The Express.
London, England, 1860-12-13 00:00:00

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COURT OF COMMON PLEAS—Dec. 12.

Bittangs at Nisi Prins in
dloudon. ors Iced
Justice Erie sa Jury.)

BIILADLIT r. TIM BOCTII warms mn.way consaerr.
The plaintiff in this ease thine* damages upon the
ground that the deleasheis hid ad supplied him with a
sufficient number a/ tonics In whit* to wed manure elms
the line to his enstonsery. The come occupied the whole
day, and was not easeteded whim the court rose.

LIVERPOOL, Winton)Av.
The Royal Mail ateeaa-abip Athenian, with the
mails from the Weil Climet of Africa, Tenerife, and Ma-
deira, arrived have at allele hoar last night. Her elates
an—
lermsndo Po, nth 04. ; Caesieroone, :10th ; Old Othnbar. •
let Nov. ; Honey, fith ; them River, 6th ; Neu River, t;th ;
Baia, nth ; Lagoa. 10th ; Ama, 12th ; Cape Cm* Owl*
14th ; Cape Palms, 16th ; Marra Leone, 21st ; Bathurst,
2ith ; Teseriffe, lst Dec. ; and Madeira, 3rd. the Wimp
1,1'17 ounces of Oil duet and 3,4101. in specie, 112pmeem.
gen, and a fall cargo of palm oil, ivory, he.
Borne.—The trade entirely stopped, and bad been for
some tam, is eonseqesees of • higher bar being demesded
by the natives, to which the traders reamed to submit
River walisalthy.
CAMl2loolllL—Tvade very dull. Higher prices denuanithi
for ad. River healthy.
Yraitiorno Pm—Her Ma}sety's implode( steamer Plower,
Lieutensat May, maimmad, are
on the 21.1 Oslther,
aster •an weeks* from England. Rho WI Pere
coat,. Poen the 11th October is company with her llejestee
ship Mpitise. The Plows was hound to the Cape sad IM
Livieranies expeditious as the Zanibed.
Loom—Prederre of all kinds scarce, and higher prism
rimeaded. The King of wee li me-
tlismaniening wholesale eserides of Mamma life. sober
already modsred at this one ceremony emanated to 1,700;
mid mush more IMO ► similar fate, the king mend nag
that wfdwt how is not done to the memory of his late
father mill he has sacrificed 2.1100. He bad detained ten
Maiden at Abontey to entas him fearful castme.
The has threatened to Week Abbsokum. H.H.H.
Alecto, Raby. sailed on the 10th November for
Liam Itiver sad Fernando Po.
Mem* Leoes--kler Majesty's ship Eepoir arrived as
the 91st el November, laving in tow • magnificent all
slave brig, which the captured in lat. 7.10 N., lon. 12.46
W. Me was fitted for carrying 500 slam, which the would
have bikes on board the following mortung. The captain
sad supercargo had landed with • large sum of money for
the perchers of the slaves. the had slave decks laid and
hoes ce board, also coppers for cooking nor, and slave
canoes for passing the slaves through the surf. When taken
she had so pepsin or odour; her cargo cousisted of rice
and weber. Her Majesty's ship Industry arrived ors the
23th of November from Mayo, with 300 troops belonging
to the 2nd Went labs Regiment, wrecked in her Majesty •
ship Peewee: nom
'toe Wit African Herald says : • " The municipality of
Cape L'oest has ceased fur the present to exist. It seems
that the King and native chiefs and captains of the town
object to the municipalty in the very substantial ground
that the existence of that body tends to diminish their
authority sad reduce the revenue they (the chief.) derive
from bearing causes. There can be no doubt, however,
that every motive of education and intelligence •ppneate
the good the mayor and councillors effected. In abolishing
for the present the municipality the governor mid his
mancilhave, we know, weaned heathy. The matter has
been well weighed sad thoroughly discussed, and we en-
dentand that the circumstance that has bad reset weight
with the meadive government in arriving at the risolution
we have recorded is that there are nut educated natives of
pathos is setheiset numb= to enable the late mayor and
councillove to be relieved* ethers."
Hie Excellency the Gamow sad party arrived at
Acre on the 20th. Ills Emalkagy
_awes saluted both by
the fort and by the natives. The dish of the interior who
were to meet the Governor not having arrived at the duper.
Me of the mail, hie Exoelleacy took a abort cruise in the
Alecto safer as Dianne., calling at Akimbo, and Winnebok
no kis way back to Accra. His Exoellemy was pleased with
the reception given him by the commandant of Winnehalt.
Captain de Revignes, commandant of Accra, had given
Imola aliitsetiou.

TIM RAILWAY 11151111111 ra F6ANCE.—The in-
eatigetiou into this extraordinary event shows that some
ef the details at fast given were not quits meet. It wee
Mined that in the oocopaitmeot of the railway carriage in
which the MIEN was committed wars bawl a anuff.box
in wood of the commonest kind, and a neck wramr, and
that there was roman to believe that they had le t
by the murderer. But the anutfdioz tarns oat to have be-
longed to the decamped, who having some time back lost
• very valuable it Id one, often carried this other about
with bin,, and always when travelling. It is onnsidered
prob.ble that the wrapper was his sko. 'Thus what was
considered one clue to the discovery of the criminal bas
disappeared. It turns out, moreover, that it was cot
mar the *anon of Noisy.lettee that the murderer jumped
from the conies', but sear that of Norgestear.kfarne
which u further from Paris. It is wandered singula;
that he should have selected seek a spot, since close to the
Matti:* is a low viaduct, then a beidge, then • lofty em-
bankment ; but hie foot-marks appear clearly es the aide of
the line sad down the embankment ; in the bid, however,
which as watt. the latter, the trace is lost. The
mon is that the ouu tweet towards a village called
and that he there took the railway either to come np to
Paris ..r to go down the hoe toirsola Strasbourg. A
Strange ciremostasce haste be mentioned:—ln the ern-
porteueht iu which the criwe so, perpetrated fregenecte of
puteboard were picked up, and on being pat together ill
wed found that they formed the ticket which Y. Polled
had tetra et Troves. The araassia, of coons, mast have
tore up the tudiet ; what hie object was in Mu doing is •
mystery. and it is will stringer that he dirt Dot throw the
pieces out of the window. T 11.• G• ho dr r Est of Bar-le•Dur
says : --" A d,.. option of the person of the presumed
smuts.° of Y. l'oiosot Laving bees sent off in different
dinNtions, a getiderme, on Friday, serrated at the railway
state* of the town an intlisidual to whom it exactly
applied ; but, after an inseeti‘stion, he was set at liberty?'
Gaisyneisi.
Berra Kxxxierirrox IT rsrum. —During the weak
maim Liea the visitors have been aa follows :—O•
Yondny, Tuesday, end tleturday, free days, 2,091 ; on Mon-
day and Tuesday, bee erestuti.„2.lal; on the three she.
ii,„ta. days larladssios to die liutilk AL), ; one
student.' motes litrodassley),4:.: total, 5,348. From
the of the meniMal, _ 2
ry MIAS To BCT • WATCH. —"ne practical
utility of • seed wadi. the ti,hlu of regularity It geaeratr,
sad the aelmniesis of the penstuality It seers le en
twin proved beyond a doubt The establishment, tifebUnes.
at • isammibte elem. Cher alveolars ass he obtained waft be
e,dam. At me Barima, sod U. Ledgeseam.
may the car Radar prelaty Weems, the .
alook,a oak b ape two guiassa. and as various other kinds et
madam &Gram lean% horizontal, er vertical al swims pilaw
as Ohs newel LOA awl sopselerlo of osselassasa'
asessali Pooplilla poi tree fee
en swims, damel.l aveq seesellsOloll era aim
wads watiere sok by a
pet Ma mob al lie ibba--Adirer.
thassal

Tlike ItEPREEW, r 11111TROAY VENTI44I' tit (TENSER

ere et her neglecting to do ecy the interview to take place
from one to three on Saturday afternocee.

80PWITH V. 1107W17111.
The petithmer in thin snit, a surgeon a Tunbridge Wsl
had been proceeded against by his wife fer. • judicial sew
melon on the ggroeuand of adultery. The Wee wen tried, and
resulted in a dec niom in favour of tae psiitiondr, who now
demanded the restoration of his conjegal right.. Mn. Sm-
with in reply her previous cheeps et adultery. To
this Mr. &With pleaded the* the charges in quertice were
res adjudicates.
Dr. Phillimore, Q. 0., and Dr. Spied(' appeared in support
al the plea. In the mums of his airment the former
learned civilian applied to the learned judge the epithet of
custos morum.

bliieTereeswell—l am not custom =gum. lam merely
the adminiatrator of the law under au NA of parliament
If I were matte unorum in thin court I should have upon
me a very painful and burdensome duty. (A laugh.)
Dr. Philore—The title is not one to which your pre-
decessors in the ecckeiaatical courts used at all to object.
Biz C. Crsowell—They had probably not so many maw to
deal with of the kind that comehere.
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Dr. iiisin-beTwTs oTtba;ll et the estoppel, sad
The Court reserved ite judgment.

ARCHES COI7RT.—Dso. 12.
(Before Dr. Lushhwtoa.)

THE BISHOP OP LONDON P. TEE IIT. JAM BOtiwuk.
This came, in which the defendant had lodged an appeal
against the judgment and sentence of the court of depriva-
tion, arising out of his unfortunate 1100/11110:i011 with a young
lady, named Yorath, who gave birth to • child in the
school-room attached to the district church of St. Stephen,
Stepney, and the facts connected with which have obtained
so Much notoriety, came again before the court in arrest of
the judgment.
The Rev. Mr. Bonwell now appeared in person, and ad-
dressing the judge stated that he had presented his petition
of appeal, and had made an application to the Lords of the
Privy Council for leave to prosecute that appeal in forme
Pa
which application had been granted.
Judge-- Have you the order?
Mr. Bonwell said the order was not yet drawn up.
A gentleman, from the Aloe of Mr. F. Hart Dyke, who
appears for the Bishop of London, mid there was no doubt
an application bad been made.
Dr. Lushington—l shall take Mr. Bonwell's word that
the application has been made, and that be intends to pro-
secute the appeal, and adjourn the prooesdinp until the
met court day.

clsimed, 4 reelll kaki the head bleed before night"
The prisoner's quartme wens in the centre block of the per-
manent bane and after dinner Sergeant Chipt and
Corporal Coles were playing at backgammon, seated oppo-
site theme ethos' a table in No. 19 room. Eight or
eddies were t, Johnson was seen near his cot, where
each man's is kept, cleaning his rise, and the water wee
distinctly seen to come out at the nipple—a clear proof
that it was at that time unloaded and without a cap uuppoonn
the nipple. In about tea minutea the soldiers were
by the report of the rile, and Johnson wee then seen just
behind Chipta, having his rifle close to his side, above his
hip, and the muesli, pointed towards Sergeant Chipta's back.
Immediately on the rifle being discharged Chipte jumped
up from the form on which he was seated, attempted to
seize Johnson's rifle, and said, " You villain, you have shot
me." Cots exclaimed, " My God, I am shot." Both
men died almost instantly of internal hemorrhage. The
rifle bullet pored through Chipts, then through the
body of Coles, Ostia and flattened itself 'epithet the wall,
and finally injured the stock of a rifle, with the ramrod of
which it came in contact. Private Multhey seised the
prisoner, and Private Morley took from Mm the discharged
rifle. He was told that holed shot two men. His reply
was, " Don't be afraid. I don't =an to hart you, or any
other man ; I only meant it for one." He also said that he
was sorry he had shot Corporal Coles. Ono? I. to the
guard " -room he said, I did not mean it for Coke,
baths Sergeant Chipte." Polio-Sergeant John Cox met to
' the guard-room to remove the prisoner to gaol ;he made
no reply to the charyut "acted drunk" when
he got outside, and was o to be carried to the station,
yet he walked into the cell right, and mad* an inquiry
how many were shot. At the coroner's Inquest the prisoner
said he bad no ill-feeling against Chipta or any other man ;
that while cleaning his rifle he half-cocked it, and it went
off accidentally ; he did not know that it was loaded, and
he was so surprised when it went off that he did not know
whether he or any other man Vila wounded. It was stated
that a rifle might be loaded without the use of the ramrod
—the cartridges being greased and mailer than the bore, a
slight tap of the butt end on the ground is sufficient to and
horse the charge Assistant-Surgeon Abbott, the regimental
surgeon, fonndthat the ball had entered Chipts's back and
oome out obliqueir from the chart—death must have been

COURT OF BARICILITPTOY. —Dec. 12.
Wore Mr. Commissioner Coulburn4
DI 12 IXILIAXIN 01218. —llll LEATH= 11211.
The bankrupt was a leather-factor, of Bermoudemehmt.
nuke was the adjourned certificate meeting. The accounts,
prepared by Mews. Hart, extend over 2i y.ears, commix.
rug at the beginning of 1858, with • deficiency of 1,0811.
The bankrupt now owes to unsecured creditors,
on 11,1,0:ltj
bills, 11,8301., of which 3,729/. ere not expected
to reek against the estate. The assets were stated at
1,4961. in good debts and property.
Mr. Fennell, the official assignee, in his report on the wee,
states that the bankrupt, who weeformerly in the service of
Merin. Hooper and Parkinson, commenced business in 1851
without any capital. In February, 1858, be was joined by •
person named Austin, also formerly in the employment
al Hooper and Parkinson, and also without capital. The
partnership was dissolved in January, 1860, the bankrupt
oontinuing the bminces. His transactions had been of an
extensive ebeereeter, particularly in connexion with Hooper
and Parkinson. There appeared to have been a system of
bill accommodation transaction,' between them, the result
bung that, at the end of the year 1859, the balance against
the bankrupt amounted to upwards of 9,0001. The debt
was them reduced to 3,1011., by wrig off, with the consist
of Hooper and Parkinson, 6,0421. The balance still re-
mained due to them, and was repainted by arresplamoss
diersounted and held by
_other parties. Though the bank-
mp's purchases amounted to 33,1791., be had accepted bills
to the amount of 67,1771. His ales appeared to have bees
30,3171., while the Dille receivable book disclosed Han
either drawn or endorsed to the amount of 60,2711. In the
fen of mach a trading upon accommodation bills, it was not
surprising to find that the result was • very heavy lam
A nominal gum of 4171. was returned mpofit ; but imuntach
as the bad debts alone amounted to more than three times
that sum, any question of profit was • mere deludes. The
trade expwes, too, were enormously heavy, being retuned
at 7,4401., of which no lees a sum than 1,954/. consisted of
interest and discount. Notwithstanding the unfavourable
points in this cue, the bankrupt was entitled to credit for
good hook-hl•Plelf.
At • former sitting the assignees opposed ; but a gentle-
men from the office of Mears. Crossley and Burn now stated
that they withdrew their opposition.
His Honour said he must be allowed to say that this
course, on the part of the assignees, was not creditable.
They bad accepted a trust for the general body of the
creditors, and ought not to shrink from the iliac-bog° of
its duties.
Mr. Lawrence, for the bankrupt, mid that the termer
were trade creditors. They were Mr. Kemp and Mr.
Wallinger, the public officers of two discount companies.
No other Creditor opposed. Three months ego the bank.
rapt had applied for his certificate ; bat an adjournment had
been ordered, to see what was done with Hooper and Park-
imam. Thane bankrnse bad not yet pained their examina-
tion, and some time must elapse before they came up for
their certificates. In the interval, Mr. Commisioner
Fans had decided on • similar ease, that of 0=
and had awarded an immediate certificate of the
class. Probably that had determined the magnate in the
course they had pursued to-day. It was true the trading
had been very unfortunate.
The Commissioner—What will the dividend be?
Mr. Peonell—About a shilling in the pound.
Mr. Lawrence mid that the profits had been largely over-
weighted by the trade expenses. The wages paid for work.
lag up leather had of late been greater than the proceeds
radioed. The bills described by the official assignee as sc.
menniodation transactions were not so in the real sense of
the term. Hooper and Parkinson had never drawn on the
bankrupt except for value, and the bankrupt had never ac-
aped but for value. The aggregate amount of bills very
much exceeded the amount of goods sold ; but this was owing
to renewals ; and at no one period was the bankrupt under
acceptances for more than the amount of goods supplied. A
renewal of a debt was not • fresh debt, nor did it constitute
an accommodation bill. The only liabilities that ranked
against the estate were those actually representing goods
supplied. It was the common course of dealing in the Feat
India trade to give acceptemes at three months, renewable
for other three months in the event of the proceeds not then
having arrived. There was in reality no complaint Kaput
the bankrupt ; the only complaint, if any, was
Hers
Hooper and Parkinson, roe being too geed-natured.
was no doubt that the assignees would have opposed had
these transactions been really in the nature of accommoda-
, Von bills. If a bill were reuewed a hundred times, it was
, in no sense an accommodation transaction if the original bill
was given for value. There had already been an adjourn-
ment of three months, which ought to satisfy the justice of
the case.
Hia Honour said be would take time to consider the
' case, and would look into that which had been referred to
, as decided by Mr. Commimioner Fans. He forbore giving
any opinion on the question raised by Mr. Lawrence, as to
, whether renewals were accommodation bills. though he
confessed his first impressions did not go with that reason
, rug. Where assignees shrank from their duty, as in this
case, the court was left to find its way as well as it could,
, and to make inquiry into all the facts of the case. Here,
not only had the assignees refrained from appearing, but
, even their *elicitor had not thought it necessary to attend.
fifth conduct was not fair to the court, and was not fulfil-
ling the duty which the assignees had taken upon them-
selves. In such mess the great importance of the dim of
official assignee was manifest. Mr. Pennell had made •
most clear and excellent report. Mr. Lawrence had taken
Issue with him as to what constituted an accommodation
bill ; and it was for the court to determine between them.
Judgment was appointed for Monday, ith January.

instantaneous: fohnson joined the corps in the West
Indies, where he bad eighteen months' service and obtained
a good-conduct stripe.
Dr. Lyford wait called by the judge, ►nd said that the
prisoner had been under his especial observithon ever since
his admission to the county gaol, both at times when John-
son had seen him, and at times when he could not, and he
had found in him no symptom whatever of aberration of
mind. The discrimination between real and feigned in-
sanity was a part of medical studies. In his judgment the
prisoner was when be first saw him, hes been ever since,
and is now of sound mind ; but he wee • person of exceed-
suitable temperament.
Hr. W. M. Cooke, in his edam§ to the jury for the de-
fence, disclaimed that he bad bad any intention to urge
that the prisoner was of unsound mind. The prisoner's
answer to this grave and serious charge was not that he did
this fatal act while he was in • state of unsound mind, but
that it was the result of sheer accident, for which ha was
not responsible. It was an accident, and not a design. He
entreated the jury to leen if they could to the probabllikiss
in favour of the prisoner.
The learned Judge having summed up,
The jury after • brief retirement returned into wart with
a verdict of Guilty.
Mr. Justice Bylee assumed the black cap, and parsed sen-
tence of death in the usual form.
The p isonsr, who continued to rub his hands throughout
the triu, slapped them together once or twice as he was re-
moved from the dock.

OXFORD ClRCUlT.—Woacserss, Dsc. 12.
(Beim Yr. Baron Wilde.)

William Slim, a dealer in old iron, WA indicted for
wounding Enoch Oooper, with intent to murder him. The
einunnetsnose of the cue were most %Mal and revolting.
It appeared that the prisoner 'Mend the Swan public-
,.. boom at ntford, in the of Oldbury, on the sth of
July Let, and called for • nor, saying he had no money,
whereupon the prosecutor offered to give him • shil- '
ling. In return for this he challenged the pro-
secutor to fight, and on his refusing to tight, prisoner said
be would make him do so ; and as the prosecutor sat peace-
ably in his chair, he seised hold of a leathern apron which
prosecutor wore, and attempted to strangle him with it.
He then struck hint a violent blow on the temple, knocking
him down senseless. He then seised him by the hair of
the head (prosecutor being all the time quite or
ocasetions), and struck him two violent blows on
the jaw, causing a compound fracture, pan of the jaw
and several of the teeth being forced under the tongue.
Not satisfied with this, he proceeded to further violence.
The landlady attempted to interfere, whereupon he seined
her by the meek, half •trangled her, and forced her out of
the room. The surgeon's evidence showed the wounds to be
of a most dangerous description, and the prosecutor's life
was despaired of for some time. The prisoner was the
tenor of the neighbourhood in which he lived, and had been
previously convicted of violent amanita.
The learned Judge characterised the case as one of the
' most savage, brnta4 and unmanly that ever came before him.
Sentence of death woe recorded against the prisoner.

NORTH WALES CIRCUIT.—Cumma, Dsc.l2.

(Wore Mr. Justine Blackburn.)

John Howard!, 77, weaver, Stockport, was charged with
wilfully killing his wife, Mary Ann Howard, at Stockport,
on the 25th September last.
Mr. Bevan and Mr. H. Lloyd prosecuted ; Mr. M'lntyre
defended the prisoner.
The prisoner pleaded not guilty in • firm voice.
The prisoner was • hand-loom weaver, and had
resided up to the time of the murder in Weever-
row, Stockport. The wife of the prisoner was
much younger, and had borne him twelve children,
six of whom are living. The deceased was • very
powerful woman, and of very intemperate habits, and had
been the source of much unhappiness to the prisoner. The
day before she died it appeared that she was rolling about
Stockport in • beastly state of drunkenness. Between 8
and 9 o'clock that night she went home, and was very ex-
cited. She kned at the door for admittance, which the
prisoner refused, and she then went round to the back of
the house to endeavour to get in. Finding the prisoner
would not admit her she became more excited still,
and threatened to break the windows if she were not
admitted. Silo was still refused admittance, when sho
thrust her band through the window, and out it. The door
was then opened, and when she went in she became very
quarrelsome and excited. She struck the prisoner upon his
face with her bloody hand, and turned her daughter out of
the house. About three o'clock in the morning the daughter
managed to get into the house, and found her mother lying
axe the table. She aroused the deceased, took her upstairs,
mad placed her in bed with the prisoner. They were all 111
bed from that time to halt-past five in the morning, when
deceased awoke, and then went to prepare the breakfast. A
little before six o'clock the daughter left the house.
Half an hour afterwards the primmer left, and locked the
door. He went to a neighbour, and said, "There is some-
thing Milli, in our house. I think she has done something
with herself, there is so much blood about the room." On
the house being entered the deceased was found lying on
the bed, with her bead between her arms, her face down-
ward., and her arms hanging towards the Boor. There
ware three gashes on the throat and one incision on the
side of it. Her head had been battered in, and • dinner
knife was found in the bed. The neighbours' when they
went into the bed-room, found spots of blood upon the
prisoner's cheek, and told him to go and wash his face. He
did so, saying that his wife had struck him with her bloody
hand. . . .

The jury had not rettinied their verdict when oar parcel
was despatched.