The Express.
London, England, 1867-01-29 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, TUESDAY EVENING, JANUARY 29, 1867.

BETTING IN LONDON.—Nomts Amasnom.

The clubs were thronged to-day, and wore a business-like
aspect, promising well for the forthcoming season. Specu-
la:ion on the spring handicaps was still in the ascendant,
and several horses were backed for the Chester Cup and
Lincoln Handicap. For the latter race Christmas Carol,
although only moderately supported, was the favourite;
Batthyany was friendless at 20 to 1, and the other horses
quoted were backed for but trifling amounts. For the
Chester Cup Moulsey had decidedly the call of everything,
and was supported with some spirit at 25 to 1. The
special was made the medium of a small investment
at 100 to 3, and the same rate of odds was offered spinet
Proserpine and Bracken, about each of whom 40 to 1
would have been taken. Weather Star was in forte, and
the price laid in the earlier part of the morning was to-
wards the close unobtainable. Against the Cambridge-
shire winner, Act:a, 40 to 1 was laid, and 1000 to 20 each
The Duke and quick March. There were offers against
wally others, but at this point business hung tire. There
appeared to be a strong desire to back John Day's lot, but
the difference of half a point between layer and taker
seemed to present an insurmountable obstacle to the ac-
complishment of a bet. An offer was also made to back
T. Dawson 's lot at 100 to 8, but 10 to 1 was the highest
bid, and again nothing was done. For the Two
Thousand Guineas the position of Plaudit was
neither better nor worse than on Saturday, pre.
I Meety the same offers to lay and take being quoted.
Hermit's price wail; to 1, and that of Julius 9 to 1, and
I each would have met with friends at an extra point.
Marksman was in great request, 1000 to 60 being accepted
freely in three or four places. Sir Oliver and Master
Butterfly were offered to be laid against at 20 to 1 each,
and the remaining transactions on this race were 1000 to
, 20 taken about The General, and 110 to 40 agst Julius for a
"situation." The Derby betting showed no change. The
. Rake was still quiet et ti to 1 (offered) ; 9 to I was taken
! about D'EstourneL and the few remaining quotations
were almost the same as those of Saturday. The prices at
the close were as follows:
LINCOLN HANDICAP.
5) to 1 mist Christmas IS to 1 east Bismarck 0
Carol 0 25 to 1 Vsndervelde t•
20 to I Math) any oft) 25 to 1 Sseeharometer
23 to 1 Lady Pant 3 lair)
and oil,
CHKSTI
1000 to SO agst Moldier t
1000 to 3 Tin SpOal (t'
1000 to 30 Proaermne ,op,

CI'P.

1066 to 10 agst Lecturer .'oft)
1000 to 20 John Davis
1000 to 2D Life Guards-

t to
tow to so Bracken off,
t 40 to 1)
40 to 1 Weather >taz
4 and in
40 to 1 Actin t)
40 to 1 kiss Harriette
1000 to 20 The Duke 1,
1000 to :!0 Quick Starch,t'
1000 to 24 Guyon& ott, t
IOU')
TWO 1 BOTHA!
9 to 2 apt Plaudit ,011,1 6
to 1,
6to 1 Hermit t
7 lo
oto 1 Julius WI, 1
10 WU
1000 to tit) Marksman 4 t
DER
6to 1 apt The Rake •ott
to 1 D'Estournel (1
and or
11 to 1 Plaudit ott'
100 to 7 Hermit (012, t
10 tot)

man ;uff—)
1000 to IS Stonltreas ,off)
1000 to 15 Plataet (offi
1000 to 12 Scipio ,off
1000 to 10 Redcap toff)
1000 to 8 Freetown of
16 tO 2 John Day. lot

(off, t ts to 1)-
10 to 1 T. Dawoon's lot
(u, t 100 to 8,

ND GUINEAS.
W 1 apt Master Butter-
fly id;
20 to 1 Sir Oliver 'off
1000 to 20 The General A
and off,
90 to 40 Julio& (1,2, 9t;

-16 to 1 aunt Grand Cross
oR)
1000 to 29 Master Butter-
fly .off)
1000 to 10 Alleabury (off)

THE DISTRESS AT DEPTEOED.—Yesterday after-
noon, by the invitation of Captain Superintendent A. P.
Eardley Wilmot, C. 8., a meeting of the officers and heads
of departments in the Royal Victoria Victualling and
Deptford Dockyards was held, for the purpose of adopting
means for supplying the children of the unemployed poor
of the town with at least one meal daily. Captain Wilmot
presided, and in the course of his remarks observed that
although all was now being dune that could be practically
suggested to alleviate the existing distress among families,
yet in ionic instances the tickets which were given for
supplies of food and tiring were disposed of for drink,
and helpless children were left at home to starve.
He proposed that amongst those engaged in the dock-
yard and victualling/an' a special fund should be raised,
and that a dinner should be provided daily in the dock-
yard for as many children as could be accommodated, by
which system it would le been that their benevolence
would not he misapplied. It was expected that the meat
i required would be supplied by the contractor to the Ad-
miralty as the same prices as charged for the public service,
and Mr. Hogartb, now engaged in the slaughtering of
I animals at the victualling-yard for the Royal Navy, bad
expressed his willingness that all should be done towards
the object they had in view free of cost. The suggestion
of Captain Wilmot was cordially concurred in, and there
are to be weekly eoetributions among all employed, by
which it is expected from 60 to 100 children will thus be
provided for.
RAILWAY AND OTHER BILLS IN PARLIAMENT.
Yesterday Messrs. Frere an.l Palgrave, the examine:a of
standing orders proofs upon railway and other private
bills now pending before the House of Commons, resumed
their labours in committee rooms Nos. lei and 17, when
the following business was transacted :—Before Mr. Frere
—The examiner declared the standing ordain to have
been complied with in the cases of the following unop-
posed bills :—Herne Lay Waterworks, London and North
Western Railvae (Ashby and Nuneaton lines), London
and North Western Railway (lines at Burton-on-Trent),
Wallasey Improvement, Manchester Corporation Water-
works and Improvement, London and North Western and
Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway Companies, Wilts and
Gloucester Railway, and Dundee New Gas. The unopposed
Dublin Harbour Board was adjourned till February 4.
The opposed adjourned petition of the Swansea Vale Rail-
way was further postponed until this day (Tuesday). The
standing orders of the opposed London and North Western
Railway (Cockermouth and Workington Railway Transfer
Act (IStiti) Amendment) were declared not complied with.
Before Mr. Palgrave—These unopposed bills passed stand-
ing orders i—Staleybridge Las, Hampton-court Gas, Wol-
verhampton New Waterworks, Salford Borough, Edin-
burgh Improvement. Greenock Harbour, Barking Gas,
Abertillery Gas and Water, Rises sod Poutpuister Gaa,
and Selkirkshire Raids. The unopposed postponed peti-
tions of the Bradford Canal Navigation and Leeds and Live-
rpool Canal Company also passed standing orders ; as did
the opposed adjourned petitions of the Sligo Port and
Harbour and Sligo Borough Improvement. The standing
orders of the unopposed adjourned petition of the Devon
and Somerset Railway (Deviation) were declared not to
have been complied with.
HOSPITAL FOR DISEASES or THE CHEST, VICTORIA-
PARS. —The number of patients relieved at this institution
daring last week woe 1,174, of which 118. were new teem

tido intrilignut.

COURT OF COMMON PLEAS.—JAN. 28.
&Nags ii Nisi Prior in Muldleeer..—(Before Mr. Justice
Byles and a Common Jury.)
WATNEY I'. LW&

After our report left yesterday,
Mrs. Wntney gave some general evidence as to the state
of the furniture when she left and when she returned to the
house. She denied that the rime was cracked when she
left, but she had left a day or two before Mr. Lyne took
possession, and during that interval a young woman living
opposite took charge of the house.
Mr. Thomas Birchtuore' who went through the furniture
and checked it with the inventory, at the end of the
defendant's tenancy, said that the house was dirty,
and the furniture *good deal injured. The total estimated
damage to the furniture, including the piano and the vase,
it appeared was 701.85. 6d.
Agnes Birmingham said she was in the service of Mr.
Lyne from December, 1865, to the June following. Father
Ignatius used to visit the house. There was an owl and also
two magpies, which were loose ; and there were parrots,
canaries, and some common brown birds, which were in
cages. The owl lived in the dravring•room at night.
(Laughter.) She remembered the vase. It was quite safe
one night when she drew the blinds and shut the abutters.
Mr. Serjeant Parry—Then you left the owl in the dark.
(Loud laughter.)
. .

Witnes--In the morning the vase was broken, and
when she told Mr. Lyne he opened the window and let it
tly. A parrot, which was in a large cage, made holes in
the curtains. The cage was near the curtains, and some-
times the parrot took an airing outside the cage. The
magpies were in Father Ignatius 's bed-room.
Mr. Justice Bylea—But they seem to have done
no harm.

Mr. Serjesnt Parry— No; but they were very dirty.
Mr. Justice Bytes—Well, then leave them.
Mr. Price—Magpies, I believe, are looked upon as very
lucky things • indeed, it is said, that they betoken a
wedding. Loud laughter.)
Mr. Serjeant Parry—When they are two together upon
a tree in a natural state, but not in Father Ignatius's bed.
room. (Loud laughter.)
Witness continued—She did not know of there being
sand in the drawing-room, nor of water being on the piano.
There were barley-meal, potatoes, and other things boiled
in the soup digester for the pigs.
Some other slight evidence was given as to the damage
done to the furniture, and this formed the plaintiff's case.
Mr. Price admitted that in all probability the question
would turn out to be simply one of amount, and notwith-
standing the talk that they had heard as to the soup
digester' the magpies, and Father Ignatius, he trusted
that the jury would protect Mr. Lyne from being
" fleeced." He said he should show that the claim was a
very exaggerated one, and he added that Mr. Lyne had
time after time offered to refer the case before legal
proceedings were taken, but as those who advised the
plaintiff preferred law, the defendant determined that he
would have the opinion of the jury upon the whole case.
The learned counsel alaosubmitted that the &Hexed damage
to the piano was by no means proved, nor was it likely to
have happened. Those who knew anything of the teethe-
tical qualities of gentlemen like Father Ignatius would not
bentrprised to hear that he was a great musician, his sisters
also played, and when the whole house was singing with
harmony every night, was is likely that they should have
paid so little respect to the piano as to water it instead of
the flowers ? (Laughter.) He denied the injury to the
piano, and he also denied that the vase was a Wedgwood,
and further he should show that the furniture was of the
most rubbishing description, and the jury must, after
hearing the evidence, say what damage it had sustained.
Mr. Lyne, the defendant, upon being called into the
witness-box, hoped that he might be allowed to address
the court shortly m a public man ; but upon being told
that he must simply answer the questions put to him, he
said that he was living as a private gentleman. The fur-
niture, when he took the house, was much out of repair.
During a short interval the witness, addressing his lord-
ship, said, " My lord, I presented a petition to parliament
to get rid of these eases from your lordship's court'—(a
laugh)—but upon being recalled to the matter more imme-
diately in hand, he said that there was no injury to the
piano except a small blister upon it. It was not known
how this was caused. The piano was properly taken care
of, and it was in perfect condition when he left the house.
Mr. Price—And the claim as to the piano was not made
until quite recently.
Witness—The vase was large enough to hold about three
pints of liquid. As far as he knew, the vase was perfect
when he took the house, though there was the letter
"B" written against it in the inventory.
Mr. Justice Byles, in consequence of an observation by
counsel, said that the gentleman was giving his evidence
very fairly.
Witness— I wish I could go into the whole of the case,
my lord.
Mr. Justice Byles—l do not join you in that wish. (A
laugh.)
Witness—lt is a great pity, for the sake of the public, I
assure you.
Mr. Justice Bylee—We must simply attend to the matter
before us. There are some things in this case that have
not been proved; for instance, there is no tittle of evidence
of sand being taken into the dewing room.
Witness—Not a tittle of it. Might I not mention, my
lord, that
. . . .

Mr. Justice Bytes— No ; you must attend to counsel, and
answer all the questions. that is all.
Witness—The flowerpots were not put upon the piano ;
no flowerpot ever went on to it. The owl was in the
drawing-room for one night only ; and the next night he
got rid of it. His eon put it in there to catch mice. The
house was overrun with mice. He sent for an efficient
person to go over the furniture when he left the house,
and his instructions were to settle the matter, and to do
what was right. He proposed arbitration.
Mr. Berjeant Parry said that his client also wished for
arbitration.

Mr. Justice Byles said that what had taken place in re-
ference to arbitration was nut evidence. He must request
that this case should be conducted in the same way as any
other case.

In cross-examination the witness again referred to the
offer of arbitration, and, being called to order, he said,
" They have no stamped agreement ; theare proceeding knows
contrary to law, and the learned serjesnt it."
Mr. Justice Byle•—lf you do not attend to what the
court says, I shall be obliged to say soizething that will
be unpleasant to you, and will be exceedingly unpleasant
to me.

At this stage of the proceedings his lordship rose to go
to chambers, and the further hearing of the case was ad-
journed.

CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT.

Henry Brown, William Newman, and 274(ratas Charles
Cuthbert, three respectable looking young men, sur-
rendered to take their trial upon the charge of stealing 130
yards of silk and 24 yards of satin ; and they were also
charged with feloniously receiving the same, knowing it to
have been stolen. -

Mt. Begley and Mr. Collins conducted the prosecution ;
Mr. Digby Seymour, Q.t..' was specially retained with Mr.
Macrae Moir to defend Brown ; Mr. Metcalfe and Mr.
Straight appeared for Newman ; and Mr. Warner Sleigh
defended the other prisoner, Cuthbert.
The facts of this case were given at very great length
upon the different examinations of the prisoners at
the police court, and they will be fresh in the recol-
lection of our readers. The prosecutors of the in-
dictment were Messrs. Taylor and Stokes, silk
warehousemen. carrying on business in Friday-street,
Cheapaide, and it appeared that a young man named
George Alfred Merrell bad been in their service for about
three years, and there was no doubt, from his own admis-
sions, that he bad been conducting himself in a most dis-
honest manner, and that he hail robbed his employers to a
very large amount, and the only question in the limey:
case was whether the prisoners now under charge were
concerned in the dishonest transactions in which he had
been engaged, and had feloniously received portions of the
property that he had stolen. It appeared that the pri-
soner Cuthbert represented himself to be a commission
agent, that Brown carried on business as a dealer in
marine stores in George-street, Portland-place, and that
the other prisoner, Newman, we. the manager of a public-
house called the Swan, also situated in George-street, and
that Merrell and the two first mentioned prisoner, were
in the habit of frequenting this public-house, and that
the three priaoneis were on friendly terms. ihe charge
of stealing was abandoned, and the one for receiving
was alone proceeded with, and in support of this the
young man Merrell was examined at great length, and be
repeated the evidence he gave at the police court with re-
gard to the transactions that had taken place between him
and the prisoners. The case was, however, brought to an
abrupt termination upon a technical objection taken by
Mr. Sleigh, that the indictment against the prisoners failed
to allege that the property the prisoners were alleged to
have feloniously received was the same property that had
been stolen.

The Recorder, after referring to the statute which gives
the power to a prosecutor to allege the felonious receiv-
ing as well as stealing in one indictment, and deliberat-
ing carefully upon the point, ruled that the objection
taken by the learned counsel was a fatal one. and the jury,
therefore, under his lordship's direction, returned a ver-
dict of Not Guilty.
Gloria Green, 26, pleaded guilty to a robbery upon
Joseph Suhenni, and stealing a watch, his property.
Agar, the principal warder of the City prison at Hollo-
way, proved that the prisoner had been confined in that
prison eleven times upon different charges of felony, and
it appeared that he had also been several times imprisoned
in Coldbath-fields for robbery.
. . . . .

The prisoner was sentenced to be kept in penal servi-
tude for seven years.
Joseph Crouch was charged with stealing a quantity of
coals, the property of William Barwick.
Mr. Sleigh prosecuted, and the prisoner was defended
by Mr. Mamie,.
The prosecutor in this case was• coal merchant at Lime-
house, and the prisoner was in his service as cartoon, and
it appeared that on the 2•th December he sent the
prisoner to the Great Northern Railway station
for twenty-five sacks of coals, or two tons and a half,
which were to be sent to one of his customers at
Lewisham. From some suspicion that was entertained by

the prosecutor, it appeared that he went to the house of
the customer at the time the coals were about to be de-
livered, and he then found that although the prisoner had
only delivered one sack of coals, there were thice empty
sacks in the waggon. Be asked the prisoner to account
for having the three empty sacks when only one had been
delivered, and he attempted to do so by stating that the
twenty-five sacks had been overweighted to the extent
of two sacks, and that he had emptied two of the sacks at
the station, and he said that although he had only twenty-
three full sacks instead of twenty-five in the waggon, they
contained the full quantity of two tons and a half. The
remaining sacks were weighed, and were found to be quite
correct, and it was proved that the whole of the sacks
contained the proper quantity at the time they were sent
away from the railway station.
The jury found the prisoner Chilly, and he was sen-
tenced to eight months' imprisonment and hard labour.

THE CHARGE OF SCUTTLING THE SEVERN.
It is understood that the trial of the prisoners Holds-
worth, Dean, Webb, and Berwick, for feloniously casting
away the ship Severn, will come on to-morrow
morning. The counsel retained for the prosecution
are the Solicitor-General, Mr. Giffard, Q.C., Mr. F.
H. Lewis, and Mr. Montague Williams. Mr. Scrjeant Bel-
'entitle and Mr. Metcalfe defend Berwick. Serjeant
Atkinson and Mr. Warner Sleigh defend Holdsworth ; and
Mr. Sleigh and Mr. Kemp will appear for Webb.
(Before the Common Serjeant.)
THE CHARGE OF DEFRAUDING THE EARL OF DERBY.

Henry Philip Dashwnod Arthy, 29, a gentlemanly-look-
ing young man described as a soldier, was placed at the
bar to plead to three indictments, the first of which
charged him with feloniously forging and uttering a receipt
forlool. with intent to defraud; the second with unlawfully
obtaining by tithe pretences from the Right Hon. the Earl of
Derby and others, the Lords Commissioners of her Ma-
jesq's Treasury, a warrant for the payment of the sum of
1001., with intent to defraud ; and the third, with unlaw-
fully obtaining by false pretences from her Majesty's Pay.
master-General a warrant for the payment of the ruin of
100/., with intent to defraud. There was also a charge
against the defendant of unlawfully obtaining by false
pretences from Stephen Philpot Low and others his part-
ners the sum of 100/., with intent to defraud.
The defendant pleaded guilty to the .whole" ~the
charges. Sentence was deferred.
The Common Serjeant was engaged' the whole r.of the
day in trying Mint cans.