The Express.
London, England, 1850-06-15 00:00:00

Tai-Arroamay-OsssitaL v Roasoig.

This wasZeOaaintormatiOn;a iheTneisso•—• of the'
customs department, to recover penalties to the amount of
8,0001 ,an the alleged grimed that the defendant was con
eerned is the illegal onsnipment of • large 9uantity of foreign
Wham*. The defendant, it appeared, earned oa the heathers
of • marine storekeeper at Newcastle, and he was also the
°Wail 01 a schooner called The Good Intent. la the month
of Judy, 1845, that Tassel was hired or lent for the convey-
ance of the tobacco I. (tendon, sad the information ehuped
the defendant with hart.' bad • guilty knowledge of the
traametien. The vessel after sailing from Newcastle with a
aim of coals, pot into Beboepliog, on tit• coast of
Holland, where she took in • large quantity of
tobareo, bathe previously got rid of a sufficient
portion of her cargo t 3 make room for it, She then pro-
ceeded to Yarmouth, when the tobacco was " rua" during
the night, but it was ultimately discovered.
Mr. Bramwell for the defendant, submitted that the infor-
matics was not aupporu d by the evidence. if there was
any domes proved it was for having lent the vestal for ille-
gal purposes, and not for having illegally unshipped the
tobacco to evade the payment of duty.
The Lord Chief Bitola was however of opinion that the
charge of " having been amerced in the illegal itashipment"
of the tobacco was proved, and the jury returned • verdict
for the crown for the full amount claimed.
Verdir for the crown areardinely.
TR. ATIVII3IT.CiaNaIIaL V. BROOKIIIAN.

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This was a similar information to recover penalties fee
evading the duty payable ea a large quantity of tobacco.
Verdict, by osseent for the crown for 2,0001.
Tin ATTOKSZT GINSIAL a, WARM/F.
This was also an intensities tor illegally unshipping
Whack, upon which the duty had not been peal. It, how-
ever, differel from the other caves, se the de.endent was in
the employment of the Costoothous mithorithe, and was
ousted by persons whoee duty it was to have prevented the
commissina of a fraud upon toot department It appeared
the ship liarksway, laces with tobacco, from New °viten*,
wee lying in the Brunswick Dock at Liverpool on April 1,
IS4r, and in chug. of three tide-waiters. By akengenseat
with two of them, a person named WilkSsoo came ma board
on the evening of that city. The batches of the vessel were
broken riper, and a cask containing 6011. of tobacco was
landed sad afterwards *WA at 2s. 6d. per lb. Next evening
two canvas bag. containing 120 !ha of the same article wen
taken away by Wilkinson, the two officers who bad pri-
Sously arranged the matter with him having told the man
in charge of the vessel, on behalf of the owner., that the
baps contaired only the luggage of one of the ship's officers.
The cam was undefended, and the jury returned a verdict
for the crown for the amount sought to be recovered.
The trial of common jury causes was then proceeded with,
but was of them possessed any features of general interest.

EXCHEQUER CHAMBER—YISTRIDAY.
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AND Bal,olllo/ EICIIIIIIIII UI ESIOIII /1011 TM Comm OF QVI/11'11
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110B4ON v. BOLT.—VALIDITY OF A BILL OP 8•LII.
Samaria' PaAcricz.
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This cue arose on a bill of exceptions to the direction of
the learned judge, at the trial of an action of trover. Mr.
Cowling, who apprared for the plaintiff in error (the de-
fendant below), said the facto of the cue lay In very narrow
compass, bat the point involved wee of considerable im-
p:ruse& The plaintiff below, having obtained a judgment
on a warrant of attorney, against a person aimed Kmbaw,
I a fi. fa. was issued to the Chancellor of the County Palatine
of Lucas:et., who thereupon issued his mandamus to the
sheriff, and the sheriff made a warrant to his officer in the
wail way. Bet the pecolierity of the case lay in this, that
a clerk in the office of the soling underuheriff, without any
authority, took the sheriff's seal from the oaks at Preston to
Ma: cheater, and from thence to Kershaw's residence at Fea-
therston* near Rochdale, on Nov. 6. He was accompanied
by a sheriff's officer awl an auctioneer, and when the goods
were taken in execution and valued by these penoes, he
filled op and executed a hill of sale. It was objected at the
Uhl that the clerk awing no legal authority to execute the
bill of sale, then was no evidence that the property had
pawed, bat the learned judge who tried the eau overruled
the objection. Mr. Cowling now contended that the bill of
sale under the circumstances wan void ; and that without the
bill of sale there was no evidence to support the plaintiff's
case.

Mr. Baron Parke said them was certainly some difficulty
in showing that the clerk had authority to me the seal ; but
there was evidence to chow that be had authority to dispose
of the property. The court were of opinion that there was
evidence sufficient to show that the property had passed. The
judgment was consequently affirmed.