The Express.
London, England, 1859-01-12 00:00:00

COURT OP QUEEN'S BENCH.—JAs. 11.

Madam la Peace I Hilary Torm.—;lladom Lord Camp-
bell aad J %Vienna= aad
NIAODLLZMA ITIAM NAVIGATION COMPANY I. MAITIX.--

PaIVILIIOU or alettaiteADONlL
This action was brought against the defendant, who was a
shareholder in the Magdalena Sultana Navigation Company,
to recover 600 i., being the amount of tails mode upon him
under the Winding•up Act. The defendant was Envoy
Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary for the republic
el Guatemala at the Cowie of St. lames'. and the Tuileries,
bat be minded principally at runs, where the writ was served
upon him under the ptomains of the Common Law Pro-
eedose Act. In a preceding term Mr. Tomlinsoa obtained a
mile on the pert of the defendant to "how cause why all pro-
ceedings in the eolicil should not be stayed, on the ground
that the defendant was protected against all legal promedinge
being brought against bun by reason of the privilege' which
be enjoyed se atabaseador under the ith Anne, chap. 12, ea
well se by the law Ofnelion..
. . .

Mr. Bc.rvill arid Mr. I:106mA now showed cause egalnst
the rule, contending that the privilege rimmed woe limited to
the protection of the person of am uwardors from arrest, and
did not extend to thew being sued to setione for debt.
The Attorney-General and Mr. Tourlumen having barn
heard on the other side,
The court took time to consider.

COURT OF COMMON PLEAS.-JAN. 11.

Sittings in Banco.—(Before Lord Chief Justice Cockburn,
sad Justices Wdlisins, Crowder, and Willa.)

LLOTD Y. 0011.11T.—ieella.NT.
The plaintiff in this case trot s coachman, end the defend-
ant was* gentlemen resident in Amtralia, but in September
last he was oa • Mat to this:country. On the evening of the
23rd of thet month the plaineld wee erasing Maritieboas-
lane, In the direction from Weymouth-erred to Pendia*.
street. At this time the defendant wan driving his carriage
skei Marylebonrelane, and by some mums the plaintiff was
ma over and severely hurt. One peculiar mrcamstance
wee, that since the accident one of eyes, Gam
seas nemou• Injury, received two images of every
Mt** presented to it. The moos for the plaintiff ma that he
bad ham run over through the negligence of the defendant ;
bet es the other load there wee evidence that them was so
ttraon part of the dolvadant, and on the contrary,
mxideed had anam from the plaintiffs one leak.
At the hiel beleretlir. J uatice Will. the jury Mond a m-
ast fer the deindeet.

Mr. &dew P.r.7 now pawed for a rule for a new trial
nwe the ground that the verdict waa ageism the weight of
evidence ; and in the COUMM of his speech elated that since
the trial the plaintiff bad died. and ltia widow led not yet
Whet oat Weals...fragile.
The exert nativr these circumstance. doubted whether the
settee weld be mule, but ultimately they allowed the inst•
ber to pooled, istimating flea, the caw count not be tabot as
•
=Leda Millie wed be wan not diaaatianed with the
meet
Bab ofMoodthe jury.

THE POLICE CO CTETS.

MANSION-BOW&

Was. Percival and Frederick Niko., two of that clam of
mat who get thetnesivee up te anatry guise for the purpose
of dishier " country-killed " fowls end " new-leid" qt•it
about the toroopolui end Ace Cr..., a woman with a baby
in bar arms, ever brought ',Jaime the Lad Mayor, surged
with staling a hamper, value sad *initiate 1111U1011114 trm
the Half Moon public-hoe., Orecechurch-street.
Emma Haddon, barmaid at the Halt Moue, deposed that
on Mondry evening, ni.ut luilf•pest en, the three priseeses,
accompanied by a third limn, west to the her sad milled fur
oirpeneywortb of gin, with which she served them, the
fe-
mmaole yammer tendering • 2.. pew in pet went. The primes,*
had two baskets with them, and there was at the time a
hamper standing la front of the Lee, which bad
bees loft there for the Homey carder, and which
was labelled "perishable," but eke did nut know
whet its costents ounsaged of, nor did she know
by whom it had bees Lift. The berth man, however, point-
ing re the hamper, said, "That's going to my uncle," while
the female prieoser ructeavoured to divert her attanhott from
whet was going on, by pretending that .Le had not received
her &sage. Witness, however. ;eras certain that ',he bad
gives her ls. 6d. out, and, after fumbling in her pocket Mr
some thea, sad gaskets a good deal of noise about it, she pre-
tended le lied b, juste witness w‘s railed to the other sad
of the bee es Nerve Rheum customer. When there, however,
.he tuned her heed, sad saw Nukes end the third man jut
going out of the deer with the hamper, end, running Link,
she naked the phweer Pereivel where it wee going to.
Percival mid he knew nothing at ell shout It, and there-
upcm she celled kat reteber, Iwo rushed oat from the parlour
sad mat her te the poliorstatioe.
Mr. Lemmas% leadisrd of the Halt-Moos, said be woe