The Express.
London, England, 1851-01-21 00:00:00

COURT OF EXCHEQUER.—YEErrEaDAY.

-.,10111.—800111 Ma. BAWD" MARTIN, AND •
LONDO,I Conlon Jeer.
SIMI O. RICKII.—TeI MATRIMONIAL STATE.
This wee an action to recover 221. for goods mold and deli.
vetoed, to which the defendant pleaded net indebted. Mr.
Crowder sad Mr. Locke were for the plaintiffs, and Mr. M.
Smith for the defendant.
The plaintiffs are silk mercers in the Borough, the defen-
dant parish clerk of St. Andrew, Hothan, and the action
was brought to recover the amount of certain goods supplied
M the defendant's wife, between the months of January and
Jese of last year. It appeared from the cue that the defen-
dant was lamerl7 a journeyman engraver, that some yeses
ate he married his cousin oho wee possessed of some property
settled on herself ; bat with the consent of the trustee. a sum
d 6001. was applied to the purchase of his present situation
se parish clerk from the incumbent. They lived together
happily for some years; but about three years ago a
mention took place on the ground that Mee. Hicks
led fallen into intemperate habits, the lady ratortiog
dale she had been driven to drink through the
wegleet of her husband, who went to theatres and concerts
without her. The separation tuck place is 1847, end Mrs.
Rieke went to live with an old lady sensed Smith, for 12
math/. Shortly afterwards the defendant wrote to this
person, expressing his gratification that she bad consented
Mreceive Mrs. Hicks, and hoped that through her care she
maid becomes reclaimed 'mina, end "en ornament of her
sex." It was also arranged that the defendant should allow
het 761. a year. At the expiration of 12 months the lady
we. reclaimed to • certain extent," but not to such an
anent ea to induce the defeadant to reruns her beck again.
IShe bad dace been living at different planes, bat not the
slightest imputation wee otherwise made on her reputation.
'During** sewed= Mrs. Hicks incurred the debt now
sued foe. Of that savant 101. 15s. were incurred in one
Jaycee oases for a cashmere dress, three guineas for a
tiered silk dress, end tour guineas for 14 yards of satin.
Mr. M. Smith, for the do fondant, submitted that he could
not he held ;title for the sum claimed, as the goods were not
lIMINEOMES for • person in her situation of life. The follow-
ing witnesses were called in explanation of the cause of
separation :
A female relative stated that 10 years ego Mrs. Hicks was
soldicted to drinking. Her husband treated her kindly,
though he used to go to concerts without her. She had seen
her dnok a pint of gin end a bottle of port in one day.
When intoxiegoed she was very violent, and had threatened
her husband's life. And, on one occasion, in 1946, when a
pens culled et the house, she took up • red-hot poker and
threatened to run him through with it. In avoiding the
thrust the person had his hand ly burned. A servant
also proved Mrs. Hiek's intemperate babies. In crossexa-
mination she mid bar master was very font of music, and
Mrs. Hicks accompanied him to concerts when she was able,
but that was not always.
Mr. Braden, who was lately a scripture reader in the
parish of St. Andrew's, Holborn, stated the profits of the
defendant et about 1041. • year.
The jury found for the plaiutiffsfor 131. 2". of the amount
claimed.

SUS PIMA AT

COURT OF BANKRUPTCY.—TIESTERDAT.
aims Ma. tionsussiesia Batsmen.
Is Re RIDDLI.—FILACIDULENT PRZYBRENCE.
IL K. Riddle, miller of Valentine-place applied for his
certificate. He owed 44441 , sad estimated the good debts
due to him at 1431. Tiers were no other assets; the
profits were put down at 6191. ; looses, 2941.; expenses of
various kinds, 1,4821.
Mr. Hilleary opposed fur the incenses, and Mr. Wren for
• creditor. The principal grounds of opposition were, that
the bankrupt had tr,ided recklessly, had contracted debts
when hopelessly insolvent, and had made over his property
to his nephew, who had been in his employ.
From an examination of the bankrupt, it appeared that
he hail been in business in the last five or six years in a
great many different places, each of which he had left in
debt. His accounts commenced in September 1847, with
adi ficieucy of 1671 He owed hie nephew 2951. which had
been borrowed at different times. The neohiew sued him (or
this money in August lut, and he gave • jadge's order very
shortly before the bankruptcy, which enabled the aeptiet
to take all his stock and furniture. He afterwards obtained
goods to the amount of 8001., which he had not paid for.
About that time hie mill broke down, and to that he attri.
bated his fa lure. He had paid about 9001. to creditors shortly
before the bankruptcy.
His Honour said the various attempts at trading made by
the bankrupt must have shown him that the course he had
recently pursued was unjustifiable. Notwithstanding his
former want of suttee', at Christmas, 1849, he bad enteredon
a steam mill, then owing 3001., besides the money borrowed
from his nephew, By consenting to the judgment at the
nephew's snit be had prevented the other creditors from
getting anything. Io August ha had resorted to the mai-
Mose system of paying one creditor at the expense of an-
other; in which ewe the only question was, who was to be
the loser in the end? These debts had een contracted
without any reasonable hope of their being paid. Tie cer-
tifiede must be suspended for two years from that date—
prots ction not to be pallid WI the bankrupt had boss three
' months in prison.

MIDDLESEX SEBBIONS.-4111TEEDAT.
Irma AmaraNr Jima
The court sat yentarday morning at Westminster, to hear
rate appeals. There were 26 In the list—ll of them being sp•
mashy the London and Bleckwall Railway Conapsayagainst
the poor-rates, and lighting, cleansing, and repairing rates,
if St. Ann, Limehouse, Hamlet of Ratcliffe, Bt. o,,orge, All
Saints Poplar. St. filmy Stratford the poor-rates of the
hamlet of Mile-end Old-town, and Bromley St. Leonard;
and one appeal was against tha deeeion of the 'primal ses-
sions, touching the poor-rate of St. Mary, Whiteahapel.
The whole of these, together with an appeal of the Bittern
Counties Railway Company against the poor-rate of St.
liathew.Bettisal-green, and appeals by the Coaring-arose
Bridge Company and As United Servitor Institution against
St. Martin's in the Fields, went off upon motion, es stood

BATHS AND WASHEOCSES COMMITS'S IL BT. MART,
WM/ICECAP/IL.
This was an appeal by " The Committee for promoting
the establishment of Baths and Washisonses for the Labour-
leg Poor," against an order of special melons, touchieg the
poor rate of Saint Mary, Whitechapel.
Mr. Bodkin, Mr. Pashley, Mr. Perry, and Mr. Huddle-
stone were engaged in the case, and after a consultation
' between those gentlemen and their clients, it was arranged
that the essessment upon the property rated sbocld be
reduced to 2001., subject to a Pie as to the liahaity of
" Baths and Wsebbouse for the labouring Poor" to be rated.
The court made an orderto that effect.
STATE OP THE SESSIONS HOUSE, CLIBEINWILL,
At the meeting of magistrates on Thursday last, two
justices, Captaia Hague and Mr. Whiskie, were appointed,
together with the chairman of the court, H. Pawns'', Big.,
to inspect and report on the state of the boardroom and the
&Woos House generally. It is to be hoped that this is a
preliminary step to ea alteration in the arrangements in the
interior of the court, which appear to have been made for
the especial inconvenience of the public and evaybody
engaged profesiosally in the court. In July last, under the
auspices of Mr. Powuall and the house committee, a model wee
prepared showing how the court could, by an outlay of 3001,
be rendered a convenient and efficient one, but from the soil-
dental misplacement of a label a great feature of the model was
misunderstood, and the money when asked for was refused,
before the error could be explained. Under that plan an
important addition to the space of the court would have been
made without the walls being touched, and a gallery can-
Weeded for the free use of the public and proper accom-
modation afforded tor the bar, solicitors, the pees, the jurors
in waiting, and all parties having occasion to attend the
' court. It is notorious that a more inconveniently constructed
court does not 'gist in the country, and it will be matter at
peat surprise if the proposed plan be not again taken into
ocasktoratioa.

EXTRAORDINARY ESCAPII.—On Saturday evening
last, a railway labourer named Jean Pont, who had bee'
at wok at Rye for the first time that day, was returning
along the line as his way to Fairlight. He had just pawed
nada the viaduct, or brisk bridge, at the Landgate, By.,
when he heard the train coming on behind him. In or&e
to avoid being run over, he stepped on to the next line,
which unfortunately proved to be that en which the train
was actually running. H. was immediately knocked dew.
by the foremen truck, and the whole train pared over him.
A person pawing by at the time ran up, with horror de-
picted is his countenance, to look (as he supposed) at the
mangled remains, when he was moat agreesbly surprieed to
NO Mr. Navvy tit on hie feet, and go and sit in a temporary
shed on the aide of the line, at the Ropewalk, for a few
minutes, where he wiped the blood from a slight fracture on
the right aids of his head, and removed the "grit" from hie
left eye, and after rubbing his left shoulder a little, declared
his Intention of proceeding on his journey. He stated that
he fell lengthways between the rails, sad thus escaped with
the slight wound above related; he had worked as a railway
labourer for the last sixteen year/. and this was the tint ac•
okliss he ha Mt wici4.—Sweis Norm