The Express.
London, England, 1860-01-13 00:00:00

NAVAL AND AULII4II7.

Amu'Amr, JAL 12. —Arroarnuttre.—Coaa-
mairdar G. T. I. Wirthrop (1646), lo the Amu, 6, peddle-
wised Mesa door (onst-porl ander), via) Grandy po-
i:toted.

Second-clees Assistant Ziemer B. T. Reed, to the
Hogue, 80, mew .t ship, on coast•v..rd swiss at
Greenock, for amiss i• the Jackdaw gunboat.
Acting Assisaret-eurgeten (3. W. L. 11•81i/011 (1068), Is
continual es emitter in the Ariedne, 203, sorew
steam trio% at Port

DEVONPORT, JAN. 12.
The training ship Implacable, 72, was placed
Lessocterday in No. 1 dock ; her lower ring* la over the most
The peddle.whael stsam-Oodor Adele*, M. Raymond,
master, has coaled, sad he. amibugiO mores for Falmouth.
.1. Patterson, a seamem, fell on Tuesday from the brow of
the &magical, 70, on a rubbing piece, a height of 26 feet,
and received some severe %juries.
The Niger, .team-vessel, 16 Captain Peter Cahoot!,
was et Auckland, New Zealand,, en the departure of the last
mail thine*. Tior Riga has been out searly friar yeses, and
we may therefore aipeot her lame some time daring the neat
summer. It was thought on boded that the December or
January mail would beteg the orders fus her Warn to
Ragland.
MIZ7IIIO Of TEN 8111PIRANNITATID Mai Or TIM
DETOMPOILT DOCITAJID.—A meeting of the euperainamted
workings wee held lot analog at the Clesskal and Mathe-
matical &drool-room at the back of St. Jake-.trot, Devoe-
port. Mr. T. Azford was voted to the chair, sad in opals;
the meeting he stated that a committee wee appointed la
June lest. after the passing of the Civil Service Supers.-
notion Hif, to °onsida what means should he used to obtain
for those men who had already been superannuated some
addition to their pensions. The committee had been in cor-
respondsnoa with similar committer at the other naval
ports, and they had unanimously agreed to forward a peti-
tion to parliament setting out their prievettosa. The chair-
man then read the Wiliam, which compared the disadvan-
tages under which the workmen laboured who were su-
perannuated antscedeat to the pseeing of this ale with
those men who would be euperanagated under the new scale.
The meeting unanimously adopted the pendia.
Tun FORTIFICATIONS OF PLVMOOTIL—The sites
selected for the chain of forts on the propmed Hue of fortifier-
toms of this port end arsenal are es tellaw :—Trogautle and
Sireolown now in prugrw, ore the Coyish side of the
river Tamar ; the hill on Brnotattle, &ma of Bull Point!
the high ground mat of Bandon Remo, Pamsycross; ditto
near Tort, and on the east of Mutesamed ; not on the site
of the round tower at Lipson, and vies ea the hill above
Moen. Sparrow and Co.'s gunnies at Codeine. These forte
will to oonsioad by a deep tremeh. with reaseorte of granite
end limestone, with earthworks 28 feet thick. In oranno-
Om of these Sots it is also proposed to moo another at
Wimabary, kat this latter is sot included I. the works at
premat to be sadertelam.
A LOYAL fitnlner.—A capital battery of 14 guns
is sew to be sees at Shaley, a village near Southampton.
It Is the property of Mr. Waterusea, who ha. offered it to the
.operatics of flooliareptos for the defence of the town, or to
be mood for prudes by aa artillery corps. The puns are
mounted se Sidipisess, and have two ammunition carte in-
terim! to them. With the carriages each gun weighs 8 ewe.
and la capable el carrying a 311 b shot the disuse. of a
mile. Attathed to the guns an 14 of the standar! -Bags of
all nadone,eare lee befog 16 het by 9 bet. The gum; were
made by Missre. Nopler, end have bees mat sod
bored on
the swab *neigh at the in her Majesty's genies.
They hese beim WNW by trtildery Alien hem the tame et
Albeshote, and pr summed highly Ifigifinabk. Lad PM-
meet°, and may d the aftstocassy have seen Ibis, sad
the utmost onspher bee bees meailleseed thud a private indi-
vidual of seek threbed mesas (Me peropokeer being only an
assistant to a brewer) should hoar had the spirit to spend
his caving. In es loyal a tease, which at the present crisis
is a worthy example to those who have more rotor:led
roans. Mr. Waterman has expended the sum of 401. In
powder, by firing volutes as eormiatiose days, birth-days of
the easerbers of the royal bogy, and other periods of re-
*slag. There Is ao dada the cerporsiba ot Southampton will
moos the saw that has bees made these fa each a liberal
spblL

TEE 800 /TIME VOLUNTEERS AND allf
wads( d lausibses et the Wades &ash& Volunteer (Wye
tear bid ea Wednesday, when the kilt queries" cease
oder thismics. • few days ego the anueitno meet mad
passed a reselatics that the kilt was kit serer rarer Inv
sairbie he esiaterre. It Wke obassiy frothier as Wed-
stray whether, the kit berm bra sired le by a genre'
reolkeh lie tearesitles had the powe to ergot say nnesares
essperiai wither the was
of another parr steriag.
The abuse of ladoessay was rdionstly reisetted„ sod it
we. meld twat hoe idekety allowed her ens Whirs to wear
the kilt in has pass wn sad dint mar, of the rimers bed
was It daring s greater perks of their 1t,... Aker a very
leer the (Wearies it we. woad that lite ins should be

THE VOLUME= MOVEMENT nit LIVEREOOL.
no gal of Darby atlas las the Earl of %dim, it sot yet
aootribotod 'invit ing to the volunteering endi of the lir
Wet, has int asdaritied announced his brinotion to
sad equip at Me own expense woe of ida taniato to ate
willing to enrol themselves.
The new mail arrangements are new in operation
with the western stair of Almeida. Tastorday mall bogs
&rem from Maga and Donna Won waived at the
usual Poet-Ales, per Meemer North American, In ada-
ges to the mail Mee from Tormto, Hamilton, Quebee,
Montreal, Elegem% and Boston. The date of the meil from
Detroit wet Deo. n sad Chicago the 28th.

• 146 ifittelitima.

UMW OF QUEEN'S BENCII,TAN. 12.

ON* fti iase,--(Ballore the Lord Chief Justice, Mr.
hililletWllllgnms, Mr. Jostles Oreitiplon, and llr.Jnedos
MA) •
02thithle v. Till lIIDLAND ILLtiVNY OOXPAXI.
pidatir Thi fit this motion wee a Mr: IliAilkee Clarke a
coal fear, oterileig_ am badmen cm the Coal Reehallie,
Landes, sad he: bought this *mks spinet the intend
Hailwayßisapsy, I. sumer a ems et 8081. 19e. 3d., the
Talus al 313 sins of coal. sottish the *but alleged wen
wroisfelly ambled hoes him, tinder the ihnowiag chows-
stanoss.
humid mipeir that in the autumn of 1847 Mr. Clarke had
bought a large quantity of coals from the West fleaveley Col-
liery Compeer, Yorkaiiirs, paying tar them ht advance to
the extent of 2,2201. From time to time the eompisay for-
waded various quantities of coal to Ludas, wedged to
the_plaintiff, at his depot in Camden-town, until at lsagth
in March of last year they made two toneignmente, the
added of this astern. lt was their habit to forward
die coals not in waggons balcinging to themselves India those
of the railway company, at the same time that the waggons
were marked with Mr. Cliiske's namq sail invokes were
regularly forwarded to him. However, be ea thee" Let atm-
rarwme mad*, the colliery comps; had got tato dill-
witeth the railway eom. y, an amount of cambia dee
for the coeveyssee of coals doag their lies, sad 10 kt axed-
mice with the gamed spessunt between the two companies
the railway compay seised the owls. By this seizure the
plaintiff was a harry sallerer, he having aimed"' paid for the
roils, and he slandire bought hi. safes. At the trial
which took Oleo helms the Led Chid JaMes at the Laden
siuings attar MO tuna a verdict mu sauced for the eased.
ants, with ken to the pkintiff to move to est it aids, and
enter ft for the *WM U the court should be of opirden that
the defendant bed so Ilea upon the oolle.
Mr. Berth moved aceerdiegly. He denied that the rail-
way oompany bad either. spa& or a pastel lies upon the
cosh. The coals wen to be delivered to Clarke at the Cam- ,
des Adios. Clarke's names wee upon the waggons, end
Clerk. had readved regular invokes ; above ell, t;barke had
paid the hill price for the coals.
The court ware unadmously of opinion that the rule
should be refaced. Undoubtedly, by virtue of tbe emirate
between them, the railway compsoy had a gemaral Lan
upon all the coals which they carried for the Study
Colliery Conway. Until the coals in quell= were de&
eared to the plaintiff at Camdemtown the prop in the
opals did not pam from the railway company. lay
all sea
cuss the great point t be considered wee, at whose risk
were the goods carried, at the vendor's err the vendee's,
Here without question it wan al the wader's ; for suppos-
ing that by the hand of God the goods wire destroyed,
_that
would not have Um a delivery to Mr. Clarke, at Camden-
town, and the colliery' company could not have charged him
with that weloahr consignesent.
Rule rer accordingly.

BAIL cOURT.—JAN. 12.
Sittings at Nisi Prits.—(Bkge Mr. Judos Blackburn aad
Comma India)

DONAU V. SOZNION.-3111 DITUNO XAX AND Tat

• AITOMT.
We wee as action brought by the plaintiff, formerly an
innkeeper eadwasolt peopriston sad who saw described him-
self as • comminion agent, of Vimoriannet, Trinity-spurn
Borough, mean the defendant, an annoy, of Thanes-
place, Temple Her, for a malicious pri.• in. The &-
indent pleaded not guilty.
Mr. &silent Tour sad Mr. Macdonald appeared for the
plaintiffdan ; Mr. Ribtou and Mr. Lawrence represented the
defen t.

It appeared from the sae for the plaintiff that, on the 2let
of May, 1868, both pestles met at /loom Macey end the
plaintiff bet the defendant 6 to 2 in sovereigns on one of the
events, the dtdendant depceiting 21. with the plaintiff. It
was a dead hest, and, being desirous of hedging, the plaintiff
made another bet with the defendant. The plaintiff
ccasidered when the race had been dmeided that
he owed the defendant 3i bat the delendaat
claimed U. 10a. the dieorepaney selling' from the fact
that the plaintiff intended tc make the mewl bet in
kalf-
sovereigns. Oa the 261 k of May the asinine abed on the
plaintiff, end demanded 64 10.., which the War leased to
pay, offering 31. After sococaltaroation, the pialainfotdirod
the defendant out °this haw, and said hewed& libido by
tbe decision of the stewards. On the Bed at Ism the hetet
Cap day, they "phi met en the and the defendant
again demae4ad the 61. 10a., whim the slimed him •
M. note. If be weld take 34. and Moen eke beim* which
ha rikaid. The defendant sekeriquestly want before • vea-
-1 giants at Windsor, and laid en Informatics that the phia-
-1 tiff had threatened that when he caught him in the right
piece he would leave him within en inch of his life, said
swore that be went In bodily fear of hint, and on that Ishtar-
' madon • warrant was leaned, and the plaintiff was arrested
by a policeman and taken in handcuffs to the South Western
Railway station, and from thence to Windsor, paying for a
vehicle to avoid exposure in the streets.
The plaintiff, in his crom•examination, denied that he had
" Welched" a man named Williams at the Worcester races
lin 1864.

ana Ina called, and said he had nrrer had any
knowledge of the Wittig'.
Bono was then put in, atoonget which was
a Lee from defendant to the plaintiff, dated May 24th,
la which he rid, "Don't mieundsestaad Ise, the very AM
timeless Toson• nos course, in Ltd pulgto street, or else.
wham I will give yon into custody, and then we obeli w
whether a megibikete will entertain the charge. I fancy this
will be the vsey dearest swindle you have perpetrated kr
some time,"

The detrace, as supported by the evidence of the defend-
aat, was, that he was at the thus that be laid the information
sad Dow he mos, is bodily fear of the plaintiff. He stated
that when the mooed race was won the plaintiff ran
Amy like an acrobat,' and he afterwards discovered
he was living at the back of Horeemoriger-lase Gaol, instead
of the Kent-road, the 'Metes be had given. He called there
on the Sunday, and the plaintiff denied all knowledge of him
and the transaction, but afterwards said he would meet him
at Tattersall's. The defendant expressed a doubt as to his
hetrg a member of Tattareall's, and walked not of the house.
He denied that the plaintiff had ever offered him 61. to take
31. cut of. He had expressed as opinion that the plaintiff
was • Welcher, when the plaintiff elevated Ms fiat and
threatened to strike hiss. Oa the Monday after they met at
Ascot the defendant went bike, the magistrate at the South-
mark pollee-wart, sad was directed to apply to • Windsor
meet ate.
being asked in his crose-ezamination why he had en-
trusted his 21. to the plaintiff, the defendant said it was
bemuse he said be resided In the Knit-road and bad a decent
coat to Ms heck. (Laughter.)
His Lodi* Is eamintag up, left It be the jury to say
whether the Weis/mat, la laying the Information, bad wed
benA fie or tree =Om _

Th• j— ;rind, and after some deliberation found • ver-
dict tor the plaintid--damegee, 20s.

COURT OP COMMON PLIAIS.-JAx. 12.

(Sittings la Baseo.—Belore Lord Clad Julio. Erle ead
hurler William; WlMr, sad Kaatlag.)

CIAMIRON V. TEN snuciatiz&D AND 171:11112111, RAILWAY

COXPANT.—ALLZOED EX AGOZRATION 07 DAMAGIIB.
The plaintiff was a commercial warder `the Irma trade,
and his earnings had been about 1,0031. a year. Oa the lith
of October, 1868, ha wee a presager on the didendearf line,
whoa a cellist= task place, and the primal( wee injured.
The present actin wad to recover diseases la
and at the trial hairs the Lord Chief Judger ta=
the jury found for the plaintiff for 8601. dabseqasetly a
✓ule was obtained for a new trial span the grew& that des
plaintiff's injuries had lama ergpraliteenitst.e-day rase
was shown against this rule being made
Mr. Collier and Mr. Pollock appealed to Phew cane; and
Mr. Born and Mr. Welsby to sapport aerie.
It wee stated that the technical form of the rule was that
, the defendants had bees surprissd by the evidence for the
plaintiff that be was, prior to the saddest, apron Is good
health; and further, that they had sloes IM trial obtained
rider* that the plaintiff had before the arrest suffered
from pains in the head and in other pelts if the body, which
evidence they ware not able to predate at the trial. The
evidence for the plaintiff was that before the accident he was
i a stress, healthy and energetic man, that in the accident he
was hurt at the back of the neck, and according to Mr.
Body's opinion, there was chronic inflammation of the
muscles and survous ligaments surrounding the spiral
column. aro the accident the plaintiff had not
been able to walk more than one or two miles,
though p
rreviously be had walked much, sometimes
a. tar fifty or sixty miles in a day. Among the
affidavits predated by the defendants wee or from an i' in-
Lary gist," who said that since the widest he had followed
plaintiff to wire prose In London, and that the plaintiff
OS that cateeks walked • very considerable distance. The
company, however, It append, ought to hays examined this
wkases at the Oriel if they hod thought fit. Mr. Rowe, a
deposed that ha had attended the plaintiff between
Fe and Att, 18.56, for neuralgic affection of the
seistio nerve. Me bed mho attended him for pains in the head
sad giddiness, and he believed him to be nervous and ex-
citable. In addition there were affidavits of • number of
le, to the idea that from 1863 13 1866 the plaintiff
frequently walked about with both heeds to the butt
of pia head, saying, "Oh, my pox head what shall
I " using other exclamations of the lad ; that
the tiff was nervous sad excitable., and some of
the
ssiale theaglat bin to be of unread mind. Oa the
part the plaintiff there were affidavits In answer. Mt.
!lolly sabred to his opinion that the plalatit's Ursa had
been caused by the 'rider, and he now added that he was
hatfal of paralysis. The plaintiff blmaelf denied that be
bad sailer se alleged from pains in his heed, though he
admitted that ha bad had occrional brodardies oared by
colds or too close sa application to Warms. As to
be was cured of that la 1867. Than wire a an=
affidavits in oorroboratka, and sari them one by • Mind,
who stated that on flood Friday, 1866, be had walked with
the plaintiff road 80 miles.
The Lord gird Judea—And Mr. Bowls affidavit, as
atilleally drawnoontainsd a statersat dist hs did nut believe
that the railway adder was the cause of the plaintiff's
symptoms, but Mr. Rowe, it isereothed &irate sire that,
for a pen had been drawn through the pram
The court, after some dinnesion, add they bad looked
through the ellklevite, esdthey saw ao mum for priding
a new lelel.
Bab diechauted.

Bitting at YfM Priem—(Rahn Mr. Justice Dyke and
a COMMIS Jury.)
zeal.= v. tarns—slam actironar.
The plaintiff to this awe Is a wholesale confectioner at
Bamford, sad the tishadast is a balder fa the City.
Oa the 27th October lea the plant.traveikz and a
boy named Yaw; wme driving slowly along the road near
Watford, it being data at the tints. The horse encla*nly fell
Into a trench whiob had bean dug by the defendant's urea
for the purpose of laying down some drain pipes. Negligesai
was admitted ca the weed, and defeadaat paid LW. lota
amt., so that the only quake wee whether that sum we.
ealllaiest to cover the damp austaised.
/Aviaries was II • on both aides as to the amount of
damage , sad the Jury ultimately found fur the
piriztuff far 141. 11a. baited the amount geld tato court.

COURT OF PROBATE AND DIVORCE.
hit. 12.
(Before the lot* Orating.)

KA VAR O. NAME AND OTILIND .

Tide very complicated nit neWee to the aveneroes
and codicils of hie. J. 8. Caldwell, We of Lindly Wood Bell,
Staffordshire. Tim awe, In whioh no tower than ten learned
anneel owe engaged, wee proceeding when the Donn rose.

INSOLVENT DEBTORS COURT.—JAN. 12.
(Bdon )[r. Conniniceor Marpky.)
DI TIM XLITOR OF CZAZLIII SZIPWAY.

This insolvent, described as a Baptist minister, known as
11 the Rev. Charles Shipway," late of Iffibie liedingham, agar
Rabitird, Rees; who was in the Queen's Prison, applied to
lifirbZertionGriffitha appeared for the trustee of • chapel
at Halstead, and Mr. Bsrgood (with whom was Dr. Kea-
neatly) supported the insolvent.
The insolvent was minister of the chapel held by the
opposing creditor, end by the Court of Chancery he had been
restrained from officiating therein. The OM/ were Del
3001., for which he was sweated and taken to Spriagas
Gaol, In how; aid stibsequently removed by Habeas Cor-
pus to the Qama's Prioon, and then petitioned
.
Mr. Robertson Griffiths took an objection to the insolvent
being hoed, as be bad removed himself from • distance be-
yond 20 aides. The case was non jadice, and the court
could not entertain it.

Mr. flargood admitted that the law was too clear on the
milts sod asked the court to dismiss the petition.
Griffiths objected to the dismissal of the
pet the. Tbe insaivestoodd be removed hack to Ran.
Mr. Commissioner Murphy declined to dismiss the petition.
The insolvent could be removed beck by his Meads. H.
should discharge the order for hearing. The order for bear-
ing was sccordingly diecharged.

IN RI RICHARD T. NUMMI.

This ineolvsst, a bookseller and stationer at Woolwich,
who bad been register with • person named Brews, at
" The North Kent Adoirtiser end Woolwich Ciszette," wee
opposed by Mr. Bennett, wholesale stationer; Mr. Denney
ra.
trinaoirent had obtained some paper of Mr. Bennett on
the promise, as that twangs alleged, that he woad be paid
oat of 401. payable by lk. Alderman Baronets; for work in
wonexion with the Otson 'notion. The money had been
psid, bat Mr. Bennett had 20i been paid.
The lowliest dialed that he bed promised payment oat of
Mr. Alderman Salerooms' annoy.
Mr. Beeman mid he bed dew so; sad he stepped to the
beak of which Mr. Aldermen Baloaxem wee chairman, bat
he was ottt

After • discussion, a settlement was sweated, Mr. BM-
W/it who said the ineolvent wee carry* ea the bosinsal, and
Was quite ebbs to pay. It wee arena the IW. shookd be
paid in a fortnight, and the balance afterwards.
The protection was renewed.