The Express.
London, England, 1862-06-17 00:00:00

SHERIFFS' COURT, RID LION•tgIIABL

Pekoe Mr. Berjeant Hayes, itsamear, and a Special Jury.)
sommtnELD V. TR, MaTEOPOLITAN ItaILWAT COMPANY.
This was • proceeding to assess the amount of °propene".
tion to be awarded to Mr. James Summer&ld, in respect of
some premises in Gaildford-plllegoktiro
Mr. Huddleetoo, Q.C., with Mr. Kerns, ware for the
claimant, and Mr. Lloyd, Q.C., and Mr. Hallway for the
Company.
Mr. Lloyd, QC., informed the court that the claimant
had requested the oompany to summon the jury to award
compensation for injury done to the premises in question.
The company, however, had treated for the purchase of the

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Po:Pert y.
Mr. Iduddleaton said the jury would be saved a very
long inquiry.
Mr. Lloyd thought the jury ought to be paid, although
they would not take a verdict.

-7.11 e -iti;;;SreacOrtliOil;p;idebe inquiry.aedthestim of 403 i. was
to be paid with the =pease. at

CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT.
(THIS DAY.)

DERELICT SHIPS.--SHIELDS, MONDAY. The
Leander, Imperial Prince. Home, and Me ginger steam-
tugs, have brought a Yowl into the Tyne, bottom up. She
is the Mary of Exeter, and is laden with teak timber,
and will be a somewhat valuable salvage for the owners
and crew of the Leander and Imperial Prise., which vessels
picked her up to the eastward of the Fern Island& She is
supposed to have upset in the squalls of last week ; there is THE WEATHER AND THE CROWL—The past week 26
no positive information, but it is believed her crew effected has added in no slight degree to the anxieties of the agri-
their serape from her. The steamboat men had a dif- culturists, and, indeed, to the anxiety of the country at as
ficult task to bring their prise into port ; in fact, large. Large breadths of grass are waiting for the scythe at,
she sank when within about oven miles of the and the mowing machine, and although some progress in at
Tyne, having been towed under water ; but after being cutting grain has been made, there is naturally a St.
out of sight three hours and a half, she came up general indisposition to begin until more settled SI•
head foremost again. The brig Magnet, which arrived weather shall have set in. There is a capital
ie the Tyne yesterday, reports having passed another for a crop of hay, if we have !only favourable weather.i
r.
and • larger vessel floating about on the edge of Dogger For the wheat, too, mild, warm, and quiet weather is rigid- EL
Bank, bottom up ; and another expedition of steamboats site. The plant may now be expected to come into bloom, of
will go off in search of her this afternoon. She is supposed and it is meet important that the "blooming" should take lens,
to be laden with tallow, and it is thought that part of her place in @till sunny weather. Wheats, barley, oats, beans, and 20
crew are drifting about drowned in their berths. She is peas are all looking more or less well—though for all, sunny
supposed to be the same venal that has been observed at weather is now much to be desired. Rather gloomy accounts n;
vanotis times during the past six months by vessels coming reach us from some few quarters, but on the whole we
from North Europe ; and as only her keel can be seen she come to the conclusion that as yet no serious damage hi;
Is a source of great danger to vessels going over sea. has resulted from the late unfavourable weather—no 10
EMIGRATION TO CANADA AND AMERICA—The damage, in fact, but such as would be speedily set right by
board of guardians of Cork Union have just despatched a Prompt change to warmth and sunshine. From the hop
100 able-bodied female paupers to Canada. Each of the districts the accounts are somewhat checkered, and not so le
emigrants has upon an average spent fifteen years in the premising on the whole aa of late. The severe and bolster er
workhouse, and the cost of supporting each for that period eta gales of the past week have levelled the poles and
wee 1571. 10e. They meld have been gent to Canada many battered the bine in exposed situations, whilst the continued
years ago for less than a twelfth of that sum. There is no I moisture sod &heroes of warmth have checked growth, and tei
doubt that emigration from Irish workhouse, would be far i rendered the plant rather yellow in places.—ffesees Ad- is
more general than it is were it not that the guardians dread ' verriler •
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that the houses would be filled by persons anxious to be I INTERRUPTION or • PRIZE FIGHT NEAR LEEDS. r-
ecut out to Canada. They seek to avert this evil by send- —Yesterday, at the Leeds Town-hall. air men, respectively
ing out none who have not been inmates for a consider- I named John Holman, John Eason, Henry Watson Joshua
able time. On Friday a large batch of emigrants left White, James Quirk, Jonathan Nixon, John ',lonia John.
Queenetowe for New 'Turk. The young men were almost son, John Riley, and George Day, were charged with aiding
entirely agricultural labourers and farm servants ; and the and abetting in a prize fight. On Saturday evening tutor-
fine healthy and hearty-lookingung women, who formed or reached the Leeds polka that a fight between
about two-thirds proportion of theyo passengers, were mostly two men, named Theckeray and Johnson. was to
of the same class. The emigrants were from the counties come off near the residence of Mr. Dsrnton Lupton, of
of Cork, Limerick, and Tipperary, and about 40 from Bal. Harehills. Sergeant Earnshaw and a party of police, con-
haulm, Loos/beta, and Athonry, in the county Galway. sequently, proceeded to the spot, and when they arrived
Among those from the county Cork were 70 miners and on the ground, they found Thackeray and Johnson stripped
their females from Berehayen. Another vessel sailed on and fighting within a ring, about lOU spectators being pre.
Saturday. It is stated that Sir R. Peel proposes to esta- sent. demon as the officers were observed, the ccmhatanla
blish as emigration department, in which returns will be ceased their fighting, took to their heels and escaped, and
made up of the ambers, character, km, of the emigrants the mob dispersed in various directions. The police, how-
that have left er will hare Ireland for the colonise or the ever, succeeded in apprehending the above prisoners, who
THE HENDON MURDER. United &atm were now fined 20s, band costs for their complicity in the
SNOWBALLING rff JUNE !—For the last few days on • with the exception 01 Paten and Johnson, who
Mr. Sleigh made as application to the court to postposse the weather has been aaasiliveis add, and ha and snow were aacbsrgd for want of direct evidence.
the trial of James Lawrence, for the murder of his sweet. have fallen in several districts in the north. On Tuanday THE WAnsion.—A number of sailors paid-off
heart, by shooting her, to the next session. The ground of last, about 6 °Week in the evening, we me andibly informed at Plymouth! have pee to their bonne at Queenstown and
the application was that the prisoner was in such a condi- that the snow sad hail fell no thickly ISM the farms of the ennonading localities by this ship. They repressed
fiat of health, owing to she injury be inflicted upon him- Miners. Maeloseasek, Culblair, and Creileininaks„ • Cloves, I ler as a most uncomfortable venal at sea in bad weather.
y
that the f te amused themselves We' making act mil ships buds but leaks 00004111 Y throwila
up She
self at the time of the occurrence, and wee still suffering to ham aadarpitgabir yak other with the sameseaable mte- , her porta, and leaves scarcely a dry Fels to the as as
such an extent, that he was qnitesnifit to take his trial. riaL—in rents/a aidrertiatr. • I the DRUM ermac •

OLD OOtrRT.
(Before the Recorder.)
Jamul George Roue, 27, a respectable-looking Toting
man, was charged with fortingacheque fre 111., with intent
to defraud Ebenezer Howard.. . . .

Mr. Orridge prosecuted. and Mr. Sleigh appeared for the
defence.
It appeared that for some time past thepriaoner had been
in the habit of accmionally purchasing poultry of Mr. Ebe-
nezer Howard, a salesman in Leadeohall-market, upon
credit, and upon being asked in what name the goods should
be entered, he said, "Nix." On the 14th of April last the
prisouer called at Mr. Howard's shop, end said he wished to
pay his account. The cashier eked him what name,
and be said "Nix," and the amount wen 11. 18e.
The cashier looked in the ledger, and found an
account for that amount in the same name, being the only
one. The prisoner then tendered a cheque for 111., drawn
upon Messrs. Price and Co., and signed "Henry Dawson."
The cuhier at fist demurred at changing the cheque, and
said it wee a thing they did not usually do, and the prisoner
said Mr. Howard had known him for some time, and if he
were there be would each it immediately, and added that
he wanted it particularly that night. Having seen
the prisoner in the shop before, and knowing that
there was a customer named Wiz, who was a very respec-
table gentleman, the cashier changed the cheque and gave
the pi isoner ht. and he slid the account had been owing so long
that he would not take the 2t. When the cheque was pre-
sented, howeverafterw, it was returnein d marked "no *mount,"
and it wasafterwards ascertaed that the real Mr. Nix had
no account standing in the books of Mr. Howard at the
time, and he bad never authorised the prisoner to nee his
name. _ _

The defence that was set up for the prisoner wan that the
prisoner was merely an innocent agent in the affair, and
that he had received the cheque in question from a person
from whom he desired to borrow 41., and who said he could
only do so upon his getting change for this cheque. It was
also stated that the person front whom the prisoner said be
had received the cheque was at the present moment actu-
ally in custody in Newgate awaiting his trial upon
another charge of forgery. Several witnesses, most of whom
were relatives of the prisoner, were called to prove these
facts, but the evidence they gave was not at all of a con-
clusive character.

The Recorder b►ving summed up,
The J cry, ►fter some deliberation, found the prienr,r