The Express.
London, England, 1857-11-04 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, WEDNESDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 4, 1857.

MAUS BETWEEN KIM MILITIA AND THE

Rao c7f4W

On the evenings of Tuesday and Wednesday lut
North's* Maidstone, was In • mate autumnal excitement,
ow
ing to a dinurbanoe having take place on the former
between some of the man belong to the 6th Foot
end the men connected with the East Kent Militia, and
which it was feared would be maned. Consequently setae
officers* pickets turned out, end completely scoured the city
of the militia and the revelers, on Wednesday emoting. mid
thus' premetsd by prompt measures what was hared by
many would have been a very serious secounter. The slick
of the shops in Northgate-nreet were closed, end business
was almost entirely emended during the entire mak", es
isnales woe afraid of venturing from their hour for the
&
al making their required p ses
urcha.
PuMorlgin of the afkir came out at our lielieseourt on
Wedsesday, when Charles Hines, a private In the 6th, was
charged by polies-oonstable Epps with having, with as num-
ber of other soldiers not in custody, violently assaulted one
=ZePhillips, • civilian. The complainant's face ere' I
e frightful appearance, and showed the Mute] treat-
ment to which he had been subjected. One of kis eyes wee
eocopietely closed op, and his feel coemd with onatualme
Tharew first commenced at the City of London publio-hooes,
It was mid, over • gamo of cards. A regular light snag
between same of the East Kent and the privates of the 6th.
errand el the men were hurt, se they had moraine to their
belts, which they slashed about in all directives. The party
then left fa the direction of the barracks a civilian who bed
received mess severe cuts being carried by the pollee to the
Nation-house. In Pekoe-street, the soldiers quarrelled
among themselves, and en the iniqee they struck Phillips, the
comant, who was quietly piecing down the street at the
time. He called out for sasietance, and Corporal Pays, of
the 17th Lancers, and a private in the ease corps, wont to
his smistauce, when an encounter ensued between them sad
the men of the 6th, who immediately attacked the corporal
and the pirate. The corporal's hoe was quickly covered
with blood from • wound indicted by • blow from tea of the
belts. Police-constable Epps and others rendered all the aid
they could, bat the whole of the men of the 6th mugged to
effect their swage, expting the accused, win answer
to the bmch, mid that he was not the only me engaged in
the affair, there were many others besides him. Phillips
could not Identify his assailant., the 'track being so Padden
and unexpected on hie part.
charge against
declined maki
anychargeagainsttagainstlimes, hie being left to bye
dealt with by the military au oriels.
The marptrates strongly condemned the brutally exhi-
bited on the occasion, and directed Superintendent Clements
to wait upon Captain Gore, end report the facts which had
been elicited to him. The superintendent did en, and the
(vein sent • picket for the seemed, who was at ones
beaded over to the military anthinitise kw them to deal with
hen se they should deem aqmilent.—Seedit jesters Gazette.

SPORTING.

BETTE %) AT MANCHESTER.—Tussosy.

LIVERPOOL C(t)UP.
11 to 2 opt Us&rioad
13 to 2 Watiotniooko (t)
9to I Cotoorold (t)
12 to 1 &. Otlos (t)
14 to 1 Mamma (t)
20 to 1 &mem ((0
DERBY.

14 to 1 ;11;;;;;;;.tlio 441.

WORCESTER AUTUMN MEETlNO.—Tuzsatr.
Swings/Lase of 6 eon. each, with 25 added, for 2 and 3-
yr olds. One mils. (6 subs.)
tn. itaderts Lap= U. by Colliegyer.3, 3 yr*, MN Ib.. (Well
Yr. T. MIIININWS tr. 3 'meat glb .. .IPrlori
AM. I .0 ?lb .......
1a14:41./r3w•C"eal
rii:Dilirr.,7lo.4lbk-ar...ntiaiff..rdr'!a;
Maim itemmenbasereer one inset rtgimy Putr,3 ?mat gib
(ltc. lit
Betthej:drie by lye 4ea Lord Nelson, 3 to 1 apt Childrey.
Won a hark, ball a length between the second and
third, noel Mihail* well up.
HANDICAP el 6 mon. each, with 40 added • for 2-yr-olde.
The innate to lot mid ke 60 son., &c. About one mile.
Mr. Crabby& SAWN Yr SMUT nee. sa tie cons I
11.°W.4t laikt;p4o.Wtig, ag.b. . : ...... /1.11
Tib aim, 4
Its=rord sad Thistledown also Maned.
Waft 7to 4 opt Thistledown, 31s 1 Hark4ot-
wit Web W blip_ *oh" bolt a hag* between the
mind lad tiled • Tibilmdown sad Hark-forward bolted.
Ten Woacrwn AVIV MN HANDICAP, of 10 one. each,
h sad 3 o.iy It declared, dc. ; with 100 added. Certain
winners eaten. Ten utiles. (30 subs., 10 of whom declared.)
anadiris lloolstula by Prrtbso a. INA, 3 net CA ?lb
Ilaiwrisal 1
Mr Z. Jergarg Cortam, 4 yrs. 14 Illb. . lll3lsgh/
Mr. La Mg3N4 IrtrNtirtat, 3PR 'at il;:ttitCiNiirt3 0.11, eat*
(Ducker) 3
Mr. T. JarmY inady. 3 MOM 41i1 4
Yr. IlArber's Pte Ilarlumay, 4 yn, ?Slab. I
The following also rsa :—HIWIta, The Dope, los
Bell, Wssen mad Duty
Betting . 6 to 2 apt Weatherer', .9
to 2 Lacciarnia,
6 to 1 apt Knoselly, 100 to 16 apt Min Har6way. Woo
by tea lengths, bails Length benison the second sad third.
SELLING STALES if 6 ono. ewe, with 25 added,
for 3.yr-olde sad wink Oat sae sad a quarter. (4 snits.)
Mr. LINO Yuma. bac by i/am. $ M OKI. OA UM. Awry) 1
Mr. Nyllidis Sollurdio. t yrN473O). 4Cuslagier I
I": &ATM:I'N 11:141"
Betting : Eve... ages, to 1 egii Latin:dein, '7on by
• ,hetwo tenths between the secand sad third.
w wee sold for 61 gnineen
Ten HUADLi HAM HANDICAP ot S Dm, mach, with 30
added. Two miles, one ens flights of hurdles. (17 subs.)
Illy Mlles Mad. or WON by lieryyla. 3 410
Whitel 1
inn critrvZ.37=.3.4o. :1.04 nb NV
10tb 3
Mr. Waft as The Parser. woo, 9N. 410 ..........
Mr. bent Itrlagtob LAN. yed, I W ...... . PtegarN4 I
I N. D 11354 Tb. INNINP We Fr•ggli. seed. of Mb ..lAL•Nknal I
Bartbotopper mad Pennons'. also nut.
' Betting 6 to 2 apt Evington Low, 7to 2 apt Earth.
doPPoo, ODA MIN Toddletry, 7to 1 apt Heads or Tails.
Woo cleverly by hal/ a length. Three leorhs between the
nand and third, the others beaten at Tho weather was
very bad, the ground deep, tad the intendants man.

DESTRUCTION By FIRE OF THE MCBIC HALL,
fisiosTos.—Surly this morning (Tuesday) about • quieter
td four o'clock, en slum was given that the Earn Maude
Ilall, Edward-street, was spin on fire, and the police were
quickly on the spot with the ere hoeing, but all attempts to
get the ere under were utterly useless, and is h. than half-
serboar alter its discovery, it had burnt itself out, sad this
Lithos annisement is once more • complete wreck. There
not a Sem dtlmbr standing suilicient to make a Inciter
match ; the Wei ior of the walls presents no other view than
• heap of charcoal and fragments of non pllate. Bo =Mien
was UIII ocallagration that not a thing wee eared, and from
the facts which we have gleaned, the interior must have been
completely gutted before the firs wee observed, which was not
done till the roof fell in, when the Eames shot high into the
air, illuminating for a few moments the buildings around, am
far as the Town hall, and then gradually died out, leaving
nothing but the smouldering ruin' • for the water to play upon.
At • quarter-past 3 o'clock a carpenter, living oppositiklooked
out of his window, but saw nothing, and the police constable
on that best passed about the same time, but there were then
ho symptoms of Sr.. The origin of the firs la at prestht a
mystery, for everything woo conaidered We at half-past
twelve. when the proprietor, Mr. Burton, retired to bed ; and
two oil& earvantnwhom hekeeps for the purpose, nandaed
the premier again shoot two, but sew nothing. The re.
rrty hi enfteured.—BrigAton Suuniner.
ACCIDENT ON THE MANCHESTER AND SHEFFIELD
RAILWAY C C TICIAL ACCOVNT)—MANHILSTES, Nov. 3.',
for of carriages of taps Manchester, alsesid, sad
Liedishho Railway Orepray's 9.0 a.m. rata lea re
the reile titie;asang. tie steins keeping the track, at
the riot lea to es Viaduct. he the plus at
the etelihni • saw thossing rm. being put in, and
ma, rho, ones at repairs and renews* le
11111 beyond the phi at which the men ere et meth,
to she the. proper caution to the driver et the
rbetenetroatty mist over the incomplete port tithe
red al tbe moose speed of 30 can an hour, MANI et at
IsaleptL No on. was laktrad, and the poeseepers were
east cs by onethor train. The end of one carrier gad the
aide et saseat we beak= spine the parepet.

alp lintUtgenct.

BAIL COURT.—NOT. 3.
(Bitdags at NIA Pries,—Bators Mr. Justice Cranks and
Occuocia Juries.)
_ SANAWAT V. BALLS.-ALLIIOIIII NIOI.IOI7ICIL

This was an action brought by the plidnflf, a journeymen
baker, who also carried on business se a greengrocer on hie
own account, to recover damages from the defendant, Mr.
Matthew Halle, proprietor of omnibus' running from Clap-
ham to the Elephant and Cisitle.for injuries retained by rea-
son of the negligence of the defendant's aseeent.
Mr. Huitdieston and Mr. Henry James appeared for the
plaintiti ; Mr. M. Chamber. and Mr. Barrow represented
the defendant.
It appeared from the evidence of the plaintiff that on the
13th of November he wee wheeling hie track in the Borough-
road, being at the time stationary in imergoince of the
traffic, when the driver of the defendant's arch or omnibus
—for neither he nor Ina witnesses could swear which it ama—
in endeavouring to pass a cart on the arm side of the rend,
ran into the track of the plaintiff, who was thrown down,
and the wheel of the omnibus passed over his log, larratlng
sad crashing it severely. He wee conveyed by a pollosman
on the barrow to the hospirl, in which he bad been con-
fined for twenty-four weeks, twenty-three of which were
pared in bed, and had .loco been unable to Walk II • baker,
though he wOe earning a small livelihoods. a greengrotier ten
hie own account.
In his

he stated as . reams for not
twinging the artist sooner that the attorney whom he had
at first oessulted had neglected his intermits. lie had brought
en action against him, bat the learned judge had suggested
that the papas should be given up by the attorney to Mr.
De Medina; the present attorney.
ihmeral independent witnesses corroborated the plaintiff's
account el the accident.

The car for the defendant was that no blame was to be
attdbuted to the driver. According to his evidence. and that
of wane °Me peaeogen who were outside at the time, the
mites was proceeding at a moderate pace; it was near the
mute al the reed, in order to paw some carts which ware
drawn up at its near aide ; at the :moment the plaintiff sad
some other men drawing trucks came up on the other side.
The driver called out, but they only laughed at him. The
fore wheel passed the truck. The plaintiff suddenly turned
aside, and the result wee that the hind wheel struck the
truck, and knocked the plaintiff down. It was poeitively
stated by all the witnesses for the defendant that the wheel
of the omnibus could not have gone over the plaintiff, and
that he got up again and walked to the side of the road. The
driver pulled up as soon as he heard that the man had been
thrown down, but as be wee not aware that any swine in-
juriled beta done be drove on again.
damTM just ultimately found a verdict for the plaintiff—
ages 1001,

COURT OF COMMON PLEAS.—Nov. 3.

(Sittings in Banco.—Before Chief 'urine Cockburn and
Justices Williams, Crowder, and Wines.)

H10N110111.11.1111 ZASS. AND 000111731 Or IiAIIINGTON.

SLAXPIL

The le le thb one wee the Vicar of Elveratoo, and
b• to molly damages upon the d that be had
tem by the Cannier of 8e ion. The ems
lad ban tried at Derby beim Mr. Jades Cromwell and a
e 1 jag, end the medic& wee !err the plaintiff, damages
Mr. Edwin Jam& Q.C. now moved for a new tried, upon
the ground that the verdict was against the evidence, and
that the damage Win exceesive. He stated that the country
reddens of the Eul of Harrington wee Elventea Castle,
situated in the pariah of which the plaintiff was Mar. To
gem the Mader, Mr. Jones, the curate of the platetiff, wee
tailed, sad it append that he had lunched at the cantle,
and on that owed= had had an interview with the
countess la her boudoir. On that occasion the alleged
Madge wee uttered, but the defence wee that the
stalemate made had been much exaggerated and penerted
by Mr. Jams, and that he had oennderably added to the
words sad etpressions used by the countess. In additiou
it wee maid that this was a statement which had
been mode in Mr. Jones's ear, and which it wee never la.
anded should go further. The learned counsel detailed the
evidence which had beet given at the trial, whirl was in
substance this:—Mr. Jones raid that on the 23rd February
he bed goes to the castle to lunch, and on that occasion the
comatees asked who was likely to administer the sacrament on
Sunday, and veld that ate would not take the sacrament hots
the planar Manus be wee a wicked man ; that he had
kept the cerement money and not given anything to the
poor ; and that be had pocketed the money which the Duke
of LaMar bad pen [or the church ; that he wee a
low vulgar fellow who was always playing at cards, and
asemegleg the people in the village to do ao ; and that he
and hie- wife were constantly drunk upon the door. The
Coaster of Harringtcade trim of the &sir wee that she
, bad Bald ate would not take the attractant from Mr. High-
more became she thought be waa note good man. She had
aloe said that he had not accounted for the sacrament money.
Tams were her recto words. She never stated that he had
appropriated it to himself, and she mentioned the church-
warden as her authority. She never said he had pockeed
the sacrament sooty. She said that the Duke of Iwioste
had given IW., and the fanner 20/., to throw open the tower
of the church, and that that had not been done for many
yßan, when Lord Harrington hart given the balance. She
had not said that the plaintiff was always gambling, bat that
formerly than had been card-playing at the satle and in
the village. She bad told Mr Junes that there had been
twe curates at Elena= who were drunken, but she had
DIM mid that the plaintiff and his wife had hem drunk on
the door. In bee crowexamination she admitted having
said that the plaintiff had been a rider at Miley's, but in-
formed the learned counsel that that wan not in the declaration.
The learned touted further Mated that party politics ran
TINT high in the county, and Lady Harrington had taken en
active part in Um election in the previous March, which
might have accounted for the damages being eo smeelve.
TbeChiefJ meice—That would dependupon whether the Jury
gm &opt. it belief to what Mr. Jones said. If they thought
ft was all true that Lady Harrington bad mid that the
had pocketed mc t the rameut money, and that he
:32 WI :rife ware rolling drunk upon the floor, he moot ray
that the demise were anything but exceraive. If sufficient
at slander,
wore sot given is as such notion
=aMaass a mere area He was of opinion that j wise
were tact liberal amegh h tem of that kind.
Mr. Jame—Much mast depend on the drownatanoes
under which the amide, was uttered and to whom ; and this
was • &stems& wade to Mr. Josue, and to nobody else.
The Chief Justice—Bet he wee the plaintiff', curate, and
wee It not his ditty to conentalcate what he had heard to his
&sr P

—Mr: Jorms—On the ot►er hand, wee It not Ws duty to my
to Lady Harrington, " Be careful how you make these stets-
manta, for I communicate what is said to the Aar r'

The Chtafluatke—Or might the reunite* not have add,
" I will not take the 'acceptant from him," and sad a° sent
This was note privileged oemmunicenon of mi, and it amened
to him that if /dr. Jones's statement wee the correct met the
damages were anything but elearaiva.
Mr. James—There wee no actual damage ,* no lem no en-
elesiaatical censure had followtd. The slander had been
communicated to Mr. Jones's ewe only, end the plaintiff in
bringing the action had made it much more public than It
would otherwise hare been. Considering the circumstances
under which the words were uttered, and to whom, he ven-
tured to submit that Lady Harrington'' version was the more
correct one, that the damages were etheasire, and that the
use ought to undergo further invostigthion.
The Chief J twice void that they were all clearly of opinion
that there ehonld be no rule. There wee • conflict of mitt
dente. Both Mr. Jones's and Lady Ilsrrhsgton's statements
had been subottited to the conettleration of a specie/ jury,
and it wen idle to Fem.... that that jury had bean laflueneed
by political motive.; and it was rather a strong enpposithon
that all the jurymen belonged to the opposite tldi to thM
taken by lady Harrington. They had thought Me. Jesse's
thatement worthy of belief, and that Lady Harriagke had
uttered those eltudere. If that were so he had no hesitation
in saying that, for slanders as destructive of a clergyman's
character, the damage' could not be said to be maiWe.
Rule refused.

INSOLVENT DEBTORS COURT.—Nov. 3.
(Bakes the Chief Cotendaslatur.)

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