The Express.
London, England, 1867-05-11 00:00:00

THE POLICE COURT&

GUILDHALL.

Mr. ANT! Henry lii;orthp, a solicitor, of 14, South.
mopton-buildings, appeared to an adjourned summons,
Lefore Alderman Finals, to answer a cicage of having
committed wilful and corrupt penury in a trial at the
Central Criminal Court, in which Mr. Thomas Cannon was
mosecuted and convicted of having mado a false affidavit.
Mr. B:-Icy appeared for the prosecution, and Mr. Col-
lino (instructed by Mr. Godfrey) for the defence.
The particulars of the case have already appeared in
our columns. _ _

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Alderman Finms said he bad carefully read over the
evidence, and he felt satisfied that if ho coiumitted the
defendant for trial a conviction could not be obtained.
He should therefore dismiss the summons.

M r. Bexley said that under those circumstances Mr. Cannon
would avail himself of his legal right under the Vexatious
'Prosecutions Act, and uk to be bound over to prosecute
the defendant at the Central Criminal Court.

The summon was then dammed, and Mr. Cannon was
bound over to prosecute without the magistrate's commit-
ment. _ _

BOW-STREET.

Mr. Thome. Cannon, of Id, l'iiternaster-row, applied to
Sir Thomas Henry fora summons against a person. whose
name he mentioned, for forgery. Mr. Cannon stated that
while he WAS engaged in certain proceedings at the Ses-
sions-house, at Westminster, his nista, who was ill at
home, and suffering from the effects of a serious surgical
operation, received a telegraphic message, purpm-tiug to
come from him. pressingly requiring her immediate atten-
dance. He had never sent or authorised any such mes-
sage, and he was in a position to prove that in the original
copy. still in the possession of the company, the signature
"Timms. Cannon" was in the handwriting of the person
be had mentioned. He could not say by what motive the
perpetrator of this hoax had been actuated. but it was a
, serious injury to his sister to be dragged out of bed and
' hurried off to Westminster in her critical state of health.
The company declined to prosecute, saying that they had
no power to do so. And indeed it would hardly be to
their interest, as it was well known that a very large pro-
portion of telegraphic messages were hoaxes.
' Sir Thomas Henry did not see that ho had any power
to interfere. There was certainly no statue:, to provide,
and no case to show, that a prosecution for forgery should
hold in such a case. No doubt upon the facts stated an
action would lie.

REM BUB EPIDEMIC AT DIIBLITZ.—Great
interest amongst physicians and much public alarm has
arisen iu the Irish metropolis from the ocmirrence of several
cases of a disease previously unknown there. The first case
was on the fifth March, 1860, in the person of • moat
healthy student of medicine, and three others took place
within the succeeding month, but during she present year
over 20 eases have occurred in Dublin, and the neighbour-
ing suburb, Kingstown. Sudden prostral ion, almost black
purpurie discoloration of the skin, and death within a very
fvw hours, have marked all the cases. The dur.ition of the
disease from seizure to death (for all the cases have been
fatal) bas varied from seven to ninety hours. In several
instances, there his been coma fur some hours before
death ; and in • few, tetanoid spasms and increased sea-
sibility, which symptoms indicate that the malady may be
closely related to cerebro-spinal meningitis, which was ep4
tlemic in Ireland in 1846, and in West Prussia in 184,5.
No rank of life has more than another attracted the diocese,
which numbers among its victims a young nobleman, Kw.)
students of our profession, three soldiers, and some other
persons living under the best hygienic circumstances. 1-he
fact that it preceded and immediately succeeded the out-
break of cholera in Dublin, Kingstown, and Tullemore, has
suggested to some that it may ho • form of that pestilence
or due to the same cause, but there is no other evidence
whatever of the relationship. From Dr. Mapother's
reports, it would milieu that the disease is not at all com-
municable, for no second else has occurred on the site of
the first.—British Medired Journal.

RAILWAY AND MIMS BILLS IN PARLIAMIINT.
—Yesterday in the House of Lords Mr. Frere, one of the
examiners of standing orders proofs, held • court in the
examiners' aloe, and tranmeted the following business:—
The standing orders wore declared to have been complied
with in the case of the Halifax and Ovenden Junction
Railway Bill. The standing orders were declared not to
have been complied with in the case of the Great Western
Railway Bill. The consideration of the Wallasey Improve-
ment Bill was adjourned. In the House of Common Mr.
Frere also disposed of the following cases :—The standing
orders were declared complied with in the case of the un-
opposed petition of the Sidmouth Railway and Har-
bour Bill, and the postponed unopposed Furness Railway
Bill wax reported WM Ixtifea. In Group 7 tbe commit-
tee went through the clauses and paned the London
and North Western Railway (Ashby and Nuneaton
lines). The London and North Western (new works) wag
opened and adjourned. In the mme group the North
Staffordshire Railway, the Midland and Glasgow, and
South Western Railway Company, the Midland Railway,
the Tewkesbury and Malvern Railway, end the Wolver-
hampton and Walsall Railway bills, were proceeded
with and adjourned. In Group 2, the Bristol Port Railway
and Pier, the Devon and Cornwall Railway, and the
Central Cornwall Railway (No. 2) bills being unopposed,
were referred back to the chairman of committees. In the
case of the Great Western and Bristol end North Somerset
Railways (saleor lease) Bill there were no parties. In Group
3, the committee declared the preamble not to have been
proved in the case of the Ilfracombe Railway Bill. The
Devon and Somerset, and Bristol and Exeter Railway
Companies, and the Devon and Somerset Railway hills
passed through. In Group 5, the Denbigh, Puthin, and
Corwon, and Mold and Denbigh Junction Railway Com-
panies' Amalgamation Btll was proceeded with.
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