The Express.
London, England, 1856-05-08 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, THURSDAY EVENING, MAY 8, 1856.

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EQUITY COURTS.-MLY 7.
MOM TWO MUDS scsncta OI Arpakt.
II 31 WILLTAN PALIna..•AN ALL 1011)
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Mr. De Gs: mewed Ms application for leave to appeal
to the Home of Leeds la this caw upon the questioe
whether a pima bobs arrested for debt sad thee removed
to prison both ea that proem sad also spew the eweear's
warrant on &dune of (elegy, by remaining la castody
ander both moms 21 days afterwards thereby commits
an act of bankruptcy suSciant to support as edjadicatioa.
Lord /1111111611 'Lulea Bruce asked whether the onus.
Monet bad adjudicated t
Ur. Daniel. Q C. (with whoa was Db. Archibald Smith)
mirrored in the 'tarmacs.

Lord Justice Haight arum said is that cam the party
might, if they tboaght at, appeal to this court upon the
question of adjudication, of the same time that they moved
for leave to appeal to the Hones of Lord,. He did not,
however, meat to intimate any opinion whether the motion
would be complied wi h should the appeal on the question
of adjadicatioe be uusiamiessfal.
The matter was then adjourned with a view to the adop-
tion of the course suggested.

COURT OF QUERN% BENCH.-H&7 7.

iIITLN9II IN

XX PART]

ma. AND INIONATON.

lOC ITT FOIL TEN
OF •101.

Mr. llatetille said he was lamas:nod, oa behalf of a person
named Dagdals, of whom their lordships ►ad often heard,
to apply for a rale cellists upon an attorney, whose came it
was not than advisable to minstios, to Gamer matters con-
tained in certain affidavits. It was of coarse persoaally un-
pleasant to him to briag forward anything repeating Holy-
well street sad its [ethicist pasts, but as this was • cue of
same pablis importanes, he did aot feel justified in declining
to brim it before tbe court. It must be • matter of surprise
he thaselst to •very one that while persona were constantly
rampreeasated for exposing indecent prints in their shop
, the exhibition of such prints was set at all dimi-
nished, and that it continsid just as it bad dose honors at
some favoured shops, and it would naturally eery to their
lordships that there mast be some reaaoa for this.
Lord Campbell—Do you impute misconduct as an atter-
, ney_to the individual against whom you apply ?
Mr. Metcalfa—Tes ; a prosecution against Coedits and
several other persons, at the butane, of the Secisty for the
Sappressiou of Vise, was removed from the Middlesex See-
noes to this court, where It was sonsiarted before Lord
Campbell. That is • society whittle intdadss among Its
members some highly respactablie proms—the Earl of
Shaftesbury and others, who. I think, canuot be at all aware
of its operations ; but undoubtedly it tun amongst its agents
some very disreputable people ; and it appears unques-
tionably that from time to time money has bean paid to
those agents for the purpose of inducing them to favour par-
thank, houses. Those who do not pay are aught oat ;
their prints and books we seised, as la the case of t►e per.
son for whom I appear.
Lord Campbell—Yon say that they levy black mail upon
the Tendon.

Kr. listealf•—No doubt, [say lord ; cad it Rut have
streak every use that the system condones while lethal-
duals era from time to time prosecuted. Your lordship
will remember that a person named Bosworth, aid five or
sin others, were prosecuted at the we Use as Dagdale.
Lord Campbell—Add disgusting c sees they wen.
liir. Metealth—The affidavits st,th that the day before the
trial wee to One on, the attorney for the prosecution, the
gentlemso against whets I now apply, contented
to Bosworth being liberated on bail, that he was bailed out
the ease evening, sad did net earrendor to take his trial on
the folio wing day, and that the trial being proceeded with
is his absence, he was found guilty, and sentenced to two
years' insprisossaeut by Lord Campbell, bat was takes
tato custody upon that conviction. Too efildavite farther
set out that Boiworh afterwards west to live u the house
proviouly occupied by his in Holy well-street, and there
openly carried on his basins*. as before, to the knowledge
of the attorney for the society and his agents, seek iag a
boost that he was undergoing his untruee in hie owe house,
and representing that he had ..Oquerod it" with the attorney.
A few days ago another gang of tithes penal', including
Bosworth, a.,d a man named Deaociestie, were indietod at
the Middles': Sessions. Danoonthe was the o one who
did not plead guilty, bat be was convicted, cud it having
bean proved that he bad been previously maimed and im-
prisoned for the same of for two years, toe judge
mationeed him to six seethe' imprisonment. The
attorney for **society was then promo; and though he
mast have known that Boewortb bail also bees sentenced to
the same period of imprisonmost he did not nation the
fait to the rout, sad Its therefore got off with two months
unload dais. The affidavit. also added that Mr. Paohloy,
the preeidingjudge, asked If anything was known of Bos-
worth, and that the said attorney, to the great perversioa of
jostle', sthistathed *Beath, and did not inform him of the
reel (hesitates/am

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Lord saliva' support your stateraeat,
sled the charge you Rake is that ma attorney of this court
ban converted the process of the law to corrupt purposes.
Take a rule to show game.
Role granted.

COURT OF ISECHEQUISR.-MAY 7.
IRWOHIS IN DAROO.-RRPOLI TER LORD CRTIP 3•110111 AND DA ONO
ALDRIIOII, MARTIN, AND DIRIIIVILL.
HAWKINS T. PAILIMI.-BILL MONS.

This was an action which was brought by the plaintiff as
indorses of a bill of eschange against the defendant as &e-
-ngin. The defendant pleaded that the bill had bees de-
livered to one Brown to get it amounted, who had banded
it to the plaintiff, bet that there was no conideratioa as
between Brown and the plaintiff, who bad moan of the air-
comstanoes under which the bill bad been received from the
defendant. The OSIBM came on for trial at the aittiop after
het term before the Lord Chief Barn, when a verdict was
retuned for the defendant.

It appeared, asersdiag to the evident.. of the defendant,
that be required some immediate pecuniary assistants., and
*striated the bill I. emotion t. Brown to get the same dis-
counted, but that he never received any coseideration fcr
the bill, and had been told by Brown that It had heat de-
stroyed. The ease os behalf of the plaintiff, however, was
In direct conflict, but, as was alleged, was defeated by the
absence of Brown, who could have proved that the proceeds
of the bill had bees hauded to the defentact. Subse-
quently a rule had been obtained to set the verdict saide,
and for a new trial, on the ground of misdirection and the
absence of Brown, who would have been a material witness
on behalf of the plaintiff.
Mr. liuddlnton (with him Mr. W. H. Jams) now ap-
paved to stow cause egaiost the role, aid sabstitted that it
would be unjust to harms the defendsot by granting a new
trial, and that the evidence of the witness Bro on when pro
dared would not have t►e eff.et of altering the verdict
which bad been retuned, as, ascordieg to the evidence
which had been adduced at the trial, that witness was not
worthy of credit.
Mr. Bei,' east Shoe appeared In support of the rule, which
was made absolute, on payment of costs.
Hale absolute accordingly.
IN RI PIIII3TONI.-11.1.110AL COIMITMIXTI.-•-OAMINO

ON RAILWAYS.

Mr. Metcalfe said ha moved and obtained a rale a few
days ago for a writ of habeas o .spas I. this ease oa the
'mind that the applicant, James Freestone, was coofined
in Lewes goal coder as Illegal and informal commitment.
The prisoner was now in attendance, and he submitted that
the commitment which set forth that the prisoner was com-
mitted for .. nulawfally playing in an open place, to wit, •
third claw carriage on the Landon, Brightoa, end Booth
Coast Railway," was wrong. so • railway carriage was sot
aa "open pnblie plass " within the meaning of the statute
the Bth of Goo. IV., a. 83, s. 4, ander whit* the Gewalt-
meat took place.
The Chief Baron—What are the words of the statute ?
Mr. Metcalfe—The set was passed clearly to pat an end
to the practices of "thimble-riggers,'' who were in the
habit cf playing la the open store*, at racecourse', and
fain. It says, "Seery per on pl,yisg or betting in any
street, road, highway, cr other open, or public place,
shall," sta.
Mr. Baron Aidenott—lf the commitment had said in a
°airless thea used on a public highway it would have bees
valid.

Mr. Beim Bramwell said that when the disputes arose
between the London and Bnghten Railway and the cab-
owners as to whether the ground which adjoined that rail-
way, and which wee used ea a eab-stand, wee public or
private property, the majority of the magistrates were of
opinion that it was the property of the ciespany, and not
public property.
The Chief Baron—The lime of railway is • public
highway.
Mr. Mstctlfe—lt meet be an open public place.
The learned judges kerbs' held • brief consultation,
The Chief Baron said they were all of opinion that the
conviction could not be supported, as the place where the
alleged illegal mit took plasm was net so desigeated in the
commitaseet es to some within the act of parliameat. The
gaming might have token place in • third class carriage,
which had been shunted off the lion, and that would not
have been an "rp•% pubic place." It was not at all clear
that the commitment would have been valid even if it bad
stated the playing had taken place is a carriage which was
being mod by the public on the railroad. The commit-
ment was wrong, and the conviction mast therefore be
quashed.
The prisoner, who was brought up in the custody of an
pacer of the prison, having had the handcuffs removed,
best a speedy retreat, and the remit was bailed by certain
Individuals fn court with evident satisfaction.

BR COUNTY COURT.—MAT 7.
moss I. NATIAT. Q.
DAMS O. DOWSING.

Thin was an adios brought by the plaintiff, desorilmd us
a bird and beast staffer, against the dokadaat, Amelia
Doweiag, a aurae at Westminster Hospital to recover
11.75., for work sad labour dome and materia's supplied.
Plaintiff stated that in Harsh last the defeedant seat
►im the skis of a black and white eat, said to bays died of
old sp—(iatighter) —to be stuffed sad aged I. a glass
am, which be was re supply. Tbet being douse, he seat it
Mass. what the &Nadas; returned it, with a message that
M was to alter the cat's position tram a sitting eat, with its
bead partly turaed—(lseghter) —to • lying does ewe,
Ns Mad netts, batwing its An-legs. (Laughter) He did
ao, but on again madtag it she retard so bane It or pay for
it, alleging th►t he had rang the changes, mid the eat wee
net he... (Laughter.) Per 'IOUs the eat of a Wet-end

lady lu seamed 11.104, but beefily shamed the defendant
IL, the Is. Mimi for theglass cam with a crimson cushion,
at which the animal reclined. (Laughter.)
The defendant, in a demure tone, said the cat in question
was aa thin as a straw, while ben was as fat as a mole.
(Laughter )
Plaintiff—L(l'd have stuffed it any more I should hate
bunt its skin.

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The lodge had ao doubt it was one and the tame cat, and
observing taut having a eat stuffed was a mere luxury,
ordered defendant to pay the mount, with eats, in a
swath.