The Express.
London, England, 1858-08-06 00:00:00

TEM LONDON AND NORTH WRINXIIN RAILWAY °WINANS

V. OLIX.

Mr. Her% Q.C., sad Mr. Arettthekt woe for the phda-
titre ; Mr. Leah, Q.C., Mr. Hawkins, sad Mr. Lloyd Na
for the ishedsate.

This sinks area oat of the adds the that tore Aloe
at the Oarsdea-tows Aides la loss last, when Innerly to
an enceisome moot wee destroyed. The delin
seated the the Globe lanuance Conway. and the adios wee
brought to recover a sum of 12,0001., pert of bowsaw of
35,000 L, elided upon • portion of the property that was
destroyal an the 003.1106 tywadoa. The principal ph*
on the put et the defendants appeared to be that Yews.
.ed bad efhcied an insuranoe wait the same property to
maim office.

At theekre of Yr. &mill' a addicts the leaned judge sug-
gested that the beet course would be to have • spe cue,
involving all thj euets of law submitted to the wort to the
°pinks of the
Yr. Lodi mid wee his opinion. lie at the same time
said that the Globe oak*, whom be ted, felt them-
selves bound to adopt the warm thsy done, because they
had under figured ads polio, withwitti other dikes, sad they
were sompend to am
ertain their legal habtlity.
Mr. Jodie. Wills. Mat the questkeis that had been
raised re Isbell of the oda were very proper to be consi-
dered, end the warm they had taken was fast wok ss would
be expected tea ex establishment of such a diameter. •
A verdict was thin taken for the plaintiffs, subject to a
special ewe.

OXFORD ClRCUlT.—Mommovra, Auover 4.

The weimission for these sakes was opened yesterday
by Mr. Judos Bylea, who afterwards attended Divine see-
-0011 at the pada church. The calendar contains the amass
of 'host 30 pismers, and some few have been sent fat trial
AIM tbs ..leader was printed.
Catmint Counr.—(Before Mr. Justice Bytes.)
1013Z1T DT • POST-0711C' 121TANT.

Jews eressiland wr indioted for hoofs; stolen a letter
ccaltatedag a half-soveniin and two sixpences, at Newport,
on the lith cl April, while in the employment of the Poet-
master-Gineral.
Mr.
sear was Wltreita, and Mr. Bros prosecuted; the pri-
Mr. Whitely staled the case. There had been fret
complaists to the Postmaster-General of letters havingbes
last at Newport, tat eossequemoe of which the "authorities
deemed it neesmary to make use of a teat-letter, so as to
detect the delinquent, and protect the honest servants of the
Post-odlos. The result was the demotion of the
who had de several years been in the post-off ce at pines.
as a letter.

Joss Yodel ozioolood—T am a dark in the
Latter Cl tbo °moral Part-allow. %Xi*
loot I hod °moths that Wm" were miming at Newport,
and I &booted a LAW to Mir Bond, owe Cl Mrs. Abbott,
73, Comroroloktrol, Notport. ',placed half-

fi-iovere end two miapiiieee in' the gear. 1 wrote the
letter at Oberlow, end seekeed it to a Post-019os servant at
Gioncenter, with lastest:dies to forward it to Newport. A
day or two shinned' I Meet le Murree and saw the Pri-
soner at his hums. I idled Na If be had seen a letter
directed to Miss DM, and beall be Bed net. Be was thee
eueeduncle; n• end the eche which bed boa
plialed In the lellaresidressed to Mks Bond wen
Mei Nth
Nethisee is twee given by Mr. R. Nada, a clerk in the (loa-
n eseleepelrellies, of the forwarding the letter to Miss Bond ;
ad Mem& a sorter at Newport, deposed that the
the bands of the primmer. Mr.
de thief clerk in the Newport office, also proved
es se was at tha office on else 9th Aprfl, and that
M wenn Ms duty to sett the Gloucester letter. Further
*Memo establishieg the charge wee gives.
She • defence was that he had received the half
hew Kr. Wiloox in the way of payment, and the
two stepeappyiesee thesis. ballseenve. He protested
that be lid SOW MIS the Met se lit Nee which it was
said to esanda, legalist by way et aceeplaint that he did
not know until the pietism day that he was not going to be
defended, otherwise be elmeald have been prepared with wit-
nesses to nee the eberge. •
Theestbeethe thedy sued up, the prima was
bead
Mr. memeiMMl refsemes friends had
raised easy islet bia'bat se alessey who had been
oonsebed, nth* ibeeeß=eeli defence, had de-
clined lb ask ail
Time tainessiltelleasy=elei very wisely and
eery lesamelity, then peewit Is often the pri-
res the Mame ellthe be MI monetted
dirisi=ltbs adder* width bed neesseelly been
remelt let him. He sincerely hoped that all is robbed.. of
lease ruing through the Newport office had not been
occulted by the gelomer.
flenlemead to lee yeant penal servitude.
The primmer again peotuded his innocence.
MANSLATIORTIA AT AZWPORT.
°serge Perroors and Alfred Borleetn, two sailors,' were
convicted of the manslaughter of a boy named Edema
Thomas, at Newport, on the 18'h June last.
The prisoners had acted in • cruel and cowardly manner to
the deceased, having several times "ducked" him under
the water, which finally produced great exhaustion. In that
state be was pseud by the mate of the vessel to which he
was attached (the David and Martha) from a boat to the
vessel but the mate withdrawing his support, the boy loosed
his hold of the rail, Sell into the water, aid never rose again.
Mr. Powell defended the pritowen, and contended that the
death of the boy was accidental; that between the docking
and his falling from the rail there was ample time to recover
from any =baud= from what he called the " larkin;" of
the sailors.
The prisoner', who were recommended to mercy on the
ground that they did not anticipate any merlons result from.
their acts, were 'stand to two months hard labour.

Nun Pure Covir.—(Before Mr. Justice Hal.)

There were fire omega entered for teud, bat thoee tried to-
day ware of little pull° interest.

Mr. Smythies and Mr. Barrett for the plaintiff; and Mr.
Skinner. Q.C., and Mr. Scotland for the defendant.
The action was brought to recover compensation for per-
sonal injury and loss of badness, resulting from alleged
negligence of t►e defendant's servant. TN plaintiff is a very
aged but comparatively maim woman, who attend, Newpott
market with eggsand poultry. On the 12th December last she
was wring along the High-atria of Newport, on her road to
the market, and just sa she stepped off the pavement to area
the street, the defendant's servant drove rapidly past in
a art and hawked the plaintiff down. The wheels pried
over easel her /as, and she was severely injured. A sur-
geon steadied bee far tea weeks, sad a sewed surgeon was
at one time called to for emeseltstion. The surgeons' bills
were respectively 161. sad four guineas, is addition to which
the plaintiff had last the preitsof her hentases for ten weeks,
which she estimated at U. per week. The only question in
the ass was, whether the soeldeat was the result of the seg-
Nance of the defendant's servant.
Bertal witnesses were milled fee the dekedast, who proved
that the art wee being !riven at the rate of about four or
It, mamma hear, and that the plaintiff, when it was a short
disarms *cm her, estimated by one whams at a yard sad a
half or two pods, sad by enable at IS lartme—seepped from
the weasel into the roadway, and was knocked down.
The jury found for the dahadma.