The Express.
London, England, 1858-05-06 00:00:00

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The excellence of the baitome smaagsmentsi and the
laity with which the proceedings wave meditated attested
the zeal end earnestness with which the cackle worked. An
admirably disciplined body of poll. s, under the &radon of
Hr. Hilt, the Chief Constable, preserved order Si the nurse
and cleared the running-ground prior to emit nee with
temper and promptitude worthy of all oommendadion. In
the weighing department, under tho management of Xr.
Horsley, the business was conducted without asks sad
bustle , and Mr. Topluun. the Clerk of the Comas, was, as
usual, actively engaged in superintending the management
of the meting.
Special treble in oonnexion with all parts of the country
were "pat on," and owing to the many competing tines
which now ran into Chester, an extraordinary some of con-
fake was protentrd at the railway ststion. The screech of
the enghos whistles, the 'bouts of the peonage's, and the
clamour at the various entrances were perfectly stuentng.
The railway authorities, however, had taken emery precaution
to insure the safety of the passengers, but all their efforts
were Medic:tail to prevent people dashing wildly into
wrong trains or stopping fifty perilous from crowdinjwinatz
compartments which would only hold down. The
however, behaved in the most praiseworthy manner, and
amidst all the rushing and rioting, no serious acculait, we
believe, occurred.

CATTIRICIE•ARTDO/L—The 07 which was nude
against Ke for the Trinomial at the roast meet-
lag at Cick has beta ovor-raled. The stakes have
therefore bees rid over to his °hair.
BLINK &ONT.—It ROO reported at Chester, OR Taanday,
that this celebrated hare wan deed. la ewer to a t=
Kr. I' Mona Mahe diet debunk the who fe
from hdlaretnation, Is vary " low," yet ao >Yal cesessynneces
are at preeent appeehawileil.

DRATH FROM FALLING ON A BROKEN PARASOL.
—Y Gamma Mr. Payne bald an inquiet at Bt.
Thoreaes Hospital on the body of Eliza Roam aged 30.
Os Saturday, es the homed was hurrying avow the read
to the Lorkevbrkles Station to catch a Saba kr Ilehlatoaa,
els dipped sal bU. Whin rand by tha hydrogen abo
stolid that her as bad wounded bar la thekart It
was =dad that the parasol hand* with had bra linhaa,
was gelbeig::altL La a Ways or tiro blood lowed
from her sad As was tam se tdtty as peat, to
Si. Thomma'a as main. tribW she we. towed to
In dad. Tho maws hand dot the paned basalt bad
*rad thug* the tight hag. The eartmer, i. wareadag
up, alluded to dr gnat hag* of the dram sod was. by
idir, sad teprolaad Ids wapries that tiro wire sot more
asethats tram UM eau% as frequady °barged that
meg ladders bars tbr y watered to seep, had to blab the
best of &dr dream Sward. • realist of " /Looldadail
emir was ressead. _

LONDON litrican thymus Oomiutti.—Tralle
reselpis for the week ending Iley 1,10,9681. Ss. 64.

tab) Intdlignut.

EQUITY OOURTB.—MAY 6.
(Beim the Lard Cbaacellor.)

LI LAW OF /111 SIT.

This meteor cease bebr• the court on a return to a babese
corpus, which was granted a few days since, to bring up the
body of one Grantham Robert Dodd, an attorney, who was
imprisoned to the gaol of the Wend of Jersey. An applica-
tion for a habeas corpus in the same ease was made and
granted in January hot. When the matter came on for
hearing it was stated oa the return that Grantham Robert
Dodd and John Benny Merrifield, his clerk, were arrested by
one Godfrey, one of the denunciators of the Royal
Court of Jersey, by virtue of an " ordre de
Judi:el setting forth that a writ of summons bad
Wm lamed in the Court of Common Pleas in England
by Dodd, and served by Merrifield upon Walter James
Balms, for the recovery of 3W. 9e. 6d. and outs, that Dodd
was not legally authorised by the laws of Jersey to teens, or
Merrifield to serve any snob writ of summons in that
island, which was out of the jurisdiction of the English
mule, and that they had been severally guilty of an o
egalast the laws of Jersey, and moreover, that Dodd had for
several yeses been domiciled in the Wand of Jersey, and at the
timed the Wining of the writ was detained in prison on
instal snits for debt en which he had been arrested in die form
aceeeding to the law of Jenny. The return also stated that
any appeal against the proceedings in the courts of Jerry
lay to the sovereign in council, and was not cognisable by
any other authority whatever. That Dodd, previously to the
7th December, namely, on the Ist January, 1867, was
arrested under a writ s*wd by the president of the Royal
Coml., in respect of a demand for debt, and in pursuanoe of
that writ he was Imprisoned in the gaol by virtu of a sentence
of the court of the 24th of January, 1867, and also that on
the 11th of February, 1867, he was arrested in the gaol
' under a writ of " order provisoire," whereupon sentence was
' pronounced by the court confirming the urea of his parson.
The last order was to the edoct that it was penaltied to one
Tarrant " to cause to be seized, arrested, and dirtrained, and
even sequeetrated, if necessary, the moat apparent goods of
his debtors in all places," and as to preens nutria:6e be
was to be at liberty to arrest them in person if they should
not satisfy their engagements. The awe was awed bare
the late Chancellor, Lord Crenwortli, ambied by Mr.
Baron Martin and Mr. Justice Wfi and their
were unanimously of opinion that Msrtiald was entitled
his discharge, but that Dodd must be remitted to custody,
not for luring the writ in Jersey, but because it appeared
that he was otherwise properly in custody.
Mr. Ellie, with whom was Mr. Drnce' now appeared for
Dodd, on the return to the new habeas corpus recently
granted, and urged that Dodd ought to be discharged betimes
the arrest on means proasse, called " ordre de justice," was
=inasmuch no vit of non-payment of the debt
or as
had been made previously to the opening of the
espies,
Y as
ildliedbitrMawdy,alBll. the
Prince
&Sant and
The Lard C maid that the affidavit of Dodd was
not at •11 estisfestory or sedloient to support the appllostien.
It did not appear that the order In council In quondam had
ever b
Mr.een R. 17ailatmar who appeared for the Royal Court of
Jassy, said that the order in council bad never been taken
as law in the island, and had not been voted en.
The Lord Chancellor said that, looking to the affidavit, he
neretted that be had allowed the writ to Usu. He should not
may quash the writ but he would not allow any additional
facto to be given to the cue by means of an adjournment.
The only real ground for the application was that no
affidavit of debt had been tiled previous to the arrest
of Dodd, u required by an order in council, which
t was not at all clear had any force In Jersey, and If beside'
this there bad been any irregularity, it had been waived.
Various applications had been made to the court la Pansy
for the release of Dodd which had not been suoosieful, and
it must be assumed that no cause bad been shown for his
release. He did not think that there was any force in the
other objections taken, and therefore, with every desire to
preserve the liberty of the subject, and to have a Me like this
into, he could come to no other conelusion than
that ittirtr
must be remanded back to prison, and ordered to
pay the costs.
Mr. Ellis submitted that the court had no power to make
Dodd pay the costs. On the former hearing Lord Crenworth
and the learned common law judges =premed their regret
Nat they had no power to make Dodd pay the oasts.
The Lord Chancellor said he felt the same inclination
as Lord Crenworth to make Dodd pay the crab; but he dif-
fered from him respecting his inability to do so. lie would,
however, reconsider the quadrat of coats before filially dis-
posing of it. The writ of habeas corpus, however, would
be quashed, and Dodd remanded back to prison.

(Before the Master of the Rolla.)
aoocaaa fl. MAC *run.

This mit arose out of the bankruptcy of the Glasgow arm
of Macdonald end Co. In the beginning of 1857 the arm
remolved to establish a retell house in London in oonneVon

with iiiirm;;;(l7:et;W;;;LEsh
Haggard, the plaintiff, who had previously been the London
agent of the firm, at • salary of 3001., wee appointed
at 8001. a year. A warehouse was taken in St.ml'rJraw-
churchyard, in the name of the firm, and the London busi-
ness was conducted by Mr. Haggard entirely in the name of
Macdonald and Co. When Mr. Haggard entered upon his
new position, it was arranged that he ahould add to hie duties
those of en accepting agent. He was to accept accommo-
dation bills for the firm, and to have a lien on all goods con-
tripod to him, and all the bills, notes, and cash which passed
through his hands, to cover kis liabilities. The goods sent up
from Glasgow were for some time invoiced to Hoggard, andthis was relied on by the plaintiff as indicating an in-
tention to mark his interest by way of lien, but
on the part of the defendants it was aid to
hays been done as a mere matter of convenlenoe, and in all
mattes appearing to the world the name of Macdonald and
Co. alone was used in the business, In order to carry out
the arrangements for the creation of accommodation paper,
there was opened in addition to twe accounts in the name of
the firm a third aooount at another bank in the name of
Haggard, and the firm supplied this with funds to meet all
the meeptences which fell due up to the bankruptcy in Ge-
table, 1857. At that time there were still outatanding weep-
tames of Hoggard tithe amount of 14,0001. and upwards,
meet of which had been discounted at the Western Beak.
Indeed Mr. Haggard appears to have performed hie teak
liberally, for his aooeptanoss were said by one of the clerks to
have been sometimes given to bills drawn in blank, either as
to the amounts, the date, or the time of payment. When
the bankruptcy, or rather the sequestration, occurred, the
Scotch trustees claimed the goods in the London war=
which were of the value of about 50,0001. Haggard
• lien upon them to cover his liabilities as acceptor, and a
sum of 16,0001. out of the proceeds having been set apart,
the question was now brought before the court whether this
was to go to the trustees or to be applied in the first instance
in covering Mr. H4gard's liabilities. The fact of the lien
having been mated was not in dispute, but the trustees
claimed the goods as in the order and disposition of the bank-
rupts. on • principle which is common to the Scotch and
English bankruptcy codes.
Mr. Baptism., Q.C., and Mr. Bagshaws, Jun., ware for
the plaintiff; Mr. Palmer, Q.C., Mr. Selwyn, Q.C, and Mr.
Giffard, for the defendants.
His Honour reserved his judgment.