The Express.
London, England, 1847-11-13 00:00:00

BLOOMSBURY COUNTY COURT.

Before D. Heath. Ee'., Judge.
MUGOBRIDOE V. PRINCE CASTELCICALA.—PRIVILEGES
OF FOREIGN AMBILBEADOES.-10 this ease the plaintiff
summoned the defendant, Prince Cutelcicala, the Neapolitan
Envoy, for 6!., for goods sold and delivered.—Mr. Fitch, the
defendant's solicitor, objected to the plaint and summons on
the ground of irregularity, and said that it must be set aside.
He drew the judge's attention to the 7th Anne, cap. 12, an
act passed for the protection of foreign ambassadors and
ministers, from the circumstance that the Russian ambassa-
dor had been arrested in the streets, end dragged from his
carriage. By this it was cowed that all writs and processes
' which should be issued or prosecuted, whereby an am-
bassador or foreign minister, or his domestic, might
be arrested or imprisoned, or his 'goods and chattels
distrained, should be null and void. There did
not appear to have been any case where the act had
been put in force.—The judge said that the defendant
might apply to one of the judges to have the case tried in a
superior court. The act alluded to did not, however, in his
opunon, prevent the plaintiff from recovering judgment in a
County Court. But if the plaintiff got a verdict, it would be
for the clerk or the bailiff to consider whether execution
should follow. Defendant might then avail himself of the
act, and show that he wan free from arrest or distraint.—
Mr. Jaques, for the plaintiff, submitted that the present
summons would affect neither the person nor the goods of
the ambassador.—Mr. Fitch contended that it was a step
taken which the act of Anne provided against —The judge
said that if the plaintiff succeeded in his action, defendant
need not obey his (the judge's) order without he liked.—
The case was then allowed to stand over for a fortnight, to
give the defendant an opportunity of moving it into a supe-
rior court.

MIDDLESEX SESSIONS.
Before Mr. Serjesin Adams.
ALLEOED ATTEMPT AT Ronal:Mr ET A LADT.—A very
fashionably dressed female was indicted under the fictitious
name of Eliza Ann Jones, for having attempted to pick the
pocket of a lady at the Paddington Terminus of the Oreat
Western Railway.—A policeman named Chillman deposed
that he wag on duty at l'addington on the 26th of October,
when an express train arrived from Exeter. Witness was
engaged in assorting and delivering luggage, when be ob-
served the prisoner standing dose to a lady who war leaning
over the barrier waiting for her luggage, and he saw her
thrust her band into the lady's pocket, upon which he went
up to her, and asked what she meant by that. She seemed
very much agitated, and begged of the witness not to expose
her. She was taken to the superintendent's-office, where
she was asked what and who she was. She declined to give
either her name or address, when the superintendent said
she seemed a very respectable person, ar.d if she
could show that she really war a respectable woman, the
matter would be carried no further; and be proposed that the
officer should accompany her home to see who the war.
This she refused, and she was taken to the station-house,
where upon her person were found a gold and a silver watch,
a gold guard-chain, a gold eye-gless, a purse containing gold
coin, and a variety of trinkets. For the posses ion of these she
accounted, and on inquiries subsequently made that account
was found to be quite correct. The witness, in mom-exami-
nation by Mr. Serjeant Wilkins, who appeared for the pri-
soner, said that at the time the transaction took place, there
were upon the platform twenty or thirty officers and porters,
besides a crowd of passengers, yet none saw the matter but
himself. Ile had to get over a barrier to get to the pri.
goner, and in the hurry and confusion the lady got away,
and was not found after. The witness could give no
reason why he did not call the attention of the
other officials, or request them to stop her.—Mr. Ser.
jeant Wilkins addressed the jury for the prisoner, call-
ing their attention to the inconvenient narrowness of the
platform at the Paddington stetion, and observing, that
while waiting for luggage one passenger's hand might easily
be found near the pocket of another without dishonest inten-
tion.—Mr. Scrjeant Adams, in charging the jury, said, that
what the learned serjeant (Wilkins) had said about the in-
conveniences inflicted upon the public at the Paddington
terminus was perfectly correct, for there, most certainly, pas-
sengers were subject to annoyances felt upon no other rail-
way in the kingdom. Howsoever valuable a person's time
might be, or however urgent his business, he was compelled

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bfancnsavasi, Nov. 12.—A meeting of the creditors of
Mr. David Ainsworth, warehouseman, assembled at his
counting-house, George-street, yesterday, to the number of
about seventy, when a balance-sheet was exhibited. A corn-
mutters was appointed to examine into the accounts, who, it
is expected, will report in a day or two, and it is then pro-
bable that an offer of 13e. 4d. in the pound will be made and
accepted. The best feeling was manifested by the creditors,
and the proceedings passed over very smoothly.—A meeting
of the creditors of Messrs. Fairbridge and Co. is invited on
Monday, and it is expected that their statement will show a
surplus.—The estate of Messrs. Moreland and Veltman, it is
expected, will also show a very considerable surplus, espe-
cially of private property.—The affairs of Messrs. Gender
and Weber do not wear so favourable an aspect. The debts
are stated at about 19,0001., and the assets are not expected
to realise one-half the amount.

ROYAL BANK. OP IRELAND.—APLIIUDI meeting, NOT. 10,
Mr. P. Read in the chair. The report of the directors
showed the paid-up capital to be 209,175/. ; the profits for a
year, to 31st August, 22,798/. 4s. lid. ; out of which half-
yearly dividends paid amounted to 10,4581., leaving
12,3391.95. 11d. No dividend was struck at this meeting,
and there appeared a Lou of 3,6001. upon the difeounts of the
bank for the year, amounting to 3,280,0001. in the year.
HANBVILO, Ocr. 9.—On Saturday the steamer Nasledrick
arrived in Trabonunde, and landed here nearly mom.
in gold, of which we sent yesterday nearly 100,0001. by the
extra steamer Wilberforce, and a similar sum b 7 the mail
steamer which leaves to-day, to London. A similar sum
was seat from St. Petersburg to London, by way of Hull,
by the Rob Roy steamer, and a considerable sum is still
expected by way of Lubeck, by the steamer Nicolai, like-
wise for transmission to London.