The Express.
London, England, 1851-01-18 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, SATURDAY EVENING, JANUARY 18. 1851.

SECONDARIES' COUNE=YESTERDAY.
UMW Ms. agOVIIMAT POTTiII,
L•WaiIICI AND ASOTIIIIN V. fkiII•IIitYACIISZ
Szsairts' Loge.
This was s action by the late Sotrits of Loudon sad
Middlesex to reisay.r the sant et 2961 Is. 101. The defile-
east was we M the niceties of en Allem in the employ cot the
plaintiff*. In the coon• of his duty White reeeived various
sums of nosey, for which he did not account, &..d the Sh.riffs
were sued by the parties to wh•int the avncy really belonged.
Thissotioa was to re eover the amount paid in those actions
and the meta Verdict for the plaintiffs.

COURT OP BANKRUPTCY.—YeargaDAT.
&JOIE Mi. Cointrownssa Farm.
Isi as baADT.
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The heakrupt wee 4711417i87int laßond.lanie. This wu
the certificate meeting. He owed 1.0051. to unsecured, and
6001. terseciPlB efeditors. besides 18131. of liehilitise. The
only anew consisted of 601. in cash, 361. in property, and 10/.
in rood debt..
Mr. Maynard opposed, for the assignees, on the graced
that the bankrupt had obtained goods when he was without
the mesas of paying for them.
The bankrup rated, in txamination, that be bad been • '
general merchant, sad had been bankrupt before in July,
1818. He bed sold goods to a person named Tracey, the
claimant of the Tracey p trace, who was then in the wine
bueinese in the Harrow-road. Bankrupt sold him 6301, worth
of wine in November, 1848, but did nut then know he was
prosecuting his claim to the peerage. He afterwards took
bond+ to the &monist of 6,6001. from Tracey, payable in the
event of hie obtainieg the peerage. He bad submitted to a
low of 1,2001, on a charter party, for which he gave wises
entailing • high poll:. He only en'ered this transaction
to his diary sad stock bwk. He bad kept • day
bv.i. or • few months only at the beginning of file
transactions. He had to hay wine to male up the quantity
for Messrs. Wir.lley and .1 men, to veto= he was liable on
the charter party. It wee inv.siced to them et 1,6281. He
on'y gave ep • quarter of a sank of wine, wor:b 41, to the
assignees. In Aagust last he bought 160 hazes of tin plate
of Ale. Bothoven. They were shipped to Carentts, and he
Rot an immediate advance of 1701 on them; Eithnven did
not get a larthine. He was in treaty with a Mr. Kreeft for
the purchase of 100 toe of iron, for shipment, on welch he
should have obtained en advance; but the death of Knell
prevented this, and hence his embarrassments.
Mr. Mayeard—YJu aeaat to have pledged this iron, and
et hive kept up the ball a little longer ?
' Bankrupt—Well, that's rather an offensive way of putting
it. (Laughter.)
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whieds • jeutdleatioe was pleaded, bin sue witnesses called.
The jury awarded 40/, as damages, acid the eons were 1221.
Ater the midst' the iambics' sold his business for 937 , acid
paid the money away times his trade mediums. It was
proved that; Addington wee a met reepectab's man, and
that there wee cot the least pretence ter the charge made
saint him.
Mr. Comenimiener Law was occupied with the we till
pen five o'clock.:H• waslof opinion that the insolvent bad no
reasonable or probable cause for giving Mr. Addington into
custody on the semnd occasion. He deferred his judgment
to Friday sent

COURT OF INLAND REVENUE -YIiBTERDAY.

BMW' IL V. STII4-1141710X, Ext., C. I. thltll.6. PL4, AND
CINARLIII P/11016LItY EN.
George Selman, of No 43, Broad street, Bt. James's,
grocer, was charged with adulterating his pepper with illegal
materiels.
Mr. Sampson li,ngsfoul deposed that he woe an (Ace, of
excise, and on the 6th of Septeconer last he west to the shop
of the defendant, whore be purchased a quarter or a pound
of pepper. He wont imam to the shop on the 13th el
September, end mixed about 2lbs. of pepper, black and
white, which he deli • d to the warehouse keeper on the
following dep.

Mr.Haintne, supervirtr, said he wu with Mr. Kingsford
on the 13th of September, when the defendant said that be
did no more than was done by any other grocer In Llndon,
and he could not inform against them all.
The .defendant remarked that he had lived with other
grocers where he was obliged to do as he had done.
Mr. George Phillips, the analytical chemist, said he had
examined two /mingles of pepper from the shop of the de-
' fondant. Tree black gamples consisted of pepper and rice—
tke proportion of rice being about one.fitth. la the white
ample, he found an adulteration of three•loarths of rice.
• The defendant attributed the present rouention to the •
vindictive revenge of the servant whom he had discharged
about three month. ago,
The curt gave judgment in the penalty of 100/.
John Role, of Whitechapel, grocer, wu charged with a
similar offence.

The case was proved, but the amount of adulteration was
not so great aa in the previous cum.
Mr. 11 ,bler addressed the court for the defendant.
The coon gave judgment in the penalty of 1001., but said
**defendant might petition the board, when the circum-
stances would be sarels.ly considered.

MIDDLESEX SESSIONS.-YESTERDAY.
Berms in Awns sr 3. nos.
The Court eat to-day at toe Weatmillster, to
hear parochisl appeal., of which there were 36 enter. d fur
!It seine. There were also two appeals against conv.ctioos,
end 26 against pareelal rates.
134111241111.11, SUFFOLK D. Sr.LIONAND SROBEDITCH.—Two
WIDOWS, 131/7 ONI HUSBAND.

This was an appeal against an order adjudicating the
settlement of a female pauper named Byers, to be in the
appellant parish.
Mr. Pashley appeared for the appellant, and Mr. Bldkie
for the respondent parish.
The circumstances of this e.se were singular. The pauper
was removed to the parish of Barnhans, in rightof the birth
settlement of one John Syers, d. ceased, to whom she had
been married, and the brother of this John Ryer' was called
to prove his birth in the appellant parish. The witness, an
aged end patriarchal looking peasant, proved further that
his brother had lived with a wnsnan as his wife before he
became acquainted with the p.uper. Tais +ammo was
examined, and she depose l that the was married to John
Sven in 1815, residing with him afterwards at
Banshees. Some few months after the marriage
he enlisted for a soliier, and joined his regiment
at Ipswich. She staid with him there a short time, and
then left him. Afw r that be became ergasinted with the
pauper, whom he subsequently married, "but," said the
witness, " 1 was his lint and only lawful wife."
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Ihe ippellatit's eon •u that the pauper, though married
to Byers, was not his lawful wife, a Newer wife being alive,
and therefore that she could not 'golly be removed upon his
birth settlement.

The learned Julie—Then your case is, Mr. P.ishley,
that this John Byers left two widows, one of whom, :he
plum, you contind was not his lawful wife, and th retore
not. a widow 1
Mr. Pashley—Precisely so.
Mr. Bodkin did not resist the facts, and the court quashed
the order.
Sionourid, DIVION —ST. Jelin, WVITMINISTER.—