The Express.
London, England, 1853-05-25 00:00:00

Xatly intelligence.

C. )I.'ltT OF QL'::EN'S BENCII.—YESTEaDAY.
Miton• to 8ANC.....4/1014111 LAIII CANIMI.T, Ma. JIMICIt COLS-
-1.1”01,, MX. J• Late, AXIB Ma. Jtsnrr Customs.
Lt %ILLY a. WAGNER'S AFFAIR.
'l he Court gave notice that judgment would Ls given in
tli:, ea a on Tbur.day next.

COURT OF COMMON PLEAS.-YE,TEIMAY.
nt Ps-tn.—n[loln Cntrr Jurrirr ircrar. Mr. Jr.rtcs
X. u, ra. JI.IICIL COMISMILL, ANL, JC•TIC• TAU
HER SIAJILiTY'S BIRTHDAY.

On the birthday of the Sovereign it hes been the practice
of the judgm of the supenor courts to appear in thi it
V.ittined wigs said scarlet gowns, and bur the three thins
to wear their phi C,1:11T1. The judges of this court ap.
raved ti-day in the dresses proper on such on occasion, but
the Queen's counsel and also some serjeann, wore only their
ordinary dresses.
The Chief Justice. at the sitting cf the court, went
through the bar in the ordinary way, but when he came in
turn to Mr. S-rjeant Thomas, he sail he was sorry that he
(cited not allow his brother Thomas to move, no he was
not in the dress proper to pay respect to her Majesty on her
birthday.
Mr. birthday.
Thomas said he had had en his full bottomed
wig, but a member of tha bar told him that he ought to
wear his common wig, and that accounted for his having
it on.
The learned serjeant retired from court, but soon after-
wards he came bleb in his proper dress, and was then in
the usual way called upon to move.
In a few minutes Mr. Edwin James, Q C., came into
cairn, and iostrad of being in court dress be had on only
his ordinary drew.
The Chief Justice immediately :aid to him—Mr. James,
I suppose you have been so much engaged in the other
court. as not to be able lu appear in the wool tiros,
Mr. James said be had been in full dress but he had
changed it, as in the other courts it was not required.
The Chief Justice—Then you will, perhaps, practise to-
day in theme courts exclusively, for this court expects that
proper Tilted be shown to her Majesty.
Mr. James, to excuse himself, could only repeat that be
bed been in full dress, and bad changed becatne the rest of
her Majesty's counsel Mid on their ordinary dress ; and he
was in(tmed that in one of the courts her Majesty's judges
were in the same state.

'the CLiJI Justice—lier Majesty's judges in all the
courts are in lb, habit of appearing in full dress, to pay re-
spect to the• Lord Mayor, when he comes to Westminster,
and it would be as well to pay the same respect to the
Queen upon her birth,:ay.
Mr. James said he wished to mention the cam of "Evans
v. Edmondson."
The Chief Jostice—We can't hear you; that case mast
be takes to-mono.. _ _ .

—bier..Fusticekia;le remarked that • similar objection as
to dress was once raised before Lord Bllesborosgb, but he
heard the motion. The only Alai that caused him (Mr.
Justice Marls) to remember it was, that he told the costa.
eel that " when he comets show eases he would probably be
redressed." (Aistithees4
Mr. lamas said the la the Queen's Beach were
not dressed m their memo.
The Chid While eseasioa the birthday is
kept es the actual birthday of her Majesty. This is the
only amiss within say eaperiesse in the profession ca
whisk soh es atheist la thew seepeet to her Majesty os
her Whip hod teirs limes.
The setter gm MASI, led the evert then proceeded
with the saw Weimer.
ensues as Mu Pans ill Ka. lanes

rum ass ♦ emus. limy.
HILL v. PAsamor.—TMs Fotuzs or Yorra.

This was en anima to now the Masai of a bill of az-
simpler
_llllll. pima by the delbadent to hr. Sinuarses,
nits Maned is UM phial& 7
dames writhe* the hill
iesesbesinel treat the dehalime by toad, aad thank*
=lea it wittiest onnitientlea. The reseed men
Gast the defendant's osemei semmemad the mom
Mr. Serjssat Bytes and Mr. J. Mem appearld Ire the
deismisatond Mr. Serjeant Wilkins sod Xt. Genard for
tho
It mewed that the defendant, who is a prang man
epparratly shoot 23 lean old, became powered in Nevem-
Ler last of 10,0001., which had be. left to him. There-
upon he started • broughams ; and he also took under hie
proteeVon a your hide, who when sheered with
propriety was styled Miss Grahame, but who maws be
familiar acquaintances was called "Min Paw." This
lady he treated in a very espeasin manner, hedged, so ea-
pensively, that in answer to a gaestisa by eauseek he de-
clined to swear that he bed net spent theammis
of pounds upon her. la the awns N Ms area
he had several treneastions with Mr. Sheen, who
formerly kept the Seam Coal Hole, in Blasithrien-road,
and besot of hie saes jewellery, and she same issesse.
rest at lbepwailesy ambled of a ei lasesist, which
Mr. Simms mid be had givsa 0604. irk
,ad whisk be sold
to the pleinffie Tho dahmieato swam that
ea the eamitisa el they sale .1 thekweaYt Mr. Simmers
wont in the bees with the dehadent sad the lady, to
ble been ia the fitarbOOPOIL 311.1111f1050 and do-
helmet west bete the home, and dowdy **awards Mr.
himams miss out wth pat late the thenplesa, where he
semelesd with Mishears' he ahem sea minutes. Wit-
ness saw him pit the beaselet en Miss Graham's wrist, and
,tartly afterwards the defendant get ism the brougham
and drove away with Miss Graham The bill now sued on,
was given as part cemidenedia be this Maeda and some
Ohm jewellery: sad the fraud relied am was, that Sien-
na.' told the defeadant be had 11.011 001. for it
Nei same it to him for 6801, whilst swan jewellers
Se deg swore that its fell mho was not anon than 1001. A
Idablay was aloe ghee ef the pleintiff for the last 23 years.
At Mat he sold bear& Peres and bath bricks, which he
metiel en his .balder, but mtbsequently his position itm
week sad be beams prophase of a barrow. his nest
eta Y beams wee, that he Memo passed el an improved
whisis and a donkey, and stoned in the vegetable line ;
sad after that be wee • dahlia in cad carriages. In 1847,
he beanwed 1,0001. of a publican, but in 1849 he became
=and as unfortunate publican got nothing but a
of 61. in the pound, which was paid to obtain
Ishameent to a turned's'.
111 NNW to this case the plaintiff himself was called,
said he MOM that he gave Simmons, a few days before the
bill bemene due, a cheque for 4971. for the bill, and which
cheque bad been paid. Simmons was a wealthy man,
but he supposed he most ham been premed for
money to make him discount this bill whoa
ft bad only a few days to run. The cheque
given by the plaintiff was dated the 28th of February, bat
it did net Nigger to have been paid until the 44b et Marsh.
Oa the 111 k of February the Wanes at the till's
leaks,. wee 4.21. la. U., sat to pay
lee ektese. By theellea jalcrebeleWtill went
he.. te htitMe halm and whim he rammed it al
that the eensteribil et the ebespe_la enemies wasbetwen
two 'them, lath Mal the Mel Jim& The bill I. spies-
Goalies eaten& In WIWI beak, let the entry was at the
balms of a page, and what the ether Weiss wore sam-
baed in sissies Nine was as amebae to this particular
entry.
The jar
the delimit.

COURT OF EXCHEQUER.—YEsruDAT.
BITTISOS AT MU Pa= AT WIIMIIIMITIOI.—Danciui Xi. BMW

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Pam. uo Cimmer Juana

The tint sittings for the pretest term commenced this
massing is the Facheqner Chamber. There were 26
esweee entered, mil two of which were defended.
0,001.1131D01 0. QVICZ.—AN IRISH MAPATAO2.
The is this antis° was a liverpetable-keeper at
II ad the defendant a married woman, separated
=sr hostas& and passing by the name of Blackwood,
in leemyn-strest.
The gobs was brought to recover 421. 10a. for the hire of
• breeds= and horses in the year 1861. The defendant
pleaded never indebted, and that she was a married woman
at the time of making the castreet.
Mr. inewba, Q.C.. and Mr. Pollock appeared for the
piaialiK and Mr. 'Hawkins fe. the defendant.
meared It that the plaintiff had Om sem time in 1851
the defendant with a hi_ esghem cad ben" and he
Imew her by be time of liminieed We Amp was
b. be the Ibrand b. fee every enbessisent best. A
Mr. Walter llesit ladbmt Batt bed given a promissory
fete for the emeunt, whisk nab, however, was die.
leneseed.
The ptelatif • ems having beta proved, on the part of the
flehmbet a Mrs. Leahy was Wad, who stated that she
wag pesseat is Meg, 1842, at the marriage of the delandent,
In Ili vitality of Madill, who this went ander the nem of
Clegherise O'lisEvim and was sametince• mad "Bate
a.. a," to • Mr. Qalek, an sedge in the 14th ltegberat.
Mee Os maniege, she travelled with her Mined WU
1846, when they equaled, be husband having bean met
to the Fleet Prom. Me led raided in Janeyeatreet
since that period. The nisniage leek place in the hems of
a Mr. Magnirs, by a eisegymas et the setablished abash.
Mrs. Mapture, widow el** &moan in viatica, pro-
duced the registry, to whisk Mr. =swig obect en the
ground that the wee set pesfiessed in a ehash.
Mr. Baron Peakes=thare was me Irish act of parlia-
ment regulating eseadeges balm 1848; and it apposed to
hint that the marble 781,140 bed-
um, (hemp g re
.L...g......a,..ghttt,i,
=42,.ctiativi. She bed peeled undue th!
memo of Olballives ad "LM PM* " both In Cork and
Babas. lbws her caresses she had resided in 'essays
Meese midst the nem of IfbelcwoeL She bed bees visited
tore bother of her linabeed, who bad treated her with
Ile Naps* dee to Idelmsber's wife. The last time she had
men her husband wee meideatally at the Great Exhibition
ft Ma

It peared that the defendant frequently drove round
So peas la the plaintiff's brougham, and often to Rich-
mond.

Mr. Knowlee said he could not contend that no ceremony
had taken pine ; but he urged that the pretended marljage
was met legal.
Mr. Bunn Parke—l am clearly of opinion that the mar-
riage was a legal oae. and that a verdict must pass oa the
mead Brae ter the defendant.
Verdict for the defendant.

COURT OF BANKRUPTCY.—YEsTERDAL
Doer XL COMIIIINOWSI 1101.10 TD.
lx az lITANI.—XIITILAOILDINART APPLICATION.
The bankrupt in this ease had kept the Oriental Hotel,
is Vemetreet. The it is an old one, having been opened
beiges the present act ease fate operation, and the end-
Seale wa• etata, attar a twaivsanata'a enspention, in
Jonah 110%

Mr. Lovell now applied to the court on behalf of a credi-
tor, either to grant a rehearing of the case, or to annex •
condition to the certificate. The grounds on which he made
the application were these :—Tao bankrupt was a trustee
under • marriage sctliment, and had been declared by a
certificate of the %stir of the Rolle, in a suit of Wetherell
v. Wilson, indebted to the cestui gue trot in the sum of
2041. This debt he had omitted from his balancesheet. A
fresh suit had been lately instituted in Chancery against
the bankrupt, to which be had pleaded his certificate, and
it was contended, under the duith section of the Consolida-
tion Act, that there ought to be a re-bearing, on the ground
of the bankrupt haring suppressed this debt.
Mr. Iluddlestone opposed the application, and said there
would hue been no difficulty whatever in appointing new
trustee', either under the 130th secti m of the Consolidation
Act, or under the 79th section of 6 George IV.
His Honour said it was not only the duty of the bank-
rupt to set forth all his debts, but it was also the duty of the
creditors, and of the assignees as representing them, to see
that this was done. This was the tau of a stranger to the
bankruptcy, who could not Cottle before the court on ac-
count of the Itches of which he had been guilty. The pe-
titioner hail no locus standi, and the petition must there-
fore be dismissed, but without costs' on account of the
bankrupt hulas omitted to enter the debt in his balance-
sheet.

MIDDLESEX SESSIONS.-YESTERDAL
B►roae Dia. SMILAX/ ADAMS, AftiatarlT JUDOS.

Richard Gypson, 49 described as an aeronaut, was in-
dicted for stealing three pewter pots, the property of
publicans.
The prisoner was committed on Saturday last, and the
particulars of the charges appeared on Moodily.
Mr. Coor, r, for the defence, did not dispute the facts.
He said the prisoner was an aeronaut of some notoriety, and
was at one time in good circumstances, but he had latterly
been designated ~ad Gypson " by the boys is the street,
and whether he bad left his intellect in the clouds when he
was up with. his balloon, God only knew; but certain it
was, he had not lately shown much of it on earth. He was
generally under the impression that he was a great friend
of Napoleon Bonaparte's (Napoleon III.), and spoke in
high terms of his uncle, and was fond of speaking of his
battles. He had spoken of having a new balloon and taking
• trip to dine with the present Emperor; and, indeed, his
state of mind was such that it would be cruelty to find him
guilty of this charge. He had always borne a high cha-
racter for honesty, but his mind was wandering, and in
the great admiration he professed for the Emperor, be
might bare thought that he would be glad to drink his
Bordeaux out of pewter pots. (A laugh.)
Mr. Berwick, a contractor for the tents on Chobham
Common, stated that be had known the prisoner six or seven
years. His character was always unimpeachable. He now
got his living by writing doggerel poetry, and by assistance
from his friends. He knew right from wrong generally,
but acted under erroneous impressions. He came to him a
short time since and asked him to go up in a balloon to see
the present Emperor, but he had no deice to do so (A
laugh.) The present charge caused the greatest astonish-
ment to all who knew him.

By the Ceart—He was very eccentric, and was sometimes
more sine than at other. _

The Assistant Judge—l am 'acentric, at least some
say so, bat I am not hustle any more foe that. (A
Merv* • baker, at Horton, gave similar evidence.
The Omer woe Galled by the boys, ' Mad Clues," and he
mu very asamida.
The aasktant Judge said this eau involved a matter of
the mad wham higartraes, and eau of the meet difficult
to he Masi in Mw, saseft thatot of madness am a
aselmisal sharp. Thieri beard gnat daal
about the ideas of homily is isms of snidera amend other
miens ahem. wines it was alleged that at the time the
album were elamilbi the pm/11.W not know what they
wells about, am am net know right from wrong—and the .
Isseent was a are of that chastise. There was no doubt
as to the facts of the ease and the jury would hats to say
aappwoathe evidence they had heard on behalf of the priessw,
vshstkee, I. their *aim, he knew right from wrroonsggend
was agelsrut of the nature of the act he was
when L Usk these It would be their duty
guilty if they Meagkt be was, but it would be equally dab
duty t• faddist as guilty on the ground of insanity, they
thought he was net—the effect of which, in the letter eau,
would be that the prisoner would be kept la prison until
her Majesty's planar* was known. He wished to impress
on them that they were not to acquit him on any
fanciful or nonsensical notion about any wrong impression
he was under, because every crime was committed under
a wrong impression, sad if such a defence was to be made
the means of escape frees justice, every thief would make
the same 'scum He would not blink the question, but
would tell them that their verdict must be given on as
strict a principle as if the prisoner was taking his trial
for murder, and the same evidence had been given for
the defence, there being only one principle of law in
every such UN. If such evidence was intended to pal-
liate the offence, it should not be given until after the
verdict, but mitt this case it was given before, it must
not amide them unless they considered It amounted to
actual proof that the man did not know right from wrong
and did not know what he was about. If they did con-
sider that it amounted to such proof, it would be their duty
to acquit him ea the ground of insanity, whatever the con-
sequences to the prisoner might be; if they did not, they
must find him guilty of the charge. If they were net satis-
fied that he was insane, they might perhaps think his Doo-
dad should be looked at In • merciful manner, but that
was a distinct question. The law must be strictly construed
in a question ea to the sanity of a prisoner, sad therefore
he had made these observations to the jury is the punt

Mr. Cooper called the attention of the court to a ease in
the Jurist in which a girl had exposed her child on the high-
way. In that case Mr. Baron Parke laid it down that it
was not necessary. to prove that the girl was actually insane,
but that if the jury believed that she was is a paroxysm of
mind under which at the particular alenasat else did not
know what she wu about, they' ahead_ aeC asesesilagly
and acquit her, which view the jury odepled. If in the
prawn We the finer was under the impresselen that he
was about to make a present of these pots to the French
Emperor, being at the time under a paroxysm of mind with
reference to the Emperor, the jury might aftsithisn sat the
ground of having no felonious intention at theft,.
The jury food the prisoner Guilty, with a strong mum-
mendatiem to may.
The Aseistrat Judge said he wu very glad that the jury
had returned this verdict. He would remand the primer
so that it mighe be seen whether it was fit that he should be
seat to as slam, and the verdict of the jury would
amble hint to de what was best for the man himself. He
wee glad they bad sot acquitted him on the ground of in-
senity—a lee& whisks he thought would not have been
justified by the eddesee.
Mr. Caw odd the wither of the miner's friends coin-
cided with the vim of the meet He did not wish the
prisoner to be 'quitted ea the mead of insanity; but he
had hoped the jury wadi have acquitted hint on the ques-
tion of Minim latest.
The primer was then remanded.
at
Athe t a subagent purled et the day the primmer was pissed
bar.

Cooper said the prieraw's hinds wen prepared to
take every we of bin for the faun.
how%
The Aleinst Judgeand he that sealsond the ninon le ese
infflissenen, was inemalatsir dinheepd,
sad tell the sent with his hies&

—Billacrd Demilimi. 49, was Whimi ha sulairhilly ar
sealtbi aad heaths May Deaslarad. wih.
illis was • prosentisa kaWkfted ea WWI of the parish
et et. Paamasby 16.11inkmanobe overseer, and eon-
darted by Xi. Ohm The V=lsliti. with his wife at
No. 14, The assault
(daisllidalllerit him was, that he broke his
=rt., bre a tenfie Now oa the head with
a ph of =sass.
P The*/
It writhes prayer tha7ttkieembsr, 1851, the prison*
was esavhilad la Ms mart of as assault oa his wit*, aad
smstsased tea yawl bard labour. mass the expiration of
that term, be had imam/sae two swaths' imprimaamat for
a similar rams.

- The Amilaat4mige said the primer was ungsestioa-
ably a great reata, and Übe did not Wad he would 3,et be
tried at the Cabal Criminal Court, and imaged. He Jen-
Isesad bin to aste year's hard labour, sad allowed the costs
pmesesliss.

THE POLICE COURT&
_ MANS!ON-ROUSE.

Gov* 1.0114410t1 1111elja;g eioriiiiaTing stolen two
umbrellas, of the value of 11. 10c, the property of Messrs.
Morland and Co., of 50, Eutcheap.
The warehouseman to the firm, said, for some time I
have had suspicion of the prisoner, who has been in the
habit of coming to our premises on business, about five
times in a week, as a customer. Oa Thursday morning
last ha came again at a quarter to 9 in the morning, and
spoke to Mr. Kelting, who is in the house. He then, when
Mr. Kelting went to another part of the shop, took two
(if not three) of the best umbrellas from one of the drawers,
wrapped them up in • wrapper in which he bad some
other umbrellas for repair, and walked away with them.
The umbrellas were made of brown silk, but I could not
identify them. I told Mr. Morland of the circumstance,
upon his arrival In town. Neat morning the prisoner came
again with a long bundle in his hand as usual, and I saw Mr.Kelting deliver something to, and receive money from,
him, and as soon as Mr. Kelung retired to another part of
the shop, I observed the prisoner open the draw, close to
where he was, take out two umbrellas, put them in his
wrapper, and then leave the warehouse. I followed,
brought him bitek,! said you have taken two umbrellas,
and showed them to him. He made no reply.
Another shopman confirmed the foregoing evidence, and,
upon crow-eiumunation, said the prisoner has been a cus-
tomer for 18 years to my knowledge. He has gene to the
drawer and selected umbrellas out.
Edmonds, of the detective police, stated that on Friday
he searched the prisoner's house, and found there 22 silk
umbrellas, which he produced. He had, he said, beard
that the prisoner was a very respectable man.
Mr. Joseph Morland, in the employment of the prose-
cutors, said the umbrellas found is the prisoner's bed-room
were of their manufacture, and, to the best of his belief,
had not been sold. If they had been sold, they would have
had tassels and cases.
It was proved that the prisoner had, on the morning of
the alleged robbery, purchased umbrella cues and tassels,
but no umbrellas, at the house of the prosecutors. It was
also stated that the prisoner had been • customer for 25 or
26 years, that he was very deaf, and that he had been always
considered to be an honest, respectable man.
The pekes*: said—l am not guilty.—He was committed
lot Niel.