The Express.
London, England, 1859-11-29 00:00:00

COURT Of COMMON PLRAf4.

Balms et Nillliddlesen—(Bolsre Lord Curl
Jostles Ms Nei a special Pay.)
11:1.1.117 a. 1110711•11.-111A•olintn•IT ••••cLI NT •
it solute.
This was se action to recover damages hr an .wilt, sad
Ike pies wee not guilty.
Ms. Berjewat Bose, Mr. Clifford, and Mr. Lapworth
rend ler the yininuff, sad Mr. Edwin James and Mr.
hedwarst Perry tor the defendant.
Is the wing Vetch It wee stated that the plaintiff wee
sionsimen d toMptstriset brume, who melded at Ditton,
limey, and Me doend•st ass a MVOS preotismg in the
vases. The dein.tatit, about three yews ego, soomided
In the pasties d Mr. Otrratt, who led been for miry pawn
the atediail stasmaint ..f the plaintiff end his mother: end
on►.saYagafenlß Lwlaess be Introduced tat dehodont to
M. • Lail The defendant married Newly three
yews egoosisl Is July i.t.t he went to the plaintiffs harm end
rase soles* hies of morn his Itapptorwe at houte,elorently
smoshed him ha the rummer detailed in the following

Jereph GOA; asimeised—l have lived at Dittos
toseasy-tbms yews sal have beta Mee yews a viol=
▪ ths pear, sad bar yore osiolotor's charcliwardes. My
maim ls 119 yews old, and I am is my 66th yew. The
biesdast I. proiably 33 or SA and be wee ntsried two or
three2=. Afar hie moniese I celled co MIA awl
ribs •he new Per aMr mesa* biers
.7:1; 1-;;M'ilabiellmt did set seam as Naha to he
W to be, bat I was set awe et soy MKS
last IL Os the I lih July I wee employed is my wise rad
I saw the aimdast mmbir arrow titilmes. Tweet *magi
the time ef to hers sod told the ammo se visa Ist bra
is. Mire Iye se the dear he bed ring the bell sad I
oast m the deer and met kill. I eared So shake beads bin
he amid be weld 'peek te ray mother, sad be wt leis the
dodag-nor and sleek heads with bar. Me um est
sad peeked me bee the drawlarreem and @bat the
door. lie eY, " 11/bat do you mesa by emeehlog
about r' I deeded the I bed webbed Ida Be Med lb
war and swoon mesa the era I thee& It wee blebs.
It was guile paralysed. I aid vitas he mask mad be
yaw eyes, you have robed say bow. lb
week me on the sent airain and on the ode. The seke
wee • thick one. Re k cocked over the ebb red
megliS his Met is the isetils cartels and tore
ce I ever I Arab have bilk shape. I eseelsel eight
or Mee Mews eltagadmr. I resolved the blow es by arm
Hamer I pat it up to as,, my head. After than he west
bib the passage sad said tomysamber," I will comber yes
at ray lime, but I wOO% rise that bleekiserd. The am time
I come I will spatter hie baba on those pillars." My maw
sotrithetaadisg she was hard of downy, heard the bless,
mad she 0111120 to the door. She said, "Ha ha. not hit you,
bac he f" and I rid, "Yes, be has. The old lady said,
.• I with I had bees tare, I rook, have hit him."
(lnagaters) I mused the sow so come to the
hoer wain. and 1 went to a swipes who bowed in.
wounds. I had to wait for Wm, sad it wee sae o'clock
p.m. before I got hooos. I Gould sot sleep that night,
nor for a night or two afterwards, I was as
ark, excited. sad nervous. I lam polo to this day. I bed
to c cry coy was m o .Bag kor ben weeks. Ide sat how
of any prorocattoa or presume be this samalt--mit the least
in the world.

Crwomaannied-1 Bee emeeely a of a tile from
the defeadout. I did net aor do 1 new under-
mead, what he meant by my reining his peso* of Naiad.
I Nag to him, "(Good Ciod, 1 wee new in your hones whoa
you were not thorn 1 will be on my oath ; " sad ha WA,
your oath, 1 will not believe yon cm your oath.'
Time was se bone ptokaq but I should hare liked you to
we my arm, you would not have liked it. (Laughter.)
A surest girl wee called to sive some corroborative evb•
deem.

ildwia James that addreerd the aged, sad sad that
hie turtles' p was .were of the eery Mime sod Miceli
duty that devolved epos ihealveseta teeestames. His sliest
was not la arc bat the woe preseateteee h 1 W 7 rasp*
able getalene• who had rederiebee to steal dart.. the
one on behalf of the defradeeL There weld be ao tit
that • species of almost tocaoroaala ahead the dideadent's
mad nepretag hie wife, whoa he believed to have
onsaitted teddelay with the defendant, sad indeed It was
lot mull they bed bad the opportunity of a stasultation that
they could do anything toter* removing this impression
from be mind. kit bed sow, however phased the matter
entirtly in the hands tilde safeader three clreunt-
steam they felt that they were their e
bun by eaprtemag his deep regret the lung sad has
that he had committed ea lir. OWNS. sad their liege
that their porenseton sad that el his irhais night remove
from ha lead that imprsseies, whisk wee neat deeply la-
plattai Mae, that blip wide hai eamileed hew* with Mr.
iirllett; ea hapreestos for white those wee net the 'tightest
loaadatiat. It was • palest delude&
The Lord Chief 'sada, aid the NAM, bed tame to • very
eatisfactoey unthaws.
A verdict wee geared by etertat for the pleintle—
daintiest lUoi.

INSOLVENT DEBTORS COURT.
IN la CUMULI JANOO JACITAON.
The 'asolvest, • aoperaaauated samosa of police, whit
wee le prime, applied to be discharged under lb. wt.
There vas so opposition.
The i•Nodyilat err in the A divisive, sad had now •
prestos of M. a yew. the iseolmincy had mime from es
scow be brought agsied • seit der &hod saillesees.
A verdict was Oven for the Meagre led tits lasts ware
smarly 1001. Woos the trolvesey end the apppareaw• of
the tesolveat bet the court.
Commessoraer Murphy brseelei the @sheds* sad
meld tbet the IllaTioTO did not Ogren des fall• COSY Of the
milate whisk Me insolvent had !quash* "gist • somas
t 4284 aillieflace. sod the Welles,* aught to b. Me-
Iseadvest wee accordingly dieeherded.
IN al /I,OIIIIT 1111.10N.—LXPONS•1T TO 1111011011 a.
• Mr. Cabs, a eirsditot to AN 41111% rompleisci that kis
mince was he II o'clock, awl whoa be attended at i hat hoar
be losed the ewe bed lees Mimed sd. It wee important
!bat b. .bald hest bus pest or the lard wet had • re-
tired ellewssee white be midi mastic
Mr. Ossestsdeset Marlisistl
Met be away. eat at ben-Fes
le &W wee eek. It Me the trt loot could Ns
end resswee the debt se bed bees wend with a Mee
wales
It dertsseasty tented cat thst the ewe bed bees adjoes
The mere direeted the Ineelvesil and ell penile to awed es
• Maw day.

THE POLICE COURTS.
(THIS DAY.)

MANSION-HOUBE.
A DAISOISOCe
Own. Berm, an Irish WM, woo charged with essattltiug
polimconsmble 632, and damaging We oast.
Tee polusolos it tout • quarterieet 11 last night,
whits oil duty is lislf kloos-4rest, Hiehopestate. I beard miss
el Fin.' I mot up Thmem'e-runts, *Mace the emit
came, sad saw showers of sparks ismunit front the chimneys(
oise el tM homes. I lobed up st tee windows, bot 1 could sae
so me. I theta knocked at tee door, as upon obtaining M.
miles I ran upstairs sad knocked at the door
or the primate's room. He lt, me in, end I
saw that he ma drunk ; end on the hearth I
prrisived • May of hissing shavings. I Meld
tip the chimney and Mind the soot vim on Bre. I sand
tom why he had mode each • 6r., aed Is said, " Whoes
that to de with yew ( I shall make se much dre as I ;"
at the some tine throwing on • lot more shavings.
He Ws mum to the door, locked it, and took the key
est, sad I Sold him if be did not open it and bet
am oat, I meld me my Mat MI than let me out, bet I
W emireily got amide the door when be sprang at
me lam Weer, wrack me violently, and tor. my cost. By thle
time 1 hid smidanco end took his to the etatioo.
TM
answer to Lord Ma)or (to prisosei)—Whitt ham you to my in
We cheep ?
Prisoner—Why. all be has said Is fates. Theis wee bat •
shavings,*lntle lb. hearth, which I kept sight to ke-p or
warm. I was lo bed whoa the polimman Caen sad Mocked
at the door.

-
TM Lard Maps (to oflem)—What damage be. he dose M
your cost. Whet wall ,t tstur to repair it ? A Milner P
The °lke' (hI4MR op thesaati
_millet'. Irma the amber
of mats is it, appmnd scrim)—Mere them that, my leeL
It id 'poled. I vhoold my about 10e.
The Izird Mayor—Tau sear that, pimmer. Toe bare
amid very badly throsehmt. Poet of all, you art • let of
Mariam ou dn, sad ought by your caralemnime hare burst
the place dews. la .he escan4 Mace, she, the odor my
koully tells you af ir, sot being aware that you Mies, yes
...oak him, sod tee. hie cost. I shell firm you 10.. ier the
tromp dose to the coat, and 5.. for the aassalt, or emd you
to prima for verse dsyl.
TM roue warn paid.

The Giornale di Reese says : —" On the attires=
of the 2lst, the Pope want unmpittsdly to the Cemetery a
Callisto, a the right of the Villa Appi►, sad diseanded
into the crypt of the virgin and martyr &unto Cavils, sag
prayed Wee bar imago--►a bane which hag withatood the
aleiontudis of tiepin cestaries. His holiness prayed an the
eery spot where the aspirated remains wars buried to loess
before they were placed in the tomb petard he them by
order of the Peniiff Urban. The Pope, who was ►room
ponied by SOON members of the comodmion of Saind
Archeology, 'maimed the whole of the crypt with greet
anemias."

BIRDS' NESTS IN NCIVIIIIBER.—In Pastimell-
- Wationagbory, there are throe elm tress standing, and
a fortnight ago there wen 00 symptoms of a bird's neat, but
no. there are tbs.., one in each Mes. They Sr. twos. spar-
TOW, and the lode birds are seen daily very busy retrying
Dunes of bay and ; bat new they are beginning the
finishing steno, for they are carrying (anthers to (Isiah thine
mansions. Thera tern,: no learns upon the trees, their meta
and their lab or are sable to any one who may chows to
impost them.—Maidsene Jerson(.

SHIPPING INIIII4II

MEETING IN TEIR CITY.—(TIIIB DAY.)
This afternoon a crowded meeting of shipowner",
shipbuilders, shipmasters, shipping traderowe, and all others
intereand is shipping, was held at the London Tavern for the
porpoise of taking Into mos:Aeration " lb. present ruinous
condition of the British shipping inn rent, and to adopt omi-
nous to parliament, praying foe • oconpretientive, searching,
and iispanial Inquiry into the actual state of British nevi-
▪ and the owes that have led to us present depression,
as well as into all the lawman/ regulation. nadir white it le
now coaducted." Mr. R. W. CILaWrOIO, was called
to the 'hair, sad amongst the ether gentleness mem&
ware Mr. Owego Frederick Yoieng, Mr. Berunley-biome,
Mr. Lising, M.P. • Mr. Derma Dauber, Colonel Sykes,
j M.P. • P. flein;s, M.P., and °Marc
Th; Cnalanari is °peeing the prom .d.ings sedd he had
ahead" emptied to the shipowners' °osmium that he wee
wholly swami to the principle of protection, but those
geethum *aphid to Mee that they had no desire to advo-
cate that principle new, and they had convene I the meeting
imply with the view of urging the legislature
to Matinee as isgairy into the mares al the
present depressed state of the shipping interest. Una that
larpisestka he felt no dificalty in undertetiog to preside to-
day. Is the early part at the first merlon of this year he
pen nodes of hls late Iles to move for a committee upon the
eperations of the melees sots affecting shipping; bet Geh-
-1 serastly Yr. Undway moved for an Inquiry into the
bemire arm afilinpieg, end that motion being *atria, the
committee, of whisk he was a member, met oats and en-
' palsied do 0. C. Lewis as their chairman. The dish
Madan napped sheet the inquiry, and in the es-
mad wise there was no time to revive It.
Be the seam Mel new. In view a the m-
il migelatmat of the seenminee ant sestiou, he advised the
maerig to direst their etiestlea le gelding up evidence epos
the °battles imposed by the law apes ships trading
to than Called %k.., the Nast, end the Continent,
as well as the lajurice of shipping taxation,
both local sad imperial, and the suicidal principle involved la
them/Danger act. He should be happy to give them all the
setionaes in hispower in promoting each an important and
peening faventigation. (Cheers)
=Mr. P. Boum, M.P., moved the first resolution, end de-
clared his belief that If soma measure of relief was not
speedily afforded, as *nest would have to be held
upon the shipping interest. The resolution simply
recapitulated the opinion expressed at the meet•
lag held in December last, and baring recited the
reply of the remanent that the distress was only tem-
porary, It affirmed that it not only still existed but was
(molly on the Merman sad that nothing but ruin stared the
' shipping introit is the how
The Caatutut said that the resolution was to have bees
seceaded by Mr. Digby Seymour. the member for Southatep-
km ; bat that gentlemen eat unavoidably &besot.
Mr. BILAIILIY-MOOII escorted the revolution. He had
enamel the repeal of the Navigation Laws In parliament,
end soaking had sines occurred to change his opinions. The
esonta7 was *norm* of the real bearings of the quer
does, and be inigesied that " a hand-book" of their
ems theald be published for the enlightenment of the pin-
yin's,. Bs fir tea the 111.111114 the navigation laws Italia(
eheapesed turelege by Airlift, it had inneased it, while it
had placed the foreigner at an advantage with the British
shipowner. filmiest Menaced various foreign countries that
favour their own ships at the expense of British bottoms, he
west en to argue that the efficiency of the saw" and the sr
curet of the nations demanded that the existing system
should undergo a material alteration. Net eee pinion in ten
dammed was aware that the coasting trade was gradually
drifting Into the bands of hiregners. Oes drainage which
the forerun enjoyed at the expense of the British ship-
owner was trading with our colonies upon nel terms,
although entirely free from the bordena of the staretu. Re edve-
eated the principle of reciprocity adopted by the United
Etats". He was as much a free trader as say man, but he would
stipulate that be should have the right of selling to, se well
as pimiento from the foreigner. We imported 14,000,0001.
al the mmofacmr.e of France • but in return Pianos only
leek 4,000,0001. of our raw material. Such a state of things
was pawl, unfair,

16. Lamar M.P., claimed the right to address the
ofoodoi egigeltion to the resolution, übe amid
met allow It to go forth that the distress of the shipping
Wenn was attributable to the existing system
of mullion 031111WOle, or the repeal of the nevi-
law'. The resolution and ihe memorial presented is kit year were fallacious. He was favoura-
ble to reciprocity; but not enforced reciprocity,
hews that wee protection in its worst form.
It would revive the war of daises sad the sidles
ef smaiserc• which prevailed blithe time of Cromwell. (Them
provolimi coasiderebie uproar and a georrel cry of
nari asalklm. ouL")
Mr. G. F. Yount; roes to order, as Mr. Liodeey WIN
traveillog from the business of the meeting. The question
Mr. Lindsey wes welabig be had challenged Mr. Lintinty to
!bones with him la public, and Mr. Lindsay had declined
*enlisting*.
The Cwatautta thought Mr. Lindsay was not out of order,
bat left it to the meetlag to decide wbctlicr they would hear
him.

Hr. Lim UT continued to *peak amidst repeated inter-
ruptions.
The resolation warn ultimately adopted.
Mr. 0. F. YOUNG, and other advorttee of the shipping
interest addressed the meeting at some heath.
A petition to parliament, petting forth the grievances row
plated of, and ying for inquiry, worn agreed to, sad
enetrusted to theattelrmrna foe presentation to the Boum of
COCOMOU

TOG ProOsadiap teem/lad dr whole of the allatiosa.