The Express.
London, England, 1867-08-28 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, WEDNESDAY EVENING, AUGUST 28

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length separating vetoed and third ; Domino was fourth,
anti Mignonette last. The winner was bought in for 43
guineas.

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CHATHAM, Atomyr 27.
The Woodlark, one of the improved class of
unarmoured screw corvette., of the Juno class, i• ordered
to be immediately laid down at this dockyard. The new
vessel is the second of the improved class of corvettes or-
dered to be built from the designs of Mr. E. J. Reed, the
chief constructor of the navy, her dimensions, tonnage, and
engine power being oonsiderably in excels of the Blanche,
screw corvette, recently launched at this dockyard. The
new vessel is to be completed by the ensuing year.
The depot companies of the second battalion of the 22nd
Regiment. under the command of Captain J. W. Trevor,
which will shortly proceed from this garrison to New-
castle, to join the headquarters and service companies on
their arrival from the Mauritian, were inspected on the
general parade ground this morning by Major-General
Freeman Murray.

DESPATCH OF BOMBAY MAILS.—SOUTHAMPTON,
At•Guir 27. —The Peninsular and Oriental Company's
steamer Pere, Captain Coleman, sailed this afternoon,
with mails for Gibraltar, the Mediterranean, Egypt, Aden,
Bombay, kn. She took out 36 passengers and a general
cargo including bar gold, 32,0001. ; emeralds, 800/. ; and
jewellery, 2101.
DESPATCH OP AMERICAN MAILB.—SOITTRAMP-
TON, Anwar 27.—The North German Lloyd steamship
Hermann, Captain Wanke, sailed to-day for New York,
with the English, French, and German mails, • full com-
plement of passengers, and • large cargo, including French
jewellery, value 5,000 francs.
A rifle contest in connection with the Bank of
England Rifle Association commenced on Monday, at
Wormwood Scrubs, and is now brought to • close. The
association has been in existence for two or three years,
but until the present year its operations have been on a
very limited scale. Of the 200 volunteers in the bank,
nearly half that number took part in the competition.

LONDON, TILBURY,AND SOUTHEND RAILWAY.

The twenty-second half-yearly meeting of this
company took place yesterday at theoffioes of thecompany,
Fenahurch-street station ; Mr. C. J. ELM in the chair.
The SECRETART having read the notice convening the
meeting, the report was taken as read.
The CHAIRMAN, in moving its adoption, expressed his
regret at meeting proprietors with diminished traffic
receipts, but thought that haviFeejard to the terrible
crisis through which they had , they could hardly
expect to escape from that whit every railway had suf-
fered. There had been no falling off in the goods and
cattle traffic, but, on the contrary, • satisfactory increase.
The falling off had been entirely in the passenger receipts,
and notwithstanding the exceptional times, he could not
but think that some of it was due to the inert system of
management. (Hear.) They might reasonably congea-
-1 tnlate the shareholders on the agreement which
had been come to with the North London line,
which would tend greatly to increase the traffic.
That company had acted in a most spirited manner, and
had spent • considerably larger sum to facilitate the trait°
than they were boned to under the agreement. He was
sorry to say that Lord R. Montagu, on behalf of the go-
vernment, bad intimated its intention to prohibit the car-
riage of cattle from Thames Haven to the Metropolitan
Cattle Market, and being, as Thames Haven was, a Lon-
don pert, they would have good reason to complain if
cattle were allowed to land at other landing stages in the
port of London, such as the Victoria Docks. No doubt
they bad seen the recent Order in Council, withdrawing
the privilege of carrying cattle from the ports of South-
ampton and Harwich. No notice was taken of Thames
Haven in that order ; but in consequence of their having
received the intimation from Lord it. Montagu to which he
had alluded, his lordship had been !requested to receive •
deputation on the subject, at which he should be very
happy to attend and endeavour to induce the government
to place all the landing places in the port of London on
the same footing. Ile concluded by moving the adoption
of the repo! t.
Mr. Moxor seconded the motion, which, after some dis-
mission, was adopted..

tale Entelltlenct.

COURT OF ARCHES.—AuousT 27.
(Before the Right How Sir Robert Phillimore.)

MARTIN r. REV. A. H. MACIONOCRIZ.-RITUALIBM AT YT•

ALBAN'S, IiOiJ3ONN.
This case came before the court on a special application
of an important character, as to the hearing in October on
the question raised respecting the elevation of the sacred
elements and the use of lights and incense in the com-
munion service. The point on the present occasion, which
is of considerable intermit to both sides, was the constitu-
tion of the court on the hearing, the present dean, Sir
Robert Phillimore, having been counsel in the cabs for the
defendant, the incumbent of St. Albans, Holborn.
Dr. Tristram (with whom was Mr. Charles) applied on
behalf of the defendant that his lordship would be pleased
to hear the case, as he bad intimated, with Dr. Travers
Twisa and Dr. Robertson as his assessors. Dr. Stephen,
Q.C., had on the part of the promoter, Mr. Martin, ob-
jected to the court being constituted as suggested, and
wished the case to be heard by Dr. Twice sitting alone.
It was contended that his lordship, as official principal of
the Court of Arches, bad no power to delegate his
av,kority, and that for the purpose of hearing in effect an
appeal, he could not give his authority to a surrogate or
depm.y.
His Lordship asked whether notice of the present ap-
plication had been given to the other side.
Dr. Tristram believed Mr. Brooks the proctor for Mr.
Mackonoehie, had given notice, and it was stated that the
promoter would not appear on the motion.
His Lordship asked whether by his patent he could not
appoint a surrogate, and he also wished counsel to con-
sider his peculiar position as having been counsel in the
case. The question was of so much importance, that he
wished to bear all that could be advanced on the subject.
Dr. Tristram and Mr. Charles contended that although,
as official principal, his lordship could appoint surrogates,
yet as judge he could not delegate his power to others to
hear what was in effect an appeal sent by the Bishop of
London from his own court, by letters of request - and,
further, they submitted that as it was a criminal pro-
ceeding, the defendant had a right in aflutter of so much
public importance, to have his case heard by the first eccle-
siastical judge in the country, assisted, as his lordship
might think proper, by others as his assessors. There
were no cases in which counsel who had appeared, after-
wards sitting as judges, had been objected to, and none in
which a surrogate had decided an appeal from an inferior
court on letters of request.
His Lordship, in conclusion, said he should not decide
' the matter at present, but wished to address a few obser-
vations for the consideration of both aides. He felt great
reluctance to hear a case in which he had been counsel ;
and whilst he did not wish to deprive the defendant of any
right, he at the same time did not wish to place the pro-
roo.er in a different position. He wished it to be consi-
dered whether a case on petition amid be raised as to
his hearing the case, and whether it could then go to the
judicial committee and be heard as an appeal. And
another point was, whether the party could not apply for a
mandamus for him to hear the case, and if such an inti-
mation was given, whether he should not allow Limo. He
could only express his sorrow that the promoter was not
represented by his proctors.
Air. Currey (Currey and Moore) said he was proctor for
Mr. Martin, but his hands were tied.

The Dean'of Arches wished both sides to consider what
he had said, and communicate with the registrar, as some-
thing must be determined upon before the hearing, ap-
pointed on the 29th October.
Order accordingly.

in his sleep. Nothing so grave bad ever cane before him.
He could not overrate the extraordinary importance of
that charge, and the difficulty of investigating a case of
this kind so long after the commiseion of the offence. An
investigation of a lengthened character took place before
the British consul at Lisbon, and copies of depositions had
been Rent over. He could only decide the cue on the
evidence given in the Thames Police-court,
had
after the cross-examinations. The prosecutor had at
peat length told what occurred on the 21st July.
He did not impute to the prosecutor any attempt
to get up a false charge against his captain to carry
out a spirit of revenge, or for the yarrows of extor-
tion, but he must say his whole statement was exceedingly
incorrect and contradictory. The prosecutor said the
cSarik was mad* upon him in the dark, that he could not
see the person who attacked him, and that be did not
know who it was that was cutting his throat. The mate
confirmed the prosecutor so far as to the darknees which
prevailed in the cabin, and that when the
cuter put his hand on his (Orichroore's) neck
he
could not tell whether it was blood or not. On the
prosecutor being recalled on the second examina-
tion he said it wee quite light in the cabin, that he saw
the captain distinctly, that he saw the knife which was
a long one, and made out of an old Russian saw, and
saw the prisoner throw it under the cabin table. The
two accounts were as different es possible. No person
no knife was seen according to the first mount, but In his
second statement Crickmore said he saw both. He then
came to the all wW attempt to murder Crickmore on the
:Het of July. The man said that in consequence of the pre-
vious attempt he was barricaded in his berth, that thedoor
was bunt open, that he received three stabs on the leg
and one on the side, and that on the crew hearing the alarm
and rushing below the boatswain ordered the captain to be
put in irons. Now the question was should he send this
ease before a jury ? He could not come to the reasonable
conclusion that any grand jury would find • bill, or that •
petty jury would find the prisoner guilty on such evidence.
The testimony of Crickmore was inconsistent in itself and
unsupported by the evidence of the other witnesses.
Mr. Daniel Ross, • surgeon and • gentleman of com-
petent skill, who examined the person of Crickmore on
the 17th of August, said there were no traces of marks on the
prosecutor's neck and only very slight marks of a wound
on his thumb. With regard to wounds on the thigh, Mr.
Ross said they were not severe onea, and that there was
not the least trace of a wound on the aide. Now what was
these unfounded charges to be attributed to? He could not
say the prosecutor had been guilty of a wilful deception,
but it was quite clear he was labouring under an hallucina-
tion, and that he believed things bad happened which
never happened at all. The earnestness of the prosecutor's
belief was such that he had impressed his shipmates with
the conviction that all he said was true, and that the pri-
soner had attempted to murder him, and to poison him,
and under that belief they were acting. At the same time
be could not help saying there was much exaggeration on
the part of Hynes, the mate, and Sanderson, the boat-
swain, but there was no doubt they sated under the im-
pressions they received frrom Crickmore. It was not his
duty to enter into the reasons for discussing any case
brought before him, but he thought it right to depart
from the usual course, and to explain to the
sailors that the case had been thoroughly investigated and
that there was no foundation for the charges made against
their captain. He hoped the case would end there. The
seamen had been taken out of the ship by the British
consul at Lisbon, and, after an investigation, sent home to
give evidence against the prisoner. The case had com-
pletely failed, and the prisoner was discliarged.
Mr. Welford—The prosecutor is labouring under •
species of monomania.
Mr. Paget—l believe that to be the fact. Before tilting
such an extreme step as putting the captain into irons and
taking him a prisoner into Lisbon, more caution ought to
have been exercised.