The Express.
London, England, 1859-12-24 00:00:00

COURT OF EXCHRQUER.—Dsc. 23.

Sittings at Nil Prima—Mehra sad Mr. Banc Mattis'
Comma Judas.)

CRIS MAN e. MARDON.-BLANDSI.
Mr. Lush man Mr. Edwin* were counsel for the plaintiff
Mr. Hawkins represented tin defendant.
This was an ethics for slender, to which the ddendast
pleaded sot guilty.
The pWntlf bed bete for sine years a collector oldie Gnat
Central One Comma:ore' Company, end is also a woollen
agent. of Wood-street, Cbeapaide. The defeedant Is hosier,
of Addis-that, Allermanbury, and had felt aggrieved that
be had to pay 21. 3e. 3d. for gas supplied to • prier
Want, and which he mid was • a dead rob-
bery. Oa the evenbg of the 19th of September the
phdatiff was pmeshog the house of the defendant, who was
Mending at the doer with his foremast and a Mr. Benjamin
Brown. The latter, who knew the plaintiff. began joking with
With end said, " Ten must swallow something etas than pas,
or yen would not look se " 06," replied the plaintiff,
wgguasY Bathing to me; I look after the money." On which
dsgrdasl said, " Teo, and you stick to it." The plaintiff
mil the defendant was a (cobalt man to make such an obser-
vation, and the defendant pushql him off the pavement and
called him a rogue end a thief who stuck to the pee mosey.
This wee the slander complained of. The plaintiff wee now
willies; to accept as apology and a retractation.
The defence wee that the defendant did not intend to im -
pate personal dishonesty to the plaintiff, but that the words
were manly mad injoks.
After the mashed prooseded some way,
His lordship suggested that a juror should be withdrawn,
es it appeared that thedehnelmat bid ao intention of charging
the plaintiff with theft.
Tiltheon was molded 10, code juror woe withdraws
111 1"°1411‘17.
MARTIN O. DAY AND OTII/3/—MRONCIFIII. DISMISSAL.

Mr. Hoary Janes use counsel for tbe plu tld; Mr.
Hawkins end Yr. C. Polio* ewe for tlts thiestlants.

11ceplatatiff .in this action sued the dereadeats for
• wrongful diattheel, antler the following circum-
stances: In July last he entired the service of
the defendants, Mossy. Davies, Chews, and Co.,
ablates' matt acturers. of 86, Friday-street, Cheapelde, as
travellir, at a salary of 1201, to be increased at Christmas to
1601. Hefted, through his former connexion, brought them 75
new eashresses between July sad October, but he found that a
lodide° nosed Yards, in the defendants' employ, hat beets
sent nand to the tradesmen he canvassed, to anticipate
his cadre. Oa Oet. 31 be west to Kieputon, and on his re-
tan to the wersisothe, about 9 o'clock in the evening, one
of the dethethate complained that what be was doing for
thin did big per, end stated they intended to disposes with
his earvkaa. Be then said he sh.nld require a secath's
Wary In lima of notice, but on his going sat day
the ddindante told him be was distoiseed because be bad
eirlenak the previous day, and had cruelly boated the
by over-driving it. The plaintiff now swore be bed
only taken 3d. ef rum and water, and that he had never bra
drunk in hie life. . .

Menem Elliot and Robinson, two other travellers whom
he had met on the day in gneetion, and who had Warned to
town with him, deposed thet he was not in the ,lightest do-
rms intoxicated, sad Chia was corroborated by the plsintirs
wills, sad a lodger in the same house who spoke to him on his
enters home. . . .

O. firm Geier brad :Kr. Chance and the manager of the
pisintlrs deportment swore he was Intoxicated, and a young
men wins moomgoated the plaintiff in the choice said he bad
Mlle It half way to town because the plaintiff waa " in-
sagiable." Thla last witness. however, gave a rather eon-
heel account of what he had himself taken during the day.
Nis lordship, in summing up, said he th..ught it was fur
the jury to my whether the fact of a servant being intoxicated
*Odd a diming by his employer, but is pant of law he
thought it did.
The jury fowled a verdict for the plaintiff—damages 101.
This was the last day of dm sittings after term.

SHERIFFS' COURT.—Dac. 2.5.
(S.k Mr. Kerr.)
ILTE IP. WRIORT.-Till EUROPEAN COX

This wee an seem to reoorer U. 10... being eleven days
et 10.. par day, charged, u stated by plaintiff's counsel, as
under : . . .

Mr. Lsagford, instructed by Medina, mid that plas-
tid' had been engaged by the agent of the COMM ill4lOO to go
to the month of the Danube for two years. As amu en the
work wee finished plointef was to ho brought home, but he
wee detained at the mouth of the Danube for clew.. dale,
though two boats came up. tinder these chromium
plaintiff sought to recover damagta.
The entoract wag. handed op to the Jndgs, who aaltad bow
dofooduit could be made hob's.

Loa gtord—Ele it too roe possible meat to dr tow
votolow, and tbo canine woo made Sn London.
Rim Hower Inquired oil to bow tits comoskolos woo
lortood, . .

iheahaat (for delewtent)—Of tbe ems great Mats,
of Evrove.
Hi Henear—Who la the eonalaakeer ta Ragland r