The Express.
London, England, 1857-11-28 00:00:00

The pendency of the appeal ought not to stay the payment of
the all by contributories who had not appealed ;
for there was no allegation of fraud or mums
natation as there was in Brockwell's cam.
Cichloptequestion in the appeal, which wee brought by Mr.
was whether he had terminated his liaWity by
tresferring his shares.
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Mr. James wild that Clerk's case rested on the game
ground. He wan not a person of sitimmce, and If the call
were enforced, he must go to prison.
Mr. Harrison, admitting that Clark had paid up the 61. on
his/hems, said that every shareholder had done the same ; so
that if it were held that their liability was thus extinguished
what would become of the creditors P
His Honour said it appeared that the question of liability
had been fairly raised In another court, and he therefore
thought that the call should be stayed.
Order accordingly.

INSOLVENT DEBTORS COURT.—Noy. 27.
(Before the Chief Commissioner.)
IN R 1 RICHARD HARRIS.
This insolvent, an ecoountent and °Dominion agent, whose
case had been before the court on two former °cautions, came
up for adjudication.
Mr. Sargood supported.
or Several creditors had end the principal complaint
wu by Mn. Stanton, the creditor, from whom the
Insolvent bed token a house at ingsland, and incurred a
debt, wlmn be had no mesas of payment. The insolvent,
who had bees both bankrupt and insolvent before, now owed
upwards of 4001. incurred os 1852.
The Chief Commissioner gave a judgment of six months
from the vesting order in August, at the suit of the creditors
y ; and nine months (concurrently) at the suit of
Crunlltanton, for having contracted her debt without reason-
able exportation of payment.
(Before Mr. Commiseioner Murphy.)
BROW* V. VODDEN.
This wee a summons under the Small Debts Act.
Mr. Denny, who appeared for the plaintiff, said the court
bed issued a ennunone to the keeper of the Queen's Prison
for the promos of the plaint 4 who was a prisoner, end
whose attendance was required by the defendant. The learned
counsel suggested, as the keeper bad disobeyed the Nimmons,
he should be committed to his own prison for contempt.
Mr. Commissioner Murphy, on reference to the act, found
his power to summon a prisoner only extended to the Insol-
vent Act and not to the Small Debi. Act. Ile hoped that it
was one of the amendments to be made in the law next session.
Summons dismiesed.

CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT.

OLD COURT.—Nov. 27.
Moron the Recorder.)

Jata Grate Lev;ridge, 23, was charged with forging a
theme for 961. 10s. 2d., with intent to defraud the Com-
mercial Bank. - • - - -

Ribton prosecuted ; Mr. Doyle was conned for the
&knee.
. . . . _ .

The prisoner was tried on Thursday, before Mr. Justice
Coleridge, upon d charge of stealing • cheque for 311., the
Ely of his master, Mr. Oldham, a wine merchant, in
le:tn-street, Fencburch•street, and the jury upon that
occasion, after some deliberation, returned a verdict of not
guilty. lie wee now charged with forging a cheque for the
amount mentioned, and the facts were incidentally alluded
to in the course of the former trial. It appeared that on the
6th of November the prisoner asked the_ prosecutor to give
hint a cheque for 31. for petty cosh, and Mr. Oldham being
in • hurry, and placing, as it appeared, the utmost confi•
dines in the pr.aonu, gave him a blank cheque duly signed,
in order that he might 6111 n the amount of 3/. that be re-
quired. Instead of doing so, however, it waved that the
prisoner filled in the cheque for the sum of 961. 10s. 24., and
obtained that amount from the bankers, and the notes were
changed at the Bank of England for gold directly afterwards,
and the prisoner appropriated the money to him own pur-
poses.
The prosecutor was again subjected to a severe mom-
examination by the prisoner's counsel, and, es on the fams
occasion, he admitted that he bad placed very great confi-
dence in the prisoner, and that there had been some money
trminactlons between them, but the prosecutor repeated most
positively that tho primmer had no legal claim whatever
upon him, but that on the contrary, he owed him a condider-
able sum of money.
Dells ma& Mr. Del • very able eprech to the jury on behalf
of the prisoner, and he endeavoured to show that he did not
contemplate any fraud, and that he had, at all events, acted
under an impression that be was justified by the nature of hie
position in the prosecutor's establishment in acting sa he
did with the cheque,and the open manner in which the set
heel been done and .he certainty of detection, he urged as
being strong confirmatory circumstanced' of this view of the
. _ _

The Recorder having summed up, the jury, after a short
deliberation, found the prisoner Goalty, but recommended
him strongly to merry, mid at the mine time observed that
giving blank cheques was • very dangerous practice.
Mr. Riblon informed the court that the prosecutor since
three transactions had discovered that the prisoner had de-
frauded him to the amount of several hundred pounds.
The Recorder said he would confer with Mr. Baron Wat-
son, who tried the other case, before he passed sentence.

TEE POLICE COURTS.

MANSION-HOUSE.

Augstetin Ilemmins was brought before the Lord Mayor,
for flnal examination, charged with having stolen four balls
of opium, powers! books, and some coops and brooms from the
East India House.

Mr. Ideate, instructed by Misers. Lwford and Water-
house, both here to the East India Company, appeared for
the proescution ; and the prisoner was defended by Mr.
Woutner.

It will be recollected that the prisoner, who had been in
the service of the East ladle Company as metuenger for the
last nine years. offered a ball of tatjam, for sale at • wholesale
house in the City, and ma he dad not give a eatiefectury ac-
count of the means by which he became possmeed of it, be
was taken into custody. His lodging. were then searched,
and three other balls of opium, some hooka of trifling value,
and *tame mope and broom. were found. The hooks end
mope and brooms were elated to be the property of the Com-
pany, and the priseeer was remanded in order that a witness
might he niod to identify the balls of opium.
Yesterday Mr. Forbes Boyle tram called and said—l ate •
doctor of medicine, and sin in the employment of the Ease
India Company, who refer raw and otar products from India
to me for my opinion respecting them. I hove for many
years made worn in study. Opium for the English market
is brought almost entirely from 'turkey. The boll produced
by the officer B umett is • specimen of Bengal opium. As
fee se I know, Ilengal opium is not imported into this coun-
try for general purpose" of trade, but is made up for the
China market. I hAve soon balls of opium eionlur to the one
produced at the India noose.
Croes-eaamined by Mr. Wontner—l have never missed
' any bells of opium. 1 have all that were ever sent to me.
Mr. Moult risked for • committal.
hlr. Wontner submitted that there wee no proof that the
opium bad ever been in the possession of the East India
Company.
The Lord Mayor said he considered it a Came for • jury,
but would accept bail for the prisoner's appearance—two
sureties in 401. each and the prismur himself in tulf.

Tbr required tnil was tertliti-nla put in, and the prisoner
releurd trum custody.
GUILDHALL.

A. man named Ferry was charged with the following
savage assault upon his wife.
From the evidence of the eomplainant and another witness,
it &neared the prisoner was addicted to habits of intem-
perance, and duriog the nioo years he had been married he
had been in the constant practice of ill using hie wife to a
shameful extent. In this moo be had recently come out of
prime, having served a month, for his brutal conduct, in one
of the Middlesex prisons; and after a few days' residence
with Lis wife La gave her about thirty violent blows upon
the head end body, during which be knocked her down upon
tho dairy., and then seised her by the hair, and in the meet
savage manner hammered her head upon the stabs until she
was nearly insensible. She vomited blood roon after, and
had been very 11l ever since. The complainant had two fright-
ful black eyes mid a wound errors the nose, and her heed
and body were a num of bruiees.
Sir F. G. Moon inquired what was the complainant's cha-
racter ?
_ _

The officer Paid be had made inquirier, and ascertained
that the complainant was a moat sober, atendy, quiet, and
industrious woman; and that the preioner wasp, ountinually
drunk that ho had been turned out of nearly every lodging
he had been in.

84r F. O. Moon said—Never in the whole course of my life
did I meet with a caw which approached tearer to murder in
its brutality than this now beforo mo, This woman to a very
respectable person, and it is evident, fern the bruises on her
face, that Ler eyes 111W0 nearly been knocked out, and that
she boo bcvn tooet cruelly illturd. I ens bound to indict a
Leery punishment, but I feel I hero nut the power to deal
severely enolurh with it. I shall, however, sentence you to
the full penalty; and you are therefore committed to prison
for sic months, with hard labour.
WORSIIIP-STREET.
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IOW! LOOM 11•11(Slce; Ler o;c7lifr.7 with em-
beezling various sums of money received by him for and on
avount of his employees, Masers. Tact C .cps, and Co., home
sad esp •rt brewers, of London and Burton-um-Treat.
Accused was committed for trial.
WANDSWORTH._

Aster Howard, George .1, et oy, and Clo, ries lona, work-
men lately employed in the erection of the extensive soap
factory near laarumersmith•bridge, Barrea, appeared before
Mr. Osyruan to answer summonses ch•rging them with
assaulting end ill.using W,ttiern Janice Euglanl, a brick-
layer, under the following cireutostaneet
It appeared from the evldeure of several witnesses that the
complainant acted as foreman upon the wake, and on Thum-
day afternoon week he employed an huh labourer *Lich
mimed the defendants, who wets then se work upon the pre-
mises, much dissatisfaction. On tbs following day the defen-
dents applied to the master fur the Irish labourer to be dia-
mired. but he refund to comply with their request, sod told
them thst if they did not think proper to work with him (the
labourer) they might have their wages and leave the work,.
The defendents stoutly rotated to work with the Irish
labourer, and they accordingly left their employment. At one
o'elock the name day the complainant went to the Boileau Arms
' public-hotwo to hate his dinner, when Le build the tie.