The Express.
London, England, 1867-11-20 00:00:00

the Court.

WINDSOR CASTLE, Nov. 19.
The Queen drove out yesterday afternoon wont.
pealed by Princess Beatrice.
Her Majesty, accompanied by Princess Louise and the
Countess of Flanders, drove out ibis morning in a carriage
and four.

Prince Christian and the Count of Flanders, attended
by Major• General F. H. Seymour and Colonel Burnell,
went out shooting.
The Hon. Leslie Ruthven and Colonel Ferguson of Pit.
four bad the honour of accompanying their royal high.
newel.

Princess Beatrice rode in the Home•park, and Prince
Leopold walked in the grounds, attended by Ur. SahL

Despatches were sent yesterday from the Colonial-of ao
to the Governors of Gibraltar, Malta, the Mauritius, Car.
lon, Hong Kong, Labuan, the Straits Settlements, and the
Australian colonies.

Yesterday afternoon the Prince of Wales arrived
by special train from Sandringham at the Evesham Station
of the Great Western Railway, on a visit to their royal
highnesses the Duke and Duchess d'Aumale, at Wood.
norton. The Prince was attended by Major Grey, and was
met at the station by the Mayor and corporation of
Evesham. On the arrival of the train the Mayor presented
an address, which his royal highness graciously received,
The town was illuminated and gaily decorated, and a large
crowd assembled in the vicinity of the railway station, sad
enthusiastically greeted the Prince as he alighted. A dis-
tinguished party is invited to meet his royal highness.
THE HEALTH OF MN. DISRAELI.-(THIS DAY.)
—The favourable change that became peroeptible last
evening continues. This morning the following was
issued by the medical gentlemen :—" Nov. 20,
10 o'clock. Mrs. Disraeli has pared a better
night, and the weakness is diminished." The
inquiry on behalf of her Majesty, hitherto entrusted to
General Grey, was forwarded to-day by telegraph,
and the reply was despatched by the same mains
direct to Windsor. Among the numerous calls
this morning may be mentioned those of Earl
Russell, Lord John Manners, Lord Feversham, Lord
Carington, Lord Ravensworth, the Duke of Richmond,
the Duchess of Marlborough, Lady Cadogan, Miss Burdett
Coutts, and members of the Rothschild family.

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TEE V&
LAW INTELLIGENCE. London, Argyll-place, said the prisoner opened an account
about 18 mouths ago ; but there had been no transaction
(THIS DAY.) since May last, and there was no cash to his credit except
V. Is. The cheque produced was paid in on the Bth of Octo-
--.5.. ber, but it was not paid-the account not being able to
EQUITY COURT. bear it. He marked the cheque " N.&" meaning not
sufficient money in the bank to the defendant's credit. The
(Before Vice-Chancellor Sir W. Page Wood.) cheque was returned. Two cheques, one for fft.' and one
BLAKE V. ARCHER. for 2/. had previously been presented, one on the sth, and
In this suit, which was instituted by an American firm one on the 7th. ,The signature to the cheque produced was
through their English agents, for the infringement of a in the prisoner's handwriting.
i pateut for a machine tor breaking stones for roads, upon Henry Walker, assistant to the prisoner, said he was in
an issue directed to be tried without a jury, his Honour, his shop on the sth of October, when some goods were
the other day, held in favour of the plaintiffs on the two brought there from Mears. Shoolbred's. Mrs. Anderson
points - hest, that the patent was new ; and, secondly,that received the goods, and he remembered a cheque being
it had been infringed by the defendants. brought into the shop by Mrs. Anderson, which turned out
The plaintiffs now moved for au injunction, for an to be unsigned, and witness was requested to obtain pri-
account of the machines mode, and for damages, all of soner's signature to it. Witness said to the prisoner, "The
which were granted as a matter of course. gentleman says the cheque is not signed." He said nothing, •
The pl.tintiffe then asked that the defendants' machines but took the cheque in his hand, and signed it in witness s
.tight be delivered up tothe plaintiffs. It appeared that they presence. Afterwards he took it into the shop, and deli-
consisted of several parts-such as cranks, flywheels. &c.- vered it to the witness Ayling. Mrs. Anderson was also
lad the plaintiffs contended that the all-important part of there. He saw a parcel of goods lying on the table in the
the machine, namely, the " jaws," whereby the stones front room.
were eruslied, or, as it was termed on the trial, " was- In the course of the case it was ascertained that the
fielded," could be used for no other purpose than one person represented as Mrs. Anderson was not entitled to
which must be an infringement, and hence that the plain- assume that name.
tills were entitled to have the machines. At the same Mr. Pater, addressing the jury for the prisoner, con-
time they said they did not want the cranks ; all they tended that when he drew this cheque he had no criminal
wanted was to secure the •` jaws." intention. It had been shown that he was in the habit of i
The Vice-Chancellor-I think you hail better rest con- banking at the Union Bask. If he had overdrawn his
tented with having the machines marked. account that was not a criminal act, for if it were to be'
Mr. Groves, Q.C.. Mr. G. M. Giffard, Q.C.,and Mr. W. so considered it might affect many thousands of persons
N. Lawson appeered for the plaintiffs ; r. Islamist), who now occupied most respectable positions in society.
(;.C., aid Mr. T. Aston, for the defendants. The Assistant Judge summed up the evidence.
The Jury returned • verdict of Guilty, but recommended
COURT OF COMMON PLEAS. the prisoner to mercy as be might have been under an ilin-I
Sittings in Hance._(riermi, Lord Chief yii.t.k. Boirm and pressuon that he had a balance at the back.
Justices Willem and Keating.) The Assistant-Judge sentenced him to be imprisoned and
DISOBEDIENCE TO A SUBNENA. kept to hard labour for three months.
Mr. Thannell moved for a rule calling upon Sir Lustiano
_.
Deponti to show cause why an attachment should not
issue for disobedience to a subptena duces tecum. The THE POLICE COURTS.
disobedience was that though the witness himself appeared
at the trial he did not produce certain documents which he (THIS DAY.)
was called upon by the writ to produce. _.„.„...__.
The Lord Chief Justice-Did he give any reason why he
had not brought the documents? GREENWICH.
Mr. Channel- He entered into some explanation, but SERIOUS CHARGE OP FRAUD.
he stated nothing that Mr. Justice Blackburn, who tried r Edward VauLikan Arbuckle, aged 27, who gave as his
address Little Heath, Charlton, and who formerly emu-
the case, considered to be an excuse.
The Lord Chief Justice-It is very important that it Pied She position of adjutant to ono of the corps of volun-
should be known that the process of the court must be Leers in the government establishments at Woolwich, was
obeyed, and therefore you may take a rule. brought up on a warrant, charged with obtaining money
Rule granted. by means of false and fictitious cheques.
Mr. Hughes, solicitor, of Woolwich, who attended to
COURT OF BANKRUPTCY. prosecute, said the prisoner was most highly cinnected, '
(Before Mr. Commissioner Goulbum.) but the cases which would be proved against him
His Honour disposed of • long list of wee in which were of such frequent occurrence that for the protec-
no asAgitee had been appointed
Lion of the trading public, it was thought ouly right
.
IN RE WACKETT. that they should be exposed, and the prisoner)
brought to punishment. The practice of the prisoner was
This was an application for an order of discharge by the
either to obtain credit or to borrow money of tradesmen
bankrupt, who was a hoot and shoemaker, at Bow, and
air.. tile manager of the Civil Service Supply Association to the extent of sovereign uponcalling them a day or
two na drawn Messrs. Cox and
(Limited), of iii, Monkwell-street. There were only three Co.,afterwardswith • cheque ' upon .. to be
army agents, of Craiks-court, purporting
creditor., the debts being stated at the small sum of 63/. '
The bankrupt had been six weeks in prison. drawn on account of E. K. V. Arbuckle (the prisoner's
for official
Mr. Lucas supported ; Mr. Sykes appeared the
brother), of the 3rd Regiment of Buffs, now out in
assignee. India. The first of the four charges in which he should
There was no opposition. call evidence was that of obtaining money from
The Conintiatiouer-I think six weeks' imprisonment is
in the . George Hollows
the Woolwich Steam Packet company.
rapt may take his discharge. In this wise,
a clerk in humble circumstances,quite enough for so small an amount of debt. The bank- mploy oise, on the 21st July last, Holloway, to whom
ix RE J. w. PARKER.. the prisoner was known as Captain Arbuckle, lent him a
CO yereign, and two days afterwards the prisoner calla'
An unopposed order of discharge was granted to the
u son Holloway and presented a cheque for Si. saying he
• bankrupt, who was the secretary of the Metropolitan I
owed the sovereign, and receiving the balance, 4/. The
Water Supply Association (Limited), residing at Peckham.
cheque was presented and payment refused, and
Debt- 2-,s/., and there are no assets.
. i
Gnler allowed accordingly. the prisoner subseciueutly wrote a letter to Hello-
IN RE shitHENRY CHI[DLEIGH OTVIDEN.
Mr. need said he Lad a short application to make to the way, expressing regret that Messrs. Cox had uo
y in hand belonging to his brother, who,
money in
i
had to authorised him draw on his account, but
court under this insolvency, which occurred many years
ago. Numerous snits were pending in the Court of
Promising, f the cheque was held over for a few days,
to pay the money, and any incidental expenses that
Chaney, and the assignee having died it was considered
desirable that a fresh appointment should be made. The might have been incurred. Payment had not been ob-
subject had been mentioned before, and the court then tattled, but notwithstanding that in July,
directed a meeting of creditors to be called to determine to the letter produced, which was in according
the pri-
ou the coune to be taken. Further time was now desired soner's handwriting, he (the prisoner) knew that
in order to ascertain the wishes of the creditors, and it the Messrs. Cox had no funds to pay such
cheques, three other cheques, all for 3/. each, Lad been
was thought that the expense of a formal meeting might ' •
be avoided. ceased by the prisoner, and money obtained, one being
His Honour granted an extension of time.
cashed at the Army and Navy Club, in September •
second, on the 18th October, at Mr. Risen's, bookseller,
- _ -- . . - lieresford-square, Woolwich, and a third on the 27th
CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT. October, at Mr. Moore's, the Globe Tavern, Royal-hill,
Greenwich.
(THIS DAY.) Evidence was then offered in the case of George
Holloway and Mr. Moore.
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The prisoner said he had no questions to tusk.
(Before Baron Channel].) Mr. Hughes applied for a remand, to enable witnesses
[ LORD SHAFTESBURY AND HIS STEWARD. from London to attend.
At the sitting of the court Robert Short Waters, Mr. Trail remanded the prisoner, who was then removed
s formerly !steward to the Earl of Shaftesbury, surrendered 'n custody.
to take his trial upon several indictments charging him --
with feloniously embeuling divers large sums of money WEATHER REPORT.-(THIS DAY.)
3 belonging to the noble earl.
s Mr. Huddleston, Q.C., Mr. Giffard, Q.C., and Mr. Cole .__....._
WEDNESDAY. NoarifeWa 20, I LI.
a appeared for the prosecution. Mr. Coleridge, Q.C., and
o Mr. J. H. Lewis appeared for the prisoner.
; Mr. Huddleston said that the defendant had given notice I L 12.1 W. 1;4 zzlitmw‘ .., W. & brio
s of his intention to appear and take his trial, but the pro- 12 F. D. ft.
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r auk , and desired that the original arrangement should 14,a15• ••••••• '''..'"',A,n7 Ili N.W. e- Ni 73 - -
cl be carried out. He then proceeded to state the Isiah " !3061,j0 kir. i N.W. ' - 6
facts connected with the ploceedings against the grdros.... .103.30 40 le, 4 N. W. b - 1
lal defendant, and said that the trial was originally post- Oreencsati;..l3o.63 44. 221.)4.11. 1 N.W. c- -
-et ported upon the application of the defendant himself, on Wa1cui15..,..130.64 40. H.N.X. 1 N.E. b - 1
,s the ground that proceedings were going on in Chaucery, .._1t.,:____,'..8"t40.,:5„7,39,.. N.N.W.N. 4 N.L rb -ft
and until a decree was made by that court, deciding "w...a, rs'''''',,..A"-.L'''"Z'al *l;i S N.N.W. ti,cll - _1
t, which which party was entitled to a balance, it would be 'f.7.7?-7,......30-.5.--4 47 N. 1 N.N.W. sic - 2
a unfair to the defendant to proceed with the criminal gran 0.47 41
li.N.L 2 N.E. etc - 2
tt charge. It was urged by M. Huddleston that Lord Lorlent - 2
e, Shaftesbury hail never made any application for • post- Itoehetort_ ;30 9643' LIC.C. 4 N.E. bo -- 3
r, 'tenement, but that on every occasion these applications Plymouth 7309037; Z. 2 11.H.g. of - 1
to were made by the defendant himself, and that all- that was Weymouth 3°''''C' .01 N. 1 N.W. cc, 2
to ever desired was that the original arrangement should be ratrrnoutk 2300171 44
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a, carried out. It was also said that this was the yanaaadt imao 451 11. W. 0 W. o- 4
id more desirable because, so far as the accounts had already
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F.errors to n gone, • large amount had been discovered in the shields N. 6 N. .) I - 5
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accounts of the defendant. i
it, Mr. Coleridge, Q.C.. said it was not desired to ore. tr. - --

Mr. Coleridge, Q.C., said it was not desired to press the
case on for trial at the present session, and be was quite
willing that a day should be fixed in the next session for
the trial. The real ground upon which the trial was post-
poned was that the defendant was not prepared to take his
trial, and be was now so prepared. He urged that a
charge of this description ought not be kept hanging over
the kende/ the defendant for an indefinite period.
Baron Channel, after a long technical argument, re-
fused to allow the trial to proceed, and said that the ori-
ginal order of the Court must be adhered to.
Geraldiae Ileurier, the fashionable swindler, was brought
up for judgment before the Common Serjeant, and sen-
tenced to 18 months' hard labour.
(Before Mr. Justice Bytes.)
SERIOUS CHARGE AGAINST • PUBLICAN.
Rickard .Ifurris, 41, licensed victualler, was charged
with attempting to set fire to a house which he occupied,
called the Turk's Head, situated at Green-bank, near
Ratelifthigh way, St. Ceorge's-in-the-Bast, with intent to
defraud the Royal Insurance Company.
Mr. Metcalfe and Mr. F. H. Lewis prosecuted, and the
prisoner was defended by Ur. Ribton.
About 4 o'clock on Sunday, 13th October, an explosion
was heard on the premises oseepied by the prisoner, and
the attention of several persons having been thus attracted,
they found a fire proceeding from the cellar. Some
water having been thrown down to quench the flames, it
was ascertained that there were several quantities of gun-
powder lying about, and also some bong cloths saturated
with ruin placed ro as to communicate with the powder.
Shortly before the explosion some of the prisoner's
children were seen leaving the house, and they
were followed immediately afterwards by the
prisoner liiteseU. About 5 o'clock the latter returned.
He was asked if he could account for what had occurred,
mid his reply was that be could not, and that some one
must have done it to spite him, but he could not suggest
any one as likely to have committed the offence. It was
shown, however, that three weeks or a month previously
he had bought a quantity of gunpowder of the same de-
scription as that found in the cellar, and the motive im-
limed by the prosecution was a desire to obtain a sum of
-.W., for which the furniture and stock had been insured
in April.

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(The cue wan going on when our report left.]

REMARKS.
Very high barometrical pressure exists over our IsLutds this
morning. An increase has taken place generally since yester.
day, especially in Betotiand ; on our southeast coast, the region
of least pressure, a slight decrease is commencing this morning.
A northerly gale is reported from Scarborough • Mind, on the
east t.111{14 are strong from the northward, whilst they are mode-
rate elsewhere. Temperatures over our Islands hare generally
diminished, and arc rather low at the Channel stations, but on
the west coast of Prance have risen considerably. Weather con-
tinues dry; it is nne in Ireland, but generally cloudy. There Is
much sea disturbance on the east coast.

The Scotsman mays it is not true that there is any
intention to offer the Chancellorship of Edinburgh Uni-
versity to the Duke of Edinburgh in the event of Lord
Brougham's retirement.
The Commissioners of Customs have received
instruction' from the Chief Secretary for Ireland, request-
ing them to issue the necessary orders to the collectors of
customs at the various Irish ports to permit she importa-
tion into Ireland of sheep from the Isle of Man.
"Tan OWL" AMONGST THS GU:VS.—Thu Owl,
which re-appeared to-day, has the following announce-
ments in its unfacetious page :—" A battle between guns
and targets will shortly commence on • large scale at
Shoeburyness. The targets sre of several kinds, repre-
senting the Plymouth, Spithead, and Malta defences.
They cover a surface about 100 feet long and 15 in height.
The attack will be made with three guns of the heaviest
description. The 15in. smooth-bore Rodman gun of 19
tons, firing 10016. of American powder and an American
round shot of -001 b. A 12-in. Palliser rifled gun of 17
tons. firing 801 b. of English powder and a 4501 b.
Palliser chilled shot. And, lastly, a 10in. Wool-
wich rifled gun, firing a 4001 b. Palliser chilled shot
with 601 h. of English t owder. It is a curious fact that in
this experiment the expenses of the Rodman andWoolwich
guns are to be defrayed by government, whereas that of
the Palliser gun is to be borne by Major Palliser, that
officer having already expended • sum equal to the reward
he hu received in previous experiments.—At the represent-
ation of Admiral Key and General Lefroy, the Admiralty
have determined to replace all their smooth-bored ordnance
now in use by similar guns converted into rifle ord-
nance on the Palliser system. Of the smooth-bored guns
there are upwards of 2,000.'52 and 68 ponaders, which will
be converted into gin. and 7in. rifled guns respectively.—
The 104 in. 12i ton gun which blew its breech out on board
the Wivern last week was one of the heavy-wrought-iron
guns which were made before Major Palliser's patent breech
was adopted into the Woolwich guns in 1$6::. Only
three heavy guns whose breeches were made on
the old plan have fired any considerable num-
ber of rounds. The first was a Pin. gun, which'
blew its breech out at Shoeburyness in 1862 ; the second
was a 10in. gun of 18 tons, which did the same about two
months ago, also at Shoeburyness ; the third being the
Wivein's gun. The Admiralty have now decided upon
withdrawing all the guns made upon the old syetem'
and issued to our ironclads, and replacing them with Pin.
guns made on the now plan.—All the English Artillery
' guns at the French Exhibition are being returned to this
country, except the Tin. Whitworth, which has been left
with the French government for experiment at Vin-
tonnes."

TEE LATE SUICIDE AT kW HOTEL AT CAMBRIDGE.
—The identity of the unfortunate man who shot himself
at the Lion Hotel, at Cambridge, during the night of the
13th inst., still remains a mystery. At the adjourned in.
quest on Monday night nothing to throw any light on it
transpired. It appeared that in cleaning out the room
where the suicide occurred some hotel bills were found
under the carpet, supposed to have been placed there by
the deceased. These were produced, and showed (for
there was no doubt from communications received from
the various hotels that it washe) that deceased had visited
the Cock at Epping, the Lion at Chipping Ongar, and the
Semen's Head at Chelmsford between the Ist and the
9th of November. The bills were for small amounts, and
were receipted. The jury returned a verdict to the effect
that deceased, when he committed suicide, wet labouring
ander temporary insanity.
CRYSTAL PALACE. ONE SHILLING DAY.—
TUESDAY, Nov. 19.—Admilaions on payment, VA ; ditto
by season tickets, 1,053. Total visitors, 1,518.

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