The Express.
London, England, 1851-02-25 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, TUESDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 25, 1851.

THE BUROLART. AND ATTEMPT TO
MURDER AT WINDSOR.

Yesterday morning Thomu Ash, who _
en ts.e charge of being concerned in the perpetration
of the 'Burdening outrage at Mr. Tucker's, was brought up
br essmination before the magistrates at the Town-hall,
Windsor. Neither Mr. Tucker nor Mrs. Whittaker were
present, and it was stated in court that they are as yet
unable to leave their beds.
Police-superintendent F. Eager produced a black cloak
Turned with blood, which was handed to him in Mr.
Tucker's house, and also *handkerchief with the corner
torn off, which is of precisely the same pattern as one be-
lunging to Mr. Tucker.
George Beagles, a gardener, who was at work in the
plantation near Clarence-crescent on the morning of Wed-
nesday, the 19th, stated that he found there a bottle
wine and a chisel or " jemmy " which he identified. of
Sarah l'iner, the servant of Mr. Tucker, proved that Ail
was well acquainted with the premises, having been Ms
played to repair the kitchen range.
Charles Prinee—l reside at 18, Oxford-road. The pri-
Inner Thomm Ash has lodged with me four or five months.
The prisoner borrowed the chisel now produced of me on
ITuesday afternoon, the 18th inst., and said he wanted to
take it to be ground, as he had got to do some business at
I the barracks. He left my house between two and three on
I Tuesday afternoon. I did not see him again until
ten minutes after two o'clock in the morning of
Wednesday, the 19th instant. (It will be remembered
the burzlary was committed between one end Miry are
; morning). When net him ill he told me that he had desired
the other lodger not to have the door fastened, es he 'bosh' I
be home in two or three hours. The chisel belongs to a
lodger of mine, named James l'hilbey.
Jame!, Philtry, bricklayer,sworn.—Have lodged with pi-
loner NOW time, at Mr. Prince's. The prick chisel now
produce-1 is my prop, rty. It has been fresh ground since I
last used it. Mr. Prince, having told me he had lent the
chisel to the prisoner, about 8 o'clock last night I said I
I wanted it. The prisoner replied, " I will bring it home at
dinner-time to.morrow or ouc in the place of it." About
four or five days since f was in a room down-stairs with the
prisoner, when he amid " I know where is some money and
how I can get it, and I will be • rogue for once." I gave
information at the station-house when I heard of the
robbery.
Superintendent Eager inspected the premises, and found
the house had been entered t, thieves, who gained weeds
by breaking a square of glass in the kitchen wurdow, and
hireing the fastenings with a chisel. The chisel he received
from Mr. Beslobrough he had compared with the wine-bin,
and it exactly fitted the marks on it. Apprehended the
prisoner, and showed him the chisel, when he said be knew
it, and that it had been in his basket some time. I tom-
' parcel the prisoner's shoes with the footmarks on some fresh
dug ground in Mr. Tucker's garden, about three yards from
the window, and they exactly corresponded. There were
also footmarks of another person.
The prisoner was remanded until Monday next.

L in

THE BRUTAL MURDER AT BATH.

IRELAND.

1/1111LIN,
As might be expected the news of the ministerial
crisis produced great excitement here yesterday. The
intelligence spread with the utmost rapidity, and
before it was many hours in Dublin it seemed to
have reached the ears of the humblest of its inhabi-
tants. As a matter of course it is the chief topic at
conversation, yet very few trouble themselves mach
with the question of what party is to succeed. Tha
great anxiety is to get rid of the Ecclesiastical Titles
Bill, and the Roman catholics are now full of the
hope that they are safe from any measure of that
kind.
A great open air meeting of the Roman catholics of
Drogheda was held yesterday in that town, for the
purpose of petitioning parliament against the new
penal measures." It was convened by a
requisition signed by upwards of two hun-
dred of the inhabitants, and, according to the
report in the Freeman, was attended by some 10,000
persons. The mayor occupied the chair, and among
the movers and seconders of the resolutions were the
High Sheriff, Alderman Boylan, Mr. J. M. Cant-
well, of Dublin, and several of the wealthiest of the
local merchants. A petition was adopted and en-
trusted for presentation to Mr. Torrens M'Cullagh, a
vote of thanks to whom andto the other Irish liberal
members who voted against the ministry was car-
ried with acclamation. A letter from Archbishop
Cullen was read at the meeting, excusing himself tbr
his absence, and giving his view of the subject
they had met to discuss.
On Saturday there was a large muster of the
Roman catholic inhabitants of Limerick, who mem- I
bled upon a requisition addressed to the mayor, " to
consider the penal laws proposed by the ministry,
and to take measures to defeat any enactment con-
trary to civil and religious liberty." The meeting
was held in one of the Roman catholic chapels, and
Bishop Ryan, who, like Archbishop Murray, has
generally abstained from taking part in ..litical
movements, was present with a numerons •y of
his clergy. The mayor occupied the chair.
It was remarked that the first meeting held in
Ireland to petition for emancipation was held in the
same chapel in Limerick where the meeting of Satur-
day last took place.
The pastoral of Archbishop Murray, calling on the
people to pray against the proposed enactment, was
read from the altars in all the Roman catholic cha-
pels of the archdiocese yesterday.
11. M. STEAM-SHIP BIRKENHEAD arrived at
Queenstown on the afternoon of the 21st instant, for the
conveyance to Gibraltar of the Service Companies of the

CLERICAL
PRISITIMENTS.
Rev. 11. G. W. Aubrey to St. Mary's Episcopal Chapel,
Dalmahoy, Edinburgh.
Rev. J. Blackburn (P.C. of Attercliffe), to a canonry in
York Cathedral.
Bev. Byron to the British Chaplaincy, Antwerp.
Bev. D. C. Legard, to be chaplain to the Sheriff of Lin-
colnshire.

VACANCIZS.

Denham vicarage, Suffolk, diocese Norwich, value 621.;
patron Earl of Stradbroke Rev. W. L. Weddell, declassed.
I)unwieh perpetual curacy, Suffolk, diocese Norwich,
value, 401. ; patron, F. Bartle ; Rey. W. L. Waddell,
deceased.

SPORTING.

Sail) luteMagna.

ROUSE OF LORDS —YESTERDAY.
halos: Tux Lou Cuticulae, LOAD Banvus4ll,_ AND OTOS
rasa, AND MAO Jason OP Tss O,lOldOP I AI/ lamess.
CAPPER AND °VIERS V. LORD LINDSET.—RAIE-
FIAT PROS Ec-re.—AORIRMILNT Tu BEY OFF A LAND-
OWNIIIII OPPOSITION.
This writ of error on a judgment of the Court of Ex-
chequer Chamber was opened on Thursday last, and the
main facts were stated in the report in this journal on Fri-
day. The principal question wan whether the liability
which the plaintiffs in error, by articles of agreement, took
on themselves to pay the defendant 6,0001. in case the
Direct Northern Railway Company, of which the
in error were directors, obtained an act of parliament for
making that line, attached on the plaintiffs, in the event,
that happened, of that company being amalgamated with
the Great Northern Railway Company, which obtained
an act.
Sir F. Kelly and Mr. S. Wortley were heard for the
plaintiff, in error ; and Mr. Turner and Mr. J. Bailey
were heard for the defendant.
The Lord Chancellor put a question of law to the learned
judges, wko asked for time to consider their answer, which
was granted, and the further consideration of the case was
adjourned sine die.
BENSON r. DENCAN.
This was a writ of error brought in 1849, against a judg-
ment of the Court of Exchequer Chamber.
Mr. Barstow said their lordships would not be troubled
with the bearing of this Caw, as the real question involved
in it was decided in the case of " Benson v. Chapman,"
which was before the house and decided iu 1819. (See 2
House of Lords Cases, p. 696.)
Their lordships ordered the judgment to be entered for
the defendant in error.

EQUITY COURTS.-YESITADAT.
Ilimat Loan Cluotworrs (Vies Clustccuoa).

IN THE MATTER OF THE JOINT STOCK COKPLNITE
WINDING-FP ACTS; AND IN THE Marrnn OE THE
DIRECT BIRNINORAK, OXFORD, READING, AND BRIOR-
TON R OLWAT COMPANT.—BLET'S CASE.
It appeared that the name of Mr. Best was originally
placed upon the list by the Master, and was afterwards ex-
punged by an order made by Vice-Chancellor Knight
Bruce. on appeal to him from the Master. The Muter
afterwards, acting upon fresh evidence, restored the name
to the list, which, however, was again excluded upon op-
' peal to this court (sec the Daily Sews of the 16th of
January last), on the ground that the Master had no juris-
diction to review the decision of the Vice-Chancellor.
' Mr. Bethell and Mr. Roxburgh now moved that the de-
cision of Vice-Chancellor Knight Bruce might be re-
viewed, and that the name of Mr. Best might be restored
to the list of contributories.
Mr. Holt and Mr. J. V. Prior, for Mr. Best, objected
that the order of Vice-Chancellor Knight Bruce had been
enrolled, and that after enrolment it could not he reviewed
by the Lord Chancellor, or any branch of the court, but
only by appeal to the House of Lords. " Hollingsworth's
ease in the matter of the direct London and Exeter Railway
Company" (1 Macnaghten and Gordon, 536.)
His lordship was of opinin that the order could not be
reheard or reviewed by this court after enrolment • and dis-
missed the motion with roots; without prejudice to the
official manager getting the costa out of the estate if the
Master should think it a proper case.