The Express.
London, England, 1861-01-28 00:00:00

THE POLICE COURTS.

MANSION-HOUSE.

Mr. Newman, of the firm of FresWield and Co., .elicitor
to the Beak of England, appeansd before the Lord
Mayor on behalf of the Atlantic Telegraph Compani
to answer • summons that had been lased against them
Cortina FrOliCil 8.N., nadir the Joint
Clempaates Act, and which alleged that they
bad eieglented fund' to the registrar appointed under
the net • list ef the bidden of shares in the company, and
fee winds tweed they bad incurred certain penalties.
The same el the complainant has been several times
before the public in connexion with this company,
sad will be remembered that he has upon several occa-
sions preferred °barges of alleged reflect and improper
waded spine Mama. He was also toed at the Central
Orbnhial Oran far an tumult upon Mr. Alderman dab:nous
ming ad eif eons supposed neglect on his part to attend
to • soggiest that had been made by Captain Higgiason
IVthe ontapsyr,
Ooodwian, the chid clerk, having read the summons,
Mr. Newman pleaded not guilty on behalf of the com•
pig, and said be vas prepared to show that his lordship
bed ao jurisdiction be the matter.
Captain Mahon, with considerable warmth, said that
he protested against Mr. Newman being heard at all until
he bad made his complaint and put his lordship in posses.
non of the facts.

The hoed Mayor mid he was bound to hear Mr. Newman.
He had attended before him to answer a specific complaint,
and be had a perfect right to show him, if he ~1d do la
legally, that he had no jurisdiction to entertain the com-
plaint that wee made. He said he must, therefore, request
=.4ligginson to sit down 'while Mr. Newman was
• the court.
Captain Higginson said he would do so, but at the same
time he must protest ageism! Mr. Newman being permitted
to make a statement Wore he bad gone into his clue in
support of the summons.
Kr. Newman then said it was true that in 1866 the
Atlantic Telegraph Company (Limited) was duly incorpo-
rated under the- Joint Mock QQoommpaniee Act, and was non-
dared liable to all the conditions Imposed by that act upon
joint stock companies. In the ft,ng year, however,
another act of parliament was obtained, under which, in
point et fact, the company as originally constituted, alto-
geer ceased to exist„ and heaame subject to the Companies
Clauses Act, which did not require any register of share-
holders to bs kept. Notice had been given to the registrar
of all these facts, and there was no Ruud whatever for
the complaint that was now made by Captain Waleson ;
and he said he might add. forth. information of his lordship,
that the complainant bad made an application to Mr. Alder-
man Soloman, at Guildhall, for a similar summons to the
=mad he refused to grant it. Hr. Newman then
to his lordship the two acts of parliament to which
ho bad
boalamisd, and called his attention to the sections talon
whit* road.
The Lord Mayor, after haring attentively considered the
two slatsttm, said it appeared to him quite clear that he
had no jurisdiction in the cue, and that the company were
no logger bound to do what they were alleged to have neg-
lected to perform by this summons, and it must Goose-
quietly be dismissed.
Captain thallium, in a loud tone, insisted upon his right
to go on with the case.
The Lad Mayor said it was no use for him to go into the
ease whoa the net of parliament clearly made out that he
had no jariadictSwa in the matter.
(lepton Hiamaom in an angry manner, said he thought
the timatinent to which he had been subjected in the City
relleetal deeply upon the dignity and character of the City
;, He was a poor tuau, and all he wanted wan
{u, and be meld sot obtain it. He then proceeded to
make ease etesmatkes in reference to the company, which
were not at all, cif a complimentary character.
The Lord Mayor said he could not allow him to make
such Magmata as these. The summons was dismissed,
and be must it down and not interfere with the business of
the court.

Piaist Waimea% said he would bow to his lordship's
decision, but he at the same time declared that he would
take steps to hare the conduct of the City magistrates in-
vestigated in the proper quarter. He considered that he
had been denied justice on the present oecuion by his
lordship's refusal to go into his case.
The Lord Mayor said that he had no right to go into the
case when it was quite clear that he had no jurisdiction.
Captain Ifigginson again proceeded to_ oomplain of the
coon. that had been adopted with isidnabik vehemence,
sad huiaidge, one of the officers of the court, went up to
him and requested him to leave. This he appeared un-
willing to do, and the Lord Mayor, having nootLe business
to attend to, retired from the bench.
Captain Hiaggimoo then inquired of Mr. Goodman whe-
ther it wee nessaary for him to make any formal objection
to the course that had been taken is reference to the sum-
mons, with a view to the adoption by him of further
proceedings.
Mr. Goodman said it was not his duty to advise him in
such a matter, and he must take his own come.
Captain Higgiunon thou retired.
The following sums were received on Saturday for the
poor-box :—"Members et the Militery Store Department,
Tower," 14/. ; "8.," W. 41. : and "F. (Guernsey), U.
GUILDRALL

Rickard Welk a ci.k is the employ of Ifeaws. Kithira,
Trittoe, and Co., Bre India viselials 11, CU Broad-
was charged with embodies a saga el IXI., nader
the following cirenmellesees.
It appeared that the Firmr had haw is the preesctors'
employ for a period of 14 years, and est hie Wary •• in-
surance clerk wee Mt a year. Oa *held* of Jetvery the
primerreceived ben the cutout et the Anises Marine
pasty a cheque for lOU, whieh it ens hie duty to haad
over to the accountant to be paid into the Leah; bud hated
of doing so, he did not memant in any way for the cheque,
which era afterwards found to have bees paid into the
London and Westminster Beak to the amount of kr. J.
Revell, a friend of the prisoner. It also appeared that
several pages in the amount book, which wa• midst the can

of Humphries, had been abatracteil, and it wu alleged that
upon a subsequent occasion it would be proved that them
page,' bad been torn out and destroyed by the prison's
dire. tious.

After several witneesse had boeb examined, the case wee
adjourned, but the primmer was admitted to bail.
Charles Ponder, who had recently adopted the aliaws
of Walton and Firth, was brought up on the charge of
stealing a horse under circumatauees of a somewhat peculiar
And delicate character.

It appeared from the evidence of WLeod, a City Aloe;
that he hail received information that a person giving the
name of Walton hired a Chesnut mare of Mr. Evans, of
Whitehorse-yard, Brighton, on the 26th of last month, and
that he came to Loudon with the mare, which bad since
been found at some livery-stables in Winston ; but, in the
meantime, a warrant had been obtained for his appreben-
sion, cud, on being accosted by WLeod, who met him in
the Kit/seised-road, he denied being the party, and said his
earns was Firth. M'Leod, however, took him on suspicion,
and treated him ea a gentleman by not securing hini as
ordinary criminals are held, which indulgence he abused on
the first opportunity, and emleavoured to make his escape.
The officer, however, pursued him, and, after a smart
chase, succeeded in recapturing him, when be admitted that
he was the party required in the affair of the horse.
Mr. Buchanan, for the defence, explained that this was
one of those foolish freaks that young men were guilty of
occasionally, and that, although the prisoner had placed
himself in a very serious position, he never bad the remotest
iutention of stealing the horse or mare, whichever it was.
The fact wits, the prisoner was residing with his mother at
Brighton, and be hired this horse and came up to London
without his mother's knowledge and against her wishes to
see his sweetheart. His mother followed him as soon as
she heard where he hadsone, and the object of his journey,
and insisted upon his going back with her. He yielded to
parental authority ; and as the horse was then at the Duke
of Wellington Inn-yard, Humbug-nod, Islington, he re-
quested the livery-stable keeper to forward the animal to
the owner at Brighton, add when be ascertained it had not
beau done he wrote to Mr. Evans to inform him where the
horse was, and it bad since been restored, and he believed
that these facts were now quite understood by Mr. Evans,
and that he had no desire to prosecute.
Aldermen Calder said, as there was a warrant out for the
prisoner's apprehension at Brighton, be could not deal with
bile here.
The prisoner was accordingly sent to Brighton.

♦ young man, who gave the name of Joke Coly wan
charged with stealing a watch from the person of William
Alcock.

The prosecutor said that at four o'clock on Saturday after-
noon he was at Hyde-park Corner, when some rifle volun-
teers marched from Constitution-hill. He was standing
looking at them, when be heard " a dick," and in the next
moment found his watch bad been stolen. The prisoner was
the person immediately in front of him, and was given into
custody for the robbery.
Mr. Auben Voegal, a German, said he saw the prisoner
extend his band, but did not bserve that he passed any-
thing, or indeed that he had anything in hie hand.
In answer to an inquiry from the magistrate, it was stated
that the watch had not been found.

Mr. Arnold asked whether anything was known of the
prisoner.
A policeman said that he had been repeatedly convicted
for picking pockets.
Mr. Arnold remanded him.
•

Benevolence.--The following sums were received for the
poor-box From a few members of the Parthenon Club
and donation), M. 16s. ; F. Y. A., 2a. 6d.