The Express.
London, England, 1866-12-20 00:00:00

LAW INTEMGENCE.

(THIS DAY.)

COURT OF CHANCERY.
ORS art.iczeioNs IN WOW% BANKING COMPANY.
T,:pazy about a dozen more summonses were made re-
tamable in thie matter before Mr. Church, the chief clerk
C Weary, to vary the certificate, or in other words to
Wcertain shareholders from the list.
Linklster had two, Mr. Emanuel three, and other
idioms appeared. A great number of summonses have
tomtit= out on the same ground, and settle preceding eall
has caused much consternation, parties in the list
meous to take out summonses to put off the call until
ot/rsr eases on the point of liability are decided.
The decision on the question of calls is to be given on
wards,. The indebtedness of the Bank is 1,848,9681.
she inal assets, 975,6541. • the deficiency is 573,3141.,
nom
sad the call, if realised, 500,0001.

COURT OF QUEEN'S BENCH.
i SECOND COURT.
(Before Mr. Justice She* and a Common Jury.)
Mill% v, EPP&
This was an action for slar and false imprisonment.
XL H. James and Mr.—Langon- were counsel for the
plsintilf. Mr. Bailey was counsel for the defendant.
The plaintiff is a butcher, but was formerly
s member of the City police force, and the defendant
ja a builder's foreman. On the 19th of April last
*but 9 o'clock in the evening he was passing along the
lak•reati, Lambeth, when he met a friend and went with
him into the Rising Sun public-house. Defendant came
is, and touching the plaintiff on the shoulder, said "I've
;
ought you." Plaintiff asked for an explanation,
iwhen
&hart said "You'll know when the police come!"
[tenrrnandre:acci:gr(lisghilym, cameaid in,Thi:hefneUorse toe;
bit a lady the other day—he is • notorious
dorstealer and one of the worst characters in London."
la answer to questions put to him by the polioeman, he
told him that he was a City policeman, and gave his num-
ber. Defendant said it was nothing of the kind, and told
the policeman to take the plaintiff into custody. He
sscordingly did so, and when outside tho door
the policeman took (plaintiff by the collar, and,
police-
notwithstanding plaintiff's remonatranoes, the police-
', man twisted his collar, and by defendant's directions he
r sprung his rattle, when three other policemen came up,
and they all marched the plaintiff off to the the
police-astation
followed by a large crowd of persons. N4;en t
station the policeman told the acting -inspector
that he did not believe • word the plaintiff had
add, and on the inspector asking him for his name
and address he gave the latter, and his number as a City
policeman. Plaintiff was detained in the reserve room,
and at half -peat 1 o'clock in the morning he was liberated.
Plaintiff said he never had a dog.
Cross-examined—He had been two years . and • half in
the police force. A dog was pointed out in the public-
house as having bitten a lady. He was unable to say if the
dog followed him into the public-house.
Evidence was then given in corroboration of the lain-
tiffs cue, and that the policeman acted roughly towpards
him.
The defence was that the plaintiff had already had
ample satisfaction in Sir Richard Mayne having suspended
tha policeman ; that the City policemen were provided
with a card, which would at all times prove that they
were members of the foe ; that plaintiff produced no such
said, and refused his name and address ; and that the
policeman had done no more than his duty. The plain-
tiffs version of what occurred it was also urged was not

CO r me t .
[The cue was proceeding when our report left.]

that the whole misunderstanding seems to have -
arisen chiefly through the incautious exhibition at
Manchester of a private telegram, in cypher, sent.,
from London in interrogative form bT the agent or
Mr. Grisewood, Mr. Grisewood himself having t '
been out of active business for the last ten
years. The telegram inquired se to the truth of
the rumoured failure of 'the B chairman " and ,
only the recipient of the telegram, being in Paseo.;
Rion of the cypher, could know that by the letters
"B" was meant " South Eastern." There seems,'
therefore, to have been no want of caution in the'
manner in which the despatch was transmitted
Committee-roma, Stock Exchange, London,
Dee. 19, 1966.
Sir,—Your letter of the 15th instant, calling upon the
Committee of the Stock Exchange to tram out the real
author of a rumour to your prejudice which was in eireula-'
tion on Friday last, has been laid before my colleognese
and has occupied their attention during the greater pars
of their three last sittings. The explanations given by
Er. Grisewoodwae entirely satisfactory to the committee.
The telegram forwarded by him to his ages
in an.
cheater, was sent in cypher and contained a strictly wan:
dentist inquiry as to the truth of the rumour, and he did
his utmost to circulate the contradiction as soon as re.
ceived. In following up the investigation the committee
have been prevented by the vague and general character
of the evidence from tracing the rumour in a tangible
shape to any member of the Stack Exchange. Al
however, the inquiry of the committee has besot:Pee-
ant for this purpose., they cannot, in justice to their
I fallow-members, refrain from stating that the evidence
adduced as to the character and amount of business dons,
I far from supporting, completely disproves, the existence ra
the London market of any systematic or concerted plan to
depress the value of South Eastern stock, as asserted to
' your circular to the shareholders. The depreciation which
has so long and so seriously affected all securities may be
attributed with greater justice to the uneasiness of the
public, and the utter want of confidence occasioned by the
disasters and disclosures of the last few months. I beg„ in
conclusion, to assure you that should you obtain say clue,
the committee will readily afford every andstanee in bring-
' ing to punishment the originator of this scandalous false.
hood.—l am, Sm., MATTH6W FLOM, Chairman of Om
Committee for General Purposes of the Steck Exchange.—
E. W. Watkin, Esq., M.P.
P.S. A copy of this letter will be sent to the newspapers.
It is announced that the directors of the London
Corn Exchange have resolved to close the corgi
market on Wednesday, the 26th, instead of Mon-
th'', the 24th inst.

WEDNICSDAT EVINING.
Consols, which closed yesterday at 8% to 1,
ex div., for the 10th January, opened this morning
at 89k to g, and closed at 894 to f . For money
the last price was 894 to 4. Ilse official business
report m as follows :—'fhree per Cent. Consols,
for money, 89, I, 9, k, g ; ditto, for account, 89k,
4 ; Three per Cents. Reduced, 884, k, 4; New Three
per Cents., 88k, g, k, g ; Bank Stock, 250, 49 ;
India Five per Cent. Stock, 1078, 4, #, I ; ditto
Five per Cent. " enlaced" rupee paper, 993, looi ;
dii.to Five-and-a-Ralf per Cent., 1044 ; ditto
Five per Cent. Debentures, 1024 ; ditto Bonds,
255. prem.
The India Five per Cent. Stock was firm, and
was dealt in from 1071 to 1073 ex div.
Exchequer Bills Unproved Is., being quoted Sc.

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