The Express.
London, England, 1859-06-17 00:00:00

,THE EXPRESS, FRIDAY EVENING, JUNE 17. 1859.

Lau, intenigenu.

NOTICES.

FU 11)1811 CIRCUITS OF TILE J
Ysseer lay bean the he day of Trinity Term, be judges
'printed to mewl mad hold the ensuing ersiz of oya
end t•rmiar appointed tt e days end runt I tha pre-
eer.ei lidd 44 sash aaa'24 in a.d 6.r the se .a.l cuun.i, a
end eit erstapri,o4 ei•hln their respretive eirosita thtonzh-
outEngisarl and Wofet. The I...Eosins are the ...ye and
pi ices rpiolntsd on each circuit

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EQUITY COURTS.—Joss 16.
(Mora Vice•Chaeafor Sr & T. Kissilmlay.)

TVINSB r. TV/011111.-ALLOWANCI 10 PIO7I2;IONAL

WITNIII4 O.

This seas Mlle on on tootias to vary the taxing saster's
certracate, and occupied the mart the roster part of the
day, but the only queet;oo of interest which areas was r
to the allowance to be atade.to • witness, Mr. Tarr, a
barrsater in London, who woe *hewed two sutras fir two
days attendance and 10.. for cab hire; and them allowances
were objected to on the ground that he had no chamber
that there wae no proof that he was a procUring bar-
rister, and therefore nor to show that he woe a prokrional

The Vice Chancellor mit the principle upon which a per
train:al man worn paid was, that he its &banded from the
practice which lut exercised. A barrister ao doubt mine.withia
the dellelbon, sad led a right, when aahpreased as a wit-
ness, to the small and scanty reummeratlun of a guinea •
day. To say that its only was • petlisional man who was
In ir•ctice would be layinit down • rale of enormous icon-
vsnietu e. The nuns mutilled most be allowed.

by your predeoneor.' You mast permit me to state that •
hero you •.pletr to be proossdisg upon tso rertneous ate
earaptious. First, that the late lecturer cffi .i.ted in my
cburst upon every Sunday; ant, broadly, that because I
snowed to him ' tee not ot she pulpit' on the Alcamo' of
°warn Sundays, thereftra you hare a right to nerviest the
same privilege. Now, upon the flint Resumption I have to
state that the late lecturer never scalp the pulpit as
every Sunday In any one month since by appointment;
tu.d u. the orn 1 tb.l I eta cut await 'hit the 8.11 sou lon
of the 2nd Geo. IL, cap. 30, gives the letterer any right to
the use of the pulpit' escein as allowed by rte r,ctor from
thus to time. Aod row upon the shots question. I been
that my absence from tome will fnteepoes nub days' delay
In my yawing you my Baal decision upon the point; but I
thick that I cm unit rteke to give you !ha' decit ion by Sun-
day, the 6th June, or by Whitsunday, the 12th, at the lateet.
I shall then hope to to ab,e to ittfoim you pniurely whether
of not I toted ebsolusely to withhold my consent to your
elethieing the t.111‘2 of lecturer at all, or at what service in my
cher. b, • n what dvy I allow you the use of the pulpit' for
the find exercise ot your office as lecturer.—Believe me your
obedient serves; " BRYAN Kota.'
"Thelon the 24th day of May last I wrote and sent a
bitter to the said Rey. b. King, to the words follortag
'Rev.Bir,-1 beg to acknowledge the receipt of your letter
alibi 113 d bat. and to state rempectfully that ism) letter to
you 1 did not ale your DAMS% to the use of the pulpit, as I
wee advised said believe that the act of parliament by which
1 was ebbed did not require such content. On last Sunday,
the 23111. es 1 intimated to you, I did commence ay duty
se lecturer of the perish church of Bt. Ge trge-intheelnat,
Middlesex, end I then announced to the congregation that
it is my mention also to perform my duty se lecturer
neat Sunday, and on every succeeding &adv. 1 m
scary to be obliged to by that in the performance of my
duty I received rude and violent treatment from the Rev.
Mr. Born.--1 am, Rev. Sir, your obedient fervent,
" 'Ryon Aiken.
0 The Rev. B. Kisg, Sutton Vicarage, Ely.'
" That on the 27th day of May last I received a letter
from the Lord Bishop of London in the following worts

" 'London House, 8.W., 2ith May, 1859.
" ' Rev. and Dear Bir,—l have received from Mr. King •
copy of the letter addressed by him to you on tht 23rd
insten., together with • staining on his part. It is my
earn. at desire that the risk of any unasemly tumult should be
avoided in the church of St. George-in-the-Et at. As Mr.
Kiorea letter intimates the possibility of some arrange-
ment being :come to by which proper opportunity shall be
off odrd you for the discharge of your duties as lecture in
the parish church, considering all the circumstances I not
ooly recommend you, but convey to you rcy express wish
that you /Mould not again officiate in the church, either
unttl full opportunity has been given for some such erring.-
meat, or mail your respective rights shall bare been ascer-
tained by a court of law. As Mr. King es:preens to me his
/relines. to afford you every proper opportunity for having
your rights legally determined, it is, in my (melon, your
duty, failing any smokable arrangetomit between you and
Mr. King, to agree with him upon some course by width •
judicial decision may be obtained upon the dispute between
you, and thus prevent a repetition of the trom&l which le
alleged to have occorred.—l am, rev. and deer sir, years
felthfolly, " ' A. C. LONDON.
The Rev. Hugh Allen.
" That shortly after the saki 27th day of May led, I had
ea interview with the oak! Lord Bishop of London, and I
then, In compliance with his lordship's request, promised
that I would not preach, nor attempt to preach, in the same
parish church until item arrangement was come to between
myself and the said Rev. Bryan Klee for the perform-
ance of ray duty, or until my right to do so shall be settled
by law.
" That I have not, since the said 22nd of May, attempted
to officiate u lecturer or otherwise in the sold church, or
attended the same on the Sunday afternoon.
" That being informed that a serious disturbance had
taken place on Sunday, the 6th day of June instant, I on
the following day, wrote and seat a letter to the said Rev.
Bryan Kin?, in the words following
' Bt. Jude's, Whltechspel, London, June 6,1859.
" e Rev. Sir,-1 had hoped from the terms of your letter
tithe 23rd ult. that I should have received from you, by
yesterday, a communication as to your intention to allow me
without further interruption to fulfil my duty ea lecterer in
the parish church of Bt. Ge..rge. The painful scenes which
I as. informed occurred yesterday in the church render it,
la my opinion, imperative on my pert that steps should be
taken to allay the popular excitement. I moat therefore re-
oeps tinily that you will inform me by next Thursday
afheaow what your determination is, as it will homy duty
to ley the matter before tho vestry board in the evezleg of
that day, to determine what course shall be adopted. Isbell
endeavour to es* the Bishop of London to-marrow on the
&abject, at whose request, you are aware, I have abstained
from prosehreg the lecture daring the last two Bundays.
I remain, rev. sir, yours faithfully, ." HVOn Antes.
The Rev. B. King, Rectory, St. George's Beet.'
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" Led 1 soy that I was not present in The church of St.
nor in and part of the said puish of St. George, at
(alnirge dating Sunday, the 6th day of June Instant, and
that I was during the whole of the afternoon of that day
either in the Whitecbapel Uniqa Workhouse, or in the &a-
tria church of St. Jude, Whitechapal, of which I tun in-
oanobent."

Lard Cempbell—What is the nal dispute between the
parties!. . .

116. Coleridge—Whether this gentleman bu a right every
Sudsy atterntron to occupy the pulpit of St. Geores. At
all event*, there bad been no demand to occupy the pulpit
except op m Sanctity afternoons.
Mr. Bovill—Wbst we contend for Is -that, is scoordance
with the act of parbament, Mr. Alias shell bare ressenable
ware to the pulpit when the rector is not occupying it
himself.

Yr. Coleridge—But thee Mr. Ring should be allowed to
aetbretb• timewhenit shall be so used.

Lord Campbell—The lecturer ought not to be a Timmy
OVeT the rector; but if you mean to contend that in the ab-
sence of the rector in the afternoon the lecturer is not to be
allowed to we the pulpit, we totally differ from you. The
act of parlament i■ plain upon the subject; it gives that
power to the lecturer, always subordinate, however, to the
prior right of the rector.
After a long diticussion It wu ordered that the rule should
be made absolute, but the mandamus wee not to be draws
up without an spplication to a judge at clunabas.

thing like last.y in granting divorcee, hie lorthibdltt that
they should be contrive /mg the inteutions of the Isom
unites thy gta:t,d petitioner in Wilma, a ution of
his marriage.
The Lord Chief Baran said that when the cue Me last
heal he wee no prepared without considerable Issitstion to
pronounce a judgment either one way or the other; and even
now he could not carry his acquiescence in the views of the
learned Chief Justice hasher then not to disent from his
deraisits. In ell proliabooy the reepoudents sore more
anxious fa the divorce than the petitioner; but then was
no evidence before the court that would justify him in In-
ferring cohesion. Nan. Stirlen It might be reasonably doubted
whether the legislature ever contemplated a suit for a divorce
being prosecuted by a person in the maiden of the petitioner.
A year alter his marriage he had committed an offence for
which he wee seotenoed to 10 years' transportation ; end he
had had no means either of supporting hie wife duriug that
time, or of affording .her that guerdianithip and protection
which might have prevented her from going astray. The
husband's crime had, in feet, been the cause of the wife's
gudt. She was, apparently, a well•edunoed arid well-die-
peed woman ; sod if the question were asked, " what has
led to her fault?" the mower of every co, acquainted
with the fun, and 'pit thing the English language,
meat be, " the crime and punishment of her her
band." However, the statute must be construed like
any other, and the " misoonduct conducing to adultery"
' must be held to be something tending directly and not re•
cootely to criminality. Still be could not help doubting
whether the legislature, if the point had been distinctly
rand before it, would have given a right to a divorce In a
case like this ; and he felt sure that under the old system (if
system it could be celled) the Home of Lords would never
have pawed a bill for the relief of the petitioner. There wee
a point suggested by the present case to which the attention
of the legislature ought without delay to be direoted. If a
tranetorted felon was not considered guilty of wilful
desertion, then it was obvious that the protec-
tion which the act intended to giro to the
comings of the wile would in the Mee of a considerable
class of her Mnjesty's subjecte be defeated; for • perms
in gaol miabt by • power of attorney claim those earainge
to himself, or they might be seized by hie creditors. It wee
clearly a cams miens; end it was am for which it was
difficult to account, when they nasembend the amount of
discussion that the statute had undergone.
The Judge Ordinary concurred with the Chid Justice.
If the " neglect" contemplated by the clause were allowed
any wider 4oiecation than a neglect Meese conjugal duty,
it might be extended to neglect of business, or to official
neglect, either of which might induce poverty and
plies the wife under circumatesoes of temptation. Or It
might be made to include neglect in society, which might
cause a wife to feel a contempt for her husband, and so In-
dent her to commit adultety. !lupines in the present ease
the wife had persuaded her husband to leave the country to
avoid a prosoution, it would still have been his misconduct
that led to Mr immorality; but it would not be contended
that the petitioner would have lost his remedy.
The court decreed a dissolution of the marriage and con-
demned the co-respondent in the mete

HOOPER V. HOOPIR..
In this caw, ea° of judicial separation, the pasties had
wad to an snangement, in order to avoid the scandal of
• public trial. The special jury which had been impannciled
to try the case was therefore discharged.

CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT.

OLD COURT.

(Before Mr. Justice Crompton and Mr. Baron Bramwell.)
(Concluded from yesterday's Express.)

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Samuel Alamo, 3.5, shoemaker, wee indicted for the wilful
murder of Mertha Christmas Page.
Mr. Justice Crompton, baying summed up the evidence,
and explained to the jury the distinction between the mime
of murder and that of manslaughter, the jury, after a very
few minutes' deliberation, returned • verdict of
The learned judge having put on the black cap, ad-
dressed the prisoner, and maid that the jury, upon the evi-
dence, had most properly convicted him of the crime of wilful
murder, and he entirely concuned in that verdlet, mad
was of opinion that the jury would not ham discharged
their duty to their country, however painful it might be to
them, if they had not returned that verdict. It wee • most
deliberate act, and be could not tee • little of evidence to re-
duce the crime to maosisughter. He bad deliberately made
use of • deadly weapon without the slightest provocation ;
end according to the laws of this country it was • clear rem
of murder, sad he bad been properly convicted of that
offence. It was mad to think that a Ines wits at cue time ap-
peared to have been ea affectionate husband should have been
placed in his present poeltion through drink ,• but that was
no justificetion for the act he Mid committed; and all that
be hid to do wee to pass upon him the sentence of thelsw
for the offtmce of which he bad been convicted. His lordship
then passed rentence of death in the usual form.
The prisoner, who did not appear in the slightest degree
affected by his awful position, was then removed from the
bar.
Richard Thomas fames surrendered to take his trial for
meals!mhter. . . . -

Me. Lawrence wee instructed fur the prosecution; Mr. F.
H. Lewis was counsel for the prisoner.
In this cage it appeared that the deceased at the time of
the oceurtnos was very drunk and knocking off the hats of
those who pared him. He knocked off the prisoner's hat,
and he pushed him away, and being very drunk, he fell, and
hie head struck egitinst the kerb-stone end he died soon
afterwards. The charge was not saturated by the magis-
trate, but the coroner's jury retorted a verdict of man-
slaughter. The, grand jury ignored the bill that was pre-
sented to them.
Mr. Justin, Crompton expreseed his opinion that the grand
jury had done quite right is throwing out the bill, end be
said he was surmised that each a charge should have been
seat to this court, se it appsand to him that the evidence en-
tirely &dad to support
Mr. Lawrence said that after this intimation of the court,
he certainly should not tires any es ideate on the part of the
prosecution; and
The jury at once returned a verdict of Not Guilty.
Leary Yorstujinan also surrendered to take his trial for
manslaughter.
Mr. Robinson was instructed to prosecute.
This was also • case la which the coroner's jury had re-
turned a verdict of manslaughter, and the grand jury
*awed the bill. The allegation on the part of the proven'.
ton was that the prisoner had let out a boat that wee la •
leaky state, and that the deceased was drowned in con-
sequence.
Mr. Justice Crompton said it appeared to him fa this care
also that there was no evidence to support the charge. There
wee in the drat place no positive evidence that the prisoner
knew the boat wu in • dangerous condition, end it aleo ap-
peared that the proximate cause of death wee the deceased
getting up in the boat, and tantrum it to ovenet.
Thejnry, under his lordship's direction, returned a verdict
of Not Omit,.

NEW COURT.
(Before Mr. MUM] Bramwell.)

Jaws Maclean and Teratee Charles Maclean were indicted
for forging end also for uttering a promissory note for the
payment of 2501.
The jury found them both Guilty, bat recommended them
to mercy on account of their esabarmassieut.
Mr. Baron Bramwell said that persons when embarrassed
ought to be more guarded in their nations.
They were sentenced to four lure peal servitude.

crlowen velvet r .utronnion table c-mer, and the other wile lre
mentioned In the charge. He afterwards went Into the
church and diecover, d that an entry had been obtained
through • window. An att•zept bad been mule to pt into
the vestry•room. In the course of the day he received in-
formetion from I ne of the servant girls that she could identify
ens of the prisoners, and she gave him a description of
B:evens. The cams evening, after watching Stevens Cr
about two hours, he took him into custody near a public-
Loose at Csorleisell. Wst.cu was in his mummy.
Witness cheesed hits wilt the robbery, whom be said,
"1 know noth.ng about It." The other prauters ware
alto apperheed d. The servants eub.emarntly cline to the
station. Oise of theta identified Stevens, and each of them
stated that she believed the other prisoners were the men
they saw.
The property was produced.
Constable, Y 00, stated that he tread footsteps trt.m the
church to the spot where the property was found. He tam-
pered the prisoner's shoes with them, and found that the
prints were like the marks on the shim. Oxford's father
is employed at the church.
The Verger proved that the property was worth about 401.
Bach prisoner denied all knowledp of the robbery, and
said that they were all in bed at the time the robbery was
committed.

The ptieonere Were remanded. bail being accepted for their
reappearance at the coon on a future day.

THAMES.

David dilants, aged 49, Teci:a labourer, was brought
betas Mr. Yardley, on remand, cheesed with stealias a era
liable diamond ring, • pair of gold-mounted spectacles in •
green caw, and a quantity of gold mite, the property of Mrs.
Barbara Wilson Morsel, a widow lady, reading at Rodent-
shwa-lodge, DPW biktilif Well*, Kent; end Susan Bost,
• direipated-looking woman, for rainy years • thief and
brothel-keeper, of No. 24, St. Joint's-place Baker-strect,
Stepney, was elao brought up on remand charged with Selo-
otiosely n calving the property well knowing it to be atolem
The tags if this ease are somewhat singular. On 11th
May last the female prisoner offered in pawn to Mr. Red-
eems, a pawnbroker, of 7, Cannowstreet, St. Cleorowin-the-
Hatt, a pair of gold-mounted spectacles in a green case.
She asked for a loan upon the spectacles, the value of
which was stated by Mr. Radium to he at least 44 The
prisoner could not describe the value, or know what turn to
ask as • loan upon them. The prisoner said the spectacles
beloosed to her husband, who was • searcher or labourer
is the docks, and that be had bad them for some time. Mr.
Beam= was not satisfied with the woman'. account, and
he detained the spectacles and handed them over to tte
polio', The robbery, of which the Ppleftdell were pertly
the produce, was sot dimmers& untd several weeks after-
wards. It appeared that Mrs. Moran was the widow of
en English clergyman who died in the Bast Indies, where
she had been eteying for twenty years with him. Soon
after the lamented death of her husband Mrs. Mount pre-
pared to return to her unties country and In May, 1868, she
packed up her luggage and consigned it to bee meat In Sag-
laud. Mrs. Morant calm overland to this country, sad her
luggage did not arrive hers until September lam, sad it was
landed from the ship Hydaspee in the Vitroria Dock. There
wars 16 packages A few days aims Mrs. Moran% on exa-
mining her late hue.buid's luggage, missed his gold-
: mounted opectaclee, a diamond ring, and a quantity of gold
coina. Information was given to the police, and upon the
spectoclee which Mrs. Bruton offered in pawn being shown
to her she immediately identified them es her property,
which she bad packed among her luggage in India thirteen
months ago. On the prisoner befog taken into custody on
the Bth Mount by police-scrgeast Stimpson 21 K, she said
that the epectaclee had been given to her by • sailor who
had been staying in her hose four days, and who bad
no money. Simpson added flat the prisoners had cobs-
bited together ea man and wife for many year; and that
he knew them both for • considerable times. He had
taken thieves out of their home and many robberies had
bean committed in it. On Thursday last he found the
male priehi. ner at work is tth charge, said
et Victoria Dock, Plaistow On
makingbe
knew nothing et ell about the robbery. He then asked
Adams wbere ha lived, to which ha replied, is Jehrewpiece,
and that he had cohabited with Brume many years.
Evidence was given that when Mrs. Morant's luggage was
leaded from the blydwipes the packages were opened and
examined by the Customs' oaken in the usual manner, and
afterwards re-packed by the dock company's mem The pri-
some Adams wee one of the men who audited in ramekins
the goodie, and had an opportunity of steeling the articles
and corm rasing.
Snows said there were two former °partridges agaimit
Bream for felony.
Mr. Yardley committed the prisoner for trial, and directed
&imports to rodeos widest* of tbe former convictione
whet they ware triad.

TEE FATAL BOAT ACCIDENT AT WATCHET.

Reliable details of this most distressing accident
reeehal Bristol yesterday, sad although they to some extent
norm the magnitude of the catastrophe, they still leave it sp-
tilitng enough, at lent six or "oven lives having been tam-
, It would seem that the Heath Abbey steamer was not
is the heads of her owners at the time, but had been char-
teed for the day by parties who pot up the excursion as a
speculation, and who undertolk also the landing sad embar-
kation of the pawnor". When the accident occurred, on
Trendily afternoon, the packet having brought a portion of
the excursionists up from Nunshead, was etsading elf the
Watobet chore about a quarter of a mile, and the pumper'
were coming ofi in shore-boata, and there is little doubt teat
the catastropte ores net canoed, as we at find supposed by
a leak In the boat, but by its being overcrowded. Iwo host-
lons of people had got sorely on board the steamer, sod three
others were pulling off from the shore, when Capt. Westlake
said one of them wad labouring very much, and believing that
obi would sink, he had his own boat lowered, and he end two
men got into it and palled with all the speed they could com-
mand for the sinkiog boat. They were, happily, enabled to
reach her, and took twelve passengers and the two boatmen
out of her, but while they were so engaged a emceed boat,
that of the Tom, Wet bet trader, went down with twelve
men and women, and two boatmen. It is believed that being
en heavily crowded, she chipped water over the gunnel, and
sank. The boot of the Nestle Abbey was fortunate enough
to pick up three pervono, ant some shore•boats picked op
four more end one of the Lando. One of the four, a Mr.
Lewis, died almost es soon as he reached the shore, and five
or ex others were drowned. The name" of the pawns
drowned, as far as can be asetertothed, were—the Mr. Leersbefore-named,
before-named, his wife, Mr. Heavy lentembe, jun., Yens,
a railway porter, Mr. George Mogg, and a young woman
with whom young Lerman war keeping oolzipony, named
&rah Seymour. The police have taken pones/tot of the boot
to which the acenent occurred, and have had her carefully
surveyed and 'measured. Her length Is 11 1-10 feet ; width,
4 8-10 feet; depth, 1 footlli inches. A boy who was in
the boat when she sunk states that it was caused in this way :
There were two men engaged is rowing the boat, one of
whom said he could not pull unless the people moved • little.
They then shifted, and the gunwale went under water sad
she caponed. A third boat ons coming out wires the Tom
sank, and the people mho were in her, on seeing the accident,
t out of her -end stood upon the roam. Information of the
dreadful calamity was forwarded by the police to the coroner
for the western division of Somerset, and there is no doubt
that a very searching iuvestigation will be made by him so
ac to determine whether blame attaches to any one or not.