The Express.
London, England, 1847-12-03 00:00:00

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EQUITY COURTS.
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non 101. •21 INJUNCTION.-Mr. Bothell concluded his
argument in support of the motion for an injunction to re-
sti ain the defendants from entering into any agreement for
the sale or lease of their line to the North Western Com-
pany. The learned counsel dated that there was only one
huh argument that could be raised upon this motion ; in all
other respects the question rested. on precisely the same
grounds that it did when the demurrer was decided. It
might be said on the pert of the opponents to this application
that the meeting of the 4th of Dec ,1816, at which the contract
' was ratified and confirmed, was not a meeting of all the
actual sharehoiders of the company, because mums were
resorted to for the purpose of preventing the issuing
of the certificates of the shares to those persoas
who, if they )had received their certificates, would
have bean qualified to attend the meeting, and would
have Toted against the ratification of the contract.
He contended that there had been no legal informality
whatever in the proceedings of the meeting, and no influence
het been used by the directors to prevent the shareholders
from voting. The only reason why the certificates had not been
delivered was, that they could not be obtained in sufficient
time from the printer : but the want of the certificates could
not prevent the shareholders from voting. The entry of
their names on the registry book of the company was suffi-
cient. All the evidence which had been produced went to
show that it was the intention of the legislature that this
contract with the Great Western should be carried out.
Mr. Bolt and Mr. Stevens followed on the same side, with
Mr. Bethell.

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support.—Mr. J. Henderson, for the liceesees, declared that
they were mat desirous that the patent should be upheld;
that their opposition to the prosecution was sincere ; and
that all the steps taken by them in the way of inquiring,
had bean taken for the purpose of establishing the patent.—
Witness(' were then called for the defendant. —Mr. Hill,
Q C., replied.—Lord Denman having summed up, a bill of
exceptions to hie direction was tendered on behalf of each of
the parties.—The jury, having deliberated for half an hour,
returned a verdict for the defendants.

THE EXPRESS, FRIDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 8, 1847.

his presertee.—Mr. E. James addressed the jury in support of
the eussaisaioa, and said it had been taken out at the in-
stance of Mr. Willie, a brother of the alleged lunatic. Mr.
J. W. Willie had passed a great portion of his life in India,
as • surgeon of the staff, and returned to England in the
year 1820, haying. amassed 10,0001. or 12,0001. On his re-
turn from India, in 1829, he was met bv his brother, who
accompanied him to Scotland, where circumstances came to
his knowledge relative to hie brother's conduct which ex-
cited his canoern and that of other members of his finally.
The first indications of delusion did not betray themselves
until February, 1838, when he addressed some letters to one
of the council of the East India Company, accusing the
company of haying persecuted him and followed him to the
Oriental Club, and interfered with the most private of his
actions, and opened his drawers and most secret places.
Now he would call evidence from the East India House to
prove that there was not the *lightest truth in any of those
statements. In 1840 Mr. Willie became a member of the
Reform Club, where he attracted attention by quarrelling with
every one and insulting several of the members. After that he
assaulted peewee in the public streets, and on one occasion
attacked a gentleman named Crick, a total 'imager
to him, and beat him with en umbrella, for which
he was taken to a police-court and held to bail.
From 1841 to 1845 Mr. Willie secluded himself from his
relatives and friends in order to feed upon the delu-
sions to which he was subject. From January, 1845, Mr.
Willie was residing at the house of a Mrs. May, in Holies-
street, Cavendish-square, and while there, although not a
catholic, he would dress up images with ribbons and paper
and bow U them. While there • servant came to the house
of the name of Elizabeth Evans, whom Mr. Willie married
on the 30th of May, 1846. Ho then removed to Holly-
weod-place. He would prove that Mr. Willie was insane at
the time. Mr. Willie, he had stated, was a close and cautious
man, but he found that on the 23rd of May he had given to
Elizabeth Evans a cheque on Messrs. Comae bank for 1,0001.
The whole of the furniture in Hollywood-place was only
valued at 2601., and what was done with the 7501. was not
known. After Mr. Willie was located at Hollywood-place,
Mn. Willie became very careful that his brother should
have no intimacy and control over him. A scene of the
greatest profligacy and debauchery was carried on. Frank
Berry, a waterrnan to one of the steamers on the river, took
Mrs. Willie into the country, and they slept at an inn, and
went to balls together and to the theatres, locking Mr.
Willie in his room when they did so. He would call ser-
vants who lived with them to prove those facts. The
learned counsel then put in and read the correspondence
with the East India directors before alluded to, and pro-
ceeded to call the witnesses in support of the com-
mission. Amongst them were Mr: J. D. Dickenson,
deputy-secretary to the East India Company, in 1836 (who
deposed that there was no cause for Mr. Willie labouring
under such delusions), Major-General Fair, Mr.A. Pennon,
Mr. G. Webster, the parliamentary agent,and cousin to Mr.
Willie, who proposed him in the Reform Club, and under-
took his withdrawal, and Mr. H. Crick, who all fully bore
out the opening statements. Afterwards there were also
called a servant to Mn. May, a servant to Mrs. Hunan% in
Old Cavendish street, the cook at Hollywood-place, Mr. J.
Green, clerk at Messrs. Coutts', who produced the 1,0001.
cheque, another servant at Mrs. May's, in Holles-street, and ,
a housemaid at Ilollywood-place. The servants all proved ,
that Mr. Willie stuck up papers in hie rooms, with the
words, " Devil, miserable man ; ' that he was in the habit of
emptying the kettle of boiling water on the carpet in the
drawing-room, and putting the kettle in the middle of the
water; that he would frequently hunt for the devil
about the room, and call on the servants to come
and mist him; that he would frequently run half
way down the stairs to go out, and then turn back
to his room and slam the dour. Also, that when he
went to be married he had two carriages, and went alone
hirmelf in one of them. That in Hollywood place, alter the
marriage, Mrs. Willie continually drank brandy and gin
until she was drunk, and was carried up to bed by Mr. W.
and the servants ; that she was sometimes out with Berry
until two or three o'clock in the morning, and that on two
occasions she was all nialit with Berry in the front drawing-
room. That Berry was kept in the house by Mrs. Willie
unknown to her husband, and she had frequently been
locked up all day with Berry in a back bedroom • that she
sent Berry's dinner up to him, telling her husband that it
was for her grandmother and her father, which conduct
continued up to the removal of Mr. Willie to Kensing-
ton-house.—At four o'clock the inquiry was adjourned to
Wednesday next.