The Express.
London, England, 1859-01-21 00:00:00

COURT OF 001111 NON PLEAS.-J•N. 20.

eitlbp at NY Prim Is Intidlem.—(Balare Kr. Justice
BO= sad common Jun..)
CROOIR C•IINT MID W111,1.-•68•OLT IT • PIIOILL•r

(Concluded from yesterday's Express.)
The jury, after bevies boa locked up for four bows,
were seat for sad obese Into mart. _

Mr.
crJamseet, the Deputy Aaseakto—le there say chime at
year sag le • verdict, Venn
The Jury—Net the dish ?
Mr. Jaw—Then las dirested by his lordship to dia.
cherdspol•
The Jury were secordingly egad without 'giving a
verdict.

COURT OF EXCHEQUER.-TAN. 20.

Bitting, at NY Prlaa.—(Bstor• Kr. Baron Bramwell
tad Camara Jurist.)

can:ants. CllOl2 A/CD OTIIIIII.-4111 WUT LONDON
DIATINIAZIC.

Mr. Leah end Mr. Gel!!lts were mined ke the plaintiff;
Mr. fferimmt Prato and Mr. Brows appeared for the defend-
eats Croft sod Swedharet ; and Mr. Serjeant Peteredorff and
Mr. 0. B. C. Harris= for the defendant Moody.
This wee as teaks for work and labour dons, and the de-
Isedante dialed their liability. It appeared from the cote
far the plaintiff that the defendants, who were medical gen-
Omega, had farmed themselves into a committee for the pur-
pose of establishing the Weal London Dispensary, which
' proved as abortive effort, in oonasquence of the secretary
having absconded with the funds of the institution. The
' plaintiff who was a builder, lot some promisee in Duke-
street, Finsbury, to the society, sad received direction from
the committee to fit them op for the purposes of an hospital,
which he did, his bill amounting to 511. it.. 7d., for which
this action was brought.
The defence was, that the defendants had given their
1 opinion as medical men, acting as the medical and not as the
managing committee, and that they had never %tended to
incur any responsibility.
It appeared that no application was made to the defendents
Individually until the writs in this action were served span
theta. _ _ _

la. Bina Brame"V, in summing up the coact said that
miry tlttL 0003■011 WWI* would have prevented the nemeity
for this action, and ha mad sty the conduct of the plaintiff's
allowing the issuing ...rim without previous at:sliced= wee
contrary to the renal practice. It Ina not only not the ftht
way to deal with admires parties, hat was hxdal ter
the clients, inasmuch se if in the present taste/as
'an application had hese made the defendant. would
probably hays done as they ought to have does,
and have made up the money betimes them.
Instead of that, the attorney had come down upon them for
arra, mid blood having thus been drawn the defendants
were determiassi to fight it out. He must say that in se-
lectiag the dahmtlaate the persons most difficult to hit had
beta axed upon, for they append in the prospectus ae
membire of the medical and not of the managing com-
mittee. The learned judge, I. excludes, left the ques-
tion of liability with the jury.
The jury retnemed a verdict be the defendants.

COURT or COMMON Corwen.—Yestertlay, a court
was held for the despatch of public business. We H, W.
Valiance, chairman of the 001oers and Clerks Committee,
brought up en amended report of a voluminous nature upon
the internal arrangements and duties of the clerks in the
Town Clerk's Office. It recommended a varkty of the
only one of an importance being the reduceks of the
of the future Town Clerk from 2,1001. to 1,0001. a year. He
i 41r. Valiance) moved that the report be agreed to.—Several
amendments of an unimportant nature werepntand negatived
by overwhelming majorities; after which the report, which
will effect a saving to the Corporatios of about 3,0004
year, wee agreed to.—Depaty Carney presented a petition
from the ratepayers of the Ward of Broadvarest, egelnat
the erection of the proposed pauper lunatic asylum until the
question of the rights of the °Maw to 'Stehle= Hospital has
been determined, or that the asylum (if erected et all be paid
for out of the City's cash. The petition was referred to the
Special Lunatic Asylum Committee.
'fnE I msn LEGAL APpoormENTs.—The Dublin
papers of yesterday elate that Mr. Edmund Hayes, Solicitor-
General, is appointed Lord Chief Justice of the Queen's
Bench. In the room opftirle Campton,
indeed. Mr.
Francia Fitigera to d• Baron of the Exthequer, in
piece of Baran Feminist . A numerous meeting of the
Lumbers of the Irish her was held on Wednesday, Mr
Thomas Sup* Q C., In the chair, at which, on the motion
of the Attarsep-Geesral, an same was adopted for presen-
tation to Berea Peasetalter, wilds retirement, a:pre/site of
the high esteem entertained for him by the members of the
bar, end their eases of the admirable performance of his
jalkial duties.
OPENING OP THE NARROW-GAUGE JUNCTION AT
R=Dixo.—For some time past a mixed line—brood and
narrow gauge—has been laid down on the Great Western
Railway between Reading awl Oxford, but for the want of a
loop•line to connect the Great Western with the South
Eastern and South Western Railways goods could not be
transmitted from the northers distriete without being trans-
ferred by vase from one company's goods depot to the other,
consequently no great trial* amid be carried an. This Im-
pediment has now been removed by a short loop-line being
made at Reading, which has just been opened, and a con-
necting link is thus formed with the narrow-gauge lace Is
the north-western put of England. Troops or luggage
might now be conveyed, without change of carriage, from
stations as far north as Aberdeen to the military depots at
Aldershott, Woolwich, Chatham, Shorncliffe, and Dover,
or to any of the outports on the south-eastern coast, for
amberkattos, within twenty-four hours. Coals are at present
hake conveyed in this manner direct from the collieries is
fitallordshire, sad other parts of the north-western dirtriot to
Reading, Guildford, Egharn, Staines, Raga* Windsor,
Brightoo, Dorking, and other stations on the South Emmett
and South Western Railways. This joncUon also opens up
a direct rests between the towns and places in the northers
districts end the Continent.
BILLS POZ RAILWAYS AND PUBLIC IMPROVE-
mativa.—Testarday the examiners on Standing Orden of
the Houses of Lords and Commons declared the cedars
bed been complied with is respect of the following bills :
(Be ore Mr. Smith)—Tweed Fisheries • Glasgow Public
Parks and Galleries of Art ; tkocktoit sad Dietitian%
Railway ; Leads, Bredford, and Halifax Junction Rail-
way; Bradford, Wakellsid, sad Leeds Railway;
Forth and Clyde Navigation ; St. Georges (Haase=
Burial. aroma Approaams. The lAA sad C
Jusaks Railway sad laverkithsa and Peak* Railway
Buencious CAss.—The body of a child, four i wets withdraws. (Wore Mr. Fenn)—
yeas sad rehalf ell, wee fogad as Wednesday sight in an Hull Docks; Rant Ss lk& Railway; 111=r=,
sigh.plt te • totter-bus, Wan Ikea Letisoitread Castle Remake and Dendries Rahway MM--Samos sad
Liverpool. Wales. sad dap geoid ea ibe took Maltase Junction Rollmop ; Ipswich ) Flaw, ;
a tits neck. Tbe lead tams W lhosialtrir Misr lava& Wombs& Railway ; Liverpool. Garska, and A7lrtea Rail-
gram way ; Larks, Burame, and Newcalievader-Lyrce Roads.

SECONDARIES' COURT.—JAN. 20.
(Bikes Mr. Secondary Potter sods Joey.)
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