The Express.
London, England, 1861-06-13 00:00:00

LAW INTELLIGENCE.
(11118 DAY.)
COURT OF PR01.3._ AND DIVORCE.

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CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT.

(THIS DAY.)

THE POLICE COURTS.
(THU DAY.)

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(Before the Jim Ordinary.)
raw? r. KNAPP AND DORNILOW.
This was the petition ..f Mr. John Kaapp, of Bread
Blueslen, Wiltshire. Ile ...kat for • dissolution of his mar.
Mtge ..o account of his wife's infidelity with the pariah
clerk. !loth respondents denied the charge, mill Mts.
Kamp further pleaded emeloriation and cruelty, and alleged
that 4.r husband had incited divers ppeertsownus to seduce her.
Mr. **cent INTO and Mr. Do well appeared for the
petitioner; Mr. it ordsworth,Q.C., and Mr. Jewel for the
Ismortzleet ; Searle for the co-rsepondent
parties were married in April, IA 59. The budead,
who was a .lairy COMIC'', was at that time about 24 or
yeui of age ; and the wife, the daughter
of a ecighlhournig farmer, was about 20. On behalf
of the petiti..ii it wai alleged that the respoieleut, from the
commencemeut of her married life, had behaved in an idle,
stoked, eel un wifely manner. .%firir the lapse of a few
motile the petitioner was obliged to meal her hone, sad •
died d separation was ileconlingly caseated between them,
but on her promising :intendment be took her back.
le July. Ines), the corespondent, who had himself a wife
and fink's, sidled at the house of the petitioner, when both
brand bin ammuote were out. Evidence was gives of a con-
times by Mrs. Klapp that this and subewpient occasions
she hail given llornblow drink, sad that be had taken
liberties with her. llornblow was I. the habit of
1...e.t log that she had allowed him favours.
..f this she sharply remonstrated with him. He
th, u wrote to her, expressing regret that she should "think
him so seem ." adding a passionate wish f..r soother private
Wen law, and quoting certain love sten.. a loch he had de-
rived from the "poet's comer" of some him! journal. Evidence
was givens( as adwileion by the rsepoodent to a Mrs. Austin
to the effect that she believed the child of which she was
pregnant would he like Horablow. She asked Austin if
she thought Horeblow liked her enough to Imre his
wife and family for her make, anal to go away with
h. r It having bees denied that these admissions had
1..• n made, rod witames having complaipel to the resposideet
al..ut it, she stated that if she would say toi more about it,
'L. would give her a note coofirming her veracity. She ae.
sent witoese the following -" I wink to mean
Mrs. Austin that what she has said is perfectly tow. Aa I
em lesvmm Blunder tri•monssw, I should like to do jomticis
I. every "De Raeo•LL K osier " Besides the con.
hoiions of Mrs. Knapp, positive evidence was
j ran. of familties witnessed between the respondents.
there sem also evidence in support of the allegation of
violence on the parts( the wife, and neptiving lb. plead
cruelty on the part of the husband.
TI-re was no defence; mail
1L..• jury therefore returned a verdict for the petitioner
to all the issues.
The court then made a decree all.

SHERIP,W COURT, RED LION-SQUARE.
(Before Yr. Usill•rAberiff &umbel) sal • Jury.)

nrrcurs r. sum.sr.—lliaul)us ACCIDENT OT A VOLUNTZIR

was an action brought to the Queen'. Hooch by •
,:ull, opal 14, named Veda Fletcher. by her east
t., re.-over compensation tram the defendant, ,tlfried
Malley. a young man, who was stated to he respectably
cogmechiii, his father being a watchmaker in the neigh-
biurtiorsl of Islington, to recover compensation for a .erioua
injure indicted, whereby she had lost one of her eyes. The
defendant bad allowedjudgment to go he default, and a
Writ vfroviry, eaKtritsl for ttie assessment of
damage.. which damages were laid at 2001.
Mr. Patrick, the plaintiff's attorney, conducted the cam.
No .cie appeared for the defendant.
The evid.uce proved that in November Keeia Fletcher
and another girl were looking in a tailor's shop-window,
Lower.road, Islington. and laughing at the
&lenient and other riflemen. The ilefemlant was sitting
ea the counter, and he put his head into his pocket
aid put • rep on his ride, which he placed
se his shoulder sod fired at her. She was struck,
and knew nothing further. She was taker' to a
sisrpoe'.. and subsequently to the Ophthalmic Institution,
Mouelields, where Mr. Halke attested her. The eye struck
had been obliged to be removed, sod the other bail been in
imager from sympathy. She would be obliged to wear •
slam eve for the remainder of her life.
The plaintiff. attorney said the young girl was a domes-
tic lervant and very poor. The defeotiant had offered U.
sad 4. a week for six months, but he led doe nothing,
sail would hardly give her composition.
The l'oder.Shertff told the jury that they were to give
fair and reasonable compensation for what was undoubtedly
a very serious accident. The toes of an eye wee most
serious. They would give her compensation ; but they
were not there to punish the defendant. The injury
might have been a pure accident, and he might not have
known that the ride warn loaded. Whether he wee rich or
Pau the girl was estitled to fair compensation for the great
injury indicted.
The jury momead the damages at 1201.

(Before Dane Hrewswell.)
THIC ROKBIRT OF TIC COCICICIAL BANE.
Joie burtim and James Holtrnft, who were yesterday
&omitted upon the charge of robbing the Commercial Rank,
Is which establishment the pristine, Darden held a respon•
able semigloss, were this morning placed at the bar to be
Ind apos other clues.
Yr. Skies applied to the court on behalf of Ifokroft
trial to the next session.
said that this course would entail a very
kw; exprien opal the prosecutors, but he was only
uziess that *try should be down, sad had ao desire to
pie es the anal in the ebeeace of Mr. Hawkise, who, be
andwea.oneed, was unable to &Steed spin at the present
seel

The trial of flokroft wee coossquently postponed to the
*Kt newton.

prisoner tartlet ate &it tiled upon an indictment
stkh charged him with stealing three several sums of
tlf.. Wt., and _'ool., the monies of his masters, the Com-
mercial Hank.
The same learned counsel were engaged for the proeecw.
toe and f. .r the defence.
The evidence a-kluced in support of the charge was pretty
lied the Mlle SO that which was given yesterday upon
the other trial, and it will therefore be unnecessary to
meat it. The offence imputed to the prisoner was alleged
to been been committed so far back as the year 1851, at
which time the pris mer commenced his scheme of plunder,
winds remilled to hie plundering the bank of nearly 70,01101.
The try imed Ilime primer" (Ana/.
Dane aneepea. be poem sentence, mid the offence was
see of doe mat pea ith and be felt that he
limit. be nde lid lie Amity if be did not par the ex-
hume smilsase of lit la foe a crime of such a deeeriptios,
bleeeepaidel with se may circumstances of prirroostion.
Ireesei Judge 1k sentenced the primer to Norton
ism' peed senieede.

MANSION-BOUM
Mimes .t.,eapA craireoaratir:ronniess, w 1.4 k
Lit.:47::: before Sir Hear& lairlimarrtAA who suAtfer
EsPils to, wt. 9s. sad Wt. upon Mews IR= awal
Os
Ma. ullins solicitor to the Leaden Beakers' Aiesaisties,
"rfor the peesseetios.
Mwdarrest, wee imbed ie lieptesiter leek tut the whom
yr_ sit appethesited metal imet eight. Mr.Osedisea reed th.
.......m. es while the suavest wee pasted. esd the
Waal big idestlated us the penes neseiesed is the
salleet. lie wee veveseded. is ceder that the witness,
Seseway he peeve the ..... mien he beeeght tepther.

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Mist rack
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onad Wilmer, brother weekersrte the Oars, at the
Si gesserrest. Maar We Gard for • pet
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with the sod I was immediately
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4el are sed wheilied of wpies maid he would
law roe el Wee brim is the frees
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bra. ast de. I stet mar ri sod as obsess my
MI mar IMr am% I aed ahem work time by the
lea I has Othas is the rads hare
Wei q,.• te ray Ma we sheet work far Nr.
talk if we deal work by the Ely aired Si the hear.
bare w
eave they wEI sem lave es elms while we
by the hoar.
Jake Pram maid he was with the kir wrier ad wee
amend. There woe whatever maid to
Parr the. sir ef pear w Wawa
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Niloade

THE

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Wear/sack &ado.' using the knife. and they both 4e-
stared that they were totally innocent of everything int.
pitted to them ; a mere scuffle ensued after the spilling of a
pot of b!'e:

Mr. foghorn, addreseing M'Cormack, aid—Voa may
resold' or yourself exeoodirigly lucky that when you used
this koifo you did not draw blood on the complainant's
bead ; if you had I would most assuredly have committed
you for trial, and as surely you would have had throe years'
imprisonment. It has been clearly proved you both com-
mitted these =provoke! assaults, sod are tined the full
penalty of 5!. each, and in default are committed for two
mouths.

EASTERN COUNTIES RAILWAY
(THIS DAY.)

A apecial fleeting of the proprietora wvt hel4l at
IMO. at the Loudon TATETO, HT. HORATIO LOVE in the
choir, to consider the following bills now pending in
Pirllasnent :

1. A bill to enable the FArtern Counties Rrilwy Com-
pany to make new hem of railway, and for other. purpoine.
2. A bill for making • railway from Bishop Stortford
throopti Demme, to Braintree, with • branch therefrom ;
and br other purpose,.
& A hill to enable the Ware, Hadham, awl Buntingford
Railway Company to make • deviation in the authorised
line of their railway ; and for other purposes.
4. A bat to authorise the coestruetiee of a railway from
the Postern Counties Railway to Saffron Walden in Ewer.
3. A bill fur making a railway from Lyon to Hunatanton,
all in the eounty of Norfolk.
A hell to antherioi the eonatrtietioa el railways be.
twern the Norwich and Sieklimg Railway at Sutton-bridge
in lioeolashire and Bury St. Edmund's in Suffolk, to be
calloil "The Mid-Esetern and Great Northern Junctioo
Railways;" and for other purposes in COGDOIIOII there-
with.

The CHAIRMAN said the first bill was the only one pro-
moted by the ?laden Counties Company ; while sa re-
poled the others the proprietors were only asked to con-
tribute a portion of the capital or to sanction • working
agreement. That with.) trot time for six years that the
proprietors had been requested to sanction the con-
struction of a sew lime, and the board deeply re-
gretts_st the necessity of this appeal to than. It was
now absolutely necessary to do something to protect the
Fasten Counties property outlying companies in
what was termed the triangular district, havmbridge
at one angle and Ipswich at another. Thelon and
North Walken' Company had in this session supported the
Coles Valley Company in its attempt to make a transverse
line from Cartrice to Colchester, so as to establish
a communication with Colchester quite independent of the
Eastern Counties system, and it became this company to
protect its legitimate traffic. He wan happy tosay that the
committee of the House of Commons unanimously cams to
the conclusion that the Eastern Counties Company were
entitled to have their lines made in that district
in prefereace to other companies. (Cheers.) That
the &Met required to be served was dearly estab-
bawl ; the may question was who should do it, and that
L uoltia had been decided in their favour. Having ad.
letters to a large number of proprietors on this sub-
Met, he had to state that fineeixtlis of them were in
favour of the course pursued by the board. and that he held
proxies is support of the bill repreienting stock to the
amount of Low,uunt.
Is reply to • question the Solicitor of the Company (Mr.
Maynard) stated that the whole amount of capital required
for the new lima authorised by the first bill was 600,0001.,
and that it could be raised by mesas of preference shares, if
the propirieton should approve of that mode of raising it.
The CHAIRMAN observed that the board bad not yet
determined in what manner it would be best to raise the
additional capital ; that a special meeting would
be convened to madder that question and that
the charge created by the new shares would fall proper-
tiooately on the amalgamated companies.
Mr. Serpent GAZUMZ wesidered it a monstrous thing
that the proprietors should be called upon to authorise an
expenditure of 600,000 f. without having bad previous notice.
As an original proprietor he protested against the issuing of
preference shares, which would reduce his already very
small dividend still lower. (Hear, hear.)
Mr. THORP. considered the ahem submitted to the
meeting quite unworthy of consideration. It was suicidal
If other parties chose to make these lines, let them do
so, and take whatever they could get.
Mr. Torn said the policy now adopted by the chairman,
that of eoustruniog new lines in order to keep out others,
was entirely opposed to that which he professed when he
assumed his present position. (Hoer, hear.) He admitted
that • line from Bedford to Cambridge might do them some
harm, bat this harm would not be nearly so great as that
which most arise from the creation of so mach new capital
without any prospect of • return.
The Camarati, in replying, observed that at the two
last half-yearly meetings the whole subject was discussed at
great length, and on the last occasion there was • drag
ezpreesiou of feeling in favour of something being dose to
protect the company's interest. He was far from
the construction of new lines, but if this bill litsit
been applied for, nearly wz important town
affected by it would have been tap . The Ward believed
that 400,000 i. would be sufficient for the purple ; hut the
company's solicitor thought it clearable, in a preeautiorry
point of view, to extend the powers to Up, 0001. which sum
would, the board hoped, cover all the expenditure autho-
rised by all the bills before the meeting. He then proposed
a resolution approving of the bill
Xr. GOODSON, deputy chairman, seconded the motion.
Mr. ll'Lansit said the chairman appeared to have over-
looked the fact that the three companies were now on
amicable terse---• fact which materially affected this gime-
tioe. (Hear, lame.)
The Ciuxotax said the three companies had come to an
agreement simply bemuse they could not otherwise com-
bine for the protection of their common interests.
Mr. Serjeaat Gamin was mortified to find that a gentle-
ma whom he had hitherto supported had so completely
hie views. (Hear, hear.) He moved that the
be adjourned till to-monow fortnight. (Cheers.)
Mr. wooded the motion.
Mr. Canorne believed that no gentleman who was
acquainted with the rich agricultural district between Sud-
bury and Bury would say it was not entitled to railway ac-
itentreodation.

sr, Torn supported the amendreset.
Yr. Noa observed that both Mr. Sinclair sod Mr.
h*
Fowler were cif otiniOn ths; 'be lbw could be constructed
for 400,0001. 'laic at 4 percent. winalalmaablOSCOL Your.
Without this expenditure the Nor* Waiters Company
would tap the Eastern Counties au/s, soda' the directors
wasted wee to shut out • ruinous aggremion.
Is reply to a questiott,
Mr. MAYNARD, the solicitor, stated that unless the meet-
* senolioned the bill the committee of the Hours .31 Com-
mons would glve other parties power to maks the lines.
On the saseilmest being put to the meeting, 16 beads
were held up far it, sad it was rejected by a lame majority ;
after whisk
nine the
tients. origami resolution wee passed, with only
diesse

Th. OLUMINAII ezplai nal that tie object of the seoond
bill was to obbia authority to coomroct • line from Brain-
tree to Dialogs alartford through Diatom+. and that one
great advantage connected with it was that it would afford
excellent railway communication between Dunniow and
Loodo, and therefore take away all protests for promoting
iodevendent Liao All thia oompsoy was asked to do
was to subscribe
.10,000 f. .

A resoluta°. of approval was unanimously agreed to.
The were, &Ahem, and Buntingford Bill, iavolving a
euhseriptioe of 20,0001.. wan approved, as were alms the
remaining bilis included in the notice, involving no outlay
to the oonspusy.

ARCOT RACES. Tai COT DAT. —The peat
depot race bee had the amities of the Inset day of the
present year. Mere delightful weather there could sot be,
and the pail and the read have, as a consequenost bees
dunned by animated crowds from the earliest hour of the
nronilag.

TXXXILAI OF THZ IATI RXV. P. BIioNTE. —The
atertal riserse al the late Rev. P. Bronte were interred on
Wearer lay het, ia Use church all Haworth. The funeral
aeries was perfermed by I. Boast, vicar of Bradfoni, in
the peewees of • tarp warm of the &carol's pa•
debiteers. gas was bone to It. last testing•place by
weal elf the eiwgyets• .1 the arglrenrhood. The chid
lasenwam were the Bre. Arthur B•II Nicholls, soa•in-law of
ilaseased ; the lerseireper, sad her sister, Mm. Wainwright.
Dwriag the inter asst the shops were closed throughout the
vilhige. The body was deposited within the altar rails,
arr to that of his late daughter Charlotte. The following
reeription wee or the coffin :—"Patrick Monte, died June
T, ISSI, aged Se years."
It is unusual fur the House of Lords to meet on
Wednesdays for the performance of berates of a political
ehmester, bat creel those nausea rear occurred yesterday.
Tiler hear* assembled at half-past 4 o'clock, and the
Royal resat wee given by eisramisaioa to the bill for the
shandom 01 the paper duties. Very general amusement was
Oillind by the feet that Lord 31cateegle wee swept the
Soya* Couisileekeere who attended to give the Royal
ones&

LEITRIM ma THE SOCTHICIN STATR4 or AMERICA.
—A Wks, oil which the following be • copy, has bees re-
, asked keen the Yeetoaster•Useeral of the VOW Abates :
Peat-ellbss Department, Washingtrwi May 25. IM--
ar soriries he the &else of V=6iertii Onirelleo
Carelles, dergla.
IsseisisastAiloceser, sad Tear he eneposkd from Yddew LM Illeb kebob. Letters for oases hos closed
by Mires be terwardad to the letter Ales,
see kw Wellies Virginia, wide will be sent to
111. &AIL Poslairler-GammiL" la
dose senene all belies teem the Veiled Vend= fewereaded
ibe deed lisfAse elks IA Wsiebiestoe will be returned to
lbe deed War elks la Looks, and in such coo they will
bee/wed ad eget beak to the writers. Neeerthelos, tea
thk sespenelen of tits postal serrioe is stated to be only
tiliy, the Paatessaterr immoral will continue to forward
ierd era for the Veiled States suss linen; ad-
to the Miami referred bi which may be posted in the
Veiled Markra. assuming that such a count is demised by
the witera—by command of the Poitmager•GewaL
IltowLeND ILLL. dowelagy. General Poetottice, June 12