quite out
of the question.—The jury acquitted both the prisoners.
NEGLECTED DUVENCE OF PRISONERS.—At the open-
ing of this case no counsel appeared for the prisoners,
although they said they had paid Mr. Harilisty, of York, so-
11:itot,al.10s. to provide their. de fence.—M r. Barker,the under-
g toles., confirmed the statement made by the prisoners, and his
lordship thereupon directed that Mr. llardisty should be
called. The case proceeded, and after two or three witnesses
had been is:amused, Mr. Hardisty's clerk entered the court
along with Mr. Matthews, to whom he delivered the brief
for the defence.—His lordship then observed that Mr. liar-
disty had been guilty of great dereliction of duty in not
attending to the defence of these men, and directed his clerk
to fetch him, and to request him to bring the money he bad
got from these men with him.—At the conclusion of the
trial his lordship asked if Mr. Hardisty had arrived, and
being answered in the negative, he said to the clerk, " Then
you had better tell him that he will save himself from a
result that will probably not be very agreeable to him; and
he will also save me the trouble of publicly expressing what
I feel with respect to his conduct on this occasion, by imme-
diately returning the money of these men."

LIVERPOOL.
Before Mr. Baron Rolfe.
STAIIBINO.—Owen Morris and Thomas Kelly,whosc trial
was mentioned in yesterday's paper, were found guilty ;
Morris for inflicting the wouuds with intent to commit
grievous bodily harm, and Kelly of an assault. Morris was
sentenced to Imprisonment and hard labour for two years,
and Kelly to imprisonment for 12 months.
A JUVENILE HORSE-STEALER—A little boy, only 12
years of uge, named Matthew M'Clellan, was indicted for
having, at Bury, feloniously stolen a mare, the property of
Joseph Gaskell. The facts of the ease were very brief. The
mare was safe in the stable of the Ship Inn, at Bury-bridge,
on Sunday afternoon, and about three o'clock the same day
the prisoner went there, represented himself to be the son
of the man who owned the mare, and said that his father
had ordered him to take her out. The halter was accord-
ingly put on her, and be r3de off in the direction of Roch-
dale, where he was apprehended; and in the police station
he made some confessions to a fellow-prisoner which left no
doubt of his guilt. The prisoner was convicted. SP"..^..
deferred.

More Mr. Justice Wightman.
CurriNo AND MAIMING.—Joseph Tartonshato, aged 33,
a respectable looking man, was indicted for cutting and
wounding an Irish labourer named Bernard Foy, at Man-
chester, on the 12th of October. The prisoner, it appeared,
after being with a female, labeured under an apprehension
that he had been robbed, and ran into Foy's house, which is
situated in Back-George-road. Foy resisted his entrance,
and the prisoner stabbed him in the wrist. An artery was
severed, and Foy is still unable to use his hand. Guilty.
Sentence deferred.
BURGLARY AT MANCHESTER.—Newton Barrow, aged
26, and Thomas Taylor, aged 62, were indicted for having,
on the night of the 2nd of November, burglariously en-
tered the dwelling-house of Mrs. Mary liankinson,
• widow lady, residing in Rommond-street, Man-
chester, and stolen thereout two silver spoons, some wear-
ing apparel, and other small articles, of the value of 10/.
Barrow is a nephew to Mrs. llankinson, and had lived with
her from childhood. He had a latch-key of his own, where-
with he could admit himself to her house at all hours ; and
although he acknowledged to the jury that he had taken the
,rticles named, he thought that as he had broken open no
joel- he could not be found guilty of burglary. For the
mere th:ft he would throw himself upon the mercy of the