The Express.
London, England, 1860-12-14 00:00:00

LAW INTELLIGENCE.

(MIDI DAY.)

COURT OP COIIMON PLIAS.
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20001.

This was aa arks to merrear damages for imfaries ear
tainedupon thadafembinke lien
Mr. Hawkins, Mr. Quer, ad another learned gentle.
sea appeared belldie=l, and Mr. Brill &ad Mr.
Wilt Field bathe
71e plaintiff, Me. Charier Parker AA's, wee a madho-
use X years old, aird he had been a traveller in the em
Pay of Ibsen. &Mower* reenedecturere cl
e
Gaming ca bermes at Bradford sad Halifax. Hrt
bees in the series of the Ina six his
menerg at 160 E • year and =7l. tiled the
eam-
been preened in 'the year to have his
salary mimed to 300 E, ad was allowed
guinea • day for travelling armee& On the mending
of the 134 k Unary last he stared by railway from Loa.
doe to go to Nerve" acid travelled by seseadeirs. Al
half-pmt fora days:rived at Grove-Seery Beath" when the
traia was shifted ma to the up-line, lad while pavesedlng
&keg the up-line towards Rammer the train mar into
eollirou with an Ilmeas which was standing on the up-has.
The plaintiff was thrown violently forward to the oppo-
site aids of the earthy& and the rim of his bat came
against another paireptes chin, and eat it severely. The
plaietiffs aeration was that of having had a violent twist-
ing at the lower part of the back. The plaintiff went es to
itamagate, when he ead he believed that he was not
seriously hurt ; but is the mare* he was alarmed to see
that blood had pawed with his when For two days how-
WSW he remained at Ilessegale and the asiAbourbood, en.
&retiring to do his brim ; bat on the thbd day he felt
unable to continue his week, sad he cease up to town to
consult him medical men. Mr. Helloed, of Haventock-hilL
He also wrote to the Railway seaway, and as February 18
Mr. Adam; the entheall surgeon, was sent by the company
to =amiss him. Mr. Adams agreed with the treatment
adepled by Mr. Heard Oa the 36th Former, the plain-
tiff merle an mart to NOW his bud but without
sucena, and Mr. Salford prescribed perfect test. On the
16th March Mr. /lolly maw the plaintiff on Wulf of the
comptny, and Is. also had an interview with Mr.
Helloed. Mr. Soil seemed to think that the plain-
tiff bad his symptoms, and he told him
le ruse himself sod endeavour to shake it off.
Mr. Hulloed, in defenses to the high position
occupied by Mr. Sony, especially upon a matter of this
kind, allowed the plaintiff to attempt a more active course
of Ids, bat in two or three days he found it impossible to
longer. Mr. Holtad called in Dv. Reynolds. of
MseeZ.
er -street ; and Mr. Binee, surgeon to the Accidental
Insurance Company, in which the plaintiff was bared,
frequently saw him. Tree two gentlemen agreed with Mr.
Helloed that perfect rest wee necessary. On April 2.1 the
plaintiff went to Worthing, and underwent • course of hot
salt meter baths. He remained in this town until the 4th of
June, when he returned to town auxious, if possible, to go
his autumn journey. His employers had kept him on arid
this time, but bed intimated that they must appoint some
other perm to go the arum journey it the plaintiff could
sot de so. Boob after the plaintiff came to town he
reoffered • anesidemble relapse, and on the 36th Mr. Adams
again saw him. Mr. Paget, of Firewood-place, woe I
called in, and advised that the plaintiff should give up all
tholOte of proatedsg on his entire journey. The plain-
tiff dtrwaith took 66 or 70 acres of land at Walburg in
Sussex, and west down there to reside. The company had I
employed detectives to watch the_ plaintiff mormente
both in London and at Walberton. The plaintiff in his evi-
dence described at length his symptom and the an-
noyaoce which, he had suffered in oonsequeses of having
been watched. Medics] evidence was given 1 that the
watching had aggravated the _ plaintiff's ailments,
and that the result of the injury would probably be that be
would not be able to pursue his briers of • easernersial
traveller rein. The earlier symptoms had shoat that
there was injury to the kidneys, and two of the snaked
men thought that an &biros war forming in on. of the
deep-seated muscles of the back.
Another circumstance in the car was that the plaintiff
had been insured in the Accidental Insurance for 1,0001. in
the event of death, and IC a weak denim total incapacity
to do anything. The company had paid hies U. a week for
31 weeks, and afterwards compromised Ids cloth by giving
him 100 f. more.

Mr. &rill addressed the jury and made a number of
statements with the view of showing that the plaintiff had
his symptom.. He also complained that Mr.
fillizort"dd not been allowed to examine the plaintiff 1.. t
evening so u to form a bettor opinion a. to hie state of
health at that moistest.

Mt. iiiiisTasid the application for examination was not
made until seem last night, when some of the parties had
left his solicitor's office, and the attendance of Mr. Holton]
could not be procured. The plaintiff was, however, DOW
ready to undergo examination, and indeed both be and his
solicitor had courted it throughout.
The plaintiff accordingly went into his lordehip's room,
and was examined by Mr. Solly and Mr. Adams, in the
presence of Mr. Sinee.
On the return of the parties Mr. Bovill proposed that Mr.
Solly should at once goeinto the witnees-box,and without any
previous communication with anybody consented with the
cause, state what his opinion wu now.
Mr. Solly was sworn, and stated that he had not seen the
plaintiff from the 19th March until his appatred in the box
yesterday. When he examined him in /larch he wee not
satisfied with the statement made to him ; but he wee
much struck with the altered appearance of the plaintiff
yesterday and therefore he desired to exavine him. The
examination which be bad just made had convinced him
that the plaintiff had suffered a very severe injury, and
one which he was not prepared from his int exami-
nation to find. The opinion he now bald was not
derived from any statement made to him, but
from physical examination. There was a decided
alteration in the structure of the muscles of the back.
When he saw the plaintiff in March, be had a calm pale,
and there was not any appearance of serious injury then ;
but now there wat no question about it.
The jury, after a few remarks from his lordship, retired
to conceder the amount of damages, and after an &Menai of
half an hour, they gave a verdict for the plaintiff for 2,0001.

COURT OF BANKRUPTCY.
(Before Mr. Commissioner Hoiroyd.)
RI LACTIMICZ, MORTMOIM •ND SCHRAMM-DIVIDEND.

This was • dividend sitting under the joint estates el
Thomas Laurence, William Mortimore, and Francis Her•
jamin Schrader, the well known leather factors 0184.
Mary Axe, Leadenball•market, and Liverpool. As already
stated, the first dividends on the joint estate will be about
la 3d. and respectively on the Loudon and Liverpool
Midi& The separate states will each discharge their
liabilities in full, and leave a surplus.
Mr. Murray appeared for the assignees ; Mr. Begley, Mr.
Linklater, Mr. Freshfield, Mr. Lawrence, Mr. Gresham.
and other profesdoual gentlemen, supported claims made
by various creditors.

Yr. Istimusce tendered severel proofs (phut Use ups-
runs esnste of Yr. Leursoce, in respect of:trust property foe
whirl be ems trustee.

It appeared that the Gazette notice, announcing this as a
divideed sitting on the separate estates, w►s a mistake, and
the matter was ordered to stand over.

Yr. A. Won., mercheat, of the am of Boucher, Morti
more, and Co., tendered a proof for 1,210/. on two bills 0,
escheats drawn in March and Nay last, by the bankrupt's
Liverpool house, no Henry Lame, of that place. The lulls
bad pared into the hands of Mows. Leyland and Bunco,
bankers, of Liverpool, and had bra bought from them, by
the claimant, for the full value, a mouth after the bank.
ruptcy, with a new to prevent the bankruptcy of Hairy

In 'the absence of Mr. Baird, the gentleman who had
negotiated the balance, a claim was adent;ed, subject to
further investigation.
Mr. Klaiber tendered a proof for 3,0007. against the se-
parate 'IWO of Mr. Mortimore, on behalf of Mrs. Mortimer*.
Mr. Murray mid that this seemed to him to be a very
honest claim. Previous to the marriage of Mr. Mortimer*
he had entered into a bond to pay his wit, 3,0004 He
was to have the interest during his Ide, and the money was
to remain, which it had done. The 3,030/. was, no doubt,
provable ; but it could oely be proved by trustees, and not
by the wife—subject to any quedion that might arise on
looking into the thing.
Mr. Bind= said that there had been no trustees ap-
pointed.
Mr. Murray—l think that a trustee or trustees should be
appointed, not only for the security of Mrs. Mortimore and
the children, but also of the assignees.
The matter wan ultimately direzted to stand over until
the dividend meetings under the separate estates.
Mr. Linklater tendered • proof for upwards of 23,000 f.
on behalf of Mesas. Laylar.•! arid Buller, bankers, of
Liverpool, no bills bearing the endorsement or acceptance
of the bankrupts.
The proof waa sdrnitted without discussion.
Mr. Murray brought before the court the circumstances
under which • proof for 80,0007. prepared by the Bank of
England had b,en wbnitted. The Bank held certain securities
but the questi. u bad arisen whether those securities wars
joint is separate estates. The matter had been discussed at
• private sitting, and the court had 'decided that they were
partly joint and pertly separate. He now asked that the
beak should be called on, either to ratline those se-
curities, and have their proof diminished by the animist
realised or to submit to the usual valuing order,
and panne the course that was always acted on in bank-
ruptcy. If the Litter alternative were adopted, the proof
ought to be ex v.iged, and the claim only entered for the

amount for which the proof was originally made. Yr.
Denton suggested, as the valve of the ~cavities was pretty
well known, that the of dal assignee should he directed to
rednoe the prod by about 15,0001., which was the
outside value of the joint seemitiou The proof could not
be expunged, uno notice had bean given. The bank had
no with whatever to have their dividend at pretest.
Mtinately the matter wee ordered to stand over for a
weak, the bank to determine in the interval on the course
which thry will adopt.

Th. total resat of prods admitted &Wig the day was
about 200,0001.

THE POLICE COURTS.
(TIM DAT.)

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XARYIJIDONE.
COMMICT WITIII • KOWA ROBB=

Charles Alsidel. I, an old offsedor----, IS; placed at the bar
before lir. Mansfield, oharpd with having entered the
hoses of Mr. Bedford, 22, brookarest, Eurton•road, for the
purpose of eameitting • robbery, and also with a violent
swab upon Wlsseeley, IMO &
It from the salsas that at two this rarring
poseculco wee awoke by a noise in Ws waah-house, arid
sound as if thus wen kasekieg et the copper. Ile nes
down in his night slat and seined held of the prisoner, who
adored a most cleiennined vethdares, and a despasie
struggle ensued, is the seem el viral' the parties boa fell.
Prosecutor's wife ilarleg en Ann rushed down also, and
having celled oat Murder' end " Police," as loudly a
she could, the, policeanteralis WheMiey speedily arrived ;
he laid hold of the Orme so ill was about
to make his ems over the will by MOWN et which he had
wired, and be limn Week ad hteked him with
neck fora ; mime up, end the prisoner wee
osineped to Mr ealiserbeues. It was further stated that
the prioonor had ham Mee senvioted, and that e
bot ostrioe to tookood to 18 months' hard,
the tens of his humessedies a few dap ago. •
pritooon MM. to do wo. that halal:el
been rotor= rem efoodloomat ha =fortunately
toabou toot. pest as extent in drink, said knew not what he woe

Ile was committed tinder the Vsgrant Act for three
months, with a month in addition for aseaulting the otiose.
ATTIMPTING TO PICK POCKETS.
Henry Stephenson was domed with hewing yesterday
evening attempted tie pick the pease, of sevmsi Wise asel
the cattle thow in Ihisstehreelt

1 2 rids, c ;so sooduivo so to his goat, aid he was
mat to hard labour is tho Homo of Correction (co throe
month&

ANNOUNCEMENT OP A NSW GOVERN-

MM? REPORY BILL 708 1861.
-•-•

Last night Mr. Gilpin, M.P. for Northampton,
and who bolds the ollise et Secretary of the Poor-
law Board, in an address to his constituents which
will in all probability atrast eraiderable attention through-
out the oonntry, =some= that although be was emphati-
cally not of the cabinet, sad raid know nothing defi-
nitely of their plans, yet be had *vary memos to
believe, speaking by permiedos lint not on authority, that
it was the intention of Lord John Russell to introduoe Into
parliament, in the ensuing session, • reform bill similar
in its general provisions to that of last session but
with some modifications. The failure of the last bill
was attributed to want of earnestness, both in and out
of the house ; but it wad • positive fact that
there was a strong desire on the part of the people
of England for a Reform Bill, and it was considered most
advantageous to drams it while the minds of men were
calm enough on the subject to give it an impartial and un-
prejudiced consideration. He called on the people to seed
in petitions by the thousand to the Home of Commons at
the subject.

SOUTH AUSTRALIAN COMPANY.-(THIS DAY.)

At the half-yearly meeting of this company, held
at 1 o'clock at the offices" 4, New Broadatreet, Mr. E.
Dry Err M.P., in the chair, the report, whidi was of •
favourable character, was adopted, and the =nal dividend,
at the rat* of 7 per cent. par annum, announced. The
dividend will be paid on the 15th of January.