The Express.
London, England, 1861-02-25 00:00:00

TRESS, MONDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 25, 4861.

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On being erces-marnined she denied being • bad temper,
observing, "but I'm an Englishwoman, and I don't like to
be it upon by anybody, big or little." (laughter.)
Mr. Bevan, she said, was lame, and had two wooden timers.
She did not lay hold of his hat, but kicked it out, and he
Bang • chair alter her. When the locked the door she said,
" You have come here for your own pleasure, and now you
shall stop for mine," as she wanted to keep him till her
husband came. She called him a good-for-nothing villain
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witness, in conclusion, admitted that she might have said,
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"If you were a boy I'd dash your liming out," but denied
that she was very violent. (laughter.) On being
re-examined, she said that her father, who was 71
years of age, lived with her, and she took care of him
The witness, on leavingthe box, went intohysteiica and had
to be taken out of court. After the occurrence detailed
above Mr. Laurence Levy was employed to write to Mr.
Bevan for compensation for the assault, and the reply re-
ceived was in the following terms :
"Mr. Bevan promote his compliments to Mr. Levy, and
in answer to his courteous communication begs to say he
ahould be glad to postpone till after the hunting season the
ionsideratiun of the matter of Mrs. Holton's charge of
brutal and savage attack, and then to take Mr. Levy's opi-
nion on the subject. Mr. Bevan has not set up an attorney
at present—in short, he can't afford to keep one, but will be
happy to receive anything from Mr. Levy personally. Mr.
Bevan's engagements taking him much from home, begs to
say he may be found at two places where the hounds meet,
and as • friendly hint advises any one wishing to hold com-
munication with him on those cloys to come well mounted
on something that can jump high. Mr. Levy will under
stand this, no doubt."
Other witnesses were called in support of the plaintiff'.
ease, including the husband, who created much laughter by
saying, in answer to • question, he did not know whether
his wife had chapped lips because be never felt them.
Mr. Hawkins, who made en amusing speech for the de.
fence, contended that Mr. Bevan had acted in the kindest
manner to Mrs. Holton. having only endeavoured to make
an inspection of his own house, and when she resisted
merely pushed her gently aside. With regard to the alleged
injuries, it was remarkable that the blow said to have been
inflicted on Thursday did not produce • black eye till the
Seeder following. When she went to the doctor he merely
gave her a soothing draught, which was necessary because
she had put herself in a violent passion. After this affair
the husband had aline baby produced to him, and it was
outside the court in long clothes and made no complaint.
(Laughter.)Could that have been the cam tf she
bed bean injured in the way described? As to the
letter written to Mr. Levy in sewer to his application for
compensation, Mr. Bevan thought the best way was to deal
with the matter in a jocular way, and it probably occurred
to him that it would have been a treat to have seen Levy in
the hunting Add on horseback, and his little clerk riding on
a smaller animal. It was not unblely, however, that if
they had upon such an expedition they would never
have heard of poor Levy again. (Laughter.)
Mr. Bevan, the defendant, was then called, and in the
noun et his evidence said, when he went to the cottage he
heard Mrs. Holton calling him a blackguard, and other
epithets. She then came upstairs and said no one should see
her rooms. She used very abusive and impertinent language ;
she put herself in such • position that he was regularly
jammed up. He wished her to go downstairs, and she
refused. He then took her by the elbow and pushed her
four feet six inches to the had of the stairs. She turned
round and seised him by both hands, and mid, If Igo
downstairs you shall go too." With some dißlealty he
disengaged himself, and in doing so be pulled her back Ia a
sitting posture ou the second step, with her feet on the
third or fourth. She immediately gut up and walked down
the remaining stairs. He solemnly swore be did not push
her down. She called him all kinds of names and said he
was afraid to strike her. The defendant also stated that he
always carried • stick because be was lame, and that he had
shot off two of his fingers.
In eress-examination he said he had never been pulled up
by a servant. He had flogged a stable boy on the back
with an ash plant many • time. He never compensated
their friends. He only gam them that which they after-
wards thanked him for—wholesome chastisement. He was
trained in the same way himself in a public school. Ile ad-
mitted snatching a sheet out of Mrs. Holton's hands. He
was annoyed, but be was a remarkably placid man. He
constantly shook his stick when he was speaking to any

--Other evidence having been given for the defence,
Mr. C. Noble, a surgeon when he saw Mn. Holton
on the Thursday she ,bowed him a mark on the back of her
hand and on her elbow ; be asked tier if she had received
any other injuries, sad she said none. She observed that
she bad powerful friends who would at once be set to work,
and said, "I think I had better go to bed and take a com-
posing cliwaglik* Witness replied, "I think you had, and
keep la a quiet state." She seemed as if she bad been put
out, sad ha sent her a composing draught. He saw no black-
fly*, or any other injuries than those be bad mentioned.
The learned Judge having briefly summed up the cue,
Tim Jury retired, and on returnfo into court gave a ver-
dict fur the plaintiffs—damages one farthing.

INSOLVENT DEBTORS COURT.—FIo. 23.
(Before Mr. Osaunierioner Nichols.)
tit 114111DNUND MAUDE—TiII raw TRENCH MATT.
This insolvent, who had been a merchant in Water-lane,
(Sty, and whose case had been several times before the
emit, appeared for judgment Mr. for
two Freed' ereditces,nameel Warr and Labe,
and chasms*. They were creditors to nearly 8001. N.
=was a creditor for watches to 2151., and had ob-
no payment ; and N. larbe bad supplied 800 dozen
of champagne, and obtained a payment, leaving him a ere-
dike to 5471. Le April last the insolvent, in consequence
of the French treaty, visited Paris, and gave ciders to the
opposing creditor. He °biased a number of watches at 27
Raw (It. Is. Bd.), which he pledged immedi-
ately at Attenborough's, in the Strand, for it.
each. The insolvent subsequently obtained a larger
quantity, which be disposed of in the same
manner, and had made no arijoe:t. In order to procure
the buil supply he wrote to Wargo stating that as the duty
was off, the watches "sold well when when be had in fact
pledged them. He alleged that the watches were not
according to the sample supplied, and celled evideoce to
show that if sochhad hem the cem be could have sold them
at a profit ; they were not good " going watches." With
7 to the champagne, the insolvent alleged that he had
12711 dozen through, the misconduct of a clerk, and on
the remainder he had raised money from his brother. He
also that the champagne was not of the quality he
or he could have made a profit. It appeared that
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the career otralie insolvent as a merchant had been remark-
able. He was a bankrupt in 1847, when he owed 16,0001.
Re was aa insolvent debtor in 1854 with 12,0001. debts,
and spin is 1857 he was discharged under the act, when he
owed 4,0001. He had owed 1,91td. among 41 creditors, and
bad credits to 164/. His present failure was attributed to
the badness of trade and want of capital. On these facts
presented to the court the insolvent was complained of as a
whose conduct deferred severe animadversion, and
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urged that as the trade with France was extended
by the late treaty it was neeemary for the protectiou of
tads in both countries that a case like the present should
be seriously dealt with.
The insolvent, in defend* himself, made a long speech,
alleging that his eatmedent• aid occurred through misfor-
tune, and denying that he had bees actuated by any
improper motive in contracting the doles with the opposing
areditces. He had kept no account books but a private diary,
and he haute& extracts and filed them in court. He declared
that in a abort time imprisonment for debt would be
&ballad, and bad that been the case he should not ban
his present parities.
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.Oommissioner Nichols, in giving judgment, dwelt on
the meaner in which the insolvent had obtained the last
supply of watches by saying that the others had sold well,
when is fact be had pledged them. That debt was most
unfairly contracted. The evidence as to the other debt
was not so clear, but considering the difficulties in which
the insolvent was placed it was contracted in a manner
which could not be justified. The" as to the disposal of
the property obtained, it was clearly a most unfair dime.
sitioo. Has Honour gave a judgment of nine months for
fraudulently contracting Lalarge's debt, and ten calendar
months (concurrently) for fraudulently making away with
the PrePerty.